Homicide Page #4

Synopsis: Policeman Bob Gold has to capture a murderer that not even the FBI has been able to find. But before he can even start he is re-assigned to the murder of an old Jewish lady in a black area. The evidence points at a Jewish hate group and he discovers connections between them and his previous case.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): David Mamet
Production: Cinehaus
  3 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
84
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
R
Year:
1991
102 min
915 Views


- Yeah, they're coming.

- How long have you been here?

- Two minutes.

- Okay.

Officer Ferro,

get out your f***in' notebook.

You write down

the exact time of your arrival...

you, your partner's star number.

- I was never here.

- I understand.

- Thank you. Y-You were never here.

- What is it in there?

- I can't move, man.

- Who is that?

- It's the cops. Okay?

You can't move? Don't move.

Can you get to your piece?

If I move, man,

the f***ing dog is gonna kill me.

Does he have a collar on?

Can you see a collar?

- Yeah.

- Is it a choke collar?

- Bobby, I gotta roll.

- F*** me.

Get on. Go on.

Get outta here. Take the car.

- Hey, get me the jacket.

- What?

- A choke collar.

- Yeah, I can see it.

It's a choke collar, yeah.

I'm scared, man.

I know you are.

Yeah. I'm scared.

Just hang tight.

It's all gonna be over in a minute.

- Nothin' to it.

- Piece of cake, really.

- Uh-huh.

Yeah.

Nice and easy.

- Everybody's your friend.

- Be careful, man.

Shh.

Attaboy.

Chain him outside.

- What a thing, huh?

- Uh-huh.

Thank you, man. Thank you.

- It's all right.

- I gotta call in.

Don't touch the phone.

You gotta call, call outside.

- Thank you, man. I lost it there.

- Uh-huh.

- What do you got here?

- Behind the counter.

Okay, move it back, fellas.

Move it back. Thank you.

I know why they waste her, man -

'cause she got that fortune in her basement.

That Jew broad. You want me to help you?

I can help you 'cause I know why they did her, man.

Officer, take everybody's name and address.

Don't shoo anyone off.

Fella hanging around could be the guy.

You understand? The killer.

- Yes, sir.

- Nobody goes in or out of the building.

You don't touch nothin' in there,

and you hang tight till your sergeant arrives.

Excuse me, Offiicer. See, I know that she had

the fortune down in that basement.

- Hang tight till my sergeant arrives.

- That's right.

- Even when I was young I knew that.

This is why they killed her.

- Thank you, Detective. Thanks a lot.

- I know what I'm talkin' about

'cause I been in this neighborhood all my life.

- I gotta get out of here.

- That's why they killed her.

- Sorry, ma'am. No one is supposed to get through.

- Please. Who's in charge here?

- It's not my case.

- That's my grandmother in there.

Can you help me? Please let us through.

- It's not my case.

Folks, nobody gets by.

- Central. Detective Gold.

- Central, okay.

- I need a car.

- Say your 10-20.

- 12th and Prescott.

- Hold tight.

- Please, can you help me?

- The sergeant'll be here in a minute.

My grandmother, is she -

What's happened to her?

- Gold, your 10-20. Say again.

- 12th and Prescott.

Your grandmother

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David Mamet

David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director. As a playwright, Mamet has won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow. more…

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