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Detective Jimmy Shaker: [holding a gun to Cubby's head and clamping a hand on his mouth] Are you a known scumbag in this precinct? Go on, shake your head. Go on! Detective Jimmy Shaker: Now, a high profile kid was snatched yesterday. You got no idea who knows about it. Cops, FBI, anybody, right? Detective Jimmy Shaker: So what do you do? You - a known scumbag - walk into a grocery store filled with cops and you ask for a box of kiddy cereal? Now, I don't know about you, but I think that makes you a four-star asshole. What do you think? Detective Jimmy Shaker: What the hell were you gonna do with the videos? Kid's got tape on his eyes, for Christ's sake! Cubby Barnes: I thought he could listen to 'em. Detective Jimmy Shaker: Jesus! Don't be stupid again.

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Tom Mullen: Why would they ever let my son go, no matter what I do? I mean, no matter what I do... pay, don't pay, comply, tell him to go fuck himself - why would they give him back? I mean, he's a witness any way you cut it. It's all bullshit, it's all just... seven out of ten. Kate Mullen: What are you saying? Tom Mullen: All right: Morlock Man gets his money, I don't think we'll ever see Sean again. That's if he's still alive to begin with. Agent Lonnie Hawkins: Whoa, now. Are you talking about not paying? Kate Mullen: No! No, we pay him! Tom Mullen: Now wait a minute. Listen to me... Morlock man says the pickup guy will give me an address for Sean. I get there, the guy sticks a gun in my face. I said, "You want the money, now give me the address? Where's the address?" You should've seen his face. He had no, absolutely NO idea what I was talking about. None! Agent Lonnie Hawkins: Okay... Tom Mullen: This is not business to him. This is very personal. Agent Lonnie Hawkins: I tell you

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Sean Mullen: Can I have a bar of chocolate? Hey, I know you. Maris Conner: No, you don't! Don't look at me! You don't know me! Maris Conner: What? Do you think this isn't happening? What? You think your dad's gonna come in and save you? Is that what you think? Well, he ain't. Nobody's coming. All right? You understand that? Nobody's coming. Because this is it for you.

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Tom Mullen: [phone ring. Tom answers] What? Detective Jimmy Shaker: You want to talk to your son? Tom Mullen: Yes, of course I do. Sean Mullen: [Jimmy puts phone up to Sean's mouth] Daddy? Dad? Tom Mullen: Sean. Sean. How ar— son... Kate Mullen: I want to listen. Detective Jimmy Shaker: That's enough. Tom Mullen: No, put him back on, I want to talk to him. Detective Jimmy Shaker: You just did. Now, you listen, real, real good. You've got one more chance to pay up, or you're never gonna talk to him again. No more fucking around. This is it. Right now. What's it gonna be? Tom Mullen: ...No. This is bullshit. You're not gonna touch him. You can't be that stupid. Do you have any idea the rain of shit I can put on you? Detective Jimmy Shaker: Look at your wife. Look at her face, motherfucker. Do you know what I can do to your boy? Tom Mullen: Is it dark where you're calling from? Got the shades drawn? Kind of like a cellar, right? Like a cave? Well, you better get used to that. You better g

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Detective Jimmy Shaker: [whispering, after beating Kate] It's very simple. Detective Jimmy Shaker: I'm growing very, very tired of this bullshit. Kate Mullen: Then could you... Detective Jimmy Shaker: It's up to you. Get him to take back the reward and pay me my money... or you're gonna find pieces of your little boy all over New York. I'm not gonna waste a bullet. I'm just gonna sharpen my knife.