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Without a Trace

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Martin: I think he's sleeping with her. The way he talks about her and she's climbing that corporate ladder pretty quick.
Jack Malone: He may be in love with her, but he's not sleeping with her. Never even thought about it.
[Martin looks quizzically at Jack]
Jack Malone: He's gay.
Martin: What, because he called her a "fireball"?
Jack Malone: No... 'cause he was checking you out.

Samantha: Hey, you think it's easy being surrounded by guys with guns all day?
Martin: I thought you liked guys with guns.
Samantha: I like the guns.

Jack Malone: According to the groom, she was an angel.
Martin: I guess love is blind. And deaf. And very, very dumb.
Jack Malone: Spoken like a true romantic.

Jack Malone: [introducing the 'new guy'] All right, as you all know, we have a new member of the team joining us today - Martin Fitzgerald. Let's make sure we give him the frosty welcome that all rookies deserve.

Vivian: Where's she going?
Danny: Maybe it's a booty call.
Samantha: Your mind is always in the gutter. There was no call.
Danny: Tom Wilkins, 11:48.
Martin: In my experience, there's usually not a three-hour lag between the call and the, uh...
[clears his throat]
Martin: delivery.

Samantha: Think a fresh change of clothes will make up for a lost night's sleep?
Jack Malone: Well, if I looked as good as you in black, I wouldn't need to change.
Samantha: [laughs] Jack... your collar.
Jack Malone: You're starting to sound like my wife.
Samantha: You should listen to your wife.
[Sam fixes the mussed collar]
Jack Malone: You do this for Dr. Fred?
Samantha: Sure.
Jack Malone: How is Dr. Fred?
Samantha: Busy and unavailable, just the way I like 'em.

[Danny and Martin are back from California]
Danny: A plane is not supposed to be in the sky. It's not natural.
Martin: Neither was that flight attendant and you weren't afraid of her.

Martin: You still believe in that?
Jack Malone: Yeah, marriage, kids, the whole nine yards.
[Martin looks at him]
Jack Malone: I didn't say I was good at it, but I'm a huge fan.

Jack Malone: I was surprised that your father didn't call me about you.
Martin: I asked him to stay out of it. I don't want any preferential treatment.
Jack Malone: Good, 'cause you're not getting any.

Samantha: [about a missing person's father] He's barely got a pot to piss in and he's taking his daughter to a $300 dinner on a Saturday night?
Jack Malone: Well, think about it. He abandons her when she's a kid. He doesn't know how to deal with it. Now he wants to be her best friend. It's classic guilt.
Samantha: Is it guilt or romance? You don't go to Carmine's unless it's valentine's day or you're going to propose.
Jack Malone: How would you know?

Danny: [after a boy goes missing at Yankee Stadium] This would've never happened at Shea.
Vivian: It's so sad how bitter Mets fans are.

Samantha: Is that from your infidelity handbook?
Jack Malone: Chapter three.

[Staking out a bar]
Marla: Sure you don't want a real drink?
Danny: No, I'm fine. Thanks.
Marla: Not on the job?
Danny: Not ever.

[Talking to a fake kidnapper who called in a fake ransom]
Jack Malone: Easy money. Didn't occur to you that we'd be all over this?
Guy: I told her not to call the police.
Jack Malone: You are hands down the biggest idiot I've ever met.

[On internet dating]
Jack Malone: This is what I have to look forward to. I'm going to take one of these out. What do you think of this: Uh, Jumpin' Jack Flash. Divorced, two kids, bad knee, grumpy workaholic. It's a pretty good sell, right?
Vivian: My husband's looking better everyday.
Jack Malone: Yeah, I'll bet.

Danny: [whispers] Two years working white-collar in Seattle and he gets this assignment?
Samantha: Doesn't hurt to be Victor Fitzgerald's kid.
Danny: Mmm. No wonder he's smiling.
Samantha: Not a bad smile, either.

[at a boxing training camp in the Catskills]
Danny: I don't understand why someone would come all the way out here to get in shape. I've got a gym nineteen blocks from my apartment.
Samantha: Your apartment's also in the vicinity of three gentlemen's clubs.
Danny: I like a little variety in my workout.

[investigating the disappearance of a boxer]
Samantha: I don't get it. You get beat in the head for a living, and you make money only to have your manager steal it. What's the point?
Danny: Boxing does have its benefits.
Samantha: What? Wearing satin shorts to work?

Vivian: Smart little kid, huh?
Danny: Smart enough to blow off the Yankees.

Jack Malone: [waiting on a suspect] Sometimes I wish I'd never quit smoking.

[In reference to the "lake" incident]
Samantha: Heard you got a little wet.
Martin: Beats sweating my ass off in the doghouse.

Jack Malone: [after two suspects leave a building] There's Frick and Frack now.

Jack Malone: There's a lot more than pain here. There's a lot of secrets in this marriage.
Samantha: Aren't there secrets in every marriage?

[Talking about a re-united marriage]
Samantha: So, what do you think their odds are?
[Sam doesn't get an answer]
Samantha: Are you all right?
Jack Malone: Marie and I separated.
Samantha: When?
Jack Malone: Three months ago.
Samantha: Three months.
Jack Malone: Yeah.
Samantha: Well, I don't know what to say.
Jack Malone: Well, you know, we were trying to work it out, and, uh we're in kind of, uh... limbo.
Samantha: I'm going to go home.

[Going through a missing person's apartment]
Danny: Tired of Queens? Here's what eighteen hundred gets in the city.
Martin: Aw, come on, they can't all be like this.
Danny: You're right. Most of the time, the bathtub's in the kitchen.

[Waiting to interview a missing person's mother]
Samantha: I know this house.
Martin: It's a long way from New York, that's for sure.
Samantha: Girls with dreams have been running away from this house for a hundred years.

[Jack tells Chet that a lead on his son was a dud]
Chet Collins: Feels like drowning, Jack
[starts to cry]
Chet Collins: ... like drowning so slowly you don't even realize what's happening.
[Chet stands up]
Chet Collins: Well, I-I have to go. I can't let Sean go, but... you know, each time... each time I'm scared that I might not be able to hang on.
Jack Malone: You can hang on to me.

[bringing in garbage bags of shredded documents]
Danny: Can anybody say "Enron"?

[an ex-veterinarian takes over a high-school type boarding school]
Jack Malone: With what qualifications, looking after animals?
Samantha: Well, high school's pretty rough these days.
Jack Malone: Hilarious.

[the suspect is heading home and Jack is trying to warn Martin and Danny]
Jack Malone: Spaulding's on his way back. Get out of there.
Martin: Danny's in the house.
Jack Malone: What the hell... what are you guys doing?
Martin: He thought he heard something.

Martin: You know, we could make a sex tape. Post it online here, then you wouldn't have to tell anyone about us.
Samantha: That's cute.

Jack Malone: What kind of ambiguity?
Paula Van Doren: The ambiguous kind.

[after the missing boy is found]
Graham Spaulding: Do I get my 15 minutes now?
Jack Malone: Your 15 minutes are over.

Jack Malone: Five a.m. Danny's up early.
Samantha: That's assuming he went to bed.

Samantha: Yeah. I was married once. When I was 18.
Vivian: Really.
Samantha: Yeah, it was red hot for the first two weeks and ice cold the last four months.
Vivian: Well, at least you understand commitment.
Samantha: [laughs] Thanks.

[Danny is checking in after his flight home]
Danny: Vivalina.
Vivian: [laughs] Ah... how'd it go with Mr. Fitzgerald?
Danny: Good, good. He took a little breaking in but he's a good guy.

[Jack brings Sam a cup of coffee]
Samantha: Ah, thank you.
Jack Malone: Looks like I should have brought you eye drops.
Samantha: Yeah, and you look like a million bucks.

[Checking hospital records]
Vivian: Anything turn up?
Martin: Oh, yeah. 23 nurses, 14 doctors, 12 orderlies and a partridge in a pear tree.

[Walking up to a missing teacher's apartment]
Danny: This is three. Just two more to go.
Martin: Oh! Why is it that no one in a walkup ever lives on the first two floors?
Danny: Vampires.
Martin: Really?
Danny: Yeah, they have all the lower apartments all to themselves.
Martin: No direct sunlight, right?
Danny: Exactly. Plus, they live to be 106 years old, so the apartments never turn around.
Martin: Oh, that's good to know.

Jack Malone: Everybody's skeptical of you white-collar guys.
Martin: Yeah, I've noticed.

[Walking through a group home]
Samantha: Growing up here, I don't even know how these kids have a chance.
Vivian: Is that your liberal conscience talking?
Samantha: That's my heart talking. Where's yours?

[after interrogating a suspect]
Jack Malone: The head butt was a nice touch.
Danny: No... head "bump". That was a head "bump", not a head "butt".

[Surveying a suspect's house]
Danny: I think I heard something inside. Listen.
Martin: You think you heard, or you did hear?

Jack Malone: Martin?
Martin: Yeah?
Jack Malone: I know.
[Martin doesn't say anything]
Jack Malone: About you, and uh...
Martin: Okay.
Jack Malone: Good luck with it.
Martin: [nods] Good night.
Jack Malone: Night.

Jack Malone: I meant what I said before, Graham. You care about these kids. That's why you took Andy under your wing. He was confused, vulnerable. You were the only one who understood him.
Graham Spaulding: Is that right?
Jack Malone: I think so. But then he turned on you, didn't he? I know how that feels. Know how... painful that can be. You pour yourself into someone - your time, energy, and devotion. You give them everything they need to grow and then they just abandon you.
Graham Spaulding: Are you speaking from experience?
Jack Malone: Sure. You love someone... you make love to someone... you give your life to them and then they don't even look at you.

[a girl goes missing in a small town]
Vivian: What's so fascinating?
Martin: Oh, it's nothing. I was just... this town, it seems so innocent, you know?
Vivian: Just wait till we're done with them.

[Looking through videos the missing girl made]
Samantha: I've been sitting here all night looking for clues, looking for suspects. I mean, I'm not just seeing her I'm seeing... everything she sees and I keep thinking that if I get to know her maybe that'll help, you know? And then I think maybe I'll get to know her and it won't make any difference at all, it just...
[Starts to cry]
Samantha: ... God, I'm sorry.
[Jack puts a hand on her shoulder]
Jack Malone: This is... well, you're not supposed to get used to this. You're not. When you do... it's time to hang it up.

[about the mayor of a small town]
Jack Malone: Must be the town snitch.
Martin: Well, he is a politician.

[Staking out a ransom drop spot]
Samantha: Nothing but the rats and the roaches.
Danny: At least you got company.

[Two restaurant workers find the ransom money in the dumpster]
Jack Malone: [into mic] Oh, please. Danny, get rid of them.
[Danny takes out ear piece and tucks it into his shirt. He moves from his spot and approaches the two restaurant workers who have opened the bag and start pocketing the money inside]
Danny: Hey. Hey, you want to live to see tomorrow? Don't be playing with my livelihood, you got me?
[Danny lifts his shirt and shows them his gun. He pushes them aside and grabs the bag from them. The workers leave. Danny puts the bag back in the trash bin]
Jack Malone: Nice work, Serpico.
Danny: I grew up on Pacino.

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