Combat Shock (1984)

Rick Giovinazzo: Frankie Dunlan

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• Cathy Dunlan : I can't take much more of this!

  Frankie Dunlan : Much more of what?

  Cathy Dunlan : This! Living like rats! I'm starving! The baby's starving!

  Frankie Dunlan : So? I'm hungry too.

  Cathy Dunlan : Then do something about it!

  Frankie Dunlan : What do you want me to do?

  Cathy Dunlan : Get a job!

  Frankie Dunlan : There are no jobs!

  Frankie Dunlan : Then look for one!

  Frankie Dunlan : I am! It's not just us, it's the whole country! There's a recession on!

  Cathy Dunlan : The whole country manages to eat! You're out on the streets every day like a zombie! You're not looking for a job! You're waiting for the world to end!

  Frankie Dunlan : Hey, good! That should be any day now!

  Cathy Dunlan : Go ahead and make jokes, but it's true! You don't care about us! You're off on another planet somewhere! It's not fair! It's just not fair!

• Frankie Dunlan : I see it all so clearly now.

• Cathy Dunlan : What have you been doing all day? Where have you been?

  Frankie Dunlan : In the jungle...

• Frankie Dunlan : [voice-over]  I go back there every night, without fail...

• Welfare Worker : It doesn't look any better, Frankie. There's nothing here for you. Let's see... there are some computer jobs. There's an engineering apprenticeship opening...

  Frankie Dunlan : I'll take it!

  Welfare Worker : You can't. They want experience. You don't have the skill. That's just the problem, you don't have any skills.

  Frankie Dunlan : Isn't there anything else? Check again.

  Welfare Worker : [looking at some papers]  The waiting list for manual labor is still two weeks. Why don't you go back to school? Attend a community college? Learn a trait?

  Frankie Dunlan : I've got a family to support. And all social programs have been cut. What do you expect me to do?

  Welfare Worker : There is nothing I can do. You can keep coming here or can go to welfare, but I doubt they will do anything because they keep cutting back on handouts. I don't know what else to tell you.

  Frankie Dunlan : Tell me some good news.

  Welfare Worker : It's 1:30pm.