Shaft (2000)

Christian Bale: Walter Wade, Jr.

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Quotes 

• Walter Wade, Jr. : Do you know who my father is?

  John Shaft : No, do you?

• [Trey starts seizing on the gurney] 

  Walter Wade, Jr. : Homeboy's got rhythm, huh?

  John Shaft : What?

  [Shaft punches Wade in the face] 

  Walter Wade, Jr. : What? Was it something I said? I think my nose is broke!

  Lt. Kearney : I've been waiting for this. You are gone from this precinct!

  John Shaft : For what?

  John Shaft : [punches Wade again]  For that?

• Peoples Hernandez : My name is Peoples. You know why they call me that?

  Walter Wade, Jr. : [In a patronizing tone]  'Cuz you's always takes care of you's peoples?

  Peoples Hernandez : More or less.

• Walter Wade, Jr. : [Showing him his black eye]  I got fucking mugged I have no money

  Peoples Hernandez : I hear you but the wheels are already in motion

  Peoples Hernandez : I guess you've got to earn it back

  Walter Wade, Jr. : How?

  Peoples Hernandez : [Fat Man hands him a bag filled with drugs]  Ounces are a thousand eight balls are two eighty its already bagged and I'll tell you like I tell all my boys you cut it anymore than it already is you can say goodbye to repeat customers

  Walter Wade, Jr. : You've got to be shitting me

  Peoples Hernandez : You keep coming back we should be even Steven in six eight months

• Peoples Hernandez : You got a boat?

  Walter Wade, Jr. : I had one

  Peoples Hernandez : What kind of boat you had?

  Walter Wade, Jr. : Boston Whaler

  Peoples Hernandez : You've been around the world right?

  Walter Wade, Jr. : [Nods]  yeah

  Peoples Hernandez : You know something, I've got money longer than train smoke, I've never been on an airplane my whole God damn life

  Walter Wade, Jr. : [Pointing to Peoples' tattoo on his neck]  let me ask you something? What's that mean?

  Peoples Hernandez : Five boroughs, five families, one love

  Walter Wade, Jr. : [Chuckles]  Ok

  Peoples Hernandez : You're an interesting motherfucker, do you have a business card or something?

• Peoples Hernandez : You know in this neighborhood, I am the motherfucking king snake, but the thing of it is, I go downtown to take a girl out and show her the sights, I walk into a restaurant and my stomach is in a knot, my teeth is clenched, my hands are in a fist, I don't fit in down there, people look at me and size me up, so ten minutes into it I can't wait to come back home

  Walter Wade, Jr. : Ok

  Peoples Hernandez : I would kill to be you, go where you go, do what you do so this what I propose: the jewelry and shit, you go hock the flash and pay me the cash, I'm going to take it, but what I really want is for you to start taking me downtown with you, I want you to start taking me wherever you go

  Walter Wade, Jr. : You mean like hangout together? Take you to the Harvard club? What the hell are you talking about?

• Walter Wade, Jr. : I need someone located

  Peoples Hernandez : "Located"? You mean found? Found then what?

  [Walter looks at the gun around Tattoo's belt] 

  Peoples Hernandez : that's going to cost you

  Walter Wade, Jr. : [Takes out a money belt filled with jewelry]  I had it all appraised it'll cash out to about forty thousand

• Peoples Hernandez : When I say "me", "me ", is this

  [Opens the door to a room showing him half naked women packaging drugs] 

  Walter Wade, Jr. : Oh

  Peoples Hernandez : I was you to front for me, get me some upscale customers

  Walter Wade, Jr. : If it's really important to you, you can tell everybody you've got a rich white boy on a rope I really don't care, I think you're too much of your own product, but drugs?, no fucking way