Spenser: Small Vices (1999 TV Movie)

Shiek Mahmud-Bey: Hawk

Quotes 

• Hawk : You're the detective. I'm just a thug.

  Spenser : You're too modest.

  Hawk : Didn't mean to say I wasn't a great thug.

• Hawk : Let me see if I got this right: Ellis borrows or steals a car one night, an inconspicuous old pink Caddy. He drives out to Pemberton - in this inconspicuous pink Caddy - where there ain't no black folks, and the cops pay attention to any that they see. Not only that, but he cruises around in this inconspicuous pink car until he spots a white woman on a busy street. He drags this white woman into his car in front of witnesses, drives her somewhere, takes her clothes off, strangles her - though he doesn't rape her - dumps her body in the middle of the Pemberton campus and rides on back home with her clothes in his new inconspicuous pink car, coming from an all-white neighborhood just in case the cops want to stop him. And one of the eyewitnesses went to school with the victim, and the other went to school with the victim's boyfriend.

  Spenser : Your point?

  Hawk : Exactly!

• Spenser : My name's Spenser. Been hired to find out if you did what you're in jail for.

  Ellis Alves : Sure. And who is this? This your butler?

  Hawk : We know you bad, Ellis. Don't have to keep showing us.

  Ellis Alves : What's your name, man? Huh? Tom, maybe?

  Hawk : My name is Hawk.

  [Alves looks him in surprise] 

• Ellis Alves : I heard 'a you.

  Hawk : Mm-hmm.

  Ellis Alves : [pointing to Spenser]  You, ah, you trust him?

  Hawk : Mm-hmm.

  Ellis Alves : Well, you ain't got a prayer, bro. They going to land on you like a truckload of sludge. Bury you, like me.

  Spenser : Probably not.

• Gino Fish : Your friend Spenser. He appears to be annoying somebody

  Hawk : Yeah, well, he do that.

  Gino Fish : Well, this somebody's doing something about it.

  Hawk : What?

  Gino Fish : Tell him, Vinnie.

  Vinnie : Guy wants him killed.

• Hawk : Well, you turned him down. He ask for a referral?

  Vinnie : No.

  Hawk : Any idea where he might ask next?

  Gino Fish : He knew where to ask. Vinnie's the best.

  [Hawk laughs] 

  Gino Fish : One of the two best. My feeling and Vinnie's is that when he hires, he will hire out of the city and he will get someone good. He offered Vinnie excellent money.

  Hawk : That's nice. See, Spenser's feelings be hurt, they try to ace him cut-rate.