The Best Matt Graver Quotes

Kate: Are we going to Tucson?
Matt: Yeah, you gotta learn how to sleep on a plane. They let me on the base when you need a ride, don't they?
Reggie: [to Kate as they approach] You okay?
Matt: She's fine.
Reggie: I didn't ask you.
Matt: And yet I answered...

Dave: She's been leading our kidnap response team for three years. We put her through the grinder since she got here, and she hasn't blinked. She's in the front line. Nobody's gonna be happier than Kate to see these guys go down.
Burnett: So, she's a thumper.
Dave: Today was her fifth O.I.S.
Matt: Five and 0, not bad for a rookie. She never worked cases?
Dave: Been kicking doors since day one.
Matt: I like her already. What about the partner? He seen any action?
Phil: He's only been with us 18 months.
Matt: What's his background?
Dave: He's a sharp kid. ROTC scholarship to Maryland, did a tour in Iraq, got his law degree from UNC. He's green, but he's good.
Matt: No lawyers on this train. Just give me the girl.

Matt: Hey, Kate, you got any friends at Phoenix SWAT?
Kate: Uh, yeah, we use 'em in breaches all the time.
Matt: Good, 'cause we're gonna need their help.
Kate: What for?
Matt: We are gonna fuck with Manuel Diaz's wallet.

Burnett: How familiar are you with Manuel Diaz's operation?
Kate: His company, Sun Oasis, has 80 or so foreclosure properties. He has other legitimate businesses. Um... but he's rumored to be linked with one of the Mexican cartels.
Burnett: Manuel Diaz works for the Sonora Cartel. He's most likely their senior member in the United States.
Matt: What do you know about his brother?
Kate: I wasn't aware he had one.
Matt: Guillermo. His brother's name is Guillermo. Do you know anything about his cousin?
Kate: I didn't know he had one of those, either. None of that is in his file.
Burnett: His cousin is Fausto Alarcon.
Kate: I don't know who that is.
Matt: No one does. He's off the grid.
Burnett: He's number three in the Sonora Cartel.
Kate: This is not my department, sir. This is...
Burnett: Like I said, Agent Macer doesn't work narcotics. She runs a kidnap response team.
Matt: Are you married?
Kate: Am I married?
Matt: Do you have a husband?
Kate: Divorced.
Matt: Kids?
Kate: No. Anything else?
Phil: No. Thanks, Kate. If you could wait outside, please.

Matt: [after a gunfight with Mexican cartel soldiers] Got a little nutty, huh?
Kate: Nutty? Yeah, yeah, that was fucking illegal. You wanna start a war? You're a fucking spook! And-and him! I mean, who the fuck is that?
Matt: Told you, you could stay here.
Kate: Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, you just spray bullets at... and, yeah, sure, there's just fucking civilians everywhere. I'm not a soldier! This is not what I do!
Matt: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Look, don't sell yourself short, all right? The reason Reggie's home is I know he wasn't ready for this. But he better get ready real quick because this is the future, Kate! Juarez is what happens when they dig in.

Kate: What's our objective?
Matt: [smiles] To dramatically overreact.

Kate: You used me as bait.
Matt: Nah, you used yourself as bait.

Dave: Kate, you must volunteer for an inter-agency task force. Think very hard before you respond. You wanna be a part of this?
Kate: Do we get an opportunity at the men responsible for today?
Matt: The men who were really responsible for today, yeah.
Kate: I'll volunteer.

Dave: DOJ wants advisors that focus on cartels involved in pursuing Mr. Diaz. This is Matt Graver. He'll be leading the team.
Kate: Isn't this Phoenix Homicide now?
Matt: No, we're expanding the scope of the investigation a bit.
Phil: You'll act as a liaison.
Kate: What does that mean?
Dave: They need an agent with tactical experience, like you.
Burnett: State Department is pulling an agent from the field that specializes in responding to escalated cartel activity. You'll be part of the team. You'll meet up with them at Luke, uh, tomorrow?
Matt: Day after. Early.
Kate: Air Force Base?
Matt: Yeah, we're gonna go see Guillermo.
Kate: Diaz's brother?
Matt: That's the one.

Matt: You saw things you shouldn't have seen.

Matt: Medellin refers to a time when one group controlled every aspect of the drug trade, providing a measure of order that we could control. And until somebody finds a way to convince 20% of the population to stop snorting and smoking that shit, order's the best we can hope for. And what you saw up there, was Alejandro working toward returning that order.
Kate: Alejandro works for the fucking Colombian Cartel.
Matt: He works for the competition. Alejandro works for anyone who will point him toward the people who made him. Us. Them. Anyone who will turn him loose. So, he can get the person that cut off his wife's head, and threw his daughter into a vat of acid. Yeah. That's what we're dealing with.

Kate: [after an illegal gun battle] What am I doing here?
Matt: What you're doing here is you're giving us the opportunity to shake the tree and create chaos. That's what this is! In the meantime, just sponge everything up you see. Learn! That's why you're here.

Matt: You didn't think we'd get you here, did you?
Guillermo: No hablo Ingles.
Matt: No hablo Ingles? I love it when they "no hablo Ingles." You know, I brought an old buddy of yours. I bet you hablo to him.

Reggie: There's "in the dark" and there's the way you're treating us. I want to know the objective or I walk, period.
Matt: Then go. I didn't ask you to be here.
[pointing to Kate]
Matt: She did.
Kate: I walk, too.
Matt: What do you wanna know?
Reggie: Everything.
Matt: Fuckin' lawyers. All right. Guillermo told us about a tunnel east of Nogales, near Sasabe. Now we're tryin' to find out what areas near there migrants avoid so we can find the tunnel. That better?
Reggie: And Guillermo is...
Kate: And Guillermo, he just told you where the drug tunnel is? He just told you?
Matt: Guillermo didn't have any other options. We send him back across the border, he's a dead man. Now he gets to spend the next 30 years in an American prison in relative safety.
Reggie: Just tell us the truth, man.
Matt: We are gonna make enough noise that Manuel Diaz is called back to Mexico to see his boss. That's the truth.
Reggie: And then?
Matt: And then we know where his boss is.

Reggie: Those are Special Ops. Are we going in on this?
Matt: Nah. You guys aren't really dressed for it.
Reggie: That why you didn't fuckin' tell us?
Matt: Yeah, well, you two went cryin' to Daddy yesterday, and we don't want Daddy to know everything.
Kate: Oh, give me a fucking break.
Matt: All right, we'll get you some extra gear.
Kate: We have tac gear in the car.
Matt: All right. Good. You guys will hang back when we get there, okay?
Kate: Then why are we going?
Matt: 'Cause CIA can't operate within U.S. borders without a domestic agency attached. I told you you'd be useful.
Kate: So, that's it. That's why I'm here.
Matt: Yeah, that's it. That's why you're here. Hey, we find any drugs, you guys get to confiscate them. It's gonna be a big day.
Kate: Un-fuckin' real!

Kate: Is he CIA? Are you?
Matt: He's a DOD advisor, just like me.
Kate: No, he's not.
Matt: Just pay attention to Alejandro, and if he says to do something, just do it.
Kate: I'm not authorized to follow orders from Alejandro! Especially in Mexico!
Matt: Fine. Then stay here. But you don't want to, do you?
Kate: I just wanna know what I'm getting into.
Matt: Kate, you volunteered to get on this train because you... you know you're doing nothing in Phoenix. Yeah, you're just sweeping up a fucking mess. In six months, every single house you raid will be rigged with explosives. Do you want to find the guys responsible? Yes or no?
Kate: [quietly] Yes.
Matt: Yes?
Kate: [louder] Yes!
Matt: This is where we start.

Matt: [after interrogating Ted] You know what the beauty is of you being so beat to a pulp? 'Cause no one's gonna notice a few more scratches.