Nicholas "Nick" Hume Quotes in Death Sentence (2007)

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: Where are you, you bastard?

Billy Darly: You want to send me a reward for finding that wallet of yours?

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: You tell me where the fuck you are, right now!

Billy Darly: No, I'll tell you where the fuck you are. You're in my end of the fucking sewer, buddy. I say who lives. I say who dies. Now you better get that through your fucking skull, because there's no more warnings. I'm coming for some fucking family time.

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: No. You listen to me. You go near my family, and I will cut out your goddamn guts like I did your fucking friend. Do you hear me?

Billy Darly: He wasn't my friend. He was my brother. And now I'm coming for the rest of your family. You just bought them a death sentence, motherfucker.

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: [to Billy] Ready?

Bones Darly: [after Nick chooses his guns] That's three fucking grand worth of killing. You got three grand worth of killing to do?

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: [throwing down bundles of money] There's five.

Bones Darly: Well, that makes you a preferred customer.

Bones Darly: [cocking a pistol] You the motherfucker after my son Billy?

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: [shocked] He's your son?

Bones Darly: That'd make you the motherfucker who killed Joe. That right? You killed my youngest? Now you're after Billy, yeah?

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: Yeah. I'm after him.

Bones Darly: Well, Billy's no damn doing of mine. Anything he didn't no damn doing of mine. So, somebody needs to make somebody pay for something to make themselves feel better. Billy'd be the one to pay. Kill the little piss-pants. See if it makes a damn day's difference to me. Dad to dad, don't tell me about it. Just... go do it. Lord knows I've been patient, and you're a cash fucking customer. But you think about asking me where Billy is... I'll kill ya. Go your way now.

[Nick starts to leave]

Bones Darly: Go with God... And a bag full of guns.

Bodie: Nice office, motherfucker.

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: What the hell do you want?

[hands Nick a wrapped package]

Bodie: That's the gift of freedom, baby.

Armed Guard: Sir, should we escort the person out? Sir?

Bodie: Free from wondering how you gonna die now. You're free from wondering if you're gonna die alone, you hear?

Armed Guard: [to guards] Get him out of here.

Bodie: 'Cause you'll get joy and grace all over... when you finally meet your maker.

Owen: How are you guys faring? Getting through?

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: Yeah, we're okay. We find compensations. That's what we do, right? We compensate for our losses. Move on.

Owen: If anything like that ever happened to me I just, I don't know. I think I'd snap.

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: Well, you don't really know what you'd do until it happens. Surprise yourself.

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: It was never gonna balance.

Detective Wallis: What did you say?

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: The equation. Sometimes it's... just chaos. That's all there is.

Michael Barring: Today's easy. I need you to sit there, put the fear of god in this guy. If the judge asks you, you tell him what you told us and identify Darley in court. Okay? The minute I get your statement, and with you sitting right there, the public defender's going to wet his pants and fold. I'll make a deal in five minutes, get this guy in jail today. Easy peasy.

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: Deal? Wait, wait. Hang on - what do you mean? What deal? I want this guy to go away for the rest of his life.

Michael Barring: No. I can get you three to five guaranteed. That's a very decent result. I'm talking guaranteed time. Not maybe, not the jury didn't feel up to it. That's worth more than chasing some make-believe ten to life, and the guy walks free. You want that?

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: He killed my son.

Michael Barring: Mr. Hume, I've got one eyewitness - you. That's nice, but do you know how many cases with one witness I don't even bother to try for a deal on? The machete magically disappeared. The only blood we could find on that weasel was his own from when the car clipped him. And you picked the only gas station in America without a working surveillance camera. We've just got your word. That's not bad, if I can scare the guy into a deal.

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: You're using my son's death like some kind of card trick.

Michael Barring: Look - I get a banger off the street. A year or so, somebody does my job for me. He doesn't get out of there alive - fine with me. He finds Jesus - fine with me. But we get religion and go to trial - as much as I'd love to - and the defense starts working on "when was your last eye exam?" and "what do you have against inner city youth?" And how unfair it is for them to grow up so violent. How they're forced into initiation killings or face execution themselves. Do you want a jury feeling sorry for this fucker? Huh?

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: Wait. You said initiation killing. I thought this was a robbery.

Detective Wallis: It only looked like one. It was an initiation. You kill someone at random to get made in a gang. It's the price of admission.

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: Are you saying that Brendan was killed so that some asshole could feel more like a man? So that he could be in some club?

Michael Barring: This is a take it or leave it thing, I'm sorry to say.

Bones Darly: Help you?

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: I need guns.

Bones Darly: I don't know you.

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: I came from the Four Roses.

Bones Darly: I'm gonna guess. You're a little far from home.

[Nick shows Bones a backpack full of money]

Bones Darly: [changing his tone] Well, don't let me smell fear on you. Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets. Lost of fucking bullets.

Heco: Billy! That fucker didn't die Billy! That fucker didn't die!

Billy Darly: What the fuck are you talking about?

Heco: He said you're sentenced.

Billy Darly: So what?

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: So this, motherfucker.

Owen: What's that "order in the universe" thing?

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: Well, our insurer spent 300,000 bucks on this new model - new field data, new society. Who is the ideal employee? Who dies how and when? And they sent it over to show what a great job they're doing. And you know what it says? It says that people with kids live longer than people with no kids. People with two live longer than people with one. Smoking is bad. Speeding is bad. Deaths in the family are bad. Divorce is bad. It's just kind of nice to see that all that junk is still true.

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: Hey, Lukey. Can you hear me? Can you move your fingers? Son, just move your fingers if you can hear me?

[Luke's hand remains motionless]

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: Luke, I know that um, that you think that I didn't care about you as much as your brother. And god, I don't know. Maybe I didn't at first. You know, when your mom and I first had Brendan, he was just - he was so amazing to me, you know. He was like this miracle, and I always knew exactly what to expect with him. And then when you came along, I don't know, I kind of expected to have another Brendan, you know. I expected you to be just like him but, but you weren't. I mean, you were so different than anyone. Different than me. You're just so much more... so much more like your mom. You know, stubborn and... too much passion. Your mother - oh, she meant the world to me... and so do you. I just want you to know that I love you. I love you so much. I love your brother, and I love your mother. I love our family and I... and I'm so sorry that I wasn't a better father. I'm so sorry that I couldn't protect you guys.

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: I'm looking for Billy Darley or any of his friends.

[Sammy speaks in Spanish, and so Nick throws down some money]

Sammy: [in Spanish] I said I don't speak English, you son of a bitch. Got it now, boss?

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: [in Spanish] Maybe if I chop off that piece of shit you call a head... and sent it to your mother, she'd recognize you. But I doubt it, boss.

Helen Hume: I can't believe I didn't see what was going on with you. How could you do what you did? You thought you could... balance the equation... put order in the universe.

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: I lost our boy. Your boy.

Helen Hume: You are a good father, and nothing that's happened changes that. And I love you. And I always will.

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: Where are you going?

Brendan Hume: I need my fluids, dad.

Detective Wallis: The guy we thought killed your son; somebody killed him.

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: [trying to act normal] Oh. What was that, some kind of gang thing?

Detective Wallis: We think so. Thought you'd like to know. If he was the guy, I mean.

[first lines]

Nicholas "Nick" Hume: [while recording his family at Christmas] Okay, guys. Ready?