Third Watch Season 3 Episode 18

Faith: This guy, this uh, buddy that Bosco's been seein', 'ya know? He's good?
Sully: O'Malley? The best. He's not into all that touchy feel crap either. He's got more of a tough-love approach.
Faith: You think that's what Bosco needs?
Sully: Well, he's not exactly warm and fuzzy.
Faith: No, but… you know, I got my husband at home, you got your wife, Bosco, who's he got, 'ya know?
Sully (to himself): My wife.

Faith: I'm sorry, Sully. I had no idea.
Sully: Nobody knows. I haven't told anyone.
Faith: Not even Davis?
Sully: No.
Faith: Well, how could she just disappear?
Sully: She's smart, she's hidin'. you know, I found myself driving around Brighton Beach all hours of the night. Popping in and out of bars and restaurants there just on the odd chance, you know?
Faith: Needle in a haystack.
Sully: I'll tell 'ya all these Russian joints you go in, they act like you're the foreigner.
Faith: I'll tell 'ya what, you've got a better chance of running into Chevchenko.
Sully: I just hope she's safe, wherever she is.

Yokas: You ever think you been a cop too long?
Sully: Everyday.

Father Moreno: John, you have to know that no one could see the end from where it began.

Sully (about Manual): If he'd only died when that fireman dropped him. He'd have gone out a hero, case closed.

Stram: Tonight's job was a simple reward.
Sully: Simple? A 40-year-old janitor shot you with your own gun and his wife kicked your ass.

Bosco: So, wait, how do you like the job?
Stram: Well, there's no dental but I make a 100 grand a year and I don't have to knock on doors like you guys do.
Bosco: Wait, you make a 100 thousand a year?
Stram: Yeah. Look, I was a Denver patrol cop for 8 years. I get sick of having to prove some dirt bag raped a girl, beat up some kid, shot some old lady.
Sully: Yeah, that zany due process thing.
Stram: That process doesn't work, man.
Bosco: Sully, the guy was a badge. How'd you get started?
Stram: Took a course in Vegas. Got licensed. What I liked was having the freedom of not having to bend over to assure the rights of lowlifes. I don't need a warrant, or probable cause. And anyone I got after has already been arrested by a peace officer and they feel stone-guilty enough to run. I bag 'em, no questions asked. It's beautiful and it's legal.

Sully: The only person shootin' it start with me that whole time, was the guy I trusted the least.
Father Moreno: The bounty hunter.
Sully: At least I knew what he wanted.
Father Moreno: Candor doesn't mean virtue.
Sully: You should have told me where he was.
Father Moreno: Maybe.
Sully: You should've told me!
Father Moreno: Maybe.
Sully: I was trying to help him and instead I killed him.

Sully (about why he is looking for Manuel): I'm here because I don't want everything he's done to go to waste.

Stram: Why the soft spot for this guy? Huh? You're a badge.
Sully: I don't know. I think I'm rooting for Valez simply because I can't stand you.
Stram: Hey, Sullivan... (whispers) I'll race you to him.

Sully: A good person… that's who you think I am?
Father Moreno: I've known you for sometime, John.
Sully: You don't know me. I used to come to your church sometimes, buy a book a raffle tickets twice a year.
Father Moreno: It was more than that.
Sully: And from that, you think you know who I am? You have no idea what I'm capable of.
Father Moreno: You have dedicated your life to righting wrongs, protecting people.
Sully: You ever listen to yourself? What I dedicated myself to, what I tried to do. Who gives a damn about any of that? What matters are results. What happened. How it ended.

Sully: Tell me something Today we came across a little girl; six, seven years old. Who somebody had killed and put into a cardboard box and left on the curb in the rain. Now, where was your God when she needed him?
Father Moreno: He created the lion and the lamb, the weal and the woe.
Sully: That's your answer? This somebody we're supposed to follow? Somebody for us to worship?
Father Moreno: Thos obstacles arise to strengthen our resolve. If you coast through life making no difference, no effort whatsoever, you know what happens, don't you?
Sully: Yeah, you live longer.
Father Moreno: Yeah, but only to realize maybe you haven't really lived at all.

Father Moreno: If we don't have crosses, if there are no trials, how are we to know how important what we have is?