- Ken Rosey: What's happened is a perversion and a crime. Not just what happened to you but blackmail, obstruction of justice, maybe even murder. Something needs to be done.
- Abigail 'Tommy' Thomas: Talk to the chief of police. You know where to find him.
- Abigail 'Tommy' Thomas: I have always put my work before everything else. And what did it get me? Lied about and kicked to the door.
- Kate Jones: You got to be the first woman chief of police in Los Angeles. That's something.
- Abigail 'Tommy' Thomas: Federal judge ordered the mayor to hire a woman. I was nobody's choice. They made that clear to me from the moment I walked through the door.
- Kate Jones: Well, if you knew that going in, why'd you take the job?
- Abigail 'Tommy' Thomas: I thought I could change their minds. I was wrong.
- Donn Cooper: I'm just acting chief until a new one is named.
- Blake Sullivan: Will that be you?
- Donn Cooper: You let me worry about that. You keep your heads down, deal with what's on your desks. There are powerful forces at work here, so we got to be careful.
- Ken Rosey: What does that mean?
- Donn Cooper: It means trust me and do your jobs.
- Kate Jones: I know how much you've been through. I'm not trying to make this worse. But you got to understand what you mean. As a symbol.
- Abigail 'Tommy' Thomas: Honey, I am just a person. I never wanted to be a symbol.
- Kate Jones: I know, you didn't, and it's not fair to ask somebody to be, but you are.
- Abigail 'Tommy' Thomas: To who?
- Kate Jones: Your granddaughter.
- Abner Diaz: Chief, you know how I feel about you. I'll work for you anytime, anywhere. But if I stay, it's like I'm saying what they did to the boss is all right. And it is not. They pushed her out with a lie; you okay with that?
- Donn Cooper: No. But I've seen a lot of things in this department I'm not okay with. I didn't quit before. I'm not gonna now. I decided a long time ago that I can do more inside this building than outside.
- Abner Diaz: What about trying to fix this? Getting the boss her job back?
- Donn Cooper: She's got to want it. From what I hear, she doesn't.
- Abigail 'Tommy' Thomas: What do you want this city to be? One run by you or run by Lovell?
- Buddy Gray: Lovell doesn't run this city.
- Abigail 'Tommy' Thomas: He got me fired, tried to appoint my successor.
- Buddy Gray: Did he?
- Abigail 'Tommy' Thomas: Yeah. Ask your deputy mayor. He knows all about it.
- Abigail 'Tommy' Thomas: Well, at the Ethics Commission hearing, there was a fraudulent testimony given.
- Lovell: Oh?
- Abigail 'Tommy' Thomas: Yes. The testimony that got me fired. I'm starting to believe that you were behind it. Were you?
- Lovell: No. Curious accusation. Why would you make it?
- Abigail 'Tommy' Thomas: Because I think it's true, and I wanted to see your face when you denied it.
- Doug Dudik: Everyone in town thinks you helped Tommy get Lovell.
- Buddy Gray: I did. And I'm glad people know that.
- Doug Dudik: You have a trust deficit now. You are a snitch.