2nd most-quoted character in Prime Suspect: in 8 of its 30 quotes
Most scenes with: Desmond Timoney (8)
Scenes with Reg Duffy 8
Duffy
How you doing?
Duffy
Well, maybe -- maybe I just want to say I'm sorry.
I just want to say suck it!
Duffy
Okay. Nice. This was a win, you know.
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.
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.
Maybe. Maybe. But I'll still always know that you were wrong.
DDetective
You and that canned ham Rheingold think you're pretty funny, don't you?
Duffy
Excuse me?
DDetective
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 --
DDetective
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.
DDetective
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.
You get a ride with the sheriff. I need the car.
Duffy
Why? What for?
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.
It's also full of racoons. They've got little hands. I don't like that.
Duffy
My first foot post was in east Harlem. I've got twenty-seven years on the job. I've shot people, but I've never killed no one. I leave the city for one day, two bodies.
Yeah, and if we don't leave right now there's going to be a lot more, I'll tell you that.
Duffy
I would shoot every leaf crapping tree in this place if I could.
Let's get the hell home, right?
Duffy
I'm going to drive so fast the transmission's going to explode before that and make me stop.
No, don't stop. Don't even slow down when we reach my apartment. I'll just roll out. It'll be fine. Better than here. I like your shirt, by the way.
Duffy
Yeah. A souvenir.
Duffy
Do you know what your problem is?
Oh, why limit it to just one?
Duffy
The video would put her on the ropes, you said. She was ready to fold. He was calling child services.
And then she lawyered up.
Duffy
Tell me why! I don't know the details, but I know the upshot. I just don't know why. Why would you do that? You're a cop, Jane. We arrest the guilty. We don't decide what's next, and frankly we shouldn't be allowed to.
She just got a more even playing field, Reg. She hasn't won the game. It hasn't even started. And we're guilty, too, of the things we don't do.
Duffy
Hey. Hey, I didn't mean to start anything. I didn't, okay? I know I was out of line, but I was just talking. I like him: Matt.
Don't pretend you don't know what I'm going to say here. Rackets are a place where cops let their hair down. It's not for spouses or significant others. It's for mistresses and pieces on the side, and if, God forbid, a cop brings their real life to one what do you, as a fellow cop, say to that person?
Duffy
I wasn't trying --
How bout this: how was your day? How are you doing? How are your kids? Is it hot enough out here for you? That's it! Right? No matter how much you know about the other cop, no matter how much you want to jam them up, there is a code! It's beyond a code; it's a religion.
Duffy
All I can say is that I'm sorry.
If you were me, would you believe you?
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Prime Suspect · 30 quotes
