[He has a point there.] How the hell are they doing it? There's not even any taxes. I know how much work the little crap nobody thinks about takes. Did that kind of thing all the time at home. You have any idea how much it takes to close off a street when there's a sinkhole? There has to be somebody in charge here somewhere just to keep the world going.

[He shakes his head fiercely. People talk about this video game thing now and then, but something visceral in him rejects it.] We're not in a video game. We're real people, and what we do fuckin' matters.

[Tobias' question stops his pacing and makes him look at him.] That's all I ever wanted to be. Cops do shit that matters. World needs them. They do the hard jobs, protect people, and fight like men. They earn respect.