Midnight Express (1978)

Bo Hopkins: Tex

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• [Tex has a large revolver pointed at Billy whom he just recaptured trying to escape] 

  Tex : You seem like a nice enough kid to me, Billy. But you try it and I'll blow your fucking brains out!

• Tex : You decided to fly at a bad time, Billy. They're guerrillas all over the place blowing up planes and all.

  Billy Hayes : It's stupid.

  Tex : Kids don't read the newspapers and that there are people kickin' up a shitstorm about the flow of heroin from Turkey you got.

  Billy Hayes : I didn't have heroin.

  Tex : I'm not up on all that. A drug's a drug, seems to me, Billy.

  Billy Hayes : It was my first time. I'm not really a smuggler. It was only two kilos.

  Tex : You can see right now, it don't really matter, do it, if it was two kilos or if it was two hundred. The Turks love to catch any foreigner. It shows the world they're fighting the drug trade.

  Billy Hayes : Are you with the consulate?

  Tex : Somethin' like that.

• Tex : How much did you pay this joker? This cab driver?

  Billy Hayes : Two hundred dollars. It was my last two hundred.

  Tex : How much did you figure to make?

  Billy Hayes : I was only gonna sell some of it to my friends. I'm not a pusher. Honest.

  Tex : It beats workin'. Do you get a family back home?

  Billy Hayes : Yeah, a mother, father, brother, sister in Babylon, Long Island.

  Tex : It'll be tough on 'em.

• Tex : A girlfriend?

  Billy Hayes : Yeah. She was on the plane.

  [Tex glares at Billy] 

  Billy Hayes : She didn't know anything about it. I didn't want her to.

  Tex : Lucky girl.

  Billy Hayes : Yeah. She used to say I was the lucky one.

  Tex : Well, let's hope so, Billy. I sure as hell hope so.