Sixtyish Rich Guy: “Nice shootin’, son. What’s your name?” Young Cop: “Murphy.”
The greatest thing about this finale is that when this moment unspooled during my first viewing of Robocop, in July of ’87 at Grauman’s Chinese, a guy right next to me knew what Peter Weller‘s final line was going to be before he said it. As soon as the Old Man asked, he said “Murphy.” Everyone knew that line! That‘s when a movie is really working.
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