21 Jump Street (TV Series)

Pilot (1987)

Francis X. McCarthy: Captain Briody

Quotes 

• Captain Briody : He's got an undercover program. It's the Mayor's baby. Nobody on the force knows about this except Silver Shields and Up. It's called Jump Street Chapel. Now the reason it's called that is because this particular undercover unit works out at an old abandoned chapel on the corner of Jump Street and Sixth. Interested?

  Off. Tom Hanson #2 : Not yet.

  Captain Briody : Every year the department takes younger looking officers. At least younger looking ones we think can handle the pressure. Teach them how to be teenagers again. Then we send them out to various high schools where we could use a good man undercover.

  Off. Tom Hanson #2 : Kinda like Fast Times at Bust Ya Buddy High?

  Captain Briody : Kinda.

  Off. Tom Hanson #2 : Yeah. No, thanks. Y'see, I hated high school the first, you know. Swimmin' in gym class without trunks, health films, not getting the girl you wanted because you're not wearing groovy enough shoes. And I don't think I'd get off cutting some kid for a spit ball at his chemistry teacher.

  Captain Briody : I've had eleven homicides in high schools since December.

• Off. Tom Hanson #2 : Look, I went to the academy to go and patrol, to be a police officer like my... To enforce the law.

  Captain Briody : Tom, it's either this, or I assign you to a desk at progress centre until you look old enough to be a cop.