Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

Colm Meaney: Detective Dunnigan

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• Detective Dunnigan : [before illegally breaking into a storage facility owned by Clyde]  You're gonna do that? Here? What about his civil rights?

  Nick Rice : *Fuck* his civil rights.

• Detective Dunnigan : Where's the specialist team?

  SWAT Troop #1 : Round the corner. It's approaching soft.

  Detective Dunnigan : Where's the bomb disposal unit?

  SWAT Troop #1 : You're looking at it.

• SWAT Troop #1 : [On discovering the bomb in the City Hall]  Don't touch anything

  Detective Dunnigan : That wasn't one of my first instincts

• Detective Dunnigan : [to Nick Rice, after finding Darby's dismembered body in a warehouse owned by Clyde]  Good news counselor, we found Darby... I gotta say though, he's looked better.

• Nick Rice : [In a car on their way to arrest Darby]  I put him away.

  Detective Garza : [Reading his criminal profile on a computer]  Three years? Is that the going rate for murder these days?

  Nick Rice : It was extenuating circumstances.

  Detective Dunnigan : The only "extenuating" circumstance should be is that he didn't do it.

  Detective Garza : But still, three years at "gladiator academy" like Marion Penitentiary, you expect him to come back a model citizen?

  Nick Rice : If you scholars didn't contaminate the crime scene I could've kept him up locked up longer

• Detective Dunnigan : [to Nick over the phone]  Listen, that contraption that killed Cantrell was a weaponized bomb-disposal robot. Can you believe that? Damn thing had video, night vision, you name it. It's like military AP1, for Christ's sake. That's anti-tank rounds, Nick. I think he's saving you for last. Nick, you've got to get in front of this guy if you want to stay alive.

• Nick Rice : [Referring to the machine administering the lethal injection execution]  how does it work on a good day?

  Warden Iger : It's designed to be pain free, three drugs injected in a specific order.

  Nick Rice : At this point on, we're operating under the assumption the machine was corrupted.

  Detective Dunnigan : We're going to need a list of people who had access to the machine.

  Warden Iger : My people would not do this.

  Detective Dunnigan : I appreciate that, but I'm going to need more than a "hall pass" or a "note from mom."

  Nick Rice : [Reads writing written on one of the empty canisters in an evidence bag]  "Can't fight fate". During the home invasion, Ames' accomplice said to one of the victim's the exact same phrase. Then he said the same thing to me in court.