The Mauritanian (2021)
Jodie Foster: Nancy Hollander
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Nancy Hollander : Well, when I defended someone charged with rape, nobody called me a rapist. When I defended someone charged with murder, nobody dug around my backyard. But when someone is accused of terrorism, people like you seem to think that that's different. It's not. When I stand by my client and I insist that he get a fair hearing, I'm not just defending him, I'm defending you and me. The constitution doesn't have an asterisk at the end that says : "Terms and conditions apply."
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Nancy Hollander : It doesn't matter what we believe. What matters is what we can prove.
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Nancy Hollander : You can't win a case if you don't believe your own shit.
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Nancy Hollander : I wanna know who's name I should cite when I contact the National Security desk at the New York Times. You tell your C.O., I don't wanna see my client in shackles ever again.
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Teri Duncan : Fuck... he fucking confessed.
Nancy Hollander : To what?
Teri Duncan : To everything. To financing 911, to hijacking the planes, he fucking ordered spreadsheets, inner workings of Al Qu'aida. Why didn't he tell us that he confessed?
Nancy Hollander : That's not the first time in history that a client's lied to his lawyers.
Teri Duncan : Look at this, look at his one - he admits to acquiring explosives to blow up LAFs. The millennium plot?
Nancy Hollander : What's your point?
Teri Duncan : He's guilty! He's fucking guilty!
Nancy Hollander : [shrugs] Maybe he is. He still has a right to counsel.
Teri Duncan : I'm not saying he doesn't, I'm saying that he helped to kill 3000 civilians and we're doing everything we can to get him out.
Nancy Hollander : We're doing our job.
Teri Duncan : I did bake sales for his legal fund! That's not a part of my job. My dad told me I'm not welcome home for thanksgiving, that's not a part of my job.
Nancy Hollander : Get out.
Teri Duncan : What?
Nancy Hollander : You want turkey and pumpkin pie with mom and dad and uncle Joe? Go on, get out. Go home. You can't win a case if you don't believe your own shit.
Teri Duncan : I'm not trying to...
Nancy Hollander : [interrups] Stop fucking wasting my time! Get out.
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Nancy Hollander : Didn't get your name.
Kent : Kent.
Nancy Hollander : Kent, what?
Kent : Kent .. tell you any more than that.
