"Not long after the warden deprived us of his company, I got a postcard in the mail. It was blank, but the postmark said Fort Hancock, Texas. Fort Hancock... right on the border. That's where Andy crossed. When I picture him heading south in his own car with the top down, it always makes me laugh. Andy Dufresne... who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side. Andy Dufresne... headed for the Pacific."
—Red, The Shawshank Redemption
Lawyer: They asked you to sign a promissory note to the bank.
Frenchy: You're speaking to the wrong person. This is what I got accountants for.
Second Lawyer: Yes, but unfortunately your accountants are in Venezuela.
Frenchy: You're speaking to the wrong person. This is what I got accountants for.
Second Lawyer: Yes, but unfortunately your accountants are in Venezuela.
Hitchhiker: [S]o how about we just keep going to that state line? (pulls gun).
Mason: Let's all take it easy, huh? Isn't this kind of extreme? Sooner or later, somebody would've been going to the state line.
Hitchiker: When you got people looking for you, you can't really wait till then, so I decided to make it sooner.
Mason: Let's all take it easy, huh? Isn't this kind of extreme? Sooner or later, somebody would've been going to the state line.
Hitchiker: When you got people looking for you, you can't really wait till then, so I decided to make it sooner.
—Tex
"The police agreed: Too much of a coincidence that they’d found a homicide victim in a torched car, and now a textbook race for the Great White North."
—Serge Storms: Mermaid Confidential
Tracey: Alright, alright, supposing we do do a bunk, then what?
Darryl: Next stop, South America!
Tracey: Oh, there's a night bus from Calais to Rio, is there?
"I must leave the country."
—Vanquish Is, Backstroke of the West
Phoebe: Well, our plan is working. Rachel is having a miserable time, and Ross is just stood up somewhere at a restaurant all alone.
Joey: Oh, great, pretty soon they'll be back together.
Phoebe: By the time anyone's figured out what we've done, we'll be in sunny Mexico. (beat) Oh, wait, that's the end of a different plan.
Joey: Oh, great, pretty soon they'll be back together.
Phoebe: By the time anyone's figured out what we've done, we'll be in sunny Mexico. (beat) Oh, wait, that's the end of a different plan.
—Friends, "The One With The Blind Dates"
"I am not a killer of women, though, I admit, I will not be here in the country when your wonderful story is told."
— Count Fosco, The Woman in White (2018)