Favorite Southland Quotes
Cops are trained to stay in control but sometimes even heroes feel helpless.
Narrator
You're watching way too much TV, dude.
Cooper
My father represented this drug dealer, guy's brother went to jail. Dealer was pissed, thought it was my dad's fault. Had some people go over to visit our house. Only problem was, my dad had already walked out and left us. They were pretty pissed off. I was ten. After that, this kid I was in school with, his dad thought I should learn to defend myself. So, he took me and his son to the gun club every Saturday. Taught us both to shoot.
Ben Sherman
Det. Sammy Bryant: Everything all right?
Det. Nate Moretta: Yeah, man, yeah. It's just my sister. She keeps driving my parents crazy. They never know where she's going or who she's going with.
Det. Sammy Bryant: It's what teenagers do, remember?
I took my boys out to lunch the other day, right, and, uh... Petey starts horsing around, juggling meatballs up in the air. My little guy hates to be upstaged by his brother so he takes his peas and starts shoving them up his nose. (laughs) So now it's official. The Moretta boys are banned from Denny's for life.
Det. Nate Moretta
Cathleen Kerik: Okay. What is it exactly that you don't like about me?
Det. Lydia Adams: I don't like the fact that if this girl was found in an alley in Brentwood, this would be front-page news. I don't like that there's a backlog of rape DNA of 3,000 cases. I don't like the skirt you wear. I don't like your hairstyle. I don't like that every time a man is within 15 feet of you, you push out your chest and your voice gets all kittenish.
(voiceover) Dead unidentified female victims in Los Angeles are often called "Sally in the Alley." Our detectives wanted to give this one a name.
Det. Salinger
Det. Andy Williams: I take back everything bad I said about you.
Kenny No-Gun: Thank you.
It's said a recurring nightmare for police officers involves losing their gun. For Detective Salinger, the nightmare has just come true.
Opening Voiceover
Officer Ben Sherman knew that it is against policy policy to get involved with a victim. But he did it anyway.
Voiceover
I think I'm going to get a callus on my index finger from pressing the print button on the copier but nobody's shooting at me.
Russell
A couple of hours ago little buddy's ripping flesh off a dead guy, now he's sitting on granny's lap getting a tummy rub.
Sammy
