Homicide: Life on the Street, Season 6

Giardello:
Frank.

Pembleton:
[throws badge on table] I'm done.

Giardello:
What?

Pembleton:
Bayliss is in there because of what? A partner who can't get him through safely to the end of the shift.

Giardello:
Look, this is not your fault.

Pembleton:
Yeah, it's mine. And I'll carry it. I gotta carry it. Bayliss is in there because of me. And you. And Lewis, Kellerman, and Stivers. All of it. But what is it? What is it really?

Giardello:
Frank.

Pembleton:
It's a lie. A damn lie. Now, maybe you can live with this lie, but, me, I just walked into the box with a man I served with. A fellow detective, Kellerman. I watched him turn to dirt. You told me to do it. I did it. Now you want me to look away. Live this lie. If I had listened to you...if I had just listened, I never woulda come back to the job. Then Tim, Tim is not layin' in that bed, with all those damn tubes stickin' out of him. I know that smell. Smells like death. I couldn't listen, could I? There's no truth for me anymore, not anymore. I can't be out on the street. I'm never goin' back in that box ever again. It's done. I'm finished.