Midnight Run
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Jack Walsh: Here come two words for you: shut the fuck up.

Jimmy Serrano: Don't say a fucking word to me, Sidney. Don't you say a fucking word, or I will get up and bury this telephone in your head.

Jack Walsh: I never took a payoff in my life and I'm not gonna to start with someone like you.
Jonathan Mardukas: Why not?
Jack Walsh: 'Cause you're a fuckin' criminal and you deserve to go where you're goin' and I'm gonna take you there. And if I hear anymore shit out of you I'm gunna fuckin' bust your head, I'm gunna put you back in fuckin' hole, and I'm gunna stick your head in the fuckin' toilet-bowl and I'm gunna make it stay there.

Jimmy Serrano: You and that other dummy had better start getting more personally involved in your work, or I'm gonna stab you through the heart with a fuckin' pencil.

Plot hole: At the end of the film Mardukas reveals that he has been wearing a body belt packed with cash - "in the neighbourhood of three hundred thousand dollars" - ever since Jack detained him in New York. Are we to assume that Jack Walsh, an experienced, hard-bitten ex-police officer, now a bounty hunter who routinely chases down violent and armed bail absconders who would kill him without a second thought, didn't even perform a perfunctory search of Mardukas when he detained him? This man used to work for the Mafia! What if he was carrying a weapon? A body belt with three hundred one thousand dollar bills in it would be uncovered by even the most casual pat down.

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Suggested correction: He was using $1000 bills. That's 300 bills in the belt which spread evenly absolutely could have been missed near his waist as part of his clothing.

Rubbish. I specified $1,000 bills as that would be the smallest package he could have secreted about his person, and it would still be instantly detectable. If he used $100 bills the package would be ten times larger, and he would have to carry a rucksack under his shirt.

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