Torres: Jesus, Albrecht, I can see why they took away your gold shield!
Albrecht: Yeah, I wasn't a big enough asshole.
T-Bird: I got trouble. One of my crew got himself perished.
Top Dollar: Yeah, and who might that be?
T-Bird: Tin Tin, somebody stuck his blades in all his major organs in alphabetical order.
Top Dollar: Well, gentlemen, by all means, I think we oughta have an introspective moment of silence for poor ol' Tin
Tin.
[sniffs drugs]
Skank: [fast and hysterically] That's him! That's him! But he looked different. He was all painted up white like some sort of dead whore! I seen him! T-Bird he sent me in some road beers, right? Then he took him away. But, I chased him down. And he flash fried T-bird to his fucking car! Aww, T-Bird here's to you buddy.
[drinks his flask]
Skank: Fire
it up! Fire it up! Fire it up!
Top Dollar: Maybe we oughta just video tape this, play it back in slow motion.
Top Dollar: Did you see the grave?
Grange: Empty.
Skank: [still hysterical] Grave? What grave? What about my fucking grave?
[Grange pushes him away]
Grange: Three
out of four. He's working his way to this speed freak right here.
Skank: [still hysterical] It's not fair. It's Funboy's fault. That boy was outta control. T-bird, he came in, said...
[whistles]
Skank: Waste them both! And now this ghost gonna kill my ass next!
[Top Dollar suddenly slaps him down]
Top Dollar: No, I want you to set a fire so goddamn big, the gods'll notice us again, that's what I'm sayin'. I want all of you boys to be able to look me straight in the eye one more time and say: ARE WE HAVING FUN OR WHAT? Hey, you! What's your name? Skank? You don't feel that?
Skank: I feel like a little worm on a big fuckin' hook.
[All the other
thugs laugh]
Top Dollar: "I feel like a little worm on a big fucking hook." Well, boy, your mama must be damn proud of you!
Gideon: My livelihood got flushed and went swirling.
Albrecht: That's Tin-tin. One of T-Bird's little helpers. I think you can rule out accidental death.
Torres: Don't any of your street-demons have real grown-up names?