The General's Daughter (1999)

Timothy Hutton: Colonel Kent

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Quotes 

• [Kent asks Brenner about their list of suspects] 

  Kent : Come up with anything yet?

  Brenner : No. Just a preliminary list of suspects.

  Kent : Already. Who?

  Brenner : Everyone.

  Kent : Well, you ought to start getting alibis.

  Brenner : Okay, how about you?

  Kent : Home in bed when the tower called.

  Brenner : [Brenner sarcastically utters]  Ah ha!

  Kent : Fuck off, Paul. Where were you last night?

  Brenner : I was too busy killing someone else. I didn't have time to kill two people.

• [Colonel Kent reveals his motive for killing Elisabeth Campbell] 

  Sunhill : Why'd you do it?

  Kent : Why? Well, you tell me. You're the expert.

  Sunhill : I think this was a woman giving it out all over the post, and the one man who cared about her, the one who's willing to risk it all for her, is the person she doesn't want. And that's because she couldn't want anybody.

  Kent : [Kent takes off his hat as it starts to rain]  See, I just wanted to be with her forever. She owned my heart. She tormented me. She became my obsession. So I followed her and found her on the range... on display.

• [Brenner confronts Colonel Kent after finding out he's the murderer] 

  Brenner : [Brenner stands at a distance]  I think the three of us need to go back to your office and talk.

  Kent : I've always been an outdoorsy kind of guy. Why don't we talk here? That is if we have anything really important to talk about. I thought you'd do your job. Pin it on Moore, and move the fuck on.

  Sunhill : Oh, God.

  Kent : But I forgot you were the nastiest rat in the shithouse. Just goes to show you.

• [Kent asks Sunhill where she was when Elisabeth Campbell was killed] 

  Sunhill : Uh, I went to the V.O.Q. at 1900 hours. I worked on my Neely case report till about midnight, and then I went home. No witnesses.

  Kent : Pathetic, the both of you.

  Brenner : Oh, you should have invited me into your room, and we would have had an alibi.

  Sunhill : I would rather be a murder suspect.

• [Kent strangles Elisabeth to death] 

  Capt. Elisabeth Campbell : [Kent walks over Elisabeth's body]  Don't touch me. Get your hands off me.

  Capt. Elisabeth Campbell : [Elisabeth spits in Kent's face]  You repulse me.

  Kent : [Kent tries to cover Elisabeth's mouth before reaching around her neck]  Shh. Shh.

  Capt. Elisabeth Campbell : You're a disgrace. You're not a soldier. You're not even a man. You're just a fuck. And I fucked you!

  Capt. Elisabeth Campbell : [as Kent begins to strangle Elisabeth to death, as she pleads for her life]  Oh, Christ! God!

• [Colonel Kent tells Brenner that the three of them are in a minefield] 

  Kent : Before you come any closer, don't you want to know where you're standing?

  Brenner : Where am I standing?

  Kent : In a minefield.

  Brenner : Aw, come on, Bill!

  Kent : [Brenner see's a shovel with some fresh dirt on it]  I buried some bouncing betties. Antipersonnel. You buy that? You're reasonably safe here, Paul. But Little Miss Can't-Be-Wrong over there... oh, she's deep in the hurt locker. You remember how the betty works? The first man trips the primary, mine shoots up, the rest of the column walks in the blast. Heads are removed, or limbs. Whatever.

• [Brenner guides Sunhill through the mud of a minefield] 

  Brenner : Backtrack the way you came.

  Kent : You know, it's amazing what a load of shrapnel will do to flesh and bone.

  Brenner : Sarah, you're fine.

  Sunhill : God.

  Kent : [Kent screams to Sunhill]  Boom! Scared you, didn't I?

  Sunhill : You're an asshole, Kent!

• [in a flashback, Colonel Kent discovers Elisabeth Campbell naked tied down with tent pegs] 

  Kent : Elisabeth?

  Capt. Elisabeth Campbell : Get out of here, Bill. Get the fuck out of here. He'll come back, I know he will. You can't be around. You'll ruin it all.

  Kent : What are you doing out here? What's all this about?

  Capt. Elisabeth Campbell : Did my father send you? Is that why you're here?

  Capt. Elisabeth Campbell : No.

  Capt. Elisabeth Campbell : Did he send you to shut me up.

  Kent : No. No.

  Capt. Elisabeth Campbell : Well, this time I won't be quiet. This time I'm gonna tell everything. About him, about you. I'm gonna tell your wife. I'm gonna tell your kids.