Little Nikita (1988)
Sidney Poitier: Roy Parmenter
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Quotes
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Roy Parmenter : Do you have a file on Jeffrey Grant?
Verna McLaughlin : What kind of file?
Roy Parmenter : Grades... extra-curricular activities. Going back, say, a couple of years.
Verna McLaughlin : Why would I show you Jeffrey Grant's file?
Roy Parmenter : I'm FBI.
Verna McLaughlin : You could be NFL for all I care.
Roy Parmenter : Please?
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Jeff Grant : What the hell kind of investigation is this, anyway? Are you going to tell me or aren't you?
Roy Parmenter : You're asking all the right questions, Jeff. Something big is coming down.
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Roy Parmenter : You gotta' be crazy to bring a child into this ugly world.
Jeff Grant : What's so hard about it?
Roy Parmenter : Making a buck. Raising a family. Keeping it all together takes talent. Love.
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Konstantin Karpov : I would never give up a man who killed my partner.
Roy Parmenter : You never *had* a partner!
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Jeff Grant : Look Mr. F.B.I man, if you're so sure and if you're so right, why don't you just arrest them?
Roy Parmenter : Well, because... they haven't done anything yet.
Jeff Grant : You manipulating son of a bitch!
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Roy Parmenter : [Referring to a buxom servicewoman named Corporal Hogan] Sometimes I slip up and call her Corporal "Hogans."
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Roy Parmenter : [shaking Jeff's hand] You got a wet palm there, son. What's a matter? Nervous?
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Roy Parmenter : How'd a pretty girl like you get mixed up in guidance counseling?
Verna McLaughlin : How'd a nice guy like you get mixed up in the FBl?
Roy Parmenter : You ever guided any students towards the Bureau, Verna?
Verna McLaughlin : l hope not.
Roy Parmenter : How about me guiding you towards dinner?
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Roy Parmenter : Jeffrey Nicholas Grant.
Jeff Grant : Well, that sounds official.
Roy Parmenter : Your parents are Russian spies. Your parents are KGB agents. "Sleepers," they're called.
Roy Parmenter : Deep cover. They blend with the country they're assigned to. Own homes, hold jobs, raise families. They sleep for years. But when they awake, they're lethal.
Jeff Grant : Let's go back to your Air Force Academy investigation. What happened to that?
Roy Parmenter : What about it?
Jeff Grant : What happened to your investigation?
Roy Parmenter : There wasn't any.
Roy Parmenter : Richard and Elizabeth Grant entered this country through Canada. Took their IDs off headstones in the Spokane Cemetery. Three years later, you were born. Wanna' see your birth certificate?
Jeff Grant : No, thanks.
Roy Parmenter : Sure you don't want some chips? I exist on corn chips and jalapeños. Not too swift around a stove.
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Jeff Grant : [walks in on his high school guidance counselor and Roy in bed] Ms. McLaughlin! Is this work experience?
Roy Parmenter : Go out in the yard! I'll be out in a minute.
Roy Parmenter : [to Verna, sheepishly] Life's little surprises...
Verna McLaughlin : No problem. I'll just go topless for the rest of the student body.
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Verna McLaughlin : Were you troubled at home, Roy?
Roy Parmenter : I had a great home!
Verna McLaughlin : I can't imagine you as a kid...
Roy Parmenter : Oh, I was a wonderful kid.
Verna McLaughlin : What'd your father do?
Roy Parmenter : Cop.
Verna McLaughlin : Good cop or bad cop?
Roy Parmenter : Bad cop... Wouldn't kiss ass. Good father.