Bullitt County (2018)

Richard Riehle: The Mr.

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• The Mr. : What are you, a history nut or a gun nut?

  Gordie : I guess a little bit of both. Fiction was definitely not my thing. I didn't care too much about something somebody just made up out of thin air, you know? Hence, the history books.

  The Mr. : Yeah, well, they say that history is written by the victors.

  Gordie : Which is probably why I'm a gun nut.

• The Mr. : Anything buried out there is meant to stay buried.

• The Mr. : You know, when you're firing at anything that moves in the jungle in the dead of night, God only knows how many men you've killed. But I had men in my platoon who wanted to know. They saw it as a point of pride to get to a hundred or some such thing. They were collecting prizes from the dead. Me, I always preferred not knowin'.

  [beat] 

  The Mr. : But there was this one. This one that I hit from up close, and I saw him go down not very far in front of me, and I had to know. I had to look. So I wandered out into the dark - and I saw him lyin' there in all the wet ferns and moss. Wide-eyed, staring up at the moon through the trees. His blood black in the moonlight.

  [finishes his bourbon] 

  The Mr. : And I knew I got him then.

• The Mr. : Anyway, I stick to bucks nowadays.

  Gordie : You got any of those mounted up around here?

  The Mr. : Oh, no no no. Missus don't allow any dead animals around. She says she can feel 'em watching her from beyond the grave.

• The Mr. : Where did you serve?

  Gordie : That obvious, huh?

  The Mr. : Oh I know a fellow serviceman when I see one.

  Gordie : I don't know how much you can call it "servin'." I was called up by Uncle Sam, hopped on an airplane, then a helicopter, and I landed in the middle of Saigon, it was January 29th, 1968.

  The Mr. : That is some bad luck, kid.

• The Mr. : If this were loaded, you'd be pissin' your britches right about now.