Payback (I) (1999)

William Devane: Carter

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• Porter : Who makes the decisions?

  Carter : Well, a committee would make the decision in this case...

  Porter : One man... you go high enough you always come to one man... who?

• Carter : There's an old expression that's served me well: "Do not shit where you eat."

• [Porter has just shot Carter] 

  Carter : You just don't get it, do you, you dumb... fuck.

  [dies] 

• Carter : There are three ways we can handle this. One: we can help you. Two: We can allow you to help yourself. And Three: We can have you replaced... We have an investment in you Resnick, of time, money and training. So assisting you would be, in a way, protecting our investment. And THAT is always good business policy.

• Carter : The Outfit is not unreasonable, Porter... but no corporation in the world would agree to what you're asking.

• Carter : There's something you want from me.

  Porter : Val Resnick gave you a hundred and thirty thousand dollars...

  Carter : He paid us. It was a debt.

  Porter : Seventy thousand dollars of it is mine, and I want it back.

  Carter : I'm sorry. Resnick told me, but I seem to have misplaced your name.

  Porter : Porter.

  Carter : Porter, right. I won't forget it again.

• Carter : Stitch this mutt up, Phil.

  Phil : Any Polaroids or trophies?

  Carter : No, not this time.

• Carter : Do you understand your value to the organization, Resnick?

  [pause] 

  Carter : You're a sadist. You lack compunction. That comes in handy.

• Carter : I don't want Mr. Bronson hearing about this... he'll think I'm getting soft. One of his principles has always been: if you don't understand it, get rid of it... a stitch in time, so to speak, so... stitch this mutt up, Phil.

• [as soon as Porter enters Carter's office, he knocks out his two bodyguards, and takes one of their guns] 

  Carter : Bravo. Sit down.

  [Porter does] 

  Carter : My compliments. They were two of my best.

  Porter : No, they weren't. They lull too easily.