The Dead Pool (1988)

Patricia Clarkson: Samantha Walker

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Quotes 

• Harry Callahan : Do you like cops?

  Samantha Walker : As long as they're not in my rearview mirror.

• Capt. Donnelly : [with sheet of paper]  You know what this is, Callahan? It's a bill for a TV camera and lens. When I told you to stop wrecking our cars, I didn't mean go out and find something else to destroy!

  Harry Callahan : They were interfering with an official investigation, Sir.

  Lt. Ackerman : Don't give us that. Is this your idea of cooperation with the media?

  Harry Callahan : Cooperation works two ways, Lieutenant.

  Lt. Ackerman : Just what is it you have against reporters, Callahan?

  Harry Callahan : Well some of them are just marvellous people. But others like to walk through a pile and track it through an investigation. I don't like that.

  Lt. Ackerman : Well you'd better change your attitude fast, Callahan, because unless we come to some kind of an agreement with these people, it's just liable to cost this city two million dollars and your career!

  [ushers in reporter] 

  Lt. Ackerman : Would you join us please? This is Miss Samantha Walker of Station KWSF. Captain Donnelly...

  Capt. Donnelly : Miss Walker...

  Samantha Walker : Captain...

  Lt. Ackerman : And this is Inspector...

  Samantha Walker : ...Callahan. Yes, we've met.

  Lt. Ackerman : Oh yes, of course. Will you sit down?

  Samantha Walker : Oh, thank you.

  Capt. Donnelly : Miss Walker, ah, Lt. Ackerman here tells me you have a proposal to make, er, regarding the accidental damage to a television camera.

  Samantha Walker : [sweetly]  Oh, there was nothing accidental about it, Captain.

  Capt. Donnelly : Well, I think the department might have something else to say about that.

  Samantha Walker : Well, although the camera itself was destroyed, I have the entire incident on video.

  Capt. Donnelly : I see.

  [glares at Callahan] 

  Capt. Donnelly : And your proposal?

  Samantha Walker : We may be willing to drop the lawsuit against the city... but that all depends on Inspector Callahan.

  Lt. Ackerman : Well I'm sure the Inspector would be more than willing to cooperate in any...

  Harry Callahan : Just what do you have in mind?

  Samantha Walker : Dinner.

  [the men all stare at one other] 

• Samantha Walker : [after Harry signed personal autograph]  Was this your first autograph?

  Harry Callahan : Yeah, and I hope my last.

• Suzanne Dayton : [hysterical with grief and restrained by uniformed officers]  No! No!

  [Samantha and her camera crew surround Suzanne, the camera is inches from her face] 

  Samantha Walker : [to her cameraman]  I said keep shooting, right in there.

  [Callahan, angry, wades into the melee] 

  Harry Callahan : Back off with that camera!

  Samantha Walker : Hey! I can film whatever I want! Keep shooting!

  Harry Callahan : I said knock the camera off...

  [something unintelligible as he wrestles the camera away and hurls it as far as he can. It bounces down some steps and breaks apart] 

  Samantha Walker : Smart.

• Harlan Rook : [after kidnapping Walker and holding her hostage at Swan's studio]  Yes. That's the shot I'm looking for.

  Samantha Walker : What is it you want from me?

  Harlan Rook : Oh, you've got it wrong, love. This is what you wanted - an exclusive interview.

  Samantha Walker : But you're not Peter Swan.

  Harlan Rook : Shut up! You don't know! You don't know! I know who I am. You know who you are? Do you?

  Samantha Walker : Yes...

  Harlan Rook : All those films he made, those are my nightmares, not his! Every night I dream, and somehow, somehow he reads my mind. He stole my thoughts. He put my thoughts on film for everyone to see and he takes all the credit! He can't get away with it. He has to pay.

  [plays "Welcome to the Jungle" on his boombox] 

  Harlan Rook : He stole my nightmares and made them real, so I stole his dead pool. I'll play his game and make it real. Let him take the credit for that.