John Travolta credited as playing...
Paul Brenner
- [Brenner finds out from Elby that Elisabeth Campbell isn't close to her father General Campbell]
- Sunhill: What about the General and Captain Campbell? Were they close?
- Capt. Jake Elby: No.
- Brenner: Why not?
- Capt. Jake Elby: I don't know. You like your dad?
- Brenner: My dad was a drunk, a gambler, and a womanizer. I worshipped him.
- Brenner: You killed her.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: What did you say?
- Brenner: Seven years ago in that hospital room, when you told her to just forget about it, you killed her.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: Kent killed her.
- Brenner: No. Kent just put her out of her misery.
- [last lines]
- Brenner: [Brenner has the last line with General Campbell] When this all started, I told you that we would find the son of a bitch, sir. I never expected that the son of a bitch would be you.
- [General Campbell holds his head in silence and walks forward, carrying the American flag behind Captain Elisabeth Campbell's coffin]
- [Brenner and Sunhill sit at a bar with other military uniformed men]
- Sunhill: I thought you hated places like this.
- Brenner: I do. However the murderer may be in this room, sitting all smug and shiny... until we walked in. And now maybe he's a little less smug and a little less shiny. And that's pretty cool, don't you think?
- [Brenner asks Sunhill about her marriage status]
- Brenner: So... Did you ever marry, uh... Major what's-his-name with a gun?
- Sunhill: Yes, I did.
- Brenner: Oh... Congratulations. I'm extremely happy for you, Sarah. And I wish you both the best that life has to offer .
- Sunhill: I filed for divorce.
- Brenner: Good.
- Brenner: What happened sophomore year at the Point?
- [Moore doesn't answer]
- Brenner: You're a murderer or an accessory to murder. Either way, you're gonna get burned at the stake. Nobody's gonna bail you out!
- [Moore remains silent; exasperated, Brenner locks Moore in his cell and starts to walk away]
- Colonel Robert Moore: It was awful.
- Brenner: It was awful. Go ahead. What, she violated a code? She cheated? She lied? What?
- Colonel Robert Moore: Worse.
- Brenner: Drugs.
- Colonel Robert Moore: Worse.
- Brenner: Rape.
- [Moore slowly moves from the back of his cell to the front, directly facing Brenner]
- Colonel Robert Moore: Worse.
- Brenner: What's worse than rape?
- Colonel Robert Moore: When you find that out... then you'll know everything, won't you?
- Colonel Robert Moore: Do you think I'm involved in this?
- Brenner: One way or another, yes, I do.
- Colonel Robert Moore: Then wouldn't it behoove me to retain the services of an attorney? I know a good one.
- Brenner: Two problems there. First, the obvious: there are no good ones. Second... you're not a civilian, Colonel, you're in the army. You have no rights to an attorney. You have no right to remain silent. And if you don't cooperate, I may have to put you in jail, and that would make me feel bad.
- Colonel Robert Moore: You see what you're doing?
- Brenner: Hmm? Looking for answers?
- Colonel Robert Moore: Of course that, but how? How? You're trying to make me like you. And you know what? It's working. I do. But now, do you see what I'm trying to do? I'm trying to make you like me, too.
- [Brenner sees Chief Yardley hanging around the crime scene]
- Brenner: What are you doing here, Yardley? Shouldn't you be out night-sticking the colored folk?
- [Brenner and Colonel Fowler threaten each others careers]
- Brenner: You don't understand, Colonel Fowler. This is my investigation, and it's still open.
- Col. George Fowler: [Fowler becomes threatening sounding] Who the hell do you think you are? It's over. Over. You better start thinking about your career, you understand me?
- Brenner: [Brenner responds in a angry low voice] And you'd better start thinking about yours! You are running one lunatic base here! You want to mess with me, Colonel? Let's start gouging away.
- Col. George Fowler: [Fowler looks to Sunhill, then back to Brenner] You've been warned.
- [Brenner finishes fighting with the freedom fighter Belling]
- Brenner: Oh, unclench your ass cheeks, Dalbert. The scary part is over.
- [Brenner finds out the alibi of Colonel Moore]
- Colonel Robert Moore: When did... the event transpire?
- Brenner: 0400, we think.
- Colonel Robert Moore: Mmm. See that? My quick segue back to the case?
- Brenner: Subtle as a chainsaw. And where were you?
- Colonel Robert Moore: Snug in bed.
- Brenner: Witnesses? A wife, girlfriend, roommate, hooker?
- Colonel Robert Moore: I'm divorced. I'm between girlfriends, I live alone and I do not use hookers. I actually have... absolutely no alibi whatsoever. Does that make me a killer?
- Brenner: No. Makes you lonely and unpopular.
- [Kent asks Brenner about their list of suspects]
- Kent: Come up with anything yet?
- Brenner: No. Just a preliminary list of suspects.
- Kent: Already. Who?
- Brenner: Everyone.
- Kent: Well, you ought to start getting alibis.
- Brenner: Okay, how about you?
- Kent: Home in bed when the tower called.
- Brenner: [Brenner sarcastically utters] Ah ha!
- Kent: Fuck off, Paul. Where were you last night?
- Brenner: I was too busy killing someone else. I didn't have time to kill two people.
- [Brenner questions Colonel Moore after finding his fingerprints at Elisabeth Campbell's crime scene]
- Moore: Look, Paul... may I call you Paul? I so enjoyed when you took the liberty of calling me Bobby. We are, I assume, still trying to outsmart each other? Obviously, Paul... I cannot tell a lie and say... I know nothing about all of this. I also, sadly... cannot tell the truth.
- Brenner: 'Cause you think silence will save your ass.
- Moore: My ass, as you so delicately put it, is already in a sling, is it not?
- Brenner: You mean the sex tapes.
- Moore: [Moore remains silent before responding] You're good. Mmm. You're good. Great question. Almost any answer incriminates me, doesn't it?
- Brenner: That's why I like it.
- [Colonel Fowler reveals to Brenner and General Campbell that he found Elisabeth Campbell dead]
- Col. George Fowler: You couldn't expect the man to deal with his own child. She was screaming such vituperations at him.
- Brenner: Course not.
- Col. George Fowler: So he called me... and he asked me to deal with it. And I went. And I found her dead.
- Brenner: [Brenner tilts his head] You found her dead?
- Col. George Fowler: Of course. But you will never get me to testify against the general.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: [General Campbell looks Colonel Fowler alarmed] What?
- Col. George Fowler: I've been by Joe Campbell's side too many times. Looked death in the face with him... too many times. I will not back down now.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: What in God's name are you talking about?
- Col. George Fowler: [Colonel Fowler's voice starts to crack] It wasn't like she didn't give him reason.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: George, for Christ's sake!
- Col. George Fowler: And then when we realized she was... fucking everybody from Bill Kent to Jake Elby, it was too late for official action.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: [General Campbell yells out] Colonel Fowler!
- Col. George Fowler: We would have had to ask for all their resignations, then resign ourselves.
- [General Campbell pays a final visit to Brenner before leaving the country]
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: Remember, when I asked you if you were a cop or a soldier?
- Brenner: Yes, sir.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: Well, you're a soldier, Paul... and a damn fine one.
- Brenner: [General Campbell salutes Brenner before walking off, as Brenner follows] General Campbell. You're wrong. I'm a rotten soldier.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: Oh? And why is that?
- Brenner: You really don't get it, do you? The only mind Elisabeth wanted to fuck with, was yours.
- [Brenner tells General Campbell what he learned from Elisabeth's death]
- Brenner: I once asked Moore what's worse than rape. Now I know. Betrayal.
- [Brenner and Sunhill go through Elisabeth Campbell's bathroom supplies]
- Sunhill: Well, she wasn't a hypochondriac. She didn't dye her hair, she didn't have oily skin, and she keeps her method of birth control somewhere else.
- Brenner: Well, or perhaps she required her men to wear condoms. Maybe you've heard that condoms are in fashion again because of disease. Nowadays you have to boil people before you can sleep with them. Care for a bath?
- [Brenner reveals the names of the rapists from West Point to General Campbell]
- Col. George Fowler: You were just doing what you said - Trying to protect her.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: I did what I had to. What I thought best for everyone concerned. There's nothing else that could have been done. We never would have found them anyway.
- Brenner: Here you are, sir.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: [Brenner lays down a paper in front of the General] What is that?
- Brenner: The names of the perpetrators my associate agent Sunhill, found with a minimum of trouble. Apple pie, sir.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: That's just brilliant.
- [Brenner thanks Moore's attorney, Captain Goodson, for his help with Elisabeth Campbell's medical records]
- Brenner: [about Colonel Moore] Now, did he instruct you to give me the medical records?
- Capt. Goodson: Well, not in so many words... but I think I knew his wishes. You know, anything that might help Elisabeth. I'm sure you know how much he loved her.
- Brenner: Not as much as he loved you.
- Capt. Goodson: [Goodson smiles] What do you mean?
- Brenner: I don't know. It's just something about the surprise way you came in that night, the extra care he had in making dinner.
- Capt. Goodson: What do you plan on doing about it?
- Brenner: Not a thing, other than to tell you I'm sorry about Moore and to ask you for your help.