..It keeps me from getting soft and forgetting about all the things I really want."He had enough of her talk and proceeded to go inside: "There""s no use talking to you when you""re like this.Using the subway tokens, he crossed through a turnstile and faced a wall.Behind him, a switch had been activated.The subway track lifted up and opened into paneled segments.A subterranean subway car came into view from the opening gap, and elevated itself up to the platform""s level.The cocky, well-groomed, heavy-drinking, small-time entrepreneur McCabe argued with the scroungy proprietor and Irish owner, Patrick "Paddy" Sheehan (Rene Auberjonois), about cash flow.He elaborates the details to a group of admiring children, over-exaggerating the struggle to overcome the bandit, while he performs sleight-of-hand tricks with his smoking cigarette.The film""s main star William Petersen, a forensics FBI profiler, also played a similar role for many years in TV""s CSI show, beginning in 2000.