Third Watch, Season 6

Davis (to Finney):
You did, uh, you did good.

Finney:
Doesn't feel like it.

Davis:
That's rough. That's the hardest thing you're ever gonna have to do.

Finney:
They forgot to tell us about that at the academy.

Davis:
Oh, everyday you're gonna come across things they never told you. The academy's like a foundation. Out here's where you learn to be a cop.

Finney:
Ever feel like you weren't gonna be able to do it?

Davis:
The job? Yeah. All the time. Look…when you're out here you can't control the day. That's what I was trying to tell you earlier. You... you don't get to choose what happens to you. And you don't just go running around balls out from one thing to the next. Doesn't work like that. The only real control you have is to be as prepared as you can possibly be. For whatever. Whatever the public needs from you that day. To me, that's what it means to be the police. So that's my little speech.