Desmond Timoney quotes from Prime Suspect

Timoney

Listen to me: I work terrible hours, often have to leave things early, I arrive to things late. I get phone calls in the middle of the night and all day long. I've never been shot, but I've been stabbed. I've had lye thrown in my face once, and I'm a homicide detective, Trish. Not a policeman or a policewoman. I'm also not a divorce lawyer, but I know about going to court.

Timoney

Did you know you could lose half a gallon of blood and your body will continue to mechanically function? My dad told me that once and that's what I kept telling myself over and over again. While I was shooting and getting shot at. I was scared, but that's what I was thinking. The craziest thing is, I kind of liked it. I liked the adrenaline rush I got from it, you know?

Desmond

Let's sit down and have a pint or four and talk about how much we miss smoking.

Timoney

The point is, we thought you had cancer, that you were dying. Remember?

Desmond

All I am saying is, what if your doctor trots out the same x-ray with a shadowy mass for all his patients --

Timoney

Stop.

Desmond

-- that have a bad habit?

Timoney

Dad, stop looking for excuses to smoke, all right? You asked me to quit, I quit. I don't want to quit. Do I look like I want to quit? But I'm doing it for you. I'm not going to do it alone. Do not flake on me. I am not kidding you. I will frame you for something. Get it?

Could I ask you something? Are you ever worried that someone might drop a house on you?

Timoney

Car's not going to drive itself, is it?

I guess you don't.

Signs of forced entry, obviously. No signs of sexual assault.

Timoney

Anyone speak to the ex-husband?

Blando

Lui's gone by his place right now. He's not picking up his phone.

Timoney

Maybe it was him.

That would be very nice. He suffocated her. A pillow from the bed.

Blando

One of those memory foam things.

Timoney

Those just don't seem that breathable to me, in general, even if no one's trying to kill you with it.

Duffy

How you doing?

Timoney

I could be drunker.

Duffy

Well, maybe -- maybe I just want to say I'm sorry.

Timoney

I just want to say suck it!

Duffy

Okay. Nice. This was a win, you know.

Timoney

So Hughes not doing it doesn't bother you at all?

Duffy

He did six years for doing it. Now nobody has to worry was he for real or not. Moving on.

Timoney

Right. So if you can't win, don't even try.

Duffy

Helping a guy like that work through his issues is not my job, okay? My job is to broom the carnivorous sheep out of this borough. I know what this is. This is all about me being lead. It's about you thinking you busted your ass so I could get all your glory. Little girl rescued, pedophile dead, they might name a bridge after me.

Timoney

Maybe. Maybe. But I'll still always know that you were wrong.

You're looking a little tired.

Timoney

You look tired means you look old. You look short. How's that feel?

I'm going to start counting backwards from ten, and when I reach one you will be in a deep, deep -- [Jane shakes her head] What?

Timoney

Jeez. [mimics her boyfriend's ex] If you didn't come, I don't think it would be the worst idea.

Is this the ex-wife?

Timoney

She talks like someone who's never been hit in the face before.

You know what?

Timoney

She's smiling at me like she's just scored a point off me or something. I didn't even want to go to the damn party. Oh, and also, she can't score if I'm not playing.

You don't seem to be in the right head space to quit smoking right now.

Timoney

I don't just want to smoke right now. I want to shove a pack of cigarettes in my mouth and light it with a blowtorch.

You and that canned ham Rheingold think you're pretty funny, don't you?

Duffy

Excuse me?

Yeah, I called over there to talk to him. He gave me your names, along with a lot of innuendo and gossip that I didn't need.

Duffy

Well, I don't know what all Chuck said, but --

Well, it's not worth repeating. I'll say this, you know a cop who said he hasn't slept with another cop, I've got news for you: that cop is a liar.

Duffy

Cops being with other cops is not the issue, okay? The issue is an unfair advantage. The issue is a level playing field.

Well, unless the job has changed and no one told me, I think the issue is solve cases. Are we done here, because I need to get back to work.

Timoney

Thank you, detective.

Timoney

[walks into her father's bar to see he and her boyfriend talking] Hey. Stop talking about me.

Desmond

We weren't.

Timoney

Why not?

[Range master watches Duffy shoot at the firing range before reviewing his score] Forty-three out of fifty. Good shot, detective. See you in six months.

Desmond

All right, Frank.

[walks to Timoney's station] And I know I'm not going to be seeing anything outside the gray with you. Perfect score.

Timoney

Thank you. Thank you. [high fives the men around her]

Janey, didn't you just qualify two weeks ago? What brings you by today? You just forget about that?

Timoney

[watches as an angry Duffy walks by] No, I didn't forget. I just like it here.

Timoney

Listen, hon. I just found these in the bathroom. [shakes bottle of pills]

So what? That doesn't mean anything.

Timoney

Hey, here's a little something: Ray Milland, from that movie The Lost Weekend, he used to hide his in a lamp. Most people wouldn't think about looking there, but my mom used to hide hers in the same spot.

Well, they don't mean anything, so --

Timoney

That was her favorite movie. You probably never saw it. Well, it meant something in my house. It meant we don't make noise in the morning so we didn't wake up our mother, who might have been drunk from the night before. My mom, by the way, one night years ago, stinking drunk, she drives out in a storm, veers into traffic, she gets thrown from the car and dies on the spot. My sister Una was four, so she doesn't remember a thing, but I was thirteen so I remember everything, and I've got to tell you, part of me is really glad it happened that way.

Well that's a horrible thing to say.

Timoney

Why? Do you feel sorry for her? Why is that, I wonder?

Desmond

[lays paper on the bar] Front page. Not the first time you've been there, of course, but nice just the same.

Timoney

Yeah. It feels pretty, um, bad.

Desmond

Why?

Timoney

Did you read it, pop? Then you know. She even kind of looks like mom.

Desmond

I don't see that.

Timoney

Well, she was rich and she liked booze and pills, but otherwise pretty much the same.

Desmond

It's not, Jane.

Timoney

Why? Because we had you to protect us and that poor kid didn't? Otherwise, pretty much the same!

Hey, all. I'm back.

Desmond

[to Jane] It's not the same.

I bought five more copies.

Timoney

Why would you do that?

Excuse me for being proud. Did you see your picture?

Desmond

I'm going to go lie down. I just had major surgery, in case anyone remembers.

[laughs as he walks away] Come on, dad. You just had some polyps scraped out of you. Man up. [looks at the paper] God, I wish I had those cheekbones.

Timoney

You want something to drink?

No, thanks.

Timoney

[whispers] Good girl.

Timoney

You get a ride with the sheriff. I need the car.

Duffy

Why? What for?

Timoney

Because before I try to talk to Amanda about how her parents were drug dealers, I need to go get you and I a couple of hotel rooms, because obviously we're going to be sticking around for a little while. Don't you wish you'd packed a bag now? [Duffy hands her the keys and she sits down] What are you, a giraffe?

Duffy

I've got that seat right how I like it. You move it, you better know how to move it back. I'm serious. You better know how to move it back! [Timoney drives away] Man. Short people.

Duffy

It's really quiet out here in the sticks. I can hear my thoughts. That's not my favorite thing.

Timoney

It's also full of racoons. They've got little hands. I don't like that.