Bad Boys (1995)

Joe Pantoliano: Captain Howard

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• Captain Howard : Ho, what did I say? Did you hear what I said? I heard what I said 'cause I was standing there when I said it.

• Captain Howard : Until then, until then, you are Mike Lowrey, you be him, that's what you are, you're him.

  Marcus Burnett : But I-...

  Captain Howard : You're him, I don't wanna hear it, you're him. And you, you're you, you be you, but not in front of her. You're him, you're you.

• Captain Howard : [Shooting hoops and continuously missing]  I was, like, gettin' 'em all in before you showed up.

• Detective Sanchez : It was Carrera's drugs in the first place, right? But it couldn't have been him, 'cause he was killed in prison. What about the rest of his crew?

  Captain Howard : The rest of those idiots don't have the precision to do this. But just in case I'm wrong, you guys check them out.

  Mike Lowrey : Yeah, they'd have been in here with Uzis, splashing O'Fee all over the place.

  Captain Howard : It takes a lot of brains to pull something like this off.

  Detective Ruiz : Big cajones, too.

  Mike Lowrey : What the hell are you talking about, cajones?

  Detective Ruiz : Cajones. It would take me a month to explain to you what cajones are.

  Detective Sanchez : [arguing over each other]  You're in Miami, you don't know cajones?

  Marcus Burnett : English.

• Captain Howard : O'Fee's gonna be all right, but he's got nothing to tell us.

  Marcus Burnett : So they kill a decoy, it empties the station. Very smart.

  Mike Lowrey : But they don't kill a real cop, 'cause they know they'd have the whole force on their ass.

  Captain Howard : This was your case. You're back on it. Sanchez, Ruiz, you back them up with whatever they need.

• Captain Howard : You guys know Alison Sinclair, Internal Affairs' top watchdog.

  Alison Sinclair : Oh, you know I'd actually take that as a compliment if I didn't know you so well.

  Marcus Burnett : Uh, excuse me, but if you two wanna get personal, I could step out.

• Captain Howard : Welcome to our nightmare, boys. See this? What's wrong with this picture, huh? Remember this room? These slats, they-they look familiar, don't they? There was these, uh, silver packets, they looked like bricks. Little red tags on them, about so high? All that heroin, gone.

• Captain Howard : [to Mike and Marcus]  This could definitely be an inside job. Don't rule it out. The way I see it, we got 72 hours before the FBI and the DEA walk in here and shut us down. And we're gonna be the bad guys. The politics demand that somebody take the rap for this, and it's gonna be us. Just do what you do. Only faster.

• Mike Lowrey : [Howard is yelling at Burnett for having a shootout outside a hotel]  I haven't killed anyone today, yet, Captain...

  Captain Howard : Hey, do you want me to yell at you? Cause I can do that!

• Marcus Burnett : [trying to imitate Mike]  Hello, this is Mike Low-rey...

  Captain Howard : He doesn't talk that way. Try to talk like him, like him! Try to talk sexy. Sexy, you don't talk sexy enough!

  Marcus Burnett : Cap, Cap! I've been there.

• Mike Lowrey : Everybody wants to be like Mike.

  Captain Howard : Yeah, and you're gonna be retired like him too.

• Julie Mott : Listen, I've just seen my best friend get murdered. And I'll only talk to Mike Lowrey.

  Captain Howard : Why only Mike Lowrey? I have a detective here...

  Julie Mott : None of your fucking business, all right? Either I talk to Lowrey or I'm gonna blow town.

  Captain Howard : Mike! Mike, phone! Telephone! Mike! H-He's coming... he's coming right now. Hold on, please. Hold on.

  [offering the phone to Marcus] 

  Captain Howard : Talk to her.

  Marcus Burnett : Captain, I ain't got time for these games.

  Captain Howard : Talk to her. This is the-the witness, the girl at the hotel.

  [into the receiver] 

  Captain Howard : Yeah, here he... he's... he just got out of the john. Hold on.

  [offering it to Marcus again] 

  Captain Howard : Talk to her now. If you don't talk now, she's gonna walk.

  Marcus Burnett : Captain, I can't be no Mike, man.

  Captain Howard : Just talk to her, now. She's gonna walk out. This is our witness.

  Marcus Burnett : [through gritted teeth]  Calm down!

• Julie Mott : I need to speak to Detective Mike Lowrey.

  Captain Howard : This is Captain Howard. Can I help you?

  Julie Mott : You can get me Detective Lowrey.

  Captain Howard : Look, this is not another paternity case, is it?

  Julie Mott : No, it's another murder case, you twerp!