Jon Favreau: Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson

Daredevil

Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson

Matt Murdock: Her name's Elektra Natchios.
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Well, she sounds like a Mexican appetizer.
Matt Murdock: It's Greek, genius. Her father's Nikolas Natchios.
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: The billionaire?
Matt Murdock: Yeah, see? Yes, the billionaire.
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Well, then, as your attorney in this matter I advise you to marry the woman immediately.
Matt Murdock: I'll take it under consideration.

[Matt sniffs the air and turns his head]
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: What? What? Where? Where, where?
Matt Murdock: Front door. Not yet, soon.
[pause]
Matt Murdock: Now.
[Elektra walks in]
Matt Murdock: Tell me.
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: You want the truth?
Matt Murdock: Absolutely.
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: She's hideous. I don't know if it's a fungus or some sort of congenital birth defect. But, as your attorney in this matter, I advise you to take no further action.

[Director's Cut only]
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: I hate to bring it up again, but I spent 3,000 dollars on that seeing eye dog...
Matt Murdock: I didn't ask you for the dog, I didn't want a dog!
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Can I tell you something else? Seeing eye dogs bond for life - yours ran away. What does that tell you about how emotionally available you are?
[Matt laughs]

Matt Murdock: What is your problem with our clients? We have good, honorable clients. Decent people. What's your idea of better? Define "better". Huh? What would be a "better" client?
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: "Better" means "rich and guilty", okay? Remember when they taught us in law school how to create a moral vacuum so that you can represent people who aren't all necessarily innocent?
Matt Murdock: That was your best course, as I recall.
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Yeah, well, you don't have a moral vacuum, Matt. You are completely vacuumless.

Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Natchios owns the Grand Hotel. And Elektra's the reason you were invited to the ball.
Matt Murdock: She's out of my league. I'd rather just end it before it starts.
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: That's gotta be some kind of record, Matt. You just completely bypassed the whole relationship phase. You went right into the breakup. Trying to save some time, huh?

Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: That place is gonna be crawling with people, rich people, people who pay their legal fees with money, not with fish, or with-with-with wheels of cheese, or with sports supplies! I'm gonna fill you in on a little secret, Matt. This doesn't look like a law office, okay? It looks like the set of goddamn "Sanford and Son". Every time I walk in, I'm waiting for Lamont to come down the stairs!

[Foggy is reading a New York tabloid to Daredevil at a restaurant]
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Listen to this. Eyewitnesses say that Quesada was singled out by the demonic vigilante known as the Daredevil.
Daredevil: I don't know why you read that trash.
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: I been hearing stories about this guy for years; there's gotta be something to it!
Daredevil: Like the alligators in the sewers?
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: There are alligators in the sewers! Don't ride my ass about the alligators. I got a friend in Sanitation, okay? He's seen them.

Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Oh-oh-oh! Look at that! Wilson Fisk is in the hizzie! Come on, we might never get a chance like this again. Come on, let's go!
[drags Murdock over to Fisk]
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Mister Fisk? Mister Fisk, it's Franklin Nelson from Nelson and Murdock...
Wesley Owen Welch: Excuse me. You want to talk to Mister Fisk, you make an appointment. Okay?
Fisk: It's all right, Wesley... I know who you are. You're the blind lawyers from Hell's Kitchen.
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Actually, actually he's the blind one. I'm deaf.
Fisk: [chuckles] Give them a card, Wesley. I'm always on the lookout for new blood.
Matt Murdock: I'm sorry, Mister Fisk, my partner's a little overzealous. We can't represent you.
Fisk: Why's that?
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Yes, why IS that, Mister Murdock?
Matt Murdock: Because we only handle clients who are innocent.
Fisk: [laughs] "Innocent", he says. That's pretty funny. You know, I've learned one thing in all my years in this business.
Matt Murdock: What's that?
Fisk: Nobody's innocent. Nobody. Have a great time at the party.
[Fisk and Wesley walk off]
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: I just... Matt, for one night I just wish, I just...
[sees Elektra]
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Matt, I just wish I could give you my eyes for one night.

Franklin Nelson: What happens to that lie detector of yours when it detects your own bullshit? It must really bury the needle, huh?

Karen Page: [to Murdock] This just came by messenger. It's your invitation to the Black and White Ball at the Grand, plus one.
[smiles expectantly]
Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Plus one? All right! Guess I gotta rent a tux!

Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Look at me, Matt. I'm a 'Plus One'. Plus Ones don't get anywhere by themselves. They need somebody to bring them. That's why it's 'plus one'!

Franklin "Foggy" Nelson: Your client, Mr. Lee - he made his first payment.
Matt Murdock: Oh, that's great. You should be very happy.
Franklin "Foggy" Nelson: Yeah, it's fantastic. He paid in fluke. Fluke is a fish, Matt. Did you know that? Because I sure as hell didn't.
Matt Murdock: Mr. Lee is a good man, and he... doesn't have a lot of money, and he goes fishing on the weekends, so I guess that's...
Franklin "Foggy" Nelson: Yeah, well, I go salsa dancing on the weekends, but I don't shake my ass to pay my phone bill, you know what I'm sayin'?

Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: It's in black and white, how can you be a skeptic?
Matt Murdock: If there's no eyewitnesses, I mean, you know, Bigfoot has eyewitnesses.

Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Do you or do you not concede that there are alligators in the sewers? Please answer the question.