Across 110th Street (1972)

Richard Ward: Doc Johnson

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• Doc Johnson : You're new here, ain't you? College boy?

  Lt. Pope : Two years.

  Doc Johnson : Right on, baby. Yeah. I could get you his job. They're looking for bright black boys on the force. How much are we paying this dude, Shevvy?

  Shevvy : He's the guy that sent back the Christmas present.

  Doc Johnson : Yeah? Mr Mattelli don't do that. We've been giving him 2,500 a month for the past two years. And he come in here, giving me orders. Shit! He works for me! He works for me, the same as the whores and the dealers.

  Capt. Mattelli : I only took gambling money.

  Doc Johnson : Oh, yeah, yeah, they all say that. No. No, you don't take whoring money, you don't take dirty junkie money. You only take nice, clean numbers money. Where do you think it comes from?

• Doc Johnson : God damn it, D'Salvio, I've been in charge here 15 years and nobody tells me how to run my business.

  Nick D'Salvio : Hey, hey! Your business is running our business. Do you understand that? You may be a big shot around here up in Harlem; but, below 110th Street you're nothing but just a hired nigger. That's all. That's all.

  Doc Johnson : It's not smart for three dagos to run around killing brothers up here.

  Nick D'Salvio : Fuck you and your brothers.

• Doc Johnson : You ain't never gonna make it. You know that? What are you, 40 - 45 years old? You were a punk errand boy when you married the boss's daughter and you're still a punk errand boy!

• Doc Johnson : Dirty money or clean money, it's all the same.

• Doc Johnson : Hey, come on. Don't waste your career on the force, my boy. Take the money, brother.

  Lt. Pope : You stick it up your ass, brother.

• Doc Johnson : [to Mattelli]  You come running in here because a couple of your cops got nined. Especially because one was white!

  [to Pope] 

  Doc Johnson : Your friend is a racist son of a bitch. He always has been. They all are!

• Doc Johnson : You're crazy, Mattelli. You don't wanna keep on living. You wanna die. I'm not gonna help you.

• Capt. Mattelli : Look, I came to give you a message. If you're too dumb to understand, that's your business. Any more bodies, I'm coming after you. You hear me?

  Doc Johnson : You watch your motherfuckin' mouth, white boy. You might be something big to those booty-butts that you work over down at the station; but, goddamn it, this is me. Doc motherfuckin' Johnson!

• Capt. Mattelli : No more crucifixions!

  Doc Johnson : My people don't crucify anybody, Frank. Crucifying's wop shit.

  Capt. Mattelli : Doc, no more crucifixions.