Southland (TV Series)

Sally in the Alley (2009)

Regina King: Detective Lydia Adams

Quotes 

• Det. Lydia Adams : Well, what do you want me to do? Put on a little outfit, go out, get drunk, stagger to my car, get raped, and end up here for ten years, waitin' for somebody to do somethin' about it?

  Det. Russell Clarke : Jeez, Lyd - take it easy.

• Cathleen Kerik : What kind of case were you pulled off of?

  Det. Lydia Adams : Girl in South Central, strangled and dumped in an alley. Nothin' you'd be concerned with.

  Cathleen Kerik : OK. What is it, exactly, that you don't like about me? Huh?

  Det. Lydia Adams : I don't like the fact that if this girl was found in an alley in Brentwood, this would be front page news.

  Cathleen Kerik : That...

  Det. Lydia Adams : I don't like that there's a backlog of rape DNA of three thousand cases. I don't like the skirt you wear, I don't like your hairstyle, I don't like that every time a man is within fifteen feet of you, you push out your chest and your voice gets all kittenish.

• Det. Lydia Adams : I have something to tell you. I'm a cop.

  Talib : Jeez... Well, I didn't see that one comin'... Cop. So you - you enjoy your job?

  Det. Lydia Adams : I love it.

  Det. Lydia Adams : [it suddenly strikes her how true that statement is]  Hm - I really love it... and I had a good week.