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Judge Dredd (1995)
Judge Dredd:
Emotions... there ought to be a law against them.
Judge Dredd: I am the law! Put down your weapons and prepare to be judged.
Block Warlord: Judge this!
[the gang shoots at Dredd]
Judge Dredd: I knew they'd do that.
[on the flight to Aspen]
Herman Ferguson: Dredd? What are you doing here?
Judge Dredd: I was convicted of a crime. Wrongly.
Herman Ferguson: [laughs] That's kinda weird! What are the odds? Two wrongly convicted guys sitting right next to each other.?
Judge Dredd: You received the sentence the law required.
Herman Ferguson: Five years? Just for saving my own ass? That was a mistake!
Judge Dredd: The law doesn't... make mistakes.
Herman Ferguson: Really? Then how do you explain what happened to you? You can't, can you? Great. Mr. "I am the law" can't. So maybe this is some kind of typo. Maybe it's a glitch. Or maybe it's *poetic justice*.
Rico: You want chaos? *I'm* the chaos. You want fear? *I'm* the fear. You want a new beginning?
[shouts]
Rico: *I'm* the new beginning!
Warden Miller: So tell me, Rico, what is the meaning of life?
Rico: It ends.
Warden Miller: [after giving Rico a package, which has is Badge and a picture of Hammond in it] So, Rico, what is the meaning of life?
Rico: [the package turns into a gun and aims it at the Warden's throat] It ends.
[Shoots the Warden in the throat]
Herman Ferguson: [witnessing the violence in Heavenly Haven] Well, It's better than Prison.
Herman Ferguson: [Dredd trips over Fergie, who is fleeing the block war at Heavenly Haven, and is now judging him] 5 years? But I had to! They were killing each other in there!
Judge Dredd: You could have gone out the window.
Herman Ferguson: We're 40 floors up! That would have been suicide!
Judge Dredd: Maybe, but it's legal.
Judge Dredd: Hershey, what are you doing here?
Judge Hershey: Waiting for backup.
Judge Dredd: It's here.
Robotic Food Dispenser: Eat recycled food. It's good for the environment and okay for you.
Judge Dredd: How do you plead?
Herman Ferguson: Not guilty?
Judge Dredd: I knew you'd say that.
Chief Justice Fargo: The blind lady.
Judge Dredd: Who is she, sir?
Chief Justice Fargo: Justice before your time. We should never have taken justice out of her hands.
Judge Dredd: You put order to chaos, sir.
Chief Justice Fargo: Yes, we solved many problems, but created many more.
ABC warrior: Status?
Rico: Bodyguard.
ABC warrior: Commander?
Rico: Rico.
ABC warrior: Mission?
Rico: We're going to war.
ABC warrior: [eagerly] Warrr...
Herman Ferguson: Dredd, do something!
Pa Angel: Dredd?
Judge Dredd: [to Ferguson] You talk too much.
Pa Angel: This here is Mean. We had to make some alterations when he was a child. Well, the Cursed Earth's a tough place on young folks.
Judge Dredd: The legendary Angel family. Cursed Earth pirates, murderers, scavengers, and of course scumbags!
Judge Dredd: [to Mean Machine, mentioning his artificial right forearm with included blade] Does that come with a fork, handsome?
Herman Ferguson: I'm free, you're toast!
Judge Dredd: Actually, you're toast. I forgot to mention it: your new friends, they're cannibals.
Herman Ferguson: Eat Dredd! He works out!
Judge Dredd: There's a maniac loose in the city!
Herman Ferguson: What a coincidence - there's one out here too!
Rico: [after killing the entire council] Now who says politics is boring...
Judge Dredd: [sentencing the Block Warlord] Mega City Municiple Code, 213: Willfull destruction of property, that's two years. Code 310: Illegal possession of assault weapons, five years. Code 457: Resisting arrest, TWENTY years! And code 3613: The first degree murder of a street judge...
Block Warlord: Let me guess: Life.
[he goes for his gun, but Dredd shoots him first]
Judge Dredd: Death. Court's adjourned.
Judge Dredd: [explaining how they're going to get back into Mega-City] Two other convicts figured out that the city heating vent gushes solid flame every 30 seconds. They realized, if they timed it right, they could run down the pipeline to an opening inside the city.
Herman Ferguson: So, these two other guys, they made it, right?
Judge Dredd: Actually, they were roasted. But the theory's a sound one.
Judge Dredd: [lecturing a room full of rookie Judges] The Judge's standard-issue body armor. Yours, when you graduate. The Lawgiver: a Judge's standard-issue sidearm. Yours, *if* you graduate. The Lawmaster: a Judge's standard-issue personal transport. Yours... if you can ever get it to work.
Herman Ferguson: [shouts] Hooray! I'm alive! I'm alive! Yahoo!
[sees Dredd]
Herman Ferguson: Oh, great, you're still alive too.
Rico: The innocent only exist until they inevitably become perpatrators. Guilt or innocence is a matter of timing.
Judge Dredd: Shoot 'em!
Herman Ferguson: I've never fired a gun in my life!
Judge Dredd: You haven't? What the hell kind of criminal are you?
Herman Ferguson: A NICE criminal!
[he takes aim and pulls the trigger, but nothing happens]
Herman Ferguson: It doesn't work!
Judge Dredd: You gotta cock it first, moron!
Judge Dredd: You let me judge my own brother? You never told me sir!
Ilsa: Bitch!
Judge Hershey: [Hersey headbutts Ilsa] JUDGE BITCH!
Rico: We're both prisoners warden. You're behind a desk, and I'm behind this.
Chief Justice Fargo: My fellow judges, I was barely in my teens when I put on this badge. When it is time for me to take it off, please let me do so, knowing that it still stands for freedom. Not oppression.
Judge Dredd: Mega City municipal code 4722: Illegal use of city electricity.
[rubs a hot wire on Mean Machine's arm]
Judge Dredd: How do you plead?
[Mean Machine growls]
Judge Dredd: I knew you said that!
[uses the wire to electrocute Mean Machine]
Judge Esposito: As a result of pre-meditated murder, this tribunal has found Joseph Dredd guilty, as charged.
Chief Justice Fargo: Joseph Dredd. This council can only provide one punishment for your crime: death. However, this last order will be carried out by a retiring senior judge. Therefore,
[stands up]
Chief Justice Fargo: ...I step down. I would like the council to honor my last order. Be lenient with Judge Dredd for his great and long service.
Judge Griffin: We shall honor this one, Judge Fargo.
[Fargo Leaves]
Judge Griffin: Judge Dredd, step forward.
[Dredd steps forward]
Judge Griffin: Your sentence should be... life imprisonment, at Aspen penal colony, that is to be carried out immediately.
[Holds out the Book of Law]
Judge Griffin: As it is written.
Judge Hershey: Judge Griffin, this trial has been a farce. I demand an appeal.
Judge Griffin: [interrupting] You will accept the court's decision, Judge Hershey.
[robot officers appear and take Dredd away]
Judge Griffin: Let the betrayal of the law be taken form our courts. May his armor be taken from him.
[the robo guards start ripping dredd's uniform and badge off of him]
Judge Griffin: And all of his glob of justice. Let him be strickened from our hearts and our memories, forever.
[the robo officers cuff Dredd]
Rico: Why did you judge me?
[Dredd stares at him]
Rico: Why did you judge me?
Judge Dredd: You killed innocent people.
Rico: A means to an end.
Judge Dredd: [raising his voice] You started a massacre.
Rico: I began a revolution.
Judge Dredd: [shouting] You betrayed the law!
Rico: Law!!
[talking about the cloning project]
Rico: I betrayed this. Your council's experiment which failed. In you. I was your brother, your blood, your friend. Who betrayed who? When are you gonna stop being a goddamn slave and grow up? That's your birthright, that's your family. I'm your family, I'm the only family you ever had. Now choose!
Judge Dredd: [walks up to Rico] The best thing you can do is kill me.
Rico: [whispering in disbelief] Why?
Judge Dredd: Because it’s your only chance, brother.
Rico: I'm the only one who ever loved you.
Judge Dredd: I'll be the judge of that.
Rico: I'm a ghost...
[approaching the Megacity's wall]
Herman Ferguson: How are we supposed to get in? They're not just gonna let us walk up, ring the doorbell and say, "Hello! Cursed Earth Pizza!"
[first lines]
Narrator: It is the third millenium. The world has changed. Climate, Nations, all were in upheaval. the Earth transformed into a poisonous, scorched dessert, known as "The Cursed Earth". The world's population has crowded into a few Megacities, where it created a voilence so powerful, the justice system could not control. Law as we knew it, colapsed. From the decay, rose a new order, a new style of justice enforcers. They were the police, jury and executioner all in one. They were, The Judges.
Herman Ferguson: [approaching the MegaCity wall] C'mon, Dredd, there is no way in, are you even listening to me? We can't just knock on the wall and say "Hello, Cursed earth Pizza".
Judge Dredd: There is a way in. 10 years ago, 2 refugees figured it out, through the city's incinerator, there's a flame burst twice a minute, that means they have only 30 seconds to run through before it flames again.
Herman Ferguson: These refugees, they made it through, right?
Judge Dredd: Actually, they were roasted. But, the theory's sound. Shall we?
[walks away]
Herman Ferguson: Maybe we should consider other theories, Dredd.
Judge Dredd: [during an Ethics class, Dredd fires continuously at a Judge helmet and armor] Judge standard issue helmet and body armor, yours when you graduate. Lawgiver 2, with 20 interchangeable round and voice activated round system.
[to the Lawgiver]
Judge Dredd: Signal flare.
[fires a signal flare into the wall]
Judge Dredd: Yours, "if" you graduate.
[walks over to a motorcycle]
Judge Dredd: Lawmaster, with rapid firing cannons and a range of 500 kilometers.
[operators run it on, only to have it malfunction]
Judge Dredd: Yours, if you can ever get it to work.
[cadets laugh]
Judge Dredd: All the things you see are toys, at the end of the day, when you're alone in the dark, the only thing that matters, is this
[holds up the book of law]
Judge Dredd: the law.
[slams the book onto the table]
Judge Dredd: You "will" be alone. By retirement, you will take the long walk. A walk that every Judge takes outside these city walls, into the Cursed Earth where you will remain your last days, alone and carrying the law. Class dismissed.
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Judge Dredd: I am the law! Put down your weapons and prepare to be judged.
Block Warlord: Judge this!
[the gang shoots at Dredd]
Judge Dredd: I knew they'd do that.
[on the flight to Aspen]
Herman Ferguson: Dredd? What are you doing here?
Judge Dredd: I was convicted of a crime. Wrongly.
Herman Ferguson: [laughs] That's kinda weird! What are the odds? Two wrongly convicted guys sitting right next to each other.?
Judge Dredd: You received the sentence the law required.
Herman Ferguson: Five years? Just for saving my own ass? That was a mistake!
Judge Dredd: The law doesn't... make mistakes.
Herman Ferguson: Really? Then how do you explain what happened to you? You can't, can you? Great. Mr. "I am the law" can't. So maybe this is some kind of typo. Maybe it's a glitch. Or maybe it's *poetic justice*.
Rico: You want chaos? *I'm* the chaos. You want fear? *I'm* the fear. You want a new beginning?
[shouts]
Rico: *I'm* the new beginning!
Warden Miller: So tell me, Rico, what is the meaning of life?
Rico: It ends.
Warden Miller: [after giving Rico a package, which has is Badge and a picture of Hammond in it] So, Rico, what is the meaning of life?
Rico: [the package turns into a gun and aims it at the Warden's throat] It ends.
[Shoots the Warden in the throat]
Herman Ferguson: [witnessing the violence in Heavenly Haven] Well, It's better than Prison.
Herman Ferguson: [Dredd trips over Fergie, who is fleeing the block war at Heavenly Haven, and is now judging him] 5 years? But I had to! They were killing each other in there!
Judge Dredd: You could have gone out the window.
Herman Ferguson: We're 40 floors up! That would have been suicide!
Judge Dredd: Maybe, but it's legal.
Judge Dredd: Hershey, what are you doing here?
Judge Hershey: Waiting for backup.
Judge Dredd: It's here.
Robotic Food Dispenser: Eat recycled food. It's good for the environment and okay for you.
Judge Dredd: How do you plead?
Herman Ferguson: Not guilty?
Judge Dredd: I knew you'd say that.
Chief Justice Fargo: The blind lady.
Judge Dredd: Who is she, sir?
Chief Justice Fargo: Justice before your time. We should never have taken justice out of her hands.
Judge Dredd: You put order to chaos, sir.
Chief Justice Fargo: Yes, we solved many problems, but created many more.
ABC warrior: Status?
Rico: Bodyguard.
ABC warrior: Commander?
Rico: Rico.
ABC warrior: Mission?
Rico: We're going to war.
ABC warrior: [eagerly] Warrr...
Herman Ferguson: Dredd, do something!
Pa Angel: Dredd?
Judge Dredd: [to Ferguson] You talk too much.
Pa Angel: This here is Mean. We had to make some alterations when he was a child. Well, the Cursed Earth's a tough place on young folks.
Judge Dredd: The legendary Angel family. Cursed Earth pirates, murderers, scavengers, and of course scumbags!
Judge Dredd: [to Mean Machine, mentioning his artificial right forearm with included blade] Does that come with a fork, handsome?
Herman Ferguson: I'm free, you're toast!
Judge Dredd: Actually, you're toast. I forgot to mention it: your new friends, they're cannibals.
Herman Ferguson: Eat Dredd! He works out!
Judge Dredd: There's a maniac loose in the city!
Herman Ferguson: What a coincidence - there's one out here too!
Rico: [after killing the entire council] Now who says politics is boring...
Judge Dredd: [sentencing the Block Warlord] Mega City Municiple Code, 213: Willfull destruction of property, that's two years. Code 310: Illegal possession of assault weapons, five years. Code 457: Resisting arrest, TWENTY years! And code 3613: The first degree murder of a street judge...
Block Warlord: Let me guess: Life.
[he goes for his gun, but Dredd shoots him first]
Judge Dredd: Death. Court's adjourned.
Judge Dredd: [explaining how they're going to get back into Mega-City] Two other convicts figured out that the city heating vent gushes solid flame every 30 seconds. They realized, if they timed it right, they could run down the pipeline to an opening inside the city.
Herman Ferguson: So, these two other guys, they made it, right?
Judge Dredd: Actually, they were roasted. But the theory's a sound one.
Judge Dredd: [lecturing a room full of rookie Judges] The Judge's standard-issue body armor. Yours, when you graduate. The Lawgiver: a Judge's standard-issue sidearm. Yours, *if* you graduate. The Lawmaster: a Judge's standard-issue personal transport. Yours... if you can ever get it to work.
Herman Ferguson: [shouts] Hooray! I'm alive! I'm alive! Yahoo!
[sees Dredd]
Herman Ferguson: Oh, great, you're still alive too.
Rico: The innocent only exist until they inevitably become perpatrators. Guilt or innocence is a matter of timing.
Judge Dredd: Shoot 'em!
Herman Ferguson: I've never fired a gun in my life!
Judge Dredd: You haven't? What the hell kind of criminal are you?
Herman Ferguson: A NICE criminal!
[he takes aim and pulls the trigger, but nothing happens]
Herman Ferguson: It doesn't work!
Judge Dredd: You gotta cock it first, moron!
Judge Dredd: You let me judge my own brother? You never told me sir!
Ilsa: Bitch!
Judge Hershey: [Hersey headbutts Ilsa] JUDGE BITCH!
Rico: We're both prisoners warden. You're behind a desk, and I'm behind this.
Chief Justice Fargo: My fellow judges, I was barely in my teens when I put on this badge. When it is time for me to take it off, please let me do so, knowing that it still stands for freedom. Not oppression.
Judge Dredd: Mega City municipal code 4722: Illegal use of city electricity.
[rubs a hot wire on Mean Machine's arm]
Judge Dredd: How do you plead?
[Mean Machine growls]
Judge Dredd: I knew you said that!
[uses the wire to electrocute Mean Machine]
Judge Esposito: As a result of pre-meditated murder, this tribunal has found Joseph Dredd guilty, as charged.
Chief Justice Fargo: Joseph Dredd. This council can only provide one punishment for your crime: death. However, this last order will be carried out by a retiring senior judge. Therefore,
[stands up]
Chief Justice Fargo: ...I step down. I would like the council to honor my last order. Be lenient with Judge Dredd for his great and long service.
Judge Griffin: We shall honor this one, Judge Fargo.
[Fargo Leaves]
Judge Griffin: Judge Dredd, step forward.
[Dredd steps forward]
Judge Griffin: Your sentence should be... life imprisonment, at Aspen penal colony, that is to be carried out immediately.
[Holds out the Book of Law]
Judge Griffin: As it is written.
Judge Hershey: Judge Griffin, this trial has been a farce. I demand an appeal.
Judge Griffin: [interrupting] You will accept the court's decision, Judge Hershey.
[robot officers appear and take Dredd away]
Judge Griffin: Let the betrayal of the law be taken form our courts. May his armor be taken from him.
[the robo guards start ripping dredd's uniform and badge off of him]
Judge Griffin: And all of his glob of justice. Let him be strickened from our hearts and our memories, forever.
[the robo officers cuff Dredd]
Rico: Why did you judge me?
[Dredd stares at him]
Rico: Why did you judge me?
Judge Dredd: You killed innocent people.
Rico: A means to an end.
Judge Dredd: [raising his voice] You started a massacre.
Rico: I began a revolution.
Judge Dredd: [shouting] You betrayed the law!
Rico: Law!!
[talking about the cloning project]
Rico: I betrayed this. Your council's experiment which failed. In you. I was your brother, your blood, your friend. Who betrayed who? When are you gonna stop being a goddamn slave and grow up? That's your birthright, that's your family. I'm your family, I'm the only family you ever had. Now choose!
Judge Dredd: [walks up to Rico] The best thing you can do is kill me.
Rico: [whispering in disbelief] Why?
Judge Dredd: Because it’s your only chance, brother.
Rico: I'm the only one who ever loved you.
Judge Dredd: I'll be the judge of that.
Rico: I'm a ghost...
[approaching the Megacity's wall]
Herman Ferguson: How are we supposed to get in? They're not just gonna let us walk up, ring the doorbell and say, "Hello! Cursed Earth Pizza!"
[first lines]
Narrator: It is the third millenium. The world has changed. Climate, Nations, all were in upheaval. the Earth transformed into a poisonous, scorched dessert, known as "The Cursed Earth". The world's population has crowded into a few Megacities, where it created a voilence so powerful, the justice system could not control. Law as we knew it, colapsed. From the decay, rose a new order, a new style of justice enforcers. They were the police, jury and executioner all in one. They were, The Judges.
Herman Ferguson: [approaching the MegaCity wall] C'mon, Dredd, there is no way in, are you even listening to me? We can't just knock on the wall and say "Hello, Cursed earth Pizza".
Judge Dredd: There is a way in. 10 years ago, 2 refugees figured it out, through the city's incinerator, there's a flame burst twice a minute, that means they have only 30 seconds to run through before it flames again.
Herman Ferguson: These refugees, they made it through, right?
Judge Dredd: Actually, they were roasted. But, the theory's sound. Shall we?
[walks away]
Herman Ferguson: Maybe we should consider other theories, Dredd.
Judge Dredd: [during an Ethics class, Dredd fires continuously at a Judge helmet and armor] Judge standard issue helmet and body armor, yours when you graduate. Lawgiver 2, with 20 interchangeable round and voice activated round system.
[to the Lawgiver]
Judge Dredd: Signal flare.
[fires a signal flare into the wall]
Judge Dredd: Yours, "if" you graduate.
[walks over to a motorcycle]
Judge Dredd: Lawmaster, with rapid firing cannons and a range of 500 kilometers.
[operators run it on, only to have it malfunction]
Judge Dredd: Yours, if you can ever get it to work.
[cadets laugh]
Judge Dredd: All the things you see are toys, at the end of the day, when you're alone in the dark, the only thing that matters, is this
[holds up the book of law]
Judge Dredd: the law.
[slams the book onto the table]
Judge Dredd: You "will" be alone. By retirement, you will take the long walk. A walk that every Judge takes outside these city walls, into the Cursed Earth where you will remain your last days, alone and carrying the law. Class dismissed.
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