The Pelican Brief Page #2
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1993
- 141 min
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will not go unpunished.
Everything...
...is being and will be done
to bring the culprit...
...or culprits to justice.
For justice must...
...and shall prevail.
I wish you could have known him
when I used to clerk for him.
Last time I saw him,
only the mind was left.
That's why they killed him.
That mind was still a threat.
But why kill him now,
when he had so little time left?
Maybe they couldn't take a chance
he'd last till the elections.
So why Jensen?
He and Rosenberg had almost
nothing in common.
That's what they should look for.
Decisions on which they both agreed.
Boy, if there ever was a moment
for a drink...
One day at a time, right?
We're talking a conspiracy,
then who are the conspirators?
If we've let foreign terrorists in,
there'll be hell to pay politically.
The intelligence community can't be
blamed for a weakness in immigration.
Denton, who are your suspects?
This has to be kept very quiet.
Of course.
This is the Oval Office.
At least 11 Underground Army members
have been in the D.C. area...
...and we suspect them in at least
...porno houses,
gay clubs all over the country.
The truth is,
you don't have a suspect.
Correct?
Watch your claws.
Supreme Court for the Washington Herald.
You actually interviewed
Justice Rosenberg...
...before he was shot on,
as it turned out, the day he died.
Did he say anything that might shed
some light on these dreadful events?
...off the record,
appropriately for a sitting justice.
But I think it would be appropriate
to quote him now.
He said, "The campaign waged
by the president was so ruthless...
...in its manipulation of the
middle-class fears of minorities...
...had been so exploitive and divisive
that it created a climate of distrust. "
You know, that Grantham's
a man after my own heart.
Everyone wants to know
when you're starting classes again.
That includes me.
You know what they say:
Drinking makes depression worse.
What do they recommend for anguish?
Where've you been?
The library. I studied a printout
I even made a list of possible suspects.
And then threw it away
because they'd be obvious to everyone.
Then you looked for areas
Jensen and Rosenberg had in common.
Exactly.
Jensen generally protected the rights
of criminal defendants.
Some notable exceptions.
protective of the environment.
tax protestors.
So they might have been assassinated
by an insatiable tax collector?
As yet, I rule no one out.
Everyone is assuming the motive
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