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Deep Cover
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CastLaurence Fishburne, Charles Martin Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Clarence Williams III
Year released1992
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Man smoking crack pipe (0:00)
John Hull, narrating: "... My father was a junkie."
His father, insufflating a drug, tells John, “Don’t you never do this shit... Don’t you never do this shit...”
”... don’t you never do this shit...”
John: ”My father, when I saw him die...” (0:02)
DEA Agent Gerry Carver answers John, "Buy drugs, sell drugs..."
”He’s a drug dealer... You’ll be on loan to the DEA...”
John: ”... drugs and stuff. I’ve never even had a drink...”
Carver: ”... your father was killed...”
”... ever taken a look at your psychological profile?... insufficiently developed sense of self... Look at all the rage... repressed violence...” (0:05)
Carver: "Okay, if you want to get anywhere in drug enforcement, you do not bother with street dealers... 40% of all the drugs in Los Angeles..." (0:08)
Drugs (0:11)
John: "Eddie... He supplied the street dealers. He was a crazy... got his dope by way of Felix Barbosa..." (0:11)
The bartender tells John, referring to Eddie, "... He should stay off that crack." (0:13)
Man smoking crack pipe
Eddie smokes a crack pipe then shares it with a woman. (0:14)
His boss Felix Barosa tells attorney David Jason, "... Don’t worry, David..." (0:17)
Police detective Taft tells John, "... I’m like a mad dog..." (0:24)
Jason tells Judge Aricot, "... the police toxicology report... substance seized from my client..." (0:26)
Jason tells John, "... don’t worry..." (0:27)
Barbosa strikes Eddie’s leg, then his head, with a pool cue. (0:30)
John tells Jason, "Coke is dead..."
Jason: ”Oh, you’re so smart...”
Jason: ”... You know anything about designer drugs?”
John: ”What, ice and ecstasy and tar?”
Jason: ”... there’s a limited market for Parkinson’s disease, but what about a substance... better than you ever did it straight?”
John: ”... like a dream.”
Jason: ”In dreams begin responsibilities.”
John handles bags of drug.
John: ”... your wonder drug...” (0:32)
Carver tells John, "You’re a drug dealer. Deal drugs." (0:34)
John prepares drug. (0:34)
John: "... Here I was selling drugs..." (0:35)
John packages drug. (0:35)
John tells a woman, "... You either use or you sell..."
Woman: ”How am I supposed to use...?”
Drug dealer Ivy: ”... Yeah, I’ll be back, man. You see that movie, man?... I’ll be back.” (0:35)
Jason insufflates a line of cocaine.
John tells Betty McCutcheon, ”... a very expensive habit...”
McCutcheon insufflates cocaine.
McCutcheon: ”... You’re blowing my high.” (0:38)
Jason tells John, "... lose authority with the other dealers..." (0:41)
Ivy asks John, "... You in a coma...?" (0:45)
A chemist tells John and Jason, "This is cocaine, an addictive alkaloid... cognitive powers... opiate-like emotional surface..."
Jason: ”... out of business with these morons...” (0:46)
Carver tells John, "... You’re a big dealer now..."
”... have you ever seen a crack baby, newborn crack baby... going through withdrawal?... mental deformities... brain damage, lowered IQ, dyslexia... emotional ties...” (0:47)
Jason tells John, "... Mike Tyson wears Versace."
”Nouveau anal...”
John: ”... You talking about designer drugs, David...” (0:53)
John: "... my rapid ascent as a dealer..." (0:55)
Barbosa, referring to Jason, "... Did he give you that synthetic coke routine?..."
Barbosa strikes Jason in the face. (0:55)
Barbosa tells Hernandez, "... two dealers..." (1:00)
Barbosa tells Jason, referring to John, "... I thought you were the crazy one... This... crazy."
John: ”... I’m crazy, Felix. I’m crazy about you.” (1:03)
John tells McCutcheon, "My father died when I was 10 years old... and he died."
McCutcheon picks up a mirror with lines of cocaine. (1:11)
Cemetery (1:12)
Carver tells John, "Don’t you get smart with me..."
John, referring to Barbosa’s boss Anton Gallegos: ”... You let him bring drugs into the country...”
”Jerry, I sold drugs... I’m a cop pretending to be a drug dealer... a drug dealer pretending to be a cop...” (1:13)
John: "... I was a fool... abused..."
John insufflates cocaine. (1:16)
Jason asks John, "Are you f....d up?" (1:18)
Jason elbows Gallegos’ henchman in the head. (1:20)
John: "... John Q. Hull, the dealer..." (1:20)
John tells Jason, ”... money for our synthetic drugs.”
”... do the designer drug thing or not?” (1:21)
John: "... Belinda has been smoking..." (1:22)
John tells Rev, "... where junkies prowl... much-needed blow, where winos cringe on a canned-heat binge..." (1:26)
By radio, Rev tells the police dispatcher, "... possible narcotics transaction..."
Jason tells kingpin Guzman, ”... completely synthetic...”
Rev: ”... I think there’s drug money out there...”
Jason: ”... invest in the new drug...”
Guzman insufflates. His henchman insufflates.
Jason smacks John’s face. (1:29)
Carver tells John, "... how their drug money is being spent."
”... the DEA and all the agents...” (1:38)
John answers the chairman, "... the chief supplier of cocaine to the West coast..."
Referring to Guzman: ”... see him meeting with drug dealers... Gallegos, a major drug importer...” (1:39)
John brings her son to the grave of Belinda Chacon in a cemetery.
John, narrating: ”We took eleven million in drug profits out of the van... If I give it to the government, I’m a fool...” (1:42)
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