Judge Joseph Dredd
I am... the law! Drop... your weapons! These blocks... are under... arrest! This is your final... warning!
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Emotions. There oughta be a law against them.
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5 quotes Judge Joseph Dredd
Judge Joseph Dredd
I never broke the law! I AM THE LAW!
Judge Joseph Dredd
You betrayed the law!
Judge Joseph Dredd
The law can't apologize!
Judge Joseph Dredd
Court's adjourned.
Scenes with Judge Joseph Dredd
7 scenes
Mean Machine
You've got three strikes, Lawman!
Mean Machine
[Dredd swings his weapon at Mean Machine from the side] [blocks Dredd's swing with his mechanical arm]
Strike one!
Mean Machine
(Dredd swings his weapon at Mean Machine again from the side) [blocks Dredd's swing with his mechanical arm again]
Strike two!
Mean Machine
[Dredd swings his weapon down at Mean Machine's head] [unfazed]
Strike...three. [knocks Dredd away] You're out, Lawman! [swinging wildly at Dredd] You killed Link! You killed Junior! You killed all my brothers! You even killed my Paw. Yaaah!
Joseph Dredd
[Swings his mechanical arm at Dredd. The knife at the end of the arm misses Dredd's head when he ducks and imbeds into the wooden post behind him.] [reaching underneath his mechanical arm and snaps free one end of his electrical line still crackling with electricity and brushes it over his mechanical arm]
Mega-City Municipal Code 4722, illegal use of city electricity. How do you plead?
Mean Machine
Raaaaaawwwr!
Joseph Dredd
I knew you'd say that!
[Pulls the power cord back to Mean Machine's metal spine and electrocutes him with it]
Chief Justice Fargo
The blind lady.
Joseph Dredd
Who is she?
Chief Justice Fargo
Justice, before your time. We should have never taken justice out of her hands.
Joseph Dredd
You brought order to chaos, sir.
Chief Justice Fargo
That we did. Solved many problems, and created many more! Being a Judge, Joseph, perhaps too much power in one person's hands. But we once tried to compensate - dreate the perfect Judge. We called it Janus. Four decades ago, DNA samples were taken from the original Council. One was chosen: Mine. We altered it to enhance the best qualities...and screen out the worst: Weaknesses, frailties. We created you.
Joseph Dredd
You didn't create me, sir. I have a family.
Chief Justice Fargo
No.
Joseph Dredd
At the Academy, you told me they were killed when l was very young.
Chief Justice Fargo
A lie.
Joseph Dredd
I have a picture of them.
Chief Justice Fargo
A fake. We lied... to both of you.
Joseph Dredd
(confused)
Both?
Chief Justice Fargo
There was another infant created in that experiment, but something went wrong. Genetically mutated to the perfect criminal.
Joseph Dredd
I have a brother?
Chief Justice Fargo
You were best friends at the Academy. Star pupils. And then he turned. And for his crimes, you judged him.
Joseph Dredd
(realizing)
Rico...Rico... You let me judge my own brother? You never told me, sir.
Chief Justice Fargo
I couldn't.
Chief Justice Fargo
(Dredd turns and look to the distance)
You were like a son to me.
Joseph Dredd
(contemplating)
A son...my whole life is a lie...
Chief Justice Fargo
Rico had to be executed to protect you, to protect the city.
Joseph Dredd
(seething)
Rico...Rico... (turns to Fargo) He's alive!
Chief Justice Fargo
No. I signed the order myself. I saw the report.
Joseph Dredd
I didn't kill Hammond. It was him. It was his DNA that convicted me.
Chief Justice Fargo
(realizing)
Griffin. Hmph. It was Griffin.
Joseph Dredd
(nodding)
Griffin, yes.
Chief Justice Fargo
We've both been deceived, Joseph. I'm so sorry. Rico's killed me and destroyed you! (gasping his last breaths) Fi.. find him, Joseph.
Joseph Dredd
Don't die.
(Fargo passes away. Dredd feels a tinge of grief but pity, then picks up the shotgun and stares at the Statue of Justice as thunder and lightning boomed on the horizon)
Ferguson
What do we do? (Dredd says nothing for a bit) What do we do?
Joseph Dredd
(Dredd turns to Ferguson with a determined but angry look, cocking the shotgun in reply)
Find Rico.
Ferguson
Dredd, there's no way in! Hello? Are you even listening to me? We can't just knock on the wall and say, "Hello, Cursed Earth Pizza."
Joseph Dredd
There is a way in. Six years ago, two refugees figured it out. The vents to the city's incinerators, there's a burst twice a minute. That means someone can run through that tube would have 30 seconds before it flames again.
Ferguson
And these two refugees, they made through, right?
Joseph Dredd
Actually, they were roasted. But the theory is sound. Shall we?
Ferguson
Maybe we should consider other theories? Dredd!
Joseph Dredd
(Dredd and Ferguson takes cover outside of the incinerator vents until the fire has dispersed)
All right, you ready, kid?
Ferguson
No!
Joseph Dredd
Now what's wrong?
Ferguson
What's wrong? Are you kidding? Does wearing that helmet all those year compress your brain?! You're going to get me killed!
Joseph Dredd
There's a maniac loose in the city!
Ferguson
What a coincidence! There's one out here, too!
Joseph Dredd
Oh.
Ferguson
Great time I'm having. The shuttle crash, the Cursed Earth, cannibals, and now a fireball up my ass! This is all your fault!
Joseph Dredd
My fault?
Ferguson
Yes.
Joseph Dredd
Care to explain that, citizen?
Ferguson
If you hadn't judged me, I wouldn't be out here in the first place. Hey, Dredd, what if you just kill me now?
Ferguson
(Dredd and Ferguson takes cover again as another fire disperses)
That's it! I'm through schlepping. I'm gonna stay here until I'm caught or until you apologize!
Joseph Dredd
The Law can't apologize.
Ferguson
That's just it. You're not the Law anymore. Now apologize. I think I deserve that.
Joseph Dredd
(shaking his head)
I've never apologized before...
Rico Dredd
You know, I never understood that. Why did you judge me? Why did you judge me?
Joseph Dredd
You killed innocent people!
Rico Dredd
The means to an end!
Joseph Dredd
You started a massacre!
Rico Dredd
I caused a revolution!
Joseph Dredd
[Yelling]
You betrayed the law!
Rico Dredd
[Mockingly]
LAAAAW! I BETRAYED THIS! Your council's experiment, which failed in you! I was your brother, your blood, your friend. Who betrayed who? When are you going to stop being a goddamn slave and grow up? That's your birthright! That's your family! I'm your family! I'm the only family you ever had! Now choose!
Joseph Dredd
The best thing you could do is kill me.
Rico Dredd
...Why?
Joseph Dredd
Because it's your only chance...'brother'.
Rico Dredd
[last words]
Now, Joseph Dredd, I hereby judge you. To the charge of betraying your own flesh...guilty. To the charge of being human, when we could have been GODS...guilty. The sentence is death.
Joseph Dredd
Don't miss.
Lawgiver
Lethal rounds exhausted.
Barbara Hershey
Feels good to be human, don't you think?
Joseph Dredd
[smiling]
I knew you'd say that.
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