Skipp Sudduth: John Sullivan • Self

Third Watch

John Sullivan • 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.

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.

[to Yokas]
Sully: You know, you should make it official. Adopt Boscorelli. Then you can list him as a dependent and take him as a deduction on your taxes.

Sully: Finney, I've been doing this since you were a careless night waiting to happen.

Sully: I'm not afraid of much, really. Not blood, not snakes or rats, not even heights. Everyone has something that makes their skin crawl. Something that wakes them up from a deep sleep in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat, reaching for the bedside lamp. My nightmare comes to visit maybe every month. It stalks me, slips in, bringing with it the smell of wet dirt and a confined space. See, I'm terrified of being buried alive.

[about Cruz]
Sully: Man, I knew she was a bitch but I didn't think she'd do anything like that.
Bosco: I was sleeping with her and I was fooled. How's that for stupid?

Davis: What do you do?
Sully: What do you mean "what do I do"?
Davis: To, like, kick back, have like, Sully fun, what do you do? I sort of picture you... sitting at home in your boxer shorts watching old movies on black and white TV.
Sully: This is what you do, conjure up images of me in my underwear?
Davis: I'm not saying it's pretty.
Sully: You're way off you know.
Davis: About what?
Sully: I got a color television.

Sully: One universal truth to policing, any day that begins with a domestic is not gonna be a good day.
Monroe: Well, then we're screwed already.

Sully: Rat Junior shows up here and a month later one of us is behind bars. Nah, I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
Brendan Finney: I thought she did herself in.
Sully: You pick that up with your supersonic hearing or is my locker bugged?
Brendan Finney: Nah, nobody needs either with your mouth.

[to Dante]
Yokas: You know, I gotta tell you, if I ever caught you with my daughter, you'd get to test that whole "vampires are immortal" theory.
Bosco: Emily's not that stupid.
Sully: Dante's not that immortal.

Sully: All right Kathy, don't get startled, but there's a moron coming to save you.
Kathy: Go back down there!
Brendan Finney: No, ma'am. That would ruin my whole hero routine.

[Bosco and Faith are considerably content in the locker room]
Sully: [groans] I've gotta get out of here before these two starting singing Raindrops on Roses.