Enemy of the State (1998)

Regina King: Carla Dean

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• Congressman Sam Albert : [on TV]  We knew that we had to monitor our enemies. We've also come to realise that we need to monitor the people who are monitoring them...

  Carla Dean : Well, who's gonna monitor the monitors of the monitors?

  Robert Clayton Dean : I wouldn't mind doing a little *monitoring* myself.

  Carla Dean : Yes, and you've got lots and lots of *monitoring* to do.

  Eric Dean : Are you guys talking about sex?

• Carla Dean : Hello?

  Robert Clayton Dean : [calling from a payphone]  Carla, don't hang up.

  Carla Dean : Robert, you know what I'm looking at? Pictures of you and Rachel taken today.

  Robert Clayton Dean : Where did you get those photographs?

  Carla Dean : My messager Robert, my messager.

  Robert Clayton Dean : Listen honey, I think something's going on and I'm...

  Carla Dean : Robert, I went to the store today, and my money and credit cards didn't work. I couldn't buy food.

  Robert Clayton Dean : [looking at Brill, who mouths "Fuck you" to Robert]  Yeah, mine too. I gotta go.

  Carla Dean : What do you mean you gotta go?

  Robert Clayton Dean : I, I gotta go.

  [hangs up] 

• Carla Dean : Oh, well there goes the Fourth Amendment... what's left of it.

• Carla Dean : Baby, listen to this fascist gasbag.

• Carla Dean : [while reading the newspaper]  Robert, how could you let me find out like this?

  Robert Clayton Dean : Honey, *I* found out like this. These are all lies, okay, none of this stuff is true.

  Carla Dean : Did you see her?

  Robert Clayton Dean : Yes, we had lunch together, she is the contact for the investigator, Brill. You're right about this, they got this from the security camera from the restaurant.

  Carla Dean : I thought you said she's not an issue.

  Robert Clayton Dean : She's not, I have to see her for business.

  Carla Dean : They said you had an affair with her, Robert. An affair. We went to marriage counseling for a year, and now, you're standing here lying about seeing her, you make me sick.

  Robert Clayton Dean : Carla, I am "smeared" all over the newspaper today for money-laundering schemes, mob ties, I lost my job. I am telling you, I am telling you is, trust me, on this Rachel Banks thing right now.

  Carla Dean : How in god's name can I trust you? Bobbie, I want you to leave.

  Robert Clayton Dean : Carla, I'm telling you, this is all bullshit!

  Carla Dean : I want you to leave, I cannot think with you in my face. I want you to leave!

  Robert Clayton Dean : [yelling over Carla]  Carla, how can you expect me to do this when you believe in this bullshit?

  Carla Dean : Just leave so I can think! Just go Bobbie, go! Go.

• [Carla is furious about the Privacy Bill being discussed on TV to Robert] 

  Carla Dean : Don't you think you should be taking this a little more seriously?

  Robert Clayton Dean : Honey, I think you're taking it seriously enough for both of us, and half the block.