Maybe we saved the taxpayers a little money.

4 seconds sound clip from the Sudden Impact (1983) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:22:13 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Sure, with threats and intimidation.

- Any way possible.

- Are you aware that you have destroyed months of surveillance and intelligence work?

- We're talking here thousands of dollars, hundreds of man-hours.

- Special Investigations has been busting its ass preparing a case against Threlkis.

- He would've just snaked his way out of it.

- Maybe we saved the taxpayers a little money.

- I ought to bust your ass down to Traffic. Or better yet, kick it off the force.

- You're a dinosaur. Your ideas don't fit today.

- Just what ideas are these? That murder's a crime, that it shouldn't be punished?

- Hey. Don't you lecture me, you son of a bitch. You know who you're talking to? Hm? You know my record?

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