Without a Trace (TV Series)

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been (2003)

Frank John Hughes: Special Agent Jason Farrell

Quotes 

• [During Sam's OPR interview] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : Well, uh... Oh, oh, one other thing, Agent Spade. Have you and Agent Malone ever had a sexual relationship?

  Samantha : I beg your pardon?

  Agt. Jason Farrell : Unless you're going to go Clinton on me, it's a fairly straightforward question.

  Samantha : You have no right to ask me that.

  Agt. Jason Farrell : Actually, I do. Administrative Operation Procedures of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, section 23...

  [Farrell flips througha manuscript] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : "A supervising agent - " that would be Agent Malone - "is strictly forbidden from having a sexual relationship with an agent and his immediate reporting chain."

  [Looks at Sam] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : That would be you.

  Samantha : I'm not going to respond to this.

  [Sam stands up and heads for the door] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : [forcefully]  We are not done!

  [Sam stops at the door] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : Look... Samantha...

  Samantha : "Agent Spade."

  [Sam sits back down] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : Agent Spade... I don't mean to be impolitic when I say I think we can all understand the pressures of this job, especially the difficulties a junior agent may face, say, if she were approached by a superior - a man in a very unhappy marriage, desperate for the intimacy he wasn't getting at home. In this light, the Agent's actions would be understandable. However, refusing to answer, or lying about such a relationship, would not.

• [about the necessary paperwork for the OPR investigation] 

  Danny : Advise of Rights?

  Agt. Jason Farrell : You have a problem with that, Agent Taylor?

  Vivian : Let me guess, we have the Right to not cooperate and you have the Right to fire us if we don't.

• [Once again, after Sam's OPR interview] 

  Jack Malone : You want to take me down, that's fine - give it your best shot.

  Agt. Jason Farrell : We weren't scheduled to meet, were we?

  Jack Malone : [livid]  You come into MY house and you mess with MY people, you better not miss, you little piss wad!

  Agt. Jason Farrell : I'm gonna ask you to leave right now.

  [Farrell points to the door] 

  Jack Malone : [ignores him]  This is where I work, you pencil-pushing little maggot!

  [knocks a mug of pens and pencils off the desk] 

  Jack Malone : This is where I work! And not the kind of crap that you do - I don't push through other people's garbage.

  [Farrell stands up] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : Are you threatening me, Agent Malone?

  Jack Malone : You take it any way you want!

• [Danny walks into Jack's office] 

  Danny : Mr. Farrell.

  [Farrell looks up] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : Yes.

  Danny : You suggested I come back today, if I reconsidered.

  Agt. Jason Farrell : And you have.

  Danny : I have. So have my colleagues.

  [Vivian and Sam walk in and stand next to Danny] 

  Samantha : We think we understand your Advise of Rights form now. As it turns out, you have the Right to be a miserable little bastard.

  Vivian : And we have the Right to tell you to "shove it".

  [All three of them tear up the 'Advise of Rights'] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : Have you lost your minds?

  Danny : You should go home now.

  Agt. Jason Farrell : I'll leave when my work is done.

  Danny : Knock yourself out.