The Killer Elite (1975)

Burt Young: Mac

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• Mac : Damn it, Mike, you're so busy doin' their dirty work, you can't tell who the bad guys are!

• Mike Locken : No, hold, hold it Jerome. Jerome. Don't, uh, don't pull down on a cop.

  Fake Officer : Do what he says, Jerome.

  [Jerome shoots the cop] 

  Mike Locken : Oh, are you crazy? Now you just made me an accessory.

  Mac : Mike, there's a garbage truck blockin' the alley and no garbage in sight.

  Mike Locken : Yeah I know, I wish Miller were in it.

  Jerome Miller : Forget it. He's no cop.

  Mike Locken : What d'ya mean he's no cop?

  Jerome Miller : Look at his gun. Tell me that's not a 9mm Star, and I'll kiss your ass.

  Mike Locken : And just from that you knew that?

  Jerome Miller : San Francisco Police Department packs regulation Smith & Wesson .38's. So...

  Mike Locken : Heh, heh. C'mon Jerome.

• Mike Locken : [looking at fake taxi cab]  Well it, uh, blends in all right. What else has it got that makes it so charming?

  Mac : Gas tank is tucked under the rear seat. Steel plate wrap-around, reinforced bumpers. And it's a fully blown engine.

  Mike Locken : How come we never used it before?

  Mac : I just got it, Mike. Some union guy put it all together, bulletproof glass, and then they shot him in bed. I got it from his widow.

• Mac : Damn it, Mike! You're so busy doing their dirty work, you can't tell who the bad guys are!

  Mike Locken : Don't worry! I know who the bad guys are: anybody who tries to hurt me!

  Mac : They're all tryin' to hurt you Mike! All the goddam power systems! All the wheelers and dealers at the top with their gin and fizzes! They need guys like you to do their bloodletting, while they're busy making speeches about freedom and progress! They're all full of bullshit! There's not one power system that really cares about its civilians!

• Mike Locken : Good morning, Mac.

  Mac : You look OK for a robot.

  Mike Locken : Yeah, well, I ain't with all the 3 and 1 oil.

• Yuen Chung : Every country, if hopes to become a democracy, needs at least one voice raised in opposition. I happen to be selected. Let just one other person hear my voice. That is a beginning! It's enough.

  Mike Locken : Ha, I'll give you this: all the other sheep I've kept have always been running away from their countries. You're the first one that I've met that's jumping back into the frying pan.

  Mac : That's what I was telling you before. You're risking your life, keeping him alive, and getting him back someplace where they're going to finish him off anyway.

• Mike Locken : You know, it must be true about you people. You don't care if you die, right?

  Yuen Chung : Of course, we do. It's in the manner of living and of dying one finds relevance.

  Mike Locken : So that's how you're gonna do it. You're gonna go back to your country to die. I mean, who's gonna keep you alive when you're there?

  Yuen Chung : I don't need an army. I'm not a revolutionary, nor do I want power.

  Mac : We've heard that before.

  Mike Locken : Oh, wait a minute. I, I understand it now. Y'see, he wants to go back to die on his own native soil. It's that salmon-up-the-river shit.