As hard as a secret is to uncover, it's even harder to keep.

Brenda

Brenda: Captain Raydor?
Raydor: Chief Johnson?
Brenda: I have a complaint.
Raydor: When have you not?

Pope: Look, I don't know exactly what happened that day, but obviously dropping off Terrill Baylor off in front of angry gang members was not Chief Johnson's finest hour.
Raydor: And insisting on immunity for a child killer was not yours.

I'm not looking for a decent human being, I'm looking for a great doctor and you're it.

Brenda

Brenda: Lieutenant Flynn, your resignation surprised me most of all. The whole time I've been here, you've never said one complimentary thing about or to me.
Flynn: Chief, you have really great legs.

Gabriel: See, now that makes sense to me. Hurschbaum is a guy with a ton of cash looking at life in prison so he kills his double and goes off to live in some tropical paradise. Just like Ken Lay.
Tao: Ha, thats's funny.
Gabriel: Oh come on. Am I the only one here who thinks that Ken Lay is on a beach in Fiji right now? I mean the guy's supposed body was cremated like a minute after they found him. C'mon.
Provenza: You need to get a life.

It's Provenza. We have Hurschbaum . We're five minutes from killing him and then ourselves.

Provenza

Brenda: If anyone wants sweet potatoes, pass your plates down.
Raydor: I did the marshmallows on those.
Brenda: Oh, did you? They're kinda burnt.

Gang members, empty vodka bottles, joints in the ashtray, half naked, girls. I mean it's like a murder had to happen.

Provenza

Mr. Johnson: We're moving to LA!
Brenda: You're what?
Fritz: They're moving here, they're looking for a house in our neighborhood; isn't that exciting?!

I'd like to start with you, Ms. Powell. I'd like to say how sorry I am that I was unable to ignore your general level of incompetence in the wrongly obtained conviction in the case of Bill Croelick. And I'm sorry if you felt hurt and defensive about putting a man on death row for the wrong crime, and I certainly hope that that will never, ever happen again. Agent Jackson, I deeply regret that the FBI handed over two million dollars to a man on a terrorist watch list without the capacity to trace it, or managed to follow him for months without knowing his wife was having an affair with a doctor, and I hope you do much better in the future. Captain Taylor, I suppose I should apologize to you for not having been born in Los Angeles, but having seen you work up close now for several months, I can honestly say that try as I might, I can't think of any fair and reasonable system on earth where I wouldn't outrank you. There. I hope that clears everything up.

Brenda

Delk: How old are you?
Provenza: Six chiefs and counting. Which is how I know that if you deal drugs, you vastly increase your chances you'll end up dead. I'm looow on sympathy here.
Delk: That's too bad. Because as of now, you're the LAPD liaison for the medical marijuana community for the rest of this investigation.

The Closer Quotes

[To Sgt. Gabriel] I should probably explain that I do not form my relationships with people based on how they're treating you. That would be your mother, maybe.

Brenda

If I liked being called a bitch to my face, I'd still be married.

Brenda