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	Season 2 / Episode 3: - The Last White Man on East Ferry Avenue Sgt. Mick Belker: [Detective Brooks has been murdered while working undercover] I told you, but you wouldn't listen. I told you we shoulda pulled him out of there right after the warehouse bust. I begged you. And on the phone, when he didn't show up for his wire, he kept telling me to "wait"... Lt. Ray Calletano: Mick, it wouldn't have changed anything. Sgt. Mick Belker: How do we know that? He had it all ahead of him, and you threw his life away. His death is on your head. Capt. Frank Furillo: They all are, Mick.
	Season 1 / Episode 15: - Rites of Spring (2) Furillo: Smart move, LaRue. You went out on an important operation in a unit with no brakes. How do you explain that? Maybe I can explain it for you. Detective J.D. La Rue: Hey. Wa - wa - Furillo: [removes bottle from LaRue's shirt] You're a drunk, my friend. And because you're a drunk, you're a screwup. And I'm through waiting for you to change. You got a couple of choices, pal. Either this, or you call a Lieutenant Johnson down at Division and you say to him, "I'm a drunk, and I want to change." You got that? "I want to change." Otherwise, you're out of this police department, and I mean now. [hands bottle back to LaRue]
	Season 1 / Episode 12: - I Never Promised You a Rose, Marvin Sgt. Phil Esterhaus: Your uncustomary silence testifies amply to the esteem with which we hold the subject of this last item. We all know who's in here. To most people this would seem just a common urn, but we know it holds one of the premier phone installers of the country: Officer Marvin Oliver Box, or simply Marve, as we knew him. Born, 16 May, 1946, deceased, just last Tuesday, in this very room, with uniform on, and drillbit in hand. Marve must have known he would be leaving us soon, because we found a small poem in his will, which we've had inscribed on this vessel here. Uh, "I've laid a lot of cable, and I've strung a lot of line, sure it gets lonely, but that's okay, because it brings people closer together." Per his final will and testament, Marve was cremated yesterday at Bolinsky's Crematorium, and he will lie in state besides the squad room coffee machine for the remainder of the afternoon. Sgt. Phil Esterhaus: Marve, let's roll, huh? And let's be careful up there.
	Unknown Episode: Sergeant Phil Esterhaus: Hey, let's be careful out there.
	Unknown Episode: Andy Renko: [in Reindeer costume, as a charity benefit leads to a chase] Oh my Gawd! Here it is Christmas Eve, and I'm gonna get shot dead in a moose suit!
	Unknown Episode: Sergeant Stan Jablonski: Let's do it to them before they do it to us.
	Unknown Episode: Joyce Davenport: I want you to know that what you did tonight frightens me. Furillo: I understand. Joyce Davenport: Do you? Furillo: This is the kind of crime that tears the city apart. It brings out what's savage in thousands of people. It has to be dealt with very quickly. Joyce Davenport: So the book goes out the window? Furillo: I went by the book. I pushed a little hard at the bindings. Joyce Davenport: That's a crock of the well known article, Furillo. You bulldozed... Furillo: [Interrupting] I did what I've seen you do for clients fifty times. I used every resource. Joyce Davenport: Furillo, I'm a public defender. I play a role in a system of checks and balances. And other people are supposed to play their's with the same kind of energy. You, with your jungle justice, threw that all out of whack tonight. Gerald Chapman would have confessed to killing Abraham Lincoln to avoid that mob tonight. Furillo: I can live with what I did, Joyce. I went by my instincts, and they were right. Under these circumstances I'd do it again. Joyce Davenport: You can trust your instincts, Frank. Maybe even I can trust your instincts. But I don't want to trust everybody's instincts. I want there to be rules and I want them to be obeyed, especially by people who wear badges and guns. You perverted the law tonight. And you're so damn happy about snagging your confession, you don't even begin to see it yet. Please, see it, Frank. [Furillo is silent; Davenport sighs] How's Fay? Is she all right. Furillo: I talked to her. She has a couple of stitches in her yead. Yeah, she's all right. Joyce Davenport: [Davenport starts to leave the office and stops. She does not look at Furillo] Frank, I don't think I want to be with you tonight. Furillo: I understand. [Davenport opens the door and Furillo stop her] Gerald not only gave us a confession, he gave us the location of the murder weapon. There's no mistake her. These are the killers. Joyce Davenport: [Looks at Furillo evenly] Is that where you make your stand finally, Frank? The oldest excuse in the world - the ends justify the means?
	Unknown Episode: Sergeant Stan Jablonski: This means that there is to be no smoking within the building. Violation will result in penalties. Detective J.D. La Rue: Gee, I hope dad doesn't find out. I might not get the car this weekend.
	Unknown Episode: Detective Mick Belker: Belker. Hi, ma.
	Unknown Episode: Detective Mick Belker: I'm a police officer and you... are... BUSTED!
	Unknown Episode: Cop: Is this a perp? Lieutenant Norman Buntz: No. Sid the Snitch: No, just an impoverished person.
	Unknown Episode: Lieutenant Norman Buntz: If you want the other half of this $100, you'll do your job. Sid the Snitch: That man is an inspirational genius.
	Unknown Episode: Belker: Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
	Unknown Episode: Belker: Sit, hairball!
	Unknown Episode: Washington: Hey, let's just do our job. Hey Babe? LaRue: Hey man, we're wasting our time, hunh? Now the scene's been trampled on by half the neighborhood, I can get a better suspect description out of Helen Keller and Forensics is tied up until next Easter. It's a write-off man.
	Unknown Episode: Bernstein: Are you kidding? Frank, there's a lynch mob out there. Furillo: I know there's a lynch mob out there. I think I can use it.
	Unknown Episode: Daniels: I'm saying the entire criminal justice community is against you, Captain. So she killed some street scum as he's committing a crime, so what? What about a man who tries to incinerate his wife and his son? Isn't that the real outrage? Sort our your priorities Frank. I'm busy cleaning up your mess.
	Unknown Episode: Joyce Davenport: That should give you enough time to shave her head and tattoo a number on her arm.
	Unknown Episode: Washington: Check it out. 8:04. Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'!
	Unknown Episode: Paul 'The Wall' Srignoli: Gina! Andy Renko: Oh Lord, he's alive. Gina Srignoli: Ahh. The fat pig has come back to life. I'm cursed.
	Unknown Episode: Furillo: Look at this! You got the address wrong on the warrant. Esterhaus: Captain, we never shoulda stopped doing these in pencil. Furillo: ...so when the man understandably objects to being arrested, Earps here hits him with a board! Earps: We had to, boss. We couldn't get his attention.
	Unknown Episode: Det. Harry Garibaldi: [Mayo thinks her dentist fondled her breasts on tape while she was under anesthesia] Well, Patsy, I can't comment on the tape, you know, unless I've seen the real thing. Sort of as a comparision, you know. Det. Patsy Mayo: [Points to her breasts] Harry, these are not in your future.
	Unknown Episode: Joyce Davenport: That's a crock of the well known article.
	Unknown Episode: Furillo: [commenting on an arrest by a female officer] Nice bust, officer. Daniels: [to the Deputy Chief] That's the most accurate thing Furillo's said today.
	Unknown Episode: Andy Renko: [Renko is involved in a scam that may lead to a big arrest] I can see it now; "Detective" Renko, "Sergeant" Renko, "Hero" Renko... Officer Robert 'Bobby' Hill: Convict Renko, unemployed Renko, Going to jail Renko.
	Unknown Episode: Joyce Davenport: [confronting Furillo in his office] You want an open relationship? You've got an open relationship. [she kisses him in full view of the squad room]
	Unknown Episode: Andy Renko: [Renko has hurt himself trying to lift something heavy] Oh, Bobby... I think I herniated myself!
	Unknown Episode: Captain Freedom: Stop this criminal act!
	Unknown Episode: Andy Renko: [having a dye pack in a bag of stolen money explode on him] Oh, Lordy, I'm green!
	Unknown Episode: Sergeant Stan Jablonski: In light of the ongoing personnel shortage, I will be riding with Officer Bates today. Sergeant Stan Jablonski: [Squadroom erupts in laughter] Hey, hey! They recommissioned the Wisconsin didn't they? Detective J.D. La Rue: [laughing] Hey, and it sunk!

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