Rescue Me, Season 3

Rescue Me (2004-2011) is an American TV series, airing on the FX Network, about the professional and personal lives of New York City firefighters after the trauma of the September 11.

Tommy:
Hey, Garrity. Humpin' around last night?

Sean:
[coughs] What? Humpin' around...uh, no. I was uh, only hump the one--I just--I just uh, make love to the girlfriend.

Tommy:
So you're like a one woman guy now?

Sean:
Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much.

Tommy:
So when are we gonna meet the girlfriend?

Sean:
Meet her? The girlfriend? Uh...she's, uh, soon. I don't know, she works a lot.

Tommy:
Uh-huh.

Sean:
Yeah, yeah. So y'know. Hey, that was some brew-ha-ha the other night, wasn't it? I mean not ha-ha funny just sorta...actually it wasn't funny at all... it was sickening, kinda.

Tommy:
Yeah that's how we settle things in my family, y'know, we're Irish.

Sean:
Yeah, well, hey, please, tell me about it. Garrity.

Tommy:
No, I mean like we're real Irish. Not your generation fake, faggotity Irish. Y'know, what I mean? I know you guys are like 'my feelings' and y'know talk it out. We don't talk it out. We find out who's responsible, then we find the person and we beat the living shit outta them. My grandfather's best friend growin' up, he was friends with this guy for like 40 years and I guess the guy was flirtin' with my grandmother one day--- long story short my grandfather rearranged the guy's face and he can barely talk now.

Sean:
Wow. Well, wha--what did the guy say to your grandma?

Tommy:
Uh, good morning. [Tommy throws down his cigarette and makes Sean step on it] Don't tell anyone about that.

Sean:
Hey, we all make mistakes, right?

Tommy:
What?

Sean:
You say somethin'? [Tommy leaves] I'm a dead man.

Kenny:
[about Mike's copy of The Tao of Pooh] Yeah, whatever. Hand it over.

Mike:
Why?

Kenny:
Because a firehouse is no place for sensitive souls, Probie.

Mike:
You used to write poetry.

Kenny:
Yeah, and it cost me my house, and my wife and a whole lot more so give it over.

Mike:
You can't order me to stop reading.

Kenny:
I'm not. I'm ordering you to stop filling your mind with this bullshit fortune cookie philosophy. You're taking life lessons from a semi-retarded bear, Mikey. And it's not even a real bear. Consider yourself fortunate that you're not burdened by an overactive mind. Stick to cartoons and coloring books.

Mike:
I'm not stupid, y'know, I'm just simple-minded. The book says Pooh's like an uncarved block. Y'know, that's kind of how I feel.

Kenny:
An uncarved block. That's hard to disagree with.

Mike:
You're busting balls, but y'know, Winnie's as simple as they come. He just roams the woods, hangs with his pals, eats some honey, takes a nap. He doesn't care about understanding anything or even himself or the names that people call him. He just is. He accepts things as they are. That's the key to his happiness.

Kenny:
And that's what this is, you're a little depressed about the fact that we're going to keep callin' you the probie. And that is the little problem that caused this little egxtensial life crisis. You don't know problems kid.

Mike:
I'm just starting to realize that nobody's ever gonna have all the answers, y'know? You may think you know everything, but you don't. And you can't. And you never will. So you should just stop trying and life will get a lot easier.

Chief Reilly:
Well, look at 'ya now, just pushin' the pencil, runnin' all over the city makin' sure good guys like my crew here aren't rubbing one off on the city's dime.

Flinn:
I'm just doin' what I'm told.

Chief:
Yeah, and there's a lotta honor in that ain't there, Flinn? (pushes him up against the lockers) You can take your little clipboard and go back downtown, back to headquarters and you tell who ever it was that sent you up here that they can kiss my white Irish ass. This is the best group of guys I've ever had the honor of serving with. These guys are gold when it comes to people's lives and protecting their property, not to mention the five names on that plaque on that wall out there. Guys that went into those two towers on that day and never came back. So, within the sacred confines of these four walls that they should look at something else other than that shit, that's fine with me. They wanna smoke, they wanna jerk off, they wanna shove potato chips up their ass, I don't give a shit as long as they keep gettin' on that rig and goin' out the door and savin' lives, I'll back 'em up.

Flinn:
[looking over towards his guys] What've we got?

Guy:
There's no porn, sir. No tapes, no magazines.

Chief Reilly:
I'm sorry that it was a wasted trip, now get outta my goddamn quarters.

Flinn:
[to his guys] Let's go.

Chief Reilly:
Make sure down at headquarters you tell 'em Chief Jerry Reilly from the 15th battalion. [After the guys leave, everyone claps] Cut it out, cut it out.

Lou:
Nicely done, Chief. Now, lemme ask you a question: Did you really mean what you said about us being able to smoke and jerk off and everything?

Chief Reilly:
Why of course.

Lou:
Good, because there's a bag of potato chips in the kitchen with my ass' name all over it.

Sean:
I uh…the thing is-- see my family, they raised me right... I think. I wanted to do this respectfully and so uh…that's why I'm here Mr. Gavin. To ask you most sincerely and most... some other word for um... your daughter, Maggie's hand in marriage.

Michael Gavin:
Are you retarded?

[Over at the table, Maggie and Lou are listening]

Maggie:
[whispers] I can't believe Tommy's missing this.

Lou:
[whispers] I'm taking notes.

Sean:
I mean, I had some reading comprehension problems in school and I had to take the SAT's like 11 times and I still didn't pass---

Michael Gavin:
What's the point of asking me for her hand in marriage when you've already asked her for it?

Sean:
That's a good point. That's a good point, Dad. Is it too early for me to call you that?

Michael Gavin:
I don't know, is it too early for me to call you asshole? [at the table Lou laughs and writes that down for the notes] You do realize that she is a blood-sucking, hell bitch.

Maggie:
What?!

Michael Gavin:
This is a private conversation.

Maggie:
You see these shoes? These are gonna go right up your ass old man.

Michael Gavin:
[to Sean] You see how she talks to me? And I'm her father. Imagine what she'll say to you.

Sean:
I don't have to imagine.

Michael Gavin:
Now, you seem like a pretty nice kid, a little slow but nice. You see that door right over there? Use it and never look back.

Maggie:
That's it. You're not invited to the wedding. No invitation for you.

Michael Gavin:
Yeah, well what about the wedding after this one? Am I banned from that one too?

Mike:
Every morning I'd pass by the construction guys out there on my way to work and there was this one guy-- Chris and I noticed him a couple of times. And one day, when I was passin' by, he sorta like smiled at me.

Sean:
Okay, I think I'm gonna puke.

Mike:
Well, it freaked me out too. Every morning he'd gimme this like smile. And one day when I stepped out and he wasn't there--

Lou:
Did you check the end of your cock? [everyone laughs]

Chief Reilly:
Lou, let him talk. Go ahead, kid.

Mike:
And he was gone and I sorta liked missed him.

Tommy:
Alright, my balls just went up behind my lungs.

Mike:
I don't know how to describe the way I was feeling. Y'know, he was a nice guy... and-- and, we started talkin' and I guess I was like lonely or something and I moved into his place and it was great at first... then it got weird.

Franco:
And then it got weird, because I was wonderin' when that was gonna kick in.

Mike:
And he was into me that way, and that's when the blow jobs started... and it freaked me out at first. Yeah, and I knew it wasn't right for me--- he's gone, I'm not with him. I-I-I left, it's over, and that's the whole story.

Sean:
Bullshit, Mikey. What about the transfer?

Mike:
I filled the form out but I never turned it in, did I?

Sean:
Oh, cut the shit, Mike, you already got your new house all picked out.

Chief Reilly:
How do you know that?

Sean:
Because he's playin' for their softball team.

Mike:
What?

Sean:
Yeah, your boyfriend Chris, he told me that you were battin' for the other team. edit »

Tommy:
[showing his scars to people at a bar, proving he's FDNY, while drinking expensive whiskey he can't pay for] See, that? See, that, huh? I got that 12 stories up in a raging inferno up in Harlem. In an apartment, lookin' around I lost my halgen, couldn't find it. But I did find someone's grandmother. I had to hand her out in a bucket to save her, had to punch my way through a window. She died about an hour later. See that one? Take a look at that one. That was a drunken asshole up in the Bronx he fell asleep smoking in bed, well, he started the fire. He was trying to crawl out, I brought him down, I was trading my mask off with him coming down the stairs, the stairs give way and I fall through a half of story on to these metal spikes. He lived, but four kids and their mom died. I knew, 60 guys, who died on 9-11. And you know what the funny part is? I betcha 'ya, all the people in this bar, you could name five finalist from American Idol but they can't name one, one name of the 343 men who gave their lives from the FDNY on 9-11, huh. Anybody got a name? One name, huh? Anybody got a name of a dead fireman, huh? No, nobody, didn't think so. I don't have any money because my wallet and my badge were inside my new truck which got stolen this morning. My wife's pregnant, she's gonna have a baby. But we don't know who's it is because she's having sex with me and my brother. My uncle's in the joint because last year he shot my---this drunk driver that killed my only son and I just saw my son on a crosstown bus right in front of this place like three minutes ago. [Bartender gives Tommy the whole bottle of the expensive Irish whiskey]

Janet:
Why didn't you listen to me?

Tommy:
When?

Janet:
Six years ago when I asked you to spend more time with the kids, to spend more time at home, to spend more time with me. All you had to do was to listen to me! All that was required was that you hear the words!

Tommy:
I heard the words, okay. I quit drinking, I quit my third job, I was home every Saturday.

Janet:
No, you were always playing softball every Saturday during the summer. All winter you played hockey, all spring, all fall, and the only reason that you quit drinking was because Lou said to you that the chief said something to him---

Tommy:
That wasn't the only reason.

Janet:
--- not because of me! Not because of the kids! Goddammit, Tommy! [she grabs his coat and shakes him and starts hitting him] All you had to do was listen!

Tommy:
[pinning her against the wall] Goddammit, stop! Are you gonna tell me that simply because I didn't listen well enough that you have ruined my life so far beyond what I could ever imagine? And that's why, because I didn't listen hard enough, and that's why, you're sucking my brother's cock?

Janet:
Goddammit, Tommy, he was there when I needed someone I was scared shitless -- I just buried my only son.

Tommy:
So did I.

Janet:
And what did you need, Tommy?

Tommy:
Ah, Goddammit! What did I need--

Janet:
You know, I needed you! The old you. I needed someone to hold me in my bed at night when I cried. I needed someone to help me after I was done helping the girls wipe away their tears. But, the old you? He was gone. He's buried, with all of your lost brothers and you know what? You can tell all of your lost brothers to go to hell because we're here, and they're not.


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