The Rookie (TV Series)

Real Crime (2022)

Eric Winter: Tim Bradford

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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.