Police Drama Quotes

“A traitor to both sides, the ultimate asshole…”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Your friends dress like your enemies, and your enemies dress like your friends.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Look at that asshole! Not a care in the world! Today, I fish; tomorrow, I blow up a mosque. Smart, hiding in plain sight. ”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“. . . being on the wrong side of a pissing contest is never a good thing.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Sarin in Dearborn? Are you shitting me? Jack pounded his desk; his morning coffee spilled all over the burglary file he had been studying.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“If Jack Dylan was Captain Ahab, Bart Breitner was Moby Dick. Jack felt exhilarated, as Ahab must have felt when he finally encountered the great white. He would approach with caution and test the waters. He was alone, and he sensed extreme danger, but this was a tremendous opportunity that he could not pass up.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Then let’s get to work. Sarin…shit! We must stop these guys…again.”
The men nodded, stone-faced. Was it really déjà vu all over again?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Twenty-five elite law enforcement officers against six racist assholes. Four to one; pretty good odds.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“When the prosecution is confronted with concrete evidence of a defendant’s innocence during a trial or investigation, or even after a jury renders an erroneous guilty verdict, that prosecutor must come forward, as an officer of the court, to make sure that justice is done. Defense attorneys have no such obligation, even when they know their clients are guilty.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Legendary crime writer Joseph Wambaugh:
“Death On A Dark Street" is a suspenseful, authentic, and well-researched manhunt for a serial killer. It introduces rookie homicide detective Jaye Peoria, a tough but tender young woman obsessed with proving herself and snaring an elusive killer. It's a good book.”
― Fred Dickey, Death On A Dark Street

“It’s possible that the cops did not ask the right questions.”
“You mean the kind of questions that might get Jack off the hook?”
“Yeah, those kinds of questions.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“We need to find more body parts if possible, and we need divers and evidence
retrieval specialists. You got those, too?”
“Just say the word, and they are yours, like the song goes.”
“What song?”
“The Tom Jones song. ‘Help Yourself.’ Do you guys remember that one?”
“You’re really old, Micah. How old is Tom Jones, anyway? Eighty?”
“I don’t know. So what? Is it illegal to remember Tom Jones?” Micah turned his fist into a microphone, held it up to his mouth, and began to sing and gyrate his lower
torso in a circular manner, his best imitation of Tom Jones in his prime years.
“Now there’s an image that will be impossible to erase from my mind,” Zack said, looking repulsed.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Hey, Jack? Think back for a second. Did you see or hear a boat or any type of motor that evening, like immediately before the explosion?”
“I can’t remember. I was too busy doing what my mother always told me to do.”
“What was that?”
“Go jump in the lake.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“The property backed up to the freeway. Micah could hear loud traffic as he ascended the
office steps. How can anyone live here with all this noise?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“I need reasonable doubt, not proof of innocence and these videos are the very definition of
reasonable doubt.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“In baseball terminology, the team was hitting singles, but had yet to hit a home run.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Jack was angry with himself . . . He shouldn’t have allowed himself to be alone with the terrorist but his obsession with capturing him clouded his judgment. Now, he faced the ultimate irony. Here in this place, at this time, he stood accused of being a criminal, like those he spent his career bringing to justice.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Jack Dylan was not a religious man, but he thanked God that Zack was a more talented lawyer than he, Jack, was a police officer. Zachary Blake is a master; he will never mimic my carelessness. Somehow, he will persuade the jury to find me ‘not guilty.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Bad judgment in Manistee would haunt him for the rest of his life because he was the only person left alive who knew, for certain, that he was innocent.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“The truth continues to be unimportant in this case.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“This big city boy is good. I’m going to enjoy this trial.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Your objection is sustained, Mr. Blake. Please refrain from using the words ‘crime’ and/or ‘crime scene,’ Mr. Weaver. These terms call for a legal conclusion that the evidence has not yet established.”
Zack almost laughed out loud at Judge Shipley’s ruling on his objection. The jury just heard the trial judge say that there had been insufficient evidence offered, thus far, to establish murder.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“If two people were present when a grenade was exploded and one of those people lost his life, which of the two would be more likely to have exploded the grenade, the one who lived or the one who died?”
“The one who lived, of course.”
“And why do you say, ‘of course?’”
“To put this into lay terminology, the one who pulls the pin and throws the grenade has the element of surprise, knows which way he’s going to throw the grenade and approximately how long he has to get the hell out of there.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“With over twenty years on the circuit court bench and a neutral position with no skin in the game, Judge Paul Shipley was the wisest man in the room.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Brown-nosing kiss ass! I don’t give a shit; I’m about to get exactly what I want.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“At the end of the day, however, these men were scientists. People lie, cheat, steal, even commit murder. On the contrary, science always tells the truth.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Weaver smiled as he remembered, word-for-word, his criminal procedure professor’s ‘three rules’ lecture for criminal defense lawyers: ‘One, get the money up front; two, the client does the time, not you, and three, get the money up front.’ Zachary Blake was a guy who always got paid, one way or another.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Losing was out of the question.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“If the jury acquitted Jack, their verdict would brand Weaver as the loser of the biggest case in Manistee history. The community would remember; local judges, defense lawyers and fellow prosecutors would remember. Weaver would be that prosecutor who couldn’t convict the bombing guy.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Florida? Are you kidding? I hate golf and it’s too fucking hot down there. They have hurricanes, for Christ’s sake. I’m not ready to retire.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue