Capt. Dudley Smith : Would you be willing to plant corroborative evidence on a suspect you knew to be guilty, in order to ensure an indictment? Sgt. Ed Exley : Dudley, we've been over this. Capt. Dudley Smith : Yes or no, Edmund? Sgt. Ed Exley : No. Capt. Dudley Smith : Would you be willing to beat a confession out of a suspect you knew to be guilty? Sgt. Ed Exley : No. Capt. Dudley Smith : Would you be willing to shoot a hardened criminal in the back, in order to offset the chance that some...lawyer... Sgt. Ed Exley : No. Capt. Dudley Smith : Then, for the love of God, don't be a detective. Stick to assignments where you don't have to make those kinds of choices.

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