The Asphalt Jungle

Ditrich We'll make ourselves a little deal with the commissioner. You won't get more than a year or two.

Cobby I'm clean! I don't know where Doc went. That's the truth.

Ditrich They won't believe you at headquarters, Cobby. Every time you'd tell em that, they'd work you over. And you ain't the type that can take it, believe me. You'd spill your guts in half an hour.

Cobby Give me a break. You came to make a pinch, sure, but I'm not here...

Ditrich You're right here, Cobby.

Cobby I've always treated you right, Lieutenant. Let me duck out. You can get away with it.

Ditrich No, I couldn't. The commissioner's mad. He's out for blood. And it's not going to be mine.

Cobby You're not gonna stop me. You're gonna let me go. You're gonna do that. If you don't...

Doc I'd just like to see the color of the money.

Emmerich Gentlemen, I must admit at this moment, I, uh, I'm embarrassed.

Doc You mean you haven't got the money, Mr. Emmerich?!

Emmerich Oh, I have it - that is, I have the assurance of it...No, I haven't got the currency right here in my hands. But it's promised by an unimpeachable source. Gentlemen, I'm afraid we were a little hasty. We, uh, we moved too fast...So I'm afraid a few days more are needed to raise it...It wouldn't be safe for you to carry that stuff around...They're certainly gonna be looking for the big-timers, like yourself. Some smart cop might even connect this burglary with your release. Well, there you are.

Doc What boxes have you opened?

Louis Cannonball, double-door, even a few Firechests, all of em.

Doc Can you open a vault with a time-lock and a re-locking device?

Louis Sure.

Doc What do you use? Lock or seam?

Louis Seam...

Doc How good are you as a pick-lock?

Louis I can open anything in four minutes.

Dix I was up on that colt's back. My father and grandfather were there, watching the fun. That colt was buck-jumpin and pitchin and once he tried to scrape me off against the fence, but I stayed with him, you bet. And then I heard my granddaddy say, He's a real Handley, that boy, a real Handley. And I felt proud as you please.

Doll Did that really happen, Dix, well, when you were a kid?

Dix Not exactly. The black colt pitched me into a fence on the first buck and my old man come over and prodded me with his boot and said, Maybe that'll teach ya not to brag about how good you are on a horse'...One of my ancestors imported the first Irish thoroughbred into our county...Why our farm was in the family for generations, one hundred sixty acres - thirty in bluegrass and the rest in crops. A fine barn and seven brood mares...And then everything happened at once. My old man died and we lost our corn crop. That black colt I was telling you about, he broke his leg and had to be shot. That was a rotten year. I'll never forget the day we left. Me and my brother swore we'd buy Hickory Wood Farm back some day...Twelve grand would have swung it, and I almost made it once. I had more than five thousand dollars in my pocket and Pampoon was runnin in the Suburban. I figured he couldn't lose. I put it all on his nose. He lost by a nose...The way I figure, my luck's just gotta turn. One of these days, I'll make a real killin and then I'm gonna head for home. First thing I do when I get there is take a bath in the creek, and get this city dirt off me.