Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)

Double Dutch (2004)

Joe Mantegna: Will Girardi

Quotes 

• Luke Girardi : You've got the world's largest blind spot, you know that? One minute, y - you discern an oblique pattern that's invisible to mere mortals, the next, you can't even see a conclusive certainty that's staring you in the face.

  Will Girardi : I have no idea what you just said.

  Luke Girardi : You always say that I got my brain from Mom. That's not true. I get it from you.

  Will Girardi : Then why didn't I understand what you said?

• Dr. Henry Sendak : Will, look, we had a deal. Now, Thursday is Bring Your Kid to Work Day, and you haven't signed up yet.

  Will Girardi : You think I want my kids to see me shuffling papers? I'm a cop, Henry. If I had my piece back, could work the field...

  Dr. Henry Sendak : Will, what you're going through here, post-traumatic stress, it comes with the job. It is nothing to be ashamed of. And being able to let your family go through that with you, even then kids, it's-it's the best medicine.

  Will Girardi : So this is a test, right? To see how solid I am.

  Dr. Henry Sendak : You pulled your gun on a four year old. You want to go back out on the street worried that you could melt down again?

• Will Girardi : I smell garlic.

  Joan : Before you launch into the embarrassing lecture on the health benefits of garlic, this is my friend Casper, and she doesn't care.

  Will Girardi : Nice to meet you. It is a natural antibiotic, you know.

  Karen Casper : It also lowers blood pressure.

  Will Girardi : I love this kid.

• Luke Girardi : These are all cold cases?

  Will Girardi : How do you know about those?

  Luke Girardi : I asked mom what you were working on.

  Will Girardi : You did?

  Luke Girardi : They're all unsolved? I mean, there's hundreds.

  Will Girardi : 90% dead ends. I leaf through them on a wing and a prayer.

• Will Girardi : Reggie runs the CSI lab. Things that spin and blink and whir. You'd be in heaven.

  Reggie Wommick : We just installed a new processor for DNA analysis. It's killer.

  Luke Girardi : An automated genetic analyzer? They use capillary eletrophoresis, right?

  Reggie Wommick : Are you sure he's your kid? I mean, I can run your DNA.

  Will Girardi : He gets the brains from his mom's side.

• Luke Girardi : I mean, if you're embarrassed to be with me, why did you even ask me to come?

  Will Girardi : [he storms upstairs]  I'm not embarrassed to... Luke!

  Helen Girardi : What happened?

  Will Girardi : I can't really say.

  Joan : [scoffing]  Oh! How come he can get away with that?

  Helen Girardi : 'Cause he's confused. You're lying.

  Will Girardi : Do I want to know about this?

  Helen Girardi : Oh, you will.

• Luke Girardi : I became a scientist because of you, because you're a detective.

  Will Girardi : You did?

  Luke Girardi : We're the same. We both solve puzzles in a universe where there is no certainty, only probability and possibility.

  Will Girardi : Well, I-I never... thought of it like that.

  Luke Girardi : Only I live in my head. You're in the world changing people's lives. Like today. How could you think I wouldn't want to see that?