An Innocent Man (1989)
David Rasche: Mike Parnell
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Quotes
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Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : [Parnell and Scalise crash into Rainwood's home... he comes out of shower in a bathrobe and holding a hair dryer] He's armed, Danny!
[fires gun, Rainwood goes down wounded]
Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : He's down! He's down, Danny! I got him covered!
[Scalise approaches]
Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : All right, go ahead. Oh, god... whoa. Ohhh... this motherfucker scared the shit outta me!
Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : [frisking Rainwood] It's a hair dryer.
Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : What? What'd you say?
Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : This guy's armed with a hair dryer.
Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : [chuckles nervously] Why would a guy take a shower during a dope deal?
[they search his home and find nothing]
Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : [agitated] Hey this is 420, right? Huh? So where's the stuff? Stevie told me 420 Oak Way! It's gotta be here somewhere, man!
Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : Mike, you told me 420 Oak Lane, not 'Way'! You said 'Lane'!
Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : No, no, no, Danny! No, no! I told... I said 'Oak Way'! Tell me, what did I say!
Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : You told me '420 Oak Lane'. Not 'Way'. It's right here.
[produces bill with address]
Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : 420 Oak Lane.
[slams bill down]
Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : Holy shit, Mike. We got the wrong house. This guy is a civilian. Shit.
Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : No... just a second now.
[pulls out memo pad with different address]
Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : Oh no. FUCK ME! GODDAMNIT! JESUS!
Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : Now take it easy! Just take it easy. Take it easy. We're gonna think this through.
Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : There's nothing to think about, Danny. There's just too many people who want to see us step on our dicks.
Detective Danny Scalise LBPD : We did step on our dicks.
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Detective Mike Parnell LBPD : [wielding switchblade] I'm gonna cut you in half!
Jimmie Rainwood : I wouldn't bet on that.
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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]
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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]
