The
Town
Quotes: Solid and
Gripping
(Total
Quotes: 107)
The Town quotes are from my kinda town. Ben Affleck has managed to strike a perfect balance between telling a great heist story and exploring some very interesting relationships and delivering some stunning action sequences. The script also has some very pitch-black humor which really lifts it up. The only nit pick of this movie is that it's a tad too long but despite that it's ultimately a very satisfying story. The Town quotes are well worth a visit, have a read and see what you think.
Directed by: Ben Affleck
Written by: Peter Craig (screenplay)
Ben Affleck (screenplay)
Aaron Stockard (screenplay)
Chuck Hogan (novel "Prince of Thieves")
Starring:
Ben Affleck - Doug MacRay
Rebecca Hall - Claire Keesey
Jon Hamm - FBI S.A. Adam Frawley
Jeremy Renner - James Coughlin
Blake Lively - Krista Coughlin
Slaine - Albert 'Gloansy' Magloan
Owen Burke - Desmond Elden
Titus Welliver - Dino Ciampa
Pete Postlethwaite - Fergus 'Fergie' Colm
Chris Cooper - Stephen MacRay
Victor Garber - Assistant Bank Manager
Danny DeMiller - Eskimo Story Speaker
Tony V. - Vericom Crew Chief
Isaac Bordoy - Alex Colazzo
Corena Chase - Agent Quinlan
The
Town Quotes Part
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[first
lines]Doug MacRay: [voice over] Driver's name is Arthur Shea. Former Metro Police officer, fifty-seven years old. Soon as his partner leaves with the coal bag, Artie cracks a Herald, and he don't look up 'til the guy gets back. Marty Mcguire, Cummins Armored courier. Five- ten, two-twenty, fifty-two years old. Picks up every Wednesday and Friday at exactly 8:12. Makes a hundred and ten dollars a day, carries a Sig nine and his about to get robbed.
[talking about the robbery]
Doug MacRay: We're fucked if we see a helicopter. We're fucked if we see SWAT. We see a cruiser, stop, take out the engine blocks, keep moving. No one needs to get hurt.
James Coughlin: Now these guards like to test you though. They wanna get hurt for ten dollars an hour, don't get in the way.
Doug MacRay: Let's go.
[Claire is standing in front of the bank vault]
Doug MacRay: What’s the time lock set for?
Claire Keesey: Nine o'clock.
Doug MacRay: Now you're lying to us. It's eight fifteen. Listen, it's not your money, you understand?
[Claire nods her head]
[to Claire just as she's about to turn to open the vault]
Doug MacRay: No distress code. Open it clean.
[a very nervous Claire tries to open the vault]
James Coughlin: Don't stall!
[he points his gun at the bank manager's head]
James Coughlin: This guy a fuckin' friend of yours?
[Claire is trying nervously to turn the vault dial to open it]
[Claire keeps turning the vault dial but it's not opening, Doug puts his hand on hers]
Doug MacRay: Take your time, okay? Breath.
[Doug put her hand back on the vault dial and this time she's successful in opening the vault]
Desmond Elden: Hold it!
[touching his ear]
Desmond Elden: Silent alarm, this address.
James Coughlin: Who did it?
Assistant Bank Manager: Look, nobody did anything.
James Coughlin: What? Huh? What'd you day?
Assistant Bank Manager: Nobody did anything.
James Coughlin: You pull the alarm?
Assistant Bank Manager: No. No!
James Coughlin: Did you?
Assistant Bank Manager: I didn't pull any alarm.
James Coughlin: You're lying you motherfucker!
[he starts hitting the bank manager with his rifle, Doug stops him]
Doug MacRay: Easy. Easy. That's enough.
[Claire looks up and sees the tattoo on James's neck just below his mask]
[Doug notices Claire is not in her position on the ground, he goes out the back way to see James has her]
Doug MacRay: What the fuck is this?
James Coughlin: Cops got us walled in, we're gonna need her.
[to Claire whose in the back of the truck, blindfolded]
Doug MacRay: You're gonna be okay. All right. No one's gonna hurt you.
[to Frawley referring to how the robbery took place]
Dino Ciampa: Used the van to screen the door. Bleached the entire place with DNA. Kills all the clothing fibres so we can't get a match. Silent bell came from cage number two. Assistant Manager’s at Beth Israel.Our guys waited for the time lock to expire. Then they had the manager open sesame.
Adam Frawley: They took a risk.
Dino Ciampa: I don't know.
[looking at the open vault]
Adam Frawley: Ten foot steel safe, only as strong as the guy with the key.
Dino Ciampa: Found the dye pack and the tracers.
[Frawley's cell phone beeps, he looks at the message]
Adam Frawley: Found the van. Torched.
Dino Ciampa: Where is it?
Adam Frawley: Where do you think?
Desmond Elden: Are we taking hostages now?
Gloansy: You wanna talk to this fuckin' asshole?
[Jem walks in]
Gloansy: Hey, speak of the fuckin' devil. You made it. Take the scenic route?
James Coughlin: We got a problem.
Doug MacRay: What?
James Coughlin: Have a look.
[shows Doug Claire's driving licence]
Doug MacRay: So what?
Gloansy: What's the matter? Let me see that fuckin' thing.
[takes the licence from Doug]
Gloansy: Oh, shit!
James Coughlin: Seen the fuckin' ddress on there.
Gloansy: This bitch lives four blocks away from here.
James Coughlin: Yeah, I know where we are Gloans.
Gloansy: We're gonna see this bitch on streets everyday?
Doug MacRay: She didn't see anything.
Desmond Elden: Jesus! You sure?
Doug MacRay: Taking her for a ride didn't help.
James Coughlin: Yeah. All right, I'm gonna handle it.
Gloansy: How the fuck are you gonna handle this?
[Frawley is interviewing Claire at the FBI headquarters]
Adam Frawley: I understand they threatened you?
Claire Keesey: Uhmm. One of them took my licence.
Adam Frawley: Did you try and escape at any point?
Claire Keesey: No.
Adam Frawley: Is there anything you identify about these men? Anything you can testify to?
Claire Keesey: I didn't try to escape because they had guns.
Adam Frawley: I understand. Then they just let you go?
Claire Keesey: Yeah. They just let me go. Should I have a lawyer here?
Adam Frawley: This is a very civil libertarian thing for me to say, but anyone who lawyer's up is guilty. I think you're all right.
[Frawley notices Claire's hands are shivering]
Adam Frawley: When someone endures an experience like this, there are very often residual effects. You'll be okay. Did they say anything?
Claire Keesey: If you talk to the FBI we'll come to your house and fuck you and kill you.
[to Jem]
Gloansy: You're gonna take care of it?
[Doug takes Claire's licence from Jem]
Doug
MacRay: I'll
do it.James Coughlin: What are you gonna do with this?
Doug MacRay: Cause you're the reason we're having this conversation.
James Coughlin: Yeah, but I'm gonna get it done.
Doug MacRay: What are you gonna get done? Huh? You're gonna get picked up for intimidating a witness. You walk within a hundred feet of her that's ten years. Okay, you got two strikes against you already they're gonna bury you in the fucking jail.
[to the team of police officers]
Adam Frawley: Where are they? What are they doing right now? They got the money, now they have to clean it. Casino's, tracks, maybe they make a big drug buy, flip it across town. They wanna go celebrate, right? V.P.D, D.E.A. I want chips, names, witnesses. Anything. We're gonna knock on some doors see who wants to help us out. Any questions? No. Great. Let's go.
[Krista walks out of the ladies toilet in the bar and sees Doug at the bar]
Krista Coughlin: Juice?
Doug MacRay: Yeah, juice.
[Krista goes to drop something in his drink]
Krista Coughlin: Do you want some...
[Doug gets angry and stops her from touching his drink]
Doug MacRay: Hey, don't fuckin...what are you doin'?
Krista Coughlin: I'm just playin.
Doug MacRay: I heard you got into a fight, Kris.
Krista Coughlin: Do I look like I got into a fight?
[Doug walks into an AA meeting and a speaker is sharing his story]
Eskimo Story Speaker: The loss, you know what I mean? The...the dissappointment in yourself. The anger that turns into dissappointment. The despair. Like the guy who's sittin' at the bar and a priest walks in, pulls up chair. The guy says, "Wait a minute." He says, "I hate to tell you this, don't waste you're time, but I happen to know there's no God." The priest says, "Yeah, how's that?" The guy says...uh, "I am an explorer in the north pole. I've been caught in a blindin' storm once. Freezing. I was blinded, freezing to death and I prayed, if there is a God, save me now. Now God didn’t come." The priest says...you know, "How's that?" He says, "You’re alive. He must have saved you." He said, "No. God never showed up. An Eskimo came along. Took me back to his camp and saved me." That's Janice. She's my wife and she's sittin' right there. She's my Eskimo.
[Doug's followed Claire into the laundry mat. He sits down close to where she's doing her laundry pretending to be reading]
Claire Keesey: Uh...excuse me? Are...are you doing laundry?
Doug MacRay: Huh?
Claire Keesey: Just uh...just wandered if you had any change? The machine is out.
Doug MacRay: Can't help you, sorry.
Claire Keesey: I can just uh...hang them up when I get home.
[Claire notices the blood stains on her shirt and remembers the robbery, she starts to cry]
Claire Keesey: I'm fine. I'm just...
Doug MacRay: You sure? You okay?
[Claire's tries to hold back the tears]
Claire Keesey: Yeah. I'm fine. I'm fine. Thank you. I'm fine.
Doug MacRay: You sure?
Claire Keesey: Yeah. This is embarressing.
Doug MacRay: No. You got nothing to be embaressed about. Do you need help?
Claire Keesey: Just having a bad week.
Doug MacRay: I understand. I like to have a good cry at the nail salon. Just open right up to the ladies. They're very understanding.
[Claire starts to laugh]
Doug MacRay: But you know you like the laundry mat, so that's fine.
[Claire laughs again]
Doug MacRay: Hey, why don't you let me buy you a drink. Make up for letting you down with the quarters. You know, see if we can turn your week around. What's the worst that could happen?
[after FBI breaks into a suspects apartment]
Adam Frawley: Jesus Chirst, Henry. Oxy, guns? It's like Townie Christmas.
[Doug picks up Claire at her house and they get into his truck]
Doug MacRay: I should have come get your door for you, huh? What kinda guy lets you open the door...what?
Claire Keesey: I...I have to get something out there. Otherwise I'll be pretending to listen to you all night when really I'm thinking about something else.
Doug MacRay: Okay.
Claire Keesey: A few days a go my bank was robbed. Four men took over and opened the safe. They took me as a hostage. Uh...they blind folded me and drove me around. And then they stopped and let me out over at the beach and...and one of the guys told me to walk until I felt the water on my toes. It's the longest walk of my life, I kept thinking I'd step off a cliff. And...and then I felt the water.
Doug MacRay: I'm sorry.
Claire Keesey: It's not your fault.
Claire Keesey: The FBI guy told me I would feel like I was in mourning.
Doug MacRay: FBI. You worked with the FBI?
Claire Keesey: Uhmm.
Doug MacRay: What does that mean? Guy comes by checks in on you? Give you call? That kind of thing?
Claire Keesey: Pretty much.
Doug MacRay: Do they have any suspects? Any clues? Any...anything like that?
Claire Keesey: I don't know. Not that they've told me. He intimidated that they were scouring Charlestown, but they were wearing masks. So...
Doug MacRay: Shit.
Claire Keesey: I'm sure I'd recognise their voices if I heard them again.
Doug MacRay: I don't know. Maybe harded than you think.
Claire Keesey: So what do you do for work?
Doug MacRay: Boston Sanding Gravel, I break rocks. Punch the ticket at the end of the day, slide down the back of a brontosaurus like Fred Flinstone, call it a night.
Claire Keesey: Hey, can I ask you something?
Doug MacRay: Sure can.
Claire Keesey: I volunteer at the boys and girls club in Charlestown and...
Doug MacRay: Oh, yeah?
Claire Keesey: Yeah. And well mostly the kids that pitch for us they haven't been able to afford any ice for the rink.
Doug MacRay: Yeah, I know it's embaressing. City won't put any money into that place.
Claire Keesey: Yeah, I know. Yeah, well some of the kids were calling me a 'tunie'?
Doug MacRay: It just mean a yuppie. Someone who's not from Charlestown, that's all.
Claire Keesey: Oh, of course.
Doug MacRay: They're just being punks.
James Coughlin: So we don't need to remove her from the equation?
Doug MacRay: What?
James Coughlin: You heard me.
Doug MacRay: What are you, a trigger man now?
James Coughlin: Just loose ends, kid.
Doug MacRay: You're gonna need the fuckin' electric chair brought back over to Charlestown.
[Frawley and a Vericom crew chief are looking up at another crew memeber examining the hacked junction box above the bank that was robbed]
Vericom Crew Chief: They obviously knew how to work the box, but I like the way they
zappped the bipper to the D-5 Station.
Adam Frawley: How does one learn how to do that?
Vericom Crew Chief: Get a job with Vericom.
Dino Ciampa: Okay.
Adam Frawley: Thank you.
[crew chief walks away and Dino and Frawley walk away]
Adam Frawley: Let’s subpoena work logs, employee records. Start with everyone who lives in the Town.
Dino Ciampa: Got it.
Claire Keesey: I lied to the FBI.
Doug MacRay: What?
Claire Keesey: When the guy attached David, I could see the back of his neck and he had a tattoo.
Doug MacRay: Of what?
Claire Keesey: It was one of those fighting Irish tatoos. I'm afraid if I report it they'll make me testify
. What do you think I should do?Doug MacRay: You tell the FBI. If the guy's got a record, and I'm sure he does, they'll have his tatoos on file. They'll ring him up the next day. Robbery, weapons, he'll get thirty years. Of course he'll worry someone's gonna come looking for the witness. FBI will probabaly want to put you in a WitSec, you know witness security. You know, he'll probably put you somewhere, like you know in uh...Cleveland or Arizona. You know, somewhere safe. Or...you could wait. You have a card, there's nothin' says you gotta play it right away. You're the one who's vulnerable in this situation right now. The FBI are just people, like anyone else who want to find the bad guy so that they can go home and do their supper. You have to look out for yourself, Claire.
Claire Keesey: Quite an expert.
Doug MacRay: Not really. Just watch a lot of TV. I watch a lot of CSI. So I'm a really big expert on all this. I know. And Miami CSI and New York CSI. All the...all of them I have watched.
[Claire starts to laugh]
Claire Keesey: You're well prepared.
Doug MacRay: And Bones.
[getting out of Doug's truck]
Claire Keesey: Do we uh...do we know each other well enough for me to say that this truck is a little much?
Doug MacRay: [laughs] It's my work truck. If you have problems with your Prius, I could always throw it in the back.
Claire Keesey: Now, how did you know I had Prius?
Doug MacRay:Ah...I took a guess. I'd...you...I mean it just seems like a 'tunie' car. Why? You really have a Prius?
Claire Keesey: Yeah.
Doug MacRay:Really!
Claire Keesey: I had a Prius. It got vandalised.
Doug MacRay:What happened?
Claire Keesey: I don't know. I'm forced to walk a mile through the projects. There were these guys and they started you know...
Doug MacRay:What?
Claire Keesey: I'm not sure if this is the same guys who trashed my car, but...
Doug MacRay:The guys, what?
Claire Keesey: They started getting...you know it started with yelling when I walked by. And then they got really aggressive and...
Doug MacRay:Well, what were they doing?
Claire Keesey: Once glass bottles started getting thrown I started coming to terms with not being cool enough to walk through the projects.
Doug MacRay:They threw bottles at you?
Claire Keesey: I...I'm fine. I just have to, you know, go the long way. It doesn't matter.
Doug MacRay:No. Just have to leave with it I guess. Do you remember what they looked like?
Doug MacRay: I need your help. I can't tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, and we're gonna hurt some people.
[Jem pauses to think for a moment]
James Coughlin: Whose car are we gonna take?
[after breaking into Colazzo's apartment and beating him]
James Coughlin: What did you do? Huh?
James Coughlin: That's my brother right there. What did you do to get him so cranked up, huh?
Alex Colazzo: I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
James Coughlin: You don't know?
Alex Colazzo: No!
[Jem takes out his gun and points it at Colazzo's head]
James Coughlin: How about now?
Alex Colazzo: Chill. Chill. Chill.
James Coughlin: Now you know?
Alex Colazzo: Chill...
James Coughlin: Hey, don't fucking tell me to chill.
Doug MacRay: That's enough.
James Coughlin: What did you do?
Alex Colazzo: I don't know that the fuck you're talking about.
James Coughlin: No?
[he shoots Colazzo in both his legs. Colazzo starts screaming in pain]
James Coughlin: There goes college soccer! Hey, look at me.
[he pulls his mask up]
James Coughlin: See my face? You tell the cops, all right. But just remember, I've seen yours too.
[driving in Jem's car after leaving Colazzo's apartment]
Doug MacRay: You can't be up there killing people.
James Coughlin: Hey, you brought me.
[in the FBI office, Dino shows Frawly a file]
Dino Ciampa: Desmond Elden.
Adam Frawley: Yeah?
Dino Ciampa: Works at Vericom. Never seen the inside of a jail cell. Now, most of these guys get no show jobs. They take the armored truck, foreman goes ‘Yeah, guy was here yesterday’ and shows us a forged time card. But they can’t play them games at Vericom cause it’s a public company. If you don’t show up it’s a recorded sick day. And ‘Dezzy’ here has some interesting sick days. Bank Boston, Cummins Armored, Arlington Brinks, Cambridge Merchants.
Adam Frawley: Jesus Christ.
Claire Keesey: So do your parents still live in Charlestown?
Doug MacRay: Uh, no. My father uh...finally made it out to the suburbs.
Claire Keesey: What about your mother?
Doug MacRay: I couldn't tell you. She left when I was six.
Claire Keesey: What happened?
Doug MacRay: She left.
[Doug opens up to Claire and tells her the story of when his mother left]
[continues telling Claire the story of how he went looking for his mother]
Doug MacRay: We lost our dog the year before and uh...I wanted to make these posters, in case my mother was lost someone could call us. Like the guy who found our dog. To this day my father will tell you he helped me make the posters, but he didn't. Sat in the kitchen drank a case of beer while I went up by myself on school street asking people if they'd seen my mother. Her name was Dorris. My grandmother had a place, it's a restaurant, 'Tangerine Flower', so I used to imagine maybe that's where she went. Then I came to terms with the fact that it doesn't really matter. You know, where ever she went she had good reason to leave here. She didn't wanna be my mother anymore and she...she wasn't coming back. And now you know a little bit about my family, but I'm still not showing you my apartment.
Claire Keesey: How bad can it be?
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Quotes: 107
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