The Good Guys Quotes
Dan Stark: Your ex-girlfriend is setting you up with her friend? I can see where this is going?
Jack Bailey: Oh, yeah? Where's that exactly?
Dan Stark: Straight to the hot tub. You, Liz and her friend.
Jack Bailey: Yeah, I don't think that's ever going to happen.
Dan Stark: Well, don't be so sure about that. I ever tell you about the time that me and Frank saved a bunch of NBA cheerleaders from a burning car?
Jack Bailey: Yes, and you diagrammed it for me on a bar napkin, twice. Listen, can we just do some work?
Dan Stark: Yeah, what do we got?
Jack Bailey: Code 14B, East Dallas. Burglary of a coin-operated device. We're literally going after a candy burglar.
Dan Stark: It's the broken-door theory. They were talking about it on this cop show I was watching. The one with the, uh, the leprechaun who never takes his sunglasses off.
Jack Bailey: No, I think you mean the broken-window theory.
Dan Stark: No, no, no, no. The idea is, is that you got to stop the small crimes before they become the big crimes. That's why it's called the broken-door theory, because it's a doorway to them. What we do here, it's, it's important.
Jack Bailey: No, it is the broken-window theory, right? Nowhere in that theory does it state that two detectives should run around investigating victimless crimes.
Dan Stark: There's always a victim. You just got to look behind the broken door.
Jack Bailey: Oh, yeah? Where's that exactly?
Dan Stark: Straight to the hot tub. You, Liz and her friend.
Jack Bailey: Yeah, I don't think that's ever going to happen.
Dan Stark: Well, don't be so sure about that. I ever tell you about the time that me and Frank saved a bunch of NBA cheerleaders from a burning car?
Jack Bailey: Yes, and you diagrammed it for me on a bar napkin, twice. Listen, can we just do some work?
Dan Stark: Yeah, what do we got?
Jack Bailey: Code 14B, East Dallas. Burglary of a coin-operated device. We're literally going after a candy burglar.
Dan Stark: It's the broken-door theory. They were talking about it on this cop show I was watching. The one with the, uh, the leprechaun who never takes his sunglasses off.
Jack Bailey: No, I think you mean the broken-window theory.
Dan Stark: No, no, no, no. The idea is, is that you got to stop the small crimes before they become the big crimes. That's why it's called the broken-door theory, because it's a doorway to them. What we do here, it's, it's important.
Jack Bailey: No, it is the broken-window theory, right? Nowhere in that theory does it state that two detectives should run around investigating victimless crimes.
Dan Stark: There's always a victim. You just got to look behind the broken door.
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Dan Stark: Next name has a local address. You know who stays in a hotel in the same city they live? Killers. Psychos with body parts in their suitcases.
Jack Bailey: I don't think we're gonna find body parts, Dan.
Dan Stark: Not if they we're dissolved by acid.
Jack Bailey: I don't think we're gonna find body parts, Dan.
Dan Stark: Not if they we're dissolved by acid.
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McKay: You got a privy out back?
Flagg: The name of this town is Progress - there's one inside.
McKay: *In*side?
Flagg: Yeah, just under the staircase.
McKay: [McKay jiggles the handcuffs; Flagg unlocks them and follows as McKay walks to the staircase] You gonna hold my hand?
McKay: [McKay walks into the bathroom and looks around. He pulls the chain on the toilet, which flushes] I'll be damned.
Flagg: The name of this town is Progress - there's one inside.
McKay: *In*side?
Flagg: Yeah, just under the staircase.
McKay: [McKay jiggles the handcuffs; Flagg unlocks them and follows as McKay walks to the staircase] You gonna hold my hand?
McKay: [McKay walks into the bathroom and looks around. He pulls the chain on the toilet, which flushes] I'll be damned.
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