Miami Vice

Rodriguez: You haven't changed much from your old football days, have you, Sonny? Crockett: Listen, Lou-- Rodriguez: No, you listen! I haven't heard word one from you for a whole stinkin' week! No case reviews, no updates... Crockett: I was under-- I was setting up-- Rodriguez: [overlapping] ...no progress reports, and no backups! Crockett: The last time I requested a backup I nearly got shot to death by Bluto and Lee Harvey Oswald over there! And as for progress reports, I'd just as soon buy radio time. Rodriguez: Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute. Are you implying that I've got a bad cop in my department? Crockett: All I know is, every time I've gotten within 20 blocks of this Colombian, I've had the pavement pulled right out from under me. Rodriguez: By the book. By the book, Sonny, from here on, or I swear, I'm pulling you off the street.

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Sonny Crockett: Caroline? Suppose if I had been in some other line of work, things would've been different? Caroline Crockett: Doing what? Dealing real estate? Selling Porsches for my brother downtown? Sonny Crockett: I'm taking an informal survey at my union this week, marriage-wise. It seems out of 16 vice cops we're barely batting 250. Caroline Crockett: It's not the job. Oh, sure, it's got a lot to do with it... [sighs] seeing you shot that time, and your drinking. Well, I've been doing a lot of thinking about it. Sonny Crockett: Actually, I think I've been doing a heck of a lot better. But when I first started in plain clothes, I mean... Caroline Crockett: [overlapping] And y'know, it's funny, but in a lot of ways, you and your vice cop buddies are just the flip side of the same coin from these dealers you're always masquerading around with. Sonny Crockett: Look-- Caroline Crockett: You're all players, Sonny. You get high on the action.

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[on them working together] Well, I don't know how this is gonna work, Tubbs. I mean, uh, you're not exactly up my alley--style and persona-wise. Heaven knows I'm no box of candy. But with all things considered, I think we may have to consider some type of... temporary working relationship.

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Tubbs: Crockett. James "Sonny" Crockett. Crockett: Very good, Tubbs. Next week we'll work on your name. Tubbs: University of Florida. All-American wide receiver number 88? Am I right or what? Crockett: Oh, that was a long time ago. Tubbs: You were sensational. I remember one time I watched you run a screen pass 90 yards with 10 seconds left on the clock, man, for the winning TD against Alabama. Crockett: It was 92 yards, Tubbs. Six seconds remaining. Tubbs: Yeah, well, excuse the hell outta me. You know, not that Vice isn't the most glamorous gig in the world, Crockett, but what happened, huh? I mean, you must have had half the scouts in the NFL on your tail. Crockett: Traded it all in on two years in the Southeast Asian Conference. Tubbs: 'Nam? Crockett: No, Coney Island.

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Crockett: This here is a flare gun, sucker. So unless you want your entire intestinal tract lit up like Cape Canaveral, you've got exactly 10 seconds to tell me who you are. Tubbs: Are you crazy, man? What are you-- Crockett: 8 seconds! Tubbs: What are you talking about, man? You know who I am! Crockett: Rafael Tubbs died 3 weeks ago in that New York shootout with Calderone. 4 seconds! Who are you, man?! Tubbs: His brother. I'm his brother, Crockett! I know we all look alike to you Southern crackers but not this much. Look at the picture, man! Look at it! Tubbs: Rafael was the best. He was the reason why I became a cop. My ID's in my right pocket, man. Crockett: Ricardo Tubbs. La Bronx. Armed Robbery Division? Why? Tubbs: Homicide up north wasn't getting anywhere. Crockett: The interdepartmental memo, priority security clearance... all forged. Tubbs: How else could I have gotten down here? A Bronx street cop on a Brooklyn narcotics investigation? Tell them there was a death in the fami

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Crockett: Immaculate Heart? Rodriguez: Yeah. I'm sending my boy Hector there in the fall. Crockett: Good school. Expensive too. I wish I could afford to send Billy there. Rodriguez: What's that supposed to mean? Crockett: Nothing, Lou. It just seems like an awfully tough nut to make on a lieutenant's salary. Rodriguez: What's the matter with you, Crockett? If you want to know where I got the money, just ask me. Crockett: Okay, Lou. Where'd you get the money? Rodriguez: None of your business. Get out of here.

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