Fans Benefit From New Playoff Format’s Upsets

There’s a scene in Martin Scorsese’s The Departed (2006) in which Captain George Ellerby (Alec Baldwin) is asking Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) about Jimmy Pappas (Paris Karounos), who was arrested for the murder of two gangsters from Providence. Both of them know Pappas, a local Greek restaurateur, was framed for it.

Ellerby: What happened to Jimmy Pappas?

Sullivan: Jimmy had a rough month. Jimmy had a heart attack in jail and then he got himself knifed in Boston City Hospital. I believe it’s been in the papers.

Ellerby: You seem quite happy with that result?

Sullivan: It’s a f—ing result.

Ellerby: Yeah, but cui bono? Who benefits?

Sullivan: Cui gives a s---t? It’s got a freakin’ bow on it.

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