A Civil Action (1998)

James Gandolfini: Al Love

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• Jan Schlichtmann : [during his deposition]  Back in the 1965 and there and thereafter did you clean metal parts with any kind of solvent?

  Al Love : Yes

  Jan Schlichtmann : What kind?

  Al Love : That I couldn't tell you

  Jan Schlichtmann : Did you ever notice the name Trichloroethylene or TCE?

  Al Love : No I don't know

  Jan Schlichtmann : But you'd put it in barrels when you were done with it, that'd be the process right?

  Al Love : Yes

  Jan Schlichtmann : Did you ever see what happened with these barrels when they were full?

  Al Love : Yes, they get dumped out back in the ground

  Jan Schlichtmann : What do you think of the water in Woburn ten to fifteen years ago?

  Al Love : It had an odor

  Jan Schlichtmann : Were you concerned when you found out the wells were contaminated?

  Al Love : Yeah I was concerned

• William Cheeseman : That water hasn't made anybody sick

  Al Love : [talking privately in an alleyway, after giving his deposition]  How do you know?

  William Cheeseman : I just do

  Al Love : There are a lot of people in my neighborhood that are dead or dying from something

  William Cheeseman : If I took a hundred pennies and threw them up in the air about half of them would land on heads and half would land on tails, if I looked closely I'd see pennies that landed on heads grouped in a cluster what does that mean? Does that mean anything? No one knows what causes Leukemia no one knows what caused that cluster

  Al Love : I know what happened, and I know who did it

  William Cheeseman : This is very important I want you to tell me whose those people are

  Al Love : I'm not a rat

  William Cheeseman : It's important because if there's something wrong out there we need to disclose it to the proper authorities and have it cleaned up you think about that and call me

  Al Love : [dismissively, before walking away]  Yeah

• Al Love : [to Anne Anderson on a picnic table in her backyard]  I thought about coming to see you for a long time. I guess I was afraid, I didn't think you wanted to talk to me because where I work. I'm concerned about what's been happening around here and I'm angry at the company for handling itself I'm very sorry about your son