L.A. Confidential1997

Lynn Bracken:
Where'd this come from?

Bud White:
When I was twelve, my old man went after my mother with a bottle. I got in the way.

Lynn Bracken:
You saved her.

Bud White:
Not for long.

Lynn Bracken:
I'm sorry, Bud, it's none of my...

Bud White:
He tied me to the radiator. I watched him beat my mother to death with a tire iron. He left us there. It was four days before a patrol officer found us. They never found the old man.

Lynn Bracken:
Was that why you became a cop? To get even?

Bud White:
I don't know.