Third Watch (1999–2005)

Josh Stewart: Brendan Finney

Quotes 

• Davis : What's going on with you?

  Brendan Finney : Maybe I don't wanna be around all these cops.

  Davis : Maybe you should get another job.

• Davis : Let's go Finney. Let's go.

  Brendan Finney : I don't need your protection, Davis.

  Davis : Fine, kick his ass Sully. I don't give a damn.

• Sully : Rat Junior shows up here and a month later one of us is behind bars. Nah, I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

  Brendan Finney : I thought she did herself in.

  Sully : You pick that up with your supersonic hearing or is my locker bugged?

  Brendan Finney : Nah, nobody needs either with your mouth.

• Brendan Finney : Why do I have to go to the hospital?

  Davis : It's trauma. Procedure.

  Brendan Finney : Well, what if I'm not traumatized?

  Davis : I wouldn't tell anybody that, okay? You don't wanna give the impression that you can just take a life without conscience.

• [about the freaky hotdog vendor] 

  Brendan Finney : So you just wanna let a prostitute off?

  Davis : Hey, we don't know if she's a prostitute. Maybe she's - - Maybe she's just a giving person.

• Sully : All right Kathy, don't get startled, but there's a moron coming to save you.

  Kathy : Go back down there!

  Brendan Finney : No, ma'am. That would ruin my whole hero routine.

• [to Monroe] 

  Brendan Finney : You might be the most unpopular kid I ever stuck up for.

• 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!

• Davis : I went over to the hotdog stand and met Nikki.

  Brendan Finney : Whos Nikki?

  Davis : Nikki's the hotdog chick.

• Sully : Vouchering property from a suicide is a good learning tool for our young office here.

  Lt. Swersky : Sure is. Handle it, Finney.

  Brendan Finney : This isn't our job.

  Lt. Swersky : Handle it!

  Sully : [to Finney]  And I bet you signed up for the glitz and glamour.

• [trying to get Kathy off the ledge] 

  Brendan Finney : At least I got enough guts to be out here.

  Sully : At least I got enough sense to be in here.

  Brendan Finney : Hey, I'm sure he didn't mean it like that, ma'am.

• Grace Foster : Your mother's sweet.

  Brendan Finney : She liked you.

  Grace Foster : Well, I have that effect on mothers.

• Brendan Finney : Hey, look, I know I got a lot of family things going on right now. My family's messed up. I don't know how my partner and I are. But the one thing I know for sure is I'm not gonna meet anybody like you again. And I don't wanna mess this up.

  Carlos : Kiss him, stupid!

  Grace Foster : Go home, Carlos!

  Carlos : Amateur.

  Brendan Finney : So kiss him, stupid.

• Brendan Finney : So if he was already dead, does that make this a fatality?

• Harry Rush : My tongue, man. I bit my tongue.

  Brendan Finney : You're about to get it ripped out.

  Harry Rush : I'm bleeding here. You have to get me medical attention.

  Brendan Finney : You didn't give that store owner a chance to get medical attention, now did you?

  Harry Rush : I think I broke my nose.

  Davis : Please. You got a broken nose, bloody tongue... Still hasn't managed to shut your mouth!

• Brendan Finney : Guess I, uh, owe Sullivan an apology.

  Davis : Yeah, well, you can hold off on that one.

  Brendan Finney : Well, maybe tomorrow, huh?

  Davis : Maybe next year!

• Brendan Finney : [after finding his father, C.T., dead in his car from carbon minoxide poisoning]  Dad? Dad? Dad, come on, don't do this. Damnit Dad, don't do this. You sonofabitch, don't do this!

  [starts crying]