Numb3rs (TV Series)

Old Soldiers (2009)

Henry Winkler: Roger Bloom

Quotes 

• Roger Bloom : Why is it only G-men that ring the doorbell at 6.30 in the morning?

  Colby Granger : It's not my fault you worked on every major FBI case since Patty Hearst.

• Nikki Betancourt : Okay. Back to the boxes. Roger, wanna help me out?

  Roger Bloom : Oh, that's what I came for.

  Colby Granger : She'll grow on you.

  Roger Bloom : Yeah

  Colby Granger : Yeah. Maybe.

• Nikki Betancourt : Thanks for the diplomacy lesson.

  Roger Bloom : Okay, all right, I know.

  Nikki Betancourt : You gotta admire well-executed stonewalling. Letter and everything.

  Roger Bloom : Do you like Vietnamese food? There is a takeout place about three blocks up that makes an unbelievable pho.

  Nikki Betancourt : Please tell me that's not some breed of dog.

  Roger Bloom : No, that's some breed of noodle soup. You have to broaden your horizons, miss.

• Roger Bloom : You blew the whistle on your own unit for a massacre at Nu Bac.

  Ray Till : All I did was not cover it up.

  Roger Bloom : David, he is being modest. In Nam, if you stuck your neck out, if you spoke up, you knew what was gonna happen. They'd suppress your commendations, they'd write you up for dirty boots, a bullet hole in your helmet. And if you were really stubborn, they sent you out on a wire where the bullet with your name could find you.

  Ray Till : Lucky it only had my first name.

  Roger Bloom : Yeah, you went home with a medical discharge.

• Don Eppes : Hey, what are you doing with this?

  [Picks up toy gun] 

  Don Eppes : .

  Alan Eppes : I was making room for Amita.

  Don Eppes : I totally used to rule the neighbourhood with this puppy.

  Charlie Eppes : You ruled the neighbourhood?

  Don Eppes : I did. What you talkin about? Roger, you should see the range on this. I used to just have them all on the block, just like,

  [mimics gunfire, Alan cringes] 

  Don Eppes : .

  Charlie Eppes : Let's set up a historic re-enactment. Vets versus hippies. Me and Dad versus the two of you.

  Don Eppes : Total blowout.

  [to Roger] 

  Don Eppes : Come on, we'll kill them.

  Roger Bloom : You can set up a field of fire. That does not qualify you as a vet, because it's more of a state of mind. Right, Alan?

  Alan Eppes : That's right. That's right.

  [Gestures to Charlie] 

  Alan Eppes : The same way scraggly hair and a four day growth of beard doesn't make you a rebel. One time on one of those freedom rides this Alabama state trooper, hit me with his baton so hard that the baton broke. Yeah, I still have a scar.

  Roger Bloom : See? And this is how tough your dad is. You did not fight back.

  Alan Eppes : You're right. We weren't supposed to.

  [to Don and Charlie] 

  Alan Eppes : What's with the slack jaws? Give the man a beer.

  Don Eppes : I wanna talk about this re-enactment thing. We're the FBI. I get tear gas. I mean, you guys are dead.

  Charlie Eppes : We can bring a book of beatnik poetry or something.

  Roger Bloom : Can I make a toast?

  Don Eppes : Sure.

  Roger Bloom : To scars. Those that we've already earned, and those that are coming.