White Heat Quotes

Verna This is great, but where do we go after the second feature?

Cody You're staying put. I'm the only one goin anyplace.

Ma Jarrett Where, Cody?

Cody To give myself up.

Ma Jarrett What are you talking about? You haven't a chance. Four dead - it'll be the gas chamber for sure.

Cody You don't think I'm dumb enough to give myself up to the T-men, do ya?

Verna What's the difference? You walk into the cops and they turn ya over.

Cody I pulled that Springfield heist - not Scratch Morton. I'm goin up to Illinois and take a state rap. I'll get two years at the most...I couldn't be in both places at once, could I? Little thing I cooked up before we pulled the tunnel job.

Ma Jarrett You're the smartest there is, Cody.

Verna Sure it's smart, but what about me? What do I do for the next two years?

Ma Jarrett Same as ya did before he married you.

Cody You better not, baby. I'll be back.

Verna I'll be waiting for you, honey. You can trust me.

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Creel Hey Cody, that guy's a copper.

Cody What?

Creel He's a T-man. I know him. His name is Fallon.

Cody Are you sure?

Creel Yeah. He pinched me four years ago.

Fallon Don't go for your guns.

Cody A copper! A copper! How d'ya like that, boys? A copper. And his name is Fallon. And we went for it. I went for it. Treated him like a kid brother. And I was gonna split fifty-fifty with a copper. Maybe they're waitin to pin a medal on him.

Fallon Solid gold. Come on, get up, get your hands up.

Cody Yeah, that's it. A nice gold medal for the copper. Only maybe he's gonna get it sooner than he thinks.

Parker You got me wrong, Cody. I got nothin against you. It was Big Ed. He told me to do it. You wouldn't kill me in cold blood, would ya?

Cody No, I'll let ya warm up a little.

Verna Cody, my radio won't work.

Cody Whuddya want for it, unemployment insurance?

Verna Can't I go down to San Berdoo and get it fixed?

Arthur "Cody" Jarrett Come out with your hands up, the man says! How do you like THAT,MA? Here's my answer, you dirty......

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Ma Jarrett It's these mountains, Cody. It's not good for ya. Cold all the time. Can't breathe air. Let's get out, Son.

Cody I'm all right now.

Ma Jarrett Is it going?

Cody Yeah.

Ma Jarrett Are you sure?

Cody Yeah....it's like having a red hot buzz-saw inside my head.

Ma Jarrett No, not yet, Son. Don't let em see you like that. Might give some of em ideas.

Cody You're always thinkin about your Cody, aren't ya?

Ma Jarrett That's right. Top of the world, Son.

Cody Don't know what I'd do without ya, Ma.

Ma Better?

Cody Oh yeah.

Ma Now go on out. Show em you're all right.

Cody The T-men have tied him in with us on the tunnel job...I dunno how they did it. Somebody must have tipped em.

Verna There's always somebody tipped em. Never the cops are smart.

Cody We have enough food in the house for a week. What did she have to go out for?

Verna You like strawberries, don't ya? Well, she just had to get some for her boy.

Fallon A hoodlum turns himself in on a phony rap and beats the gas chamber. I'll betcha he's thumbing his nose at Uncle Sam right now and loving it. Jarrett outsmarted you!

Evans That's just what we want him to think. We're working with the Springfield police. We arranged for the confession to check. So what happens? Jarrett does a stretch in the penitentiary - and in case he gets lonely, wants to talk to someone, we're gonna let one of our own boys do a stretch right in the same cell...You'll be one of Jarrett's cellmates. Stick with him until you find out where he unloaded three hundred thousand dollars in federal currency without a single bill showing up. Also, try to learn the identity of the very special fence that engineered this deal.

Fallon How does he operate?

Evans Buy stolen money here at thirty-four cents on the dollar. Peddles it on the European black market for - who knows how much. No questions asked. Sweet racket.

Evans This job isn't gonna be like any of your others, Hank. You see, there's insanity in the Jarretts, and some of it rubbed off on Cody. His father died in an institution...When he was a kid, he used to fake headaches in order to get his mother's attention away from the rest of the family. It worked. As he grew up, the fancied headaches became real, until now they tear him to pieces. Any minute, he's apt to crack open at the seams. And there goes our case. So you'll be workin against time...Except that Cody's not an easy guy to get close to in a hurry. The only person he's ever cared about or trusted is his mother. No one else has ever made a dent, not even his wife. His mother's been the prop that's held him up. He's got a fierce, psychopathic devotion for her. All his life, whenever he got in a spot, he just put out his hand and there was Ma Jarrett. Without her, maybe Cody'd - just like his old man.

Fallon You mean I'm supposed to take Mama's place?

Evans You can never tell. He might need someone.

Fallon I'll practice up on my lullabies.

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Evans Cody Jarrett.

Fallon He finally got to the top of the world. And it blew right up in his face.

Arthur "Cody" Jarrett You know something, Verna, if I turn my back for long enough for Big Ed to put a hole in it, there'd be a hole in it. Big Ed ... great big Ed. Y'know why they call im that? Cause his ideas are big. One day he's gonna get a really big one ... about me. And it'll be his last.

Ma Jarrett I'm the one to tell ya. It's Big Ed and Verna. They run out. It's my fault, Cody. I let you down. I said I'd take care of things. But I let you down. I saw it comin'. I didn't think he'd have the guts.

Cody Forget it, Ma, forget it. It was in the cards for Big Ed to make his try.

Ma Jarrett Don't you care?

Cody Sure. What's mine is mine. I ain't gonna have it make me sick. I'll take care of em when I get out.

Ma Jarrett That's what I told myself. And I'll help ya Cody, like always. You'll be out soon, back on top of the world.

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Arthur "Cody" Jarrett Made it, Ma! Top of the world!

Verna Why don't ya keep it all?...Why don't ya? We could travel, buy things. That's what money's for. I'd look good in a mink coat, honey.

Cody You'd look good in a shower curtain.

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Big Ed Now take it easy, baby. We're ready for him when he comes.

Verna I can't stand another night, Ed, listenin', goin crazy. It ain't just like waitin for some human being who wants to kill ya. Cody ain't human. Fill him full of lead and he'll still come at ya.

Big Ed Plug him and he drops, same as anybody else.

Verna The boys didn't think so. Why did they beat it down to San Berdoo?

Big Ed Because they know this is between me and Cody. They'll be back when it's over.

Verna You'll be dead.

Big Ed Maybe so. The time comes when a man's gotta stop runnin away and face things. Or else go on runnin for good.

Verna All right! Throw your life away! Stay here and shoot it out. Me? I'm goin'. I wanta live.

Big Ed Cody might have some ideas about that.

Verna I'll go someplace he'll never find me.

Big Ed The world ain't big enough, sugar, not when he finds out what you did to his Ma.

Verna You'd tell him?

Big Ed If you run out on me, why not?

Verna But I only did it for you, Ed. She had you covered.

Big Ed Cody still ain't gonna like to hear that she got it in the back. Feel more like stayin now?

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Fallon You put it on a pole, wind a spool of silk thread around it, and you hold the pole over the water. Then you sit under a nice shady tree and relax. After a while, a hungry fish comes along, takes a nip at your hook, and you've got dinner. For the next two weeks, I'm not gonna think about anything except the eternal struggle between man and the fish. I've been promised a vacation. You remember?

Evans Sorry, Hank, that's out.

Fallon Look at me. College degree, lovable personality, and I spend most of my time in prison, an undercover specialist. Eight sentences in five years! ...Sing-Sing, Leavenworth. I joined the Department to put criminals behind bars - and here I am, stir crazy!

Arthur "Cody" Jarrett *Note: ranked #18 in the ] in American cinema.

Big Ed We gotta blow outta here.

Cotton Cody calls chargin roadblocks unscientific.

Big Ed It ain't safe havin a crackpot givin orders. About time somebody took over.

Cotton Who, for instance?

Big Ed A very good friend of mine. Me.

Cotton Where d'ya want the body sent?

Arthur "Cody" Jarrett You're just lonesome, lonesome, like me...Verna? All I ever had was Ma...I was, uh, I was just walkin around out there talkin to mine...well, my old lady never had anything, always on the run, always on the move - some life. First there was my old man, died kickin and screamin in a nuthouse. Then my brother. And after that, it was takin care of me. Always tryin to put me on top. Top of the world, she used to say. And then, times when I was losin my grip, there she'd be right behind me, pushin me back up again. And now...That was a good feelin out there, talkin to her, just me and Ma. Good feelin'. Liked it. Maybe I am nuts.

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