Dead Man's Hand

Poker Face 1×1

Natalie Hill: Why do you listen to that stuff?
Charlie Cale: Why do I listen to the news?
Natalie Hill: Yeah, what's the point? You can't do anything about it. Every day, you're mad about something you can't do anything about. We're just better off with music, don't you think?
Charlie Cale: I'm doing something about it right now... Look, I don't care. Come at me, you Russian pervos. Time's up on that shit. Done. So, handled.

Charlie Cale: I don't know what version of the story you got.
Sterling Frost Jr.: Let's start there then. Once upon a time in Denver, milquetoast collection of the best poker players in central Colorado met at a Fairfield Inn suite off I-25. Well, not a barn burner, just a run-of-the-mill Thursday night mid-stakes ring game. A young woman from out of town was at the table. She was cute. She livened up the room. She had plenty of cash so they let her play. Three hours later, she mopped the floor with each and every one of them, which happens. But this had been happening. Previous week, in Cheyenne. Week before, in Rapid City. Same young woman cutting a haphazard path across the middle of the country. Never in any big games, never in corporate-owned casinos, but always the same result. She didn't lose. Word spread quick. 'Cause as you know, gamblers talk.

Sterling Frost Jr.: As far as anyone could tell, she was playing straight. No wires, no shills, and yet she played with an almost supernatural infallibility. Like she was seeing through the cards.

Sterling Frost Jr.: ... my dad figured out what she was doing. Even when he figured it out, he couldn't believe it. It was impossible. It was insane. But there was no other explanation.

Sterling Frost Jr.: You can just tell.
Charlie Cale: Just that something is off. That's the best way to describe it. I can just tell.
Sterling Frost Jr.: When anyone is lying? Hundred percent of the time? I'm going to touch my nose.
Charlie Cale: No, it doesn't work like that. I'm not a soothsayer. I can't predict the future. There's nothing mystical about it. Just if someone is intentionally lying, that's it.

Charlie Cale: I've been rich.
Sterling Frost Jr.: Yeah, how was it?
Charlie Cale: Easier than being broke, harder than doing just fine.
Sterling Frost Jr.: With due respect, you've had money, never been rich.

Charlie Cale: God. It is crazy the things that people stick up their asses.
Natalie Hill: Yeah. What are you reading?
Charlie Cale: "Ten craziest things people have stuck up their asses."

Sterling Frost Jr.: So, what's it like always knowing the truth?
Charlie Cale: Yeah, no. I only know if something is a lie. And outside of poker, less useful than you'd think. 'Cause everyone, they lie constantly. It's like birds chirping, people lying. Just once you tune into it, it's fucking everywhere all the time. And they usually don't lie to cover up some deep, dark secret, but about the stupid, meaningless shit, you know? So the real trick of it is to figure out why. Why someone is lying.

Charlie Cale: If I pull out of this, would you have to kill me?

Charlie Cale: There's something off here. There's a lie. I just... I need to find it.

Cliff Legrand: Are you on coke?
Charlie Cale: No. Coffee. So I thought this'll be a good thing. I won't have a beer and be a dumbass. I'll have coffee, because that's for thinking. But I never have coffee, and now I'm spazzing out.

Charlie Cale: I asked, "Everything okay?" You said, "Yeah." You were lying... Well, that sounded more intense than I meant it to. I wanted to just casually ask about it. But I've had coffee.

Sterling Frost Jr.: She's sharp, but she doesn't know anything.
Cliff Legrand: No, no, she's more than sharp. She's a human lie detector. And she's asking questions like she thinks something's up.

Charlie Cale: Say bullshit if it isn't true. Look me in the eye and say it.

Charlie Cale: A wise man once told me, you want to hurt someone, you hit 'em where it hurts.

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Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)

Roman J. Israel, Esq.: Each one of us is greater than the worst thing we've ever done.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.: I'll take over. Ahem.
Lynn Jackson: No, you're not capable of continuing the practice. ...
Roman J. Israel, Esq.: Right. B-b-but I'll take over, because in the architecture of this firm, I am a pillar.
Lynn Jackson: Yes, and, Roman, I'd hoped to reward you for that.
Roman J. Israel, Esq.: Hope don't get the job done.
Lynn Jackson: What does that mean?
Roman J. Israel, Esq.: That means hope don't get the job done.
Lynn Jackson: Is it ego or delusion? Honestly, I... I never paid enough attention to you. This place runs more like a charity service than a law firm. It's run a deficit for years. We... his family, can no longer afford it. We're clearing the books.

George Pierce: William taught a term at Loyola. That's where we met. I was, uh, top of my class.
Roman J. Israel, Esq.: Potential's a bitch.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.: If I was freed from criminal work, I can get back to my roots. The bigger battles, organized mass action supported by sweeping legal challenges. With my skill and, uh, experience I'm-I'm quite certain I can get this organization right back in line with its core beliefs.
Maya Alston: This organization?
Roman J. Israel, Esq.: Yes.
Maya Alston: Yeah. I-I wasn't aware that we, um, had strayed.
Roman J. Israel, Esq.: Well, I'm not talking about nickel-and-dime reformism. I'm talking about igniting a sustained mass movement, supported by rule change and injunctive relief. And I could get results using class-action tactics. I'm talking about a return to using activist litigation creatively, defensively, counter-offensively.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.: As for my personal life, at a certain point I had to decide whether to have a family or career. I couldn't do both. So I stayed on the front lines. Now, I'm offering at this time... to work, exclusively... as your, um... long-haul, three-dimensional, revolutionary, in-house, full-time, paid advocate.

Jeff: What a freak.
Maya Alston: You stand on his shoulders.

Felicity Ellerbee: What's "Esquire" mean?
Roman J. Israel, Esq.: Uh, it's a designation, uh, in the legal arena. It's like a title of dignity. Slightly above gentleman, below knight.

George Pierce: I sent you an e-mail today to come to my office.
Roman J. Israel, Esq.: I'm sorry, but when people send e-mails, they think it goes straight to your brain.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.: So what I'm offering to you right out here now is a chance to partner with me on a piece of groundbreaking litigation I've been working on for over seven years now. Inside this case is arguably the most important legal brief in modern legal history. A sweeping federal challenge that could yield nothing less than a grand new era of social reform.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.: The Constitution guarantees us a right to a fair trial, but there can't be any fairness if 95 percent of all cases never get heard. Criminal cases never get heard by a jury or a judge.
     I am building a wholly original class-action lawsuit ... aimed at the heart of plea-bargain reform. I'm talking about reforming a system where prosecutors are trying to pull sentences out of their hat. Where guilt or innocence is being completely replaced by fear of having your day in court. Where people are being forced, George, to plead guilty under the threat of overly harsh and coercive sentences.
     It's a job for a legend, or someone who wants to be one.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.: Look at you. Just like I was... Just starting out your fight against the dominant tendencies of our society. Well, you better get ready for the commitment it takes to lead a resistant lifestyle. You better start forging the armor to withstand the temptation and the financial and emotional toll. Because when it comes to social injustice and judicial indifference and institutional racism and outright goddamn greed the overwhelming majority of the people in this country just don't give a damn.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.: Can't you see? It's clear as crystal. We filed the wrong brief in the wrong court to the wrong judge.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.: Freedom is something you can only give yourself.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.: I'm tired of doing the impossible for the ungrateful. I now have, uh, more... practical concerns.

Realtor: Well, what do you think?
Roman J. Israel, Esq.: I think that whatever we're chasing... you got it all here.
Realtor: I'm sorry?
Roman J. Israel, Esq.: When can I move in?

Maya Alston: Well, I was calling to see if you wanted to go for dinner.
Roman J. Israel, Esq.: With me? With you?
Maya Alston: I'm confused.
Roman J. Israel, Esq.: I... I'd like that. I'd like that. I'd like that, yeah. Um...
Maya Alston: Great.
Roman J. Israel, Esq.: Tonight? I mean... Tomorrow?
Maya Alston: Works for me.
Roman J. Israel, Esq.: It works for me. Tonight works for me, but I mean... All right. I'll... I... Tomorrow. I'll do tomorrow.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.: The real enemies aren't on the outside. They're within.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.: It's me, George. See, I didn't see it before because I never experienced the other side. I'm the defendant... and the plaintiff simultaneously. I file against myself, I represent myself, I convict myself, hereby expanding the full scope of the legal desert because the judgment's built in. The only thing left is forgiveness, and I grant that to myself.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.: An act doesn't make the person guilty unless the mind is guilty as well.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.: I know you get it, George. You have such a tremendous future. It's so bright, I... I swear, it's... It's blinding.

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Nothing Ever Changes Around Here

Lucifer 6×1

Lucifer: Yes, I wasn't paying enough attention to the road, and I apologize. I've got a lot on my mind. This is... my last night in LA.

Lucifer: I used to work for the LAPD... Crime-solving devil. It was great fun, but that's over now. Since the war... Fought against my brother and his host of angels for the throne of Heaven. It was all very biblical. ... I won, but not without having to fly to the Silver City to save my girlfriend, burn up, prove to myself I was worthy, stop burning and... Yeah, anyway, long story short, now I'm the Big Man. ... I still have to ascend to the Silver City and sit on the throne. I do that tomorrow.

Chloe: You know, magic for our last night?
Lucifer: Well, what could be more magical than magic?
Chloe: I don't know. Isn't magic just a little goofy?
Lucifer: Goofy? It's skill, cunning and deception without telling a lie. What's not to love?

Lucifer: Chloe, you are a truth-seeker. That's what made you a great detective. But me, I'm a wonder-seeker.
Chloe: You seek wonder?
Lucifer: Well, also drugs, debauchery and now certain extinct whiskeys but yes...

Linda: Yeah, well, it's not every day that my best friend and her girlfriend depart this mortal plane to rule Hell.

Linda: So, Eve, have you, um, ever actually been there?
Eve: Mnh-mnh, I have not. But what an amazing adventure, huh? From Heaven to Hell and everywhere in between.

Ella: You guys are absolutely adorbs. I really do miss you.юю Family business, I get it. You're in my prayers. For what that's worth.
Lucifer: What do you mean, for what that's worth? I thought that was worth a lot to you, Miss Lopez. Another crisis of faith?
Ella: Oh, no, that... that was so two years ago. I... I definitely still believe. It's just... Uh, okay, this might sound absolutely crazy, but lately, I've been praying a lot, and it feels like nobody's listening. Like the Big Guy's just not there or something-- I know. It's so dodo-headed. I mean, like, as if that could really happen, right? No way!

Ella: ... the killer is still in the building. Locked room mystery, you guys.

Carol Corbett: And up until recently, you consulted for the LAPD?
Lucifer: Mm-hmm.
Carol Corbett: You also claim that you're the Devil?
Lucifer: Was the Devil. God now. Well, nearly.

Amenadiel: I'm joining the police force!... I've been in the police academy for a while now, and it's, uh, going well.

Lucifer: When you said you didn't feel God's presence anymore... I mean, is that such a bad thing?
Ella: Uh, yeah, dude. I mean, being ever-present is God's whole thing. That's what makes the Big Guy the Big Guy. He's always there.
Lucifer: Right, but surely he can't be always there. I mean, doesn't God have personal matters to attend to? The odd round of golf or spending time with loved ones?..
Ella: That's the best part. He's not like you and me. We are all God's loved ones. And no matter what He's doing, the only thing, the only thing that God cares about is caring about us... It doesn't matter who you are or what you've done... He is there for everyone. Or at least, he's supposed to be.
Lucifer: Indeed.

Chloe: Can you please?
Lucifer: Ugh. When in Rome. Tell me, Duran Duran... what is it you truly desire?

Eve: I don't wanna go to Hell either. I just thought going home would make you happy.
Mazikeen: I don't need to go home to be happy. You're my Hell.

Lucifer: Once the detective, always the detective.

Chloe: You are worthy of your father's legacy.
Lucifer: This isn't so much an issue of worth. It's... more an issue of job description. God needs to be selfless. He needs to care about all of humanity.
Chloe: You... you died for me. What could be more selfless than that?
Lucifer: Well, you see, that's just it. I love you, Chloe Decker. I'd do anything for you. Except give you up. Give us up.

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John Wick: Chapter 4

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) <<

Bowery King: You ready, John?
John Wick: Yeah...

The Elder: To what do I owe the pleasure?
John Wick: My ring. My freedom.
The Elder: Your ring is gone, like The Elder before me. And if you came here thinking you could end this by killing me, then you are mistaken. My death will not change the outcome any more than you can change your nature. None of us can escape who we are, and no one escapes The Table. And the only way John Wick will ever have freedom or peace, now or ever, is in death.
John Wick: I know.

Winston: You have the unshakeable faith of David, my friend, but you shouldn't be here. This will not be pleasant.
Charon: Such is life, sir.

Marquis: My father used to say, "How you do anything is how you do everything." Called it the first and the last rule of life. You believe in rules... Mr. Manager?
Winston: Oh, I do.
Marquis: And what of consequences?
Winston: Of course. And second chances.
Marquis: Ah. That's where we differ, you and I. Second chances are the refuge of men who fail.

Marquis: The agreement with The Table stays the same. We give you a name, you give us a life. Or... we take one.
Caine: ... I will serve. I will be of service.

Shimazu: Have you given any thought to where this ends? The Table will never stop. You know this. It only takes life and only gives death.

Shimazu: Friendship means little when it's convenient.

Shimazu: The only path this leads to is death.
John Wick: I'm going to kill them all.
Shimazu: I believe you'll try. But no one, not even you, can kill everyone.

Shimazu: You want to die? That's your choice. A good death only comes after a good life.
John Wick: You and I left a good life behind a long time ago, my friend.

Shimazu: Fools talk, cowards are silent, but wise men listen.
Caine: So which one will you be?

Bowery King: Tell me. Tell me true. Why did the Frenchman let you live?
Winston: Killing a man can turn him into a martyr. Letting him live... tells the world he's a coward or a turncoat.
Bowery King: So what are you?
Winston: Aggrieved.

Marquis: This campaign is not to kill John Wick. It is to kill the idea of John Wick. And to do that, I must destroy everything that idea touches.

Marquis: And you are?
Tracker: Nobody.
Marquis: Coyness, Mr. Nobody, is a pathetic trait. A miscalculation, in which by trying to hide our ego, we let it appear stark naked.

Killa Harkan: Exciting, ja? So, you want to kill him. You want to kill him. I want to kill him. What about you, Mr. Wick?
John Wick: I'm going to kill you.

Harbinger: Marquis de Gramont! A man's ambition should never exceed his worth. You would do well to remember that, sir.

Bowery King: Forty-two regular, wasn't it? It's Kevlar, front to back. The latest in ballistic chic. Appropriate for all formal occasions. Weddings, funerals, High Table duels. After all, a man has to look his best when it's time to get married. Or buried.

Marquis: There are three types of men in this world. Those who have something to live for, those who have something to die for, and those who have something to kill for. John Wick has none of these things. He is but a ghost in search of a graveyard. But the blind man, well, he has all three...

John Wick: "Loving husband."
Winston: Hmm?
John Wick: That's what I want on mine [gravestone]. "John. Loving husband."

Caine: What time is sunrise?
John Wick: Two... maybe three minutes.

John Wick: Last words, Winston?
Winston: Just have fun out there.

John Wick: Those who cling to death, live.
Caine: Those who cling to life, die.

Harbinger: Your obligation to The Table... is satisfied, John Wick. You are free.

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Fast X (2023)

F9: The Fast Saga (2021) <<

Dante Reyes: I'll kill Dominic Toretto. I'll kill 'em all.
Hernan Reyes: Kill them? You'd show them mercy? No, my son. When suffering is owed, never accept death as a payment. Make Toretto suffer.

Han: Well, you better watch out. Little man's gonna be a better wrench than any of us by the time he's 12.
Dominic Toretto: I mean, that's the whole point, isn't it? Pass it down. Each generation better than the last... That's fatherhood.

Letty: You can keep your eyes on that rearview all you want. But you know what you miss?
Dominic Toretto: What?
Letty: Eternity in this moment.

Cipher: I'm here because the enemy of my enemy is you.

Dante Reyes: Never accept death when suffering is owed.

Cipher: There's a war coming. The sides are being chosen. And everyone you love will be destroyed.

Roman Pearce: What have we done?

Aimes: That's their M.O. To corrupt law enforcement. Brian O'Conner. Elena Neves. Luke Hobbs. Everyone becomes family. It's like a cult with cars.

Dominic Toretto: When Rome falls, so does the world.
Queenie: Well, it ain't no Roman holiday. And you're no Gregory Peck.

Dominic Toretto: So, how about we all just start shooting each other and see what happens?
Dante Reyes: Or we race. If you win, you take me in. If you lose... Don't lose.
Dominic Toretto: ... You all came 'cause you wanted to see a race. Let's race!

Dante Reyes: You've saved so many lives... It's like you're a... a saint. Saint Dominic. And I've been studying you. And watching you. I can't figure it out. How... How do you choose? How do you choose the ones you save?

Bowie420: I'm just gonna need cash. Okay? None of that crypto stuff.
Tej: Oh, the Black Jeff Bezos here got you covered.
Bowie420: Black Bezos?
Tej: Yeah, he's even been into outer space.

Jakob: They found us. Now let's lose our tail.
Little Brian: Holy shi...
Jakob: Wait! Swearing is for song lyrics only and stubbed toes.

Dominic Toretto: How someone born so rich chooses the poorest path through life... You got no honor. Without honor, you got no family. And without family... you've got nothing.

Dominic Toretto: That's the problem nowadays. Nobody listens...

Dante Reyes: You know what your problem is? Family. You can't save 'em all.

Dante Reyes: You know how to beat your dad in a street race? Take away the streets.

Dominic Toretto: Son, I never break a promise. Now, let's finish that driving lesson. Feel the car, find your line and fly.

Dante Reyes: You know, Dominic, to become a real saint, you have to perform miracles. Or die a martyr. So what's it gonna be?

Dante Reyes: The suffering is over, Dom. It's time for you to die.

Dante Reyes: I'm gonna make you suffer. The devil is coming for you... lawman.
Luke Hobbs: Well, I ain't hard to find, you sumbitch.

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Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)

Shazam! (2019) <<

Hespera: Turns out museums are fun. Let's have more of it.

Shazam: I'm an idiot. I don't deserve these powers, if I'm being honest. Like, what am I even contributing? There's already a superhero with a red suit, with a lightning bolt on it and I'm fast, but he's faster. Aquaman is literally huge, and he's so manly and Batman is so cool! And I'm just me.

Mary Bromfield: At some point, Billy, like everyone on Earth, we have to get a job or... leave home. Nothing lasts forever.

Hespera: The daughters of Atlas are coming for you. ... They're coming to unmake your world and torture mankind for all eternity in the Pit of Endless Agony.
Shazam: Okay, I feel like maybe I should be writing all this down.

Steve: "The Wisdom of Solomon,
Strength of Hercules,
Stamina of Atlas,
Power of Zeus,
Courage of Achilles,
Speed of Mercury."
Shazam: Whoa, guys, look! This is what the name means.

Shazam: Okay, look. I might not have as much experience as you 'cause I'm not, like, super old like you, but I think I have a few experiences that you don't have. 'Cause I've seen all of the Fast and the Furious movies, lady. And let me tell you something. It's all about family!... Family!

Kalypso: Anthea, humans are villains, even to themselves. ... Humans wreak havoc and devastation, then pray to the gods to absolve them. They actually pray for order and peace when all they do is dismantle it at every turn.

Shazam: I know this is a lot to take in, but I promise to explain it all later.
Victor Vasquez: Explain what? That our kids are superheroes being hunted by Greek gods that used a dragon to destroy the house we just bought?

Shazam: Hey! Khaleesi!

Darla Dudley: Taste the rainbow, motherfu...

Shazam: Hey, you know, just because your father's power is surging through me, that doesn't technically make us related, you know, and I'm gonna be 18 in, like, five months, so...
Wonder Woman: Stick to saving the world, kid.

Shazam: Hey, just a little constructive criticism. It's pretty confusing that there are two separate groups of superheroes that are totally unaffiliated, but both have "Justice" in their name, you know. Like, have you guys ever thought about doing a rebranding of sorts? 'Cause just a quick search on Thesaurus.com, you got so many options, man. Like, "Authority Society." Eh? Uh, uh, "Code Society." That's stupid. These are, like, legal terms. "The Avenger Society!" I like that, for some reason.

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Crooked House (2017)

Charles Hayward: Is everything all right?
Edith de Haviland: Do you know anything about moles?
Charles Hayward: No. I'm afraid not.
Edith de Haviland: I have an arsenal of other weapons, of course, traps, poisons. Sometimes I use holly. It pricks them, do you see? Makes them bleed. Moles are hemophiliacs. Little bleeders. Like some European royals. Though I do find a shotgun best expresses my feelings.

Sophia Leonides: We're a very odd family, Charles. There's lots of ruthlessness in us and different kinds of ruthlessness. That's what's so disturbing. The different kinds.

Charles Hayward: Anything you'd like to tell me?
Josephine Leonides: Not yet. You see, I read detective stories. And a good detective will take time to gather evidence... and question everyone before solving a case. The murderer is never the one you initially suspect.

Edith de Haviland: [Aristide Leonides was a] little man, Mr. Hayward, who cast a large shadow. A very large and rather crooked shadow.

Josephine Leonides: Did you find many clues?
Charles Hayward: You know, Josephine... the first round of interrogation is not so much about finding clues... as it is about getting a sense of who you're dealing with.

Charles Hayward: May I ask you a blunt question?
Edith de Haviland: They're the only interesting kind.
Charles Hayward: What's wrong with people in this house?
Edith de Haviland: It is a blunt question indeed.
Charles Hayward: Sorry.
Edith de Haviland: Don't be. Passion. It is a hothouse of suppressed passion. This is what happens when the person you love the most in the world... who you would give your life for... is actually the same person that you hate the most... I'm certain you understand, Mr. Hayward. You wouldn't be in this house yourself otherwise, would you?

Charles Hayward: Any of them could've done it. They all had means. They all had opportunity.
Chief Inspector Taverner: Motive?
Charles Hayward: Anger, jealousy, love, greed. Take your pick.
Chief Inspector Taverner: So no communist? No Las Vegas mafia? No CIA conspiracy? We're investigating too. Quietly. But you can go in the house without a warrant. Get back in there and find out who killed the bloody midget.

Josephine Leonides: I hear you're making progress. But you won't be the one who solves this case. If anything, you're Watson.
Charles Hayward: Is that right? Well, why don't you enlighten me, Holmes?

Josephine Leonides: I'd say we're due another murder. Don't you think, Watson?
Charles Hayward: Another murder, Holmes?
Josephine Leonides: Well, there's always a second murder. Someone who knows something is bumped off... before they can reveal what they know.

Edith de Haviland: Well, then, Charles. How about a blunt question for you, then? What are murderers like?
Charles Hayward: Well, you. And me. Everyone. Hot-blooded. Cold-blooded. They do share one or two traits. Vanity. A distorted morality. A lack of empathy. And murderers tend to feel that they are above... the rules and laws that govern ordinary mortals.
Magda Leonides: Well, that description fits every member of this family.

Edith de Haviland: Well... always leave a party at its height... when you're most enjoying it.

Charles Hayward: You listen to me. I daresay you are extremely clever. It won't be much good to you if you're not alive long enough to enjoy the fact. Don't you understand, you foolish child, that so long as you insist... on keeping secrets, you put yourself in imminent danger?
Josephine Leonides: Of course I do. But in some books, person after person is killed. You end by spotting the murderer because he or she... is practically the only person left. We must see what happens next.

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Violent Night (2022)

UK Mall Santa: This is my, uh, fourth year as a Santa.
Santa: Ah.
UK Mall Santa: How about you?
Santa: Lost count. I forget why I started doing it in the first place.
UK Mall Santa: Same reason anybody does anything. The money.
Santa: Money. Money. This whole planet runs on greed.

UK Mall Santa: It's the look on the kiddies' faces, innit? That's what does it for me.
Santa: Ah, the look. Yeah, that look. Lasts about two seconds. As soon as they're finished unwrapping, they want the next present, they want the next cool thing. That's how this world works.

Santa: And kids... What kids have become. They're just like little junkies. They're little shits. They just demand. They don't believe. They just want, crave, consume.

Santa: Maybe this is my last year. The last Christmas...

Santa: I better get going. Presents aren't gonna deliver themselves.

Scrooge: This is what breaking into a vault has turned into? Remember when you just had to drill holes and blow shit up? I don't know, maybe I'm getting old, but there was something romantic about that.

Santa: Oh, shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Video game. Video game. Didn't anybody ask for a bat or a sword or Molotov cocktails?

Trudy: Hello? Santa?
Santa: Yeah, this is Santa.

Scrooge: I want to make it my personal mission, my holiday to-do list, to find you and to end you and to wipe my ass with you and this whole fucking holiday. That's what I want for Christmas, Santa.
Santa: That is a terrible thing to want for Christmas.

Santa: Don't be too hard on your parents, all right? Grown-ups have a hard time believing things.

Trudy: Can you use your Christmas magic to make them love each other again?
Santa: I wish I had that kind of power. Mrs. Claus and I have been going on year, uh, 1,100, and... Grown-up relationships are complicated. It takes work. A lot of work.

Candy Cane: You don't think...
Scrooge: Now, I know you're an idiot, but don't be an idiot out loud.

Gertrude: Jean-Claude Van Dipshit just ditched us, sweetie.

Santa: Trudy, I want you to, uh... just do me a favor. Just turn around and close your eyes. Maybe put your fingers in your ears and, uh, sing "Jingle Bells" as loud as you can.

Trudy: I'm okay, Mommy. This is my friend, Santa.
Linda: I can't thank you enough, Mister...
Santa: Claus. But please call me Santa.

Scrooge: Whatever it takes... Christmas dies tonight.

Santa: Hyah! Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donner and Blitzen! Come on, you beautiful bastards! We've got some work to do! Hyah! Ho, ho, ho! Merry Christmas!

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Enola Holmes 2 (2022)

Enola Holmes (2020) <<

Eudoria Holmes: It's your path, Enola. Sometimes, you'll stumble. Sometimes, you'll fall. But no matter how lost you feel, if you stay true to yourself, the path will always find you again.

Enola Holmes: Everyone thinks detecting is a profession littered with rules, but in truth, there's only one. Pull on every loose thread you find.

Enola Holmes: Cab... 221 Baker Street.

Enola Holmes: Crazy idea. Have you ever considered a flatmate?
Sherlock Holmes: For what purpose?
Enola Holmes: To stop you descending into this.

Lestrade: Why ever would she ever do that?...

Lestrade: Ah. Lestrade of Scotland Yard. You remember me, I hope.

Sherlock Holmes: Love. What it does to people... How was she killed?

Sherlock Holmes: The first mistake a detective makes is to make it about themselves and not the case.

Sherlock Holmes: Enola, I know you're not a fan of unnecessary advice, but please... don't turn into me.
Enola Holmes: I should probably write that down.

Tewkesbury: Why... Why watch me walk to the Lords?
Enola Holmes: Simply keeping an eye on you, in case you get yourself into any more scrapes. Getting thrown out of trains.
Tewkesbury: Enola...
Enola Holmes: You cannot be trusted to take care of yourself.
Tewkesbury: I'm a man now.
Enola Holmes: You're a man when I tell you you're a man.

Tewkesbury: Look into my eyes. The rhythm is always there. Dancing is a trust, it's a union. That's why I've always loved it, even when I was being tutored by my uncle.

Sherlock Holmes: "Moriarty." Who are you?

Edith: Well, like my mother always said, "Those who can turn to others when they're in need are the truly brave amongst us."
Enola Holmes: Your mother sounds very different to mine.

Eudoria Holmes: You will do very well on your own, Enola. But with others, you could be magnificent.

Eudoria Holmes: You find your allies. Work with them, and you will become more of who you are. You speak with one voice, and you will make more noise than you could ever have imagined.

Eudoria Holmes: Be careful... And get a haircut. It's a mess.

Tewkesbury: Enola, did you understand what I said? Or rather what I didn't say? Did you understand... what I didn't say?

Sherlock Holmes: You're innocent.
Enola Holmes: You doubted it?
Sherlock Holmes: Nothing's certain till it's proved.

Sherlock Holmes: Stay unemotional. There's nothing more we can do for him now.

Sherlock Holmes: You know, you are aware, should you wish some finer surrounds, I could, uh... I was thinking... Holmes and Holmes? A partnership?
Enola Holmes: That is the kindest offer. But if I did that, I would always be in your shadow.
Sherlock Holmes: Hm. Yes.
Enola Holmes: Though I do like this new version of you. No one should be alone all the time. A friend would do you well.
Sherlock Holmes: Perhaps I should write that down.

Dr. Watson: You are Sherlock Holmes?
Sherlock Holmes: Hm. Yes. Please, do come in, Mr...?
Dr. Watson: Doctor. Watson. John Watson.

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Enola Holmes (2020)

Enola Holmes: Mother believed privacy was the highest virtue, and the one most frequently violated.

Mycroft Holmes: Oh, good God! Feminism. Perhaps she was mad, or senile.
Sherlock Holmes: Though madness, in our family? I would doubt it.

Sherlock Holmes: You're being emotional. It's understandable, but unnecessary.

Mycroft Holmes: Reform. God help us. If there's one thing this country doesn't need, it's more uneducated voters.

Edith: If you wanna stay in London, be tough. Be tough, live the life, but don't do it because you're looking for someone. Do it because you're looking for yourself.

Lestrade: His favorite tobacco?
Enola Holmes: Black shag. Favorite dessert?
Lestrade: Plum pie. His favorite composer?
Enola Holmes: Paganini. Favorite meal of the day?
Lestrade: Breakfast. Are all your questions about food? His favorite case?
Enola Holmes: The one before. Favorite board game?
Lestrade: How do you know Sherlock Holmes?
Enola Holmes: Chess. But only with a worthy opponent.

Edith: What a family! A lost child, a puffed-up misanthrope, a revolutionary, and yourself. No wife, no friends, just a strange occupation obsessed with footprints and coal dust. You see the world so closely, but do you see how it's changing?

The Dowager: ... you're probably one of those new thinkers. My son was a new thinker too. Never could focus on what was, it was always about what could be. I suspect my grandson is the same. England's true glory... is what is. Do you see?
Enola Holmes: I can see much beauty.
The Dowager: Very sensible answer.

Tewkesbury: I'm not a boy. I'm a man.
Enola Holmes: You're a man when I tell you you're a man.

Enola Holmes: I'll make us some tea.

Lestrade: He's worth more, but you give me greater pleasure.

Sherlock Holmes: The only advice I can give to you, one detective to another, sometimes you must dangle your feet in the water in order to attract the sharks.

Sherlock Holmes: The choice is always yours. Whatever society may claim, it can't control you. As Mother has proven.

Tewkesbury: Enola, we are both extremely lucky to have lived this long, and you want to drive us into a place where there is most certain danger?
Enola Holmes: Sometimes, Lord Tewkesbury, you have to dangle your legs in the water to attract the bloody sharks!
Tewkesbury: Why would we want to attract the bloody sharks?
Enola Holmes: Good point.

Sherlock Holmes: It's always there, the truth. You just need to look for it.

Mycroft Holmes: You are a strange fish, little brother.
Sherlock Holmes: And you're a cantankerous one, older brother.

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>> Enola Holmes 2 (2022)

>> Enola Holmes 2 (2022)

Rough Diamonds 1×1

Noah Wolfson: He didn't like the firm or what?
Adina Glazer: He found it okay, but he wasn't passionate about it. I think he mainly did it because he thought it's what tate wanted.
Noah Wolfson: Naturally, they all do what tate wants.

Noah Wolfson: Come on, Adina. For real. How many years did you fight before he let you become a trader? Huh? You were the best out of any of us and he wanted you to teach or something.
Adina Glazer: Yeah, but he did make me a dealer and I'm doing fine now. The first woman in four generations. Give him credit for that. He's earned it.

Eli Wolfson: This whole entire thing... They come here, to our house and make threats as if we were just... This is what's become of us. You know? There used to be rules, used to be honor. I mean, they wouldn't have dared come here. It's crazy.

Gila Wolfson: The Wolfsons... You're all the same kind of person. You expect us all to love you. You can't stand anybody speaking badly about you. But when times get hard, "poof"... you disappear.

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Marlowe (2022)

Clare Quincannon: How private exactly are your investigations, Mr. Marlowe?

Clare Quincannon: You're very perceptive and sensitive, Mr. Marlowe. I imagine it gives you trouble...

Philip Marlowe: That's the last thing you want in homicide, I realize, homicide.

Floyd Hanson: Goodbye, Mr. Marlowe. I'm sorry that it was ultimately uninteresting to talk to you... Ah, but I do like this thing that you have about not being afraid, when you should be.

Dorothy Quincannon: First of all, you have to boil the water, now is that water boiled?.. And then scald the teapot. Give it a good scalding... Put in one teaspoon per cup, then one for the pot and then leave it to draw for three minutes. Think of a soft boiled egg, darling, three minutes, no more, no less and then you're ready to pour, have you got that?... When you make tea, make tea. When you make water, make water.
Philip Marlowe: I... I don't think he got it.
Dorothy Quincannon: Did you?
Philip Marlowe: You lifted it from Joyce, ma'am.
Dorothy Quincannon: Uh-ho, and he lifted it from somewhere else, shitty little man that he is. Never a day's work in his life.
Philip Marlowe: Yeah, apart from the books.
Dorothy Quincannon: Terrible little syphilitic. Tricked an American, sometimes that's all you have to do.
Philip Marlowe: Is that what you did?
Dorothy Quincannon: I've tricked any number of Americans, including playing pagan princesses, Elizabeth of England, ruined widows and any number of flash-eyed barefoot peasant girls. There's nothing to it, all you need are regular features and the ability to read.
Philip Marlowe: Oh, I very much doubt that.

Dorothy Quincannon: The key to Hollywood, Mr. Marlowe, is knowing when your game is up. Take the money and run, or stay, if you want. But at least take the money.

Lou Hendricks: I think you'll keep looking for Peterson, client or not, because you can't stop.

Joe Green: There are certain things I'm just not gonna hear.

Philip Marlowe: They took my .38.
Det. Joe Green: Yeah. There's your .38, if someone gets killed with your .38, you still have a .38. If they ever make us record serial numbers, it'll be fucked.

Philip Marlowe: Just really look for her, I lost her.
Det. Bernie Ohls: When you're getting to be an old timer, it's okay to get out alive.

Cedric: Mr. Hendricks... that's not fair.
Lou Hendricks: As the progeny of sharecroppers, Cedric, you should know life isn't fair!
Cedric: You're right... Life isn't fair.

Cedric: ...we should stick together. I'll be your driver for the moment.
Philip Marlowe: Cedric, I have my own wheels.
Cedric: Of course you do... but consider the parking.

Clare Quincannon: You see, Mr. Marlowe... her lover dumped her. ... So she's playing the only role left for her to play. The femme fatale. Her very own Medea.
Dorothy Quincannon: Oh, well! It's a role that awaits us all, my dear.

Philip Marlowe: Are you okay?
Clare Quincannon: I don't care that I'm less than you think I am. I'm always less than people think I am. You're one of those people who's just lucky to be more than we think you are.

Cedric: A car is more than a vehicle Mr. Hendricks used to tell me. It's a sealed confessional. A repository of secrets. And this city, devoted as it is to the internal combustion engine is a city of motorized secrets.

Clare Quincannon: We all have our secrets, Mr. Marlowe. Leading men with their little peccadilloes. Leading ladies who can't function without their Mexican tinctures. We all need someone to keep us in line.

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More with Less

The Wire 5×1

Det. Christeson: This shit actually works?
Sgt. Jay Landsman: Hell, yeah. Americans are stupid people. We believe what we're told.

Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: The bigger the lie, the more they believe.

Sgt. Ellis Carver: We're all professionals. And we're about to police the roughest district in one of the roughest cities in the world. Show some pride.

Maj. Dennis Mello: Gave them the professionalism bit?
Sgt. Ellis Carver: In the real world, they pay professionals. That's why we call them pros.

Managing Editor Thomas Klebanow: Just because Chicago tightens its belt, it's no reason for us to fall down. Their cutbacks there shouldn't affect our ability to put out an excellent product. Simply have to do more with less.

Col. Cedric Daniels: So one thieving politician trumps 22 dead bodies. Good to know.

Col. Cedric Daniels: When the money starts to flow, I'll get you all back on this somehow. Sorry.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: .... Wonder what it feels like to work in a real fucking police department!

Scott Templeton: Who's doing the react piece?
City Editor Augustus 'Gus' Haynes: Jeff Will, why?
Scott Templeton: I'm just, uh... I need a story. I'm up.
City Editor Augustus 'Gus' Haynes: Yeah. Stay hungry like that. Good things come when they come.

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Sharper (2023)

Sandra: Must be nice being surrounded by books all day.
Tom: It's the best.
Tom: I was just a little depressed... It got bad but, you know, it's like, who hasn't been borderline suicidal at some point in their life?

Max: I don't watch movies. They're a waste of time. But I gave you the impression that I did, and that's what we're gonna do with you.

Max: We're gonna give people the impression that you're somebody that you're not. And when I'm done with you, it's gonna be 100% convincing. We're gonna teach you a little about everything. So that you can lie about anything.

Max: Don't feel sorry for him. You can't cheat an honest man, right? That's why we never feel sorry for the mark.

Richard: All that work for $1,000... Let me give you a piece of advice, Max. If you're gonna steal, steal a lot.

Max: I don't like the way you look at him... You like him a little bit.
Madeline: Of course I like him. He's a billionaire.

Madeline: People get their hearts broken every day. It happens to everybody, okay? All the time. But most kids aren't entitled enough to hire men to find the girl who did it.

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Boys of Summer

The Wire 4×1

School Receptionist: You tell them, I ain't even gonna try to pronounce it.
Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: Roland Pryzbylewksi. Everyone just calls me "Prez". ... New in math. I won't have my certificate until next year but they said I'd be getting classes because of staff shortages?
Assistant Principal Marcia Donnelly: Jesus. Lambs to the slaughter here.

Former Mayor 'Young Tony': You know what I think, Tommy? No matter what, you got your name out there and it'll help you down the road if you ever want to step up to the legislature. But as one paisan to another, the day of the white mayor is over.

Theresa D'Agostino: One man's shithead's another man's vice president.

Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: You think they'll vote for the white guy?
Norman Wilson: Black folk been voting white for a long time. You come correct, we listen. It's y'all that'll never vote black.

Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: I don't have your vote, Norman? You're my deputy campaign manager and I don't have your vote.
Norman Wilson: Last white man I could vote for was Bobby Kennedy and you ain't no Bobby K.
Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: I thought you just said...
Norman Wilson: I was speaking in general about the kindly nature of black folks. In particular, I ain't all that kindly.

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Murder Mystery 2 (2023)

Murder Mystery (2019) <<

Nick Spitz: Do you not wanna do this anymore?
Audrey Spitz: I do. I wanna do this. It's just… It's all we ever do is talk about work. Do you know any couples who also work together that actually get along?
Nick Spitz: Billie Eilish and Finneas.

Audrey Spitz: Remember what happened last time we went on a getaway?
Nick Spitz: Yeah, some people died.
Audrey Spitz: Not s... A lot of people.
Nick Spitz: You think five people dying's a lot?

Audrey Spitz: I have to tell you, Paris is my favorite city in the world.
Claudette Joubert: When was the last time you were there?
Audrey Spitz: Hmm. Oh, I've actually not been there. But I just know from the movies and from the pictures and...

The Maharajah: You guys are happy, right?
Nick Spitz: Us? Are you kidding? Without her, I would not be happy. With her, I'm the happiest... She makes every decision for us, and I'm fine with that.

Nick Spitz: Okay, so listen.
Audrey Spitz: Yes, honey.
Nick Spitz: We got good cheese. We got free iPhones. I'm happy with everything.

Connor Miller: You need to keep him calm, keep him talking. We need at least...
Nick Spitz: Forty-five seconds. I know. It's not my first rodeo, pal.
Connor Miller: You've done hostage negotiation?
Nick Spitz: I'm married to this lady. Everything's a negotiation.

Nick Spitz: Sweetheart, you're not just a mass murderer. You're an axe murderer!

Audrey Spitz: Oh my God, you're so big!
Nick Spitz: That's what you said on our honeymoon, but like then, we gotta keep trying.

Nick Spitz: It's all good, babe! Nicky Two Guns in the house!... Did I hit anything?
Audrey Spitz: You got the detonator thingy, honey!
Nick Spitz: Okay, good! That's what I was aiming for!

Audrey Spitz: What's the first thing you wanna do?
Nick Spitz: I wanna kiss you!

Nick Spitz: Are you shitz-ing us right now?

Audrey Spitz: Let's just have a civilized conversation.
Helicopter Pilot: See you never, Shitzes!

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Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)

Batman: Don't be alarmed.
James Gordon: So says the man dressed up like a bat.

Harvey Dent: Bruce, I'm in love.
Bruce Wayne: Well, that's great news, Harvey. I'm sure your wife will be glad to hear it.
Harvey Dent: Oh, please, Bruce. This is the 19th century. Don't be such a dinosaur. Marriage is more like a business arrangement.

Alfred Pennyworth: I've laid out your mourning clothes.
Bruce Wayne: I have my own manner of mourning.
Alfred Pennyworth: Revenge.
Bruce Wayne: Her blood cries out for it.
Alfred Pennyworth: Does it, sir? "Beloved, avenge not yourselves, vengeance is mine. I will repay," sayeth the Lord. She wouldn't want you to be alone right now.
Bruce Wayne: It's how I work best, Alfred.

Selina Kyle: Your friend? You think one of your friends is framing you?
Bruce Wayne: One of my mentors says that when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Older Scout: Maycomb was a tired old town even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by 9:00 in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their 3:00 naps and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. A day was 24 hours long, but it seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go and nothing to buy and no money to buy it with. Although Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself. That summer I was 6 years old...

Atticus Finch: Scout, I think maybe next time Mr. Cunningham comes, you'd better not call me.
Scout Finch: I thought you'd want to thank him.
Atticus Finch: Oh, I do. But I think it embarrasses him to be thanked.
Scout Finch: Why does he bring you all this stuff?
Atticus Finch: He is paying me for some legal work I did for him.
Scout Finch: Why is he paying you like this?
Atticus Finch: That's the only way he can. He has no money.
Scout Finch: Is he poor?
Atticus Finch: Yes.
Scout Finch: Are we poor?
Atticus Finch: We are indeed.
Scout Finch: Are we as poor as the Cunninghams?
Atticus Finch: No, not exactly. The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers. The Crash hit them the hardest.

Atticus Finch: I've been appointed to defend Tom Robinson. And now that he's been charged, that's what I intend to do.
Mr. Ewell: You're taking his...
Atticus Finch: If you'll excuse me, Mr. Ewell.
Mr. Ewell: What kind of man are you? You've got children of your own.

Dill Harris: So long. I'll see you next summer.

Jem Finch: How old were you when you got your first gun, Atticus?
Atticus Finch: Thirteen or fourteen... I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point at anything in the house. And that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he'd suppose the temptation to go after birds would be too much. That I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted if I could hit them. But to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Scout Finch:
Atticus Finch: I reckon because mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncribs. They don't do one thing, but just sing their hearts out for us.

Atticus Finch: If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Scout Finch: Sir?
Atticus Finch: Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Atticus Finch: Scout? Do you know what a compromise is?
Scout Finch: ... Bending the law?
Atticus Finch: No. It's an agreement reached by mutual consent. Here is the way it works. You concede the necessity of going to school and we'll keep right on reading the same every night, just as we always have. Is that a bargain?

Atticus Finch: There's a lot of ugly things in this world, Son. I wish I could keep them all away from you. That's never possible.

Scout Finch: Atticus, do you defend niggers?
Atticus Finch: Don't say nigger, Scout.
Scout Finch: I didn't say it. Cecil Jacobs did. That's why I had to fight him.

Atticus Finch: Anyway, I'm simply defending a Negro, Tom Robinson... Scout, there are some things that you're not old enough to understand just yet... There's been some high talk around town to the effect that I shouldn't do much about defending this man.
Scout Finch: If you shouldn't be defending him, then why are you doing it?
Atticus Finch: For a number of reasons. The main one is that if I didn't, I couldn't hold my head up in town. I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something again.

Prosecutor: You felt sorry for her? A white woman? You felt sorry for her...

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Wrong Place (2022)

Chloe Richards: The one thing about having cancer is that people cannot stay mad at you for too long.

Jake Brown: I'm here to update your security camera with our latest models. If uh... you could show me where your recordings are, I...
Jerry: You're in the wrong place. ... Just between you and me, we don't use those anymore.
Jake Brown: Are you sure about that?
Jerry: Yup. We got Frank Richards. Used to be the police captain. He's all the security we need.

Jake Brown: That shit's impossible. I saw him here.
Chloe Richards: You're obviously in the wrong place.

Chloe Richards: Never fuck with a bitch who's ready to die.

Jake Brown: Honestly, feel bad for you. Look at you. You're just an old man with an old gun. Nothing personal, pal, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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Time After Time

The Wire 3×1

Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: Shit, no matter how many times you get burnt, man, you just keep on doing the same. Nigger do not learn.

Major Howard 'Bunny' Colvin: Now, which way is north? Point... That's east. Now, if you're in foot pursuit it might help your backup to know what direction you're running. Even numbers tell you north and west. Odds, south and east... Compasses. Until you learn that much, you carry one.
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: Hey, Carv, where you at?
Det. Ellis Carver: I'm at a desk outside the roll call room on the first floor of 1034 North Mount. My feet are facing west and my dick is pointing south-southwest.
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: Bunny Colvin's been giving that speech as long as you guys been sucking air.

Major Howard 'Bunny' Colvin: So, what did we learn? Using half my district K-9 and the copter to bring a 14-year-old to bay. What did we learn?
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: That you can't raise up and run from a drug corner in Sector One without my boot finding your ass. Right?

Det. Lester Freamon: What makes you think they'll promote the wrong man?
Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: We do it all the time.

Johnny Weeks: It'll be better tomorrow, Bubs.
Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: Well... What kind of dope fiend be talking about tomorrow? Tomorrow ain't shit. Today, Johnny. Today.

Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: I'm thinking of becoming a woman.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Can you believe this? They caught five tonight. They're telling me to come in on my day off.
Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Five, huh? City's jumping bad, man.

Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: Here's a fun fact for you. If Baltimore had New York's population, we'd be clocking 4,000 murders a year at this rate.

Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: There is no excuse I will accept. I don't care how you do it. Just fucking do it.
Maj. Marvin Taylor: Er, Deputy... as familiar as we all are with the urban crime environment, I think we all understand there are certain processes by which you can reduce the number of overall felonies. You can reclassify an agg assault, or you can unfound a robbery, but, er, how do you make a body disappear?
Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: ... There isn't one of you in this room who isn't here by appointment. If you want to continue wearing those oak clusters, you will shut up and step up. Any of you who can't bring in the numbers we need, will be replaced by someone who can.

Lt. Cedric Daniels: We don't have the manpower. Not to mention the money. And for what? We're still a long way from a quality target. I say we come down off the wire, charge what we can, and move on.
Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: We come down early two years ago, we left a real bastard on the street. We're gonna let that same son of a bitch beat me again? How many times do you let Stringer Bell go around the board? Collect another fucking 200... Million.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: There's other fish in the barrel, McNulty. ...
Det. Lester Freamon: It's you against the world, is it?
Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: What the fuck did I do?!

Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: What the hell is all this?
Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: You don't look at what you did before, you do the same shit all over.

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