Big Apple Quotes:
Pilot (Episode One)

  1. Mike Mooney: "Pay stub in her bag from Paradise"
    Vincent Trout: "That‘s that the ah, tit bar on 44th"
    Mooney: "Speaks well of you, the address coming so quickly to mind."

  2. Chris Scott to Terry Maddock on Victoria‘s murder: "Terry you gotta understand something. This girl you know, she meant something to me. I‘m going to have to do what I’ve gotta do"

  3. Terry showing Chris a dead body: "That‘s her doorman & all he did was bring me the news."

  4. Sarah Day after a hard helicopter landing: "Welcome to New York"

  5. Mooney trying to get info: "Mr. Holbind, try to keep in mind after we’re done canvassing the other residents, they are either going to have on mind that this was an isolated incident in the building or they should all be living in terror"

  6. William Preecher to Sarah: "I got you the best office on the floor, furthest from the boss, closest to the door"

  7. Preecher: "Teddy will get you situated, then maybe he‘ll so you the tech sector"
    Jimmy Flynn: "It‘s like a guided tour from Einstein."
    Teddy Olsen: "Or Virgil"
    Jimmy: "Thanks for the reference, goes zooming over my head"

  8. Preecher: "Do you know who caught the case over at the 11th squad "
    Jimmy: "My nightmare scenario."

  9. Lt. Swenson: "The FBI‘s got something for you."
    Mooney: "What a dildo a piece?"
    Lt. Swenson: "Yeah, nice shiny strap-ones."

  10. Teddy to Sarah: "If an agent here doesn‘t rub elbows with the outside world... never understand the first damn thing about the information he collects. Rubbing elbows like that sometimes has a price."

  11. Teddy to Sarah: "For agent with your kind of ambition, an assignment like this could destroy a career."

  12. Mooney: "Understand something Flynn, to me the most dangerous person I’m going to deal with today is sitting across this table from me."
    Flynn: "Stay away from the Paradise."
    Mooney: "Kiss my underpaid Irish ass."

  13. Flynn: "They mention anything about a dancer from their club getting whacked last night, the Russians?"
    Terry: (pause) "No."
    Flynn: "Girl named Vicky Tompkins?"
    Terry: "You know, I say I didn‘t hear anything & you tell me her name now."
    Flynn: "Called conversation Terry. Like if ask, you see the Rangers/Sabres last night? Even if you answer no, I may still say great game."
    Terry: "I don‘t know nothing about the girl."

  14. Terry: "Why don‘t you just get me in the middle of one more damn thing."
    Flynn: "Someone get up this morning on the wrong side of his bed?"
    Terry: "Alright I think you‘ve uh, reached your quota of wisecracks."

  15. Preecher: "Flynn is seeing Teddy Maddock, then he & I are having lunch."
    Teddy: "Get him to examine the state of his soul,"
    Preecher: "If he doesn‘t get to that himself, he‘s not going to be much use to us afterward."

  16. Maddock to Mogilevich: "If you mess this up I'm going to be the cartoon guy that puts a bullet between you eyes."

  17. Mogilevich: "Terry I promise, for this kind of money, if anything goes wrong you can shoot my mother between the eyes okay."

  18. Mogilevich: "What are you doing? (Mitya shrugs) What are you doing? Go watch Baywatch. Go!"

  19. Trout: "I just saying, coming here right after the guy tells us to stay away seems a little... antagonistic."
    Mooney: "What are you half a homo? Did you see me sign any non-compete clause?"
    Trout: "I just saying..."

  20. Russian Stripper to Mooney: "What do you need besides manners?"

  21. Geena: "It’s just that... I know how much you loved her Chris. Me and a few of the other girls we were always saying what a special story you and Vicky were."

  22. Jimmy Flynn: "I run Terry Maddock, he doesn‘t run me."

  23. Mooney trying to get the upper hand: "When they (FBI) come in don‘t even sit down."

  24. Trout on joining force with the FBI: "You know what this buys us don‘t you"
    Mooney: "Yeah kneepads, federal knee pads."

  25. Flynn: "Mooney, why don‘t you do what you suppose to do?"
    Mooney: "Oh I bet you got straight A‘s in that didn‘t you Flynn. You know, from your first day on the job. Isn’t that where they showed you that training film with Hoover & the Pinafore, you know demonstrating his preferred techniques for ankle grabbing."
    Flynn: "That would be Mr. Hoover."
    Trout: "I think were fitting right in"

  26. Flynn: "On your memo Sarah, mind if I call you Sarah?"
    Sarah: "No"
    Flynn: "On your memo, I may not be able to get you my list on deadline."
    Sarah: "How soon can you respond?"
    Flynn: "Can I be a little iffy what with this actual field work I‘m trying to do? Can I get back to you on that?"

  27. Flynn to Preecher: "Well, as much as I‘d like to help Sarah Day make her splash, I mean if this is a new environment of second guessing and micromanaging equipment, let me be the first to go on hands and knees, beg Teddy Olsen and with draw his retirement"

  28. Mogilevich: "Terry, I gotta tell you, this... this is a major loss for me. To sacrifice a guy who is not only tough as nails but loyal like a dog."
    Terry: (opening a case of money) "Go buy your self 20 more just like him."
    Mogilevich: "My god who‘s my guy taking the wrap for?"
    Terry: "Don‘t ask"
    Mogilevich: "Come on Terry, who the hell went crazy on this girl"
    Terry: "Don‘t ask"

  29. Rizullo: "You going to bring in all your family & friends? Like we don‘t have enough Russians in this country."
    Chris: "Rizullo, you hear these guys asking you how far it is to swim from Africa to Sicily?"
    Rizullo: "What are you calling me a spade huh? You spud eating son-of-a-bitch!"
    Chris: "You gonna shoot me? Make sure you shoot thru your jacket okay, cause if you take that hand out I‘m going to rip it off & shove it down your throat."

  30. Terry: "Problems?"
    Chris: "Besides that little guiney with the big mouth"
    Terry: "What‘s the fun being one if you can‘t act like one?"
    Chris: "Yeah."

  31. Terry to an emotional Chris: "You going soft on me? You going to jeopardize yourself for some whore you held hands with in high school?"

  32. Flynn: "You don‘t like to be simple do you Mooney?"
    Mooney: "I’ll tell you what’s simple Flynn. You know what‘s simple? Someone’s making this poor Russian into a patsy."

  33. Sarah: "Is Jimmy Flynn someone I should be looking at?"
    Preecher: "Whatever lip service it pays to morality in it’s charter does not make an institution moral Sarah. Only people make it moral. We need to know if the institutions been corrupted. Now if Jimmy Flynn’s part of something large, definitely you need to be looking at him but just keep in mind he might be trying to sail unchartered water without a compass."

  34. Preecher: "What happened to your face?"
    Flynn: "Difference of opinion with Mooney."

  35. Preecher: "Anyone tries to work all on his own Jimmy winds up over their head Jimmy"
    Flynn: "Well that‘s where I‘m at now."
    Preecher: "Even with the best of intentions we can‘t do it alone."

  36. Preecher: "Can you work with Mooney"
    Flynn: (nodding) "That loud mouth prick is smart."

  37. Trout: "Everything I learned about being a cop I learned from you. I‘m not switching schools now."
    Mooney: "You’re an idiot."
    Trout: "Well like I said everything I know."

  38. Preecher: "No rest for the wicked aye gentlemen"
    Mooney: "What‘s that supposed to mean"
    Preecher: "Nothing, it just an expression."

  39. Preecher: "I‘d be sorry to lose you. Agent Flynn was just telling me he thought you had an interesting angle on the case."
    Flynn: "And that I could work with you assuming that you could work with me."
    Trout: "Mike is surprisingly flexible."
    Mooney: "What a love fest"
    Preecher: "So we‘ll see you in the morning then?"
    Mooney: "Alright. Yeah, we‘ll see you in the morning."
    Preecher: "Good."