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- [Louis has forgotten where he parked]
- Melanie: Jesus, but if you two are not the biggest pair of fuck-ups I've ever met in my entire life. How did you ever rob a bank? When you robbed banks, did you forget where your car was then too? No wonder you went to jail.
- Ordell Robbie: Here we go. AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.
- Max Cherry: I'll bet, besides maybe an afro, you look exactly how you did at 29.
- Jackie Brown: Well, my ass ain't the same.
- Max Cherry: Bigger?
- Jackie Brown: Yeah.
- Max Cherry: Ain't nothin' wrong with that!
- [after shooting Louis]
- Ordell Robbie: What the fuck happened to you, man? Shit, your ass used to be beautiful!
- Louis: Who's that?
- Ordell Robbie: That's Beaumont.
- Louis: Who's Beaumont?
- Ordell Robbie: A employee I had to let go.
- Louis: What'd he do?
- Ordell Robbie: He put himself in a position where he was going to have to do ten years in prison, that's what he did. And if you know Beaumont, you know ain't no god damn way he can do ten years. And if you know that, then you know Beaumont's gonna do anything Beaumont can to keep from doing them ten years, including telling the federal government any and every motherfucking thing about my black ass. Now that, my friend, is a clear cut case of him or me. And you best believe it ain't gonna be me.
- Ordell Robbie: How'd you find me?
- Max Cherry: Winston found you.
- Ordell Robbie: How the fuck did he find me?
- Max Cherry: That's what Winston does. He finds people who don't want to be found.
- Ordell Robbie: Well bully for that nigga!
- Ordell Robbie: What the fuck you doin' knockin on the door like the goddamn police? You wanna die?
- Max Cherry: I thought you might be asleep.
- Ordell Robbie: You keep fuckin' with me, you're gonna be asleep forever.
- Ordell Robbie: Look, I hate to be the kinda nigga does a nigga a favor, then, BAM!, hits a nigga up for a favor in return. But I'm afraid I gots to be that kinda nigga.
- Beaumont: Whatchu mean?
- Ordell Robbie: I need a favor, nigga!
- Ordell Robbie: Goddamn girl, how you live like this?
- Sheronda: Like what?
- Ordell Robbie: [points at filthy room] Like this! This some repugnant shit!
- Ordell Robbie: Hey, where's Melanie?
- Louis: Well... that's what I want to tell you. She was being such a pain. She made us late for the pickup because she locked herself in your bathroom for hours with her bong getting high. She was nagging and complaining... so strung out. She wouldn't shut up, so...
- Ordell Robbie: You left her back there?
- Louis: Not exactly. I shot her.
- Ordell Robbie: You shot Melanie?
- Louis: Twice.
- Ordell Robbie: Is she dead?
- [Louis does not reply]
- Ordell Robbie: Is she dead, yes or no?
- Louis: Pretty much.
- Jackie Brown: Sit your ass down on that sofa.
- Ordell Robbie: See? Police start fuckin' wit' chur mind, start pittin' black against black. Thats how they do, you know. They been doin' this since the beginning of...
- Jackie Brown: Shut your raggedy ass up and sit the fuck down!
- Ordell Robbie: Goddamn girl, you gettin' high already? It's just 2 o'clock!
- Melanie: [chuckling] It's that late?
- Ordell Robbie: You know you smoke too much of that shit, that shit gonna rob you of your own ambition.
- Melanie: Not if your ambition is to get high and watch TV...
- Ordell Robbie: Oh, ya'll a couple Cheech and Chongs, huh?
- [phone rings]
- Ordell Robbie: Well don't get up, I got it.
- Beaumont: I just ain't climbin' in no goddamn, dirty-ass trunk, man. I got a problem with small places.
- Ordell Robbie: Well I got a problem with spendin' ten thousand dollars on ungrateful, peanut-head niggers to get 'em out of jail, but I did it! And how small was that jail cell, motherfucker?
- [Louis and Melanie are looking at a picture]
- Melanie: That's Japan.
- Louis: Uh, looks like... I can... It shows...
- Melanie: Wanna fuck?
- Louis: Yeah.
- [three minutes later]
- Melanie: That was fun.
- Louis: Yeah, that hit the spot.
- Melanie: Now, we can catch up.
- Louis: Yeah.
- [heavy breathing]
- Louis: Got a beer?
- Melanie: Sure. In the fridge.
- [Melanie and Louis are fighting over a bag of Ordell's money]
- Louis: Gimme the bag...
- Melanie: Watch it dipshit, you wanna rip the fucking bag.
- Louis: Gimme that bag before I knock you out and take it.
- Melanie: Okay take it. Jesus, what's wrong with you?
- Louis: I'm carrying it.
- Melanie: Okay, you got it. Just take a chill pill for Christ's sake.
- Louis: Fuck you and your chill pill!
- Ordell Robbie: My money's in that office, right? If she start giving me some bullshit about it ain't there, and we got to go someplace else and get it, I'm gonna shoot you in the head then and there. Then I'm gonna shoot that bitch in the kneecaps, find out where my goddamn money is. She gonna tell me too. Hey, look at me when I'm talking to you, motherfucker. You listen: we go in there, and that nigga Winston or anybody else is in there, you the first motherfucker to get shot. You understand?
- Ordell Robbie: [Ordell has bailed Beaumont out of jail] Look at you and your free ass. Come here, boy, gimme a motherfuckin' hug.
- Beaumont: Good lookin' out, man. I don't know what to say. Thank you, thank you...
- Ordell Robbie: Uh-huh. Who was there for your ass?
- Beaumont: You were there for my ass.
- Ordell Robbie: Who?
- Beaumont: You.
- Ordell Robbie: Who?
- Beaumont: You!
- Ordell Robbie: Whooo?
- Beaumont: You nigga, damn!
- Ordell Robbie: You goddamn right. That's how that shit works: you get your ass in trouble, I get your ass out. That's my motherfuckin' job. And I don't mind telling you, nigga, it's steady work.
- Jackie Brown: Well, I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on people almost 20 years. The best job I could get after my bust was Cabo Air, which is the worst job you can get in this industry. I make about sixteen thousand, with retirement benefits that ain't worth a damn. And now with this arrest hanging over my head, I'm scared. If I lose my job I gotta start all over again, but I got nothing to start over with. I'll be stuck with whatever I can get. And that shit is scarier than Ordell.
- Jackie Brown: Now sooner or later, they're gonna get around to offering me a plea deal, and you know that. That's why you came here to kill me.
- Ordell Robbie: I ain't come here to kill you...
- Jackie Brown: No, no, it's OK, it's OK, now. I forgive you.
- Ordell Robbie: [Sits in silence for a few moments, thinking, then finally realizes who stole his money] It's Jackie Brown.
- Louis: Well, if she got to it, why didn't she take it all?
- Ordell Robbie: I'll be sure to ask that bitch before I blow her brains out.
- Louis: What is she to you?
- Ordell Robbie: You know, she's just one of the bitches I got set up. I got Mel over in Hermosa Beach and I rent this little place for Simone over in Compton where you stayin', and about four blocks away I got this young 19-year-old country girl named Sheronda. I found her on the bus stop two days out of Georgia - barefoot, country as a chicken coop. I took her to my place in Compton, told her it was Hollywood.
- Louis: You told her - she believed you?
- Ordell Robbie: Hell, yeah. To her dumb country ass, Compton is Hollywood. Closest she's ever been, anyway.
- [Ray Nicolet and Jackie Brown are discussing Ordell Robbi's business]
- Jackie Brown: He sells guns.
- Ray Nicolet: You ever see him sell guns?
- Jackie Brown: No.
- Ray Nicolet: Then how do you know he sells guns?
- Jackie Brown: He told me. Besides, why else would an ATF man be after him?
- Ordell Robbie: Now, the thing is, I ain't never done business with these Koreans before. Now I ain't worried, because, by and large, Asians are very dependable, they don't want no trouble. You might argue with them about price and shit, but you don't need to worry about them shooting you in the back, you know what I'm saying?
- Jackie Brown: Aw, the milk went bad while I was in jail.
- Max Cherry: Black's fine.
- Jackie Brown: Cool.
- Ordell Robbie: Is that what I think it is?
- Jackie Brown: What do you think it is?
- Ordell Robbie: I think it's a gun pressed up against my dick.
- Jackie Brown: Well, you thought right. Now take your hands off from around my throat, nigga.
- Ordell Robbie: Now that there is the TEC-9, a little cheap ass spray gun made out of South Miami. They retail for 380, I get 'em for 2, sell 'em for 8. They advertised this TEC-9 as the most popular gun in American crime. Can you believe that shit? It actually says that in the little booklet that comes with it: the most popular gun in American crime. Like they proud of that shit.
- Ordell Robbie: Jackie can tell me any story that comes into her pretty little head, just so long as at the end of that story she hands me my motherfucking money.
- Jackie Brown: Melanie?
- Melanie: Jackie?
- Jackie Brown: Hey, girl, what's up?
- Melanie: Hey, are you getting that suit?
- Jackie Brown: Yeah. You like it?
- Melanie: It looks really good on you.
- Jackie Brown: You got something for me?
- Melanie: You betcha.
- Jackie Brown: I put a cherry on top. Booh-yah! What the fuck did Ordell ever do for us, huh?
- Melanie: Thanks.
- Ordell Robbie: This you and me talking, is this like a lawyer-client thing, and you can't repeat nothing I tell you?
- Max Cherry: You're not my client until you get busted and I bond you out.
- Ordell Robbie: Well, if we ain't got no - what's that shit called? - confidentiality, why should I tell you a thing?
- Max Cherry: Because you want me to know what a slick guy you are. You got stewardesses bringing you fifty grand.
- Ordell Robbie: Now why would a stewardess be bringing me fifty grand?
- Max Cherry: Now you want me to speculate on what you do. My guess is you're in the drug business, except the money's moving the wrong way. Whatever you're into, you seem to be getting away with it, so more power to you.
- Cockatoo Bartender: What's your drink brother?
- Ordell Robbie: Let me have a screwdriver homes.
- Cockatoo Bartender: And what about you?
- Jackie Brown: Oh, I'm fine.
- Cockatoo Bartender: Yes you are
- [they all laugh, the bartender leaves]
- Ordell Robbie: Damn, I bet you come in here on a Saturday night, you need nigga repellent to keep them motherfuckers off your ass.
- Jackie Brown: Oh, I do okay.
- Ordell Robbie: Bull shit, Jackie. You a fine motherfucker. I bet chu do a damn sight better than okay.
- Jackie Brown: What's the matter, haven't ever borrowed someone's car before?
- Max Cherry: Not after they're dead.
- [Louis has forgotten where he parked]
- Melanie: Jesus, but if you two are not the biggest pair of fuck-ups I've ever met in my entire life. How did you ever rob a bank? When you robbed banks, did you forget where your car was then too? No wonder you went to jail.
- Beaumont: Man, you must be out of your fuckin' mind if you think I'm gonna get in this dirty-ass trunk.
- Ordell Robbie: We ain't going nowhere but to Koreatown, man. You ain't gonna be locked in here no more than ten minutes.
- Beaumont: I ain't ridin' in no trunk for no minute, man.
- Beaumont: I'm still scared as a motherfucker, O.D. They talking like they serious as hell giving me time for that machine gun shit.
- Ordell Robbie: Aw, come on, man, they just trying to put a fright in your ass.
- Beaumont: Well, if that's what they doin', they done did it.
- Ordell Robbie: How old is that machine gun shit?
- Beaumont: About three years...
- Ordell Robbie: Three years? That's a old crime, man! They ain't got enough room for all the niggas running around killing people today, now how are they gonna find room for you?
- Max Cherry: Jackie wants to give it to you herself, she wants to collect her ten percent. She also wants to explain why she had to hang on to it.
- Ordell Robbie: Oh, and I want to hear that shit!
- [last lines]
- Jackie Brown: I'll send you a postcard.
- Max Cherry: Will you?
- Jackie Brown: I sure will partner.
- [They kiss. Both are silent for a moment after, then the phone begins to ring. Max hesitates to answer it]
- Jackie Brown: You're running a business Max.
- Max Cherry: [answers phone] Cherry Bail Bonds. Uh, What is it your son's charged with?
- [Jackie leaves the office, Max watches her go]
- Max Cherry: Yes, that's a very serious offense. Is your son still in school? Does his father still live in the house? Could I excuse myself? Would you call me back in about half an hour? Yes, thank you.
- [Hangs up the phone and watches Jackie drive off out the window]
- Ordell Robbie: Melanie real good about throwing a fuck a nigger's way. I mean, she ain't no damn good at it, but she likes to fuck.
- Louis: Oh, so, she ain't your girlfriend.
- Ordell Robbie: Is that what you thought?
- Louis: Nah, I wasn't sure, you know.
- Ordell Robbie: But you fucked her anyway, though, huh?
- Louis: Well - the not your girlfriend part I felt more about.
- Ordell Robbie: Oh,, I hope you felt appropriately guilty afterwards.
- Louis: Afterwards, I did.
- [Louis and Ordell both laugh]
- Beaumont: I'm ready, man. What's the problem?
- Ordell Robbie: There ain't no problem, it's more like a situation. You remember them three M-60 machine guns I sold last year outta the five I got?
- Beaumont: Yeah.
- Ordell Robbie: Well, I'm gonna sell the other two tonight. There's this group of Koreans over in Koreatown, starting' this neighborhood watch thing. They need some weapons so they can show the neighborhood niggers they mean business. Now, I'm gonna sell them the other two machine guns, all right? The problem is, I ain't never done business with these Koreans before. Now I ain't worried, 'cause by and large Asians are very dependable, they don't want no trouble. You might argue with them about price and shit, but you ain't gotta worry about them shooting you in the back, you know what I'm saying? But I got me a rule: Never do business with people you ain't never done business with before without backup. And that's why I need you: backup.
- Jackie Brown: I ain't playin' with you. I'm gonna unload both of these motherfuckers if you don't do what I tell you to do. You understand what I'm sayin'?
- Jackie Brown: Silly? You want to see some motherfuckin' silly? If I have to tell you to shut up one more time, I'm gonna shut you up.
- Louis: I don't understand why you keep her the fuck around.
- Ordell Robbie: I told you, man. She's my fine little surfer gal. You know, she ain't pretty as she used to be and she bitch a whole lot more than she used to; but, she white.
- Mark Dargus: Cut to 13 years later, you're 44 years of age. You're flying for the shittiest-little-shuttle-fucking piece of shit Mexican airline that there is.
- Winston: I don't have to know what I'm doing, just so long as you know.
- Max Cherry: I think I do. Good enough?
- Winston: You bet.