A Simple Plan (1998)

Bob Davis: FBI Agent Renkins

Quotes 

• [the FBI agents talk to Hank about Neil Baxter] 

  FBI Agent Renkins : For someone who's been properly trained, there are many ways to detect a liar. The shifty eyes of detective novels have a certain basis in fact. A wooden or stilted tone. Gestures that seem either slightly robotic or else unnecessarily expansive. Details tend to be vague, slippery. Sometimes the suspect will cover his mouth with his hand when he speaks. Did you notice anything like that in the guy you shot today?

• [Hank talks to the FBI agents about the money] 

  FBI Agent Renkins : It's only part of it. We're still tracking down the rest.

  FBI Agent Freemont : Yeah. It's just a matter of time.

  Hank Mitchell : A matter of time?

  FBI Agent Renkins : Well, we had the money for 2 hours before the kidnappers picked it up. Couldn't mark it. We were afraid they'd detect the markings and kill the girl. So, um... We put together a task force of 20 agents, and they wrote down as many of the serial numbers as they could. They managed to record just around 5,000 of them. It's one out of the ten of the bills. Now, it's simply a matter of waiting for the numbers to turn up. Can't go around passing $100 bills without eventually sticking in someone's memory.