"People ask a question." "What's a RocknRolla?" "drugs and hospital drips." "no." "my friend." "We all like a bit of the good life." "the money." "the drugs." "the glamour or the fame." "he's different." "Why?" "Because a real RocknRolla wants the fucking lot." "formerly known as Archibald." "I work for a man called Lenny Cole." "And Lenny Cole has the keys to the back door of this booming city." "Let me give you an example of how Lenny works his magic." "this property cost 1 million pounds." "it costs 5 million." "How did this happen?" "Attractive tax opportunities for foreign investment restrictive building consent and massive hedge-fund bonuses." "my good man is fast becoming the financial and cultural capital of the world." "London is on the rise." "Property value has gone one way: up." "And this has left the natives struggling to keep a foothold in the property ladder." "I can't teach you how to skin a cat but I can tell you a lot about the money in bricks and mortar." "it's going one way." "You need to see a lawyer." "We do need to see a lawyer." "it looks like a great deal." "These are the plans." "and it'll be worth 20 with planning." "you gotta give the Councillor a drink." "Same deal as before." "I'll tell them they've got the planning." "Councillor." "You'll get the planning." "and it'll move like shit through a goose." "We need help." "Lenny Cole." "Dog number one." "Bet he moves fast and likes bricks and mortar." "and I love bricks and mortar." "Property's always a safe bet... this ain't soft money." "Because of these boys' criminal records the bank won't lend them the money they need." "Enter Mr. Lenny Cole London's money-loaning and fast-moving property magician." "boys." "give me your hand." "And this is where he waves his black magic wand." "but there's been a problem." "I can't get you the planning." "can't get the planning." "isn't that an unpleasant surprise." "Because they don't wanna owe Lenny." "He can't get the planning." "sweetheart." "Can't get the planning?" "You've been fucked." "What do you mean you can't get the fucking planning?" "You owe me." "you lose your share and I'm still out of pocket two large ones." "Find it." "They know they'll have to pay Lenny before the month is out." "very uncomfortable." "We better find it." "What they don't know is that Lenny controls the councilors the judges and the lawyers." "No planning permission will be given until Lenny wants it." "he wants the permission." "Councillor?" "Yeah." "I hear you got that car you wanted." "Len." "will you?" "Lenny." "Good." "Archy?" "Len?" "They come from the same place as you." "You're gonna clean them out." "The same place as me?" "Do I look like a fucking immigrant?" "No one gave me a leg up." "they'll come up against me." "don't they?" "And that is an example of how Lenny works." "today is Lenny's big day." "He's hit the big time because a new Russian billionaire desires Lenny's property contacts." "He wants planning permission where the law won't allow." "Lenny Cole is here." "Lenny will come through but he will rape that Russian for every ruble he can get." "Uri." "Good." "Come and take a seat." "but I have a busy day." "that's all right." "Sit." "Lenny." "We like to get things done." "What's it going to cost me?" "let me make it clear exactly how we can help you benefit from this deal." "you'd be waiting five to 10 years before you got permission to erect your arena." "with British law as it so stands-- how much?" "Seven million euros." "I expect the guarantee that I have consent within six months and no red tape." "you got it." "Consider it done." "Drink?" "Yeah." "Uri." "you know." "Lenny." "It's my lucky picture." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "You like?" "Yeah." "Take it for a while." "Maybe it will give you luck." "I couldn't." "I insist." "I will get it sent around to your house." "You can give it back to me when our deal's finalized." "Hm?" "I thought you lot drank vodka." "Whiskey is the new vodka." "You're not joining me?" "I don't drink." "Cheers." "Cheers." "Len?" "Yeah." "Because you're looking a bit pink." "Turbo?" "Len." "the dirty Cossack." "just give me the bottle." "Len." "How is the billionaires club?" "did it?" "Arch." "We've hit the big time here." "what's wrong?" "Where's the famous Archy smile?" "times are changing." "bollocks." "and I'm the fucking headmaster." "That's why he come to me." "Got it?" "got it." "You think you should have lent him your lucky picture?" "It makes the peasant feel royal." "we need him at the moment." "I want that consent." "Call the accountant and get her to clear the money." "If Uri's gonna turn over seven large ones to grease Lenny's contacts he's gonna need it in cash." "he needs his personal accountant." "Meet the very gifted and the financially creative Stella." "You know why you get deals?" "old men like it when you swear at them." "They shake like cocktails and sweat like Semtex... little voice." "are a rare commodity." "give your Bertie a smile." "I don't feel like smiling." "I'm a 30-year-old accountant married to a homosexual lawyer." "Bertie." "this can be quite inconvenient." "we need to talk." "she's right here." "It's Omovich." "You sure he isn't gay?" "But what the Russian doesn't know is that his accountant has got bored of the safe life and is looking for excitement in all the wrong places." "Welcome to the Speeler." "This hot little house of crime is home to a particularly nefarious group of individuals known locally as the Wild Bunch." "Bob?" "son." "What are you talking about?" "they've got a grass." "They've got an informer." "Got a rat with a roach smoking a canary." "Got more information than the Internet." "son?" "do you want in?" "but fuck it." "can I have a word?" "No." "I'll make it worth your while." "dear." "there's always coincidence." "And the very men she needs to fuel her thrills are the very men that owe Lenny two large ones." "What's happening?" "the posh pup?" "The one that likes a bit of the rough life?" "The little dangerous accountant." "You haven't heard from her in a little while." "I know." "Well?" "right?" "proper work." "but considering our current situation...." "Let's have a meet." "but with a little boy fishing." "Is that what they call humor where you come from?" "Is that what they call art where you come from?" "Mr. One Two." "And you're also late." "don't be late." "thought you might be interested." "Go on." "There are two accountants taking out 7 million euros from a bank I know." "And it won't be protected." "as normal." "The details are in here." "Anything else?" "Yeah." "so you could give them a black eye." "It might help." "nothing more." "Mrs. Baxter." "then." "by the way." "Thank you." "You'll be able to afford a pair of your own in a couple of days." "presumed dead yesterday when he fell from the side of a yacht thought to be owned by a prominent high-street fashion magnate." "I don't know what to say." "I bet he took a few people with him in his hot little crack pipe." "Arch?" "tell the Councillor to stop fucking about with his little bat and balls and send him inside." "Councillor." "Did you have lessons as a boy?" "Fancy a cool down?" "Bit of a chat with Lenny?" "You know Jackie?" "No." "don't say anything." "Don't you worry about her." "She's a very good friend of mine." "And a member." "Jackie." "You fancy a runaround with the Councillor?" "Only if he's wicked." "What does she mean by that?" "Councillor?" "Come on." "plans and papers." "he likes to sweeten a cash deal." "Would you like a cigar?" "I don't mind if I do." "He wants you sitting in the front row with a new car sitting in your driveway." "Len's skill lies in his ability to know where your back needs scratching." "That's a nice lighter." "the greedy toads." "And I paid it." "You know why?" "Lenny." "It's all about the details." "Is our little deal in there too?" "Look at Lenny." "he's so proud." "He only paid a hundred pounds for that lighter he's making the Councillor sweat like he stole it himself." "I wouldn't forget about that." "The important things first." "because he ain't half a naughty bastard." "I'll leave that with you." "the Councillor just needs a few hours with a right rotten tart" "Can't stay here chewing the fat all day." "Man's got a living to make." "I'll phone you in tomorrow." "and he'll be in there like swimwear." "Jackie." "you forgot your lighter." "it can't be mine." "It's got your name on it." "All right." "Nothing's gonna stop Lenny from his big Russian deal." "I knew he'd like the lighter." "wasn't it?" "Jackie." "You give her another drink." "you're right." "would he if he didn't mean business?" "and I've put it on the wall." "it looks mag" "I've been" " Fuck." "fuck." "Archy?" "I've been robbed." "What?" "Hello?" "I've been robbed." "Yeah-- l don't know when." "It's the painting." "it's the one that Uri gave me." "for fuck's sake." "this is not good." "That's his favorite painting." "His lucky painting." "all right." "Come around here and bring the troops." "Yeah." "this isn't what I want to hear." "he's no good to anyone." "he's gonna stick it straight on my lap." "And Archy is gonna have to go to work." "Len?" "Bandy?" "send him to school because I can't take no more of this." "you sort this out." "because I'm going to back to bed." "you see Danny there?" "He's gonna slap you." "Arch." "I was just trying to use initiative." "slap him." "properly." "do it properly with the back of the right hand." "Arch?" "Slap him." "for fuck...." "Like this." "if you can master a slap like that there's no need for your clients to hold back." "They will open up like a fountain full of words." "no." "They're transported back to their childhood." "Putty in your hands." "Ask Bandy." "thinks he's back at school." "Arch." "eh?" "you cut them or you pay them but keep your receipts because this ain't the Mafia." "look for the painting." "Hello." "Hi." "Bye." "walk away." "do as you're told." "walk away and keep smiling." "is this a robbery?" "fuck off." "Thank you." "Mr. Mumbles." "give me the keys." "Thanks." "very funny." "Oi." "Where's reverse?" "You have to lift up the knob under the" "Gear stick." "Ah." "fuck off." "I know an electrician that could copy one of those for you." "mind." "Mr. One Two." "Mrs. Baxter." "très chic." "isn't it?" "I see you didn't think much of the black eye." "I would like to have obliged." "just didn't seem natural." "Mm." "Until the next time?" "Maybe." "The development has been underway for four years and will be completed within another two." "The area covers 12 acres and it will become one of London's premier residences." "gentlemen." "What is it?" "Victor." "Archy." "One Two." "I got Lenny's bit of scratch." "you got all of it?" "so come get it before it melts my boots." "I'll come down to Speeler." "hold on." "got another call." "Len?" "the Russian didn't come through with the money." "the Councillor can wait." "I got some good news for you." "One Two and Co. have come through with the scratch." "all of it?" "So they say." "then?" "you'd hear no lies." "all I gotta do now is find your painting." "make sure you do find it." "I've gotta go." "There's another call." "Hello?" "Lenny." "You can't let me down." "just a delay." "get back to me soon." "of course." "Wanker." "did you?" "that's right." "I give you 50." "Gary." "See you." "Archy." "Hello." "Come over here." "Arch." "What brings you down here?" "tickets?" "I want the Tank." "not this time of night." "see?" "He's at the end of that street there." "Tank runs the biggest ticket-tout organization in the West End of London." "He knows more about what moves on the streets than the rats themselves." "Tank is a fortified world of disgusting information." "what are you doing here?" "I need a word." "Don't stand out there on the cobbles." "Step into my world." "perhaps the birds and the...." "Arch." "They've had it redone." "Glorious picture." "it's exquisite." "Could you turn it down a bit so we could have a word?" "where are my manners?" "tickets?" "Don't want tickets." "I'm looking for a painting." "been nicked out of Lenny's house." "so I want you to help." "I'll leave you a little livener." "Here's a couple of large to get some tongues wagging." "are you Fred?" "It is Fred." "there's been a well-hidden informer that's sent us all down at one point or another." "And now Bob is looking at a five-stretch due to this grass." "your mom can't be very happy." "Not with you getting a five-stretch." "yeah?" "Bob." "You know I don't mean to offend." "But what makes the situation worse is everybody knows this dirty fucking rat is still lurking somewhere among us." "gentlemen." "lovely." "Who gives a fuck what you think?" "let's go." "my colleague Paul will be modeling the gray wolf." "I must apologize for my assistant's handicaps." "He has unusually long arms and an alarmingly small neck." "I agree it doesn't seem the right time of year to be acquiring a coat with such thermal efficiency." "It is the middle of fucking summer." "Christmas is always around the corner." "eh?" "a fucking double act?" "give us the price and then leave." "all in good time." "we have a very much sought-after affair... very glossy magazines." "are not to be trusted." "not because they're thinking but because they're junkies." "What?" "It's only fire." "Selling stolen fur coats in the middle of summer would not seem peculiar to the average junkie mind." "The famous but rare black bear." "Found in the dark mountains of Siberian CaIcutta." "eh?" "isn't it?" "And all of this could be yours for the staggeringly low.... hello." "It's Archy." "come up." "Open up." "Iive-o." "fuck off." "The Wild Bunch have had to put extra money on top to ignite Lenny's contacts." "Lenny's magic wand can make Bob's legal paperwork mysteriously disappear." "Fred?" "Arch." "Mumbles." "Arch." "Archy." "One Two." "Arch." "I see you brought your biggest gorilla with you." "That's very unkind." "One Two." "do you?" "Fred." "Everything all right?" "good as gold." "Good." "where is it?" "can't you smell it?" "I can't." "we could make a team." "Arch?" "this is for you." "You buy yourself a new pair of football boots or something." "Really?" "ain't you?" "ladies." "They say there are only two days you enjoy a boat." "The day you buy it and the day you sell it." "that sounds about right." "What are you gonna do?" "Beauty is a cruel mistress." "I must remember that line." "Be my guest." "Can I pour you a glass?" "No." "Thank you." "I like you." "I like the way you are." "very professional." "isn't it?" "Tell me about your husband." "My husband is a lawyer." "I hear he's very good at what he does." "Maybe we can have some work for him." "what do you do for fun?" "Have I offended you in some way?" "you're my employer." "why would I be offended?" "Victor?" "This is what I am talking about." "This is what I like about this country." "They understand hierarchy." "and everyone gets along." "back to business." "We have had security problems." "And to cut a long story short I need another 7 million euros lost in the books." "I'm the best at what I do." "I couId certainly cover some of that money... tsk." "...but even I can't hide 7 million from the tax man." "But if you are so good...." "You devil." "Let me think about it." "There are some options I've tried to leave open." "Thank you." "cheer up." "What have I got to cheer up about?" "I'll be locked up in an 8-by-10 tomorrow night." "okay?" "So tonight is takeoff time." "my man." "We got a couple of grams of hurry up and four Jack the Rippers." "We've got the Harris twins." "Probably the most expensive escort girls ever to have escorted." "Got the night off from the Russians and they have been greased down just for the Bobski." "it's just...." "What?" "It's just what?" "You wouldn't understand." "that's not fair." "I'd understand anything coming from you." "Would you?" "you're my best mate." "One Two." "Okay." "I want you." "Dirty bastard." "You dirty bastard." "all of them." "you wouldn't understand." "I wouldn't understand that you're a fucking homo?" "You're Handsome Bob." "that's who you are." "Bob?" "man." "You've seen my fucking cock." "I should have just kept my mouth shut." "you should have kept your mouth shut." "We should've just gone and done the strippers like Handsome Bob would've done." "You should drown the cat instead of letting it out." "not you." "Not fag Bob." "I am so sorry." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "all right?" "I went over the top a bit." "Bob." "It was a bit of a broadside." "It's fine." "It's fine." "you know." "I don't know if I can handle it." "Bob." "there's nothing wrong with being a poof or being a gay..." "I don't know." "there's gonna be plenty of your lot in there." "You'll probably love it." "God." "What--?" "What exactly is it that you...?" "Bob?" "come in." "You want a drink?" "Archy." "Not till the sun's past the yard hour." "isn't it?" "Scandinavian pine posing as English oak." "that." "Ooh." "whistler." "Come again?" "master of hounds." "Is that right?" "You know a man's cultured when he's got a Whistler on the wall." "Go on." "Archy?" "big black bastard." "Arch." "Nothing gets past the old think tank." "Nothing." "So I thought I'd fire a few questions into the right direction." "Thought I'd come see you because it looks like I got news about your painting." "yeah?" "Yeah." "let me tell you how this works." "and I'm gonna have a cup of tea." "Beneath your feet is the famous river Thames." "I just hope for your sakes you can hold your breath for as long as it takes my kettle to boil." "just one question." "You're gonna give me a name." "And if it's the right name I'm gonna send you home warm and dry in a fresh set of clothes." "you'll be fed to the crayfish." "these crayfish." "hungry bastards." "they've eaten the natives but they've still got room for more." "Charlie." "enjoy." "no." "They got money." "They stole the fucking money." "please." "no." "stop." "don't." "The American crayfish was introduced in the '20s." "if you like." "they didn't wanna leave." "Next 50 years... wiped them out." "they started eating each other." "Arch." "It's blind." "And it doesn't know when to stop." "That's why I'm here." "To keep order." "hose him down." "who's got that painting?" "One name." "Johnny." "Johnny Quid." "the Quid Lickers." "has it?" "he's not dead." "he just tried selling us that painting and he changed his mind." "for fuck's sake." "put him back in before I shoot him." "I know who he is." "We went to school together." "I wouldn't lie to you." "I don't lie." "I've never lied in my life." "please just let me go." "I don't wanna get.... can I have a word?" "I really wouldn't lie to you." "is he?" "Don't you dare call him my boy." "your stepson." "didn't he?" "that cockroach." "he's poison." "the next world war will have his name written all over it." "you go see if you can find them two flash idiots that used to be his manager." "What are they called?" "Greek and Minnie?" "whatever." "they can." "you're not listening to what I'm saying." "That's exactly what I do." "Mickey." "I need the fucking dry ice." "My show just doesn't work without it." "hold on a second." "If you would've asked me yesterday for dry ice I would've got the driest ice the world could find but you didn't ask me." "You asked me for two cases of Johnnie Walker Black Label... didn't I?" "Yes." "I do confess." "I'm the rocker." "You got on the hat." "Why don't you just pull something out of it?" "My hat is deep and full of magic." "handkerchiefs and ladies of the pole drinking black Label." "bubble machines... and still the hat goes deeper." "All right?" "But there ain't no motherfucking dry ice." "Okay." "You made your point." "might be quite nice to have some dry ice." "You read this?" "What?" "they said." "they say." "Our Johnny?" "How many rock stars by the name Johnny Quid do you think there are in the universe?" "Only thing he fell off is his junkie spoon." "He's no deader than them shoes you got on." "happy as a clam in a fisherman's net." "how dead is Johnny?" "that's the third time this year." "Rockers like that never die." "They just wither and give me pain." "boy." "Listen." "neither did your real dad." "You're a reject." "A wrong and a fucking fairy in the mirror that I inherited from your mom." "so it's just you and me." "you're going back to school." "I might add." "And then you'll be gone for a whole term." "show some gratitude and keep the fucking music down." "John." "Jog it on." "Pete." "The painting's got me." "Pete." "It gets you." "You'd get a good few notes for that." "You wouldn't understand." "Why not?" "Pete." "You're in need of a good education." "That's what you need." "did he?" "And that's why you're on the gear." "The gear is your surrogate father." "is this shrink time?" "Pedro." "doctor." "I'll be your dad if you feel a bit of regression coming on." "we need a drink in our hands." "My dad used to make me watch Bonanza every Sunday after church." "that's got to have done some damage." "nuns and cowboys." "You think?" "It wasn't all bad." "He sometimes made me laugh too." "now we're onto something." "Did he ever interfere with you?" "touch you inappropriate-like." "if that's what you mean." "there's a technical term for that scenario." "There is?" "MonsteroustickaIotis." "You what?" "Your dad was a tickling monster." "that's my drink." "sing-along." "and stop calling me Pedro." "Oi." "boy." "I'll have you and your girlfriends." "I'll do the lot of youse." "Do I not look like a pothouse?" "Six foot down the bar." "fuck off." "Pete?" "Yeah." "It's all in the eyes." "I shit them." "Mickey." "but they couldn't be stopped." "I think they just wanted" "Just wanted to have a chat." "Mickey." "June." "Why don't you go have another lunch?" "babe." "We can have it together." "sorry to intrude." "don't they?" "Litchi." "Iitchi." "Mm." "It's tasty and exotic." "A bit like your June." "Thanks." "Can we help you?" "Yeah." "You got an act called the Quid Lickers." "yeah." "And there's a singer called Johnny Quid." "There was." "I'd like to see Mr. Quid." "but that's gonna be tricky." "According to the papers the only songs Mr. Quid's gonna be singing are hymns." "And I shed a tear." "I shed a tear for all those bone tops that read the papers and believe that shit." "But did you see his body?" "Did you see him smacked up and cracked up with his tongue on his chin and his cock in his hand swinging from the rafters like a real RocknRolla?" "did you?" "did they?" "Because he ain't dead." "selling cockles and mussels and a very important painting that doesn't belong to him." "what does this have to do with us?" "You have 12 licenses within a jurisdiction which I control." "do what I tell you." "I can tell what you're thinking now." "there's not much you can't do." "Tinkerbell." "You'll never sing the same If your teeth ain't your own" "so you guys are gonna take care of him?" "gangsters?" "That's not my style." "So do us all a favor before you catch a cold." "There he is." "You were missed in court this morning." "is it?" "Not turning up to your amigo's funeral." "except you." "And I got the feeling that the only person that Handsome really wanted to see there was you." "Fred?" "out with it." "leave it." "We all know how much you loved Bob." "loved Bob?" "Guess who." "Prosecution lost the paperwork." "I'm offski." "Case is closed." "Five years." "You're supposed to be in fucking.... phone for you." "One Two?" "you remember." "understood?" "All right." "Good." "How did you get this number?" "I can get any number." "don't I?" "and two to tell me what's on your mind." "and he needs some smarties." "but I thought you might know someone." "not my thing." "And I've got a bit of work for you." "You can bring your friends." "Lots of interesting people there." "great and the good." "All right." "Let me see what I can do." "Okay?" "I must say." "I suppose you're wondering why you are here." "I assume you just wanted to check that everything was kosher my end." "I was surprised when you didn't come through at the appropriate time." "I reckon you must have your reasons." "I understand that." "And I wouldn't like things to go wrong either which brings me conveniently to my next point." "my lucky painting... things have not been so lucky." "I know this is a rude request because we have not concluded our business but I feel as though I need it." "Yeah." "Fucking hell." "He's given you that bar tan again." "Arch." "it fucking ain't all right." "He wants his painting back." "His lucky painting." "Painting?" "That is a bit of a problem." "You should've seen his eyes." "they changed color." "They went fucking red." "this lot." "They could buy up half of London without breaking a sweat." "You're small-time." "we'd be ether." "I'll cut your fucking tongue out." "I run this town." "You got that?" "Me." "let him raise a finger because I'll tear his fucking arm off." "do you?" "I understand that." "How about that?" "Johnny Quid's daddy." "Mm." "How did that go under the radar?" "Why doesn't anybody know?" "Would you want anyone to know if that was your dad?" "Would we have signed him if we would've known?" "I know what." "anything." "some token of effort." "you have to see Cookie." "Who are you?" "My name's Cookie." "You must be with Stella." "we're the SWAT team." "you better get swatting." "This is gonna be a scream." "Tallyho." "get them in." "Come here." "Why me?" "Because you look like one of them." "Take that chewing gum off your feet before you start dancing." "boys." "So who the man?" "I think that's your cue." "Who's got the gear?" "Think I'll have a little dance first." "go on." "Look at the girls." "Bob?" "and I didn't have any plans." "I thought I was gonna be locked up." "So I thought I'd come and celebrate." "Bob." "between you and I... all right?" "It happened because you're supposed to be going to prison today." "anybody.... gentlemen." "Hi." "Fuck" "Help yourselves to drinks." "yeah." "Go that way." "She's nice." "Go that way." "you know what I mean?" "All right." "Drink?" "Dance?" "You're a dancer?" "Am I a dancer?" "Shall we set the record straight?" "and his dad before him." "it percolated through the old DNA." "You're not joining me?" "Sure." "I like to dance." "No." "I'm Bertie. lt's my party." "So you're part of the Wild Bunch?" "Stella says you're dangerous." "I am dangerous." "Is your friend part of the Wild Bunch?" "No." "He is the Wild Bunch." "yeah?" "then?" "I'm a criminal lawyer." "And I know a secret about your part of town." "Bertie?" "You have an informer in your neck of the woods." "What's his name?" "You have to pay for secrets." "is it?" "What's your price?" "I am dangerous." "I want to meet the wild Bunch." "See that man sitting on the sofa?" "the queen who's screwing me out." "Yeah." "It's a bit hard to miss him." "Do me a favor." "who do you think I am?" "he's a bigtime lawyer who reckons he knows about an informer in our part of town." "you were facing a five-stretch." "ain't it?" "Mm-hm." "Hey." "How you doing?" "All right." "So we got another job on again." "Yeah?" "Same one as before." "I tell you." "I hear you have a secret." "you have more than one." "I don't want to talk about work." "then we can talk about anything you want." "I gotta get myself a breath of fresh air." "Catch you" "I owe you one." "This lot are doing more bugle than a brass section." "Cookie." "Yeah." "poems." "not just a pretty face." "How'd you know about those sort of things?" "Give me your mobile." "What?" "You heard me." "Do as you're told." "Ooh." "That's nice." "and I'll tell you all about it." "All I need is some paperwork." "sing-along." "Where's the rush?" "All right." "What's wrong?" "Get that Archy on the phone." "I think we got a problem." "What?" "How much is it gonna cost if we shut down tonight?" "three hundred" "All right." "Go out there and see what's going down." "what do you think you're doing?" "What do you think?" "We're trying to get in." "wasters." "my good man." "Mr. Archy." "you can't shut us down." "We got an act on." "And I'm interested?" "We got a band on-stage right now." "Find him." "I understand." "but I have to keep the club open." "You hear that shit?" "junkies." "Iookie but no touchy." "you slag." "He is absolute class." "I gotta keep the club open." "We got 400 people in here." "John. I'm happy." "eh?" "no." "boy?" "I'd Iike to make a complaint." "What's your name?" "before I grind your bones to make my bread." "night." "man." "It's a damn revolution going on outside." "No shit." "we gotta go find Cookie." "stick them in the revolver." "should slow them down." "And they won't know the difference." "and" "I don't wanna use Bob." "What?" "I don't want to use Bob." "He's our driver." "The Wild Bunch is not complete without the driver." "No." "then?" "there is something about Bob that I don't think you know." "then?" "That he's a poof?" "everyone knows he's a flamer." "You're the only one that doesn't." "No." "He likes the boys." "mate." "What the fuck are you talking about?" "he fucking did." "what's the problem?" "It was supposed to be his last night." "You took care of him." "That's what friends do for one another." "Well done." "And I won't tell the chaps." "What the fuck do you mean?" "You won't tell the chaps what?" "what did you do?" "Did you suck his--?" "all right?" "What the fuck is going on here?" "What?" "Did you suck his--?" "You must have touched him." "No." "hold on." "Mumbles?" "that's all." "Was it a slow dance?" "What has he done to me?" "I think there is something you should know about our Bob." "Who do you think looked after your mom before she died when you was doing a two-stretch?" "and I'm your best fucking pal." "it was Bob." "Bob was around there six times a week making sure she was looked after." "You tore your mom's heart out when you went away." "Bob did his best to put it back." "Mr. One Two." "If I could be half the human that Bob is at the price of being a poof I'd think about it." "you know?" "what do you fucking think?" "That joke was a lot funnier when I told it to you last week." "Cookie?" "would you mind?" "On your toes." "Five minutes." "Hey." "We need to know where Johnny Quid is." "but isn't he--?" "you know and I know that nothing killed Johnny." "you've been fucking his life up for the past five years." "show our boy a little love." "Roman?" "It's an unpleasant place called curl up and die." "Might sound like a hair salon..." "I can tell you." "and a horrible sound listening to a man sucking his soul through the hole in the pipe." "And even worse when he tries to tear it back." "and I've done that." "and he has done that." "And then I nailed that demon in a smoke-proof coffin." "And I did it all with Johnny." "I love that man." "He's what you call class." "you'd love him too." "his music sales have gone up a thousand percent in two weeks." "the crackhead knows that a rocker is worth more dead than alive." "isn't it?" "Mr. Quid does not get his gear from me." "He has to travel far and wide." "But do leave me your number." "And if the dead feels like calling you'll be the first to know." "I'll have the painting for you in a couple of days." "I was keeping it safe." "And then Archy goes and loses the key." "Arch?" "but I've got this payment tonight and if there's any chance of having the money.... then?" "Len." "Something wrong with these immigrants." "I don't trust them." "I think we're being set up." "but something is wrong." "I can smell it with my sniffer." "He doesn't have the balls or the brains." "backhanding crook." "I think he's trying to make fool out of you." "Adjourn the meeting." "you're a mess." "There you go." "Are you all right?" "I hope." "long straw." "Thank you." "So you don't wanna know what happened?" "put it." "Cut it." "I know what happened." "Don't go in there." "Mumbles." "Mace him." "Hollandaise?" "I see you ordered already." "You were late." "The bastard's gonna hit me." "MumbIes." "What?" "you idiot." "What?" "I can't move my" "What?" "this way." "Shouldn't you have taken precautions?" "Precautions?" "Did you see that?" "What happened?" "God." "isn't it?" "What are these guys made of?" "I didn't realize." "Realize?" "You didn't realize that they had guns?" "dangerous machine guns." "With war criminals attached to the trigger." "stay down." "Just fuck off." "Get out of the fucking way now." "darling?" "okay?" "Fucking hell." "Shit." "hold up." "my.... fucking hell." "Abandon ship." "Run for your lives." "Come on." "Come on." "you dirty bastard." "sweetheart." "You're way too dangerous for me." "the limp was good." "She's a wild one." "boy-o." "Bob." "Archy." "he answers." "That's the deal." "there he is." "Councillor." "Councillor." "I'll see you at lunch." "Something wrong with your telephone?" "I'm sorry." "ShouIdn't I be here?" "not yours no matter what you and your pen-pushing immigrant boy scouts might think." "what's going on?" "Step in here." "I can't do it." "You've left it too long." "You want something the city has a ruling against." "They wouldn't give permission to build." "Don't give me that shit." "I see 20 buildings this city said they'd never build." "did they?" "sunshine." "It was backhanders putting them up." "Backhanders like mine." "Councillor." "He always has been." "So don't go getting cold feet." "I can't do it this time." "Lenny." "Lenny." "you yellow puddle of immigrant piss or I'll drown you in it." "Councillor?" "You don't think there's a paper trail for all those gifts?" "the swimming pools." "I own these bollocks." "they're more fragile than a pair of quail's eggs." "get it done." "Pedro?" "Come back here." "Where do you think you're going with that painting?" "or whatever you wanna call him." "John." "bad people." "The streets are alive with the sound of pain." "but I can't give it up." "You know why?" "No." "Why?" "Meet me in the pub in two minutes." "I'll have that painting in a couple of days." "You can trust me on that." "Good." "That's nice. I love a clear fairway." "That's a bit of me." "That is.... don't you?" "Uri." "But I don't understand it." "There's no one here." "That's because I have had the course cleared for us." "We are not going to be disturbed." "come to join us." "You see that pack of Virginia killing sticks on the end of the piano?" "Yes." "All you need to know about life is retained within those four walls." "Lenny?" "Every time I am about to make my payment something dishonest happens." "would you?" "You will notice that one of your personalities is seduced by the illusions of grandeur." "A gold packet of king size with a regal insignia." "An attractive implication toward glamour and wealth." "A subtle suggestion that cigarettes are indeed your royal and loyal friends." "is a lie." "Excuse me?" "Are you trying to say something?" "I'm not trying." "I am saying something." "Your other personality is trying to draw your attention to the flip side of the discussion." "is the statement... trying to kill you." "is the truth." "you insolent bastard." "you fucking immigrant." "beauty is a beguiling call to death and I'm addicted to the sweet pitch of its siren." "This is my land." "It's my fucking show." "I run this town." "Ah!" "Fuck!" "Ah!" "God!" "Ah!" "That that starts sweet ends bitter." "And that which starts bitter ends sweet." "Lenny." "your councilor." "is the ninth hole." "And it's a long crawl back to your car." "just in time to bring me my lucky picture." "I want it back." "Do you hear me?" "God." "Times change." "Lenny." "That is why you and I love the drugs and that is also why I cannot give that painting back." "pass me a light." "Mr. Johnny Quid." "Fucking junkies." "You're fucking useless." "I don't want your sort in here." "Get up out of here." "Fuck off." "Go piss off out the door." "Get off." "fuck off." "I'll buy this place." "you junkie." "fat boy." "Stay out and fuck off." "Ooh." "Bertie?" "What's happening about that drink?" "What's happening about that paperwork?" "but Monday looks good." "I'll leave the papers at my reception under your name." "Text you the address." "and I'll see you on Monday." "You are scary good at that." "or I'll slap you." "let's go pick up the paperwork from your boyfriend." "huh?" "I'm going back to bed." "Can I come?" "John?" "Letting creatures in my yard without my consent." "they're good stuff." "Scotch and Cockney." "Like the drink and the sparrow." "and this is my friend and colleague Paul." "like the Christian saint." "Paul doesn't say much." "He's too busy thinking deep thoughts." "John." "We know you." "We're big fans." "You're what they call a real RocknRolla." "on your way." "Bon voyage and fuck off." "a sit-down?" "A fucking demo?" "a demonstration of peace." "Where the fuck did you find these two junkies?" "now." "Pete." "you're on your own." "I'm sorry." "I just thought that you might've liked a bit of company." "Pete." "What does that tell you?" "It tells you that dead people don't like company." "I'll tell them to leave." "you fucking well will." "Smelly junkies." "Meeting adjourned." "sing-aIong." "it's not all that shocking." "Pete." "where's the painting?" "Good shot." "Good shot." "It's the werewolf brothers." "boys?" "Anything good?" "please exhibit to the audience the fine artifact." "we are entering the realm of the ancient art form of paint on canvas." "I'll have it." "How much?" "sir." "There's a pitch which comes with this painting." "I don't want the pitch." "I said I'll have it." "sir." "Is it?" "boys." "Have a week in the snow." "gentlemen." "It's been a pleasure." "me man." "Hey." "what is it?" "I'm in a bit of a rush." "yeah?" "I found your painting." "Now I found out who's been taking Lenny's money." "Mr. Darcy." "don't fuck about." "Who is it?" "Let myself in." "Thought your lady might like the painting." "Cookie." "Hello?" "It's me." "Who's me?" "Me." "Ah." "what do you want?" "You." "Oh." "then." "Yup?" "We found out about our informer." "I've got it in my hand right now." "the one who's responsible for all the time we've been seeing." "then?" "Who the fuck is Sidney Shaw?" "you idiot." "They never use their real name." "okay?" "All right." "Where did he learn a word like pseudonym?" "huh?" "Good as new." "I have to go now." "So you fancy sharing some dancing lessons with me later on in the week?" "A bit of the old salsa?" "I'll take you up on that." "I have something for you." "Uh-huh." "Thought you might like it because I know how much you like paintings and all." "So you like it?" "Mr. One Two." "Oh.... they broke my leg in four places." "Didn't you hear?" "That bastard's made me limp for the rest of my days." "What do you want me to do?" "Arch." "don't you worry." "I think I can do better than that." "What?" "Someone has been at the Russian's money." "Couple of silly gunslingers." "who?" "You know them." "Arch." "Who is it?" "Bob and One Two." "Johnny's not here." "But the pipe is." "boys." "will you please relay the message to Johnny?" "paid us a visit." "Shut down a few of our venues." "Intends to shut down a few more unless Mr. Quid puts in an appearance." "Roman?" "You're madder than I am." "Johnny." "Come back home." "Johnny will come quietly but you may have a couple of problems with the pipe." "Buy us both a cup of tea." "we'll let Pete sleep on." "One Two?" "we can always come back a bit later." "Mr. Cole?" "come here." "Mr. Cole." "before you drive me mad." "it's me." "Archy." "I've got the boys wrapping up One Two in a carpet now." "Get over here." "I'll be around in a Iittle bit." "Good." "hold on." "it's us." "Come up." "And it looks like I'll be bringing the others and all." "are they?" "hold on." "it's all go on this job." "we got your boy." "What's left of him." "You might wanna hose him down." "He smells like a rotten goat." "Uri." "I'm sorry." "Victor." "wait here." "even more." "God knows how much this one will cost us." "you're so cheap." "Can I come in?" "but I have something for you." "A token of my appreciation." "What's this for?" "please do not be insulted but you have come to mean a lot to me and I value much more than just your service." "This is simply just a reflection of my appreciation." "I would like to ask you something personal." "Would you marry me?" "I think I might need a couple of days." "Just to think about it." "sure." "Of course." "Sorry." "I'm busy." "A very nice painting." "How long have you had it?" "Years." "Do you like it?" "is it not?" "please come to join us." "Arch." "just like the old days." "What is it today?" "The rack?" "The garrote?" "Or is it the old drowning-in-crayfish trick?" "Johnny." "You're looking a bit down." "Has that old clown been working you long hours?" "You always were loyal." "There's no dog like a loyal dog." "boys." "ain't he?" "that's what four years inside does to a man." "It eats away at his soul... it makes a man quite scary." "You ever wonder how you got in there?" "What grass informed on you?" "Archy." "Johnny boy." "Look at you." "Dave." "Don't you look the part." "uncle Arch." "I told the boys all about it." "Don't be cheeky." "Get in the car." "Give us your money." "in the car." "Be good boys because you never know who's watching." "then?" "Anyone I know?" "Anyone famous?" "Handsome Bob." "One Two." "I bet you could operate a nice gas shower." "I couId see you with a couple of S's on your collar." "or you will get hurt." "is the famous Archy slap." "You shut it." "you poisonous little toad." "Arch." "I'm only little." "Get out." "Roll them out." "Daddy." "Nice wheels." "Sorry about the painting." "I needed the cash for a bit of the old dusty show biz." "So it's gone now." "stoned no-hopers." "Never to be seen again by the eye of a clean soul." "if you are not poison?" "Your dad couldn't even bear to look at you." "So no wonder he fucked off and left me to pick up the pieces." "But that wasn't enough for you." "You had to push your mom into a bottle of pills and a house full of nutters." "And all she got there was a hot bath and a cold razor." "Why?" "that's why." "What can I say?" "no-gooder." "You should never have wasted your money on that school." "get him out of here." "I've had enough of him." "I don't trust myself." "Use someone else." "It's a gathering." "I love a gathering." "One Two." "all the old faces today." "And it was all going so well." "Except for Archy." "Had to ruin the day." "Daddy." "I thought I'd tell him the story about how you grassed him up." "fuck!" "Len." "calm down." "give us that." "Daddy?" "it should've been higher." "come here." "You're only 6 feet away." "Come here." "you understand?" "Get rid of him." "You don't know how much trouble you've caused but please understand that I will kill you very slowly if you don't tell me where my" "Archy." "The address is in my jacket." "it's in my jacket." "What does it say?" "Len?" "it can be quite flexible." "Because every time an informer... a secret Ietter stands witness as to the cooperation and efficiency of that informer." "And if that informer provides adequate information then that dog of dogs is magically released." "A sort of get-out-of-jaiI-free card." "And it comes with a very good alibi." "you give us the names of the people you want put down and we'll get them the long sentences." "You can appear to reduce those terms through your contacts." "We'll make you look like a fucking guardian angel to the underworld." "Trusted throughout." "The only evidence that will ever remain of this deal and hard-to-come-by legal document called a secret dept." "As in deposition or handlers sheet." "the informer always uses a false name." "What name do you Iike?" "Johnny?" "Tommy?" "You can have elvis fucking presley if you fancy." "But I've seen this name many times over the last 20 years." "And I always wondered...." "Len?" "Nothing to do with you." "What name do you like the sound of?" "I like Sidney." "I like the sound of that." "Sidney Shaw." "Sounds a bit like an actor." "Mr. Sidney Shaw." "Archy." "Sidney." "You are a very dirty bastard indeed." "get them out of here now." "fellas." "Nothing's gonna happen while we're standing in the lift." "They'd have to carry the corpses over to the cars and that's too much like hard work." "when we're all walking along happily Danny boy over there is gonna turn and pop me two in the head." "Then one in the throat just to be sure." "fellas." "You're just gonna end up as witnesses." "Once they've "dealt" with us they're gonna put our corpses in the boot of a stolen car and pour 6 gallons of petrol on top." "I can let your imagination fill in the rest." "Danny boy is rattled." "Because he knows that you know." "So he's gonna fire." "pass me the gun." "Mickey." "he's got no head." "fellas?" "Put your fucking hands up." "John?" "come on." "is it?" "10 years." "Fred the Head." "Fred the Head." "for a bank job he's about to pull." "Here's the time and here's the place." "15 years." "just a two-stretch to calm the flash fucker down." "you bastard." "so give him a three." "eight years." "14 years." "14 years." "but he's getting a bit greedy." "Four years." "Four years for Archy." "four long fucking years." "There is no spring without a winter." "No life without death." "And the demise of Lenny has blown a new season into the lungs of young Johnny." "Mr. Sidney Shaw." "Johnny boy." "You feeling better?" "I was." "Until I saw youse twos." "I gave it all up." "All but these little bastards." "give us a cuddle." "Welcome home." "I can do better than that." "show him his welcome-home present." "you got me another coffin?" "cruel world." "I thought that would look good on your wall." "Arch." "that must've been expensive." "it did cost a very wealthy Russian an arm and a leg." "I see your music's back in the charts." "that was when I was a RocknRolla." "John?" "You wanna watch out... uncle." "Now I'm gonna be a real RocknRolla."