Three carved theatrical masks in black, charcoal and pale grey show different degrees of frowning against slate.

Original artwork, not a still

Mother

We got bubkes! We turn ourselves in now, they'll give us twenty years in the electric chair!

— Sneakers

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker says they have nothing and fears that surrendering will bring twenty years in the electric chair. That impossible combination of a prison term and execution conveys a panicked forecast rather than legal information.

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