Crossing Lines (TV Series)
Family Ties (2014)
Richard Flood: Tommy McConnell
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Quotes
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Tommy McConnel : My people aren't big birthday folk.
Michel Dorn : You do not celebrate your birthday?
Tommy McConnel : More like counted them down. When we were kids, my Da would remind us that every birthday brought us closer to being charged as adults.
Louis Daniel : You are serious?
Tommy McConnel : When theft is the family business, knowing when you come of age is an important fact.
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[last lines]
Carl Hickman : Back when I was a young cop, still in the blues, my brother was the biggest drug dealer in the area that I worked.
Tommy McConnel : Are you serious?
Carl Hickman : Oh, yeah. Rule was never talk about it in front of my mother.
Tommy McConnel : She didn't know?
Carl Hickman : She definitely knew. We all just pretended that she didn't.
Tommy McConnel : Wow.
Carl Hickman : Point is, we all got family hanging around our neck. Doesn't reflect on who you are. Not to the people who really know you.
Tommy McConnel : Where is he now?
Carl Hickman : Who's that, my brother? 20 years sober. Yeah. Runs the Narcotics Anonymous program in Queens.
Tommy McConnel : So you're saying there's hope for my family?
Carl Hickman : No. No, after what I saw, they're completely lost. What I'm saying is, you can stop apologizing for them. They're not your burden. See you tomorrow?
Tommy McConnel : Sure no one else will have me.
Carl Hickman : Around here, that's a pretty big club.
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Arabela Seeger : [about birthday cake] We were going to use 30 candles, but the fire department has rules against that much open fire.
Sebastian Berger : Yeah, they'd have to be waiting with a hose in case you couldn't get the job done.
Tommy McConnel : No McConnell's ever had any trouble getting a job done.
Eva Vittoria : Why does everything you say sound dirty?
Tommy McConnel : Your mind makes it that way. It's the way you think about me.
Eva Vittoria : Yeah, you wish.
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Tommy McConnel : You need some help?
Rose McConnell : Fold laundry?
Tommy McConnel : Aye, I could.
Rose McConnell : Is that what men do where you're from?
Tommy McConnel : I'm from here.
Rose McConnell : No. No, you're not. Not anymore.
Tommy McConnel : A thing like that doesn't change. Where a man is born is just a fact.
Rose McConnell : Where a man is from is a whole 'nother thing. And that was the toast your Da gave at our wedding.
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Tommy McConnel : [surrendering his gun] This is a birthday present, so it better not get scratched.
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Tommy McConnel : There has to be a different way to live. That's the other thing I learned from you. You always said, "If no one else is going to do a thing needs done, then you do it." So that's what I did. And I thought one of us going into their world might just make a difference.
Michael McConnell : So that day cost me two sons.
Tommy McConnel : Aye. But it might save your grandchildren.
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UK Uniformed Cop 1 : Armed police. Stand still!
Tommy McConnel : What are you doing?
Armed Police Officer : Keep your hands where we can see them
Tommy McConnel : I'm a detective, kiss my bollocks!