— I didn't think you'd understand.
— I'd have understood.
— How'd you find out about us?
— I'm a world-class assassin, fuckhead.
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Slevin: — I'm not the guy you're lookin' for. I don't live here.
Sloe: — Yeah, well, you look like the guy that lives here.
Slevin: — Then you don't know what the guy that lives here looks like.
Elvis: — What he means to say is you look like you live here.
Sloe: — Yeah, that's what I mean to say.
Slevin: — Well, yeah, I look like I live here, but I don't.
— Hey, don't stop on my account.
— Slevin. It was an accident.
— What, like he tripped and you fell?
— Wait, I just have one question. I wasn't frisked.
— ...
— I see. So being a rabbi, a religious man...
— There are three things that you may not do in order to save a life, including his own. He may not idol worship, commit adultery, or perform an act of premeditated murder. Killing you
before you killed me would've been...
— Kosher.
— Acceptable.
— I'm sorry. Who are you?
— I'm The Boss.
— I thought he was The Boss.
— Why? Do we look alike? So, Mr. Fisher, you were gonna tell me something?
— I don't know. You brought me here.
— Yes, I did, but back when you thought I was him.
— I never thought you were him, I thought he was you.
— Where's Nick?
— I don't know. He was supposed to meet me here. He never showed up.
— How'd you get in?
— Door was open.
— Door was open?
— Yeah.
— Open or unlocked?
— I don't remember.
— But you said open.
— Could've been. Hey, what was your name again?
— Lindsey. I live across the hall. I came over to borrow a cup of sugar.
— Where's your cup?
— I said I came over to borrow a cup of sugar. If I'd brought a cup, then I would've said I came over to borrow sugar.
— Touché.
— I knew you had sense.
— Sense is something you have when you have a choice. Sometimes.
— Sometimes it's when you know you don't.
— Do you know for what reason you've been brought here?
— For starters, I'm unlucky.
— The unlucky are nothing more than a frame of reference for the lucky, Mr. Fisher. You are unlucky so that I may know that I am not. Unfortunately, the lucky never realize they are lucky until it's too late. Take yourself, for instance. Yesterday, you were better off than you are today, but it took today for you to realize it, but today has arrived, and it's too late. You see? People are never happy with what they have. They always want what they had, what someone else has.
That's when the villain is most effective... when you don't know what he looks like.
— You should run.
— I can't.
— They'll kill you if you stay.
— They'll kill me if I leave.
— Then go to the police!
— These guys buy cops like cops buy doughnuts. This isn't the first time this has happened, you know?
— You mean this isn't the first time a crime lord asked you to kill the gay son of a rival gangster to pay off a debt that belongs to a friend whose place you're staying in as a result of losing your job, your apartment, and finding your girlfriend in bed with another guy?
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