The Untouchables
1987
(Ness has discovered Capone bribed the jury to acquit him) Judge: Bailiff, I want you to go next door to Judge Hawton's court, where they've just begun hearing a divorce action. I want you to bring that jury in here, and take this jury to his court. Bailiff, are those instructions clear? Bailiff: (puzzled) Yes, sir, they're... clear... Al Capone: (to his attorney) What's he talking about? What is it? Judge: Bailiff, I want you to switch the juries. Bailiff: Yes sir. Defense Attorney: Your honor, I object! Judge: Overruled.
Al Capone: I want this guy dead! I want his family dead! I want his house burned to the ground! I want to go there in the middle of the night and piss on his ashes!
Jim Malone: You just fulfilled the first rule of law enforcement: make sure when your shift is over you go home alive. Here endeth the lesson.
Malone: Why do you want to be a police officer? Cadet: To protect the... people and the... p... Malone: I'm not looking for the textbook answer. Why do you want to join the force. Cadet: The force? Malone: Yeah, why do you want to join the force. Cadet: Because... I... Malone: Yeah? Cadet: ... think I could help. Malone: You think you could help. Cadet: ... with the force. Malone: Thank you very much, you've been most helpful. (the cadet leaves) There goes the next chief of police.
Jim Malone: Why do you want to join the force? George Stone: To protect the property and citizenry of... Jim Malone: Ah, don't waste my time with that bullshit. Where you from, Stone? George Stone: I'm from the south-side. Jim Malone: Stone. George Stone. That's your name? What's your real name? George Stone: That is my real name. Jim Malone: Nah. What was it before you changed it? George Stone: Giuseppe Petri. Jim Malone: Ah, I knew it. That's all you need, one thieving wop on the team. George Stone: Hey, what's that you say? Jim Malone: I said that you're a lying member of a no good race. George Stone: Much better than you, you stinking Irish pig. Jim Malone: Oh, I like him.
Al Capone: You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
Capone: Somebody messes with me, I'm gonna mess with him.
(after blowing away a crook who wouldn't "Freeze!") Eliot Ness: Didn't you hear what I said? What are you, deaf? What is this, a game?
Malone: You said you wanted to get Capone. Do you really wanna get him? You see what I'm saying is, what are you prepared to do? Eliot Ness: Anything and everything in my power. Malone: And *then* what are you prepared to do? If you open the can on these worms you must be prepared to go all the way because they're not gonna give up the fight until one of you is dead. Eliot Ness: How do you do it then? Malone: You wanna know how you do it? Here's how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone! Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? Eliot Ness: I have sworn to capture this man with all legal powers at my disposal and I will do so. Malone: Well, the Lord hates a coward. Do you know what a blood oath is, Mr Ness? Eliot Ness: Yes. Malone: Good, 'cause you just took one.
Jim Malone: Isn't that just like a wop? Brings a knife to a gun fight.
(last lines) Reporter: Word is they're going to repeal Prohibition. What'll you do then? Eliot Ness: I think I'll have a drink.
Eliot Ness: Never stop, never stop fighting till the fight is done. Al Capone: What'd you say? What're you saying? Eliot Ness: I said, "Never stop fighting till the fight is done." Al Capone: What? Eliot Ness: You heard me, Capone. It's over. Al Capone: (sneering) Get out, you're nothing but a lot of talk and a badge. Eliot Ness: Here endeth the lesson.
Eliot Ness: I'm going to see you burn because you killed my friend. Frank Nitti: He died like a pig. Eliot Ness: What did you say? Frank Nitti: I said your friend died screaming like a stuck Irish pig. Now you think about that when I beat the rap. (Ness, enraged, grabs Nitti and throws him off the building ledge. Nitti wails as he falls) Eliot Ness: Did it sound anything like THAT?
Frank Nitti: Come on Mr Treasury man, ARREST ME!
(Ness has just shot a gangster after the Canadian border raid) Eliot Ness: I had to kill him. Jim Malone: Oh, yeah. He's as dead as Julius Caesar... Would you rather it was you? Eliot Ness: No, I would not. Jim Malone: Well, then, you've done your job. Go home and sleep well tonight.
Jim Malone: You're muckin' with a G here, pal!
(after Ness has pushed Nitti off the roof and gone back in the courthouse) George Stone: Where is Nitti? Eliot Ness: He's in the car.
Jim Malone: Why are you carrying the gun? Eliot Ness: I'm a treasury officer. Jim Malone: Oh, okay. Just keep in mind what we talked about, huh? (Malone walks away) Eliot Ness: Hey, wait a minute! What the hell kind of police work do they teach in this city, huh? You just turned your back on an armed man. Jim Malone: You're a treasury officer. Eliot Ness: How do you know that? I just told you that. Jim Malone: Who would claim to be that who was not? Hmm?
Eliot Ness: I have foresworn myself. I have broken every law I have sworn to uphold, I have become what I beheld and I am content that I have done right!
Malone: The hell you say. You going to talk? (beat) You're gonna talk, pal. You're gonna beg to talk. Somebody's going to talk. Hey you, on your feet. We need you to translate this book. And you are going to. I won't ask you again. What's the matter. Can't you talk with a gun in your mouth? One... two... three...
Mrs Blackmer: I came here to thank you. It was my little girl that got killed with that bomb. Eliot Ness: I'm sorry, please. I'm so sorry. Mrs Blackmer: You see it's because I know that you have children too... and that this is real for you, that these men caused this tragedy. And I know that you will put a stop to them. I know you'll do that now.
Mountie: I do not approve of your methods! Eliot Ness: Yeah, well... You're not from Chicago.
Malone: Don't wait for it to happen. Don't even want it to happen. Just see what does happen.
Eliot Ness: I wanna hurt the man, Malone. You hear me? I wanna start taking the fight to him. I wanna hurt Capone!
Bodyguard: Me and the bookkeeper and walking out of here, getting into a car, and driving away. Or else he dies... and you got nothing! Eliot Ness: You got him? Stone: Yeah, I got him. Bodyguard: I'm gonna count to three... one! Eliot Ness: Take him! (Stone shoots him) Stone: Two!
Jim Malone: (after a plan goes wrong) Oh what the hell? You gotta die of something.
Malone: (to Ness) Welcome to Chicago. Malone: This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
District Attorney: (when the Judge announces the switch of jury) What did you tell him ? Eliot Ness: I told him, his name is in that ledger.
Jim Malone: If you're afraid of getting a rotten apple, don't get it from the barrel, get it off the tree.
Reporter: Mr Ness! Any comment for the record? Eliot Ness: I just happened to be there when the wheel went round.
Eliot Ness: Come on Capone! You wanna fight? You wanna settle it right now? Right here? Let's go! Al Capone: Listen to me here! You ain't got nothin' on me, nothin'! You're just a cop! Fuck you and your family! Eliot Ness: Fuh... know what? (Ness goes to pull his gun, Capone's goons pull their guns and point them at Ness) Jim Malone: Not now Eliot, not now. (Malone grabs Ness)
Al Capone: When you got an all-out prizefight, you wait until the fight is over, one guy is left standing. 'N' that's how you know who won.