Trouble Man (1972)
Ralph Waite: Pete
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Quotes
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Pete : One man, Chalky. Just one man. Don't make him sound like a goddamn army.
Chalky Price : It only takes one man to wash you away. And T is the last man in this world I want lookin' for me.
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Pete : What are you gonna do, Chalk?
Chalky Price : I'm gonna empty my safe and take a trip.
Pete : And leave all the troubles to me.
Chalky Price : You wanna come? You're welcome.
Pete : No way. That nigger's not runnin' me out.
Chalky Price : That *nigga* is gonna feed you that word backwards, honky! And if he doesn't, I will.
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Pete : After all, where's he go if he's lookin' for you? Down to your office, downtown. Black people all over... But, if you're gone, he comes lookin' for me. And that means the penthouse at Century Plaza. White people all over. He's carryin' a flag, if he comes down there. "See me. Here I am." We see him. We take him out.
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Mr. T : What kind of trouble?
Chalky Price : We formed a partnership. Pete runs card games, crap games, on the white side of the street; same as, I do on the Black. We bank for each other. Split the takes. And that way, nobody has a bad week.
Mr. T : Don't sound like trouble to me.
Chalky Price : Well, the past three weeks, five of our runners have been grabbed taking money to games. And three of our games have been ripped off.
Pete : Three or four guys.
Mr. T : Black or white?
Chalky Price : Aw, we don't know. They only hit after dark.
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Pete : He opened his garbage and we'll put the lid on it.
Mr. T : And get what? A lot of dead bodies and heavy heat from the fuzz. You want that? Cool! Give me my money and time to get outta your way. I'll let you crazy mothers shoot at each other.
Chalky Price : He's right, Pete.
Mr. T : You fuckin-A right I'm right!
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Pete : We got them tied together like Siamese twins!
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Pete : It's neat as a pin, Chalky! Big is gone. There's no heat on us. We move in on Big's business and the money comes rollin' in like waves on the shore!
