"She shivers in the wind like the last leaf on a dying tree" "I let her hear my footsteps" "She only goes stiff for a moment" "Care for a smoke?" "Sure." "I'll take one" "Are you as bored by that crowd as I am?" "I didn't come here for the party" "I came here for you" "I've watched you for days" "You're everything a man could ever want" "It's just not your face" "Your... figure" "Or your voice" "It's your eyes" "All the things I see in your eyes" "What is it you see in my eyes?" "I see a crazy calm" "You're sick of running" "You're ready to face what you have to face" "But you don't want to face it alone" "No" "I don't want to face it alone" "The wind rises electric" "She's soft and warm and almost weightless" "Her perfume is sweet promise that brings tears to my eyes" "I tell her that everything will be alright" "That I'll save her from whatever she's scared of and take her far far away" "I tell her..." "I love her" "The silencer makes a whisper of the gunshot" "I hold her close until she's gone" "I'll never know what she's running from" "I'll cash her check in the morning" "Just 1 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 35 years of protecting and serving and tears and... blood and terror, triumph that represents" "I'm thinking of Aileen's slow smile about the thick fat steak she picked up at the butcher's today" "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" "Damnit, Hartigan" "I won't let you do this, you're going to get yourself killed" "You're going to get us both killed" "I won't let you." "I'm warning 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 getting on the horn and calling for backup" "Sure, Bob." "We'll just wait" "Sit on our ass while that sick Rourk brat gets his sick thrills with victim number 4" "Victim number 4" "Nancy Callahan, age 11" "And she'll be raped and slashed to ribbons and that backup that we're waiting on will just so happen to show up just late enough for Rourk to get back to his U.S. Senator daddy" "Take a deep breath, Hartigan" "Settle down and think straight" "You're pushing 60 and you got a bum ticker" "You ain't saving anyone" "Got a great attitude, Bob" "Real credit to the force, you are" "Aileen's home waiting for you." "Think about Aileen" "Heck, Bob" "Maybe you are right" "I'm glad to hear you're finally talking sense" "Hell of way to end a partnership" "Hell of a way to start my retirement" "Nancy Callahan, age 11" "For all I know, she's dead already" "You've been a very good, Nancy" "You've been very quiet" "Don't be scared" "We're going to be taking you home really soon" "But first, we're going to introduce you to somebody" "He's a very nice man" "Half way to the warehouse where Weevil said they took her and it hits" "Wicked spot of indegestion" "At least that's what I pray it is" "I seek only the most lighthearted and momentary degression" "The briefest indulgement in automotive pleasure ...for cheap thrills." "Such shortlived durability, Mr. Shlubb" "You would risk engendering an ill will on the part of our employers" "Burt Shlubb and Douglass Klump 2 any-job-there-is thugs with dellusions of eloquance" "This Jaguar you so pinheadedly covet temporarily remanded to our customer, though it may be remains the property of the son of Senator Rourk" "Got to keep this quiet" "Take them down fast" "A single dent, the mearest scratch, thereupon on the before mentioned consequences of which I so recently made mention shall surely be afford us" "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" "What kind of beast couldn't get along with a precious little girl like this" "You must be awfully scared now" "But you got nothing to be scared of" "All we're going to do is have a nice little talk" "That's all." "Just a nice talk, just you and me" "Don't you cry now" "Doctor said it'd be like this" "Just take the pill he gave you" "No need to play it quiet." "Not anymore" "Breath steady old man." "Prove you're not completely useless" "What the hell." "Go out with a bang" "He likes to hear them 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" "It's nothing." "Barely a flesh wound" "On your feet, old man" "Rourk" "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" "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" "Both of them" "Hell of a way to end a partnership" "For God's sakes, don't make it any worse" "Don't make me kill you" "I'm doing fine, Bob" "Never better" "Ready to kick your ass" "Keep it talking" "By time, just a few more minutes." "Just until 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" "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" "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" "Later, I'll pull my spare rod." "Plug you a couple 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" "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." "Little girl lives" "Fair trade" "THE HARD GOOD-BYE" "The night is hot as hell" "It's a lousy room in a lousy part of a lousy town" "I'm staring at a goddess" "She's telling me she wants me" "I'm not going to waste one more second wondering how I've gotten so lucky" "I want you" "She smells like angels ought to smell" "The perfect woman" "The goddess" "I need you" "Goldie" "She says her name is Goldie" "3 hours later and my head's feeling several sizes too big and that cold thing happens to my stomach and I realize Goldie is dead" "Not a mark on her" "You'd have to check her pulse to notice those perfect breasts of hers aren't moving like they would if she was breathing" "She was murdered and I was right here when it happened" "Lying next to her stone drunk, just like she was" "Damnit Goldie." "Who are you and who wanted you dead?" "Who are you besides an angel of mercy giving a 2-time loser like me the night of his life" "It sure wasn't my looks" "So why the sleazy salloon" "Why the kindest Goldie" "The cops" "They're telling me too much" "Showing up before anybody but me and the killer could know there's been a murder" "Somebody paid good money for this frame" "No reason at all to play it quiet" "No reason to play it any way but my way" "Whoever killed you is going to pay, Goldie" "Open up." "Police" "I'll be right out" "I don't know why you died, Goldie" "I don't know why and I don't know how." "I never even met you before tonight" "But you were a friend and more when I needed one" "And when I found out who did it it won't be quick and quiet like it was with you" "It'll be loud and nasty." "My kind of kill" "And when his eyes go dead, the Hell I send him to will seem like Heaven after what I've done to him" "I love you Goldie" "Claire?" "Don't worry, Lucille." "I was just grazed" "Got any beers around this place?" "No way I'm giving you any alcohol" "Besides, it's not what you came here for anyway, is it" "No" "Go ahead." "It work's without them" "Thanks." "You're the best" "Lucille's my parole officer." "She's a dyke, but God knows why" "With that body of her's, she could have any man she wants" "The pills come from a girlfriend who's a shrink" "She tried to analyze me once, but she got too scared" "Haven't seen you like this in awhile" "Had a fight with some cops" "Didn't happen to kill any of them, did you?" "Not that I know of" "But they know they've been in a fight, that's for damn sure" "How the hell do you suppose I'm going to square this with the board" "There ain't no squaring it, not this time" "This isn't some bar room brawl or some creep with a gas can trying to torch someone" "Hey hey, this is big" "Settle down, Marv." "Take another pill" "Hey, there isn't no settling down" "This is blood for blood and by the gallons" "This is the old day, and the bad days, the all or nothing days." "They're back" "There's no choices left" "And I'm ready for war" "Prison was hell for you Marv." "It's going to be life this time" "How's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here" "But I'm out now" "It took somebody who was kind to me." "Getting killed to do it" "But I'm out" "I know exactly what I got to do" "So you were scared, weren't you Goldie" "Somebody wanted you dead and you knew it" "So you hit the salloons, the bad places" "Looking for the biggest meanest lug around, and finding me" "Well I'm going to find that son of a bitch that killed you and I'm going to give him the hard good-bye" "Walk down the right back alley in sin city and you can find anything" "That coat looks like ?" "serves your face" "Take off" "He's new here, Marv." "He didn't know" "Katie's my kind of joint" "Nancy's just getting started with her gig, but already the crowd's breathing hard" "Plenty of nights I've drooled over Nancy shoulder to shoulder with all the other losers like me" "But that's not what I'm looking for tonight" "What'll it be, Marv?" "A shot and a brew, Shellie, and keep it coming" "Sure, honey." "You take it slow now" "Most people think Marv is crazy" "He just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century" "He'd be right at home on some ancient battlefield, swinging an axe into somebody's face" "Or in a Roman arena taking a sword to other Gladiators like him" "They'd have tossed him girls like Nancy back then" "Show's over, dickwad" "Drink up" "Now that's one fine-looking coat you're wearing there" "You're killing days are over, you over-the-hill do-gooder son of a bitch" "I love hitmen." "No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad" "Take it off" "What?" "Fine coat like that, and you're bleeding all over it" "Alright, it's all yours" "Who was it you loosers who killed Goldie?" "The guy who did that ... he knew what he was doing" "So tell me, man, who sent you?" "I don't hear you giving me any names" "So I guess when I shot you in the belly, I aimed a little too high" "You keep holding out on me like this, and I'm going to have to get really nasty" "It's Telly." "Telly Stern... passed me the order" "He runs the tables over at the Triple Ace Club" "Thanks again" "Now the damnedest thing happens" "For a second I smell the angel's smell that belonged to my Goldie" "Just need my medicing is all" "Bastard" "You're going to pay for what you did to me" "You like talking, Louie?" "How many got paid off for the frame, Louie?" "How many for the kill?" "It was Connely." "He set me up" "He'll never talk" "I don't know about you, but I'm having a ball" "Connely talks." "They all talk" "And what have been your sins, my son?" "Well, Padre." "I don't want to keep you up all night, so I'll just fill you in on the latest batch" "These here hands of mine, they got blood all over them" "You're speaking... figuratively" "I need to find something out, I just go out and look for somebody that knows more than me and I go and I ask them" "Sometimes, I ask pretty hard" "That way, for instance, in fact, I killed 3 men tonight totured them first you might say I've been working my way up the food chain" "First 2 are minnows, small time messengers" "But it was Connely." "They money man who fingered you, Padre" "Dear Lord, Marv." "This is a House of God" "Just give me a damn name" "Roark" "You really are pushing your luck, Padre, feeding me garbage like that" "It can't be that big" "There's a farm out North Cross and Lennox" "It's all there" "Find out for yourself." "While you're at it, ask yourself..." "If that corpse of a slut is worth dying for" "Worth dying for." "Worth killing for." "Worth going to hell for" "Amen" "These keys say the Padre drove a Mercedes" "Or at least that's what they're passing off as a Mercedes these days" "Modern cars." "They all look like electric shavers" "Goldie" "Goldie" "That couldn't be Goldie" "It's my own fault, and nobody elses, that I got confused" "I've been having so much fun I forgot to take my medicine" "That wasn't Goldie back there." "Goldie's dead" "And that's the whole reason I've been doing what I've been doing" "When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine" "The cold thing, it creeps into my gut and tells me one more time it won't let go" "This is a bad place, this farm." "People have died here" "The wrong way" "I don't want to fight, pooch" "I got no gripe with you" "Easy boy" "No way I was going to use my gun on you, buddy" "It's whoever owns you, I'm curious about" "Because there's blood on your breath, and I think I know what kind" "So I sniff around to see what's burried" "Here we go" "Impossible." "Nobody can sneak up on me" "I go blind." "Not a sound." "Nobody's that quiet" "Nobody except the one who snuck in that hotel room 2 nights ago" "It was you, you bastard." "You killed her." "You killed Goldie." "It was..." "I blew it, Goldie." "I found your killer, but he was better than me" "Too quiet." "Too quick." "A killer born" "Why didn't he finish the job?" "He keeps the heads" "He eats the rest" "Lucille?" "It's not just that wolf of his" "The wolfs just get scraps" "Bones." "It's him" "He eats... people" "He cooks them like they were steaks" "Let's get you warm" "Just like they were steaks" "Now he's got both of us" "It's alright." "Take a nice slow breath" "Just look at the heads on the wall" "Heads on the wall." "The heads on the..." "Son of a bitch." "He kept smiling that damn smile made me watch him... suck the meat off my fingers" "He made me watch." "He made me watch!" "Christ, I could use a cigarette" "Dames." "Sometimes all they got to do is let it out and a few buckets later, there's no way you'd know" "You brought us some big trouble this time, Marv" "Whoever's behind this little thing, has his connections right in the department" "Any leads?" "Whoever it is, he knew I was checking out that hooker almost before I did" "What hooker?" "The one you've been obsessing over." "The dead one." "Goldie" "I didn't know she was a hooker" "It doesn't make any difference about anything" "But I didn't know that" "She was high class stuff" "She must've shown you quite a time" "Wait." "There's a car coming" "Kevin" "All I've got is a face... and a name" "I'll see you later, Kevin" "Let's go" "They've done checking the house." "They're coming this way" "Bastards, I'll show them" "You're not going to get any of us killed, Marv" "No, don't shoot." "Please, listen to me." "I'm his parole officer" "He's unconscious and unarmed." "So there's no need to kill him" "Captain." "The target." "There's no sign of him" "Here's a sign" "That there is one damn fine coat you're wearing" "I keep coming back to that cop I just killed and what he told me" "I was pretty steamed about what he'd done to Lucille" "So I took my time with that son of a bitch" "It wasn't until I showed him all those pieces of himself that he said... just a name" "Patrick Henry Roark." "Man of the cloth" "He could've become President, but he chose to serve God" "And along the way, he just happen to become the most powerful man of the State" "He's brought down mayors and governors like they were nothing" "He even made his rotten brother a U.S. Senator without breaking a sweat" "And here he's going to get killed in the name of a dead hooker" "I'm getting used to the idea." "More and more, I'm liking the sound of it" "Then it hits me like a kick in the nuts" "What if I'm wrong?" "I've got a condition" "I get confused sometimes" "And with Lucille dead, I can't get my medicine" "What if I've imagined all of this" "What if finally turn into what they've always said I was going to turn into" "A maniac" "A psychokiller" "Can't kill a man without knowing for sure you ought to" "I've got to know for sure" "The merchandise is on display, by the time I make my way to Old Town" "For an hour or so, I ask around about Goldie" "I don't get any answers, but I know I'm bound to" "Lucille said Goldie was a hooker" "And if she was, she has roots here." "Friends, maybe even family" "You can't be Goldie." "Goldie's dead" "Goldie." "Yeah, sure, right." "I haven't eaten anything or taken my medicine for days now" "No wonder I'm seeing things" "Bastard" "He's crazy" "Hit him again, Wendy... harder" "Wait a minute." "Why did she call you Wendie?" "Because that's my name, you ape" "Goldie was my sister" "My twin sister" "I guess she was the nice one" "Goldie and the other 6." "Where are they?" "What did you do to them?" "You crazy goddamn broad." "Just take a look at this mug." "Would any of you dames let me get close enough to you to kill you?" "None of you would." "But Goldie..." "And only she did because she thought I could protect her" "And I'll bet those cops didn't do a damn thing about those other girls tonight" "But as soon as they hit me for a fall guy, they showed up, guns blazing" "But they didn't get me" "And I've been killing my way to the truth ever since" "So go ahead doll... shoot me now." "Or get the hell out my way" "Nuts" "OK, I better be getting all that sorted out" "What the hell?" "I tied those knots." "That's my specialty" "You sat there and took it, when you could've taken my gun away from me anytime you wanted to" "Well, sure." "I thought I might be able to talk some sense into you" "And I probably would've had to paste you one" "And I don't hurt girls" "We need a pair of handcuffs" "What style you want?" "I got a collection" "Just give him the ones you got with you, Gail" "It was a farmboy named Kevin who killed Goldie" "But it was Cardinal Roark who was behind him and I don't know why" "I know that sounds crazy" "No it doesn't" "Goldie worked the Clergy" "Just like that, a whopper of a puzzle piece falls smack in my lap" "I'm too dumb to put the whole picture together yet, but... she fires up 2 cigarettes and hands me one and i taste her lipstick on it and suddenly my heart's pounding so loud I can't hear anything else" "I wanna reach over and touch her and taste Goldie's sweat 1 more time but she isn't Goldie" "Yeah, yeah, this'll do" "I'm also going to be needing a dozen 2-foot lengths of" "This rubber tubing" "And a spool of razor wire" "A pair of those special gloves that'll..." "let me handle the wire" "Beefing up the old home security, huh?" "You bet your ass" "She was my sister" "So I'm in this one to the end" "But why are you willing to go up against Roark for someone you barely know" "She was nice to me." "Gave me something I didn't even know existed" "I wasn't never even able to... buy a woman." "Yeah, the way I look" "I take my mind off her and I crawl back inside myself" "It's almost killing time, and I better get sharp" "I check the list" "Rubber tubing" "Gas" "Saw" "Gloves" "Cuffs" "Razor wire" "Hatchet" "Gladys" "And my mits" "We're close enough." "Pull over" "Yes, Marv" "Keep the engine running" "If I'm not back in 20 minutes, you get the hell out of here." "Don't look back" "Kill him for me, Marv" "Kill him good" "I won't let you down" "Heading downstairs to the kitchen." "Getting himself a midnight snack" "And I can guess what kind" "Come on, you son of a bitch" "Damn, he's slick" "Is that the best you can do, creep?" "That's right." "Get personal, get close." "I can take it" "I got you, you little bastard." "Let's see you hop around now" "I try to slow my heart down and breath the fire out of my lungs" "My muscles make me a 1,000 promises of pain to come" "Let me do it, Marv" "She was my sister, let me finish him" "You wasn't supposed to come down here, Wendy" "Oh, but I wanted to ki..." "I'm sorry kid, but I haven't even started with this creep and I don't want you watching the rest it'll give you nightmares" "God, I got to tell you, I'm good and bushed" "It's not that fight of our that did me in either" "It's all that sawing and tying" "It's not as easy as it looks" "It could've been a real mess around here if I didn't have that tubing for... turniquettes" "I got to admit... there was a spurt or 2" "You get the scent in the air." "To get that friend of yours to come running" "Well, what do you know." "Look who's here" "Here he comes" "That's a good dog" "He doesn't scream." "Not even when the mutt's had its fill and Kevin's guts are lying all over the place but somehow the bastard is still alive, still staring at me" "Not even when I grab the saw and finish the job" "He never screams" "I put in a call to Katie's and ask Nancy to get her clothes on and meet me at her place" "She say's "Yes" like always" "Hey, Nancy." "You got any beers?" "Sure, Marv." "Who's the babe?" "There isn't much of anything Nancy wouldn't do for me not since a year back when her frat boy roughed her up and I straightened him out but good it really gets my goat when guys rough up dames" "So what do you want me to do with her?" "Well, your best bet is... drive her all the way up to Sacred Oaks" "What about you?" "Are you leaving town?" "Hell no." "I like it here" "I hotwire a parked cab and stay under the speed limit so as not to get any attention" "My head starts to clear, and things start to make sense" "I owe you, Goldie." "I owe you 1, and I'm going to pay up" "So going after Roark means dying, win, or lose?" "Hell, I'll die laughing if I know I've done this one thing right" "Quiet as a grave out here." "No sign of target" "Alright, keep a lookout" "Kevin?" "What's left of him, anyways" "The dog ate the rest" "Oh, my God" "You monster" "You... demon" "Don't scream of I'll plug you" "He had the voice... of an angel" "Yet he spoke only to me" "And he's dead now because of 1 stupid whore" "It's not a real good idea for you to talk about Goldie that way... while I'm around" "When he came to me" "He was a tormented boy" "Tormented by guilt" "I tried to council him" "But the eating." "It filled him with white light tearful, he swore to me that he felt the touch of God almighty" "What the hell do you know?" "I know it's pretty damn weird to eat people" "He didn't just eat their bodies." "He ate their souls" "And I joined in" "They were all whores" "Nobody cared for them" "Nobody'd miss them" "And then your..." "Goldie almost ruined everything" "She stayed in public places." "And then with you..." "You were so convenient." "You'd broken man's jaw that very night" "Who would believe a thug like you?" "Kevin killed her" "I ordered the police in for you." "But you wouldn't be caught" "You wouldn't stop." "And now he's dead and you're here too" "Eliminate me" "Will that give you satisfaction, my son?" "Killing a helpless, old fart" "The killing, no." "No satisfaction" "Everything up until the killing... will be a gas" "Kevin." "We're going home" "You could scream now if you want to" "It's beautiful, Goldie." "It's just like I promised, only better" "And when his eyes go dead, the Hell I send him to must seem like Heaven after what I've done to him" "Freeze!" "Oh my God" "Jerks." "They should've shot me in the head, and enough times to make sure" "It's so stupid." "Everybody knows what's coming but they go through the motions anyway, what a waste of time" "Month's fall off the calandar while I breath and eat through tubes" "Night after night I wait for someone to come and finish me off" "After awhile I realize it's not going to be so easy as that" "I'm on my feet for about 10 minutes before the cops kick them out from under me" "They don't ask me any questions" "They just keep knocking the crap out of me and waving a confession in my face and I keep spitting blood all over it and laughing at how many fresh copies they come up with then along comes this worm assitant district attorney who turns the recorder off and says" "if I don't sign their confession, they'll kill my mom" "I break his arm in 3 places and I sign it" "From then on, it's the circus everybody wants it to be" "They nail me for the works." "Not just the people I did kill but even Lucille and the girls that Roark and Kevin ate and even Goldie" "the judge is all fire and brimstone when she hands down the sentence midnight and my death are only a few hours away, when I get my first surprise in 18 months" "My only visitor" "I'm ready for anything but that scent" "I got him for you good, didn't I, Goldie" "I'm sorry, Wendy." "I got confused again seeing you like this" "You can call me Goldie" "She smells like angels ought to smell" "The perfect woman." "The goddess" "Goldie." "She says her name is Goldie" "They fix fix me a pretty decent steak for my last meal" "They even throw in a brew." "It's the first I've had since back at Nancy's" "Then they shave my head and fix me with a rubber diaper." "And get to it" "And it's about damn time, if you ask me" "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death" "Would you get a move on, I haven't got all night" "You heard the man." "Hit it" "That the best you can do, you pansies?" "He's done" "THE BIG FAT KILL" "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" "It meant plenty." "Plenty of lost pay on account on 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 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 hurts, 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." "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 can get" "This clown's got a big mean drunk on" "And he's got 4 friends out there in the hall, breathing had and just as drunk as he is" "I could swear I heard somebody in there with you just now" "Somebody?" "!" "Jackie Boy, it's a regular African lovefest in here" " Let me know who races (?" ")" " I mean, I got me, I got me all 5 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 are 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" " Alright, Jack - 1..." " Alright - 2..." "Alright, alright" "Troops, make yourself at home" "You brought your whole pack with you?" "None of these bozos got lives, they got to hang out with you" "You're going to love this baby." "You're going to call up some of your friends who work in the salloon." "With you and the bunch of us, we're going to hit every joint in town." "It's just going to be great" "I ain't calling up nobody" "That's a man's shirt, and I sure as Hell it ain't one of mine" "You got somebody's slow stink all over you" "You've been with another man." "You've been with him tonight" "He's Superman." "He flew out the window just as soon as he heard you were coming because you scared him so bad" "You think I have no feelings at all" "If you're going to slug me, just go ahead and get it over with, you sick bastard" "There you go, lying about me again, right in front of my friends" "I have never hit a woman in my life" "You goddamn bastard." "You goddamn coward" "Baby, we're all here to have a good time" "Got to take a leak" "Wish you 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." "With temper of his, you never should've picked on him like you did" "You don't have to." "You don't have to worry about it" "Shut up and keep your hands to yourself or I'll cut your little pecker off" "I've been told" "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 out of here." "No questions, damnit, no questions." "Now!" "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?" "I've been slapped around worse" "Dwight?" "He was from awhile back before you showed up again with that new face of yours and... it was only because I felt sorry for him." "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" "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 have their fun" "They're a pack of predators, and they're out for blood tonight" "A woman's blood" "Damnit, Dwight, damnit." "You fool." "You damn fool" "I cut Caddy across the car to pick up Jackie Boy heading like a bat out of 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 whose 1 fingerprint check away to the fast track to the gas chamber, like I am... the last thing you want is to get noticed" "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 1 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 streaming pile of trouble" "Watch it Jack!" "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 got the cash and play by the rules, they'll make all your dreams come true" "But if you cross them, you're a corpse" "Hop in, sugar." "We'll get you there" "Aww, sweetheart." "I work the dayshift, and it's been a long day." "Besides, I don't do group jobs" "Get in the car, baby." "We'll just talk." "It'll be nice" "I don't do talk jobs, either" "Baby doll, I've had me 1 hell of a bad day" "I've been beat up every time I turn around" "But then day when I get turned down by a hooker" "When I got good hard earned cash to pay with" "Well?" "There's only so much a man can take" "Go try the Alamo over on Dillan 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" "Oooh, 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" "Damnit, Gail." "Not right now" "Those clowns, down the way." "They some of the barmaids' boyfriends?" "1 of them thinks he is." "He's out of 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 as safe as can be, Lancelot" "Those boys in that Chrystler are 1 mistake away from seeing what Miho can do" "And she's been aching for some practice" "She guards my glance upward to the pixie perched on the roofs edge" "Deadly Little Miho" "You're running out of valley, cowboy" "Turn around." "Safe yourself and your buddies a ton of grief" "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 don't know about" "They 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've" "I'm a little edge" "Over the edge" "It's not a woman you need, it's a good night sleep" "You couldn't handle a woman in the state you're in" "She saying you don't got what it takes, Jack" "You want to see it?" "You want to see what I got?" "Huh?" "I've seen all shapes, all sizes" "Have 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" "I don't know where... for no reason at all" "Go ahead... go ahead" "He's got the drop on her" "He's got squat" "He's dead, he's just too dumb to know it" "I got you... right where I want you" "This is a carreer ending wound for..." "There's going to 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" "Everyone in here is going to (?" ")" "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 barrell." "It'll backfire" "I told you to shut up" "Can't see" "I can't see" "I can't hear anything" "For God 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 on the alley floor and checking their pockets digging up cash when they find it" "I'm fishing around in Jackie Boy's pants." "His wallet is packed" "Master Card, Discover, Platinum American Express" "And nearly 300 bucks worth of 20s 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" "I thought Shellie said "Stop"" "She said "Cop"" "Detective Lieutenant Jack Rafferty" ""Iron Jack", the papers call him" "A goddamn hero cop" "It's hell 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 going to go back to the way they used to be" "The hell they will" "We got guns" "We'll fight the cops and the and mob and anybody else who tries to move in on us" "We'll go to war" "Don't be stupid, Gail." "You wouldn't stand a chance" "Get me a car" "Make sure it's a hard top 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 hall the bodies to the pits." "The cops won't check the pits." "Get that gun out of my face or I'll smack you" "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" "1 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 hard top" "If I don't make it, you can have your war" "Get that gun out of my face, now" "Bastard!" "I forgot how quick you are" "My warrior woman" "She almost yanks my head clean off" "Shoving my mouth into hers, it hurts" "An explosion that blasts away the dull gray years between the now and that 1 firey night when she was mine" "A hard top, with a decent engine, and make sure it's got a big trunk" "I'll always love you, baby" "Always" "And never" "Where'd you find that heap?" "Just look at that trunk" "We'll never fit them all in" "Gail?" "Unless there's something else you want me to do, do you think maybe I could go home?" "All this blood and stuff's got me feeling like maybe I got to 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" "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, mama?" "Dizzy dames" "What were they thinking sticking me up with a 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" "Now where anybody who cares to look will see him" "Go ahead." "Take 1 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" "That 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... much" "I'm fine, you shut the hell up" "Will you look at that" "Those hookers let you down" "What are you going to do when you run out of gas?" "Call Triple A?" "You sucker for the babes" "You ain't even going to 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!" "Ah, this is great." "Just like being in a body movie" "Shut up!" "Oh, you're screwed" "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 that 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 going to kill him or not" "Tough call" "For all I know, he's an honest cop, regular guy working stiff with a mortgage, a wife, and a pile of kids" "My hand moves on its own, sliding 1 of my guns to my lap and thumbing back the hammer" "I don't know what to do" "You better stop." "You're making him mad" "Whatever you say" "You're 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..." "No more questions, Dallas." "Do what I say." "Clear the streets" "We're on 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 sieze 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 knew you..." "I have suffered your kind before" "The dregs of Sin City." "I serve a new master now" "And soon, you and all your retched 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 find these Americans always whine 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 of opportunity" "Where else would 1 bullet boy's defortune that we're getting for this (?" ")" "Sure beats a living hell out of blowing off airports and churches without shit to show for it" "Yeesh" "You find something, Murphy?" "Look to be our poor dead cop's badge" "It's all bent up" "Bent and stock in it" "Oh, bloody he..." "It's the bullet" "You son of a bitch!" "Bastard!" "They weren't cops, these 4" "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" "Remember, we don't have to deliver every last inch of the man, Brian" "You got a good point there, Ronnie" "Hand me a knife" "Should take a nap while I'm doing all this waiting" "I'm at the bone, alright?" "Here we go" "Have you ever seen anything so pretty in your whole life?" "We're a back to 3 of you." "And if anyone happens by, use your imagination." "OK?" "Silence now" "No air to breath" "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, stealy fingers at my wrist" "Miho, you're an angel." "You're a saint" "You're Mother Theresa." "You're Elvis" "You're a god" "And if you've shown up 10 minutes earlier, we'd still have Jackie Boy's head" "Dwight, they got Gail" "It's a sinch." "You got yourself a spy in Old Town" "A stooly who sold you out to the mob" "We got to find out who it is and rescue Gail" "But first we got to get our hands on Jackie Boy's head before it gets to wherever it's going and then this whole situation blows wide open" "Miho." "I hope to hell you left 1 of them alive enough to talk" "I let him know I'm not fooling around" "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 them, Dallas" "Jackie Boy's head so close to me, I could almost reach out and grab it right then and there" "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" "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 haven't gotten my revolver all wet and useless you got the drop on my, love" "I'm as helpless as a baby" "Better come clean with you, sweetheart" "It was an old trade lie I was giving you about my revolver being wet" "You see, I'm not too fond of shooting" "It's my preference to blow things off" "I should blast the roof off a pulp" "I've seen all the parts flying off people" "Little bang-bang's never going to match the size of that" "And here's me with all these fine grenades, such a sweet beauty of a remote" "But it's my knife I'll be doing you with" "You killed my mates" "Someone should've told you" "Never give an Irishman a 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 going to do and how we're going to do it" "I grab poor Dallas's car phone and make the most important call of my life" "First we got to rescue Gail" "Then comes the kill" "The big fat kill" "You just going to stand there and watch this?" "You kidding me man?" "Like watching 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?" "It's over, Gail." "There's no fighting them" "Dwight's dead." "They got's what's left of that cop we killed" "The mob's going to turn it over to the police chief, the cops are going to mow us down." "We got to cut a deal" "You little bitch." "You sold us out" "I didn't have no choice" "They was going to hurt my mom" "It selfish, you holding out like this." "You're going to get a lot of girls killed for no good reason" "It wasn't your mom." "We could've protected her, and you know it" "It was the money, you stupid little bitch" "Sure there is money." "Sure you could've moved my mom into Old Town and let her know that her own goddamn daughter is a whore" "Break's your heart" "Doesn't it" "They offered me what you couldn't never offer me" "I had to watch out for my own neck" "You're neck." "You're precious, scrawny, little neck" "You're crazy." "You could've 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" "Could we look at that?" "It's right through me." "Guys, look" "There's somethign wrapped around it" "Some kind of note" "Give it to me" "The fuck we're doing?" "Out back, everyone, and bring the women" "You think, somebody should call me a doctor or something?" "McCarthy, you fool" "Hey." "Guys?" "Ohh" "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 a careful choice of where to fight" "You can have Old Town." "I don't care." "Just give me the woman" "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 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 the fight counts for a lot" "You trick, McCarthy, but it will do you no good" "But there's nothing like having your friends show up with lots of guns" "No, McCarthy, you shan't!" "The girls all know the score" "No escape" "No surrender" "No mercy" "We got to kill every last rat bastard one of them" "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" "The valkyrie at my side is shouting and laughing with the pure hate for blood-thirsty 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" "THAT YELLOW BASTARD" "Evening 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" "I'm doing you, Hartigan" "Cold and hard, I'm doing you" "You blew my son's ear off" "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 Rourk to become the president of the United States, but you had turned him into a brain damaged dickless freak" "Pulling that trigger make you feel powerful?" "Power don't come from a badge, or a gun" "Power comes from lying" "Lying big and getting 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 get them 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 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" "But I want you firm, 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 going to keep living a long time, I'm going to make sure of that" "You're going to be convicted of raping that little brat" "And shooting my boy" "Your wife." "You tell her the truth, and she's dead" "You tell anybody the truth, and they're dead" "They won't let testify" "I told the cops that you saved my life and they just (?" ") like I was crazy" "They talked my parents into keeping me away" "They said that you done things that you didn't do" "I told them that you saved me from that Rourk creep" "But they won't even check me out to see if I'm still a virgin" "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 going to mean a lot to me" "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" "If you won't let me visit, but I'll still write to you, Hartigan" "I'll sign my letters "Cordelia"" "It's a name of a really cool detective in books I read" "I'll write to you every week" "For forever" "Sure kid" "Now run on home" "It's not safe for you hear" "Bye, Nancy" "I love you" "John Hartigan" "Mr. "Law and Order"" "Mr. "By-The-Book"" "Mr. High and Mighty" "I got to 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" "Maybe I had a look at him." "He doesn't look too good" "He's hailing hard, Tammy." "See?" "He's a picture of hell" "That Tammy there." "She's fine, isn't she?" "I rented her out of Old Town" "I want to show you what you won't be getting of" "Not in prison" "You hear me, Hartigan?" "You stop being stupid" "Start playing along with us, you just might 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, and turn around and throw her to the dogs" "Not in my book, you don't" "They want a confession." "They won't get i" "There's a letter from Nancy when they put me in solitary" "She calls herself "Cordelia"" "She makes no mention of anything that would give her away" "At first I figure she'll send another note or 2 before her young mind moves on to better things" "But every thursday, another 1 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 got" "The daughter I never had" "My sweet Cordelia" "Skinny little Nancy Callahan" "8 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 alright?" "Did something happen to her?" "Nothing" "2 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 19 years old." "How long did you expect her to keep writing?" "She was a saint to give 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" "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 19 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" "I've got to get out." "I've got to help." "Nothing else matters" "Not my life, and not my pride either" "It's only 1 final surrender they want" "You got me Rourk, you beat me" "I say everything they want to hear, just the way they want to hear it" "I tell them I'm a twisted, retched 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?" "As long as you stay in front of me" "Prison's made you paranoid" "Talk about water under the bridge." "Christ" "8 years" "Yeah, 8 years" "Well, if it's any consolation for you..." "You made me hate myself" "Any word from Aileen?" "Yeah." "She got remarried... 4 years ago" "She had 2 kids" "I'm sorry, John" "Don't be" "I'm glad" "Aileen always wanted kids" "She'll make a good mother" "Like you said, Bob. "Water under the bridge"" "Bob and I get along with our fond farewells to eachother" "And I go looking for the only human being on the planet that 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 dont to you, baby?" "Not a sound" "No sign of life" "Has Rourk gone through all this trouble to torture an old man?" "Like a kid poking at fly when he's already torn its wings off?" "What has he done to Nancy?" "It's like all she 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 louzy salloon" "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 or mutilated her this is the place" "Excuse me, miss." "I'm wondering if you could help me" "I'm looking for somebody" "Well, a 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, 19 year 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 berretta 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" "I 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 forget all abotu me." "Me and my dumb letters" "Kept me going" "Kept me from killing myself" "Hurry up, will you?" "Maybe I should drive" "Not a chance" "Nobody but me can keep this heap running" "Besides from the sounds of things, you might have to shoot somebody" "I don't have a gun" "Under the seat" "It's loaded and it works" "This'll do" "Taken it to the range a couple times" "Kicks like a mule" "Hartigan?" "There's so much I've wanted to say to you." "You never go far from my thoughts" "I've lain awake nights, thinking of you" "What are you talking about?" "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 to keep it on the road, Nancy" "He's a decent shot" "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 carefull and look the devil in the eye" "Stop the car, Nancy." "I've got to 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" "And it's all over the place" "But the creep, himself... he's gone" "We're out of time" "Sirens." "I used to welcome the sound" "There's nothing to do now but find a place to huddle up for the night" "Get Nancy to calm 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 hotel" "Nancy, I went to your apartment." "Your windows thrown wide open" "The rooms looks almost empty." "That's why I'm sure you'd been kidnapped" "My window?" "Robbed again?" "That's the 3rd time this year" "I swore if I ever saw you again, I'd show you I grew up strong" "There I was just like before, scared and helpless" "I'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 19 year old..." "I'm as expert as a Paulsy 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" "I'm just exhausted." "I need to sleep" "Sleep with me" "Stop it, Nancy" "8 years." "Why do you think I kept writing you those letters" "It wasn't just gratitude" "I tried to fall in love with boys" "I thought I did once or twice" "But I was already in love... with you" "That's enough." "Jesus Christ." "I'm old enough to be your grandfather" "You're just scared" "I'm not scared" "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 going straight to hell" "I've been suckered into betraying the only friend I got" "And put her in the hands of a murdering rapist I thought I 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" "It better be perfect or I'm calling my dad" "My tools better be clean and sharp" "Better be ready." "It better be perfect" "I get to do whatever I want" "However I want, whenever I want it" "My dad." "I'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" "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." "So pretty, so pretty" "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 going to take all night doing dear old Nancy." "And you're going to die knowing it's all your fault" "They've all screamed, Hartigan" "Dozens of them." "Maybe a hundred 8 years worth." "Every one of them screamed" "And if there weren't so many people hear about, I would show you how to make dear old Nancy scream" "It's going to be 1 hell of a show" "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, God dammit." "Stay conscious" "Stay conscious" "No alarm" "The glass." "Cut the rope." "You can do it" "You can do it" "It is inclement upon me to comment with mark displeasure on your rash impulsiveness in selecting such an eye-catching and impracticle car to heist, Mr. Shlubb" "Irrelevent to said mission, is the following queary which I now put forth to you" "Where in this most streamlined and trunkless of transports, boner inspiring though it may be, where in, are we to reposit our recently deceased cargo?" "I can only express puzzlement that borders on alarm" "Show me where Roark takes the girls, or I'll cut your damn head off" "In plain english, creep" "He had to (?" ")" "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. 6 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 you kept your mouth shut." "I'll bet Junior was serious" "I 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 half way there when it hits" "My heart" "It 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" "You're only making it worse for yourself, you stupid cow!" "Don't you think I'm tired?" "Is that it?" "You think I'm getting tired?" "You're the one who's going to 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 thinking the whip is the best I could do?" "That was foreplay" "Hartigan was right about you." "You can't get it up unless I scream" "You're pathetic pathetic" "That'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 Gallahad, just like I told myself I wouldn't" "Stupid old man" "Attacked him good" "Don't take no chances." "Perferate 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" "You gave me the scare there for a second, 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 going to hurt" "You're right about that" "Sucker" "I take away his weapon" "Both of them" "After awhile, all I'm doing is pounding wet chunks of bone into the floor boards" "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 going to blow this whole sick mess wide open" "I'm going to clear my name." "I'm going to put Senator Roark behind bars, where he belongs" "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" "And old man dies." "A young woman lives" "Fair trade" "I love you, Nancy" "Uh-huh... yes" "Oh mom." "Don't go on like that" "It's not the city." "I could've gotten in a car accident anywhere" "Yeah, just a fracture" "The doctor said, it's a clean break." "Should be right as rain in no time" "Uh-huh" "Turn the right corner in Sin City and you can find... anything" "Becky?" "Care for a smoke?" "I love you too, mom" "Anything"