In a high-stakes interrogation, Klein attempts to negotiate his freedom by offering up evidence of deep-seated LAPD corruption to federal investigator Welles Noonan. Despite the mutual animosity and threats of life imprisonment, Klein manages to bait Noonan into a temporary alliance, unaware that Noonan intends to betray the agreement as soon as the evidence is delivered.
ME: Civil servants can’t afford manicures?
WELLES NOONAN: Breaking and entering, theft, and willful destruction of private property... and I’ll add attempted murder to the current first degree murder charge I’m about to file against you.
ME: Proof. If you had it, you wouldn’t be fucking around with shitty shakedown routine -- you’d file. Coercion equals confession. So let’s see you pound it out of me.
WELLES NOONAN: Where are the files you stole from Sergeant Richard Stemmons.
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