Taxi Driver Scene 6 Summary

  • Travis watches kids harassing a prostitute outside. Then he tells Wizard he's getting some bad ideas in his head, and wants advice.
  • Wizard gives a disjointed speech about how a man becomes his job, and says Travis should go get laid because in the end we're all dead.
  • This advice isn't really doing it for Travis, though—not what he was looking for.
  • Anyway, Wizard sympathizes and tells Travis he'll be all right.
  • We see Travis eating cereal in his apartment as he watches Palantine discussing his hopes for the American people in an interview.
  • Travis drives his taxi around and almost crashes into the young prostitute, who was dragged out of his car by her pimp earlier.
  • Travis follows her and another prostitute in the cab noting them as they pick up some johns.
  • As he drives around, Travis discusses his loneliness on the voiceover, saying it's been the permanent condition of his life.
  • Next, we see Travis meeting with a gun salesman—Easy Andy—who shows him a ton of guns, before Travis agrees to buy them all along with a holster.
  • As Travis holds one of the guns, he aims it out of the window at some people.
  • Travis declines when the guy offers him drugs.
  • We see Travis doing push-ups, pull-ups, and lifting weights in his room. He also holds a hand over the stove.
  • We see him firing guns at a shooting range, and aiming at the screen with his hand at a porno movie.