Would you be willing to plant corroborative evidence on a suspect you knew to be guilty, in order to ensure an indictment?
-No-
Would you be willing to beat a confession out of a suspect you knew to be guilty?
-No-
Would you be willing to shoot a hardened criminal in the back, in order to offset the chance that some lawyer...
-No-
Then, for the love of God, don't be a detective. Stick to assignments where you don't have those kind of choices.
-No-
Would you be willing to beat a confession out of a suspect you knew to be guilty?
-No-
Would you be willing to shoot a hardened criminal in the back, in order to offset the chance that some lawyer...
-No-
Then, for the love of God, don't be a detective. Stick to assignments where you don't have those kind of choices.
from: L.A. Confidential (1997)
James Cromwell acted as Captain Dudley Smith