John M. Jackson credited as playing...
Donald Cunningham
- Donald Cunningham: [picks up the phone] Yeah.
- [Cole and Deverell's conversation is played on a tape]
- Jim Campbell: Sounds like your ass just got sold down the river, shit-head!
- Donald Cunningham: Has anybody ever told you you're a real pain in the ass?
- Jack Cole: All the time.
- [Donald points his gun at Cole]
- Donald Cunningham: You're not gonna have to hear it anymore. I'm gonna take care of you like I took care of your ex-wife.
- Jack Cole: You know, when you wake up in the morning and look in the mirror, I think you're probably happy. Pleased at what you see. And that disturbs me. So I'm gonna take it on as my responsibility to make sure that you never get to look in the mirror again.
- Donald Cunningham: I woke up happy, I'm goin' to bed happy. 'Cause you're gonna be dead.
- [a confrontation between Deverell, Donald, and the mob]
- Donald Cunningham: You think you're gonna hand *me* over to Cole? Bad move, fruitcake!
- Frank Deverell: I don't know what you're...
- Frank Deverell: [realization] ... you'll NEVER get out of here alive!
- Donald Cunningham: Uh-uh! This is *my show* now!
- Frank Deverell: [chuckles] How positively Shakespearian!
- Donald Cunningham: To be...
- Donald Cunningham: [shoots Deverell] ... or NOT TO BE!
- Lt. Jack Cole: [Cole is visited at the police station by Cunningham] ... I'm kind of busy right now.
- Donald Cunningham: I'll be very brief; Mr. Deverell asked me to speak with you on behalf of his stepson John. My boss feels your testimony would be very helpful in getting John acquitted on grounds of temporary insanity.
- Lt. Jack Cole: Well, I have two problems there. First of all, I don't think John is insane. Troubled? Goes without saying. Needs help? Couldn't agree more; deserves all he can get, too. However, that applies to a lot of people I know who are perfectly sane. Which brings me to Second Of All: I prefer to call plays like this one the way I actually see them.
- Donald Cunningham: Look, Mr. Cole, John has been going through a very difficult time.
- Lt. Jack Cole: I'm sure that's true; otherwise, he wouldn't have taken his teacher and classmates hostage.
- Donald Cunningham: He needs treatment, not prison.
- Lt. Jack Cole: Are you his therapist? Because in view of what happened today, I think you owe his family a refund.
- Donald Cunningham: Mr. Deverell, as you may know, is a very important man with a lot of influence. He's the kind of man who could easily help or hurt a career.
- Lt. Jack Cole: Just what is it that you do for Frank Deverell?
- Donald Cunningham: I'm in charge of Mr. Deverell's private security.
- Lt. Jack Cole: You could've fooled me; I thought you were his attorney or something. Listen, I'd like you to tell your boss two things for me: One, that I think he's an a******; Two, that I don't appreciate being threatened... least of all in my own office. Thank you and have a nice day.