L.A. Confidential/Awesome

• Edmund Exley's simultaneous interrogation of the three murder suspects: "Sugar, I'm talking about a gas chamber bounce and you haven't even asked me what this is about. You've got a big guilty sign around your neck."
  • I received a text message from a friend after he read that scene: "I thought Exley was pathetic and I didn't know why you liked his character... just read the interrogation. Wow."
• "...Rollo... Tomasi..."
• Bud White's epic smackdown of D.A. Ellis Lowe, culminating in dangling him by his ankles from his office balcony while Exley looks on nonchalantly.
  • "Now, I know you think you're the A-number one hotshot. Well, here's the juice: if I take you out, there'll be ten more lawyers to take your place tomorrow. They just won't come on the bus, that's all!"
    • Capped by Ed's "That the way you ran Good Cop/Bad Cop?"
• The film itself. It manages to take a 500 page, unfilmable novel and turn it into a fantastic 2-hour movie and makes it work. There is a lot of Adaptation Distiallation, but this film makes it work, so much so that James Ellroy himself loved it.
• "Just one hero?"