Flashpoint (TV Series)

The Farm (2009)

Hugh Dillon: Constable Ed Lane

Quotes 

• Ed Lane : [sees Parker enter the room where he is tied up]  Boss, we're clear. This what it takes to get you out of the truck?

  Sgt. Gregory Parker : He didn't gag you?

• Ed Lane : I'm just a little frustrated. Clark's beating me up, he wants to go to a party, I won't let him go - it's just a hassle.

  Kevin 'Wordy' Wordsworth : What's the big deal?

  Ed Lane : I'll tell you what the big deal is, there's no parental supervision.

  Kevin 'Wordy' Wordsworth : Oh, parents away, kid takes advantage? You telling me you never went to a party like that when you were Clark's age?

  Ed Lane : Why do you think I don't want him to go?

  Kevin 'Wordy' Wordsworth : No offense, Ed, but your kid plays the cello. I don't know how much trouble he's really gonna get into.

• Ed Lane : [sees a teenager behind the electric fence]  Hey, buddy! Hey!

  [teenager runs off] 

  Jules Callaghan : Is it something you said?

  Ed Lane : What can I tell you? I got a way with teenagers. I don't know.

• James : [pointing a handgun at Ed]  Drop your weapon.

  Ed Lane : Safety's on there, James. And this is an MP5 submachine gun. Fires 800 rounds per minute, 400 meters per second. So, unless you want a demonstration, I suggest you drop your weapon, and we can talk about this.

• Ed Lane : If you're using again, you can't think straight. Are you really going to kill all these people? Is that what this is all about, Charles? Is that why you're doing this?

  Charles Stewart : I'm doing this to save my people.

  Ed Lane : By what, Charles? By sentencing them to death?

  Charles Stewart : You're judging something you couldn't possibly understand.

  Ed Lane : If you're doing it to save them, why don't you just tell them, Charles? Why keep it from them?

  Charles Stewart : These people are like my children and children don't always know what's best for them.

• Ed Lane : What about Isaac? Your own son, your own flesh and blood. You're telling me you are willing to kill him, too?

  Charles Stewart : More than anyone. Isaac needs to take this journey with me.

• Ed Lane : I understand that you love your father and you have been raised to follow him without question, but there comes a time in all of our lives, son, when we have to think for ourselves.

• Ed Lane : I know what it's like to a... to want to protect your family, to keep them from making mistakes. But at a certain point you have to trust that you have given them the tools to make the right decisions.

• Ed Lane : [on phone to his son]  Hey, buddy. Doing your homework? You know that party that you want to go to? You can go. Yeah. Who's gonna be there? So, can I go? I'm kidding. Clark, I'm kidding.