L. A. Confidential

• Come to Los Angeles…

• Remember dear readers, you heard it here first, off the record, on the QT, and very Hush-Hush.

• WIFE-BEATER: Who in the hell are you?
  BUD: The ghost of Christmas past.

• For the love of God don't be a detective. Stick to assignments where you don't have to make those kind of choices.

• Merry Christmas to you, officer.

• Its not what you think… but it's nice to know you care.

• Fleur - de - Lis : Whatever you desire.

• You may well reap the benefit, Edmund, but are you truly prepared to be despised within the department?

• You have a thing for helping women, don't you Officer White?

• Your different Officer White. Your the first man in five years who didn't tell me I look like Veronica Lake inside of a minute.

• You look better than Veronica Lake.

• Are you asking me for a date or an appointment?

• I ain't killed nobody!

• It's best to stay away from a man when his blood is up.

• Who'd have thought? Shotgun Ed.

• Hey. All they get is Veronica Lake. I get Lynn Margaret Bracken.

• He tied me to the radiator. I watched him beat my mother to death with a tire iron... and he left me there... three days before a truant officer found us.

• BUD: I'm not smart enough. I'm just the guy they bring in to scare the other guy shitless.
  LYNN: Your wrong. You found Patchett. You found me. Your smart enough.

• JACK: Why in the world do you want to go digging any deeper into the Nite Owl Killings, Lieutenant?
  ED: Rollo Tomasi.

• Rollo… was a purse snatcher. My father ran into him off duty, and he shot my father six times and got away clean. No one even knew who he was. I just made the name up to give him some personality.

• Rollo Tomasi's the reason I became a cop. I wanted to catch the guys who thought they could get away with it. It was supposed to be about justice. Then somewhere along the way I lost sight of that. Why'd you become a cop?

• All right, college boy, I'll help —but there's a case your boys in Homicide don't care about. They think its just another Hollywood Homo-cide, but I don't. You help me with mine, I'll help you with yours. Deal?

• She is Lana Turner.

• Oh great, you get the girl, I get the coroner.

• It would be easier for you if there was an angle wouldn't it? Your afraid of Bud because you can't figure out how to play him. He doesn't follow the same rules of politics as you do. It makes him dangerous.

• I see Bud because I want to. I see Bud because he can't hide the good inside of him. I see Bud because he makes me feel like Lynn Bracken and not some Veronica Lake look-alike who fucks for money. I see Bud because he doesn't know how to disguise who he is. I see Bud for all the ways he's different from you.

• DUDLEY: Have you a valediction, boyo?
  JACK: Rollo… Tomasi.

• Keep your eyes open, hey boyo.

• I wouldn't trade places with Edmund Exley right now for all the whiskey in Ireland.

• BUD: Why are you doing this? The Nite Owl made you. You want to tear all that down?
  ED: WIth a wrecking ball. You want to help me swing it?

• Is that how you used to run the good cop, bad cop?

• Somebody worked her over. She wouldn't say who.

• ED: Bud hates himself for what he did.
  LYNN: I know how he feels.

• Must have dug up garbage on the wrong guy. Got it narrowed down to a thousand suspects.

• You figured this was a set up and you showed up anyway?

• Good Lad. Always the politician. But let me do the talking. After I've done they'll make you chief of detectives.

• Hold up your badge —so they know your a policeman.

• You think you can talk your way out of this Lieutenant?
  ED: No... but I think I can tell the truth.

• They're using me —so for a little while I'm using them.

• Thanks for the push.

• Some men get the world. Others get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona.

CAST:

• Kevin Spacey - Jack Vincennes
• Russell Crowe - Bud White
• Guy Pearce - Det. Lt. Edmund Exley
• James Cromwell - Capt. Dudley Smith
• Kim Basinger - Lynn Bracken
• Danny DeVito - Sid Hudgens
• David Strathairn - Pierce Patchett

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