Kerrigan Quotes in To Hell and Back (1955)
Kerrigan Quotes:
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Kerrigan: [after a jumpy Murphy shoots at his own image in a mirror] Man, that's the first time I ever seen a Texan beat himself to the draw.
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Kerrigan: [Observing the starving Italian orphans picking through garbagr cans] They picked a great time to be born, didn't they?
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Kerrigan: So, you're just going to pay? Have you gone completely Tonto?
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Ingrid Jessner: Mr. Kerrigan, how far you'll be willing to go with this?
Kerrigan: If... and it's still a big if, if Harris is in anyway connect with the shooting I don't care whose toes I tread on, he becomes part of the investigation. No more, no less. Okay?
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Ingrid Jessner: Are you going to do anything about this?
Kerrigan: There's nothing I can do.
Ingrid Jessner: They've committed murder and treason at 11'o clock this morning, a man was assassinated by orders of the British Intelligence and you could do nothing?
Kerrigan: I wish I could.
Ingrid Jessner: You have credentials I don't have, your reputation brought you here, people would listen to you.
Kerrigan: With you as my witness? A member of a civil liberties group who accuses the British government of torture and shoot to kill policy.
Ingrid Jessner: "I don't care whose toes I tread on." That's what you said, and I believed it.
Kerrigan: Look, I have to go...
Ingrid Jessner: Go!
Kerrigan: I'm a policeman.
Ingrid Jessner: Yes, you are.
Kerrigan: The men responsible for Paul's death will be charged.
Ingrid Jessner: You know and you'll do nothing.
Kerrigan: I can't win with these people...
Ingrid Jessner: You'll just close your eyes.
Kerrigan: Forget it and go home.
Ingrid Jessner: That's how Fascism starts! So what do you think of your fine British law now, Mr. Kerrigan?
Kerrigan: It has nothing to do with law and police...
Ingrid Jessner: What is it, then?
Kerrigan: It's politics.
Ingrid Jessner: To enforce the rules of a police state IS politics. Good guys like you cover up so bad guys are safe. You're a puppet and the men pulling the strings know it.
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Kerrigan: I understand the point you're trying to make, Sir Robert. That to maintain the system, the abuse of power is sometimes necessary.
Sir Robert Neil: Yes. It allows us to enjoy the freedom of living in a free society. A price the public are prepared to pay.
Kerrigan: That's a dangerous concept.
Sir Robert Neil: But a realistic one.
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Kerrigan: [furious] I am conducting an investigation, for Christ's sake!
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Kerrigan: Go back to America. Get out of Belfast, you're in danger here. Ingrid, it's finished.
Ingrid Jessner: Not for them, it isn't. Not for Nevin and the others. They're not going to disappear, you know they're still in place. I have a plane to catch, Mr. Kerrigan.
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Supt. Fraser: Do you mind if I smoke?
Kerrigan: Yes, I do.
[the stenographer lady grins at Kerrigan's challenge of a superior officer]
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Kerrigan: God, you people are living in the dark ages.
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[repeated line]
Kerrigan: Did he give you the tape?
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Det. Sgt. Hughes: Classified information.
Kerrigan: Classified, my bullshit! What the fuck you people are running in here? You're own private shooting war?
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Kerrigan: What happened to the film?
Ingrid Jessner: Never got made.
Kerrigan: Too controversial?
Ingrid Jessner: Too honest, I think. It was about how Mr. Kissinger, the CIA and the Pentagon have made Chile safe for democracy.
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[last lines]
Maxwell: Can we go?
Kerrigan: Yes, yes.
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