The Glimmer Man (1996)

Nikki Cox: Millie

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• Det. Jim Campbell : [responding to a hostage situation @ St. Edmund's Catholic high school]  ... Man, you know this ain't our gig.

  Lt. Jack Cole : Why worry? It's just a lovesick kid here; he's not the first, he won't be the last.

  Det. Jim Campbell : Yeah, an *armed and dangerous* lovesick kid. Why do you think we've got SWAT?

  Lt. Jack Cole : Because they look good in black. See if you can beg or borrow a couple of cell-phones for me; I'll meet you there.

  [Inside a nearby classroom, Johnny holds his fellow students and their teacher at gunpoint] 

  Millie : ...Johnny! Johnny, please stop this. They're going to hurt you if...!

  Johnny Deverell : I'm *not* in the mood for this, Millie!

  Millie : Just put the gun down, Johnny! Stop this! Please, Johnny!

  Lt. Jack Cole : [over the school's PA system]  Johnny. This is Detective Jack Cole, LAPD. I'm not here to hurt you; I'm here to help you. I just gotta get in some kind of dialogue with you before SWAT gets here, because I don't want you to get hurt. So step over to the window, and you'll see that I'm unarmed.

  Johnny Deverell : Nobody move!

  [the young hostages cower beneath their desks] 

  Lt. Jack Cole : Just come on over to the window, so you can see me. That's it.

  [Johnny looks out the window but doesn't see anybody. Then Cole bursts in through the door, gun drawn] 

  Lt. Jack Cole : Sorry I had to do that, Johnny. Put the gun down. I don't wanna shoot you, and you don't wanna be dead.

  Johnny Deverell : Why not?

  Lt. Jack Cole : Come on, drop the gun! Or at least tell me what you want.

  Johnny Deverell : Don't talk like you know what makes me tick, man! You want me to start shooting?

  [He waves his gun at his classmates] 

  Lt. Jack Cole : You're right; I don't know you. So I'm gonna put my gun down...

  [He does] 

  Lt. Jack Cole : ... and we'll start out like this. Now, what's the problem?

  Johnny Deverell : You wouldn't understand, man.

  Lt. Jack Cole : Try me.

  Johnny Deverell : I just can't go back with them.

  Lt. Jack Cole : With who? Who can't you go back with?

  [as Johnny puts the gun to his own head, Cole catches him with a ramming tackle... which sends them both out one window and in through another] 

  Millie : I love you, Johnny!

  Johnny Deverell : [barely conscious]  I love you too, Millie.

  Lt. Jack Cole : [dazed]  And I love both of you.

  [to himself] 

  Lt. Jack Cole : Boy, this job is something else!