Major Crimes (TV Series)

Risk Assessment (2013)

Phillip P. Keene: Buzz Watson

Quotes 

• Louie Provenza : And the only reason that you are riding along with us is to see if you can be a team player and follow directions, and so far, Mr. Beck, you are doing a crappy job.

  Rusty Beck : Let's have it.

  Louie Provenza : Stay in the hall.

  Rusty Beck : [to Buzz after Provenza exits]  Geez. Why is he being so rude?

  Buzz Watson : Not following orders is worse than being rude. If you want the captain to sign papers approving your participation in an SIS operation, you better do what the lieutenant says.

  Rusty Beck : Bu... but just standing here is boring.

  Buzz Watson : You expect us all to be fascinated with your life, but you never take the smallest interest in other people.

  Rusty Beck : I do so take an interest in other people. I do that all the time.

  Buzz Watson : All the time? Really?

  Rusty Beck : Yeah.

  Buzz Watson : So tell me, why did Lieutenant Provenza become a detective? What was Mike Tao going to do before he started working Homicides? The reason you can't answer those questions is because you never ask people about themselves - ever. Not even how they're doing in the morning.

  Rusty Beck : Well, I don't have to ask how you're doing because you're, like, obviously in a really bad mood.

  Buzz Watson : No. I'm disappointed... again.

• Buzz Watson : These guys really killed that 15-year-old kid, Tyler, just to make an example out of him?

  Amy Sykes : Sounds horrible. I've seen worse.

  Rusty Beck : Where did you see worse?

  Amy Sykes : Kabul. While I was an MP - stands for Military Police - we had interpreters, locals, and they were murdered sometimes for helping us, just to show what would happen to Afghans who supported our troops.

  Rusty Beck : Military Police? Is that how you became a cop?

  Amy Sykes : Police officer, you mean? I went ahead and got my undergrad in political science. Turns out chasing bad guys is a lot more fun than arguing about government. Working Homicide, it's clearer who the bad guys are. Couldn't always stop them in Kabul. Here I can. Best job in the world.

• Rusty Beck : The, um... the approval papers. Sharon just signed them.

  Buzz Watson : Well, congratulations. You didn't screw it up.

  Rusty Beck : Well, maybe, uh, this is how I get MY start. Although I can't imagine ever working here for a living.

  [pause] 

  Rusty Beck : Hey, you know, I talked to everyone else about it, but I never got to you. I mean, you're... you're part of the squad, right?

  Buzz Watson : Uh, yeah.

  Rusty Beck : Well, so, what made you decide to work here?

  Buzz Watson : When I was eleven years old, my father and uncle were leaving a Kings game, stopped at an ATM on the way home, and were both robbed and shot to death.

  Rusty Beck : Oh, my God. Buzz, I... I am so sorry.

  Buzz Watson : Yeah. So I thought, like Julio, I'd join the academy, become a detective one day, track down the killers myself, but my mother was terrified something would happen to me and then there'd be no one left to take care of her, so I got my film degree instead. Now here I am, directing an important movie every day of the week, helping rescue those we can. Maybe rescuing ourselves a little, if we're totally honest about it.

  Rusty Beck : Yeah, I m... I might be doing that. Huh. Rescuing myself.

  Buzz Watson : Well, that's what we're all hoping.