Dutch Wagenbach quotes from The Shield

Dutch

What about Tina, she out sick?

Claudette

No. She transferred out.

Billings

Finally make your move? Scare Hanlon and her bikini briefs out the door?

Dutch

[referring to Tina] Helping her improve her skills had nothing to do with any interest in her.

Billings

Right.

Dutch

She happens to have talent, even if others don't see it yet.

Billings

Face it. You took advantage of her vulnerability just like our mystery psycho. Except your drug of choice was power and the false hope of career advancement.

Dutch

Th--, uh, that's ridiculous.

Billings

You have a reputation, Holland. Chasing unies, Mackey's ex. Wives of murder victims. I think a profiler would call that a pattern of shitting where you eat.

Billings

You know, Dutch, I could teach you a few things about women, if you want.

Dutch

Why don't you write them down, and I can read them at my leisure.

Dutch

You were, uh, tried and acquitted for the crime.

And you can't arrest me now 'cause I'm protected by final jeopardy.

Billings

Oh, here it is.

Dutch

[reads Billings's note] "Lorena Francisco. All right, great rack?" Well, this sounds like your notes.

Billings

She said she was with Hector the night of the murder, and I do recall she had great tits.

Danny

Hey, Dutch. Do you have a minute?

Dutch

Um, let me go first. What happened last night--we were both vulnerable, and a little lonely. One time thing between good friends. No reason for us to get all uncomfortable.

Danny

There's a guy here, says he killed his wife.

Dutch

Oh, uh, okay. Well, I better--I better get on that. Wouldn't want him to kill anybody else's wife.

Dutch

Brass have to be pleased to get these killer kids off the street.

Claudette

No, no, they're too busy trying to plot how to hang me out to dry for being a racist. Deflect attention from their Al-Qaeda thing not panning out.

Dutch

So, uh, you're a racist now? How's that working out for you?

Dutch

Young woman got her head bashed in. You're not disturbed by the apathy?

Billings

Why don't you take a look around you? We've been standing in the hot sun for how long now, and we are right where we started. So if you got some magic beans in your Detective bag of tricks that'll make these people give a shit, why don't you start planting them?

Dutch

He stood there and watched somebody die like it was nothing. There's speculation Bundy's first murders were committed in his early teens. They gain reinforcement the more crimes they get away with. Gain power, their methods improve.

Billings

Wait a minute. I buy the setup theory. But you're saying this kid's a serial killer?

Dutch

They all pop their cherry somewhere.

Dutch

A profile--male, highly intelligent, unstable family, piss-poor student, abandoned by his father.

Billings

The Mom's got a big old Dutch-boy crush. Obviously a couple of genetic screws loose.

Tina

You guys want him when we're through?

Dutch

Steve?

Billings

I'm a little busy here. Any naked girls show up, though, you give me a holler?

Dutch

Ronald Everett Gardocki, you are under arrest.

Ronnie

For what?

Dutch

The last three years!