The Vanishing (1993)

Nancy Travis: Rita Baker

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• Rita Baker : Jesus, it's loaded!

  Jeff Harriman : Well that's usually the part psychos respond to, honey.

• Rita Baker : You have reached the home of Jeff Harriman and Jeff Harriman's twisted ego. Rita Baker no longer lives here. She's left Jeff. She's moving out, and she will not be found here again. So don't Iook for me, forever!

• [last lines] 

  Rita Baker : No coffee.

  Jeff Harriman : [referring to an earlier incident]  Thanks, we don't drink that anymore.

• Jeff Harriman : This letter's the first break I've had in three years, Rita. I can nail this fucker.

  Rita Baker : Yeah, go to the police! You can't do this on your own?

  Jeff Harriman : The police? They'll laugh at me. I'm a joke to them.

  Rita Baker : I hate to say it, but I'm starting to see their point.

  Jeff Harriman : Don't do this to me, not now.

  Rita Baker : Jesus Christ, you are amazing! Did it ever occur to you that she doesn't wanna be found? Goodbye, Jeff.

  Jeff Harriman : Go on, run like a coward. At least Diane was taken by force.

  Rita Baker : I am *not* Diane!

• Rita Baker : She's gone, Jeff. She's gone. You may never know how or why, you just have to learn to accept that.

  Jeff Harriman : If Diane were here right now, I'd ask you to marry me. But the truth is, if I could turn back the clock to that day at the gas station just once, I would. Just to find out.

  Rita Baker : It's not good enough. If you ever want to move on with your life, if you ever want to be happy again, if you ever want to really live,then this is your chance! I love you! But I have to know you feel the same, or else I'm gone forever. Let her go, Jeff. Let her go.

• Jeff Harriman : The police - they laugh at me. I'm a joke to them.

  Rita Baker : I'm beginning to see their point.

• Jeff Harriman : How long have you worked here?

  Rita Baker : Since the Dawn of Man.