An Innocent Man (1989)

Badja Djola: John Fitzgerald

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• Kate Rainwood : They admitted to me that they framed Jimmie! What more do you want?

  Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD : Secondhand conversations, Mrs. Rainwood, mean nothing. I told you that.

  Kate Rainwood : All right... they threatened me. Parnell said that your department was shit, and that you're a...

  [pauses] 

  Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD : A what?

  Kate Rainwood : A punk nigger with his nose up the brass's ass.

• Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : [Parnell and Scalise are walking back to their car on a side street after dinner, not knowing Fitzgerald is waiting for them]  I gotta stop eating that Cuban food! It's ripping up my insides... ow!

  Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : You're gonna have to learn to start expressing your feelings, Mike. You're just a ball of repression.

  [Parnell laughs] 

  Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : I'll give you repression. Right here's your repression...

  [feigns punch] 

  Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : BOOM!

  [Scalise laughs] 

  Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD : Hey boys! We need to talk!

  Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : [to Scalise]  Well, look who's here.

  Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD : Off the record. Kate Rainwood came to see me.

  Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : [feigning ignorance]  Kate who-wood?

  Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD : You remember. You put her husband away.

  Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : So why don't you make your point?

  Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD : She says you two guys threatened her.

  Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : [feigning disbelief]  Did she... did she say that?

  Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD : [interrupting]  Listen! The two of you, you stay away from her. Period!

  Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : [contemptuously]  Oh, fuck her! And fuck you! FUCK YOU! I think this internal affairs horseshit is going to your head.

  [turns away] 

  Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD : [Fitzgerald grabs Parnell and slams him against a garage door, kneeing him in the groin while doing so... Scalise draws his gun and aims it at Fitzgerald]  Do it, Scalise! Do it! I'll break his fuckin' neck! You stay away from Kate Rainwood!

  [to Parnell] 

  Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD : And I don't like being called a punk nigger... BOY!

  [Scalise lowers weapon] 

• Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD : [Kate has set up a meeting between Jimmie and Detective Fitzgerald at a beach location]  Your wife tells me you have a plan to put Parnell and Scalise away for a long time.

  Jimmie Rainwood : Yeah. Kate's told me good things about you. The problem is, you're a cop, like them.

  Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD : I'm nothing at all like them. I'm only here because your wife asked me to come. You need a cop to make this thing stick. So if you have something, let's have it. Otherwise, forget it.

  Jimmie Rainwood : All right, forget it.

  [both turn to leave] 

  Kate Rainwood : Are you crazy? You won't be fit to live with unless we go through with this and you

  [pointedly to Fitzgerald] 

  Kate Rainwood : have been walking around with a stiff neck whining about proof since the day I met you!

  [to both] 

  Kate Rainwood : Now work the fucking thing out!

  Jimmie Rainwood : [to Fitzgerald]  What are you willing to do?

  Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD : [sighs]  At this point, almost anything.

  Jimmie Rainwood : Look, with your help, we can get these guys dirty and put 'em away.

  Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD : What do I get if I agree?

  Jimmie Rainwood : You'll witness them buying cocaine.

  Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD : [sarcastically]  No shit.

  Jimmie Rainwood : You be ready on a half hour's notice. I'll give you the time and place. Just you. No one else.

  Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD : I'm gonna go along with you on this. But if you fuck up, and my ass ends up in a sling, you and I are going to go round and round.

  Jimmie Rainwood : [smiles]  Well, I guess I better not fuck up.