21 (2008)

Liza Lapira: Kianna

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Quotes 

• [Micky deals a deck of cards out to the team of kid card players] 

  Micky Rosa : What's the count?

  Jill Taylor : Plus 9.

  Micky Rosa : No.

  Fisher : Plus 11.

  Micky Rosa : No.

  Kianna : Dude, I lost count 20 cards ago.

  Micky Rosa : Don't call me dude.

  Choi : [Micky points to Choi]  Uh, plus 9?

  Micky Rosa : You're just following Jill. People, please. We had a total of 76 cards that came out of the deck. Twenty-three were high cards with the value of minus one. Seventeen were neutral with no value at all, and the rest were low cards with the value of plus one. How could you lose the count?

  Ben Campbell : [Ben speaks from the doorway]  Plus 13. The count. It's plus 13.

  Micky Rosa : [Micky smiles at Ben]  Yes.

• Kianna : Everybody knows to split eights. My grandmother splits eights.

• [Micky tells Ben he's ready for a trial run] 

  Micky Rosa : I think he's gonna be ready for our little trial run tomorrow.

  Ben Campbell : There's a trial run?

  Micky Rosa : Mmm.

  Ben Campbell : Where?

  Micky Rosa : You'll find out.

  Kianna : [Kianna holds her hands up and wiggles her fingers at Ben, whispering]  Dun, dun, dun.

• [Micky and the team of student card players teach Ben the positions of each team member] 

  Choi : So, our team is divided into two kinds of players, spotters and big players, right? So if you think that this table is the casino floor, then, um...

  Choi : [Choi uses the salt and pepper shakers on their dinner table]  Then salt and pepper shakers are your spotters. All right, spotters are just sitting at the various Blackjack tables and they're betting the table minimum. They never fluctuate their bet.

  Micky Rosa : That's right. Spotters never raise the bet or play any kind of progressive system. That's how we stay under the radar and that's why we never get caught.

  Choi : Exactly. Okay, they're just sitting at the table, betting the table min, and they're keeping the count waiting for one of these decks to get hot.

  Kianna : Right. And then when one of the decks gets hot the spotter at the table signals in the big player. This... mustard. Give me the mustard, honey. Please.

  Fisher : [Fisher positions the mustard on the table]  Well, I'm always the mustard, so... When I get the signal for the hot deck, I stumble over like some drunk rich kid, or some zoned out dot-com millionaire, and I throw down big money.

• [the team tests Ben to see if he knows the signals to counting cards] 

  Kianna : Okay, what's this?

  Ben Campbell : [Kianna holds her hands behind her back]  Uh, the deck's hot.

  Ben Campbell : [Choi scratches the corner of his eye]  We need to talk.

  Ben Campbell : [Fisher rubs his hand over his forehead]  The deck's cooling.

  Ben Campbell : [Jill combs her hair behind her ear]  And get out. Get out now.

• [Ben plays cards in a casino room when he's suddenly dragged to another room with a bag over his head] 

  Micky Rosa : [Micky disguises his voice, talking to Ben through the bag]  What's the count?

  Ben Campbell : Please, don't hurt me.

  Micky Rosa : [Micky again]  I said, what's the count?

  Ben Campbell : I haven't done anything.

  Micky Rosa : [Micky yelling]  What's the count!

  Ben Campbell : [Ben hesitates before saying]  Plus 18.

  Ben Campbell : [the bag is taken off Ben's head when he see's the team standing around him]  Oh, you've gotta be kidding me.

  Micky Rosa : Congratulations, Ben. Sorry, we had to make sure you'd keep the count under pressure. Welcome to the team.

  Kianna : Aww. We didn't mean it.

  Choi : It's okay, Campbell, I cried inside that bag.

• [Micky gives Jill her fake ID for the Vegas casinos] 

  Jill Taylor : Uh, I don't like my name.

  Micky Rosa : Why not?

  Jill Taylor : 'Sierra Sommers.' Do I look like a Sierra?

  Micky Rosa : Well, you have a lot of clever outfits. You'll figure it out.

  Kianna : Just pretend you don't speak English. Then you don't have to change your hair.

• [Micky talks to the team one last time before they play the Vegas casinos] 

  Micky Rosa : At all times, you don't know each other. Let me say that again, you do not... know each other... ever. Oh, and what's our motto?

  Jill Taylor : Don't get caught counting.

  Fisher : Don't get caught counting.

  Kianna : Don't get caught counting.

  Micky Rosa : Thank you very much.

• [Micky plays Blackjack his final time in disguise] 

  Micky Rosa : [Micky responds in his southern accent]  Is this your first time, darlin'?

  Kianna : [Kianna at the table nervously plays]  I've been winning and losing for hours.

  Micky Rosa : Well, that's all right. I've been winning and losing for years.