Shaft Page #4

Synopsis: New York Police Detective John Shaft is the lead detective on a sensitive case, a young black man is severely beaten. The man's companions tell Shaft that their friend humiliated the one who was sprouting racial slurs at him. Shaft confronts him and he says he's Walter Wade Jr. , the son of a wealthy man. Shaft finds that he has the id of a woman who's a waitress at the bar where Wade and the guy who was attacked were. When Wade continues to hurl racist comments, Shaft smacks him. Shaft later learns because of his actions Wade was granted bail and fled. Two years later, Wade returns and Shaft arrests him. At his hearing when the judge grants him bail, that's when Shaft throws his badge at the judge. He then sets out to get Wade by finding the waitress. Wade in the meantime asks a drug dealer named Peoples Hernandez to find the waitress and make sure she doesn't talk.
Director(s): John Singleton
Production: Paramount Pictures
  1 win & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2000
99 min
$70,334,258
Website
2,798 Views


you've been around the world, rlght?

You know somethlng?

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I got money longer than traln smoke.

I've never been on a plane in my ilfe.

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Let me ask you somethlng?

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Your?

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Cinco familias.

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Five famllles, flve boroughs, one love.

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Okay.

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You're an interesting motherfuck.

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You got ilke a business card

or somethlng?

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- Congratulations.

- Thank you.

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Don't klss me, motherf***er.

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- Good nlght.

- Later, dog.

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...back in custody tonight

after a two-year flight fromjustice.

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Wade, seen here in 1998 -

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- was re-arrested by detective

john shaft tonight in westchester.

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I don't get it. Why the f*** dld he

come back? I wouldn't have.

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See, if there ever was a "but what",

that would be it.

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That kld's old man can siip hls thumb

on the scale, nobody says nothlng.

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Aln't no fucklng way

he walks from thls. No way.

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Really?

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Let's roll.

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- Good nlght.

- Good nlght, all.

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Such a cynlcal motherf***er.

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You want to come home

wlth me tonlght? It's been a whlle.

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What is it thls tlme? You just want

to be held, or you want the ld?

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What do you thlnk it is?

I want the ld, baby.

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And then i want to be held.

That's all rlght wlth you?

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You know me.

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It's my duty to please that booty.

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Flnlsh up. Let's go.

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- Kearney, how's retirement?

- Catflsh are jumplng.

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I heard you bought a blg house

out in nassau county.

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Four-bedroom colonlal,

rlght on the water.

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Let me ask you somethlng.

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How does a thlrd-rate pencll-pushlng

apple-steallng dlckhead ilke you -

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- afford a four-bedroom colonlal

in nassau motherfucklng county?

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How much dld they pay you?

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After worklng the job uptown

for 28 years -

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- you know what i ilke best

about where i iive?

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How do i say thls?

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It's a restrlcted communlty.

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Your honour, my cllent dld not

fly home 5,000 mlles to jump ball.

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You mean, jump ball agaln.

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He was in the wlnd for two years,

and if he decldes to take off agaln -

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- the mood of the people in thls clty...

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we can't rlsk the possiblllty

of walting another two years -

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- another two months,

two days, two hours.

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The distrlct attorney's offlce is

ardently opposed to any klnd of ball.

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- How about no ball?

- Remove that man. Get hlm out.

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Back up, son.

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You wlll get your ass twlsted!

Get off of me.

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Your polnt is well taken, mr torres.

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The defendant is hereby ordered to

surrender hls passport to thls court.

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However, i belleve that

young mr wade is slncere -

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- in hls desire to deal wlth

whatever form of judgement -

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- thls room deems

necessary to dellver.

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Ball is set at one mllllon dollars.

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Your honour,

my cllent is prepared to post ball.

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- What is wrong wlth you?

- I'm out. I'm done.

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- Are you nuts?

- Thls is wack.

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F*** the job!

I'll get hlm my own way.

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It's insane.

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I'm cool.

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I qult.

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I took that job thlnklng i could flght

the good flght from the inside -

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- and you told me about all

the problems. That colour thlng.

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Too black for the unlform,

too blue for the brothers.

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About how justice gets tangled up

in red tape or bought off by the green.

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You were rlght.

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F*** that job. F*** the badge.

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I'll get that sllver spoon

motherf***er my own way.

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No lawyers, no polltics,

no rules, no regulations.

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No pension!

You're too hot. Step off a blt.

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- Let me put my people on hlm.

- Hell, no! His ass is mlne.

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What's the dlfference? Got is got?

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His ass...

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...is mlne.

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- We're in pretty good shape on thls.

- What about the waltress?

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Paul, talk to hlm, wlll you?

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The truth is, walter,

we can't flnd her.

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- Thls guy is great.

- You know why we can't flnd her?

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She doesn't want to be found.

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Do you want to go to swltzerland,

whlle we try to track her down?

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It can take a year,

two, ten... maybe never.

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Meanwhlle, everythlng

and everyone else is in place.

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I don't belleve thls.

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Even if she does surface,

she is serlously damaged goods.

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It's just a roll of the dlce, kld.

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- I'll roll my own damn dlce.

- Walter...

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