The Closer, Season 5

Ramos:
So Chief Johnson, is it true that the young girl was still clutching her doll when you found her?

Brenda:
Here's what I can confirm as being in the vicinity of the young girl: blood and brain matter.

Tao:
Whether it was the driver or someone else, the kidnapper would have gotten rid of the car pretty quickly.

Brenda:
Probably somewhere near the airport. Lt. Provenza! I really need that car, and you seem to be awfully frisky this afternoon.

Provenza:
Well, yes I am! And Chief, this is perfect weather to organize a grid search for a town car. And I could really go for a nice long walk around LAX. It'd be good for me!

Pope:
Ok, do we have a breathalyzer up here?

Provenza:
There's over 5 million dollars here, and the kidnappers only want a little over a million! Now if Summers was behind this, don't you think he'd want to take it all?

Tao:
Maybe he wanted to leave something behind for his wife.

Brenda:
You haven't met her.

Provenza:
I remember Raider back when she was a sergeant; filed a complaint against my old partner, George Andrews, said he was misogynistic. We had to look it up! Got both of us four months of sensitivity training.

Brenda:
Well, that was a complete waste of time.

FEID Agent:
[sees Provenza tear through some red tape around a crime scene] Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing!

Provenza:
We're headed to the newsstand to pick up a paper, read about the two FEID guys who got fired because they disregarded orders from the Pope.

FEID Agent:
Listen, I'm not going to --

Brenda:
Tone. Tone, tone. That's not any way to talk to a lieutenant or a deputy chief for that matter. Sir, if you do anything to interfere with my murder investigation I'll see to it that you spend the next month on unpaid leave. Is that understood?

Brenda:
I hate to ask ya'll this since I know it's against your nature, but do you think you could distract Eric's parents and his lawyer, sort of irritate them down the hall.

Provenza:
[makes grand gesture in front of Lt. Flynn] After you!

Brenda:
For heaven's sake, Fritzy, if we all stop lying to each other, how will we ever get to the truth?

Buzz:
I applied for this federal grant to upgrade our surveillance system and I think I got it but I need help translating this letter.

Tao:
What language is it in?

Buzz:
Government.

Sanchez:
It's gang central LA, chief. There's big overlap out there. There's black, brown, and a little white. There's 3 regular gangs, and one made up of all the gang rejects. It's what we call affirmative action gangsters.

Father Jack:
God's grand design. That's a little bit over my head. But I don't believe in random.

Brenda:
But there was no motive in Reggie's death. And-and where there's no motive, there's no meaning.

Father Jack:
You only think there's no meaning 'cause you're looking for it. But meaning isn't something you find, Chief Johnson, it's something you give.

Provenza:
What?

Flynn:
What? You're eating fruit!

Provenza:
I'm trying to cut back on fatty foods. Lauren says my diet makes me feel older.

Flynn:
You know what's making you feel older? Your age!

Brenda:
Excuse me, Chief, uh, am I to understand that you, and uh, Lieutenant Flynn and Lieutenant Provenza handed over all the evidence from the crime scene, including the gun, to a detective Dick Tracy?

Pope:
OK, now... this... is... definitely... a major crime.

Brenda:
Captain Raydor. I see you made your deadline.

Raydor:
Yes, ma'am. Officers Stern and Duran have been completely exonerated.

Brenda:
And because the way Force Investigation Division operates, I'll be investigating murders of more good cops just like them.

Rayder:
Excuse me?

Brenda:
When officers are shot and killed in the line of duty, they're investigated by me. When they shoot back, they're investigated by you. That means that they'll think twice before defending themselves. That hesitation will mean that more good cops will die. I have to ask, have you ever considered what your principles cost?

Raydor:
Seventy million dollars. That was the settlement in the Rampart case. One hundred. That's how many convictions were overturned due to renegade police and lack of oversight in one division alone, not to mention the loss of trust the LAPD needs to remain effective.

Brenda:
There has to be a better way.

Raydor:
Well, until then, you've got me.

Fritz:
You know hon, someday when you look back on your life, almost everything you see will be marked off with crime scene tape because you didn't make time for much of anything else.

Willie Rae:
Your Aunt Brenda is working. And she excused herself from the table.

Charlie:
It's okay. I'm used to adults making rules for me they don't live by themselves.

Brenda:
I don't want a murder suspect looking at a Crown Vic in the rear view mirror. Buzz, what kind of a car do you drive?

Buzz:
A Prius. Why? Oh, no. No, no.

Brenda:
We-we'll take such good care of it.

Buzz:
It's brand-new and I just washed it.

Brenda:
I promise. Such good care. (Buzz reluctantly hands over his keys) Thank you very much.

Buzz:
Please, just... don't bring it back with any blood in it or bullet holes.

Chief Pope:
(sarcastically) Good luck.

Buzz:
Thanks.

Charlie:
You know you're in the red zone, right?

Brenda:
The red zone is for the police. I am the red zone! Keep your head down and stay in the car!

Brenda:
I have to check the schedule?

Charlie:
He thinks I'm a youth volunteer.

Fritz:
And the nurses think you're his sister?

Charlie:
They only allow family members in the ICU. Thank God I heard you use his mom's name. Obviously Jake knows I'm not his sister, so I told him I was a youth volunteer. It was easier than explaining that you're my aunt.

Fritz:
[laughs] You two are so related.

Brenda:
[to a suspect] Now, I want you to look at all the people put to death in Texas since February 2006; 84 in all.

Gabriel:
Tommy Lin Hawkins, executed after six months of being on death row. Michael Jack Raleigh, executed one year after his conviction. Tyrone Derek Johnson -- you get the idea?

Brenda:
And these are all the people put to death in California during the same time period. [opens an empty folder] Not one. But since you have a lawyer and you won't talk to me, I'm walking out of here right now and turning you over to Texas, and trust me when I tell you that they will kill you dead.

Pope:
So what proof do you have that Sergeant Dunn and Detective Moore knew each other?

Brenda:
They denied it.

Pope:
Okay, let's talk about what I mean by "proof". Because when I use that word, I mean some physical evidence we could all look at, you know, and go "Aah!"