Without a Trace (2002–2009)
Enrique Murciano: Danny Taylor
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Quotes
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[at a boxing training camp in the Catskills]
Danny : I don't understand why someone would come all the way out here to get in shape. I've got a gym nineteen blocks from my apartment.
Samantha : Your apartment's also in the vicinity of three gentlemen's clubs.
Danny : I like a little variety in my workout.
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[bringing in garbage bags of shredded documents]
Danny : Can anybody say "Enron"?
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[Walking up to a missing teacher's apartment]
Danny : This is three. Just two more to go.
Martin : Oh! Why is it that no one in a walkup ever lives on the first two floors?
Danny : Vampires.
Martin : Really?
Danny : Yeah, they have all the lower apartments all to themselves.
Martin : No direct sunlight, right?
Danny : Exactly. Plus, they live to be 106 years old, so the apartments never turn around.
Martin : Oh, that's good to know.
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[after interrogating a suspect]
Jack Malone : The head butt was a nice touch.
Danny : No... head "bump". That was a head "bump", not a head "butt".
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[Two restaurant workers find the ransom money in the dumpster]
Jack Malone : [into mic] Oh, please. Danny, get rid of them.
[Danny takes out ear piece and tucks it into his shirt. He moves from his spot and approaches the two restaurant workers who have opened the bag and start pocketing the money inside]
Danny : Hey. Hey, you want to live to see tomorrow? Don't be playing with my livelihood, you got me?
[Danny lifts his shirt and shows them his gun. He pushes them aside and grabs the bag from them. The workers leave. Danny puts the bag back in the trash bin]
Jack Malone : Nice work, Serpico.
Danny : I grew up on Pacino.
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[an eleven year old has been surfing porn sites]
Jack Malone : Geez. I didn't know what girls looked like when I was his age.
Danny : I was all over it. My brothers were good for something.
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[about to teenagers having an argument]
Jack Malone : This is all over a key chain?
Danny : It's the South Bronx, Jack. Kids get shot for a whole lot less there.
Jack Malone : The cops don't have time for it, right?
Danny : No, but I do.
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[a suspect is cooperating]
Danny : Hey, Radio, you see how pleasant this whole process can be when you give us what we want?
Radio : Well, since I served my country do I get a letter from the president?
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[the missing father has $500,000 in his bank account]
Danny : He's got an ex-con working for him. Maybe this whole Laundromat, dry-cleaner thing is a front.
Jack Malone : For what?
Danny : I don't know. Drugs, diamonds, illegal ferrets.
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Danny : [to his brother] Where was that "family man" when I was fourteen and Mami and Papi were dead? In the next room sticking needles up his arm.
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Jack Malone : Perfect husband, perfect father, perfect life.
Danny : Sounds like perfect denial.
Jack Malone : Yeah, we'll see.
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[Danny is giving Jack grief]
Jack Malone : What? Did I take you away from a date?
Danny : Actually, yeah. You?
Jack Malone : Please.
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[Reviewing security tapes of a hospital]
Danny : We have doctor, man in a wheelchair, pregnant woman that's not her... a fat guy in a robe, a nurse...
Martin : Is it important that you narrate?
Danny : You know, I'm sorry, I forgot... you can't think and listen at the same time, and...
Martin : That's pretty good for someone who can't think without speaking. This is one big hospital.
Danny : You'd rather be in the field, right?
Martin : Always.
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[Looking through office buildings]
Danny : But all we have is an address? Wow, this is some lead. Looks like we're going door to door. I should've brought my bibles.
Samantha : Yeah, I think you're more of an insurance guy. In the meantime, give me the names. I'll, uh, I'll start running them.
Danny : You want them in alphabetical order?
Samantha : Very cute. What are they?
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[Looking at a blood-stained car]
Danny : Oh, something definitely happened. If that's her blood, there's only one question: Where'd they dump the body?
Samantha : You are such a pessimist. She could have been assaulted and kidnapped for all we know.
Danny : I bet that's what you told the cops, right?
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[Eric Keller and Sam going undercover, Martin and Danny are watching from across the room]
Martin : Is there something going on between those two?
Danny : Used to be.
Martin : Really? That's her type, huh?
Danny : Hey, are you jealous?
Martin : Jealous? What, are you crazy?
Danny : Okay. Guess I'm crazy.
Martin : [smiles and shakes his head] Yeah.
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[after Martin and Jack come back from a trip]
Danny : How was Washington?
Jack Malone : "D.C.," As in "Didn't Cooperate." I did get a free pen out of Whitehurst's office, though.
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[Looking at a service pistol]
Jack Malone : It's a Russian Tokarov.
Danny : Yeah. Jack knows his guns.
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[to a drug-dealer]
Danny : Hey... nice pony tail.
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Danny : [hugging Jack] I am so sorry about your Dad.
Jack Malone : [trying to escape Danny's hug] What are you doing?
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Cruz, Mexican Federale : [while driving after Lucy Costin ran away] What sort of Cuban name is "Taylor" anyway?
Danny : You like to tell jokes? I got a joke for you; How many Mexican Federales does it take to keep one American woman in a hotel room?
Cruz, Mexican Federale : Why don't you go back to your country and let us do our jobs?
Danny : You know what, if you could do your job... I would be in my country. Yeah, but unfortunatley I got to come here to do your job...
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[At a point where everyone thinks they've lost their jobs]
Danny : Good luck, man.
Martin : Thanks.
Danny : Martin...
[Martin turns around]
Danny : When this is all over, and you and I are looking for our next gig, I just want you to know that I-I think we make a hell of a team.
Martin : What, selling shoes?
Danny : [amused] Shoes, boots, pumps, whatever.
Martin : Sounds good to me.
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[Holding up a picture of a priest's Little League team]
Vivian : We're going to have to interview every one of these boys.
Danny : Because he's a priest?
Vivian : Because he's a missing priest.
Danny : H-he's a man of god, and he's dying, okay, so show compassion.
Vivian : You know, I want to believe in him, too, but you have got to admit, they have been testing our faith a lot these days.
Danny : I played on a team. The St. Benedict's Dragons.
Vivian : I find it very hard to imagine you in a white communion gown.
Danny : I didn't actually go to church. When I was 13, I got busted shoplifting a flask of rum from a liquor store. The judge gave me two choices: St. Benedict's after-school program or juvie. I figured a couple hours of basketball a day, how bad could it be?
Vivian : And how bad was it?
Danny : Father Orlando kicked my ass. Probably saved my life.
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[Going through a suspect's apartment]
Martin : This guy's an ex-con.
Danny : What?
[Holds up a beaded box]
Martin : Prison art.
Danny : What, did you do a nickel at pelican bay? 'Cause if you did, I'm going to be a whole lot nicer to you.
Martin : Nah, actually I did an internship at a state prison, taught accounting. And I received several of these lovely cigarette box knickknack holders as thank-you gifts.
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[after an ex-con is found in a stolen car]
Danny : I get it... he gave it to you, right? Kind of like, uh, "congratulations for getting out of the slammer" gift.
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[about the fiancé of a missing girl]
Jack Malone : Smells like a brewery in here.
Martin : Yeah, you noticed?
Danny : What, is he still drunk?
Martin : Nah, he's just fairly hung over.
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[after seeing Jack leave the therapist's office]
Danny : Not you, too.
Jack Malone : No, but thanks for asking.
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[looking through missing suspect's apartment]
Danny : Isn't it so much easier when they leave the Amtrak schedule right on the coffee table, and they've gone as far as circling the getaway train in bright red ink?
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Fiancee : [about Danny's brother] You know Rafie's really good with cars.
Danny : I remember him being good at stealing them.
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Danny : Sometimes in life you have to face up to who you are.
Fiancee : Rafie's done that. I wonder about you.
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Danny : Miss Wright, don't come in here and ask me to make excuses for my brother. I stopped doing that a long time ago.
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Jack Malone : Good morning.
Danny : Is it?
[looks out window]
Danny : Is it? It's morning.
Jack Malone : Man, you look wired.
Danny : Wired? Wired is better than tired!
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Danny : You know, Martin. I see you and Sam in a place just like this one.
[Martin shakes his head]
Danny : I do. Barbequing out back with the kids, Uncle Danny coming over to shoot some hoops.
Martin : I've seen your hook shot, you better start working on it now.
Danny : I'm unstoppable and you know it.
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Danny : Martin, why don't you just ask me what you wanna ask me? Go.
Martin : Look, I know you don't drink...
Danny : Yes. I'm an alcoholic. I haven't had a drink in 7 years, 3 months and 18 days.
Martin : Good for you.
Danny : And not a day goes by when I'm not dying to have a drink, which is why I go to meetings twice a week. You got it?
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[interrogating a suspect who shot at him]
Danny : And if the ballistics come back positive, I've got you for attempted murder - of me.
