Absolute Power (1997)

Laura Linney: Kate Whitney

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• Kate Whitney : Why'd you come?

  Luther Whitney : I couldn't have my daughter thinking I was a murderer.

  Kate Whitney : No, I mean why did you come to the restaurant this afternoon? You must have suspected something, or else you wouldn't have been prepared.

  Luther Whitney : My daughter wanted to see me.

• Kate Whitney : Do you know what it's like to be the only kid in the first grade who got to talk about visiting day?

• Kate Whitney : But then you go to the police. That's what innocent people do. They go to the police.

  Luther Whitney : Sure. And that young man who was just here, he'd believe me over the President, wouldn't he?

  Kate Whitney : Well, why should I believe you?

  Luther Whitney : Because I swear to you, Kate. I swear to you on Mattie's grave. Yeah, that's right. Your mother's grave, I'd kill myself before I lied about that.

  Kate Whitney : Oh Jesus, Luther.

  Luther Whitney : Yeah, I know.

• [last lines] 

  Kate Whitney : Am I gonna be alright?

  Luther Whitney : Yeah. We're gonna be just fine.

• [Collin, disguised as a doctor, tries to kill Kate with an injection; Luther, also disguised as a doctor, comes up behind him and jabs a syringe into his neck] 

  Luther Whitney : Dr. Kevorkian, I presume? My guess is this is right in your carotid artery about now. You're gonna get a little woozy. But if I give you the rest of this, it's gonna fry your brain down to the size of a peanut! Drop that.

  [Collin drops the syringe, and Luther eases him down to the floor] 

  Tim Collin : [whispering]  Luther, he's my president, right or wrong.

  Luther Whitney : Well, he made a mistake. *You* made a mistake. When you went after my little girl, that was *entirely* unacceptable.

  Tim Collin : [pleading weakly]  Mercy.

  Luther Whitney : I'm fresh out.

  [Luther plunges the injection into Collin's neck; Collin groans as he dies] 

  Kate Whitney : [starts waking up in hospital bed]  Daddy?

  Luther Whitney : [softly]  Go to sleep, darling.

• Luther Whitney : You're the only family I have.

  Kate Whitney : Luther, you don't have me.

• Kate Whitney : Quit wasting my time. He doesn't want you to find him, you're not gonna find him.

  Seth Frank : You're saying what? He left town, he skipped the country? What?

  Kate Whitney : I'm saying, you won't recognize him. I'm saying, he could be right around the corner.

• Kate Whitney : Father, what have you done?