Corrine Mackey quotes from The Shield

Corrine

[as Vic arrives with Brian] Some husbands just bring home flowers.

Vic

Yeah, I didn't have time to wrap him up.

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!

Corrine

Some IAD guy’s been coming to the kids’ school. Trying to get me to say things about him.

Dutch

IAD’s into Vic? I wonder what they’ve got on him. I mean, probably take your pick.

Corrine

You be gentle. His sister just died.

Vic

I'm oozing gentle.

Corrine

What did I do to deserve this?

Kavanaugh

You married the wrong man, Corrine.

Corrine

Did you really do all those things?

Vic

I did a lot of things that I shouldn't have done, for reasons that made sense at the time, but they're pretty hard to defend right now. What do you want me to say, that I'm different? I don't want to go to prison. Do you want me to go to prison?

Corrine

Do either of you even feel any shame?

Vic

I don't think about it.

Corrine

Well, that's honest. Sad thing is, I've known--maybe not the specifics, the details--but I've known, and I have let you infect me and our children. I'll help you this one last time... and then the kids and I are out of your life! That is my price. And you have to pay some kind of price.