Quotes
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Joe Mannix : All right, Frankie, what do you want?
Frankie West : To make you an offer. How does ten grand sound?
Joe Mannix : For what?
Frankie West : A little information.
Joe Mannix : Keep talking.
Frankie West : There's some kind of letter floating around. It's supposed to contain proof that I'm the guy that was mixed up with Stonehurst International and Tip Ellis.
Joe Mannix : Mm-hmm. I see. How do you, uh, know about the letter?
Frankie West : Lt. Malcolm and some hick cop from Fresno gave me a bad half hour this morning. Nothing my lawyer couldn't handle. But Fresno let it slip. Have you any idea what's in that letter, Joe?
Joe Mannix : A pretty good idea.
Frankie West : [smiles] No. No, I don't think you do know. Because if it had anything to do with me, true or false, you'd have told Malcolm and I'd be in custody by now.
Joe Mannix : Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Frankie West : The letter's a fake, Joe.
Joe Mannix : How do you know that?
Frankie West : Someone's trying to frame me.
Joe Mannix : Someone's always trying to frame you, Frankie.
Frankie West : 20,000 bucks, Mannix, if you find that letter and give it to me unopened.
Joe Mannix : You said the letter was a fake.
Frankie West : It is, but someone else might not think so.
Joe Mannix : You know what I think really happened, Frankie?
Frankie West : No, tell me.
Joe Mannix : The second-story man you hired to burgle my safe double-crossed you. He read the letter and decided it was worth a thousand times what you paid him to steal it. So if you're offering me 20,000 for it because he wants a million. Oh, uh, pardon the intrusion, ma'am.
