The Untouchables (1987)

Del Close: Alderman

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• Ness : [Ness has just dismissed the rest of the team from his office]  We have several operations in the works, so we're rather busy, Alderman. What can we do for you?

  Alderman : I came up to congratulate you on a job well done. Share your good fortune on such a lovely day.

  [Drops bribe envelope on the desk] 

  Ness : What's that?

  [shrugs and makes a giggle sound] 

  Ness : What is that.

  Alderman : Mr. Ness, you're an educated man. Let me pay you the compliment of being blunt. There's a large, a large and popular business that you are causing dismay. Why don't you just cross the street and let things take their course.

  Ness : [Summoning the team]  Would you come in here please?

  [as the team enters] 

  Ness : In roman times, when a when a fellow was convicted of trying to bribe a public official, they would cut off his nose, and sew him in a bag with a wild animal, and throw him in a river.

  [picking up the bribe and throwing it at Alderman] 

  Ness : You tell your master that we must agree to disagree!

  Alderman : You're making a mistake.

  Ness : Yeah I know, well I've made them before I'm beginning to enjoy them.

  Alderman : You fellows are untouchable, is that the thing? No one can get to you? Hey, everyone can be gotten to.

  Ness : [speaking over Alderman and throwing him out]  You tell Capone, that I'll see him in hell.