Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

John Ireland: Nulty

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• Lt. Nulty : [during an interrogation]  All right, Marlowe, let's start again, huh? From the beginning.

  Philip Marlowe : I've told you twice. Now, why don't I make it easy on all of us and tell you what you want to hear? This fairy hired me to exchange a necklace for cash for a friend of his. We drove out to the woods. I shot him. I buried the fifteen grand. I drove my car back to his place, walked *fifteen miles* back to the woods, knocked myself on the head and then called the police.

• Philip Marlowe : [answering door]  Yeah?

  Lt. Nulty : It's Snow White!

  Philip Marlowe : With or without the dwarfs?

  Lt. Nulty : Without!

• Marlowe : Malloy's girl is in the booby hatch, that's what. My nose is twitching, that's what. An ex-con kills a colored fella in self-defence and you just wash your hands clean. Now. all of the sudden you've developed an itch to get your hands on him. What is it? What's up? Come on, Nulty, level with me. I don't expect that crooked son of a bitch to level, but you!

  Nulty : Marlowe, we're the Police Department and you're a private dick. Don't get it all mixed up! We could take your license. Just remember that!

  Marlowe : I'll tie a string around my finger.

• Nulty : Marlowe, if you know where he is, I'll nail you for aiding and abetting.

  Marlowe : Aiding and abetting what? You've got a dead negro. Nobody gives a shit. So, what's changed?

• Lt. Nulty : Wait here.

  Billy Rolfe : How long should we wait?

  Lt. Nulty : Until you make lieutenant.