Miss Russell, I should've called the police that night but I was weak. You convinced me to stay silent. I regret that. Know this: every time I see your face, I wanna rip your throat out.
Luther Whitney
Clint Eastwood · 6 quotes
Bill Burton
Scott Glenn · 4 quotes
Gloria Russell
Judy Davis · 4 quotes
Seth Frank
Ed Harris · 4 quotes
Walter Sullivan
E.G. Marshall · 4 quotes
Kate Whitney
Laura Linney · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Bill Burton & Gloria Russell (3), Luther Whitney & Walter Sullivan (2), Luther Whitney & Kate Whitney (2)
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Allen Richmond What do we know, so far?
Well, we've checked his license plates. He stole the car from a police impoundment lot.
Allen Richmond We're not dealing with a fool here, are we? Has he initiated contact?
Burton doesn't think he will.
Allen Richmond I agree. I apologize for my behavior. It won't happen again. Consider it a blip on the screen. As far as I'm concerned that's all he is, too.
Well, he could be a little more than that, Allen. He saw.
Allen Richmond He saw nothing. He saw a drunk woman who liked rough sex too much. He's a burglar. Who's gonna believe him? After all, it's not as if he has any evidence or anything.
Allen, did you have sex with her?
Allen Richmond I... I don't know.
Bill, I need you to examine her.
I'm no gynecologist.
I just made you one!
Oh, Christ...
He's got the letter opener. Blood. Fingerprints. Jesus... Think what he can do.
The man's a thief. A thief who witnessed a murder.
What do I do?
Nothing. Because he's making a terrible mistake. He thinks he has time. He doesn't. Seth Frank's too good. He'll bring him in.
Then what?
Tim Collin Then I kill him.
Quit wasting my time. He doesn't want you to find him, you're not gonna find him.
You're saying what? He left town, he skipped the country? What?
I'm saying, you won't recognize him. I'm saying, he could be right around the corner.
Why'd you come?
I couldn't have my daughter thinking I was a murderer.
No, I mean why did you come to the restaurant this afternoon? You must have suspected something, or else you wouldn't have been prepared.
My daughter wanted to see me.
...
But then you go to the police. That's what innocent people do. They go to the police.
Sure. And that young man who was just here, he'd believe me over the President, wouldn't he?
Well, why should I believe you?
Because I swear to you, Kate. I swear to you on Mattie's grave. Yeah, that's right. Your mother's grave, I'd kill myself before I lied about that.
Oh Jesus, Luther.
Yeah, I know.
[about the night when Christy was killed]
A lot of crap is coming down tonight, sir. Do you want to be a player, or not? Do you want to know what happened that night, or don't you? Because I was there.
I want to know.
Do you think you can, stand hearing about it, how he beat her, tried to strangle her, you want to really know about that?
I could walk through the fire.
Well, I was in the vault when they came in, they were drunk. He started knocking her around, but she fought back, then he started getting really rough, she tried to defend herself, while he started screaming, like the sniveling SIMP HE IS.
Who else was in my house?
The Secret Service, they're the ones who shot her.
Nonsense!
And Gloria Russell she handled the cover up.
STOP THIS!
Don't you want to know who it was?
IT WAS YOU!
Oh come on Mr. Sullivan, we're too old to bullshit each other.
WHO WAS IT THEN?
You know? [Mr. Sullivan nods his head] Don't shake your head at me. When you're alone at night, and your rage takes over and you want to avenge her. What face do you put with your enemy?
Medical Examiner
Looks like he tried to strangle her.
He strangled her, then he went to the door to shoot her from behind?
Medical Examiner
He also inspected her vagina.
He did what? Why?
Laura Simon Maybe he didn't remember that he did her.
A strong burglar with a weak mind. Obviously another open-and-shut case.
Why does he bother to dig a slug out of the wall when he knows there's already another one stuck in her head?
Laura Simon Uh, different from the one in her body?
Two guns means two burglars. They broke in together, they both went out the window? That's bullshit! And by the way, why did he, or they, go out the window in the first place when he, or they, got in by breaking a zillion-dollar security system?
Are you taking your shortcut, Tommy?
I'm your substitute drive tonight, Mr. Sullivan. Oh don't worry about Tommy; he's just fine.
It's very unusual. What do I call you?
Luther, sir.
Are you familiar with to get to my townhouse, Luther?
Oh yes, sir I know where all your houses are. I'm the man who robbed you. And you're the man who tried to kill me.
I'm sorry I've missed. I believe in the Old Testament, sir. There's nothing wrong for an eye for an eye for when a terrible deed has been done. A deed such as yours.
Which you'd like to believe, wouldn't ya? That'd be simple for you to believe that. What do you think that I have to gain by being here?
I have no idea. Are you going to rob me again?
Oh I don't need your money, Mr. Sullivan. Now did you check your vault lately? I put everything back.
I'm afraid we're a little late for an attempt at leniency.
For eighty years, I've tried to live... a decent life. I've given a billion dollars to charity. If this comes to trial... none of that will be remembered. I'll just go out... the joke of the world.
I understand, sir. I'll do what I can.
[chuckles]
Will you listen to me whine? I apologize, Mr. Frank. Bother me all you want, just do your job. And I'll try to do mine.
I don't yet know who it is I'm after. Until I do, you'll have to wait in Washington for instructions.
Michael McCarty I'm afraid that's out of the question. Mine is not particularly creative work, and I do it only because I enjoy living beyond my means. I can't afford to just sit around.
My father died when I was nine years old. He was a miner. He died of lung disease. I became rich at twenty-five, and the first thing I did was to buy that mine, close it down, and give every miner fifty thousand dollars to retire on. You *will* wait in Washington, Mr. McCarty. You will choose a penthouse suite, and I will put one million dollars into a Swiss bank of your choosing. And when the time comes... two million dollars a bullet.
Michael McCarty ...You are a salesman, sir.
Selling sin is easy.
[Collin, disguised as a doctor, tries to kill Kate with an injection; Luther, also disguised as a doctor, comes up behind him and jabs a syringe into his neck]
Dr. Kevorkian, I presume? My guess is this is right in your carotid artery about now. You're gonna get a little woozy. But if I give you the rest of this, it's gonna fry your brain down to the size of a peanut! Drop that.
Tim Collin [Collin drops the syringe, and Luther eases him down to the floor] [whispering]
Luther, he's my president, right or wrong.
Well, he made a mistake. *You* made a mistake. When you went after my little girl, that was entirely unacceptable.
Tim Collin [pleading weakly]
Mercy.
I'm fresh out.
[Luther plunges the injection into Collin's neck; Collin groans as he dies] [starts waking up in hospital bed]
Daddy?
I've got to go have my pacemaker checked, it has been so exciting talking to you.