Dragged Across Concrete (2018)

Mel Gibson: Brett Ridgeman

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• Brett Ridgeman : Is that a guy or a girl singin' that song?

  Anthony Lurasetti : Can't tell.

  Brett Ridgeman : Not that there's much of a difference these days.

  Anthony Lurasetti : I think that line was obliterated the day men started saying we're pregnant when their wives were.

• Henry Johns : Nigga.

  Brett Ridgeman : Likewise.

• Brett Ridgeman : [standing among suits in an upscale men's store]  How much are these, I don't see a tag?

  Female Cashier : $5000.

  Brett Ridgeman : So they're bulletproof?

• Lt. Calvert : Our inspector... our Mexican-American inspector... is unlikely to be lenient.

  Brett Ridgeman : Politics like always.

  Lt. Calvert : Like cell phones, and just as annoying, politics are everywhere. Being branded a racist in today's public forum is like being accused of being a communist in the 50s, whether its' a possibly racist remark made in a private phone call or the indelicate treatment of a minority who sells drugs to children. The entertainment industry, formerly known as the news, needs villains.

  Anthony Lurasetti : There's certainly nothing hypocritical about the media handling every perceived intolerance with complete and utter intolerance.

  Lt. Calvert : It's bullshit. But it's reality.

• Anthony Lurasetti : Best part of a stake out, other than when it ends is when you're eating.

  Brett Ridgeman : A single red ant could've eaten it faster.

• Brett Ridgeman : [contemplating stealing from bad guy]  I'm a month away from my 60th... I'm still the same rank I was at 27. For a lot of years I believed that the quality of my work, what we do together, what I did with my previous partners... would get me what I deserved. But I don't politic and I don't change with the times. And it turns out that that shit's more important than good honest work.

  Brett Ridgeman : So yesterday, after we stop a massive amount of drugs from getting into the school system, we get suspended because it wasn't done politely. Then I go home and I find my daughter has been assaulted for the fifth time in two years, because of the shit neighborhood my shit wage has forced me to live in.

• Henry Johns : [after shooting Ridgeman in self defense]  You fucking dumbass. I wasn't gonna blackmail you, my word is good. You should have trusted a nigga. All I ever did before this was steal some autos, peddle some blow, and put the fool who crippled my brother into intensive. I ain't never killed nobody. Damn.

  Brett Ridgeman : [dying]  Bury my friend, please. I don't want him involved in this.

• Brett Ridgeman : [Commiserating with Lurasetti about his career during a stakeout]  For a lot of years I believed that the quality of my work, what we do together, what I did with my previous partners... would get me what I deserved. But I don't politic and I don't change with the times, and it turns out that shit's more important than good honest work. So yesterday, after we stop a massive among of drugs from getting into the school system, we get suspended because we didn't do it politely.

• Anthony Lurasetti : What are we doing here?

  Brett Ridgeman : We're monitoring a suspicious individual to figure out if he has any money he doesn't need.

  Anthony Lurasetti : Anchovies!

• Henry Johns : [Ridgeman is about to torch the van; Henry fires a warning shot]  Get rid of that gas can, nigga. I ain't done all this to see you burn up no money.

  Brett Ridgeman : Gold isn't flammable.

  Henry Johns : Yeah, I don't want it melted. And there's cash in there, too.

  Brett Ridgeman : You wanna come over here and take care of Vogelmann yourself?

  Henry Johns : Nah, nigga, nah. You the professional. Look at all the good work you've done here. Can execute naked women and everything.

  Brett Ridgeman : Prick.

• Brett Ridgeman : We have the skills and the right to acquire proper compensation.

• Anthony Lurasetti : You're still maintaining that gum is for cows and imbeciles?

  Brett Ridgeman : I do and it is.

• Brett Ridgeman : I thought Denise cooked.

  Anthony Lurasetti : Only at her place. She only shops at organic stores the specialize in assuaging guilt.

  [Later, offers Ridgeman some mints, who takes one] 

  Anthony Lurasetti : Take two.

• Brett Ridgeman : It's still under construction.

  Anthony Lurasetti : Want me to mail or hand deliver your genius award?

• Brett Ridgeman : Her handbag seemed a little heavy.

  Anthony Lurasetti : You been taking into account the amount of make-up Latinas carry?

• Anthony Lurasetti : What are we doing here?

  Brett Ridgeman : We're monitoring a suspicious individual to try and figure out if he's got any money he doesn't need.

• Lt. Calvert : Ridgeman, gotta be aware of this stuff. Digital eyes are everywhere.

  Brett Ridgeman : I do what I think best when I'm out there. I was that way when we were partners, and I'm still that way now.

  Lt. Calvert : There's a reason I'm sitting behind this desk running things, and you're out there crouching on fire escapes in the cold for hours, with a partner that's 20 years younger than you.

  Brett Ridgeman : Hey, Anthony's got a mouth with its own engine, but he's solid.

  Lt. Calvert : That wasn't my point... I watched that video a couple times. You threw a lot more cast-iron than you needed to. And when we worked together, you weren't that rough.

  Brett Ridgeman : And?

  Lt. Calvert : It's not healthy for you, to scuff concrete as long as you have. You get results, but you're losing perspective and compassion. Couple more years out there and you're gonna be a human steamroller covered with spikes... and fueled by bile.

  Brett Ridgeman : There's a lot of imbeciles out there.

  Lt. Calvert : Yeah.

• Rosalinda : You said if I told you where the bag was you'll let me go.

  Brett Ridgeman : Can you understand her?

  Anthony Lurasetti : No.

• Henry Johns : [Holds Ridgeman at gunpoint]  That bulletproof vest you got there's real nice. Makes you look svelte. Like when a female puts on a girdle. It's much more flattering than that windbreaker you wore on the news when you stomped that Mexican.

  Brett Ridgeman : Where did you spot me?

  Henry Johns : When you drove by the bank. And twice when you was following on the parkway.

  Brett Ridgeman : What do you want?

  Henry Johns : Stay right there. So I can thank you face-to-face for wiping out all these cruel-ass thugs. That's what most cops do when they get suspended? Go rob bank robbers?

• Anthony Lurasetti : [Ridgemann and Lurasetti drive past the bank and witness the bloody aftermath]  Christ. We could've stopped this. Are you gonna say anything?

  Brett Ridgeman : [Ridgemann spots the van and tails it]  Focus on that.

  Anthony Lurasetti : We let those people get killed. You're not gonna say anything? You don't have anything to say about our culpability?

  Brett Ridgeman : Those Italian emotions are saying plenty.

  Anthony Lurasetti : You go to hell, you heartless fuck.

  Brett Ridgeman : I never saw that opera.

  Brett Ridgeman : [Lurasetti angrily slams the dashboard]  Look, by the time we knew it wasn't a routine drug deal, it was already too late.

  Anthony Lurasetti : You could have called it in. When the van left the parking garage. Put the Bulwark PD on alert.

  Brett Ridgeman : We didn't. The chances of that accomplishing anything in the 16-minute interim, less than 50 percent, or even 25. You wanna call the Bulwark PD, the state police, the Feds, let them handle it, go ahead. But that van, and the cut-throats inside, they'll be vapor before any enforcement agency can respond. We're it.

• Brett Ridgeman : Are you still in?

  Anthony Lurasetti : I am until I'm not.

• Brett Ridgeman : [in a standoff]  We can fight each other some more, do this until we're crippled or dead, or we can both be rich. I don't see how this is a dilemma.

  Henry Johns : Trusting a cop, one that's crooked as fuck, is the dilemma. Only thing absolutely certain about you is that you don't give a shit about any oath you swear to.

• Brett Ridgeman : A single red ant could have eaten that faster.

• Brett Ridgeman : He looks like a snorer.

  Vasquez : it's called sleep apnea, man.

• Brett Ridgeman : Put on your fake licence plates, bring all your hardware and dress nonchalant.

• Brett Ridgeman : Take two

  [mints] 

  Brett Ridgeman : .

  Anthony Lurasetti : I'm still enjoying the aftertaste

  [of my sandwich] 

  Anthony Lurasetti : .

  Brett Ridgeman : Not all of us are...