Voiced by Joe Gaudet:
Chigurh: What’s the most you’ve ever lost on a coin toss?
Proprietor: Sir?
Chigurh: The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.
Proprietor: I don’t know. I couldn’t say.[Chigurh tosses a quarter in the air, catches it, then places it on the counter with his hand over it]
Chigurh: Call it.
Proprietor: Call it?
Chigurh: [sighs] Yes.
Proprietor: For what?
Chigurh: Just call it.
Proprietor: Well, we need to know what we’re callin’ for here.
Chigurh: You need to call it. I can’t call it for you. It wouldn’t be fair.
Proprietor: I didn’t put nothin’ up.
Chigurh: Yes, you did. You’ve been putting it up your whole life. You just didn’t know it. You know what date is on this coin?
Proprietor: No.
Chigurh: 1958. It’s been traveling 22 years to get here. And now it’s here. And it’s either heads or tails, and you have to say. Call it.
Proprietor: Well, look…I need to know what I stand to win.
Chigurh: Everything.
Proprietor: …How’s that?
Chigurh: You stand to win everything. Call it.
Proprietor: All right. Heads, then.[Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the proprietor made the correct call]
Chigurh: [suddenly] Well done! [flicks the quarter to the proprietor] Don’t put it in your pocket.
Proprietor: Sir….?
Chigurh: Don’t put it in your pocket. It’s your lucky quarter.
Proprietor: Well, where do you want me to put it?
Chigurh: Anywhere, not in your pocket. Where it’ll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin…which it is.
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