Gerry Stanton Quotes in The Guard (2011)

Gerry Stanton: [while Clive Cornell is handing the bent coppers a briefcase of money] It's all there, yeah?

Clive Cornell: Excuse me?

Gerry Stanton: It's all there?

Clive Cornell: No, it's not. I've skimmed a couple of grand off the top.

Gerry Stanton: What?

Clive Cornell: 'Course it's fucking all there. This is the pay-off, yeah? We pay you off, you and your pals keep your fucking noses out of our business. That's the dynamic in this situation. Why the fuck would I then cheat you out your money? Eh? Why would I do that? That doesn't make any sense. That'd defeat the entire purpose of the fucking interaction. Fuck me!

[walks away angrily]

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [interrupting the briefing] I thought only black lads were drug dealers?

FBI agent Wendell Everett: I'm sorry, what?

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I thought only black lads were drug dealers? And Mexicans. What do they call them. They have a word for them.

FBI agent Wendell Everett: Yeah, there's a word for you too, sir. But I'm not gonna go into that right now. Anyway, as I was saying, these men are highly dangerous...

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [blurting out] Mules. Drug mules.

Gerry Stanton: That's enough of your guff now, Boyle. Apologize to the man.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Huh? Apologize for what?

FBI agent Wendell Everett: For your racist slurs, for one thing.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I'm Irish, racism is part of my culture.

Gerry Stanton: You know when you hear tell about someone being liquidated, you know, by the mob, like?

FBI agent Wendell Everett: Mm.

Gerry Stanton: What does that actually mean?

FBI agent Wendell Everett: Means they've been killed. I mean, what else would it mean?

Gerry Stanton: Yeah, I know that. But does it mean they've actually been turned into liquid?

FBI agent Wendell Everett: Heh, heh, heh. Turned into liquid.

[realizing he's serious]

FBI agent Wendell Everett: No. Just killed.

Gerry Stanton: Yeah, I suppose turning someone into liquid would be too time-consuming, huh? Take ages.