What about the briefcase? You forgot the briefcase!
Prendergast
Robert Duvall · 42 quotes
Bill Foster
27 quotes
Nick
10 quotes
William Foster
9 quotes
Elizabeth Tavino
4 quotes
Sandra Torres
Rachel Ticotin · 4 quotes
Most scenes together: Bill Foster & Prendergast (17), Nick & Prendergast (5), Prendergast & Sandra Torres (4)
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Man on Freeway
[Bill Foster exits his car in the middle of the highway]
Hey, where do you think you're going?
I'm going home!
Who the **** do you think you are, you ****! You **** ****!
Why have you put barbed wire on a fence? Is this how you rich people amuse yourselves? You put barbed wire on the fence so innocent people like me can hurt themselves lurking in?
You have a choice. I can kill you, or you can kill me, and my daughter can collect the insurance.
What would a guy in a white shirt and tie be doing in gangland?
[While destroying merchandise in a Korean owned grocery store]
You think I'm a thief? No. See, I'm not the thief, I'm not the one charging 85 cents for a STINKING SODA! YOU'RE THE THIEF! I'm just standing up for my rights as a consumer! I'm rolling prices back to 1965! What do you think of that?
Alright. Take the back. [Torres runs to the back of Foster's house, Prendergast realizes he doesn't have his gun in his holster as he had given it away for retirement earlier]
Police! [A gunshot is heard and Prendergast frantically enters the house, searches the place and goes out back]
Sandra! [she has been shot in the stomach by Foster and is lying on the grass bleeding] You okay?
Yeah, i'm alright.
[to a neighbor]
Get an ambulance! Call 911, get an ambulance! Tell them an officer has been shot! GO GO GO!!! [Prendergast picks up Torres' gun]
Be careful [Prendergast chases Foster to the pier] Go get the bastard! He's still dressed like G.I. Joe!
[phone rings and she answers it]
Hello? [no answer] Hello? [still no answer] Cut the crap, I know it's you. What do you want? It is you, isn't it?
You got to stop calling me.
It's Adele's birthday.
Yes, I know it's her birthday. What do you want?
I'm coming home.
What are you talking about?
I just...I want to let you know that I'm coming home for her birthday.
You're not coming here.
Listen Beth. I got to see you.
No. No you listen to me. This is my house now. I pay the rent. You don't even pay child support. You just can't walk in and out whenever you feel like.
Don't talk like that, Beth. I have to come home. I have to bring her present.
You know you can't come here.
Mexican gangbanger 1
Hey. Hey! [points that Foster is at the phonebooth] It's him! It's him, man!
How's Adele?
This isn't your home anymore.
How is she?
She's doing just fine without you.
Mexican gangbanger 2
Get out of the car!
Angie Come on, man. It's **** broad daylight, man! This shit ain't worth it!
Mexican gangbanger 2
Get the **** out of the car now! [the gang start loading their weapons as Angie steps out of the car]
And you?
Don't. I'll call the police if I have to.
Mexican gangbanger 2
Go, go, go!
I'm coming home, Beth. I'm coming home. [he hangs up, and the Mexican gang try to shoot Foster, but hits several bystanders instead, missing him].
What were you going to do?
I don't know, I don't know what I'm going to do.
Guys like you always say that. You don't know what you're gonna do until you do it. I think you knew exactly what you were going to do. You were gonna kill your wife and child!
Yeah, and then it would be too late to turn back. It'd be easy to turn the gun on yourself! Now let's go meet some nice policemen. They're good guys. Come on, let's go.
I'm the bad guy?
Yeah.
How did that happen? I did everything they told me to. Did you know I build missiles?
Yeah.
I helped to protect America. You should be rewarded for that. But instead they gave it to the plastic surgeons. They lied to me.
Is that what all this is about? You're angry because you were lied to? Is that why my chicken dinner's drying out in the oven? Hey! They lie to everybody, they lie to the fish. But that doesn't give you any special right to do what you did today. The only thing that makes you special, is your daughter. Now let's go. Let's go!
[accepting that Prendergast is right, looks away]
It sure was hot today, wasn't it? You know, I got a gun. In my pocket. [turns around to face Prendergast] I got lots of guns.
Stay there. Don't move.
Wanna draw?
Let's not. Let's call it a day.
Oh, come on. It's perfect. A showdown between the sheriff and the bad guy? It's beautiful. On three.
This doesn't have to be the end, Bill. You have a choice. My daughter is dead. I don't have a choice. You have a choice.
No, you have two choices. I can kill you, or you can kill me and my daughter can get the insurance. One.
Don't you want to see her grow up?
Behind bars? [shakes his head, beat] Two.
Don't do this. Please. LET'S GO!
Three.
[Foster pulls out a water pistol from his pocket, and Prendergast shoots Foster in the chest]
...I would've got you.
[Foster falls off the railing and into the water below. Prendergast looks over the railing at Foster floating dead in the water, feeling bad that he just killed him]
Genuine Santa Monica sand's more like it.
Sandra, you have a career. It's not easy to see your beauty go and that's all you got.
And she didn't make me get off the street. I happened to come home late one night, and I found her sitting in the dark staring at the wall. She had gotten into her head that I'd been killed. She thought I was a ghost and I had to chase her all over the house!
[calling from the surplus store basement after just killing the Nazi]
So who were you talking to a while ago?
You're just trying to scare me.
No, you're not succeeding. So you might as well just stop it. And you're not scaring me out of my own house. And you're not coming here.
Oh, but I am. I'm on my way. You can count on that. I've passed the point of no return, Beth. You know when that is? That's the point in a journey where it's longer to go back to the beginning than it is to continue to the end. It's like...Do you remember when those astronauts got in trouble when they were going to the moon and something went wrong? I don't know, somebody screwed up and they had to get them back to Earth, but they had passed the point of no return. So, they had to go all the way around the moon to get back, and they were out of contact for hours. Everybody waited breathlessly to see if a bunch of dead guys in a can would pop out the other side, and that's me. I'm on the other side of the moon now, out of contact, and everybody's just going to have to wait until I pop out.
The police are here.
Did you know that in certain South American countries it's still legal to kill your wife if she insults you?
Put them on the phone. [Elizabeth hangs up instead]
Me? I'm a coward, the captain just told me.