Kate Whitney Quotes in Absolute Power (1997)

Kate Whitney: Do you know what it's like to be the only kid in the first grade who got to talk about visiting day?

Kate Whitney: But then you go to the police. That's what innocent people do. They go to the police.

Luther Whitney: Sure. And that young man who was just here, he'd believe me over the President, wouldn't he?

Kate Whitney: Well, why should I believe you?

Luther Whitney: Because I swear to you, Kate. I swear to you on Mattie's grave. Yeah, that's right. Your mother's grave, I'd kill myself before I lied about that.

Kate Whitney: Oh Jesus, Luther.

Luther Whitney: Yeah, I know.

[Collin, disguised as a doctor, tries to kill Kate with an injection; Luther, also disguised as a doctor, comes up behind him and jabs a syringe into his neck]

Luther Whitney: Dr. Kevorkian, I presume? My guess is this is right in your carotid artery about now. You're gonna get a little woozy. But if I give you the rest of this, it's gonna fry your brain down to the size of a peanut! Drop that.

[Collin drops the syringe, and Luther eases him down to the floor]

Tim Collin: [whispering] Luther, he's my president, right or wrong.

Luther Whitney: Well, he made a mistake. *You* made a mistake. When you went after my little girl, that was *entirely* unacceptable.

Tim Collin: [pleading weakly] Mercy.

Luther Whitney: I'm fresh out.

[Luther plunges the injection into Collin's neck; Collin groans as he dies]

Kate Whitney: [starts waking up in hospital bed] Daddy?

Luther Whitney: [softly] Go to sleep, darling.

Kate Whitney: Why'd you come?

Luther Whitney: I couldn't have my daughter thinking I was a murderer.

Kate Whitney: No, I mean why did you come to the restaurant this afternoon? You must have suspected something, or else you wouldn't have been prepared.

Luther Whitney: My daughter wanted to see me.

[last lines]

Kate Whitney: Am I gonna be alright?

Luther Whitney: Yeah. We're gonna be just fine.

Kate Whitney: Quit wasting my time. He doesn't want you to find him, you're not gonna find him.

Seth Frank: You're saying what? He left town, he skipped the country? What?

Kate Whitney: I'm saying, you won't recognize him. I'm saying, he could be right around the corner.

Luther Whitney: You're the only family I have.

Kate Whitney: Luther, you don't have me.

Kate Whitney: Father, what have you done?