RoboCop (1987)

Dan O'Herlihy: The Old Man

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  The Old Man : Nice shootin', son. What's your name?

  RoboCop : Murphy.

• The Old Man : [held at gunpoint by Jones]  Dick, you're *fired*!

  [Directive 4 limitation against Jones is cancelled] 

  RoboCop : Thank you.

  [shoots Jones] 

• The Old Man : How can we help you, officer?

  RoboCop : Dick Jones is wanted for murder.

  Dick Jones : [Directive 4 starts flashing on RoboCop's status monitor]  This is absurd! That thing... is a violent mechanical psychopath!

  RoboCop : My program will not allow me to act against an officer of this company.

  The Old Man : These are serious charges. What is your evidence?

  [RoboCop turns to the wall and inserts his data spike into the wall socket, a video starts to play] 

  Dick Jones : [from video playback]  I had to kill Bob Morton because he made a mistake. Now it's time to erase that mistake. I had to kill Bob Morton because he made a mistake. Now it's time to erase that mistake.

  Dick Jones : [takes a gun and holds it against the Old Man's head, wrapping his arm around his neck]  Get up! Get up! I want a chopper, now! We will walk to the roof very calmly, I will board the chopper with my hostage. Anybody tries to stop me... the old geezer gets it.

  The Old Man : Dick, you're fired!

  [Directive 4 disappears from RoboCop's status monitor] 

  RoboCop : Thank you.

  [the Old Man jabs Dick Jones from behind with his elbow, and RoboCop starts shooting at Dick Jones, who is no longer an OCP employee; Dick Jones falls through a glass window to the ground below and dies] 

• [ED-209 has malfunctioned during a demonstration, killing Kinney in the boardroom] 

  The Old Man : [12:43]  Dick, I'm very disappointed.

  Dick Jones : I'm sure it's only a glitch, a temporary setback.

  The Old Man : [raises his voice in anger]  You call this a GLITCH?

  [pause] 

  The Old Man : We're scheduled to begin construction in six months. Your "temporary setback" could cost us fifty million dollars in interest payments alone!

• The Old Man : Old Detroit has a cancer. The cancer is crime, and it must be cut out before we employ the two million workers that will breathe life into this city again.

• The Old Man : My friends, I've had this dream for more than a decade now, a dream which I've invited you all to share with me.

• The Old Man : Maybe what we need here is a fresh perspective.

• The Old Man : These are serious charges. What is your evidence?