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Tom Selleck and Laila Robins in An Innocent Man (1989)

David Rasche: Mike Parnell

An Innocent Man

David Rasche credited as playing...

Mike Parnell

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  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [Parnell and Scalise crash into Rainwood's home... he comes out of shower in a bathrobe and holding a hair dryer] He's armed, Danny!
  • [fires gun, Rainwood goes down wounded]
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: He's down! He's down, Danny! I got him covered!
  • [Scalise approaches]
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: All right, go ahead. Oh, god... whoa. Ohhh... this motherfucker scared the shit outta me!
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: [frisking Rainwood] It's a hair dryer.
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: What? What'd you say?
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: This guy's armed with a hair dryer.
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [chuckles nervously] Why would a guy take a shower during a dope deal?
  • [they search his home and find nothing]
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [agitated] Hey this is 420, right? Huh? So where's the stuff? Stevie told me 420 Oak Way! It's gotta be here somewhere, man!
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Mike, you told me 420 Oak Lane, not 'Way'! You said 'Lane'!
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: No, no, no, Danny! No, no! I told... I said 'Oak Way'! Tell me, what did I say!
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: You told me '420 Oak Lane'. Not 'Way'. It's right here.
  • [produces bill with address]
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: 420 Oak Lane.
  • [slams bill down]
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Holy shit, Mike. We got the wrong house. This guy is a civilian. Shit.
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: No... just a second now.
  • [pulls out memo pad with different address]
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: Oh no. FUCK ME! GODDAMNIT! JESUS!
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Now take it easy! Just take it easy. Take it easy. We're gonna think this through.
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: There's nothing to think about, Danny. There's just too many people who want to see us step on our dicks.
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: We did step on our dicks.
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [wielding switchblade] I'm gonna cut you in half!
  • Jimmie Rainwood: I wouldn't bet on that.
  • Kate Rainwood: [Parnell and Scalise show up at the Rainwoods' home unannounced after Jimmie's release] What are you doing here?
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Nice to see you again, Mrs. Rainwood.
  • [leers]
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: You're looking very good.
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [with false solicitude] We had to make another call in this part of town, and we thought we'd stop by.
  • [sits]
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Mind if we sit down?
  • [takes seat]
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [to Rainwood] Sit down.
  • [to Kate]
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: Honey, get us something cold to drink, will you?
  • Jimmie Rainwood: What the fuck's wrong?
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [yells] I told you to sit your ass down!
  • [stands toe-to-toe with Jimmie]
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [screaming] SIT DOWN! SIT DOWN!
  • [to Kate]
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: Get us something cold to drink! Goddamnit!
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Why don't you go do that, Katie?
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: What are you, some kind of a badass now, you did some time, huh? You can say 'fuck' and everything? Don't you ever come out of your mouth like a smartass with me! Rainwood... you know who you are? You are an ex-convict on parole, and you are owned by the state! The state believes the police! Not the ex-convict! Always!
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Jimmie, I don't want you to think we're picking on you.
  • [to Kate, who brings him a Coke]
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: Thank you.
  • [to Jimmie]
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: We do this to every parolee we've busted.
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: It's kind of like preventative maintenance. Guys get weird ideas in the joint sometimes. But this call is special. You and your crusading cunt of a wife have caused us a lot of...
  • [Jimmie lunges at Parnell, Kate and Scalise restrain him]
  • Kate Rainwood: [yells] Jimmie, don't! Please don't!
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: You wouldn't let it go and it got you shit! No, go ahead Katie. Try to save him like you couldn't do before. From now on, Rainwood, you are a model citizen. If we happen to say 'shit', you squat. Understand that, and it might keep you out of jail.
  • [Parnell and Scalise leave]
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [Parnell and Scalise are walking back to their car on a side street after dinner, not knowing Fitzgerald is waiting for them] I gotta stop eating that Cuban food! It's ripping up my insides... ow!
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: You're gonna have to learn to start expressing your feelings, Mike. You're just a ball of repression.
  • [Parnell laughs]
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: I'll give you repression. Right here's your repression...
  • [feigns punch]
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: BOOM!
  • [Scalise laughs]
  • Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: Hey boys! We need to talk!
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [to Scalise] Well, look who's here.
  • Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: Off the record. Kate Rainwood came to see me.
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [feigning ignorance] Kate who-wood?
  • Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: You remember. You put her husband away.
  • Detective Danny Scalise LBPD: So why don't you make your point?
  • Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: She says you two guys threatened her.
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [feigning disbelief] Did she... did she say that?
  • Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: [interrupting] Listen! The two of you, you stay away from her. Period!
  • Detective Mike Parnell LBPD: [contemptuously] Oh, fuck her! And fuck you! FUCK YOU! I think this internal affairs horseshit is going to your head.
  • [turns away]
  • Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: [Fitzgerald grabs Parnell and slams him against a garage door, kneeing him in the groin while doing so... Scalise draws his gun and aims it at Fitzgerald] Do it, Scalise! Do it! I'll break his fuckin' neck! You stay away from Kate Rainwood!
  • [to Parnell]
  • Detective John Fitzgerald, Internal Affairs LBPD: And I don't like being called a punk nigger... BOY!
  • [Scalise lowers weapon]

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