Pacific Heights (1990)

Carl Lumbly: Lieutenant Lou Baker

Quotes 

• Sergeant Bobby Amato : Look, I don't have his name here. He's still probably at the 3rd Street Station. Gas stove, microwave, disposal, dishwasher, two sinks, one toilet?

  [Patty figures it out] 

  Sergeant Bobby Amato : Um, about how many electrical fixtures would you guess?

  Patty Palmer : I don't know.

  Sergeant Bobby Amato : Okay, well, it's not important but, uh, you know, we will need it for your insurance. We're gonna need a complete list.

  Patty Palmer : Our insurance was canceled.

  [Phone rings. Sergeant Amato pick up and answer the phone] 

  Sergeant Bobby Amato : Yeah.

  Lieutenant Lou Baker : [Baker over phone]  Patricia Palmer still with you?

  Sergeant Bobby Amato : Yeah, she's right here.

  Lieutenant Lou Baker : [Baker on the phone]  I'd like to speak with her.

  Sergeant Bobby Amato : Yeah, sure. Come on in.

  [It's from Lieutenant Lou Baker] 

  Sergeant Bobby Amato : Uh, that's my boss.

  [Lieutenant Lou Baker has arrived to see Patty Palmer] 

  Lieutenant Lou Baker : I recognized the name on the report.

  [Miss Palmer see] 

  Sergeant Bobby Amato : You two know each other?

  Lieutenant Lou Baker : Bobby, why don't you take these upstairs, see if we can get a running start on where this cretin might fence the appliances.

  Sergeant Bobby Amato : Sure thing, Lieutenant.

  Lieutenant Lou Baker : Thank you.

  [Lieutenant Baker is going to have a word with Miss Palmer] 

  Lieutenant Lou Baker : I guess you're wishing now you'd rented to the Black man.

  Patty Palmer : You never brought back your application.

  Lieutenant Lou Baker : Oh, I brought it back.

  Patty Palmer : I never got it.

  Lieutenant Lou Baker : Uh-huh. The Porsche in your garage was leased. Hayes made one payment, put stolen plates on it. They've been looking for him ever since. I sent a tow to haul away what's left of It.

  Patty Palmer : He shot my boyfriend.

  Lieutenant Lou Baker : I know. You're lucky he didn't kill him. This is a sick individual, Miss Palmer. Be grateful he's out of your life. Right now, you don't mean a thing to him. Leave it that way. If he's gonna get caught, we'll capture him.

  Patty Palmer : He shot my boyfriend. My boyfriend is in the hospital. He destroyed our property. There are lawsuits, there's the foreclosure. I had a miscarriage. And you're telling me to forget about him?

  Lieutenant Lou Baker : Next time, maybe he ain't so lucky. Next time, maybe he runs into the man who blows his brains out.

  Patty Palmer : Next time?

  Lieutenant Lou Baker : Let him go, Miss Palmer.

  [Let him go] 

• Lieutenant Lou Baker : I guess you're wishing now you'd rented to the Black man.