MAN: If you have anything to offer in your defense, Detective Lockley, anything at all, now would be the time.

LIEU: For god's sakes, Kate, say something.

KATE: What am I supposed to say, Lieu? They've dredged out every ugly detail of the last eight months. Spill it out on the table as if nothing had a context and I'm supposed to explain? - I was doing my job.

MAN: Actually what it appears you've been doing, detective, is isolating yourself. You've withdrawn from the stabilizing influence of your fellow officers, developed this morbid fascination for cases of a bizarre and macabre nature, and even you can't seem to give any explanation as to why. - Now your father, he was a respected veteran of this department. And you were the one that discovered his body after he was murdered, is that right?

KATE: Yes.

MAN: And the case was never solved?

KATE: No arrests have ever been made.

WOMAN: That must be very frustrating for you.

KATE: I dealt with it.

WOMAN: Did you? You took no personal time off after his death. You went right back on the job.

KATE: That is none of your business.

MAN: It becomes our business when it affects performance.

WOMAN: It is *very* important when we suffer a loss of this nature to take the proper time to grieve. So, we understand. We want you to know, we're not judging you.

KATE: No, you're just firing me.

MAN: You stopped being a part of the force a long time ago.

KATE: What am I supposed to do?

WOMAN: We will of course make available to you psychological counseling at the city's expense as part of your severance.

KATE: You people have no idea what's going on in this city.

MAN: Is this the part where you start to talk about monsters? (Kate doesn't answer) We'll need your gun and your badge.

LIEU: I'm just glad your father's not around to see this.

• Kate's Many Issues

written by: Tim Minear; Original transcript anonymous. Edited, formatted for this site and checked against source by Sylvia.. Full transcript at:
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