The Vanishing (1993)

Kiefer Sutherland: Jeff Harriman

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• Barney Cousins : You don't care if she's alive or dead anymore.

  Jeff Harriman : Yes I do.

  Jeff Harriman : No you don't. You're just scared that without the search you won't know who you are. Who is Jeff Harriman, if he's not the guy looking for Diane? Can you really walk away from finally knowing the answer?

• Rita Baker : Jesus, it's loaded!

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

• Jeff Harriman : I just want to know what happened to Diane.

  Barney Cousins : Then you'll want to listen to the story, and you'll want to listen carefully because sometimes the Devil is in the details.

• [last lines] 

  Rita Baker : No coffee.

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

• Cop at Gas Station : Had you had a fight recently?

  Jeff Harriman : Not a fight, a thing.

  Cop at Gas Station : ...A thing?

  Jeff Harriman : Yeah, a thing, don't you have a girlfriend?

  Cop at Gas Station : Yeah. And what you think is a thing, you can bet your life she thinks is a fight.

• 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!

• Jeff Harriman : Diane?

  Woman in Ladies Room : Hey! This is the ladies' room!

• Jeff Harriman : I just want to know where Diane is.

  Barney Cousins : Then you'll want to listen. Or the answer will slip right by you.

• 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.