Public Enemies/Awesome

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • The way Dillinger, supposedly Public Enemy No.1, can march right into a police station of cops who are looking for him, take a look around as if he works there, ask for the score of a baseball game going on and get an actual answer before casually leaving. Who cares whether it really happened or not, that was just cool as hell.
  • Billie is arrested and violently interrogated by a particularly nasty FBI agent. She gives him an address for Dillinger, and when he finds the place empty and comes back hopping mad, she just says that Dillinger is long gone by now, and the agent even walked right past him as he was arresting her.
    • The scene where Billie is arrested is very accurate, with Dillinger driving away unnoticed while agents were handcuffing Billie.
    • Not so much the scene where Billie is browbeat, since it is unknown if this really happened or not.
  • Lets not forget how he breaks out of prison by taking hostages with a wooden gun. A Truth in Television moment at that.