Flashpoint (TV Series)

Severed Ties (2010)

Enrico Colantoni: Sergeant Gregory 'Greg' Parker

Quotes 

• Gregory Parker : Dean had an accident on his dirt bike.

  Ed Lane : Is he okay?

  Gregory Parker : Yeah. He broke his arm. But I had to find out through Facebook.

  Ed Lane : Well, at least he sent you a message, right?

  Gregory Parker : Nah, he never confirmed me as a friend. He did friend my cousin, though, and that's how I found out - through her.

  Ed Lane : If it makes you feel any better, Clark didn't confirm me as a friend, either.

  Gregory Parker : Yeah, but your son doesn't live 2,000 miles away.

  Ed Lane : Planes go to Dallas, boss.

  Gregory Parker : [referring to his ex-wife]  She won't let me through the front door, Eddie.

  Ed Lane : So, you bring a ram.

• Gregory Parker : [spots a picture in Ed's locker]  Is that an ultrasound? Are you kidding me?

  Ed Lane : No joke.

  Gregory Parker : [pats him on the shoulder]  Buddy! When are you due?

  Ed Lane : I hate to break it to you, boss, but it's the lady that carries the baby.

  Gregory Parker : Hm. Your boys can still swim. How about that?

• Jules Callaghan : [entering the security office]  Nothing on the live feed?

  Mike Scarlatti : It's a big place. A lot of areas not covered by security cameras. There is, however, one at the main entrance and this footage was taken less than an hour ago. There she is.

  Jules Callaghan : [seeing subject on security footage with first kidnapped child]  Can you...

  Mike Scarlatti : Isolate her face? It's already done.

  Gregory Parker : Oh, getting a little cocky, aren't you, Michelangelo?

  Mike Scarlatti : [smiling]  Gunning for a raise boss.

• Jules Callaghan : [watching an old home movie of the subject with her infant daughter]  She seems so happy.

  Ed Lane : It's just a shame... what drugs can do to a life.

  Gregory Parker : That's no excuse for the choices she made.

  Jules Callaghan : I thought you'd be more sympathetic.

  Gregory Parker : [looking at her]  Oh, I get it. The drunk who lost custody of his kid.

  Ed Lane : Okay, Greg, come on.

  Gregory Parker : You don't see me running around with a knife, trying to take him back by force, do you?

• Ed Lane : So, Maggie gets a second chance. So could you.

  Gregory Parker : Ten years, Eddie, ten years of sitting on the sidelines waiting for my ex to notice that I'm not who I was. Ten years of birthdays and report cards, lost teeth. Broken arms. Ten years... I've hugged a hundred kids in the last ten years and I still don't know what it feels like to hug my own boy.

  Ed Lane : So why don't you go down there, take a ram, and bust open a couple doors, huh?

  Gregory Parker : [whispers]  Yeah.

  Ed Lane : Or maybe you get a lawyer. You're a good man, Greg Parker, and your son deserves to know that.

  Gregory Parker : Second chances, right?

  Ed Lane : It's that simple.

• Maggie Perrello : I can take care of her!

  Gregory Parker : No, you need to let them go - her and Riley.

  Maggie Perrello : I just got them back. I'm not going to lose them again.

  Gregory Parker : No, you never got them back. You took them from their families.

  Maggie Perrello : I'm their family!

  Gregory Parker : [harsly]  Not anymore. You lost that chance with the choices you made.

  Maggie Perrello : I'm a different person now.

  Gregory Parker : See, you're still thinking about what you want, not what's best for them!

  Ed Lane : Greg, easy, easy.

  Gregory Parker : [more gently]  I know what it's like to lose your kids. To not be a part of their lives. I haven't... been allowed to see my son for ten years. And the hardest part is to accept the fact that they're doing okay without you.

  Maggie Perrello : That's not true.

  Gregory Parker : Oh... No, we have trouble believing it, don't we?