" What's that?" " The bus crashed." "Don't move, driver!" "Lovely mango from the country." "Got any more?" "It's for my mother." "Country boy, out of the way!" "Do you know the way to Mik Lane?" "If you have money you can go anywhere." "If you haven't money, you're fucked, you'd better stay at home." " How much?" " Fifty cents, and hep me push." "A red ight means stop, brother!" "That's why you country boys end up dead in town." "He owes me money, but he won't dodge me today" "That guy's sent me for his money." "Where's he got to?" "Ivan." "A right, come inside." " You're sick, Mama?" " Yes." "What about grandmother?" "What are you coming to town for?" "Grandma's dead." "Dead?" "How can she be dead and I never know?" "We tried to get you, but the teegram came back." "When wi she be buried?" "She's buried aready." "Buried aready, and I never got to the funeral?" "." "What's happened to the pace?" "Grandma sod the pace before she died." "What happened to the money?" "She wanted a big funera." "And I didn't even get to go." "Then a the money's finished?" " A itte bit's eft." " You have it?" "Only this eft?" "How wi you get back to the country tonight?" "Not going back." "You can't stay here, you know, because I can't hep you." " I'm staying in town." " How are you going to ive?" "I coud make a record." "I can sing, Mama." "You take this for a joke?" "I can get a job, then." "What job, uness you turn criminal?" "." "Why say such a thing about me?" "Avoid the question, go back to the country." "Then I' give you the name of a person who wi try to hep you." "If you behave, he may try to get a itte job for you." " A preacher?" " He can hep you." "You didn't even bring me a mango?" "The mango season was bad this year." "Did you find Daisy?" "Just come from the country?" "By bus?" "She's your od ady?" "You've sod up and come to ive in town?" "You can ca it that." "I'm not paying again unti you pay me that fifty cents." "I can't pay ti tomorrow." "Too much action around town to pay with peope who can't pay." " What's on at The Rialto?" " What do you know about The Rialto?" "I read about it." "You want to go to The Rialto?" "We, come there now." "I' go with you?" "Do you think the hero dies before the ast reel?" "." "Let's try some beginner's uck." "Mr Hilton!" " What kind of work do you do?" " I cut doors." "Go and see Mr Jackson." " What can you do?" " Anything you want, sir." " Can you do carpenter's work?" " I never did it before, sir." "Brickaying?" "Can you paint?" "What do you mean, give you a break?" "We want skied peope." " Give me a break." " Leave the pace, man!" "I can do as we as the next man, sir." "Have you got ten cents?" "I watched your car for you." "No, the steward ooks after my car." "He's not here a the time, sir." "If you want your ten cents, go home." "Hey, pretty boy." "Pretty hat." "Johnny Too Bad, bring me the hammer." " Can't you get it yourself?" " No, you bring it to me." "You have a pretty hat this morning." "You ike it?" "You realy ook ike Johnny Too Bad." "You only have to have a gun to ook ike Johnny." "But before you get a gun get the broom and sweep out the shop." "I' see about the preacher's work." "Sweep out the shop, you're a itte boy." "Mind how you pay in preacher's garden." "Preacher has tended that cherry tree for a ong time now." "When the fruit's ripe, if preacher don't pick it, I' pick it." "Looks ike it' soon be ripe." "After Hilton cuts my supply of records, wi you supply me?" "Mr Hilton doesn't want this payed." "You can't se the record without Mr Hilton." "We want money now." "They shot Pedro's wife this evening, sir." " Who shot her?" " The army." " She had grass on her?" " Pedro got away with that." "What must I te the traders?" "Hod out for a coupe of days." "But the traders pay me protection money - and one got shot." "What about Pedro's wife, sir?" "Rupert, your mother is dead, she can't hep you again." "Come aong." "What's happening, Jose?" "My song was just payed, you know." "You're moving up." "You didn't come here to dance, then?" "I showed him around when he first came to town." "My singer friend here is standing the drinks." "I have to go somewhere, but don't worry, I' soon come back." "You contro things ti I come back." " What's the big joke?" " What's the big worry?" "I have to get some money." "I ike how you sid out of the bar." "You've earnt a ot in town, but don't try to foo me." " Where did you make that record?" " Hilton's." "I bet you didn't get 20 doars for it." "Don't te me a ie, I know the scene." "Even if it reaches Number One you won't get another cent." "Te me, do you think you can hande big money?" "I think I can work up something for you, you know." "Pedro, there's a poiceman ahead, what if he stops us?" "You ask too many questions." "Just enjoy the ride." "Rupert, have you been to schoo this morning?" "Don't go too near the fire, you might get sick again." "You didn't give Miss Elsa any troube?" "You took your medicine?" " Something for me, Ivan?" " This is for Pedro." " Catch any fish today?" " No, the sea's rough." "You have a good gir." "She's cared for my Rupert since his mother died." "Go over to the bar with this." "Say we' coect tonight." " How goes it this week?" " Not too bad, Pedro." "We spit that." " Who's that for?" " Didn't Jose say how it works?" "We, this is for Jose." "He gets something from everybody." "He coects from everybody?" "Everyone who makes more than one trip." "How come Jose's not rich?" "It's not just Jose, you know." "You ask too many questions." "Aren't you making out?" "A you do is give Jose 15 doars a week, then everything is a right." "This is from me and the new brother." " You're new to this?" " Sort of." " You need some protection." " Like what?" "Twenty doars for the pair." "Pedro, do you think I shoud take them?" "Are you out to ki somebody?" " No, I don't pan on kiing." " Then eave it, man." "Serve them right!" "They hed a pane in Forida oaded with ganja." "It came from here." "One hundred thousand doars." "They say the US government wi aid the army to camp down on them." " Where's Pedro?" " I don't know." "Jose, read the newspaper?" "They caught a pane." "Two got through." "Someone's making penty of money." "Not us." "I'm only getting spits." "Who's making a the money?" "Ask no questions, hear no ies." "We coud se some direct." "Your pay." "Seing for export, we shoud get a itte extra." "I'm the one who's taking the risk." "You want to spit?" "I don't want to spit, I just want more money." "You're making a iving." "When I met you, your arse was hanging out." "I don't ike what's going on." "Are you stoned?" "Finish that game out." "That's a we're getting this week?" "We' be broke after paying Jose." "I owe the doctor, too." "Let Jose take our share from the money they make in America." "It's them that caused the army to burn the fieds." "Jose, I can't pay a this week;" "my kid's i." "That's not my concern." "I just dea with 15 doars." "I don't want no soft words, just 15 doars." "So it's just money you dea with?" "I'm paying five doars this week." " Keep it ti you come out." " From where?" "I'm not afraid of you, Jose." "You think it's me?" "The guy I got to hep Pedro is giving me a ot of troube." "Better ock him up a whie and teach him a esson." "Haven't I seen you with Jose somewhere before?" "Which Jose is that?" "The one who sent the poiceman I shot." "You have a gun and you don't have any pants." "Give me a pen and paper." "Look what a feow just brought in." ""I've made a record of..." You think the guy is serious?" "What are you doing there so ong?" "Are you thinking?" "You mean you can't think of a story to foo me with tonight?" "Make up your story, man." "What a day when I catch you out and no story can hep you." "That's the day I'm waiting for." "Give me a gun, sir." "I must find him in my area." "I gave him a bike, money, a pace to ive." "When I find him today he' be dead and dead." "I'm going to shoot him." "I contro this pace from birth." "You're running, but I' find you anywhere." " Anyone seen Jose?" " Must have gone underground." "Poice protection." "Not coming for money?" "Ivan's fixed him for good." "Something new must happen now." "Whatever happens, Ivan is a boss." "Have you got his tune on the jukebox?" " Haven't you found the record yet?" " It was put here a ong time ago." "You banned the record?" "You hadn't the courtesy to te me?" "Why didn't you warn me they were coming?" " Elsa, how is Rupert?" " He's far gone." "If he doesn't ose more bood he' be a right." "The doctor says he must have good food." "Why are the poice raging?" "They're keeping up the pressure, we can't do a thing." "What about going fishing?" "To te you the truth, the boat was sod ong ago." "Even when Ivan was here?" "Have you heard from Ivan?" "I wonder how his shouder is getting on." " What time's Jose coming?" " Soon." " What are we going to te him?" " A doar-fifty's not bad." "Resume as before." "What are they waiting for?" "They want something more." "They won't resume unti they get Ivan." "Has anybody seen him?" "My bely's empty, my baby's bely's empty, too." "We coudn't give up Ivan ike that." "Business is business, you know." "What do you say, Pedro?" "Won't you say anything?" "He's not under pressure yet." "It's supposed to drive away pain." "I hear some peope say they catch me." "No news, man." "Pure propaganda." "I sent them a picture;" "how come they don't pubish it?" "It's compulsory." "Everything's quiet." "I don't ike it." "What's happening in the trade?" "Most of the boys are hoding out, but I don't ike what I hear" "Jose's offered some of the boys a raise." "Into export." "But that's what I was after." "Some of them wi get that now." "Now they get what they want they might forget me." "Some of us are sti backing you, to get rid of Jose." "But you'd better try to get away before it's too ate." "I'm not running, Pedro." "Freddie got a job on a boat and can get you to Cuba." "You' get a big wecome there." "Revoutionary to Ras." "Coud get a doctor to fix my shouder, too." "We' go to the coast tomorrow and wait there." "The boat wi pick you up." "But I have to see Elsa and Rupert before I go." "You' see them." "I hope the ambuance wi come soon, take him to hospita." "I can't stand hearing him cry, you know?" "When wi the trade start again?" "They want Ivan, definitely." "The boys are ready to start." "The traders don't know where he is." "They'd te me, they want to start." "They' start without me and I won't be abe to contro them." "They're desperate, sir." "If they start without me I won't contro them." "Criminals wi come into the trade, not paying protection money." "You have a miion and one poicemen and you can't find him." "Do you think the hero dies before the ast reel?" "."