The Enforcer (1951)

Roy Roberts: Capt. Frank Nelson

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• Capt. Frank Nelson : What's wrong with the law that we can't touch him

  [Mendoza, boss of murder ring] 

  Capt. Frank Nelson : ? Oh, I know, our kind of laws are designed to protect the innocent. It's not enough we know a man is guilty - we have to prove it.

  D.A. Martin Ferguson : Ever have a tune running through your head and you can't remember the words?

  Capt. Frank Nelson : What are you getting at?

  D.A. Martin Ferguson : How many people did we speak to on this case?

  Capt. Frank Nelson : Oh, I'd hate to remember.

  D.A. Martin Ferguson : How many pages of testimony do you suppose we took?

  Capt. Frank Nelson : Enough to fill a nice-sized room!

  D.A. Martin Ferguson : Heh, somewhere's in that testimony somebody said something that stuck in my brain. It got lost in the shuffle, because we didn't need it - we got Rico! But now...

  [pause] 

  D.A. Martin Ferguson : If I could only remember...

  [Another pause] 

  D.A. Martin Ferguson : Well, we got nothing else to do tonight - let's try and dig it out.

  Capt. Frank Nelson : [Nelson & Ferguson enter Ferguson's office]  Well, we can start from right to left or from left to right.

  D.A. Martin Ferguson : No, let's take it just as it came to us, right from that first crazy day.

  [They pull out 1st folder: "State vs. Albert Mendoza." Dissolve to Bell St. Station and beginning of long flashback] 

• Capt. Frank Nelson : How many bodies do you think we'll find?

  D.A. Martin Ferguson : Oh, afraid to guess. Any outfit that has got its own undertaker is operating on a pretty big scale.