Jennifer Spencer Quotes in Sudden Impact (1983)

Jennifer Spencer: I saw the commotion the other day; you're either a cop or public enemy number one.

Harry Callahan: Heh. Some people might say both.

Jennifer Spencer: Really, who?

Harry Callahan: Oh, bozos with big brass nameplates on their desk and asses the shape of the seat of their chairs.

Jennifer Spencer: Why?

Harry Callahan: Ah, it's a question of methods. Everybody wants results but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

Jennifer Spencer: So what now?

Harry Callahan: Now, I guess I'll have to...

Jennifer Spencer: [cutting him off] read me my rights? And where was all this concern for my rights when I was being beaten and mauled? And where were my sister's rights when she was being *brutalized*? There is a thing called justice Callahan, and is it justice that they should all just walk away?

Chief Lester Jannings: He couldn't live with it. The other vermin didn't care. But him, the guilt ate at his gut like an acid. He wanted you to come back. He would pray every night that you'd come back. Until one night he couldn't wait any longer. Took his car out and smashed it and his brains into a retaining wall. Now you're here, and he doesn't even know it. My fault. I should have let him be punished then, along with the other filth. But he was my only son. his mother died giving birth to him. He and I are all each other have. I was afraid for him. Afraid for me. See, I was a public figure. So I did things. I fixed it. And now I just want you to go. Let it end.

Jennifer Spencer: There's one left.

Chief Lester Jannings: Yes. And I've got him, in my jail. He preyed on Alby and preyed on me ever since. And that too is going to end.

Mick: [surprising them] Oh is that so, Lester boy?

Jennifer Spencer: Need a lift?

Young Guy: Why, yes ma'am.

Jennifer Spencer: Good. Then shove a jack up your ass!

[drives off]

Young Guy: Puta!

Historical Society Woman: It must give you a great amount of satisfaction to make old ugly things right again.

Jennifer Spencer: Yes, sometimes it does.

Jennifer Spencer: [to Mick] All right, you prickless scum! You think you can get it up this time? You think you can make it work this time! You want me, you filthy maggot, you TAKE ME!. 'Cause this time you'll have to rape my *dead body*!