- [opening title card]
- Title Card: SYDNEY, January 26th. 1988: Bicentennial celebrations spark 'The Rocks Riot', 51 die / TAHITI, December 3rd. 1988: Mururoa Atoll destroyed by Nuclear accident. Pacific fishing ground polluted / CAPETOWN, April 1st. 1989: The great white massacre, 103,000 die. Gold & diamond exports cease / NEW YORK, June 10th. 1990: The second Wall St. crash. World economic crisis spreads / Inflation, shortages, unemployment, crime wave / Government invokes emergency powers
- Frank: [holding the punching bag steady for Crabs] Fuckin' West Indies done us again.
- Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini: Yeah, I heard.
- Frank: Do you want a beer?
- Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini: Nuh, I gotta finish me workout!
- Frank: Won't do you any good, mate. I'm not taking you on the truck and that's it. You're not big enough.
- [pushes the bag into Crabs and leaves]
- Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini: [sarcastically] Well, thanks, Frank.
- [after a large number of Asian immigrants have been brought into the drive-in]
- Carmen: I don't like being out there with them around.
- Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini: Who's them?
- Carmen: Fifty million Asians out there.
- Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini: [chuckles] Why be scared of them?
- Carmen: They could rape me, or anything.
- Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini: Nah!
- Carmen: Yes, they could! If you were a man, you'd do something about it.
- Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini: Listen: they're not the enemy. They're prisoners, just like us!
- Carmen: Yeah, well something oughta be done.
- Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini: Yeah? Like what?
- Carmen: Well, I dunno! They should limit how many can come here.
- Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini: [chuckles] You've really been conned, haven't ya? Limit the numbers and everything will be great. Jesus, have a look around! This is a slum! Even with only a few people, it'd still be a slum.
- Carmen: Well, it doesn't have to be.
- Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini: What? Huh, you reckon we should all sit around playing happy families, do ya? Everything in its place. Men down the gents drinking beer, girls in the ladies getting their hair done! People can't have a life in here. All they can have is a-a heap o' shit movies and a gutful of poisonous hamburger!
- [knocks Carmen's burger off the table]
- Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini: I'll tell ya where bloody life is. Out there...
- Carmen: Well, not for people like us.
- Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini: Hey, hey, hey!
- [caresses her cheek]
- Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini: Come with me. Please.
- Carmen: God, Jimmy, can't you see? This is all we've got!
- Carmen: [pulls away from her] Yeah! Huh... yeah. I can see. That's just the trouble.
- [walks away]
- Carmen: Hey! You won't get far without these.
- [Carmen tosses Crabs the keys to their car. She cries silently as he leaves]