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Edmund Exley's simultaneous interrogation of the three murder suspects: "Sugar, I'm talking about a gas chamber bounce and you haven't even asked me what this is about. You've got a big guilty sign around your neck."
I received a text message from a friend after he read that scene: "I thought Exley was pathetic and I didn't know why you liked his character... just read the interrogation. Wow."
"...Rollo... Tomasi..."
Bud White's epic smackdown of D.A. Ellis Lowe, culminating in dangling him by his ankles from his office balcony while Exley looks on nonchalantly.
"Now, I know you think you're the A-number one hotshot. Well, here's the juice: if I take you out, there'll be ten more lawyers to take your place tomorrow. They just won't come on the bus, that's all!"
Capped by Ed's "That the way you ran Good Cop/Bad Cop?"
The film itself. It manages to take a 500 page, unfilmable novel and turn it into a fantastic 2-hour movie and makes it work. There is a lot of Adaptation Distillation, but this film makes it work, so much so that James Ellroy himself loved it.
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