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reservoir dogs - mr. orange

57th

Is there anybody here who gave up trying to get out?

No shit? I've been here nearly a year, but I went home once. Seems like most people do. Guess you've just gotten lucky. Or however you wanna see it.

I don't know what's worse, staying here the whole time or going back then leaving again or you know I'm sure somebody out there thinks leaving here's the worst.

I'm gonna go with all of 'em bein' bad in different ways. Personally, I wouldn't mind just stayin' here.

Why's that? I mean, if I can ask.

[Which he does but hell if he knows Jimmy would even answer.]

Well, when you don't feel like you got much but death to go back home to, you ain't too eager to rush towards it, y'know?

Biding your time. Nothing wrong with that.

What about you? I mean, you're askin' the question for a reason, right? Somethin' weighin' on your mind?

Somebody did try to beat up the border. Naw, I'm cool.

Yeah, which is kinda ridiculous, 'cause there was no way beatin' up the border was gonna work.

That's why we call'em coyotes, they know what's what.

[This is a joke, one he's not sure Jimmy's going to get.]

[A pause.]

I must be real stupid, 'cause I don't get it.

Coyotes? You know, Mexico?

Sure, I know Mexico. What, you mean people who're crossin' the border, or what?

They don't just cross the border, it's fucking sophisticated. They slip in and out, no beating on border patrol. Unless you wanna get shot.

[Or shocked in the Carousel's case.]

That how it is in your time? In my time, it's kinda just... people crossin' the border. Although why they'd want to, I got no fuckin' idea. I mean, alcohol's illegal where I come from -- can't imagine why you'd wanna be in the US.

Shit man in my time everyone wants to be an American.

[So he thinks.]

Pussy and gold?

Well, the former I'm pretty sure you can get anywhere, 'n the latter, you ain't gonna get that in America unless you're some kinda corrupt politician.