100000.wav
"What's in the case?"
"That information isn't necessary."
"Is it heavy? Is it explosive? Is it chained to some unlucky bloke's wrist - we're gonna have to chop it off? I mean what is it?"
"Alright. But I am not under any obligation to let you know..."
"If you are not then the price has got to go up. I'll get you the case but the price has got to go up. If it's gonna be amateur night I want a hundred-thousand dollars, I want it up front, I want it in a bank account, I want another hundred-thousand when you get the case."
47ronin.zip +1MB
"Forty-seven Samurai who's Master was betrayed and killed by another Lord. They became Ronin - master less Samurai - disgraced by another man's treachery. And for three years they plotted, pretending to be thieves, mercenaries, even mad men. That they didn't have time to do and then one night they struck slipping into the castle of their Lord's betrayer; killing him."
"Nice like that - my kind of job."
"There's something more. All forty-seven of them committed seppuku - ritual suicide - in the courtyard of the castle."
"Well that I don't like so much."
"But you understand it?"
"What do you mean I understand it?"
"The Warrior Code. The delight in the battle. You understand that, yes? But also something more. You understand there is something outside yourself that has to be served and when that need is gone; when belief has died, what are you? A man without a Master."
"Right now I'm a man without a paycheque."
"The Ronin could have hired themselves to new masters; they could have fought for themselves but they chose honour; they chose this."
"They chose wrong."
ambush.wav
"Our plan, in the broad strokes, is an ambush. It's to hit the car - to take them in transit."
"Transit. City, country?"
"Right now as I said we don't know but we're to move very quickly. We've to improvise. We'll start with this. Ambush and assault on two to three vehicles, five to eight men and our objective is the safe retrieval of this case."
killanyb.wav
"You ever kill anybody?"
"I hurt somebody's feelings once."
lesson3.wav
"No questions, no answers. That's the business for you. You accept it and move one. Maybe that's lesson number three."
passout.wav
"You think you can stitch me up on your own?"
[Nods]
"If you don't mind I'm gonna, pass out."
skin.wav
"Who and how many are going to be coming after us?"
"You worried about saving your own skin?"
"Yeah I am - it covers my body."
teach.wav
"Under the bridge by the river, how did you know it was an ambush?"
"Whenever there's any doubt there is no doubt. That's the first thing they teach you."
"Who taught you?"
"I don't remember. That's the second thing they teach you."
weapons.wav
"What do you use? Weapons wise - I'm a weapons man."
"Weapons man."
"Yeah."
"Ok."
"They tend to settle the argument. So what do you favour?"
"Well you know it's a toolbox. I don't care you put the tools into the job that's all."
"Oh."
"Well you know I actually favour the old nine-teen-eleven."
"Forty-five; old gun."
"Served my country well, for a long time."
"Your country. Not done too well though have you, the last few wars."
"Perhaps not but at least we don't go around whining about it."
"You ex-military?"
"No I got my job through the New York Times."
