The Closer (TV Series)

Til Death Do Us Part: Part II (2007)

Kyra Sedgwick: Brenda Leigh Johnson

Quotes 

• Fritz Howard : But you had a lot of nerve, Brenda, calling me a liar. A lot of nerve.

  Brenda Leigh Johnson : What's THAT supposed to mean?

  Fritz Howard : It means it's funny being accused of being dishonest by someone who lies all the time.

  Brenda Leigh Johnson : I do not lie all the time.

  Fritz Howard : You lie all the...

  Brenda Leigh Johnson : When?

  Fritz Howard : When? You lie to your parents. In fact, you lie to your parents so much we had to have an extra phone line installed for over a year so they wouldn't know I was living here. You lie to Pope CONSTANTLY about what you do at work. You lie to me now when you say you're gonna do something like "look for a house" when you know you're not! You lied when you said you'd put THIS place on the market. You promised you'd do that three months ago and you never did it.

  Brenda Leigh Johnson : That is not a lie! It's just... I get busy, that's all. It's not the same thing!

  Fritz Howard : You know, you're right. It's not the same thing. You and I, we have different flaws, Brenda, but I have been more... I have been MORE than patient with yours because I am pretty aware of how bad mine are; but, for you to say that you don't trust me, to suggest that our whole relationship is on the line because of mistakes I made before we started dating?... You throw the word "if" at me while you're wearing that ring?...

  [silence] 

• Brenda Leigh Johnson : "If" is a very hard word to live with.

• Andy Flynn : Sergeant.You're gonna have to skip me. I'm gonna stick with my usual cranberry and soda.

  Brenda Leigh Johnson : No champagne?

  Andy Flynn : Here,take a look at this. I wear this all the time. 10 years in A.A.

  Brenda Leigh Johnson : You're kidding.

  Andy Flynn : Well, you see ,chief, when I used to drink, I could be a little bit of an asshole.

  Louie Provenza : Imagine that,if you can.

• Eugene 'Topper' Barnes : [smugly]  So, do I have to talk to you guys?

  Brenda Leigh Johnson : Absolutely not, but I'd really like to hear about your sailing trip with Dr. Schafer.

  Eugene 'Topper' Barnes : Mm-hm.

  Brenda Leigh Johnson : Because there's nothing worse than putting the wrong man on trial, especially for murder, and around here we like to learn from our mistakes.

  Eugene 'Topper' Barnes : Yeah? Well, you guys should be geniuses, then, all the mistakes YOU make.