Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is a one-liner that turns a killing into a legal technicality, delivered with the grin the film's violence always wears. Fans quote it for any ended relationship, and it remains the film's best-known quip.
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In context
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In Total Recall (1990), construction worker Douglas Quaid is attacked at home by his wife Lori, who claims the Agency assigned her to monitor him and that their marriage is a false memory implant. Quaid fights free of her, and when she pulls a gun on him, he shoots her. Wikiquote records him adding this line, a quip that has become one of the film's best-known. The film was directed by Paul Verhoeven and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone as Lori.
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- Wikipedia: Total Recall (1990 film)PlotReference checked
- Wikiquote: Total Recall (1990 film)quote listReference checked
- Springfield! Springfield!: Total Recall transcripttranscriptReference checked
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