The Big Combo - A Decision in a Dangerous Situation
Mr. Brown:
Book me, Small Change.
Leonard Diamond:
Alright, take him out, Sam.
Sam Hill:
To the bullpen?
Leonard Diamond:
No, back to the gutter.
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The Big Combo - Trial for Murder: A Tense Confrontation
Leonard Diamond:
I'll wait until I can put you on trial for murder.
Mr. Brown:
Whose murder, Lieutenant?
Leonard Diamond:
Mine, if necessary.
Mr. Brown:
Don't push too hard.
Leonard Diamond:
It's my sworn duty to push too hard.
Mr. Brown:
Diamond, the only trouble with you is, you'd like to be me. You'd like to have my organization, my influence, my fix. You can't. It's impossible. You think it's money, it's not. It's personality. You haven't got it, Lieutenant, you're a cop. Slow, steady, intelligent, with a bad temper, and a gun under your arm. And with a big yen for a girl you can't have. First is first, and second is nobody.
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The Big Combo - Conflicting Views on Authority and Justice
Joe McClure:
Mr. Brown is a very reasonable man. You don't know him.
Leonard Diamond:
Oh, is he? Well I'm not. I intend to make life very difficult for your Mr. Brown.
Joe McClure:
You shouldn't talk like that, Lieutenant. You're overstepping your authority.
Mr. Brown:
Joe, the man has reason to hate me. His salary is $96.50 a week. The busboys in my hotel make better money than that. Don't you see, Joe? He's a righteous man.
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The Big Combo - Confrontation between Mr. Brown and Leonard Diamond
Mr. Brown:
Joe, tell the man I'm gonna break him so fast, he won't have time to change his pants. Tell him the next time I see him, he'll be in the lobby of the hotel, crying like a baby and asking for a ten dollar loan. Tell him that. And tell him I don't break my word.
Leonard Diamond:
You must have done something pretty fine to get as high as you are, Mr. Brown. I'm looking into that. I'm gonna open you up, and I'm gonna operate. I hate to think of what I'll find.
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The Big Combo - Lunch Conversations and Moral Judgments
Leonard Diamond:
Do you know Mr. Brown?
Nils Dreyer:
I had lunch with him last week. He's a very fine gentleman.
Leonard Diamond:
He's a hoodlum.
Nils Dreyer:
Because I have lunch with him, that is not a crime. I'll have lunch with anybody, I'm democratic. I'll even have lunch with you.
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The Big Combo - Debate Over Homicide Charges in Arrest
Leonard Diamond:
She's under arrest, Mr. Brown.
Mr. Brown:
What's the charge?
Leonard Diamond:
Homicide.
Mr. Brown:
That's ridiculous, she wouldn't kill a fly.
Leonard Diamond:
She tried to kill herself.
Mr. Brown:
Is that a crime?
Leonard Diamond:
It happens to be against two laws: God's and Man's. I'm booking her under the second.
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The Big Combo - A Question of Reunion and Uncertainty
Rita:
When will I see you again?
Leonard Diamond:
Well, if I'm not dead, you'll find me where I always am. In jail.
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The Big Combo - Consequences of Crime and Corruption
Leonard Diamond:
I know his name. The name of a man who will pick up a phone and call Chicago and New Orleans and say "Hey Bill, Joe is coming down for the weekend. Advance him fifty thousand," and he hangs up the phone and the money's advanced, protection money. A new all night bar opens, with gambling outside city limits. A bunch of high school kids come in for a good time. They get loaded, they get irresponsible, they lose their shirts. Then they get a gun, cause they're worried, they want to make up their losses. And a filling station attendant is dead with a bullet in his liver. I have to see four kids on trial for first degree murder. Look at it. First degree murder, because a certain Mr. Brown picked up a phone.
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