Rachel Lapp quotes from Witness (1985)

Rachel Lapp

When can we leave the city?

John Book

We're trying to get this done as quickly as possible, then you can go. But, Samuel's probably gonna have to come back to testify. I'm sorry.

Rachel Lapp

No, you are not, you are glad.

John Book

Huh?

Rachel Lapp

Because now you have a witness.

John Book

Yeah, now I got a witness.

Rachel Lapp

I just don't like the idea of my son spending all this time with a man who carries a gun and goes around whacking people!

John Book

Whacking?... whacking?

Rachel Lapp

Your sister says you don't have a family.

John Book

No, I don't.

Rachel Lapp

She thinks that you ought to get married and have children of your own, instead of trying to be a father to hers.

John Book

Yeah.

Rachel Lapp

Except she thinks you are afraid of the responsibility.

John Book

That's interesting... anything else?

Rachel Lapp

Mm hm... she thinks you like policing because you think you are right about everything and you're the only one who can do anything, and when you drink a lot of beer you say things like 'none of the other police know a crook from a bag of elbows!'. At least I think that's what she said.

Rachel Lapp

Are you enjoying your reading?

John Book

Oh yeah. I'm learning a lot about manure. Very interesting.

Rachel Lapp

He's leaving, isn't he?

Eli Lapp

Tomorrow morning. He'll need his city clothes.

Rachel Lapp

But why? What does he have to go back to?

Eli Lapp

He's going back to his world, where he belongs. He knows it, and you know it, too.