The Bonfire of the Vanities Page #10

We have zip on him.

879

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We could bring him in for questioning,

then go public.

880

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Go public? With what?

The only witness is in a coma, likely to die.

881

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Don't listen. You got a speech to make.

882

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Send a signal to the poor people

of the city.

883

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Let them know justice is blind.

884

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57:02,692 -- 00:57:06,765

Let them know that rich whites

get the same treatment as poor blacks.

885

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57:06,892 -- 00:57:08,928

You must give the people hope.

886

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You mean, we nail the WASP?

887

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To the wall.

888

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I like this man.

889

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So I tell him, "I'm your lawyer

from Legal Aid."

890

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He says, "I don't want a n*gger lawyer.

I want a Jew."

891

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Nice guy.

892

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-It's his third drug arrest. He wants a deal.

-He'll say he was at the scene?

893

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He'll say whatever you want him to say.

894

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57:34,732 -- 00:57:38,725

Get me Andruitti. Tell him it's urgent

about this Lamb sh*t.

895

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Suppose this other fellow comes forward.

There was another fellow. He was big--

896

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I believe you. It was a set-up.

They were going to rob you.

897

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He has good reasons not to come forward.

898

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Now, you just sit tight.

899

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Look, you were recommended

as the best criminal lawyer around.

900

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But I didn't come here to...

901

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I want to preempt this situation.

I don't want it to go any further.

902

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What does that mean?

903

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I want to take the initiative.

904

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I want to go to the police with Maria...

905

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with Mrs. Ruskin,

and tell them what happened.

906

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I feel morally certain

that what we did was right...

907

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in the circumstances we were in.

908

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Yeah, you Wall Street honchos

are real gamblers.

909

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What are you, nuts?

910

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They will devour you.

911

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-Eat you alive.

-Why?

912

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Forget that it's a political football.

913

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Forget about the TV and Reverend Bacon...

914

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and Weiss's upcoming election.

915

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Remember that everyday, the Bronx DA

prosecutes people with names...

916

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like Tiffany Latour, Sancho Rodriguez...

917

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Chong Wong and Shabazz Tamali.

918

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So he's dying to get his hands on a nice

white couple like you and Mrs. Ruskin.

919

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I mean, Biscuit City.

920

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Open your mouth and they will arrest you.

921

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They will make a big show of the arrest.

It will be very unpleasant. Guaranteed.

922

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And you don't want to be arrested

in the South Bronx.

923

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Put him on.

924

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I'll hold.

925

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I'll need to talk to Mrs. Ruskin too.

926

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I understand you went to Yale.

927

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Yeah. You too?

928

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What did you think of it?

929

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It was okay, as law schools go.

930

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They give you the scholarly view.

931

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And it's good for anything you want to do

that doesn't involve real people.

932

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Andruitti, you guinea bastard!

933

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I'm sitting here with Mr. Sherman McCoy.

934

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I don't know if he needs a lawyer.

What do you think?

935

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Okay. So what does that mean?

936

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Yeah, yeah...

937

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We got a problem.

938

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What is it?

939

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They're going to arrest you.

940

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While Sherman faced catastrophe

in his career and in his marriage...

941

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and while the police were circling,

while his life hung in the balance...

942

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Sherman went to the opera.

943

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There he is...

944

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Don Juan in the vise-like grip of fate...

945

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facing his crime, facing his entire life

of selfish consumption...

946

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and profligate wasting

of himself and others.

947

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You're Judy McCoy's husband.

948

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Yes.

949

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Have you met Aubrey Buffing, the poet?

950

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He's up for the Nobel Prize. He has AIDS.

951

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We were talking about the opera.

952

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The wrath of heaven must be at hand.

953

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Itsjustice will not tarry.

954

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I see the deadly thunderbolt

poised above his head!

955

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Suddenly, he saw her in the crowd.

956

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Maria!

957

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He followed her past the grinning faces

full of boiling teeth.

958

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Past the conversational bouquets.

959

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Past the impeccably emaciated

ladies of society.

960

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02:32,812 -- 01:02:34,689

The social X-ray women.

961

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02:34,892 -- 01:02:37,201

Christ, was this the world he lived in?

962

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Before he answered the question

he saw Maria being introduced...

963

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02:41,452 -- 01:02:42,851

to his wife.

964

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Maria's just back from Italy.

965

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02:55,372 -- 01:02:57,010

She lives on airplanes.

966

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She goes back and forth

from Italy like a Ping-Pong ball.

967

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Judy?

968

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Sherman!

969

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Have you met Nunnally Voyd?

970

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At last.

971

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Bobby Shalfet from the opera.

972

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