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And so what is the rest of his case aside from Dr. Thompson?
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As far as we know, nothing.
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Mr. Abraham...
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Abrams...
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Abrams. Yes. How are you today?
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I'm fine.
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Good. You ever been inside a hospital?
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Yes.
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Ah. How did they treat you?
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My client offers his full cooperation in these proceedings. In exchange, his testimony is to be sealed and all matters incriminating to himself are to be rendered inadmissible.
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The district attorney's office will comply provided
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No provisions, nothing. My clients testimony for his immunity.
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MayI be frank, Counselor? I suspect your political power as much as I respect it. I don't know why Mr. Kint has so many faceless allies in City Hall, and I don't care. The embarrassment he helped cause the city of New York will not happen here.
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Immunity.
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Counselor, I will prosecute your client.
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Then prosecute. I will be very impressed to see if the District Attorney manages to bring in twentyseven simultaneous counts of murder against one man with cerebral palsy. I would think a man with your job would agree with these alleged "faceless people in City Hall" you mention.
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I'11 take my chances then. I'11 feel safer without a job if a man like Mr. Kint is behind bars.
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Mr. Kint will plead guilty to weapons possession.
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You're joking.
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Weapons. Misdemeanor one.
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Counselor, you're insulting me.
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Counselor, you're bluffing. Shall I push for misdemeanor two?
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Verbal, you know we're trying to help you.
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Sure. And I appreciate that. And I want to help you, Agent Kujan. I like cops. I would have liked to have been a Fed myself but my C.P. was
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Verbal, I know you know something. I know you're not telling us everything.
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I told the D.A. everything I know.
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I know you liked Keaton I know you think he was a good man.
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I know he was good.
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He was a corrupt cop, Verbal.
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Sure. Fifteen years ago, but he was a good thief Anyway, the cops wouldn't let him go legit.
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Keaton was a piece of shit.
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You trying to get a rise out of me, Agent Kujan?
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I just want to hear your story.
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According to your statement you are a shortcon operator. Run of the mill seams. Everything you do, you learned from somebody else.
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That's been suppressed. Anything in there is inadmissible.
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Oh, I know. Sweet deal you have. Total immunity .
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Well I do have the weapons charge. I'm looking at six whole months hard time.
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You know a dealer named Ruby Deemer, Verbal?
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You know a religious guy named John Paul?
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You know Ruby is in Attica?
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He didn't have my lawyer.
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I know Ruby. He's very big on respect. Likes me very much.
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There's nothing in there about Ruby.
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I'11 be sure to mention that to him.
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The first thing I learned on the job, know what it was? How to spot a murderer. Let's say you arrest three guys for the same killing. Put them all in jail overnight. The next morning, whoever is sleeping is your man. If you're guilty, you know you're caught, you get some rest let your guard down, you follow?
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No.
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I'11 get right to the point. I'm smarter than you. I'11 find out what I want to know and I'11 get it from you whether you like it or not.
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I'm not a rat.
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Heartwarming. Really, I feel weepy.
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You wanted to know what happened after the lineup, I'm telling you.
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Oh come on, Verbal. Who do you think you're talking to? You really expect me to believe he retired? For a woman? Bullshit. He was using her.
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He loved her.
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Sure. And I'm supposed to believe that hitting the Taxi Service wasn't his idea
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That was all Fenster and McManus.
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Come on. Keaton was a cop for four years. Who else would know the Taxi Service
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You keep trying to lay this whole ride on t Keaton. It wasn't like that. Sure he knew, but Edie had him all turned around. r I'm telling you straight, I swear. +
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Let me tell you something. I know Dean Keaton. I've been investigating him for three years. The guy I know is a cold + blooded bastard. L.A.P.D. indicted him on three counts of murder before he was kicked off the force, so don't sell me the hooker with the heart of gold. +
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You got him wrong.
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Do I? Keaton was under indictment a total + of seven times when he was on the force. + In every case, witnesses either reversed + their testimony to the grand jury or died + before they could testify. When they t finally did nail him for fraud, he spent + five years in Sing Sing. He killed three prisoners inside one with a knife in the tailbone while he strangled him to death. Of course I can't prove this but I can't prove the best part either.
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I don't know about that.
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I don't think you do. But you say you saw Keaton die. I think you're covering his ass and he's still out there somewhere. I think he was behind that whole circus in the harbor. My bet is he's using you because you're stupid and you think he's your friend. You tell me he's dead, so be it. I want to make sure he's dead before I go back to New York.
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He wasn't behind anything. It was the lawyer.
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What lawyer?
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You think I don't know you held out on the D.A.? What did you leave out of that testimony? I can be on the phone to Ruby Deemer in ten minutes.
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The D.A. gave me immunity.
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NOT FROM ME, YOU PIECE OF SHIT. THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FROM ME. You atone with me or the world you live in becomes the hell you fear in the back of your tiny mind. Every criminal I have put in prison,
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There was a lawyer. Kobayashi.
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Is he the one that killed Keaton?
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No. But I'm sure Keaton's dead.
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Convince me. Tell me every last detail. 52 SCENE DELETED 52 53 INT. HOSPITAL DAY 53 + Kovash's room is now filled with people. Jack Baer stands next to DANIEL METZHEISER, a balding man in his forties. Next to him is Doctor Plumber. Across from her is Ridgly Waiters.
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So this lawyer...
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Kobayashi.
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Came from Redfoot.
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Right.
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And why leave this out when you talked to the D.A.?
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Do you believe in him, Verbal?
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Keaton always said: "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him." Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser SOZE.
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I came clean. I told it like it happened on the boat. So what if I left out how I got there? It's got so many holes in it, the D.A. would've told me to blow amnesty out my ass. So you got what you wanted out of me. Big fucking deal.
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And this is why you never told the D.A.
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You tell me, Agent Kujan. If I told you the Loch Ness Monster hired me to hit the harbor, what would you say?
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Turn state's evidence. Take the stand on this and we'll hear it out.
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I've got immunity now. What can you possibly offer me?
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If there is a Keyser Soze he'll be looking for you.
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Where's your head, Agent Kujan? Where do you think the pressure's coming from? Keyser Soze or whatever you want to call him knows where I am right now. He's got the front burner under' your ass to let me go so he can scoop me up ten minutes later. Immunity was just to deal with you assholes. I got a whole new problem when I post bail.
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So why play into his hands? We can protect you.
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Gee, thanks, Dave. Bangup job so far. Extortion, coercion. You'll pardon me if I ask you to kiss my pucker. The same fuckers that rounded us up and sank us into this mess are telling me They'll bail me out? Fuck you. You think you can catch Keyser Soze? You think a guy like that comes this close to getting fingered and sticks his head out? If he comes up for anything, it will be to get rid of me. After that, my guess is you'll never hear from him again.
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That was how I ended up in a barber shop quartet in Skokie, Illinois.
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This is totally irrelevant.
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Oh, but it's not. If I hadn't been nailed in Illinois for running a three card monte in between sets, I never would have took off for New York. I never would have met Keaton, see. That barber shop quartet was the reason for everything.
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Can we just get back to Kobayashi?
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The quartet is part of the bit about Kobayashi. The quartet was in my file, along with every other thing I had done since high school, see? Aliases, middle men. They knew me better than I did. They knew all of us.
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You're stalling, Verbal.
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Give a guy a break, huh?
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What happened?
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Then what?
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McManus was furious. He was talking about tracking him down and ripping his heart out and all sorts of shit. That night we got the call.
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What call?
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Kobayashi told us where we could find Fenster.
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I wanted to. I thought we could make it.
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Why didn't you say anything?
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