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Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

Colm Meaney: Detective Dunnigan

Law Abiding Citizen

Colm Meaney credited as playing...

Detective Dunnigan

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  • Detective Dunnigan: [before illegally breaking into a storage facility owned by Clyde] You're gonna do that? Here? What about his civil rights?
  • Nick Rice: *Fuck* his civil rights.
  • Detective Dunnigan: Where's the specialist team?
  • SWAT Troop #1: Round the corner. It's approaching soft.
  • Detective Dunnigan: Where's the bomb disposal unit?
  • SWAT Troop #1: You're looking at it.
  • SWAT Troop #1: [On discovering the bomb in the City Hall] Don't touch anything
  • Detective Dunnigan: That wasn't one of my first instincts
  • Detective Dunnigan: [to Nick Rice, after finding Darby's dismembered body in a warehouse owned by Clyde] Good news counselor, we found Darby... I gotta say though, he's looked better.
  • Nick Rice: [In a car on their way to arrest Darby] I put him away.
  • Detective Garza: [Reading his criminal profile on a computer] Three years? Is that the going rate for murder these days?
  • Nick Rice: It was extenuating circumstances.
  • Detective Dunnigan: The only "extenuating" circumstance should be is that he didn't do it.
  • Detective Garza: But still, three years at "gladiator academy" like Marion Penitentiary, you expect him to come back a model citizen?
  • Nick Rice: If you scholars didn't contaminate the crime scene I could've kept him up locked up longer
  • Detective Dunnigan: [to Nick over the phone] Listen, that contraption that killed Cantrell was a weaponized bomb-disposal robot. Can you believe that? Damn thing had video, night vision, you name it. It's like military AP1, for Christ's sake. That's anti-tank rounds, Nick. I think he's saving you for last. Nick, you've got to get in front of this guy if you want to stay alive.
  • Nick Rice: [Referring to the machine administering the lethal injection execution] how does it work on a good day?
  • Warden Iger: It's designed to be pain free, three drugs injected in a specific order.
  • Nick Rice: At this point on, we're operating under the assumption the machine was corrupted.
  • Detective Dunnigan: We're going to need a list of people who had access to the machine.
  • Warden Iger: My people would not do this.
  • Detective Dunnigan: I appreciate that, but I'm going to need more than a "hall pass" or a "note from mom."
  • Nick Rice: [Reads writing written on one of the empty canisters in an evidence bag] "Can't fight fate". During the home invasion, Ames' accomplice said to one of the victim's the exact same phrase. Then he said the same thing to me in court.

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