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‘a blue collar soul’
‘He who hits first gets promoted’ (Detective Sergeant Brant)
‘Homicide dicks’
‘You can’t just go round killing people, whenever the notion strikes you. It’s not feasible.’ Elisha Cook to Lawrence Tierney in Born to Kill
‘Setting a Tone’
‘The King of thieves has come, call it stealing if you will but I say, it’s justice done. You have had your way, The Ragged Army’s calling time.’ Johnny Lamb
Basic survival: ‘Never trust anyone who puts Very before Beautiful’ Phyl Kennedy
Weights…
Doggone!
Hand job
‘All of us that started the game with a crooked cue… that wanted so much and got so little that meant so good and did so bad. All of us.’ Jim Thompson
Clue like
‘E’ is not for Ecstasy
Policing, like cricket, has hard and fast rules. Play fast, play hard
Loyalty
To work on an egg
BASIC SURVIVAL ‘How much more can they not talk to me?’ (d.B)
To die for
Precarious the pose
Madness more like
Slag?
Band aid
Unlikely lad
Room mate? A hammering likely to wake the very dead
The law of holes: when you’re in one, don’t dig
‘Ashen was the way I felt when shunned by people I had justified. Didn’t all that much really warrant grief.’ The Umpire
The blues
Law 42: Unfair Play. The Umpires are the sole judges of fair and unfair play
The eyes of a dog
A house is not a home
In this world, you turn the other cheek, you get hit with a wrench. Brian Donlevy, Impact
He who laughs last usually didn’t get the joke
‘Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect.’ James Sallis, Black Hornet
Atonement in white
‘That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die.’ HP Lovecraft, The Necronomicon
And speaking of wreaths
A week later…
Maybe my future starts right now. John Garfield: Voice-over, The Postman Always Rings Twice
If he was a colour, he’d be beige
‘I was a small time crook until this very minute, and now I’m a big-time crook!’ Clifton Young in Dark Passage
‘What a place. I can feel the rats in the wall.’ Phantom Lady
The Beauty of Balham
‘Love makes the world go round’
‘If your dead father comes to you in a dream, he comes with bad news. If your dead mother comes, she brings good news.’
Benediction
Virgin? What’s your problem. Whore? What’s your number. Naomi Wolf (Rocking Years)
‘Tooling up’
‘You wouldn’t kill me in cold blood, would you?’ ‘No, I’ll let you warm up a little.’ Paul Guilfoyle and James Cagney, White Heat
Last train to Clarkesville
Two weeks later
