L.A. Confidential1997

Dudley Smith:
Edmund, you're a political animal. You have the eye for human weakness, but not the stomach.

Ed Exley:
You're wrong, sir.

Captain Dudley Smith:
Would you be willing to plant corroborative evidence on a suspect you knew to be guilty, in order to ensure an indictment?

Ed Exley:
Dudley, we've been over this.

Captain Dudley Smith:
Yes or no, Edmund?

Ed Exley:
No!

Captain Dudley Smith:
Would you be willing to beat a confession out of a suspect you knew to be guilty?

Ed Exley:
No.

Captain Dudley Smith:
Would you be willing to shoot a hardened criminal in the back, in order to offset the chance that some... lawyer...

Ed Exley:
No.

Captain Dudley Smith:
Then, for the love of God, don't be a detective. Stick to assignments where you don't have...

Ed Exley:
Dudley, I know you mean well, but I don't need to do it the way you did. Or my father.