Rampart

Dave Brown:
I don't cheat on my taxes... you can't cheat on something you never committed to.

Dave Brown:
You wanna cuddle later?

Barbara:
I have a boyfriend.

Dave Brown:
Cheat on him!

Barbara:
Like you cheat on your taxes?

Dave Brown:
[to Kyle Timkins] Bear in mind that I am not a racist. Fact is, I hate all people equally. And if it helps, I've slept with some of your people. You wanna be mad at someone, try J. Edgar Hoover. He was a racist. Or the Founding Fathers, all slave-owners.

Helen:
[to Dave Brown] You're a dinosaur, Date Rape. You're a classic racist, a bigot, a sexist, a womanizer, a chauvinist, a misanthrope, homophobic clearly, or maybe you don't like yourself.

Dave Brown:
[to Kyle Timkins] I've been up the river, motherf***er, when you were still sucking on your mama's tit.

Dave Brown:
Every shooting testimony contains inconsistencies. Otherwise you wouldn't have a job. No man whoever shoots and kills another man is entirely cogent in the moment. No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Joan Confrey:
Did you learn that with the first man you killed?

Dave Brown:
I learned that serving my country as a non-electric pop-up target in an often misunderstood crusade for liberty and justice, turned puppet-show for politicians, known as the Vietnam War.

Catherine:
[to Dave Brown] You know what I think? I think you were a dirty cop from day one. You were a dirty cop with a dirty mind and you dirtied all of us up by default.

Helen:
Hey, Date Rape.

Dave Brown:
Don't call me that.

LAPD Union Rep:
Why do you still want to be a cop?

Dave Brown:
Because I'm a dutiful hard-charging motherf***er and I want to explicate the LAPD's somewhat hyperbolized misdeeds with true panache regardless of my alleged transgressions. Capiche?

Dave Brown:
This used to be a glorious soldiers department. And now it's... you. [indicating Jane]

Dave Brown:
[giving driving lessons] You aim for the shortest wetback and watch him skedaddle. Plow the dice and the Schlitz Malt Liquor cans. And hit your siren as well. Let's see what we got... [accelerates into pedestrians]

Dave Brown:
[screeches to a halt] You'll get the hang of it.

Jane:
Aren't you worried?

Dave Brown:
About?

Jane:
Getting a 1-28?

Dave Brown:
Okay, listen, this is the most important thing I've told you so far. Everything you learned at the academy - bullshit. Illegal is just a sick bird. Just a military occupation, kid. Emergency law. Alright, let's have some fun...

Dave Brown:
You are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.

Linda Fentress:
[consternation smile]

Dave Brown:
In this bar.

Hartshorn:
[to Dave] You know, when you first came into the department I wasn't certain whether or not you were the dumbest rookie ever, or the most bullheaded. I'm still debating it.

Dave Brown:
I want you to know, I never hurt any good people.

Helen:
What about us?