Brian Cox credited as playing...
Kerrigan
- Kerrigan: Go back to America. Get out of Belfast, you're in danger here. Ingrid, it's finished.
- Ingrid Jessner: Not for them, it isn't. Not for Nevin and the others. They're not going to disappear, you know they're still in place. I have a plane to catch, Mr. Kerrigan.
- Ingrid Jessner: Mr. Kerrigan, how far you'll be willing to go with this?
- Kerrigan: If... and it's still a big if, if Harris is in anyway connect with the shooting I don't care whose toes I tread on, he becomes part of the investigation. No more, no less. Okay?
- Ingrid Jessner: Are you going to do anything about this?
- Kerrigan: There's nothing I can do.
- Ingrid Jessner: They've committed murder and treason at 11'o clock this morning, a man was assassinated by orders of the British Intelligence and you could do nothing?
- Kerrigan: I wish I could.
- Ingrid Jessner: You have credentials I don't have, your reputation brought you here, people would listen to you.
- Kerrigan: With you as my witness? A member of a civil liberties group who accuses the British government of torture and shoot to kill policy.
- Ingrid Jessner: "I don't care whose toes I tread on." That's what you said, and I believed it.
- Kerrigan: Look, I have to go...
- Ingrid Jessner: Go!
- Kerrigan: I'm a policeman.
- Ingrid Jessner: Yes, you are.
- Kerrigan: The men responsible for Paul's death will be charged.
- Ingrid Jessner: You know and you'll do nothing.
- Kerrigan: I can't win with these people...
- Ingrid Jessner: You'll just close your eyes.
- Kerrigan: Forget it and go home.
- Ingrid Jessner: That's how Fascism starts! So what do you think of your fine British law now, Mr. Kerrigan?
- Kerrigan: It has nothing to do with law and police...
- Ingrid Jessner: What is it, then?
- Kerrigan: It's politics.
- Ingrid Jessner: To enforce the rules of a police state IS politics. Good guys like you cover up so bad guys are safe. You're a puppet and the men pulling the strings know it.
- Kerrigan: I understand the point you're trying to make, Sir Robert. That to maintain the system, the abuse of power is sometimes necessary.
- Sir Robert Neil: Yes. It allows us to enjoy the freedom of living in a free society. A price the public are prepared to pay.
- Kerrigan: That's a dangerous concept.
- Sir Robert Neil: But a realistic one.
- Supt. Fraser: Do you mind if I smoke?
- Kerrigan: Yes, I do.
- [the stenographer lady grins at Kerrigan's challenge of a superior officer]
- Det. Sgt. Hughes: Classified information.
- Kerrigan: Classified, my bullshit! What the fuck you people are running in here? You're own private shooting war?
- Kerrigan: What happened to the film?
- Ingrid Jessner: Never got made.
- Kerrigan: Too controversial?
- Ingrid Jessner: Too honest, I think. It was about how Mr. Kissinger, the CIA and the Pentagon have made Chile safe for democracy.