Best Honest Thief Quotes – ‘I want to clear my name.’

Starring: Liam Neeson Kate Walsh, Jai Courtney, Anthony Ramos, Jeffrey Donovan, Robert Patrick

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Action thriller directed and co-written by Mark Williams. The story follows meticulous bank robber Tom (Liam Neeson), who after falling in love with Annie (Kate Walsh), decides to make a fresh start by coming clean about his criminal past, only to be double-crossed by two corrupt FBI agents.

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Annie Wilkins: [after she sees Tom snooping around her work desk] I need a storage unit for all the crap that I have, that I don’t really want or need, but that I’m too chicken to get rid of. Actually, considering all my baggage, I might need two units, depending on how, you know, big and smelly they are.
Tom Dolan: You prefer smelly?
Annie Wilkins: Oh, I do. Who doesn’t, really?

Tom Dolan: You work here, right?
Annie Wilkins: [chuckles] I do. I do. Although, you know, I prefer to call it “paid study hall”.
Tom Dolan: Oh. You’re in college, huh?
Annie Wilkins: Don’t I look like I’m in college?

Annie Wilkins: So, let me guess. You need a storage unit.
Tom Dolan: Yes, please. Preferably one that doesn’t smell.

Annie Wilkins: [a year later, Tom breaks into an empty house to let Annie in] How did you get in?
Tom Dolan: The back door was open.
Annie Wilkins: Just because there’s a “for sale” sign doesn’t mean that this isn’t, I don’t know, breaking and entering. Trespassing?
Tom Dolan: Yeah. Maybe.

Annie Wilkins: [as they’re looking over the empty house] And Newton’s a great neighborhood. Lots of nice restaurants and parks. And I hear amazing police department, so let’s get out of here.
Tom Dolan: So I heard. Maybe they’ll go easy on us if we make a decent offer.

Annie Wilkins: Okay, are you messing with me right now?
Tom Dolan: Not in the slightest. It’s been a year, honey. One year.
Annie Wilkins: It has. It’s been a wonderful, wonderful year. I just don’t, I don’t know. I just, I haven’t lived with anyone since the divorce, and I just can’t go through that again.
Tom Dolan: You won’t have to. I promise.

Tom Dolan: [after Annie’s agreed to live together] There is something else I need to tell you.
Annie Wilkins: No. Not tonight. This girl has had enough surprises for one night. It can wait.

Sean Meyers: The divorce, it went through. It’s official. She got the house, and I got Tazzie.
Samuel Baker: [referring to the dog] Did you even want Tazzie?
Sean Meyers: No. But her freaking lawyer was asking for everything. The house, the two cars, the few stocks we own. So I started asking for everything. The judge was rational, cut everything down in the middle, except for the house and the dog.
Samuel Baker: And she preferred the house.

Samuel Baker: [after Tom calls the FBI] FBI. Special Agent Sam Baker. How can I help you?
Tom Dolan: I’m the In-and-Out Bandit. I want to turn myself in.
Samuel Baker: Give me a second.
[puts Tom on hold]
Samuel Baker: We got another In-and-Out confession.
Sean Meyers: That’s a popular one. Must be trending. Whatever that means.

Tom Dolan: I’ve robbed twelve banks in seven states. I have a little over nine million dollars in cash. And no one knows who I am.
Samuel Baker: How long did that take?
Tom Dolan: About eight years. But I haven’t robbed anything in over a year.

Tom Dolan: I want to make a deal.
Samuel Baker: A deal? What kind of deal?
Tom Dolan: I hand over all the money I stole, every penny, in exchange for a reduced sentence, no more than two years in minimum security within an hour of Boston. With full visitation rights.
Samuel Baker: You’ve thought this through.
Tom Dolan: It’s important.
Samuel Baker: And what’s so important about it?

Tom Dolan: I met a woman. She’s smart, caring, driven, funny. I adore every bit of her. I want to be with her for the rest of my days without feeling guilty about lying to her about my past indiscretions.
Samuel Baker: Well, she sounds like an incredible woman.
Tom Dolan: She is. And she means more to me than all the dollar bills in the world.

Tom Dolan: So do we have a deal?
Samuel Baker: That’s not how it works, buddy. But I’ll be happy to listen to you, and put in a good word for you, if you are in fact the In-and-Out Bandit.
Tom Dolan: What do you mean, “if”?
Samuel Baker: Listen. Ten, fifteen guys have confessed to being the In-and-Out Bandit.
Tom Dolan: You think I’m making this up?
Samuel Baker: Well, you wouldn’t be the first.

Samuel Baker: [referring to Tom] He met a woman.
Sean Meyers: Poor guy.

Annie Wilkins: What’s wrong?
Tom Dolan: What do you mean?
Annie Wilkins: I can hear it in your voice. Something’s going on.
Tom Dolan: You sound like a therapist.
Annie Wilkins: I almost am one. Although, not yours.

Tom Dolan: [referring to Baker] This is Tom Carter. I talked to him the other day.
Sean Meyers: Oh, right. The In-and-Out Bandit.
Tom Dolan: I really wish you guys would stop calling me that.
Sean Meyers: I could put in a special request. What name would you prefer?
Tom Dolan: I don’t know. In-and-Out just sounds so low rent, unprofessional. My work has always been precise, clean.
Sean Meyers: I think “clean” is taken. You want to go with “precise”? How about Precise Bandit?
Tom Dolan: Funny.

Tom Dolan: I don’t get it. I’m trying to come clean here, drop nine million dollars in your laps. Make you guys look like heroes, and you don’t believe me.
John Nivens: It’s nothing to get worked up, okay? We believe that you believe you have nine million dollars in stolen money.

Ramon Hall: Your story’s good, alright? And we’ll try to verify the facts. But I’m sorry, no one’s cutting a deal without proof.
Tom Dolan: The money.
Ramon Hall: Exactly.

Ramon Hall: [referring to Tom] You think this lady is real, or is she a delusion?
John Nivens: What, like this money?
Ramon Hall: Love is weird, man. Look, I thought I knew how much I love my wife, even before we were married, but it doesn’t compare to how much I love those two little boys. It’s just something about being a father.

John Nivens: I just feel like every new father can’t stop talking about how great it is to be a new father, you know? Wish they did it sooner. Best thing they ever did. I don’t buy it, man. I think they’re just trying to convince their friends to push out a couple of kids, so they got someone to commiserate with while they’re watching kiddie soccer.
Ramon Hall: You ever thought about snipping your balls off? I think it could be a good idea.
John Nivens: Yeah, no one’s clipping my junk.

John Nivens: [after they find the money in Tom’s storage unit ] What are we doing here?
Confiscating stolen property.
Ramon Hall: For evidence.
John Nivens: No, for our personal retirement funds.
Ramon Hall: Are you out of your mind? We can’t take this!
John Nivens: Oh, don’t act like we’re popping your cherry, okay? Please.

Ramon Hall: But we’re never going to get away with this. Carter’s going to scream bloody murder.
John Nivens: So let him. What’s one nutjob’s word against ours, huh? No one’s going to believe that “all for love” story. Alright? Where’s the evidence? This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. It’s nothing but perfect.

John Nivens: Look, the universe just dropped a gift bag of money on your doorstep. Money that doesn’t belong to anybody. Enough to never have to worry about another mortgage payment, or where you can, or can’t send those boys to school. All you got to do is pick up a box, and be a hero to your family. Hey, it’s your call.
Ramon Hall: Let’s do it.

Samuel Baker: [referring to the dog] Looks like someone’s growing on you.
Sean Meyers: Less needy than the ex.

Sean Meyers: Oh, your buddy Tom Carter called again.
Samuel Baker: What now?
Sean Meyers: He’s complaining about his nickname and nobody wants to arrest him.
Samuel Baker: Didn’t Hall and Nivens follow up on him? They must be from the “orders are optional” generation.

John Nivens: I hear you’re a Marine. How many times you ship out?
Tom Dolan: Quite a few, actually.
John Nivens: Guess that makes you kind of dangerous, huh?

Tom Dolan: [as Nivens points his gun at Tom] The cash. Did you count it?
John Nivens: What would’ve happened if I’d counted it?
Tom Dolan: When you got to three million, you would’ve run out of money.
John Nivens: Bulls**t.
Tom Dolan: Figured I might need a bargaining chip. Seems I was right.

Tom Dolan: [after Nivens shoots Baker chase after Tom] What are you doing here?
Annie Wilkins: I came to see you. Who’s shooting at us?
Tom Dolan: FBI.

Ramon Hall: I can’t believe you shot Baker.
John Nivens: Hey, you need to cut that out, alright? Wake up! I didn’t shoot Baker, Carter did.

Annie Wilkins: What did you do, Tom? Tell me what you did.
Tom Dolan: I will, Annie. I promise. But first, we have to ditch this car.
Annie Wilkins: This is your Jeep.
Tom Dolan: Not anymore.

Annie Wilkins: The In-and-Out Bandit?
Tom Dolan: I haven’t robbed a bank in over a year. In fact, I haven’t so much as jaywalked since I met you.
Annie Wilkins: Well, you just hot-wired a car.
Tom Dolan: Okay, until tonight.

Annie Wilkins: Listen to me. You have to turn yourself in.
Tom Dolan: That’s what I was trying to do. That’s what I’ve been wanting to tell you, but I didn’t have the courage.

Annie Wilkins: The first surprise was, “Let’s get a cute house in Newton and move in together,” and the second was you’re a bank robber?
Tom Dolan: I just felt if you and I were going to have a chance at a life together, which I want even more than you know, I needed to come clean to the Feds and to you.
Annie Wilkins: And you just assumed that I’d be okay with this?

Annie Wilkins: How many people have you killed?
Tom Dolan: No one. Not even in the Marines.
Annie Wilkins: You made bombs. Bombs kill people.
Tom Dolan: I didn’t make bombs. I disarmed land mines.

Annie Wilkins: You’ve been lying to me this whole time.
Tom Dolan: I didn’t lie, Annie. I just didn’t tell you certain things. I considered just keeping my mouth shut, keeping the money, but I knew that secret would eat me up inside, and hurt what you and I have.

Tom Dolan: [referring to what he lied about] Well, except, there was no water leak in my apartment. And I don’t like the health cookies you make, even though I say I do. And I agree the house needs paint, but I hate yellow.
Annie Wilkins: Paint. Cookies? Water leaks? Okay, this is not the honesty that I’m looking for, okay? Right now, I’m trying to determine if you’re a pathological liar, or a complete sociopath!
Tom Dolan: I’m none of the above.

Annie Wilkins: Then why did you keep doing it?
Tom Dolan: It wasn’t about the money. It just felt good. Like when I was sweeping for mines, not knowing if my next step was my last. Made me feel alive. And then I met you. Somehow, you gave me that same feeling of being alive, so I stopped.
Annie Wilkins: You stopped for me?
Tom Dolan: Yes. And the more time I spent with you, the more I realized what I needed in my life wasn’t money, or an adrenaline rush. It was the need to feel love. And I feel that with you. So there it is.

Tom Dolan: [referring to Nivens and Hall] The money. I was giving it back in exchange for a deal that wouldn’t keep me away from you for very long. But then those two stole the cash and tried to kill me. What’s worse, those gunshots you heard, it was them shooting another agent, which I’m sure they’ll pin on me.
Annie Wilkins: Your word against theirs.
Tom Dolan: Not a judge in the world is going to believe me over them. And with a murder one charge for killing one of their own, the Feds will come after me, and keep coming until they find me.

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Sean Meyers: So if there was no money, and this guy is just another nutjob, how did a routine interview turn into me having to go knock on Sam Baker’s door, and tell his wife that he’s never coming home?
John Nivens: Ask Carter.

Tom Dolan: If they are willing to kill another agent, what are they capable of doing to you and me?
Annie Wilkins: You just can’t do this to a person!
Tom Dolan: I know, Annie. I know.

Tom Dolan: Annie. I lied about what I did, but not about how I feel about you, what I wanted for us. I loved you from the moment you walked up to that counter. That’ll never change. I’ll always love you, no matter what happens.

Annie Wilkins: If they had accepted your deal, and you went to prison, then I would’ve waited for you. I feel like I’m never going to see you again.
Tom Dolan: You will, I promise.

Annie Wilkins: Get on the bus with me.
Tom Dolan: Annie, I can’t. I have to do this.
Annie Wilkins: Okay. Okay. Then prove it, Tom. Prove that you didn’t kill that man.

Sean Meyers: His real name is Thomas James Dolan.
John Nivens: Ex-con?
Sean Meyers: No, he’s clean. We got a match from his military record. Former Marine, a lifer. Demolitions expert, which would explain his proficiency in blowing safes. But he retired nine years ago.

Ramon Hall: If this guy were the In-and-Out Bandit, that would make him a civilian about a year before the first bank robbery.
John Nivens: Yeah, well, my guess is he’s been reading too many In-and-Out Bandit news stories, and PTSD’s taken care of the rest.
Sean Meyers: He seem crazy to you?
Ramon Hall: Yeah. Yeah, he did.

Sean Meyers: [referring to Annie] Divorced a few years ago. Filed for bankruptcy after her husband bled their furniture business dry with a gambling habit. You know, between her ex, and this want to be bank robber, seems to me she’s not very good at picking winners. Who am I to judge?

John Nivens: [to Annie] You know, lying to me is not going to turn out well.

John Nivens: [after he’s beaten Annie unconscious] She was a witness.
Ramon Hall: Was? Is she dead?
John Nivens: No, she’s not. She’s about to be.
[Nivens points his gun at Annie]
Ramon Hall: Stop! You can’t just shoot people.

Tom Dolan: [over the phone] I tried to turn myself in. I handed you three million dollars.
John Nivens: What are you talking about?
Tom Dolan: My girlfriend! Why? She had nothing to do with this.

Tom Dolan: Agent Nivens, I’m coming for you.

John Nivens: [referring to Tom threatning him] You believe this guy?
Ramon Hall: What I can’t believe is you.
John Nivens: Oh, is that so? Well, don’t go getting any brave ideas. We’re in this together.

Sean Meyers: [as they’re fighting] You killed my partner! You son of a b**ch!
Tom Dolan: Wrong! You got it wrong!

Tom Dolan: I didn’t kill Baker. It was Nivens. He shot him point-blank. And my lady friend, he went after her. I don’t know if she’s alive or dead.
Sean Meyers: Nivens put her in the hospital?
Tom Dolan: He attacked her at the self-storage on Milton.
Sean Meyers: And why would he do that?
Tom Dolan: She has evidence against him.

Sean Meyers: What are you thinking, Tom?
Tom Dolan: I’m going to make things right. My way. Nivens pulled the trigger, but his partner, Agent Hall, he’s in on it too.

Sean Meyers: Tell me something. This Tom Dolan, why is he pointing a finger at you?
John Nivens: I mean, why do any of these crazies do the things they do?
Sean Meyers: Don’t you hate that? Ask a question, you get a question in return?

Sean Meyers: All those things he said on the phone, stealing the money, attacking his girl, none of that’s true?
John Nivens: Not a bit.
Sean Meyers: Where’s the money?
John Nivens: What money?
Sean Meyers: The money my partner died for. The money that made Sharon Baker a widow.
John Nivens: Well, that money is in Tom Dolan’s head. He’s got a first-class imagination.

Beth Hall: Whatever it is, just do what feels right, and it’ll work itself out.
Ramon Hall: That easy, huh?
Beth Hall: Yeah. You remember who taught me that?

Ramon Hall: [afer Tom abushes him] You going to kill me?
Tom Dolan: No, Agent Hall. I’m a retired bank robber, not a murderer like your partner. But I do need your help.
Ramon Hall: Why should I help you?
Tom Dolan: Because you have the most to lose.

Ramon Hall: It wasn’t supposed to go down like this. Nobody was supposed to get hurt. But Nivens shot Baker, and I panicked. I knew I was wrong, but at that point, I had no choice.
Tom Dolan: Well, you have a choice now, pal.
Ramon Hall: What do you want?
Tom Dolan: To prove my innocence.

Ramon Hall: Annie. That’s your girlfriend’s name, right?
Tom Dolan: Yeah.
Ramon Hall: [referring to Nivens] You got to get her out of the hospital. He’s going to kill her.

Tom Dolan: [after he’s got Annie out of the hospital] I love you.
Annie Wilkins: How could you not?

Sean Meyers: What comes next?
Tom Dolan: It’s better if you don’t know.
Sean Meyers: No, it’s my job to know, Tom. Come on, let’s get together, we talk this over.
Tom Dolan: I’d like to, but I tried that. Did not work. Now I’m doing it the only way I know how.
Sean Meyers: I can’t persuade you not to do whatever it is you’re planning?
Tom Dolan: No.

Annie Wilkins: I’ve never seen you work before.
Tom Dolan: Well, I know it looks complicated, but it’s not glamorous. I mean, it’s just wires, electrical currents, chemical reactions.
Annie Wilkins: Yeah, well, glamor is overrated. But knowing how to blow stuff up, that’s pretty cool.

Tom Dolan: You know, if this works, you have to understand, I’m still going to jail.
Annie Wilkins: I know that. And I’ll come visit you every day.
Tom Dolan: Yeah?
Annie Wilkins: I mean, you know, until I start seeing patients. I’m going to be busy. Every other day.

Tom Dolan: You’re right. It’s too dangerous.
Annie Wilkins: Then don’t do it.
Tom Dolan: I have to finish this, Annie.
Annie Wilkins: Look, do what you have to do. But I’m sorry, I refuse to stay here wondering if you’re ever going to come back.

Tom Dolan: [over the phone] All I wanted was a chance at a normal life for Annie and me.
John Nivens: Well, it’s a simple equation, Dolan. When you rob banks for a living, you give up the right to a normal life.
Tom Dolan: You’re right, I screwed up. I took money that didn’t belong to me. And for that, I’ll do my time. But you screwed up worse. You killed innocent people.

Tom Dolan: [over the phone] I want to clear my name, which means I need a full confession from you.
John Nivens: That’s where we’re at, huh? Well, don’t you think it would be wrong for me to confess to something I didn’t do?
Tom Dolan: Then you’d better take the three million and run.
John Nivens: Hey, pal, if I had the three million, I might.
Tom Dolan: In that case, I suggest you just run. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
[as Nivens runs out of his house, Tom explodes the house]

John Nivens: [after Tom explodes his house] Nice try, a**hole!
Tom Dolan: If I’d wanted you dead, you would be. Ready to confess?

Annie Wilkins: [to Meyers, referring to Tom] He’s not a bad guy. I know you may think that given everything that’s happened, but he’s not. He’s flawed, but he’s a good man. He’s got a good heart.

John Nivens: Are you still waiting for that confession that’s never coming?
Tom Dolan: I’ve got the security footage, prick.

John Nivens: [after Tom tells him that Hall gave him the security footage] Are you stupid? You’re on that footage too!
Ramon Hall: Stupid? Insane! For going along with this. Thinking that the money made it okay. You murdered Baker.
John Nivens: It was the only option.
Ramon Hall: He didn’t deserve to die! I had a chance to do the right thing, and I didn’t do it. How can I live like that? How can I look my wife and my kids in the eyes?

Tom Dolan: [after Hall is killed in the shootout and Nivens taking off with the money] I just want to keep the collateral damage to a minimum.
John Nivens: What are you talking about?
Tom Dolan: The second bomb.
John Nivens: Bulls**t. There is no bomb.
Tom Dolan: Oh, yeah?
John Nivens: What, you’re going to turn three million in cash into confetti? I don’t think so.
Tom Dolan: It’s not my money anymore.

Tom Dolan: By the way, Agent Nivens, the bomb is pressure sensitive. If you get out of that seat, they’ll be fishing pieces of your miserable flesh from the Atlantic with a net. I put it together on the fly, so it’s fairly unstable. That’s the trouble with IEDs, especially homemade ones. You never know what’s going to set them off. A bump, change in temperature, humidity. Hell, with that one, a good sneeze could trigger it. If I were you, I’d sit tight and wait for the bomb squad.

Bomb Squad Specialist: [to Nivens] It’s a dud. No detonator. You could bang that thing with a hammer all day long, wouldn’t go off. You lucked out.
Sean Meyers: Arrest him.

Annie Wilkins: [referring to the recorded conversation between Nivens and Hall] Did you listen to it?
Sean Meyers: I did.
Annie Wilkins: Will you go easy on him?
Sean Meyers: I’ll do my best.

Sean Meyers: Taking down Nivens the way you did, impressive work. Circumstances were different, I’d be offering you a job.
Tom Dolan: Circumstances were different, I might accept. I want to turn myself in.

Sean Meyers: The bomb in Nivens car?
Tom Dolan: Not my best.
Sean Meyers: You forgot the detonator.
Tom Dolan: Ah, I knew I forgot something. I was under a lot of stress.
Sean Meyers: So much for being the Precise Bandit.

Tom Dolan: You find the rest of the cash?
Sean Meyers: I did. It’s a lot of money. Must be one special woman.
Tom Dolan: She is.
[Meyers gives Tom and Annie a moment to embrace goodbye]

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