Quotes
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Don Eppes : All right, take it easy. Take it easy.
[Edgerton takes Colby hostage]
Colby Granger : Don, you need to take the shot, you just take it.
Agent Ian Edgerton : Too late. You should have shot right away. Now you're thinking too much, that's when you make mistakes.
Don Eppes : I thought you were innocent, Ian.
Agent Ian Edgerton : I am.
Don Eppes : Yeah, I can see that.
Colby Granger : Don't let him get in your head, Don. You do what you need to do.
Janet Galvin : [Enters with Sinclair and Thompson] I got him.
Agent Ian Edgerton : I've seen you shoot Galvin. You're not that good.
David Sinclair : He's not gonna hurt Colby. He knows he'd be dead, one second later.
Agent Ian Edgerton : Yeah, then go ahead and pull the trigger Sinclair. Kill your own partner.
Colby Granger : Don't do anything stupid, okay? There's a way out of this is all.
Agent Ian Edgerton : Looks like we've got ourselves an honest-to-God Mexican standoff. Who's blinking first?
Janet Galvin : You wanna die? Fine by me.
Agent Ian Edgerton : It's your decision, Don. You know what I'm capable of.
Frank Thompson : Eppes, don't back down.
Don Eppes : All right, David, get them out. Get out. Get out!
David Sinclair : Go. Move. Let's go. Move. Up.
[They leave the room leaving Edgerton and Colby inside]
David Sinclair : .
Janet Galvin : [Outside the room] What the hell do you think you're doing?
Don Eppes : Just trying to save a life.
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David Sinclair : What happened in there?
Don Eppes : I had a shot and I didn't take it.
David Sinclair : Don, come on, talk to me.
Don Eppes : Look, I need some time. Just... You're in charge.
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Don Eppes : [Filtering through inmates] No, his sentence is almost up.
Charlie Eppes : [Chuckles] You're amazing, you know? The more stressful the circumstance, the more clarity you have.
Don Eppes : Yeah, well, look, if my life were on the line and someone asked you the square root of 2007...
Charlie Eppes : 44.7995535, give or take a digit.
Don Eppes : See, that's clear thinking. I could have ended this back at the prison.
Charlie Eppes : What, by killing Ian?
Don Eppes : I mean, that's what the textbook says to do.
Charlie Eppes : You know, after seeing the destruction at Hiroshima, Robert Oppenheimer spent the rest of his life fighting nuclear proliferation, and totally destroyed his career. But he valued the lives of his friends and family even more. I'm thinking your instinct was self-preservation.
