The Last Castle (2001)

Mark Ruffalo: Yates

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Quotes 

• Yates : My father was with you in Hanoi.

  Irwin : [while in his cell]  What's your name?

  Yates : Yates.

  Irwin : Yates? Sam Yates?

  Yates : That's right.

  Irwin : Good man.

  Yates : Nah, he wasn't.

  Irwin : After 30 years everyone's a good man. It's the law.

• Yates : I thought there was one thing that you should know, when they take the castle the are going to hang the flag upside down.

  Winter : [while in his office]  Upside down?

  Yates : It's the international sign of distress.

  Winter : Yes I know what it means. Where exactly do the plan to get a flag?

  Yates : They already have one... Yours.

  Winter : My Flag?...

  [goes to his flag box, sees that the flag is gone] 

  Winter : Peretz who was in here yesterday?

  Yates : I took it you murdering fuck!

  Winter : I thought you were smarter than that.

  Yates : Ya I know you did.

• Winter : [while in his office]  Tell me, Mr. Yates, how does a man like you get into West Point?

  Yates : My father was a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, sir.

  Winter : [with disdain]  Oh, right. Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree.

• Irwin : [while in his cell]  Well, I thought your father was a good man. How's he doing?

  Yates : He's dead.

  Irwin : Oh. Sorry to hear that. What happened?

  Yates : [pauses]  He came home.

• Yates : I've never crashed one before.