The Firm (1993)

Ed Harris: Wayne Tarrance

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• Mitch McDeere : I got mine, Wayne, you get the rest of them.

  Wayne Tarrance : Get 'em with what? Overbilling, mail fraud? Oh, that's exciting.

  Mitch McDeere : It's not sexy, but it's got teeth! Ten thousand dollars and five years in prison. That's ten and five for each act. Have you really looked at that? You've got every partner in the firm on overbilling. There's two hundred fifty acts of documented mail fraud there. That's racketeering! That's minimum one thousand, two hundred fifty years in prison and half a million dollars in fines. That's more than you had on Capone.

• Wayne Tarrance : Man, I don't understand you. What'd you do it for? You didn't win a thing.

  Mitch McDeere : Oh, yes I did. I won my life back. YOU don't run me, and THEY don't run me!

• Wayne Tarrance : How about you get down on your knees and kiss my ass for not indicting you as a co-conspirator right now, you chickenshit little Harvard cocksucker?

  Mitch McDeere : I haven't done anything, and you know it!

  Wayne Tarrance : Who gives a fuck? I'm a federal agent! You know what that means, you lowlife motherfucker? It means you've got no rights, your life is mine! I could kick your teeth down your throat and yank 'em out your asshole, and I'm not even violating your civil rights!

• Mitch McDeere : Let me get this straight: you want me to steal files from the firm, turn them over to the FBI, send my colleagues to jail...

  Wayne Tarrance : They roped you into this.

  Mitch McDeere : Breach attorney-client privilege, thus getting myself disbarred for life, then testify in open court against the Mafia...

  Wayne Tarrance : Well, unfortunately, Mitch...

  Mitch McDeere : Let me ask you something: are you out of your fucking mind?

• Mitch McDeere : You are Agent Wayne Terrance.

  Wayne Tarrance : Yeah, you're goddamn right I am, and maybe local cops can't...

  [stops as he realizes Mitch has baited him, then answers phone when it rings] 

  Wayne Tarrance : . Yeah?

  Tammy : Is this Wayne Terrance?

  Wayne Tarrance : Who is this?

  Tammy : Is this Wayne Terrance?

  Wayne Tarrance : Yeah, this is Wayne Terrance.

  Tammy : So is this.

  [plays tape of previous, self-incriminating conversation with Mitch] 

  Mitch McDeere : [to Wayne Terrance]  Now, I think you ought to reconsider.

• [Mitch tosses a small cassette to Tarrance] 

  Mitch McDeere : It's you at the track. I could have gone public with it.

  Wayne Tarrance : Then why didn't you?

  Mitch McDeere : [smiles]  It's against the law.

• Wayne Tarrance : Get me a map of Louisiana. GET ME A MAP OF LOUISIANA!