Homicide: Life on the Street (TV Series)

Gone for Goode (1993)

Clark Johnson: Detective Meldrick Lewis

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Quotes 

• Det. Steve Crosetti : [Crosetti, Lewis, and the cemetery manager are supervising an exhumation. A cemetery worker pries on an object with his shovel in the grave and it breaks]  Hey, what was that?

  Cemetery Manager : That's the top. You got the top of the box right there.

  [to the worker] 

  Cemetery Manager : Just get that, pull that out, don't even mess with it.

  Det. Meldrick Lewis : That's a pretty cheap lookin' casket, ain't it?

  Cemetery Manager : Styrofoam. Buried like a hamburger. I could have put him in stainless steel for 2200 dollars. Find that for less than six grand.

  Det. Steve Crosetti : Come on, hurry up, will ya?

  Cemetery Manager : [to the worker]  Hurry up, will ya?

  [back to Crosetti and Lewis] 

  Cemetery Manager : I could have put him in solid cherry for 1800. Try and find that for less than four grand.

  Det. Meldrick Lewis : [Crosetti crosses himself]  He look a little... small, like a, like a prune or somethin'.

  [offers the manager a look at the photo] 

  Det. Meldrick Lewis : Don't ya think he looks heavier in the picture?

  Cemetery Manager : Nobody stays fat down there.

• [on Detective Steve Crosetti] 

  Det. Meldrick Lewis : You in your own little world 'cause don't no one wanna live there with you.

• [first lines of the series] 

  Det. Meldrick Lewis : If I could just find this damn thing, I could go home.

• Det. Meldrick Lewis : [Two Baltimore homicide, Detectives Steve Crosetti & Meldrick Lewis walk slowly along a street with Belgian block pavers along the waterfront of Fells Point. Both detectives are walking slowly, heads down, searching for a murder weapon that was recently fired. Another name has been added to the Baltimore city homicide tally. They illuminate their path with flashlights. The area has grown quiet now that the bar patrons are now home and tucked in for the night. Lewis longs to be there himself]  Meldrick: If I could just find this damn thing, I could go home.

  Det. Steve Crosetti : Life is a mystery. Just accept it.

  Det. Meldrick Lewis : You're in your own world, Crosetti.

  [Crosetti lights a cigarette that has been dangling out of his mouth] 

  Det. Steve Crosetti : The quest for life... not finding... looking. I read about it in this book.

  Det. Meldrick Lewis : Now, since when did you ever read a book?

  Det. Steve Crosetti : I read this book... an excerpt in this book.

  Det. Meldrick Lewis : You see? That's what I'm sayin', man. You said you read a book but you didn't read nothing but an excerpt.

  Det. Steve Crosetti : It says you never find what you're looking for because the whole point is looking for it. So, if you find it, it defeats its own purpose.

  Det. Meldrick Lewis : Y'know you're in your own little world because don't no body else wants to live in there with you.

  Det. Steve Crosetti : You try to explain everything, ya know, but there are things you cannot explain.

  [Meldrick pointing his flashlight upward at Crosetti's face, casting an eerie glow] 

  Det. Meldrick Lewis : Y'know what you are, man? You are a little fat head guinea,you know that? A little Italian Salami-brain.

  Det. Steve Crosetti : You're gonna regret that.

  Det. Meldrick Lewis : Man, let's c'mon back and look for this projectile tomorrow, alright?

  Det. Steve Crosetti : All right.