:11:03
Bumpy...
:11:05
Bumpy says to bring you uptown.
:11:08
Did he tell you to mess me up?
:11:12
I was to bring you.
:11:19
It doesn't make sense.
:11:20
You arrive at your office.
You have a sick friend with you.
:11:23
Suddenly, another man you don't know
rushes up and a fight starts.
:11:26
Your sick friend goes out the window.
Why, Mr. Shaft?
:11:30
Ask the man who started the fight,
Mr. Leibowitz.
:11:33
Your friend, the only name
you know him by is "Tex"?
:11:36
- No last name?
- That's right.
:11:38
I don't buy that, Shaft.
:11:39
I think you know more than that.
Why the fight started, for instance.
:11:43
What you think and what you can prove
are two different bags.
:11:50
All your friends walk around
with weapons like that?
:11:53
That depends.
:11:55
My Negro friends don't walk around
with rabbits' feet no more.
:11:58
Don't get wise with me.
There's a simple way for me to go.
:12:01
- I'll put your goddamn ass in!
- I'll sue your goddamn ass for false arrest.
:12:05
You want me to believe the man fell out
the way you said he did?
:12:08
- What do I look like? Some kind of klutz?
- Don't ask, and I won't tell you.
:12:12
You're licensed by the city and the state.
:12:14
No one licensed can afford to be a wise ass
where a felony case is involved.
:12:18
Are you suggesting I'd lose my license?
:12:20
You are damn right I am!
You better believe it and level with me!
:12:24
Threatening my livelihood is a violation
of my rights, isn't it?
:12:31
Byron...
:12:36
Let me have a talk with him in private.
:12:40
You got an assailant to interview.
:12:42
Start that and I'll join after we talk.
:12:44
I think you are b.s. -ing me, too.
This thing stinks.