- Vinny: Come on, get in the car. Please, baby.
- Dionna: Baby? Don't you dare "baby" me! I'm gonna wait here! I'm gonna wait here until somebody comes along. You know what? I'm gonna wait here until some soul brother comes along in his big black Cadillac. And you know and I know that he's got a big black dick too.
- Vinny: Don't talk like that, just get inside the car.
- Dionna: Oh, fuck you!
- Vinny: Please, please, don't make me have to beg you. Get in the car. Come on- don't make me have to hurt you.
- Dionna: Hurt me? Don't you even fuckin' lay a pinkie on me! I'll get him to kick your ass and then I'll fuck 'em! You wanna watch Vinny? Will that turn you on Vinny? You linguine dick mother fucker. You wanna watch while I suck a big black dick in the back of a big black cadillac?
- Vinny: You fuckin' make me sick, you fuckin' slut.
- [He spits in her face, she smacks him hard]
- Dionna: *I* AM A SLUT? You're calling *ME* a slut? You lowlife piece of fuckin' shit, *YOU FUCKED MY COUSIN*! You didn't think I knew about that! I smelled her pussy juice all over your fuckin' FACE! You fuckin' sick bastard, HOW DARE YOU! And all this time I'm thinking there's something wrong with ME! You perverted sick fuck!
- Dionna: [crying] I thought that what we had was special together.
- Vinny: Oh, baby- it is special. Let me make love to you, and I'll show you.
- Dionna: [continuing] Just you and me... just you and me...
- Vinny: It is just you and me!
- Dionna: It wasn't- it was everybody.
- Vinny: Oh, baby, it wasn't...
- Dionna: It was everybody...
- Vinny: I didn't care for those fucking bitches! I love you!
- Dionna: It was everybody. And everybody else knew but me.
- Vinny: I fuckin' thought I was gonna stop cheatin' when I got married, you know. I thought so! And now I'm just fuckin' cheatin' a lot more than I ever did. But I thought- you know, I thought the man up there understood. I thought he under- would fuckin' understand...
- Ritchie: God has nothing to do with this, Vin!
- Vinny: Oh come, Ritchie, yes he does. Yes, he does.
- [Tony and Joe T. run into a punk walking the street]
- Tony Olives: Watch where you're going, you freak!
- Punk: Fuck you, Guido.
- Tony Olives: ...what did you say to me?
- Punk: FUCK YOU GUIDO!
- Joey T: Alright, you're drunk, so I'm going to give you one more chance. Who's your favorite baseball team?
- Punk: Boston Red Sox!
- [They attack him]
- Joey T: You know, with that reward money, I'm gonna start a college fund for my daughter.
- Brian: I'd buy a yacht. Like Hugh Hefner, I'd get Playboy bunnies walkin' around.
- Anthony: You can't get a yacht with ten grand. You're gonna wind up with a row boat with two Puerto Rican skanks.
- Brian: What are you talkin' about.
- Anthony: When I get that money, I'm gonna take both my parents home to Sicily for a whole f*ckin' month.
- Joey T: Hey, what'd I tell you about your filthy mouth in front of my daughter. Apologize to the princess.
- [Dog is barking and the Son of Sam is sobbing and trembling]
- Son of Sam: I thought I killed you, Mr. Black Dog! How did you get in here? Leave me alone! What do you want?
- Harvey the Black Dog: I want you to go out and kill. Kill.
- Son of Sam: No...
- Harvey the Black Dog: Kill!
- [the Son of Sam is still trembling]
- Harvey the Black Dog: KILL!
- Son of Sam: [murmurs something inaudible] I will kill. I will... I'll do anything you say. I'll do anything you say! Yes, master! I will kill! I WILL KILL!
- [last lines]
- Jimmy Breslin: Of all the things, a parking ticket did Son of Sam in. On July 31st, 1977, he shot his last two victims. An eyewitness noticed a parking ticket under his windshield as he sped away. Of the four tickets issued in that area, one bore the name of David Berkowitz, a resident of Yonkers, New York. At first, Berkowitz claimed insanity, saying a 2,000-year-old dog named Harvey told him to do it. Eventually, he pled guilty. That sick fuck is serving a sentence of six consecutive terms of 25 years to life. Of course, the New York Yankees won the World Series against the L.A. Dodgers, led by Reggie Jackson's dramatic three consecutive home runs in the sixth and deciding game. Elvis Presley died. 3,700 were arrested during the blackout, with damage going into the hundreds of millions. To no one's surprise, most of the destruction took place in Brooklyn, Harlem, and the South Bronx. '77 was also one of the hottest summers in memory in New York City. New York: the city that I love and hate equally. There are 8 million stories in the naked city, and this was one of them.
- Jimmy Breslin: Hello ladies and gentlemen; boys and girls. My name is Jimmy Breslin. I'm a writer. I write about New York, the city of my birth where I've lived and worked all my life; the city that I love and hate both equally. Today, things are much different. Business is booming up, up, and up. Crime is down, down, down. Homicides are the lowest it's been since 1961. Well, it wasn't always like this. This film is about a different time; a different place; the good old days; the hot, blistering summer of 1977. There are 8 million stories in the naked city, and this was one of them.
- [Dionna drives off without Vinny]
- Dionna: You FAGGOT FUCKING HAIRDRESSER, I hope he KILLS YOU! I hope you DIE here!
- Vinny: Dionna, COME BACK HERE! Don't fucking leave me here!
- Dionna: I hope he fucking kills you, you fucking faggot PANSY!
- Vinny: Stop that fucking car! Come back here!
- Dionna: [gives him the finger] *FUCK YOU*! Stick it up your fucking ASS!
- Vinny: Dionna! Don't fucking leave me here! DIONNA!
- Midnight: [to Ruby] Girl, you're way to hot to be givin' it away. You're so hot you make me wish I was a lesbian.
- Arresting Officer: Now that I've got you, who've I got?
- Son of Sam: [smiling] You know.
- Arresting Officer: No, I don't. Why don't you tell me?
- Son of Sam: I'm Sam
- Arresting Officer: You're Sam. Sam who?
- Son of Sam: [still smiling] Sam. Dave Berkowitz.
- Dionna: Oh, come on, fuhgeddaboudit, that's all my father needs to see. Then we'll all get beatings.
- Anthony: What the hell happened to you? Look at this freak!
- Joey T: Nice outfit. Where'd you get it? Off the dead?
- Anthony: I thought vampires only came out at night?
- Ritchie: Yeah, except on leap year. What's happening guys?
- Joey T: Don't give us that "What's happening guys" bullsh*t. You come back to the neighborhood lookin' like a f*ckin' freak - soundin' like a British fag and we're supposed to be okay with that?
- Ritchie: You're f*ckin' right. How's your wife and kid JT?
- Joey T: I got divorced - I moved back in with my mother.
- Ron: What about our weekend in the Catskills? I've already paid for the room!
- Ruby: Well, then you can go there and you can jerk off. Cause that's what you are - a real f*ckin' jerk off!
- Ron: F*ck you, you dago wop skank!
- Brian: What did you fucking say? Dago wop skank, are you fucking KIDDING ME!
- Ron: It's none of your business.
- Brian: Shut your fucking mouth! That's my fucking SISTER!
- [Brian lunges at Ron. Ron drives off scared]
- Brian: Yeah, GO HOME, pretty boy!
- Vinny: Now, don't tell nobody. It's between you and me. Its bad enough that I ball her, right, but, then some sick side of me had to drive her right past the spot where we was stickin' it up her cousin's ass, you know. Oh sh*t, and that's where I saw the dead bodies, right there. You know what, God spared me. He spared me, man. Cause its a f*ckin' omen. I'm serious! He f*ckin' let me go. You know, what the f*ck could this mean? It means somethin'. What do you think it means?
- Ritchie: I don't know, what do you think it means?
- Vinny: I think God's tellin' me I'm gonna burn in hell if I don't stop cheatin'.
- Vinny: God is tellin' me you shouldn't be doin' these things with your wife. That's what he's tellin' me.
- Ritchie: What things?
- Vinny: Oh, come on, don't be stupid. You know.
- Ritchie: What?
- Vinny: No butt f*cking, sixty-nine, doggy style. That's the message God it saying: You gotta cut that sh*t out. You gotta cut it out; otherwise, I'm not gonna spare you the next time. That's what God is telling me.
- Detective Lou Petrocelli: There's a homicidal maniac wandering around the neighborhood. You don't want to do anything about it?
- Luigi: You have been busting my balls ever since you got promoted. Now, why is that? Wasn't I good to you when you were a kid? Didn't I take you to Yankee Stadium? Didn't you met Mickey Mantle? He signed a baseball to Louie from Mickey Mantle.
- Detective Curt Atwater: Who the f*ck, the Mick. Willie Mays was the man.
- Luigi: Get outta here. Mick was the guy. He was the guy.
- Vinny: I'm just tryin' to be a better husband right now. I just don't feel I can do it. All right?
- Gloria: You know, you're like a frickin' yo-yo, back-n-forth, forth-n-back, let's do this, let's not do this. You know what, Vinny? Let's just not do it! Okay? That's it! You think you're the only one that's got feelings? I got a husband at home!
- Woodstock: I know who the killer is. I figured it out. Reggie Jackson.
- Anthony: What the f*ck is wrong with you?
- Joey T: What's the matter with you?
- Woodstock: I'm serious. Son of Sam. Uncle Sam. Yankee Doodle Dandy. Bronx Bombers. New York f*ckin' Yankees.
- Brian: What, he makes an ass of you. You don't know.
- Woodstock: What kind of guns does the killer use? 44 caliber, right? What's Reggie's number? 44.
- Lynch mob: WE'LL *GET YOU*, SON OF SAM! WE'LL *GET YOU*, SON OF SAM! WE'LL *GET YOU*, SON OF SAM!
- [repeats]
- Eddie: [Joey T and his gang are beating up Ritchie, Eddie fires his Luger into the air] You get the fuck away from him! GET OFF HIM! What the fuck is going on here? What the FUCK is going on, JESUS CHRIST!
- Joey T: We caught the Son of Sam and we're taking him to Luigi! Don't FUCK with us!
- Eddie: Son of Sam? He ain't the fucking Son of Sam! They caught the real killer. It's all over the news. They caught him in YONKERS, you stupid fucking idiot!
- Joey T: You're fucking lying! Don't fucking LIE TO US!
- Eddie: [Eddie points his Luger at Joey T's face] Oh, yeah! Tell me my fucking LUGER's full of shit! Fuck with THIS, hero! *COME ON*!
- [Joey T backs down]
- Eddie: My Luger says they CAUGHT HIM, alright!
- Vinny: [crying] And I've made some bad calls, and I'm a bad fuckin' husband. And I admit it. And I know you can't get away with shit in life anymore. You know, God sees everything, plain and simple... and I just want you to give me another chance.
- Dionna: No.
- Vinny: Please, baby. Give me another chance. I can't live without you- please.
- Dionna: [crying] You can't bring God into this. You can't do that anymore...
- Detective Lou Petrocelli: My partner knows I'm from the neighborhood. Can we get down to business? We need your help.
- Luigi: What do you want me to do? Arrest myself?
- Luigi: I'm asking you, this guy, how many people did he kill? Three? Four? Five? And with no disrespect, Detective, in Harlem last night, your people, the coloreds, how many of each other did they kill? Seven? Eight?
- Ritchie: Hey, Ruby, how you been?
- Ruby: You know, I copped that Who's Next album. I was thinkin' about you.
- Ritchie: Its great, right. F*ckin', those guys are like the godfathers of punk. You know that? You know that song, Baba O'Riley? Its my favorite song. You know who wrote that?
- Ruby: Engelbert Humperdick? What? You don't think I know? Come on, I know. Pete Townsend.
- Ritchie: How'd you know that?
- Ruby: What? I read the album credits. I mean the only thing I don't get is why those four guys, you know, pissin' on a big rock?
- Bobby Del Fiore: Hello, Brian.
- Brian: Hey-hey-hey, Bobby the Fairy! How's it hangin'? Huh?
- Bobby Del Fiore: That's Mrs. Del Fiore to you, sweetheart. And don't wear it out.