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You go when you're supposed to go, and everything else is homicide.
— Homicide: Life on the Street • 1993
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Det. Lewis states a blunt rule about mortality: everyone dies exactly when their time comes. Any death outside that natural timing, he insists, counts as homicide instead. The line reduces his job's moral universe to one simple, hardened distinction.
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