[to Quinn] You were right. I was wrong. I thought I could take you down alone. Always did have trust issues. Tried to do it clean. Photos, recordings, sworn testimony. But then I realized you're just too dirty. Everywhere I turned, you had friends ready to help you out. And I was alone. So I called some friends of my own.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
The man in the suit dies tonight.
This ends one way and it's not with you and your people riding off into the sunset.
[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.
That the best you got?
No. You know us, Lionel. It's gonna get so much worse.
What are you gonna do, read some more fortune cookies? Huh? Bore me to death?
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.
You touch him, and I'll send you to hell.
Is that a promise? Huh? Because when I make a promise, I keep it.
I’m out of bullets and out of time.
[to Carter] If my number was up, I’m just glad I was with you, the one I’d rather be with at the end.
Does survivor’s guilt pass when everything that has happened actually is, in fact, your fault?
Loyalty. That's why Simmons came after you and Carter. Loyalty. That's how we built this whole damn thing. I'll be damned if I repay that loyalty by breaking it now. Even if you threaten to kill me.
You see? That's why you and I understand each other. Now, everything you do is an abomination. But your word...your word is your bond. To your godson. To Carter. You do what you say. So do I. I'm not gonna threaten to kill you. I'm going to kill you whether you tell me or not. No bargaining. In three minutes you're dead. I've killed many people. Never bothered me much. That's why I was good at it. I didn't like them suffering, though. Took me years to figure out how to do it quickly, painlessly. But if you don't tell me, I'm gonna forget all of that. Understand? And I'll make the last three minutes of your life last forever.
I always knew you were a killer. Get it over with, will ya?
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.
What do you want? Quinn and I are busted. HR is dead. Nothing else to do but rub my face in it.
That's not really my style.
Then why the hell are you here?
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.
You really think you're gonna be the one to kill me?
No. No, my friend is going to kill you. I'm just gonna watch.
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Not everything that's broken is meant to be fixed.
If they don't want you to see inside, they ought to built it better.
FSFinch's father
The world spins on dreamers like you, Harold.
No one ever said we were gonna win, but it doesn’t mean you stop fighting.
I urge you to consider what Mr. Reese would do.
Brood?
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