Shaft Page #4
you've been around the world, rlght?
You know somethlng?
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30:19,520 -- 00:30:25,072I got money longer than traln smoke.
I've never been on a plane in my ilfe.
294
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30:25,280 -- 00:30:27,874Let me ask you somethlng?
295
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30:28,080 -- 00:30:30,116Your?
296
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30:30,320 -- 00:30:32,675Cinco familias.
297
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30:32,880 -- 00:30:37,431Five famllles, flve boroughs, one love.
298
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30:37,640 -- 00:30:39,551Okay.
299
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30:42,400 -- 00:30:44,868You're an interesting motherfuck.
300
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30:45,080 -- 00:30:49,471You got ilke a business card
or somethlng?
301
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30:50,720 -- 00:30:53,439- Congratulations.
- Thank you.
302
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30:53,640 -- 00:30:56,313Don't klss me, motherf***er.
303
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30:56,600 -- 00:30:58,511- Good nlght.
- Later, dog.
304
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30:58,720 -- 00:31:02,190...back in custody tonight
after a two-year flight fromjustice.
305
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31:02,400 -- 00:31:05,073Wade, seen here in 1998 -
306
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31:05,280 -- 00:31:10,115- was re-arrested by detective
john shaft tonight in westchester.
307
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31:10,320 -- 00:31:15,678I don't get it. Why the f*** dld he
come back? I wouldn't have.
308
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31:15,880 -- 00:31:20,431See, if there ever was a "but what",
that would be it.
309
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31:20,640 -- 00:31:26,636That kld's old man can siip hls thumb
on the scale, nobody says nothlng.
310
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31:26,840 -- 00:31:30,674Aln't no fucklng way
he walks from thls. No way.
311
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31:30,880 -- 00:31:33,599Really?
312
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31:38,800 -- 00:31:41,030Let's roll.
313
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31:41,240 -- 00:31:44,073- Good nlght.
- Good nlght, all.
314
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31:46,440 -- 00:31:48,829Such a cynlcal motherf***er.
315
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31:50,720 -- 00:31:54,349You want to come home
wlth me tonlght? It's been a whlle.
316
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31:54,560 -- 00:31:59,588What is it thls tlme? You just want
to be held, or you want the ld?
317
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31:59,800 -- 00:32:04,590What do you thlnk it is?
I want the ld, baby.
318
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32:04,800 -- 00:32:08,634And then i want to be held.
That's all rlght wlth you?
319
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32:08,840 -- 00:32:10,592You know me.
320
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32:10,800 -- 00:32:13,951It's my duty to please that booty.
321
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32:14,160 -- 00:32:16,116Flnlsh up. Let's go.
322
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32:23,120 -- 00:32:26,351- Kearney, how's retirement?
- Catflsh are jumplng.
323
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32:26,560 -- 00:32:29,028I heard you bought a blg house
out in nassau county.
324
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32:29,240 -- 00:32:32,198Four-bedroom colonlal,
rlght on the water.
325
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32:32,400 -- 00:32:34,595Let me ask you somethlng.
326
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32:34,800 -- 00:32:38,349How does a thlrd-rate pencll-pushlng
apple-steallng dlckhead ilke you -
327
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32:38,560 -- 00:32:42,030- afford a four-bedroom colonlal
in nassau motherfucklng county?
328
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32:42,240 -- 00:32:43,753How much dld they pay you?
329
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32:43,960 -- 00:32:46,758After worklng the job uptown
for 28 years -
330
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32:46,960 -- 00:32:50,077- you know what i ilke best
about where i iive?
331
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32:50,280 -- 00:32:53,113How do i say thls?
332
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32:53,320 -- 00:32:55,959It's a restrlcted communlty.
333
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33:00,120 -- 00:33:04,352Your honour, my cllent dld not
fly home 5,000 mlles to jump ball.
334
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33:04,560 -- 00:33:06,790You mean, jump ball agaln.
335
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33:07,000 -- 00:33:11,596He was in the wlnd for two years,
and if he decldes to take off agaln -
336
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33:11,800 -- 00:33:14,234- the mood of the people in thls clty...
337
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33:14,440 -- 00:33:18,479we can't rlsk the possiblllty
of walting another two years -
338
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33:18,680 -- 00:33:21,752- another two months,
two days, two hours.
339
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33:21,960 -- 00:33:26,476The distrlct attorney's offlce is
ardently opposed to any klnd of ball.
340
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33:26,680 -- 00:33:30,434- How about no ball?
- Remove that man. Get hlm out.
341
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33:30,640 -- 00:33:32,790Back up, son.
342
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33:34,000 -- 00:33:37,515You wlll get your ass twlsted!
Get off of me.
343
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33:37,720 -- 00:33:40,029Your polnt is well taken, mr torres.
344
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33:40,240 -- 00:33:44,677The defendant is hereby ordered to
surrender hls passport to thls court.
345
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33:44,880 -- 00:33:49,112However, i belleve that
young mr wade is slncere -
346
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33:49,320 -- 00:33:53,313- in hls desire to deal wlth
whatever form of judgement -
347
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33:53,520 -- 00:33:55,750- thls room deems
necessary to dellver.
348
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33:56,640 -- 00:33:59,518Ball is set at one mllllon dollars.
349
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34:02,800 -- 00:34:05,792Your honour,
my cllent is prepared to post ball.
350
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34:20,120 -- 00:34:22,429- What is wrong wlth you?
- I'm out. I'm done.
351
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34:22,640 -- 00:34:25,029- Are you nuts?
- Thls is wack.
352
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34:25,240 -- 00:34:27,800F*** the job!
I'll get hlm my own way.
353
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34:28,000 -- 00:34:29,956It's insane.
354
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34:45,240 -- 00:34:46,878I'm cool.
355
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34:48,520 -- 00:34:50,476I qult.
356
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35:12,960 -- 00:35:16,191I took that job thlnklng i could flght
the good flght from the inside -
357
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35:16,400 -- 00:35:19,278- and you told me about all
the problems. That colour thlng.
358
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35:19,480 -- 00:35:21,914Too black for the unlform,
too blue for the brothers.
359
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35:22,120 -- 00:35:26,238About how justice gets tangled up
in red tape or bought off by the green.
360
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35:26,440 -- 00:35:27,714You were rlght.
361
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35:27,920 -- 00:35:30,480F*** that job. F*** the badge.
362
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35:30,680 -- 00:35:33,717I'll get that sllver spoon
motherf***er my own way.
363
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35:33,920 -- 00:35:36,957No lawyers, no polltics,
no rules, no regulations.
364
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35:37,160 -- 00:35:41,119No pension!
You're too hot. Step off a blt.
365
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35:41,320 -- 00:35:44,630- Let me put my people on hlm.
- Hell, no! His ass is mlne.
366
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35:44,840 -- 00:35:48,150What's the dlfference? Got is got?
367
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35:48,360 -- 00:35:49,998His ass...
368
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35:50,960 -- 00:35:52,234...is mlne.
369
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35:56,600 -- 00:35:59,717- We're in pretty good shape on thls.
- What about the waltress?
370
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35:59,920 -- 00:36:02,115Paul, talk to hlm, wlll you?
371
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36:02,320 -- 00:36:05,392The truth is, walter,
we can't flnd her.
372
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36:05,600 -- 00:36:09,275- Thls guy is great.
- You know why we can't flnd her?
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36:09,480 -- 00:36:11,630She doesn't want to be found.
374
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36:11,840 -- 00:36:14,991Do you want to go to swltzerland,
whlle we try to track her down?
375
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36:15,200 -- 00:36:19,432It can take a year,
two, ten... maybe never.
376
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36:19,640 -- 00:36:22,950Meanwhlle, everythlng
and everyone else is in place.
377
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36:23,160 -- 00:36:24,832I don't belleve thls.
378
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36:25,040 -- 00:36:28,589Even if she does surface,
she is serlously damaged goods.
379
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36:28,800 -- 00:36:31,598It's just a roll of the dlce, kld.
380
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36:33,480 -- 00:36:36,597- I'll roll my own damn dlce.
- Walter...
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36:38,200 -- 00:36:41,397
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