Falling Down (1993)
Robert Duvall: Prendergast
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Quotes
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Sergeant Prendergast : [trying to arrest Foster] Now, let's go meet some nice policemen. They're good guys. Come on, let's go.
Bill Foster : I'm the bad guy?
Sergeant Prendergast : Yeah.
Bill Foster : How'd that happen? I did everything they told me to. Did you know I build missiles? I helped to protect America. You should be rewarded for that. Instead they give it to the plastic surgeons, y'know, they lied to me.
Sergeant Prendergast : Is that what this is about? You're angry because you got lied to? Is that why my chicken dinner is drying out in the oven? Hey, they lie to everyone. They lie to the fish. But that doesn't give you any special right to do what you did today. The only that makes you special is that little girl.
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Captain Yardley : [while being filmed by a TV news crew] Damn fine work, Prendergast.
Sergeant Prendergast : [shaking Yardley's hand] Fuck you, Captain Yardley. Fuck you very much.
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Adele Foster-Travino : What's your name?
Sergeant Prendergast : My name is mud.
Adele Foster-Travino : Nuh-uh!
Sergeant Prendergast : Yes it is.
Adele Foster-Travino : Your name is not mud!
Sergeant Prendergast : Well, it will be. Once my wife finds out that I'm still a cop.
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Sergeant Prendergast : Get a positive ID on the gym bag.
Captain Yardley : Prendergast, what do you think this is?
[Holds up his own gym bag]
Sergeant Prendergast : A gym bag.
Captain Yardley : Does this mean you're putting me under arrest?
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Sergeant Prendergast : What did this guy look like?
Angie : I don't know, he looked like you except he was taller and he had hair.
Det. Jones : [sarcastically] Good description, Angie.
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Detective Keene : [Prendergast is turning down a stripper party to chase D-FENS] Jesus, Prendergast, what's your fucking problem? Are you afraid of women, too?
Detective Lydecker : I don't blame him... have you ever met his wife?
[Stunned silence]
Sergeant Prendergast : What did you say?
Detective Lydecker : [Sheepishly] What?
Sergeant Prendergast : What did you say?
Detective Lydecker : [Acting coy] Nothin'.
Sandra : Prendergast, we don't have time for this!
Sergeant Prendergast : Yeah, you're right!
[Punches Lydecker and leaves the room]
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Mrs. Prendergast : Mr. Peepers just scratched the shit out of me, and I'm bleeding like a stuck pig.
Prendergast : Something important's come up.
Mrs. Prendergast : What am l? Dog vomit? Your wife says she's bleeding to death, and you say something important has come up?, When are you coming home?
Prendergast : I don't know.
Mrs. Prendergast : Don't tell me you don't know. I want to know when the hell you're coming home, now!
Prendergast : Amanda, shut up! Did you hear me? Shut up! I'll get home when I'm finished, not a second before. Is that clear? Is that clear?
Mrs. Prendergast : You don't have to bite my head off.
Prendergast : And you have dinner ready and waiting for me, okay? And leave the skin on the chicken. All right?
Mrs. Prendergast : Goodbye
Prendergast : [to Detective Torres] Shit, let's go!
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[while Foster is distracted, his wife grabs his gun and throws it over the side of the pier. Prendergast points his gun at Foster as his wife and daughter flee the scene]
Sergeant Prendergast : What were you going to do?
Bill Foster : I don't know. I don't know what I'm going to do.
Sergeant Prendergast : Oh, guys like you always say you don't know what you're going to do until you do it. I think you know exactly what you were going to do, you would've killed your wife and child.
Bill Foster : No.
Sergeant Prendergast : Yeah. And then you knew it would be too late to turn back, it would be real easy to turn the gun around on yourself.
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Sergeant Prendergast : Lucky you caught me.
Motorcycle Cop : I am?
Sergeant Prendergast : Yeah. Today's my last day as a cop.
Motorcycle Cop : Lucky me.
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Sergeant Prendergast : She'd got it into her head that I'd been killed, so when I got home she thought I was a ghost and I had to chase her around the house!
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Sergeant Prendergast : And I want you to leave the skin on the chicken!
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Sergeant Prendergast : [Mr. Lee speaks in Korean] What did he say, Brian?
Detective Brian : You know, I don't know. Mr. Lee is Korean.
[sarcastic]
Detective Brian : I happen to be Japanese, in case you never bothered to notice.
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Sergeant Prendergast : [Standing on the hill near the convenience store] Hey, Mr. Lee! D-FENS!
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Motorcycle Cop Bobbit : [Highway Patrolman, Prendergast, and Car Driver are talking in gridlocked traffic] Gentlemen, I'm going to have to ask you to both return to your vehicles.
Car Driver : But what about the car?
Motorcycle Cop Bobbit : I'm going to radio for a tow truck to have it removed.
Sergeant Prendergast : Let's just shove it out of the way, we'll get this lane moving!
Motorcycle Cop Bobbit : Sir, sir, we're in a dangerous environment here. We've got a lot of glass and steel rushing by us at high speeds.
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Sergeant Prendergast : Something about my wife. Maybe I never mentioned it.
Sandra : What?
Sergeant Prendergast : I love her.
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Bill Foster : You want to draw?
Sergeant Prendergast : Let's not. Let's call it a day.
Bill Foster : Oh, come on. It's perfect. Showdown between the sheriff and the bad guy. It's beautiful.
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Sergeant Prendergast : [the other detectives have filled his desk with kitty litter] How am I supposed to get a pen out of here?
Detective Keene : You don't need a pen. Just use one of them cat turds.
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Sergeant Prendergast : She did say it was a white guy...
Detective : I know! What ever will she say next?