PerryMy $2000 ceramic Vektor my mother got me as a special gift. You threw in the lake next to the car. What happens when they drag the lake? You think they'll find my pistol. Jesus. Look up "idiot" in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?
PerryGloves. Do you have gloves? You have to move her. If it's a frame-up, some asshole's probably calling the cops on you right now. Do this: wrap up the body in a blanket, a sheet, anything.
PerryI don't think you'd know where to put food at, if you didn't flap your mouth so much. Yes I think you're stupid.
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PerryYou don't get it, do you? This isn't "good cop, bad cop." This is fag and New Yorker. You're in a lot of trouble.
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Perry[to the audience]Thanks for coming, please stay for the end credits, if you're wondering who the best boy is, it's somebody's nephew, um, don't forget to validate your parking, and to all you good people in the Midwest, sorry we said fuck so much.
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PerryHow about you, Harry, did your father love you?
HarryAh, sometimes, like when I dressed up like a bottle. How about yours?
PerryWell, he used to beat me in Morse code, so it's possible, but he never actually said the words.
HarmonyOh please, Harry, they're no different from anywhere else.
HarryYes, they are. These are damaged goods, every one of them, from way back. I'm telling you, you take a guy who sleeps with 100 women a year, go into his childhood - dollars to doughnuts, it's relatively unspectacular...
Harry[putting a cigarette in his mouth]... Now, you take one of these... gals, who sleeps with 100 guys a year, and I *bet* you if you look in their childhood, there's something rotten in Denver.
Harry[closing his cigarette lighter]That too! But it's abandonment, it's abuse, it's, "My uncle put his ping-ping in my papa!"... and then they all come out here!
Harry[continuing]I mean, it's literally like someone took America by the East Coast and *shook* it, and all the normal girls managed to hang on.
HarmonyOK, everyone who hates Harry raise your hand!
[girl screams "Fuck you!" and throws a glass, which he dodges]
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HarmonyWell, for starters, she's been fucked more times than she's had a hot meal.
HarryYeah, I heard about that. It was neck-and-neck and then she skipped lunch.
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HarryYeah, boo, hiss, I know. Look, I hate it too. In movies where the studio gets all paranoid about a downer ending so the guy shows up, he's magically alive on crutches, I hate that. I mean shit, why not bring them all back?
[Everyone who has been killed in the movie starts meandering into the hospital room, including Abraham Lincoln; a nurse shoos them all out again.]
HarryBut the point is in this case, this time, it really happened. Perry, like, lived. Yeah, it's a dumb movie thing, but what do you want me to do, lie about it?
[even fat Elvis walks into the room for a couple of seconds, before being shooed out.]
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Harry[seeing Perry expose the gun from his crotch after shooting their captor]Thank god you had a gun in there; for a second I thought it was like a gay thing, like, somehow you guys could do that
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HarryDon't worry, I saw Lord of the Rings. I'm not going to end this 17 times.
HarryShe had something, that gal tonight, this quality. You know, like the girl from high school, the one that got away that - you know what I mean? - that haunts you still.
Agent TypeWhat are you, her brother or something? It's none of your business, man. I will fuck you up.
Harry[coolly]No. You'll try, and that little experiment will end in tears, my friend. So, again for the cheap seats, do not think, walk the *fuck* away - or let's you and me go outside right now. It's past my bedtime. Make a choice.
[Cut immediately to Harry on the ground, getting savagely beaten by the Agent Type]
PerryWell, I was going to go to the zoo, but it was closed, so I thought I'd come here and look at an animal.
Harmony's DadSon of a... Who do you think you're talking to? I buried my daughter today!
PerryNo. You buried her twenty years ago. Harmony was right, her sister was murdered. You pulled the trigger. It just took this long for the bullet to hit.
Harmony's DadWho are you? I loved my girl.
[Perry backhands him]
Harmony's DadYou fucker! If I could get out of this bed...
Harry[narrating]Anyway, by now you may wonder how I wound up here. Or, maybe not. Maybe you wonder how silly putty picks shit up from comic books. The point is, I don't see another Goddamn narrator, so pipe down.
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HarryAnd that's how she got to the same party as me. Oh shit. I skipped something. Damn it. This whole robot bit. I made a big deal, then I like totally forgot. Fuck, this is bad narrating. Like my dad telling a joke. "Oh, wait back up. I forgot to tell you the cowboy rode a blue horse." Fuck. Anyway, I don't know if you want to see it now, but here's the fucking robot stuff for your viewing pleasure. Can I say "fuck" more?
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PerryDon't blame yourself. Listen. sometimes these things just happen.
HarryFor a reason. For a reason? Why? Because I fall off a building, 10 people in Baltimore survive a bus crash? Swell, they're enjoying Baltimore. I'm lying here with my brains out.
Harry[voiceover]I sent Harmony home believing A, we'd meet tomorrow to go over her case, and B, I'm not actually gay. Please do not ask me how I did B.
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PerryOkay, you've got 30 of my fucking seconds. Thrill me.
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Harry[after overpowering and pistol-whipping a guy who'd had a gun on him and Perry]Doesn't that suck? I just hit you for no reason. I don't even know why.
Harry[narrating]I tell him about destiny; he's shaking his head. About dreamgirls; he doesn't care. I mention the underwear thing? He has a *fucking conniption*. And you? How 'bout it, filmgoer? Have you solved the case of the - the dead people in L.A.? Times Square audiences, please don't shout at the screen, and stop picking at that, it'll just get worse.
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HarryWow, I feel sore. I mean physically, not like a guy who's angry in a movie in the 1950's.
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B-Movie ActressSo what do you do for a living?
HarryUh, I'm retired. I invented dice when I was a kid. How about you do?
PerryHow about you, Harry, did your father love you?
HarryAh, sometimes, you know - like when I dressed up like a bottle. How about yours?
PerryWell, he used to beat me in Morse code, so it's possible, but he never actually said the words.
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PerryI'd understand if you wanted to take a swing at me...
Perry[Harry lands a quick punch to Perry's chin]You fuck!
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HarryYou remember the one I said that got away, yeah well that one was her. It all came flooding back how I was the one she confided in, the one she trusted, meanwhile she was doing every other guy in school. It was the first time I felt it, how pitying someone and wanting to fuck them can get all tangled up in your head... overwhelming sadness while having a rodney. Is that sick? Hm yeah, I think that's sick...
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HarryHey, hey, hey! It's Christmas, where's my present, Slick?
PerryYour fucking present is you're not in jail, fag-hag.
HarryDo you want me to put it out, when we get near the...?
PerryYeah, as soon as you find a large, brown clump of shrubs. Just throw it in there.
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Woman in Hospital BluesI don't like him; Kurt Cobain. He stole my cricket.
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HarryIts hard to believe it was just last Christmas that Harmony and I changed the world. And we didn't mean to and it didn't last long. You know a thing like that can't.
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PerryYou think that's funny huh? I'm going to break your nose now.
[nonchalantly pistol whips the guy in the nose]
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Harry[referring to Embry, Indiana]When in doubt, cut up a pig -- that was the town's motto.
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PerryI want you to picture a bullet inside your head right now. Can you do that for me?
HarryNo, I think what he means is that when you say "Picture it inside your head", okay, is that the bullet will BE inside your head? Or picture it IN your head?
Harry Lockhart[narrating]Guy smoking that's Dabney Shaw my producer. He discovered me. The man with him is Perry van Shrike, a.k.a. Gay Perry. Honest-to-God private eye consulting film, tv, just incorporated. He's big time. Also he's gay.
Dabney ShawDon't start Perry, huh? I've seen you play ball and I know you're tough. It's just that you see a naked guy, and your brain says, "I want that". I don't make that leap. It's like, "Oh, look, there's an elephant! Quick, let's drain its blood to paint my boathouse". It's just that that's not the first thing you'd think of.