take someone away
The day they picked me up, December 21.The Thin Blue Line · 1988 — 第 2 / 20 章 · 3'16" · B1
Detective Forces Adams to Sign, Explained：give a damn
Detective Gus Rose wants Randall Adams to sign a confession, and Adams refuses. What follows is a standoff in a small room: a pistol thrown on the table, a service revolver drawn. "I do not like looking down the barrel of a pistol," Adams recalls. A second detective describes a suspect who showed no emotion at all.
あらすじ
Randall Adams recounts the night police picked him up in Dallas, took him upstairs and left him in a small room. A detective brought in a confession for him to sign; Adams refused. The detective threw a pistol on the table, then pulled his service revolver. Adams describes staring down the barrel and the man's cold reaction.
注目の表現
give a damnlook down the barrelsize someone upstorm out
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このシーンの表現
give a damn
care at all
Randall recalls that Gus Rose ignored every word and only wanted the signature.
He doesn't give a damn about anyone else's time.
このシーンの他の表現
- look down the barrel
stare into a gun's muzzle
- size someone up
judge someone quickly
- storm out
leave in anger
- in the least
not at all
- overacted his innocence
played innocent too hard
このシーンのメモ一覧
48 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ
relative clause: The clause defines which day; the relative word when is left out.
The day they picked me up, December 21.enter a room
Gus Rose walked in.want someone to do it
He had a confession there he wanted me to sign.one sheet of paper
He didn't give a damn what I said. I would sign this piece of paper.The t in didn't drops and give a runs together.
He didn't give a damn what I said. I would sign this piece of paper.a mild swear word — Mild profanity; keep it out of polite or professional talk.
He didn't give a damn what I said. I would sign this piece of paper.object clause: The what-clause is the object of know and keeps statement order.
"I don't know what the hell you people expect of me.on earth; emphasis — Adds force to a question; too blunt for formal talk.
"I don't know what the hell you people expect of me.refuse someone
I told him no, I wouldn't do that.an officer's handgun
He pulled his service revolver on me.the gun's muzzle
I do not like looking down the barrel of a pistol.put something away
He took the pistol on the table, put it up and stormed out.at the beginning
I had a casual, friendly conversation with him to start with...Didn't have links so it sounds like one word.
I found almost immediately that he didn't have much conscience.no response at all
He showed no reaction to any of the questions.insist one is innocent
He just protested his innocence.a telephone call
Never once was I allowed a phone call.subject-verb inversion: Fronting the negative forces was before I, stressing that it never happened.
Never once was I allowed a phone call.Was and I blend together in fast speech.
Never once was I allowed a phone call.two packs of smokes
I had smoked two packs of cigarettes and had been out for a long time.「Detective Forces Adams to Sign」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene is a contest of wills inside a room the audience never sees. Adams says he kept telling the same story and nobody believed him, and the detective's method was pressure: "He didn't give a damn what I said. I would sign this piece of paper." The threat is physical — a pistol on the table, a service revolver drawn — but what Adams remembers is the boredom of it, the long stare, "I do not like looking down the barrel of a pistol." Against that, a second detective offers his own read on a suspect who stayed calm and "almost overacted his innocence." Two accounts, the same night, and no way to know which one to trust.
Theme
JusticeA confession is manufactured under threat of a gun, turning a police room into the origin of a wrongful conviction.
PowerOne man holds the gun and the paperwork; the other can only refuse and hope the threat passes.
このチャプターで学べること
- A refusal can be a quiet act of courage.
- Fronted negatives make denial sound absolute.
- The detective's calm words judge more than any outburst.
- Small talk is sometimes a way of taking someone's measure.
発音のポイント
- didn't give — The t in didn't drops and give a runs together.
- didn't have — Didn't have links so it sounds like one word.
- was I allowed — Was and I blend together in fast speech.
He didn't give a damn what I said. I would sign this piece of paper.The detective had already decided the outcome: Adams's words were irrelevant, and the signature was going to happen whether he agreed or not.
I do not like looking down the barrel of a pistol.Understatement for the fear of having a gun aimed at him; the flat, matter-of-fact tone is what makes the memory land.
Never once was I allowed a phone call.He was denied the basic right to call anyone while held, one of the clearest signs of a coercive interrogation.
Never once was an attorney there.No lawyer sat in on the questioning, so nothing he refused or admitted was witnessed by anyone on his side.
I found almost immediately that he didn't have much conscience.The detective's own read on the suspect: a man who could talk about violence with no visible feeling at all.
このシーンについての質問
Why does the detective want Adams to sign the confession?
To close the case. A signed confession settles the investigation, so the detective keeps pushing for the signature even after Adams says he can't sign, and even after drawing his gun.
Did Adams sign the confession?
No. He refused repeatedly, and the pistol on the table plus the drawn revolver were meant to change that. In his account the detective eventually put the gun away and left, and no signature was ever given.
What does 'I do not like looking down the barrel of a pistol' mean?
Literally, being at the wrong end of a gun. Adams uses it as understatement for a moment of real fear, said flatly rather than dramatically.
Whose account is the second half of the scene?
Another investigator's. He describes a suspect he sized up quickly as remorseless and calm, a man who 'almost overacted his innocence' — the kind of read that shaped how the case was built.
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