New Amsterdam (TV Series)

Pilot (2008)

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: John Amsterdam

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Quotes 

• John Amsterdam : Why Narcotics? Most cops would kill to get into Homicide?

  Eva Marquez : It's after the fact. Digging through he past isn't going to bring anyone back. I'd rather be on the front lines. Why Homicide?

  John Amsterdam : I like to solve puzzles. And it intrigues me.

  Eva Marquez : What does?

  John Amsterdam : Death. Likes to play hard to get.

• John Amsterdam : We need your help Mrs. Carlton. We need it now because I'm not letting whoever did this walk away.

  Mrs. Carlton : Will that bring her back? She was my heart. You have no idea what I'm feeling. It's just words until it happens to you.

  John Amsterdam : He was six, my son. Uh, almost six. It's pain without end.

• John Amsterdam : I've watched the world change. Best invention: indoor plumbing. Worst invention: the alarm clock.

• John Amsterdam : Ever ask yourself why a vampire has no reflection in a mirror?

  Omar : Not this week.

  John Amsterdam : Be too painful. To see himself year after year, century after century, unchanged while everything around him grows old. To search for love but to know it's always just out of your reach. Because to be human is to die. To die is what makes life worth living. It's God's joke.

• Eddie Riley : You're the dude who chased me. I thought you were dead.

  John Amsterdam : I was. Now I'm not.

• John Amsterdam : [at an AA meeting]  My name is John and I am an alcoholic. I haven't had a drink in 15,495 days.

  AA Man : You think that's funny? I can do the math. You had be sober since 1965.

  John Amsterdam : I look young for my age.

• Indian Woman : [after bringing Amsterdam back to life]  You will not grow old. You will not die. Until you find the one and your souls are wed.

  John Amsterdam : How will I know when I find her?

  Indian Woman : [points to his chest]  You will feel it... here. In your heart.

• John Amsterdam : [holds out his gun]  Eddie?

  Eddie Riley : [pulls out his gun]  Don't do this, man. I don't want to have to shoot you.

  John Amsterdam : Then don't. It hurts like hell.

  Eddie Riley : I didn't kill her, okay?!

  John Amsterdam : Yeah? Where the blood come from? What's her name, Eddie?

  Eddie Riley : Get on the ground, now! I know how to use this thing.

  John Amsterdam : [puts his gun away and makes his way to Eddie]  Last time I was shot, it was Hopkins & Allen. XL number six pocket.

  Eddie Riley : Now! Get on the ground!

  John Amsterdam : Now in those days, bullets didn't have copper jackets so it was like pouring hot water through your veins.

  Eddie Riley : Are you crazy?