In Plain Sight (TV Series)

Rubble with a Cause (2009)

Mary McCormack: Mary Shannon

Quotes 

• Mary Shannon : [narrating]  I yearn for blind devotion. Unthinking, unwavering, a cause, a thing, a principle worthy of absolute loyalty. A truth self-medicating. A love unabating. Something, ANYTHING to which I relinquish all personal responsibility. Semper Fi, Til Death do Us Part, In Nomine Patris, Let's Go Mets. To the true believers... the lucky few... of thee I sing.

• Mary Shannon : Another day, another dollar.

  Marshall Mann : You got a raise?

• Lewis Fowler : [buried under a pile of rubble]  Mary!

  Mary Shannon : No, no. Don't get up. God forbid you show some manners.

  Lewis Fowler : You need to get out of here.

  Mary Shannon : Yeah. Again with the manners. I'm not here thirty seconds, you're kicking me out. Were you raised by guinea pigs?

  [Mary tries climbing down to Lewis as carefully as she can] 

  Mary Shannon : Okay. Okay. Okay. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Whoa! Whoa! Oh, okay. Whoo! Okay. Might have just soiled myself.

  Lewis Fowler : [groaning in pain]  Oh, don't make me laugh.

• Al Dennison : Marshal, you need to get out of there now.

  Mary Shannon : Who the hell are you?

  Al Dennison : Al Dennison, TRT shoring engineer. I need this entire building cleared until it's stabilized. That means you, too. I don't care who you are.

  Mary Shannon : Well you'd better start caring, Al, because I don't go 'till he goes.

• Mary Shannon : I've got to tell you, Lewis, I'm not a big fan of your friend here, but you're worse. You went from one dirty game to another, and then decided to blame your partner when things didn't turn out exactly how you wanted.

  Stan McQueen : She's just playing for time.

  Marshall Mann : And it's working. Check this out. She's got him so worked up, his BP's up and his heart rate's actually getting stronger.

  Lewis Fowler : Are you trying to talk me out of testifying? What would you do if your partner committed a crime? What would you do? Answer the question, Mary.

  Mary Shannon : Then I'd stand by him. No matter what, because that's what partners do. You said it yourself, at the end of the day, all that matters is you and your partner. But you turned on your partner, the second things got ugly, Lewis. But the one constant that gets me through it all, the only reason that makes it okay for me to be up here with a worm like you is I have a partner who has my back 24/7, no matter what. Look, I'm not proud of everything I've done on the job. But every mission comes with a price tag.

  Harrison Locke : Damn right.

  Mary Shannon : That's what you forgot, Lewis. There's always costs. Ugly costs. And we all know that. Right?

  Harrison Locke : Absolutely. Our mission was to send a message to anyone who wants to kidnap U.S. citizens for political purposes. "We're coming." When I blew that building, I knew that there would be a heavy cost.

  Mary Shannon : Seventeen lives.

  Harrison Locke : Yes. Seventeen lives. You think I liked doing that? But how many were saved? How many American families now don't have to watch their loved ones come back home in a box?

  Mary Shannon : Marshall, Stan, did you get all that? Chief, acknowledge. Over.

  Stan McQueen : Copy that, inspector. We got it all.

  Mary Shannon : Oh, and Marshall, for the record, I'd sell you out for a Twinkie.

• Lewis Fowler : [Mary is inserting an IV for a blood transfusion]  Okay, now pull the skin tight, so the vein doesn't roll.

  Mary Shannon : Okay, hang on.

  Lewis Fowler : Yeah. And place the cannula next to the vein.

  Mary Shannon : Okay.

  Lewis Fowler : Yeah, okay.

  [Lewis grunts in pain] 

  Mary Shannon : Sewer pipe in your chest, and this hurts?

• Mary Shannon : A soldier follows ideals

  Mary Shannon : A mercenary follows the money.

  Lewis Fowler : A soldier follows orders.

  Lewis Fowler : A government follows the money.

  Lewis Fowler : That's why we were in Iran and not Darfur.