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DUDLEY<br />
Would you be willing to rig crime<br />
scene evidence to support a<br />
prosecuting attorney's working<br />
hypothesis...? Yes or no, Edmund.<br />
No.<br />
EXLEY<br />
DUDLEY<br />
Would you be willing to beat<br />
confessions out of suspects you<br />
knew to be guilty?<br />
No.<br />
EXLEY<br />
DUDLEY<br />
Would you be willing to shoot<br />
hardened criminals in the back to<br />
offset the chance --<br />
No.<br />
EXLEY<br />
DUDLEY<br />
Then for God's sake, don't be a<br />
detective. Stick to assignments<br />
where you won't have to make those<br />
choices. Patrol, Internal<br />
Affairs, but not the Bureau.<br />
EXLEY<br />
I know you mean well, Dudley, but<br />
I don't need to do it the way you<br />
did. Or my father.<br />
DUDLEY<br />
At least get rid of the glasses.<br />
I can't think of one Bureau man<br />
who wears them.<br />
INT. PRECINCT HOUSE - MUSTER ROOM - NIGHT<br />
A large impromptu bar has been set-up. The party is in<br />
full swing, the floor packed with nightwatch blues. A<br />
PHONOGRAPH SPEWS DIRTY CHRISTMAS CAROLS.<br />
Stensland pours eggnog and Old Crow into the water cooler<br />
as Bud elbows his way in with another case.<br />
STENS<strong>LA</strong>ND<br />
Hey, partner. Grab a cup.<br />
BUD<br />
I got to write my report first.
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