- Sam: Molly, you're in danger.
- Oda Mae Brown: You can't just blurt it out like that! And quit moving around, because you're starting to make me dizzy. I'll just tell her in my own way.
- [pause; then]
- Oda Mae Brown: Molly, you in danger, girl.
- Oda Mae Brown: Four-million dollars?
- Lyle Furgeson: Yes. Four-million dollars. And, um, how would you like that, Mrs. Miller?
- Oda Mae Brown: Tens and twenties?
- Sam Wheat: No, a cashier's check!
- Oda Mae Brown: Actually... I think better a cashier's check.
- Lyle Furgeson: Right...
- Oda Mae Brown: I'm feeling something... did he know someone by the name of Ana?
- Rosa Santiago: [shakes head no]
- Oda Mae Brown: Consuelo?
- Rosa Santiago: [shakes head no]
- Oda Mae Brown: Lucita?
- Rosa Santiago: [shakes head no]
- Oda Mae Brown: Julieta?
- Rosa Santiago: [shakes head no]
- Oda Mae Brown: Josefina?
- Rosa Santiago: [shakes head no]
- Oda Mae Brown: Linda?
- [getting frustrated]
- Oda Mae Brown: Maria?
- Rosa Santiago: Sí, sí! His mamá! She is Maria!
- Oda Mae Brown: Yes! Praise God, I knew he was with his mama!
- Oda Mae Brown: He's stuck, that's what it is. He's in between worlds. You know it happens sometimes that the spirit gets yanked out so fast that the essence still feels it has work to do here.
- Sam Wheat: Would you stop rambling?
- Oda Mae Brown: I don't think I'm rambling, I'm just answering the question. He's got a attitude now.
- Sam Wheat: I don't have an attitude.
- Oda Mae Brown: Yes, you do have an attitude. If you didn't have an attitude, you would not have raised your voice at me now, would you?
- Sam Wheat: God dammit...
- Oda Mae Brown: Don't you "God dammit" me. Don't you take the Lord's name in vain with me. I don't take that!
- Sam Wheat: Would you relax?
- Oda Mae Brown: No, you relax, you're the dead guy!
- Oda Mae Brown: I don't know you! I don't know Sam, but let me tell you what he did to me. He kept me up all night singing "I'm Henry the Eighth I Am."
- Molly Jensen: That's how he got me to go out with him.
- Sam Wheat: [singing] I'm Henry the 8th I am. Henry the 8th I am I am. I got married to the widow next door. She's been married seven times before.
- Oda Mae Brown: [calling for Molly] Do you hear me talking to you?
- Workman in Loft: I hear you!
- Oda Mae Brown: Aw, shut up, nobody's talking to you.
- Workman in Loft: Didn't you ever hear of a phone?
- Oda Mae Brown: You wanna kiss my butt?
- [pause, to Molly again]
- Oda Mae Brown: Hey, Molly - I'm not gonna stand out here forever!
- Workman in Loft: Thank God!
- Oda Mae Brown: Aw, man, shut up!
- [Oda Mae just gave four million dollars in drug money to some nuns]
- Sam Wheat: I'm proud of you, Oda Mae.
- Oda Mae Brown: You know something, Sam? I don't care if you're proud of me. You just stay away from me from now on. What is that nun going to do with it? She can't even buy underwear. NOTHING! I HATE YOU! Leave me alone! Never talk to me again!
- Sam Wheat: I think you're wonderful, Oda Mae!
- [She stops and gives a raspberry to Sam. Meanwhile, one of the nuns looks at the check and faints]
- [to the bank employee after messing up the signature card]
- Oda Mae Brown: I'm sorry, but, could I get another one? I... uh... signed the wrong name.
- Sam Wheat: How long have you been here?
- Subway Ghost: Since they pushed me.
- Sam Wheat: Someone pushed you?
- Subway Ghost: Yeah, someone pushed me.
- Sam Wheat: Who?
- Subway Ghost: What, you don't believe me? You think I fell? You think I jumped? Well, fuck you! It wasn't my time! I wasn't supposed to go! I'm not supposed to be here!
- [the ghost kicks a cigarette machine, causing cigarette packs to fall out. He looks longingly at the cigarettes]
- Subway Ghost: Oh, I'd give anything for a drag! Just one drag!
- Oda Mae Brown: [spiritually possessed by Orlando] Ortisha? Where you at? I can't hardly see!
- Ortisha: Orlando? Orlando!
- Oda Mae Brown: Damn, baby, what'd you do to yo hair?
- Ortisha: Orlando, you like it? It's "Autumn Sunrise".
- Oda Mae Brown: ...Give this 4 million dollars to a bunch of *nuns*? How big a jackass do you take me for?
- Sam: Think of it this way: you'll go to Heaven.
- Oda Mae Brown: I don't wanna go to Heaven, I wanna go to the bank and cash this STUPID CHECK!
- Oda Mae Brown: Sam? They're waiting for you, Sam.
- Sam Wheat: I'll miss you, Oda Mae.
- Oda Mae Brown: I'll miss you too, Sam. You're all right.
- Sam Wheat: [DELETED LINE] That reminds me: There's a guy wandering around the subway who could use your help. He's tall, wears a lot of black, kind of a short fuse. You'll know him when you see him.
- Oda Mae Brown: [DELETED LINE] It's a deal.
- Molly Jensen: Carl, are you all right?
- Carl Bruner: It's just my stomach! Do you have anything like Pepto Bismol or something like that?
- Sam Wheat: Cyanide!
- Sam Wheat: Write it down.
- Oda Mae Brown: [to Molly Jensen] He wants you to write it down.
- Sam Wheat: No, YOU write it down!
- Oda Mae Brown: I ain't no DAMN secretary!
- Carl Bruner: [Answers the phone nervously] Carl Bruner speaking.
- Voice: Hi, Carl.
- Carl Bruner: Mr. Balistrari.
- Voice: Balistrari? Carl, it's me, John.
- Carl Bruner: John. John, sorry, um, what - what - what - what's up?
- Oda Mae Brown: My mother had it. My mother's mother had it. They both had the gift. They always said I had it, but I never did. I never had it. They told me what it was like. They told me all about it, but now that I got it, I don't think I want it. So do me a favor, just go away. Find somebody else.
- Sam: Somebody else? You're out of your mind.
- Oda Mae Brown: I'm gettin' there fast.
- Carl Bruner: [Sam regains his ability to move things and goes for Carl; he holds a gun on Molly] I'll kill her, Sam! I SWEAR TO GOD, I'LL KILL HER.
- [Sam is crouched on the subway station-floor, attempting to push a bottlecap with his finger. The Subway Ghost is laughing at him]
- Subway Ghost: ...What the hell are you doing? You're trying to push that with your finger. You can't push it with your finger! You're dead! It's all in your mind. The problem with you is that you still think you're real. You think you're wearing those clothes? You think you're crouched on that floor? Bullshit! You ain't got a body no more, son!
- [Taps his forehead]
- Subway Ghost: It's all up here now! You want to move something, you got to move it with your mind! You got to focus, you hear what I'm sayin'?
- Sam Wheat: How? How do you focus?
- Subway Ghost: I don't know *how* you focus! You just focus!
- [the Subway Ghost kneels and flicks away the bottlecap as if it were a marble]
- Sam Wheat: How did you do that?
- Subway Ghost: You take all your emotions! All your pain, all your love, all your passion, all your rage! Just push it all the way down into the pit of your stomach! And then let it explode, like a reactor! Pow!
- [the Subway Ghost kicks a soda can across the floor]
- Oda Mae Brown: Julio's coming towards us. I see him! He's coming! He's there! He's dressed in a black suit.
- Rosa Santiago: [long pause] Black suit?
- Oda Mae Brown: [pause] Could be blue!
- Oda Mae Brown: [to Sam] Where exactly are you?
- Sam: I'm standing right beside you.
- Oda Mae Brown: Oh, you're standing right beside me?
- Oda Mae's Sister: [from in the kitchen with Oda Mae's other sister] Honey, we're right here.
- Oda Mae Brown: Are you *white*?
- Sam: WHAT?
- Oda Mae's Sister: White?
- Oda Mae Brown: You're white, aren't you?
- Oda Mae's Sister: You know what I think?
- Oda Mae's Sister: Yes, I'm gonna call the doctor right now.
- Oda Mae Brown: I knew it. It's a white guy. Why me?
- Sam: Listen, damn it. You are going to help me. There's a woman. Her name is Molly Jensen and she's in terrible danger. The man who killed me broke into our apartment and he's gonna go back. So you've gotta warn her.
- Oda Mae Brown: Just what makes you think she's gonna listen to me?
- Sam: It's just a phone call. Look, you're all I've got. Now, I'm not leaving until you help me. I don't care how long it takes, 'cause I could talk forever.
- Sam Wheat: [screaming after Carl for causing his death] You bastard! YOU GODDAMN BASTARD! WHY? I had a life, goddamn you! I had a life!
- [at a bank meeting, Oda Mae has improvised several lines]
- Sam Wheat: Don't embellish.
- Oda Mae Brown: Jawohl.
- [first lines]
- Molly Jensen: [when Sam was making a hole when Carl and Molly appear] Oh, this is great!
- Sam Wheat: Wow!
- Molly Jensen: Oh, that's incredible. There's got to be seven or eight feet up there.
- Sam Wheat: And eighty years of dust. We could put our bedroom upstairs, and get all this space.
- Molly Jensen: Oh, look at all this height.
- Sam Wheat: For what?
- [coughs]
- Molly Jensen: Just space.
- Molly Jensen: [they started smashing on the walls] One! Two! Three!
- Carl Bruner: [excited] And four?
- Sam Wheat: Come on.
- [started banging on the wall again]
- Carl Bruner: And five?
- [the wall falls off and pipes swinging in]
- Sam Wheat: Watch, watch!
- [grabs the pipes and let go]
- Carl Bruner: God, this place is huge.
- [then coughs]
- Molly Jensen: It's beautiful.
- Carl Bruner: God!
- Molly Jensen: You guys, it's absolutely incredible.
- Sam Wheat: Incredible.
- Sam Wheat: [continues coughing] A little paint.
- Carl Bruner: Sell it tomorrow, double your money.
- Molly Jensen: Carl, you're obsessed.
- Carl Bruner: A little bit.
- Sam Wheat: [looks at the coin inside the jar] Wow, look!
- Sam Wheat: [opens up the jar and put a coin in his hand] Hey, it's an lndian Head penny. 1898.
- Sam Wheat: [puts down the jar] It's a good omen.
- Molly Jensen: You're the good omen.
- [kisses him]
- Sam Wheat: [grabs Molly and gives him a hug and kisses him in the cheek]
- Molly Jensen: Oh, it's so great!
- Sam: Oda Mae, push a penny under the door.
- Oda Mae Brown: What?
- Sam: Push a penny under the door!
- Oda Mae Brown: Whatch' you mean, push a penny under the door!
- Sam: Just do it, okay?
- Sam: [after he spots Molly at the bank] Oda Mae, we've gotta go!
- Oda Mae Brown: Well, I'd best go now! It's been a PLEASURE doing business with you! A real pleasure! Now may I keep this...
- Oda Mae Brown: [Sam pushes her chair to get her moving] Say hi to Bob and Snookie for me, I'll see ya!
- [She races off, talking frantically to Sam]
- Oda Mae Brown: Now are you going to go away, Sam? 'Cause you know what, I got work to do.
- Sam Wheat: No.
- Oda Mae Brown: Fine, then, stay there.
- [Turning to her customers who are not paying attention]
- Oda Mae Brown: Eh, excuse me, EXCUSE me! You ready yet?
- Sam Wheat: What do you want?
- Molly Jensen: Shit.
- Willie Lopez: Your wallet! Give it to me.
- Molly Jensen: [stammers] Sam, just... just give it to him.
- Sam Wheat: [pauses] OK. Just take the money. Just leave...
- [the Mugger grabs his wrist and then carefully pulls the wallet out himself]
- Molly Jensen: No, Sam...
- [Willie punches her in the face and Sam pushes him]
- Willie Lopez: You son of a bitch!
- Molly Jensen: Sam, don't!
- [Sam fights like a mad man]
- Molly Jensen: Somebody help us!
- Molly Jensen: Jesus Christ, Sam!
- [Sam wouldn't stop fighting]
- Molly Jensen: Just get off him. SOMEBODY! SOMEBODY HELP US!
- Molly Jensen: Sam, just let...
- Molly Jensen: Sam, stop it. Stop it, Sam!
- [Suddenly the GUN goes off. The Mugger panics and takes off running. Sam charges after him. The two men run down the dark street, but the Mugger is already a full block ahead and disappears into the shadows]
- Sam Wheat: Molly?
- Sam Wheat: Molly, he got me.
- [She doesn't answer. Sam tenses and starts running toward her. It is Sam's dead body she is holding in her arms]
- Molly Jensen: Sam... Oh, baby, hold on. You're going to be OK.
- Molly Jensen: Somebody? SOMEBODY! SOMEBODY HELP US!
- Molly Jensen: Oh, my God! Oh, Sam, come on. Hold on, baby.
- Molly Jensen: [crying] Someone's going to come. You're going to be OK.
- Molly Jensen: [she starts shaking his body, sobbing into fear] SOMEBODY? SOMEBODY HELP ME! PLEASE, ANYBODY!
- Sam Wheat: [frightend] Help me. Please help me.
- Surgeon: OK, lady, take it easy.
- Surgeon: [Molly stars sobbing] We'll help you. OK?
- Emergency Room Ghost: [a visitor comes to Sam] So... what happened to you?
- Sam: [he looks at them] What?
- Emergency Room Ghost: You're new, huh? I can tell.
- Sam: Are you talking to me?
- Emergency Room Ghost: Hey relax, it ain't like before, you know. It's a whole new ball of wax.
- Sam: Who are you?
- Emergency Room Ghost: Well, I'm waiting for my wife. She's in the 4-C, cardiac wing. She's fighting it.
- Emergency Room Ghost: [seeing Sam's body] Shot, huh? That'll do it every time. Poor bastard. Hey, you may as well get used to it. You could be here for a long while.
- Emergency Room Ghost: [he sits down] Come here. I'll tell you a secret. Doors ain't as bad as you think. Zip-zap - ain't nothing at all. You'll see.
- Surgeon: [they hear a beep and saw surgeons trying to recover the dead man] This patient's fibrillating. Where's the paddles? Get them up here.
- Emergency Room Ghost: He ain't gonna make it. I've seen it a million times. He's a goner.
- Surgeon: [the beeping still going longer] He's still fibrillating.
- Doctor: Clear?
- Doctor: Clear!
- [uses the paddles to clear him]
- Emergency Room Ghost: [the lights of heaven appear on the man] You see? Here they come.
- Emergency Room Ghost: [as the Lights come for a dying man] Lucky bastard. It could've been the other ones. You never know.
- Sam Wheat: [at the bank meeting] Tell her to send this to the third-floor file because you have a transaction to make.
- Oda Mae Brown: Can you send this to the third-floor file? I have a transfusion to make.
- Willie Lopez: [he opens the door to enter Carl] Carl! What the hell are you doing here?
- Carl Bruner: Who have you been talking to?
- Willie Lopez: [sits down] Talking to? What the hell do you mean?
- Carl Bruner: Some woman knows all about you. Everything. Where's she getting it from? Huh?
- Willie Lopez: I haven't said a word to anybody.
- Carl Bruner: She knows your name, goddamn it. She knows where you live.
- Willie Lopez: A lot of women know where I live.
- Carl Bruner: [angrily closing the door] This is not a JOKE! She knows about the murder.
- Carl Bruner: Now, I want you to find this bitch, whoever she is, and I want you to...
- Carl Bruner: [sighs in frustration] Just get rid of her, OK?
- Carl Bruner: I've got 4 million dollars stuffed in a goddamn computer.
- Carl Bruner: If I don't get those codes, if that money is not transferred soon...
- Carl Bruner: [mutters in fear] I'm... dead. We're both dead.
- Willie Lopez: Why did you tell them you're only launder money on the first of the month?
- Carl Bruner: What the hell is wrong with you? Huh? Is everything a joke?
- Carl Bruner: [looks at Willie staring] You killed a man. You were supposed to steal his wallet, was that a joke?
- Willie Lopez: [he stands up and threatens him] Man! I did you a FAVOUR, man. That was a freebie.
- Carl Bruner: Look, these are drug dealers, OK? Just don't blow this for me, Willie. I'd lose my job, I'd go to jail. $80,000 of that money is mine.
- Carl Bruner: [stammers] Look, just... Let me have the keys to Sam's apartment. I'll get the address book myself, OK?
- [he opens the drawer with drugs and tosses to Carl]
- Carl Bruner: [He leaves Willie's house while Sam cries out at Carl, punching]
- Sam Wheat: YOU GODDAMN BASTERD! WHY? YOU WERE MY FRIEND!
- [Carl droves away, while Sam was still crying out loud]
- Sam Wheat: I HAD A LIFE, GODDAMN YOU! I HAD A LIFE.
- Sam Wheat: I don't suppose I could talk you into losing the hat.
- Oda Mae Brown: You keep messing with me, you're gonna be here by yourself.
- Sam Wheat: [Sitting in a cab] Tell the driver to hurry.
- Oda Mae Brown: Yo man, you wanna step on it please?
- Cab Driver: I'm driving as fast as I can!
- [Sam makes the pedal go down and the driver panics weaving through traffic]
- Oda Mae Brown: Problems?
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