The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) Soundboard Edit

A blackmail note, you know.

A good kid.

A way to get the money from the store that we could hide from Ann.

All right. We go back to the blackmail thing. Yeah, it titillates.

And 20 yards of jap guts between his teeth.

And alter this and that and the other.

And I have time to think about things.

And if they voted to convict me,

And it's part of us.

And she got a ten percent employee discount on whatever she wanted

And the... and the flapjacks, honey.

And their money will be secured by the barber shop.

And then we cut it off and throw it away.

And then, often as not, they'll change it again.

And they entertain motions to dismiss and postpone and change the venue..

And when I got home now,

And you gotta give me something to work with.

Ann, would you like to come in,

Anthony, it's you!

Anyway, he stopped coming in to work

Anyway, he was a scrawny, pimply kid, nothin' to write home about.

Anyway... He's got this theory.

Beaten to death

Being a barber is a lot like being a bar man or a soda jerk.

Burns?

But I don't think you want to spend the rest of your life in chino

But the point is that this liar, this cynical manipulator,

But there must be a dozen teachers better than this clown

But you get some distance on it,

Congratulations. Gina. It's so goddamn wonderful.

Course, There's ways to deal with a confession, but that's one less thing to think about.

Crane, as soon as you're conscious, we have to tell you that...

Cutting the hair and chewing the fat.

Did anyone else know about it? Probably not. You don't know.

Did Big Dave say he'd recently heard from an old friend?

Did I leave somethin' at the shop?

Doris!

Doris.

Dry cleaning.

Ed Crane?

Ed was 4 f on account of his fallen arches.

Ed, can I talk to you?

Everybody says he's the best

For having an affair. With who? You don't know.

For the kids, there's the butch, or the heinie,

Freddy Riedenschneider is good, but he's not a magician.

Freddy Riedenschneider sees daylight.

Freddy Riedenschneider was busy preparing.

Guess you're, uh, wonderin' what Doris was so hot about.

H He's the decedent

Had an electric icebox, a gas hearth...

Had devoted half the time he's spent persecuting this woman...

He and Doris, uh, were having an affair.

He is your reflection.

He never told anyone what they did.

He never touched me again.

He said the story made his head hurt

He was a genealogist,

Hell, nothin'.

His late wife's eight.

However, the music, if you want to pursue it..

I came to tell you...

I can't stand by and watch any more things go down the drain.

I didn't say a word.

I didn't.

I don't care it's true, it's not true. It stinks.

I don't think that's a bad thing necessarily

I don't understand it

I don't understand.

I found myself, more and more, going over to the Abundas's.

I guess you know what that would do to me.

I have been 13 years as an entrepreneur, and I have never...

I just came by for an informal chat

I just finished dinner.

I mean, if you're really serious, you tie your own flies.

I said, Don't you want to get to know me more?

I stumbled into it well, married into it, more precisely

I wish I'd played better for you 'cause I know it would've made you real happy

I'm comin' out!

I'm Crane.

I'm no expert,

I'm not here to add to your..

I'm not interested in playing music pofessionally.

I'm not proud of what I did.

I'm payin' it down on the installment plan

I'm sorry

I've been weak. The, uh...

If she was going to have a career, she'd need a responsible adult... Looking out for her,

In your ear, mister

Inducted march 15, 1942.

Is he awake?

Is this procedure?

It just keeps growing

It's a good trade. So, how come you got no kids, huh?

It's important.

Jesus.

Jesus. Bingo.

Just enough to get by

Just people.

Just shows to go ya, when one door slams shut,

Like the odd sock.

Look, I cannot present story A. I cannot present

Look, pal, um,

Mind if I show you the specifications? Afternoon, Ma'am.

My books used to be perfect.

My point is that these traders and trappers would come to this country,

My point is,

No one saw me.

No shrinkage.

No, but more or less

No, I mean,

No.

No. No, it's very late.

Not really.

Oh, this is, um, a friend of mine.

Oh, uh, missed it today, but, uh,

Okay.

On and on it went,

On the dead,

Our report to the government.

Romeo and Juliet.

She can go here.

She doesn't even recall the transaction

She'd have contracts to look at, be going out on tours,

She's late

So I said, Look, dear. Go ahead. Look at the menu

So, what do I say, honey?

Something maybe like what I found listening to Birdy play.

Stinks

Story B.

Strip steak, medium rare, flapjacks, potatoes, tomato juice...

Subject educated public schools. One year case western university.

Subject: David Allen Brewster,

Sure, Walter

Tell Doris not to worry.

The dump was 200 feet square..

The flattop, the ivy,

The pansy had gotten wise somehow, so I had to kill him to cover my tracks

Then we might know who.

There's this guy in San Francisco

They called, they demanded money

They have the arraignment, then the indictment,

Think I'll be getting home now

To nose around into Big Dave's past.

Tryin' to rope me into some crackpot scheme.

Uh huh. Whew. That's some beat, huh?

We never told anyone outside of our official report,

Well, I don't understand

What a knucklehead.

What kind of man are you?

What Riedenschneider called 'The big show

What's the problem, friend? this is a business establishment with posted hours.

While you're in the maze, you go throught willy nilly,

Who gets the privilege?

Who?

Why couldn't that work?

Will anyone corroborate any goddamn part of your story at all?

Yeah, I worked in a barber shop,

Yeah.

Yeah. Lucky for us, huh, pal?

Yeah. Screw 'em, right?

You are the father?

You didn't have to grow up with them.

You don't have to explain anything.

You don't have to tell me anything.

You might say I had it made.

You want to test something, you know, scientifically...

1931, Retail appliance salesman in Barnhoff's department store, Cincinnati.

Cash. Cash?

Coffee, Ed? No, thanks.

For the murder of Big Dave. Trial date is set for Monday a week

Frank? Huh?

Veterinarian. Yeah.

You don't got a headache? No.