Jason Wiles: Maurice Boscorelli • Self

Third Watch

Maurice Boscorelli • Self

Sully: Bet you didn't figure on watching fake vampires your first day back.
Bosco: There was a time I didn't figure I'd have a first day back.
Sully: I always knew.
Bosco: No you didn't.
Sully: When you were hurt, way back in the beginning, when we were coming over to your room and sitting with you, I realized something.
Bosco: What? That you had better things to do?
Sully: No. I realized why you rub me the wrong way.
Bosco: 'Cause I'm so much better looking than you?
Sully: When you first came on at the 5-5 you were this gung-ho, 100 miles an hour, true believer. All you wanted to do was catch bad guys.
Bosco: And you were the opposite.
Sully: No. I was exactly the same way when I came on. There was no one more excited about being the police. But the system beat it out of me. Bad guys I worked hard to get went free... Cops I respected ended up being dirty. Even did a few things myself I'm not too proud of.
Bosco: Yeah?
Sully: So I kept waiting for it to beat you down. But you never let it. And that's what I realized one day sitting by your hospital bed. You piss me off so much because you remind me that I let the system beat me.
Bosco: You're a pretty damn good cop, Sul.
Sully: I don't really believe there's a greater good anymore. But you still do. So I always knew that if you woke up, you'd be back out here. 'Cause you're a true believer, Bosco.
Bosco: [after an awkward moment] I'm not gonna kiss you.
Sully: Unless you wanna get shot again.

Bosco: Greetings! This is not God, but this is his close friend, Officer Boscorelli. Please pull over.

Bosco: Nobody thinks I got feelings.
Faith: Bosco. That's not fair. You have feelings, you just have them buried somewhere in a shallow grave in Jersey.

Bosco: Look, I know you're upset but if we're going to have to rely on me being the level-headed one, we're going to have some serious problems.

Bosco: Only two things I watch. Sports and animals.
Yokas: Animals?
Bosco: Yeah. Shark shows, elephant babies, lions, tigers, bears.
Yokas: Oh my.
Bosco: What?
Yokas: Nothin'.
Bosco: You don't watch those shows? Best shows on the box.
Yokas: I guess I must be missing out.
Bosco: You are. A lioness with her cubs in the tall grass. No human beings around for miles.
Davis: Except for the 18 guys in the camera truck?
Bosco: You gotta ruin it for me, right?

Sully: You know this thing with Faith, all that stuff her old man said? Nothing's ever one person's fault.
Bosco: You haven't spent enough time around me.

Bosco: Faith, when it gets right down to it, nobody's as tough-ass as you.
Faith: Really.
Bosco: Yeah, when you decide to turn it on, look out - oh God, you'd think you were a man in another life time!
Faith: Thank you. That's beautiful.

Bosco: You think when I'm married I'm going to beat my wife, because that's what I saw growing up?
Faith: I don't think it has to be that way. Not if that's not how you want it to be.

[Yokas tells Bosco that she is sick]
Bosco: All the things that we've learned that we can't control in this world, and you're gonna surprise me with this?
Yokas: I... I just didn't want to be dumping my stuff on anybody.
Bosco: It's me, Faith. It's me! I'm not just anybody.

Aaron Noble: I was doing research, for a book.
Bosco: Oh my gosh. You know what? Please accept our apologies. Sarge! Sarge stop searching the car. He was only doing research for a book.
Cruz: Oh, didn't somebody already write Dumb and Dumber?

Yokas: In the fifth grade I was faster than any other boy in my class. But my teacher said "something must've been wrong with the stopwatch." Said "run it again."
Bosco: And?
Yokas: I was so pissed off I ran it faster the second time.

Bosco: I'm thinking about quitting and doing something else.
Yokas: Really?
Bosco: You haven't thought about it? After all this?
Yokas: Yeah... so are you?
Bosco: And let that skinny little bearded bastard think he beat me? Hell no. Give me a parachute and a pistol and drop me in there. I'll shoot him in the head myself.