[reading computer simulation print-out] Dempsy, your score has dropped since the last time. You're way below average on judgment and accuracy. You shot an innocent bystander, you wounded a fellow officer. You let an armed felon get off two shots before you returned fire and then you hit him in the foot. Dempsy, I suggest more work in the firing range. As for judgment, that will come in time. It had better. You can go now.
Yes, sir.
[he leaves as Benteen follows, but is stopped by Hooker]
Benteen, Dempsy's judgment has taken a nose-dive.
Oh, you can't tell jack from these computers.
These you can. Dempsy has developed an attitude problem, Benteen. You're it.
[chuckles] Now, look, Hooker...
No, you look and listen for a change! You've got your ideas about this job and how it should be done, that's your right. But you damn well better stop bringing them to work with you.
And you damn well better remember who you're talking to. I'm not one of your rookies, Hooker.
[starts to leave, but Hooker grabs him from behind and angrily slams him against the machine]
That's right, you're not. But if you think for one particle of a second I'm going to let you turn decent material, like Dempsy, into some kind of swaggering cowboy cop who makes his own rules, you're traveling down the wrong road, friend, 'cause I'm not.
I'm giving it to him like it is.
No, you're not. You're putting it down the way you want it and that's not the way it goes. And it damn well better stop.
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