Buddy Wallace Quotes in Sneakers (1992)

Dick Gordon: Before we begin, something we need to clear up. Most firms of this kind are staffed with ex-law enforcement types, but your team, it's...

Martin Bishop: [laughs] I know, kind of different.

Buddy Wallace: Yes, you are.

[opens file]

Buddy Wallace: Darryl Roscow, also known as "Mother." Eighteen months at Denimmoore for breaking and entering.

Martin Bishop: Yeah, he was framed. But he's got the best hands in the business.

Buddy Wallace: [opens another file] Carl Arbogast, age 19. Caught breaking into the Oakland City School District computer to change his grades.

Martin Bishop: I know, we're the ones who caught him.

Buddy Wallace: [another file] Erwin Emory, also known as "Whistler."

Martin Bishop: Yeah, yeah, I know, he had a little trouble with the phone company...

Buddy Wallace: Sixty-two counts?

Martin Bishop: All right, you want law enforcement? What about Donald Crease? Twenty-two year veteran of the CIA.

Buddy Wallace: Terminated, 1987. Why was that?

Martin Bishop: I don't know, I think maybe a personality conflict. Who are you guys?

Dick Gordon: Relax, Marty. We have to check on these things. It's just that every member of your team has had some kind of problem in their past.

Buddy Wallace: [opens another file] Then there's Martin Bishop...

[after a tense silence, he tilts the folder, showing it is empty]

Buddy Wallace: He doesn't seem to have a past.