An Innocent Man (1989)

Laila Robins: Kate Rainwood

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• Kate Rainwood : [Kate is visiting Virgil in prison]  I'm here because we don't know what else to do. It's like they haunt Jimmie. And after they came to the house... we need your help. I mean, Jimmie's already introduced me to Malcolm, but he can only do so much.

  Virgil Cane : Those assholes have been riding high so long they think the only thing that can take them down is kryptonite. Of course, they are peabrained, dickless shitheads.

  [Kate laughs] 

  Virgil Cane : Which is definitely in our favor.

  [laughs] 

  Virgil Cane : Definitely!

  Kate Rainwood : You've been hoping for something like this, haven't you?

  Virgil Cane : [smiling]  Let's just say it makes my decade.

  [turns serious] 

  Virgil Cane : I'll get exactly the information that you need and I'll reach out to you real soon.

  Kate Rainwood : [impressed]  You're just like Jimmie described you... a schemer and a charmer.

  [Virgil smiles] 

  Kate Rainwood : Thanks for everything you did for him, Virgil.

  [they stand up and shake hands] 

• 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.

• Kate Rainwood : [Parnell and Scalise show up at the Rainwoods' home unannounced after Jimmie's release]  What are you doing here?

  Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : Nice to see you again, Mrs. Rainwood.

  [leers] 

  Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : You're looking very good.

  Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : [with false solicitude]  We had to make another call in this part of town, and we thought we'd stop by.

  [sits] 

  Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : Mind if we sit down?

  [takes seat] 

  Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : [to Rainwood]  Sit down.

  [to Kate] 

  Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : Honey, get us something cold to drink, will you?

  Jimmie Rainwood : What the fuck's wrong?

  Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : [yells]  I told you to sit your ass down!

  [stands toe-to-toe with Jimmie] 

  Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : [screaming]  SIT DOWN! SIT DOWN!

  [to Kate] 

  Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : Get us something cold to drink! Goddamnit!

  Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : Why don't you go do that, Katie?

  Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : What are you, some kind of a badass now, you did some time, huh? You can say 'fuck' and everything? Don't you ever come out of your mouth like a smartass with me! Rainwood... you know who you are? You are an ex-convict on parole, and you are owned by the state! The state believes the police! Not the ex-convict! Always!

  Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : Jimmie, I don't want you to think we're picking on you.

  [to Kate, who brings him a Coke] 

  Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : Thank you.

  [to Jimmie] 

  Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : We do this to every parolee we've busted.

  Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : It's kind of like preventative maintenance. Guys get weird ideas in the joint sometimes. But this call is special. You and your crusading cunt of a wife have caused us a lot of...

  [Jimmie lunges at Parnell, Kate and Scalise restrain him] 

  Kate Rainwood : [yells]  Jimmie, don't! Please don't!

  Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : You wouldn't let it go and it got you shit! No, go ahead Katie. Try to save him like you couldn't do before. From now on, Rainwood, you are a model citizen. If we happen to say 'shit', you squat. Understand that, and it might keep you out of jail.

  [Parnell and Scalise leave] 

• 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.