Chief Elton Tremmel Quotes in Dead Bang (1989)

Jerry Beck: [under sign saying: NIGGER! If you don't live here - don't be here past sundown] Cute sign, chief.

Chief Elton Tremmel: Yeah, fuckin' ACLU. Commie Jew bastards made us take it down. Used to be out front. Don't make no difference. Ain't no nigger gonna stay in this town after sundown. Oh, by the way, I briefed my boys. No sign of a maroon Ford wagon so far. Are you cold?

Jerry Beck: Does it show?

Chief Elton Tremmel: Yeah, blue lips'll give you away every time. You California boys have got it too easy. All that sunshine and pussy thins the blood.

Jerry Beck: Yeah, that's us. Land of milk and honey. Morning briefings on the beach. And every once in a while some asshole kills a cop and everybody gets pissed off. No more beach, no more sunshine and pussy until the guy's caught. Yeah, we draw straws out of our Banana Daiquiris. Which is why I'm here, chief.

[smiles]

Jerry Beck: Short straw.