Movies: the arguments

HEAT – Face 2 Face

 

https://youtu.be/V0j93daBJdQ?t=5294

AP: How’re you doing? What do you say I buy you a cup of coffee?

RdN: Yeah, sure. Let’s go.

AP : Follow me.
(…)

AP:Seven years in Folsom. In the hole for three. McNeil before that. McNeil as tough as they say?

RdN : You looking to become a penologist?

AP : You looking to go back? I chased down some crews. Guys just looking to fuck up, get busted back. That you?

RdN : You must’ve worked some dipshit crews.

AP: I worked all kinds.

RdN : You see me doing liquor store holdups with a “Born to Lose” tattoo on my chest?

AP : I do not.

RdN : Right. I am never going back.

AP : Then don’t take down scores.

RdN : I do what I do best: I take scores. You do what you do best: Try to stop guys like me.

AP : So you never wanted a regular-type life?

RdN : What the fuck is that? Barbecues and ball games?

AP : Yeah.

RdN : This regular-type life like your life?

AP : My life? No, my life…My life’s a disaster zone. I got a stepdaughter so fucked up…because her real father is this large-type asshole. I got a wife. We’re passing each other on the down slope of a marriage. My third. Because I spend all my time chasing guys like you around the block.That’s my life.

RdN : A guy told me one time: “Don’t get yourself attached to anything you can’t walk out on in 30 seconds…if you feel the heat around the corner.” If you’re on me and you got to move when I move, how do you expect to keep a marriage?

AP : That’s an interesting point. What are you ? A monk?

RdN : I have a woman.

AP : What do you tell her?

RdN : I tell her I’m a salesman.

AP : So, if you spot me coming around that corner…you’ll just walk out on this woman ? Not say good-bye?

RdN : That’s the discipline.

AP : That’s pretty vacant.

RdN : It is what it is. It’s that, or we both better go do something else.

AP : I don’t know how to do anything else.

RdN : Neither do I.

AP : I don’t want much to either.

RdN : Neither do I.

AP : You know, I have this recurring dream. I’m sitting at this big banquet table and all the victims of all the murders I ever worked are there…and they’re staring at me with these black eyeballs because they got eight-ball hemorrhages from the head wounds. And there they are, these big balloon people because I found them two weeks after they’d been under the bed. The neighbors reported the smell and there they are all just sitting there.

RdN : What do they say?

AP : Nothing.

RdN : No talk?

AP : They have nothing to say. We just look at each other. They look at me and that’s it. That’s the dream.

RdN : I have one where I’m drowning. I gotta wake myself up and start breathing or I’ll die in my sleep.

AP : Know what that’s about?

RdN : Yeah. Having enough time.

AP : Enough time to do what you want to do?

RdN : That’s right.

AP : You doing it now?

RdN : No, not yet.

AP : You know, we’re sitting here you and I like a couple of regular fellas. You do what you do, and I do what I gotta do. Now that we’ve been face to face if I’m there and I gotta put you away I won’t like it. But, I tell you, if it’s between you and some poor bastard whose wife you’re gonna turn into a widow…brother…you are going down.

RdN : There’s a flip side to that coin. What if you do got me boxed in and I gotta put you down? Because no matter what…you won’t get in my way. We’ve been face to face, yeah. But I will not hesitate. Not for a second.

AP : Maybe that’s what will be. Or…who knows?

RdN : Maybe we’ll never see each other again.