Life, Season 1

Charlie Crews:
[to Dani Reese] Dog must've took the bullet for the kid, then took the shooter's finger off. Anyone ever love you that much?

Dani Reese:
No threats against his family?

Correctional officer #2:
Not that we know, but we just work here. We go home after our shifts. It's the convicts who are here 24/7, they know what really goes on.

Charlie Crews:
He means inmates.

Corrections Officer #1:
He means convicts.

Correctional officer #2:
What, you don't like that word? What do you care?

[Charlie turns to face the guard]

Dani Reese:
Come on Crews, let's go.

Correctional officer #2:
Yeah, we know who you are. Know you did your 12 years. Maybe you were innocent. Maybe not. It don't make no difference to us, because we know what you did to that correction officer in Pelican Bay. That makes you a con. Don't it?

Dani Reese:
You two need to escort us out now.

Corrections Officer #1:
You gettin' angry, convict?

Charlie Crews:
[calmly] Anger ruins joy. Steals the goodness of my mind. Forces my mouth to say terrible things. Overcoming anger brings peace of mind. Leads to a mind without regrets. If I overcome anger, I will be delightful and loved by everyone.

Correctional officer #2:
Are you making fun of us?

Charlie Crews:
It is the universe that makes fun of us all.

[turns and faces other guard, walks away. Reese gives them both a look]

[as they walk outside the prison]

Dani Reese:
Why would the universe make fun of us all?

Charlie Crews:
Maybe it's insecure.

Charlie Crews:
That's a phone, Bobby.

Bobby Starks' partner:
It's got a camera in it, where you been?

Crews:
I've been in federal maximum security prison!

Reese:
I need a drink.

Crews:
I know something better. [holding out a cup] Mango?

Reese:
[shaking her head] That's okay.

Crews:
These came all the way from Guatamala, and now they're right here in this cup. It's all connected, Reese.

Reese:
What is?

Crews:
It is.

Reese:
Mm, that's zen.

Crews:
Is it?

Reese:
That's zen too, isn't it...

Crews:
Is it?

Reese:
Say "Is it?" one more time and I'll shoot you.

Charlie Crews:
[reading Internet for Idiots] IM stands for Instant Message.

Dani Reese:
I know that.

Crews:
You can't trace an IM.

Reese:
Detective, I know that, too.

Dani Reese:
I don't exactly understand you.

Charlie Crews:
You don't have to understand here to be here.

Reese:
That's what I don't understand.

Charlie Crews:
Do you think that no one will ever understand what we did? What you and I came through? Do you ever think that the world is now you and me in one place, everyone else in another?

Constance:
I think that all the time.

Dani Reese:
You expect me to believe that?

Charlie Crews:
I have no expectations as to what you will or will not believe, but whatever you do believe can't change what was in that shoe.

Reese:
Why exactly can't you talk like a normal person?

Crews:
When exactly was the last time you met a normal person?

Crews:
Stun baton?

Reese:
Nine hundred thousand volts.

Crews:
Felt like more.

Crews:
[laying out all of the wedding photos] It's all here... except the one thing that isn't here...

Reese:
[to nearby officer] Do you know what that means? [to everyone] Does anybody know what that means?

Reese:
I need to know if this is gonna be a thing with you.

Crews:
Which "this" is that?

Reese:
This thing with Jake Silvers. Are you gonna go see falsely accused people everywhere?

Crews:
You think that's not a good instinct for a cop to have?

Reese:
I just need to know if it's going to be a thing with you.

Crews:
Shouldn't "innocent until proven guilty" be a thing with all of us?

Crews:
It was a near-death experience.

Reese:
And it not being a full-death experience should make you happy.

Crews:
Nothing happened. There were no lights, no tunnel, no dead relatives. Well, maybe it wasn't near death enough for it to be a near death experience.

Lt./Sgt. Karen Davis:
You looked into his eyes.

Crews:
They are the windows to the soul.

Reese:
That's very, uh, what's the word, Crews?

Crews:
Enlightened.

Zen Recording:
[voiceover] Revenge is a poison meant for others that we end up swallowing ourselves. Vengeance is a dark light that blinds all who seek it. The untroubled soul knows there is no justice in revenge. The untroubled soul knows that to seek vengeance is to seek destruction.

Charlie Crews:
I think I might go into space.

Dani Reese:
Space?

Crews:
Yeah, you can pay the Russians to take you up there now.

Reese:
So after spending twelve years in a box down here you're gonna pay the Russians to put you in a box up there?

Crews:
I think they mentioned something about jetpacks.

Reese:
Detective Reese ... homicide.

Gas station attendant:
Is someone dead?

Crews:
Alot of people are dead, eventually everyone.

Reese:
Car crash shortly after stopping here last night. A female passenger was shot.

Gas station attendant:
That's terrible, who shot her?

Crews:
Someone with a gun. Look, I admire a question answered with a question, I do, because there is no answer only questions but I'd like you to try really hard to give us an answer anyway.

[talking about a car]

Charlie Crews:
Does it have GPS?

Maldito:
You don't want that. The man track you like a dog with GPS.

Lackey:
Like a dog.

Crews:
Yeah, yeah, you're right I don't want that, the man will track me with that.

Reese:
Crews, you are the man.

Crews:
Oh yes, yeah right, I am the man.

[After Crews gets into a knife fight with an escaping criminal]

Dani Reese:
I want you to give me your knife.

Charlie Crews:
My knife, why?

Reese:
Because I want to swear a blood oath with you and I need something to cut my pinkie. Give me you knife or I burn you with you IAD for not using your service weapon when you should have. [Crews is reluctant] I need to know my partner is a cop and not a con. [Crews gives her the knife] Anything else you carrying from the old days? Sharpened toothbrush, lightbulb full of bleach?

[About the husband of the murder victim]

Charlie Crews:
We have to use his own strength against him.

Dani Reese:
His strength, what's his strength?

Crews:
His weakness.

Reese:
His weakness is his strength?

Crews:
Exactly, it's like the one-handed clap.

Reese:
Are you really zen?

Crews:
I'm zennish.

Jennifer:
What do you want, Charlie?

Charlie:
I want to be the unwobbling pivot at the center of an ever-revolving universe; I want to be still.

Crews:
I just want you to drop Neil Cudahy.

Constance:
[drawing very close to him] You don't have the right to ask that. Unless you want that right. Do you, Charlie? [Charlie just looks at her] I was looking for you and I didn't even know it. And now you're here and I can't have you.

Crews:
You're married.

Constance:
And if I weren't?

Crews:
You have a husband.

Constance:
And I think about you when I'm with him. I need you to be all the way in. And if you can't be all the way in, then I need you all the way out.

Crews:
You know I can't do this.

Crews:
What were you trying to get away from?

Easley:
If I say, can I go?

Reese:
No.

Easley:
Can I get a drink?

Reese:
No! But if you confess we won't charge you for murder one or for assaulting Detective Crews.

Crews:
Or for stealing Detective Reese's pen.

[Reese searches for her pen, while Easley stands up, reaches in his pants and takes out the pen, handing it over to Dt. Reese]

[Reese holding her pen in front of Crews while walking]

Reese:
Here! Take it! Everything that goes down his pants, you're going to keep.

[Crews takes the pen, Reese smells at her hands with disgust]

Crews:
If I was a cowboy he'd be my goofy sidekick.

Reese:
Kinda like how you're mine.

Crews:
What's that smell?

Easley:
That's humanity, baby.

[Crews and Reese are investigating a crime scene where a woman wearing angel wings is found dead]

Charlie Crews:
It's a dead angel.

Dani Reese:
It's a dead woman with a pair of fake wings.

Crews:
How do you know?

Reese:
Well I know the wings are fake because I can see the harness right there.

Crews:
Maybe it's a real angel with fake wings.

Reese:
Why would a real angel have... no, no, I'm not doing this with you.

Charlie Crews:
Just because the wings were fake doesn't mean she wasn't an angel.

Dani Reese:
Isn't there an off button?

Crews:
I know she wasn't an angel, on-a-cloud-with-a-harp-angel, but maybe she was angel in the way we all might be angels.

Reese:
We all might be angels? Crews, let me tell you something, you know there may be a few things that I don't know about myself but I'm sure I'm not an angel.

Crews:
See that is exactly the kind of humble thing an angel might say. [Places an angel statuette on the dashboard; Reese grabs it and throws it away] That was very hostile.

Reese:
That wasn't close to hostile.

Dani Reese:
No ID on her or left in the room.

Charlie Crews:
It's like she fell out of the sky.

Reese:
She fell out of a window.

Crews:
It's like she was no one.

Reese:
No one is no one.

Crews:
Now you sound like me.

Reese:
[startled] Take that back.

Crews:
Would it be so bad?

[Reese notices the angel statuette on the dashboard again and grabs it but can't remove it]

Charlie Crews:
Industrial glue. It's what holds us together.

Reese:
Do you really have any tattoos?

Crews:
You wanna see 'em?

Reese:
Absolutely not.

Crews:
I knew a prostitute at Pelican Bay whose name was Angel.

Reese:
They have women at Pelican Bay?

Crews:
Well, she wasn't a woman woman, and just to make it clear, I didn't know her. Him. Didn't know her/him. But she did make a nice carrot cake.

Charlie Crews:
Every moment you spend wishing you were someplace else is a moment you can't get back.

Dani Reese:
What about every moment I wish you were someplace else?

Crews:
You fall you hit the bottom. The bottom breaks, you fall some more. You get lost. And now I tell myself ... it is what it is and I'm doing my best. I hope.

Dani Reese:
Focus on the words I'm actually saying.

[Talking about a missing victim]

Crews:
She's twenty-two years old. Aren't they all on MySpace, YourSpace, Facebook, Faceplace?

Reese:
How do you know about that?

Crews:
Everybody knows about that. Don't you want a whole bunch of new friends? Don't you want them to know where you are all the time?

Crews:
You didn't die. You survived what happened to you. You lived through that and here you are. Did you ever think you could live through such a thing. There's real violence in the world Nancy. It never finds most people, it found you. But did you ever think you would have the strength to survive what he did to you? Thats your secret Nancy. Larson doesn't know it. Larson doesn't know how strong you are. Prison doesn't know how strong he made you.

Crews:
You're right, Rick; Hate is a prison. But you know what? Prison is a prison too!

Dani Reese:
You think you hit bottom, Rick? You have no idea how far down this goes, do you? You think you're bad, you think you got a demon inside of you? You don't even know what that means!

Lieutenant Davis:
It's not about keeping immigrants out of that neighborhood, it's about drugs and money. What have we learned?

Reese and Crews:
[in unison] It's always about drugs and money.

Crews:
I didn't know you spoke Farsi.

Reese:
My mother's Persian. She'd speak it to me growing up.

Crews:
What about your father?

Reese:
He forbid this when he was in the house.

Crews:
You think you can get to level 10?

Computer Tech:
Detective, I'm 30 years old, I live with my mother, and I have a Captain Kirk costume in my closet.

Charlie Crews:
How come you only call me when someone's dead?

Crews:
Okay so we have one dead guy married to two women.

Reese:
Half a dead guy...

Crews:
Half a dead guy.

Crews:
The Chinese symbol for war is two women under one roof.

[Crews enters his house and sees the cops searching it.]

Crews:
Hey! It's kind of like a party except, this is my house and I don't remember sending out invites.

IAD Agent:
Detective Crews, in that you are a person of interest in the killing of Carl Ames the District Attorney's office has issued a search warrant for these premises, as well as the occupants therein.

Crews:
[to Ted] Don't you wish you could talk that way?

IAD Agent:
Detective Crews, what where your feelings toward Carl Ames?

Crews:
My feelings toward Ames were the same as my feelings toward anyone.

Agent:
And those would be?

Crews:
That none of us are alone. That even as we exhale it is inhaled by others.

Agent:
Is that some kind of joke?

Crews:
Laughter is the best medicine. Reader's Digest. I had a subscription at Pelican Bay.

Reese:
[to Crews] He was not looking for the person not obeying the law. He was looking for the person not not obeying the law. That kinda talk remind you of anyone?

Zen Recording:
[voiceover] We are none of us alone. Even as we exhale it is inhaled by others. The light that shines upon me shines upon my neighbor as well. In this way everything is connected. Everything is connected to everything else. In this way I am connected to my friend even as I am connected to my enemy. In this way there is no difference between me and my friend. In this way there is no difference between me and my enemy. We are none of us alone.

Charlie Crews:
I was being serious; why does nobody take me seriously?

Reese:
Alright, I have to know... What's the deal with the fruit?

Crews:
Do you know what you eat in prison?

Reese:
Crap?

Crews:
Crap... no fresh fruit... ever. I missed it.

Reese:
I don't think it'll be fruit I'll be missing.

Crews:
Yeah, you would.

Crews:
[about his meeting with Reese's father] Do you want to know what he wanted?

Reese:
He always wants the same thing.

Crews:
Oh, yeah. What's that?

Reese:
Everyone else's unhappiness.

Reese:
[referring to a room with bars on the windows, locks on the doors] Can you imagine living like this?

Crews:
Don't have to.

Reese:
Yeah.

Crews:
Because of the whole prison thing.

Reese:
Copy that.

Crews:
About your dad....

Reese:
Yeah, let me make this easy on you: I spent my whole childhood trying to figure out if my dad was only mean or just plain bad. And you... I don't really understand you. I don't really like you but... you're not one of the bad guys. [Long pause] If I had your money I would be on a beach somewhere... How come you're not on a beach somewhere?

Crews:
Do I look like I tan?

Crews:
I investigate things to complete my knowledge. My complete knowledge makes my thoughts sincere. My thoughts being sincere, my heart is pure.

Charlie Crews:
So I'm always in motion. I'm never in one place. I'm never here. Just more likely to be here than not to be here. I'm not here. You like that, don't you?

Dani Reese:
If only that were true.

Crews:
See that car... not here. That building... not here. Not actually here, just more likely to be here than to not be here. That dog... not here. That girl... not here. Too bad about that. This street... this city... everything... not here.

Reese:
If you're not here, how come I can still see you?

Crews:
What would you come back as? Reincarnation. Don't limit yourself you can choose an animal.

Reese:
This one time should be plenty. Thank you.

Crews:
I'd like to come back as a giant Flemish rabbit. 15 pounds of pure bunny. Or a whale can you imagine being a whale, thousands of feet under water. Can you imagine that.

Reese:
Is it quiet down there?

Crews:
So everyone going to that Zen center was just completely screwed up. Right?

Reese:
People go there seeking peace. People seek what they don't have. Only troubled people seek peace.

Zen recording:
[voiceover] The Buddha was asked if he ever felt anger. "Of course," said the Buddha. The Buddha was asked if he ever felt the desire to strike another. "Of course," said the Buddha. "But if I am connected to all things," said the Buddha, "hurting another is hurting myself. And how does that better me?"

Crews:
It just does. [tosses tape out window and drives away]

Reese:
How long have we been awake?"

Crews:
Are you sure we are awake? Maybe this is a dream? Maybe life is a dream and we wake up when we die?

Reese:
I'm with stupid. The arrow is pointing up ... isn't it supposed to point at the person next to you?

Crews:
I guess he was admitting the truth.

Reese:
That he was stupid?

Crews:
That no one knows anything.

Reese:
I know he's dead!

Crews:
That's not the truth, that's just a fact. Looks like a rose.

Reese:
Oh you're gonna tell me that's the truth?

Crews:
No. That's just a dead flower.

Reese:
What exactly is a Zen center?

Crews:
It's a place where people interested in their spiritual journey sit and do nothing. Which, as it turns out is nearly impossible.

Reese:
Getting buried alive part of that journey?

Crews:
Not as a rule no, though every center has its own way.

Crews:
I want to ask you for your forgiveness. All that time I was in prison I was angry. I was angry at you, but we were so young when it happened, you were so young. Anyone would've done what you did.

Jennifer:
Charlie...

Crews:
Let me finish ... I was angry at the wrong person and now I'm asking for your forgiveness.

Crews:
The first 6 months I was in solitary, I did push-ups everyday and I never talked to myself. The next 6 months? I stopped doing push-ups and I confess I did talk a little to myself. The 6 months after that, those next 6 months, Kyle, you'll wanna know what happened then!