Frailty (2001)

Powers Boothe: FBI Agent Wesley Doyle

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Quotes 

• Agent Wesley Doyle : You'll never get away with this!

  Adam Meiks : God will protect me.

• Agent Wesley Doyle : Is everything you just told me true?

  Adam Meiks : Why would I make it up?

• Agent Wesley Doyle : Adam or Fenton, whatever the hell your name is, I really don't give a fuck. All I know is that you're a murdering son of a bitch.

• Agent Wesley Doyle : You ever wanted to be a policeman or something?

  Adam Meiks : Yeah, well, you know, when I was a kid.

• [In the Rose Garden we hear Young Adam dumping the remains of the demon Cynthia Harbridge into the hole] 

  Dad : No, Adam. Do it like this.

  [Dad correctly shows Adam to pour the limbs out of the bag and into the hole] 

  Dad : It's got to be done a certain way. The Angel was real specific.

  Young Adam : [Fenton cries next to them]  Why out here in the Rose Garden?

  Dad : God chose it, just like he chose us, I suppose. Don't cry for her, Fenton! She wasn't human. Didn't you see that when I touched her?

  Young Adam : I saw it, Dad!

  [Young Adam and Dad smile at each other] 

  Young Fenton : [Fenton looks at his father in tears]  You killed her...

  Dad : I didn't kill her, son, I destroyed her. She was a demon. You know, I wasn't so sure I could do it myself. I mean, she looked like a woman to me, too. But after I touched her... all I could see is the evil. And I had to do it. I'm sorry you didn't see it too, you will next time.

  Young Fenton : You're gonna do it again!

  Dad : This is our job now, son. You have to accept that.

  Young Fenton : I won't let you!

  Dad : You can't stop it; we're doing God's work here.

  Young Fenton : I'll tell!

  Dad : If you do, somebody will die. The Angel was clear on that, do you understand? Answer me, Fenton, do you understand?

  [the story fades out and brings us back into the present time] 

  Agent Wesley Doyle : So you didn't tell?

  Adam Meiks : No. I should've, but I was afraid. I mean, I loved my father but I was terrified of him.

• [Adam Meiks and Agent Wesley Doyle talk in the police car on the way to the Rose Garden] 

  Agent Wesley Doyle : I just can't imagine how you'd keep something like that inside for so long.

  Adam Meiks : I guess I avoided it because I wanted to.

  [pause] 

  Adam Meiks : You know, you never did tell me why it is you just keep that one picture of your mother in your office.

  Agent Wesley Doyle : My mother was murdered a couple days after that picture was taken. Butchered by some wacked-out killer like your dad.

  Adam Meiks : Did they ever catch him?

  Agent Wesley Doyle : No.

  Adam Meiks : Is that why you took this job?

  Agent Wesley Doyle : You know, you're pretty good at this. Did you ever think about becoming a cop?

  Adam Meiks : Well, you know, when I was a kid.

  Agent Wesley Doyle : Well, you've got the instincts for it. Cops gotta have good instincts. You know what mine are telling me now? You are hiding something from me.

  Adam Meiks : What is it you think I'm hiding?

  Adam Meiks : Well, why don't you just keep on talking and maybe I'll figure that out.

• Adam Meiks : I know who the God's Hand killer is.

  Agent Wesley Doyle : All right, I'll buy it - who?

  Adam Meiks : Well, you haven't even heard me out yet and already you doubt me.

• [first lines, FBI Agent Wesley Doyle walks into the FBI headquarters] 

  Agent Wesley Doyle : What's that ambulance doing out there?

  Operator : I don't know, I'll check it out.

• [Adam Meiks questions Agent Wesley Doyle about the God's Hands killer] 

  Adam Meiks : I read in the paper that only one of the bodies of the six victims have been found. Now, is that true?

  Agent Wesley Doyle : You read that in the paper, didn't ya?

  Adam Meiks : It doesn't necessarily mean it's true.

  Agent Wesley Doyle : Well, in this case it does. You see, the first victim was found, mutilated. With a note saying that God's Hands had taken her. With all of the rest, only notes were found, no bodies.

  Adam Meiks : How do you know they're dead?

  Agent Wesley Doyle : Well, we don't for sure. But the first note told us that we wouldn't find no more bodies from then on. He said he wanted to keep them.

  Adam Meiks : I've got a pretty good idea where the rest of them bodies are.

  Agent Wesley Doyle : At the Rose Garden?

  [Adam Meiks nods yes] 

  Agent Wesley Doyle : Now, why didn't you tell me that in the first place?

  Adam Meiks : Would you have believed me?

• Adam Meiks : [37:34]  What's this?

  Agent Wesley Doyle : Put them on, or I'll put them on for you.