Fire Down Below (1997)

Steven Seagal: Jack Taggert

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• Jack Taggert : I think, Junior, if your daddy knew how stupid you were, he'd trade you in for a pet monkey.

• Jack Taggert : [as Jack exits the front door of the doctor's office, he notices Sheriff Lloyd standing at his car]  Good morning, sir, how are you?

  [another police car screeches to a stop and the deputies immediately get out] 

  Lloyd : Mr. Taggert, would you come with me, please?

  Jack Taggert : You want to go have a coffee together?

  Lloyd : I'm not here to socialize. I saw you beat up five men. I hear Cotton is beaten almost to death. People get hurt when you're always around. Assault and battery. I figured it's good for a ten-day lock-up.

  Jack Taggert : Listen, why don't we just cut the shit? You know who I am. I can have you arrested just as easy as you can arrest me and you know it. So, why don't you get back in Orin's car, with Orin's little department, and take off? Let's face it. I don't believe in your authority.

  Lloyd : Maybe you'll believe a gun up your butt.

  [to one of his deputies] 

  Lloyd : Cuff him!

  [as the deputies swarm in, he beats them all up and puts the one of their guns into one's mouth] 

  Jack Taggert : How do you want to do this? You wanna play this game all the way? I'll have three hundred agents come up here into this little hick town and crawl up every orifice you got. When it's over, you can go to your favorite proctologist and get a nice, soothing ointment, and rub it on the hole that hurts most. How do you want it? How do you want it?

  Lloyd : [looks at the concerned bystanders]  Let's go, boys.

• Orin Hanner Sr. : You're violating my constitutional rights.

  Jack Taggert : Mr. Hanner, I promise you, as sure as you stand here now, I'm gonna show you a new meaning to the word "violation".

• Jack Taggert : [FBI Agent #2 is standing in a pool of gasoline holding a lit flare]  Hey. Tell your boss I'm coming to get him.

  [lowers gun] 

  Jack Taggert : You know what, on second thought... I'll tell him.

  [raises gun and shoots the flare in two, watching the fake agent squirm, and then shoots the flare again right before it hits the ground, putting the fire out] 

• Orin Hanner Sr. : So, I guess that makes killing you free.

  Jack Taggert : Well, it would be free if you could.

• Hatch : What the hell are you doing here?

  Jack Taggert : Well, I was just out taking a Sunday stroll... but I guess maybe it's not Sunday.

• Jack Taggert : I was told somebody's dumped some dangerous toxic waste down here. I wanted to see if I could come down and stop it.

• Jack Taggert : Let's face it, I don't believe in authority.

• Jack Taggert : I think you really deserve to suffer.

• Jack Taggert : Is this kind of like Deliverance or something?

• [first lines] 

  Frank Elkins : I'm going to Kentucky to check on a case. When I'm back, we're gonna go hunting. Do some fishing. We'll get away from all this stuff.

  Jack Taggert : I appreciate the friendship. Means a lot to me.

• Jack Taggert : Cracked my wood; that's no good.

• Betsy Hamill : Good morning. I believe we have everything you ordered. That'll be $75.

  Jack Taggert : You mean it's not free?

  Betsy Hamill , Patsy Hamill : No! No free goods.

  Patsy Hamill : Here's your change and you come back and see us.

  Jack Taggert : I'm gone do that. 2 beautiful twins like you. Gets a man thinking.

  Betsy Hamill , Patsy Hamill : Bye.

  Jack Taggert : [to Cotton]  How's the fishing around these parts?

  Cotton : I like a perch dinner with fried potatoes.

  Jack Taggert : You catching perch about now?

  Cotton : No I'm sweeping steps right now.

  Hatch : He's working mister you better just leave him alone. You ask ol Cotton too many questions he can't even concentrate. Be worth nothing the rest of the day. Ms. Hamill don't like that.

  Jack Taggert : Sorry about that won't happen again I'm just... ..here doing gods work.

  Hatch : Got any questions you can ask me.

  Jack Taggert : Good enough.

• Jack Taggert : [to Sarah]  I'm a federal agent. I work for the E.P.A.

• Jack Taggert : [pats Lloyd on the shoulder as he walks past]  How's the proctologist?