How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Reservoir Dogs.
Quote #4
WHITE: For all I know you're the f***ing rat!
PINK: All right! Now you're using your f***ing head!
White's trying to rule out some of the gang as possible rats. However, Pink's smart enough to know that they're just a bunch of strangers who don't know a thing about each other. Their only connection is that Joe hired them. In those circumstances, you have no reason to trust that anyone wouldn't lie through their teeth to save themselves. Later, when everyone's at each other's throats, Pink says they need some "solidarity." He knows that will be hard to find with this crowd, who have quickly become blaming and suspicious. Turns out that the best strategy is to assume everyone could be lying and just look out or yourself. After all, Pink gets out alive.
Quote #5
MR. BLONDE: That burn a little bit?
COP: Stop! Please. Stop. Just stop. Stop... Just talk to me. Please, don't. Please, don't-- don't burn me, please! Ow... Aah! I'm begging you. I, I don't know anything about any of you f***ing guys! I'm not going to say anything. Don't! Please don't! Don't! Stop!
MR. BLONDE: You all through? You all through?
COP: Please, look, I got a little kid at home, now please!
MR. BLONDE: You all done?
Throughout the whole movie we're always wondering: Who's lying? Who's telling the truth? Marvin was the one guy we actually believed. We didn't even consider that he actually knew something until he said so. It makes you wonder, does he really have a little kid at home?
Quote #6
MR. ORANGE: German shepherd starts barking. He's barking at me. I mean, it's obvious. He's barking at me. Every nerve-ending, all my senses, blood in my veins, everything I have is screaming, "Take off, man! Just bail, just get the f*** out of there!" Panic hits me like a bucket of water. First there's the shock of it—bam!—right in the face. I'm standing there drenched in panic. All these sheriffs looking at me, and they know, man. They can smell it. Sure as that f***ing dog can, they can smell it on me.
The coolest part about this scene is that even we, the viewers, who very well know the whole thing is a lie, start to believe it. It's so vivid that we actually see it all happening just like Joe and Eddie and White are picturing it in their minds. It really is all about the details.