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Sundays 10:00 PM on ShowtimeChuck Rhoades Quotes
Axe: Tell 'em, Wags.
Wags: Little side pocket we had so the brass could enjoy the spoils of the best ideas.
Axe: Cherry-picking trades for a secret internal fund.
Chuck: That could look very bad. [chuckles] Fraudulent, even.
Axe: In a certain light, maybe.
Governor Dunlop: Prince is too smooth. Too confident. He's built different. It's like he ate the Great Man Theory and asked for seconds.
Chuck: Well, no argument there.
Governor Dunlop: But I'm not seeing enough evidence your guy is that different.
Governor Dunlop: Which is why I am here.
Chuck: And I am grateful you are, Governor.
Governor Dunlop: I don't need gratitude. I need clarity.
Torre: All of these companies are owned by Michael Prince or his subsidiaries.
Chuck: Mm, that's right. We hurt the companies, and we hurt Prince. Badly. Tag the companies as bad.
Torre: Ruin them without knowing if anything criminal actually happened. Do the investigation after the fact.
Chuck: I plan on using the power of this office to its fullest, and I expect you to do the same. Otherwise, it is wasted on you and will be given to someone not so easily offended.
Torre: You don't see me clutching my pearls. I don't even own any. Guys, there is an order to things. Learn of a crime, investigate, confirm, and announce so that only companies that are bad actors are hurt.
Wendy: Welcome home, Bobby.
Chuck: Never thought I'd say it, never thought I'd think it, but thank God you're here.
Wags: Ain't that the motherfucking truth.
Axe: Now, let's get to work.
Chuck Senior: The only object lesson that I see is that this D-team, this poor man's McEnroe/Fleming... couldn't take down a Christmas ornament.
Chuck Junior: Just leave us to it, Dad. Please.
Wags: I'm McEnroe, at least, right?
Chuck Senior: I was being charitable. It's Fleming/Fleming.
Chuck: The practice of making sure that a guilty man goes down whether the evidence exists or needs to be helped along when no doubt exists in the minds of the arresting officers, their peers. e.t.c.
Commissioner: Used to happen sometimes. Still does, I'm sure. Guy would stick a bag of dope in a wife beater's car, that kind of thing.
Chuck: Because he knew the world would be better with him gone.
Commissioner: Yeah, but it never works the way the cop thinks it will, flaking the guy. Not really. Somewhere between the idea and the execution, things go wrong. You must have the evidence of guilt of the actual crime, not the crime you think they might commit. You must be sure they committed the one you're arresting him for…
Chuck: … or else ...
Comissioner: Anaheim curriculum.
Chuck: Oh. You remember some of the Latin the nuns gave you. But if I wanted to ensure my soul would never be in peril, I'd have become, I don't know, a veterinarian.
Commissioner: But still, this is different. What it does to a person's insides to frame someone. And that's still not why it's my do not recommended list. The problem is the system collapses under its own weight. Not right away. Soon enough. Those lines on the road to justice exist to serve everyone. They should not be trapped so.
Chuck: What if the guy isn't only guilty but a continuing enormous danger to society? To the world?
Commissioner: So it is some kind of permission you want? You're after my guidance? I can't grant it. I won't. Bad for you, bad for the whole deal. You want absolution in advance? Take it up with a commissioner of a different department.
Chuck: I have come to understand what it will take to make it possible for us to work together on this endeavor, and I have gone to those lengths. This drive cannot be copied. It contains a catalog of moves I have made. Extra legal and plain illegal that would flush me from office and public life irrevocably. Would get me disbarred and jailed if it were to come out.
Wags: OK. And that proves what?
Chuck: I have always been highly skilled at earning people's trust through means legit and illegit
Wendy: And betraying each other.
Chuck: Yes, that too. It's. So I realized that now I need to give trust. Wendy, I know if I hand you this material, you will never use it against me, even if I deserve it for the sake of our children.
Wendy: Sadly true.
Chuck: But. Wags will not hesitate to ruin me, as he just made painfully clear in my office.
Ira: Why even would you consider getting the Russian oligarch back into the country?
Chuck: As a favor to Bobby Axelrod.
Ira: Those words just tumbled out of your mouth like a meth addict's teeth and just as fucked up.
Chuck: Took me some time to realize there was reason enough to help you from the start.
Axe: Old combatants' code...
Chuck: ...that's the other reason. Someday, and that day will definitely come, I will call upon you to repay this debt. And I know you won't come up short.
Dave: Involved is for the gals in the Junior League. No. You're gonna make me first chair, Special Assistant United States Attorney to any federal prosecution of Prince.
Chuck: So you get to run the show.
Dave: Sharing is caring. You want to save your friend's pasty ass? It's your call.
What you need to know is this -- we're not merely watching and waiting to pounce. We're gonna tell you what we're gonna do, and then we're gonna do it. No stealth needed. Especially in this case, because Kang Lou is a fugitive, and he's on your plane instead of in my custody because he's a billionaire's buddy.
Oh, come on. You saw them, baiting me. They want me to find something, for some reason not yet obvious. But what is clear is that all this would end, at minimum, with egg on my face.
