A scene from Blood Simple 1985
Marty

You know in Greece they cut off the head of the messenger who brought bad news.

Visser

Now that don't make much sense.

Marty

No. It just made them feel better.

Visser

[laughs]

Well first off, Julian, I don't know what the story is in Greece but in this state we got very definite laws about that. Second place I ain't a messenger, I'm a private investigator. And third place--and most important--it ain't such bad news. I mean you thought he was a colored. [He laughs] You're always assumin' the worst.

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