"(REGGAE MUSIC PLAYING)" "Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see." "Good advice." "People will try and convince you of anything." "Anything can be the start of a conversation." "do you have the time?" "(LAUGHTER) you laugh." "It's an oldie but a goodie." "Hotels are a great hunting ground." "they're ready to chitchat." "Get their ear." "Give them a sob story." "Then hit them with a worst-case scenario." "(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)" "yeah." "Best bird dog I think I ever had." "do you happen to have the time?" "8:45." "You guys here on vacation?" "we're up for pheasant season." "Oh." "Trying to figure out whether to blow the day at the Potawatomi Museum or the indoor water park." "Neither." "(MEN LAUGHING) was." "A buddy went shooting quail and accidentally hit him squarely in the face." "Took his whole left cheek right off." "he ended up suing the guy for $1 .2 million." "his car." "he was out in the woods somewhere living in a cardboard box." "All because of an accident." "That's a guy who could have used a little liability coverage." "Hey." "Congrats on the award." "Whatever." "It means zip." "What I'd really like is Phil Peters' award out there." "Look at him." "That guy tops a million dollars in sales 'cause he's got a half dozen people bird-dogging for him." "So?" "It's an off year." "You'll bounce back." "you know?" "I saw the brochure." "They're going all out for the 50th." "That's where you wanna make it." "you know?" " Let's go." " Oh." "Gotta go." "Yeah." "you folks have a safe trip." " Thanks." "Careful on those icy roads." "You have change for a vending machine for a 50?" "Stay away from the corn nuts." "I know a guy who broke his jaw on one." "(SCOFFS) yeah. (LAUGHS) this is a thrill for me." "How are you?" " You were at the convention?" " Yeah." "it's great to meet you." "Too bad." "You let him get away." "no." "He's a colleague of mine." "I'll give it to him later." "if you're not seeing him till later how about putting it to good use right now?" "I just lost 40 bucks in the slots." "I could use some more cheering up." "(INDISTINCT) here." "how much farther is it?" "(SHERRI GIGGLING) hey." "Hi." "Sherri." "He's a winner!" "(LAUGHS) so... (SHERRI GIGGLING)" "MICKEY:" "I'm just gonna help her walk it off." "(MAN SCOFFS)" "here's the bathroom." "a suite. (GIGGLES)" " Yeah." "Fancy." "Whoo!" "(GIGGLES)" " See?" "You are a winner." " Yeah." "Mini bar." "Oh." "No." "They charge you an arm and a leg for that." "Don't open it." "(CLATTERING)" "All right." "I got an early morning meeting." "Okay?" "I think you mentioned you had a friend who could come and pick you up?" "(GIGGLING) I gotta call it a night." "okay?" "Come on." " Oh. (COUGHS) - (GIGGLING) time to go." "That's it." "Okay." "Whoa!" "All right." "this isn't a good idea." "I'm telling you." "It's... (SHUSHING)" "Huh." "God." "Oh." "shit." "Didn't realise you had a security problem here." "Good thing you got my credit card on file." "I had my wallet stolen from my room last night." "sir." "I'll just get the manager for you." "Maybe your homeowners will cover it." "Jesus Christ. $4.50 for a Diet Coke." "I feel like I've been robbed twice." "too." "though." "My trip paid off." "I got a job offer." "Which is great because I've been hoping to move back so my wife can be closer to her parents." " Mr Prohaska." " Yeah." "You're in luck." "We found your wallet in the casino." "thanks." "She?" "I'm assuming it's one of the maids that works here." "Nice of her to clean out my wallet as well." "look." "I still got a few twenties." "Um... take that for your trip. and you can just mail it back to me whenever you get a chance." "Bob Egan." " Yeah." "Sure." " Thank you." "look." "Better say goodbye to my new boss." "huh?" "yeah." "I'm actually in the market for a new hire myself." "you are?" "You sounded like you had a pretty thriving business going in there." "I'm surprised." "I got about a half dozen agents working for me." "Some of the best in the state." "We've had a hell of a year." " Yeah." "Well..." " Where'd you say your in-laws live again?" " Racine." " Racine?" "that's up near my territory." "Mind me asking how much he's offering you?" "until I get my state licence which I feel like is a pretty good deal because I'm the new guy in the office." "You're letting him take that much?" "5%." " 5%?" " Yep." " Sounds like a good deal." " Yeah." "(LAUGHS) okay." " Okay." "Mickey." "I brought you in some more liability forms." "Happy to keep sending them in under my name until you're licensed." "thank you." "That is terrific." "I gotta find out when the next exam is." "study up." "My secretary says it's gotten a lot tougher." "She's been taking classes just to prepare." "yeah?" "Is she gonna start selling for you?" "(SCOFFS) Karla?" "I don't know about that." "She's better at the knicky-knack little details." "Following up on paperwork and so forth." "Female brain." "yeah." "I should just come by the office next time." "I'd love to meet everybody." "Our sales guys are barely in." "This is the new office." "We do most of our sales by the telephone and the rest of the time we're out networking." "you should think about joining some clubs." "(BOB SHIVERING) ever." "winter and road works." "that's a nice car." "It's pretty easy to spot." "my initials." "Some son of a bitch got there first." "I stopped by and saw that trucker off Route 45." "I hope he made the long drive worth it for you." "but we actually found out that he could do better with an outfit he already trucks for." "Bob." "truth of it he didn't have that much to spend." "But he did introduce me to a neighbour of his who's looking for a full homeowners package." "He's a sweet old man." "He's a retired farmer." " I'm actually going out there." " Be careful of seniors." "They'll keep you out there all day just to have somebody to talk to." "you know." "He's just wavering on the amount of coverage." "we don't wanna have him over-insured." "There's no such thing." "(KNOCKING ON DOOR) he's older." "I don't wanna waste any more of your time." "I'll come back next week." "to come out help me try to close." "Crappy job shovelling." "This is an accident waiting to happen." "you know?" "Bob?" "Nice to see you." "Frank." "this is Frank Richie." "This is the guy that asked me about the truck insurance." "oh." "Mickey Prohaska." "Hi." " Nice to meet you." "thanks for your help." "You saved me a good 200 bucks." "You fellas here to meet with Gorvy?" "but he doesn't seem to be in." "come on in." "Maybe he's asleep." "(PHONE LINE BEEPING)" " He must be outside with his dog." " It's chilly here." "he keeps the temperature low." "Doesn't like to waste." "MICKEY:" "I can see that." "some of these things are his sister's." "I brought them down after she went into the nursing home." "I told him I'd find out if any of it was worth anything." "I did some trucking for an auctioneer." "He told me a guy once paid 100 grand for a rug." "right?" "This rug might be worth a small fortune." "this is not working the way they promised." "I was hoping more uranium or gold." "I find two quarters and a rail road spike." "(FRANK LAUGHS)" "I tried to call you." "hang your phone up." "hello." " Do I know these people?" " (BOB LAUGHS)" " I'm Bob Egan." "I met you the other day." " Nice to meet you." " Mickey Prohaska." "Hi." " Hi." "Nice to meet you." "Want to come in?" "I could make some coffee." "I can't stay." "Did you get a chance to take those pictures?" "I took pictures of Petey." "No." "I meant the pictures for the auctioneer." "I'm doing a run for him this week." "I was upstairs." "I took everything down so I could see them." "look what I found." "Snow shoes." "I've always wanted to try those." "take them." "I got no use for them no more." "I'll let you folks do your business." "Gorvy." " Okay." "guys." "Bye." "we might as well sit down." "What do I need insurance for?" "to protect your valuables." "I don't got no valuables except for Petey." "Do you sell dog insurance?" "but we do protect property." "And we insure with liability coverage." "Have you ever thought what might happen out there on your front porch if somebody were to slip and get hurt?" "nobody comes here much except Frank with cleats." "he's okay." "What about the mailman?" "your dog there were to bite him?" "He could sue you for a lot of money." "No." "He's a nice guy." "He wouldn't sue nobody." "if you like." "we should probably get going." "I'm okay." " Thank you." "but I'm not sure." "Can you deal with the guy in the back there?" " Mmm-hmm." " Thanks." "(JO ANN SCOFFS)" "You can't keep letting the mail pile up at our house." "(WHISPERING) Have you told anybody we're separated?" "(SOFTLY) What am I supposed to say?" "You've been out of the house for two months." "I know." "I really miss you." "This paying for two places is killing me financially." "I may have to take out a second loan on the house." "If you need money so bad why don't you sell that car?" "Jo Ann." "I can't show up to a sales call driving a crappy car." "you went behind my back!" "We should've discussed it like married people." "Discuss what?" "Don Schmidt gave me a great trade-in on my car." "He's a policy holder." "you bartered with Shane's college fund?" "he's 14 years old." "You have four years to pay it back." "be mad at Ed." "When's the last time that schmuck paid child support?" "please." " Hey." "Whoa." "Hey." "look." "Look at this." "Huh?" "Aruba." "That's where the convention is this year." "It's gonna be all warm and nice." "wouldn't it?" "I gotta get to work." "Shit." "What'd the Nice Night Inn want?" "They need a new credit card number." "The one they have for you is maxed." "We're out of coffee." "I asked you to get some more milk." "I am capable of doing more than just making coffee." "I could do anything." "Maybe this isn't the right job for me." "I gotta think about my future." "okay?" "I decided to make you chief financial officer." "You'll be handling all the bookkeeping from now on." "You can start with those." "not the agency's." "Karla." "What about my raise?" "Do you have any of that Christmas candy I gave you?" "we're gonna see if you can handle more responsibility." "okay?" "(PHONE RINGING)" "Prohaska Agency." "you must mean Bob." "you decided to buy a policy?" " Great." " That a sale?" "I'll take that." "Where..." "Where is the other guy?" "He was unavailable." "What made you change your mind?" "My TV's broken." "You told me that the insurance would take care of it." "it doesn't exactly work that way." "Besides you have to have a policy in order to file a claim." "that's why I called you over here." "I want to get a policy." "That's a very smart decision." "how much would this be?" "000." "000 for this?" "Nothing here is worth that much money." "You'd be very surprised." "It starts to add up." "000." "yeah." "This rug right here?" "For $100 a month you can protect it along with all your other belongings." "but I know a guy who came home from work one day and his house was gone." "Dust." "Gas leak." "Last thing I heard he was living out in the woods in a cardboard box." "I don't want me and Petey living out in the woods." "MICKEY:" "Mmm-hmm." " Not in this cold weather." " Mmm-hmm." "(SIGHS) you say?" " Yep." "Okay." "Here we go." "it might be better for you to put it in a cheque so you have a copy for your records." "yeah." "A cheque." "Right." " Yeah." "good." "I don't have a personal one but I do have one from the business." " That'll work." "Yeah." " Yeah?" "yeah." "The Golden Harvest account." "and I tell you... it's worth its weight in gold." "The corns these days..." "They use it for gasoline." "and just right there." " Yeah." " Okay." " Okay." "Good." "Go fix the TV now." "bills." "I'm so grateful for the attorneys at Hersh and McClennon." "It won't cost you..." "Okay." "You're all set." "I got everything I need here." "I'll just let myself out." "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "I'm glad you're here." "uh..." "I'm Leonard Dahl from Oscar Dahl and Sons." " The luthier." "The violin maker." " (STUTTERS) Mmm-hmm. but I could see from the neck and the scroll work that it's a promising instrument." "you want the homeowner." "Just a sec." "Gorvy?" "Mr Hauer?" "LEONARD:" "Is that it over there?" "Gorvy?" "you can't keep it by the door here." "very sensitive to temperature and humidity." "(GORVY SNORING)" "MICKEY:" "He's asleep." "you're gonna have to come back." "All right?" "He's asleep." "I can't come back." "I'm from Chicago." "I never get out here." " Sir." " How about a second here?" "Wait a minute." "Whoops." "Gotta fix." "Gotta fix." "(PLAYING VIOLIN)" "Okay." " It's got a really nice mature tone." " Great." "I gotta go." "wait a minute." "Could you hold that for me?" "Just..." "I'm gonna take a picture." "Okay." "Little higher. but I can match that." "I'll be out of here in a second." "I can match the varnish perfectly." "perhaps." "I'm gonna have to make the repairs first and my rates are very reasonable." "You're trying to squeeze the homeowner for some money?" "but you're barking up the wrong tree unless you wanna be paid in pennies." "Let's go." "you can't..." "You can't keep it there." "you need to keep her away from the mall." "I'll tell you that." "(PHONE RINGING)" "Because your premiums are gonna skyrocket." "Yeah." "(ANSWERING MACHINE BEEPS)" "I... my TV is not working again." "I think I need a new one instead of this insurance." "John?" " Hello..." " Hello?" "Yeah." "Are you sure it's not unplugged again?" "you don't wanna cancel your policy." "It's not processed yet." "I can be out there." "okay?" "Just sit tight." "Mr Hauer." "(GROANS)" "hey." "How long have you been here?" "I just got here." "Just here dropping off some of these auto policies so I brought her these." "yeah." "You just missed her." "She had one of her insurance classes today." "Look at all these awards you've won." "Wow." "we're all part of the operation." "Let me take the policy?" "where are you headed?" "one of my clients' wives had another fender-bender." "your wife doesn't drive a big wagon?" "no." "let me show you where the key is." "And the main door's open late." "my wife doesn't actually drive any more." "She started having these seizures." "That's why we moved back there to be with her parents." "I'm glad that's working out." "I don't know." "The plugs look good." "Here's the problem." "Past due." "Oh." "Gorvy." "God." "MICKEY:" "Wow!" "Looks like you're really gonna make some money on that violin." "I don't have no violin." "Gorvy." "All this stuff piled up." "Gotta get rid of some of this." "I do have a violin." "(GORVY LAUGHING)" "I didn't even know it." "It was staring me right in the face." "(STRUMMING) but a violin." "my stepson's really into music." "He might like this thing." "Pretty beat up." "Tell you what." "I'll give you $20..." "I'll give you 10." "I'll give you $10 for it." "I'll tell you what." "If you take me to the bank I will give you the violin for $10." "The bank's about to close." "We'll never make it." "we'll do it Monday." "we watch some TV." "We make a day of it." "It'll be safe here." "Good." "Okay." "We do it." "(EXHALES)" "Hi." "I wrote you a cheque." "I wanna replace all the money I took out of the account." "Mickey." "I'm sorry." "I really screwed up." "(CHUCKLES) it's freezing out here." "Mmm." "(CHUCKLING)" "Good to be back in my own bed." "Things are gonna be different this time." "Yeah." "No more secrets." "I just want you to be honest." "there's a cheque missing." "yeah." "I moved some money into Jo Ann and my joint account." "000." "that's almost the whole balance." "Price I had to pay in order to get back into my house." "I'm not spending another dime on motels." "you can't just take money without telling me." "I'm in charge of finances now." "I'm gonna pay it all back." "Karla." "GORVY:" "Wait till you see this." "This you've got to see." "come here!" "This will make you laugh." "Petey." "Good boy." " Good boy." "Good boy." " (PETEY WHINES)" "Look." "(PETEY BARKING) more singing." "Come sing." "(HOWLING)" "Oh." "It's heavy." "Must be over $100 in there." "(PANTING)" "Okay." "save me a place in line." "I have to go to the bathroom." "If you get to the front ask for Bill Morton." "Tell him it's for the Golden Harvest account." "Gorvy." "(GROANS) Oh!" "here." "Let me help." "Let me help you with that." "Here." "too." "Thought you were coming back in." "I went across the street to find a bathroom." "Then I met this nice man with the nice doggy." " Oh." " Oh!" "It's $122.41." "I knew there was more than $100." "And that includes the $10 I already gave you." " What?" " For the violin." "he wants to buy the violin." "He even wrote me a letter about it." "no." "We have a deal." "I'm taking the violin." " What?" " For my stepson." "he's all excited." "I'm taking it." "I don't know." "I have a fishing pole I can give him." "that's not the deal." "He doesn't want a fishing pole." "thanks. (CHUCKLES)" "Then what do I tell the man from Chicago?" "He's coming all the way to see it." "but the Tononi's not for sale." "I was sure that I mentioned that." "I'm so sorry if I didn't." "I have a buyer for it." "Could you just give me the best number to call you at?" "is that 773?" "Uh... that's terrific." "very much." "I will get right back to you." "bye-bye." "do you have an appointment?" "I'm here about the violin you wanted." "you're the guy from the farm in Wisconsin." "Mickey Prohaska." " Right." "Yeah." "I'm representing the seller. so he's asked me to handle the sale." "000." "I realise that." "That's why I'm here." "with all due respect." "Some of these violins are worth a lot more than that." "and some of them are worth a lot less." "And the one you're representing happens to be a very nice copy of a Stainer." "Jacobus Stainer's instruments were copied and reproduced all over Germany." "Right down to the handwritten signature inside the body of the violin." "Uh-huh." "You can show that to your client if you like." "yours happens to have an exceptional sound quality and it's also one of the better copies I've come across." "000 for it." "000?" "What happened to 25?" "I take a commission." "be my guest." "I warn you there's a lot of corruption out there." " And why should I trust you?" " This is a family-operated business." "We have survived for nearly 100 years because of our reputation and the quality of our work. he will allow no one else to even go near his instruments." " Is he the one who called about the Stainer?" " Stainer?" "No." "the buyer I have in mind for your violin is a musician." "The other guy has one of the largest privately owned string collections in the world." "No one knows exactly what he's got or how he's got them." "(CHUCKLES)" "There's a rumour going around that the Davidoff Strad is hidden away somewhere in his bedroom." "Supposedly it was stolen from some virtuoso's Manhattan pied-à-terre." "Who exactly is this guy?" "somebody who appreciates my discretion." "I can have the photos I took sent to a colleague for a second opinion." "And I'd appreciate it if you didn't sell it in the meantime and I'm happy to give you a 10% deposit in good faith." "Uh... what is the owner's name?" "he... he prefers cash." "Shane!" "open the door!" "my mom's really pissed." "get out of the way." "What the hell is going on?" "Maybe I should ask you the same question." "Is there anything that you feel like you need to tell me?" "What are you talking about?" "like..." "Did you meet a woman?" "God." "You've been..." "You've been talking to Judy Vandenhoevel." "She's..." "She's full of crap." "That woman she's talking about happens to be a customer." "the assistant manager was kind enough to send us this." "And I don't even wanna think about how your customer's earring ended up in your hotel room." "I..." "She... nothing happened." " (GRUNTS IN FRUSTRATION)" "Jo Ann." "I was robbed!" "I want you gone." "I mean it this time." "hey." "Wow." "You're here late." "I was just swinging by to drop off some of these policy forms for you to sign." "yeah." "Great." "Thank you." "you don't have to drive all the way out here for these." "You can always just fake my signature and that way you can turn them in to the home office yourself." "I had a terrific meeting with the manager over at Jimmy's Wholesale." "they were buying groceries." "I didn't realise that Gorvy had actually gone ahead and bought himself a policy." "yeah." "Just a small little package." "I'll let you know when the commission comes in." "It's nothing." "I was just happy he got himself some coverage." "I was worried about him out there all alone." "Yeah." "He's not alone." "He's got a dog. (CHUCKLES) that dog." " What am I gonna do about that dog?" " You don't like him either?" "she had a stroke." "he's gonna go out to Rhinelander to visit her and he doesn't know what to do with the dog." "so the dog's gotta be sent away?" "but my wife's allergic." "And it seems that Frank's gotta go on a big trip to Idaho." "I don't know." " I got a client who's got a kennel." " I'll call him." " You would?" "Gorvy." "You're gonna miss your bus." "They're gonna be waiting at the kennel for Pete." "I need my lozenges." "yeah." "(LAUGHING) he doesn't want to leave the violin." "where are you going with that?" "I'll hide it upstairs." "May I help you?" "I'm here to finish installing the security system." "I brought the other keypad the guy wanted." "I think you may have to come back." "We're actually just leaving." "no." "It'll be fine." "It'll only take a second." "(WHIRRING)" "Gorvy?" "Why is there a guy down here putting in an alarm system?" "When'd you decide to do that?" "at the supermarket the other day." "my rates would go down." "Why?" "Is he here?" "MICKEY:" "Yes." "GORVY:" "Oh." "will this go right through to the police when it's hooked up?" "yeah." "It's connected straight to the station." "um..." "I left my screwdriver somewhere around here when I installed it." "Thanks for your help." "okay?" "wait." " Did we put in the numbers?" " Yeah." "And once you press in the number you got three minutes to leave the house." "let's come on." "We got to go." " You want me to punch it in now?" " Yeah." "come on." "Come." "Good dog." "Warm up the car." "(BEEPING)" "we're having some trouble with this alarm." "there." "Hey." "What's the problem with the alarm?" "no problem." "I just need you to turn it off so I can get inside real quick." "I'm friends with the owner." "Left some insurance paperwork in there." "Gotta turn in Mr Hauer's policy or it'll lapse." "Oh." " Yeah." " Huh." "anyone can print these up." "You met me earlier." "Mmm-hmm." "Okay." "Tell you what." "Maybe it's worth an extra 20." "You think I'm stupid?" "Just 'cause I don't have a fucking suit?" "You businessmen." "too." "so thanks." "don't act so innocent." "I saw you try and steal that clock earlier." " Excuse me?" " Excuse me?" "You know exactly what I'm talking about." "motherfucker." "your fingerprints are all over that thing." "we'll call the cops and we'll see... we don't need the cops." "okay?" "(ALARM BEEPING)" "I know." "we gotta go!" "(SARCASTICALLY) I see you found your paperwork." "hi." "somebody is here." "Frank." "What are you doing here?" "I came over to check on the house." "Make sure all the doors are locked." "Oh." "I thought you were on a road trip." "It got delayed because of the weather." "Gorvy still here?" "no." "I had to get him down to the bus station." "He's good." "Who is this guy?" "Is everything okay?" "it's fine." "It's fine." "He's with me." "I am not." "Don't you try to pin this... what's going on here?" " Let me handle this." "I had to go up to get these papers earlier to get back to the office ASAP because I'm trying to get the place insured." "What's in the bag there?" "I knew this was not a good idea." "guys." "wait a minute." "You're not going anywhere." "it's got your name on it." "take it easy." "Calm down." " I'm calling the cops." "no." "Listen." "No." "No!" "No!" "Jesus!" "(SHOUTING) I said no cops!" "Will somebody please fucking listen to me?" "I didn't mean that." "I didn't mean to kill him." "I think this guy... (SIGHS) did you?" "You came here to rob the joint." "that's felony-murder." "pal." "You're as guilty as me." "I am not gonna go back to jail." "I am not gonna go back to jail." "I cannot go back to jail." "Okay." "(PHONE LINE BEEPING) or I'm gonna take you down with me." "You got it?" "All right." "let's think here." "Let's take a second here." "Let's fucking pause." "(YELLING) Would you hang up the fucking phone so I can think?" "we can't just leave him here because I turned off the alarm so I'm gonna be a suspect." "I got a blow torch in my van." "we're gonna light this place up." "no." "I know about arson investigations." "Don't." "You know about arson investigations?" "That's not a good idea?" "No?" "Really?" "You got a good idea?" "No?" "uh..." "Um..." "Ah!" "We'll dump him in a lake!" "You know?" "I got my ice fishing gear in my van." "Lakes around here they stay frozen until May." "right?" "Help me roll him up in the carpet." "he'll know it's missing." "Then start cleaning it or something." "I got a tent in my van." "We'll wrap him up in that." "wait." "I gotta reset the alarm." "Close the door." "Close the goddamn door." "Pop your trunk." "I don't want him oozing all over my van." "I sleep in it sometimes." "My trunk's full." "He'll never fit." "I got a lake up there." "hey." "Don't try to bail on me." "right?" "too." "What's so special about this fucking thing?" "It's a violin." "It has sentimental value." " Snow shoes." "That's how he got here." " What?" "Somebody's out there." "We gotta kill some time." "It's a slow sport." "Come on." "Let's go." "Hey." "Hey." "Hey." "hey." "all right?" "You're gonna act normal." "you're acting normal." "you know..." "We'll go in and get a beer." "Right?" "though. how long before someone notices?" "What?" "I don't know." "Maybe they won't." "He was a truck driver." "He was on the road a lot." "right?" "I didn't realise you had been to jail." "Yeah." "My cousin set me up." "Meth lab." "Blew up." "I took the fall for it." "Have you ever seen a meth lab blow up?" "Oh!" "You got to." "It's spectacular." "You have flames coming out everywhere. but it's nothing permanent." "We're good now." "have..." "Have you had the cheese curds here before?" "I love 'em." "Would you like one?" "I have plenty." "We picked a fucking nice night for this." "Do not just stand there right now." "You understand?" "Do something." "Untie him or you can dump him out while I'm doing some work." "do not freeze up on me." "jerk." "Don't go south." "here!" "Warm up!" "Calm down!" "Shit." "no." "(YELLS IN FRUSTRATION)" "All right." "we can't make that bigger." "That needs to get smaller." "Got it?" "pal." "That's a we job." "time for you to man the fuck up in your little suit there." "take it." " I can't." "you can." "And I guess I'm gonna start with the head maybe or the feet." "(WHIRRING) hey!" "There's DNA in that shit!" "Go back to the fucking car." "Puke in your own car." "Go!" "(WHIRRING)" "(COUGHING)" "Ah." "Did you hear something?" "I'm sick." "Thought I heard something." "(CLATTERING)" "Hey." "Keep your mouth shut." "(WHIRRING)" "(COUGHS)" "(VAN ENGINE STARTING)" "(CAR ENGINE STARTING) your landlord called and said your rent cheque bounced." "(PHONE RINGING)" "Prohaska Agency." "Hold on." "Some locksmith said he needs to talk to you right away." "I lost my keys." "Mickey." "The landlord's got my name as a reference." "I vouched for you." "Give him that." " Okay?" " Okay." "I'm not coming back before my class." "you know." "Hello." "go!" "Cover him!" "go!" "Right!" "shit!" "What's going on?" "and it is fucked up." "You got me rolling around with somebody's blood on my floor." "what am I supposed to tell him?" "What?" "Huh?" "Tell him I was cleaning fish or something." "You know what?" "It doesn't fucking matter." "too." "And I need a new tent." "And my Makita's all jacked up." "I gotta drive up to fucking Hurley to ditch it." "and I hate my stepbrother." "I need 5 grand from you." "Right now." "I don't have that kind of cash on me." "I think you better get it by Monday." "um..." "Yeah." "Okay." "she obviously screwed up." "So..." "I've been a card member for 20-something years." "so I can get some cash here." "That's..." "Can I speak to a supervisor?" "Okay." "I'm sorry." "Just..." "I'm desperate." "it's not my fault your credit cards are all maxed." "You're the one with the gambling problem." "000 you spent at the convention." "weren't you?" "Shit." "I had my wallet stolen when I was up there." "She must have used my credit cards while I was asleep." "God damn it!" "You gotta help me." "000." "you gotta help me." "I'm in real trouble here." "I know you have it in an account." "Mickey." "too." "when did you get so goddamn vindictive?" "You know what?" "I'm in real trouble here." "Okay?" "JO ANN:" "You did it to yourself." "MICKEY:" "Right here." "I just want the cash today." "Mickey." " Today." "I can't take it unless it's a trade-in." "We're already overstocked in this model." "Sorry." "(LOUD THUD)" "I gotta call you back." "everything's fine." "Mmm-hmm." "I don't have the money yet." "I need a little more time." "that's gonna be a problem." "000." "Are you really gonna try to jack with me?" "it comes from Germany." "it's German?" " Yeah." " I didn't realise it was German." " No." "do you think I'm stupid?" "Look at me." "Look at me." "Why would I have bothered to take this thing?" "Hmm?" "What am I supposed to do with it?" "it's yours." "That's yours." "But I work here." "You can't be here." "You need to go." "000?" " Yeah." "You better not be screwing with me." "Okay." "Hey." "Bob?" "auto policies." "did you get my note?" "I've been a little busy." "well..." " Yeah?" "I am glad that you got Gorvy Hauer an insurance policy." "I'm also glad that he got a security system." "what happened?" "he's got a very valuable violin at home." "Did he tell you that?" "no." "I stopped by the office a couple days ago. there was an appraisal of this violin." "Figured I'd let Gorvy know as soon as I found out." "um..." "God rest her soul." "But this news certainly seemed to cheer Gorvy up a bit." "I did all the paperwork." "It's all taken care of." "The violin is now insured for its full value." "you turned that in?" "I knew that you're gunning for Aruba." "you know?" "I'm picking Gorvy up tomorrow at the bus station." "He's coming back home." "I can't wait to get a look at that violin." "Huh?" "I'll get him." "I wanna congratulate him." "I got it." "What time's he get in?" "He gets in around 3:00." "can you imagine?" "Looking in your attic and finding a violin worth a million dollars?" "(CHUCKLES)" " A million dollars?" "What do you mean?" " $1 .25 million." "That's what the appraisal put the market value at." "000." "it's a good thing you asked for a second opinion." "I sent the photos I took to a colleague in London." "He's a leading authority on Stainer." "He's cited extensively throughout that book that I lent you." "Your violin dates back to the early 1600s." "It's an original." "It's not a copy." " You should've called me immediately." " Of course." "I tried." "so I sent you a fax." "my collector's in Europe." "He'll be back in a couple of weeks and he is prepared to pay you the full appraisal." "It's not for sale." "The owner changed his mind." " I gave you a security deposit in good faith." " Yeah." "can I get a cheque?" " We have a deal." " You agreed." " Karla!" "What's he gonna do with it?" "What's gonna happen?" "I can talk to him." " Thank you." " I'll explain." " You tell him to talk to me and I'll explain." " I have to get going." "you are sadly mistaken." "It's a cloistered world." " I'd like my book back." " Here." "(VIOLIN MUSIC PLAYING) guess what?" "I have a famous violin." "but I missed you." "yeah." "It was early." " Bob came and picked me up." " Oh." "Did Bob see the violin?" "but I didn't let him touch it." "that's very smart." " You shouldn't let anybody touch it." " Yeah." "I wouldn't even let anybody no." "Gorvy." "yeah." " Nobody can be trusted." "yeah." "a book about my violin and the man who made it." "in Austria." "now that I have seen this book." "(SIGHS) there was nothing in the papers." "birth and death." "they will say something about me." "They'll say I have a famous violin." "That you kept to yourself." " Yeah." " And you didn't show it to anybody." "You need to stop spending time with Gorvy Hauer." "We're salesmen." "We're not professional visitors." "you're right." "you know?" "why let that violin just sit in his house?" "like maybe a soloist or a museum?" "the good..." "Thank you." "The good news is that" "Gorvy is actually willing to pay the additional fee for the travel rider." "You've talked to him about this?" "About loaning out that... yeah." "Yeah." "I joined the Kiwanis like we talked about." "I meet a guy who's a member of the local philharmonic." "I'm sure that he knows a bunch of other musicians who all have valuable instruments that we could insure." "no." "I can't." "No." "I have to let you go." "that's it." "That's what I brought you here for." "he wants your territory and... he wants it. (CLEARS THROAT)" "You're firing me?" "I..." "I left anotherjob" " to come work with you." " Yeah." "too." "uh... he's been with me a long time." "That's pretty unexpected." "I don't know what I'm gonna tell my wife." "I'll be happy to write you a recommendation." "Okay?" "I'm sure Phil Peters would be happy to have you back on board." "Mickey." "Thank you." " Yeah." " I'd like to stay in touch." "And I'd like to hear about Gorvy and his violin." "I actually sent someone out today to see if they could loan it out." "(CAR HORN BLARING)" " Gorvy?" " I thought you were my friend." "What's wrong?" "What's the matter?" "I am your friend." "A man came to look at the violin." "it's not from Austria." "from some factory." "He could tell by looking inside the holes." " Oh." " I paid good money for insurance policy." "Now Bob tells me I have to pay even more." "Bob's gone." "I let him go." "Okay?" "And you're gonna get a full refund on your premium." "me and Petey." "let them play it." "Now we can't go anywhere." "you can still play it for Petey." "he loves that thing." "Pete." "Pete." "Hey. (WHISTLES) Get over... now he won't even look at it." "come." " Come on." " Wait..." " (PETEY WHINING) no." "There's no teeth marks in this." "No teeth marks." "Petey has big teeth." "He would leave teeth marks in this." "And there's none." "I don't think this is my violin." "(PETEY BARKING)" "He's gotta go outside." "Someone took my violin while I was gone." "too." "(CHUCKLES) you're watching too much TV." "I'm going outside to wait for the police." "they're on their way." "(DOOR CLOSING)" "GORVY:" "My dog is gone!" "He's loose!" "sir." " Hi." "I just got a call on the radio that you had some kind of theft out here." "is this the violin he called us about?" "Uh..." "What did he say?" "this one..." "This one is not his." "Apparently the one he owns is quote-unquote famous." "(MICKEY CHUCKLES)" "I don't know anything about that." "He's pretty old." "but I have to take this back to the station with me." "did you or did he see any signs of forced entry?" " No." " Or was there anything else missing?" "he's... anything else out of place?" "No?" " No." "He doesn't even lock the doors here." "though." "he never sets it." "He's a pretty congenial guy." " People come and go here." " Okay." "old fella." "And you are?" "actually." "Give you my card." "He'd probably wanna run this thing through me." "He's pretty senile." "Prohaska." "Insurance?" "Sorry to bother you with this." " Yes." "Yes." " Yeah?" "And you're family?" "You're related? like family." " Okay." "doggy." " Gorvy?" "doggy." "My doggy's gone." "Now I lost everything." "When is the police gonna get here?" "They left." "Call them back!" "They need to help me find Petey." "they can't help you." " Why not?" "I'll help you." "It's going to be 20 below tonight." "Too cold for Petey." "did you?" "You should've been more careful!" "Pull over here." "They know me here." "Frank gets gasoline here sometimes." "I will give them a picture of Petey." "(MICKEY CLEARS THROAT)" "GLEN:" "The cops aren't gonna be as invested in finding this thief as our company is." "This trucker's probably our best lead." "this Frank guy was way too interested in everything out at this farmer's house." "And how much it was worth and he had the keys." "even by phone." "It's busy." "We finally got through and got a recorded statement from him." "it really didn't add a lot though." "I think the guy is really sick." "Sign this." "(HORN HONKING)" "RANDY:" "Get in the fucking car!" "Get in the fucking car!" "(SIREN WAILING)" "didn't I?" "I had to." "They found out about the violin." "'cause I got a message from the old man because he said it didn't go off when he was robbed." "Didn't you tell me that no one would fucking notice the violin was gone?" "He got suspicious when he couldn't find his clock." " It was my mom's birthday." " Okay." "Do you understand that?" "are you?" "are you?" "no." "They think it's Frank Richie." "Who?" "That's the man you killed." "That's the guy." "That's why I went in to talk to them." "I had to!" " I was trying to convince them!" " Wait." " What are you doing?" " Wait." " Are you fucking kidding me?" " What?" "(SHOUTING) You said no one would be looking for the guy!" "Nobody would give a shit about him!" "That's what we had going for us!" "Now everybody's gonna be looking for him!" "What is wrong with you?" "You told me nobody would give a shit about him!" "either." "everybody's looking for the violin." " Why is everybody looking for the violin?" " I don't know." "huh?" "000?" "How much is this fucking thing worth?" "A million." "What did you say?" "A million." "That's a million dollar violin?" "Holy shit." "I couldn't even get 500 bucks for it." "(CHUCKLING)" "Um..." "Who were you planning on selling it to?" "I'm done with this." "Okay?" "I don't know!" "I don't know anything about violins!" "but..." "What are you doing?" "Going to Chicago to see this dealer." "no." "He's by appointment only." " I'm not even sure if he's there." " I want to sell this fucking thing tonight!" "No!" "He's not gonna help us." "It's stolen!" "I don't even know who he was gonna sell it to." "you got a 90-minute ride to figure it out." "jerk." "You would never make it in jail." "down here?" "he's not there." "my friend." "back." "Shut up." "asshole." "you go find the fucking number or I will sit in the corner and I will wait here all night long." "then I will get the number out of him." "uh..." "He was on the phone." "RANDY:" "Work it out." "Find it." "Talking to a guy." "A guy who owns stolen violins." "He stuck the number in a book." "huh?" "Look at that." "There's some shit in here." "Stoller." "That's it." "Get the hell out of here." "You can call him tomorrow." "Here's the number." "whoa." "Me call?" "I'm not your fucking secretary." "You're gonna make the phone call." "I'm not having it traced to my phone." "And guess what?" "you're gonna be the one making the hand-off. you went and attached it to a fucking dead guy." "please." "I see." "Do you have any estimation as to when he'll be back in the States?" "no message." "Thank you." "Glen." "What's going on?" "Frank Richie's dead." "Whoa." "(STUTTERING) Did they find..." "They found him?" "Yeah." "In a cemetery." "We ran the Social Security number he gave on the lease application." "Turns out it belongs to a guy who died 12 years ago." "he's been using somebody else's name." "Are you kidding me?" " There you go." " Can you believe it?" "right?" "What more proof do you need than that?" "Obviously." "Why else would the guy be using somebody else's name?" "You know?" "Must be some sort of professional drifter or something." "I don't know how professional he is." "Glen said the guy stuck a photocopied label on the inside of a cheap violin and rubbed it with shoe polish." "the expert in Chicago confirmed it wasn't the one he'd had appraised. - underneath what is called the F hole." " (PHONE RINGING) he says it's urgent." "but... go ahead." "You can take it." " You can take it here." "Go ahead." "fucking hello!" "We got a problem over here..." "Yeah." "I'm here with some people right now." "I don't..." "I'm at Jagerman's Lake." "Get your ass over here!" "uh..." "Maybe I can call you back." " No!" "I'll see you there." "I am losing my fucking shit over here!" " Mmm-hmm." " I'm about to freak the fuck out!" "What happened?" "Huh?" "Why couldn't you make the deal?" "He's on a ship somewhere." "(RANDY LAUGHING)" "His secretary said to call back in a few weeks." "my God." "You are just exhausting." "A few weeks." "Oh." "Can I show you something?" "Do you see that ice out there?" "It's not pancake ice any more." "It's honeycombed." "It's melting too fast." "Do you understand that? and when that happens somebody is gonna put two and two together." "We have gotta sell that violin before that happens." "I have got to get out of town!" "I am not going back to jail." "you understand?" "I'll be watching your every move." "Make it happen. they said your credit cards were used to buy a bunch of traveller's cheques." "GORVY:" "Uh-huh." "I found a footprint." "it was fancy." "Frank wears boots." "I have to go now and tell the police what I discovered." "Mickey?" "I have some forms for you to sign." "Glen just faxed them over for the violin pay-out." "MICKEY:" "My company's gonna honour your claim." " They found my violin?" " No." "But they're gonna compensate you for it." "I'm having all the money wired into your account." "I don't want money." "I want my violin." "But you want to go to Europe." "Gorvy." "and now you have it." "And I..." "I can't go nowhere." "What if my doggy comes back?" "I wanted to talk to you about that." "uh..." "I found him on the side of the road." " He was dead." " What?" "He had been hit by another car." "I'm having him cremated... my God." " ...so that you can take him with you." "They left my doggy on the side of the road?" "What's wrong with people these days?" "How can they do what they do?" "It used to be you could trust people. they kill your doggy." "Mickey." "You can't trust nobody any more. (SOBS)" "please." "This is Frank Richie." "I think I have something you may want." "Yes." "Okay." "Of course." "But it will have to be cash." "(DIALLING) okay?" "It's on." "His train gets in at 2:55. now boarding platform 15." "All aboard." "WOMAN ON PA:" "Your attention please." "According to the Federal please do not leave any bags... do you have the time?" "2:50." "platform 18." "All aboard." "huh?" "What were you talking about?" "Why did he leave?" "Huh?" "MAN ON PA:" "The 3:45 with express service to Cedar Rapids... no." "it's over." "It's over." "Just leave the bag." "Get up." "though." "excuse me." "sir!" "Sorry. (CHUCKLES) You forgot your bag." "You're welcome." "Wait!" "Take it." "Take it!" "I don't want it!" "You understand?" "I don't want it!" "It's tied to a fucking murder!" "Do you understand that?" "It's a hot potato!" "What are you an idiot?" "Get away from me!" "MICKEY:" "I want that photograph." "Hey!" "Please." "look." "none of this ever happened." "you got it? you can't put a price tag on peace of mind." "What starts out looking like an easy score can turn out to be anything but simple." "you might get lucky." "You could end up striking gold." "Just not in the way you bargained for." "MAN:" "Can I help you with something?" "I was just here to see Gorvy Hauer." "He must still be out of town." "I'm Gorvy Hauer." "What can I do for you?" " No." "We never rent the place out." " No." "I've got a little Danish if you'd like some." " Cup of coffee?" " No." " You sure?" " We've lived in this house 28 years." " Twenty-nine." " Twenty-nine." "We never had any problems." "Well... (BOTH LAUGH)" "Except that time when we came back from Florida and the pipes were frozen." "Yeah." "We forgot to leave a little heat on." " Have to leave a little heat on." " But we're gone all winter." "We're snow birds." "the insurance company never gave..." "We had to wait six months before we got any money from them." "Would you be able to check on a policy?" "Maybe we could switch over." "Um... on something like that?" "Yeah." "I'll get back to you." "great." "Hey." "I'm looking for a guy that's been in here before." "dark hair." "A little wiry." "He was sitting right over here with me the day of the blizzard." "MAN:" "He got a name?" " I'm not really sure." " You got anything to eat here?" "onion rings and cheese curds." "MICKEY:" "You don't serve burgers here?" "Steaks?" "Brats?" "Why would you get a meat delivery?" "MAN:" "We wouldn't." "We just got a fryer back here." "a dead man came back to life." "Remember I said to believe only half of what you see?" "buddy." "they had to make sure the other half wouldn't be seen at all." "But let me back up." "they had to hook the guy." "look." "I do have a violin." "MICKEY:" "And then there was the blackmail they developed just to make sure their lead would be followed." "And they timed it out perfectly." "I have some forms for you to sign." "the next step was the blow-off." "do you have the time?" "MICKEY:" "Oldest opening line in the book." "Remember?" "Never fails to get someone's attention." "he feels luckyjust to walk away." "I need to find out about an account that was opened up here." "Anna." " Hi." "we're still finding pennies in the strangest places." "Mr Hauer." "MICKEY:" "The old man made sure to stay on the sidelines literally." "They needed an agent to push the claim through and take the fall if their scam was discovered." "You could say he was their insurance policy." "KARLA:" "And I'm here doing work." "I've been recycling." "Look what almost got thrown out." "A violin label." "I got a call about the traveller's cheques that were bought with your credit cards. and they were deposited in a bank in Burlington." "right?" "and it's not what it looks like." "I thought that Golden Harvest sounded familiar." "wasn't it?" "I was duped by this Gorvy Hauer son of a bitch!" "If that's even his name!" "his name is Mickey Prohaska." " No." "You took out insurance in someone else's name on a violin that conveniently went missing." "you gotta believe me." "Why?" "You lie all the time." "Mickey." "Winning little awards." "Building your reputation at the company so that your word there would be credible." "All to make this one big pay-out seem legit." "Mickey?" "You can't just make a million dollars disappear." "MICKEY:" "But they did." "They bought something that couldn't be traced." "Mickey." "It's worth its weight in gold." "MICKEY:" "Feed corn. it was wired out to a dozen grain elevators" "000." "Money laundering." "Midwestern style." "The entire operation was financed with some credit cards that were temporarily borrowed by one of their bit players." "don't they?" "Especially after a job well done. (SCOFFS)" "Even the goddamn dog." "How do you like that?" "sought by a man who didn't exist." "My man." "Let me have 5 bucks worth of tickets for tonight's lottery please." "MICKEY:" "At least not in the form of an absent-minded farmer." "Odds are he was the brains behind it all. you're gonna have to give me your car." "Or I'm gonna call Glen." "I'm about to take my state licensing exam." "I can't make sales calls in this piece of shit." "I should have let you quit when I had the chance." "Glen." "What are you gonna do?" "Head south." "I've had it with these goddamn winters." "Phil." " Hey." "Never got a chance to congratulate you on that sales award." "thanks." "Thanks a lot." "even without Bob Egan." "Who?" "Bob." "The guy from the convention." "You were gonna hire him." "I wasn't gonna hire anybody there." "I got six guys working for me already." "MICKEY:" "Turns out there was a top salesman even better than Phil Peters." "just wanted to say love the suit." "take care." "He was the roper." "But that wasn't his only role." "that's a nice car." "It's easy to spot." "MICKEY:" "He was also the tail." "He knew when the office would be empty and he had full access to all the amenities inside." "The entire time he slipped by unnoticed." "$1 .25 million." "Not a bad severance package." "Even if it was split five ways." "That's right." "Remember the good faith deposit?" "It's what's known in a scam as the convincer." "A little taste of bigger riches to come." "it's the ultimate form of persuasion." " How much did they pay you?" " I have no idea what you're talking about." "This is private property and I'm gonna ask you to..." "How much did they pay you?" "You think I'm not gonna fucking turn you in for trying to pass off a fake violin to an insurance company?" "'Cause I don't think you'd get anywhere with that." "not a contract." "An appraisal's considered an opinion." "I gave you my opinion." "Now it's gone and nobody knows where it is." "And there's a lot of corruption out there." "the violin was worthless from the beginning?" "Beware of anything with strings attached." "poor bastard." "he made a clean start." "Got away to some place warm." "don't tell me about weather." " I'm from Chicago." " Oh!" "We got nine months of winter and then three months of hell. (LAUGHS)" "Too bad they stuck you at this place." "Nickel-and-dime you to death." "tell me about it. 6 bucks for a beer." "Wait till you see the bill." "They tack on a resort fee." "paper-thin walls and a rock-hard mattress." "Might as well be sleeping in a cardboard box." "Right." "I know a place just a couple miles down the road." "Take a look at that." "a time share?" " It's an opportunity." "Own a little piece of the Sunshine State." "I can probably get you in the all-you-can-eat buffet for free just by coming by." "I'm flying back home tomorrow." " What time's your flight?" " 4:30." "terrific." "They're gonna make you check out of the room at noon." "take you over there myself." " I don't know." " You gotta eat." "this restaurant will charge you an arm and a leg." "Sure. (LAUGHS) What the hell?" "I'll pick you up in the lobby at 11:00." " Jerry." "I'm gonna take this." " Jerry." "do you happen to have the time?" "\fscx125\fscy125)\cH000000\3cc0c0c0}SubRip by" "\fscx125\fscy125)\cH000000f\3c0000a6}HighCode"