Nash Bridges (TV Series)
Promised Land (1996)
Don Johnson: Insp. Nash Bridges
Quotes
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Insp. Nash Bridges : I was just thinkin', you know, you got Whitney here, why not take advantage of her?
[sugesting Nick use the hired assisted-living care giver]
Nick Bridges : I would, she won't let me.
[speaking in a sexual way]
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Shrink : What is your relationship like with the people that work for you?
Insp. Nash Bridges : Good.
Shrink : No problems?
Insp. Nash Bridges : We have our issues, but we generally work through them. I respect them and I think they respect me.
Shrink : You were involved in a shooting yesterday. You killed a man.
Insp. Nash Bridges : I killed a man, yes. I also saved another man's life.
Shrink : Do you want to talk about it?
Insp. Nash Bridges : What's to talk about?
Shrink : You tell me.
Insp. Nash Bridges : [sighs] Tommy Luck was a bad man, and his children will no longer have a father. And I did that.
[pause]
Insp. Nash Bridges : Like I said, he was a bad man. Then I went home to my father, and that's a whole other story.
Shrink : Your father lives with you?
Insp. Nash Bridges : Yeah, he's great.
[starts laughing, remembering]
Insp. Nash Bridges : He's got this uh, this pinball machine, and he woke me up about 3:30 in the morning the other day playing the damn thing. What a pain in the ass!
[pause]
Insp. Nash Bridges : At the time. But I look back on it now and it's a fond memory.
Shrink : Did you tell your father what happened to you yesterday?
Insp. Nash Bridges : Nah, I spare him the details.
[pauses, looks at therapist offscreen]
Insp. Nash Bridges : ... what?
Shrink : I get the feeling that you show a lot of concern for other peoples' feelings, but you haven't told me yet how *you* feel. How do you feel?
[long pause]
Shrink : Can you tell me how you feel, Inspector?
Insp. Nash Bridges : [as therapist is asking how he feels, Nash's smile is fading, he looks away and eventually looks back, eyes filled with tears]