The Border

Major Mike Kessler:
You still studying 25 hours a day?

Maia:
What med student isn't?

Special Agent Liz Carver:
You don't believe in God?

Detective Sergeant Gray Jackson:
Not really. You?

Special Agent Liz Carver:
My father's a Methodist minister. [off Gray's laugh] We're not all blond, corn-fed cheerleaders.

Detective Sergeant Gray Jackson:
No, I... I didn't picture you as a church-goer. What I mean, the things you see in this job, how can you believe in a higher power?

Special Agent Liz Carver:
How could I do this job if I didn't?

Superintendent Maggie Norton:
Did you clean up the video file yet?

Agent Heironymous Slade:
Still recovering data. I got a license plate holder or maybe from a dealership.

Superintendent Maggie Norton:
Ooh! If you can get me a logo, you got two dozen chocolate chunk cookies on your desk on Monday.

Agent Heironymous Slade:
Semi sweet?

Superintendent Maggie Norton:
Bitter semi and milk.

Agent Heironymous Slade:
The holy trinity.

Major Mike Kessler:
We'll keep the baby here. Use it for leverage in the interrogation.

Maggie Norton:
You'd use an infant to pressure his nursing mother?

Major Mike Kessler:
If I have to.

Maggie Norton:
And that makes us different from Mannering how?

Major Mike Kessler:
The call CSC intercepted referred to an "imminent event." In the past few years, the US, England, Scotland, Spain and Australia have all suffered major terrorist attacks. Canada is overdue.

Layla Hourani:
Maggie or I should question the prisoner. She doesn't want to expose her face to a man.

Major Mike Kessler:
She's the wife of a suspected terrorist. What she wants is irrelevant.

Major Mike Kessler:
Zoe, it's my job to protect you. People always look harmless, right up until the moment they try to harm you.

Zoe Kessler:
Do you know how messed up that sounds?

Major Mike Kessler:
I have seen people who've lived in peace for over 30 years start killing each other overnight. I can't just turn that off.

Zoe Kessler:
Careful, Dad. You almost said Bosnia.

Major Mike Kessler:
[pause] Are you hungry?

Zoe Kessler:
I could eat.

Slade:
Calling Darfur a hellhole? That's an insult to hellholes.

Layla Hourani:
Is there a casino on the reserve?

Gray Jackson:
I've never heard of one.

Slade:
He would know. Wherever money is lost, our Gray can be found.

Layla Hourani:
Really? You're a gambler?

Gray Jackson:
In the old days, maybe. Not anymore. I'm serious. I gave it up.

Slade:
Oh. So what about those, uh, "gaming" sites on your browser history, then?

Gray Jackson:
Wait a minute. You monitor my browser history?

Slade:
No, not, not just yours. Man, everybody's. I mean, Layla here just downloaded the entire first season of America's Next Top Model.

Layla Hourani:
No, I didn't.

Slade:
Oh, right. That was me.

Detective Sergeant Gray Jackson:
So how long is the deep freeze going to last?

Special Agent Liz Carver:
Get a parka.

[last lines]

Charlotte Bates:
Softy.

Major Mike Kessler:
Not exactly legal search and seizure.

Charlotte Bates:
Question: in the bedroom, what would you have done if she wasn't wearing that key?

Major Mike Kessler:
Something like this. [he kisses her]

Acting Inspector Darnell Williams:
So, mules bring you the drugs, and you do what? Sell them yourself?

Marco:
You got nothing on me, hombre.

Superintendent Maggie Norton:
Who's next in the food chain?

Marco:
I ain't telling you sh*t. I want my lawyer now.

Acting Inspector Darnell Williams:
We're ICS, not police. We can hold you 48 hours without one.

Marco:
Who give me in, anyway? La chica give me up? Hm? Because if it is, that's very stupid of her.

Superintendent Maggie Norton:
Mm, witness intimidation. That's grounds for arrest right there.

Marco:
She's busted, she's dead anyway. We don't risk it, not with, uh... a puta.

Superintendent Maggie Norton:
Well, they risk it with *you.*

Marco:
What you mean?

Acting Inspector Darnell Williams:
How long will they let *you* live?

Marco:
That's different, hombre. I'm connected. [waves finger in air]

Superintendent Maggie Norton:
Even after word gets out how helpful you've been? We know MS-13 owned the Customs agents, so what was he doing stamping the fake passport of a Los Zetas capo? [slides the capo's picture to Marco] You know, Los Zetas are *way* out of MS-13's league when it comes to smuggling. They use cargo containers and seaplanes, not brassieres. No, what MS-13 does well is sell on the street.

Marco:
El Carn?voro. You know why they call him that?

Acting Inspector Darnell Williams:
Enlighten us.

Marco:
Because he likes to eat the flesh of his enemies. [waggles tongue]

Al 'Moose' Lepinsky:
We gotta get out of this town. It's like our own Vietnam.

Layla Hourani:
More like... Twin Peaks.

Layla Hourani:
You just saved us two years of lawyering.

Al 'Moose' Lepinsky:
Let's get the hell out of here!

Maggie Norton:
[Slade runs into work, very late] Afternoon, Heironymous!

Slade:
[smiles] Yes, it is. [walks toward his desk]

Maggie Norton:
[looking a bit concerned] Did something come up?

Slade:
[Slade grins, but doesn't say anything]

Maggie Norton:
Oh my god, you got laid!

Major Mike Kessler:
I've had quite a day, Sgt. Hourani.

Layla Hourani:
Sir, I had no idea...

Major Mike Kessler:
Hadad made you, he saw your weapon. Now you condemn a possibly innocent man to his worst nightmare.

Layla Hourani:
But Karim was sitting beside...

Major Mike Kessler:
You're new to the unit, Sergeant, so I'll say this just once. You work for me. Not CSIS, not the RCMP. Don't ever undercut me like that again.

Gray Jackson:
No girl should have to hide her head under a scarf.

Layla Hourani:
Some girls prefer the hijab. Makes them feel protected.

Gray Jackson:
Oh, yeah? Did you wear one?

Layla Hourani:
Please. I was deep into grunge.

Zoe Kessler:
Hey, Dad.

Major Mike Kessler:
Shelter From the Storm.

Zoe Kessler:
It's a new underground railroad. We help deserters cross the border and find home and jobs when they get here.

Major Mike Kessler:
That's illegal, Zoe.

Zoe Kessler:
Well, so is the army trying to stop the loss of soldiers who finish their contracts.

Major Mike Kessler:
Those soldiers should have read the fine print. They could be forced to serve as long as the war continues.

Zoe Kessler:
So, that's what? The next 20 years? Besides, Iraq is not a war. It's a military engagement.