The Stone Killer (1973)

Martin Balsam: Al Vescari

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• [last lines] 

  Guido Lorenz : [Lorenz and Torrey, in car, as they watch Vescari enter a church]  Nothing changes, only the names.

  Lou Torrey : You gotta be kidding. We're chest deep in water. Screaming against the rushing tide.

  Al Vescari : [cut to Vescari in church confessional, after organizing the hit on the other Dons]  Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I haven't been to confession for ten days. I lose my temper...

  Lou Torrey : [cut back to Torrey and Lorenz in car]  You know, last three weeks, in New York City alone, there were 159 homicides?

  Al Vescari : [in confessional]  I don't mean to be harsh... but I... struck my son in anger last Tuesday.

  Lou Torrey : [in car]  Three thousand criminal assaults, six thousand robberies.

  Al Vescari : [in confessional]  Ruth, my wife, bless her, I swore at her.

  Lou Torrey : [in car]  You multiply that by Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles.

  Al Vescari : [in confessional]  For these... and all the other sins which I cannot remember, forgive me.

  [exits confessional, pauses to cross himself in front of the altar, and leaves church] 

  Lou Torrey : [in car, watching Vescari get into his limo]  You remember that cartoon of an old Roman Circus, where all the lions are roaring, and the page boy yells down the corridor...

  [to camera] 

  Lou Torrey : you've got five minutes, Christians.

  [Vescari's limo pulls away as credits roll]