The Patriot (1998)

Actors: Robert Harvey (actor), David Paris (miscellaneous crew), Rosanna Norton (costume designer), Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc (miscellaneous crew), Steven Seagal (producer), David Paris (miscellaneous crew), Steven Seagal (actor), L.Q. Jones (actor), Gailard Sartain (actor), Phillip B. Goldfine (producer), Stephen Edwards (composer), Silas Weir Mitchell (actor), Brad Leland (actor), April A. Janow (miscellaneous crew), Mike Muscat (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Doctor Wesley McClaren is an immunologist in Ennis, Montana, and he has turned down an offer to join his friend Richard Bach, who lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and is the head of a unit called the Biological Response Team (BRT). Wesley and his daughter Holly live on a farm in Ennis, and a farmhand named Frank lives with them. Just over the hill from the farm, a 52 day standoff against militia leader Floyd Chisolm has ended. Floyd has decided to be his own attorney in court. Everyone is shocked when Floyd spits on Judge Tomkins. After the hearing, Tomkins starts feeling sick. Holly, like she always does, stops at Wesley's office after school so she can go home with Wesley. On their way home, Wesley gets a call on his mobile phone. Wesley rushes to the hospital with Holly and tells her to wait in the doctors' lounge, then Wesley is taken to see Tomkins, who looks awful. Wesley is told that Tomkins collapsed in his chambers at the court building. Wesley sees a cop collapse, while Tomkins has a seizure. Wesley calls Richard and tells him to send the BRT. Army medical units are sent in, and Ennis is sealed off. Wesley tells Frank to stay in town instead of going to the farm, then Wesley tells Holly to stay where she is, because the town is dealing with an outbreak. Richard arrives in town and talks to Wesley, who knows that some kind of toxin has been released. Wesley asks Richard about an anti-toxin, then they go to Tomkins's room, where Tomkins has died. Richard tells Wesley that the toxin is a warfare product called NAM37, which is ten times more potent than anthrax. Richard also tells Wesley that a technician working for NAM37's developers stole a big sample of the NAM37 and was detained by security in Billings, Montana, one day after the NAM37 was sold to Floyd, but the technician killed himself before anyone could ask him any questions. After buying the NAM37, Floyd infected himself and started the outbreak by spitting on Tomkins. So far, 94 people have been infected, and the NAM37 has killed 5 people. Wesley takes a sample of Holly's blood, and Floyd is visited in jail by his right hand man and medical expert Nate Pogue, who has also been infected. and the anti-toxin Floyd bought along with the NAM37 only slows the NAM37 down instead of being a cure. Floyd's plan was to start the outbreak, then use the anti-toxin on himself. Floyd tells Pogue to get him out so they can get the anti-toxin that the army has brought into town. Later, a group of men led by Pogue return to the jail, where they kill all of the guards and get Floyd out. Floyd and Pogue go to the hospital with their men, and they take the hospital hostage in hopes of getting the anti-toxin, only to discover that the army's anti-toxin is the same anti-toxin Floyd bought. Richard explains that there have been times when NAM37 has mutated, and when it does, the anti-toxin doesn't work. Pogue sees Holly's blood sample and the sample shows that Holly has been infected, but somehow, she's okay and her body is fighting it off. Floyd wants Holly found. When one of Floyd's men finds Holly in the lounge and tries to grab her, Wesley beats the man up and goes to the farm with Holly and Frank. Floyd's men head to Wesley's farm, where Frank ambushes them and kills all of them except for one man, who kills Frank. Wesley and Holly take off with Frank's body, and ride their horses to a farm where Holly's Grandpa lives, and they give Frank a proper burial. Wesley takes a blood sample from his friend Ann, and just like Holly, Ann's body is fighting off the NAM37. Leaving Holly at her Grandpa's house, Wesley and Ann go to an underground lab that Wesley used to work in, where they plan to come up with a cure. Pogue, who is still at the hospital with Floyd, thinks he has found a cure, but he needs Holly's blood to isolate it. After Wesley finds the reason why Ann and Holly are not being affected by the virus, Wesley and Holly go home...where Holly is kidnapped by Floyd's men. Now Wesley must go to Floyd's headquarters and rescue Holly.

Keywords: action-hero, aikido, based-on-novel, beating, beretta, biological-warfare, bioterrorism, brawl, camoflage-uniform, car-chase
Genres: Action, Thriller,
Taglines: Every second counts.

Quotes:

Dr. Wesley McClaren: [to Holly while entering the reception room at the hospital] Get your homework done and if there are any guys in here no flirting. No dating until you are 40.

Number One with a Bullet (1987)

Actors: Doris Roberts (actress), Helen Kelly (actress), Michael Yama (actor), Billy Dee Williams (actor), Vanessa Bell Calloway (actress), Valerie Bertinelli (actress), Gene LeBell (actor), Jon Gries (actor), Peter Graves (actor), Larry Poindexter (actor), Carl Ciarfalio (actor), Mykelti Williamson (actor), Robert Carradine (actor), Menahem Golan (producer), Yoram Globus (producer),

Plot: After a string of bad luck with their undercover operations, a duo of narcotics cops realizes that there must be a mole in their department, and their suspicion falls on their own captain, who never gives them a break. Nick, the hothead who's still in love with his ex-wife, is determined to prove that a local respected businessman is the head of the organization. But his pragmatic & debonair partner, Frank, agrees with the entire rest of the police force: Nick is crazy. After a forced vacation, they go a little beyond the law to bust the crime boss & find the mole.

Keywords: automobile, aviation, buddy, buddy-comedy, car-bomb, city, corruption, death, detective, drugs
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller,

Quotes:

Det. Barzak: [Chasing a gunman through the streets] Freeze! Police! FREEZE! I don't know why I tell 'em to freeze - they never freeze. [Gunman gets hit by cab; goes thru windshield]::Det. Hazeltine: He shoulda froze.::Det. Barzak: Well, it's not like we didn't tell him, man.

Bobby Sweet: [the 2 cops are leading him to an abandoned construction site] Hey, what is this, man?::Det. Barzak: Riding around with you all night kinda stunk up our car, pal.::Det. Hazeltine: We need a little fresh air. Someplace quiet.::Det. Barzak: Yeah, someplace you can scream.::Bobby Sweet: Oh, that's funny!::Det. Barzak: [All 3 are climbing the stairs of an empty building under construction] Some people told us you like to talk when you get high. Are we high enough yet, Bobby?::Bobby Sweet: I don't know. I swear, I don't know.::Det. Hazeltine: Ah, he'll never make a good lawyer, Nick. He can't lie for shit. Come on - MOVE IT! You can go back down. All you have to do is tell us who killed Charles Boudreaux.::Det. Barzak: All that shit you been mainlining fucked up your leg muscles, didn't it? COME ON! [They reach the highest accessible floor & approach the edge] Aw, man, Bobby. You can see EVERYTHING from up here, man. You can even see the ground from up here. Check this out: come here, man. [Shoves Bobby towards the edge of the floor]::Bobby Sweet: Wait... Wait... Don't push. Okay! OKAY, OKAY!::Det. Barzak: Whaddaya think of that shit, huh?::Bobby Sweet: [Looking down through the open structure] Oh, my God! Jesus Christ! Oh, God!::Det. Barzak: I wouldn't have figured you to be the religious type, Bobby.::Det. Hazeltine: It must be because we're so close to God up here.

Det. Barzak: What the fuck is that shit?::Det. Hazeltine: Yogurt, yeast paste, lecithin; all the things you ought to be eating. Want some?::Det. Barzak: No way, man. I'm on a low-mucous diet - you know that.::Det. Hazeltine: Yeah.::Det. Barzak: I been thinking, Frank.::Det. Hazeltine: It's DeCosta again, isnt' it?::Det. Barzak: No, Frank. It's not about DeCosta again. I think we ought to go after the guys that hit Boudreaux. I figure they're local.::Det. Hazeltine: Yeah, how do you figure that?::Det. Barzak: 'Cause they're workin' for DeCosta.::Det. Hazeltine: There's that name again...::Det. Barzak: Look, Frank: they made us look REAL bad. The entire squad thinks we're screw-ups.::Det. Hazeltine: So now, you wanna screw up real big and remove all doubt. Right?::Det. Barzak: No, I don't wanna do that. I'm just an agile guy, Frank. I can get my foot it my mouth; I can even work with my nose to the grindstone. But my ass doesn't fit under a desk - neither does yours.::Det. Hazeltine: No! No! No!

Casey: [Three loud knocks are heard on an apartment door. The apartment walls are stacked with electronics boxes] Who is it?::Det. Barzak: [Muffled voice heard through locked door] What's happening, man? Some brothers downtown said you got VCRs for sale.::Casey: Get outta here, man! You got the wrong house! I'm a lawyer!::Det. Barzak: I got cash, motherfucker! I need twenty of 'em!::Casey: Whoooooo! [Casey begins to unlock the door, realizes who it is, tries to re-lock it, and Nick breaks it down] Hey. I was just on the toilet thinking 'bout yall, man. Ain't life a bitch?

Det. Barzak: [singing Gimme Some Lovin by the Spencer Davis Group, badly, while playing a guitar in the zoo] We're so glad you made it - we're so glad you made it. Gimme some lovin'; GIMME SOME A-LOVIN'! [an elephant trumpets]::Casey: You could make animals sick with that shit. You should cool out. [Climbs onto a bike to leave]::Det. Hazeltine: Hey, how about that, man. You got any more room on that bicycle?::Det. Barzak: Hey, hey, hey! I been working on this a LONG time, man.

Coroner: [Coroner is leading a group of cops through the morgue to a drawer] Visitors, Mendez. Rise & shine!::Det. Hazeltine: [Obviously nauseated] I hate morgues.::Lt. Kaminski: Yeah, that's him. Joseph Mendez, professional hit-man, worked free-lance.::Det. Barzak: Didn't like women or kids, either. This guy was a bad-ass.::Coroner: Really, because, I mean; he hasn't given me a bit of trouble. [Slaps the corpse gently on the cheek as if to antagonize him]::Det. Hazeltine: Yeah, well... I guess we'd better be going.::Coroner: [Noticing Frank's nausea] Really, I was in the middle of ordering lunch before you guys came up here, uuh... [Grabs up a phone & pretends to be ordering] Hi, yeah, uuh... Make it a pastrami & a small Sprite. You sure I can't interest you guys in anything?::Det. Barzak: No, thanks anyway, man.

Capt. Ferris: Goddammit.::Det. Barzak: Old MacDonald had a shotgun.::Lt. Kaminski: Shut up.

Det. Barzak: [Nick has talked his way into his old house, where his ex-wife still lives] Where's my walleye?::Teresa Barzak: What?::Det. Barzak: [Pointing to an empty shelf] My walleye?::Teresa Barzak: I... threw it back.::Det. Barzak: You threw out my walleye? That was the biggest walleye caught in Bay Lake, Minnesota. That was a record!::Teresa Barzak: Then why didn't you take it to YOUR place.::Det. Barzak: 'Cause I'm not settled in yet.::Teresa Barzak: Oh, geez, Nick. It's only been TWO YEARS!::Det. Barzak: Yeah, well: I'm slow to adjust to psychological upheaval.

Det. Barzak: [Malcolm is walking through a cemetery stealing flowers, then places them in front of an urn & begins to pray as he opens the urn] Ashes to ashes; dust to dust, huh man?::Malcolm: Aww, man... You guys ain't got no respect for the dead.::Det. Hazeltine: All right, come on out of there, Malcolm.::Det. Barzak: [Nick begins pulling bags of white powder from the urn, and tasting them] What do we got here? A little blow? A LOTTA blow. Hey, this is that black tar, isn't it?::Malcolm: Yeah, yeah. I'm thinking about getting into the roofing business.::Det. Barzak: [Nick opens a larger bag of yellowish powder & tastes it] What's this? This shit - what is it?::Malcolm: Actually, that's my mother.::Det. Barzak: [Spits the ashes back into the bag]

Det. Barzak: You know, I cannot figure out why it is every time I talk to that woman I say the wrong thing. Why is that?::Det. Hazeltine: You always shoot your mouth off before your brain is loaded. That's why.