VERBAL RANSOM FROM MOVIE "RUTHLESS PEOPLE" STARING DANNY DEVITO (Comedy): Mr. Stone, Listen very carefully !! We have kidnapped your wife. We have no qualms about killing and will do so at the slightest provocation. Do you understand? I don't like repeating myself. Do you understand? You are to obtain a new black American Tourister brief case, model #8104. Do you understand? In it you will place five hundred thousand dollars in unmarked non-consequential one hundred dollar bills. Do you understand? Monday morning at eleven you will proceed with case in hand to Hope Street Plaza and wait for a phone to ring. You will receive further instructions then. Do you understand? You will be watched at all phases of execution. If anyone is with you or if action is not carried out to our complete satisfaction it will be considered an infraction to the rules and your wife will be killed. Do you understand? If you notify the police, your wife will be killed. If you notify the media, she will be killed. If you deviate from our instructions in anyway, she will be killed. Do you understand? END OF RANSOM INSTRUCTIONS About the Movie: This was a comedy movie and Mr. Stone (Danny Devito) had made plans to kill his wife Barbara but before he could do it, his wife was kidnapped by a young couple who were angry at Mr. Stone for stealing some clothing designs the wife had done. The day that Mr. Stone came home to kill his wife, he discovers her missing and then the telephone rings and the ransom demands are said verbally over the telephone to Mr. Stone. Mr. Stone wanted his wife killed anyway so he figured if he didn't follow the kidnappers instructions that they would kill her so he called the police and then the media.