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Rodney: If God created anything better than crack cocaine, he kept that shit for hisself. I mean, that shit is like truth serum. It will truly expose who you are. I mean, you happen to be a low-life rat bastard motherfucker, who will sell off his newborn for a suck off that glass dick, crack will bring it right on in the light. Now, I don't care you black, white, Chinese, rich, poor. You take that first hit, you on a mission. And that mission will never end. Even when the house, the money, loved ones are gone, they send you to the joint, you still gonna try to cop.
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: No doubt.
Rodney: Only time it ends, Strike, that mission, when you six feet under.
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Andre The Giant: [to Strike] Dont you want to go some place you've never been before? I mean, you love trains, but you've only ridden the subway.
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Det. Rocco Klein: Errol. I thought you were dead.
Errol Barnes: I was. I came back.
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Errol Barnes: My old man... was a preacher. And when I started messin' with this shit, he said, "you gonna pay for that. You gonna pay for that shit, boy." He was right. You can't cheat this shit no... mo'.
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Rodney: Rocco Klein... Rocco Klein, you know, I've always wanted to ask you... you Italian, you a jew? I mean, what are you? You can't make up your mind?
Det. Rocco Klein: Me?
Rodney: Yeah, you.
Det. Rocco Klein: I'm from the lost black tribe of Israel, the Yos.
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Det. Rocco Klein: I read you like a Marvel fuckin' Spiderman comic book.
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Andre The Giant: [beating up Strike] It's motherfuckers like you that mugged Rosa Parks.
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Who the fuck is Rosa Parks?
Andre The Giant: Who the fuck is Rosa Parks? Who's Rosa Parks?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: It's hard on brothers out here.
Andre The Giant: Brothers? You stupid ignorant motherfucker.
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Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Why was you so gung-ho about all this shit, man? Most cops... Brothers killin' other brothers aint no big thing. Blasé, blasé. What made you care about me, my brother Victor, Darryl Adams, Tyrone? Huh? What made you give a shit?
Det. Rocco Klein: If I ever see you again... I'll book you on charges of criminal solicitation and conspiracy to commit murder. I'll let Andre beat you down again, then pick up Rodney on the same charges and I'll make sure you two share the same cell, the same fuckin' bed. Do you understand me clearly?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Yeah, I understand you clearly.
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Andre The Giant: [to Strike] You even glance in the direction of that little kid Tyrone, and I'm a fuck you up so bad you're gonna wish I had killed you.
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Rodney: Errol told me you talked to the homicide cop. How'd that go?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: It was a-ight.
Rodney: 'A-ight' or 'all right'?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: It was a-ight. All right?
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Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: [In Rodney's car; Rodney gives him crap about abandoning his post to be questioned by Klein] Aw, man. Fuck you, Rodney.
Rodney: [silently pulls over to the shoulder] Excuse me?
[punches Strike in the stomach]
Rodney: Who the *fuck* are you talking to like that? Are you out of your motherfucking mind?
[pulls Strike down on his lap]
Rodney: Huh? You think I'm one of these crew-niggas sitting on the project?
[punches him again]
Rodney: BENCH, motherfucker!
[grabs a gun from the backseat and sticks it in his mouth]
Rodney: Open yo mouth, nigga. Now you feel that? I'll put this gun in yo bad-breaf-smellin' mouth and I will pull the trigger. And I will splatter what little motherfuckin' brains you got all over the Corinthian leather interior of my car! And this my wife's brand new car, so you know I don't give a fuck. You understand me? *Do you understand me, bitch?*
[Strike nods]
Rodney: And let me tell you something else... if I ever hear about you talking to that "homocide" one more time, that Rocco motherfucker - I mean, I don't care if it's the light of day - if I hear my name coming up in this at all and I heard it was from *you*, then I'm gonna kill you. I mean you are 187 on the strength, you understand me? *Do you understand me?*
[Strike complies]
Rodney: Word is bond.
[takes the gun out of his mouth and pushes him off]
Rodney: Now get yo motherfuckin' ass out my car.
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Det. Rocco Klein: [suspects Victor took the fall for Strike] - You're the fuckin' king snake. You're a low-down, cold-blooded evil junkyard nigger like I've never seen.
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Det. Rocco Klein: This cocksucker is an innocent man!
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Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: I change my drawers every day. I stays clean!
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Rodney: I need you to be where I need you to be.
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Rodney: That boy's a thief and he got to be got.
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Got?
Rodney: Got.
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Rodney: You got any chocolate Moos?
Davis the Bartender: No, we don't got no damn chocolate Moos. This is a bar, son.
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Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Yo, the brother is bad peoples.
Victor: How is - how is Darryl Adams bad people?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: 'Cause, yo, he beat up this honey Charise, man. She's only 16, kid. She came in askin' for a job. This nigger took her to the back office, talkin' about, "slob my Johnson." And when she said no, he started slappin' her up and shit. Yo, the brother's foul.
Victor: A woman beater.
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Yup.
Victor: A dope-dealin' woman beater.
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Darryl Adams: What's up, Strike? Yo, black, we closed.vBesides, I thought you don't eat this shit because it fucks with your stomach. This is Ahab's, nigger! We ain't got no Di-Gel, no Kaopectate, no Pussy-Bismol!
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Bartucci: We got a black male, dead man. Darryl Adams, 22-years-old, the night manager of this joint. Plays like this. Kid's standin' by the door having a conversation with another male. Pop, pop. pop. Darryl goes down. Shooter does a Carl Lewis. Neighborhood says there's four shots fired. At this point, that's all she wrote.
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Det. Rocco Klein: Bing, bing, bing! Ricochet Rabbit.
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Larry Mazilli: Was he clockin'?
Det. Rocco Klein: I don't know.
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Det. Rocco Klein: If he worked for Rodney, he definitely was clockin'.
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Errol Barnes: Don't be lookin' at me in the eye, nigger. Your ass will be on this mural, too. I know that look. You wonderin' how l got that AIDS, ain't ya?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Nah, man.
Errol Barnes: You a lyin' motherfucker! It wasn't from fuckin' with them punks. I ain't no homosexual.
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Rodney: You wanna be a zero nigger? I don't want be no zero nigger. Right?
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Rodney: You see what I'm sayin' to you? Nigger wanna spend all his money like that gonna wake up broke every day of his life. Why? 'Cause the nigger don't believe in hisself. Thinkin' like a two-minute clock, man, instead of the long haul. Long term. See your future.
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Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Every man should have a hobby. What the fuck's yours? Collectin' welfare checks?
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Iris Jeeter: Who did this, huh? Who did this, huh? Who did this? Who did this? Who did this? Who did this? Who did this? Who's tryin' to be my son's daddy and gave him this haircut? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Nobody don't know nothin' now, huh?
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Iris Jeeter: You all ain't nothin' but a bunch of good-for-nothin', death-dealin' scum! I find out who's been messin' with Tyrone, I'm gonna put a bullet in your butt my own damn self.
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Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Andre, these cuffs is too tight, man.
Andre The Giant: You and me used to be tight.
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Larry Mazilli: Just because a Nubian, excuse me, Lieutenant, got a wife, a job, two kids, a dog, a goldfish and a bank account, he can't be a shooter?
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Det. Rocco Klein: I'm Rocco Klein, DA's Homicide Squad. You got a minute?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Homo-side.
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Det. Rocco Klein: You clocking?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Nah.
Det. Rocco Klein: How long you been clocking?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: What is you, deaf? I don't hustle.
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Jo-Jo: He's the yo that likes to drink the chocolate Moos.
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Jo-Jo: What are you gonna do for me?
Det. Rocco Klein: Nothin' you don't already do for yourself.
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Jo-Jo: Strike, my man! This is a new day, Strike. Dinkins out, Rudy in. Law and order. Cut the budget. Party's over. Crackdown on drugs, crime, niggers, spics, homeless, squeegee men, African-Americans. Have a seat. So what's up?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Not a thing, Detective.
Jo-Jo: Detective? Call me Jo-Jo.
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Jo-Jo: Tomorrow night's gonna be knocko night. We're coming down on these projects like a fuckin' broom.
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Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: What the fuck you tryin' to say? All black people look alike at nighttime or somethin'?
Det. Rocco Klein: I can't even tell you guys apart in the day.
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: You got jokes.
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Det. Rocco Klein: You know what Alzheimer's is?
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: What? Some kind of beer?
Det. Rocco Klein: Wise guy.
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Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: You don't know a motherfuckin' thing about me. You don't know who I am. You ain't nothin' but a racist-ass, nigger-hating cop. You don't know how it is for brothers out here.
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Jesus at Hambones: Victor always wanted to make this place like somebody's home. He treated everybody with respect. The workers, the customers, even the clockers.
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Jesus at Hambones: Last Friday night, we got three cocolo chocho face maricones trying to set up shop out there, right in front of my business. I reach for my trusty Roberto Clemente Louisville Slugger here, and I'm ready to bash in a head, I'm ready to bash in an arm.
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Jesus at Hambones: My mother called me Jesus, my father called me Jesus. You call me Jesus.
Det. Rocco Klein: All right, Jesus Christ.
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Iris Jeeter: You are sellin' your own people - death. All of y'all. I'm not gonna let you take him wit' chu. You hear me? I can't let you do that. I can't let you do that. You can't! You understand?
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Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: What the fuck I look like? I ain't goin' nowhere with your Homo-side ass.
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Det. Rocco Klein: [to Strike] I been inside your bald pea brain since you were born. Twenty fuckin' years! You don't play me, I play you!
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Det. Rocco Klein: Fuck Rodney. Yo thinks he's gonna okey-doke me. He's goin' down, Larry. Down for the fuckin' count.
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Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Black man say he didn't do somethin', you don't believe him. Black man say he did do somethin', you still don't believe him.
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Det. Rocco Klein: Tyrone, you're a good kid, but it's tough growin' up in the projects. Drugs, crime, peer pressure. You know what that means, peer pressure'?
Tyrone: Yes.
Det. Rocco Klein: I hear you're real intelligent. Don't your friends make fun of you - when you get straight A's, speak correct English, attend school, go to classes, don't hang out? Don't they call you white boy? Don't they call you soft because you ain't hanging with them hard? I know they do. All you want to do is the right thing.
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Scientific: Speech? Speech! He a bitch-ass nigger. How the fuck this thing gonna say Chuck D the hardest rapper? Nigger ain't never shot nobody.
Go: You gotta be hard nowadays! Come on.
Scientific: First of all, first of all, I know the niggers ain't slappin' bitches up. They definitely ain't takin' no pussy. Niggers don't be shootin' shit up. Niggers ain't never been in jail for murder. How the fuck them Niggers hard? Yo, man. Do what you wanna do man. I ain't buyin' no shit that hard core.
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Go: Only Niggers I have representin' is my man Tupac, G Rap and Wu-Tang. Straight up.
Scientific: Motherfuckin' Dr. Dre. Straight up.
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Scientific: Niggers talkin' all this positive shit. Motherfuckin' world we live in ain't positive. You know what I'm sayin'? That's why motherfuckin' sex and violence sell more more fuckin' records.
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Todd, Connecticut Teen: You know, we were looking for the Short Hills Mall.
Jo-Jo: It's not here.
Todd, Connecticut Teen: No?
Jo-Jo: No. Did you come down from Connecticut just to buy some whiting?
Todd, Connecticut Teen: Some golf balls.
Jo-Jo: You buy anything else around here that I should know about?
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Jo-Jo: I busted these four yuppie dickheads from Connecticut over at Ahab's. They drove down in Daddy's Benz to cop.
Det. Rocco Klein: So fuckin' what?
Jo-Jo: I'm gonna use them to pinch that motherfuckin' shine head Rodney. I got him set up.
Det. Rocco Klein: You got Rodney set up?
Jo-Jo: I have that fuckin' Yo set up just like in the movie.
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