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⌈ Secret Post #2604 ⌋

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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[Sherlock BBC]

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[Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward]

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[Elementary]

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[SPN]

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[Pacific Rim]

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[Harry Potter]

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[Game of Thrones]

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[Thor: Dark World]

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[Breaking Bad]

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[My Neighbor Totoro]

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[Robocop]

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[Unsounded]

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"Why're you doin' this, Doc? This don't have to be your fight."
"Because Wyatt Earp is my friend."
"Shoot, I got lots of friends."
"I don't."

Doc Holliday, Tombstone

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"My life, when it is written, will read better than it lived. Henry Fitz-Empress, first Plantagenet, king at twenty-one, the ablest soldier of an able time. He led men well and cared for justice when he could and ruled for twenty years a state as great as Charlemagne's. He married, out of love, a woman out of legend. Not in Rome or Alexandria or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children... but no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things, but he disowned them. You're not mine! We're not connected! I deny you! None of you will get my crown! I leave you nothing and I wish you plague! May all your children breech and die!"

Henry II, The Lion In Winter

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"I wouldn't have you in my service, nobleman. I've known your kind all my life. You're everything I'm meant to fight. You're the enemy. You gobble good red meat and we get bread and cheese. The laws can't touch you and there's no crime you can be punished for, and we can shoot a deer and have our eyes put out. This is my forest. I'll live here as I like. You come in again, I'll kill you."

Robin of Sherwood, Robin & Marian

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[Context on this one: after ten miserable years on the same insoluble serial murder case, Detective Burakov has been summoned to the office of Fetisov, the only official who has ever supported his theory that a serial killer could exist in the Soviet Union. Fetisov explains that the coming of glasnost means that they've both been promoted and they are allowed to admit this case exists.]

"You have a telephone appointment tonight at midnight to speak with the head of the FBI's Serial Murder Task Force, Special Agent Beckford. He told me, late last night, that he has been following your work on this case with great interest for about five years. I didn't ask him how. He considers you a man of iron will. For what it's worth, I concur. He also told me that he rotates his people off serial murder cases every eighteen months whether they like it or not, to prevent the inevitable psychological consequences of too much frustration. I... I pretended that I had known that all along. He thinks that I pushed you and pushed you in search of your limits, until I realized that you didn't have any. Privately, I offer my deepest apologies to you and your wife. I hope that someday you can forgive me my ignorance. Anyway--he suggested I not tell you this next bit--he said that he starts a new group of recruits through the program every sixteen weeks, and the first lecture that he gives is always about you. He calls you the one man in the world that he would least like to have after him. An intelligent, methodical, painstaking, passionate detective who would rather die than give up. Again, I concur."

Colonel Fetisov, Citizen X (Which nobody has seen and everyone ought to because it's an underrated gem.)

I love you for posting both the Lion in Winter and Robin & Marian quotes. Goldman was a helluva writer.

Gods, that Citizen X quote. That scene broke my heart into itty-bitty pieces. When Burakov breaks down in tears and leaves, and Fetisov is left sitting in their empty committee room listening to him cry behind the door, it seriously sort of broke me. It wasn't his fault, it wasn't either of their fault. And after all the shit they'd been through, they earned that goddamn break so much.

On a slightly brighter note, another scene I liked from that one was a little earlier, after Burakov comes back from his breakdown and tries to convince Fetisov to hire the psychiatrist for the first time:

Fetisov: "Did you just come in here and go out of your way to make me feel good, then ask me for something? My god, are you learning how to manipulate people? I've created a monster."

Because just after Fetisov finally feels like he's earned the passionate Burakov's respect by standing up and fighting for him regardless of politics, Burakov comes back and tries to gently (and rather clumsily) manipulate him. And Fetisov is happy. Because that was essentially Burakov going 'If it works, if it gets us what we need, I can do things your way too'. It was kind of ... Burakov admitting that he respects Fetisov not just for believing in him and doing things his way, but also for doing that from Fetisov's position and for doing things Fetisov's way, manipulation and politics and all.

The relationship between those two was basically the heart of the movie. And damn Donald Sutherland and Stephen Rea for doing such a bloody perfect job of it, too.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU Jesus Christ nobody understands why an HBO original serial killer movie from the 90s is on my list of films that always make me cry. And while we're bonding about Burakov and Fetisov, let's throw in:

Bukhanovsky: You know, between the two of you, you make a wonderful person.

I know. I keep looking for it on DVD in my region, but it's hard to get hold of. Fortunately, the entire movie is (usually) on youtube, so I can get a fix when I need it :)

Bukhanovsky: You know, between the two of you, you make a wonderful person.

It is the best line. In just about anything, really. And so perfect. I did love Bukhanovsky. "To be a psychiatrist in Russia is to be an expert in paranoia, whether you set out to be or not." He was such a fabulously snarky old man, in his quiet sort of way.

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