The Last Innocent Man (1987 TV Movie)

David Suchet: Jonathan Gault

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Harry Nash : Rook to Knight 1.

  Jonathan Gault : You sure you don't want to look at the board?

  Harry Nash : No. Just move it.

• Jonathan Gault : Damn. I don't know how you stand all the waiting, Harry. It gives me the willies.

  [the phone rings] 

  Harry Nash : Yes? Okay, we'll be right there.

  Jonathan Gault : Moment of truth?

  Harry Nash : We'll see.

• Jonathan Gault : You put a bent cop in my life, is that it? Nice... move... Harry! That cop would shoot me for running a red light. I bet your hands are clean, aren't they? Hypocrite, liar, adulter... well, they do say, "Never trust a lawyer."

• Jonathan Gault : I know - murder... suicide. Slimy lawyer kills mistress, then self; wronged husband mourns in jail. Come up here. Come on, Harry! I'll let you say goodbye.

  [Harry doesn't move] 

  Jonathan Gault : Very well. I'm quite a good shot, you know. I can hit her from here. Watch.

  [Jonathan fires at Jenny, who is gagged and bound in the next room] 

  Harry Nash : Noooo!

  Jonathan Gault : ... Missed.

• Jonathan Gault : I just have to hire a wily young lawyer like yourself, Harry. I'll buy myself a pack of psychiatrists; tell them I trusted you. That'll prove my insanity beyond a reasonable doubt. You're going to have to shoot me or be part of my defense.

  Harry Nash : Shut up.

  Jonathan Gault : Actually, I wish you would kill me. I don't really much fancy alive - hospital, painting classes, taking up to Bible to show I'm reborn.

• Jonathan Gault : Look at you. You really want to. The real Harry at last. Not a lawyer - a judge, a god - deciding life and death. Harry the Omnipotent.

  Harry Nash : Shut up.

  Jonathan Gault : One last prayer, Harry, if you're going to kill me, one last prayer. Harry is my shepherd, I shall not want. Yea, even though I walk in the shadow...