Scenes with Jack Walsh
14 scenes
Jack Walsh Where am I? I'm in Boise, Idaho. No, no, no, wait a minute, I'm in Anchorage, Alaska. No, no, wait, I'm in Casper, Wyoming. I'm in the lobby of a Howard Johnson's and I'm wearing a pink carnation.
What the **** are you talking about?
Jack Walsh I am not talking to you, I am talking to the other guys.
Jack Walsh Well, let me describe the scene to you. There are these guys, see? They've probably been up for like two days. They stink of B.O., they have coffee breath, they're constipated from sittin' on their asses for so long, they're sitting in a van, and they're probably parked right up the street from your office, Eddie. YOUR PHONE IS TAPPED!
Jack Walsh I'm sure you do.
I'll give you whatever you want.
Jack Walsh Start by shutting up. I know you all of two minutes and already I don't like ya.
Gee, that's too bad. I really like you.
Jack Walsh Yeah, she did.
Jack Walsh What're you sorry about?
Jack Walsh I'm not hurt.
You just said you were hurt.
Jack Walsh I'm not hurt.
You just said you were hurt!
Jack Walsh I didn't say I was hurt, YOU said I was hurt.
I asked you if you were hurt and you said "Yeah, I'm hurt."
Jack Walsh That's because you made me say it. Startin' to put words in my mouth.
Jack, you're a grown man. You're in control of your own words.
Jack Walsh You're goddamn right I am. Now here come two words for you: Shut the **** up.
Jack Walsh I can't keep you cuffed on a commercial flight, and I gotta check my gun with my luggage, but you **** with me once and I'm gonna break your neck.
Jack Walsh What?
You heard me, I can't fly.
Jack Walsh No, no, no. You're going to have to do better than that, pal.
No, I don't have to do better than that, because it's the truth, I can't fly: I suffer from aviaphobia.
Jack Walsh What does that mean?
It means I can't fly. I also suffer from acrophobia and claustrophobia.
Jack Walsh I'll tell you what: if you don't cooperate, you're gonna suffer from "fistophobia".
Jack Walsh I know my rights. You owe me phone calls.
AM Alonzo Mosely
What should be of paramount importance to you right now is not the phone calls. It's the fact that you're gonna spend ten years for impersonating a federal agent.
Jack Walsh Ten years for impersonating a fed, huh?
AM Alonzo Mosely
Ten years.
Jack Walsh How comes no one's after you?
AM Alonzo Mosely
Let me tell you something, asshole. I've been working on this Jimmy Serrano thing for about six years; Mardukas is my shot. I'm gonna bring him into federal court, and I don't want any third-rate rent-a-thug who couldn't cut it as a cop in Chicago bringing him to LA on some bullshit local charge. Do I make myself understood?
Jack Walsh Can I ask you something? These sunglasses, they're really nice: are they government-issued, or all you guys go to the same store to get them?
Jack Walsh What the - -YOU LIED TO ME FIRST!
Yes! Yes. But you didn't know I was lying to you when you lied to me down by the river. So as far as you knew, you lied to me first!
Jack Walsh How can I argue with this guy. I don't know what the **** he's talking about.
Come on, cigarettes are killers.
Jack Walsh So are women.
Jack Walsh [In a payphone talking to Eddie Moscone]
We are driving now, and I only have enough cash to get to Amarillo. We had to scrap the bus.
**** the bus! I wanna know what happened to the goddamn plane!
Jack Walsh He doesn't like to fly.
He doesn't like to fly?! What the **** does that mean?! Listen to me, Jack! You gotta be back here in less than two and a half ****in' days! A half million dollars of my money, what the **** is goin' on there?!!
Jack Walsh Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, I swear to God, don't start with me now or I will shoot him and I will dump him in a ****in' swamp! [vigorously shakes his head at Mardukas]
D The Duke
How much are you getting for me?
Jack Walsh I don't think that's any of your concern, but I'll tell you, just... to tell you. $100,000.
D The Duke
$100,000? Does that mean you'll take $100,000 to let me go?
Jack Walsh Not by a long shot.
Jack Walsh I never took a payoff in my life, and I'm not gonna start with someone like you.
Jack Walsh Because you're a **** criminal, and you deserve to go where you're going. I'm gonna take you there. And if I hear any more shit outta you, I'm gonna **** bust your head, and I'm gonna put you back in that **** hole, and I'm gonna stick your head in that **** toilet bowl and I'm gonna make it stay there.
Jack Walsh Jimmy. There's something I've been wanting to say to you for ten years.
Jack Walsh [smiling]
You're under arrest!
Jack Walsh [Jack arrives at Los Angeles before the deadline with Mardukas in custody, and calls Eddie on a pay phone]
Guess who I'm with? I'm with the Duke.
Jack Walsh Where am I? I'm at the airport. And guess who I'm with? I'm with the Duke!
You got him! [thumps the desk with a fist] You got him, Jack! I love you!
Jack Walsh Yeah. You wanna say hello?
Jack Walsh Say hello.
D The Duke
[distraught]
Hello.
Hello, you son of a bitch! We got you, you son of a bitch!
Jack Walsh Now say good-bye, ya lying little piece of shit, because I'm lettin' him go! [hangs up]
Jack Walsh Fear of flying, you son of a bitch?! Get back here, you son of a bitch! Get over here. Stop! Fear of flying, my ass! You son of a bitch, get out! You're a goddamn pilot, you son of a bitch?!!
I didn't feel it was appropriate to share that with you.
Jack Walsh [to a cab driver]
You wouldn't have change for a thousand, would ya?
CD Cab Driver
Whatta ya, a comedian? Get outta here, you bum!
Jack Walsh [Cab driver drives away] [Zips up coat and turns up collar]
Looks like I'm walkin'.
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