Deep Cover Page #5

Synopsis: A black uniformed policeman is recruited by a devious drug enforcement agent to infiltrate a smuggling organization seeking to expand into designer drugs. This 'ugly side of the war on drugs' explores the context of race, identity and hypocrisy within a brutal and alienating investigation.
Director(s): Bill Duke
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
R
Year:
1992
107 min
456 Views


You want to see it?

David, what's the freakiest

thing you ever did sexually?

Me? Really?

Brown shower?

Oh, I don't do that.

No brown shower.

AIthough, a woman,

sometimes when she comes...

has a discharge that's liquid.

-You like that?

-I like that suit.

Where did you get that?

Nice Italian lady

picked this out.

It's nice.

Gianni Versace, right?

Mike Tyson wears Versace.

Take your feet off the couch.

You don't do that

at your mother's house.

Nouveau anal, I think

this is called, but right.

And here. Here. Here.

Coaster. Coaster.

Yeah. We need more stuff.

No. We don't want to push it.

We've been having fun.

We've been doing good.

Look. What do we got here?

Chump change. Rent money.

You talking

about designer drugs.

We need more.

What kind of monster

have I created?

Where's Barbosa

getting his stuff from anyway?

Gallegos.

Gallegos, who you couldn't

get next to. Why?

You didn't move enough product.

So now you will.

We buy direct from Gallegos,

we get a better price.

Barbosa's never going

to let us near Gallegos.

If we buy twenty keys, Gallegos

will come to us himself.

How do you know that?

How do you think

I got next to you, David?

Yes, my game was strong...

and my money was long.

I really made this business pay.

Everything was going exactly

the way it was supposed to.

Carver was thrilled

at my rapid ascent as a dealer.

I was telling David what to do,

instead of him telling me.

Then it started to go wrong.

Today's Gopher's birthday?

Hey, David...

what are you going to do

with ten kilos?

You're always late on two.

It's not ten kilos.

We want twenty.

Oh, man.

Wait.

David and I have been talking.

There's markets we can't open...

'cause we don't have

the inventory.

There's money to be made

out there.

The more we have,

the more we can move.

Son of a b*tch.

Finally,

somebody with balls on the team.

Johnny, why don't you

come work for me?

You'll have your own franchise.

You can supply David.

Lean on him when he's late.

I'm with David, Felix.

But why, man?

Did he give you

that synthetic coke routine?

That's a joke, John.

I'm telling you it's a joke.

Felix, don't kid about it.

No. No. Who's kidding, man?

We talked about that

a couple months ago.

You are going to invest, right?

Do I look dumb enough to back

this schmuck in anything?

Don't talk to me that way.

I'm not talking to you.

I'm talking to John.

David, don't listen to him.

Felix, he's your friend.

F*** him. He's a schmuck.

Hey, Felix,

is that necessary, man?

All right. OK.

OK, I apologize.

It's your birthday party,

Gopher.

We should all have a nice time.

It's good he never went to jail.

He'd come out with an a**hole

big enough to swallow a watermelon.

David, relax. OK?

I think he's pissed off, man.

I don't believe this.

You're really pissed off.

Wait a second.

I think we should

lighten the party up.

We're going to have

a little game.

But I know what you do.

David, get up. Come on.

You want to play a game with me?

No, I don't want to play.

It's a nice game.

You slap my hands.

Don't. Don't.

What's it take to get you up,

a stiff dick up your ass?

Come on. Get up.

You afraid of me?

Come on, you p*ssy.

Oh, he's growing balls.

Who's first? I know this game.

-You go first.

-Great.

Oh, you missed, David.

Felix, you're wrong.

You stay out of this.

First one to four wins,

like the World Series.

Come on. Put them down there.

Oh, you flinched, David.

That's too bad, man.

That means I get to hit you.

One more time, David.

Put them back there.

Come on.

You got balls now, right?

You're a big, tough guy.

You like that, huh?

Felix, that's one.

That was two.

No, that's not two.

This is two.

Ooh, it hurts.

Boy, does it hurt.

Come on, schmuck.

You grew balls.

You're going to have

to wear them now.

F*** it.

Let's play to four.

The game's to four.

You want to play to four?

We'll play to four.

OK, put them up there.

You want four, eh?

OK, Felix, you made your point.

He wanted to go to four.

That's what he wanted.

David, come on. please.

Just calm down.

I knew from that moment...

that Barbosa was going

to kill David...

unless David killed him first.

My whole plan was coming apart.

What did they do to you?

They...taught me

what I needed to know--

they don't respect me...

that I don't deserve respect.

You have got to get out

of this business.

You have a wife

and a daughter who love you.

I love you.

What more do you want?

I want my cake and eat it, too.

Taft's partner Hernandez

was a dirty cop.

He needed a bust

to look clean...

so Barbosa

decided to give him us.

You going to make me wait?

I'm telling Taft here

that I got people here working.

I need some busts...

or they're going to start

wondering about me.

They're already wondering.

Relax, man.

I told you to come here.

You can have Gopher if you want.

How about a lawyer?

Felix, what?

Lawyers are great,

Jewish even better...

but I need some spades.

Politicians

like the dark faces...

so they can scare the suburbs

into voting Republican.

Lawyers and spades.

I got the trifecta.

Two dealers

and a girl who does the wash.

Two n*ggers and a kike,

All democrats.

You're my man.

Can the lawyer end up dead?

It can be arranged.

Carver already knew about it.

He always knew about everything.

Don't ask me how.

What's your problem?

What is my problem?

I'll tell you my problem.

You think you're hot sh*t...

and you don't know

what's happening.

Tell me what's happening, Jerry.

You said it yourself.

If Barbosa doesn't bust Jason,

he's got to kill him.

We can't be responsibIe

for that.

Then what do we do?

You stay away from that bust

and let it go down.

They take Jason and the girl.

That's it.

Jerry, if Jason goes to jail...

we have no way

of getting to Gallegos.

Tell the cops

to call off the bust.

I can't interfere

with local police.

Bullshit.

You do it all the time.

You're God, remember?

So that's it? You're

throwing away all this work?

I've been putting my life

on the line.

You let Jason and Barbosa

get into it last night...

which you should not

have done...

and now it is out of our hands.

I'll take care of it

myself then.

You stay away from that bust.

Is that an order?

Yes, that's an order.

You stay away from that bust.

You understand me?

Yes, sir.

I don't like this, David.

I think we need to do it

another time.

We're doing it.

Why does she got to be here?

Because he wanted me to come.

He's testing me, not you.

Testing what?

How you wear shoes?

This is bad, David.

She's in the stratosphere...

and you're definitely

not yourself.

We need to rethink this, man.

It's too late. We're here.

Here they come.

There they are.

Nobody moves

until they make the switch.

Hey, sorry to drag you out

so late...

but you can't

be too careful, huh?

It's been a long time.

Yes, it has. David, how are you?

All right.

-Let's see what we got.

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Michael Tolkin

Michael L. Tolkin (born October 17, 1950) is an American filmmaker and novelist. He has written numerous screenplays, including The Player (1992), which he adapted from his novel of the same name (1988), and for which he received the Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay (1993). The Return of the Player, followed (2006). more…

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