Kurt Russell credited as playing...
Eldon Perry
- Jack Van Meter: Get the hell down from there. While you're grandstanding here the city is starting to burn. Jimmy, for Chrissakes!
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: If the city is starting to burn, Jack, it's partly because of guys like you and me. And I may be a goddamm alcoholic but that doesn't mean I can't tell the truth - and I've got all the deep deep dirt right here. Somebody put the cuffs on me - let me start talking!
- Jack Van Meter: Brief me on Jack O'Hearts. I've been getting calls all day. "My two best guys are on it, giving 200%." Tell me you got the suspects in your trunk.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: My trunk has nothing but a spare tire and dirty underwear.
- Jack Van Meter: You gotta have some breaks.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: I interviewed the "K" who owns the crime scene who I sniffed out as a lesser light of the underworld and it turns out he's got a strip club. He's pandering, a cash-and-carry businessman and he had a safe with a buck-fifty in it.
- Jack Van Meter: That's real money. You guys found a body.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: Kim's bag man.
- Jack Van Meter: So your shooters are Korean.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: That's what we thought till we interviewed the wit.
- Jack Van Meter: He can't lD them. They had on ski masks.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: He can lD race. It was a salt-and-pepper team. A safecracking spook and a blood thirsty blue-eyed peckerwood. Now who does that sound like? How about Orchard and Sidwell?
- Jack Van Meter: Always Orchard and Sidwell with you. What is that? You're not dumping my two best informants.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: Jack, your pets, your science projects whatever the fuck they are the evil shits did this. It's time we put these sick twists down.
- Jack Van Meter: Your job is not to think. It is to follow orders, to execute plans and to be a good soldier. You're a goddamn great soldier because you leave the planning and fixing to me. Are you listening? I'm listening, Jack. Listen to my philosophy. It's very simple. I am a performer of unpleasant tasks so that the majority of people are free to perform pleasant ones. The last thing I care about is what you think.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: I got it, Jack.
- Jack Van Meter: Good. Open your fucking ears. Orchard and Sidwell were in San Diego working for me. You and Bobby will do whatever it takes to clear Jack O'Hearts. Find some bad guys and get a search warrant! Are You listening?
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: I'm listening, Jack.
- Jack Van Meter: You better be listening! I don't need you making shit up as you go along! Take the warrant and serve it with Rico's platoon. Do what you do!
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: That's my daddy's gun... and the only reason this city's here is because they built it with bullets!
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: That's Eldon Perry the third. Right there next to his mom.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: He will never be a cop - he hates cops. I love him and I... I thank God that I was just too busy pass on to him what my granddaddy passed on to my daddy and my daddy passed on to me - And I was raised up to be a gunfighter by a family of gunfighters.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: Look what descended from the sixth floor, Hey, Jimmy.
- James Barcomb: Jack. How are you holding up, son?
- Bobby Keough: I'm good, sir.
- James Barcomb: You should've seen this kid. He was outstanding. Ever thought about doing a tour with public affairs? We could use a good-looking son of a bitch like you.
- Jack Van Meter: He's a good young cop, Jimmy, and he's mine. Well, I tried.
- James Barcomb: The board voted- In policy, You're off the hook, kid.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: There you go.
- Jack Van Meter: Congratulations. Have a cigar.
- James Barcomb: The report will be ready in the morning. You guys can get back into the field. So, the vote... The vote was four to one.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: What? Who the fuck pissed backwards, Holland?
- James Barcomb: Affirmatron.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: I'd like to see his bald-headed black ass back in a radio car in South Central.
- James Barcomb: We don't need that shit.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: He actually said out of policy.
- Jack Van Meter: Holland began contacting outside agencies a month ago. He's doing civil service testing with the city of Cleveland. He's leaving to run their P.D. Didn't hear it from me.
- James Barcomb: Didn't hear it from you.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: Fuck Holland. Good riddance. We're gonna have to pin his stars on another brother or the community will go apeshit.
- James Barcomb: Jesus, Eldon, you sound just like your old man.
- Jack Van Meter: It's not such a bad thing, Everything I know-his old man. A toast to Bobby. Right between the eyes.
- Bobby Keough: Thank you, guys. I mean it. Thanks for giving me the chance to prove myself in SlS.
- Jack Van Meter: Eldon, Jimmy has something to tell you.
- James Barcomb: You made lieutenant. You're next on the transfer list.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: Fuck you, too, Jimmy.
- James Barcomb: No. We're not pulling your dick.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: It's about fucking Time!
- Bobby Keough: Well, she's black, Eldon, that's why I don't talk about her.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: Oh, you be dating a sistah!
- Bobby Keough: Yeah.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: I didn't know you were into ebony and ivory.
- Bobby Keough: I do'nt wanna hear a bunch of black jokes, Hey, no I really don't.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: Hey amigo, you think I care about the size, shape, color or political party of some sweet thing you're rolling around with?
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: The S.I.S. doesn't have a jail so if you knock one down, make sure he stays down.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: [to Maniac] You really think this bullet gives a shit how tough you are, big guy?
- Maniac: I mean he got game.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: Game? Mr. Kim? What's he play, Golf? Speak fucking English!
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: Quote. Get yer fuckin' head outta my ass and stop writing that cocksuckin' criminals are victims instead of the pigs they are. And let motherfucking cops do what motherfucking cops do! End quote. Print that.
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: [on the phone] Hey, dumbass! Take a look out yer window. You got cops crawlin' all over the place!
- Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: The choke hold saved lives, but, ah, nobody ever got elected saying that, I suppose.