Moses Gunn credited as playing...
Bumpy Jonas
- Bumpy Jonas: [answering his phone] Wrong Number.
- John Shaft: Don't bull me, man. I got the right number. This is Shaft.
- Bumpy Jonas: How'd the hell you get this number?
- John Shaft: Off a bathroom wall in the god damn subway!
- Ben Buford: A lot of hyped-up black people give you that money you're spendin', pimp!
- Bumpy Jonas: Don't you try to bullshit me, boy. We're all on the hustle. I sell broads and dope and numbers. You sell crap and blue sky. It's all the same game.
- Bumpy Jonas: My baby never sold nothin' to nobody, never took nothin' from nobody. She's a straight kid. She's going to college.
- John Shaft: This is Ben Buford. Your little caper cost him five friends last night.
- Ben Buford: We're gonna take it out of your ass, Pimp!
- Bumpy Jonas: You're pushing me a little far.
- Bumpy Jonas: Set a price.
- Ben Buford: Ten thousand dollars a head. That's what honky's government pays a cat in the army for insurance. Ten grand a man. That's our price!
- Bumpy Jonas: Alright.
- Ben Buford: You tellin' me you're willing to lay out that kind of bread for Marcy? Don't jive me man.
- Bumpy Jonas: Can always get more money. I only got one baby.
- John Shaft: I thought the money didn't matter to you. Just getting your baby back.
- Bumpy Jonas: Money ALWAYS matters...
- Ben Buford: You grabbed a dope hustler up here from the Mafia. You made yourself some big bread. Now the Mafia cats wanna move in on ya.
- Bumpy Jonas: So what?
- John Shaft: The police got a whole unit that does that kind of work - free.
- Bumpy Jonas: Not for me. You know I can't go to the cops.
- John Shaft: And you want me, huh? A spade detective.
- Bumpy Jonas: Yeah, I want you. Cause you're a black spade detective. And I want you 'cause you got you're other foot in Whitey's straw.