Chapter 10 of 20 · 3'35"
Joe offers his hand and tells Jimmy he respects what he once did for the president, and the two grudging rivals become a team. Jimmy cannot let Cory's death go, while Joe warns him this is no game. Even at home, the insults keep coming, with Joe's daughter taking Jimmy apart line by line.
Joe and Jimmy Team Up
Danger's My Middle Name
Darian Destroys Jimmy
Joe shakes Jimmy's hand and tells him he respects what he did for the president, and the two reluctant men agree to team up. Their evidence is gone, so they will have to find more. Jimmy cannot stop thinking about Cory's death, while Joe warns him that real guns and real bullets make this dangerous. They agree to start tomorrow, and Joe goes home to see his family.
The chapter is the moment the two men stop fighting each other and start fighting the same enemy, and the film handles it without sentimentality. Joe reaches out first, saying he respects what Jimmy did for the president, which is both an olive branch and a way of putting them on equal footing. Jimmy's half of the partnership is pure grief: Cory is dead while the men responsible are enjoying dinner, and "it ain't right" is the whole of his argument. Joe's response is a warning dressed as a joke — real guns, real bullets, it's dangerous — and Jimmy's answer, that danger is his middle name, tells you he is not going to be talked out of it. The comedy moves to Joe's house, where his daughter takes Jimmy apart with the same deadpan cruelty her father uses. The team is built out of people who insult each other, which is the film's idea of affection.
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“My girl's dead. The guys that did it are up at Spago's eating chicken marsala.”
Setting a murder beside a dinner order makes the grief and anger sharper than any speech.
Informal
“I feel like I've been rode hard and put away wet.”
A stable idiom turns exhaustion into a vivid image, far stronger than saying I am tired.
Informal
“You're like a dog with a Frisbee.”
Comparing stubborn persistence to a dog chasing a Frisbee is mocking and affectionate at once.
Informal
“You tell anybody, I'll kill you.”
A two-part threat guards a small secret, and the brevity is what makes it funny and real.
Informal
“His nose is too pointy. His eyes are beady. His ears are too big.”
Three clipped judgments in a row sound like a child's brutal, loving inventory of a face.
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Up next · 11go easy onThe scene: Joe and Darian Argue Over Ice CreamJoe offers his hand and says he respects what Jimmy once did for the president. They still dislike each other, but with the evidence gone they agree to team up and look for more.
It was destroyed in the car, along with the tape. Without it they have nothing to bargain with, which is why they decide to go looking for new evidence.
She is Joe's teenage daughter. When Joe brings Jimmy home, Darian insults Jimmy's face without mercy, and Joe clearly enjoys watching it.
Because Cory is dead and her killers are still free, eating dinner in a restaurant. That injustice is what keeps him committed even after being warned how dangerous it is.
