Third Watch (1999–2005)
Skipp Sudduth: John Sullivan, Self
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Quotes
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Sully : Bet you didn't figure on watching fake vampires your first day back.
Bosco : There was a time I didn't figure I'd have a first day back.
Sully : I always knew.
Bosco : No you didn't.
Sully : When you were hurt, way back in the beginning, when we were coming over to your room and sitting with you, I realized something.
Bosco : What? That you had better things to do?
Sully : No. I realized why you rub me the wrong way.
Bosco : 'Cause I'm so much better looking than you?
Sully : When you first came on at the 5-5 you were this gung-ho, 100 miles an hour, true believer. All you wanted to do was catch bad guys.
Bosco : And you were the opposite.
Sully : No. I was exactly the same way when I came on. There was no one more excited about being the police. But the system beat it out of me. Bad guys I worked hard to get went free... Cops I respected ended up being dirty. Even did a few things myself I'm not too proud of.
Bosco : Yeah?
Sully : So I kept waiting for it to beat you down. But you never let it. And that's what I realized one day sitting by your hospital bed. You piss me off so much because you remind me that I let the system beat me.
Bosco : You're a pretty damn good cop, Sul.
Sully : I don't really believe there's a greater good anymore. But you still do. So I always knew that if you woke up, you'd be back out here. 'Cause you're a true believer, Bosco.
Bosco : [after an awkward moment] I'm not gonna kiss you.
Sully : Unless you wanna get shot again.
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Sully : Finney, I've been doing this since you were a careless night waiting to happen.
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Sully : I'm not afraid of much, really. Not blood, not snakes or rats, not even heights. Everyone has something that makes their skin crawl. Something that wakes them up from a deep sleep in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat, reaching for the bedside lamp. My nightmare comes to visit maybe every month. It stalks me, slips in, bringing with it the smell of wet dirt and a confined space. See, I'm terrified of being buried alive.
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[to Yokas]
Sully : You know, you should make it official. Adopt Boscorelli. Then you can list him as a dependent and take him as a deduction on your taxes.
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Sully : My first kiss, the girl sneezed in my mouth.
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Davis : What do you do?
Sully : What do you mean "what do I do"?
Davis : To, like, kick back, have like, Sully fun, what do you do? I sort of picture you... sitting at home in your boxer shorts watching old movies on black and white TV.
Sully : This is what you do, conjure up images of me in my underwear?
Davis : I'm not saying it's pretty.
Sully : You're way off you know.
Davis : About what?
Sully : I got a color television.
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Woman : Hi. Uh... we didn't call the police.
Sully : Oh, we're here because we care.
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[at Aaron's apartment]
Carlos : Whoa! Possible DOA?
Sully : I thought I saw him move.
Grace Foster : He's already started to decompose.
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Sully : Rat Junior shows up here and a month later one of us is behind bars. Nah, I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
Brendan Finney : I thought she did herself in.
Sully : You pick that up with your supersonic hearing or is my locker bugged?
Brendan Finney : Nah, nobody needs either with your mouth.
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Sully : All right Kathy, don't get startled, but there's a moron coming to save you.
Kathy : Go back down there!
Brendan Finney : No, ma'am. That would ruin my whole hero routine.
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Sully : You don't take a crap without your gun, Bosco!
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Sully : [repeated Line] Crap!
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[Bosco and Faith are considerably content in the locker room]
Sully : [groans] I've gotta get out of here before these two starting singing Raindrops on Roses.
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Sully : What the hell's a Smoova?
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Sully : You ever see these people that pile on the condiments? Ketchup, relish, kraut, onions, chili. I tell you, it breaks my heart, defiling a perfectly good wiener when it can be simply and elegantly complimented with the all-American zester, yellow mustard.
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[about why Sully won't ride the merry-go-round]
Sully : I'm allergic to horses.
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[about the body in the dumpster who keeps getting buried by stuff coming down the garbage chute]
Sully : We're going to have to keep track of the at-death and after-death injuries.
Davis : Coroner's not going to be here for an hour. She's getting buried already.
Sully : I don't hear her complaining.
Davis : Could we get a little respect for the dead?
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[Bosco has poison ivy]
Sully : You look a little puffy there, Bosco. That time of month?
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[Bosco is getting treated for poison ivy]
Sully : [singing] Bosco, with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight?
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Sully : Yesterday my car goes up in a ball of flames, today I gotta play nursemaid to Judge Perfect!
Davis : Maybe we should get you a nurse's outfit. Little hat...
Sully : Whole thing sucks.
Davis : Are you familiar with the theory that you attract what you send out? Negative energy comes right back at you?
Sully : Listen, Kojak, you're gonna go all happy-crappy New Age on me, you can get out and walk your ass to the detail.
Davis : Yeah, you know what? That's much more positive.
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Woman : Hey, Sully. You've been losing some weight.
Sully : Oh yeah. End of the week I'll be in a thong.
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Sully : [to Bosco] Looks like you could use a smoova.
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French : I just assaulted you.
Sully : I forgive you. You hit me again you're gonna be a free man with a foot up his ass.
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Sully : Vouchering property from a suicide is a good learning tool for our young office here.
Lt. Swersky : Sure is. Handle it, Finney.
Brendan Finney : This isn't our job.
Lt. Swersky : Handle it!
Sully : [to Finney] And I bet you signed up for the glitz and glamour.
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[trying to get Kathy off the ledge]
Brendan Finney : At least I got enough guts to be out here.
Sully : At least I got enough sense to be in here.
Brendan Finney : Hey, I'm sure he didn't mean it like that, ma'am.
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[about needing a Queens phonebook - to Jelly]
Sully : Desk said you needed this. What, did you finally eat up all the pizza in Manhattan?
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Lt. Swersky : Don't you wanna know who you're riding with?
Sully : Please tell me you're not sticking me with some rookie I'm gonna have to baby-sit all day.
Bosco : Actually, boss wants me to keep an eye on you.
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Sully : Sergeant Christopher, the uh, Captain requests your presence front and center.
Christopher : Did he look mad?
Sully : Not until I finished talking with him, he didn't.
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Yokas : What, are you dieting?
Sully : Well, it's the Tatiana effect. She's feeding me better food, vegetables, fish, chicken. And we take these power walks, sometimes twice a day.
Bosco : Can you believe this, Davis? Before you ladies turn the discussion to deal-a-meals and thighmasters, do you mind letting me go to work?
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Lt. Swersky : Davis, you'll be in 5-5 David with a brand new probationary patrolman fresh from the academy.
Davis : A rookie! Seriously?
Lt. Swersky : Oh, after the fine homicide arrest you made the other day, I'm making you a Field Training Officer.
Sully : Yeah. I've been with a rookie. The perks aren't worth it.
Davis : Well, it was no picnic for me either. I didn't get any perks.
Sully : Hey, I gave you a million dollars worth of law enforcement knowledge.
Davis : Right. We're "solving problems." That's genius!
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[to Davis and Carlos]
Sully : You two make a hell of a team. Maybe they'll let you share a cell.
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[bleeding from the head]
Sully : Am I still pretty?
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[with a hand full of money]
Lt. Johnson : Sullivan, what do you want me to do with this?
Sully : What am I, a teller?
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[questioning Noble about the stabbing]
Davis : And that is the black guy with the baseball cap?
Aaron Noble : Yeah.
Sully : That narrows it down for us. I wonder what Derek Jeter was doing.
Davis : Yankees are on the road.
Aaron Noble : Mets are still in town.
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[to the FBI agents]
Sully : Wow, look at the size of those ID badges. Those come with Cracker Jacks?
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[Bosco's sitting by the water]
Sully : You want us to throw you in, is that it?
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Sully : This is the doer in the diner homicides. If he doesn't confess, tell him I'm coming back.