GoodFellas

ANGIE: You think I don't know? You think I like to keep this inside? But I gotta, or he'll kill the miserable bastard and he'll be there for life. It's disgusting what you have to put up with.

MICKEY: Look at Jeannie's kid.

ANGIE: What? What happened?

MICKEY: The oldest one. He was in an argument. A lousy ten-dollar card game. The kid pulls out a gun. It goes off. The kid gets killed. The grandmother hears it and finds out he's been arrested. She has a heart attack. She drops dead right on the spot. Now Jeannie's got a husband and son in jail and a mother in the funeral parlor.

ANGIE: But he was always a bad kid, that one.

MICKEY: No. Come on. It was the younger one that was the bad one.

BILLY: You remember Tommy's shines? The kid was great. He made mirrors.

TOMMY: No more shines, Billy.

BILLY: Come ooonnn. Tommeeee. We're only kidding. You can't take a joke? Come ooonn.

TOMMY: Hey, Billy. Watch the suit.

BILLY: Listen to him. "Watch the suit," he says. A little pisser I've known all my life. Hey, Tommy, don't go get too big.

TOMMY: Don't go busting my balls. Okay?

BILLY: Busting his balls? If I was busting your balls, I'd send you home for your shine box.

BILLY: Hey, look at him. Tommy. You grew up.

TOMMY: Billy, how are you?

BILLY: Son of a bitch. Get over here.

VARIO: Here. Take it. Now I gotta turn my back on you.

HENRY: Thirty-two hundred bucks. That's what he gave me. Thirty-two hundred bucks for a lifetime. It wouldn't have paid for the coffin.

HENRY: Paulie. You're all I got. I need help.

VARIO: You treated me like shit.

VARIO: I warned you a million times.

HENRY: I've been all fucked up since I got out.

VARIO: You think I didn't know what you were doing?

HENRY: It was easy money. I did it in the can. Shit! I learned the junk business in the can, Paulie.

VARIO: Right in my face. You looked in my face and you lied.

HENRY: But, Paulie, I'm sorry. Believe me. I was fucking crazy. But I'm okay now. I can be trusted. I'm clean now. On my children. Believe me! Two weeks cold turkey waiting for bail got my head together...

VARIO: You thought I was some fucking jerk?

HENRY: Paulie, I couldn't come to you. I didn't want to put you in this shit. I was ashamed to come to you. I knew I was wrong.

VARIO: I'm not going to get fucked like Gribbs. He's seventy years old and the fucking guy is going to die in prison. I don't need that. I don't care who it is. I'm warning everybody. Gribbs got twenty years just because he said hello to some fuck who was sneaking around selling junk behind his back. That's not going to happen to me. You understand?

HENRY: Paulie. Why would I? I swear.

VARIO: You're only home early because we got you a job, right? And I don't need any heat. You understand?

HENRY: Nods.

VARIO: And, if you hear about anybody else fucking around with that shit, you tell me.

HENRY: Nods again.

VARIO: Anybody! You understand?

HENRY: I understand.

VARIO: I don't want any more of that Shit.

HENRY: Wha? Me?

VARIO: Just stay away from the garbage. Yon know what I mean.

HENRY: Me? Why would I get into that shit?

VARIO: I know what you did inside. You did what you had to do. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking from now on, outside. I'm talking right here.

HENRY: Why would I get into that?

VARIO: What did you hear about that thing?

HENRY: What thing? The Brooklyn thing?

VARIO: No. No. The guy from downtown.

HENRY: The guy from near where Christie used to live?

VARIO: No. The other one. The one who disappeared up the block from Christie. The one they made a beef on.

HENRY: Oh I Him.

HENRY: Tell him. It's okay.

VARIO: What?

KAREN: What about the schools?

HENRY: Yeah. What about the kids' school?

HENRY: What happened? You okay?

KAREN: I got seared.

HENRY: Okay. Don't worry about it. It's okay.

KAREN: I got scared.

HENRY: So now my plan was to stay alive long enough to sell off the dope that the cops never found and disappear for a while until I got things straightened out.

HENRY: Where's the stuff?

KAREN: What are you talking about?

HENRY: You know. The stuff I left.

KAREN: I flushed it down the toilet.

HENRY: You what?

KAREN: What did you want me to do with it? They were all over the house.

HENRY: Are you fucking nuts? That was forty, fifty thousand. I need it. I was depending on that money.

KAREN: They had a warrant. They went through everything. They would have found it. I swear.

HENRY: Shit You know they would have never found it. Why did you do it? Why did you do it? My God, why did you have to do it?

KAREN: Oh no! No! Noooo!

KAREN: Then you're safer in here.

HENRY: Safe? Here? They'll kill me here. They're all afraid I'm gonna rat them out. People are already looking to walk away from me. I'm dead in here. You gotta get me out.

KAREN: Who's gonna do that?

HENRY: Just get me out.

KAREN: I told Jimmy the cops took our cars and froze our bank accounts and he offered to get me some money. Be wants to know what's happening. You gotta meet him.

HENRY: Fuck Jimmy and the money. Didn't I tell you I gotta get out of here first. I gotta straighten every- thing out with Paulie or I'm dead.

KAREN: Jimmy's calling every day. It's urgent.

HENRY: What did he say, exactly?

KAREN: At least Jimmy and Mickey want to help. I talk to Mickey every day. That's more than I can say for the rest.

HENRY: Paul will calm down. You'll see.

HENRY: I had everybody working. Even our old babysitter.

KAREN: She's beautiful. Look at her. Henry, look at her.

HENRY: Hello! Hello! Have a good flight?

HENRY: Get packed. We're getting out of here.

KAREN: With what?

HENRY: Don't worry with what. You just start looking for a new place. I'm going to Pittsburgh in the morning. The guys from Pittsburgh they owe me fifteen grand from our little partnership and it's only the beginning.

KAREN: But you've got to see your parole officer in the afternoon and I promised we'd take Judy to F.A.O. Schwarz.

HENRY: Don't worry about it. You listening to me? Now, come on. We gotta go see Paulie.

HENRY: We've got to help each other.

KAREN: Even Paulie, since he got out, I hardly see him.

HENRY: It's only you and me. That's what happens when you go away. We're on our own. Forget everybody. Forget Paulie. As long as he's on parole he doesn't want anybody doing anything.

KAREN: I can't do it anymore.

HENRY: Yes, you can. I've got it set up. We'll be fine. All I need is for you to keep bringing the stuff. I've got a guy in here from Pittsburgh who'll move it for me. Believe me, in a month we'll be fine. We won't need anybody.

KAREN: I'm afraid. I'm afraid if Paulie finds out.

HENRY: Don't worry about Paulie. Is he helping you? Is he putting food on the table? We've got to help ourselves. We just have to be careful while we do it.

KAREN: I don't want to hear about her anymore.

HENRY: Never.

KAREN: Nobody's helping me. Tommy got four years. Marty and Fran are broke. I asked your friend Remo for the money he owed you, and you know what he told me?

HENRY: It'll be okay.

KAREN: He told me to take the kids to the police station and make the cops put me on welfare.

HENRY: Stop! Stop!

KAREN: Let her carry this shit inside.

KAREN: You son of a bitch. She's been here.

HENRY: What are you talking about?

KAREN: Don't lie to me. I saw her name in the register.

HENRY: Jezuz Christ!

KAREN: You want her to visit you? Good! Let her stay up all night crying and writing letters to the parole board.

HENRY: What am I doing? I'm in here! I'm in jail. I can't stop people from coming to see me.

KAREN: I thought you were supposed to turn yourself in at ten o'clock this morning?

HENRY: I'm just having my last few drinks.

KAREN: I've been all over town. I got a call from the bondman. He says they're going to rescind your bail if you don't show up and sign in right now. They're going to take away the house.

HENRY: Shit.

HENRY: It's all bullshit. I swear. It's nothing. Whatever you want, we'll do.

KAREN: The truth was, that no matter how bad I felt, I was still very attracted to him. Why should I give him up to someone else? Why should she win?

HENRY: Son of a bitch.

KAREN: Henry. Wake up.

HENRY: What's the matter with you? You're crazy.

KAREN: I don't care. Something's going on.

HENRY: That again.

KAREN: I'm gonna need some money.

HENRY: How much?

KAREN: I Don't know. I don't know if I could live that way. What if, God forbid, you go to prison. Mickey said Jeannie's husband --

HENRY: Are you nuts? Jeannie's husband went to the can just to get away from her, she's such a pain in the ass. Let me tell you. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to, unless they make themselves get caught. They do stuff with the wrong people. They don't have things organized. You know who goes to jail? Nigger stickup men. That's who. And they only get caught because they fall asleep in the getaway car.

KAREN: My bag. My bag.

HENRY: What bag?

KAREN: The bag with the envelopes.

HENRY: Oh that. Don't worry about that. Nobody's gonna steal it.

HENRY: Go inside. I'll be right there.

KAREN: What are you gonna do?

HENRY: Get inside!

KAREN: What do you do?

HENRY: I'm in construction.

KAREN: They don't feel like you're in construction.

KAREN: What're you doing? What about the car?

HENRY: He watches it for me. It's better than waiting at a garage.

HENRY: Take it easy. We can talk about it.

HENRY: She's screaming on the street and I mean loud, but she looked good. She had these violet eyes. I remember she's screaming, but mostly I'm looking at her eyes. They were just like Elizabeth Taylor's. That's what everybody said.

KAREN: Talk? To you? After what you did!

HENRY: I thought you were going to stand me up. You looked bored. You didn't say anything. What did you expect. Tommy was all over me. Right?

HENRY: I didn't know, I swear. I thought it was next week.

KAREN: Liar!

HENRY: I had a meeting with Tuddy around eleven o'clock and here I am a back-up guy.

KAREN: Have more coffee. It'll wake you up.

HENRY: I couldn't wait to get away. I was ordering the dessert when they were eating dinner. When they were having coffee, I was asking for a check.

HENRY: I can't eat, just get me some coffee.

HENRY: He was jumpy. He hadn't touched a thing. In the old days, Jimmy would have ordered doubles and eaten it all. On the surface, of course, everything was supposed to be fine. We were supposed to be discussing my case, just like we always would, but I had a feeling Jimmy was trying to sense whether I was going to rat him out to save my neck.

JIMMY: I think you got a good shot at beating the case.

HENRY: How?

JIMMY: It's that rat bastard from Pittsburgh. He ratted you all out. He's been a rat since he got busted in Pittsburgh.

HENRY: Yeah.

JIMMY: He's hiding, thE son of a bitch, in Florida.

HENRY: Yeah.

JIMMY: I want you and Anthony to go down there and take care of that bastard. Without him, they've got no case.

JIMMY: What fucking good are these things? They don't fit. What do I need this for? I'm not paying for this shit.

HENRY: Right away I knew he didn't want them. I knew I was going to get stuck for the money. I only bought the damn guns because he wanted them. And now, he didn't want them. I didn't say a thing. Jimmy was so pissed he didn't even say goodbye.

JIMMY: You want the melon?

HENRY: Nah.

JIMMY: I better call again.

HENRY: Jimmy and I could never be made, because we bad Irish blood. It didn't even matter that my mother was Sicilian. To become a member of a crew, you've got to be one hundred percent Italian So that they can trace all your relatives back to the old country.

JIMMY: Watch this.

HENRY: Come on, don't fuck around, will ya?

JIMMY: I do it all the time. Bust their fucking balls.

HENRY: Jimmy, come on. Fuck 'em. Don't give them the satisfaction.

HENRY: What'll I tell Fran?

JIMMY: Who gives a fuck? Tall her he ran away with a broad. What do you care about her.

HENRY: Paulie's gonna make him?

JIMMY: Who else? Paulie got the okay. This little guinea fuck. Someday he's gonna be a boss. Can you believe someday we'll work for him.

JIMMY: Oh yeah? Anything you say.

HENRY: What's going on? What happened to Stacks? Is everything okay?

JIMMY: Don't worry about it.

HENRY: There are cops all over the place.

JIMMY: So what? Where are they gonna go?

JIMMY: Give'm a drink.

HENRY: I gotta talk to you.

JIMMY: Have a drink first.

JIMMY: For Christmas. Your share. It's just a taste.

HENRY: Jimmy.

JIMMY: We did it. We did it.

JIMMY: we're gonna feed the bastard to the lions.

HENRY: What lions? I'm not going near any lions.

JIMMY: We only have to shove'em over the moat.

JIMMY: We got a problem, that thing we took care of upstate?

HENRY: Paulie was just talking about him.

JIMMY: Well, we gotta dig him up again.

HENRY: What?

JIMMY: The guy just sold the property. They're gonna build condominiums and I don't want anybody digging up the little bastard.

HENRY: It's been six months.

JIMMY: It's still better than letting somebody find him.

HENRY: If Paulie finds out, we got problems.

JIMMY: Fuck Paulie. If Batts' crew finds we whacked him, we got real problems.

JIMMY: You got money for your bullshit television, don't you? I gotta watch you swimming back and forth on TV all night long, don't I? You got money for that, but you don't have my money?

HENRY: Jimmy. He'll be okay. He's good for it. Relax.

JIMMY: Keep 'em coming.

HENRY: Jimmy was one of the most feared gays in the city. He was first locked up at eleven and was doing hits for mob bosses when he was sixteen. Hits never bothered him. It was business. But what he really loved to do was steal. I mean, he actually enjoyed it. Jimmy was the kind of guy who rooted for the bad guys in the movies. He was one of the city's biggest hijackers. Clothes. Razor blades. Booze. Cigarettes. Shrimp and lobsters. Shrimp and lobsters were the best. They went fast.

HENRY: What are we going to do with him? We can't dump him in the street.

JIMMY: Bring the car round back. I know a place Upstate they'll never find him.

MARTY: I want to talk to Jimmy.

HENRY: He heard.

MARTY: But I got two hundred and fifty coming. It's my share. Jimmy owes me.

HENRY: Marty, please. Let me talk to him.

MARTY: It's a fait accompli?

HENRY: Done.

MARTY: And Jimmy's in it, right?

HENRY: Will you stop.

MARTY: I didn't agree to three points over the vig.- What am I nuts? I didn't need it that much.

HENRY: What are you gonna do? Fight with him? He wants his money.

TODDY: I You wasted eight fucking aprons on that guy. :

HENRY: I remember feeling bad about the guy. But I remember feeling that maybe Tuddy was right. I knew Paulie didn't want anybody dying in the building.

HENRY: It was the first time I had ever seen anyone shot.

TODDY: You're some fucking jerk.

TODDY: What happened to you?

HENRY: I can't make any more deliveries.

TODDY: Whadda you mean, you can't make any more deliveries? You're going to fuck up everything?

HENRY: My father got a letter from the school. He said the next time he'll kill me.

HENRY: Do you realize what we're involved in here now?

JUDY: I don't care. I need my hat. I won't go without it.

HENRY: What could I do? If she insisted, I had to drive her home for her goddamn hat. I threw the package in the kitchen and went to take her hone.

JUDY: I gotta go home.

HENRY: What for? I got a pound of stuff in my jacket I've been carrying around all day. We gotta start taping it to your leg.

JUDY: I gotta go home and get my hat.

HENRY: You know what to do?

JUDY: Yeah, yeah.

HENRY: Now this is important. Make sure you leave the house when you make the call. You understand? Do you hear me? It's important. Call from an outside phone. I mean it.

JUDY: Jesus! You must think I'm dumb. What are you bugging me for? I know what to do!

HENRY: Just make sure you do it. You know what I mean?

HENRY: You ready?

JUDY: Yeah.

HENRY: Tell Michael not to 1et the sauce stick.

JUDY: Where'd you find such creeps?

HENRY: They're okay and it's worth it. Ain't it?

HENRY: Tommy, don't fuck around. Put the gun away. Tommy!

TOMMY: No, no. It's okay.

HENRY: Tommy, come on. Put the gun away.

TOMMY: No. It's okay. Just watch this. Watch it.

TOMMY: You gotta help me. Okay? This girl I told you about? Diana? She's from the Five Towns. She's Jewish. She won't go out with me alone. Can you believe this shit? She's fucking prejudiced, but she's built. She's never been out with an Italian before. She says she'll only go out on a double date with her girlfriend. You believe this shit? But you gotta see her. I mean, she's beautiful.

HENRY: Will you get the fuck out of here.

TOMMY: Is it my fault she won't go out without her girlfriend? For Chrissake. Come on. You don't even have to stay. Jeesuz! What's the big deal?

HENRY: Tommy ...

HENRY: Batts's made. His whole crew is going to be looking for him. This is fucking bad.

TOMMY: There's a shovel at my mother's.

HENRY: Come on, relax. He's drunk. He's been locked up for six years.

TOMMY: I don't give a shit. That guy's got no right.

HENRY: Tommy. He. doesn't mean anything. Forget about it.

TOMMY: He's insulting me. Rat bastard. He's never been any fuckin' good.

HENRY: Tommy. Come on. Relax.

TOMMY: Keep him here. I'm going for a bag.

ROBIN: I don't need this... You said tonight and now it's not tonight...

HENRY: It's okay. I'll make it up. I promise. Just hurry it up a little. Okay?

ROBIN: Okay?

ROBIN: Are you okay? What happened?

HENRY: Nothing. I dropped the soap. That's all.

ROBIN: Stay there.

HENRY: Don't start. I told you to clean up. Look at this place. It's a pigpen. Look around here. Why do you think I bought you the dishwasher? Look. Look at this. There's enough powder around here to put us all away.

ROBIN: I hate to do dishes.

HENRY: Hey, come on. I gotta meet somebody.

ROBIN: So do I.

JIMMY: The third store down.

KAREN: Jimmy just stood there on the sidewalk. It felt funny. I started walking down the block, but I noticed the stores were empty.

JIMMY: How is he? Okay? Are they busting his chops?

KAREN: He's okay. They sobered him up.

JIMMY: Did he say what they're asking him about?

KAREN: Jimmy. I don't know. I got so much else on my mind. I got the kids. We got no money.

JIMMY: I gotta talk to him as soon as I can.

KAREN: He says he's too hot. He doesn't even know I came here today. It's like he's crazy. Jimmy.

JIMMY: I know. I know. But it'll be okay. Don't worry. I got some money for you. It's down the block.

KAREN'S MOTHER: He's got your father upset. Good thing he doesn't have to go to work in the morning. Is this what he deserves?

KAREN: Ma! Please! You're driving me crazy.

KAREN'S MOTHER: Driving you crazy? Don't get me started. You're here a month and sometimes I know he doesn't come home at all. What kind of people are these?

KAREN: Ma! Stop! What do you want me to do?

KAREN'S MOTHER: Do? What can you do? What did you expect? He wasn't Jewish. Did you know bow they live? Your father would never stay out this late without calling. In thirty years he never stayed out all night.

KAREN: Stayed out? Daddy never went out at all.

KAREN'S MOTHER: He didn't call?

KAREN: He's with his friends.

KAREN'S MOTHER: What kind of person doesn't call?

KAREN: He's a grown man. Be doesn't have to call every five minutes.

KAREN'S MOTHER: If he was so grown up he'd get you two an apartment.

KAREN: Don't bring that up. You're the one who wanted us here.

KAREN'S MOTHER: Look. He's got the whole house in an uproar.

MCDONALD: Don't worry about the schools. We'll take care of the schools.

KAREN: I don't want them left back.

MCDONALD: They won't be left back. They'll stay in their grade.

KAREN: That's important.

MCDONALD: We'll pack up everything and send it to you.

KAREN: I got dry cleaning.

MCDONALD: We'll pick it up.

VARIO: You want a partner?

SONNY: Please?

VARIO: If you knew those fucking kids. They're nuts. Especially that Tommy. What am I going to do with them?

SONNY: But I'm worried. I'm hearing all kinds of things. Paulie. You know me all my life. I've always done the right thing.

VARIO: You think that matters? You think they give a shit about anything? The little bastards.

SONNY: But it isn't right, Paulie. That Tommy, he's making trouble for me all over town. I can't go here. I can't go there.

VARIO: You? You think you're the only one? I've talked to them a million times, but they don't listen.

SONNY: But, Paulie, please.

VARIO: Someday they'll get what's coming to them. That's the only way they'll stop.

SONNY: Paulie, I swear, I'm afraid. The guy's nuts. What do I have to do? Whatever I gotta do, I'll do.

VARIO: What can I do? If I could do something, don't you think I would?