Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD Quotes in An Innocent Man (1989)

Kate Rainwood: They admitted to me that they framed Jimmie! What more do you want?

Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: Secondhand conversations, Mrs. Rainwood, mean nothing. I told you that.

Kate Rainwood: All right... they threatened me. Parnell said that your department was shit, and that you're a...

[pauses]

Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: A what?

Kate Rainwood: A punk nigger with his nose up the brass's ass.

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]

Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: [Kate has set up a meeting between Jimmie and Detective Fitzgerald at a beach location] Your wife tells me you have a plan to put Parnell and Scalise away for a long time.

Jimmie Rainwood: Yeah. Kate's told me good things about you. The problem is, you're a cop, like them.

Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: I'm nothing at all like them. I'm only here because your wife asked me to come. You need a cop to make this thing stick. So if you have something, let's have it. Otherwise, forget it.

Jimmie Rainwood: All right, forget it.

[both turn to leave]

Kate Rainwood: Are you crazy? You won't be fit to live with unless we go through with this and you

[pointedly to Fitzgerald]

Kate Rainwood: have been walking around with a stiff neck whining about proof since the day I met you!

[to both]

Kate Rainwood: Now work the fucking thing out!

Jimmie Rainwood: [to Fitzgerald] What are you willing to do?

Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: [sighs] At this point, almost anything.

Jimmie Rainwood: Look, with your help, we can get these guys dirty and put 'em away.

Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: What do I get if I agree?

Jimmie Rainwood: You'll witness them buying cocaine.

Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: [sarcastically] No shit.

Jimmie Rainwood: You be ready on a half hour's notice. I'll give you the time and place. Just you. No one else.

Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: I'm gonna go along with you on this. But if you fuck up, and my ass ends up in a sling, you and I are going to go round and round.

Jimmie Rainwood: [smiles] Well, I guess I better not fuck up.