- [first lines]
- Mickey: [entering store] Hi Len.
- Lenny: Hi Mick.
- Mickey: Len, next time you got the urge to redecorate, you consult me first.
- Lenny: Sure Mick.
- Mickey: You hear from Alvin?
- Lenny: He called.
- Mickey: Oh, that's something.
- Lenny: He wants the rest of his stuff.
- Mickey: Screw 'em, man.
- Lenny: He won't let me. Why don't you and I get hitched, Mickey?
- Mickey: Sportin' the wrong equipment.
- Lenny: I could change...
- Mickey: Nah, it's too painful, too expensive. Besides, I'd just treat you bad. You'd want to leave me.
- Lenny: Says who?
- Mickey: My ex-wife.
- John Hatter: You still drinking?
- Mickey: You still screwin' my wife?
- [Mickey pulls out a pack of cigarettes]
- John Hatter: I'd prefer you didn't smoke, Hayden.
- Mickey: Yeah, well I'd prefer it if you stopped screwin' my wife.
- John Hatter: She's your ex-wife.
- Mickey: She wasn't when you started screwin' her.
- John Hatter: You know, this drink to heal thing is such a cliche...
- Mickey: Well it's my cliche, so I embrace it...
- Dr. Vera Swann: Why do you drink so much?
- Mickey: Why are you such a pain in the ass?
- Dr. Vera Swann: No, I really want to know.
- Mickey: So do I.
- Dr. Vera Swann: Well, the work I do... no-one takes seriously... it's my defence...
- Dr. Vera Swann: [seeing Mickey smirking] and I refuse to be anaylised by a man who lives his life looking through the prism of melting ice cubes...
- Mickey: Fair enough but if you're expecting something tragic you're going to be disappointed... I like to drink... sometimes I like to get drunk... sometimes I like to pass out. I don't hurt anybody with it and I don't drink on the job, contrary to my lieutenant's beliefs. Iit hasn't killed me... at least not yet.
- Harvey: I don't think you should drink on duty.
- Mickey: I'm not on duty.
- Harvey: But you are.
- Mickey: You want to report me... here's my badge. Please... Please... report me.
- Harvey: You know i would'nt do that Michael.
- Mickey: Do i know you?
- Harvey: No, not yet.
- Mickey: Well when i do, remind me to tell you to mind your own business.
- Transit Cop: [seeing Mickey and Ray in plain clothes walking into a crime scene] Sorry no...
- [Mickey shows his badge]
- Transit Cop: Sorry didn't know.
- Mickey: Yeah well we don't have the same spiffy uniforms as y'all do.
- John Hatter: You're a whole lot better swimmer than I though, Mick.
- Mickey: A whole lot better drunk than you thought, John.