Pembleton and Bayliss as they finally have Risley Tucker in a corner until Tucker turns the table on them and psychologically kicks their asses, that is.
Howard has been forbidden from mentioning a related case (the Lyness murder, investigation ongoing, but which the defendant is suspected of being involved in — which would make mentioning it potentially prejudicial) in her homicide testimony. Then the defence lawyer, hammering away at the police-work, contemptuously asks her to name one case - just one! - in which a single perpetrator used both a knife and a gun. She looks to the state prosecutor; he nods; and with a shit-eating grin Howard says, "We have indications in the death of Alexandra Lyness that there was only one murderer." No further questions, your Honour... Nitty gritty: The attorney tries to ask for a mistrial, but the judge points out that a) he asked the question and b) he should never ask a question to which he doesn't know the answer.
Lewis confronting Luther Mahoney.
Lewis: I remember when I was first comin' up as a patrolman, and my sergeant says that sometimes you gotta clear the corner. No big thing, you just invite everybody to move on. For most people that's enough, you know, the police tell you to move along, that's what you're gonna do, you're gonna move along. Except every once in a while he told me there's gonna be some knucklehead fool, that's gonna want to stand there on your corner talking trash. And then he told me, he said don't you ever...ever...let no knucklehead stand there. Because the minute you do that, the minute you let somebody shame you, you're finished as a beat cop. And what he suggested that I do is that I take my nightstick and I pop him upside the head so hard, that everybody who hears it knows who had the last word... You're on my corner.
Nice, low key example from the first part of the S6 finale "Fallen Heroes": Bayliss uses his observational skills to instantly solve a major case, to which an impressed Pembleton sincerely tells him "I've always said you're a great detective." It's not the focus of the scene or played up as "a moment," but it's a great validation of how far Bayliss has come in 6 seasons.
Pembleton's response to a racist who is responsible for murdering 26 African-Americans: "You will not make me a martyr because I'm a black American. You will be my martyr."
Bayliss single-handedly getting a confession from Gerry Uba for his mother's killing in the episode "Hostage".
Gee's menacing remarks to Gerry Uba, who held a classroom hostage and killed five children: "Get Well. Soon." Yaphet Kotto's delivery and Gee's barely contained rage are able to make a generic remark the stuff of nightmares.
After getting busted from Captain all the way down to Detective, Russert casually gets the sniper copycat to confess, while Gee looks on with an expression of awe.
In one of the later season episodes, Munch spends an entire episode tracking down Gharty's past in the Vietnam War, hoping to shame him as yet another sadistic killer, racist, baby killer or whatever he can. Finally at their bar one night, Gharty lays it all out for Munch and several others- he was barely a kid drafted into service, until one night his CO ordered the men to kill unarmed civilians. Gharty refused and aimed his weapon at the CO, earning a write-up for insubordination and later an "other than honorable" discharge. For once, Munch not only looked like a tremendous ass but had nothing to say other than an apology for harassing Gharty.
The entire "you have the right to remain silent" sequence from the episode "The Documentary" certainly qualifies as awesome.
"And All Through the House": When a man suddenly pulls a shotgun on Lewis and Russert, Lewis effortlessly yanks it out of his hands.
"Fallen Heroes, Part 1": After the squadroom shootout that leaves Junior Bunk and three uniformed officers dead, and Ballard and Gharty wounded, the other detectives gather at the hospital. Gee cuts off an argument between Pembleton and Bayliss over whether they might have pushed Junior Bunk too far during interrogation and issues an order of the coldest fury:
Gee: No recriminations, not yet. Not until we finish this. No one in the Mahoney organization sleeps tonight. We take everyone. We take every house, we kick in every door. Georgia Rae wanted a war? Well, guess what? She's got one. Now let's go.
In "Hostage, Pt. 2", Brodie stands up to Munch for bullying Pembleton after his stroke. When Munch kicks him out of his house in retaliation, Brodie replies by saying he'd never want to stay with someone so cruel and gives Munch a cutting "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
