New Tricks Sentences, Vol. 2
(Sentences from New Tricks (2003-2015). Adjust phrasing where needed)
"It's amazing how you always say the things I want to hear."
"If I continue this, it's tantamount to career suicide!"
"Every inch up the slippery pole comes with a price. The question you have to ask yourself now is is it a price you still want to pay?"
"Taking the piss out of it isn't going to make it go away, you know!"
"Am I the only one here who knows how a police officer is supposed to behave?"
"I expressly told you to drop this case!"
"You know what? I need a really stiff drink."
"Given my experience of the police, why should I tell you anything but the bare minimum?"
"You haven't got anything, have you? I know because if you had, you wouldn't be trying to coerce me into confessing."
"Hold on! Does he get paid more than me?"
"Is there anything you don't do for money?"
"I understand the technology. I simply choose not to use it."
"Always check your fly before a briefing. First rule of police work."
"You do realise I outrank you?"
"Ah. I was hoping you weren't going to ask me that."
"I just want one case - one case - where we do everything by the book! Is that really too much to ask?"
"You were supposed to be tying up loose ends, not finding new ones!"
"Men are so predictable! Don't you find it boring?"
"Have you ever had a suit tailor-made?"
"This business is based on trust. I don't trust you."
"Can you stop trying to take the blame? I'm in charge - it was my call."
"You can't keep punching the living daylights out of villains now that you're practically a grandad!"
"When you find a map with an x on it, you are implicitly bound to go to wherever that x is and start digging."
"I'm afraid I'm not really very good at saying goodbye, so..."
"What defines a nice bum, anyway?"
"I bring you good leads and you just shoot them down! You twist everything around to suit your own theory!"
"I don't know why this case has got under your skin, but I think you ought to take a step back. Take the night off."
"No matter what you think of a suspect or what he might have done, the only thing that really matters is the evidence."
"Don't you need a warrant?"
"That looks nasty! Something from the forensics pathology lab?"
"I've seen him be weird, but I've never seen him like that. Have you?"
"You know why we've got this case, don't you?"
