The Boondock Saints (1999)

Brian Mahoney: Detective Duffy

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• Paul Smecker : These burns indicate that they used silencers. Look at these entry and exit wounds. They're almost identical. The two bullets went in here, through the top of the skull, criss-crossed, and exited through the eyeballs. This one clue tells us three distinct facts. Number one, Duffy?

  Detective Duffy : They shot him at a downward angle... They put him on his knees?

  Paul Smecker : Excellent! Number two, Greenly?

  Detective Greenly : They... shot him at a downward angle?

  Paul Smecker : It tells us he was the last to die. And number three, Dolly?

  Detective Dolly : Uh... there was two shooters.

  Paul Smecker : Fan-frigging-tastic.

  [the other detectives start to object] 

  Paul Smecker : Stay with me, boys! What did they do to make two such identical wounds. Two men, of similar height, drop this guy down, each puts some iron to his head, and boom, that's all she freakin' wrote.

  Detective Duffy : What about one guy, two guns?

  Paul Smecker : Eh, possible, but unlikely. The angles are too extreme. A guy holding two guns to the back of your noodle is gonna shoot straight ahead. He wouldn't cock out his elbows, it makes no sense. Besides, are you telling me *one guy* came in here and killed eight men with eight extremely well-aimed shots in just a few seconds? No way. Had to be at least two.

• Detective Duffy : This was their target, the fag-man.

  Paul Smecker : The what-man?

  [awkward pause] 

  Detective Duffy : The fat man.

  Paul Smecker : Well. Freud was right.