Joe Don Baker credited as playing...
Claude Kersek
- Max Cady: Are you my friend? Are you my friend?
- Claude Kersek: No I'm not your friend.
- Max Cady: Well, see, I like to plan my comings and goings with friends, so if you're planning my comings and goings I'd call that presumptuous, in fact I'd call it downright rude.
- Claude Kersek: You're scared. But that's okay. I want you to savor that fear. The South evolved in fear; fear of the Indian, fear of the slave, fear of the damn Union. The South has a fine tradition of savoring fear.
- Claude Kersek: [Cady's realised Kersek's tailing him] Hey, Cady! Come here. Wait up a second. You know, I've been in a real bad mood lately. Shame, innit? You know what you can do to brighten my mood?
- Max Cady: [takes the time to smoke some of his cigar before answering] No.
- Claude Kersek: Get the hell out of here.
- [Cady laughs that off]
- Claude Kersek: I don't just mean this whole town. I mean the whole goddam state. I don't want to see you. I don't want to hear you. And I don't want to smell you... now leave.
- Max Cady: Now, I like... are you my friend?
- Claude Kersek: No, I'm not your friend.
- Max Cady: Oh, cause' I thought maybe you were my friend, cause' I like to plan my comings and goings with friends. But if you're not my friend, you're plannin' my comings and goings, I'd call that presumptuous. In fact, I'd call it downright rude, cause' I ain't your porch-baby, buddy.
- Claude Kersek: Well, gee-golly-gosh. I sure am sorry I offended you you white-trash piece of shit.
- Max Cady: Ooh, I got the all-over fidgets on that one! And you're really shaken' me up! I'm shiveren' all over! Whew! It's not necessary to lay a foul tongue on me, my friend. I could get upset. Things could get out of hand. And then in self-defence, I could do something to you that you would not like... right here.
- Claude Kersek: Anytime you feel squirrely, you just jump.
- Max Cady: You threatenin' me? You threatenin' me?
- Claude Kersek: You catch on fast.
- Max Cady: [the jokey look on Cady's face is dangerous now] Cause' I'm well within my rights to be here, and you know it. And if I stay here what you gonna do?
- Claude Kersek: I don't give a rat's ass about your rights. You just watch your step. And you know what I'm talkin' about.
- Max Cady: What you gonna' do? Arrest me? What are you a cop? Or were you a cop? Or were you not good enough to remain on the force? Cause' you know what? That's the feelin' I'm gettin' here.
- [Kersek gives nothing away]
- Max Cady: Hope you enjoyed your breakfast.
- [Cady saunters off]
- Leigh Bowden: You don't know Dani. If she finds a palmetto bug in her bedroom, she takes it outside. She could never kill anything.
- Claude Kersek: Even a six-foot palmetto bug?
- Sam Bowden: My wife found some marijuana in one of Danni's schoolbooks, we don't know if Cady gave it to her, but she's scared and won't talk to us, now this has gone far enough.
- Claude Kersek: Did you call the police?
- Sam Bowden: No I didn't call the police, what did you call them? Slow, slobbery, skeptical...
- Claude Kersek: Sam, calm down. Let me explain something to you. See, the system is set up to handle generalized problems like burglary and robbery. But if some lone creep out there targets you for some obscure reason - the system is slow and skeptical. It's pathetic even.
- Claude Kersek: There is a lot of cutsie-cutsie in that little prick, isn't there.
- Sam Bowden: Yeah, I told you.
- Claude Kersek: You know where he was today? At the public library reading, "Thus Spake Zarathustra," by Friedrich Nietzsche. He's this German philosopher. He said that God is dead.
- Sam Bowden: God is dead. Right.
- Claude Kersek: Cady's an opportunist. If he thinks you're gone for two days that's going to be as tempting to him as shit is to a fly. If Cady breaks into your home, he can be killed. Justifiably.
- Claude Kersek: Sam, the only thing excessive we could do to Cady - would be to gut him and eat his liver. That *might* be excessive.
