"(knock on door)" "Forget it, man." "You can bang on that door all night if you want to." "There is no way in hell I'm letting you in." "I can't believe you're doing this to me, Shellie." "Everything we've shared - it has to mean something to you." "Ha. lt meant plenty." "Plenty of lost pay on account of how nobody wants to flirt with a waitress whose face is all purple and swollen up with bruises." "I know you're angry, baby." "And I forgive you for that without you even asking me to." "There's a difference between getting honked off at a guy who's generally not so bad, and finding out that you've been sweet-talked by a total jerk loser who skips out on a wife that he doesn't even tell you about" "every time he gets drunk, which is way too often!" "Especially the kind of total jerk loser who has to beat up on a girl to make himself feel like a man." "That hurt, Shellie." "It's one thing for you to play hard to get, but don't go trying to cut my nuts off." "I am impossible to get." "Do yourself a favor, Jackie Boy, and get help, like a shrink." "Get help and get lost." "Just open the door." "Go ahead and open the door, Shellie." "I'll take care of this." "Just open the door and you'll see how wrong you've been about me." "Oblige him, Shellie." "I'm ready for him." "No!" "If he knew that you were here with me, you don't know how bad this could get!" "This clown's got a big, mean drunk on." "And he's got four friends out there in the hall, breathing hard and just as drunk as he is." "Hey, I could swear I heard somebody in there with you just now." "Somebody!" "Jackie Boy, it's a regular African love fest in here!" " l'm no racist." " l mean, I got me all five starters, and half the bench of the Basin City Blues keeping me company." "You feel like taking them on?" "You are teasing me, baby." "Some of my best friends..." "But you're really pushing my buttons." "And the whole time you've been doing me like this, I've been too polite to point out that at any time I want to, I could kick this damn door to splinters." "OK, baby, you know what I can do." " You know what I can do." "One, two..." " All right, then!" "All right." "All right, all right!" "Troops, make yourself at home." "You brought your whole pack with you?" "None of these bozos got lives, they gotta hang out with you?" "You're gonna love this, baby." "You're gonna call up some of your friends who work the saloon." "With you and the bunch of us, we're gonna hit every joint in town, and it's gonna be great." "I ain't calling up nobody." "That's a man's shirt, and I'm sure as hell it ain't one of mine." "You got somebody's love stink all over you." "You've been with another man and you've been with him tonight." " Who is he?" " He's Superman." "He flew out the window just as soon as he heard you were coming, 'cause you scared him so bad." "(laughs)" "(Jackie Boy) You think I have no feelings at all." "(Shellie) lf you're gonna slug me, just go ahead and get it over with, you sick bastard." "(Jackie Boy) There you go, lying about me again, right in front of my friends." "I have never hit a woman in my life." "(laughter)" "That's showing her, man." "You goddamn bastard." "You goddamn coward." " Baby, we're all here to have a good time." " Yeah." " l gotta take a leak." " Oh!" "Wish you'd dropped by earlier, Jackie Boy." "Then you could've met my boyfriend." "Could've seen what a real man looks like." "There you go, after my nuts again." "But I forgive you." "I'm a generous guy." "He is generous." "But that temper of his..." "You never should have picked on him like you did." "My temper you don't have to worry about." "Shut up and keep your hands to yourself or I'll cut your little pecker off." "Ooh." "I've been told." "You don't wanna be hittin' the streets dressed like that, honey." "It's a jungle out there." "Besides, you got a couple of phone calls you ought to be makin'." "Hey, baby, I don't hear you making those calls." "Answer me!" "Oh, I don't need this grief." "Hi. I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind." "You ever so much as talk to Shellie again, you even think her name, and I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman." "You're making a big mistake, man." "A big mistake." "Yeah?" "You already made a big mistake yourself." "You didn't flush." "Troops, get outta here." "No questions, damn it." "No questions." "Now!" "(helicopter overhead)" "(sirens blaring)" "Dwight, what in the devil did you do to him?" "I just gave him a taste of his own medicine." "I don't think he'll be bothering you again." " How's your jaw?" " l've been slapped around worse." "Dwight, he was from a while back, before you showed up again with that new face of yours." "And it was only 'cause I felt sorry for him." "And it was only once." "I've done some dumb things." "Seeing as how I'm one of those dumb things, I can't give you too hard a time about that, Shellie." "But this guy, he's a menace." "He might kill somebody if I don't stop him." "I'll call you later." "No, don't go!" "Shellie shouts something I can't quite make out over the racket of a passing police 'copter." " Stop!" " It sounds like "stop. " but I can't be sure." "It's a chance I shouldn't be taking." "but I can't just go home and forget about it." "and let Jackie Boy and his pals find their fun." "They're a pack of predators and they're out for blood tonight - a woman's blood." "Damn it, Dwight." "Damn it." "You fool." "You damned fool." "I cut my Caddy across the park to pick up Jackie Boy heading like a bat outta hell up the hill." "I'm speeding." "That's a good way to get yourself noticed." "And if you're a murderer with a new face who's one fingerprint check away from the fast track to the gas chamber like I am." "the last thing you want is to get noticed." "(siren blaring)" "I don't have nearly enough cash on me to bribe this cop. and even if I did." "there's always the outside chance he's one of the honest ones." "Do I try to talk my way out of this." "or do I take this cop down and risk it all?" "Then Jackie Boy saves me a great. big. steaming pile of trouble." "Watch it, Jack!" "(horns blaring)" "Cops!" "They're right on our ass!" "Not for long." "Not where we're headed." "My gut tightens up." "Jackie Boy's leading us straight to Old Town." "The cop shuts off his siren." "He knows he's not the law." "not in Old Town." "The ladies are the law here." "beautiful and merciless." "If you've got the cash and you play by the rules." "they'll make all your dreams come true." "But if you cross 'em. you're a corpse." " The squad car's long gone, man." " Yeah. I called it." "Was I right?" "You're always right, Jack." "None of us ever doubted you for a second." "But I heard things about these girls." "Things they've done to guys who got out of line." "Who's outta line?" "Hey, baby." "Hey, baby." "Hop in, sugar." "We'll get you there." "Aw, sweetheart. I work the day shift and it's been a long day." "Besides, I don't do group jobs." "Get in the car, baby." "We'll just talk. lt'll be nice." "I don't do talk jobs, either." "Babydoll, I've had me one hell of a bad day." "I've been beat up every time I turn around." "But the day I get turned down by a hooker when I got good, hard-earned cash to pay her with... well... there's only so much a man can take." "Go try the Alamo over on Dillon Street." "That's the Alamo, not the Amigo." "The Amigo's a fag joint." "Are you having a good time humiliating me like this for no damn reason at all?" "That's far enough, Dwight." "We've been on top of these peckerwoods since they first showed up with that cop behind them." "Everything's under control." "Enjoy the show." "There's no use arguing with her." "The ladies are their own enforcers." "So, how's the barmaid?" "You know, the one that never shuts up?" " Not right now, Gail." " Ooh." "Wound up a little tight, aren't we?" "That's your whole problem, Dwight." "You worry too much." "That, and your lousy taste in women." "These days, anyway." "Damn it, Gail." "Not right now." "Those clowns down the way - they some of the barmaid's boyfriends?" "One of them thinks he is." "He's outta control." "I followed them here to make sure he didn't hurt any of the girls." "Us helpless little girls." "All kinds of death is about to hit less than 20 yards ahead of us." "and still it's hard to take my eyes off her." "Us girls are safe as we can be, Lancelot." "Those boys in that Chrysler are one mistake away from seeing what Miho can do." "And she's been aching for some practice." "She guides my glance upwards to the pixie perched on the roof's edge." " Deadly little Miho." " (girl) You're running out of alley, cowboy." "Turn around." "Save yourself and your buddies a ton of grief." "(Jackie Boy) You're a sassy little thing." "You ain't hardly in any kind of position to be making threats." "The trap is set." "locked and ready to spring." "So what?" "They're scum." "They deserve what's coming." "So why this rotten feeling in my gut that something is awfully wrong?" "They haven't killed anybody I know about." "It got pretty bad at Shellie's place, but they didn't kill anybody." "And they won't." "Why this rotten feeling?" "Something Shellie said." "I can't place it." "OK, OK, OK. I sounded off a little more than I should have." " l'm a little on edge." " Over the edge." "It's not a woman you need." "It's a good night's sleep." "You couldn't handle a woman, the state you're in." "She's saying you ain't got what it takes, Jack." "You wanna see it?" "You wanna see what I got?" "Huh?" "I've seen all shapes, all sizes." "You seen this one?" "Get in the car." "Oh, sugar, you just gone and done the dumbest thing in your whole life." "Oh, God, no!" "This is crazy!" "Out of nowhere, for no reason at all!" "Go ahead." "Go ahead." "Go ahead." " He's got the drop on her." " He's got squat." "He's dead." "He's just too damn dumb to know it." "I got you right where l want you." "This is a career-ending wound, whore." " And there's gonna be hell to pay." " Watch your step, Jackie Boy." "Yeesh." "This isn't funny." "Don't anyone laugh." "I got friends you can't imagine." "Every one of you is gonna burn." "(Dwight) Hang it up." "She's just playing with you." " You're only making it worse." " You shut the hell up." "Don't pull the trigger." "She blocked the barrel. lt'll backfire." "I told you to shut up." "I can't see." "What's happening?" "I can't see." "I can't hear anything." "For God's sake, Miho, finish him." "Yeah." "Make it quick, will you?" "She doesn't quite chop his head off." "She makes a Pez dispenser out of him." "Then it's straight to business - stretching the corpses out on the alley floor and going through their pockets." "divvying up cash when they find it." "I'm fishing around in Jackie Boy's pants." "His wallet is packed." "Mastercard." "Discover." "Platinum American Express." "and nearly 300 bucks worth of twenties that I'm not too proud to stuff into my own pockets." "Then I find an atom bomb." "Jackie Boy." "you son of a bitch." "There was a helicopter that kicked up such a racket." " I couldn't quite make out what she said." " (mouthing)" "I thought Shellie said "stop. "" "She said "cop. "" "Detective Lieutenant Jack Rafferty." "Iron Jack. the papers call him." "A goddamn hero cop." "It's held for years. the shaky truce." "The cops get a slice of the profits and free entertainment when they throw a party." "The girls get to administer their own brand of justice." "They get to defend their own turf." "If a cop blunders into the neighborhood and he's not shopping for what the girls are selling. they send him packing." "but they send him back alive." "That's the rules." "That's the truce." "The cops stay out." "That keeps the girls free to keep the pimps and the mob out." "Old Town will be left wide open." "It'll be war." "The streets will run red with blood - women's blood." "The cops!" "The mob!" "Things are gonna go back to the way they used to be!" "The hell they will!" "We got guns." "We'll fight the cops and the mob and anybody else who tries to move in on us." " We'll go to war." " Don't be stupid." "You wouldn't stand a chance." "Get me a car." "Make sure it's a hardtop with a decent engine." "I'll hide the bodies." "Did you forget that cop car that trailed them here?" "The cops know Rafferty came here." "They'll check the river, they'll check the sewer." "They'll find him and come gunning for us." "I'll haul the bodies to the pits." "The cops won't check the pits." "Get that gun out of my face or I'll smack ya." "Who do you think you are, giving orders?" " You got what you wanted out of us." " Shut up, Gail." "You got what you wanted out of me!" "And you were gone, off playing with that barmaid." "Gone until you brought this unholy mess on us." "Miho moves to my back." "One word from Gail and she'll cut me in half." "They'll be watching the roads." "They'll catch you." "It'll be the bad old days all over again." "The pimps, the beatings, the drugs, the rapes!" "They won't be watching the roads." "Not yet, they won't!" "Get me a damn hardtop!" "If I don't make it, you can have your war." "Get that gun out of my face now!" "(yells)" "Bastard!" "I forgot how quick you are." "My warrior woman." "She almost yanks my head clean off." "shoving my mouth into hers so hard it hurts." "An explosion that blasts away the dull. gray years between the now and that one fiery night when she was mine." "A hardtop with a decent engine." "And make sure it's got a big trunk." "I'll always love you, baby." "Always... and never." "(Dwight) Where'd you find that heap?" "Just look at that trunk." "We'll never fit 'em all in." "Gail?" "Unless there's something else you want me to do, you think maybe I could go home?" "All this blood and stuff's got me kind of feeling like maybe I'm gonna hurl." "Sure, Becky, go home." "But don't you talk to anybody, not even your mom." "They'll never fit in that trunk." "Not like this, they won't." "Miho." "Dry your hair as soon as you get home!" "You'll catch cold if you don't." "(squishing sounds)" "Yeesh." "Hey, Becky." "Gail said no calls." "I just want to hear my mom's voice." "I won't tell her nothing." "Please, don't say nothing to Gail." "Hey, Mom?" "Dizzy dames." "What were they thinking. sticking me with a beat-up bucket of bolts like this?" "We were barely able to get the trunk to stay closed as it was." "we packed it so tight." "There wasn't anything we could do but pile Jackie Boy in right next to me." "out where anybody who cares to look will see him." "Go ahead. take one of his cigarettes." "It'll help." "It's got you smoking there, bud." "You shut the hell up, Jackie Boy." "You're dead." "I'm just imagining this, so shut the hell up." "Well, it tells you something about your state of mind, don't it?" "It's got you hearing things." "It's got your nerves shot." "It's got you smoking." "You know it's true." "Nobody ever really quits." "A smoker's a smoker when the chips are down." " And your chips are down." " l'm fine." "You shut the hell up." "Will you look at that?" "Ooh, those hookers let you down." "What are you gonna do when you run outta gas, call AAA?" "You sucker for the babes, you." "You ain't even gonna make it to the pits." "You shut the hell up." "I'll make it." "Not unless you keep your eyes on the road, sugar pie." " Watch it!" " (horn blaring)" "Ah, this is great." "Just like being in a buddy movie." "Shut up!" "(chuckles)" "(siren blaring)" "Boy, you're screwed." "You're out." "You're finished." "Stick a fork in it." "You're swirling around the bottom of the bowl, nose-diving down the pipe." "It's over." "You're flushed." "This time, I can't bring myself to tell him to shut up." "Sure, he's an asshole." "Sure, he's dead." "Sure, I'm just imagining that he's talking." "None of that stops the bastard from being absolutely right." "I don't have a chance in hell of outrunning this cop." "Not in this heap." "Pull over!" "The only question left is whether I'm gonna kill him or not." "Tough call." "For all I know, he's an honest cop, regular guy, a working stiff with a mortgage, a wife and a pile of kids." "My hand moves all on its own, sliding one of my guns to my lap and thumbing back the hammer." " l don't know what to do." " You better stop." "You're making him mad." "Whatever you say." "(tires screeching)" "Your friend here..." "party a little too hard tonight?" "I'm the designated driver." "Well, you're driving with a busted tail light." "I'll let you off with a warning." "What next?" "The tank goes dry a quarter mile from the pits." "I shove the T-Bird the rest of the way." "A few minutes' more work and it'll all be over." "Jackie Boy will go into the damn tar pits." "I'll catch a train out of Sacred Oaks." "go home and call it a... (gunshot)" "No more questions, Dallas." "Do what I say." "Clear the streets." "We're in lockdown." "We're not selling any tail in Old Town." "Not tonight." "Don't struggle." "You'll only hurt yourself." "Your cause is lost." "We know everything." "Soon the corpse of Detective Rafferty will be in our possession, and the truce between your prostitutes and the police will be shattered." "There'll be arrests." "There'll be deaths." "My employer will seize what remains of this neighborhood." "You will all be slaves." "Nothing can stop this." "But it is within your power to save many lives by facilitating the process of transition, by negotiating the terms of the surrender of Old Town." "Son of a bitch!" "I know you." "I have suffered your kind before - the dregs of Sin City." "I serve a new master now, and soon you and all your wretched kind will serve him as well." "Now, get dressed and shed a tear for Dwight McCarthy if you must, because, by now, he is surely dead." "You don't know him." "My man will find a way." "He always finds a way." "I can't fathom these Americans always whining and going on about how they got it so bad." "This is a fine, grand country." "Guiding light of the modern world, it is." "Low taxes, land of opportunity." "Where else would one bullet buy us the fortune that we're getting for this?" "Sure beats the living hell out of blowing up airports and churches without shite to show for it." "Yeesh." "You find something, Murphy?" "Looks to be our poor, dead cop's badge." "It's all bent up." "What's this stuck in it?" "Bloody hell." "It's the bullet." "You son of a bitch!" "Bastard!" "They weren't cops. these four." "They were mercenaries." "And if they were hired by who I think they were." "the bad times haven't even started yet." "And everything seemed to be going so well." "(man) Remember, we don't have to deliver every last inch of the man, Brian." "(Brian) You got a good point there, Ronnie." "Lend me your knife." "Should I take a nap while I'm doing all this waiting?" "I'm at the bone, all right?" "There we go." "Have you ever seen anything so pretty in your whole life?" "We'll be back for the three of you, and if anyone happens by, use your imagination, OK?" "Silence. now." "No air to breathe." "Only the horrid. oily tar taste creeping up my nostrils." "Let it in." "Let it fill your lungs." "They were counting on you and you blew it." "Skinny. steely fingers at my wrist." "Miho. you're an angel." "You're a saint." "You're Mother Teresa." "You're Elvis." "You're God." "And if you'd shown up ten minutes earlier. we'd still have Jackie Boy's head." "Dwight, they got Gail!" "It's a cinch." "You got yourselves a spy in Old Town." "A stoolie who sold you out to the mob." "We gotta find out who it is and rescue Gail." "But first, we gotta get our hands on Jackie Boy's head before it gets to wherever it's going and this whole situation blows wide open." "Miho, I hope to hell you left one of 'em alive enough to talk." "I let him know I'm not fooling around." "(groans)" "We talk." "Stay smart." "Stay cool." "It's time to prove to your friends that you're worth a damn." "Sometimes. that means dying." "Sometimes. it means killing a whole lot of people." "There they are." "What do we do?" "We stop 'em, Dallas." "Jackie Boy's head is so close to me" "I could almost reach out and grab it right then and there." "(gunfire)" "Get the head!" "Get the head!" "I got it!" "I got it!" "Suck on this, you stupid slag!" "I can't tell if Miho is alive or dead." "but I'm on my feet and every ounce of me wants to get some killing done." "You want the head now, sweetheart?" "So come down and get it!" "Brave lad." "I could've put a bullet straight down your ear just now, if I hadn't got me revolver all wet and useless." "You got the drop on me, love." "I'm as helpless as a baby." "I got to come clean with you, sweetheart." "It was an outright lie I was giving ya about me revolver being wet." "You see, I'm not too fond of shooting'." "It's my preference to blow things up." "Once you blast the roof off a pub and seen all the parts flying off people, a little bang bang's never gonna match the sight of that." "And here's me, with all these fine grenades and such a sweet beauty of a remote." "But it's me knife I'll be doing you with." "You killed me mates." "Someone shoulda told ya - never give an Irishman good cause for revenge." "Deadly little Miho." "You won't feel a thing unless she wants you to." "She twists the blade." "He feels it." "I tell Miho what we're gonna do and how we're gonna do it." "I grab poor Dallas's car phone and make the most important call of my life." "First. we gotta rescue Gail." "then comes the kill." "The big. fat kill." "(groans)" "Do we just gotta stand here and watch this?" "What, are you kidding me, man?" "I could watch old Manute do his thing all night long and not get tired of it." "I mean, the man's an artist." "Only an artist should be allowed to touch such a beautiful subject." "Your skin is perfect." "Your nerves, responsive." "Beautiful." "Just give them what they want, Gail." " Becky?" " lt's over, Gail." "There's no fighting them." "Dwight's dead." "They got what's left of that cop we killed." "The mob's gonna turn it over to the police chief, the cops are gonna mow us down." "We gotta cut a deal." "You little bitch!" "You sold us out!" "I didn't have no choice!" "They was gonna hurt my mom." "You gotta cut a deal with these people." "It's selfish, you holding out like this." "You're gonna get a lot of girls killed for no good reason." "It wasn't your mom!" "We could have protected her and you know it." "It was the money, you stupid little bitch!" "Sure, there's money." "Sure, you could've moved my mom into Old Town and let her know that her daughter's a goddamn whore." "Breaks your heart, doesn't it?" "They offered me what you couldn't never offer me - a way out." "I had to watch out for my own neck." "Your neck." "Your precious, scrawny little neck!" "(screams)" "You're crazy!" "You could have ripped my throat out, you crazy whore!" "Schutz, fetch my blades." " Stuka, kill this one." " No, I was promised!" "Stupid little bitch!" "You deserve worse!" "I knew there was a reason I got out of bed this morning." "Hey." "Hey." "Nobody." "I don't see nobody." "Will you look at that?" "It's right through me." "Guys, look." "There's something wrapped around it." "Some kind of note." "Give it to me." "It's poked right through me." "Guys, look." " lt's starting to really hurt." " Out back." "Everyone." "And bring the women." "Do you think somebody should call me a doctor or something?" "McCarthy, you fool." "Hey." "Guys?" "Aw." "Dozens of them. armed to the teeth." "I'm outnumbered. outgunned." "But the alley is crooked." "dark and very narrow." "They can't surround me." "Sometimes. you can beat the odds with the careful choice of where to fight." "You can have Old Town, I don't care." " Just give me the woman." " (muffled speaking)" "Shut up." "Dwight, don't do this." " Hey, wait a minute." "Something's not right." " Shut up, or I'll plug you!" "Of course, Mr. McCarthy." "A fair trade." "She's all yours." "Now, if you'll explain to me why we shouldn't blow both of you to pieces..." "Dwight, what have you done?" "Exactly what I had to." "Every step of the way." "No!" "It isn't right!" "There wasn't no tape over his mouth!" "How come there's tape over his mouth?" "Where to fight counts for a lot." "Cute trick, McCarthy, but it will do you do good." "But there's nothing like having your friends show up with lots of guns." "No!" "McCarthy, you shit!" "The girls all know the score." "No escape. no surrender. no mercy." "We gotta kill every last rat bastard one of 'em." "Every last one." "Not for revenge." "not because they deserve it." "not because it'll make the world a better place." "We need a heap of bloody bodies so when mob boss Wallenquist looks over his charts of profits and losses." "he'll see what it cost him to mess with the girls of Old Town." "They run out back." "Right on schedule." "Deadly little Miho." "She gets her practice in." "The Valkyrie at my side is shouting and laughing with the pure. hateful." "bloodthirsty joy of the slaughter." "and so am I." "The fire. baby." "It'll burn us both." "There's no place in this world for our kind of fire." "my warrior woman. my Valkyrie." "You'll always be mine." "Always... and never." "(man) Just one hour to go." "My last day on the job." "Early retirement." "Not my idea." "Doctor's orders." "Heart condition." ""Angina. " he calls it." "I'm polishing my badge and getting myself used to the idea of saying goodbye to it." "It. and the 30-odd years of protecting and serving and tears and the blood and terror and triumph it represents." "I'm thinking about Eileen's slow smile." "About the thick. fat steaks she picked up at the butcher's today." "And I'm thinking about the one loose end I haven't tied up." "A young girl who's out there somewhere." "helpless in the hands of a drooling lunatic." "Damn it, Hartigan, I won't let you do this." "You're gonna get yourself killed." "You're gonna get us both killed." "I won't let you. I'm warnin' you." "Let go of my coat, Bob." "You're draggin' me down with you." "I'm your partner." "They can kill me, too." "I ain't putting' up with that. I'm gettin' on the horn and calling for backup." "Sure, Bob." "We'll just wait." "Sit on our hands while that Roark brat gets his sick thrills with victim number four." "Victim number four!" "Nancy Callahan, age 1 1 ." "And she'll be raped and slashed to ribbons." "And that backup that we're waitin' on will just so happen to show up just late enough for Roark to get back to his US Senator daddy." "Take a deep breath, Hartigan." "Settle down and think straight." "You're pushin' 60 and you got a bum ticker." "You ain't saving' anyone." "You got a great attitude, Bob." "Real credit to the force, you are." "Eileen's at home waitin' for you." "Think about Eileen." "Heck, Bob, maybe you are right." "I'm glad to hear you're finally talkin' sense." "Hell of a way to end a partnership." "Hell of a way to start my retirement." "Nancy Callahan. age 1 1." "For all I know. she's dead already." "You've been a very good girl, Nancy." " You've been very quiet." " (Nancy whimpers)" "Don't be scared." "We're gonna be taking you home really soon." "But first, we're going to introduce you to somebody." "He's a very nice man." "Halfway to the warehouse where Weevil said they took her. and it hits." "Wicked spot of indigestion." "At least that's what I pray it is." "(man) ..." "lighthearted and momentary digression." "The briefest indulge-ment in automotive pleasure." "(man #2) For cheap thrills." "Such short-lived durability, Mr. Shlubb." "You would risk engender-ating ill will on the part of our employers." "Burt Shlubb and Douglas Klump - two any-dirty-job-there-is thugs with delusions of eloquence." "This Jaguar you so pinheadedly covet - temporarily remanded to our custody though it may be - remains the property of the son of Senator Roark." "Gotta keep this quiet." "Take 'em down fast." "A single dent, the merest scratch thereupon, and the before-mentioned consequences of which I so recently made mention shall surely be athwart us." "(heavy heartbeats)" "(groans)" "Catch your breath." "Give your heart time to slow down." "But it won't slow down." "Get over it." "She needs you." "We're all done here, Benny." "Let's give them some time together." "Give them some privacy." "Be with you in a minute, Lenny." "I'm just making sure they get along really well." "And what kind of beast couldn't get along with a precious little girl like this?" "You must be awfully scared now." "But you've got nothing to be scared of." "(Nancy whimpers)" "All we're gonna do is have a nice little talk." "That's all." "Just a nice talk." "Just you and me." " (sobbing)" " Don't you cry now." "Doctor said it'd be like this." "Just take the pill he gave you." "(grunts)" "No need to play it quiet." "Not anymore." "Breathe steady. old man." "Prove you're not completely useless." "What the hell?" "Go out with a bang." "He likes to hear 'em scream." "I've seen his victims and their twisted little faces." "all wide-mouthed and bug-eyed. frozen in their last horrible moment of living." "No screams." "Either I'm just in time. or I'm way too late." "(grunts)" "Ooh!" "It's nothing." "Barely a flesh wound." "On your feet. old man." "(Hartigan) Roark." "Give it up." "Let the girl go." "You can't do a goddamn thing to me, Hartigan." "You know who I am." "You know who my father is!" "You can't touch me, you piece-of-shit cop." "Look at you." "You can't even lift that cannon you're carrying." "Sure, I can." "(screams)" "Cover your eyes, Nancy." "I don't want you watching this." "I mean it, baby." "Cover your eyes right now." "I take his weapons away." "(screams)" "Both of them." "(shrieks)" "(groans)" "Hell of a way to end a partnership." "(Bob) For God's sakes, don't make it any worse." " Don't make me kill you." " Doin' fine, Bob." "Never better." "(Roark grunting) I'm ready to kick your ass." "Keep him talking." "Buy time." "Just a few more minutes." "Just till the backup gets here." "Sit down and stay down." "I'll kill you if I have to." "Keep his mind off the girl - skinny little Nancy." "He can't kill her once the backup gets here." "Run home, Nancy." "Run for your life." "Hey." "Don't listen to him." "He's a crazy man." " What a tough man you are, huh?" " You stay right where you're at." "You shoot your partner in the back... then you try to scare a little girl." "Maybe I'll pull my spare rod, plug you a couple of times, show you how it's done." "We could've worked something out, but you've blown that." "Sit down or I'll blast you in half." " You're so slow, you'll never stop me." " Sit down!" "You'll never be able to stop me." "(screams)" "(sirens blaring)" "I finally sit down." "just like you told me to." "The sirens are close now." "She'll be safe." "Things go dark." "I don't mind much." "Getting sleepy." "It's OK." "She'll be safe." "An old man dies." "a little girl lives." "Fair trade." "Just tell me it isn't true, John." "What they're saying about you and that child." "It can't be true." "If you ever want to see me again... say something now." "We're looking at your basic mountain of DNA evidence, the testimony of your own partner, corroboration by six eye-witnesses - and that's just so far - and there's your own silence." "I'll do what I can, but needless to say, you are good and screwed." "Come on, Hartigan." "What's holding you back?" "What's shutting you up?" "This whole thing stinks to high heaven." "I'm not the only one on the force who smells it." "Sure, I'll rinse your bedpan and wipe your butt." "That's my job." "But don't expect any friendly chitchat outta me, mister." "I heard what you've done to that girl." "I hope they throw away the key." "Evenin', officer." "I don't have to introduce myself, do I?" "You read the papers." "This being an election year, you've seen plenty of my picture." "You know who I am and what I can do." "And I'm doin' you, Hartigan." "Cold and hard, I'm doing you." "You blew my son's ear off." "You blew his arm off." "You even blew his nuts and his pecker off." "He's in a coma right now." "They say he may never come out of it." "My boy." "He could've been the first Roark to become the President of the United States, but you went and turned him into a brain-damaged, dickless freak." "Pullin' that trigger make you feel powerful?" "Power don't come from a badge or a gun." "Power comes from lying." "Lying big, and gettin' the whole damn world to play along with you." "Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain't true, you've got 'em by the balls." "There's what, maybe 500 people in this hospital?" "I could pump you full of bullets right now, and I wouldn't even be arrested." "Everyone would lie for me - everyone who counts." "Otherwise, all their own lies - everything that runs Sin City - it all comes tumbling down like a pack of cards." "(laughs)" "But I want you firm and fit and healthy." "I'm even putting up cash of my own to get you more surgery." "Fix that heart condition of yours." "You're gonna keep on living a long time." "I'm gonna make sure of that." "You're gonna be convicted of raping that little brat, and shooting my boy." "And you're gonna spend the rest of your life in prison, disgraced, destroyed... alone." "Your wife?" "You tell her the truth and she's dead." "You tell anybody the truth and they're dead." "They won't let me testify." "I told the cops that you saved my life and they just acted like I was crazy." "They talked my parents into keeping me away." "They said that you'd done things that you didn't do." "I told them that you saved me from that Roark creep, but they won't even check me out to see that I'm still a virgin." "I'm still a virgin, still alive - thanks to you." "They got it all backwards." "Sometimes, the truth doesn't matter like it ought." "But you'll always remember things right." "That's gonna mean a lot to me." "But stay away, Nancy." "They'll kill you if you don't stay away." "Don't visit me." "Don't write me." "Don't even say my name." "Maybe you won't let me visit, but I'll still write to you, Hartigan." "I'll sign my letters "Cordelia."" "That's the name of a really cool detective in books I read." "I'll write you every week... for forever." "Sure, kid." "Now, run on home." "It's not safe for you here." "Bye, Nancy." "I love you." "John Hartigan." "Mr. Law and Order." "Mr. By the Book." "Mr. High and Mighty." "I gotta give you credit, being such a straight arrow for so damn many years without it catching up with you." "It's catching up with you now, friend of mine." "It's catching up with you but good." "(woman) Maybe I oughta look at him." "He doesn't look too good." "Ohh, he's hale and hearty, Tammy." "See?" "He's the picture of health." "That Tammy, there - she's fine, isn't she?" "I rented her out of Old Town." "I wanted to show you what you won't be getting any of, not in prison." "You hear me, Hartigan?" "If you stop being stupid, start playing along with us, you might just get some of Tammy." "You see that?" "She flinched." "You make her sick." "She heard about you and that little girl." "This is nothing but a price I promised myself I'd pay. and I'm paying it." "You don't save a little girl's life. then turn around and throw her to the dogs." "Not in my book. you don't." "They want a confession." "They won't get it." "There was a letter from Nancy waiting when they put me in solitary." "She calls herself "Cordelia. " just like she promised." "She makes no mention of anything that would give her away." "At first." "I figure she'll send another note or two before her young mind moves on to better things." "But every Thursday. another one arrives." "What a sweet kid." "I do my best to keep my hand from shaking when I reach for it." "She's the only friend I've got - the daughter I never had." "My sweet Cordelia." "Skinny little Nancy Callahan." "Eight years pass." "Then comes a Thursday when I bound from my cot." "excited as a kid at Christmas." "only to find myself staring at the damn floor of my damn cell." "looking for a letter from Nancy that isn't there." "Then another Thursday with no letter." "Is she all right?" "Did something happen to her?" "Nothing." "Two months now - not a word from Nancy." "Did they find her?" "Did they get to her?" "Of course!" "Stupid old man." "Do your math." "Nancy's 1 9 years old." "How long did you expect her to keep writing?" "She was a saint to keep it up as long as she did." "She's forgotten you. old man." "You're alone." "You're all alone." "This guy smells awful - like bad food." "Like a corpse left in a garbage dumpster in the middle of summer." "He stinks so bad." "I want to throw up." "Practically knocked my head off." "the bastard." "When I come to." "I see it." "The same kind of envelope Nancy always uses." "but there's no letter inside of it." "There's something soft." "something that ought to be alive - a hunk of meat and bone that ought to be the index finger of the right hand of a 1 9-year-old girl." "How the hell did they find her?" "She was so careful." "She never gave away where she lives or where she works." "(screams)" "I've got to get out." "I've got to help her." "Nothing else matters - not my life and not my pride. either." "It's only one final surrender they want." "You got me." "Roark." "You beat me." "I'll get it, Claire." "That'll be Marv." "He never sleeps." "He's always getting himself in deep." "Yeah?" "What?" "Hartigan." "My God, it is you." "Yes, yes... I'll get right on it." "Right this second." "I'll be there by ten, I promise." "(Hartigan) Lucille." "She wouldn't give up on me back before the trial." "She almost slugged me when I stopped her from hiring a new attorney." "When I refused to plead innocent." "she did slug me." "If she hears what I'm gonna do." "she'll probably slug me again." "Hartigan..." "Hot damn." "It's like they were waiting for my call." "They're ready to deal." "They're practically begging for a deal." "They're scared of something." "One of them as much as promised me parole if you confess and express regret and all that other dumb crap that, of course, we won't go for." "We're getting you out for time served, with no strings attached." "Then we're gonna sue those sorry sons of bitches for false prosecution." "You're gonna be exonerated, and a very rich man." " This isn't like you think it is." " The hell it isn't." "Anyone can figure out who framed you, but even Senator Roark isn't God." " You hung up the phone too soon." " We use the law, the press..." " He will never know what hit him." " l'm gonna confess." "Excuse me?" "John Hartigan, crawling on his belly in front of a parole board?" "Confessing to raping a little girl and blubbering for mercy?" "No, doesn't work." "I'm going in there telling them I'm a twisted, wretched child molester, agreeing to anything they want from me." "All right, you son of a bitch." "Let's get this over with." "I say everything they want to hear." "just the way they want to hear it." "I tell them I'm a twisted." "wretched child molester." "I agree to everything they want from me." "I love you." "Nancy." "It's a lot of miles into town, Hartigan." " You care for a ride?" " Long as you stay in front of me." "Prison's made you paranoid." "Talk about water under the bridge." "Christ." "Eight years." "Yeah." "Eight years." "Well, if it's any consolation to you... you made me hate myself." " Any word from Eileen?" " Yeah." "She got remarried four years ago." "She had two kids." "I'm sorry, John." "Don't be." "I'm glad." "Eileen always wanted kids." "She'll make a good mother." "Like you said, Bob - water under the bridge." "Bob and I get on with our fond farewells to each other." "then I go looking for the only human being on the planet who means a damn to me " "Nancy." "How could they have found out it was you writing all those letters to me?" "How did they find out who you are?" "And what have they done to you. baby?" "Not a sound." "No sign of life." "Has Roark gone to all this trouble just to torture a broken old man." "like a kid poking at a fly when he's already torn his wings off?" "What has he done to Nancy?" "It's like all she ever does is read and study and write." "No diary. no phone numbers or addresses written down anywhere." "Closest thing to a clue is a pack of matches from a lousy saloon." "It's a long shot." "but maybe she's got some friends there." "A dead end." "Nancy wouldn't have anything to do with a pack of drunks and losers like this." "But if there's anything to be found here." "the faintest lead to wherever Nancy is or whoever kidnapped her and mutilated her. this is the place." "Excuse me, miss." "Wondering if you could help me. I'm looking for somebody." "Cold night like this, everybody's looking for somebody, stranger." "It's not like that." "Her name is Nancy." "Eyes to the stage, pilgrim." "She's just warming up." "Skinny little Nancy Callahan." "She grew up." "She filled out." "Nancy Callahan. 1 9 years old." "And here I was." "expecting a skinny little bookworm." "maybe a bit too shy for her own good." "How little she told me about herself in all her letters for all those years." "How the hell did they find her?" "Then it hits me." "They were bluffing." "I've led them straight to her." "She hasn't spotted you yet." "Turn around and walk out the door." "Lead the creep outside." "Get that Beretta away from him somehow." "and kill him." "I'm just a horny ex-con watching an exotic dancer." "Just a few seconds and she'll be safe." "No." "Nancy." "Don't notice me." "Don't recognize me." "There's no time to explain." "I've made a terrible mistake, put you in terrible danger." "We need to get out of here right this second." "Whatever you say, Hartigan." "Let me throw some clothes on." "And here I'd figured you'd forgotten all about me." "Me and my dumb letters." "Kept me going." "Kept me from killing myself." "Hurry up, will you?" " (Hartigan) Maybe I should drive." " (Nancy) Not a chance." "Nobody but me can keep this heap running." "Besides, from the sound of things, you might have to shoot somebody." " l don't have a gun." " Under the seat." "It's loaded and it works." "Yeah, this'll do." "Taken it to the range a couple of times." "Kicks like a mule." "Hartigan, there's so much I've wanted to say to you." "You've never been far from my thoughts." "I've lain awake nights, thinking of you." " What are you talking about?" " (gunshot)" "Keep driving, Nancy." "Keep driving and keep the car on the road!" "She's counting on you. old man." "What are you doing?" "Prove you're still worth a damn." "Try and keep it on the road, Nancy!" "He's a decent shot." "He's got skill." "but he's in too much of a hurry." "Throwing away bullets like they were candy." "He doesn't know how to take his time." "Aim careful and look the devil in the eye." "Stop the car, Nancy." "Gotta confirm the kill." " What?" " Stop the car, now!" "Right." "Stop the car, confirm the kill." "Sorry. I got a little rattled." "It's OK." "You did great." "Sit tight. I'll be right back." "No!" "Let me stay close." "Nothing can happen to me when I'm with you." "Please?" "Let me stay close." "The stink" " I almost gag." "His blood smells even worse than he does." " Jesus." " And it's all over the place." " But the creep himself. he's gone." " (siren blaring)" "We're out of time." "The sirens" " I used to welcome the sound." "There's nothing to do now but find a place to hole up for the night." "get Nancy calmed down. and figure out what on Earth I'm going to do next." "The stink - somehow it stays with us all the way to the motel." "Nancy, I went to your apartment." "Your window was thrown wide open." "The rooms looked almost empty." "That's why I was sure you'd been kidnapped." "My window?" "Robbed again?" "That's the third time this year!" "I swore if I ever saw you again, I'd show you I grew up strong." "But there I was, just like before, scared and helpless." " l'm such an asshole." " You should sit down." "You'll feel a little bit better if you sit down." "I've never been all that good with people." "When it comes to reassuring a traumatized 1 9-year-old." "I'm as expert as a palsy victim doing brain surgery with a pipe wrench." "It's always been you, Hartigan." "All these years." "It's just nerves making you say that, Nancy." "You're just exhausted." "You need to sleep." " Sleep with me." " Stop it, Nancy!" "Eight years." "Why do you think I kept writing you those letters?" "It wasn't just gratitude." "I tried to fall in love with boys." "Even thought I did once or twice." "But I was already in love... with you." "No." "There's wrong and there's wrong and then there's this." "For God's sakes, you're just a kid!" "I love you." "I love you, too." "With all my heart." "Cold shower - it helps." "No, Nancy." "Recognize my voice, Hartigan?" "Recognize my voice, you piece of shit cop?" "I look different, but I bet you can recognize my voice." "Sure." "I recognize your voice, Junior." "Everything's gone straight to hell." "I've been suckered into betraying the only friend I've got." "and put her in the hands of a murdering rapist I thought I'd put down for good." "Suckered by a spoiled brat son of a senator." "It's all gone to hell." "Klump, it's me." "I got a dead man needs to be fetched." "I want you to set me up for a party." "I've already got the girl, you dumb shit!" "Hey, it better be perfect or I'm calling my dad!" "My tools better be clean and sharp." "It better be ready!" "It better be perfect!" "I get to do whatever I want, however I want, whenever I want it!" "My dad - l'd love him if I didn't hate him." "He spent a fortune hiring every expert on the planet to grow back that equipment you blew off from between my legs, just so the old fart can hold out some kind of hope of having a grandkid." "Although, as you can see, there were some side effects." "I'm not complaining, though." "Since you've been gone, I've been having the time of my life." "And now you've led me back to your darling Cordelia." "We all wondered who wrote all those letters." "She left not a clue." "Clever girl." "And so pretty, so pretty." "A little old for my taste, but I can forgive that just this once." "Nancy, don't scream." "Whatever he does to you, don't scream." "She'll scream. I'm gonna take all night doing dear old Nancy." "And you're gonna die knowing that it's all your fault." "They've all screamed, Hartigan." "Dozens of them - maybe a hundred." "Eight years' worth." "Every one of them has screamed." "And if there weren't so many people hereabout, I would show you how I'm gonna make dear old Nancy scream." "It's gonna be one hell of a show!" "(he chokes)" "This is it." "No way to fight it now." "No hope left." "No chance." "This is it." "This is the end." "No." "Give it a shot. old man." "Keep your neck tight." "Move." "The window - maybe there's an alarm." "The window." "Keep your neck tight. goddamn it!" "Stay conscious!" "Stay conscious." "No alarm." "The glass!" "Cut the rope." "You can do it." "You can do it." "(Klump) lt is inclement upon me to comment with marked displeasure on your rash impulsiveness in selecting such an eye-catching and impractical car to heist, Mr. Shlubb." "Protest though you might, Mr. Klump, you must nonetheless admit the phallic magistry of said Ferrari's performance." "An engine of Cyclopean power throbs beneath this steel stallion's hood." "irrelevant to said mission is the following query, which I now put forth to you." "Wherein this most streamlined and trunkless of transports - boner-inspiring though it may be - wherein are we to reposit our recently deceased cargo?" "A worthy concern." "Neatly elucidated." "I can only express puzzlement that borders on alarm." "Tell me where Roark takes the girls or I'll cut your damn head off!" "In plain English, creep!" "The answer you seek is rural, even agrarian." "The farm!" "That's all I need to hear." "Every cop on the force knows about the Roark family's farm and to stay away from it." "Shlubb and Klump were packing an arsenal." "Once things get loud." "I'll probably have use for the cannons." "But at first." "I'll have to play it quiet." "Quiet and nasty." "Nancy's car - six miles from the farm." ""Nobody but me can keep this heap running. " she told me." "Good girl." "The car stalled out on that yellow bastard and you didn't tell him how to start it up again." "You kept your mouth shut." "I'll bet Junior was furious." "I'll bet he slapped you around something fierce." "But you stayed strong." "You bought a few extra minutes." "There's still a chance." "Nancy." "Don't scream." "I ditch the car a mile or so from the farm and make my way through the woods." "I'm not halfway there when it hits." "My heart." "Can't be my heart." "I was cured." "Bad cough - blood in it." "Doesn't matter now." "I don't have to stay alive that much longer. anyway." "Rotten way to kill a man. but it's quiet." "Hate yourself later." "(slapping)" "You're only making this worse for yourself, you stupid cow!" "Do you think I'm tired?" "is that it?" "Do you think I'm getting tired?" "You're the one who's gonna crack!" "You'll crack!" "You'll cry and beg!" "You'll scream!" "Oh, yeah, you'll scream, you big, fat, ugly cow!" "You'll scream!" "You're thinking the whip was the worst I could do?" "That was foreplay." "Hartigan was right about you." "You can't get it up unless I scream." "You're pathetic!" "You're pathetic." "It's not wise at all to make fun of me like that." "It brings out the worst in me." "Stupid old man!" "In too much of a hurry." "Damn!" "It can't be!" "Charging in like Galahad." "just like I told myself I wouldn't!" "Stupid old man!" " You tagged him good!" " Don't take no chances." "Perforate the fool." "Good advice." "Give it up, Junior." "It's over." "Let her go." "You're dreaming, Hartigan!" "I get to see your eyes while I fillet the woman of your dreams right in front of you!" "Look at you!" "You're about to keel over!" "You can't even lift that cannon!" "Sure, I can." "(laughs)" "You gave me a scare there for a second there, old man." "Nancy, I'm sorry." "I'm taking no chances with you." "First I soften you up, and then it's showtime." "Here it comes." "It's gonna hurt." "You're right about that." "Sucker." "I take away his weapon." "Both of them." "(screaming)" "Eight long years, son of a bitch!" "After a while. all I'm doing is pounding wet chunks of bone into the floorboards." "so I stop." "So long, Junior." "Been a pleasure." "I didn't scream, Hartigan, not once." "I didn't scream." "I know it, baby." "You grew up strong." "By the time I get her to the car." "Nancy stops shaking." "Her skin is warm again." "She's herself again." "Thanks for remembering my coat." "And for all the little things." "Like saving my life, twice." " You better get rolling." " You're not coming along?" "No. I have friends on their way, to collect evidence." "I'm gonna blow this whole sick mess wide open." "I'm gonna clear my name." "I'm gonna put Senator Roark behind bars where he belongs." "I can't lose you, not again." "You'll never lose me, Nancy." "Nancy Callahan. the love of my life." "Shame to lie to her." "I hope she forgives me for it." "Get Senator Roark behind bars?" "Sure." "And maybe after I've pulled off that miracle." "I'll go and punch out God." "There isn't a prosecutor in the state who'll go after Senator Roark." "I killed his only son." "The bloodline is cut." "Roark's lost his goddamn legacy." "He'll use all his power to get revenge on me." "He'll go after me through Nancy." "He'll find her again." "There'll be no end to it." "She'll never be safe." "Not as long as I'm alive." "There's only one way to beat him." "An old man dies." "a young woman lives." "Fair trade." "I love you." "Nancy."