Midnight Express - The Burden of Secrets in Relationships
Tex:
You got a girlfriend, Billy?
Billy Hayes:
Yeah. She was on the plane.
Billy Hayes:
She didn't know anything about it. I didn't want her to.
Tex:
Lucky girl.
Billy Hayes:
She used to say I was the lucky one.
Tex:
Let's hope you're right, Billy. Let's hope you're right.
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Midnight Express - Confronting Family and Consequences of Choices
Tex:
Do you have a family back home?
Billy Hayes:
Yeah, a mother, father, sister and brother living in Babylon, Long Island.
Tex:
It's gonna be tough for them. You'll have to tell them about what you're in sooner or later. Say, how much did you pay this joker? The cab driver for the hash you bought?
Billy Hayes:
$200. It was my last 200.
Tex:
How much did you expect to make if you had brought that stuff back to the USA?
Billy Hayes:
I was only gonna share it or sell some of it to by friends. I'm not a pusher. Honest.
Tex: [scoffs]
Yeah, right. Selling dope always beats working.
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Midnight Express - Consequences of Choices in Turbulent Times
Tex:
Boy oh boy, you picked a bad time to fly, Billy. They're guerrillas all over the place blowing up planes and all. They hit four planes in four days. But I guess you young people don't read the news anymore. That, and with our people back home kicking up a shitstorm about the flow of heroin from Turkey...
Billy Hayes:
I didn't have heroin. It was just a little hashish.
Tex:
That doesn't matter. A drug's a drug.
Billy Hayes:
It was only two kilos.
Tex:
It doesn't matter if it was two kilos or 200 kilos. The Turks love catching foreigners. They want to show the rest of the world that they're fighting the drug trade.
Billy Hayes:
Who are you? What's your name?
Tex:
That's not important.
Billy Hayes:
Are you with the American consulate here in Istanbul?
Tex:
Something like that.
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Midnight Express - Threatening Warning from Tex to Billy
Tex: [Tex has a large revolver pointed at Billy whom he just recaptured trying to escape]
You seem like a nice enough kid to me, Billy, but you try it and I'll blow your fuckin brains out.
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