Flashpoint (TV Series)
Fault Lines (2011)
Sergio Di Zio: Constable Michelangelo 'Spike' Scarlatti
Quotes
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Dominic Scarlatti : [Flashback of Spike at dinner with his parents the same day Lou died] Everyday this is my life. Waiting for the phone to ring, the officer at the door. You bring this into our house.
Mike Scarlatti : Pa, I don't think now is the time okay?
Michelina : Sit down please.
Dominic Scarlatti : Everyday you go out there and you, you play the hero.
Mike Scarlatti : Play? What you think this is a game?
Dominic Scarlatti : Today your friend dies. Tomorrow, my son dies.
Mike Scarlatti : One day we all die okay!
Dominic Scarlatti : Aah.
[Leaves dining room]
Mike Scarlatti : At least I try to make it mean something! Pa!
[Grabs bottle of wine and throws it at the wall]
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Ed Lane : [Walks into SRU main lobby, sees Spike and Wordy] Study hard?
Mike Scarlatti : What's that thing called?
Kevin 'Wordy' Wordsworth : Yeah, yeah the long metal thing.
Ed Lane : Loud noises.
Mike Scarlatti : Gun!
[Ed and Wordy chuckle in approval]
Mike Scarlatti : See, why do we have to re-qualify?
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Dr. Larry Toth : [During Spike's psych eval. doing word association] Rain.
Mike Scarlatti : Rainbow.
Dr. Larry Toth : Cloud.
Mike Scarlatti : Silver.
Dr. Larry Toth : Sky.
Mike Scarlatti : The limit.
Dr. Larry Toth : Freedom.
Mike Scarlatti : Feminine supplies.
[Greg and Spike chuckle]
Dr. Larry Toth : Girlfriend.
Mike Scarlatti : Babycakes.
Dr. Larry Toth : Bomb.
[Spike hesitates and thinks of Lou dying]
Dr. Larry Toth : Bomb?
Mike Scarlatti : The job.
[Dr. Toth makes a note on the polygraph]
Dr. Larry Toth : Critical incident 1137.
Mike Scarlatti : [Annoyed] Am I supposed to word associate that?
Dr. Larry Toth : Multiple bombs across the city. You want to tell me about it?
Mike Scarlatti : You got the file. You got the transcript. You got the voice recording.
Dr. Larry Toth : I've got the facts. It's your experience of them I need.
[Reading transcript]
Dr. Larry Toth : 1:37 Officer Scarlatti directs Lou Young to approach third bomb. Scarlatti 1:43 "Okay Lew, three garbage bags. Anything rigged if they move?"
[Spike flashes back to moment that Lou stepped on the land mine]
Mike Scarlatti : The bomb was booby trapped with a CR-38. It's a Russian bounding mine.
Dr. Larry Toth : And then what happened?
Mike Scarlatti : [Looks to Parker] Why are we doing this?
Dr. Larry Toth : 2:52 Scarlatti "Why is everyone standing around lets go.
[Spike flashes back to moment Lou stepped off the landmine]
Mike Scarlatti : He thought that trying the weight transfer would uh, take us both down. So uh...
Dr. Larry Toth : But you didn't think so?
[Looks at polygraph readings begin to spike]
Dr. Larry Toth : You're not over it?
Mike Scarlatti : What do you think, hmm? What's the machine tell you? I'm sorry but with all do respect what's the point? Huh, boss?
Sgt. Gregory Parker : Doc.
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Donna Sabine : Okay, you got 90 seconds upon entry to clear the building.
Mike Scarlatti : 90 seconds?
Donna Sabine : Yeah. Does that worry you Spike? Spending a little too much time in the truck?
Mike Scarlatti : No, I mean 90 seconds, I'm gonna have to bring a book or a magazine or something.
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Dr. Larry Toth : You feel guilty?
Mike Scarlatti : [Frustrated] Yeah I feel guilty!
Dr. Larry Toth : How do you feel now when you get a bomb call?
Sgt. Gregory Parker : Larry stop it. We're all open to talk in here but you're picking at scabs. This is...
Dr. Larry Toth : Sergeant, keep your comments to yourself!
Sgt. Gregory Parker : ...emotional manipulation.
Dr. Larry Toth : You lost a partner. You lost a best friend too, right? Let me ask you this. You lose your best friend, it's three in the afternoon. How do you spend the rest of your day?
Mike Scarlatti : We debriefed.
Dr. Larry Toth : After that?
Mike Scarlatti : That's personal.
Dr. Larry Toth : How well you handle this job is personal.
Mike Scarlatti : I went home.
[Flashback to Spike coming home, crying on his mom's shoulder]
Dr. Larry Toth : You live with your mother?
Mike Scarlatti : I live with my parents.
[Flashback to Spike at dinner with his parents, him and his father get into an argument]
Dr. Larry Toth : You patch things up with your father?
Mike Scarlatti : No
Dr. Larry Toth : Why not?
Mike Scarlatti : 'Cause he won't
Dr. Larry Toth : Why?
Mike Scarlatti : He's sick
Dr. Larry Toth : Sick?
Mike Scarlatti : He's dying.
Sgt. Gregory Parker : Spike.
Dr. Larry Toth : That's why he won't patch things up?
Mike Scarlatti : No he won't patch things up until I quit this job. Until I quit SRU.
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Ed Lane : And remember, slow is smooth, smooth is fast...
Ed Lane , Sgt. Gregory Parker , Sam Braddock , Jules Callaghan , Kevin 'Wordy' Wordsworth , Mike Scarlatti : Fast is lethal!