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Generals
Daughter, The
Sunhill: I thought you hated places like this.
Brenner: I do. But our murderer might be in here. They were probably sitting
in here, looking all smug and shiny... until we walked in. Now they're a little
less smug and shiny... and I just think that's cool, don't you?
Brenner:
My father was a drunk, a gambler and a womanizer. I worshipped him.
Brenner:
So what happened to the guy with the gun?
Sunhill: I married him.
Brenner:
Well, I'm happy for you. I wish a long life of happiness for both of you.
Sunhill:
I filed for divorce.
Brenner: That's good.
Kent:
What do you have?
Brenner: Just a preliminary list of suspects.
Kent:
Who?
Brenner: Everyone.
Kent: Looks like you have to narrow it down.
Brenner:
Where were you when she was killed?
Kent: I was in the tower when I got the
call. No witnesses, though. You?
Brenner: I was killing someone else. I didn't
have time to kill two people.
Moore:
We are, I assume, still trying to outwit each other?
Paul
Brenner: These days, you have to boil somebody before you can sleep with them.
Sunhill:
Why was she murdered?
Brenner: Well, possible motives for murder are profit,
revenge, jealousy, to conceal a crime, to avoid humiliation, or plain old homicidal
mania. Right there in the manual.
Warrant
Officer Paul Brenner: Unclench your ass cheeks, Delbert, the scary part's over.
[Going
through Campbell's highly organized closet]
Warrant Officer Paul Brenner,
C.I.D.: This was one squared-away soldier. Equally prepared for a military ball
or the next war in the jungle.
Colonel
Robert Moore: Do you think I'm involved in this?
Warrant Officer Paul Brenner,
C.I.D.: One way or another, yes.
Colonel Robert Moore: Then wouldn't it behoove
me to retain the services of an attorney? I know a good one.
Warrant Officer
Paul Brenner, C.I.D.: Two problems there. First the obvious: there are no good
ones. Second, you're not a civilian, Colonel, you're in the army. You have no
rights to an attorney. You have no right to remain silent. And if you don't cooperate
I may have to put you in jail and that would make me feel really bad.
Colonel
Robert Moore: When did the...event...take place?
Warrant Officer Paul Brenner,
C.I.D.: Zero-Four hundred we think. Can you account for your wherabouts at that
time?
Colonel Robert Moore: Snug in bed.
Warrant Officer Paul Brenner,
C.I.D.: Witnesses? Wife? Girlfriend? Roommate? Hooker?
Colonel Robert Moore:
I am divorced, I am between girlfriends, I live alone and I do NOT use hookers.
I actually have no alibi whatsoever. Does that make me a murder suspect?
Warrant
Officer Paul Brenner, C.I.D.: No it makes you lonely and unpopular.
[Asking
about his relationship with the deceased]
Brenner: Did you play together?
Colonel Robert Moore: What a truly excellent question.