Murder at 1600 (1997)
Diane Lane: Nina Chance
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Quotes
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Agent Nick Spikings : Do you know what it means to be a team player?
Nina Chance : Sharp-shooting isn't a team sport.
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Detective Harlan Regis : This is Carla's tape from her answering machine
Nina Chance : Yeah.
Detective Harlan Regis : Well, how'd you get it?
Nina Chance : I stole it.
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Nina Chance : You expect me to violate everything I was ever taught? I have duties.
Detective Harlan Regis : Yeah, and your duties can send an innocent man to jail for the rest of his life. You wanna live with that.
Nina Chance : Yeah, and I think you better leave.
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Nina Chance : You waltz in here expecting me to violate every oath I've ever taken! I - have - a duty - to protect!
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Agent Nick Spikings : If anybody found out he solicited your support for his paranoid theories, I'd hate to think how that would look. What people might think. As a team.
Nina Chance : Why is the door shut?
Agent Nick Spikings : Excuse me?
Nina Chance : And why are your hands on me? Cause if anyone walked in here, I'd hate to think how that might look. What they might think. As a team. In this day and age, they might get the wrong idea.
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Detective Regis : Alive and ruined is better.
Nina Chance : Than what?
Detective Regis : Dead and martyred.
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Nina Chance : I am fully qualified to answer any questions relating to White House security; furthermore, I resent the implication that...
Detective Regis : Furthermore, you resent the implication? Man, people don't even speak English in this town anymore.
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Detective Regis : Did he plant the button?
Nina Chance : I don't know, okay!
Detective Regis : Everybody's lyin' around here.
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Agent Nick Spikings : We put our lives on the line - every single day. We have to trust the people we work with.
Nina Chance : Is there a problem?
Agent Nick Spikings : You tell me.
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Detective Regis : [after shootout with henchmen] I thought you were a sharpshooter?
Nina Chance : Save it!
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Nina Chance : [about the room-sized landsacpe models in his small apartment] How did you...?
Detective Regis : I'm a homicide cop in the homicide capital of the world. It's cheaper than a shrink.
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Detective Regis : So I'm digging. Fumbling through Peoples Magazine and happen to come across page 16. There's a picture of Kyle coming back from Brazil......... and you're standing next to him with an earpiece.
Detective Regis : You know... ..I must've looked at 18 months of pictures of this guy. And you know what I found out? I found that you were in over half of them. You were on his detail and you didn't tell me. Until when?
Nina Chance : I have nothing more to discuss with you about this. The case is closed.
Detective Regis : Agent Chance when they did remove from Kyles detail?
Nina Chance : You show up here grilling me about work?
Detective Regis : Just answer the question.
Nina Chance : Don't come to my home again.
Detective Regis : Answer the question!
Nina Chance : You waltz in here expecting me to violate every oath I've ever taken!
Nina Chance : I have a duty to prote...
Detective Regis : Protect what? Your duty could send an innocent man to prison for the rest of his life. Are you comfortable with that?
Nina Chance : I... ..I think you should leave.
Detective Regis : How is it that Spikings finds a button in the bathroom that no other detective found huh?
Detective Regis : What did he plant it there?
Nina Chance : I asked you to leave.
Detective Regis : Did he plant the button?
Nina Chance : I don't know! Ok?
Detective Regis : Everybody's lying around here
Detective Regis : Ok so again. Why did they remove you from Kyles detail?
Nina Chance : They didn't remove me
Nina Chance : One night I heard sounds. Of violence. Fighting. Coming from his apartment. So I went in, and I found him... ..beating up his girlfriend. And it was ugly. And they... ..we... ..covered it up... .for him. That was even uglier. And that's when I asked to be reassigned.
Detective Regis : Look Nina. I don't know what I would do if I was you, but I do know one thing. I could not let an innocent man fry for something he did not do.
Detective Regis : Maybe you can.