Gideon Quotes in Minority Report (2002)

Gideon: Careful, Chief. Dig up the past, all you get is dirty.

[Hundreds of contained prisoners rise up around Anderton and Gideon]

John Anderton: My God, I forgot there were so many.

Gideon: And just think, they'd all be out there killing people if it wasn't for you. Look at how peaceful they all are. But on the inside...

[taps his head]

Gideon: busy busy busy.

[Lara enters the containment ward and puts a gun to Gideon's head]

Lara Anderton: I'd like a word with my husband.

Gideon: You're not authorized. How did you get in here?

[She shows him one of John's original, removed eyeballs]

Gideon: [describing John Doe] Okey pokey, now this is one bad man.

[Anderton gets wheeled into containment unit]

Gideon: You're part of my flock now, John.

Eric Draven: Suddenly I heard a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

Gideon: What are you talking about?

Eric Draven: You heard me rapping, right?

Gideon: Look, I'm beggin' you, alright? Don't kill me.

Eric Draven: I'm not gonna kill you. Your job will be to tell the rest of them that death is coming for them, tonight. Tell them Eric Draven sends his regards.

Eric Draven: Mr. Gideon, you're not paying attention!

Gideon: [shouting] No! My hand!

Eric Draven: I repeat: A Gold engagement ring, yes? It was pawned here a year ago by a customer of yours named Tin Tin. He confided in me before he ran out of breath!

Gideon: Goddamn creatures of the night. They never learn.

Eric Draven: [pointing a gun at Gideon] You have one chance to live.

Gideon: Look, man take anything you want.

Eric Draven: Thank you.

Gideon: TAKE ANYTHING!

Eric Draven: [while searching for the wedding rings] Warmer?

Gideon: [Is held at the table due to the knife through his hand into the table] WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Eric Draven: Don't you know this game?

Top Dollar: You ain't lost everything.

Gideon: Yeah? And maybe you're not such a big shot, either!

[Grange restrains him]

Gideon: Ow! Jesus!

Top Dollar: Fair enough. Catch.

[Top Dollar tosses an eyeball at him]

Gideon: Jesus.

Top Dollar: Say hello to the last fella who wouldn't cooperate with me.

Gideon: What are you telling me thi- You telling me this thing is real?

Top Dollar: All the power in the world rests in the eyes, fella.

Gideon: My livelihood got flushed and went swirling.

[Grange notices Gideon's burns]

Grange: You burn yourself playing with matches?

Gideon: Fuck off.

Grange: You have an appointment.

Gideon: Well, shit on me.

Grange: Drink up.

Gideon: This is a first. Do I bow or do I curtsy?

Gideon: [On why he betrayed them] They have my family they will kill them if I don't help them.

[pauses]

Gideon: I'm not a killer like them

Lt. A.K. Waters: [sneers] Fuck your not!

[coldly on Gideon]

Lt. A.K. Waters: Let him bleed out!

Gideon: [to Lena as he dies] What's going to happen to my family?

Gideon: Your sister, she don't take kindly to thieving. There's plenty of time for that when you grow up.

Little Brother: Afraid I'm gonna have to ask you to stop walking.

Gideon: Let me be, boy. Best just go on back up to your kin.

Little Brother: Mister, I never shot nobody in the back before. So it's best you just turn around, and you get what's coming to you.

Gideon: Boy, now you put that gun up and go on.

Little Brother: Turn around.

Gideon: [turns and throws knife into Virgils' neck. Virgil falls off his horse. Gideon bends down and pulls out the knife] You're a fool, boy.

[whips blood off his knife onto his victim]

Gideon: I told you too let me be

Gideon: Time was, you said your war was over.

Carver: Only the dead can know the end of war, Captain.

Madame Louise Fair: Spoken like a true sinner.

Gideon: Well, hell, don't matter much out here.

Madame Louise Fair: Man's got to do what a man's got to do, right?

Gideon: What do you want?

Carver: I thought that would have been obvious the way I've been shootin' at ya.

[last lines]

Carver: [at gunpoint] Go on, finish it.

Gideon: [handing gun to him] I believe it's up to you, sir.

Carver: [barely audible] Rose. Rose.

Gideon: [gives him water and some for himself] Come on...

Gideon: [looks at emptied money pouch] No wonder you don't talk much. Too busy thieving.

Gideon: Why are you doing this?

Carver: Seraphim Falls.

Carver: If you kill this son of a bitch, it will not be paid. Extremities only!

Foulfellow: [after drunkenly singing "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee"] And the dummy fell for it.

[laughs]

Foulfellow: Hook, line and sinker!

[laughs again]

Gideon: [Dips a smoke-ring in his beer and takes a bite] Hiccup!

Foulfellow: And he still thinks we're his friends. And did Stromboli pay? Plenty!

[places a small bag of coins on the table]

Foulfellow: That shows you how low Honest John will stoop, eh, Giddy?

Gideon: [nodding choking on his beer] Hiccup!

Foulfellow: [noticing Pinocchio] Look, Giddy, look! It's amazing, a live puppet without strings! A thing like that ought to be worth a fortune to someone. Now let me see...

[sees poster for Stromboli's puppet show]

Foulfellow: That's it! Stromboli! Why, that old faker would give his... Listen. If we play our cards right, we'll be on easy street or my name isn't Honest John.

[Gideon nods "No"]

Foulfellow: Quick, we'll head him off

[They follow Pinocchio and head him off near a brick wall]

Foulfellow: Shhh! Now is our cha...

[Gideon takes out a mallet and gets ready to hit Pinocchio]

Foulfellow: No, no, stupid!

[snatches mallet]

Foulfellow: Don't be crude.

[hits him with the mallet]

Gideon: Hiccup!

Gideon: Adam, you're my eldest brother. Now I've always looked up to ya, tried to ape ya. But today I'm ashamed of you. Now I know you can lick me, lick the tar outta me! But I wouldn't hold myself no kinda man unless I showed ya how I felt!

[punches him]

Adam: Why you...!

[throws him on horse, hands him reigns]

Adam: Now, GIT!

[slaps horse]

Milly: Say something nice, Gideon.

Gideon: Nice night for a coon hunt.

Gideon: [after Millie gives birth] I'm an uncle!

[faints]

Milly: Don't you like girls?

Gideon: We ain't never hardly ever seen one.

Gideon: I guess I got the beginnings.

Gideon: [attempting to get into the house to see the girls] I got me a stiff neck.

Townsman: Are you sure there are two l's in 'dollar', Gideon?

Gideon: Yes! An' are there two g's in 'bugger off'?

Gideon: There's this movie playing out at the drive in. I've seen it about five times. It's called "Saturday Night Girls."

Gideon: Somethin' botherin' you, cousin?

Loren: No. Nothing never bothers me.

Gideon: Well, if I was you I wouldn't bet no money on that.

Gideon: Got the jug-ler.

Gideon: Can you keep a secret?

Abbie Grainger: Yeah.

Gideon: Well, uh, I'm an angel. A Christmas angel.

Abbie Grainger: Oh, no, you're not, 'cause my dad told me you can't see angels. They're invisible.

Gideon: Well, they're invisible sometimes, but sometimes they have to show up.

Abbie Grainger: So, what's your name then?

Gideon: Gideon.

Abbie Grainger: Gideon? Was you a good person that died?

Gideon: Good person? Well, I was a cow hand... out, out west. And one Christmas, a long, long time ago, I was riding along the Snake River, and I heard this little... kid, uh, yelling to somebody, and, uh, so I jumped into the river to save him. Well, I saved him, all right, but I got myself drowned. 'Cause I didn't know how to swim. And, um, after that they, they made me a Christmas angel.

Abbie Grainger: What do Christmas angels do?

Gideon: Well, my job is to, every Christmas, have to help one person, that's feeling down, to get into the Christmas spirit.

Abbie Grainger: One person?

Gideon: Yeah.

Abbie Grainger: Could it be my mom? Could you make my mom like Christmas better, Gideon?

Gideon: Yeah. I think so, if you'll help me.

Abbie Grainger: Okay.

Gideon: I still cannot bring myself to utter that name.

Land agent: Can you be at Stovepipe Pass by noon tomorrow?

Gideon: Easy!

Land agent: Good, the troops will meet you there. I'll get my rider started immediately. And Gideon, keep this information to yourself. McBride's spies are thicker than... thicker than homesteaders.