The Warriors (1979)

Michael Beck: Swan

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• Riffs leader : You Warriors are good. Real good.

  Swan : The best.

• Swan : Why'd you do it? Why'd you waste Cyrus?

  Luther : No reason. I just... like doing things like that!

• Mercy : See that dude? Over there! He's after you, and he's got some guys with him.

  Swan : I know they're on my ass,

  [looks in their direction] 

  Swan : but now they know I know it.

• Swan : You recognize them?

  Fox : Orphans. So far down they're not even on the map. Real low class.

  Swan : Numbers?

  Fox : Full strength: maybe 30?

  Vermin : Thirty. A lot more than eight.

  Ajax : Not if they're wimps!... and I'm sick of this running crap.

• [the Warriors finally return to Coney Island at daybreak] 

  Swan : This is what we fought all night to get back to?

• Swan : You still looking for us?

  Masai : [looks at Luther]  We've found what we're looking for.

  Luther : [cowering]  No. No... It wasn't us. It was them. It was the Warriors.

  Masai : You Warriors are good. Real Good.

  Swan : The best.

  Masai : The rest is ours.

  [Swan nods his head in agreement as the Gramercy Riffs let the Warriors pass] 

  Luther : [as the Gramercy Riffs descend on the Rogues]  Nooooooo!

• [as they all observe the subway station] 

  Ajax : Come on, what kind of chickenshit crap is this?

  Cochise : Yeah, come on! We're here, what are we waiting for?

  Fox : A train would help! Unless you wanna go up there and get japped on an open platform.

  Cochese : Bullshit man, there ain't nobody in the street.

  Ajax : He's right! We're acting like faggots!

  [a bus with bright headlights approaches] 

  Swan : Just keep talking.

  [pause] 

  Swan : Move!

• Masai : You Warriors are good. Real good.

  Swan : The best.

• Mercy : Friday nights are good. Saturday nights are better.

  Swan : I bet you can't even remember who you get on Friday and Saturday night... you probably don't remember what they look like...

  Mercy : Sometimes I can and sometimes I can't... who gives a damn?

• Vermin : How much longer we gotta wait? We might be here forever, I'm sick of waiting for trains!

  Swan : Vermin, sit down and shut up.

  Vermin : Okay, okay!

• Mercy : [Mercy kisses Swan on the mouth, long and hard. She waits for a reaction, and is disappointed when she doesn't get one.]  Come on. What's wrong?

  Swan : [coldly]  Let's just get to the next station, O.K.?

  Mercy : [pleading]  Oh... please, come on... come on.

  Swan : [coldly]  You know, you're just part of everything that's happening tonight, and it's all bad.

  [pause] 

  Swan : Just go back to wherever it was you came from.

• Cowboy : Okay, what are we gonna do now?

  Swan : We're going back.

  Vermin : You mind tellin' me how? Fuckin' Coney Island must be 50 to 100 miles from here!

  Swan : It's the only choice we got.

  Cochise : Yeah, real simple. Except that every cop in this city is lookin' to bust our heads.

  Swan : We got somethin' else to think about then the cops.

  Vermin : Yeah, what?

  Snow : The truce. Is it still on?

  Vermin : If it ain't, we're gonna have to bop our way back!

  Cowboy : Shit, I wish we was packed.

• Swan : If you get separated, make it to the platform at Union Square. That's where we change trains.

  Ajax : I only got one question. Who named you leader? I got just as much right to take over as you.

  Fox : It was Cleon's choice, Swan's war chief.

  Ajax : Well, right about now, Cleon's most likely got a nightstick shoved halfway up his ass!

• Swan : Did you see him get busted?

  Cochise : I seen him, then he wasn't there no more... I was hauling ass!

  Swan : Why don't you look around and make sure we're okay.

  Rembrandt : This is a graveyard!

• Swan : [to Mercy]  Why don't you just tie a mattress to your back? You don't care where it is, do you?

• Cochise : [on subway, after escaping Turnbull ACs]  Yeah, well we made it, and in a hour, it is C-I! The BIG Coney!

  Ajax : You got it. Gimme that fist, buddy!

  [high fives Cochise] 

  Cochise : Yeah! WHEEE!

  Swan : When we get there, that's when we made it.

  Cochise : Hey no sweat, War Chief.

• Swan : [Deleted introductory scene in the subway]  ... What's bugging you? You got a problem?

  Ajax : Yeah, I got a problem. I don't like what we're getting into. This whole thing stinks.

  Swan : We're going in there just like all the other guys.

  Ajax : Just because some jerk named Cyrus wants a conclave and a truce, doesn't mean that it's a good thing. I'm sick of hearing about Cyrus.

  Swan : You listen, that's the way it's going to be. And you're going to soldier, just like everybody else.

  Ajax : Sure thing, Warchief.

  [We cut to the film's normal opening, which shows the Wonder Wheel at night] 

• Snow : [deleted scene when they regroup before fighting the Punks]  Where's Ajax?

  Snow : Cops got him. By the time we got back there were three squad cars.

  Swan : I should have made him come with us.

  Cowboy : Ain't your fault. He made a mistake. That's the way he was.

  Swan : Yeah, right.

  Rembrandt : That ain't the only bad news. Every gang in the city thinks we shot Cyrus.

  Cochise : Yeah. Every gang from the Riffs on down.

  Swan : [sees the Punksapproaching them]  Well we better take care of this one before we worry about the rest

• Swan : [caught outside the subway by the Baseball Furies]  Maybe we better take off...

  Ajax : Yeah, right...

  [they run] 

• Swan : When we get there, you stick close by, okay?

  Rembrandt : Don't worry. I don't feel like getting wrecked.