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Deep Cover

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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