Storyville (1992)

James Spader: Cray Fowler

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• Cray : You know, I've been hearing this kind of barbershop trash my whole life.

• Cray : [after carrying Lee onto the couch and picking up the phone]  I need an ambulance.

  Lee Tran : NO!

  [Cray hangs up] 

  Lee Tran : My father made a tape of us.

  Cray : The fuck you talking about? Your father made a tape of us?

  Lee Tran : [Reaches for Cray]  I'm sorry...

  Cray : [Pulls away]  What, what do you want from me?

  Lee Tran : I have to leave the city.

  Cray : You want some cash?

  [Throws cash at her] 

  Cray : Where's the tape? Where's the fucking tape?

• Cray : I remember you tried to explain to me once why life was different here. You said, "The difference is, down here the past isn't dead. It isn't even past."

  Clifford Fowler : Did I? Damn. Can sure turn a phrase, can't he?

  Cray : I thought about that for a long time.

  Clifford Fowler : I'll drink to that.

  Cray : I wanna speak openly and directly to you and I trust you'll do the same.

  Clifford Fowler : Son, I hope we can always.

  Cray : I want the tape. That tape was made for you, and I want you to give it to me.

  Clifford Fowler : [pause]  You don't understand...

  Cray : DON'T BULLSHIT ME! You hired a blackmailer to get a tape on me like I'm some boot lickin' ward heel, I'm your god damned family.

  Clifford Fowler : I wasn't gonna use it like that.

  Cray : You already used it.