Ben Logan Quotes in Erased (2012)

Amy Logan: Why are you going through my stuff?

Ben Logan: When I was a kid, and that was a hundred years ago and you'll never be my age, but we actually got the report card and took it home to my parents so they could see it.

Amy Logan: Mom never went through my stuff.

Ben Logan: Well, I mean, I'm not Mom.

Amy Logan: Yeah, no shit.

Ben Logan: [about Amy's foosball friend] Who was that?

Amy Logan: Nabil. He's helping me.

Ben Logan: Yeah. Helping you with what?

Amy Logan: 'Without voices.' It's my next photo essay. You know, people make a life here because we screwed up whatever country they're from.

Ben Logan: Don't get caught up in other people's problems.

Amy Logan: Boy, what a world this would be if everyone thought like you.

Ben Logan: And you shouldn't be hanging out there.

Amy Logan: Yeah, and you should show up when you say you will.

Ben Logan: Did I tell you I found a place we can watch baseball? In Ghent? Ex-pat community? I thought we could go there, hang out? Fun?

Amy Logan: I hate baseball.

Ben Logan: When your mom and I first met, we used to go to games all the time.

Amy Logan: Yeah, if it was so great, then why'd you leave?

Amy Logan: Why would someone you work with, try to kill us?

Ben Logan: Amy, listen to me. I don't know what's going on here. Come here.

[Ben cleans blood off Amy's face]

Ben Logan: The safest place for you to be right now is at my side, listening to what I tell you. Will you do that for me? Will you trust me?

Amy Logan: [very scared] How can you be so calm?

Ben Logan: Because that's the only way we're gonna figure out what's going on.

Ben Logan: What did Mom tell you about me?

Amy Logan: That you were in overseas political affairs for the State Department.

Ben Logan: [sighs] Your mother.

Amy Logan: Why'd you quit your job?

Ben Logan: To be a father. I'm not doing too good of a job of it, am I?

Amy Logan: [chuckles] I wouldn't know.

Ben Logan: I thought I told you to come alone.

James Halgate: Mr. Braymer is here to serve our mutual interests.

Ben Logan: Maybe he can tell me how much it costs to buy the CIA.

Marty Braymer: Are we talking gross or net?

Ben Logan: Is it within my power to assign him a spiritual advisor?

Grandma Logan: It is most certainly.

Ben Logan: Good, then I assign you.

Joe Logan: So, what? You're my babysitter now?

Grandma Logan: That's how I roll, baby.

Joe Logan: Where'd they come from?

Ben Logan: Smoke signals.

[holds his cellphone]

Joe Logan: All the Haudenosaunee Nations in one spot. I guess this is a home game now, huh?

Ben Logan: Always was, son.

[at the championship game]

Ben Logan: You play redskin to the whites, then white to your people.

Joe Logan: It's just for show.

Ben Logan: To show what exactly?

Joe Logan: Dad, you know why I don't play anymore.

Ben Logan: I do, and they call it the "medicine game" for a reason. Let it heal you.