First Blood (1982)

Bill McKinney: Kern

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• Deputy Lester : [referring to the mistreatment of Rambo]  I was just talking to Mitch, and he said that Gault and a couple of the deputies were... a little hard on the guy.

  State Police Capt. Dave Kern : Assholes!

  Teasle : It doesn't make one goddamn bit of difference, Dave, and you know it! If one of my deputies... gets out of line with a prisoner then the prisoner comes to me with it. And if I find out it's like he says I kick the deputy's ass! *Me*! The *Law*! People start fucking around with the law then all hell breaks loose! Whatever possessed God in heaven to make a man like Rambo?

  Trautman : God didn't make Rambo, I made him!

• Trautman : I came to get my boy.

  State Police Capt. Dave Kern : *Your BOY*?

  Trautman : I recruited him. I trained him. I commanded him for three years in Vietnam. I'd say that makes him mine.

• State Police Capt. Dave Kern : Why didn't you leave the kid alone in the first place?

  Teasle : Dammit, Dave, you think this kid just waltzed into town, announced he was a Medal Of Honor winner, and then I just leaned on him for the hell of it? I tried to do him a favor, I treated him like he was one of my neighbor's kids. I did my job, Dave, I booked him for vagrancy and resisting arrest.

  State Police Capt. Dave Kern : You seem pretty motivated on this one.

  Teasle : Why don't you go out there and take a look at what's left of my men? You'll see how motivated I am, Dave, and if that doesn't do it for you why don't you go have a talk with Art Gault's widow?

  State Police Capt. Dave Kern : All right, Will, I read you. Listen, I got twenty-five men I can bring up from Monroe.

  Teasle : [calming down]  All right Dave, I can use them. We've got a lot of ground to cover.