Person of Interest (TV Series)
The Devil's Share (2013)
Robert John Burke: Officer Patrick Simmons
Quotes
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[Under police arrest, Officer Simmons is lying in a hospital bed when he senses someone in the darkened room]
Carl Elias : It's just me, Officer.
[Elias leans forward in his chair into the light]
Officer Patrick Simmons : Elias. What do you want? Quinn and I are bust. HR is dead. Nothin' else to do but to rub my face in it.
Carl Elias : Not really my style.
Officer Patrick Simmons : Then why the hell are you here?
Carl Elias : Well, there remains a debt. Civilization rests on the principle that we treat our criminals better than they treated their victims, that we not stoop to their level.
[pause]
Carl Elias : But you and I are outliers; we're not really a part of civilization. We're something... older. Which means, of course, that we can do the things that civilized people can't. I offered to kill you for Detective Carter many times, and she always said no. She was civilized to the very end. I don't think she liked me. But I liked her very much. You killed her. So now I consider it my responsibility to fix the particular problem that is you, Officer Simmons.
Officer Patrick Simmons : You really think you're gonna be the one to kill me?
Carl Elias : [laughing] No. No, my friend is going to kill you. I'm just gonna watch.
[Elias leans back in his chair as his right-hand man Scarface approaches Simmons with a garrote and proceeds to strangle him to death]
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Officer Patrick Simmons : Get it over with, will ya?
Detective Lionel Fusco : That's just it. I could've been just like you, a bottom-feeder who turns on his own kind. For what? Money, power? I got lucky. I had a partner. She was good for me. For a lot of reasons. She reminded me that I could be good again too. i could be a good father, a good friend. A good cop. I'm not gonna let you undo all the good she did. Carter saved my life. She - she saved me from myself. Because she believed in me. And I'm not gonna throw that away on a piece of crap like you. Patrick Simmons, you're under arrest.