Hidden Agenda (1990)

Frances McDormand: Ingrid

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• Kerrigan : Go back to America. Get out of Belfast, you're in danger here. Ingrid, it's finished.

  Ingrid Jessner : Not for them, it isn't. Not for Nevin and the others. They're not going to disappear, you know they're still in place. I have a plane to catch, Mr. Kerrigan.

• Ingrid Jessner : Mr. Kerrigan, how far you'll be willing to go with this?

  Kerrigan : If... and it's still a big if, if Harris is in anyway connect with the shooting I don't care whose toes I tread on, he becomes part of the investigation. No more, no less. Okay?

• Ingrid Jessner : Are you going to do anything about this?

  Kerrigan : There's nothing I can do.

  Ingrid Jessner : They've committed murder and treason at 11'o clock this morning, a man was assassinated by orders of the British Intelligence and you could do nothing?

  Kerrigan : I wish I could.

  Ingrid Jessner : You have credentials I don't have, your reputation brought you here, people would listen to you.

  Kerrigan : With you as my witness? A member of a civil liberties group who accuses the British government of torture and shoot to kill policy.

  Ingrid Jessner : "I don't care whose toes I tread on." That's what you said, and I believed it.

  Kerrigan : Look, I have to go...

  Ingrid Jessner : Go!

  Kerrigan : I'm a policeman.

  Ingrid Jessner : Yes, you are.

  Kerrigan : The men responsible for Paul's death will be charged.

  Ingrid Jessner : You know and you'll do nothing.

  Kerrigan : I can't win with these people...

  Ingrid Jessner : You'll just close your eyes.

  Kerrigan : Forget it and go home.

  Ingrid Jessner : That's how Fascism starts! So what do you think of your fine British law now, Mr. Kerrigan?

  Kerrigan : It has nothing to do with law and police...

  Ingrid Jessner : What is it, then?

  Kerrigan : It's politics.

  Ingrid Jessner : To enforce the rules of a police state IS politics. Good guys like you cover up so bad guys are safe. You're a puppet and the men pulling the strings know it.

• Kerrigan : What happened to the film?

  Ingrid Jessner : Never got made.

  Kerrigan : Too controversial?

  Ingrid Jessner : Too honest, I think. It was about how Mr. Kissinger, the CIA and the Pentagon have made Chile safe for democracy.

• Paul Sullivan : I don't believe it.

  Ingrid Jessner : Tribal rites.

  Paul Sullivan : It's frightening.