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Quotes tagged “Crime”

“When dealing with the crime, the evidence tells you how. The psychology tells you why.”
— Miranda Shaw, Quantico, Season 1: Cover
Tagged: Crime, evidence, Psychology, why, how
“Understanding, identifying with victims, that’s what makes you good at your job.”
— Tasha Zapata, Blindspot, Season 2: Mom
Tagged: Understanding, identify, Victims, Crime, Job
“Well, we have no witnesses, no suspects, and no leads. If anyone has any information, please dial '0' and ask for the police. That number again, '0.'”
— Chief Wiggum, The Simpsons, Season 1: The Telltale Head
Tagged: witnesses, suspects, leads, Police, Crime, information
“We all need some therapy, because someone came along and said 'liberal' means soft on crime, soft on drugs, soft on communism, soft on defense and we're gonna tax you back to the Stone Age, because people shouldn't have to go to work if they don't want to.”
— Bruno Gianelli, The West Wing, Season 3: Gone Quiet
Tagged: therapy, Liberal, Crime, Soft, defense, Tax
“Great, we’ve gone from infanticide to child abduction. Progress.”
— Ray Palmer / The Atom, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Season 1: Progeny
Tagged: Infanticide, abduction, Child Abduction, Crime, Progress, Sassy
“I’m nothing like you. I’m a criminal.”
— Mick Rory / Heat Wave, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Season 2: The Justice Society of America
Tagged: Crime, criminal, dark, Anti-Hero
“No offense, Gideon, but I never met a building I couldn’t break into.”
— Leonard Snart / Captain Cold, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Season 1: Fail-Safe
Tagged: Building, Break Into, criminal, No Offense, Crime
“If lying was a crime, we would all be in jail.”
— Emily Fields, Pretty Little Liars, Season 1: Know Your Frenemies
Tagged: lying, Crime, Jail
“Let me tell you about guilt. It's like crime, it doesn't pay.”
— Mae Olinski, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Season 1: Episode 011
Tagged: Crime, Guilt, crime doesn't pay
“Countess of Warwick: I am sorry for your loss.

Queen Elizabeth: For which you mean the brutal slaying of my father and my brother, who were innocent of any crime in all their lives and made obedient to their Lord and King?

Countess of Warwick: In the fortunes of war—

Queen Elizabeth: It was not war. This wasn't an honorable death on a battlefield. It was murder, and it was treason in the eyes of God and man.”
— Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen, Season 1: The Storm
Tagged: War, Murder, Loss, Anger, Treason, Crime
“The only crime in a war is to lose.”
— Billy Russo, Marvel's The Punisher, Season 1: Virtue of the Vicious
Tagged: Crime, Lose, War
“Nine out of ten murder victims, it was someone they knew.”
— Richard Willis, Sharp Objects, Season 1: Fix
Tagged: Murder, Victims, Crime
“Ladies and menfolk…[holds out a slip of paper]…we have ourselves a job. Take us out of the world, Wash. Got us some crime to be done.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Crime
“Simon: So, what are we doing?

Kaylee: [looks up] Oh, crime.

Simon: Crime! Good! Okay! Crime.

Kaylee: It's a train heist. See we fly over the train car, the captain and Zoë sneak in, we lower Jayne onto the car, and they bundle up the booty, and we haul 'em all back up. Easy as lyin'.

Simon: So you've done this before?

Kaylee: [laughs] Oh, hell no….[serious]…But I think it's gonna work.”
— Simon Tam, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Crime, train heist
“No crime is complete without the cover-up.”
— Chuck McGill, Better Call Saul, Season 2: Nailed
Tagged: Crime, Cover-Up, criminal
“I've known good criminals and bad cops. Bad priests. Honorable thieves. You can be on one side of the law or the other. But if you make a deal with somebody, you keep your word. You can go home today with your money and never do this again. But you took something that wasn't yours. And you sold it for a profit. You're now a criminal. Good one, bad one? That's up to you.”
— Mike Erhmantraut, Better Call Saul, Season 1: Pimento
Tagged: Criminals, Cops, Money, Crime, Good, Bad, Profit
“Michael: So, Chidi, just wanted to double check. How do ethical philosophers feel about murder?

Chidi: It's frowned upon.

Michael: Okay. What if the reason you want to murder someone is to make your life easier? That's okay, right?”
— Michael, The Good Place, Season 2: Derek
Tagged: Murder, Crime, Philosophy, Ethics, Irreverent
“Eleanor: What do we do?

Jason: We team up with Michael.

Eleanor: Okay, hot take, but I like your confidence. Tell me why.

Jason: He has a bow tie.

Eleanor: Oh, no.

Jason: I always trust dudes in bow ties. Once, this guy in a bow tie came up to me at the gun range in a Jacksonville bus station and said he'd give me $600 if I put these weird turtles in my duffle bag and brought them to Daytona Beach. So I hotwired a swamp boat to Daytona and the guy paid me the $600. My point is, you always trust dudes in bow ties.”
— Jason Mendoza, The Good Place, Season 2: Team Cockroach
Tagged: Bow Tie, Fashion, joke, Hot Takes, Crime, Trust, Trustworthy
“Lassiter: First question. What is your name? 

Shawn: There is a murderer on the loose.

Lassiter: That is not your name.”
— Carlton Lassiter, Psych, Season 6: Shawn Rescues Darth Vader
Tagged: Murder, Questions, Crime, Defiance, Sassy
“Great, now we got a mummy on the loose and the son of a bitch knows how to drive stick?”
— Burton 'Gus' Guster, Psych, Season 2: Shawn
Tagged: Crime, Mummy, Driving, stolen, Stick Shift

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