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Don, a pawn shop owner and his volatile associate, Teach, are waiting at Don’s Resale Shop for Fletcher, a third man who is helping them to commit a robbery of a valuable coin collection. Fletcher is late, and they can’t track him down on the phone. Teach insists that he and Don go ahead with the robbery without Fletcher, but Don is reluctant. In this scene, Don and Teach argue about whether or not they should go ahead with the robbery. Teach is adamant that he will be able to find the
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TEACH: Forget it. Let’s go, come on.
DON: We’re waiting for him.
TEACH: Fletcher.
DON: Yes.
TEACH: Why?
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TEACH: Something comes down, some guy gets his house too off. (Pause) Fletcher, he’s not showing up. All right. Let’s say I don’t know why. Let’s say you don’t know why. But I know that we’re both better off. We are better off, Don.
Mamet, David, American Buffalo, Concord Theatricals, pp. 76-83.
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