Best crime TV quotes of all time

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Dennis 'Cutty' Wise: The game done changed.
Slim Charles: Game's the same, just got more fierce.

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80's Batman: This isn't a mudhole. It's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

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PC Cathy Bradford: D'you think Reg is all right?
PC Gary Best: He's not exactly Rambo is he?
Insp. Gina Gold: Reg may not be a superhero, but I know who I'd like to be with me in a tight corner and it wouldn't be you, Best, all right.

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Beth: What happened to your face?
Vincent: I bumped it.
Beth: On what?
Vincent: Another face.

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Staff Sgt. Boyko: Serve, protect and don't screw up.

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Scotty Valens: Who's that charmer?
Lilly Rush: A.D.A Kite, he's above cops.
Scotty Valens: Ain't above checking you out.

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Hunter: I know your father married your mother when you and she had nothing. He brought you to this country, gave you a good home, loved you... and when you got in trouble he called mel.
Ben: Yeah... yeah... why you? Why not some other cop?
Hunter: Because he knew I was the only one that would help you.
Ben: But he told me he never met you before.
Hunter: He was telling you the truth, Ben. He'd never met me before... but your mother had. I'm your father, Ben.

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Bonnie Parker: Oh, goodness, PJ, I never introduced myself. I'm Bonnie Parker - a la, "Bonnie and Clyde."

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Operation: Broken Feather - S1-E15

Adam Sandler: This is terrible, you don't know what you're doing.
Jake Peralta: Adam Sandler?
Adam Sandler: Yeah, that's right. I collect antiquities. I'm a serious person. I'm writing a movie right now, about the Russian revolution.
Jake Peralta: Oh, really? Who does Kevin James play in it?
Adam Sandler: Ha ha. It's a serious movie...Trotsky.
Jake Peralta: Ah, there it is.
Adam Sandler: But he's got a wife who never wears a bra. [To the guy next to him] I think you're going to like it.
Jake Peralta: Thanks for dressing up, by the way.

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Det. Supt. Peter Boyd: I'll have to have a word with you, please.
Jacqueline Wright: We're going to Longleat.
Det. Supt. Peter Boyd: I'm afraid the lions will have to wait.

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Sgt. Joe Friday: This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm a cop.

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Kojak: You can't corrupt it. And you know why? Because to corrupt it, you've got to show how corrupt you really are.

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Det. Winslow: You looked good holding that baby, maybe you should think about popping one out.
Jordan: Yeah, or maybe I should pop my foot up your ass.

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JAG (1995)

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Ice Queen (1) - S8-E20

Vivian Blackadder: Amad bin Atwa supplied money and explosives to Hasan Mohammed, who executed the attack on the Cole. They're an all-Jihad team that's been together for nine years. If Bin Atwa gives up Hasan, I want in on the kill.
Gibbs: We're not tasked with capturing Hasan Mohammed.
Vivian Blackadder: Gibbs, my brother died on the Cole.
Gibbs: I know that.
Vivian Blackadder: Then get me in on this!
Gibbs: You're not here to use NCIS as your personal instrument of revenge. You get your head around this murder case, or you pull your tailored suit out of mothballs and you march your butt right back to the J. Edgar Hoover Building.

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Polly Nguyen: I say something about marriage, he flip out like time I put fist in bad place get stuck.

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