Keep Your Friends Close Transcript
[Tommy]
What's going on?

[Ken]
Tommy! Oh good, good. Listen, listen. Uh, listen. I like fish. I love fish. I love them as pets in bowls, or as food on a plate, but as much as I love em, I don't want to sleep with them. Okay, but right now your Italian brothers are coming from up there to fit me with some cement shoes, and I...

[Tommy]
Shut up Ken. Sit down. Lance, what the hell's going on?

[Lance]
It's your friends up north Tommy. They ain't too happy you capped their man. They're coming down to see the business today.

[Tommy]
They took longer than I thought...
Guys, we gotta make this final; we gotta leave no doubt that this is my operation. Mine! Ken, you get the first run of counterfeit cash and put three mil in briefcases. Lance, you get the guys together...

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[Sonny]
Tommy! What? No big hugs for your old buddy?
[Tommy]
I've had fifteen years out of the loop, I'm a bit rusty on family etiquette.

[Sonny]
Always angry, eh Tommy. Didn't I say your temper would get you into trouble, huh?

[Tommy]
There's three mil in the cases...

[Sonny]
How many was it? Ten? No, eleven men. That's how you get to be called the Harwood Butcher! Heh-heh-heh!

[Tommy]
You sent me to kill one man, ONE MAN. They knew I was coming Sonny...

[Sonny]
Tommy, Tommy, watch your tone. Anyone would think you blame me for that unfortunate set of circumstances.

[Tommy] Just take the money...get the damn cash.

[Sonny]
You know, Tommy? I did what I could for you; I pulled strings, called in favors. I was your friend, Tommy. I hoped you'd see sense, see what's good for business. I trusted you, Tommy, and you disappointed me. But at least someone in your chicken shit organization knows how to do business, Isn't that right, Lance?

[Lance]
I'm sorry Tommy. This is Vice City. This is business.
[Tommy]
You sold us out...

[Lance]
No. I sold you out, Tommy, I sold you out. The real cash is upstairs in the safe.

[Sonny]
Tommy, what was the big plan? You think I'd just take the fake cash? Save face and run away with my tail between my legs?!

[Tommy]
No. I just wanted to piss you off before I kill you.

[Lance]
No one to cover your ass now, eh Tommy?

[Tommy]
You're going down, you back stabbing prick!

[Lance]
Oh you think so?

[Tommy]
Come here you double-crossing piece of shit!

[Lance]
You're history, Tommy, history
[Tommy]
This is the last dance for Lance Vance!

[Lance]
I said I had enough of that at school!

[Tommy]
You picked the wrong side, Lance...

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[Tommy]
You took fifteen years from me Sonny...and now I'm gonna make you pay!

[Sonny]
You still don't get it do you! I own you, Tommy. Those fifteen years were mine to spend!
Get him boys, he never understood a thing.

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[Ken]
Tommy? Oh my god, Tommy! What happened?

[Tommy]
What does it look like?

[Ken]
It looks like you ruined your suit, and Tommy, that was a beautiful suit! Tommy, what on earth happened?

[Tommy]
I had a disagreement with a business associate, you know how it is.

[Ken]
Tommy, I have a disagreement, I send them an angry letter. Maybe I pee in their mailbox. I don't start World War III. You know, maybe you should speak to my shrink...

[Tommy]
That stupid prick, Lance...

[Ken]
Tommy. I never liked that guy, okay? He's neurotic, he's insecure, he's self-centered - the guy's an asshole! I'm glad you took him out!

[Tommy]
I don't think we're gonna be getting any more heat from up north either...cause there ain't no up north anymore. It's all down south now.

[Ken]
Wait, does that mean what I think it means? Tommy, baby!

[Tommy]
What do you think it means?

[Ken]
That we're in charge...I mean, that you're in charge. Oh, Tommy!

[Tommy]
You know, Ken. I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful business relationship...after all, you're a conniving, backstabbing, two-bit thief, and I'm a convicted psychotic killer and drug dealer! Heh heh heh heh.

[Ken]
I know. Ain't it just beautiful?