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Teach is a volatile associate of Don, a pawn shop owner. Teach overhears Don planning the robbery of a valuable coin collection and wants in on the job. He finds out that Don is going to send Bob, Don鈥檚 somewhat stupid, drug-addicted gopher, to do the robbery with him and convinces Don to bring Teach along for the robbery instead of Bobby. In this scene, Don has just told Bob he鈥檚 not needed for the robbery and sent him home. Now that Teach is in on the robbery, he begins to probe Don for
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TEACH: You鈥檙e only doing the right thing by him, Don. (Pause). Believe me. (Pause). It鈥檚 best for everyone. (Pause). What鈥檚 done is done. (Pause). So let鈥檚 get started. On the thing. Tell me everything.
DON: Like what?
TEACH . . . the guy . . . where does he live . . .
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TEACH: (It would be unnatural I wasn鈥檛 tense. A guy who isn鈥檛 tense. I don鈥檛 want him on my side.)
DON: (No.)
TEACH: (You know why?)
DON: (Yeah.)
TEACH: (Okay, then.) It鈥檚 good to talk this stuff out.
Mamet, David, American Buffalo, Concord Theatricals, pp. 44-47.
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