Miami Vice (TV Series)

Brother's Keeper (1984)

Philip Michael Thomas: Detective Ricardo Tubbs

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Sonny Crockett : Hey Tubbs, you ever consider a career in southern law enforcement?

  Ricardo Tubbs : Maybe. May-be.

  [both laugh] 

• Ricardo Tubbs : [meets Elvis the alligator]  Hey, ey, uh... hey, hey, call him off, man! I don't even like alligator shoes!

  Sonny Crockett : Hey, hey, hey, don't talk like that, man, you're gonna hurt his feelings. Don't mind him, Elvis. He's from New York.

• Sonny Crockett : [after discussing Sonny's college football successes, Tubbs asked why wasn't he in the pros]  Some Southeast Asian conference.

  Ricardo Tubbs : Vietnam?

  Sonny Crockett : [sarcasm]  No, Coney Island...!

• Ricardo Tubbs : I can't let you handle all that bad karma by yourself.

• Sonny Crockett : I guess you got a job to get back to up there in New York, ey Tubbs?

  Ricardo Tubbs : Get outta here, Crockett. You kiddin'? After the little show I put on down there hits the fan, I'll be lucky to get back on payroll as a meter maid.

• Trini DeSoto : [Crockett and Tubbs are meeting with Trini DeSoto, who is giving them some background about himself]  Hey. ¿Qué tal, huh? You see, most of the Marielito riffraff stuck in detention with me killed the time watching Family Feud, uh, Hollywood Squares, In Search of the Ryan's Hope... All that garbage. Huh?

  Trini DeSoto : [Snaps Fingers]  Not me, man. I figure, dig it, Trini. You could be stuck in this place six months, man, waiting for your papers. Use the time, man. Improve your mind.

  Ricardo Tubbs : You read a lot of books, huh?

  Trini DeSoto : You're missing my point, man. I skip all that network jive. Tune in to the old classics: I Love Lucy, Father Knows Best, Leave It To You, Beaver, Gilligan's Island. It's where I learn to speak English so good, man... The golden age of TV. And forget about Desi Arnaz, man. The fact that dude never got an Academy Award says something very deep about the American psyche.

  Sonny Crockett : [with bemused look on his face]  New York critics, Trini. Don't let it throw you.