The Formula - Establishing Ground Rules in Collaboration
Barney Caine:
Check the car.
Sgt. Yosuta:
Lieutenant Caine, I gotta talk to you. You know, we're supposed to be working this case together, so let's get some ground rules straight-up front. I have a name and I'd like you to use it-understood?
Barney Caine:
You're absolutely right. I should have said, "Check the cars, Louis", or, "Would you be good enough to check the cars, Sergeant Yosuta?" but it's Sunday and I'm not with my son and it bothers me, so you'll forgive my sudden lack of charm, okay?
Sgt. Yosuta:
Okay.
Barney Caine:
Good-now check the fuckin car.
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Firestarter - Manipulation and Betrayal in Pursuit of Power
Captain Hollister:
When we find out all we need to know from her...
John Rainbird:
When you give her to me.
Captain Hollister: [after a pause]
What are you going to do with her?
John Rainbird:
John, the friendly orderly, will come in. He will greet her, talk to her, get her to smile... John, the friendly orderly, will make her happy because he's the only one who can. And when John feels she has reached the moment of her greatest happiness, he will strike her across the bridge of the nose, breaking it explosively and sending bone fragments into her brain. It'll be quick. And he'll be looking at her face at the time. He will know her power. And when he dies, which I hope is very soon, perhaps he can take that power with him... into the other world.
Captain Hollister: [finishes off his drink and heads for the door]
You are crazy!
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Firestarter - Threats and Consequences in a High-Stakes Exchange
Captain Hollister:
What's to stop me from having you erased right here and now?
John Rainbird:
My word - that I've already made certain provisions that should I "disappear", The Shop will cease to exist within six weeks. And within six months, you will stand in front of a judge awaiting sentence for crimes serious enough to keep you behind bars for the rest of your life.
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The Hustler - Confidence in Losers and Winners
Bert Gordon: [to Eddie]
George Findley is a very rich man. His grandfather left him twenty-five percent of his tobacco company... He's a gentleman. Gentlemen gamble. He gets his kicks playin a hustler. He's got an old Southern mansion with a pool table in the basement, drinks eight-year-old bourbon, smokes a cork-tipped cigarette... I never saw him play. They say he's one of the best... I've got confidence in Findley... That means I've got confidence that he's a loser, all the way a loser. You happen to be about only one-half loser, the other half winner.
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