Monk, Season 4

[Stottlemeyer and Disher, celebrating the arrest of Escobar, crumple up balls of paper and toss them in the trash. FBI Special Agent Lapides comes in and catches one before it lands in the trash can]

Special Agent Lapides:
Is this a bad time?

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
[taking a bite out of a bagel] It is now. [to Randy] Randy, you remember Special Agent Lapides? :[Lapides produces an envelope]

Special Agent Lapides:
Actually I'm not alone. I'm with the attorney general. Wanna read it?

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
I don't need to read it. I'm not giving you Escobar. No way, no how.

Special Agent Lapides:
Leland, this case is bigger than San Francisco. Escobar was supplying drugs to seven states.

Lt. Disher:
Yeah, but we caught him here!

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
You're damn right we did, and we got him on a homicide, right here in the City of San Francisco. This case represents three years of my life.

Special Agent Lapides:
Well you have the thanks of a grateful nation, Captain. But the federal indictment's already been filed. We're gonna try him first.

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
[to himself] Sons-of-bitches.

Special Agent Lapides:
There's an extradition hearing on Thursday. Here's how it's gonna work: you babysit Escobar until then, you bring him to the courthouse, meet us in the lobby, you drop him off, you go home. [starts to leave; but then stops, and holds the envelope to his ear] "What's that, sir?" I'll tell him. [to Stottlemeyer] The attorney general says, "Don't screw it up."