Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series)
Revolution (2009)
Jeff Goldblum: Detective Zack Nichols
Quotes
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Detective Zach Nichols : "Pig's system is death. Murder must answer murder. We have started the revolution last night." It's not very good English.
Agent Carmen Martino : It's not supposed to be an SAT exam.
Detective Zach Nichols : It could be a native Spanish speaker or a German. Some language where the present perfect is the same as the simple past.
Detective Alexandra Eames : You're starting to remind me of someone.
Captain Danny Ross : This one's taller.
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Detective Zach Nichols : [Last lines]
Detective Zach Nichols : That's why I never had kids. Empty vessels that Daddy fills with love, compassion, empathy... 'cause you get a - a me... or a him. Oops.
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Detective Zach Nichols : [referring to past radical movements] Disaffected teenagers. They didn't know Karl Marx from Groucho, but they liked the action.
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Detective Alexandra Eames : Boobytrap?
Detective Zach Nichols : Kidnap a banker, kill a cop...
Detective Alexandra Eames : Did you just save our lives?
Detective Zach Nichols : You can buy breakfast.
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Agent Carmen Martino : Shelley's address doesn't exist, her social security number is a phony. Did you get anything from her?
Detective Zach Nichols : Yeah, our girl never wears lipstick, and she lives near a bar.
Agent Carmen Martino : How many bars could there be in New York City?
Detective Zach Nichols : Four million.
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Captain Danny Ross : ...An improvised high explosive.
Detective Zach Nichols : So unless this woman is planning to bleach her hair and remove her nail polish while she's cleaning bricks...
Agent Carmen Martino : She's building one hell of a bomb.
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Detective Alexandra Eames : Have you seen the Internet? They have a fan group on Facebook.
Captain Danny Ross : Yeah, we're not joining it. NYPD / FBI just put out this statement.
Detective Zach Nichols : [reading] "Despite the rhetoric, these are nothing but common criminals."
Detective Alexandra Eames : Oh, the bad guys write sexier statements than we do.
Captain Danny Ross : But we're not insane.
Detective Zach Nichols : [continues reading] "There's no need to overreact. City and federal authorities have the situation well under control." If I were them, I'd want to prove this wrong.
Agent Carmen Martino : We're taking all necessary safety precautions. What do you think we should be saying, detective?
Detective Zach Nichols : That communism is dead and they're trying to replace a flawed system with a failed one.
Agent Carmen Martino : You want to have a political science seminar?
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Detective Zach Nichols : [leaving an interrogation room] Bathroom break for me, not him.
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Detective Zach Nichols : [in a somber, contemplative mood, after a standoff is resolved by sniper fire] That's why I never had kids. Empty vessels that daddy fills with love, compassion, empathy... 'cause you get a- a me... or a him. Oops.