David Oyelowo credited as playing...
Emerson
- [from trailer]
- Emerson: What does an Army cop do mostly?
- Jack Reacher: What you do, with one minor difference: every suspect was a trained killer.
- Reacher: Why do you think he paid for parking?
- Emerson: Pardon?
- Reacher: He's about to fire six shots into a crowd of strangers... and he's worried about the meter maid?
- Emerson: Simple loony won't do it for you?
- Reacher: I like to have at least one alternate theory.
- Emerson: Habit. Muscle memory. I don't think he knew he was doing it.
- Reacher: Like I said, it's damn fine work.
- Emerson: Hey, Army. What's the serial number on the rifle?
- Reacher: What's the date on the quarter?
- [beat]
- Reacher: 1968. Forest for the trees, Detective. Forest for the trees.
- [Reacher is visited in jail by Helen and Emerson after the bar fight; he is facing away from them]
- Jack Reacher: Hello, Helen.
- Helen: Am I wearing too much perfume?
- Jack Reacher: Breathing too sternly. Detective Emerson. Somebody dead?
- Emerson: And if someone is?
- Jack Reacher: Then they died of shame, because I was being gentle.
- Emerson: I'm starting to understand why you move around a lot, Reacher.
- Jack Reacher: So no one's dead.
- Emerson: One guy likely won't ever walk right again.
- Jack Reacher: You want to charge me.
- Emerson: Very much.
- Jack Reacher: But no one's pressing.
- Emerson: Sadly, no.
- Jack Reacher: [finally looks over at them] Am I free to go?
- [Emerson nods and then turns to leave]
- Jack Reacher: Hey, Emerson!
- [Emerson turns back around]
- Jack Reacher: 4862681.
- Emerson: What's that?
- Jack Reacher: It's the serial number on Barr's rifle.
- [Emerson leaves, Helen steps to the bars]
- Helen: [quietly furious] You're working for me, do you understand that? So everything you do is a reflection on my firm. On me.
- Jack Reacher: I was set up.
- Helen: You're talking to a lawyer.
- Jack Reacher: There was this girl. She came onto me. Picked a fight.
- Helen: Which never happens in a bar.
- Jack Reacher: She was thrown when I told her my name.
- Helen: She was expecting "Mike Tyson"?
- Jack Reacher: She wasn't expecting Jimmie Reese.
- [beat]
- Jack Reacher: Yankees second baseman.
- Helen: Why did you say you were a Yankees second baseman?
- Jack Reacher: I always use Yankees second basemen. I didn't say I was a Yankees second baseman, I just said --
- [stops, realizing he's getting nowhere]
- Jack Reacher: Look, the point is, she was expecting to hear Jack Reacher. She knew who I was. And the cops were rolling before the fight even started. And those five guys are her brothers? Come on. Somebody sent those boys to put me down.
- [first lines]
- Emerson: It's life or death now, James. By that, I mean you're doing one or the other up in Rockview. This here is District Attorney Rodin. Want to know what he's wondering? Whether you're gonna walk like a man or cry like a pussy on your way to the death house. See, the D.A. likes the needle, whereas me, I like to see a man like you live a long life - with all your teeth knocked out. Passed around till a brother can't tell your fart from a yawn.