Jimmy Shubert credited as playing...
Frank Pulaski
- [first lines; Frank Pulaski and Tommy Zimm are manning their tollbooths and conversing]
- Tommy Zimm: So the salesperson says, "Try the cleats." I say, "What do I need cleats for? I work in a tollbooth, for God's sake!"
- Frank Pulaski: They just want their commission.
- Tommy Zimm: Exactly. It's all about volume to them.
- Frank Pulaski: Janet buys all her shoes by mail.
- Tommy Zimm: I don't get it. How do you buy shoes by mail? I have to walk around in them, walk around the block.
- [a car pulls up to Pulaski's tollbooth]
- Frank Pulaski: How are you doing?
- [the driver hands him a ten]
- Frank Pulaski: Out of ten.
- Stewart Babcock: Are you Pulaski?
- Frank Pulaski: Huh?
- Stewart Babcock: Frank Pulaski?
- Frank Pulaski: That's right. Do I know you?
- Stewart Babcock: Just give me my change.
- [Pulaski hands the driver his change, and when his hand is close enough, the driver cuffs his left hand to a rope]
- Frank Pulaski: Hey! What the hell is this?
- Tommy Zimm: What, what happened?
- [the driver starts speeding away]
- Frank Pulaski: Tommy, get it off!
- [Tommy tries so for a few seconds, as the rope extends to maximum length. When the rope has fully become unravelled, it snaps, causing Pulaski to be yanked off his feet and dragged to his death. Tommy Zimm can only watch]