It looked easy on the TV cop shows, but a pistol was a ridiculously inaccurate weapon, especially when fired while running.

Scenes from a hundred TV cop shows played in his memory.

He sounded like a TV cop.

One commercial, for instance, celebrated TV cops like Kojak.

"I wanted to have a TV ingénue pursued by a TV cop."

They were like TV cops standing over a body matter-of-factly discussing multiple stab wounds.

You sound like the worst kind of TV cop, you know that, Lawson?

Aggressively as a TV cop, she strode up to the helpless bean tin.

TV cops have to work around the system quite a bit, you know.

"Besides, if your TV cop didn't figure it out, your viewers would be pretty disappointed."