You know, we can talk about being brilliant prosecutors from now till doomsday, but the truth is there's only one way that organized crime can be cracked: get somebody on the inside to talk. Your story might just scare one of them enough to do it.

13 seconds sound clip from the The Naked Street (1955) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:42:35.301 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- I'm asking you to help.

- How?

- Run the toughest story on Regal you can write.

- List every crime we've ever accused him of, name all his assistant rights, every name you can dig up.

- How will that help?

- You might just scare one of them.

- You know, we can talk about being brilliant prosecutors from now till doomsday, but the truth is there's only one way that organized crime can be cracked: get somebody on the inside to talk. Your story might just scare one of them enough to do it.

- I know it's hard to take. I've been putting off running the story because I knew it would hurt you. But I can't put it off any longer.

- I'm not gonna read any more of this. I don't believe a word of it.

- It's all true.

- You don't know Phil very well. You don't know half the good things he does.

- You don't know what he's done for me and Nicky.

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