Miller's Crossing Movie Quotes
Tom Reagan
Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.
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Eddie Dane
How'd you get the fat lip?
Tom Reagan
Old war wound. Acts up around morons.
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Bernie
Look in your heart! Look in your heart!
Tom Reagan
What heart?
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Tom Reagan
Think about what protecting Bernie gets us. Think about what offending Caspar loses us.
Leo O'Bannion
Oh, come on, Tommy. You know I don't like to think.
Tom Reagan
Yeah. Well, think about whether you should start.
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Tom Reagan
All in all not a bad guy - if looks, brains and personality don't count.
Verna
You better hope they don't.
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Johnny Caspar
Friends is a mental state. Wuddya say, kid?
Tom Reagan
I'll think about it.
Johnny Caspar
He'll think about it. Hear that, Bluepoint? That's terrific. The kid's a thinker.
Frankie
Does he want a pillow for his head?
Johnny Caspar
Okay kid, think about it. It's a mental state. But make it quick, my family's waitin'.
Tom Reagan
I'll think about it and tell you later.
Frankie
He needs to think in the thinking room.
Johnny Caspar
Kid, if it'll help you think, you should know that if you don't do this you won't be in any shape to walk outta here.
Tom Reagan
Would that be physically... or just a mental state?
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Verna
What're you chewin' over?
Tom Reagan
Dream I had once. I was walkin' in the woods, I don't know why. Wind came up and blew me hat off.
Verna
And you chased it, right? You ran and ran, finally caught up to it and you picked it up. But it wasn't a hat anymore and it changed into something else, something wonderful.
Tom Reagan
Nah, it stayed a hat and no, I didn't chase it. Nothing more foolish than a man chasin' his hat.
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Johnny Caspar
When you're right you're right, but you never say 'I told you so'.
Tom Reagan
So what am I right about?
Johnny Caspar
Well, I'll tell ya, but first you gotta promise not to say 'I told you so'.
Tom Reagan
I don't say that and I don't like people who do.
Johnny Caspar
Mink was robbin' me right along with the shmatte.
Tom Reagan
What convinced you of that?
Johnny Caspar
Mink Larouie took a powder. We can't find him. Bluepoint's makin' excuses for him, but personally, I think you were right. I think Mink and Bernie was in it together. I think Mink heard you'd bumped the shmatte, and lit out. The lousy sonofabitch.
Tom Reagan
I told you so.
Johnny Caspar
Hahahaha! You got a lip on you!
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Johnny Caspar
I'm talkin' about friendship. I'm talkin' about character. I'm talkin' about - hell. Leo, I ain't embarrassed to use the word - I'm talkin' about ethics.
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Tom Reagan
If you want me to keep my mouth shut, it's gonna cost you some dough. I figure a thousand bucks is reasonable, so I want two.
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[Tom holds Bernie at gunpoint, and walks him out deeper into the forest]
Bernie
Tommy, you can't do this! You don't bump guys! You're not like those animals back there. It's not right, Tom! They can't make us do this. It's the wrong situation, they can't make us different people than we are. We're not muscle, Tom. I... I... I... never killed anybody. I used a little information for a chisel, that's all. It's my nature, Tom! I... I... I... can't help it, somebody gives me an angle, I play it. I don't deserve to die for that. Do you think I do?
[Tom doesn't answer, he just keeps walking]
Bernie
I'm... I'm... I'm just a grifter, Tom. I'm... I'm... I'm... I'm... I'm an nobody! But I'll tell you what, I never crossed a friend, Tom. I never killed anybody, I never crossed a friend, nor you, I'll bet. We're not like those animals! This is not us! Th... th... this is some hop dream! It's a dream, Tommy! I'm praying to you! I can't die! I can't die... out here in the woods, like a dumb animal! In the woods, LIKE A DUMB ANIMAL! Like a dumb animal! I can't... I can't... I CAN'T DIE OUT HERE IN THE WOODS!... like a dumb animal. I can't... die!
[Bernie falls to his knees, praying]
Bernie
I'm praying to you! Look in your heart! I'm praying to you! Look in your heart! I'm praying to you! Look in your heart! I'm praying to you! Look in your heart...
[Tom slowly aims his gun at Bernie]
Bernie
I'm praying to you! Look in your heart. I'm praying to you... look in your heart... look in your heart! You can't kill me... look in your heart.
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Johnny Caspar
You think that I'm some guinea, fresh off the boat, and you can kick me! But I'm too big for that now. I'm sick a' takin the scrap from you, Leo. I'm a' of marching into this goddamn office to kiss your Irish ass. And I'M SICK A' THE HIGH HAT!
[Puts on his hat and coat]
Johnny Caspar
Youse fancy pants, all a youse.
Leo O'Bannion
Johnny, you're exactly as big as I let you be, and no bigger, and don't forget it, ever.
Johnny Caspar
That's right, Leo. You're the big shot around here, and I'm just some schnook likes to get slapped around.
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Verna
Maybe that's why I like you, Tom. I've never met anyone who made being a son of a bitch such a point of pride. Though one day you'll pay the price for it.
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Verna
Admit you don't like me seeing Leo because you're jealous. Admit that you've got a heart, even though it may be small and feeble, and you can't remember the last time you used it.
Tom Reagan
If I'd known we were casting feelings into words, I'd have memorized the Song of Solomon.
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Terry
Message from Leo. Leo says if you're smart, you'll sit this one out, not that he cares, one way or the other. Leo says if you're on the wrong side, you take your chances like anybody else. Leo says he gives no special favors. That's all.
Tom Reagan
Tell Leo he's not God on the throne, he's just a cheap political boss with more hair tonic than brains.
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Terry
The old man's still an artist with a Thompson.
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Verna
I thought you said you didn't care about Leo no more.
Tom Reagan
I said we're through. That's not the same thing.
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Bernie
Hello Tom. What's the rumpus? How'd you know it was me?
Tom Reagan
You're the only one I know who'd knock and then break in.
Bernie
Your other friends wouldn't break in, huh?
Tom Reagan
My other friends want to kill me so they wouldn't've knocked.
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Leo O'Bannion
You hear about Rug?
Tom Reagan
Yeah, RIP.
Leo O'Bannion
They took his hair, Tommy. Jesus, that's strange, why would they do that?
Tom Reagan
Maybe it was injuns.
Leo O'Bannion
I-Ties, more like it.
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Verna
Do me a favor and mind your own business.
Tom Reagan
This is my business. Intimidating helpless women is part of what I do.
Verna
Then go find one and intimidate her.
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Johnny Caspar
Now, if you can't trust a fix, what can you trust? For a good return, you gotta go bettin' on chance - and then you're back with anarchy, right back in the jungle.
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Adolph
Hey, horses got knees?
Tom Reagan
I don't know... fetlocks.
Adolph
Well if I was a horse, I'd be down on my fetlocks praying you don't bet on me.
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Johnny Caspar
One thing I always try to teach my boys: always put one in the brain!
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Tom Reagan
Leo gets your sister, what are you sellin' me?
Bernie
Come on, Tom, it's not like that at all. It wasn't my idea. She'll sleep with anyone, you know that. She even tried to teach me a thing or two about that artistry. Can you believe that?
[giggles]
Bernie
My own sister. Some crackpot idea about saving me from my friends. She's a sick twist all right.
Tom Reagan
She speaks highly of you.
Bernie
Yeah, well, you stick by your family.
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Leo O'Bannion
You haven't bought any license to kill bookies and today I ain't sellin' any. So take your flunky and dangle.
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Mink
Hey Tom, what's the rumpus?
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[Last lines]
Leo O'Bannion
Dammit, Tom, I forgive you!
Tom Reagan
I didn't ask for that and I don't want it. Good-bye, Leo.
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Johnny Caspar
You got references? You been to college? We ONLY take yeggs what's been to college, ain't that right, Dane? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! I'm joking, of course.
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Leo O'Bannion
Seein' you mope around here ruins my, whaddya call it, "joy de veever"?
Tom Reagan
"Joie de vivre".
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Johnny Caspar
Ethically, he's kind of shaky.
Leo O'Bannion
So you wanna kill him.
Eddie Dane
For starters.
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Verna
Leo's got the right idea. I like him, he's honest and he's got a heart.
Tom Reagan
Then it's true what they say. Opposites attract.
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Johnny Caspar
You can't say, "I told you so."
Tom Reagan
I don't say that and I don't like people who do.
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Eddie Dane
Very smart. What were you doing at the club, talking things over with Leo?
Tom Reagan
Don't think so hard, Eddie. You might sprain something.
Eddie Dane
You are so goddamn smart. Except you ain't. I get you, smart guy. I know what you are. Straight as a corkscrew. Mr. Inside-Outski, like some goddamn Bolshevik picking up his orders from Yegg Central. You think you're so goddamn smart. You join up with Johnny Caspar, you bump Bernie Bernbaum. Up is down. Black is white. Well, I think you're half smart. I think you were straight with your frail, I think you were queer with Johnny Caspar... and I think you'd sooner join a ladies' league than gun a guy down. Then I hear from these two geniuses they never even saw this rub-out take place.
Frankie
Boss said to have him do it. He didn't say nothing about...
Eddie Dane
Shut up! Or maybe you still got too many teeth. Everyone is so goddamn smart. Well, we'll go out to Miller's Crossing... and we'll see who's smart.
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Johnny Caspar
You double-cross once - where's it all end? An interesting ethical question.
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Tom Reagan
You don't hold elected office in this town. You run it because people think you do. They stop thinking it you stop running it.
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Verna
What did you tell Leo?
Tom Reagan
I told him you were a tramp and he should dump you.
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Eddie Dane
Where's Leo?
Hitman at Verna's
If I tell you, how do I know you won't kill me?
Eddie Dane
Because if you told me and I killed you and you were lying I wouldn't get to kill you *then*. Where's Leo?
Hitman at Verna's
He's moving around. He's getting his mob together tomorrow night. Whisky Nick's.
Eddie Dane
You sure?
Hitman at Verna's
Check it. It's gold.
Eddie Dane
You know what, yegg? I believe you.
[Shoots him]
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Verna
You think you've raised hell.
Tom Reagan
Sister, when I've raised hell, you'll know it!
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Verna
What you doing?
Tom Reagan
Walking...
Verna
Don't let on any more than you have to.
Tom Reagan
...in the rain.
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Verna
Why don't we just pick up and leave town? There's nothing keeping you here. I know there's nothing keeping me.
Tom Reagan
What about Bernie?
Verna
He could go with us.
Tom Reagan
You, me and Bernie; where would we go, Verna? Niagara Falls?
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Verna
That's not why you came, either.
Tom Reagan
Tell me why I came.
Tom Reagan
There are friendlier places to drink.
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Bernie
Don't smart me! See I wanna watch you squirm; I wanna see you sweat a little, and when you smart me... it ruins it.
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Terry
We are, for the nonce.
Tom Reagan
What's the disposition?
Terry
Four to one, Dana Cudahy went up with the house.
Tom Reagan
And theirs?
Terry
One burned...
Tom Reagan
The other three...?
Terry
Lead...
Tom Reagan
Whose?
Terry
Leo's... the old man's still an artist with a Thompson.
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Tom Reagan
Hello, Brian. Still fighting the good fight?
Cop - Brian
Hello, Tom! Neither rain nor wind nor snow...
Tom Reagan
That's the mailman!
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Eddie Dane
You understand that if we don't find a stiff out here, we leave a fresh one.
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Johnny Caspar
What is this, the high hat?
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Leo O'Bannion
I figure I can still trade body-blows with any man in this town.
[Tom looks at him]
Leo O'Bannion
Except you Tom.
Tom Reagan
And Verna.
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Tom Reagan
Close your eyes ladies! I'm comin' in!
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Tic-Tac
C'mon, Tom. Boss wants to see ya. He didn't have time to engrave nothin' formal.
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Tom Reagan
Tell Lazarre no hard feelings.
Lazarre's Messenger
Jesus Tom, he knows.
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Eddie Dane
Not so fast, there, Kaputnik.
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Tony
No small talk, huh? They shoot your horse?
Tom Reagan
If there's any justice...
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Tom Reagan
You're a fickle boy, Mink. The Dane finds out you got another "amigo," well, I don't peg him as the understandin' type.
Mink
Find out? We ain't event been talkin'! Jesus, Tom! Dammit! Jesus!
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Eddie Dane
Come here, bum. I am gonna send you to a deep, dark place. And I am gonna have *fun* doing it!
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Verna
That's you all over, Tom. A lie and no heart.
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Tic-Tac
I told you to put one in his brain, not in his stinkin' face!
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Verna
You're a pathetic rumhead!
Tom Reagan
And I love you, angel.
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Tom Reagan
Miss me?
Verna
Drop dead!
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Tic-Tac
The boss wants you to do it. Make sure you're with the good guys. Now, you know how to do this, right? You got to remember to put one in his brain. Your first shot puts him down, then you put one in his *brain*. Then he's *dead*, then we go home.
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O'Doole
Guttin' the golden calf again! I don't know whether to laugh or cry!
Tom Reagan
Yeah, it's awful confusing.
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[repeated line]
Tom Reagan
Nobody knows anybody, not that well...
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O'Doole
Look, don't nobody ask me, since I'm just the Chief around here, but I'll tell you my opinion. Caspar is just as crazy as Leo, and an I-tie into the bargain!
Tom Reagan
What's the matter, O'Doole? Doesn't anything ever suit you?
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Eddie Dane
Hey, Tic-Tac! You ever notice how the snappy dialogue dries up once a guy starts soiling his union suit?
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Eddie Dane
Jesus, I open my mouth, the whole world turns smart.
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Johnny Caspar
A hot dog and mustard! You see that boys? My kid's as smart as a whip.
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Tom Reagan
Is there a point... or are you just brushin' up on your small talk?
Eddie Dane
Oh, cool under fire, I like that.
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Tom Reagan
I'll think about it.
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Tom Reagan
My chin's hanging out right next to yours. I'd worry a lot less if I thought you were worrying enough.
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Tom Reagan
Drop Johnson? He play your book much?
Tad
Pssh! You kidding? I didn't even know he could count!
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Tom Reagan
So, uh, you didn't see Bernie Birnbaum before he was shown across?
Clarence "Drop" Johnson
Uh, no?
Tom Reagan
Seen him since?
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Mink
Listen, Bernie wants to see you. It's important.
Tom Reagan
Yeah, well, I'm right here. I'm not made of glass.
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Tom Reagan
It's not Leo's debt. I'll pay me own way.
Tad
I admire a man of principle. Does this go on the tab?
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Tom Reagan
Last I heard, Leo was still running this town.
O'Doole
Yeah, well, he won't be for long if this keeps up. It's no good for anyone. You said as much yourself...
Tom Reagan
First off, O'Doole, I can say what I please to Leo and about him. You can't. Second, once Leo decides, that's that. If that sticks going down, there are plenty of coppers I know who wouldn't mind bein' Chief and could swallow it clean.
O'Doole
Jesus, Tom, I was just speculatin' about a hypothesis. I know I don't know nothin'. It's just a damn mess, is all.
[a flurry of gunshots erupts behind them]
O'Doole
A goddamn mess!
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Caspar's Driver
Ain't it the life, though?
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Tom Reagan
Then it's not just the money he's after. He's got a wart on his fanny.
Johnny Caspar
Huh?
Tom Reagan
He's got a wart. On his fanny. Giving him the fidgets.
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[Enters his apartment, sits down, puts his hat on his shoe, sighs, and finally picks up the ringing phone]
Tom Reagan
Yeah? I need a couple of days. Because I don't have it. Because I say so. What would be good enough? Tell Lazarre if he's not happy he can send someone over to break me legs, I won't squawk.
[Hangs up phone]
Tom Reagan
Hello, Bernie.
[Bernie is finally revealed to have been sitting across from Tom the whole time]
Bernie
Hello, Tom. What's the rumpus?
Tom Reagan
Come on in. Make yourself at home.
Bernie
Yeah, you weren't here, so I thought I'd do that.
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Verna
I guess we both double-crossed Leo. He's well rid of us both. The two of us Tom, we're about bad enough to deserve each other.
Tom Reagan
Are we?
Verna
We're a couple of heels, Tom. Yes we are.
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Andy
Hello, Tom. How are ya? Care to scrape a knuckle on your playmate here?
Tom Reagan
No. Thanks though, Andy.
Andy
Well, if you change your mind, we'll be
[returns to pummeling thug tied to chair]
Andy
interrogating for a while.
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Verna
[parroting Tom from earlier] Well I was just in the neighborhood and I was feeling a little daffy.
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Tom Reagan
Do you always know why you do things?
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Bernie
I guess you must be kind of angry. I'm supposed to be gone, far away. I guess it seems sort of irresponsible, my being here. And I was gonna leave. Honest I was. But then I started thinking, if I stuck around, that would not be good for you. And then I started thinking that... that might not be bad for me... I guess you didn't see the play you gave me. I mean what'm I gonna do? If I leave, I got nothing, no money, no friends, nothing. If I stay, I got you. Anyone finds out I'm alive... you're dead, so... I got you, Tommy.
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Eddie Dane
You dumpin' Leo for the guy who put a bullet in your brother?
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Johnny Caspar
[after killing Eddie Dane]
That son of a bitch! I had a feeling about this son of a bitch! We silence him! And we do the same to Mink this very night!
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Leo O'Bannion
If I never see him again, it would be soon enough.
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Tic-Tac
[finds a corpse]
It's hanky time!
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Tom Reagan
You can't hijack me, Tic-tac, we're on the same side now. Or didn't you get that far in school?
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Johnny Caspar
That's great, kid. I make you a generous offer, you give me the high hat!
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[Verna has a gun to Tom's head, but can't pull the trigger]
Tom Reagan
It's not easy, is it Verna?
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Mayor Dale Levander
Look, we can get your nephews jobs. We can get them well-paying jobs. We can even get them jobs where they won't have to do any work!
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[spotting Bernie's hat at Drop Johnson's, he places it on Drop's head]
Tom Reagan
You've outgrown this one. Must be all the thinking you've been doing.
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Eddie Dane
This guy's lyin'! This guy's wrong, he's all wrong, Mink's clean and this *clown* is a smart guy!
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Tom Reagan
It's Mink isn't it?
Bernie
He came home and he wasn't happy to see me.
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Tom Reagan
Why did he kill Rug Daniels?
Bernie
I don't know, it was just a mix-up.
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Leo O'Bannion
Goddamned kids just like a twist!
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Tom Reagan
Why'd he shoot Rug, anyway?
Bernie
I don't know, the kid was dizzy.
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Bernie
Are you crazy? You can't just shoot me like that! There's no... there's no angle here! You said it yourself, we're square! We've got nothing on each other!
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Bernie
You make me laugh, Tommy. What were you going to do if you caught me? I'd just squirt a few, and then you'd let me go again.
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Bernie
I wanna see Johnny Caspar cold and stiff. That's what you'll do for your friend Bernie. In the meantime I'll stay outta sight. But if Caspar ain't stiff in a couple of days, I start eating in restaurants.
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Verna
Sneer at him, like everyone else. Just because he's different, people think he's a degenerate. People thing he's scum. Well, he's not.
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Verna
What do you want?
Tom Reagan
I was in the neighborhood, feeling a bit daffy. So, I thought I'd drop in for an aperitif.
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Tom Reagan
Any news about Rug?
O'Doole
Still dead, far as I know.
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O'Doole
What the hell is Leo doing? Make him listen to you. Tom. It ain't right, all this fuss over one sheeny. Let Caspar have Bernie. What's one Hebrew, more or less. We're burning our meal ticket here.
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Bernie
The point is, I can help you with your debts, if that would make us friends. My motto is: a guy can't have too many.
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Verna
You think I murdered someone? Come on, Tom. You know me a little.
Tom Reagan
Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.
Verna
You know or you wouldn't be here.
Tom Reagan
Not at all, sugar.
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Verna
That's not why you came either.
Tom Reagan
Tell me why I came?
Verna
The oldest reason there is.
Tom Reagan
I know friendlier places.
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Tom Reagan
Don't get hysterical. I've had enough excitement for one night without a dame going weepy on me.
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Leo O'Bannion
Well, find him, goddamn it! Go and see if he fell in the john.
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Tom Reagan
Let's get stinko.
Verna
Let's do somethin' else first.
[long kiss]
Tom Reagan
Yeah. Let's do plenty.
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Leo O'Bannion
Mother hen, eh? What's the matter, Tommy? Don't you think I can take care of myself?
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Leo O'Bannion
That sorry son of a bitch just slit his own throat.
Tom Reagan
Listen to me, Leo. Last night made you look vulnerable. You don't hold elective office in this town and you run it because people think you run it. Once they stop thinkin' it, you stop runnin' it.
Leo O'Bannion
Jesus, Tom, it sounds like a bad break for me I wasn't killed!
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Leo O'Bannion
It's the kiss-off. If I never see him again, it'll be soon enough.
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Tom Reagan
They pulled a .22 slug out of 'im. A pop gun, Leo. A woman's gun.
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Verna
Oh, you and me, huh? You always take the long way around to get what you want. Don't you, Tom. You could've just asked.
Tom Reagan
What did I want?
Verna
Me.
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Tom Reagan
Okay, Leo. Maybe it wasn't that innocent. Maybe Rug knew somethin' she didn't like him knownin' and wouldn't want you to know. Rug was following' her. Maybe he knew where she was sleeping - and who with.
Leo O'Bannion
Maybes don't make it so.
Tom Reagan
There's more than maybes.
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Tom Reagan
You've trusted me before, you've never lost anything by it. Trust me on this.
Leo O'Bannion
This is too important.
Tom Reagan
I don't ask much and I don't ask often. *Trust* me on this.
Leo O'Bannion
Tommy.
Tom Reagan
Trust me on this or to hell with you.
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Tom Reagan
Bernie and Mink are cozy as lice. And it ain't just business.
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Bernie
What are you doing to me? What are you doing to me? I didn't do nothin'!
Tic-Tac
You're going to Miller's Crossing.
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Johnny Caspar
Hello, Tom. You know O'Doole and the mayor.
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Tom Reagan
Caspar knows you were in on selling out his fix.
Mink
Who gave him that idea?
Tom Reagan
I did. Sorry, we were chatting, it slipped out.
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Eddie Dane
What's that potato-eater up to?
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Mink
You got me into this mess.
Tom Reagan
That's right, I got you into this. Just remember, Mink, I'm the only one who can get you out.
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Eddie Dane
Get lost. I'll see where the twist flops.
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Tad
You know who I am?
Verna
Yeah, Johnny Caspar's shadow. What? Did he stay in bed today?
Tad
Jesus, I open my mouth, the whole world turns smart. You're Leo's twist, right?
Verna
Me and Leo are through.
Tad
Yeah? So, you're sluttin' around with Tom now, huh?
Verna
You get outta here!
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Eddie Dane
Go ahead and run, sweetie. I'll track down all of you whores.
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Bernie
I guess I made kind of a fool of myself out there. Bawlin' away like a twist.
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Bernie
What's the matter? You got nothin' to crack wise about? Bernie ain't so funny anymore?
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Johnny Caspar
Eh, runnin' things. It ain't all gravy.
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Tom Reagan
Bernie. I had a dream about you the other day.
Bernie
Yeah? A nightmare?
Tom Reagan
On the contrary. Very sweet. I dreamt you were lying out at Miller's Crossing with your face blown off.
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Eddie Dane
I followed you this afternoon. And I wondered why Einstein would want to talk to a gorilla. So, I grabbed the gorilla and I beat it out of him. You give me a big guy every time, they break easy. Not like you.
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Mayor's Secretary
Hello, Tom. Where you been hidin'?
Tom Reagan
Hither and yon.
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Mayor Dale Levander
Needless to say, this office will do anything in its power to assist you and your cousins. We did it for Leo, of course, on countless occasions.
Johnny Caspar
Damn right! Had every potato-eater from County Cork on the public tit!
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Verna
I thought you said you didn't care about Leo.
Tom Reagan
I said we were through. It's not the same thing.
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Leo O'Bannion
You could've told me.
Tom Reagan
Telling you would only have queered things if it had - there just wasn't any point.
Leo O'Bannion
Yeah, I can see that.
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Verna
No one really cares, do they? His friends didn't really like him.
Tom Reagan
He didn't like his friends.
Verna
You're someone to talk. You're a son of a bitch, Tom.
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Bernie
I got that crazy dago mad at me. Don't ask me why. I'm just a small timer trying to get by, like everyone else.
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Frankie
Get your little Hebe ass in the car!
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Johnny Caspar, Jr.
Papa Papa I got a prize from the sisters! Papa Papa I got a prize from the sisters! Papa Papa I got a...
[Johnny Sr. smacks him]
Johnny Caspar
Hey! You take a page outta this guy's book! A little less you talk, a little more you think!
[Junior sobs. Johnny turns to Tom]
Johnny Caspar
Kids. You gotta be firm.
[turns back to Junior]
Johnny Caspar
Aww what's the matter? Did somebody hit you? What's the matter?
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Tad
You're not supposed to be here since you turned rat.
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Tic-Tac
Okay, take him in the woods and whack him.
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Leo O'Bannion
I plan to ask her to marry me, Tom. I guess you think that's a bonehead play.
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Leo O'Bannion
[to Tom]
I need you... things could be the way they used to be... I know it... I just know it!
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Johnny Caspar
I'm talking about friendship. I'm talking about character. I'm talking about - Hell, Leo, I ain't embarrassed to use the word. I'm talking about ethics. You know I'm a sportin' man. I like to lay the occasional bet. But I ain't that sportin'. When I fix a fight, say I pay a 3-to-1 favorite to throw a goddamn fight, I got the right to expect that fight to go off at 3-to-1. But every time I lay a bet with this son of a bitch Bernie Bernbaum, before I know it, the odds is even up. Or worse, I'm bettin' on the short money. The sheeny knows I like sure things. He's sellin' the information I fixed the fight. Out-of-town money comes pours in. The odds go straight to hell. I don't know who he's sellin' to who, maybe the Los Angeles combine. I don't know. The point is, Bernie ain't satisfied with the honest dollar he can make... He ain't satisfied with the business I do on his book. He is selling tips on how I bet. And I mean, part of the payoff that should be ridin' on my hip is ridin' on someone else's. So, back we go to these questions. Friendship. Character. Ethics. So ,it's clear what I'm saying?
Leo O'Bannion
As - mud.
Johnny Caspar
It's gettin' so a businessman can't expect no return from a fixed fight.
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Leo O'Bannion
As far as I know and what I don't know in this town ain't worth knowin', the cops haven't closed any of your dives and the DA hasn't touched any of your rackets.
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Leo O'Bannion
Twist a pig's ear, watch him squeal.
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Tom Reagan
She sees the angle, which is you, she plays it. She's a grifter, just like her brother. Probably had grifter parents and grifter grandparents and some day they're each going to spawn little grifter kids.
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Leo O'Bannion
She's, for sure, a prickly pear.
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Leo O'Bannion
I don't like to hear my friends run down even by other friends.
Tom Reagan
Friendship's nothing to do with it.
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Tom Reagan
I want me hat.
Verna
Is that all you came for?
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Tom Reagan
Where's me hat?
Tad
You bet it, mug. Good thing the game broke up before you bet your trousers.
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Leo O'Bannion
Okay, give me the needle. I am a sap. I deserve it.
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Leo O'Bannion
Hello, Tommy. You know O'Doole and the mayor.
Tom Reagan
I oughta. I voted for him six times last May.
Mayor Dale Levander
And that ain't the record either.
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Tom Reagan
So, you've lost your lady friend and the tail you put on her?
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Leo O'Bannion
You'd do anything to help your friends, like you'd do anything to kick your enemies.
Tom Reagan
Wrong, Leo. You do things for a reason.
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Tom Reagan
So, what's the plan?
Leo O'Bannion
Jump on the guinea hard with both feet.
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Tom Reagan
Who's the war paint for?
Verna
Go home and dry out.
Tom Reagan
You don't need it for Leo. Believe me. He already thinks you're the original Miss Jesus.
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Verna
I don't know Leo's business, but he's a big boy.
Tom Reagan
He used to be.
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Verna
I don't like being threatened.
Tom Reagan
And I don't like being taken for a sucker.
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Verna
If Leo wants to help out, I'll step out with him and show him a good time in return. There's no harm in that.
Tom Reagan
There's a name for that kind of business arrangement.
Verna
Look, I'll do what I have to do to protect Bernie. There's no reason for you to try and queer that; regardless of what you think about me.
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2026, Japan / USA, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Adaptation, Horror
