Murder at 1600 (1997)

Wesley Snipes: Detective Regis

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• Jordan : Harvard did a study. It said you could measure a man's longevity by the first thing he turns to in the morning paper.

  Detective Regis : I'm an obituary man.

  Jordan : Start with the comics; you'll live longer.

• President Neil : Jesus, Alvin. You really had her killed, didn't you? She was 25. She was a child!

  Alvin Jordan : She was a casualty of war!

  Detective Harlan Regis : [On seeing a livid Neil hit Alvin]  Mister... President!

• Detective Harlan Regis : This is Carla's tape from her answering machine

  Nina Chance : Yeah.

  Detective Harlan Regis : Well, how'd you get it?

  Nina Chance : I stole it.

• Detective Regis : You have the right to an attorney. If you can't afford one, you *prick*, one will be appointed by the court.

• Detective Harlan Regis : I think the president's gonna become an international suspect.

• Detective Regis : [takes a phone call at a bar]  Captain? Yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah, I got a coat and a tie. 1600 what?

• Nina Chance : You expect me to violate everything I was ever taught? I have duties.

  Detective Harlan Regis : Yeah, and your duties can send an innocent man to jail for the rest of his life. You wanna live with that.

  Nina Chance : Yeah, and I think you better leave.

• Detective Regis : I'll be damned. Jack, Kyle & Carla: Oval Office threesome.

• Jordan : This is global Detective. It's a little bit off your turf.

  Detective Regis : This is a homicide! This is my turf!

• Detective Regis : The tapes are classified. Out of my reach.

  Jordan : You Republican or Democrat?

  Detective Regis : I think Washington is drowning in a sea of its own bullshit.

• Detective Regis : Alive and ruined is better.

  Nina Chance : Than what?

  Detective Regis : Dead and martyred.

• Nina Chance : I am fully qualified to answer any questions relating to White House security; furthermore, I resent the implication that...

  Detective Regis : Furthermore, you resent the implication? Man, people don't even speak English in this town anymore.

• Coroner Jimmy Foley : The blows were from the left - and powerful. A condom was used. No semen. No blood, except hers. No DNA.

  Detective Regis : Signs of force?

  Coroner Jimmy Foley : No.

  Detective Regis : So you're saying sex - not rape?

  [Coroner nods his head yes] 

• Detective Harlan Regis : Somebody's been playin' us like puppets.

• Detective Regis : Did he plant the button?

  Nina Chance : I don't know, okay!

  Detective Regis : Everybody's lyin' around here.

• President Neil : Detective, how can I ever repay you?

  Detective Regis : Don't bother. I was just doin' my job. Well, there is one thing.

  President Neil : Yes, Detective?

  Detective Regis : Have you ever heard of the Interstate Commerce Commission?

• Detective Regis : [after shootout with henchmen]  I thought you were a sharpshooter?

  Nina Chance : Save it!

• President Neil : [in the White House hallways]  How did you get in here?

  Detective Regis : [multiple Secret Service agents holding him down]  I crawled!

• Nina Chance : [about the room-sized landsacpe models in his small apartment]  How did you...?

  Detective Regis : I'm a homicide cop in the homicide capital of the world. It's cheaper than a shrink.

• Detective Regis : So I'm digging. Fumbling through Peoples Magazine and happen to come across page 16. There's a picture of Kyle coming back from Brazil......... and you're standing next to him with an earpiece.

  Detective Regis : You know... ..I must've looked at 18 months of pictures of this guy. And you know what I found out? I found that you were in over half of them. You were on his detail and you didn't tell me. Until when?

  Nina Chance : I have nothing more to discuss with you about this. The case is closed.

  Detective Regis : Agent Chance when they did remove from Kyles detail?

  Nina Chance : You show up here grilling me about work?

  Detective Regis : Just answer the question.

  Nina Chance : Don't come to my home again.

  Detective Regis : Answer the question!

  Nina Chance : You waltz in here expecting me to violate every oath I've ever taken!

  Nina Chance : I have a duty to prote...

  Detective Regis : Protect what? Your duty could send an innocent man to prison for the rest of his life. Are you comfortable with that?

  Nina Chance : I... ..I think you should leave.

  Detective Regis : How is it that Spikings finds a button in the bathroom that no other detective found huh?

  Detective Regis : What did he plant it there?

  Nina Chance : I asked you to leave.

  Detective Regis : Did he plant the button?

  Nina Chance : I don't know! Ok?

  Detective Regis : Everybody's lying around here

  Detective Regis : Ok so again. Why did they remove you from Kyles detail?

  Nina Chance : They didn't remove me

  Nina Chance : One night I heard sounds. Of violence. Fighting. Coming from his apartment. So I went in, and I found him... ..beating up his girlfriend. And it was ugly. And they... ..we... ..covered it up... .for him. That was even uglier. And that's when I asked to be reassigned.

  Detective Regis : Look Nina. I don't know what I would do if I was you, but I do know one thing. I could not let an innocent man fry for something he did not do.

  Detective Regis : Maybe you can.