Shaft: Down! Down! Down! What's my name?
Malik's Crew: Yo, leave him alone man!
Malik: What?
Shaft: What's my name?
Malik: I don't know.
Shaft: John Shaft!
Malik: What?
Shaft: John Shaft. Say it!
Malik: John Shaft!
Shaft: There's a kid up the block about 12 years old, Tony. You know him?
Malik: Yeah.
Shaft: Wrong answer. There's a kid down the block about 12 years old, Tony. Do you know him?
Malik: No I don't know that kid. I don't know that nigger not no more. Not no more.
Shaft: This kid you don't know. You see him, you run for your motherfucking life. You got that? Do you ever want to see me again?
Malik: No!
Shaft: Do you ever want to see me again?!
Malik: No!
Shaft: What's my name?
Malik: I forgot.
Shaft: What's my name?
Malik: John Shaft! John Shaft.

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Per Terry's request, though not in the manner she would have prescribed, Shaft proceeds down the block and pistol whips Malik, who never saw him coming, into cooperation. Both Vasquez and Terry have trouble watching the brutal beating Shaft puts on him.

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