Fiction Empire

Al Giardello
Al Giardello: Oh, I get it. You don't feel anything at all. You're the type of guy that two weeks from now, you'll be stopped at a traffic light and all this will hit you and when it hits, it'll hit hard. It'll hit you so hard that your heart will burst into a hundred pieces.

Al Giardello

Al Giardello
Al Giardello: It's better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.

Frank Pembleton
Frank Pembleton: It's 'till death do you part.' You die, you part.

Frank Pembleton
Frank Pembleton: He who loses control, loses.

Frank Pembleton
Frank Pembleton: Blind faith is the crutch of fools.

Frank Pembleton
Frank Pembleton: You know, sometimes you're funny. Then there's now.

Frank Pembleton
Frank Pembleton: You know, every day I get out of bed and drag myself to the next cup of coffee. I take a sip and the caffeine kicks in. I can focus my eyes again. My brain starts to order the day. I'm up, I'm alive. I'm ready to rock. But the time is coming when I wake up and decide that I'm not getting out of bed. Not for coffee, or food or sex. If it comes to me, fine. If it won't, fine. No more expectations. The longer I live, the less I know. I should know more. I should know the coffee's killing me.

Frank Pembleton
Frank Pembleton: Life would be perfect, if it was just kids and dogs.

Frank Pembleton
Frank Pembleton: I'm tired of being the only one around here who gives a damn. You're looking at the new Frank Pembleton. Budding Republican and practicing selfish bastard. Savior of no one but himself. Shot of Gold Natty Bo. This is the new me!

Frank Pembleton
Frank Pembleton: I watch my weight. I watch my diet. I watch my blood pressure. Every 8 hours, no matter where I am, or what I'm doing, I have to take a little white pill. If I don't follow the rules, I die. I'm not going to treat you differently. I won't. 'Cause that's not who I am. And who I am is all I have left.

Frank Pembleton
Frank Pembleton: Virtue isn't virtue unless it slams up against vice. So consequently, your virtue's not real virtue. Until it's been tested. tempted.

Frank Pembleton & Tim Bayliss

Frank Pembleton & Tim Bayliss
Frank Pembleton: Do you think some people work harder to be stupider than others?
Tim Bayliss: I'm going to go out on a limb and say yes.

James Brodie & Kay Howard

James Brodie & Kay Howard
James Brodie: Well, you're a girl. A woman. A woman. A woman with wild red hair. I can't stay with you.
Kay Howard: What are you afraid of? I'm going to chain you to the bedpost and cover you with butter?
James Brodie: Only thing is, I know that you won't.

John Munch
John Munch: But what if they make me take a test? I can't take tests. I always clutch. What if I take it and fail and all our dreams come crashing down?

John Munch
John Munch: I don't like to form attachments with people. They either get suspended or throw china at you.

John Munch
John Munch: The only thing I have in common with Judaism is we both don't like to work on Saturdays.

John Munch
John Munch: Life should come with a money back guarantee. If you're not satisfied, return unused portion for a full refund.

John Munch
John Munch: I'm upset because every relationship I think I have is not the relationship I actually have.

John Munch & Criminal

John Munch & Criminal
John Munch: You're saving your really good lies for some smarter cop, is that it? I'm just a donut in the on-deck circle. Wait until the real guy gets here. Wait until that big guy comes back. I'm probably just his secretary. I'm just Montel Williams. You want to talk to Larry King.
Criminal: I'm telling you the truth.
John Munch: I've been murder police for ten years. If you're going to lie to me, you lie to me with respect. What is it? Is it my shoes? Is it my haircut? Got a problem with my haircut? Don't you ever lie to me like I'm Montel Williams. I am not Montel Williams. I am not Montel Williams!

John Munch & Michael Kellerman

John Munch & Michael Kellerman
John Munch: What happens to us that we forget how wonderful it is just to hold another human being's hand?
Michael Kellerman: We get older.
John Munch: We get older. We forget who we used to be, what we used to believe in. Love, peace, the Colts would always be in Baltimore.

John Munch & Stanley Bolander

John Munch & Stanley Bolander
John Munch: Name one miracle that's happened in your lifetime.
Stanley Bolander: How 'bout the fact that I haven't killed you yet?

Kay Howard & Meldrick Lewis

Kay Howard & Meldrick Lewis
Kay Howard: What is y'all's fascination with sperm?
Meldrick Lewis: It's just a healthy curiosity. If it weren't for our daddy's sperm, wouldn't none of us be here.
Kay Howard: Or your mama's eggs.

Meldrick Lewis
Meldrick Lewis: I've been a cop for a long time. And drugs out there, we're never gonna win that. There's a hundred open-air drug markets in this city and fifty thousand drug fiends out there. And we are taking on human desires with lawyers, and jailhouses, and lockups, and you and I both know human desire is kicking us in the ass.

Meldrick Lewis
Meldrick Lewis: You go when you're supposed to go, and everything else is homicide.

Meldrick Lewis
Meldrick Lewis: We're talking about sacred freedoms here, notably, your Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. Hey, if it was good enough for Ollie North and Mark Furhman, who the hell are you to incriminate yourself at the first opportunity?

Meldrick Lewis
Meldrick Lewis: In this job you gotta be able to howl at yourself, or else you die inside.

Meldrick Lewis
Meldrick Lewis: Baltimore, home of the misdmeanor homicide.

Meldrick Lewis & Michael Kellerman

Meldrick Lewis & Michael Kellerman
Meldrick Lewis: Lemme tell you one thing, all right? You gotta do everything I say.
Michael Kellerman: Well, there's nothing I won't do, but some things are gonna cost you extra.

Michael Kellerman

Michael Kellerman
Michael Kellerman: Yeah, snarky, you know, from the ancient Greek, meaning butt head.

Mike Kellerman

Mike Kellerman
Mike Kellerman: There's no absolutes in life, only in vodka.

Paul Falsone & Rey Curtis

Paul Falsone & Rey Curtis
Paul Falsone: You know, I was thinking of printing up one of those bikini calendars. You know, the cops of Baltimore type thing.
Rey Curtis: What happened?
Paul Falsone: You seen the cops in Baltimore?
Rey Curtis: You're right. Munch in a thong would be a little hard on the eyes.

Risley Tucker

Risley Tucker
Risley Tucker: Say Baltimore, and I'll tell you within ten blocks where you were born. Yeah, you from here. You got that home grown look. The not-too-southern, not-too-northern, not on the ocean but still on the water look. With maybe a touch of inbreeding.

Stanley Bolander

Stanley Bolander
Stanley Bolander: Sometimes I wanna call my wife just to hear the sound of her voice. But I know that five minutes into that phone call, my blood pressure is going through the roof, the phone is sailing across the room and I'm wishing that she's on a plane falling out of the sky. It's over. I know it's over. But I had to replace six telephones before I, I really got the hint.

Stanley Bolander

Stanley Bolander
Stanley Bolander: I know what to do with a dead body. I do not know what to do with a live baby.

Stanley Bolander

Stanley Bolander
Stanley Bolander: Have you been smoking the dope in the evidence room again?

Steve Crosetti

Steve Crosetti
Steve Crosetti: Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy.

Steve Crosetti

Steve Crosetti
Steve Crosetti: That's the problem with this job. It's got nothing to do with life.

Steve Crosetti & Meldrick Lewis

Steve Crosetti & Meldrick Lewis
Steve Crosetti: Got any toilet paper?
Meldrick Lewis: Nope.
Steve Crosetti: Got five ones for a five?

Tim Bayless & Frank Pembleton

Tim Bayless & Frank Pembleton
Tim Bayliss: You never say please. You never say thank you.
Frank Pembleton: Please don't be an idiot. Thank you.

Tim Bayliss

Tim Bayliss
Tim Bayliss: Every evening is as random as the next, death doesn't follow a schedule.

Tim Bayliss

Tim Bayliss
Tim Bayliss: What I have is, I have a second in time. I have a split second in an abandoned building with a gun in my hand and every instinct is telling me who I am at that moment. That's what I got left and that's all I got left. and I'm a homicide cop.

Tim Bayliss

Tim Bayliss
Tim Bayliss: I will never, ever speak to you again as long as I live. I will treat you like Nixon treated Agnew.

Tim Bayliss & John Munch

Tim Bayliss & John Munch
Tim Bayliss: So does the violence make them stupid or does the stupidity lead to violence?
John Munch: Well, that's chicken and egg semantics. The important point is that we win some cases because our brains are repositories for intelligence and their brains are day-old banana pudding.

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