Brubaker (1980)

Yaphet Kotto: Richard 'Dickie' Coombes

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• Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : What you gon' do about Abraham?

  Henry Brubaker : I've got Purcell filling out forms in triplicate, and I'm going to get him released just as soon as I-

  Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : Now why do you wanna go and do that?

  Henry Brubaker : Do what?

  Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : Look, why don't you just leave him be. I mean, all he knows is this place.

  Henry Brubaker : You - You knew that he had been in here as long as he'd been in here.

  Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : Just leave him alone. He's not- He's not botherin' nobody here.

  Henry Brubaker : Hey... You can't hide in prison forever, Coombes.

• [last lines] 

  Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : Brubaker, I'm getting ready to tell you something. You were right.

• Huey Rauch : Sanitation detail. You too, Bullen!

  Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : Now, wait a minute. This man's hurt.

  Huey Rauch : You just deal with colored - I'll take care of the white folks. 'Sides, I don't think Bullen's got much more'n refried shit for brains this morning.

• Henry Brubaker : Mess with me now; you're gonna regret it later.

  Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : We don't work this thing out fast, mister, you're not gonna be around later.

  Henry Brubaker : Do you want ID?

  Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : Listen, man. All I have to do is raise my right hand and that tower guard's gonna blow you out.

  Henry Brubaker : ...or you can continue walking with me, like the smart escort I figure you to be.

• Henry Brubaker : Tower number 3 - who'm I looking at? He's looking at me.

  Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : Up there, you got Douglass Mizell.

  Henry Brubaker : Who the hell is Doug Mizell?

  Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : He's a forger. Three times grand theft.

  Henry Brubaker : I want a rundown on everybody that's got tower duty. I-

  Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : I do believe that's Purcell's job, sir.

  Henry Brubaker : I want only murderers up there; one-time impulse killers.

  Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : Well, aren't you taking kind of a chance doing that? Aren't you? I mean, uh...

  Henry Brubaker : No, it's the habituals you can't trust. Murderers - most of 'em - already have it out of their system. Guys like you, right?

  Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : [laughs]  There's nobody around here like me.

• Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : I don't get men like you, you're all dangerous men. You start wars and you let other people fight them, you come in and say 'do this, do that, think this way, walk this way', you put a sign in some fool's hand and say 'follow me around I've got the whole thing figured out, so you can change things for the better! Well that's a lot of bullshit! There's only one thing you do - that's get people killed!

• Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : Hey, Brubaker, you know something? That's the first time I've heard those guys laugh in fifteen years!

  Henry Brubaker : It doesn't bother you, does it?

• Henry Brubaker : You're not eating?

  Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : I don't eat that shit you're eating.

  Henry Brubaker : Do you know anything about nutrition?

  Richard 'Dickie' Coombes : I know about hungry.