The Parallax View (1974)

Walter McGinn: Jack Younger

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• Jack Younger : Just one more thing.

  Joseph Frady : What's that?

  Jack Younger : Who are you?

  Joseph Frady : [taken aback]  Who am I?

  Jack Younger : You're not Richard Paley. Your service records don't check.

  Joseph Frady : They don't?

  Jack Younger : There was a Richard Paley in the 1st Air Cavalry, but among other things, he's dead.

  Joseph Frady : Gee, I'm sorry to hear that.

  Jack Younger : So were we. So... who are you really?

  Joseph Frady : [getting defensive]  Look, I don't need to tell you anything. You're not a cop.

  [Frady turns around to leave] 

  Jack Younger : I wouldn't walk out that door if I were you.

• Jack Younger : Your tests suggest that you have remarkable talents.

  Joseph Frady : Yeah? What do you mean by "talents"?

  Jack Younger : You have difficulty holding on to a job, don't you?

  Joseph Frady : I don't know, I just don't like to take a lot of shit, so people say I got antisocial tendencies.

  Jack Younger : Right! Now, tell me, has it ever crossed your mind that maybe it's everybody else's problem that they don't get along with you?

  Joseph Frady : Why?

  Jack Younger : Because, you see, the very quality that gets you in trouble is what makes you potentially invaluable.

  Joseph Frady : What's that?

  Jack Younger : Your aggressiveness.

• Jack Younger : Who are you? I simply have to know.

  Joseph Frady : All right. I'm Richard Partun.

  Jack Younger : Why did you want us to think you were Richard Paley?

  Joseph Frady : I needed a job. I got into a little difficulty in El Monte a couple of months ago.

  Jack Younger : What kind of trouble?

  Joseph Frady : Is it important?

  Jack Younger : It's important.

  Joseph Frady : Well, I was drinking in this bar and, uh... I used to drink a lot. Next thing I know, I'm running around a laundromat, only I don't have any clothes on. And some old lady claimed I was trying to... you know, molest her.

  Jack Younger : Were you?

  Joseph Frady : I don't know. I don't know what I was doin' there, I don't remember a thing. I don't know how I got there. Nothing. All I know is that they, uh, arrested me for... indecent exposure. You know, a thing like that can follow you around. You try to get a job, you're a "sex offender." I'm no sex offender.

  Jack Younger : No, I'm sure you're not.

  Joseph Frady : You know what I think? In that bar they put something in my beer that made me take off my clothes.

  Jack Younger : Well, if that's all there is to it, we'll check it out with the El Monte police. It'll be no problem.