Web Smith Quotes in Rising Sun (1993)

Web Smith: Where are you from, "sempai"? Scotland Yard?

John Connor: Scotland Backyard.

John Connor: When you start to get into trouble, I will say, 'Perhaps I can be of assistance?' From then on, I do the talking. You stand behind me. And don't appear distracted. We may come from a fragmented, MTV rap-video culture, but they do not. Every aspect of your appearance and behavior will reflect on you, the Department, and me as your sempai.

Web Smith: My sempai?

John Connor: Mm.

Web Smith: That wouldn't be massa', would it?

John Connor: No. The sempai is the senior man who guides the junior man, the kohai. In Japan, the sempai-kohai relationship is presumed to exist when the younger man and the older man work together. Hopefully, they will presume that of us.

Web Smith: Look, "sempai," apple pie, whatever it is you want me to call you, we have a murder here. I wanna solve it. I don't wanna hear true confessions, awright?

Web Smith: Tough neighborhoods are America's last advantage.

John Connor: Every aspect of your appearance and behavior will reflect on you, the Department, and me as your sempai.

Web Smith: My sempai?

John Connor: Mm.

Web Smith: That wouldn't be massa, would it?

Web Smith: We're the good guys. Why are we running?

John Connor: We're not running. We're eluding.

John Connor: We're playing that most American of games.

Web Smith: Which is what?

John Connor: Catch-up.

Bob Richmond: Hey! Hey, you! Quit loafing! Get the senator's car! What do you think we're doing?

Web Smith: No, you get the senator's car! Wrong guy, wrong fucking century! Penguin looking mother fucker!

Web Smith: If we only had the original disk, we could see what happened after that.

Jingo Asakuma: Exactly. You catch on fast, Lieutenant Smith.

Web Smith: Yeah, I do.

Web Smith: [after pushing on wall to find a hidden room] The executive fuck chamber.