The Big Heat - Confrontation Over a Murder Investigation
Mike Lagana:
You came here to my home about a murder?...This is my home and I don't like dirt tracked into it.
Dave Bannion:
I see. And I've violated your immaculate home, is that it?
Mike Lagana:
That's exactly it. And tomorrow morning, I'll see you don't get the chance to do it again.
Dave Bannion:
What'll you do? Make another phone call? Or have somebody make it for ya?
Mike Lagana:
I've seen some dummies in my time, but you're in a class by yourself.
Dave Bannion:
I'm stupid, because I want some answers about a murder, is that it?
Mike Lagana:
Shut up and get out.
Dave Bannion: [explodes and beats up Lagana's bodyguard]
We don't talk about those things in this house, do we? No, it's too elegant, too respectable. Nice kids - party - painting of Mama up there on the wall. No place for a stinkin cop! It's only a place for a hoodlum who built this house out of twenty years of corruption and murder. I'm gonna tell you something. You know, you couldn't plant enough flowers around here to kill the smell...Cops have homes too, only sometimes there isn't enough money to pay the rent because a cop gets hounded off the force by your thievin cockroaches for tryin to do an honest job. What's the matter? Do you think I live under a rock or something? Your creeps have no compunction about phoning my house, giving me orders, talking to my wife like she was a ...
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