Jake Randolph in "The Littlest Client" Pt. 21

"I just never understood why you didn't want to go to the police academy with me. It would've been just like the Army," Harrigan said.

"Exactly!" I exclaimed. "I spent three-and-a-half years in a rigid hierarchy and I didn't want to do the same damned thing when I got back to civilization. And if you'll recall, Harrigan, we had that conversation in this very diner when we got back from Germany. When I said I was going to be a detective you said I would make a good private dick because I was already a public one!"