Homicide: Life on the Street (TV Series)

Sniper: Part 2 (1996)

Andre Braugher: Detective Frank Pembleton

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• Det. Megan Russert : Frank, get Mr. Robey a cup of coffee.

  Det. Frank Pembleton : I get his coffee?

  Det. Megan Russert : I was just sitting here talking to Robey, I was telling him about my demotion.

  Alex Robey : She says she's a nobody, she's not a nobody.

• Det. Frank Pembleton : We're moving this desk away from the window or it's going the hell OUT the window.

• Mary Pembleton : It's alright for you to be scared for me but it's not alright for me to be scared for you? What do you think I feel every day seeing you go out?

  Det. Frank Pembleton : This is different!

  Mary Pembleton : No it isn't, you always tell me 'it's the job', 'it's the job', well you know what, Frank? This is MY job. And I'm not leaving until it's done.

• Det. Frank Pembleton : Mary, don't make a scene in front of my partner.

  Mary Pembleton : Fine, Tim, leave, and take Frank with you.

• Det. Frank Pembleton : It wasn't your job to save Mariner's life. Why does his death bother you?

  Det. Tim Bayliss : I was the primary, Frank!

  Det. Frank Pembleton : YOU DID YOUR JOB! Nine names in red turned into nine names in black and if Mariner wasted himself, so what?

  Det. Tim Bayliss : Wait a second, YOU are always telling me how you see ALL lives as being as important.

  Det. Frank Pembleton : Yeah well if I was God, I'd have a hard time taking Mariner's death, and the deaths of nine innocent people and weighing them the same.

• Det. Frank Pembleton : There's another sniper shooting, why isn't there a hangman game at this one?

  Det. Tim Bayliss : It takes two to play hangman.

• Mary Pembleton : What're the odds of me getting shot?

  Det. Frank Pembleton : Why can't you give into me just ONCE?

  Mary Pembleton : I'll not give in to hysteria.