"Montgomery Brogan?"
---
"Yeah, that's me."
---
"I'm Agent Flood with the Drug
Enforcement Administration."
---
"I can see that.
What is all this?"
---
"We've got a warrant
to search your apartment."
*********
"Monty" (Ed Norton):
"Yeah, maybe.
But then again...maybe not.
'Jeez, Your Honor, you know,
what can I say? l messed up.
You know, my mother died.
l-I was so worried
about my father.
l needed to help him out.
My head was a little
turned around.
l got hooked in
with the wrong people,
and I made a big mistake.
l really did,
but...it was my first time.
I'm sorry, and it will never,
ever happen again.'
Time served. Probation."
*********
"Agent Flood":
"You don't read the papers much, do you, smart guy? In New York, we've got a wonderful thing called the Rockefeller Laws. You had a kilo in your sofa. That kind of weight makes it an A1 felony. 15 years to life minimum for a first offense. Now with that much spread in the sentencing guidelines, the judges take their cues from the prosecutors. So if the prosecutors wife busted his chops that morning, you're fucked. You're gone for good."
*********
"Monty" (to the mirror)...
"And while you're at it,
fuck J.C.
He got off easy --
a day on the cross,
a weekend in hell,
and all the hallelujahs of the
legioned angels for eternity.
Try seven years
in fucking Otisville, J."
*********
"Frank" (Barry Pepper):
"How you doing, brother?
You all right?"
---
"Monty":
"Six months, you know."
---
"Frank":
"Come on, now."
---
"Monty":
"Six months before I got pinched,
I was gonna come to you
with the loot -- put me in some stocks,
put me in some mutuals."
---
"Frank":
"Don't do this."
---
"Monty":
"I got greedy, greedy.
I just fucked myself."
*********
"Monty":
"So picture this --
first night, lights out.
Guards are moving out
of the space, looking back over their
shoulders, laughing at me.
You are miles from home.
Door closes, boom --
I'm on the floor,
I got some big guy's knee
in my back. I can give it a little go, but
there will be too many of them.
Someone takes a pipe out
from under a mattress,
starts beating me
in the face -- not to hurt me,
just to knock
all my teeth out
so I can give him head
all night, and they don't have to worry
about me biting."
*********
"Uncle Nikolai": "This is my advice to you: When you get there, figure it out who's who. Find the man nobody's protecting. A man without friends. And beat him until his eyes bleed. Let them think you are little bit crazy, but respectful, too. Respectful of the right men."
"Uncle Nikolai": "I have been in three different prisons, Montgomery. Three different countries. And you know what I learned? I learned prison is a bad place to be."
"Uncle Nikolai": "I tattooed 'survive' on my hand the night before I went away to prison. And I did. We do what we have to do to survive."
*********
"Monty":
"I need you to make me ugly."
*********
"Monty"::
"Hey, Pop...
You were right.
It wasn't her.
It wasn't Naturelle."
(who ratted him out)
---
"Monty's father":
"Of course it wasn't Naturelle.
Give me the word,
and I'll take a left turn."
---
"Monty":
"Left turn to where?"
---
"Monty's father":
"Take the GW Bridge
and go west. Get you stitched up
somewhere and keep going. Find a nice little town.
On the way, stop in Chicago for a Cubs game.
You always told me you wanted to see Wrigley Field."
---
"Monty":
"Dad..."
---
"Monty's father":
"I'm saying
that if you want it...
if that's what you want,
I'll do it."
---
"Monty"":
"No, they'd take your bar."
---
"Monty's father":
"My bar. Jesus. My bar.
They can take my bar
to hell and back.
You think my bar is more
important to me than you,
my only child?
Give me the word,
and we'll go."
---
"Monty":
"They'll find me.
They'll find me
sooner or later."
---
"Monty's father":
"You know how they find people?
They find them
when they come home.
People run away,
but they usually come back.
That's when they get caught.
So you go...
and you never come back.
You never come home.
We'll drive.
We'll keep driving..."
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-25th Hour- (2002)