Basher Tarr [to all the guys]
So unless we intend to do this job in Reno, we're in barney. [everyone pauses] Barney Rubble. [they look bewildered] Trouble! [the guys finally nod in understanding]
Played by Don Cheadle 
Ocean's Eleven (2001) · 93 quotes
Ocean's Eleven (2001) · 93 quotes
Tied for 3rd most-quoted character in Ocean's Eleven (2001): in 11 of its 93 quotes
Most scenes with: Danny Ocean (3), Livingston Dell (3), Rusty Ryan (2)
Window or aisle, boys? Yeah, we're in deep shit!
More lines from Basher Tarr
2 quotes Basher Tarr Basher Tarr [yelling at Linus]
You stupid bastard!
Scenes with Basher Tarr
8 scenes Basher [Basher's original plan for knocking out the casino's power has flopped]
Hang on a minute, hang on... we could use a pinch.
What's a "pinch"?
Basher A pinch is a device which creates, like, a cardiac arrest for any broadband electrical circuitry. Better yet, a pinch is a bomb - now, but without the bomb. See, when a nuclear weapon detonates, it unleashes an electromagnetic pulse which shuts down any power source within its blast radius. Now that tends not to matter in most cases, because the nuclear weapon usually destroys anything you might need power for anyway. But see, a pinch creates a similar electromagnetic pulse, but without the fuss of mass destruction and death. So instead of Hiroshima, you'd be getting the seventeenth century.
[masquerading as an A.T.F. agent, Rusty shoves Basher against a police car, pretending to search him.] [under his breath]
Hey, Bash.
Basher Hey, Russ.
How fast can you put something together from what I just slipped you?
Basher It's done.
Basher [Rusty lifts up Basher, and they slowly leave the crime scene]
Hey, is Danny about?
Yeah, he's waiting around the corner.
Basher Oh, that's terrific! It will be nice working with proper villains again.
Officer
[shouting]
Everybody down, now!
Basher [they break into a run as explosions rock the crime scene]
Ha-ha-ha! They weren't expecting that shit!
Second task, power - on the night of the fight, we're gonna throw the switch on Sin City. Basher, it's your show.
Basher You want broke, blind, or bedlam?
How about all three?
Basher Right, it's done.
Basher That poxy demo crew haven't used a coaxial feed to batten the main line, have they? Instead they've gone and nosed up the backup grid, nosed it right up!
I'll explain later.
[watching Linus trapped on the upper floor by security guards]
Shouldn't someone help him?
Basher Oh, that's a good idea, Albert. Let's hop out of the van and then we can all get nicked!
Basher [in a safe heist]
All right chaps. Hang on to your knickers.
Basher [He triggers the bomb, and the safe door cracks open. Laughing, Basher dances into the vault - and the alarm goes off]
Oh leave it out! You tossers! You had one job to do!
Livingston, we're set.
Livingston, we're set.
Basher, we're set.
Basher Hang on a minute chief.
We don't have a minute, Yen's gonna suffocate.
Basher Then you'd better leave off bothering me, don't you think?
Basher Where we at boys?
Pins and floor sensors now.
Basher Blinder.
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