Sandra Torres quotes from Falling Down (1993)

Yeah, Prendergast.

Hi, it's me. He's eating and resting comfortably now.

Who is?

Mr. Peepers.

Good.

Honey, I'm sorry about before. I really blew my top.

That's okay, honey [Torres starts calling] Can you hold on just one second? [switches to Torres] Prendergast.

Sandra Torres

White shirt and tie.

Sandra, could you hold on one second?

Sandra Torres

I gotta go.

No, just one second. It's very important. [switches to Amanda]

Lydecker

Detective Torres! Excuse me! We have about 7 million people out here waiting to make a statement!

Sandra Torres

I'm on the phone!

Hon, let me call your right back.

What's wrong? What are you doing?

Nothing's wrong. Not doing anything. What do you mean?

Well, you can come home then.

I can't.

It's your last day. What are they gonna do, fire you?

There's a lot of red tape, the sooner I get done the sooner i'll get home. I'll call you in a while, okay.

Wait a minute. Make a list.

A list?

We need boneless chicken, skinless. Red peppers. Not green, red.

Honey. Hold on one second. [switches to Torres] Sandra

Sandra Torres

I am tying up the phone here.

Just listen for once in your life. Now a gang girl at the drive by said that a man in a white shirt and tie attacked her homeboys with a baseball bat. Now I think somebody's let their dog off the leash.

Sandra Torres

I think you got "last day-itis". This man was not swinging a baseball bat, he has a gym bag full of guns.

A gym bag?

Sandra Torres

Look, you asked me to tell you what he was wearing. I gotta run. The lieutenants wants the canvass the neighborhood.

Sandra, just one more second. Please it's important. [switches to Amanda] Hon, why don't you go to the store?

Why?

It's my last day, the guys might want to have a send off or something.

What are they gonna do? Get some broad with tassels dangling from her tits, dancing on her desk?

Of course not.

Look, buster. While you've been there playing cop, i'm at home planning your retirement. It's over. The sooner you get that through your head the better. You are no longer in the law enforcement business. Now, I will at the usual time, capito?

Sandra, are you mad at me?

Sandra Torres

No, I hate you but I'm not mad.

Lydecker

Are you retiring as well, too?

Sandra Torres

Just don't leave without saying goodbye.

Lydecker

Goodbye.

If you go up against this guy...be careful.

This is his room.

Martin Prendergast

You're a very neat and tidy lady.

Oh, he cleans his own room.

Martin Prendergast

Now don't make me call you a liar.

No. If he wasn't at work, i'd be afraid to set foot in here.

Martin Prendergast

What's he been doing lately?

Same as ever. He's building important things to protect us from the communists. He works at NoTec.

Martin Prendergast

The defense plant? "D-FENS". [to Torres] Why don't you call NoTec and see if you can get them on the line? [Torres leaves the room to call NoTec] So, what's going on with your son?

What do you mean?

Martin Prendergast

You know exactly what I mean?

Sometimes he sits through an entire meal without saying a word. He just keeps shoveling food in his mouth like he's some kind of a machine, I get so nervous I can't swallow. I'll sit there with the same piece of food in my mouth. I just have to spit it out on the plate, and when I do, he looks at me like he would like to kill me. Don't tell him that I said that.

Martin Prendergast

I promise, I won't.

I try not to be a burden. I'm not just talking financial.

Martin Prendergast

Now, how could you be a burden to anyone? Now if William, or Bill--

He likes Bill. I call him Bill too.

Martin Prendergast

If Bill said he was going home, could he have meant where his wife and daughter live?

Ex-wife. We shouldn't be in here. [they leave Foster's old bedroom and head downstairs]

Martin Prendergast

Ex-wife, right? Elizabeth, what's her name again? Her maiden name?

Tavino. She was part Italian, you know it goes with them.

Martin Prendergast

So where's Elizabeth now?

I wouldn't know.

Martin Prendergast

You mean you don't know where your granddaughter lives?

He doesn't want me to know where she is. He blames me for what happened. [Torres comes in, having just talked to NoTec on the phone]

Martin Prendergast

What's the word?

Sandra Torres

He was fired over a month ago.

What? Well, where has he been going every day? Where has he been eating his lunch?

No answer from Elizabeth. Did you send the cavalry?

Sandra Torres

No, pacific division are pricks. They say they can't justify sending units to the same address 3 times in one day to comfort "some hysterical woman". What do you want to do?

Go to Venice. [phone rings] Get that, will you?

Sandra Torres

Torres

Who the **** is this?

Sandra Torres

Shit, it's your wife.

Hon.

Yeah, "hon", i know who that was! Listen, Mr. Peepers just scratched the shit out of me and I'm bleeding like a stuck pig!

Listen, honey. Something important has come up, alright?

What am I, dog vomit? Your wife tells you she's bleeding to death and you say something important has come up? When are you coming home?

I don't know.

Don't tell me you don't know...I WANNA KNOW WHEN THE HELL YOU'RE COMING HOME NOW!!!!

Amanda, shut up! You hear me? Shut up! Now, I'll get home when I'm finished, not a second before. Is that clear? Is that clear?

Well, you don't have to bite my head off.

And you have dinner ready and waiting for me, okay? And Amanda...you leave the skin on the chicken.

Okay, okay.

Goodbye. [hangs up]

shit.

Martin Prendergast

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]

Sandra Torres

Police! [A gunshot is heard and Prendergast frantically enters the house, searches the place and goes out back]

Martin Prendergast

Sandra! [she has been shot in the stomach by Foster and is lying on the grass bleeding] You okay?

Sandra Torres

Yeah, i'm alright.

Martin Prendergast

Get an ambulance! Call 911, get an ambulance! Tell them an officer has been shot! GO GO GO!!! [Prendergast picks up Torres' gun]

Sandra Torres

Be careful [Prendergast chases Foster to the pier] Go get the bastard! He's still dressed like G.I. Joe!