In Plain Sight (TV Series)

Kumar vs Kumar (2011)

Mary McCormack: Mary Shannon

Quotes 

• Kurt Gaffney : [a witness' wife wants a divorce]  Why didn't you two catch wind of this in the intake interview?

  Mary Shannon : [sarcastically]  Oh, I don't know. I guess she played her cards pretty close the sari.

  [Marshall laughs; Gaffney is unamused] 

  Mary Shannon : Sorry.

  Kurt Gaffney : Yeah, that's cute. Look, Inspector, I don't know if you're aware of this, we're in the business of convictions.

  Mary Shannon : No, *you're* in the business of convictions.

  [Mary indicates herself and Marshall] 

  Mary Shannon : We're in the business of keeping people safe.

• Mary Shannon : [Mary's Episode Monologue Conclusion]  "There are times in your life when all you can do at the end of the day is turn out the lights, flop on your bed, and throw in the towel, raise the white flag. For some, that kind of surrender, it's hard to contemplate, and harder to accept. And there's a dignity in that, in fighting to the finish, to the red-faced bitter end. But in those moments in bed, right when the lights go out, solace can be found. The very act of giving up becomes a starting point.

  [She Takes a Beat] 

  Mary Shannon : You clear your head. You still your beating heart. You navigate the rocky shoal of setting out again. Call it surrender or serenity, it doesn't matter which, because the thing you never thought you do, or say or ever have to face, becomes more than what you had to do, it becomes the way it is."