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Didn't you just hate Dave!


I found Dave despicable especially when he set Lou up! He got what was coming to him!

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I don't think he set Lou up. It was because he didn't look slick enough, Bob told him he needed to invest in some clothes if he was to be taken seriously when he sold the stuff. Lou looked respectable I guess.

Just be truthful and if you can fake that you've got it made. ;)

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As rotten as he was, I actually felt sorry for him when he was killed. So did Sally.



Yippee: "For king!"
Yappee: "For country!"
Yahooie: "And, most of all, for 10¢ an hour!"

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Although it wasn't a set-up as such, I had the impression that Dave let Lancaster do the high risk task of approaching gangsters in their hotel room. So ironic that it was actually riskier for Dave out on the street!

BTW, how did Dave know what hotel room to go to for the drug deal?

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That black man wrote a phone number on a piece of paper before trying to flush it down the toilet. Dave fished it out, called it and I'm certain they told him where to come.



Yippee: "For king!"
Yappee: "For country!"
Yahooie: "And, most of all, for 10¢ an hour!"

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It's been a long time I've felt such intense hatred for a character like Dave. He wasn't an evil villain or anything, he was just a despicable a__hole.

F-ck you, Glee!

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He was a sociopath to the bone, and got exactly what he had coming to him. I didn't feel the least bit of sympathy for him. A total lowlife.

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He didn’t set Lou up in any way. He was concerned about the way he looked, based on the black guy’s earlier comments (“you look like a fire sale”).

Dave certainly had some sleazy qualities. He peddled drugs, he cheated on Sally with the sister. But at the same time, he seemed like a chill, friendly dude when he walked the boardwalk with Lancaster and talked about floy-floy. His wife seemed nice. He didn’t deserve to die that way

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