A Thin Blue Line

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Eavesdropping on the Film
End of Watch

(2012)

I'm the police and I'm here to arrest you. You've broken the law. I did not write the law. I may even disagree with the law but I will enforce it and no matter how you plead, cajole, beg, or attempt to stir my sympathies, nothing you do will stop me from placing you in steel cage with grey bars. If you run away, I will chase you. If you fight me, I will fight back. If you shoot at me, I will shoot back. By law, I am unable to walk away. I am a consequence. I am the unpaid bill. I am fate with a badge and a gun. Behind my badge is a heart like yours. I bleed, I think, I love, and yes, I can be killed. And although I am but one man, I have thousands of brothers and sisters who are the same as me. They will lay down their lives for me, and I, them. We stand watch together, a thin blue line, protecting the prey from the predators, the good from the bad. We are the police.

- Officer Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal)


My grandma... when me and Gabby got engaged she asked me one thing... "can you live without her? And if the answer is YES, man up and forget her. Don't string her along".

- Officer Mike Zavala (Michael Peña)