Russell Stevens, Jr. (Larry Fishburne) The nigger's the one that would even answer that question.
Gerald Carver I can't buy that much shit, John. I don't have that in the budget.
John Hull Well, what am I supposed to do with it?
Gerald Carver You're a drug dealer. Deal drugs.
John Hull I don't know. Maybe you feel like you're fucking a slave.
John Hull Yeah, your mother and your father.
Betty (Victoria Dillard) Do you know anything about ethnic art? Have you ever been in a store like this? See, we don't put price tags on our merchandise. So if you have to ask, then obviously you can't afford it.
John Hull In that case I'll take two of them.
Gerald Carver Are you kidding? I went to Princeton to avoid all that shit.
John Hull From almost nothing to almost something.
David Jason Nouveau anal, I think this is called.
David Jason They taught me what I needed to know: that they don't respect me, that I don't deserve respect.
Nancy Oh, David, you've gotta get out of this business. You have a wife and a daughter who love you. I love you. What more do you want?
David Jason I want my cake and eat it too. I want my cake and eat it too.
Gerald Carver They lied to me, John. How naive can you get, man? What, what, are you so stupid you can't see that? You think I like this? Huh? John, I'm sorry. Huh? It's all shit, you know. It's all bullshit. You know that. I know that.
John Hull What the fuck am I gonna do now?
Gerald Carver Hey, you know they're bringing me to Washington? Come along with me, man. We'll go to Washington. We'll have a budget, huh? We'll have some clout, we'll have some--
John Hull I didn't get into this for that.
Gerald Carver Well, neither did I. But that's all there is. They're the fucking spoils of war. You might as well enjoy it.
John Hull Well, if that's all there is, I've been wasting my motherfucking time with you. I can get more clout and more money on the street than I can get following your ass to Washington. Know what? This whole fucking time, I'm a cop pretending to be a drug dealer. I ain't nothing but a drug dealer pretending to be a cop. I ain't gonna pretend no more, Gerry. I quit.
Hector Guzman (Rene Assa) You racist Americans. You just want to cut us poor Hispanics completely out of the market.
David Jason No, Mr. Guzman. I think you know that there's no such thing as an American anymore. No Hispanics, no Japanese, no blacks, no whites, no nothing. It's just rich people and poor people. The three of us are all rich, so we're on the same side.
Gerald Carver What?
John Hull punches Gerald Carver in the stomach.
John Hull The nigger's the one that would even think about telling you.
John Hull We took eleven million in drug profits out of
the van. The money doesn't know where it comes from, but I do. If I keep it, I'm a
criminal. If I give it to the government, I'm a fool. If I try and do some good with it,
maybe it just makes things worse. Either way, I'll probably just wind up getting myself in
more trouble. It's an impossible choice, but in a way, we all have to make it. What would
you do?