A scene from Falling Down 1993
Elizabeth Tavino

[phone rings and she answers it]

Hello?

William Foster

[calling from the surplus store basement after just killing the Nazi]

So who were you talking to a while ago?

Elizabeth Tavino

You're just trying to scare me.

William Foster

[now dressed in army fatigues]

Am I succeeding?

Elizabeth Tavino

No, you're not succeeding. So you might as well just stop it. And you're not scaring me out of my own house. And you're not coming here.

William Foster

Oh, but I am. I'm on my way. You can count on that. I've passed the point of no return, Beth. You know when that is? That's the point in a journey where it's longer to go back to the beginning than it is to continue to the end. It's like...Do you remember when those astronauts got in trouble when they were going to the moon and something went wrong? I don't know, somebody screwed up and they had to get them back to Earth, but they had passed the point of no return. So, they had to go all the way around the moon to get back, and they were out of contact for hours. Everybody waited breathlessly to see if a bunch of dead guys in a can would pop out the other side, and that's me. I'm on the other side of the moon now, out of contact, and everybody's just going to have to wait until I pop out.

Elizabeth Tavino

The police are here.

William Foster

Did you know that in certain South American countries it's still legal to kill your wife if she insults you?

Elizabeth Tavino

[frightened]

They're here right now! I'm looking at one right now!

William Foster

Put them on the phone. [Elizabeth hangs up instead]

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