Hill Street Blues Quote
Joyce Davenport: I want you to know that what you did tonight frightens me.
Furillo: I understand.
Joyce Davenport: Do you?
Furillo: This is the kind of crime that tears the city apart. It brings out what's savage in thousands of people. It has to be dealt with very quickly.
Joyce Davenport: So the book goes out the window?
Furillo: I went by the book. I pushed a little hard at the bindings.
Joyce Davenport: That's a crock of the well known article, Furillo. You bulldozed...
Furillo: [Interrupting] I did what I've seen you do for clients fifty times. I used every resource.
Joyce Davenport: Furillo, I'm a public defender. I play a role in a system of checks and balances. And other people are supposed to play their's with the same kind of energy. You, with your jungle justice, threw that all out of whack tonight. Gerald Chapman would have confessed to killing Abraham Lincoln to avoid that mob tonight.
Furillo: I can live with what I did, Joyce. I went by my instincts, and they were right. Under these circumstances I'd do it again.
Joyce Davenport: You can trust your instincts, Frank. Maybe even I can trust your instincts. But I don't want to trust everybody's instincts. I want there to be rules and I want them to be obeyed, especially by people who wear badges and guns. You perverted the law tonight. And you're so damn happy about snagging your confession, you don't even begin to see it yet. Please, see it, Frank. [Furillo is silent; Davenport sighs]
Joyce Davenport: How's Fay? Is she all right.
Furillo: I talked to her. She has a couple of stitches in her yead. Yeah, she's all right.
Joyce Davenport: [Davenport starts to leave the office and stops. She does not look at Furillo] Frank, I don't think I want to be with you tonig
TV Show: Hill Street Blues
