Ransom (1996)

Delroy Lindo: Agent Lonnie Hawkins

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• Tom Mullen : Why would they ever let my son go, no matter what I do? I mean, no matter what I do... pay, don't pay, comply, tell him to go fuck himself - why would they give him back? I mean, he's a witness any way you cut it. It's all bullshit, it's all just... seven out of ten.

  Kate Mullen : What are you saying?

  Tom Mullen : All right: Morlock Man gets his money, I don't think we'll ever see Sean again. That's if he's still alive to begin with.

  Agent Lonnie Hawkins : Whoa, now. Are you talking about not paying?

  Kate Mullen : No! No, we pay him!

  Tom Mullen : Now wait a minute. Listen to me... Morlock man says the pickup guy will give me an address for Sean. I get there, the guy sticks a gun in my face. I said, "You want the money, now give me the address? Where's the address?" You should've seen his face. He had no, absolutely NO idea what I was talking about. None!

  Agent Lonnie Hawkins : Okay...

  Tom Mullen : This is not business to him. This is very personal.

  Agent Lonnie Hawkins : I tell you that everybody pays, and we get back 7 out of 10.

  Tom Mullen : If we give him what he wants, he will kill Sean!

  Agent Lonnie Hawkins : Tom, you've got to play the odds, man. I've been doing this for eighteen years, and if I were a betting man, I would bet on the people who pay every time, out of the gate.

  Tom Mullen : Did you bet on the ones where you got back a corpse?

• Agent Lonnie Hawkins : [as the phone rings, Tom tries to answer but Lonnie holds his hands on the ringing phone as he instructs him]  Any demands that come up, now you just agree. You let him know he's in charge. Your only priority is getting your boy back. Get your boy back. You follow me? Now you gotta give me some time, Mr. Mullen. You have to speak to your son, ask for some sign that he's alive. Any information you can get. And tell him he has an allergy, he has some medical condition, you want to know what kind of weather he's in, is he indoors, is he outdoors?

  [to underlings] 

  Agent Lonnie Hawkins : Are we set?