White Elephant

— Let me bless you with information that might save your life. They're never gonna trust you here. To people like Arnold Solomon, you're just another fucking beaner. Just when you need them the most, they'll throw you under the bus because they don't like you. ¿Entiendes?
— [Speaks Spanish]

— Do you know much about the ancient Greeks, Gabe?
— Well, they valued their Liberty highly. The Greeks encouraged a kind of self-reliant individualism. There were no laws to speak of, so police weren't necessary.
— Sounds like my kind of place.

Actually, they had various methods to determine guilt. One of them involved rounding up 12 suspects. And a judge would give each of those suspects a stick 6 inches long, but he would tell them that the thief's stick would grow an extra inch by the next morning. Invariably, the guilty party would chew off one inch of his stick, and then the next morning he would be there holding a 5-inch admission of guilt stick in his hand. The point is, for the 30-something year that I've been a defense attorney, I have learned one irrefutable truth, and that is criminals are their own worst enemy.

— Does your wife ever ask about your job?
— It's easy to lie to someone who trusts you. Half truths aren't lies.
— You keep telling yourself that.

— So your ancient Greeks don't believe in an eye for an eye, huh?
— Well, actually, they called it necessary reciprocity. When odysseus returned to ithaca after the trojan war and found that his wife Penelope
had been unfaithful, he murdered all 108 of her noble suitors, and then he slaughtered and mutilated his own servants for allowing the indiscretions to happen.
— Sounds like a man who brought his war home with him then.
— He did indeed. And everyone paid the price.

— What are you two rambling on about?
— That youth is wasted on the young.
— And unfortunate that experience is wasted on those who don't take time to enjoy life.

— You got booby traps?
— I've got guns.
— That's all?
— A lot of guns.
— And I know how to use them. Plus, those guys are coming to me. Got home field advantage. I've killed people for a lot less.
— Yeah. You have, haven't you?
— Yes, I have. Let's get ready for our guests, shall we?

She wanted me out of this life. Get away, escape to Africa. Put my experience to good use, protect the elephants. Fight the good fight.

— I'm going to hunt you down.
— Don't make promises you can't keep, okay?

— If things go south, and they will, lock the door and lay in the tub.
— Hiding is not my style.
— Sometimes it's a difference between living and dying.

— I sleep soundly knowing I put away the bad guys.
— Well, I guess there's no softer pillow than a clear conscience.

— The guy we're waiting for, how good is he?
— He thinks he's as good as I am. He is younger.
— Not very reassuring.
— Yeah, well, it wasn't meant to be.

Hey, carlito. Excuse the search. I got, uh, trust issues. I don't even trust myself.

— I believe in the law, Gabriel.
— I guess that's why you're a better person than me.