Detective Danny Scalise LBPD Quotes in An Innocent Man (1989)

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [Parnell and Scalise crash into Rainwood's home... he comes out of shower in a bathrobe and holding a hair dryer] He's armed, Danny!

[fires gun, Rainwood goes down wounded]

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: He's down! He's down, Danny! I got him covered!

[Scalise approaches]

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: All right, go ahead. Oh, god... whoa. Ohhh... this motherfucker scared the shit outta me!

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: [frisking Rainwood] It's a hair dryer.

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: What? What'd you say?

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: This guy's armed with a hair dryer.

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [chuckles nervously] Why would a guy take a shower during a dope deal?

[they search his home and find nothing]

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [agitated] Hey this is 420, right? Huh? So where's the stuff? Stevie told me 420 Oak Way! It's gotta be here somewhere, man!

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Mike, you told me 420 Oak Lane, not 'Way'! You said 'Lane'!

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: No, no, no, Danny! No, no! I told... I said 'Oak Way'! Tell me, what did I say!

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: You told me '420 Oak Lane'. Not 'Way'. It's right here.

[produces bill with address]

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: 420 Oak Lane.

[slams bill down]

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Holy shit, Mike. We got the wrong house. This guy is a civilian. Shit.

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: No... just a second now.

[pulls out memo pad with different address]

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: Oh no. FUCK ME! GODDAMNIT! JESUS!

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Now take it easy! Just take it easy. Take it easy. We're gonna think this through.

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: There's nothing to think about, Danny. There's just too many people who want to see us step on our dicks.

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: We did step on our dicks.

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [Parnell and Scalise are walking back to their car on a side street after dinner, not knowing Fitzgerald is waiting for them] I gotta stop eating that Cuban food! It's ripping up my insides... ow!

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: You're gonna have to learn to start expressing your feelings, Mike. You're just a ball of repression.

[Parnell laughs]

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: I'll give you repression. Right here's your repression...

[feigns punch]

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: BOOM!

[Scalise laughs]

Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: Hey boys! We need to talk!

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [to Scalise] Well, look who's here.

Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: Off the record. Kate Rainwood came to see me.

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [feigning ignorance] Kate who-wood?

Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: You remember. You put her husband away.

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: So why don't you make your point?

Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: She says you two guys threatened her.

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [feigning disbelief] Did she... did she say that?

Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: [interrupting] Listen! The two of you, you stay away from her. Period!

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [contemptuously] Oh, fuck her! And fuck you! FUCK YOU! I think this internal affairs horseshit is going to your head.

[turns away]

Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: [Fitzgerald grabs Parnell and slams him against a garage door, kneeing him in the groin while doing so... Scalise draws his gun and aims it at Fitzgerald] Do it, Scalise! Do it! I'll break his fuckin' neck! You stay away from Kate Rainwood!

[to Parnell]

Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: And I don't like being called a punk nigger... BOY!

[Scalise lowers weapon]

Kate Rainwood: [Parnell and Scalise show up at the Rainwoods' home unannounced after Jimmie's release] What are you doing here?

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Nice to see you again, Mrs. Rainwood.

[leers]

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: You're looking very good.

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [with false solicitude] We had to make another call in this part of town, and we thought we'd stop by.

[sits]

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Mind if we sit down?

[takes seat]

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [to Rainwood] Sit down.

[to Kate]

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: Honey, get us something cold to drink, will you?

Jimmie Rainwood: What the fuck's wrong?

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [yells] I told you to sit your ass down!

[stands toe-to-toe with Jimmie]

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [screaming] SIT DOWN! SIT DOWN!

[to Kate]

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: Get us something cold to drink! Goddamnit!

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Why don't you go do that, Katie?

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: What are you, some kind of a badass now, you did some time, huh? You can say 'fuck' and everything? Don't you ever come out of your mouth like a smartass with me! Rainwood... you know who you are? You are an ex-convict on parole, and you are owned by the state! The state believes the police! Not the ex-convict! Always!

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Jimmie, I don't want you to think we're picking on you.

[to Kate, who brings him a Coke]

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Thank you.

[to Jimmie]

Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: We do this to every parolee we've busted.

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: It's kind of like preventative maintenance. Guys get weird ideas in the joint sometimes. But this call is special. You and your crusading cunt of a wife have caused us a lot of...

[Jimmie lunges at Parnell, Kate and Scalise restrain him]

Kate Rainwood: [yells] Jimmie, don't! Please don't!

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: You wouldn't let it go and it got you shit! No, go ahead Katie. Try to save him like you couldn't do before. From now on, Rainwood, you are a model citizen. If we happen to say 'shit', you squat. Understand that, and it might keep you out of jail.

[Parnell and Scalise leave]