Daily Dialogue — April 23, 2019

Col. Jessup: Do you have any more questions for me, Counselor?
Judge Randolph: Lt. Kaffee? [pause] Lieutenant, do you have anything further for this witness?
Col. Jessup: [standing to leave] Thanks, Danny. I love Washington.
Kaffee: Excuse me. I didn’t dismiss you.
Col. Jessup: I beg your pardon?
Kaffee: I’m not through with my examination. Sit down.

— A Few Good Men (1992), screenplay by Aaron Sorkin based on his play

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Lawyer. Today’s suggestion by @freentglty.

Trivia: The original play was inspired by an actual Code Red at Guantanamo Bay. Lance Corporal David Cox and nine 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.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This exchange represents the first wave of the tsunami which is about to be unleashed in the courtroom.