Martin Castillo quotes from Miami Vice

Castillo

I know you all hurt inside, but do your grieving in private, the street has no sympathy.

Castillo

(In response to the way the Vice team handled the Beaks case) Your behavior in the Beaks case was abominable...you allowed your personal feelings to influence your performance as police officers. I have to be able to treat you like professionals...if you're not prepared to act like professionals in the future, I would like your transfer requests on my desk by the end of the day.

Castillo

There's no place for personal vendettas in this department.

Excuse me, please. Can I help you?

Crockett

Yeah, we'd like to see Benny.

Benny ain't here.

Castillo

Find him, please. We'll wait.

Find him?! What do I look like, a tour guide?

Crockett

Just find him! We'll talk about what you look like later.

My name is Carter, and I don't like you. And I don't care about your crummy little drug deals. I don't care about Herrera, and I don't care about the half million.

Castillo

Well, you must care about something. You look nervous.

Crockett

Lieutenant, I know that there are certain procedures that have to be followed, and that what we're dealing with here is an entrenched bureaucracy, but it has been one month, one month since the Daytona bit the dust...what I'm trying to do is maintain a departmentally-approved cover here, and if I continue to show up for six-figure drug deals looking like Lil' Abner, it ain't gonna cut it!

Castillo

It's out in back.

Crockett

Mornin', Lieutenant. After-dinner drink. I kinda got my schedule turned around.

Castillo

You look it.

Crockett

It's funny when you work all night. The whole world seems like it gets out of sync with you. It's like you can sneak up on it.

Castillo

It seems that way. Just think straight.

Crockett

I don't need to think straight. I need to think like him.

Castillo

Thinking undercover, sometimes you can't stop when you need to.

Crockett

The answer we need's not in the book. It's in his head. I can't explain it, but... I think I'm onto it.

Castillo

Two coffees.

Crockett

Make it one.

Castillo

Cancel the one.

Castillo

I was gonna put you on the beach.

Switek

I can do my job.

Castillo

You're gonna have to. We don't have anyone else.

Switek

Thanks for the pep talk. I feel better already. I'm sorry, Lieutenant. My brain's been wallpapered. If Guzman had stuck a needle in me, Lar would do all he could to clear my name, or die trying.

Castillo

You want Gina or Trudy to ride in the van with you?

Switek

Maybe some other time.

Tubbs

Well, I'll tell you one thing, Jack. They'd have jumped on this like white on rice in New York, they'd have never let this leak get this far. Never.

Castillo

S.I.D.'s handling the leak, Rico. End of discussion.

Tubbs

Well, until S.I.D. Finishes their investigation, I'm not workin'. 'Cause nobody's gonna scrape this body off this pavement or off of some dealer's doorstep! Nobody!

Castillo

Go home, Rico. Get cleaned up. File a report. Be back in my office by 4:00 p.m. Pick up your new assignment.

Tubbs

Or what?

Castillo

Or take a suspension.

Tubbs

Well, I'll do you one better. I'd rather be playing the lottery in New York City, than Russian roulette in Miami. I quit.

Castillo

DiLello called.

Crockett

What does he want me to say? WHAT DOES HE WANT ME TO SAY!!! I'd like to see you out there. I shot the kid... I shot him, he may die, it was my gun, I can't put the bullet back in there, and there's nothing that you say, or that anybody says, OR NO SHRINK IS GONNA CHANGE THAT!

Castillo

You can't hide in a closet forever. Don't lose yourself.

Crockett

Then if it's not my responsibility, then who the hell is? Who is it?!

Castillo

The bullet left the gun, it was your gun, your finger on the trigger, you pulled the trigger, now, live with the responsibility. It's gonna scar you, eat you, burn you inside, and it should...but you've got work to do that you care about, people are depending on that, you've got people who care about you, Sonny, like me.

Hey, 6 minutes never killed anybody.

Castillo

I can kill 20 men in 6 minutes.

Tubbs

We don't know who stopped him from escaping.

Castillo

I know.

Tubbs

I just wanted to bring you up to date.

Castillo

Stay. I've always tried to do what's right. That's the code I live by. Do you understand that?

Tubbs

Yes.

Hey, what the hell have you done?

Tubbs

Just swatted an insect. You got a problem with it?

Yeah, I got a problem. Borbon was working for us. He was gonna give us names.

Crockett

But not the name, right Baker? This whole damn mess was a setup from the get.

What a couple of lightweights. What, do you think this is cops and robbers? It's not about your personal sense of justice.

Crockett

What's it about, Baker? Is it about protecting dictators and letting drug dealers go free? Is that it?

Take a look at the map, Crockett. Real estate's turning red all over this hemisphere. Your brand of law and order went out with Wyatt Earp. There's only two things that count, American interests and anything that's counter to 'em.

Tubbs

You're what's counter to it, Baker. You and all those slick deal-making lawyers.

I don't make policy. I enforce it.

Crockett

And cover it up when it goes wrong.

That's right, and I got carte blanche, babe. I could shoot you right now, easy. Pin it on Borbon. No one's ever gonna ask any questions.

Crockett

Do it. If you got the stones.

Hey, punk! Cowboy! I'm gonna have your badges for this. That's a promise! (Crockett and Tubbs toss their badges on the ground) It's not over, Crockett.

Martin Castillo

You don't have to do this.

Crockett

It's been a long time coming, anyway.

Castillo

I'll back you.

Tubbs

Thanks, Lieutenant, but there's no other way.

Castillo

(Picks up their badges) Think about this.