Daily Dialogue — April 20, 2011
Galloway: You get him on the stand and you get it from him!
Kaffee: We get it from him! Oh! Okay! We get it from him.
[turns to Sam as if he were Jessup on the stand]
Kaffee: Colonel Jessup, isn’t it true that you ordered the Code Red on Santiago?
Lt. Weinberg: Look, we all…
Kaffee: [interrupts with game-show buzzer sound] eeehhhhh! Time’s up! What do we have for the losers, judge? Well, for our defendants, it’s a life time at exotic Fort Leavenworth! And, for defense counsel Kaffee, that’s right, it’s a court martial! Yes, Johnny! After falsely accusing a highly decorated Marine officer of conspiracy and perjury, Lieutenant Kaffee will have a long and prosperous career teaching… typewriter maintenance at the Rocco Globbo School for Women! Thank you for playing “Should we or should we not listen to the advice of the galactically stupid!”
— Galloway (Demi Moore), Kaffee (Tom Cruise), Weinberg (Kevin Pollak), A Few Good Men (1992), written by Aaron Sorkin
The Daily Dialogue theme of the week is drunken / stoned banter suggested by The Unknown Lyricist. A Few Good Men suggested by Francisco Magdaraog.
Trivia: The original play was inspired by an actual Code Red at Guantanamo Bay. Lance Corporal David Cox and 9 other enlisted men tied up a fellow Marine and severely beat him, for snitching to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Cox was acquitted and later Honorably Discharged. In 1994, David Cox mysteriously vanished, and his bullet-riddled body was found three months later. His murder remains unsolved.