The Rookie (TV Series)

The Naked and the Dead (2023)

Richard T. Jones: Wade Grey

Quotes 

• Nyla Harper : Moses's shop has seen better days.

  Wade Grey : Where is he?

  Angela Lopez : Slipped out the back as soon as the shooting started. You know he's gonna go back at Quinlan twice as hard.

  Wade Grey : Be sure to brief the midnight shift and the gang desk. This war's gonna keep escalating until they take each other out.

• Wade Grey : Taking Elijah off the board gave us brief peace. Now there's blood in the streets.

  Angela Lopez : Moses has been around for a long time. He even has legitimate businesses as fronts. He's smart and measured until he's pushed into a corner.

  Nyla Harper : And Quinlan is young and wild and not trying to wait his turn.

  Wade Grey : Did the night shift hear anything about Moses hitting back?

  Angela Lopez : No. Not a peep, which somehow makes me more nervous.

  Nyla Harper : At least that means there's no new bodies.

  Angela Lopez : Or none that we've found yet.

• Damian Lopez : I have a lead. A kid in my congregation, one of Mateo's friends He came to me this morning, and asked me to tell you something.

  Nyla Harper : When you say "friend," you mean they used to bang together?

  Damian Lopez : Yeah.He told me Moses's crew is transporting a big shipment of drugs today, hidden in merchandise for his auto shop.

  Angela Lopez : Wait, I thought you said your informant is in Quinlan's gang.

  Damian Lopez : He is. What?

  Nyla Harper : There's just, there's no way a street-level kid would know something like that, especially about a rival gang. Unless someone wanted him to know.

  Angela Lopez : Quinlan sent him to tell you.He wants the LAPD to do his dirty work for him.

  Damian Lopez : I'm-I'm not following.

  Angela Lopez : He tips us off so we take Moses off the board.Quinlan wins the war without losing any more of his guys.

  Damian Lopez : So you're not gonna act on the tip?

  Nyla Harper : Oh, no.We definitely are.

  Wade Grey : Doesn't matter if Quinlan's trying to play us. Any chance we have to put Moses behind bars, we're gonna take it.