We’re going to your bank. You and I and my friends. My other friend will stay here with your wife and children to make sure nothing happens to them. Nothing will happen to them and nothing will happen to you if you do what I’ll tell you. The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973 starring Robert Mitchum & Peter Boyle & Richard Jordan & Steven Keats & Alex Rocco & Joe Santos & Mitchell Ryan & Kevin O’Morrison & Marvin Licherman & Carolyn Pickman et al, director Peter Yates, home invasion
I got three kids and a wife at home. I just can’t do any more time. ibid.
We’re not the only smart guys in the world. Killing Them Softly 2012 starring Brad Pitt & Scoot McNairy & Ben Mendelsohn & Richard Jenkins & James Gandolfini & Ray Liotta & Sam Shepard & Vincent Curatola & Max Casella & Trevor Long et al, director Andrew Dominik, Squirrel
You ever killed anyone? It can get touchy feely … I like to kill them softly, from a distance. ibid. Pitt
Where have you been? By the Gun 2014 starring Ben Barnes & Harvey Keitel & Leighton Meester & Slaine & Ritchie Coster & Toby Jones & Kenny Wormald & Paul Ben-Victor et al, director James Mottern, opening line
You really want to associate with people like that? He came out of his mother’s ass. ibid. old dude to Nick
The whole fucking world – that’s my man-cave. ibid. Mafia dude
You’re a made-man. Where are your friends now? ibid. fat bloke to Nick
We ain’t never gonna crack that baby. Never. Brink’s: The Great Robbery 1976 starring Leslie Nielson & Carl Betz & Stephen Collins & Burr DeBenning & Michael V Gazzo & Cliff Gorman & Darren McGavin & Art Metrano & Jenny O'Hara et al, director Marvin J Chomsky, gangsta
This is the autumn of 1949. In a little over three months these men and their accomplices – eleven in all – were to execute the crime of the century: the robbery at Brink’s. ibid. commentary
We can’t have you on this investigation. It’s a rule. Edge of Darkness 2010 starring Ray Winstone & Mel Gibson & Danny Huston & Bojana Novakovic & Gabrielle Popa & Shawn Roberts & Jay O Sanders & Caterina Scorsone et al, director Martin Campbell, boss to Gibson
If someone has a national security problem, they dial a number in northern Virginia, and then I decide what happens next. ibid. Winstone
These deaths are the result of a conspiracy by one of your campaign contributors. ibid. Gibson to senator
Castle Gleigh Prison, Northern Island: Sorry I got thrown in the hole. Blown Away 1994 starring Jeff Bridges & Tommy Lee Jones & Suzy Amis & Lloyd Bridges & Forest Whitaker & John Finn & Stephi Lineburg & Caitlin Clarke, director Stephen Hopkins, prisoner to prisoner
Land mines: this sucker here is particularly nasty: it’s called a Bouncing Betty. ibid. hero’s lecture
Did I catch you at a bad time? ibid. Tommy Lee Jones
You’re a sick freak. ibid. Bridges to Jones
Truly the nectar of the gods. Too bad we can only rent it. ibid. Bridges senior of alcohol
What’s the prognosis? Am I going to be blown to kingdom come? ibid. Bridges senior to Bridges junior
One blue-collar Boston neighbourhood has produced more bank robbers and armoured car thieves than anywhere in the world: Charlestown. The Town 2010 starring Ben Affleck & Rebecca Hall & Pete Postlethwaite & Jon Hamm & Blake Lively & Jeremy Renner & Chris Cooper & Colm Slaine & Tirus Welliver et al, director Ben Affleck, caption
Bank robbery became like a trade in Charlestown, passed down from father to son. ibid. Federal Agent Boston Robbery Task Force
I’m proud to be from Charlestown. It ruined my life, literally, but I’m proud. ibid. Charlestown Man, Boston Globe
Hey, why don’t you let me buy you a drink ... What’s the worst that could happen? ibid. Doug to Claire
This is the last one; we hit pause after this. We get pinched remember whose idea this was OK? ibid. Doug to Jem
Claire, take this. You’ll do better with it than I can. By the time you read this I’ll be long gone. ibid. Doug’s note with money
The master of manipulation who became Boston’s most powerful and feared Mob boss – James Whitey Bulger. How to Become a Mob Boss V: Play the Long Game: Whitey Bulger, Netflix 2023
During Whitey Bulger’s bloody reign as the head of Boston’s Winter Hill gang he was suspected of ordering at least 19 murders while raking in an estimated $30 million in illicit cash. ibid.
Fact #1: Whitey and his brother rose through very different ranks; Fact #2: Whitey learned how to evade punishment early on; Fact #3: Whitey knew publicity was not his friend; Tactic: Run a tight ship … ibid.
The Mongols Motorcycle Club. Here are three stories that forge the reputation of this vicious gang. First, the Mongols wage a brutal war over California with the Hell’s Angels. Next, an ATF agent risks his life to infiltrate the gang and bring it down. And finally, years of bad blood with their oldest rivals reaches a boiling point inside a crowded casino. Gangland Chronicles s1e5: The Mongols MC
‘They kept books that showed their criminal activities.’ ibid. undercover rozzr
May 19th 2000: Shortly after dawn, 700 agents raid locations across Southern California. ibid.
The sensitive issue of Billy Bulger’s brother, James, known as Whitey … one of the most feared mobsters in Boston. 60 Minutes Australia: Bulger Brothers, 1992
James Whitey Bulger: He is charged with committing 20 murders and suspected of at least 20 more. 60 Minutes Australia: James Whitey Bulger, 2006
What set Whitey Bulger’s organisation apart was his penchant for violence. ibid.
No bad habits if you don’t count murder. ibid.
Whitey Bulger had been a top-level FBI informant since 1975. ibid.
The last confirmed sighting of him was in London in 2002. ibid.
For more than a decade Marterano was the chief executioner for Boston’s Winter Hill Gang … He is perhaps best known as the government witness who helped expose a web or corruptiona and collusion involving the Mob and the Boston office of the FBI. For years he was one of the most feared men in Boston. 60 Minutes Australia: The Executioner, 2008
There are a few men alive today with the underworld credentials of John Martorano, and even fewer who are out of prison and walking the streets. For more than a decade, Marterano ewas the chief executioner for Boston’s Winter Hill Gang, a loose federation of Irish and Italian-American gangsters run by James Whitey Bulger. 60 Minutes: The Executioner, CBS 2008
Martorano: best known as the government witness who helped expose a web of corruption and collusion involving the Mob and the Boston office of the FBI. ibid.