Joseph Gordon-Levitt credited as playing...
Brendan
- Brendan Frye: Throw one at me if you want, hash head. I've got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you.
- Brad Bramish: Hey! What are you doing here?
- Brendan Frye: Just listening.
- [long pause while Brad stares at him]
- Brendan Frye: All right, you got me. I'm a scout for the Gophers. Been watching your game for a month, but that story right there just clenched it. You got heart kid. How soon can you be in Minneapolis?
- Brad Bramish: Yeah?
- Brendan Frye: Cold winters, but they got a great transit system.
- Brad Bramish: Yeah?
- Brendan Frye: Yeah.
- Brad Bramish: Oh, yeah?
- Brendan Frye: There's a thesaurus in the library. Yeah is under "Y". Go ahead, I'll wait.
- Laura: [On the phone with Brendan] Who is this?
- Brendan Frye: I won't waste your time: you don't know me.
- Laura: I know everyone, and I have all the time in the world.
- Brendan Frye: Ah, the folly of youth.
- The Brain: [Last lines] What did she whisper to you?
- Brendan Frye: She called me a dirty word.
- The Brain: All right, you don't have to tell me.
- Brendan Frye: Emily said four words I didn't know. Tell me if they catch. Brick?
- The Brain: No.
- Brendan Frye: Or Bad Brick?
- The Brain: Nope.
- Brendan Frye: Tug?
- The Brain: Tug? Tug might be a drink, like milk and vodka, or something.
- Brendan Frye: Poor Frisco?
- The Brain: Frisco? Frisco Farr was a sophomore last year, real trash. Maybe had a class a week, I didn't know him then, haven't seen him around.
- Brendan Frye: Pin?
- The Brain: Pin. The Pin?
- Brendan Frye: The Pin, yeah?
- The Brain: The Pin is kinda a local spook story, you know, the King Pin.
- Brendan Frye: Yeah, I've heard it.
- The Brain: Same thing, he's supposed to be old, like 26. Lives in town.
- Brendan Frye: Dope runner, right?
- The Brain: Big time. See the Pin pipes it from the lowest scraper for Brad Bramish to sell, maybe. Ask any dope rat where their junk sprang and they'll say they scraped it from that, who scored it from this, who bought it off so, and after four or five connections the list always ends with The Pin. But I bet you, if you got every rat in town together and said "Show your hands" if any of them've actually seen The Pin, you'd get a crowd of full pockets.
- Brendan Frye: You think The Pin's just a tale to take whatever heat?
- The Brain: Hmm... So what's first?
- Brendan Frye: Show of hands.
- Assistant VP Gary Trueman: You've helped this office out before.
- Brendan Frye: No, I gave you Jerr to see him eaten, not to see you fed.
- Assistant VP Gary Trueman: Fine. And very well put.
- Brendan Frye: Accelerated English, Mrs. Kasprzyk.
- Assistant VP Gary Trueman: Tough teacher?
- Brendan Frye: Tough but fair.
- Brendan Frye: Still picking your teeth with freshmen?
- Kara: Well, you were a freshman once.
- Brendan Frye: Way-once, sister.
- Brendan Frye: You got a cigarette?
- Tugger: I don't smoke.
- Brendan Frye: I've seen you smoke.
- Tugger: I don't smoke cigarettes.
- Laura Dannon: You're quite a pill.
- Brendan Frye: Uh-huh.
- Laura Dannon: Where are you going?
- Brendan Frye: Home.
- Laura Dannon: Why did you take a powder the other night?
- Brendan Frye: Same reason I'm taking one now.
- Laura Dannon: Hold it. I wanna help you.
- Brendan Frye: Go away. Look, I can't trust you. You ought to be smart enough to know that. I didn't shake the party up to get your attention, and I'm not heeling you to hook you. Your connections could help me, but the bad baggage they bring would make it zero sum game or even hurt me. I'm better off coming at it clean.
- Laura Dannon: I wouldn't have to lead you in by the ha...
- Brendan Frye: I can't trust you! Brad was a sap. You weren't. You were with him, and so you were playing him. So you're a player. With you behind me I'd have to tie one eye up watching both your hands, and I can't spare it.
- Brendan Frye: Your muscle seemed plenty cool putting his fist in my head. I want him out.
- The Pin: Looky, soldier...
- Brendan Frye: The ape blows or I clam.
- Brendan Frye: Why are you telling me all this? What's your play?
- Laura Dannon: You think nobody sees you. Eating lunch behind the portables. Loving some girl like she's all there is, anywhere, to you. I've always seen you. Or maybe I liked Emily. Maybe I see what you're trying to do for her, trying to help her, and I don't know anybody who would do that for me.
- Brendan Frye: Now you are dangerous.
- The Pin: You read Tolkien?
- Brendan Frye: What?
- The Pin: You know, the Hobbit books?
- Brendan Frye: Yeah.
- The Pin: His descriptions of things are really good. He makes you wanna be there.
- Emily: [over the phone] I screwed up real bad, you know?
- Brendan Frye: Screwed up how?
- Emily: Look, I did what she said with the brick. I didn't know it was bad, but The Pin's on it now for poor Frisco, and they're playing it all on me.
- Brendan Frye: Slow down, now. What?
- Emily: You gotta help me Brendan, please. I think Tug...
- Emily: Oh no!
- [she hangs up, then car speeds past Brendan]
- Brendan Frye: Who's she been eating with?
- The Brain: I don't know. That's, um, that's hard to keep track of.
- Brendan Frye: Is it?
- The Brain: It can be - it can be hard to keep track of those things because lunch - lunch is a lot of things, lunch is difficult.
- [first lines]
- [Brendan answers the pay phone]
- Emily: Brendan.
- Brendan Frye: Emily.
- Emily: Yeah-h... How's things?
- Brendan Frye: Status quo.
- Brendan Frye: You gotta come back to me, Em.
- Emily: No!
- Brendan Frye: You're in a spot, but I can get you out of it if you just come back to me.
- Emily: No you're not hearing me! I don't want to be put away and protected.
- Brendan Frye: Whatever befalls you I'll deal with. Just tell me about the trouble with the brick, the pin.
- Brendan Frye: No, bulls would gum it. They'd flash their dusty standards at the wide-eyes and probably find some yegg to pin, probably even the right one. But they'd trample the real tracks and scare the real players back into their holes, and if we're doing this I want the whole story. No cops, not for a bit.