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Staunch
Television (Full Length) – 1999
I just wanna do my PD and get it over with, so I don’t have to talk to prophets like you.– Ariana (Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell) to her social worker (Tamati Patuwai)
You [policeman] come into my room, get a scratch from a naked girl throwing a doorknob and then you press charges? Is that why you joined the police?– Ariana (Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell) defends herself in a mock trial
You know for you honey, it’ll just be a night in the cells: a little PD and you’re back on the glue bag again. Constable here could have a scar for life ... how you feel about that?– Sergeant Smith (Grant Boucher) taunts Ariana (Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell)
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