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Automated Laundering Machines.

We're here at House of Java cafe at an all-too-familiar scene. House of Java.net Cybercafe. Tommy Jones, a local boy, has been caught stealing a scone. A minor offense? Not to the cafe's proprietor. He's demanding the boy be sentenced as an adult. But I'm eight! Wahhh! Add a year to the sentence for whining and crying.

Round up all the king's horses and all the king's men for questioning.

hard-boiled egg...

'You know too much,'

"Just give me your wallet. Trust me, you do not want to deal with my misplaced sense of entitlement."

"Stop summoning me about rising sea levels. I do costumed supervillains staling jewels, men in beanies grabbing handbags - that sort of thing."

"Pardon me, Vito, but I'm holding the talking stick now."

'You know bank pens never work. Why didn't you write the holdup note before we left?!'

"The numbers don't lie . . . but we do."

'So one day I thought, I'll teach you brats to laugh at me!'

'When you get up on the stand be sure to keep your answers short. A whole lot of barking will only frighten the jury.'

"Don't editorialize."

"So, just to be clear: the 'voices inside your head' told you to launder the money from forfeited law enforcement seizures in exchange for federal tax breaks for your Uncle Mark in Costa Rica?"

"My problem is a recessive gene for honesty and a dominant gene for robbery."

'Do you expect the jury to believe that? And, more importantly, do you expect the viewers of the eventual TV movie of this trial to believe it?'

'During the break, my client stole my wallet.'

Mort Park! You mean Killer. You're sprung, Killer. I'm free to go? Unless you're so tough now you'd rather stay. I mean a guy named Killer probably likes jail. Mail me my blanky.

"White Collar Prison"

"I've been dumping bodies here for years, and it seems to me that the sea level is rising."

'Any ideas on motive?' 'Only one, Chief.'

"I said freeze, punk, I didn't mean literally!"

'All right pal, just hand over the nose and nobody gets hurt.'

'This could be me and you, your honor. Heading for Las Vegas!'

'I haven't spent a day in jail since I got rid of my lawyer and hired a spinmeister.'

'I don't know officer: They all look alike to me...'

'I don't care how you do it...just make it look like an accident.'

"Don't make me send in the bad cat."

"Then leave the horses head in the Futon." Middle-class mafia

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

"You think you're gonna whack me and this will be over?"

'Come on inspector, you call this fair?'

'Why is it always about me?'

The old good-cop, psycho-cop routine.

"O.K., one last big rhubarb score. But then I'm out of the pie game for good."