Homicide: Life on the Street, Season 3

Bolander:
Nothing is real.

Pembleton:
What do you mean, nothing is real?

Bolander:
There is no reality.

Pembleton:
Really...

Bolander:
Take the color green. You see green, I see green. We call it "green" because as a society we have agreed that this thing, this color, is green. We think we're having the shared experience of green, but how do we know? Maybe my green is actually greener than your green.

Pembleton:
You mean, maybe my green is red?

Bolander:
Maybe. Take colorblind people, they carry with them a stigma --

Pembleton:
A stigmatism.

Bolander:
Because they don't see what the rest of us see as green. But maybe, just maybe, their perception is correct. Maybe a colorblind person is actually seeing pure green, the real green.

Pembleton:
Man, this is just my luck. I get a call. My partner's off tonight. So I look around the Squad Room. I see Munch. No. I see Howard. No. Felton. Lewis. No. No. I think Bolander. I'll take Bolander. He's the only one who won't drive me crazy.

Bolander:
I'm driving you crazy?

Pembleton:
Philosophizing. You're not known as the philosophical type, Stan.

Bolander:
You get shot in the head, it makes you think.