"American Gangster": Richie Roberts Quiz

Answer: It got bit by a person.

His partner assured him it would be an easy service, and that Richie only had to toss the paperwork into the apartment. However, things went bad, and as Richie tried to keep the guy from slamming the door shut, he used his arm to wedge it open. It was then the guy in the apartment bit Richie's hand.

Answer: The two of them would be black balled by the other cops.

Richie's partner said that the other police believe "A cop who turns in money turns in cops who take money", and "Cops do not trust cops who turn in money." Despite his concerns, Richie turned the money in. As Richie and his partner were counting the money, the other cops in the station stared at them.

As Richie was leaving the police station after counting and logging the money, a voice could be heard calling Richie a "boy scout". Richie would have a hard time finding cops who would work with him. Richie's partner would go on to to have trouble in his job as well.

Answer: Overdosed

Not long after Frank Lucas' Blue Magic hit the streets, Richie got a call late one night to go see the coroner. The coroner informed Richie that it was an overdose. When he got to the office, he saw his partner on the slab. Among his partner's possessions was a little blue envelope of Blue Magic.

Answer: Las Vegas

Throughout the movie, Richie was in and out of court battling his ex-wife over their son. While Richie and his ex walked through a park, she told Richie that she wanted to move to Las Vegas because she had a sister who lived there. This of course did not go over well with Richie.

The last time Richie showed up in court was to inform the judge he would not contest her request to move with their son.

Answer: False

When Richie was speaking to his ex-wife about Las Vegas, some kids kept breaking glass in the near distance. Richie asked them to stop once, but they did not pay him attention. Richie then stormed over to them and pulled out his badge and ordered them to stop, or he would have to shoot them. Richie put a hand in his coat, but did not produce his gun.

His ex even questioned if he had one with him.

Answer: falsify a police report

Richie was told over the phone that his partner was made by some low level drug dealer, and he had to kill him. Richie arrived at the project apartment, and there was an angry mob who had gathered after hearing the gun shot. Richie helped to get his partner, two EMTs, and himself away from the mob. Richie quickly deduced that his partner had tried to rob this drug dealer, and even went so far as to accuse his partner of being a junkie.

His partner was certain that if Richie wrote the police report like he wanted, then there would be no problems. Richie was very upset about being an "accessory after the fact", and refused to cooperate with his partner.

Answer: The Special Narcotics Bureau

His supervisor, Lou, offered Richie a chance to join the Special Narcotics Bureau that was going to work under the US Attorney's office. Richie got to pick his own team to work with him. He did not have to answer to any local jurisdiction. Richie and his team went after the suppliers, and left the street level guys for the local police to bother with.

Answer: posed as a photographer at the fight

As his team was watching the pre-fight stuff on the TV at their office, Richie decided to grab a camera and head down to Madison Square Garden. He took lots of pictures of some of the known crime bosses who were in attendance. However, it was at this fight that Richie took the very first picture of Frank Lucas (up until then, Frank was a nobody to the cops). Frank had very good seats in the second row - better seats than the other crime bosses, and he sat next to Joe Louis.

Answer: so he could be dishonest about everything else

It was in the very last court appearance for custody that Richie's ex-wife went off on him after he asked her not to hurt him by taking his son away. She went on about his womanizing, being an absent father, and how he thought he was better than everybody else because he was an honest cop.

She vehemently disagreed, and implied to him that the reason he did not take money was so that he could be dishonest about everything else in his life.

Answer: Who can afford to sell stuff twice as good for half the price?

One team member posed as a buyer to purchase some Blue Magic. As Richie and the team examined it, they were amazed at how pure it was compared to the other heroin on the streets (twice as pure, as one cop claimed). By the time most heroin reached the street, it was cut up and other chemicals were added to it.

The most amazing thing for Richie's guys was the cheap price they paid for it. It begged the question from Richie, "Who can afford to sell stuff twice as good for half the price?"