- You know something, Lester, I do believe there aren't five swingin' dicks in this entire department who can do what we do.
I'm not sayin' like all chest out and shit.
It's just, you think about it.
There's maybe, what, 3,000 sworns, right ? 100 or so are bosses, so not a fucking clue there. A few more hundred is sergeants and lieutenants and most of them wanna be bosses one day so they're just as fucked. Then there's 600 or 700 fuckin' housecats, you know. Deskmen and in the patrol division, there's probably a little bit of talent there, but the way the city is right now, that's 1500 guys chasin' calls and clearin' corners. I mean, nobody's knowing his post, nobody's building nothing, right ? And C.I.D. is the same.
Catching calls, chasing quick clearances keeping everything in the shallow end, I mean who is it out there that can do what we do with a case ? How many are there really ? Don Worden, Ed Burns, Gary Childs out in the county. John O'Neil and Steve Cleary over at Woodlawn oh, they bring it in, but there's not many.
There's not many.
We're good at this, Lester.
In this town, we're as good as it gets.
- Natural police.
- Fuck yes, natural police.
- Tell me something, Jimmy. How exactly do you think it all ends ?
- What do you mean?
- A parade? A gold watch? A shining Jimmy-McNulty-day moment when you bring in a case so sweet that everybody gets together and says: "Oh shit, he was right all along. We shoulda listened to the man." The job will not save you, Jimmy.
It won't make you whole, it won't fill your ass up.
- I dunno. A good case
- ends. They all end.
The handcuffs go click and it's over and the next morning it's just you in the room with yourself.
- Until the next case.
- Boy, you need something outside of this here.
- Like what ? Dollhouse miniatures ?
- A life, a life, Jimmy, you know what that is ? It's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come.
7 фев 2015