Reindeer Games (2000)

Gary Sinise: Gabriel

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Quotes 

• Gabriel Mercer : Ever since you started going to night school you've been giving me headaches.

• Gabriel Mercer : I read your letters, convict. Don't play no reindeer games with me.

• [Gabriel kicks Rudy down on the ground] 

  Gabriel Mercer : So... You wanted a weapon, convict?

  Rudy Duncan : [Gabriel pulls out a handgun and aims it down at Rudy]  Ahh! No. Dont'! Ahh!

  [Gabriel pulls the trigger repeatedly and shows Rudy it's a squirt gun] 

  Merlin : Well, now, look at what Santa's dwarves have brought you. What do you say to Santa's dwarves?

  Rudy Duncan : It's elves. Santa's Elves.

  Merlin : You say, thank you, motherfucker.

  [men chuckling] 

• [Gabriel tells his life story while playing a game of darts, with Rudy as the dartboard] 

  Gabriel Mercer : I've been driving rigs a long time, convict. Four, five million miles of road. Hard road.

  [chuckles] 

  Gabriel Mercer : Tell 'em I was tired, shit, they'd just hire someone else. A thousand miles by sundown or the gang don't eat come sunrise.

  Rudy Duncan : Sh-shit!

  [dodges a dart] 

  Gabriel Mercer : And every road, every mile, it's nothin' but moms and pops and car-seat kiddies giving me that look... to go to hell and get off their happy goddamn highway. So - So I have worked... and I have slaved, and I have waited... for the highways to split open... and for the rivers to roil and for god in the heavens... to reach down and show me some sign of my reward, to grant me with my gift and say to me, Gabriel, my son, you are done with the road. Well convict, that gift was granted.

  [points to Rudy] 

• [Rudy and Gabriel talk about how they're going to pull off the robbery] 

  Rudy Duncan : I can tell you right now, going in there with A.K.s and ski masks ain't gonna do that.

  Gabriel Mercer : [chuckles]  Well, that part, Nick, was planned out the day I read your letters.

  Rudy Duncan : Oh, yeah. What? we're all gonna dress up as cowboys?

  Gabriel Mercer : No, no, not cowboys, Nick. Not on Christmas Eve.

  [Gabriel and Merlin open a closet full of Santa Claus outfits] 

  Rudy Duncan : You gotta be kidding me.

  Gabriel Mercer : Tis the season, convict.

  Merlin : Ho... Ho, ho.

• Gabriel Mercer : 'Tis the season, convict.

• Rudy Duncan : Do I get a country-western name?

  Gabriel Mercer : You get recognized, convict, You get a country-western funeral.

• Rudy Duncan : Don't hit me, man!

  Gabriel Mercer : Nick, I have been trying to hit you!

  [Gabriel throws a dart which hits Rudy in the chest as Rudy winces in pain] 

  Gabriel Mercer : [yelling]  cause I DO NOT deserve to be in some cheap shitbag motel in the middle of bumfuck Michigan...

  [Gabriel throws another dart which hits Rudy in the shoulder as Rudy winces in more pain] 

  Gabriel Mercer : [raises voice louder]  ... THROWING DARTS AT A WORTHLESS FUCKING CONVICT!