Blue Bloods (TV Series)
Blues (2019)
Tom Selleck: Frank Reagan
Quotes
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Eddie Janko : What about Jameson?
Frank Reagan : Jameson? Jameson. He was always cool, he... like he instinctively knew that the more advice you harvest, the better the odds are to make the right move. Now, I always felt the knock was welcomed.
Sean Reagan : And last but not least?
Danny Reagan : Uh, best for last.
Sean Reagan : Sure.
Frank Reagan : Oh, that's easy. When your dad was eight years old, he got suspended from school for... guess what?
Everyone : Fighting.
Frank Reagan : So I go to his room, I sit him down and I ask him what happened. And he just gives me the bare bones. So I said directly, "What did that kid say or do make you throw the first punch?" And your dad says, "Trust me, you don't want to freaking know." What eight-year-old says, "Trust me, you don't want to freaking know"?
Danny Reagan : Trust me, you don't want to freaking know.
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Danny Reagan : And you owe me 20 bucks.
Erin Reagan : For what?
Danny Reagan : Our bet. You said he'd call me.
Frank Reagan : Call you about what?
Danny Reagan : See there. Pay up.
Erin Reagan : You didn't call him after the shooting at the gas station?
Frank Reagan : Was I supposed to?
Henry Reagan : That was my job.
Danny Reagan : Mm-hmm.
Jamie Reagan : How is it your job?
Henry Reagan : As the patriarch.
Nicky Reagan-Boyle : But as his father?
Frank Reagan : Someday you'll see.
Eddie Janko : See what?
Frank Reagan : Well, more like see when. When to back off trying to suss out your kid's problems. That first time that you go to knock on the closed bedroom door and something tells you "don't."
Nicky Reagan-Boyle : Like, let them handle it themselves?
Frank Reagan : Yeah, when it's time.
Nicky Reagan-Boyle : Well, when did you know with Mom?
Frank Reagan : When she was 18 and threatened me with a restraining order.
Erin Reagan : I did not.
Frank Reagan : Practically. Anyway, that was your mom's duty.
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Frank Reagan : What'd I just see?
Inspector Andre Clifford : It's a celebration, sir.
Frank Reagan : An officer in your house?
Inspector Andre Clifford : No, one of the kids from the neighborhood. Hector Ruiz. Just got a full scholarship to Amherst College. And he kind of grew up in this house.
Frank Reagan : A repeat offender.
Inspector Andre Clifford : I like to think that we had a hand in setting him on the right path.
Frank Reagan : Do we run a rec center or a police precinct?
Inspector Andre Clifford : No. But we do believe in celebrating what deserves celebrating on our streets.
Frank Reagan : Hope police work doesn't get in the way.
Inspector Andre Clifford : I know how this looks, sir, and I get it.And I would have rescheduled if I'd known you were coming.
Frank Reagan : No, I like surprise visits for exactly this reason. Let's me see the real deal, not the whitewash.
Inspector Andre Clifford : Commissioner, I know that everything I got going here runs afoul of just about every rule in the book.
Frank Reagan : And then some.
Inspector Andre Clifford : But this is a good thing, and I stand by it.
Frank Reagan : So do I.
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Abigail Baker : If it was up to me, he stays.
Sid Gormley : And I say Clifford goes.
Garrett Moore : Two days ago, you were in here having his back.
Sid Gormley : That was before Wainwright dropped his ultimatum.
Abigail Baker : Boss?
Frank Reagan : Hey, I'm listening.
Abigail Baker : He really said he'd go to the press?
Sid Gormley : Says if we don't give Clifford the axe, he'll go Live at Five with it.
Garrett Moore : He say why?
Sid Gormley : He says that it's the principle for him. NYPD does not hire felons. Especially ones who lie their way in.
Garrett Moore : Well, he's got a point there.
Abigail Baker : You think he should go, too?
Garrett Moore : What I think is, his value in the present outweighs the sins in his past.
Sid Gormley : Boss, Garrett's onto something. Why don't we just bring Wainwright in here and lean on him?
Frank Reagan : No.
Garrett Moore : Why not?
Frank Reagan : Because he was passed over about a dozen times for promotion before he retired, and one of the guys who leapfrogged over him was Clifford.
Garrett Moore : And maybe a little because he's white and Clifford's black.
Frank Reagan : That's unknowable.All of which makes this a can of worms that won't open.
Sid Gormley : Well, then, what?
Frank Reagan : I haven't a damn clue.
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Frank Reagan : Have a seat... Not that one... That one. You're a smart guy, one of our best and brightest. Maybe someday you'll end up in that chair. How's it feel?
Inspector Andre Clifford : It's uncomfortable.
Frank Reagan : Sounds about right. I got this... bear of an issue I'm wrestling with,one I can't find a resolution to. So, you're the commissioner now. Tell me what you would do.
Inspector Andre Clifford : Do with what, sir?
Frank Reagan : Well, there's a file in front of you. The name and the photos have been blacked out to protect this individual but somehow, I think you'll get the gist... What that file doesn't say is this stickup kid goes on to turn his life around and pursue his dream of becoming a decorated NYPD cop.
Inspector Andre Clifford : If I may explain, sir...
Frank Reagan : You're the commissioner now, you don't have to explain. You have to decide... what's going to happen to him.
Inspector Andre Clifford : I don't know.
Frank Reagan : Not an option. Not from where you sit.
Inspector Andre Clifford : But I don't know, sir.
Frank Reagan : You can't plead the Fifth, you can't pass the buck, you can't buy a vowel.Should he stay or should he go?
Inspector Andre Clifford : He should go.
Frank Reagan : Why?
Inspector Andre Clifford : Because the NYPD doesn't hire felons. On top of that,he lied to get the job. And he maintained that lie for 20 years.
Frank Reagan : What about the fact that for those 20 years, he served as the gold standard for what an NYPD cop should be?
Inspector Andre Clifford : Doesn't matter. He's a felon. He's got to go.
Inspector Andre Clifford : You know... I don't think you'd make a good commissioner after all. But a cop like that... I'm keeping him.
Inspector Andre Clifford : Commissioner, I don't know how to thank you enough.
Frank Reagan : Now get out of my chair.