Rear Window (1998 TV Movie)

Ruben Santiago-Hudson: Antonio Fredericks

Quotes 

• Antonio : What you doing here sitting in the dark?

  Jason : Spying on my neighbors. I think she's just discovered that her husband's go an online girlfriend. Now she's really reading him the riot act.

  Antonio : Serious melodrama.

  Jason : I'm telling you.

  Antonio : I'm gonna have to try and fix you up one of those personal surveillance devices. Get you that all-important bird's-eye view.

  Jason : Would that make me a bona fide, no-two-ways-about-it peeping tom?

  Antonio : Definitely.

  Jason : Go for it!

• Jason : I guess he's still in the slammer.

  Claudia : In the slammer?

  Jason : Yeah, the sculptor across the way beat up his wife last night.

  Claudia : You're kidding.

  Antonio : Jason sicced the cops on him.

  Claudia : Oh, so this isn't just cheap thrills. It's in the public interest.

  Jason : Call me citizen voyeur.

  Claudia : So, if he gonna come after you?

  Jason : No, I don't think so. He doesn't know I called the cops, and I didn't give my name to 911.

• Jason : Enjoy your party, man?

  Jason : Well, after a while, too much Vivaldi can sort of make you seasick.

  Antonio : I know what you mean. Feel the same way about Philip Glass.

  Jason : Philip Glass?

  Antonio : What, you think I only listen to reggae music?

• Antonio : She like you, you know.

  Jason : Who, Alison?

  Antonio : Claudia.

  Jason : Oh, Claudia. Yeah, we're getting along very well on the project together.

  Antonio : Not like that. Like a woman like a man.

  Jason : Hmm. Well, I only see two problems with that. One, she could have any man she wants. And two, I'm damaged goods. Contents broken during handling and shipping. Why would she want that?

  Antonio : I'm tellin' you, man, when it come to a woman, sometime waters run deeper than you or I will ever know.

  Jason : Have you written anything I could check out at the library?

  Antonio : [laughing]  I don't need to write it, man.

  [pointing to his temple, indicating his brain] 

  Antonio : I know.

• Antonio : Alison's downstairs. She'll be on duty all night. She got a monitor. You need anything, you just click.

  Jason : Okay.

  Antonio : Got my phone number and my beeper number hot-wired into your computer. Alison call me, I'll be here before you can say Rastafarian rehabilitation.

  Jason : You know what? I think you're overqualified for this job.

  Antonio : I think so, too.