PAULIE
(grumbling)
You seen this crap, T? They still ain’t released the Epstein list. What a fuckin’ joke.

TONY
(shrugs)
They said it’s sealed for legal reasons. Privacy, pending charges—whatever. Gotta let the system work.

PAULIE
(spins around, incredulous)
Let the system work?! Come on, Tone. You really buy that shit? Guy’s runnin’ a damn pedophile island for decades, dies in custody, and now we just forget about it?

TONY
I ain't sayin’ forget about it. I’m sayin’ I got bigger fuckin’ problems than worryin’ about some list. The feds wanna bury it? That’s their game.

PAULIE
(slaps the newspaper)
That’s the whole fuckin’ point, Tony! The feds, the courts, the press — all of ’em coverin’ for these rich sickos. You think they’d do that for us?

TONY
(getting irritated)
What, you think they’re protectin’ Hillary and Tom Hanks and whoever the fuck else you read about on Reddit?

PAULIE
(defensive)
It ain’t Reddit, it’s common fuckin’ sense! People like us get pinched for half a gram of coke, meanwhile Prince Pedo over there’s flyin’ first-class to the Bahamas with a briefcase full o' shame.