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[Jack looks quite ill as he comes on screen: there are dark circles beneath his eyes, and there's a faint sheen of sweat on his face. He also looks a bit thinner than he did, though no one might actually notice that one. It's not severe, after all.]

Listen, uh, I-- I know you guys don't know me too well, and you got a lotta other stuff on your mind, but, uh, help a guy out, yeah? I ain't had no cigarette in about four days and I'm dyin' for it. Anythin' anybody's got, you know? I promise I'll do somethin' for you in return, I don't give a damn what, but-- anythin'. Please.

Please.

[He tries for a winning sort of smile, rather fails, and shuts the communicator.]

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I've lived life an' I watched them pull all sorts o' crap on people too poor to prevent it.

And where did you live this life?

Are you deaf? New York!

And where else?

Nowhere. What's your point? A whole city o' corrupt cops is enough.

What do you know about statistics, Mr...

Kelly. Jack Kelly. And what do you?

Quite a lot. I know, for example, about statistical significance.

Which means what? English, Ace, English.

I'm speaking English. Just because you don't know the words doesn't make it a foreign language.

It means, Mr. Kelly, that one cannot take data from a limited sample and generalize it to all samples.

That's how life works. I mean, what, if you try an apple and it's shit, you don't carefully sample all the other apples just to make sure they're all shit.

You're using the wrong analogy. Think of it like this: If you bite into an apple and find a worm in it, do you then assume all other apples have worms?

I do if I see everyone else spittin' out their bits. Listen, I ain't whinin' cuz one time they roughed me up a little. I'm sayin' they beat up just about everyone they can, except if they're rich enough to pay em off.

And I'll take you at your word, though I've never known a police officer who was anything less than honest, and they are certainly not involved in these mafia-style protection rackets you're describing. But that doesn't mean that it's anything more than a localized pocket of corruption.

And that's an excuse?

Did I say it was? If I were confronted with such officers, and saw indeed proof of their misdeeds, I should have them ejected from the force at once and charged with misconduct.

How?

What do you mean, "how"? By bringing evidence of what they had done first before a board of review, then before the court.

Who the hell would listen to a kid like you?

A -

[He scowls at once.]

First, I am by no means a "kid." And second, I'm a public prosecutor. I've a position of great authority!

What're you, fifteen?

I'm twenty!

Fourteen?

You're one to speak!

I ain't the one who's fifteen.

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[video] people are afraid of him HE DRIVES A DODGE STRATUS

[video] Look can he finish one goddamn closing statement? Just - just one goddamn -

[video] I just wish he wasn't a liar.

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