Rule number one: make sure you know everything about those you visit … Headhunters 2011 starring Aksel Hennie & Synnove Macody Lund & Nikolaj Coster-Waldau & Eivind Sander & Julie Olgaard & Reidar Sorensen & Kyrre Haugen Sydness & Mads Mogeland & Baard Owe et al, director Morten Tyldum, opening commentary
Our main research interest was the tracking of people: microscopic transmitters. ibid. rival
In the mid-seventies a gang of hoodlums set out from the suburbs to conquer Rome. While following their naive and terrible dream, they formed dangerous alliances. They felt immortal. Romanzo Criminale 2005 starring Kim Rossi Stuart & Anna Mouglalis & Pierfrancesco Favino & Claudio Santamaria & Stefano Accorsi & Jasmine Trinca et al, director Michele Placido, caption
They want ten billion in ransom? … They’re gonna pay three billion? ibid. rozzer
We’ve died a million times already. ibid. gangsta
What do you know about Dandi? ibid. rozzer to tart
Bye, Terrible. ibid. leader
The Christian Democratic president, Aldo Moro has been kidnapped in Rome by terrorists. ibid. tele news
They’ll be the rulers of the chaos. ibid. chief rozzer
My hands. I got these small hands. I got little girl’s hands. Raging Bull 1980 starring Robert De Niro & Cathy Moriarty-Gentile & Joe Pesci & Nicholas Colasanto & Theresa Saldana & Mario Gallo & Frank Vincent & Bernie Allen & Frank Adonis et al, director Martin Scorsese
He ain’t gonna get a shot at that title, not without us he ain’t. ibid. Godfather
There's no way I’m going down. I don’t go down for nobody. ibid. Jake
Fuck you! Fuck your mother! ibid. Jake to rozzers
I mean it was never going to be a happy ending. Bonded by Blood 2010 starring Tamer Hassan & Robert Fucilla & Vincent Regan & Terry Stone & Adam Deacon & Neil Maskell & Dave Legano & Johnny Palmiero & Duncan Meadows et al, director Sacha Bennett, Darren
1993: What the fuck is this? ... This is fucking inedible. This is dirty fucking haddock poisonous slop ... Not even if you cut my sentence by six months ... You do realise that poisoning someone is a crime? ibid. Darren’s prison protest
I think we’ve found the root of the problem. Let’s serve them something else. Something fresh. ibid. Governor to Screw
It’s an incurable den of cunts. ibid. gangstas in jam-har, re Raquel’s nightclub
Why am I so fucking angry? ’Cause I can't get that loving feeling no more. ’Cause the greedy bastard dealers won’t give me the pills to get the job done. Times change. Music changes. Drugs change. Summer of ’88: you ain’t never gonna get that again, mate. ibid. Craig in jam-jar
Where’s my fucking money, you skinny cunt? ibid. gangsta to victim
Well I got a contact: brings in ecstasy in bulk. Good shit. Once a month. Regular as clockwork. ibid. Pat in club
What the fuck you playing at? What you playing at? What the fucking hell you banging on about now? ... You’re off your fucking head, just like your mother, Kate – that’s what you are, a paranoid cunt. What you talking about? ... You bag of shit ... You cunt. Cunt. Cunt. ibid. Pat Tate
Those boys were becoming the Grim Reapers of Essex. ibid. Darren’s commentary
See business can never be good. Not if Pat’s involved. Shit was bound to happen. ibid.
Once again a girl is fighting for her life after taking an ecstasy pill on her eighteenth birthday. ibid. television news outside Raquel’s nightclub
What part of this don’t you understand? We’re dealing with three psychos, yeah? Who are openly making threats to me, Jack and you. I just wanna be sure that you’ll be there for us. I’m not prepared to stand there and watch these scum take us out, and take over the business. They’re sick ... The kindest thing would be to put them out of their misery. And believe you me, they’ve been having the same conversation as us. ibid. Mickey to Darren & Jack
It needs to be a twelve-bore. Something that does its job at the first time of asking. Know what I mean? ibid. Mickey to Darren
I’ll cut you right now. ibid.
No matter what you are trying to do, my friend, carnage is guaranteed. ibid. arms dealer to gangsta
I’m going to be the only one in the car with them so they won’t suspect a thing. ibid. Mickey to Darren
We make our move as soon as that prick Mick opens that plane door. All right? ibid. Pat to Tony et al
I mean Pat, Tony and Craig were cunts. ibid. Darren’s commentary
You fucking ungrateful cunt. ibid. Craig’s misogyny to Mrs Craig
Whatever it is they’re asking you to do, please don’t do it. ibid. Mrs Craig to Craig
You could get away with murders out here, couldn’t you, eh? ibid. Pat in jam-jar
You murdering abusive fucking cunt who’s been trying to have me killed for two weeks. ibid. Mickey to Pat
You don’t get it, do ya? I’m a registered police informant. ibid. Darren’s interview
I’ll fucking kill you, Nicholls, you cunt. Fucking Darren Nicholls. I’m gonna fucking kill you, you cunt. ibid. Darren’s recurring dream
Darren Nicholls remains living in the Witness Protection Programme. ibid. banner
Despite being convicted for the Essex Boys murders and although they are portrayed as the killers in this film, Jack Whomes and Mickey Steele refused to accept their guilt and to this day still protest their innocence. ibid. caption
For fourteen years Bernard O’Mahoney has campaigned to have their convictions overturned as he, and a growing number of others, firmly believe they are innocent. ibid.
Steele and Whomes are currently waiting for their case to be referred back to the Court of Appeal, where they believe fresh evidence will permit them to take their first step towards freedom. ibid.
Find your man and bring me back that file by the end of the day. Changing Lanes 2002 starring Ben Affleck & Samuel L Jackson & William Hurt & Kim Staunton & Toni Collette & Sydney Pollack & Tina Sloan & Richard Jenkins & Akil Walker & Cole Hawkins & Ileen Getz & Jennifer Dundas Lowe et al, director Roger Michell, judge
He didn’t know exactly what he was signing. ibid. Gavin
Booze isn’t really your drug of choice anyway. You’re addicted to chaos. ibid.