Third Watch (1999–2005)

Tia Texada: Maritza Cruz

Quotes 

• Aaron Noble : I was doing research, for a book.

  Bosco : Oh my gosh. You know what? Please accept our apologies. Sarge! Sarge stop searching the car. He was only doing research for a book.

  Cruz : Oh, didn't somebody already write Dumb and Dumber?

• Prison Guard : I need a next of kin.

  Cruz : I don't have one.

  Prison Guard : Cousin? Aunt?

  Cruz : I understand the concept. I don't have one.

• Martiza : Remember one thing: I'm not Faith Yokas.

• 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.

• Cruz : Sorry to interrupt kindergarten, but I need, um, Boscorelli.

  Lt. Swersky : For the whole tour?

  Cruz : I'll get him back when I can.

  Bosco : Duty calls, boys. Think of me fondly with every parking ticket you issue.

• 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.

• Cruz : That was um, that was nice, you calling and all.

  Bosco : Yeah. Next time, before I push the knife in, remind me who's gonna have to change that damn tire.

• 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.

• [about Mikey's deal] 

  Cruz : You don't tell me what's what, Boscorelli.

  Bosco : Make alternate arrangements. He's not doing it.

  Cruz : Yeah, we'll see about that.

  Bosco : He's not doing it!

  Cruz : What the hell you gonna do about it?

  Bosco : Leave him the hell alone, you hear me?

  Cruz : I don't think so.

  Bosco : You don't think so? I don't know how many times I can tell you this. Listen to me. And listen real close... If you hurt my brother I'm gonna kill you. And that's a promise.

• Cruz : CI said the drop was gonna happen anytime between 12 and 5.

  Santiago : Oh, man, that's like an appointment with the cable company.

• Bosco : You do fine.

  Cruz : Really?

  Bosco : Yeah.

  Cruz : You think so?

  Bosco : You don't seem to have a problem telling me what to do.

  Cruz : Stop the car.

  Bosco : See what I mean?

• [to Yokas about Mann] 

  Cruz : He started the day trying to put you, me, and Bosco out of commission. Now, you do what you're thinking, and he got two out of three. It's not about you, or me. It's about not letting him win. Now say it! He drew the knife and tried to stab me.

• Cruz : If this was second grade you'd get two gold stars.

  Davis : That's two felony collars in one day. We should get a commendation, right?

  Cruz : You just did. It's called a compliment.

• Nikki : Aren't there some terrorists you should be after?

  Cruz : Shut up before I give you a free collagen shot to your upper lip.

• Prison Guard : Cruz! Cruz! Come on, come on.

  Cruz : Speak up, I think a few people in Guam didn't hear you.

• Roberta Muskos : If it wasn't her brother, it was somebody else's.

  Cruz : Oh, that's brilliant.

  Roberta Muskos : Are you calling me stupid?

  Cruz : No. Pissing off a cop who's gonna be out of here by five o'clock is... is genius.

• [about being raped] 

  Cruz : I know what it feels like. I know what it feels like to... to wanna wash the filth off you!

  Councilman Daniels : Pull the trigger!

  Cruz : You think it was hard for you to step up? I'm a police sergeant.

  Councilman Daniels : Do it!

  Cruz : I do that, they win. We can't let them win!

• Brendan Finney : We called for backup and nobody came.

  Cruz : It looks like there was response to me.

  Brendan Finney : Yeah, well it took long enough!

  Davis : You weren't at the original location, Finney. We had to find you.

  Brendan Finney : Right.

  Davis : Believe what you want.

  Brendan Finney : Man, what the hell happened to you?

  Davis : Sasha Monroe!

• Cruz : I know everything.

  Hart : No. You only think you do.

• Santiago : Just got the prints back.

  Cruz : That was fast.

  Santiago : Hey, I'm Dominican, baby. We work fast.

  Cruz : I've heard.

• Cruz : Oh, see I think you've got me confused with other cops here, Maddox. I'll do just about anything to get what I want.

• [about Michael] 

  Cruz : I'm half tempted to put him up for a Citizen of the Year award. Maddox is as bad as they come.

  Lt. Swersky : He murdered a prisoner in the middle of my station house. That doesn't make him much better.

• Marcel : Putting me in jail is serving the community?

  Cruz : Well, I don't know about the community... but it's doing a whole hell of a lot for my attitude. How' bout you, Manny?

  Santiago : Mita, mita. I got goosebumps.

• Cruz : Hey! I'm Cruz. You looking for me?

• Cruz : Big boy.

  Davis : Yeah, he's not too big.

  Cruz : Dead?

  Davis : God, I hope so.

• [about the knife] 

  Cruz : This is his?

  Davis : He was trying to kill me with it. I didn't ask him if it was his or not.

• Cruz : Did you ask him about his Johnson?

  Bosco : I asked him about his little tiny Johnson. I should have ripped it off him, too.

  Cruz : I'd hate to have to handle that complaint. I guess it'd, uh, be theft.

  Bosco : Petty larceny.

• [to Bosco] 

  Cruz : Yeah, thinking seems to be where you run into problems.

• [about Bosco] 

  Miguel White : I thought you had to be smart to be a cop.

  Cruz : There's an exception to every rule.

• Bosco : I thought I knew what I was doing out here, but I guess I don't.

  Cruz : Smartest thing I heard you say.

• Yokas : Don't you think you made a pretty quick decision?

  Cruz : Are you questioning that, officer?

  Yokas : Yeah, I guess I am.

• Aaron Noble : I got my first amendment rights.

  Cruz : Try using the fifth.

• Lt. Swersky : You missed roll call.

  Cruz : Yeah, I had trouble finding my costume.

• Lt. Swersky : Here's a summons packet. I think 25 a week will do.

  Cruz : I'm a sergeant.

  Lt. Swersky : Then you should know how to fill them out.

  Cruz : If I was a guy I would've been promoted off the work I did. I got more collars than anyone in this whole department.

  Lt. Swersky : Good point. Someone like you could probably get me 50.

• Woman : Officer! Officer!

  Cruz : No habla Ingles.

  [woman starts speaking spanish] 

  Woman : You gotta help me.

  Cruz : Somebody better be dead!

• Cruz : Mind your own damn business.

  Bosco : Uh-oh. Who you working with now? The CIA? Department of Homeland Security? ASPCA?

• Cruz : What's going on here?

  Bosco : We got a guy with a cut. There's definitely dope involved.

  Cruz : He's high?

  Bosco : No. He's a dope.

• Cruz : The jewelry store Bosco. The Hassids?

  Bosco : I had a confidential informant.

  Cruz : Oh really? Who's that?

  Bosco : That would be the confidential part.

• Cruz : I honestly don't think that those guys suspected him.

  Bosco : Really? Honestly? And how the hell would you know?

  Cruz : I don't know.

  Bosco : No, you don't! But you should... You're no better than a criminal yourself.

  [Cruz starts crying] 

  Bosco : You don't get to cry. You don't get to cry!