A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

John Saxon: Lt. Donald Thompson

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• Cop #3 : [after seeing the crime scene in Glen's room]  What the *hell* did that, Lieutenant?

  Lt. Thompson : I don't know. What's the coroner got to say?

  Cop #3 : He's been in the john pukin' since he saw it.

• Nancy Thompson : [on the phone, referring to Glen]  Hi, Daddy. I know what happened.

  Lt. Thompson : I haven't been upstairs yet.

  Nancy Thompson : Yeah, but you know he's dead, right?

  Lt. Thompson : Yeah, apparently he's dead.

  Nancy Thompson : Listen, Daddy, I've got a proposition for you. Listen very carefully, please.

  Lt. Thompson : Nancy.

  Nancy Thompson : I'm going to go and get the guy who did it, and I want you to be there to arrest him when I bring him out. Okay?

  Lt. Thompson : Just tell me who did it. I'll go get him, baby.

  Nancy Thompson : Fred Krueger did it, Daddy, and only I can get him. It's my nightmare he comes to.

• Lt. Thompson : [about Nancy]  What was she doing there?

  Marge Thompson : Hello to you, too, Donald.

  Lt. Thompson : [returning greeting sarcastically]  Marge.

• Nancy Thompson : [at the police station]  You know Tina, she dreamed this was gonna happen.

  Lt. Thompson : What?

  Nancy Thompson : She had a nightmare that someone was trying to kill her.

  [to her mother, sobbing] 

  Nancy Thompson : That's why we were there, Mom. She just didn't wanna sleep alone.

• Nancy Thompson : The killer's still loose, you know.

  Lt. Thompson : You're saying somebody else killed Tina? Who?

  Nancy Thompson : I don't know who he is, but he's burned and he wears a weird hat and a red and green sweater, really dirty. And he uses these knives, like giant fingernails...

  Lt. Thompson : [cuts her off and guides her into the car, to Marge]  You better keep her home for a few days, until she really gets over the shock of this.

  Marge Thompson : I've got something better. I'm going to get her some help.

• Glen Lantz : We have reason to believe there may be something very strange going on.

  Lt. Thompson : You got that right.

  Nancy Thompson : What are you doing here?

  Lt. Thompson : There's an unsolved murder and I hate unsolved murders, especially ones that my daughter is mixed up in. What are *you* doing here?

  Nancy Thompson : Look, I just gotta see that he's okay.

  Sgt. Garcia : I just checked on him ten minutes ago, he's sleeping like a baby. He's not going anywhere.