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Reservoir
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Nice Guy Eddie: Okay, first things fuckin' last!
Nice
Guy Eddie: We got places all over the place.
Joe:
So, you guys like to tell jokes, huh? Gigglin' and laughin' like a bunch of young
broads sittin' in a schoolyard. Well, let me tell a joke. Four guys, sittin' in
a bullpen, in San Quentin. All wondering how the fuck they got there. What should
we have done, what didn't we do, who's fault is it, is it my fault, your fault,
his fault, all that bullshit. Then one of them says, hey. Wait a minute. When
we were planning this caper, all we did was sit around tellin' fuckin' jokes!
Get the message? Boys, I don't mean to holler at ya. When this caper's over -
and I'm sure it'll be a sucessful one - we'll get down to the Cayman Islands,
hell, I'll roll and laugh with all of ya. You'll find me a different character
down there. Right now, it's a matter of business.
Mr.
White: Smoke?
Mr. Pink: I quit.
[Later]
Mr. Pink: What, you got one?
Joe:
You don't need proof when you have instinct.
Mr.
Orange: What happens if the manager won't give you the diamonds?
Mr. White:
When you're dealing with a store like this, they're insured up the ass. They're
not supposed to give you any resistance whatsoever. If you get a customer, or
an employee, who thinks he's Charles Bronson, take the butt of your gun and smash
their nose in. Everybody jumps. He falls down screaming, blood squirts out of
his nose, nobody says fucking shit after that. You might get some bitch talk shit
to you, but give her a look like you're gonna smash her in the face next, watch
her shut the fuck up. Now if it's a manager, that's a different story. Managers
know better than to fuck around, so if you get one that's giving you static, he
probably thinks he's a real cowboy, so you gotta break that son of a bitch in
two. If you wanna know something and he won't tell you, cut off one of his fingers.
The little one. Then tell him his thumb's next. After that he'll tell you if he
wears ladies underwear. I'm hungry. Let's get a taco.
Mr.
Orange: FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! I'M FUCKING DYING!
Mr.
Blonde: I don't give a good fuck what you know or don't know, I'm going to torture
you anyway.
Mr.
White: If you shoot this man, you die next. Repeat. If you shoot this man, you
die next.
Mr.
Brown: O.K., let me tell you what Like a Virgin's about. It's all about this cooze
who's a regular fuck machine, I'm talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick,
dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick.
Mr. Blue: How many dicks is
that?
Mr. White: A lot.
Mr. Brown: Then one day she meets this John Holmes
motherfucker and it's like, whoa baby, I mean this cat is like Charles Bronson
in the Great Escape, he's digging tunnels. Now, she's gettin the serious dick
action and she's feeling something she ain't felt since forever. Pain. Pain. It
hurts her. It shouldn't hurt her, you know her pussy should be Bubble Yum by now,
but when this cat fucks her it hurts. It hurts just like it did the first time.
You see the pain is reminding a fuck machine what it once was like to be a virgin.
Hence, "Like a virgin."
Mr.
Pink: I'm very sorry the government taxes their tips, that's fucked up. That ain't
my fault. It would seem to me that waitresses are one of the many groups the government
fucks in the ass on a regular basis. Look, if you ask me to sign something that
says the government shouldn't do that, I'll sign it, put it to a vote, I'll vote
for it, but what I won't do is play ball. And as for this non-college bullshit
I got two words for that: learn to fuckin' type, 'cause if you're expecting me
to help out with the rent you're in for a big fuckin' surprise.
Mr.
Blonde: Was that as good for you as it was for me?
Mr.
Orange: This is a very weird situation. 'Cause I don't know if you remember back
in '86 there was a major fucking drought. Nobody had anything. People were living
on resin...-smoking the wood in their pipes for months. This chick had a bunch.
And she's begging me to sell it. So I told her I wasn't going to be Joe the potman
anymore, but I would take a little bit and sell it to my close, close, close friends.
She agreed to that, said we'd keep the same arrangement as before; 10%, free pot
for me, as long as I helped her out that weekend. She had a brick of weed she
was selling, she didn't want to go to the buy alone. Her brother usually goes
with her, but he's in county unexpectedly.
Mr. White: What for?
Mr. Orange:
His traffic tickets. Got a warrant. They stopped him for something, found warrants
on him, took him to county. Now she doesn't walk around alone with all that weed.
I don't want to do this. I have a very bad feeling about it. But she keeps asking
me, keeps asking me, keeps asking me, finally I said OK 'cause I'm sick of hearing
it. Now, we're picking the guy up at the train station...-
Nice Guy Eddie:
Wait a minute. You go to the train station to pick up the buyer with the weed
on you?
Mr. Orange: The guy needed it right away. Don't ask me why. Anyway,
we're get to the station and we're waiting for the guy. I'm carrying the weed
in one of those little carry-on bags. I got to take a piss. So I tell the connection
I'll be right back, I'm going to the boys' room. So I walk in the mens' room,
and who's standing there? Four Los Angeles county sheriffs and a German shepherd.
Nice Guy Eddie: They're waiting for you?
Mr. Orange: No, they're just
a bunch of cops hanging out in the men's room, talking. When I walked through
the door, they all stopped what they were talking about and they looked at me.
Mr. White: [Laughs] That's hard, man. That's a fucking hard situation.
Mr.
Orange: German shepherd starts barking. He's barking at me. I mean, it's obvious.
He's barking at me. Every nerve-ending, all my senses, blood in my veins, everything
I have is screaming, "Take off, man! Just bail, just get the fuck out of
there!" Panic hits me like a bucket of water. First there's the shock of
it...-BAM!...-right in the face. I'm standing there drenched in panic. All these
sheriffs looking at me, and they know, man. They can smell it. Sure as that fucking
dog can, they can smell it on me.
Marvin:
I already told you I don't know anything about any fucking setup; you can torture
me all you want.
Mr. Blonde: Torture you? That's a good idea. I like that.
Joe:
All right ramblers, let's get rambling!
[Mr.
Pink comes and sees that Mr. Orange is shot in the stomach]
Mr. Pink: Is it
bad?
Mr. White: As opposed to good?
Mr.
Brown: Mr. Brown? That sounds too much like Mr. Shit.
Joe:
And you are Mr. Pink.
Mr. Pink: Why am I Mr. Pink?
Joe: Cause you're a
faggot, ok?
Mr.
Pink: How about I be Mr. Purple?
Joe: No, You can't be Mr. Purple.
Mr.
Pink: Why not?
Joe: Someone on another job is Mr. Purple!
Mr. White: Who
cares what your name is?
Mr. Pink: Oh yeah that's easy for you to say you've
got a cool sounding name. How about we trade, OK? You're Mr. Pink.
Mr.
White: Hardy fuckin' har.
[Mr.
White and Mr. Pink are washing up after the robbery went sour, trying to figure
out what happened]
Mr. Pink: You kill anybody?
Mr. White: A few cops.
Mr. Pink: No real people?
Mr. White: Just cops.
Mr.
Pink: Somebody's shoved a red-hot poker up our ass, and I want to know whose name
is on the handle!
Mr.
Blonde: If you're talking like a bitch, I'm gonna slap you like a bitch!
Mr.
Blonde: Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?
Mr.
Blonde: Gee, that was really exciting. I bet you're a big Lee Marvin fan, aren't
you?
Mr.
Blonde: Hey Joe, you want me to shoot this guy?
Mr. White: [laughs] Shit..
You shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.
Mr.
Blonde: All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you aren't going to get.
Mr.
White: The choice between doing ten years and taking out some stupid motherfucker,
ain't no choice at all. But I ain't no madman.
Nice
Guy Eddie: Hey look daddy, he goes in a white man, and comes out talking like
a fucking nigger.
[Nice
Guy Eddie asks if anyone knows what happened to Mr. Blue]
Mr. Blonde: Either
he's alive or he's dead, or the cops got him... or they don't.
[Mr.
Pink doesn't believe in tipping waitresses automatically]
Mr. Blue: Our girl
was nice.
Mr. Pink: She was okay, but she wasn't anything special.
Mr.
Blue: What's something special? Take you out back and suck your dick?
Nice
Guy Eddie: I'd go over twelve percent for that.
Mr.
Pink: I've been here a long fucking time and she's only refilled my coffee three
times. I think she should be able to refill my coffee at least six times.
Nice
Guy Eddie: Excuse me, Mr. Pink, but I think the last fucking thing you need is
another cup of coffee.
Mr.
White: You can't leave this guy with them.
Nice Guy Eddie: Why not?
Mr.
White: Because he's a fucking psycho. And if you think Joe's pissed off, that
ain't nothing compared to how pissed off I am at him, for putting me in the same
room as that bastard!
Mr. Blonde: See what I've been putting up with, Eddie?
I fucking walked in here, I told these guys about staying put. Mr. White whips
out his gun, he's sticking it in my face, calling me a motherfucker, saying he's
gonna blow me away and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
[After
hearing Orange's smuggling story.]
Joe: Only one thing to do in that case:
shit in yer pants an' dive in and swim!
Mr.
Pink: He seems okay now, but he was crazy in the store.
Mr. White: This is
what he was doing.
[Mimics randomly shooting innocent bystanders]
Mr.
White: Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam.
Mr. Blonde: Yeah, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. I told
'em not to touch the alarm, they touched it. If they hadn't done what I told 'em
not to do, they'd still be alive today.
Mr. White: [clapping] My fucking hero.
Mr. Blonde: Thanks.
Mr. White: That's your excuse for going on a kill-crazy
rampage?
Mr. Blonde: I don't like alarms, Mr. White.
Mr.
Pink: I don't wanna kill anybody. But if I gotta get out that door, and you're
standing in my way, one way or the other, you're gettin' outta my way.
Mr.
Pink: You even doubt it? I don't THINK we got set up, I KNOW we got set up! I
mean, really, seriously, where did all those cops come from, huh? One minute they're
not there, the next minute they're there. I didn't hear any sirens. The alarm
went off, okay. Okay, when an alarm goes off, you got an average of four minutes
response time. Unless a patrol car is cruising that street, at that particular
moment, you got four minutes before they can realistically respond. In one minute
there were seventeen blue boys out there. All loaded for bear, all knowing exactly
what the fuck they were doing, and they were all just there! Remember that second
wave that showed up in the cars? Those were the ones responding to the alarm,
but those other motherfuckers were already there, they were waiting for us.
[The
shot Mr. Orange knows some things about Mr. White]
Mr. White: Well, he knows
a little about me.
Mr. Pink: You didn't tell him your name, did you?
Mr.
White: I told him my first name, and where I'm from.
Mr. Pink: Why?!
Mr.
White: I told him where I was from a few days ago. It was just a casual conversation.
Mr. Pink: And what was tellin' him your name when you weren't supposed to?
Mr. White: He asked.
[Pause]
Mr. White: We had just gotten away from
the cops. He just got shot. It was my fuckin' fault he got shot. He's a fuckin'
bloody mess - he's screaming. I swear to god, I thought he was gonna die right
then and there. I'm tryin' to comfort him, tellin' him not to worry, he's gonna
be okay, I'm gonna take care of him. And he asked me what my name was. I mean,
the man was dyin' in my arms. What the fuck was I supposed to tell him? "Sorry,
I can't give out that information! It's against the rules! I don't trust you enough!"
Joe:
Cough up a buck you cheap bastard.
Mr.
Pink: I wanna find out who the bad guy is.
[Mr.
Blonde has cut off Marvin's ear and begins talking into it.]
Mr. Blonde: Hey,
Can you hear that?
Nice
Guy Eddie: If you fucking beat this prick long enough, he'll tell you he started
the goddamn Chicago fire, now that don't necessarily make it fucking so!
Mr.
White: What, did you forget your French fries, to go with the soda?
Mr.
White: Fuck you Maniac!
Mr.
Pink: Where's the commode in this dungeon? I gotta take a squirt.
Nice
Guy Eddie: Larry, stop pointin' that fuckin' gun at my Dad!
Joe:
Give me that book.
Mr. White: Are you gonna put it away?
Joe: I'm gonna
do whatever the fuck I want with it.
Mr.
Blonde: Have some fire, Scarecrow.
Mr.
Pink: Look man, I know what I'm talking about, and black women ain't the same
as white women.
Mr. White: There's a slight difference.
Mr.
Pink: Why can't we choose our own names?
Joe: No, I tried it before &
it didn't work! I had four guys fighting over Mr. Black!
Mr.
White: You have no idea what you're talking about. These people bust their asses
off every day for us. These tips are what keeps them alive!
Mr. Pink: Ah,
fuck all that.
Freddy
Newandyke: What's this?
Teddy: Its an anecdote about a drugdeal.
Freddy
Newandyke: A what?
Teddy: A fucking story about a fucking job, man.