Patrick Simmons quotes from Person of Interest

Patrick Simmons

Call me when there's money and bodies.

Patrick Simmons

The man in the suit dies tonight.

Patrick Simmons

[Simmons is breaking open fortune cookies and reading them to a tied-up Fusco] Hey, Fusco, want to know your fortune? Huh? "You will be unusually successful at your career"...you know, I don't think that one's true. [he breaks another] "A thrilling time is in your future". We're getting close now. [he breaks another] Oh, here we go. "Tell your friends what they want to know, or they will break you apart limb by limb". That's more like it.

Lionel Fusco

You crossed a line when you made that call to Carter. Pointing her towards me in the Davidson murder.

Patrick Simmons

What line is that?

Lionel Fusco

The line where I don't give a crap anymore. So, watch your back.

Boss, I've known Morozov my entire life. He values HR.

Patrick Simmons

Laskey. You're a rookie, so I'm gonna let you off with a lesson this time. You need to learn the difference between knowing someone and trusting them.

Lionel Fusco

That the best you got?

Patrick Simmons

No. You know us, Lionel. It's gonna get so much worse.

Lionel Fusco

What are you gonna do, read some more fortune cookies? Huh? Bore me to death?

Patrick Simmons

See, that's the problem with you, Fusco. You never listen. It's like talking to a child. [pause] You have a kid, don't you? What's the little guy's name? Lee. I feel sorry for that kid, I do. He's got defective genes, just like you.

Lionel Fusco

You touch him, and I'll send you to hell.

Patrick Simmons

Is that a promise? Huh? Because when I make a promise, I keep it.

Patrick Simmons

I always knew you were a killer. Get it over with, will ya?

Lionel Fusco

That's just it. I could've been just like you, a bottom-feeder who turns on his own kind. For what? Money, power? I got lucky. I had a partner. She was good for me, for a lot of reasons. She reminded me that I could be good again, too. I could be a good father, a good friend...a good cop. I'm not gonna let you undo all the good she did. Carter saved my life. She-- she saved me from myself because she believed in me...and I'm not gonna throw all that away on a piece of crap like you. Patrick Simmons, you're under arrest.

Patrick Simmons

What do you want? Quinn and I are busted. HR is dead. Nothing else to do but rub my face in it.

Carl Elias

That's not really my style.

Patrick Simmons

Then why the hell are you here?

Carl Elias

Well, there remains a debt. Civilization rests on the principle that we treat our criminals better than they treated their victims, that we not stoop to their level. But you and I are outliers. We're not really a part of civilization. We're something older. Which means, of course, that we can do the things that civilized people can't. I offered to kill you for Detective Carter many times, and she always said no. She was civilized to the very end. I don't think she liked me. But I liked her very much, and you killed her. So now I consider it my responsibility to fix the particular problem that is you, Officer Simmons.

Patrick Simmons

You really think you're gonna be the one to kill me?

Carl Elias

No. No, my friend is going to kill you. I'm just gonna watch.