Crime

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Carson Wells: You know... I counted the floors from here to the street. There's one missing.
Man who hires Wells: [Rolling his eyes sarcastically] We'll look into it.

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By: Stephen Root | Woody Harrelson
Characters: Carson Wells | Man who hires Wells (Stephen Root)
From: No Country for Old Men
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thrillers

Context:
Woody Harrelson's character Carson Wells is having a conversation with his employer. Wells isn't familiar with the superstition regarding the 13th floor in office buildings.

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Here last week they found this couple out in California. They rent out rooms for old people, kill' em, bury' em in the yard, cash their social security checks. Well, they'd torture 'em first. I don't know why. Maybe the television set was broke.

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By: Tommy Lee Jones
Characters: Ed Tom Bell
From: No Country for Old Men
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thrillers

Context:
Tommy Lee Jones, who plays Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, is speaking to his deputy, and gives an example of how bad crime is getting in their jurisdiction.

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Carson Wells: Call me when you've had enough. I can even let you keep a little of the money.
Llewelyn Moss: If I was cuttin' deals, why wouldn't I go deal with this guy Sugar?
Carson Wells: Oh, no, no. You don't understand. You can't make a deal with him. Even if you gave him the money he'd still kill you just for - inconveniencin' him. He's a peculiar man. You might even say that he has principles. Principles that transcend money or drugs or anything like that. He's not like you. He's not even like me.
Llewelyn Moss: He don't talk as much as you, I give him points for that.

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By: Josh Brolin | Woody Harrelson
Characters: Carson Wells | Llewelyn Moss
From: No Country for Old Men
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thrillers

Context:
Woody Harrelson, who plays Carson Wells, is attempting to convince Josh Brolin's character Llewelyn Moss, to give him a suitcase full of money Brolin found at the scene of a drug-deal-turned-massacre. Harrelson informs Brolin that the other man looking for the money is a psychotic killer who won't ask nicely. Brolin is already aware of that fact, since that killer, Anton Chigurh (played by Javier Bardem) has already put Brolin in the hospital, where this conversation takes place.

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Alright then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em. It's peculiar. I'm older now than he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember too well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give me some money. I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin'.

Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past... and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. 'Bout the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up...

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By: Tommy Lee Jones
Characters: Ed Tom Bell
From: No Country for Old Men
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thrillers

Context:
Tommy Lee Jones, who plays a sheriff that's about to retire, is chatting with his wife one morning, and begins reflecting on how his community has changed over the years, in terms of violence and crime.

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Gas Station Proprietor: Well... I need to see about closin'.
Anton Chigurh: See about closing.
Gas Station Proprietor: Yessir.
Anton Chigurh: What time do you close?
Gas Station Proprietor: Now. We close now.
Anton Chigurh: Now is not a time. What time do you close?

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By: Gene Jones | Javier Bardem
Characters: Anton Chigurh | Gas Station Proprietor (Gene Jones)
From: No Country for Old Men
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thrillers

Context:
Gene Jones, who plays a Gas Station Proprietor, begins very uncomfortable with the conversation he's having with his very odd customer, Anton Chigurh (played by Javier Bardem).

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Anton Chigurh: And you know what's going to happen now. You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it.
Carson Wells: You go to hell.
Anton Chigurh: [Chuckles] Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
Carson Wells: Do you have any idea how crazy you are?
Anton Chigurh: You mean the nature of this conversation?
Carson Wells: I mean the nature of you.

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By: Javier Bardem | Woody Harrelson
Characters: Anton Chigurh | Carson Wells
From: No Country for Old Men
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thrillers

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Wendell: [Viewing the desert crime scene] It's a mess, ain't it, Sheriff?
Ed Tom Bell: If it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here.

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By: Garret Dillahunt | Tommy Lee Jones
Characters: Ed Tom Bell | Wendell (No Country For Old Men)
From: No Country for Old Men
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thrillers

Context:
Tommy Lee Jones (as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell) and his deputy first arrive at a drug-deal-turned-massacre in the Texas desert. Jones' statement is prophetic since there are many more killings to come, all related to this initial crime.

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Anton Chigurh: What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?
Gas Station Proprietor: Sir?
Anton Chigurh: The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.
Gas Station Proprietor: I don't know. I couldn't say.
[Chigurh flips a quarter from the change on the counter and immediately covers it with his hand]
Anton Chigurh: Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Call it?
Anton Chigurh: Yes.
Gas Station Proprietor: For what?
Anton Chigurh: Just call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Well, we need to know what we're calling it for here.
Anton Chigurh: You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair.
Gas Station Proprietor: I didn't put nothin' up.
Anton Chigurh: Yes, you did. You've been putting it up your whole life, you just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin?
Gas Station Proprietor: No.
Anton Chigurh: 1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Look, I need to know what I stand to win.
Anton Chigurh: Everything.
Gas Station Proprietor: How's that?
Anton Chigurh: You stand to win everything. Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Alright. Heads then.
[Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the coin is indeed heads]
Anton Chigurh: Well done.
[the gas station proprietor nervously takes the quarter with the small pile of change]
Anton Chigurh: Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.
Gas Station Proprietor: Where do you want me to put it?
Anton Chigurh: Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is.

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By: Gene Jones | Javier Bardem
Characters: Anton Chigurh | Gas Station Proprietor (Gene Jones)
From: No Country for Old Men
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thrillers

Context:
Javier Bardem, who plays psychopathic killer Anton Chigurh, is trying to decide whether to murder a gas station owner over basically nothing. The scene begins to set up the mentality of this dangerous and unstable character.

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Llewelyn Moss: If I don't come back, tell mother I love her.
Carla Jean Moss: Your mother's dead, Llewelyn.
Llewelyn Moss: Well then I'll tell her myself.

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By: Josh Brolin | Kelly Macdonald
Characters: Carla Jean Moss | Llewelyn Moss
From: No Country for Old Men
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thrillers

Context:
Josh Brolin (as Llewelyn Moss) is speaking to his wife Carla Jean (actress Kelly Macdonald) before leaving their trailer to return to the scene of a drug-deal-turned-massacre. Brolin seems to feel guilt about leaving one of the victims to die, after the victim requested water from him, and is attempting to bring the man some water.