Vic Mackey quotes from The Shield

Vic

Married huh?

Shane

Yeah, yeah, I can hardly believe it myself.

Vic

Well, I'm sorry I missed that. [pause] Look, you sure you know what you're doing?

Shane

I know what I want.

Vic

Just.... just don't make the same mistakes I made. And you'll be fine.

I discussed the situation with community leaders. If they chose to warn him there's nothing I can do.

Vic

Oh, so they make the call for you instead!

Aceveda

Hey, that's conspiracy.

We don't want cops like him intruding into our lives!

Aceveda

Just give us Kim

I won't do that. [Vic tries to grab Choi]

Aceveda

Then you'll get more cops, not less. [To Vic] Grab every unit you can, turn those shops upside down! I want every inch of Koreatown smothered!

Vic

Like white on rice.

Corrine

Matthew doesn't even think he did anything wrong. How am I supposed to reason with him?

Vic

Somehow.

Corrine

I can't spend every second with him. You...you, can't take him, what are we supposed to do? Put him in a home?

Vic

You're serious?

Corrine

[Pause] No.... I don't know.

Vic

We are not gonna put him away.

Corrine

I don't want to.

Vic

Then don't bring it up again!

Corrine

Megan has a shot at a normal life. Is this fair to her?

Vic

Of course not. But that doesn't mean we commit our son!

Corrine

I am doing everything I can!

Vic

Hey, take a walk.

You take a walk.

Vic

Waylon, what the hell are you doing here? You're going to tip these assholes off!

Me? Why don't you just paint 5-0 on the side of the van?

Vic

You're sitting in the Spook Street crew? What for?

What do you care. You're compromising everyone. Trish is in the store, Annie's over there-

Vic

You're stepping on our case!

We were here first!

Vic

[drops a coin in Waylon's cup] Get lost!

You get lost!

Vic

Aww, Jesus Christ!

Shane

Show and tell, kids!

Vic

Show us what you're doing, and we'll tell you why it's a crime!

Vic

What are you doing!?!

Keeping us safe!

Shane

Put the goddamn money down Lem!

Vic

This won't help us.

Look, if there's no money to find, Aceveda and the Feds can't touch us!

Shane

Lem, back off. [draws his gun] Back goddamn off right now! [Everyone holds still] Back off man, I mean it.

Ronnie

Shane...

Shane...put down the gun.

Vic

SHANE!

Shane

Please man, don't do this man. Please.

Vic

It's gonna be alright. I promise.

Ronnie

Come on man, I mean COME ON MAN!

You guys, you guys are the only family I got, alright? I'm not gonna let any of us go to prison.

Vic

That's a decision for the four of us to make, not just you.

I've always gone along with everything you ever wanted, and all it's done is get us deeper and deeper into shit.

Vic

STOP IT!

Just let me finish this please.

I got a bunch of receipts here.

Vic

For what?

Uh, for dry cleaning.

Vic

What else?

Uh, for thousands of dollars on these oriental rugs.

Ronnie

You don't dry clean oriental rugs!

Ronnie

My...my mom had some. She made me hand-clean 'em when I was a kid.

[on the phone] I'll be with you in a minute.

Vic

[hangs up phone] You'll be with me now.

What do you want?

Vic

Your favorite frequent flyer, Margos Dezirian. [punches Mihalis in the nose] MARGOS!

Oh my God, I don't know the man, I just leave him messages for him.

Vic

Good. I'll dictate, you dial! (hands him the phone) You tell him that Goma called, sounded strange. He wanted a one way ticket to...where would someone go to hide from Margos?

Hell? [Vic threatens to punch again] Venezuela.

Vic

Good. You tell him, that Goma wanted the ticket delivered to him, at his house. Try not to sound too stuffy.

Vic

Antwon Mitchell.

Antwon

Do I know you?

Vic

I know your mugshot.

Monica

I worked with Rich Nelson.

Antwon

How's he doin'?

Monica

Passed, three years ago. Cancer.

Antwon

Damn, cancer's rough. But he was always talkin' about how he was gonna piss on my grave. Guess I gotta go grab a forty and pay my respects.

Vic

I didn't get the Street Crime Detail I put in for.

Aceveda

Well, I didn't know you were lookin' to transfer.

Vic

Well, why did you write a four-page letter sabotaging it? I just got off the phone with someone who owes me a favor over there. You goddamn buried me with the selection committee.

Aceveda

I apprised them of your qualifications.

Vic

You stabbed me in the back! You didn't want me to find out about it until you ran out of here, right?

Aceveda

I wouldn't pass you along to become someone else's problem.

Vic

Who's been running your precious little garage sting?

Aceveda

Oh, you mean that load of crap you sold me for a goddamn, nine minor busts? Yeah, I saw you tap-dancing on that one for a few weeks. So while you were out on the street strutting your stuff, I made Ronnie run through every bust you had working. And it didn't take long.

Vic

So what is this? Payback?

Aceveda

Consider it the bill coming due. You ran the Strike Team into the ground. To get you under control I popped you in front of video tapes for six months, and you even managed to botch that. You're a joke! [Vic tries to take a swing but is blocked off by other officers] You really thought after everything I wouldn't get the last word?

Billings

Bathroom. Family of four drown one by one.

Rawling

Damn.

Vic

Welcome back to Farmington.

Vic

Sir, I'm telling you... the kid had no choice. The dog was reaching. It was kill or be killed.

Rawling

Oh come on, Roy. The dog had a piece, he was gonna use it.

Aceveda

Is that the kid you choked out with a bottle of mustard?

Vic

Who ratted, the condiment weasel?

Vic

That kid's a novice. He was swallowing open jums of crack. I induced vomiting. Saved his goddamn life. We're still allowed to save lives right?

Aceveda

I want a complete report.

Vic

Sure, I'll have one for you day after tomorrow.... Oh that's right, you'll be gone. I'll mail one to ya!

Vic

Shit!

That a positive ID?

Vic

How did he die?

Take your pick. Sclerosis, malnutrition, official cause was suffocation. Aspirated on his own vomit. Christ, this guy was the Assistant Police Chief? What happened?

Vic

Take your pick.