Training Day

Training Day is a 2001 film starring Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris, a corrupt Los Angeles police officer, and Ethan Hawke as Jake Hoyt, a new recruit looking to become a part of Harris's elite narcotics unit. The entire movie takes place over a single, intense 24-hour period that forever changes the lives of both officers.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Written by David Ayer

The only thing more dangerous than the line being crossed, is the cop who will cross it. (taglines)

Alonzo Harris

My nigga
To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf.
[after shooting Roger in the chest] Breathe. Breathe, there you go. Just let it go. Breathe, dawg.
It's not what you know; it's what you can prove.
You wanna go to jail or you wanna go home?
My friend? Tell me why...because he knows my first name? Son, this is the game. I'm playing his ass, that's my job, that's your job. Roger sold dope to kids. The world is a better place without him. Hey. This man was the biggest major violator in Los Angeles. I watched that cocksucker operate with impunity for over 10 years, and now I got him. The shit's chess, it ain't checkers. What did you think we were gonna do? we all of a sudden gonna roll up in a black-and-white? Slap the cuffs on him? "You're under arrest"? That's a high roller, dawg.
I'm sorry I exposed you to it, but it is. It's ugly, but it's necessary.
You're terrified. Everybody goes through that the first time. I did. I went through it. The sooner you can match what's in your head with what's in the real world, the better you're gonna feel. In this business, you gotta have a little dirt on you for anybody to trust you. When all this is behind you, there's gonna be a whole other world that opens up for you. I walk a higher path, son. I can give you the keys to all the doors.
My guys are pretty good, but they're not leaders, they're clowns. You're a leader. You want my job? You got it. You want to lock up poisoners? This is the best place to do it. But you gotta just take your time. You'll make detective, play the game, you'll grow wise. And then you can change things. But you got to change them from the inside, son.
Congratulations son, you made it. You passed the test you're a narc. You're in. Please put the gun down before you give my girl a heart attack. Put the gun down.
You got one problem, though, Jake. You got no witnesses. Who are your fucking witnesses? Huh? Roger? Smiley? You think my troops are gonna help you? It's not what you know it's what you can prove. What can you prove? Huh? Nothing. Where's your evidence?
Where you at, Jake? Come on out, dawg? [singing] Oh where, oh where has my little Jake gone? Oh where, oh where can he be? Ah! I see you. You know, I'm surgical with this bitch, Jake! How you want it, dawg? Huh? Closed casket? You remember that fool in the wheelchair? How do you think he got there?
[using his own son as a human shield during his gunfight with Jake] You see what I see, Jake? Officer Hoyt, job number one. Preserve life. There's my son. Don't hurt him. We walking out together.
You ain't never killed nobody before, have you? It ain't like stepping on ants, Jake. It takes a man to kill. Are you man enough to kill, Jake?
Oh, you motherfuckers. [chuckles] Okay. All right. I'm putting cases on all of you bitches! Huh? You think you can do this shit? Jake! You think you can do this to me?! You motherfuckers will be playin' basketball in Pelican Bay when I get finished with you! SHU program, nigga! 23 hour lockdown! I'm the man up in this piece! You'll never see the light of-- Who the fuck do you think you fuckin' with?! I'm the police! I run shit here! You just live here! Yeah, that's right, you better walk away! Go on and walk away, 'cause I'm gonna burn this motherfucker down! King Kong ain't got shit on me! That's right, that's right. Shit, I don't fuck. I'm winnin' anyway. I'm winnin'. I'm winnin' any motherfuckin' way, I can't lose. Shit, you can shoot me, but you can't kill me.
Shit! Oh, what a day. What a motherfucking day.

Jake Hoyt

I sure won't mind roasting in a black-and-white all day.
It was a quiet night we were rolling on Van Nuys I'm driving this Acura comes out a side street all over the median in excess I light it up hit the whaler guy drives on like I'm invisible for ten blocks before he pulls over plates were unclean so I'm watching from our unit and she's tossing the Acura she calls me over to the vehicle a snub 38 two shotguns fully loaded so she calls our supervisor and I keep searching and I find five hundred grams of meth turns out this DUI is on bail for distribution and is on his way to smoke his ex-partner before trial so we prevented a murder.
I'm going to be on the six o'clock news in an orange suit in hand cuffs because of you with the scandals and what not it is open season on misconduct they will nail us to the wall
Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Man, I'm gonna get piss-tested, and then I'm gonna get fired!
I got a punching bag at home, these guys should be off the streets.
[to one of the rapists after finding Letty's ID lying on the ground] That girl's 14.
That is the second time you pointed a gun at me, there will not be a third!
You wanna shoot me, Paul, go ahead. But I'm taking him with me.
You can't pull this shit on me, man. I didn't sign up for this!
What happened was murder and armed robbery. We had badges, so it's different?
That man was your friend, and you killed him like a fly.
I became a cop to put away drug dealers, the poisoners, the criminals, not to be one.
Listen to me, that girl was being raped! Alright? I saw these two fucking drug addicts attacking her, and I stopped them! I swear to god I stopped them!
You can fuck your appointment with the Russians. You're not going to make it.
It's no fun when the rabbit has the gun, is it?!
They're not like you. You wanna know what I learned today? I'm not like you.
You don't deserve this.

Dialogue

Hoyt: This car is NOT from the motor pool.

Alonzo Harris: No it's not. Sexy though, isn't it?

Alonzo Harris: But I don't believe you. You tapped that ass didn't you. You did! You put her in the back seat- BAM- Code X!

Hoyt: Nah man, I got a wife.

Alonzo Harris: You got a dick. You do have a dick, don't you? OK, the dick lines up straight like that right? To the right of it and to the left of it are pockets, right? In those pockets are money. Look in either one of 'em - pay the bill.

[Alonzo forces Hoyt to smoke the weed at gunpoint.]

Alonzo Harris: Left that out your service jacket. Yeah, I know you got secrets. Everybody got secrets. Didn't know you liked to get wet, dog.

Jake Hoyt: What's "wet"?

Alonzo Harris: Butt-naked. Ill. Sherms. Dust. PCP. Primos. P-Dog. That's what you had. That's what you were smoking, you couldn't taste it?

Jake Hoyt: No, I've never done it.

Alonzo Harris: You have now. I haven't, but you have.

Jake Hoyt: Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Man, I'm gonna get piss-tested, and then I'm gonna get fired!

Alonzo Harris: Lieutenant's got our back. We know a week before we piss.

Jake Hoyt: Oh, shit. Shit!

Alonzo Harris: Boom!

Jake Hoyt: Why did you do this to me?

Alonzo Harris: Nobody told you to smoke that thing. You made the decision. Live with your decision. Ain't like I put a gun to your head.

Alonzo Harris: You alright? [Jake looks at Alonzo, but doesn't answer] It behooves you not to dick around on this one. Justifiable homicide in the line of duty? What happened was...

Jake Hoyt: What happened was murder and armed robbery. We had badges, so it's different?

Alonzo Harris: Open your eyes. Can't you see?

Jake Hoyt: That man was your friend, and you killed him like a fly.

Alonzo Harris: [chuckles] My friend? Tell me why...because he knows my first name? Son, this is the game. I'm playing his ass, that's my job, that's your job. Roger sold dope to kids. The world is a better place without him. Hey. This man was the biggest major violator in Los Angeles. I watched that cocksucker operate with impunity for over 10 years, and now I got him. The shit's chess, it ain't checkers. What did you think we were gonna do? we all of a sudden gonna roll up in a black-and-white? Slap the cuffs on him? "You're under arrest"? That's a high roller, dawg. Come on, man, take the money.

Jake Hoyt: I told you, I'm not gonna take that money.

Alonzo Harris: Okay, don't. Burn it, barbecue it, fish-fry it, I don't give a fuck. But the boys'll feel better about it.

Jake Hoyt: Fuck their feelings.

Alonzo Harris: Jake. You're not making them feel like you're part of the team.

Jake Hoyt: The team? You guys are fuckin' insane. All right, I'll go back to the Valley. I'll cut parking tickets. It can't be like this.

Alonzo Harris: It is this way. I'm sorry I exposed you to it, but it is. It's ugly, but it's necessary.

Jake Hoyt: I became a cop to put away drug dealers, the poisoners, the criminals, not to be one.

Alonzo Harris: [chuckles] You sound just like me. I know what you're going through and feeling. You're scared.

Jake Hoyt: I'm not scared!

Alonzo Harris: Yes, you are. You're terrified. Everybody goes through that the first time. I did. I went through it. The sooner you can match what's in your head with what's in the real world, the better you're gonna feel. In this business, you gotta have a little dirt on you for anybody to trust you. When all this is behind you, there's gonna be a whole other world that opens up for you. I walk a higher path, son. I can give you the keys to all the doors.

Jake Hoyt: What are you talking about?

Alonzo Harris: My guys are pretty good, but they're not leaders, they're clowns. You're a leader. You want my job? You got it. You want to lock up poisoners? This is the best place to do it. But you gotta just take your time. You'll make detective, play the game, you'll grow wise. And then you can change things. But you got to change them from the inside, son.

Blue: [Wheels up in a wheelchair to Alonzo's vehicle] What you need, homey?

Jake Hoyt: Crack. 20 bucks' worth.

Blue: Crack? [Looks at Alonzo] Smells like bacon in this muthafucka! What I look like, a sucka to you, nigga?! Fuck you, rookie! [Wheels away in a chase with Alonzo and Jake in pursuit]

Alonzo: [After catching Blue in the back of a Korean store after a chase, forcefully pressing a pen down Blue's throat causing him to vomit the crack rocks he was hiding in his stomach] What's that?

Blue: Motherfucking crack, man.

Alonzo: That's right, Jimmy Crack Corn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Oh, you're federally fucked now. You got crack... and a gun. You know with your record you can get 10 years per bullet? Now you gon' gimme a name. ['Pops out a bullet] That's 10 right there.

Blue: Come on, man. You know I ain't no snitch, man.

Alonzo: I know you ain't no snitch. Gimme a name. [Removes bullet] That's 20.

Blue: Fuck!

Alonzo: Gimme a name. [Pops out a bullet] That's 30 years. You wanna go to jail or you wanna go home? [Pops out a bullet]

Blue: He in the county!

Alonzo: Who?

Blue: Nigga named Sandman. That's all the fuck I know, man! Shit!

Alonzo: See how easy that was? [Pops out a bullet]

Blue: I'm sick of this shit, man.

Alonzo: You wanna collect the evidence?

Jake: Fuck that.

Alonzo: My nigga.

Jake Hoyt: [Jake kick opens the bedroom door and finds Alonzo packing money into a bag and Sara lies naked on the bed] Take the money and put it inside that bag and take your weapons and put it inside that pillow case] [to Sara] You, against that wall. Move real slow, keep your hands where I can see them. I want you to put the money in that bag, take your weapons and place them inside that pillowcase right there.

Alonzo Harris: [Clapping with the packs of cash] Congratulations son, you made it. You passed the test you're a narc. You're in. Please put the gun down before you give my girl a heart attack. Put the gun down.

Jake Hoyt: I said take the money and put it in that bag. Take your weapons and place them inside that pillowcase. You can fuck your appointment with the Russians. You're not going to make it.

Alonzo Harris: Oh, okay. [to Sara] Hand me the pillowcase, baby. Baby, hand me the pillowcase. [Sara gives Alonzo the pillowcase] [to Jake] So you're going to hook me and book me? You're the one that was smoking the dust, Jake. you're the one who ran out like a maniac and you're the one who shot Roger. [puts the weapons inside the pillowcase] Here you go.

Jake Hoyt: How about the one on your ankle?

Alonzo Harris: You want the one on my back pocket too?

Jake Hoyt: Yeah, I would. [Alonzo takes out his gun from his ankle and puts it inside the pillowcase]

Alonzo Harris: You got one problem, though, Jake. You got no witnesses. Who are your fucking witnesses? Huh? Roger? Smiley? You think my troops are gonna help you? It's not what you know it's what you can prove. What can you prove? Huh? Nothing. Where's your evidence?

Jake Hoyt: [points to the money] It's right there. [Alonzo flicks a cigarette into Jake's face and Alonzo tries to shoot Jake with his shotgun, Jake hides in the kitchen].

Alonzo Harris: It's on now, Jake. Where you at, Jake? Come on out, dawg? [singing] Oh where, oh where has my little Jake gone? Oh where, oh where can he be? [Alonzo sees Jake through a photoframe reflection] Ah! I see you. [Alonzo tries to shoot Jake again, but misses] [chuckles] You know, I'm surgical with this bitch, Jake! How you want it, dawg? Huh? Closed casket? You remember that fool in the wheelchair? How do you think he got there? [Jake and Alonzo start shooting each other, only to stop when Alonzo notices his son standing in the middle of the hallway]

Alonzo Harris: You see what I see, Jake? Officer Hoyt, job number one. Preserve life. There's my son. Don't hurt him. We walking out together.

Jake Hoyt: It's no fun when the rabbit has the gun, is it?!

Alonzo Harris: [chuckles] My nigga. [to the crowd] Hey, first Damu puts one in his head, I'll make you a rich man! Come on now. Who wanna get paid? Who wanna get paid?

Jake Hoyt: They're not like you. You wanna know what I learned today? I'm not like you.

Alonzo Harris: That's good, Jake. I'm glad to hear that. Good. So what now? Huh? What you're gonna do? You're gonna shoot me? You're gonna bust your cherry killing a cop? [puts on his police badge necklace] There it is, Jake. Hit me. [points to his chest] You ain't never killed nobody before, have you? It ain't like stepping on ants, Jake. It takes a man to kill. [Alonzo gets up] Are you man enough to kill, Jake? [points to his forehead] Get me right there. Get me, Jake. Get me. Hit me. Hit me. You can't do it. Somebody drop this fool for me! [Bone approaches Jake with his gun, but puts it down on the ground]

Bone: [to Jake] You got us twisted, homie. You gotta put your own work in around here.

Alonzo Harris: Alright. It's like that, Bone?

Bone: It's like that. [backs away]

Alonzo Harris: Player to player. Pimp to pimp. I don't believe you'd shoot me, nigga.

Jake Hoyt: Don't do it. Don't do it.

Alonzo Harris: I don't believe you got it in you, Jake. [picks up his box of cigarettes, and smiles at Jake as he smokes] I'm gonna get that gun and then Imma get that money. And you ain't gonna do a damn thing, 'cause you ain't gonna shoot no cop in the back, are you?

Jake Hoyt: [Cocks gun] Don't do it.

Alonzo Harris: You know what they give you for that? The gas chamber. You know what the gas chamber smells like? Pine oil. That's where you headed, boy. To pine oil heaven, I'm gonna get that gun, and then I'm gonna get that money. I don't believe you got it in you, Jake. I'm gonna go get it right now. [Alonzo almost picks up Bone's gun, but Jake shoots Alonzo in his buttocks] SHIT! OH! YOU MOTHERFUCKER!!!!

Jake Hoyt: The next one will kill you!

Alonzo Harris: SON OF A BITCH!! YOU SHOT ME IN THE ASS!!! Wait, wait, wait, okay okay. Alright look. Come on, Jake I need that money. Give me the money, Jake. Give me the money, please, Jake, GIVE ME THAT MONEY!!!

Jake Hoyt: It's not gonna happen!

Alonzo Harris: What? You're gonna jack me now? You're gonna take my own money from me?

Jake Hoyt: I told you, that's my evidence. You wanna go to jail or you wanna go home?

Alonzo Harris: [smiles] I wanna go home, Jake. [puts his hands above his head] Come on, give me that money and let me go home.

Jake Hoyt: Yeah? You wanna go home?

Alonzo Harris: Yeah, let me go home, Jake. Come on, give me that money and let me go home. Give me that money and let me go home. Come on. [Jake rips Alonzo's badge necklace off his neck, and Alonzo loses his smile]

Jake Hoyt: You don't deserve this. [Bone picks up his gun and aims it at Alonzo]

Bone: Jake. Go ahead and bounce, homie. Get up out of here. We got your back.

Alonzo Harris: What?

Bone: It's like that.

Alonzo Harris: [Jake leaves with Alonzo's pay-off for the Russian mob] Oh, no, you didn't. Wait a minute, no, you didn't! Hey, hey, Jake! Hey! Jake! Jake! Jake, come back here! Jake! [to Bone] You disloyal fool-ass bitch-made-punk-- Jake! I need my money! Jake! [to the neighbourhood residents who turned on him, tired of his abuse] Oh, you motherfuckers. [chuckles] Okay. All right. I'm putting cases on all of you bitches! Huh? You think you can do this shit? Jake! You think you can do this to me?! You motherfuckers will be playin' basketball in Pelican Bay when I get finished with you! SHU program, nigga! 23 hour lockdown! I'm the man up in this piece! You'll never see the light of-- Who the fuck do you think you fuckin' with?! I'm the police! I run shit here! You just live here! Yeah, that's right, you better walk away! Go on and walk away, 'cause I'm gonna burn this motherfucker down! King Kong ain't got shit on me! That's right, that's right. Shit, I don't fuck. I'm winnin' anyway. I'm winnin'. I'm winnin' any motherfuckin' way, I can't lose. Shit, you can shoot me, but you can't kill me. [laughing to himself] Shit! Oh, what a day. What a motherfucking day.

About Training Day

I think it's very accurate. I wrote the L.A. I know. Those were the neighborhoods that I grew up in. Those are the neighborhoods that I've experienced. And I've gotten a lot of questions about race and multiculturalism and diversity, and all that. But it was nothing I ever had in mind because I just assumed that's the way it is because that's what I saw. As far as getting cooperation from the neighborhoods, i mean, there was a certain amount of diplomacy that had to be done because it's, in a sense, we're going into somebody's house and you got to let them know that you're going to treat them with respect. And we didn't have any problems. People were saying that you can't go into these neighborhoods and shoot. No, we had absolutely no problems whatsoever. ~ David Ayer
As far as research process, again, it was something I lived in a great sense. And i'd hear stories on the streets. There's lore the gangbangers would have about how the cops are operating and, again, things I saw with my own eyes, my own experience with law enforcement. I went and talked with an LAPD sergeant, an Internal Affairs detective at one point who kind of showed me the tip of the iceberg and let me know that there was 90% hidden. And drawing that picture, figuring out what was going on. Really wasn't that difficult. I wrote the script in 95, 4 years before the Rampart scandal broke. And at the time, people said that I didn't know anything about law enforcement and the script was kind of a little ahead of the curve for them. But, I just kind of let real life inform me. ~ David Ayer
We just wanted to keep it real. You know, realistic to the streets. The world that i know and the world that David wrote about, and we just went for it the way that it is. It's the reality that I know. ~ Antoine Fuqua
It's hard to get anybody to want to make this kind of movie, because it's so gritty and so real. And the last time they made films like this was in the 70s. And, you know, these films aren't necessarily box office guarantees. It's really just about a character study. So that part was fun. ~ Antoine Fuqua

Cast

Denzel Washington — Detective Alonzo Harris
Ethan Hawke — Jake Hoyt
Scott Glenn — Roger
Tom Berenger — Stan Gursky
Harris Yulin — Detective Doug Rosselli
Raymond J. Barry — Captain Lou Jacobs
Cliff Curtis — "Smiley"
Dr. Dre — Detective Paul
Snoop Dogg — Blue
Macy Gray — "Sandman"'s wife
Charlotte Ayanna — Lisa Hoyt
Eva Mendes — Sara
Nick Chinlund — Detective Tim

External links

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