The Rookie (TV Series)
Real Crime (2022)
Eric Winter: Tim Bradford
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Quotes
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Documentary Interviewer : I've heard rumours that you have insight into the QAnon angle of this case?
Officer Smitty : Have you ever tried to put toothpaste back in the tube? I know it's an expression but have you actually tried to do it? I have. It's basically impossible.
Documentary Interviewer : And what do you think Q is trying to tell people with this Q drops, these cryptic messages?
Officer Smitty : I really wasn't trying to say anything. I was just typing and maybe I got a little carried away.
Documentary Interviewer : Wait, what did you say?
Officer Smitty : Well, I guess now is as good a time as any to reveal that... I'm Q.
John Nolan : Smitty is Q?
Nyla Harper : I'm sorry, what?
Sergeant Wade Grey : Lord, give me strength.
Lucy Chen : What?
Officer Smitty : A lot of writers use pseudonyms. Q is my first initial, so... hey, is my name down there?
[chyron reads "Quigley Smitty, Police Officer, 'Q'"]
Lucy Chen : But it was an accident? He - he didn't start it on purpose?
Documentary Interviewer : That's what he said.
Tim Bradford : Yeah, sounds like Smitty.
Officer Smitty : I was trying to start the fan fiction club for This Is Us and things just got out of hand.
Documentary Interviewer : What the hell does This Is Us fanfic have to do with a cult?
Officer Smitty : I mistakenly mixed cough syrup with diet pills when I was writing a Satanic alien story line for Jack and Rebecca. I woke up the next morning and read it; none of it made sense. But overnight I got so many followers I just went with it. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.