Third Watch (1999–2005)

Nia Long: Sasha Monroe

Quotes 

• Bosco : Don't lump me in with them, all right. You and I were friends.

  Monroe : That's not the point.

  Bosco : We rode together.

  Monroe : Nobody understands IAB, all right?

  Bosco : I don't give a damn about IAB. What I don't get is how a friend would go to that extent when I almost died that night.

• Monroe : You did everything on the up and up, right?

  Cruz : Well, yeah. I mean, Yokas made detective behind it.

  Monroe : Right, she gets a gold shield, you get an IAB shadow.

  Cruz : Welcome to my life.

• Bosco : It's Monroe, right?

  Monroe : Yeah. How you doing?

  Bosco : Mind your own business, Monroe.

  Monroe : Ooh. It's not often that you meet someone who completely lives up to the horrible things people say about 'em.

• Bosco : Looks like you guys are gonna have to take it from here. Just my luck, I got a flat.

  Cruz : Take what?

  Bosco : I have a prisoner transport.

  Monroe : You don't have a flat.

  [Bosco sticks a knife into the tire] 

  Bosco : Oh. It's a slow leak.

• Dispatcher : Complainant still does not wish to be contacted.

  Cruz : Oh, well then beautiful! Then why don't we just leave, huh? Why don't we just let you figure this out all by yourselves, huh? I mean, it bothers you enough to call, at least have the balls to say that it was you!

  [Monroe laughs] 

  Cruz : What?

  Monroe : Bosco said the exact same thing.

• Cruz : I'm gonna go talk to this Tommy kid myself. Maybe Bosco just doesn't have the right touch.

  [to Sully and Davis] 

  Monroe : Like she'll have a softer approach.

• Monroe : Wish you would've brought me a Big Mac.

  Davis : Come on now, you got your mashed potatoes. They look... edible. And you're uh, ham, or steak - What the hell is that?

  Monroe : It's supposed to be chicken and rice.

• Sully : One universal truth to policing, any day that begins with a domestic is not gonna be a good day.

  Monroe : Well, then we're screwed already.

• Monroe : Bosco. I was doing my job. It wasn't that I didn't care what happened to you. I was sent out there to find the truth.

  Bosco : "Sent"? Like from Superhero Camp or something?

• Bosco : Anonymous caller, what the hell is that?

  Monroe : Why are we always driving in the wrong direction when we get a job?

  Bosco : If it bothers you enough to call, at least have the balls to say it was you.

  Monroe : You know, maybe we should just start driving in reverse. At least we'd be facing the right direction.

• Monroe : [after Bosco had found out that Allie Nardo talked to his mother]  Calm down, Bosco.

  Bosco : Calm down? I'm going to kill that mother

  [rest is drowned out by a passing truck honking] 

• Monroe : So the boyfriend's upstairs. His name's Christopher Hayden.

  Sully : Star quarterback for Carver High.

  Jelly : I hate quarterbacks.

  Sully : Spoken like a true fellow defensive lineman.

• [to Sully] 

  Monroe : I joined IAB because I wanted to. I'm a black woman, so in order for me to get ahead I gotta work ten times harder and be 100 percent better. They told me I could help the department find the bad apples and in two years I'd have my gold shield. I'm not apologizing for any of that.

• [about Cruz] 

  Monroe : She's back in the bag, huh?

  Bosco : Oh, my God. This has turned into one of the best days of my life.

  Monroe : You definitely don't get out enough.

• Monroe : You know, why don't you let some of what Davis has rub off on you?

  Bosco : You know what? Davis can keep his sunshine all to himself. Don't be late.

  Monroe : I'm on my J.O.

  Bosco : Your who?

  Monroe : Add a B to the end.

  Bosco : Or you could just say job.

• Davis : Guy gives rap a bad name.

  Bosco : No, rap gives rap a bad name.

  Monroe : Watch your mouth.

  Davis : I guess if anybody'd know that it would be Maurice Boscorelli.

• Monroe : One minute you're an ass, the next you're who the hell knows what.

  Bosco : Uh, uh. Judging - - No judging.

• [to Cruz about the stakeout] 

  Monroe : So basically I'm working the camera in a porno flick?

• Monroe : Back in business, huh Zeek?

  Zeek : Yo, Sasha. No, no. That's my Grandma.

  [takes the phone from Zeke] 

  Monroe : Hey, how you doin' Grandma-dawg? You still working them two jobs with that bad hip 'cause your good-for-nothing grandson can't get an honest job instead of stuffing phones so people can't get their change? Hello? Hello? Oh, man, we mighta killed Grandma-dawg.

• Monroe : You really don't have any connection to your heritage?

  Bosco : Sure I do... I love pizza. I like spaghetti. I like 'Goodfellas' and two out of the three 'Godfathers'. Past that, I'm about as as Italian as you are.

• Bosco : You know what you should get the kid? Cops and Robbers set. Plastic handcuffs, chrome revolver...

  Monroe : Guns?

  Bosco : Yeah, that's what I always got.

  Monroe : And look how well-adjusted you turned out.

• Monroe : Bosco, you don't understand the pressure of having to have the right toy, the right clothes...

  Bosco : Oh, come on. I've watched Yokas go through this every year for the past ten years. I thought Talking Elmo was gonna kill her.

• Monroe : You know... You really are a big softy.

  Bosco : Keep that to yourself Officer.

  Monroe : Like anyone would believe it.

• Bosco : Do you just sit up nights thinking about ways to mess with me?

  Monroe : No, it's much easier than that.

• Davis : Hey, Carlos, you wouldn't happen to have like, big bolt-cutters on the rig?

  Carlos : Sorry.

  Monroe : Got a flashlight?

  Carlos : Nope.

  Sully : Band-Aids - - Adhesive tape?

• Monroe : What ever happened to 'any real partner would have my back in this Monroe'?

  Bosco : Still applies.

  Monroe : Oh, so I should have your back but keep my mouth shut?

  Bosco : Yep. Something like that.

  Monroe : You got the wrong girl Bosco.

  Bosco : Well, I didn't pick you, did I?

• Monroe : I'm just not quite ready for anything serious right now.

  Davis : Well, French Toast isn't really that serious. If I was making you like, Eggs Benedict or something like that, then we need to talk.