The Town · 2010 — 第 1 / 20 章 · 5'03" · B1

The Crew Learns the Hostage's Address, Explained:two strikes against you

Frawley walks his team through a robbery with no loose ends, then questions Claire, the hostage, about what she can testify to. Meanwhile the crew realises the woman they let go lives four blocks from their bar. "She didn't see anything" is doing more work than anyone wants to admit.

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After a bank robbery, FBI agent Adam Frawley briefs his team on how clean the job was, then interviews Claire Keesey, the assistant manager who was taken hostage, about what she can identify. In between, the robbers discover her driver's licence is in their possession and that she lives only four blocks from their neighbourhood bar.

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このシーンの表現

two strikes against you

two prior offenses counting against you

A warning that prior offenses make the next charge ruinous.

With two strikes against you, one more mistake could end your career.

このシーンの他の表現

  • open sesame

    a magic command that opens a door

  • under duress

    forced or coerced

  • speak of the devil

    talk of the devil

  • bitch

    a slur for a woman

  • take care of

    handle or deal with

このシーンのメモ一覧

88 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ

表現 · B1report something stolen

officially report a theft

Boosted a city work van. Which still hasn't been reported stolen.
表現 · A2wait for something

wait until something happens

Our guys waited for the time lock to expire...
表現 · B2under duress

forced or coerced

A crew member asks whether the vault opening was really forced.

Under duress?
表現 · B1as ... as something

equal in strength to

Only as strong as the guy with the key.
文法 · A2as strong as

as ... as comparison: As ... as compares two things at the same level, with a plain adjective between.

Only as strong as the guy with the key.
発音it's a pro

It's a is swallowed; the stress falls on pro.

Well, it's a pro job.
スラング · B1pro

professional — Casual praise for professional work.

Well, it's a pro job.
表現 · B1set something on fire

set a vehicle alight

Anybody see who lit this van on fire?
表現 · A2on the way to do something

during the journey

Stopped on the way to light a couple house tires...
スラング · B2asshole

a contemptible person — A heavy insult; not for work or polite talk.

-You gonna talk to this fucking asshole? -For one thing--
スラング · B2fucking

an intensifier, very crude — Very crude; keep it out of any polite setting.

Speak of the fucking devil.
スラング · B2Bitch

a slur for a woman — A gendered slur; never use it on anyone.

- See the address on that? -Bitch lives four blocks away.
表現 · A2find out something

discover the facts

I'm gonna stalk her like a fucking A car, we'll find out.
表現 · B2special agent

an FBI investigator

Ms. Keesey. Special Agent Adam Frawley, Violent Crimes and Robbery.
発音Special Agent

Stress the first syllables of Special and Agent and pause slightly between them.

Ms. Keesey. Special Agent Adam Frawley, Violent Crimes and Robbery.
表現 · B2give a preliminary statement

an initial account to police

I see you've given a preliminary statement.
表現 · B1at any point

at any moment

And did you try to escape at any point?
文法 · A2did you try to escape

past simple question: Did fronts a past-simple question; the main verb stays in base form.

And did you try to escape at any point?
表現 · A2let someone go

release someone

-Yeah. They just let me go. - Thanks.
表現 · B2residual effects of something

leftover after-effects

The agent tells the shaken hostage that trauma often leaves after-effects.

...there are very often residual effects.
表現 · A2take care of something

handle or deal with

Someone presses Jem on how he will deal with the loose end.

Are you gonna take care of it?
発音picked up for

Link picked up for so the words run together into one chunk.

You get picked up for intimidating a witness.
表現 · B1think twice about something

reconsider before acting

...I think he's gonna think twice about hitting that alarm, isn't he?
スラング · B2tuned up

beaten up — Street slang for getting beaten; be careful where you use it.

He's lucky he just got tuned up.
文法 · B1where they are

object clause: Where they are is a noun clause in statement order, not a direct question.

...I know where they are.

「The Crew Learns the Hostage's Address」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene lays out two clocks at once. Frawley's briefing shows the FBI is not dealing with amateurs — the van was boosted and torched, the DNA bleached, the fibres destroyed — and his interview with Claire, whose calm answers give him little, ends with the boast "This is the FBI. We're not completely inept." The crew's clock is louder: they realise the hostage lives four blocks from the bar, and the reassurance "She didn't see anything" is not enough. "Well, maybe not scared enough" is the line that turns the rest of the film: Doug decides to "take care of" the witness, first by watching her, then otherwise. Claire is asked about escape but not about what was taken from her; the licence mattering more than the person is the film's whole idea.

Theme

JusticeFrawley works a case the crew treats as routine, and Doug plans to silence the only witness instead of facing the law.
IdentityThe crew's neighbourhood loyalty and their trade are treated as a way of life, and Claire is only a licence to them.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A safe is only as strong as the man with the key.
  • The crew's jokes hide how scared they are of one witness.
  • Frawley keeps his voice flat to make the threat land.
  • Claire's silence says more than her answers do.

発音のポイント

  • it's a pro — It's a is swallowed; the stress falls on pro.
  • Special Agent — Stress the first syllables of Special and Agent and pause slightly between them.
  • picked up for — Link picked up for so the words run together into one chunk.
It's all the love I get makes the homecoming feel so warm.

Dino's line is pure sarcasm: the 'warm welcome' he gets is really the hostility of a small, tight neighbourhood.

Only as strong as the guy with the key.

Frawley's point about the ten-foot safe: security is only as good as the person who can be pressured to open it.

You're the reason we're having this conversation.

A harsh line blaming the other person for the trouble the crew is now in.

You got two strikes against you already. They're gonna bury you under the jail.

A warning that the person is already facing serious charges and that one more mistake will mean a very long sentence.

This is the FBI. We're not completely inept.

Frawley's dry boast that the Bureau will catch the robbers, despite how careful they were.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Frawley mention the ten-foot safe?

To make the point that the robbery succeeded through the human weakness of the manager, not by breaking the safe itself.

Why does the crew care that Claire lives nearby?

She was the hostage who could identify them, and if she lives four blocks from their bar they would see her constantly, so Doug decides to handle her.

Why does Frawley ask Claire if she tried to escape?

He is testing how the kidnapping will look to a jury, and her calm answer—she didn't run because they had guns—gives him a sense of what she can say in court.

What does the crew mean by taking care of Claire?

It is a threat, not errand-running: Doug means to watch her, scare her if needed, and keep her from talking to the FBI.

What do the final statistics about Boston robberies suggest?

That Charlestown produces an unusual number of bank robbers, framing the crew's trade as a local way of life rather than an exception.

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