A scene from Falling Down 1993
Martin Prendergast

[phone rings and Prendergast answers it]

Yeah, Prendergast.

Amanda Prendergast

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

Martin Prendergast

Who is?

Amanda Prendergast

Mr. Peepers.

Martin Prendergast

Good.

Amanda Prendergast

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

Martin Prendergast

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

Sandra Torres

[at the Whammyburger]

White shirt and tie.

Martin Prendergast

Sandra, could you hold on one second?

Sandra Torres

I gotta go.

Martin Prendergast

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!

Martin Prendergast

[to Amanda]

Hon, let me call your right back.

Amanda Prendergast

What's wrong? What are you doing?

Martin Prendergast

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

Amanda Prendergast

Well, you can come home then.

Martin Prendergast

I can't.

Amanda Prendergast

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

Martin Prendergast

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.

Amanda Prendergast

Wait a minute. Make a list.

Martin Prendergast

A list?

Amanda Prendergast

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

Martin Prendergast

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

Sandra Torres

I am tying up the phone here.

Martin Prendergast

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.

Martin Prendergast

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.

Martin Prendergast

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

Amanda Prendergast

Why?

Martin Prendergast

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

Amanda Prendergast

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

Martin Prendergast

Of course not.

Amanda Prendergast

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?

Martin Prendergast

[switches to Torres]

Sandra, are you mad at me?

Sandra Torres

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

Lydecker

[rudely to Torres]

Are you retiring as well, too?

Sandra Torres

Just don't leave without saying goodbye.

Lydecker

[rudely to Torres]

Goodbye.

Martin Prendergast

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

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