Rush (1991)

Tony Frank: Nettle

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• Kristen : What'd you say if we told you Gaines isn't dealin' drugs?

  Nettle : I'd say, "When are you gonna make the case?"

  Kristen : Will Gaines isn't dealin' drugs. At least not to us. We've tried to get next to the man for five months. He won't come across with anything. Nothin'. He won't even talk about it.

  Nettle : [unperturbed]  Now, Will Gaines is a dealer in drugs and pornography, and that is a fact. Make the case.

  Kristen : Are you tellin' us to plant evidence?

  Nettle : [glances at Dodd, then back to Kristen]  I'm tellin' you that sometimes good work is accomplished in mysterious ways.

• Nettle : [appearing before a public city council meeting]  As you gentlemen and ladies know, I took over the job of Chief of Police six months ago.

  Mayor : [correcting him]  Acting Chief of Police.

  Nettle : Acting Chief of Police - yes, sir. Now, at that time I had only a cursory knowledge of the volume of drug trafficking within the city.

  Nettle : [Holds up a drug syringe with a Police Department evidence tag on it]  This syringe was found two weeks ago on a playground at Lamar Junior High.

  Nettle : [holds up another syringe from evidence]  A high-school teacher took this off a sophomore.

  Nettle : [holds up a small revolver]  This here came off a little colored boy who was selling marijuana joints to his friends.

  Mayor : I believe we've seen enough now to appreciate your point, Acting Chief Nettle.

  Nettle : With all respect, sir, I think the people of Katterly need to know what their children are facing when they send them off to school in the morning.

  [hearty applause from the audience]