Falling Down 1993 quotes, page 4

Prendergast

Hey! What happens between me and my wife is nobody's business but mine, Sandra.

Prendergast

Would you believe that I used to fish right out here. This very spot. Now they say "Don't eat the fish, it's poisonous." And you can't even swim in the water, it'll give you some kind of bacterial infection. So, how's that for "sick"?

Prendergast

You know, my wife was never was cut out for motherhood. She did it all for me. Went through all that pain, lost her figure, for me. Then the kid went to sleep one night and never woke up. They called it "Infant death syndrome", but she wasn't an infant. It was very strange, cause she was 2 years old, she was a big girl. She was our baby.

You sure you don't want something? Coffee, soda, something?

No thank you, ma'am.

I feel kind of stupid about this whole thing.

Better safe than sorry.

Yeah that's what I thought.

You have a restraining order against your husband?

Ex-husband. Yeah, he'd show up on the wrong day, or in the middle of the night pounding on the door, stuff like that. Thing is. He has this horrendous temper and I just didn't know if a restraining order was a good idea and if it'd do more harm than good. But the judge said we should make an example of him. So he can't come within 100 feet of us. Or is it yards? Which is it? Feet or yards?

That's up to the judge.

Really? I thought it was a set thing.

No, it's at his discretion.

That's interesting.

Does he drink?

Oh, I thought you meant the judge. No, I wouldn't say so.

Do drugs?

Oh, no.

But he has a propensity for violence?

Yeah, I think you can say that.

Did he strike the little girl?

Well, no.

Did he strike you?

Not exactly.

Not exactly?

You know, there were times when I thought he was going to. But i just didn't want until he got around to it. It's hard to explain. He could, I think.

You think?

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.

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.

I lost my job. Actually I didn't lose it. It lost me. I'm overeducated, underskilled. Maybe it's the other way around. I forget, but I'm obsolete. I'm not economically viable. I can't even support my own kid.

Prendergast

You mean he stole your baseball bat but he paid for the soda? Oh, this guy's discriminating.

Prendergast

Now, if you go up against this guy, be careful.

Prendergast

Some G.I. Joe gave an old geaser a heart attack at the Altmore Golf Course, and accosted a family right next door. He's wearing a surplus jacket, the kind you find at an Army Navy store.

Prendergast here.

Hi. It's me.

Hi.

I wish you'd come home. Wouldn't you come home now.

What's wrong, baby?

I don't know. I just...i got a little scared. And...i'd really like you to come home.

What is it, honey?

Well...[starts crying] I don't know. I was just wrapping some...some glasses up and some things and I...I got...I got really scared. You're not doing this move just for me, are you? You really want to do it, don't you?

Look. The Important thing is we're together and that's what counts.

Yeah, but you're not here.

But I will be soon, baby.

Say it. Say it.

I'll be home soon.

No. Say it.

I'll be home soon and I love you.

I love you, too.

Feel better?

No, I don't feel better.

No? Okay. "London bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down, London bridge is falling down" Come on, help me. "My Fair Lady"

My Fair Lady.

You're my fair lady?

Yes. Bye.

Bye-bye [hangs up the phone]

Ma'am, we're gonna take off now.

You are? Really?

It doesn't look like your husband's gonna show. What would probably happen was he came to his senses that he realize he could get into a lot of trouble if he harassed you. What I think you should do is call your lawyer and tell him about it.

Well, it's one of those services. I didn't have much money.

Well, call them. And tell them to call your husband's lawyer. Make it official. In the meantime, lock up. And if anything else happens, give us a call.

It's my little girl's birthday today. We were going to have a barbecue like you guys, and she was going to play outside, my wife would hold my hand, and we'd talk about grown up things. And then when it got dark, we'd all go to sleep together. We'd all sleep together in the dark. And everything will be just like it was before.

Prendergast

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! And then it would be too late to turn back. It'd be easy to turn the gun on yourself!

Prendergast

Martin Prendergast. Downtown robbery. Let's go.