The Informant (1997)

Cary Elwes: Lt. David Ferris

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• DCI Rennie : The police arrest men in this city, Lieutenant, not the military.

  Lt. David Ferris : I was carrying out orders.

  DCI Rennie : I like my man stripped, weary, and checked into a cell before he's had time to think. I have to work on him. and I don't want him used to being in a cage by the time he's mine. Got it?

  Lt. David Ferris : He's in the cells. Why don't you just take him?

  DCI Rennie : There's a form for these things. One day, in jolly old England, some lawyer'll be putting the arrest under a microscope. So, everything's got to be right, got it?

• Gingy McAnally : They said I was dead, Mr Ferris. Every single one of them said I was dead.

  Lt. David Ferris : What else can they say? Their power has been smashed, and it's you that's been smashing it. I can't change the course of this war, can't change it an inch. But you can, Gingy. Compared with what you can do, I'm wasting my time here. All of us are.

  Gingy McAnally : Too right. Get the Brits out, and we'd sort it quick.

• Gingy McAnally : Do you get extra if you shoot a Provo?

  Lt. David Ferris : Lord, no.

  Gingy McAnally : I thought you got extra. That's what we were told.

  Lt. David Ferris : I suppose either one of us gets overloaded with the truth, Gingy.