![]() "I am not lonely." He is in fact the loneliest man in the world, and soon finds that he needs her. "Lady," he says to her, "why are you so interested in what I do?" She is lonely. One day in a restaurant he gets into a conversation with Eady ( Amy Brenneman), who asks him a lot of questions. McCauley's own policy is never to get involved in anything that he can't shed in 30 seconds flat. Hanna is working on his third marriage, with a woman named Justice ( Diane Venora), who is bitter because his job obsesses him: "You live among the remains of dead people." One of McCauley's crime partners is a thief named Shiherlis ( Val Kilmer), whose wife is Charlene ( Ashley Judd). Two of the key players in "Heat" have wives, and in the course of the movie, McCauley will fall in love, which is against his policy. They are enemies, but in a sense they are more intimate, more involved with each other than with those who are supposed to be their friends - their women, for example. The cop says, "I don't know how to do anything else." The thief says, "Neither do I." The scene concentrates the truth of "Heat," which is that these cops and robbers need each other: They occupy the same space, sealed off from the mainstream of society, defined by its own rules. ![]() ![]() When Hanna subtly suggests otherwise, he says, "You see me doing thrill-seeker liquor store holdups with a 'Born to Lose' tattoo on my chest?" No, says the cop, he doesn't. McCauley is a professional thief, skilled and gifted. The two men sit across from each other at a Formica table in a diner: Middle-aged, weary, with too much experience in their lines of work, they know exactly what they represent to one other, but for this moment of truce they drink their coffee. ![]()
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