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:29:06
Checking of the watch is good.
Or of the pager.

:29:09
Or looking for
a street sign like you're lost.

:29:12
You saw me do a combination.
Whatever it is, don't get caught.

:29:15
Do you think women have a clue
what goes on up here?

:29:17
What do they think,
it's just stock quotes, drill bit sizes?

:29:21
They don't know shit!
Let's keep it that way.

:29:24
- All right.
- Watch. What about your eyes?

:29:28
- What? My eyes?
- Your eyes. How's your vision?

:29:30
- No, it's good. It's 20-20.
- Okay. Peripheral?

:29:33
- I don't know. It's fiine, I guess.
- Fine's not gonna cut it.

:29:36
You gotta work your muscles like you're
training for the fucking Olympics.

:29:39
- Yeah.
- Up, down, left, right, et cetera.

:29:45
- Here. Follow my fiinger.
- Okay.

:29:47
- Tell me when it's gone.
- All right.

:29:49
- Okay. Stop.
- That's it?

:29:52
You need a hundred,
a hundred and ten degrees...

:29:54
before you're ready for the street.
:29:57
I see behind me on a good day.
:29:59
- You play video games?
- Sure.

:30:01
Good. That stuff is training
for the eyes.

:30:03
Registering images
in a split second.

:30:04
It's invaluable.
Oh. Right there.

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Blue sweater. Blue sweater.
Median. Blue sweater. Blue sweater.

:30:13
That young lady just--
And you missed it.

:30:16
- I know.
- In just a fraction of a second.

:30:18
That's all. But a trained eye
can get in there for a look.

:30:21
You have to learn to anticipate
your opportunities, okay?

:30:24
Getting out of a cab,
wind from a subway grate...

:30:26
or as you so sadly missed there,
bending over to pick something up.

:30:30
These are situations which require
lightning reflexes.

:30:33
- I tell you, I can do that.
- Your a step slow right now, Nick.

:30:37
Hey, no wonder.
I remember what it's like out there.

:30:41
No interaction. No face time.
:30:42
Look at me. Every day I have
the street, the subway, the ATM line...

:30:45
the offiice, the gym, the--
:30:48
What have you got?
:30:49
Young people sitting in cars in Ohio.
:30:52
Wistful glances at the stoplight.
:30:54
No, I go to school.
That's interaction.

:30:56
Okay. Let's work with that.
:30:58
The high school building
is four stories, if memory serves.


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