The Good Guys (TV Series)

Broken Door Theory (2010)

Colin Hanks: Jack Bailey

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• Dan Stark : Okay, you got to cover me.

  Jack Bailey : I don't have my gun.

  Dan Stark : You don't have your gun?

  Jack Bailey : It's in the car.

  Dan Stark : You left your gun in the car? What, do they teach you that at the academy?

  Jack Bailey : Well, where's your gun?

  Dan Stark : [pause]  It's in the car.

• Dan Stark : Your ex-girlfriend is setting you up with her friend? I can see where this is going?

  Jack Bailey : Oh, yeah? Where's that exactly?

  Dan Stark : Straight to the hot tub. You, Liz and her friend.

  Jack Bailey : Yeah, I don't think that's ever going to happen.

  Dan Stark : Well, don't be so sure about that. I ever tell you about the time that me and Frank saved a bunch of NBA cheerleaders from a burning car?

  Jack Bailey : Yes, and you diagrammed it for me on a bar napkin, twice. Listen, can we just do some work?

  Dan Stark : Yeah, what do we got?

  Jack Bailey : Code 14B, East Dallas. Burglary of a coin-operated device. We're literally going after a candy burglar.

  Dan Stark : It's the broken-door theory. They were talking about it on this cop show I was watching. The one with the, uh, the leprechaun who never takes his sunglasses off.

  Jack Bailey : No, I think you mean the broken-window theory.

  Dan Stark : No, no, no, no. The idea is, is that you got to stop the small crimes before they become the big crimes. That's why it's called the broken-door theory, because it's a doorway to them. What we do here, it's, it's important.

  Jack Bailey : No, it is the broken-window theory, right? Nowhere in that theory does it state that two detectives should run around investigating victimless crimes.

  Dan Stark : There's always a victim. You just got to look behind the broken door.

• Dan Stark : Next name has a local address. You know who stays in a hotel in the same city they live? Killers. Psychos with body parts in their suitcases.

  Jack Bailey : I don't think we're gonna find body parts, Dan.

  Dan Stark : Not if they we're dissolved by acid.

• Dan Stark : Next name has a local address. You know who stays in a hotel in the same city they live? Killers. Psychos with body parts in their suitcases.

  Jack Bailey : I don't think we're gonna find body parts, Dan.

  Dan Stark : Not if they were dissolved by acid.