Murder at 1600 (1997)

Diane Lane: Nina Chance

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Nina Chance : You waltz in here expecting me to violate every oath I've ever taken! I - have - a duty - to protect!

• 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.

• Detective Regis : Alive and ruined is better.

  Nina Chance : Than what?

  Detective Regis : Dead and martyred.

• 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.

• Detective Regis : Did he plant the button?

  Nina Chance : I don't know, okay!

  Detective Regis : Everybody's lyin' around here.

• 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.

• Detective Regis : [after shootout with henchmen]  I thought you were a sharpshooter?

  Nina Chance : Save it!

• 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.

• 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.