L.A. Confidential Quote
Ed Exley : Do you make the three Negroes for the Nite Owl killings?
Jack Vincennes : [ puzzled ] What?
Ed Exley : It's a simple question.
Jack Vincennes : Why in the world do you wanna go digging any deeper into the Nite Owl killings... Lieutenant?
Ed Exley : ...Rollo Tamasi.
Jack Vincennes : Is there more to that, or am I supposed to guess?
Ed Exley : [ aftre gathering his thoughts ] Rollo was a purse snatcher. My father ran into him off duty, and he shot my father six times and got away clean. No one even knew who he was. I just made the name up to give him some personality.
Jack Vincennes : What's your point?
Ed Exley : Rollo Tamasi is the reason I became a cop. I wanted to catch the guys who thought they could get away with it. It's supposed to be about justice. Then somewhere along the way, I lost sight of that... Why'd you become a cop?
Jack Vincennes : [ long pause ] I don't remember. [ brief hesitation ]
Jack Vincennes : What do you want, Exley?
Ed Exley : I just wanna solve this thing.
Jack Vincennes : The Nite Owl *was* solved.
Ed Exley : No; I wanna do it right.
Jack Vincennes : Even if it means paying the consequences? [ Exley nods his head, Vincennes stands up from his chair ]
Jack Vincennes : All right, college boy, I'll help. But there's a case you boys in Homicide don't care about, you think it's just another Hollywood "homo"-cide. Well, I don't. You help me with mine, I'll help you with yours. Deal?
Ed Exley : Deal.
Jack Vincennes : [ puzzled ] What?
Ed Exley : It's a simple question.
Jack Vincennes : Why in the world do you wanna go digging any deeper into the Nite Owl killings... Lieutenant?
Ed Exley : ...Rollo Tamasi.
Jack Vincennes : Is there more to that, or am I supposed to guess?
Ed Exley : [ aftre gathering his thoughts ] Rollo was a purse snatcher. My father ran into him off duty, and he shot my father six times and got away clean. No one even knew who he was. I just made the name up to give him some personality.
Jack Vincennes : What's your point?
Ed Exley : Rollo Tamasi is the reason I became a cop. I wanted to catch the guys who thought they could get away with it. It's supposed to be about justice. Then somewhere along the way, I lost sight of that... Why'd you become a cop?
Jack Vincennes : [ long pause ] I don't remember. [ brief hesitation ]
Jack Vincennes : What do you want, Exley?
Ed Exley : I just wanna solve this thing.
Jack Vincennes : The Nite Owl *was* solved.
Ed Exley : No; I wanna do it right.
Jack Vincennes : Even if it means paying the consequences? [ Exley nods his head, Vincennes stands up from his chair ]
Jack Vincennes : All right, college boy, I'll help. But there's a case you boys in Homicide don't care about, you think it's just another Hollywood "homo"-cide. Well, I don't. You help me with mine, I'll help you with yours. Deal?
Ed Exley : Deal.
Movie: L.A. Confidential
