Ground Floor

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Ronald Dacey: Only reason anybody come out here... is to catch a gator or feed a gator. And I don't care for gator meat. You chew that shit forever.

Ronald Dacey: You should see what I can do with a blade... It's amazing how long you can stay alive with your guts all hangin' out...

Izzy Morales: Look. If you invest in GenCoin, help us make this a real thing, okay, your money, it turns into a digital currency. It's untaxed, unregulated, untraceable. Suddenly, you're not on some corner slinging rocks. You're moving whatever you want, in the comfort of your own home. It's the future... Not just of crime, but of commerce. It's the future of a truly free market. The question is, Ronald... do you wanna be a part of it?

Phil Rask: Come on. It's okay. You all right? It's just a car. It's just a car. All right? Calm. I'm all right. You're all right. This? Who cares? Oh, see this? It's metal and glass. That's all it is. Just metal and glass, my friend. Just metal and glass. That's metal and that's glass and that's metal and that's glass!

Madeline Pierce: I just transferred down from D.C.
Phil Rask: Pleasure.
Madeline Pierce: Beautiful city.
Phil Rask: Miami? Right...

Phil Rask: See, this town... All this is built on financial crime, right up to the top officials. There are people who are working very hard to make sure that people like you and me don't get a fair shot at bringin' them down. But if they play dirty, you know, means we can play a little dirty, too...

Ronald Dacey: I was this close. You understand me? This close to losing you today. You don't know what that's like as a father. You can't know what that's like. Tomorrow might not be so lucky.

Nick Talman: It's called smurfing. It's a structured money movement. Now, we need 220 grand by tonight, but we can't go to a bank and withdraw that much. However, we can walk into a bunch of different banks and ask for a little bit. It will have to be less than $10,000 in each withdrawal, otherwise they will file a Currency Transaction Report with FINCen, and we can go to jail for a long time. But less than ten, they're not gonna do that.
Izzy Morales: No, uh, wait, wait. No one's going to notice that?
Nick Talman: Well, if we do the same bank different branches, after a few they could file a Suspicious Activities Report, but that would take weeks to go through and I think we would... well, we'd be alive.

Nick Talman: All right. We'll smurf.
Izzy Morales: All right. We can smurf.

Nick Talman: Dude, I don't think I'm gonna make it.
Izzy Morales: Drive a little faster. Stop driving like a white person.

Izzy Morales: Hack into the traffic lights? What do you think I have going on in here?!

Nick Talman: Are you looking to invest?
Ronald Dacey: Nah. I want more than that. I wanna be your partner.

Ronald Dacey: Hey, look, bro. We in Miami. Them dudes sittin' up in them Ivory Towers on Brickell? Ain't much difference between them and the dudes I know.

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