Guilty as Sin (1993)

Don Johnson: David Edgar Greenhill

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• [Moe is sitting in his desk, smoking while working. Suddenly, the door opens and David Greenhill enters] 

  Moe : Well, what can I do for you?

  David Greenhill : Well, I thought I might be able to... help you out with that little biography you've been writing about me. You know, maybe help fill in some of the gaps.

  Moe : Why would I be interested in you?

  David Greenhill : 'Cause I'm a remarkable fellow, Moe. You've never met anyone quite like me before.

  [David looks up places] 

  David Greenhill : God, places like these are bad for my allergies.

  Moe : Well, I don't like to throw things away.

  David Greenhill : Yeah, well, Moe, sometimes you got to get rid of the old to make way for the new. You know what I mean? I mean, let's face it. Old people, they just kind of clutter up the world. You know what I mean? They walk too slow and they talk too slow... and they drive too slow and they're always in the friggin' way. Trying to remind you about how things used to be. Pain in the butt, really.

  Moe : If you're looking for your file, I... had it copied and put in the safe-deposit box.

  David Greenhill : No. Not you, Moe. No computer, no fax, no Xerox. Mm-mm. You wouldn't have that trash in your office. Nope. It's in here somewhere.

  Moe : Well, feel free to look around. I'll be back in the morning.

  David Greenhill : Well, if you're gonna help me look for it, then this whole friggin' places gotta go.

  [Moe turns to David] 

  David Greenhill : Damn firetrap anyway. See, the way I see it, you were working late one night, and you fell asleep with one of them cigars in your hand. Stray ash... fell off and caught those newspapers on fire. You were overcome by smoke. It's better than wasting away in a hospital day after day, don't you think, Moe? I mean, really.

  Moe : What?

  [using a cigarette lighter, David lights a newspaper, and uses it to burn every file on the desk] 

  Moe : What the...

  [David continues to burn the files] 

  Moe : Crazy! Crazy animal!

  [David destroys all papers everywhere in the office] 

  Moe : Damn crazy lunatic! What the hell are you doing?

  [David knocks Moe unconscious with a phone book. The whole office is on fire. David exits the office and walk out of the building. The flames blow out of the windows and explode in the upper floor] 

• David Greenhill : See, people like us Miriam, we're - we're warm. But she's a - she's an attorney.

• Jennifer Haines : Didn't anyone ever say no to you before?

  David Greenhill : Yes, my wife said "no" just before I threw her out the window.

• David Greenhill : But do you know what I see when I look at you?

  Jennifer Haines : I can't hazard a guess.

  David Greenhill : I see the little girl of a mother, who was a courtroom groupie, who used to take her to trials after school because she couldn't go to the movies.

  Jennifer Haines : [chuckles]  Where did you hear that?

  David Greenhill : Some old bailiff down at the courthouse.

  Jennifer Haines : Eddie?

  David Greenhill : Yeah. I see the little girl who at the ripe age of fourteen, jumped up in the middle of a murder trial and said "Objection!" And the judge took you into his chambers, and you ended up clerking for that judge ten years later.

  Jennifer Haines : How do you know all this?

  David Greenhill : You interest me. And I really delve into *anything* that interests me.

  Jennifer Haines : Uh-huh. And did this interest develop before or after you threw your wife out the window?

  David Greenhill : [advances, sighs:]  We need to get one thing straight. I did not murder anybody.

• Jennifer Haines : So you've never been married before?

  David Greenhill : A friend of mine once said, "Never marry a woman for her money. Get her money without marrying her."

• Jennifer Haines : [softly, as David strokes her chin]  Why... why did you take... the gloves off before you killed her?

  David Greenhill : [smiles]  It felt better. Killing with gloves on would be like... fucking with a rubber.

  [Jennifer's blue eyes widen in sheer panic]