Third Watch (1999–2005)

Coby Bell: Tyrone Davis, Self

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• Bosco : Only two things I watch. Sports and animals.

  Yokas : Animals?

  Bosco : Yeah. Shark shows, elephant babies, lions, tigers, bears.

  Yokas : Oh my.

  Bosco : What?

  Yokas : Nothin'.

  Bosco : You don't watch those shows? Best shows on the box.

  Yokas : I guess I must be missing out.

  Bosco : You are. A lioness with her cubs in the tall grass. No human beings around for miles.

  Davis : Except for the 18 guys in the camera truck?

  Bosco : You gotta ruin it for me, right?

• [about Bosco] 

  Davis : What's with him?

  Yokas : I don't know. He's got this new girlfriend. I think it's starting to melt his brain.

• Davis : What do you do?

  Sully : What do you mean "what do I do"?

  Davis : To, like, kick back, have like, Sully fun, what do you do? I sort of picture you... sitting at home in your boxer shorts watching old movies on black and white TV.

  Sully : This is what you do, conjure up images of me in my underwear?

  Davis : I'm not saying it's pretty.

  Sully : You're way off you know.

  Davis : About what?

  Sully : I got a color television.

• Davis : What's going on with you?

  Brendan Finney : Maybe I don't wanna be around all these cops.

  Davis : Maybe you should get another job.

• Monroe : Wish you would've brought me a Big Mac.

  Davis : Come on now, you got your mashed potatoes. They look... edible. And you're uh, ham, or steak - What the hell is that?

  Monroe : It's supposed to be chicken and rice.

• Davis : Let's go Finney. Let's go.

  Brendan Finney : I don't need your protection, Davis.

  Davis : Fine, kick his ass Sully. I don't give a damn.

• Brendan Finney : Why do I have to go to the hospital?

  Davis : It's trauma. Procedure.

  Brendan Finney : Well, what if I'm not traumatized?

  Davis : I wouldn't tell anybody that, okay? You don't wanna give the impression that you can just take a life without conscience.

• [on the stakeout] 

  Davis : I never thought I'd be saying this; I would rather be writing parking tickets right now.

• [about the freaky hotdog vendor] 

  Brendan Finney : So you just wanna let a prostitute off?

  Davis : Hey, we don't know if she's a prostitute. Maybe she's - - Maybe she's just a giving person.

• Cruz : If this was second grade you'd get two gold stars.

  Davis : That's two felony collars in one day. We should get a commendation, right?

  Cruz : You just did. It's called a compliment.

• Davis : Monroe made detective everybody... Actually, I guess you always were one, right? I got called down to IAB yesterday, had a little chat with Captain Finney, all of a sudden our little community-oriented holier-than-thou Detective Monroe walks in, yelling at Captain Finney about her cover being blown... Her IAB cover!

• Brendan Finney : We called for backup and nobody came.

  Cruz : It looks like there was response to me.

  Brendan Finney : Yeah, well it took long enough!

  Davis : You weren't at the original location, Finney. We had to find you.

  Brendan Finney : Right.

  Davis : Believe what you want.

  Brendan Finney : Man, what the hell happened to you?

  Davis : Sasha Monroe!

• [after 11 September 2001] 

  Ty : You know, my mom just gave me 6000 more reasons on why I should quit the force.

• Chief Hancock : You are a real pain in the ass, Davis.

  Ty : From you, sir, that's kind of a compliment.

• Davis : Who are you?

  Taylor : From the outfit I'd say I was a firefighter.

  Sully : You're supposed to have a Barco-Lounger attached to your ass. Where is it?

• [about Carlos] 

  Sully : I hear both of his oars aren't in the water.

  Ty : I don't even think he has a boat.

• Sully : The day you work buy-and-bust is the day...

  Ty : ...is the day you do a sit-up. Oh!

  Sully : The day you work buy-and-bust is the day...

  Ty : ...is the day you eat a salad. Oh!

• Bosco : I'm telling you. If they gave me the power to decide who lives and who dies, the world would be a better place.

  Sully : Bosco as God.

  Bosco : Morons shouldn't have drivers' licenses.

  Faith : Worse... Bosco as the DMV.

  Ty : Isn't that a lateral move?

• Davis : I made a nice collar and you just gave it away.

  Sully : All right. You were masterful. I laughed, I cried. It became a moment I'll treasure for the rest of my career.

• Davis : Hey, I found a wallet!

  Sully : You're a bloodhound.

• [two drunks are fighting] 

  Sully : Looks like we found our combatants.

  Davis : Either that or a ballroom dance competition.

• Taylor : How long you think he can go?

  Bobby : I don't know, he's a big guy.

  Taylor : Sooner or later they all fall.

  Davis : I can hear you. What, you think I drank so enough I'm blind?

• Darren : You need some help?

  Bobby : No!

  Taylor : Speak for yourself. I'm the one holding up the sheriff here.

  Davis : I'm not a sheriff.

• [after having too much to drink] 

  Davis : My name's Ty. This is Al. Al the firewoman.

• [about the body in the dumpster who keeps getting buried by stuff coming down the garbage chute] 

  Sully : We're going to have to keep track of the at-death and after-death injuries.

  Davis : Coroner's not going to be here for an hour. She's getting buried already.

  Sully : I don't hear her complaining.

  Davis : Could we get a little respect for the dead?

• [imitating a woman] 

  Davis : Is there something wrong with me? Is my butt too big? Is he gay?

• [about Bobby] 

  Davis : You ever talk to him much?

  Sully : Caffey? No. You?

  Davis : I puked in his car once.

  Sully : Now there's a memory.

• Davis : What about the bodies?

  Bosco : Sully's in a volunteering mood.

• Sully : Yesterday my car goes up in a ball of flames, today I gotta play nursemaid to Judge Perfect!

  Davis : Maybe we should get you a nurse's outfit. Little hat...

  Sully : Whole thing sucks.

  Davis : Are you familiar with the theory that you attract what you send out? Negative energy comes right back at you?

  Sully : Listen, Kojak, you're gonna go all happy-crappy New Age on me, you can get out and walk your ass to the detail.

  Davis : Yeah, you know what? That's much more positive.

• [they are taking their time walking to a call] 

  Davis : Shouldn't we at least be jogging or something?

  Sully : What? Do you think one of your relatives is involved?

• [about working with Sully] 

  Davis : I feel like I'm riding around with my grandmother.

  Carlos : She's pretty quiet?

  Davis : Nah. She's a bitch.

• Sully : 17?

  Davis : I got big feet.

  Sully : Bozo's got big feet. Those are water-skis.

• Sully : Your mom's still doin' your laundry for you?

  Davis : She doesn't like it when I use the machines. I always screw up the colors.

  Sully : She still cutting the crust off your sandwiches too?

  Davis : They're better that way.

• [about going on the raid] 

  Davis : We need any special equipment?

  Sully : "Special equipment"? We're taking down a bookie, not Lex Luthor.

• Davis : You want me to kick it in?

  Sully : I tell you what, Tarzan. Why don't we keep that as a backup plan, but let's see if the Super has keys first.

  Davis : Yeah that could work too.

• Davis : I went over to the hotdog stand and met Nikki.

  Brendan Finney : Whos Nikki?

  Davis : Nikki's the hotdog chick.

• Davis : It all happened so fast, I didn't have time to think she was a prositute, I just thought she was a freaky hotdog vendor.

• Harry Rush : My tongue, man. I bit my tongue.

  Brendan Finney : You're about to get it ripped out.

  Harry Rush : I'm bleeding here. You have to get me medical attention.

  Brendan Finney : You didn't give that store owner a chance to get medical attention, now did you?

  Harry Rush : I think I broke my nose.

  Davis : Please. You got a broken nose, bloody tongue... Still hasn't managed to shut your mouth!

• Davis : That'd be a bitch, you search a guy, put him in the RMP, he gets his weapon back here.

  Sully : That almost explains the whole searching thing.

• Davis : Step out of the car please.

  Gary : Is that necessary?

  Davis : If you don't want to be dragged out the window, it is, yeah.

• Sully : We had a pool going.

  Davis : A pool for what?

  Sully : How long you'd stay. I said four days.

  Davis : Four days?

  Sully : I wanted two, but Bosco got that first.

  Davis : So who won?

  Sully : Yokas. She had two weeks. That was the longest anybody guessed.

• [about the guy who is buried alive] 

  Davis : What do you think is going through his mind?

  Bosco : "Damn, I could have had a V-8."

  Yokas : You're a sick puppy Bos, you know that?

• Davis : If you won the lotto you could buy a helicopter to get to work.

  Sully : To get to work?

  Davis : What are you gonna do? Sit at home all day?

  Yokas : Yeah 70 million dollars, I'm gonna be strapping on a bulletproof vest 'cause I need a hobby.

• [after someone shoots Rudy in the back of the police car] 

  Kim : You guys sure you're okay?

  Yokas : Yeah, I'll let you know when my ass unpuckers.

  Bobby : Mine wouldn't until April.

  Yokas : Who would want to hurt Rudy Granger?

  Bosco : Obviously someone who wants me to have a really bad day.

  Davis : I bet you Rudy'd say his day was worse.

• Sully : I still want to be able to chase down fly balls, play some one-on-one. You know. I'll be pushing 60 years old.

  Davis : Can you chase down fly balls now?

• Davis : [to Sully]  You're considerate, you're generous, you're fun to be with... Hell, I wish I was marrying you.

• Davis : You get any rest.

  Sully : Not much.

  Davis : Yeah, me neither.

  Sully : Oh yeah, you got a Ukrainian carnival at your house too?

• Davis : [they avoid an accident]  Whoa! What was that?

  Sully : Old school, my man.

• Davis : [to Bosco who's doing yoga]  I believe you've lost your torch, Miss Liberty.

• Bosco : She says in a few weeks I should be able to put my feet behind my ears.

  Davis : Who?

  Bosco : My yoga teacher.

  Sully : She say when you'd be able to pull your head out of your ass?

  Davis : That's the advanced class.

• Taylor : Does she have a name?

  Carlos : Bird.

  Davis : Bird?

  Taylor : I can tell you two have really bonded.

  Carlos : Yeah. I'm not hung up on names.

• Taylor : [about Carlos]  He thinks you're gay you know.

  Davis : He does, doesn't he? Well, I'm pretty sure he thinks you are too.

  Taylor : Fine by me. Anything to discourage him.

• Davis : Now that you mention it, your ass is looking a tighter.

  Sully : Davis...

  Davis : More toned, a little firmer.

  Sully : In the car!

  Davis : Sexy!

• Carlos : [about Kylie]  You need your formula, huh?

  Davis : I'm gonna tell you what she needs. She needs her own apartment, man.

• Taylor : Look at her, she's so beautiful.

  Davis : Yeah, she's real cute.

  Taylor : Who would have thought - -the spawn of Carlos.

• Carlos : So what's this, a... queen?

  Davis : Yes, yes, a queen. A big old queen.

• Lt. Swersky : Davis, you'll be in 5-5 David with a brand new probationary patrolman fresh from the academy.

  Davis : A rookie! Seriously?

  Lt. Swersky : Oh, after the fine homicide arrest you made the other day, I'm making you a Field Training Officer.

  Sully : Yeah. I've been with a rookie. The perks aren't worth it.

  Davis : Well, it was no picnic for me either. I didn't get any perks.

  Sully : Hey, I gave you a million dollars worth of law enforcement knowledge.

  Davis : Right. We're "solving problems." That's genius!

• [to Finney] 

  Davis : I'm your Field Training Officer. That means I evaluate you at the end of each day. So far you've run another RMP off the road, you've pointed a gun at a ten-year-old, and you've completely disrespected a superior officer. I would suggest you adjust your attitude and start listening to me or your career's gonna be over before it starts. I don't give a damn who your daddy is.

• Brendan Finney : Guess I, uh, owe Sullivan an apology.

  Davis : Yeah, well, you can hold off on that one.

  Brendan Finney : Well, maybe tomorrow, huh?

  Davis : Maybe next year!

• Cruz : Big boy.

  Davis : Yeah, he's not too big.

  Cruz : Dead?

  Davis : God, I hope so.

• [about the knife] 

  Cruz : This is his?

  Davis : He was trying to kill me with it. I didn't ask him if it was his or not.

• Sully : You know, there was a time when the drug dealers ran away from us. That's how you could tell you were winning.

  Davis : Most of them still do.

  Sully : Less and less all the time though.

• [gives Bosco his uniform] 

  Carlos : Jeez, it's freezing.

  Davis : Well, you're in your underwear, Carlos.

  Bosco : It's for a good cause.

  Carlos : Thank God I wore underwear today.

  Bosco : Okay... How do I look?

  Davis : I wouldn't let you work on me.

• Nancy : You're not like the rest of the cops.

  Davis : Why? 'Cause I read a book?

  Nancy : Because you still haven't stopped believing that the good guys always win and the bad guys always lose. It's sweet. Really.

• Davis : I got the wind knocked out of me, that's all.

  Kim : Falling four flights will do that to you, superboy.

• Davis : Idle minds right? Devil's playground.

  Sully : I thought that was idle hands.

  Davis : How can a hand be a playground?

  Sully : And isn't it workshop?

  Davis : Is it?

  Sully : I don't know, you said it.

• [questioning Noble about the stabbing] 

  Davis : And that is the black guy with the baseball cap?

  Aaron Noble : Yeah.

  Sully : That narrows it down for us. I wonder what Derek Jeter was doing.

  Davis : Yankees are on the road.

  Aaron Noble : Mets are still in town.

• [about Taylor] 

  Davis : I don't deserve to feel bad about her dying. She was a way better person than I think I'll ever be.

• Davis : Is it true? You ratted out Cruz to Swersky? Said she was dirty?

  Bosco : She is dirty.

  Sully : And yet she goes to church twice a week. There's a lesson in there somewhere.

• [in a car chase] 

  Davis : You're running out of places to go.

  Sully : You're damn right he is.

  Davis : Nice... I take back everything I said.

• Sully : I bet I could read you a question from this book and you'll be able to answer it correctly. You ready?

  Davis : I don't think I've ever seen you read anything that didn't have cartoons in it.

• Davis : Guy gives rap a bad name.

  Bosco : No, rap gives rap a bad name.

  Monroe : Watch your mouth.

  Davis : I guess if anybody'd know that it would be Maurice Boscorelli.

• Davis : 5-5 Charlie. What's the ETA of that backup and ESU?

  Dispatcher : Stand by, Charlie.

  Davis : Stan - - You want me to tell the bad guys to stand by?

• [shoots Frank in the hand causing him to drop the detonator] 

  Davis : I'm serious man. That was the most amazing shot I've ever seen in my life.

  Sully : Yeah, except I was aiming at his head.

• Lt. Swersky : This is the bomb guy?

  Davis : Yeah. He looks a little different when he isn't running away.

  Frankie : Hey, man, this guy was gonna kill me.

  Davis : What are you talking about 'was'? Whole lot of time left in the day

• Frankie : You guys said you were gonna help me!

  Davis : You tried to kill a judge, twice. There's really not much we can do for you, sweet pea.

• Davis : Looks like Cruz is back in the game.

  Bosco : And I'm being passed over for a rookie.

  Sully : Maybe it's your winning personality.

• Sully : You know what would make me happy? Knowing that little girl's in a warm bed tonight before it starts snowing. We make that happen, I'll sing a carol.

  Davis : You know a carol?

• Sully : Either nobody's home or they just don't like me.

  Davis : Who wouldn't like you, with your sunny old disposition?

• [to Doc] 

  Kim : What did we learn the first day of paramedic training? 'Cops are all jerks'.

  Davis : You guys all right?

  Kim : Yeah.

  Davis : You sure? You're good?

  Kim : Yeah.

  Sully : You know what they taught us the first day of cop school? 'Take a look around before you insult somebody'.

• Davis : Hey, Carlos, you wouldn't happen to have like, big bolt-cutters on the rig?

  Carlos : Sorry.

  Monroe : Got a flashlight?

  Carlos : Nope.

  Sully : Band-Aids - - Adhesive tape?

• Davis : What's with the new unis? What, you rethinking retirement?

  Sully : It's not how you begin the race, it's how you finish it. And I intend to finish this one with pride and honor. If I fail in those two areas at least I'll be looking good.

• [about Sully] 

  Old Lady : Isn't he kind of out of shape to be a cop?

  Lt. Swersky : That's uncalled for, lady.

  Davis : I've been telling him that for years, ma'am.

• Davis : Families are rough.

  Carlos : They should come with warning labels.

  Davis : If they did who'd ever have one?

• [about the Monroe/Doc relationship] 

  Bosco : Isn't he a little old for you?

  Sully : He's not that old.

  Davis : Come on, he's closer to a discount bus pass than he is to her age.

  Sully : He is not.

  Bosco : You seem a little defensive yourself there, Sully.

• Monroe : I'm just not quite ready for anything serious right now.

  Davis : Well, French Toast isn't really that serious. If I was making you like, Eggs Benedict or something like that, then we need to talk.

• [Lloyd runs into the RMP] 

  Sully : Wow! Nice form, but he didn't stick the landing.

  Davis : Purse doesn't match the shoes.

• Jelly : You notice how I didn't ask you guys if you touched anything, seeing as how you're a couple of wily veterans.

  Davis : But you're asking us now?

  Sully : He's got us, Davis. Go ahead and give him back the leg.

• [to Bosco about Monroe's shooting] 

  Davis : ...I was just gonna say you don't have to avoid me. You know, I know what kind of cop you are. You say it wasn't your fault, I believe you. I trust you.