The Hit Man (1983)

but he do you happen to have an aspirin sorry oh no it's closed yep what kind of an airport is this a very small one well I love these late flights the least I can do is obvious some coffee they're not even offering the late flight what are you talking about look out the window but can't see anything except the fog all flights are grounded you didn't hear the announcement no is that what they were mumbling you know I can never understand those clouds so how long is it away till the fog lifts could be all night all night well in that case the bar is open okay could that possibly be brandy well let's scotch twenty-one-year-old scotch well I guess I'll have to make do hi Joe Reilly Harriet Peter gosh hi Joe Radek Oh now we all grab a that flight to Chicago uh-huh well here's a toast to Chicago and believing this birth defect what do you have against this fair city oh it was a dry well for me I'm a reporter for a wire service what do you do I teach high school college I'm an ethics professor that's a nice cut and dried subject what do they learn mostly they hate that's a exam but I like you too I do honest work oh let me see you're a brain surgeon now bigger than that now the shoe salesman we made a lot of people with no brains but never with no shoes well women all gust body such as this and a bottle of 21-year old scotch you ought to be able to solve half the problems of the universe and what do you do or living and kill people you kill people I mean a hitman okay bang bang you're dead oh it's done depends results the same happening say you want a job right now might say that yeah go on somewhere professor yeah I'm not gonna listen to any more of it don't feel like the company here that's right why don't you take a walk a peasant are you threatening me why would I threaten you hey professor come on take it easy may be threatening all of us what motivates a man like you why do you kill a job and the other job do it's the money you enjoy it not really somebody has to do it eight thousand years of civilization look how far we'd come it still produced primitives like that another one owes yes huh come on guys sitting right over there and you're talking as if he's a laboratory rat or something well does that bother you and I talk about you as though you were a laboratory rat or something hey that professor it's kind of high so apologize to me Riley I just don't like fraternizing with murderers I don't like fraternizing with the hypocrite in one profession what do you got a death wish look that was crazy with like ice true professional wouldn't you say when your professor will say one thing for you're probably good at your job you got it all planned out having to you know exactly how and when you're gonna do it minute are we I mean am i on your list oh ha ha ha I'll drink to that drinking to another man's death no I'm not I'm just drinking till killings all right as long as you're not the one who's getting in this person you're gonna kill what's he done this is mother did he kill anybody what are you driving I'm just trying to figure out how the system works the most paid killers work for the mom they have their own set of laws the law of the jungle an eye for an eye surely you're not condoning this I don't condone it I don't condemn as I just reported but who decides who does I mean where's the responsibility hey why is everybody getting so upset around here haven't you been listening but is your world end when you get above the laterz well wait a minute don't put him on my back why not he's gonna kill somebody tomorrow and you shrug it off because it isn't you and you say maybe the victim has it coming doesn't either one of you have a a little bit of a problem with that yeah I got a problem with that I also got a house payment I can't make I got a kid who's on drugs I need some root canal work I got a lot of problems you want to guess where he fits on my list no bleep hood no wait a minute wait a minute mr. Ellison I am NOT trying to reform the world I'm just trying to cope ok and if this guy decides to blow somebody away there there's nothing I can do if I except read a Luard account of it in the papers so much for the sanctity of human life every great philosopher as well as each one of the world's great religion says that human life no matter what its form is sacred Saint or demon every human being has the right to life and nobody has the right to take it away violin music please turn the other cheek love your enemy each killing each act of violence becomes the motive for the next one how do we break the chain maybe you don't maybe you just duck when violence comes your way you're very cynical I'm just a realist I have no love for that character either he's not the one you go after it's the people who hire him I wondered when you're gonna get her under that who does hire you you don't have to name names I don't mind naming names who that you me all of you work for the government state prison I'm an executioner Oh how about that I had a feeling you weren't such a bad guy I told us that in the beginning George I killed people you presumed I was a murderer what was the point in stringing us along should I tell people what I do straight out they treat me like poison who says you're not the state citizens of the state you not me honey come on lighten up but he's on our side beat yourself wait a minute are you against capital punishment that's right I don't accept five months ago killing didn't seem to bother you that much I was simply acknowledging the reality of the world about me now we're talking about the state for deliverance by executing the criminal the state is sanctioning premeditated killing punishing the crime by committing it the state should be above revenge well I guess I can go along with that at least you and the professor I got something you can agree on not on that know what revenge isn't necessarily involved at all justice is wait a minute are you for capital punishment under certain conditions what the hell is going on here what conditions I'd rather not discuss it what schematic professor I thought you were such a believer in the sanctity of human life now you are an eye for an eye which is it I could ask you the same question I've already answered it you've said that you can accept slaughter in the streets but not formal execution based on due process I think you've slipped a cog in there maybe you just hate lady reporters mother's virginal I think you're inconsistent and irrational I think it is personal but not with me with you you're an analyst to just explain your little flip-flop it's very simple there are certain crimes for which one forfeits the right to live and he use your words who decides what those crimes are you need Riley or maybe our execution of friends is about what the courts are supposed to decide it's still people judging people yeah but they got the jurisdiction they're the experts right let's just drop it I don't want to drop it how many people do you have on death row right now whoa any blacks seven Latinos three white - and how many of them are wealthy or even middle-income zero and that's my point no matter what crime you think someone should die for the only people who will be convicted on the ones who can't afford a good lawyer what about all the murders that don't take place just because there's capital punishment you actually believe capital punishment is a deterrent a potential murderer I think it's only logical let me see now before I kill this guy I better look it up with the law books and see just what the penalty is oh my capital punishment well maybe I'll just kick his teeth in instead is that what you're trying to tell me you're oversimplifying I am trying to show you that most murders are committed in the heat of the moment would want a thought of the consequences so therefore deterrence doesn't even apply there's capital punishment deters just one murder it does apply and if it kills just one innocent person it should be banned we're right back where we started I'm certain the facts are going to prove I'm right all the evidence I've seen doesn't point your way Japan which has no capital punishment and a much denser population has about one ninth the homicides of the United States what does that mean we are all aware colonna's what do you think there's a deterrent there's some capital punishment the prison system that's the way it is it should be I absolutely agree with you we create more criminals than we were formed but even if we made all the necessary changes in the system the professor here would still opt for capital punishment and I want to know why why can't we just leave this whole thing alone O'Reilly you know how reporters are snoop snoop snoop what do you say professor what does it cost to keep a lifer in prison twenty thousand dollars a year okay so we give them out a life sentence and keep him in jail say 40 years we're talking about a minimum of eight hundred thousand dollars yeah and that's my tax money right well that's not the worst of it you take that same criminal put him on death row and keep them there until all his Appeals run out add up for court costs and you spent as much and say two years as you would have spent in 40 I wonder how many starving children that money might feed so you're saying it costs us more to kill them than to keep them even if he stays for life but he doesn't ten years later he's out on parole we got a deal with him all over again not if he's rehabilitated but you just got through reminding us that they come out worse than they were when they went in all right you're saying it's lifers really got life you'd be against capital punishment I don't know no I wouldn't why not professor deterrence isn't the reason money isn't the reason none of those logical things I said I don't want to get into it why not you Fredo so how biased you are just how unqualified you are to teach [Music] two years ago my wife and I would we just recently been married both of us for the first time been unusual in our age huh we were we were driving north through Big Sur we hadn't eaten and we decided to have a picnic so we we stopped to buy this sandwich makings got in an argument about what to drink I thought the occasion called the champagne but janitor know that costs too much can you imagine our combined income had to be over $50,000 a year here we were arguing about a twelve dollar bottle of champagne was it Clark take Park redwood do [Music] found a secluded little spot I opened the wine with you won the argument we were two lovers together and a man in a Victorian but he was optimist Sanders he took her hand and jetsam to let go wouldn't she scream I hit him let go of her he was on me like like like a wild animal young twenty years younger than I it was no match well Janet screamed he pounded me into a bloody pulp I thought he was gonna kill me but somehow she she and a being must be sitting with something [Music] depending on her phrase that is way with finally he beat her into unconsciousness went away quickly [Music] the local park ranger found us eventually I spent a week in the hospital what about your wife Good Wife several weeks ago Janet could could see yourself dress yourself even walk let's it doesn't speak recognize me every weekend that is it aery every weekend's the same your lies will they face to the wall Itachi cries she'd never respond [Music] what happened to the guy yes the guy he was arrested two months later for raping three elementary school children there's their trial oh yes and a conviction there's enough in a state hospital for the criminally insane I trust that pending to all his needs so yes I have let my emotions get into it but would you please tell me if you're a human being how do you keep their emotions out of it professor I'm sorry what for is that your job I had no right to pry why should that stop you question is have you gone far enough aren't you curious whether I'm just trying to cover up my own guilt no of course you are could I stop them tonight fight back hard enough what bothers me most is crime or my conscience come on Peters go for it Riley was right let's drop it oh no you wouldn't let me off the hook now let's check out your little faults maybe you don't have any I'm ashamed for having put you through this I can be persistent to a fault all I can ask now is that you please please accept my apology all right and I have to admit to you that if what happened to your wife has happened to me I honestly don't know that I could disagree with you on this whole issue I feel the same way right both of you saying you'd throw the switch I would I guess I'm saying that I would have to think about it think about it now because I've got to decide now what I'm gonna do this time I'm not gonna do it alone I want you to decide I want you to vote you're asking us to take responsibility for what you do no asking you to take responsibility for what I do in your name I pull the switch you're the executioners you don't have to pull that switch oh you're right I don't you vote no I don't get on that plane the one will happen that just call it another execution it won't it maybe maybe not and you're laying a real heavy trip on us I'm not sure I want to deal with it that way shouldn't you I'm trying to bein treated like a leper when all I do is what the law tells me to do people like you living your lives as though you had clean hands I'll think about it that your cop-out Tara sharing your burden confusion and guilt turtle stab headaches what every time just before I'm gonna do it I can see in my mind what it's gonna be like I created for the black it up I get these great clubbing headaches like my head and I explode this guy you gotta kill what he do what he did he did helpless old people wasn't just rape either murder torture create a guy like this you need experts this guy had him his parents both of them beat on him since before I could walk stick him in a closet I shot him up sometimes for days even except fire to once oh when did the kid should turn out to be a human time bomb nowhere along the line did he get a chance for any help so now they're callin on me to fix him permanently and have you ever see an execution it goes like this [Music] probably come in kicking and screaming but no problem they four guides they'll get them into the share every so much tension to his muscles they'll let the poor sit into the sitting position listen witness scrappers ankles and his wrists the greasy leather belt around his waist the metal comes down over his head he's ever going to get religion it just start paying his pants off now because there's a minute and a half to go you can tell the overhead fan goes on pent-up smell burning flesh worked very well and the hood comes out of the Christmas head I go to the control panel [Music] warden gives me the nod man gets 2,000 folks first Georgia size approach second one first the third is brain and supporting [Music] we don't want to take any chances today just might not be reformed yet so we shed him a fourth time for good measure our plane takes about two minutes but two years it's over the doctor gives the thing and a man anymore quick check pronounces it dead passengers on his Airways flight 196 to Chicago please proceed to the departing gate for check-in and boarding AC airways bike 196 for chicago now checking in this is your first boarding call thank you time to vote I've got to get on that plane yet man's life in your hands I'll make it easy on you secret dot yes I got on that plane [Music] no I don't [Music] three votes majority rules I still don't see what this is going to prove gonna prove that you can't wash your hands of this thing come on there's been a lot of talk about elevating ourselves out of that jungle an eye for an eye breaking the chain of command the chain of violence which is it folks vote [Music] 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