Absence of Malice (1981)

Don Hood: District Attorney Quinn

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• James J. Wells : Tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna sit right here and talk about it. Now, if you get tired of talking here, Mr. Marshal Elving Patrick there will hand you one of them subpoenas he's got stuck down in his pocket, and we'll go downstairs and talk in front of the grand jury. Now we'll talk all day if you want to. But, come sundown, there's gonna be two things true that ain't true now. One is that the United States Department of Justice is goin' to know what in the good Christ - e'scuse me, Angie - is goin' on around here. And the other's I'm gonna have somebody's ass in my briefcase. Elliot? Jim? Fine. Alright, Elving - hand whichever one of these fellas you like a subpoena and we'll go on downstairs and talk in front of the grand jury.

  District Attorney James A. Quinn : Gallagher's a government witness.

  James J. Wells : A wonderful thing, subpoena.