Quotes from Let Her Go
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(Crews is looking up to the sky as he and Reese walk to a crime scene.)
Crews: I think I might go into space.
Reese: Space?
Crews: Yeah. You can pay the Russians to go up there now.
Reese: So after spending 12 years in a box down here, you’re gonna pay the Russians to put you in a box up there.
(Crews pauses, slightly confused.)
Crews: I think they mentioned something about jetpacks.
(Examining a wrecked car.)
Crews: What a mess.
Reese: It’s got GPS.
Crews: Global Positioning Satellites.
Reese: (Sarcastically) Thanks.
Crews: A ring of geo-synchronous satellites in constant contact with your car.
Reese: Yeah, I get Discovery Channel too.
Crews: You see that show about crabbing ? Now that’s a dangerous job !
(Crews is watching his cell phone vibrate, moving on the desk until it falls over, when he catches it and answers.)
Crews: Y’Hello!
Ted: We have a problem.
Crews: Everything okay ?
Ted: There was a coyote by the patio. Kept me in the pool for over an hour. I am still suffering s-s-side effects.
Crews: A coyote during the day ?
Ted: These things have no fear of people. They’re insane!
Crews: I used to get coyote calls all the time on patrol, but only at night.
Ted: Well, they’re obviously getting more brazen.
Crews: Brazen? Huh! Sure it wasn’t just a dog ?
Ted: No, it was a mangy predator, and I don’t want it prowling around. I mean, what if it attacks a neighbor’s kid ?
Crews: Did you feed it ?
Ted: N-no! But, but, but Mrs. Bellfield’s cat is missing. They ate it, Charlie! They ate her cat!
Crews: Yes, okay. Look, I gotta go. Can we talk about this when I get home ? (He hangs up before Ted can answer.)
Reese: You got a pest problem ?
Crews: He’s not so bad.
(She stares at him.)
(They enter the gas station to ask the guy who works there.)
Reese: Detective Reese, homicide.
Gas station attendant: Is someone dead ?
Crews: A lot of people are dead ! Eventually everyone.
Reese: Car crashed early after stopping here last night. A female passenger was shot.
Gas station attendant: It’s terrible! Who shot her ?
Crews: Someone with a gun. Look, I admire questioning answers with a question, I do, because there is no answer, only questions, but, I’d like you to try really hard to give us an answer anyway. I’ll start with an easy one, okay?
(He nods.)
Crews: Do you work here alone ?
Gas station attendant: Yes.
Reese: So when we take you downtown for questioning, you’ll have to close up, and lose all that business.
Gas station attendant: I remember, ok? I remember ’cause, you know, he put his card in, but then he didn’t pump nothing! You know, so I look out, and they were talking to this big Latino dude, you know, he was all tatted up. Real big.
Reese: You saw them drive off together ?
Gas station attendant: Another customer came in, you know, I didn’t see where they went.
Reese: Didn’t it make you curious ?
Gas station attendant: Look, I try not to get involved, you know, it’s dangerous out there.
Crews: You should try crabbing!
(Crews sit next to Ames, drinking in a (cop) bar.)
Ames: You’re looking for an apology ?
Crews: Just looking for a beer, detective. (To the barman:) A beer!
Barman: You know, we just ran out.
Crews: Well maybe then I’ll just have a soda.
Barman: Ran out of soda, too.
Ames: You got no right to be in here, this is where I drink.
Crews: I wanted to thank you. You know before I went away, I never really appreciated my life. My job. My wife. But now, now I know. I know that everyday I spend above ground, is a reason to celebrate.
Ames: Why couldn’t you have just died in there ?
Crews: That would’ve been too easy.
(Crews and Reese are talking to Peter Stylman again.)
Stylman: I told you I don’t remember anything about what happened.
Crews: We talked to your car. (We can see Reese in the back, not liking Crews’ way of phrasing this.)
Stylman: You talked to my car ?
Reese: We retraced your steps using GPS.
Stylman: My head is hurting just, leave me alone.
Crews: Do you know what trepanning is, Peter ?
Stylman: No.
Crews: It was an ancient cure for head pain. They thought the pain was caused by spirits in your head so they would drill a hole in your skull to let the spirits out. Do we have to drill a hole in your head, Peter ?
(Reese doesn’t look like she likes that phrasing either.)
Stylman: Now why would you say something like th.. B-bu, what kind of person says something like that ?
Crews: It’s gonna hurt when you look inside and remembers what happened to you and to your wife.
Stylman: (Getting a little angry.) My wife, is dead!
Crews: No! She’s still dying. Now tell us what happened in that car and let her go !
Stylman: (Thinks back, tries to remember.) There was this guy… He came up to us. He had a gun. He told me to get in the car and drive. Shelby, she couldn’t calm down, he kept waving his gun, she was gonna get herself killed. And I reached for it, I fought with him, and, I got my hand on the gun, and Shelby turned around, and I see, that the gun went off… He just jumped out, I drove fast. And she was bleeding, she was dying, I put my hand over her wound. I lost control. Why would you want me to remember that ?
(Crews and Reese are in an auto shop, to question a guy named Maldito. When they walked in, Crews noticed a car, Maldito’s ride, and walked to it.)
Reese: Buscando Maldito ?
Maldito: INS hiring models these days ?
Maldito: Yo, don’t you look at my ride !
Minion: Do not look at his ride !
Maldito: You cannot handle my ride.
Minion: Cannot handle his ride !
Maldito: Turbo, baby, board out. Custom gears, performance chipped, and a hand build throttle box.
Minion: Hand built throttle box !
Maldito: That was pimped, that!
Crews: Does it have GPS ?
Maldito: You don’t want that. Man track you like a dog with GPS.
Maldito’s buddy: Like a dog.
Crews: Yeah, yeah, you’re right, I don’t want that. Man will track me with that.
Reese: Crews, you are the man !
(Crews looks surprised, but then realizes she’s right.)
Crews: Oh, yes. Yeah, right. I am the man.
Reese: We need to ask you a few questions.
Maldito: You know what I would love ? I would love to airbrush you on the hood of my car.
Crews: What do you see on her belt ?
Maldito: (Faking surprise.) A gun !
Crews: What else ?
Maldito: (Faking surprise again.) A badge !
Crews: A woman wearing a gun and a badge asks you a question, (Like an advice) answer it!
Maldito: You sure you the man ?
(Crews stays silent.)
Reese: We’re looking for Manny Imaga.
Maldito: Oh, that fool. Eleven grand that bato owes me.
Maldito’s buddy: Bato owes him eleven grand !
Reese: Do you know where he is ?
Maldito: I know exactly where he is. And I’ll do you one better. We’ll come with you.
Crews: Like a posse ?
Maldito: (Pointing at Crews) Yeah!
Reese: What ?
Maldito: We’ll flush him out, right? When he sees me, he’ll be sure to go for his piece. You’ll be all set up on him, pow! You’ll shoot him dead, and we’ll say, “Oh, it was a clean shoot.” Bang! Done.
Reese: I think we can handle it.
(Crews & Reese are talking about the case with Lieutenant Davis.)
Davis: There’s 500 pounds of Samoan in the back of Stylman’s car, and he blocked it out ? Am I the only one who thinks that’s odd ?
Reese: No. We think it’s odd too.
Crews: We think it’s odd too.
Davis: So why won’t Stylman ID Manny ?
Reese: You think it was a setup ?
Davis: Stylman arranged to have his wife killed, hired big boy, and made it look like a carjacking.
Reese: So failing to ID the shooter is part of the quid pro quo.
Crews: Quid pro quo.
Reese: Stop it!
Crews: Stop what?
Crews: We got motive if Stylman wants out of the marriage, but divorce isn’t enough. We tie him to Manny, we can put them both away.
Reese: I want you to give me your knife.
Crews: My knife ? Why ?
Reese: Because I want to swear a blood oath with you, and I need something to cut my pinky. Gimme your knife, or I burn you with IAD for not using your service weapon when you should’ve. (Crews looks unsure of what to do.) I need to know that my partner is a cop, and not a con.
(Crews turns his back to Reese, holding his knife in his hand behind his back. Discreetly, she takes the knife and hides it in her hands. Crews turns over.)
Reese: Anything else you’re carrying from the old days ? Sharpened toothbrush ? (She slightly smiles.) Light bulb full of bleach ?
(Crews has his ex-wife Jennifer and her new husband pull over and him get out of the car. He then gets in to talks to his ex-wife.)
Jennifer: It’s juvenile! What you’re doing.
Crews: How are the kids ?
Jennifer: You don’t care about my kids !
Crews: They could have been our kids.
Jennifer: What do you want Charlie ?
Crews: I want to be the unwobbling pivot at the center of an ever-revolving universe. I want to be still.
(Crews and Reese were interrogating Manny when he smashed his head repeatedly into the table, yelling for help, calling Crews “that crazy cop who pulled a knife on me before”. Crews & Reese are in Lt. Davis office, after she watched the video of the scene.)
Crews: Tell me you’re not buying this ?
Davis: About you hurting him ? Of course not! About you pulling a knife ?
Reese: With all due respect, Lieutenant, the suspect is full of crap !
Davis: Are you saying Detective Crews did not pull a knife on Manny Imaga ?
Reese: He did not.
(Crews is surprised, as he was expecting her to say otherwise.)
Crews: That’s not true. She’s lying. She’s lying to protect me because that’s what partners do, and we’re partners now. But don’t do that for me.
Davis: You pulled a knife on a suspect ?
Crews: He pulled one first!
Davis: Bring the husband back down here.
Reese: M’am, I’d like to…
Davis: You’re both backing up your partner, I get it. I also get we have an unsolved homicide. Cut Imaga loose before we get hit with a lawsuit.
(Reese and Crews are sitting outside, discussing the case. He is eating a caramel apple as they talk.)
Reese: Manny says Stylman did it. Stylman says Manny wasn’t even in the car. Manny is a career criminal, and Stylman…
Crews: Is a good family man. Or at least, he was. Up until three days ago, Stylman was a good husband, a good father. What happened in that car that he won’t tell us ? That he can’t tell us ? We have to use his own strength against him.
Reese: Strength ? What’s his strength ?
Crews: His weakness.
Reese: His weakness is his strength ?
Crews: Exactly. It’s like the one-handed clap.
Reese: Are you really Zen ?
Crews: I’m Zen-ish. (About his half-eaten caramel apple:) You want in on this ?
(Crews and Reese go to Stylman’s home to talk to him. They learn that he’s sending his children to live with their grandmother before going into a separate room when they reveal they’re here to arrest him.)
Reese: We have a witness who saw you shoot your wife.
Stylman: I didn’t shoot her. I tried to save her. The man in the car shot her.
Crews: You fought for her ?
Stylman: Yes.
Crews: But you won’t fight for your kids ?
Stylman: I fought for her.
Crews: You fought that monster Manny ? But you can’t be there for your kids ? (As he talks, he walks towards Stylman, getting closer & closer.) Why are you giving them away ?
Stylman: I fought for her.
Crews: What are you ashamed of ?
(Crews pushes Stylman back.)
Stylman: You pushed me !
Crews: Did I ?
Reese: Crews?
(Crews pushes Stylman again, who then slaps him in the face.)
Crews: Now that was a one-handed clap !
Stylman: I didn’t. I didn’t, fight him.
(He then tells them what really happened in the car, and leaves the room.)
Reese: You know, I bet, he lived his whole life thinking if it ever came down to it, he’d be the hero.
Crews: Don’t you think like that ?
Reese: Even if he IDs Manny, it’s not gonna stick. A jury will never believe him, he’s changed his story too many times.
Crews: Too many times.
Reese: Our killer is gonna walk.
Crews: He’s gonna walk.
Reese: (Annoyed.) Didn’t I tell you to stop that ? Didn’t I!?
Crews: If Manny’s gonna walk, we might as well give him a ride.
Your turn!