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Jackie
Brown
Mark Dargus: Cut to 13 years later, you're 44 years of
age. You're flying for the shittiest-little-shuttle-fucking piece of shit Mexican
airline that there is.
Max
Cherry: Half a million dollars will always be missed.
Ordell
Robbie: Is she dead, yes or no?
Louis: Pretty much.
Ordell
Robbie: I got this young nineteen year old country girl named Sheranda. I found
her on a bus stop two days outta Georgia, barefoot, country as a chicken coop.
I took her to my place in Compton, told her it was Hollywood.
Louis: She believed
you?
Ordell Robbie: Hell yeah! To her dumb country ass, Compton is Hollywood;
closest she's ever been anyway.
Louis:
Who's that?
Ordell Robbie: That's Beaumont.
Louis: Who's Beaumont?
Ordell
Robbie: An employee I had to let go.
Louis: What'd he do?
Ordell Robbie:
He put himself in a position where he was going to have to do ten years in prison,
that's what he did. And if you know Beaumont, you know ain't no god damn way he
can do ten years. And if you know that, then you know Beaumont's gonna do anything
Beaumont can to keep from doing them ten years, including telling the federal
government any and every motherfucking thing about my black ass. Now that my friend
is a clear cut case of him or me. And you best believe it ain't gonna be me.
Jackie
Brown: Shut your raggedy-ass up, and sit the fuck down!
Beaumont:
Man, you must be out of your fuckin' mind if you think I'm gonna get in this dirty-ass
trunk.
Ordell Robbie: We ain't going nowhere but to Koreatown, man. You ain't
gonna be locked in here no more than ten minutes.
Beaumont: I ain't ridin'
in no trunk for no minute, man.
[After
shooting Louis]
Ordell Robbie: What the fuck happened to you, man? Shit, your
ass used to be beautiful!
Beaumont:
I'm still scared as a motherfucker, O.D. They talking like they serious as hell
giving me time for that machine gun shit.
Ordell Robbie: Aw, come on, man,
they just trying to put a fright in your ass.
Beaumont: Well, if that's what
they doin', they done did it.
Ordell Robbie: How old is that machine gun shit?
Beaumont: About three years...
Ordell Robbie: Three years? That's a old
crime, man! They ain't got enough room for all the niggers running around killing
people now!
Winston:
I don't have to know what I'm doing, just so long as you know.
Max Cherry:
I think I do. Good enough?
Winston: You bet.
Beaumont:
I just ain't getting in no goddamn, dirty-ass trunk man. I got a problem with
small places.
Ordell Robbie: Well I got a problem with spending ten thousand
dollars on ungrateful, peanut-head niggers to get 'em out of jail, but I did it!
[As
Max Cherry exits the bathroom.]
Ordell Robbie: Uh uh uh... I didn't hear you
wash your hands.
Ordell
Robbie: I'm as serious as a heart attack.
[Louis
has forgotten where he parked]
Melanie: Jesus, but if you two are not the
biggest pair of fuck-ups I've ever met in my entire life. How did you ever rob
a bank? When you robbed banks, did you forget where your car was then too? No
wonder you went to jail.
Max
Cherry: Is white guilt supposed to make me forget that I run a business?
[Melanie
and Louis are fighting over a bag of Ordell's money]
Louis: Gimme the bag...
Melanie: Watch it dipshit, you wanna rip the fucking bag.
Louis: Gimme
that bag before I knock you out and take it.
Melanie: Okay take it. Jesus,
what's wrong with you?
Louis: I'm carrying it.
Melanie: Okay, you got
it. Just take a chill pill for Christ's sake.
Louis: Fuck you with your chill
pill.
[Ray
Nicolet and Jackie Brown are discussing Ordell Robbi's business]
Jackie Brown:
He sells guns.
Ray Nicolet: You ever see him sell guns?
Jackie Brown:
No.
Ray Nicolet: Then how do you know he sells guns?
Jackie Brown: He
told me. Besides, why else would an ATF man be after him?
Melanie:
When did you get ouf of jail?
Louis: Four days ago.
Melanie: Where at?
Louis: Susanville.
Melanie: How long?
Louis: Two months shy of four
years.
Melanie: Four years?
Louis: Uh huh.
Melanie: What for?
Louis:
Bank robbery.
Melanie: Really? I'm impressed.
Ordell
Robbie: My ass may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass.
Ordell
Robbie: AK-47. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker
in the room. Accept no substitutes.
Ordell
Robbie: Look, I hate to be the kinda nigga does a nigga a favor, then, BAM!, hits
a nigga up for a favor in return. But I'm afraid I gotta be that kinda nigga.
Beaumont: What?
Ordell Robbie: I need a favor.
Ordell
Robbie: That shit'll rob you of your ambitions
Melanie: Not if your ambition
is to get high and watch TV.
Max
Cherry: I'll bet, besides maybe an afro, you look exactly how you did at 29.
Jackie
Brown: Well, my ass aint the same.
Max Cherry: Bigger?
Jackie Brown: Yeah.
Max Cherry: Aint nothin' wrong with that!
Ordell
Robbie: Now that there is the Tech-9, a crappy spray gun from South Miami. This
gun is advertised as the most popular gun in American crime. Do you believe that
shit? It actually says that in the little book that comes with it: the most popular
gun in American crime. Like they're actually proud of that shit.
Ordell
Robbie: Girl, don't make me put my foot in your ass.
Ordell
Robbie: Try not to tear his clothes off, OK? They're new.
Jackie
Brown: Now sooner or later, they're gonna get around to offering me a plea deal,
and you know it. That's why you came here to kill me.
Ordell Robbie: I ain't
come here to kill you--
Jackie Brown: No, no, it's OK, it's OK! I forgive
you.
Jackie
Brown: Now sooner or later, they're gonna get around to offering me a plea deal,
and you know it. That's why you came here to kill me.
Ordell Robbie: I ain't
come here to kill you-
Jackie Brown: No, no, it's OK, it's OK! I forgive you.
Ordell
Robbie: Is that what I think it is?
Jackie Brown: Well, what do you think
it is?
Ordell Robbie: I think it's a gun pressed up against my dick.
Jackie
Brown: Well, you thought right. Now take your hands off from around my throat,
nigga.
Winston:
Look man, there's only three reasons why you can't make your court date. One,
you're in a hospital. Two, you're in jail. Three, your ass is dead.
Ordell
Robbie: This you and me talking, is this like a lawyer-client thing, and you can't
repeat nothing I tell you?
Max Cherry: You're not my client until you get
busted and I bond you out.
Ordell Robbie: Well, if we ain't got no -- what's
that shit called? -- confidentiality, why should I tell you a thing?
Max Cherry:
Because you want me to know what a slick guy you are. You got stewardesses bringing
you fifty grand.
Ordell Robbie: Now why would a stewardess be bringing me
fifty grand?
Max Cherry: Now you want me to speculate on what you do. My guess
is you're in the drug business, except the money's moving the wrong way. Whatever
you're into, you seem to be getting away with it, so more power to you.
Ordell
Robbie: Now Jackie can tell me any fucking story that comes into her pretty little
head, just so long as at the end of that story she hands me my motherfucking money.
Winston:
I don't have to know what I'm doing, just so long as you know.
Max Cherry:
I think I do. Good enough?
Winston: You bet.
Ordell
Robbie: My money's in that office, right? If she start giving me some bullshit
about it ain't there, and we got to go someplace else and get it, I'm gonna shoot
you in the head then and there. Then I'm gonna shoot that bitch in the kneecaps,
find out where my goddamn money is. She gonna tell me too. Hey, look at me when
I'm talking to you, motherfucker. You listen: we go in there, and that nigger
Winston or anybody else is in there, you the first motherfucker to get shot. You
understand?
Max Cherry: Yeah.
Ordell Robbie: There ain't nothing you want
to tell me before we get out of this car, is there?
Max Cherry: No.
Ordell
Robbie: Last chance, motherfucker. You sure?
[Max nods.]
Ordell Robbie:
You better be, motherfucker. All right, let's roll.
Max
Cherry: I'm 56 years old. I can't blame anybody else for something I did.
Max
Cherry: Jackie wants to give it to you herself, she wants to collect her ten percent.
She also wants to explain why she had to hang on to it.
Ordell Robbie: Oh,
and I want to hear that shit!
Ordell
Robbie: Who was there for your ass?
Beaumont: YOU were there for my ass.
Ordell
Robbie: WHO? WHO? WHO?
Beaumont: YOU, nigga!
Ordell Robbie: You goddamn
right. That's how that shit works: you get your ass in trouble, I get your ass
out. That's my motherfuckin' job. And I don't mind telling you, nigga, it's steady
work.
Ordell
Robbie: Well, aren't y'all a bunch of Cheech & Chongs.
[Louis
and Melanie are looking at a picture of her in Japan.]
Melanie: I keep it
because it's the only picture of me in fucking Japan.
[Points at background]
Melanie: See? That's Japan.
Louis: Uh, looks like....I can....it shows.
Melanie: Wanna fuck?
Louis: Sure.
Ordell
Robbie: I understand woman, damn!
Max
Cherry: Winston found you.
Ordell Robbie: How the fuck did he find me?
Max
Cherry: That's what Winston does. He finds people who don't want to be found.
Ordell
Robbie: What the fuck you doin' knockin on the door like the goddamn police? You
wanna die?
Max Cherry: I thought you might be asleep.
Ordell Robbie: You
keep fuckin' with me, you're gonna be asleep forever.
Ordell
Robbie: You can't trust Melanie but you can trust Melanie to be Melanie.
Ordell
Robbie: Shit, Jackie. You come in this place on Saturday night I bet you need
some nigger repellant to keep motherfuckers off your ass.