A Few Good Men evaluation action

Kaffee: [getting Jack's attention while he's playing basketball] Jack? Jack! They were given an order.

Kaffee: [to his friends] I'll be right back. I'll be right back.

Galloway: How long have you known about the order?

Capt. Ross: [walking away from the basketball court] I didn't. Who's this?

Kaffee: She's Jo Galloway. She's Downey's attorney. She's very pleased to meet you.

Capt. Ross: [talking privately] What exactly are you accusing me of, Commander?

Galloway: How long have you known about the order?

Kaffee: Jack didn't know about the order because if Jack did and he didn't tell us Jack knows he'd be violating about 14 articles of the Code of Ethics. As it is, Jack's got enough to worry about because, God forbid, our clients should decide to plead not guilty and testify for the record that they were given an order.

Capt. Ross: Kendrick specifically told those men not to touch Santiago.

Kaffee: That's right and then he went into Dawson and Downey's room and specifically ordered them to give Santiago a code red.

Capt. Ross: That's not what Kendrick says.

Kaffee: Kendrick's lying.

Capt. Ross: You have proof?

Kaffee: I have the defendants.

Capt. Ross: And I have 23 Marines who aren't accused of murder and a Lieutenant with 4 letters of commendation.

Kaffee: Why did Markinson go UA?

Capt. Ross: You'll never know.

Kaffee: You think I can't subpoena Markinson?

Capt. Ross: You can try but you won't find him. You know what Markinson did for the first 17 of his 26 years in the Corps? Counterintelligence. Markinson's gone; there is no Markinson. Look, Danny, Jessup's star is on the rise. Division will give me a lot of room on this one to spare Jessup and the Corps any embarrassment.

Kaffee: How much room?

Capt. Ross: I'll knock it all down to involuntary manslaughter, two years they'll be home in six months.

Galloway: No deal, we're going to court.

Capt. Ross: No, you're not.

Galloway: Why not?

Capt. Ross: Because you'll lose and Danny knows it. And Danny also knows that if it does go to court then that means I'm going to have to go all the way. His clients are going to get charged with the whole truckload. Murder. Conspiracy. Conduct unbecoming. And even though he's got me by the balls out here Danny knows that in a court room he loses this case. You see, Danny's an awfully talented lawyer and he's not about to let his clients go to jail for life when he knows that they could be home in six months. That's the end of this negotiation. I'll see you tomorrow morning at the arraignment.

Lt. Weinberg: [in Danny's apartment, referring to their new strategy] Alright, what do you suggest we do?

Galloway: I say we hit Jessup with the phony transfer order.

Lt. Weinberg: A transfer order without a witness.

Kaffee: We have a witness.

Lt. Weinberg: A dead witness.

Kaffee: And in the hands of a lesser attorney that'd be a problem.

Lt. Weinberg: Look at this, last night he's swimming in Jack Daniels and now he can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

Kaffee: I'm getting my second wind. Sit down, both of you.

[Sees that they are already sitting]

Kaffee: Good. Jessup told Kendrick to order the code red, Kendrick did and our clients followed the order. The cover-up isn't our case - to win Jessup needs to tell the court members that he ordered the code red.

Lt. Weinberg: And now you think you can get him to just say it?

Kaffee: I think he wants to say it. I think he's pissed off that he's gotta hide from this. I think he wants to say that he made a command decision and that's the end of it.

[Starts imitating Jessup]

Kaffee: He eats breakfast 300 yards away from 4000 Cubans that are trained to kill him. And nobody's going to tell him how to run his unit least of all the Harvard mouth in his faggoty white uniform. I need to shake him, put him on the defensive and lead him right where he's dying to go.

Lt. Weinberg: That's it? That's the plan?

Kaffee: That's the plan.

Lt. Weinberg: And how are you going to that?

Kaffee: I have no idea. I need my bat.

Lt. Weinberg: What?

Kaffee: I need my bat. I think better with my bat. Where's my bat?

Galloway: I put it in the closet.

Kaffee: You put it in the closet?

Galloway: I was tripping on it.

Kaffee: Don't ever put that bat in the closet.