True Detective quotes

Roland West

Is this what you came to see me about? Twenty-five years, what, you doin' old man fantasy camp? You think you'll just roll up in here and I'll be all, "Golly gee, partner, let's grab our junior clue finders and have an adventure"? You know, in '80, we stop bein' partners, you get married... it's natural. People drift apart. This, right now? This ain't that. All this time, you never picked up the phone? You never dropped by for a beer? You never said you're fuckin' sorry, once!

Wayne Hays

I...

Roland West

And I was gonna put that shit aside to have a drink with you, reminisce. Maybe just watch the dogs play and the sun go fuckin' down. But look what you're doin'...

Wayne Hays

[looking at an empty bottle on the porch] How many of those you go through a week?

Roland West

Hey, fuck you, man! I'm fine... alone out here, no woman, no kids, and no old friends. So that means I get to drink exactly as much as I want to! You don't judge me, motherfucker! I know you. I know what you did, what I did. You talk about my drinkin'? I'd whip your ass if it wouldn't kill you! And you still ain't apologized!

Wayne Hays

[tearing up] Roland, I don't remember. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but I just can't remember. I don't... I can't... I can't remember my life, man. I can't remember my wife... I don't know. You tell me I did something wrong, I'm... I'm sorry.

Wayne Hays

A 70-year-old black man runnin' around batshit crazy with a badge and gun. You don't wanna miss that.

Roland West

[smiles ruefully] Well, I could use a laugh.

Wayne Hays

[after having sex with Amelia] Hell of a day when a gunfight is the second most exciting thing that happens to you.

Roland West

We're backtracking the Purcell case. Got it down that you were the one who spotted the bag.

No, I was the first to think I recognized it off the APB.

Roland West

Well, we've been wondering why it took two days to find that backpack.

It took God six days to make the world. I can believe it took a bunch of GEDs two days to find a backpack.

Wayne Hays

Why did you leave Highway Patrol?

Why did I give up hemorrhoids and 15k a year? I dunno. That question keeps me up nights.

Roland West

I thought it took God seven days to make the world.

Wayne Hays

He rested on the seventh. I always thought He should have put the extra day in instead of half-assing it.

Roland West

You're a hard man to find. Where you been?

Time being what it is, I imagine you boys would rather I stick to what's relevant, which is that justice might finally be done for Lucy and her kids.

Wayne Hays

Gonna need you to make your fuckin' point, Dan.

My point is, Tom goin' on TV, Julie bein' alive... there are questions you can't answer without information I know.

Roland West

You know somethin' you're not sayin', we can put you away right now.

Wayne Hays

Or we could take you someplace and kick the hell out of you until we're convinced you're as full of shit as you look to me.

I want $7,000.

Wayne Hays

I want a boat.

Y'know, it's clear from the news that ya'll don't any more now than you did then. You deliver to me that amount, you're gonna know a whole lot more. I imagine a whole lot of your confusion is just gonna clear right up.

Wayne Hays

You're workin' on getting your head bounced right of that fuckin' curb.

I been gettin' the shit beat out of me since I was two years old.

Wayne Hays

[to Henry] Before you ever knew me, I wasn't scared much. I wasn't a fearful man. I did things some even called brave. Ya'll made a coward of me. I've been terrified since the day you were born.

Roland West

You ain't worked a case in 10 years. Fuck's sake, Purple, what do you think this is about? Why do you think I pulled you in here?

Wayne Hays

To find the girl and solve what happened.

Roland West

You don't think there are better detectives around? Hey, we find the girl, great. We clear it, great. But how often does that happen? A 10-year-old case. This was me helping you get your career back, you understand? It was a favor I did.

Wayne Hays

'Cause I'm such a hard-luck case.

Roland West

Keep talkin'. Keep talkin'. They're gonna put you back on Public Information, or Highway Cleanup for the next 10 years. How'd that be, huh?

Roland West

Tom, what's doin'?

I'm gettin' the fuck out of this place. Lucy's gone, Julie's...Julie's... You know, I thought if there was a chance, but... Ya'll say she's dead, so I'm gettin' lost.

Roland West

What do you aim to do?

Whatever it takes to stop feeling. I mean, there's no point. Ain't nobody left to feel anything for.

Amelia Reardon

You ever think of moving to town?

Why would I do that? Somebody's got to stay. Somebody's got to remember.

Amelia Reardon

Have you ever read In Cold Blood?

Wayne Hays

Is that Batman or the Silver Surfer?

I have to say I'm disappointed. I most wanted to talk to you because your record indicated you never went along with the official version. I was hoping you'd provide a missing piece.

Wayne Hays

Young lady, my whole brain's a bunch of missing pieces.

Roland West

You manipulative, egotistical, uppity fuckin'...

Wayne Hays

What? Huh? What're you gonna say?

Roland West

Guess what word's runnin' through my mind.

Wayne Hays

Say it, then. Say it, motherfucker!

Roland West

Nah. I just want you to know I'm thinkin' it.

Now, you bein' the law, and me an interesting party, should the two of us go out into those woods and see if we can find Harris James? And can you tell me, Mr. Hayes: Are we gonna need fuckin' shovels?