RustyYou look down, they know you're lying and up, they know you don't know the truth. Don't use seven words when four will do. Don't shift your weight, look always at your mark but don't stare, be specific but not memorable, be funny but don't make him laugh. He's got to like you then forget you the moment you've left his side. And for God's sake, whatever you do, don't, under any circumstances...
DannyBecause yesterday I walked out of the joint after losing four years of my life and you're cold-decking "Teen Beat" cover boys.
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DannyBecause the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes, the house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, and then you take the house.
Saul[with the self-assured intensity of the character he is to act as]If you ever ask me that question again Daniel, you will not wake up the following morning.
Reuben[as Danny and Rusty are leaving Reuben's home after lunch]Look, we all go way back and uh, I owe you from the thing with the guy in the place and I'll never forget it.
Rusty[intentionally being vague]He's the little Chinese guy.
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Turk Malloy[impatiently waiting in his truck to race against Virgil]I'm gonna get out of the car and I'm gonna drop you like third-period French.
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SaulI have a question, say we get into the cage, and through the security doors there and down the elevator we can't move, and past the guards with the guns, and into the vault we can't open...
DannyWell, I lost something... I lost someone. That's why I'm here.
[long pause]
RustyOkay, here's the problem. We're stealing two things. And when push comes to shove, and you can't have both, which are you gonna choose? And remember - Tess does not split eleven ways!
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Rusty[in an empty office after business hours]You'd need at least a dozen guys doing a combination of cons.
RustyOff the top of my head, I'd say you're looking at a Boeski, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros and a Leon Spinks, not to mention the biggest Ella Fitzgerald ever.
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Rusty[on Danny walking out of prison in a loosened black-tie suit]I hope you were the Groom.
Danny[on Rusty's attire for picking him up from prison]Ted Nugent called, he wants his shirt back.
Basher[irritated that they don't understand what he's implying]Trouble!
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Terry[to Rusty over the phone]All right, you proved your point. You broke into my vault. Congratulations, you're a dead man.
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Reuben[to Rusty and Danny present during lunch at Ruben's home]You guys are pros. The best. I'm sure you can make it out of the casino. Of course, lest we forget, once you're out the front door, you're still in the middle of the fucking desert!
Reuben[as Danny and Rusty are leaving Reuben's house after lunch]Give Dominic your addresses, I got some remaindered furniture I want to send you. Look, just out of curiosity, which three casinos did you geniuses decide to rob?
ReubenYou guys, what do you got against Terry Benedict?
RustyWhat do you have against him, that's the question?
ReubenHe torpedoed my casino, muscled me out. Now he's gonna blow it up next week to make way for some gaudy monstrosity. Don't think I don't know what you're doing.
ReubenIf you're gonna steal from Terry Benedict, you'd better goddamn *know*. This sort of thing used to be civilized. You'd hit a guy, he'd whack you, done. But with Benedict... at the end of this, he'd *better* not know you're involved, not know your names or think you're dead, because he'll kill ya, and *then* he'll go to work on ya.
DannyThat's why we're going to have to be very careful. Very precise.
Reuben[to Rusty and Danny during lunch]I know more about casino security than any man alive, I invented it, and it cannot be beaten. They got cameras, they got locks, they got watchers, they got timers, they got vaults, they got enough armed personnel to occupy Paris!
Parole Board Member #1Mr Ocean, the purpose of this hearing is to determine, whether, if released, you are likely to break the law again. While this was your first conviction, you have been implicated, though never charged, in over a dozen other confidence tricks and frauds. What can you tell us about those?
Danny[sitting alone directly in front of the parole board]As you say, ma'am, I was never charged.
Parole Board Member #2Mr Ocean, what we're trying to find out is was there a reason you chose to commit this crime, or was there a reason you simply got caught this time.
Danny[sitting alone directly in front of the parole board]My wife left me. I was upset. I fell into a self-destructive pattern.
Parole Board Member #3If released, is it likely you'd fall back into a similar pattern?
Danny[politely but sarcastically]She already left me once. I don't think she'd do it again just for kicks.
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Saul[watching Danny, Linus, and Yen load the money from the vault]That is the sexiest thing I have ever seen!
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Danny[during lunch with Reuben with Rusty present]It's never been tried.
ReubenHo, ho... "It's never been tried." It's been tried. A few guys even came close. You know the three most successful robberies in the history of Vegas?
[flashback - the gaming room at the Horseshow, in black-and-white]
Reuben[voiceover]Number three, the Bronze Medal - pencil-neck grabs a lockbox at the Horseshoe...
[a man grabs a lockbox out of a guard's hand and runs for the door, and six guards instantly tackle him to the floor]
ReubenHe got two steps closer to the door than any living soul before him.
Danny[talking privately over dinner while Tess is waiting for Terry]Tess, you're doing a great job curating the museum, the Vermeer is quite good, simple, vibrant, but his work definitely fell off as he got older.
Tess[implying Danny has similarities with Vermeer]Remind you of anyone?
DannyAnd I always confuse Monet and Manet. Now which one married his mistress?
Tess[sarcastically]They also painted occasionally.
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Saul[at the race track]I saw you at the paddock... before the second race, outside the men's room when I placed my bet. I saw you before you even got up this morning.
Terry[sarcastically, partially quoting one of Rick's line's from Casablanca]Of all the gin joints in all the world.
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Linus[Yen's cast is caught in vault door; unaware that Yen is trapped, Danny and Linus try to blow the door but the bomb doesn't go off]Did you check the batteries?
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LinusYou know, you lose focus in this game for one second...
DannyI know, somebody gets hurt. You don't hear Yen complaining.
[they replace the batteries and the door explodes]
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[Shaking Billy Tim Denham's hand at Denham's car dealership]
Frank[as he slowly crushes Denham's hand in his grip]You know, I've tried all sorts of moisturizers. I even went fragrance-free for a whole year. Now my sister, she uses some kind of uh... uh... uh... uh... aloe vera with a little sunscreen in it, and ideally, we should all wear gloves when going to bed, but I found out that that creates a kind of an interference with my... "social agenda", you know what I mean.
Reuben[Cut to Rueben]You're outta your goddamn minds!
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Topher Grace[while walking through the hallways of a club]Hey, Rus, let me ask you a question. Are you incorporated? Well, if not, you should really think about it, 'cause I was talking to my manager...
Topher GraceNo, not Bernie, my business manager. You know what? They're both named Bernie. Anyway, he was saying that because what we do here is kind of like research for a future, like, gig or whatever, I can totally make it a tax write-off. The only thing is I'd have to pay you by check.
Topher GraceYou know what? Yeah, let's just stick to cash.
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Linus[to Terry, trying to follow Rusty's advice of being funny and not enough to make him laugh]Apparently, he's got a record longer than my... well, it's long.
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TessYou of all people should know, Terry, in your hotel, there's always someone watching.
BasherA pinch is a device which creates, like, a cardiac arrest for any broadband electrical circuitry. Better yet, a pinch is a bomb - now, but without the bomb. See, when a nuclear weapon detonates, it unleashes an electromagnetic pulse which shuts down any power source within its blast radius. Now that tends not to matter in most cases, because the nuclear weapon usually destroys anything you might need power for anyway. But see, a pinch creates a similar electromagnetic pulse, but without the fuss of mass destruction and death. So instead of Hiroshima, you'd be getting the seventeenth century.
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DannySecond task, power - on the night of the fight, we're gonna throw the switch on Sin City. Basher, it's your show.
Danny[talking privately over dinner while Tess is waiting for Terry]You remember the day I went out for cigarettes and didn't come back? You must have noticed.
BasherOh, that's a good idea, Rabbit. Let's hop out of the van and we can all get nicked!
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Livingston[to Danny after Terry added new security procedures to constantly monitor Danny]The moment you set foot on that casino floor, they'll be watching you like hawks. Hawks with video cameras.
TerryGood, 'cause now I have one of my own. Run and hide, asshole. Run and hide. If you should be picked up next week buying a hundred-thousand dollar sports car in Newport Beach, I am going to be supremely disappointed. Because I want my people to find you, and when they do, rest assured we are not going to hand you over to the police. So my advice to you again is this: run and hide. That is all that I ask.
Rusty[masquerading as an ATF agent]Booby traps aren't Mr. Tarr's style. Isn't that right, "Basher"?
[shows a badge]
RustyPeck, ATF. Let me venture a guess, simple g form mainliner, backwound, quick fuse with a drag under 20 feet? Yeah... let me ask you something else: did you search this scumbag for booby traps, on his person? I mean really search, not just for weapons?
Terry[over the phone]Well, then inform Mr. Levin that he'll be better off watching the fight in front of his television at home... Surely *he* must have HBO.
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Tess[waiting to have a romantic dinner with Terry]You're thirty seconds late, I was going to send out a search...
[looks up and surprised to see Danny]
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Rusty[finalizing their plans to rob three casinos]The Bellagio and the Mirage. These are Terry Benedict's places.
Danny[Narrating]First task: reconnaissance. I want to know everything that's going on in all three casinos; the rotation of the dealers, the path of every cash cart. I want to know about everything about every guard and every watcher, anyone with a security pass, I want to know where they're from, what their nicknames are, how they take their coffee. Most of all, I want you guys to know these casinos; they're built like labyrinths, to keep people in. I want you guys to know the quick routes out. Second task, surveillance: Casino security has an eye and ear on everyone, so we want an eye and ear on them.
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BasherWindow or aisle, boys? Yeah, we're in deep shit!
RustyThat's right Topher. Today's lesson: how to draw out the bluff, that much money, this early in the game, I'm saying his holding nothing better than a pair of face cards
Danny[Narrating]The Nevada Gaming Commission stipulates that a casino must hold and reserve enough cash to cover every chip that's played on its floor. That means on a weekday, by law, it has to carry anywhere between sixty to seventy million dollars in cash and coin; on the weekend it has to carry anywhere between eighty and ninety million; on a fight night, like the one in two weeks from tonight, the night we're going to rob it, one hundred and fifty million. Without breaking a sweat, there's eleven of us, each with an equal share, you do the math.
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Danny[after the robbery]Hey Benedict, how's the other fight going?
Terry[Referring to the robbery]Did you have a hand in this?
Danny[Talking to Terry after having been beaten up by Bruiser while Tess is watching on television]What if I told you I could get you your money back, would you give up Tess? What would you say?