Flashpoint (TV Series)

Severed Ties (2010)

Hugh Dillon: Constable Ed Lane

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• Gregory Parker : Dean had an accident on his dirt bike.

  Ed Lane : Is he okay?

  Gregory Parker : Yeah. He broke his arm. But I had to find out through Facebook.

  Ed Lane : Well, at least he sent you a message, right?

  Gregory Parker : Nah, he never confirmed me as a friend. He did friend my cousin, though, and that's how I found out - through her.

  Ed Lane : If it makes you feel any better, Clark didn't confirm me as a friend, either.

  Gregory Parker : Yeah, but your son doesn't live 2,000 miles away.

  Ed Lane : Planes go to Dallas, boss.

  Gregory Parker : [referring to his ex-wife]  She won't let me through the front door, Eddie.

  Ed Lane : So, you bring a ram.

• Gregory Parker : [spots a picture in Ed's locker]  Is that an ultrasound? Are you kidding me?

  Ed Lane : No joke.

  Gregory Parker : [pats him on the shoulder]  Buddy! When are you due?

  Ed Lane : I hate to break it to you, boss, but it's the lady that carries the baby.

  Gregory Parker : Hm. Your boys can still swim. How about that?

• Jules Callaghan : [watching an old home movie of the subject with her infant daughter]  She seems so happy.

  Ed Lane : It's just a shame... what drugs can do to a life.

  Gregory Parker : That's no excuse for the choices she made.

  Jules Callaghan : I thought you'd be more sympathetic.

  Gregory Parker : [looking at her]  Oh, I get it. The drunk who lost custody of his kid.

  Ed Lane : Okay, Greg, come on.

  Gregory Parker : You don't see me running around with a knife, trying to take him back by force, do you?

• Ed Lane : So, Maggie gets a second chance. So could you.

  Gregory Parker : Ten years, Eddie, ten years of sitting on the sidelines waiting for my ex to notice that I'm not who I was. Ten years of birthdays and report cards, lost teeth. Broken arms. Ten years... I've hugged a hundred kids in the last ten years and I still don't know what it feels like to hug my own boy.

  Ed Lane : So why don't you go down there, take a ram, and bust open a couple doors, huh?

  Gregory Parker : [whispers]  Yeah.

  Ed Lane : Or maybe you get a lawyer. You're a good man, Greg Parker, and your son deserves to know that.

  Gregory Parker : Second chances, right?

  Ed Lane : It's that simple.

• Maggie Perrello : I can take care of her!

  Gregory Parker : No, you need to let them go - her and Riley.

  Maggie Perrello : I just got them back. I'm not going to lose them again.

  Gregory Parker : No, you never got them back. You took them from their families.

  Maggie Perrello : I'm their family!

  Gregory Parker : [harsly]  Not anymore. You lost that chance with the choices you made.

  Maggie Perrello : I'm a different person now.

  Gregory Parker : See, you're still thinking about what you want, not what's best for them!

  Ed Lane : Greg, easy, easy.

  Gregory Parker : [more gently]  I know what it's like to lose your kids. To not be a part of their lives. I haven't... been allowed to see my son for ten years. And the hardest part is to accept the fact that they're doing okay without you.

  Maggie Perrello : That's not true.

  Gregory Parker : Oh... No, we have trouble believing it, don't we?