- Vincent Hanna: I'm angry. I'm very angry, Ralph. You know, you can ball my wife if she wants you to. You can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband's dead-tech, post-modernistic bullshit house if you want to. But you do not get to watch my fucking television set!
- [McCauley calls Van Zant on the phone]
- Roger Van Zant: What are you doing?
- Neil McCauley: What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone.
- Roger Van Zant: I don't understand.
- Neil McCauley: 'Cause there is a dead man on the other end of this fuckin' line
- Vincent Hanna: My life's a disaster zone. I got a stepdaughter so fucked up because her real father's this large-type asshole. I got a wife, we're passing each other on the down-slope of a marriage - my third - because I spend all my time chasing guys like you around the block. That's my life.
- Neil McCauley: A guy told me one time, "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner." Now, if you're on me and you gotta move when I move, how do you expect to keep a... a marriage?
- Eady: You travel a lot?
- Neil McCauley: Yeah.
- Eady: Traveling makes you lonely?
- Neil McCauley: I'm alone, I am not lonely.
- Vincent Hanna: You know, we are sitting here, you and I, like a couple of regular fellas. You do what you do, and I do what I gotta do. And now that we've been face to face, if I'm there and I gotta put you away, I won't like it. But I tell you, if it's between you and some poor bastard whose wife you're gonna turn into a widow, brother, you are going down.
- Neil McCauley: There is a flip side to that coin. What if you do got me boxed in and I gotta put you down? Cause no matter what, you will not get in my way. We've been face to face, yeah. But I will not hesitate. Not for a second.
- Vincent Hanna: So you never wanted a regular type life?
- Neil McCauley: What the fuck is that? Barbeques and ballgames?
- Vincent Hanna: I got an idea... of what they're looking at.
- Vincent Hanna: You wanna know what they're looking at?
- Vincent Hanna: I mean - is this guy something, or is he something?
- Vincent Hanna: This crew is good.
- Vincent Hanna: You know what they're looking at?
- Schwartz: What?
- Vincent Hanna: Us. The L-A-P-D. Po-lice Department... We just got made.
- Alan Marciano: Why'd I get mixed up with that bitch?
- Vincent Hanna: Cause she's got a great ass... and you got your head all the way up it! Ferocious, aren't I? When I think of asses, a woman's ass, something comes out of me.
- [repeated line]
- Neil McCauley: Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.
- Vincent Hanna: What are you, a monk?
- Neil McCauley: I have a woman.
- Vincent Hanna: What do you tell her?
- Neil McCauley: I tell her I'm a salesman.
- Vincent Hanna: So then, if you spot me coming around that corner... you just gonna walk out on this woman? Not say good bye?
- Neil McCauley: That's the discipline.
- Vincent Hanna: That's pretty vacant, you know.
- Neil McCauley: Yeah, it is what it is. It's that or we both better go do something else, pal.
- Vincent Hanna: I don't know how to do anything else.
- Neil McCauley: Neither do I.
- Vincent Hanna: I don't much want to either.
- Neil McCauley: Neither do I.
- Neil McCauley: I do what I do best, I take scores. You do what you do best, try to stop guys like me.
- Albert Torena: Where's your empathy, brother? It's a substance abuse problem.
- Vincent Hanna: Empathy was yesterday. Today, you're wasting my motherfucking time.
- Vincent Hanna: Seven years in Folsom. In the hole for three. McNeil before that. McNeil as tough as they say?
- Neil McCauley: You lookin' to become a penologist?
- Vincent Hanna: You lookin' to go back? You know, I chased down some crews; guys just lookin' to fuck up, get busted back. That you?
- Neil McCauley: You must've worked some dipshit crews.
- Vincent Hanna: I worked all kinds.
- Neil McCauley: You see me doin' thrill-seeker liquor store holdups with a "Born to Lose" tattoo on my chest?
- Vincent Hanna: No, I do not.
- Neil McCauley: Right. I am never goin' back.
- Vincent Hanna: Then don't take down scores.
- Vincent Hanna: I gotta hold on to my angst. I preserve it because I need it. It keeps me sharp, on the edge, where I gotta be.
- Neil McCauley: I don't even know what I'm doing anymore. I know life is short, whatever time you get is luck. You want to walk? You walk right now. Or on your own... on your own you choose to come with me. And all I know is... all I know is there's no point in me going anywhere anymore if it's going to be alone... without you.
- [McCauley, Shiherlis, and Cheritto enter the lobby of the Far East Bank from different entrances, disguised as customers. Shiherlis steps up to the desk. Cheritto coughs, signalling for him and McCauley to put on their ski masks. At the desk, Shiherlis suddenly spins around and attacks one security guard, and McCauley and Cheritto draw their guns, while Shiherlis ties up and disarms the guard he has tackled, then puts his mask on]
- Neil McCauley: [draws his gun on another guard] Don't move! Don't fuckin' move! Put your hands in the air! Put your hands in the air! Put 'em up!
- [the terrified guard puts his hands up]
- Neil McCauley: Get on your knees! Get on your knees!
- [McCauley binds the guard's hands behind his back and then pushes him to the ground. McCauley then gets up on the top of one of the desks]
- Neil McCauley: We want to hurt no one! We're here for the bank's money, not your money. Your money is insured by the federal government, you're not gonna lose a dime! Think of your families, don't risk your life. Don't try and be a hero!
- Neil McCauley: [to Eady in her studio, referring to Michael after the bank robbery] He knew the risks, he didn't have to be there. It rains... you get wet.
- Charlene Shiherlis: What else are you selling?
- Sgt. Drucker: All kinds of shit. But I don't have to sell this and you know it, 'cause this kind of shit here sells itself.
- Justine Hanna: I guess the earth shattered?
- Vincent Hanna: So why didn't you let Bosko take you home?
- Justine Hanna: I didn't wanna ruin their night too. What was it?
- Vincent Hanna: You don't wanna know.
- Justine Hanna: I'd like to know what's behind that grim look on your face.
- Vincent Hanna: I don't do that. You know it. Let's go, come on.
- Justine Hanna: You never told me I'd be excluded.
- Vincent Hanna: I told you, when we hooked up, baby, that you were gonna have to share me with all the bad people and all the ugly events on this planet.
- Justine Hanna: And I bought into that sharing. Because I love you. I love you fat, bald, money, no money, driving a bus - I don't care. But you have got to be present like a normal guy, some of the time. That's sharing. This is not sharing, this is left overs.
- Vincent Hanna: Oh, I see, what I should do is, er, come home and say "Hi honey! Guess what? I walked into this house today, where this junkie asshole just fried his baby in a microwave, because it was crying too loud. So let me share that with you. Come on, let's share that, and in sharing it, we'll somehow, er, cathartically dispel all that heinous shit". Right?
- [pause]
- Vincent Hanna: Wrong.
- Lillian Breedan: I met the manager. Is that the boss?
- Donald Breedan: I did time for what that motherfucker does every day!
- Lillian Breedan: Baby - can you just handle it till we find you something new? Can you do that?
- Donald Breedan: Ain't a hard time been invented that I cannot handle... What you hangin' with me for, Lily?
- Lillian Breedan: Because I'm proud of you.
- Donald Breedan: [snickers] You're proud of me? What the hell're you proud of me for?
- Lillian Breedan: Come on home.
- Justine Hanna: You don't live with me, you live among the remains of dead people. You sift through the detritus, you read the terrain, you search for signs of passing, for the scent of your prey, and then you hunt them down. That's the only thing you're committed to. The rest is the mess you leave as you pass through.
- Neil McCauley: Take off your shirt.
- Dr. Bob: What?
- Neil McCauley: Take off your shirt.
- Dr. Bob: My - my God - my daughter gave it to me for Father's Day...
- Neil McCauley: I don't give a shit who gave it to you, take it off!
- Vincent Hanna: You know what? Neil is gone. Bam! Flying like a bird.
- Detective Casals: Vincent, how do you? We still got bait. Maybe some time.
- Vincent Hanna: Got. Got. What've we got? *What've we got?* Bon voyage, motherfucker. You were good. I'm going to the hotel. Gonna take a shower. Gonna sleep, for a month.
- Vincent Hanna: That's exactly what they're gonna do, they're gonna walk. This is my operation, I have tactical command that supercedes your rank, they will walk away and you will let them...
- Neil McCauley: [about dreams] I have one where I'm drowning. And I gotta wake myself up and start breathing or I'll die in my sleep.
- Vincent Hanna: You know what that's about?
- Neil McCauley: Yeah. Having enough time.
- Vincent Hanna: Enough time? To do what you wanna do?
- Neil McCauley: That's right.
- Vincent Hanna: You doin' it now?
- Neil McCauley: No, not yet.
- Neil McCauley: L.A.P.D. Gee, what, where the fuck did this heat come from?
- Chris Shiherlis: Maybe it's the score they were onto, the place, not us. 'Cause it's been hit a couple of times, you know, or something?
- Neil McCauley: Assume they got our phones, assume they got our houses, assume they got us, right here, right now as we sit, everything. Assume it all.
- Richard Torena: There's this cat I was locked up with in Folsom: did a couple, two-three years. He got out, and I ran into him.
- Vincent Hanna: [pauses, waiting for Richard to continue] And so?
- Richard Torena: He's a big fiend for action. Now if he'd said nothin', I'd have thought nothin'. But he goes on and on running down to me about how he ain't been doing nothin' and nothin's been going on and all this other bullshit, so right then and there I know: this cat's got somethin' goin' down.
- Vincent Hanna: [long pause] Pretty fuckin' great.
- Vincent Hanna: [to Albert] Albert, what's wrong with you? You drag me here, waste my time like this.
- Vincent Hanna: [to Richard] You saw a guy, on the street, who's an ex-con?
- Richard Torena: That's right.
- Vincent Hanna: Well I am... over-fuckin' whelmed. What d'you want for that, a junior g-man badge?
- Richard Torena: Hey man, you gonna make the call on them Porsches or what?
- Vincent Hanna: [to Albert] Is he fucking kidding me?
- [gets up to leave]
- Vincent Hanna: [Over the phone with Schwartz with Drucker listening in] Here's the update: Hugh Benny has reformed his wayward life and become a "born again good citizen", apparently Neil got sold out to us by a cowboy named "Waingro", Waingro used to be a part of Neil's crew then he went to work for a money launderer named Van Zant ,units are at Van Zant's house as we speak because he got shot dead earlier tonight, if Neil goes after anyone else, it's going to be Waingro, Waingro just got himself a suite at the airport Marquee under the name "Jameson" he's there now I want you to get that to bail bondsmen, bookies, assignment officers and snitches in county anyone you can think of that will put it out on the street, deploy a team down at the hotel and personally check their COMMS every thirty minutes because maybe Neil would go for him
- Vincent Hanna: So, what do you got for me?
- Richard Torena: Before we even get into that, there's something we gotta get straight. There's a garage over off Sunset and Fig'. Now if someone were to pay it a visit tonight, they might find a pair of Turbos and a 911 Slope.
- Vincent Hanna: You're looking to rid yourself of your competition.
- Richard Torena: Well lemme put it another way, cousin. How do I know, that when I tell you what you wanna know, that you're gonna do what I need fucking done?
- Albert Torena: Richard, look! Vincent's cool man! He and I have dealings all the time, brother!
- Vincent Hanna: [puts his arm around Richard's shoulders] I ain't your cousin you rat motherfucker. And you know, because I *say* you know!
- Sgt. Drucker: You recognize the MO?
- Vincent Hanna: M.O.? Is that they're good... Once it escalated into a murder one beef for all of 'em after they killed the first two guards, they didn't hesitate. Pop guard number three because... what difference does it make? Why leave a living witness? Drop of a hat these guys will rock and roll...
- Neil McCauley: [In a diner] you live in this neighborhood?
- Eady: No, I live above Sunset Plaza, it's a little house I rent and it's a little rundown but has a beautiful view, what about you?
- Neil McCauley: I live in Venice Boulevard, where's your family originally from?
- Eady: We're Scots Irish, they immigrated to America in the late seventeen hundreds, where are you originally from?
- Neil McCauley: Bay area.
- Eady: Are your folks there?
- Neil McCauley: My mother died a long time ago I don't know where my father is. I have a brother somewhere but sounds like you have a tight family I can tell. In L.A. the city of lights, in Fuji they have these iridescent algae that come out once a year in the water, it looks like L.A. at night.
- Eady: You've been there?
- Neil McCauley: No, I'm going there some day.
- Vincent Hanna: [singing] By the time I get to Phoenix, we'll be rising. He'll probably leave a note right on the door.
- Neil McCauley: Chris. Hey - Chris. Listen to me. Nate's gonna pick you up. He's gonna take you to his place.
- Chris Shiherlis: Where's Charlene?
- Neil McCauley: We gotta get outta here. We're all over the six o'clock news. We gotta get outta here.
- Chris Shiherlis: I'm not going with... out her.
- Neil McCauley: Think about that. I will meet you at Nate's.
- Chris Shiherlis: Where're you going?
- Neil McCauley: I gotta find out if our out got spilled along with every other damn thing.
- Chris Shiherlis: Who did it?
- Neil McCauley: Who wasn't there? Trejo. - I'll see you at Nate's.
- Neil McCauley: Gimme the key!
- Bank Guy: What key?
- [Neil socks bank guy in the face, who tumbles backwards, and extracts the necessary key; the bank guy struggles in pain]
- Neil McCauley: Don't move! Sit there. Sit there! Let it bleed.
- Sergeant Heinz: You taking this one, Lieutenant? Or does it stay in Division?
- Vincent Hanna: Does this look like gangbangers working the local 7-11 to you? Robbery-Homicide's taking it.
- Chris Shiherlis: Charlene's gonna leave me.
- Neil McCauley: Why?
- Chris Shiherlis: Not enough steaks in the freezer.
- Neil McCauley: [after seeing her with another man a leave Motel room] Who was that guy?
- Charlene Shiherlis: Nobody.
- Neil McCauley: [Angrily] Who was that guy?
- Charlene Shiherlis: [Nervously] Nobody.
- Neil McCauley: Who is he?
- Charlene Shiherlis: His a broker from Las Vegas
- Neil McCauley: Chris is going to straighten it up with you.
- Charlene Shiherlis: It's too late I'm sick of it.
- Neil McCauley: [shouting] SHUT UP, here's the deal: You'll give Chris one last shot. If he fucks up, I'll finance setting you up any way you want. Dominick too; and my word counts, but you will give him the shot. Now clean up and go home.
- Neil McCauley: Did you have a good time?
- Eady: No.
- Neil McCauley: Why not?
- Eady: I'm not good at meeting people.
- Neil McCauley: You met me, take off with me for a while
- Eady: Where are we going?
- Neil McCauley: New Zealand.
- Eady: When?
- Neil McCauley: I have to separately but you'll meet me there.
- Eady: What about my job?
- Neil McCauley: You don't need money I got plenty, you could set up a studio and do work there
- Eady: I don't know.
- Neil McCauley: What's there to know?
- Eady: Are you married?
- Neil McCauley: What?
- Eady: You come and go.
- Neil McCauley: Last thing I am is married. I'm a needle starting at zero, and all of a sudden someone like you comes along.
- Eady: You don't know me.
- Neil McCauley: I know enough come with me.
- Eady: What's wrong?
- Neil McCauley: Nothing's wrong everything's right, will you go?
- Eady: Yeah.
- Neil McCauley: Good
- [they kiss]
- Neil McCauley: [Found Trejo beaten and bloodied in Trejo's home] Who did it?
- Trejo: They had Anna, man.
- Neil McCauley: Who had Anna?
- Trejo: Waingro.
- Neil McCauley: Waingro? On his own?
- Trejo: For someone.
- Neil McCauley: Who?
- Trejo: The other he worked for.
- [mutters Van Zant]
- Neil McCauley: Van Zant?
- Trejo: Yeah, Van Zant.
- Neil McCauley: Are you sure?
- Trejo: Van Zant.
- Neil McCauley: Did you say anything about how we're getting out?
- Trejo: I don't think so.
- Neil McCauley: Come on.
- Trejo: I don't remember, Neil.
- Neil McCauley: I'll call a medic.
- Trejo: I'm not gonna make it. I can't feel nothing. My Anna's gone, she's gone. Don't leave me like this, Neil. Please, holmes. Don't leave me like this.
- Neil McCauley: [executes Trejo]
- Claudia: You know I can't let you use our news footage.
- Lt. Vincent Hanna: I am the kind of man who'd invade your first amendment rights?
- Claudia: Is that a straight question?
- Lt. Vincent Hanna: I don't want to use it. I want to see it. If I wanted to use it, I'd subpoena it and you could heroically defend the integrity of the fifth estate. This isn't that; this is this: do me a favor.
- Claudia: What do I get?
- Lt. Vincent Hanna: I'll owe you one.
- Claudia: One what?
- Lt. Vincent Hanna: Depends what you got.
- [She stops. He smiles. She laughs]
- Claudia: I want an exclusive.
- Lt. Vincent Hanna: Impossible. I will give you a head start. Three to five minutes lead time. On a fast breaking event I control, I will let you in on it three to five minutes ahead of everybody else. What do you say?
- Claudia: Deal.
- [She shakes hands with Hanna]
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