Jim Malone
[talking privately in a church]
You said you wanted to get Capone. Do you really wanna get him? You see what I'm saying is, what are you prepared to do?
Eliot Ness
Anything within the law.
Jim Malone
And *then* what are you prepared to do? If you open the can on these worms you must be prepared to go all the way. Because they're not gonna give up the fight, until one of you is dead.
Eliot Ness
I want to get Capone! I don't know how to do it.
Jim Malone
You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That's* the *Chicago* way! And that's how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I'm offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?
Eliot Ness
I have sworn to capture this man with all legal powers at my disposal and I will do so.
Jim Malone
Well, the Lord hates a coward.
[jabs Ness with his hand, and Ness shakes it]
Jim Malone
Do you know what a blood oath is, Mr. Ness?
Eliot Ness
Yes.
Jim Malone
Good, 'cause you just took one.
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Al Capone
[to his henchmen after Ness and his team intercepted his shipment of liquor from Canada]
I want you to get this fuck where he breathes! I want you to find this nancy-boy Eliot Ness, I want him DEAD! I want his family DEAD! I want his house burned to the GROUND! I wanna go there in the middle of the night and I wanna PISS ON HIS ASHES!
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Scoop
Word is they're going to repeal Prohibition. What'll you do then?
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Jim Malone
[to Ness on the walkway underneath a bridge]
You just fulfilled the first rule of law enforcement: make sure when your shift is over you go home alive. Here endeth the lesson.
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George Stone
[after Ness has pushed Nitti off the roof and gone back in the courthouse]
Where is Nitti?
Eliot Ness
He's in the car.
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George Stone
To protect the property and citizenry of...
Jim Malone
Ah, don't waste my time with that bullshit. Where you from, Stone?
George Stone
I'm from the south-side.
Jim Malone
Stone. George Stone. That's your name? What's your real name?
George Stone
That is my real name.
Jim Malone
Nah. What was it before you changed it?
George Stone
Giuseppe Petri.
Jim Malone
Ah, I knew it. That's all you need, one thieving wop on the team.
George Stone
Hey, what's that you say?
Jim Malone
I said that you're a lying member of a no good race.
George Stone
[He cuffs Stone across the face. As he draws back his arm again, Stone presses a gun under his chin]
Much better than you, you stinking Irish shit pig.
Jim Malone
Oh, I like him.
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Jim Malone
[on the walkway underneath a bridge]
OK, pal, why the mahaska? Why are you carrying the gun?
Eliot Ness
I'm a treasury officer.
Jim Malone
Alright. Just remember what we talked about now.
[Malone walks away]
Eliot Ness
Hey, wait a minute! What the hell kind of policemen you got in this god damn city? You just turned your back on an armed man.
Jim Malone
You're a treasury officer.
Eliot Ness
How do you know that? I just told you that.
Jim Malone
Who would claim to be that who was not? Hmm?
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Eliot Ness
[referring to Malone]
I'm going to see you burn, you son of a bitch, because you killed my friend!
Frank Nitti
He died like a pig.
Eliot Ness
What did you say?
Frank Nitti
I said your friend died screaming like a stuck Irish pig. Now you think about that when I beat the rap.
[He runs a comb through his hair and walks toward the door. Ness, enraged, grabs him from behind and pushes him past the door]
Frank Nitti
Hey... hey!
[Ness propels him toward the ledge]
Frank Nitti
*Hey!
[Ness pushes him off the roof. He falls, screaming]
Eliot Ness
Did he sound anything like *that*?
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Al Capone
[to the members of his crime family] Life goes on. A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms, enthusiasms. What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy?
Hoods
Dames! Dames. Dames.
Al Capone
Baseball!
[Hoods clap]
Al Capone
A man - a man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part - of - a - team.
Hoods
Teamwork. Teamwork Teamwork.
Al Capone
Looks, throws, catches, hustles. Part of one big team. Bats himself the live-long day, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and so on. If his team don't field - what is he? You follow me? No one! Sunny day, the stands are full of fans. What does he have to say? I'm goin' out there for myself. But, I get nowhere unless the team wins.
Hoods
Team! Team. Team.
[Capone beats one of the hoods to death with a baseball bat]
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Jim Malone
[to Ness as they assemble their team]
If you're afraid of getting a rotten apple, don't go to the barrel. Get it off the tree.
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Jim Malone
Why do you want to be a police officer?
Williamson
To protect the... people and the... p...
Jim Malone
I'm not looking for the "yearbook" answer. Why do you want to join the force.
Williamson
The force?
Jim Malone
Yeah, why do you want to join the force.
Williamson
Because... I...
Jim Malone
Yeah?
Williamson
... think I could help.
Jim Malone
You think you could help.
Williamson
... with the force.
Jim Malone
Thank you very much, you've been most helpful.
[Williamson leaves]
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Bowtie Driver
[while on the main stairway inside the train station]
Me and the bookkeeper are walking out of here, getting into a car, and driving away. Or else he dies! He dies! And you ain't got nothing! You got five seconds to make up your minds!
Eliot Ness
You got him?
George Stone
Yeah, I got him.
Bowtie Driver
[Bowtie starts counting off five seconds]
One!
Eliot Ness
Take him.
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Mountie Captain
[under the impression Malone shot a man in the mouth while he was still alive]
Mr. Ness! I do not approve of your methods!
Eliot Ness
Yeah, well... You're not from Chicago.
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Jim Malone
[while waiting in a cabin for Capone's liquor shipment to come across the Canadian border]
Don't wait for it to happen. Don't even want it to happen. Just watch what does happen.
Eliot Ness
Are you my tutor?
Jim Malone
Yes, sir. That - I am.
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Reporter
[interviewing Capone while a barber shaves him]
And what of your reputation for violence? That those who don't buy your product are dealt with violently?
Al Capone
[pulls his face away from the razor, sees that he's bleeding slightly, the barber looks horrified]
S'alright. I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say "You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word."
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Al Capone
What'd you say? What're you saying?
Eliot Ness
I said, "Never stop fighting till the fight is done."
Al Capone
What?
Eliot Ness
You heard me, Capone. It's over.
Eliot Ness
Here endeth the lesson.
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Agent Oscar Wallace
Yes?
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Eliot Ness
Your Honor, the truth is that the man Capone is a killer and he will go free. There is only one way to deal with such men, and that's hunt them down. I have. I have forsworn myself. I have broken laws I swore to defend. I've become what I beheld and I'm content I have done right. That man must be stopped. You must...
Judge
I'll be the judge of what I must do, Mr Ness.
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Jim Malone
[firing his gun to stop a suspect from running from away from him in the Canadian countryside]
All right! Enough of this running shit!
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Jim Malone
[Ness and Malone are at the training academy looking for new recruits for their special "Untouchables" unit, Stone approaches and Malone asks him while looking down at his clipboard]
Why do you want to join the force?
George Stone
To protect the property and the citizenry of the city...
[he looks up and sees Stone for the first time, noticing his dark complexion and slick black hair]
Jim Malone
Where are you from, Stone?
George Stone
From the south side.
George Stone
That is my real name.
Jim Malone
Nah. What was it before you changed it?
George Stone
[stunned and offended but remaining calm, Stone pats him coolly on the back to get his attention]
Hey...
[Malone turns back around to face him]
George Stone
What's that you said?
Jim Malone
[poking him belligerently in the chest with his clipboard]
I said that you're a lying member of a no-good race.
George Stone
[Stone angrily slaps the clipboard out of his hands; Malone goes for a melee weapon on his person but Stone already has his revolver pointed right under Malone's chin and fiercely says to him]
It's much better than you, you stinkin' Irish pig.
Jim Malone
[Stone draws back his weapon and Malone says to him]
You just joined the treasury department, son.
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Eliot Ness
[Ness has just shot a gangster after the Canadian border raid while they stand outside the cabin]
I had to kill him.
Jim Malone
Oh, yeah. He's as dead as Julius Caesar... Would you rather it was you?
Eliot Ness
No, I would not.
Jim Malone
Well, then, you've done your job. Go home and sleep well tonight.
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Jim Malone
[holding him against the window of the cabin in Canada]
You're gonna talk, pal. You're gonna beg to talk. Because somebody's going to talk!
[walks out of the shack, and holds the dead body of a gangster Ness shot]
Jim Malone
Hey you, on your feet! We need you to translate this book! And I'm not going to ask you a second time! I'm gonna count to three.
[places gun in the gangster's mouth]
Jim Malone
What's the matter? Can't you talk with a gun in your mouth? One... two... THREE!
[pulls the trigger, blowing the corpse's skull cap off]
George
[screams]
Don't! Okay! I'm going to talk! I'll tell you whatever you want! What do you want to know?
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Judge
[after Ness has discovered Capone bribed the jury to acquit him]
Bailiff, I want you to go next door to Judge Hawton's court, where they've just begun hearing a divorce action. I want you to bring that jury in here, and take this jury to his court. Bailiff, are those instructions clear?
Bailiff
[puzzled]
Yes, sir, they're... clear...
Judge
Bailiff, I want you to switch the juries.
Bailiff
Yes sir.
Defense Attorney
Your honor, I object!
Judge
Overruled.
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Eliot Ness
[looking at a gold chain Malone is holding while they celebrate after a successful liquor raid]
What is that?
Jim Malone
God, I'm with a heathen. That is my call-box key and that is St Jude.
George Stone
Santo Jude. He's the patron saint of lost causes.
Jim Malone
And policemen.
Eliot Ness
Patron saint of policemen?
Jim Malone
Everybody needs a friend. Lost causes. Policemen. Which do you want to be?
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Jim Malone
[to Capone's bookmaker with Oscar and Ness present inside the cabin on the Canadian countryside]
You're muckin' with a G here, pal! You'll hang high unless you cooperate.
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Jim Malone
Isn't that just like a wop.
Hoods
[He starts backing away from Malone]
Jim Malone
Brings a knife to a gun fight.
Hoods
[He backs away faster]
Jim Malone
Get outta here you Dago Bastard!
Hoods
[He runs out the door of Malone's home]
Jim Malone
Go on get your ass outta here!
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Al Capone
[to reporters]
I'm gonna tell you something. Somebody messes with me, I'm gonna mess with with him. Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand? Now, I have done nothing to harm these people but they are angered with me, so what do they do, doctor up some income tax, for which they have no case. To speak to me like me, no, to harass a peaceful man. I pray to god if I ever had a grievance I'd have a little more self respect. One more thing, you have an all out prize fight, you wait until the fight is over, one guy is left standing. And that's how you know who won.
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Mrs. Blackmer
[showing up unannounced to his office]
I came here to thank you. It was my little girl that got killed with that bomb.
Eliot Ness
I'm sorry, please. I'm so sorry.
Mrs. Blackmer
You see it's because I know that you have children too... and that this is real for you, that these men caused this tragedy. And I know that you will put a stop to them. I know you'll do that now.
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Al Capone
[to reporters]
People are gonna drink! You know that, I know that, we all know that, and all I do is act on that. And all this talk of bootlegging - what is bootlegging? On a boat, it's bootlegging. On Lake Shore Drive, it's hospitality. I'm a businessman!
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Eliot Ness
So much violence...
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Hoods
[while on the main stairway inside the train station] You got 5 seconds to make up your minds
Eliot Ness
You got him?
George Stone
Yeah I got him
Hoods
1...
Eliot Ness
Take him
[Stone shoots, the Hood drops with blood coming out of his mouth]
George Stone
Two
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Title Card
1930. Prohibition has transformed Chicago into a City at War. Rival gangs compete for control of the city's billion dollar empire of illegal alcohol, enforcing their will with the hand grenade and tommy gun. It is the time of the Ganglords. It is the time of Al Capone.
Reporter
[to Al Capone] An article, which I believe appeared in a newspaper, asked why, since you are, or it would seem that you are, in effect, the mayor of Chicago, you've not simply been appointed to that position.
[other reporters laugh]
Al Capone
Well, I'll tell ya, you know, it's touching. Like a lot of things in life, we laugh because it's funny and we laugh because it's true. Now, some people will say - reformers, they'll say, 'Put that man in jail! What does he think he is doing?' Well, what I hope I'm doing, and here's where your English paper's got a point, is - I'm responding to the will of the people.
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Jim Malone
[after a plan intercepting Capone's shipment of liquor through Canada goes wrong]
Oh what the hell? You gotta die of something.
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Eliot Ness
What are we doing here?
Jim Malone
Liquor raid.
Jim Malone
Mr. Ness, everybody knows where the booze is. The problem isn't finding it, the problem is who wants to cross Capone.
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District Attorney
[when the Judge announces the switch of jury]
What did you tell him?
Eliot Ness
I told him his name is in the ledger too.
[Close-up of the Judge, staring daggers at Ness from the bench]
District Attorney
His name wasn't in the ledger...
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Jim Malone
[Mike is unwilling to disclose the information of Walter Payne]
I need to know where this guy is! And I need to know NOW! Or I'm gonna rat you out for all the shit I know that you've done in your life! I'm going to turn you over!
Police Chief Mike Dorsett
[icily]
This is a dead man talking to me, Jimmy.
Jim Malone
Is it?
Police Chief Mike Dorsett
[muttering]
You're dead.
[they fight until Mike gets the upper hand]
Police Chief Mike Dorsett
Who the hell do you think you are? I'll have your ass hanging from a flagpole in the morning!
Jim Malone
[Malone kicks Mike in the groin, pins him to a wall and point his gun at him]
Let's cut the wolfing, pal! You tell me, or you're going to the hospital or the fucking morgue!
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[Malone, dying of multiple gunshot wounds, reaches for something on the floor]
Eliot Ness
What? What do you want? This?
[Ness grabs Malone's St. Jude medallion and hands it to him, but Malone throws it aside and reaches for a railway timetable]
Eliot Ness
The bookkeeper?
Jim Malone
Bookkeeper! Now... *what are you prepared to do?*
[Malone dies]
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Alderman
I wonder if we could talk for a minute? John O'Shea, Alderman, 43rd Ward.
Eliot Ness
Yes, Alderman, I know who you are. Would you excuse us?
[dismisses the rest of the team from his office]
Eliot Ness
We have several large operations in the works, so we're rather busy, Alderman. So, what can we do for you?
Alderman
I came up to congratulate you on a job well done. Share your good fortune on such a lovely day.
[drops bribe envelope on the desk]
Eliot Ness
What's that?
[shrugs and makes a giggle sound]
Eliot Ness
What is that?
Alderman
Mr. Ness, you're an educated man. Let me pay you the compliment of being blunt. There's a large, a large and popular business - which you are causing dismay. Why don't you just cross the street and let things take their course.
[as the team enters]
Eliot Ness
In Roman times, when a fellow was convicted of trying to bribe a public official, they would cut off his nose, and sew him in a bag with a wild animal, and throw that bag in a river.
[picking up the bribe and throwing it at Alderman]
Eliot Ness
You tell your master - that we must agree to - disagree!
Alderman
You're making a mistake.
Eliot Ness
Yeah I know, well I've made them before, I'm beginning to enjoy them.
Alderman
You fellows are untouchable, is that the thing? No one can get to you? Hey, everyone can be gotten to.
Eliot Ness
[speaking over Alderman and throwing him out]
You tell Capone, that I'll see him in hell.
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Eliot Ness
[after blowing away a crook who wouldn't "Freeze!" inside the cabin on the Canadian countryside]
Didn't you hear what I said? What are you, deaf? What is this, a game?
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Frank Nitti
[taunting Ness as he holds onto a rope from the edge of the roof of the courthouse]
Come on Mr. Treasury man, ARREST ME!
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Al Capone
[to reporters]
When you got an all-out prizefight, you wait until the fight is over, one guy is left standing. 'N' that's how you know who won.
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Bodyguard
[Ness confronts Capone]
Something you want here?
Bodyguard
I don't care.
Eliot Ness
You don't care.
[Ness punches the bodyguard in the nose, knocking him to the ground]
Eliot Ness
Now he does.
[to Capone]
Eliot Ness
Come on here, Capone. You want to fight? You and me, right here? That's it, come on! What's the matter? You afraid to come out from behind your men, you afraid to stand up for yourself?
Al Capone
You want to do it now? You want to do the mat now?
Eliot Ness
Yeah! Come on, you guinea son of a bitch!
Al Capone
What? You talk to me like that in front of my son? Fuck you and your family!
Eliot Ness
Fu...
[Ness goes for his gun, while all of Capone's men pull out there guns and point them at Ness]
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Scoop
Mr. Ness! Any comment for the record?
Eliot Ness
I just happened to be there when the wheel went round.
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Blackmer Girl
Hey, mister! Mister, wait! Mister! You forgot your brief...
[the briefcase explodes]
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Jim Malone
[On a liquor raid. With his hand on the door]
If you walk through this door now, you're walking into a world of trouble. And there's no turning back. You understand?
[Pumps his shotgun]
Eliot Ness
Good.
[Points]
Eliot Ness
Get me that ax.
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Eliot Ness
I wanna hurt the man, Malone. You hear me? I wanna start taking the battle to him. I wanna hurt Capone!
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Eliot Ness
[confronting Capone at the entrance to a hotel]
Come on Capone! You wanna fight? You wanna settle it right now? Right here? Let's go!
Al Capone
Listen to me here! You ain't got nothin' on me, nothin'! You're just a cop! Fuck you and your family!
Eliot Ness
Fuh... know what?
[Ness goes to pull his gun, Capone's goons pull their guns and point them at Ness]
Jim Malone
Not now Eliot, not now.
[Malone grabs Ness]
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Jim Malone
First, who can you trust?
[Ness starts to answer but Malone interrupts him]
Jim Malone
Nobody. The cops, nobody. 'Cause nobody wants you here.
Eliot Ness
Then why are you helping me?
Jim Malone
Because I swore to uphold the law. And if you believe that, I'll tell you another. Now, who can you trust?
Jim Malone
That's the sorry truth.
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Eliot Ness
Get your hands in the air! Nobody move!
Jim Malone
This is a raid!
Eliot Ness
Everybody into the center of the room!
Baseball Bat Victim
What are you doing here?
Jim Malone
All this stuff is impounded! You're all under arrest!
Baseball Bat Victim
Hey, this isn't right! Hey, this is no good!
[Points at Malone's face]
Baseball Bat Victim
You got a warrant?
Jim Malone
Sure, here's my warrant!
[Punches him twice in the stomach. He collapses]
Jim Malone
How do you think he feels now? Better? Or worse?
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Eliot Ness
[visiting Malone at his home after hours]
If you'd like to come with me, I need your help. I'm asking you for help.
Jim Malone
Well. That's the thing you fear, isn't it?
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Bartender
That green beer you're peddlin' just ain't any good.
Bowtie Driver
It ain't supposed to be good! It's supposed to be bought.
Bartender
I ain't buyin'.
Bowtie Driver
Don't worry about it, pops! We won't come back.
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Al Capone
[to reporters]
There is violence in Chicago, of course, but not by me and not by anybody I employ, and I'll tell you why. Because it's not good business.
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Jim Malone
Mr Ness, I wish I'd met you 10 years and 20 pounds ago. But I just think it got more important to me to stay alive. And that's why I'm walking the beat.
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Oscar Wallace
We can get him on income tax evasion if we can just show that any of the money from the organization business is going to *him*. See, legally, he receives no income.
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Oscar Wallace
Capone's organization is *incredibly* diverse. Look at this. It owns Canadian holding company associations, which owns, in turn, Green Light Laundry, Midwest Cabs, Jolly Time Playthings...
Eliot Ness
Jolly Time Playthings?
Oscar Wallace
Yes. Jolly Time Playthings.
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Jim Malone
If you have to fire, hold low - and squeeze. And put your man down. Because he'd do the same to you. Shoot to kill. Did you hear what I said?
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Al Capone
You fuck, you got nuthin'! You're nuthin' but talk and a badge. You're here because you got *nuthin'*. You got nuthin' in court, you don't got the bookkeeper, you got nuthing! Nuthing!
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Ness' Wife
Well, he's got a lot on his mind.
Eliot Ness
He does?
Ness' Wife
Yes!
Eliot Ness
Like what?
Ness' Wife
Like what his name is.
Eliot Ness
Well, "John." I thought that was all settled. "John." I thought we liked "John".
Ness' Wife
And I suppose his middle name will be "Law".
Eliot Ness
No, it'll be "Edgar." It'll be "J. Edgar."
Ness' Wife
I don't think so.
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Mountie Captain
We will engage from the Canadian side of the bridge. Thus, taking them by surprise from the rear. And surprise, as you very well know, Mr Ness, is half the battle.
Eliot Ness
The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle. Losing is half the battle. Let's think about what is all the battle. Let's take the fight to them, gentlemen!
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Police Chief Mike Dorsett
You're fuckin' nuts, man. You're fuckin' out of your mind! You're out of your mind! And I tried to save your life. Get your hands off. You owe me, Jimmy. I don't owe you nothin'.
Jim Malone
My people are being killed.
Police Chief Mike Dorsett
Your people? We're your people!
Jim Malone
You're my people?
Police Chief Mike Dorsett
Yes, we're your people.
Jim Malone
You fuckin' run with the Dagos!
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Al Capone
Your Honor. Your Honor, is that justice?
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Jim Malone
Ness! I am just a poor beat cop.
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Jim Malone
Maybe I'm that whore with a heart of gold. The one good cop in the bad town.
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Ness' Wife
Now it's time to go to work. Go make a good first impression. I love you, Eliot. Now shoo.
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Eliot Ness
You're a good cop.
Jim Malone
How do you know that?
Eliot Ness
You told me.
Jim Malone
I'm such a good cop, how come I'm walking the beat, then, at my age?
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Eliot Ness
We are a little in the dark here, but any ideas you may have.
Oscar Wallace
Well, actually, yes, sir, I do. And the one I want to try first is this. He has not filed a return since 1926.
Eliot Ness
A return?
Oscar Wallace
An income tax return.
Eliot Ness
Income tax.
Oscar Wallace
Yes, sir.
Eliot Ness
What do you do at the bureau, Mr Wallace?
Oscar Wallace
Oh, I'm an accountant.
Eliot Ness
An accountant?
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Oscar Wallace
We can prosecute him for income tax evasion.
Eliot Ness
Try a murderer for not paying his taxes?
Oscar Wallace
Well, it's better than nothing.
Eliot Ness
All right. How do we link him to the money?
Oscar Wallace
I don't know.
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