I won’t ask you to let me go again. Just tell me why I’m here please. I have a right to know why. God, I’ve already been locked in here for two months. Oldboy 2003 starring Choi Min-sik & Yoo Ji-tae & Kang Hye-jung & Kim Byeong-ok & Oh Tae-kyung & Yoo Yeon-seok & Woo Il-han & Yoon Jim-seo & Oh Dal-su et al, director Park Chan-wook, Oh Dae-su
If they had told me then it would be 15 years, would it have been easier to endure or harder? ibid.
My home is gone. I cannot call my friends or relatives because they say I murdered my wife. I am a fugitive. ibid.
Sheriff: Who the hell are you?
Reacher: The guy you didn’t count on. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back 2016 starring Tom Cruise & Cobie Smulders & Danika Yarosh & Rosamund Pike & Patrick Heusinger & Jessica Stroup & Holt McCallany & Robert Knepper & Aldis Hodge et al, director Edward Zwick
Never threaten someone you can’t go through on. Ferry 2021 starring Frank Lammers & Elise Schaap & Huub Stapel & Raymond Thiry & Monic Hendrickx & Huub Smit & Juliette van Adrenne et al, director Cecelia Verheyden, Ferry
Welcome to Amsterdam. One of the most beautiful cities in the world and a paradise for culture lovers. ibid.
For Brink I’ll do anything. He took me in when I was nothing. He is my mentor … Brink takes care of us and we take care of each other … I am the happiest man in the world. ibid.
I want to know who did this to my son, Ferry. And I want you to shoot them. ibid. Brink
Drugs? … Well, neighbour, we’re beginning to get to know each other. ibid. Danielle to Ferry
This is the best trip you’ve ever had. I swear. ibid.
It’s beginning to work, yeah. Groovy pills! ibid.
Fans of the Notorious BIG said a final goodbye to the rap star. There were tears at the memorial service. But when the funeral procession made its way through the streets of Brooklyn, there were angry confrontations, even an explosion of pepper spray. City of Lies 2021 starring Johnny Depp & Forest Whitaker & Rockmond Dunbar & Neil Brown jr & Xander Berkeley & Shea Whigham & Wynn Everett & Toby Huss et al, director Brad Furman
I got called to a road-rage incident eight miles northeast from where Christopher Wallace, the Notorious BIG, had been gunned down nine days prior … On that street corner the first door to the labyrinth opened. ibid. Poole
Neither Notorious BIG’ nor Tupac’s murder has been solved. ibid. TV news
Suge Knight has LAPD in his circle. ibid. undercover rozzer
I’m obsessed with the truth and that’s my sickness. ibid. Poole
I believe that Officer Gaines may have been an accessory to Biggie Smalls’ murder. ibid.
D-Mack and Kevin Gaines are both connected to Death Row. Both surely involved in Biggie’s shooting. And both untouchable. Why? Cos they’re both LAPD. ibid.
If the cops can be bending the rules, where does that leave the rest of us? ibid. Jack
We were a criminal organisation within the LAPD. ibid. rozzer
So you’re saying Rampart, the greatest scandal in LAPD history, which implicated 70 cops of corruption, was a diversion? ibid. Jack
I can’t work for a man who’s in bed with the very institutions that we should hold accountable. We have to do better. ibid.
Back in the 70s every cop wanted out of the city. But the only cops allowed to live outside New York were transit cops. Because the transit authority was also run by Jersey and Connecticut. So these guys I knew at the 37 started pulling overtime at subway stations and got the city to declare them, ‘auxiliary transit cops’. They bought some land in Jersey, got some cheap loans from people they knew. They made themselves a place where the shit couldn’t touch ’em. That’s what they thought anyway. Cop Land 1997 starring Robert de Niro & Harvey Keitel & Sylvester Stallone & Ray Liotta & Peter Berg & Edie Falco & Victor Williams & Janeane Garofalo & Robert Patrick & Michael Rapaport & Frank Vincent & Cathy Moriarty et al, director James Mangold, opening monologue
Our minds are primitive, Berta. ibid. Gary
I’d advise you to think to yourself, hey that’s one of the good guys. ibid. Ray to young rozzer
Don’t shut me out, Ray. ibid. Gary
One door down from the next. The wives borrowing cups of sugar. It’s like you’re the Sheriff of Copland. ibid. Moe
We share a duty, do we not? If there is a stink, we must investigate. We must gather evidence because evidence makes us see the truth. Is this the stink of a criminal act or is it a turd in a bag? ibid. Moe
Mayor Suspends Investigation. ibid. newspaper headline
I’m telling you the Mob built this town for Ray. ibid. Gary
Ray had a plan and it got very fucked up. ibid.
Freddy: I look at this time and I don’t like what I see any more.
Figgsy: Who the fuck do you think you are? ibid.
It is not just a car. It is John Wick’s car. John Wick Chapter 2 2017 starring Keanu Reeves & Common & Laurence Fishburne & Ricardo Scamacio & Ruby Rose & Lance Reddick & Peter Stormare & Bridget Moynahan & Franco Nero et al, director Chad Stahelski
John Wick is a man of focus, commitment and sheer fucking will. ibid.
He once killed three men in a bar with a pencil. ibid.
I want you to kill my sister. ibid. Hire man
Mr Wick, do enjoy your party. ibid.
I’ll kill them. I’ll kill them all. ibid.