Devon quotes from Knight Rider

Devon

KARR is like a loaded gun in the hands of a child; it's only a matter of time until there's a real explosion.

Devon

What have you told him?

I've told him he no longer has anyone to fear. In the eyes of the law, Michael Long is legally dead and we haven't done anything wrong.

Devon

Wilton, stealing a body from the medical school so that the police can find it is hardly what I would call playing by the rules.

I make my own rules. So does the government, they fake deaths and identities all the time. Not to mention our adversary.

Devon

All right. But why are you doing it?

I think you know why, Devon. I want to leave something behind me. Something worthwhile, not just a lot of numbers in a bank account. Now, when will the Knight 2000 be ready?

Devon

Soon. I have the crews working double shifts.

Make it around the clock. I want it done, I want it done within the next 48 hours.

Devon

48 hours? Wilton, has the doctor said that...

Don't you worry about what the good doctor has told me. I'll worry about the doctors, and Michael Long.

You better hurry.

Devon

We're too late.

(Opens his eyes, smiles) Almost. What kept you? Car not fast enough?

Michael

(Chuckles) Look, you gotta put that thing on the market, could save thousands of lives.

Have it taken away from me, kept off the market, like they did my airpl-- (coughs badly) airplane?

Devon

Don't try to talk, I'll explain everything. (To Michael) Mr. Knight is the last of his breed. He built his own empire, just as the Fords and the Rockefellers did.

Michael

Devon, we've been all through this.

All right. Michael, come closer. (Michael obeys) You were spared to lead a great fight. Don't turn away in fear. One man can...make a difference, and you are going to be that man.

Michael

Mr. Knight, I'd like to be able to promise you that I feel like I could take on the world someday, but I can't. I still wake up in the middle of the night shaking, (flashback to Tanya Walker shooting Michael), remembering that gun in my face and the whole world blowing up.

Remember that moment. Think of it as your baptism by fire. (Extends his hand, Michael takes it) My adventure has ended, yours has just... just begun.

Michael

Now then, about my car.

Devon

Well, simply stated, Wilton Knight was my friend as well as my employer. And my legacy is to see that his final dream is faithfully pursued, like it or not. Your options are still open. You don't have to...

Michael

Devon, the old man wanted me, it was his dying request.

Devon

Yes, to rid the world of Tanya and her friends. But the rest of his dream will bore you to tears! The majority of our activity here involves legal research, class-action suits, strictly bureaucratic stuff.

Michael

What else?

Devon

What else?

Michael

Yeah, the part he wanted me for?

Devon

Well, Mr. Knight also believed that under certain circumstances, direct action might be the only feasible solution. That's what the Knight 2000 was designed for. The pilot program consists of one man and one car. Absurd really. I mean, who would want to take on such a thing?

Michael

I was supposed to be that man, wasn't I?

Devon

Well, he seemed to feel that you were singularly well-qualified to "go it alone", as he put it. But who could expect it of you? I mean, you barely came through this misadventure with your life. Not to mention the damage to the Knight 2000.

Michael

I spent years of my life fighting criminals of one type or another who always had the upper hand and now this, it's a loner's dream. It's been handed to me on a silver platter: the world's most fantastic car, all the money and all the resources of the Knight Foundation, and most of all the best chance I'll ever get to prove... that one man really can make a difference.

Devon

(pours two glasses of whiskey, hands one to Michael) I was afraid that would be your attitude. Well, shall we drink to what may be the start of, um...

Michael

Of what?

Devon

One man's dream.

Michael

And to our future. No matter who it may take us up against, or where. (They clink glasses)

Michael

I have a problem.

Devon

My dear boy, don't be modest. You have a multitude of problems.

Devon

Michael, please be careful—this semi is worth a king's ransom.

Michael

Or a Knight's yearly salary.

Devon

At the very least.

Devon

(on videogames) I fail to see how anyone could find something so frivolous entertaining.

Michael

I'll bet your mother used to say the same thing when you used to run off and play cricket.