Midnight Express (1978)

Mike Kellin: Mr. Hayes

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• Mr. Hayes : All right, Billy. I know it sounds tough, but - we are going to get you out! I promise you. I don't want you to get stupid and pull anything. They can play with your sentence. All right. Now, I'm putting 500 dollars in the bank. Anything you need, you write. There's food here. There's candy. And there's writing paper. Books. Cigarettes. Soap. Toothbrush.

  [Empties bag onto table, slams it down] 

  Mr. Hayes : I've been writing insurance policies for 30 goddamn years and now I've got to see my own son - Jesus. Jesus! Billy, if I could be where you are... I'd be there.

  Billy Hayes : I love you, Dad.

  [Guards take him away] 

  Mr. Hayes : [to Hamidou]  You take good care of my boy, you hear? Or I'll have your fuckin' head, you Turkish bastard!

• Billy Hayes : Where are you stayin'?

  Mr. Hayes : The Hilton.

  Billy Hayes : How do you like it? Istanbul?

  Mr. Hayes : An interesting place. I tell you the truth I think the food is lousy. The crap they sell in these little restaurants. I had to run to the toilet. You should've seen the toilet. Anyway, I'm not taking any more chances. I'm going to eat at the Hilton, every night, with steak and French fries and lots of ketchup. - - Billy, why did you do it?

  Billy Hayes : Money.

  Mr. Hayes : Look, I know you kids smoke that stuff and we drink booze; but, taking it across the border, that's - that's stupid, Billy. That's stupid!

  Billy Hayes : I know. Dad - get me out of here.