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Kristen Cates: What'd you say if we told you Gaines isn't dealin drugs?

Nettle: I'd say, "When are you gonna make the case?

Kristen Cates: Will Gaines isn't dealin drugs. At least not to us. We've tried to get next to the man for five months. He won't come across with anything. Nothin'. He won't even talk about it.

Nettle: [unperturbed] Now, Will Gaines is a dealer in drugs and pornography, and that is a fact. Make the case.

Kristen Cates: Are you tellin us to plant evidence?

Nettle: [glances at Dodd, then back to Kristen] I'm tellin you that sometimes good work is accomplished in mysterious ways.

Nettle: [appearing before a public city council meeting] As you gentlemen and ladies know, I took over the job of Chief of Police six months ago.

Mayor: [correcting him] Acting Chief of Police.

Nettle: Acting Chief of Police - yes, sir. Now, at that time I had only a cursory knowledge of the volume of drug trafficking within the city.

Nettle: [Holds up a drug syringe with a Police Department evidence tag on it; holds up another syringe from evidence; holds up a small revolver] This syringe was found two weeks ago on a playground at Lamar Junior High. A high-school teacher took this off a sophomore. This here came off a little colored boy who was selling marijuana joints to his friends.

Mayor: I believe we've seen enough now to appreciate your point, Acting Chief Nettle.

Nettle: [hearty applause from the audience] With all respect, sir, I think the people of Katterly need to know what their children are facing when they send them off to school in the morning.

Ron Kovic: [confessing that he had accidentally killed their son in Vietnam] I'm sorry, I just had to come here to tell you. I've been afraid for years to come here and tell you. But, I've lived with this long enough. I can't live with it anymore... I can't bring him back. Forgive me... I want to live. I want to go on with my life. I'm sorry, but that's what happened. That's the way it happened, and I can't change a thing.

Mrs. Wilson: We understand, Ron. We understand the pain you've been going through.

Mr. Wilson: We understand, son, we do understand the way...these things happen... in war.

Jamie Wilson: What's done is done, sir. I can't ever forgive you... but maybe the Lord can.