The Sting (1973)

Jack Kehoe: Erie Kid

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Quotes 

• Joe Erie : Hello Snyder. Whattya doin' up here?

  Lieutenant William Snyder : I'm on vacation. You see that friend of yours lately?

  Joe Erie : No, no. He packed it in. Enrolled in detective school.

• Johnny Hooker : Guy turned out to be an oil well. Which way did he go?

  Joe Erie : Due north. He was gonna take it all.

  Johnny Hooker : Aw, the bastard. He can blow his nose all the way.

• Johnny Hooker : Oh, hi there, Snyder. What's the matter? Things a little slow down at the bunco department tonight, huh? Somebody lose the dominoes?

  Lieutenant William Snyder : You scored blood money today, Hooker, and you need a friend.

  Johnny Hooker : Go find yourself a shoplifter to roll.

  [Snyder sucker-punches him in the mouth] 

  Johnny Hooker : You got the wrong guy, pal. I've been home with the flu all day. You can stake out my toilet if you want.

  Lieutenant William Snyder : [throwing him up against a wall]  Keep talking! I'll tell you what you did, smart boy. You tied into a loaded mark on 47th across from Maxie's. And you and Coleman played the switch for him and blew him off to a cab on 49th. If he hadn't been a numbers runner for Doyle Lonnegan, it would've been perfect.

  Johnny Hooker : You're crazy. I ain't stupid enough to play for no rackets money.

  Lieutenant William Snyder : Not intentionally, maybe. That don't cut no ice with Lonnegan. He'll swat you like a fly.

  Johnny Hooker : Yeah, well... well, I'll square it with the fixer.

  Lieutenant William Snyder : Nobody can buy you a prayer if I put the finger on you. Now, I figure your end of the score was at least 3 G's. I want 2, no matter what it was.

  Johnny Hooker : My take was only 1.

  Lieutenant William Snyder : Then you're gonna have to come up with another grand somewhere.

  Johnny Hooker : All right.

  [he takes out a wad of money, but before he can count it out, Snyder takes all of it] 

  Lieutenant William Snyder : You're a smart egg, Hooker. No sense getting dead over two grand.

  [leaving] 

  Lieutenant William Snyder : Relax, Erie. I'll bill you.

  Joe Erie : I thought you blew all your money.

  Johnny Hooker : I did. The stuff I gave him is counterfeit. They'll spot it the first place he tries to spend it.