Sudden Impact - A Father's Guilt and Redemption
Chief Jannings:
He couldn't live with it. The other vermin didn't care. But him, the guilt ate at his gut like an acid. He wanted you to come back. He would pray every night that you'd come back. Until one night he couldn't wait any longer. Took his car out and smashed it and his brains into a retaining wall. Now you're here, and he doesn't even know it. My fault. I should have let him be punished then, along with the other filth. But he was my only son. his mother died giving birth to him. He and I are all each other have. I was afraid for him. Afraid for me. See, I was a public figure. So I did things. I fixed it. And now I just want you to go. Let it end.
Jennifer Spencer:
There's one left.
Chief Jannings:
Yes. And I've got him, in my jail. He preyed on Alby and preyed on me ever since. And that too is going to end.
Mick: [surprising them]
Oh is that so, Lester boy?
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Sudden Impact - Justice and Rights in a Complicated Situation
Jennifer Spencer:
So what now?
Harry Callahan:
Now, I guess I'll have to...
Jennifer Spencer:
Read me my rights? And where was all this concern for my rights when I was being beaten and mauled? And where were my sister's rights when she was being brutalized? There is a thing called justice, Callahan, and is it justice that they should all just walk away?
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Sudden Impact - Perceptions of Law Enforcement and Authority
Jennifer Spencer:
I saw the commotion the other day; you're either a cop or public enemy number one.
Harry Callahan:
Heh. Some people might say both.
Jennifer Spencer:
Really, who?
Harry Callahan:
Oh, bozos with big brass nameplates on their desk and asses the shape of the seat of their chairs.
Jennifer Spencer:
Why?
Harry Callahan:
Ah, it's a question of methods. Everybody wants results but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.
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