- Mendoza had quite an idea.
- A lunatic idea, but it worked.
6 seconds sound clip from the The Enforcer (1951) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:15:00.405 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- But that scared the kid, and she ran out of town.
- It took us a little while to find her. She had grown up and changed her name. But we did.
- That's why I'm the only guy alive who can give him to you for murder.
- A lunatic idea, but it worked.
- Outside's a great big country. Mendoza has robbed it and murdered its citizens. We can't touch him.
- I guess it was just a wish I had running through my head.
- Yes, sir, that butcher is going out of here a free man.
- Right over the bodies of his victims.
- On the way out, he'll spit right in our eye.
- Heh. Maybe, but for the next few hours, I've still got my hands on him.
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