21 (2008)

Jacob Pitts: Fisher

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• [Micky gets on Fisher's back after Fisher gets jealous of Ben's winnings] 

  Fisher : Beginner's luck.

  Micky Rosa : Hey, Fisher. Win like a man, lose like a man.

  Fisher : Micky, I didn't play into a cold deck three times.

  Micky Rosa : You know what's worse than a loser? Someone who won't admit he played it wrong.

• [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.

• [Ben is quizzed on knowing the count's exact word to each card number] 

  Fisher : Plus 16.

  Ben Campbell : Sweet.

  Fisher : Use it in a sentence.

  Ben Campbell : [Ben nervously responds]  Man, that sugar's sweet.

  [the rest of the team laughs] 

• [Micky quickly teaches Ben the rules of how to play Blackjack] 

  Micky Rosa : It's really simple, actually. You play against the dealer. Um, you're given two cards. Face cards are worth 10 points. The closest to 21 wins. If you go over, you lose. If the dealer goes over, they lose.

  Fisher : It's the most popular card game in the world.

  Jill Taylor : It's a game of memory. Cards drawn are the past, ones to come are the future.

  Micky Rosa : And the best part, it's beatable.

• [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.

• [Fisher forces Ben to carry the $250,000 before going through the scanners at the airport] 

  Ben Campbell : Why do I have to do it?

  Fisher : 'Cause you're the donkey boy. You really suck at not asking questions.

  Ben Campbell : [Fisher leaves the bathroom stall]  What's a donkey boy?

• [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.

• [Fisher against the rules sits at Ben's Blackjack table] 

  Fisher : [Fisher drunkenly talks to Ben]  You look exactly like that guy in Rain Man.

  Ben Campbell : Oh, yeah? Well, people say I look like Tom Cruise all the time.

  Fisher : Oh, yeah? No. The other one, the... What's his... The retard! I just love that scene in Vegas when um, the retard wins at Blackjack. You look just like that. What I could never understand, though, is how someone so retarded, could win so much.

  Fisher : [Fisher looks to the dealer]  Hey, Jeffrey, his brother from another mother, how does that retard win so much?

• [Micky tells Fisher he's off the team] 

  Micky Rosa : You're off the team.

  Fisher : No. I was drunk, I was...

  Micky Rosa : I don't care what you were.

  Fisher : [Fisher shrugs his shoulders]  I'm not leaving.

  Micky Rosa : Yes, you are.

  Fisher : What are you gonna do about it, huh?

  Micky Rosa : [Fisher stands in Micky's face]  You've been a big man for a long time, but you just acted like a child. So I want you to pick up the ticket and go home, because if you don't, you know exactly what I'm capable of doing, don't you?

  [Fisher quietly walks off]