The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)

Denzel Washington: Walter Garber

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Quotes 

• Ryder : I talked to God.

  Walter Garber : That's good, what did he say?

  Ryder : He said I should trust in Him, all others pay cash. How soon can you get it down here?

• Ryder : Well, I got faith in you man... but I gotta ask you one question. You know that thing when you told your wife about the 35K, how did she react?

  Walter Garber : Look, we gotta talk about...

  Ryder : No, don't be sensitive.

  Walter Garber : I'm not being sensitive.

  Ryder : Well, did she freak out or what?

  Walter Garber : She... wasn't happy, but she understood.

  Ryder : Well, that's love right?

  Walter Garber : No, that's marriage... that's another thing.

• Police Captain Hill : So, who the hell did you fuck to get this job?

  Walter Garber : Myself... was easier than it looked.

  Police Captain Hill : Yeah... fucking yourself always is.

• Walter Garber : What's her name?

  Ryder : Lavitca, she was Lithuanian... she was an ASS-model.

  Walter Garber : She asked you what?

  Ryder : You heard of hand-models, right? Advertisements?

  Walter Garber : Right.

  Ryder : She was an ass-model... she did jeans and uh you know, magazines and shit. Anyway, it was fashion week in New York and uh... I took her to Iceland.

  Walter Garber : Lavitca, Lithuanian, Ass model, Iceland, you took her to the ice...

  Ryder : So, for five-hundred bucks they'll take you on a dog-sled ride on a glacier.

  Walter Garber : Dog-sled?

  Ryder : Yeah... and you know that whole saying that if you're not the lead dog, the view never changes?

  Walter Garber : Right, otherwise you're always looking at the asshole of the dog in front of you.

  Ryder : That'll be funny in a minute when I get to that part.

  Walter Garber : It's funny now.

  Ryder : [next scene]  And it's eight in the morning, we haven't been to bed yet... and we're tooling across this glacier and I got this hangover that's creeping up the back of my neck... and guess what I'm looking at?

  Walter Garber : You're obviously you're staring at... the ass of the dog in front of you.

  Ryder : You got it! So this dog... out of nowhere just lifts his hind-legs up and puts them in the, you know the harness there... and just takes a shit, while he's running on his front paws. So he's dumping and running, all at the same time... now that's multi-fucking-tasking if you ask me.

  Walter Garber : Get outta here, did it hit you?

  Ryder : Shit always hits you man.

  [next scene] 

  Ryder : I didn't know it at the time, but it was profound.

  Walter Garber : Profound?

  Ryder : Yeah.

  Walter Garber : Why? Uh, you lost me.

  Ryder : Well, you know uh... when I went to prison later on, what you called. Uh, I had trouble going to the toilet... you know, a privacy thing. And I... couldn't take a shit. I was scared shitless... literally. So, you know what I thought of?

  Walter Garber : You thought of the dog.

  Ryder : That's right... I thought of that dog. If it could do what it needed to do... so could I. It saved my fucking live.

  Walter Garber : Wow, that is profound.

• Ryder : Do you know what I'm looking at? Do you know what I'm looking at?

  Walter Garber : No, I do not.

  Ryder : Ok, well first there's my gun... and at the end of my gun, what's your name man?

  George : George, everyone calls me Geo.

  Ryder : George, his friends call him Geo. He's got this kinda eighties skateboard thing going on... he makes it work, but it's not gonna look too good in his casket.

• Camonetti : Listen, don't let this guy bring you to his reality. 'Cause that's what he wants to do... he hurts you, you're gonna get angry. He's got the advantage, understand?

  Walter Garber : Yeah.

  Camonetti : Just deflect.

• Ryder : You know we all owe God a debt... and I'm a man who pays his debts. Are you a man who pays his debts?

  Walter Garber : Yeah, yeah, sure... TV, cable, uh and my mortgage. That's a little like dying once a month.

  Ryder : Oh, you're married... you're a married man?

  Walter Garber : Maybe.

  Ryder : Oh, no... you're married, man. Married men have mortgages.

• Ryder : Ok... now somebody else has to die. Two people, maybe all of us! Did you hear me?

  Walter Garber : I heard you, but you gotta understand that the circumstances they're different now for you. You gotta rethink this, you... you gotta adapt.

  Ryder : No, I gave you instructions and you know the consequences.

  Walter Garber : I mean don't you have a plan B?

  Ryder : No, plan B is enforcing plan A... and the minute you stop believing me mother fucker, that's it!

• Walter Garber : Well, I can tell you that you are dealing with one of the old-time bureaucracy, I know that. I mean, it takes time.

  Ryder : Well you'd better fix the bureaucracy. Because when the time comes, these motherfuckers, these out there, are gonna go real quick.

• Ryder : Garber! When you put your socks on this morning, did you ever think...? Turn around, let them frisk you. I was worried about you... I thought maybe you'd get lost but then I remembered you were a motorman, so... these tunnels don't change much, do they?

  Walter Garber : Just the people in 'em.

• Walter Garber : You got it, you got it... any other demands?

  Ryder : Yeah, well no fucking pizza delivery man.

  Walter Garber : No, I mean are you guys like... are you terrorists?

  Ryder : Do I sound like a terrorist? Do I terrorize you?

  Walter Garber : Actually you don't, but not that I've ever talked to one. So, so... what, this is just about money?

  Ryder : Oh, is there anything else?

  Walter Garber : There's not dying.

  Ryder : Yeah, well you know you live, you die, you either go with the current or you fight it. We all end up at the same place.

  Walter Garber : Where's that, Jersey?

  Ryder : Yeah, you watch it I was born there man.

  Walter Garber : You know I'm just saying, you know you're up in a motorman's cab... so that means you know you're on the radio, which means that you're an easy target. You gotta know the drill.

  Ryder : Yeah, I know that soon I won't be alone and If I'm the first to get shot... I'm the first of many to get shot.

  Walter Garber : That's correct, but then you'd still be dead.

  Ryder : Dead is an improvement on a lot of things I can think of, buddy boy.

  Supervisor : Sounds like he slept with my ex.

• Ryder : Now you understand commodities, don't you? You know, pork bellies, gold, light crude.

  Walter Garber : Listen. No disrespect, but maybe I'm not the guy you should be talking to.

  Ryder : Oh no, you are exactly the guy I wanna talk to. Now I want you to look at the ticker and I want you to tell me what is the going rate for a New York City hostage today. You think a million dollars is too much? I do. I think it's corny. Now get your calculator out. You got one?

  Ryder : [Garber hesitates]  Do you have a calculator?

  Walter Garber : Yeah, we got one. I got one.

  Ryder : Okay, good. Now add this up. You got $526,315.79. That's $526,315.79 Now times that by 19. What do you get?

  Walter Garber : [looks at calculator]  That's $10 million?

  Ryder : What do you get?

  Walter Garber : That comes out to $10 million plus 1 cent.

  Ryder : Oh that is a deal. Now I want you to call the mayor and tell him the price. And then you tell him I want it in 100,000 $100 dollar bills. You got that?

  Walter Garber : Okay I got that. What about the 1 cent?

  Ryder : Well you keep that 1 cent. It's your broker fee.

• Ryder : This make you feel better, Garber? That make everything okay now?

  Walter Garber : No, but it's a start.