The Rookies (TV Series)

The Mugging (1976)

Georg Stanford Brown: Officer Terry Webster

Quotes 

• Richard Komansky : [Officers Mike Danko, Terry Webster and Chris Owens are in the booking room at the precinct. Chris is fingerprinting Dr Komansky, who is very bitter and angry]  You know, you guys are just like doctors. Crime is a disease the rest of us don't ever even think about until we catch it. Then we come to you for help.

  Officer Mike Danko : [Mike is standing on the other side of the booking desk. He picks up a piece of tissue paper, which he hands to Chris. Off screen, Chris hands it to Dr Komansky to wipe off his hand. Terry is seated behind Mike, writing on a clipboard]  Yeah, well it's not always that simple.

  Richard Komansky : [Dr Komansky answers Mike sarcastically. Terry stops writing and looks over at Dr Komansky]  Yeah, that's the old slogan, isn't it? But that's such a cop-out. Everybody's always saying it isn't that simple. Maybe it is... maybe the answer to crime and criminals is just as simple as a bullet. Of course, we can't face that. We don't have the guts.

  Officer Terry Webster : [Terry continues staring at Dr Komansky; his facial expression is deadly serious. He replies in a calm, but monotone, voice]  I think we must have the courage to admit... that bullets never solved anything. They never have, and they never will. Doctor.

  [Dr Komansky crumples up the soiled tissue paper and walks away from the booking desk with Chris] 

• Richard Komansky : [Lt Ryker, Officers Chris Owens and Terry Webster are interviewing Dr Richard Komansky in Lt Ryker's office. Dr Komansky is being somewhat sarcastic about how the officers are handling his mother's assault case]  Modern police science and criminology.

  Officer Terry Webster : [Terry smiles slightly as he answers]  Not unlike modern medicine, huh, Doctor? Without evidence, you can't affect a cure. And we can't create evidence, any more than you can.