- Joe Mannix: [breaking in on the Kane gang] Everybody just relax. Hello, Fingerman. You can keep feeding the kitty.
- George Kane: [coming up behind Mannix with a gun pointed at him] Hold it. Take it, Billy Lee.
- [Billy Lee takes Mannix's gun]
- George Kane: You know him?
- Fingerman: I believe the gentleman is a private detective by the name of Joe Mannix.
- Joe Mannix: [sees the suitcase full of money] Oh, that's quite a bundle. How much heroin does it represent?
- George Kane: I'm in the real estate business.
- Joe Mannix: Really? What did you sell, San Diego?
- [Billy Lee giggles]
- George Kane: I have to deal in large amounts of currency. You can ask my lawyer, Mr. Fingerman.
- Joe Mannix: Sure, Billy Lee and Ginger here, they're your bankers. Come off it, Kane. There was a shipment if heroin hijacked at the border last month, a syndicate shipment. What did you do, front for the sale, Fingerman?
- Fingerman: Well, that's a very serious charge to make without any evidence, Mr. Mannix.
- Joe Mannix: Is it? I know a man whose daughter died from an overdose. Legally, the charge should be murder. She was only 16 years old.
- George Kane: Then I don't suppose she'll get any older, will she?
- [knife clicks]
- George Kane: And neither will you, Mr. Mannix.
- Billy Lee: Now you just relax, Mannix.
- [Mannix pushes Billy Lee out of the way, and a fight ensues; Billy Lee accidentally cuts his hand on Ginger's knife]
- Billy Lee: HE GOT MY HAND!
- George Kane: All right, you'll live through it.
- Billy Lee: IT'S BAD!
- George Kane: We'll fix it later, Billy Lee.
- Ginger: Come on, let's get out of here. Maybe he tipped the cops.
- George Kane: All right, my office. Close up that suitcase and let's go.
- Fingerman: Wait a minute, don't everybody leave at once. It's gonna look bad. Look, George, you leave with Ginger with and Billy Lee, and I'll follow with the kid. I'll bring the money.
- [Kane, Billy Lee, and Ginger walk out the door as Cliff helps Fingerman re-load the suitcase of money]
- Frank Sartino: Go on, I'm listening.
- Cliff Elgin: The proposition's very simple, Mr. Sartino. Whatever George Kane used to pay you for the merchandise, I'll up it to 20%, plus...
- Frank Sartino: Plus what?
- Cliff Elgin: Half the cash out of the Denver deal.
- Frank Sartino: [chuckles] Kane hijacked my shipment. All that money is mine.
- Cliff Elgin: Half, or the money stays buried, Mr. Sartino.
- [pause]
- Frank Sartino: Buddy.
- [Buddy walks up to Sartino]
- Frank Sartino: Kid's ambitious, huh?
- Buddy: Yeah.
- Frank Sartino: This generation - they can't wait to take over.
- [Elgin chuckes]
- Frank Sartino: And that's you're after, right, kid, to take over?
- Cliff Elgin: Only with your protection, Mr. Sartino.
- Frank Sartino: [nods] Suppose I were to say yes. I could beat it out of you, but suppose I said yes. What happens if Kane beats the rap?
- Cliff Elgin: He won't beat the rap.
- Frank Sartino: You seem pretty certain. Kane's got a smart lawyer.
- Cliff Elgin: I can fix it so it doesn't matter how smart his lawyer is.
- Frank Sartino: How? You can't get to him, not with the cops sitting on him.
- Cliff Elgin: Tomorrow, he'll be in courtroom number six - preliminary hearing.
- Frank Sartino: Go on, I'm still listening.
- Cliff Elgin: Anything might happen if you set it up right. George Kane's finished anyway. I mean, businesswise, he's dead. He can't operate. I can, Mr. Sartino. I'm a law student, I'm clean, there nothing in the computer about me, and I'll pay you 20% over the going price.
- Frank Sartino: Okay. If what you say might happen happens, phone me. I'll listen even better then.
- Cliff Elgin: [nods] Fine. Thank you, sir.
- [shakes Sartino's hand and leaves]