The Usual Suspects
written by Christopher McQuarrie
Verbal Kint: New York's finest taxi service was not your normal taxi service. It was a ring of corrupt cops in the NYPD that ran a high-profit racket, driving smugglers and drug dealers all over the city. For a few hundred dollars a mile, you got your own black and white and a police escort. They even had their own business cards. After a while, somebody started asking questions and the taxi service shut down. Ever since then, Internal Affairs had been waiting to catch them in the act. And that was how we started. McManus came to us with the job; Fenster got the vans; Hockney supplied the hardware; I came through with how to do it so no one got killed - but Keaton - Keaton put on the finishing touch. A little "fuck you" from the five of us to the NYPD. Keaton made an anonymous phone call. The press were before the cops were. Strausz and Rizzi were indicted three days later. Within a few weeks, fifty more cops went down with them. Everybody got it right in the ass, from the chief on down. It was beautiful.
Credit and many thanks to 'Tim B' for this monologue, it is very much appreciated.