"It's a hot car from Charleston." "They're running a name check on them now." "It was stolen or missing." "Ford four-door." "Can you make it to Melrose?" "Could be a prank." "It's in the northside zone." "King 32 has got him." "Are you clear?" " A purse snatch has just occurred..." " Clear here." "Yeah." "Come on." "Morning." "What's doing, Cap?" "Cold." "Mackerel don't run when it's cold." "Want a Danish?" "Yeah." "Thanks." "Look at that, huh?" "That's magic." "That's what that is, man." "That's the Sky Chief." "Ain't that Sky Chief something?" "Huh?" "Look at that." "When you finish cleaning that LTD, move it to the front line." "Get rid of this green Merc." "Park the Mark IV under the lights." "John, spot this Cougar on the corner for me." "Have the transfer titles come in from the Vehicle Bureau?" "No." "Ralph got tied up on the Chrysler with the cracked block." "Get Barry for me." "He had to drop some parts, and you wanted him... to stop by and make a collection?" "Barry, hold on." " You got him?" " Yeah, 232." "I don't know how long I'll be with the man." "Do me a favor and swing by the Vehicle Bureau... and pick up some transfer titles in my name." "Bye." "Put your hand out." "Morning." "Would you like breakfast?" "No, just some coffee." "Thanks." "Thank you." "All right." "What do you make it?" "It's 59 D-flawless to VSl-one." "It's got 11/2 to 3 karat spread." "$550,000 wholesale." "I'll take $185,000." " I'll take it myself." " Fine." "Have someone swing around tomorrow morning." "These people wanna meet you." "What?" "They're stand-up guys." "If I wanna meet people, I'll go to a country club." "Do you want me to put some of your end out on the street?" "Barry will collect it." "You down the bread to him at 3:00." "You'll double your money in three months." "My money goes in the bank." "You put your money on the street." " Give me the check." " Forget it." "Listen, are we having dinner tonight?" "Yeah." "That's a new sweater." "It's nice." "Thanks." " I'll pick you up at 8:00." " Bye." "Tell him to see me... the minute he gets back here." "Take a shit under a hot rock." "Hey, Frank!" "What's doing, boss man?" " Give me my wrench back." " Here's your tool." "I can't work without a tool, goddamn it." "I tried my best." "I see you didn't do it." ""Nothing new ever happens around here." "Making your life happen." "Like you said, collecting your debt from society." "I gotta see you." "Your pal, Okla. "" ""Gotta see you. "" "In a moment, news on the senator who denies as false... rumors that he has connections with the underworld." " Give me a tall one." " All right." " Barry's been calling you." " When?" "I don't know." "A couple of times, last half hour." "Three times." "Five-three-two, nine-two-three-four." "Give me the phone." " Hello?" " Where are you?" " Where've you been?" " What's the problem?" "I'm in a phone booth." "Try finding a phone that works in this city." "I have not made the pickup." "We got a problem." "Can you talk?" "No." "You see our man?" "No." "There was no man." "Gags took a walk through a 12-story window." "He's splattered all over the sidewalk." "What do you want to do?" "He down the merch?" "Is it gone?" "Does he carry the cash on him?" "I'm talking to somebody's somebody." "I'll know in about 25 minutes." "Get the work car and meet me at Armitage and Lincoln." "Jimmy, here." "On the side, Gags was laying down juice loans for this Attaglia." "He turned in the vig money, but he put in his pocket the principle." "They found out he was screwing them over." " They went crazy, ba-boom." " Gags down our merch?" "Yeah." "At the R. D. Lounge." "Pauli saw it go down." "It was your money in Gag's pocket when he went out the window." "You keep this running." "Can I help you?" "Yes, please." "I'd like to see Mr. Attaglia." " I wanna cup too." " Where's your cup?" " Back by the machine." " Sorry." "What were you saying?" "Mr. Attaglia." "I'd like to see him." "You made a delivery of some plating." " I had a lot of problems with it." " Just a minute." "There's someone here to see you about some plating." " Back there." " Thank you." "I'm Mr. Attaglia." "You didn't get a delivery or something?" "Sit down." "Was it zinc?" "What?" "My name is Frank." "And that was bullshit." " What is this?" " This is Joe Gags." "$185,000 of my money." "We have this problem." "What problem?" "What are you talking about?" "He was moving my merchandise... so the money in his pocket when he went out the window is my money." "This is a plating company." "Why are you telling me this shit?" "Shit?" "I want my money." "I don't know what you're talking about, Mr. Frank La-La." "Whatever." "Some guy die?" "Yes." "Take it to probate court." "Why do you bug me with this?" "I come here to discuss a piece of business with you." "And you're gonna tell me fairy tales?" "Who the fuck are you, slick?" "Somebody knows you?" "Are you crazy?" "I don't know some clown named Gags." "Go see what you gotta do." "Get out of here!" "Carl!" "Get the fuck out of here!" " Hold it!" " All right." "Jesus Christ." "Do what he says." " Do what he says." " Lay down." " Go ahead." " Put your hands on your head." "Spread your legs, now!" "And you, you goof!" "Look at the wall!" "I am the last guy in the world... that you wanna fuck with." "You found my money on Gags." "Let us pretend that you don't know whose money it is." "That's right." "I don't know who you are." "Three hours." "I will call to set a meet." "You will pay me my money..." "$185,000." "Sit down!" " Thanks for coming so soon." " I was coming anyway." "How's it going?" "Me?" "I'm doing terrific." "Every day is a surprise." "It is real fucking weird out there." "It is nothing like we figured out." " So what's doing, my man?" " Same old shit." "Morris finally busted Red's pruno operation." "A lot of knifings going on." " Dope?" " Yeah." "That and sex." "You wouldn't believe the people they're putting in here now." "Ten or fifteen years ago, they would have dumped them in a funny farm." "Rapists, child molesters... they're in here with the mainstream population." "Used to be if they lasted five days, it would be a world record." "It's perverse." "How's the wife?" "The wife?" " There's nothing." "I pulled the plug." " What happened?" "She doesn't know I'm putting down scores... and the rocket scientist that she is, she figures out... that I am having affairs with fancy ladies." " It gets all screwy and twisted." " What are you going to do?" "I'm gonna put it back together." " I met this new chick... this Jessie." " You'll marry her and have some kids?" "Yes." "But she does not know what I do." "So do I bullshit her along, or what?" "Lie to no one." "If there's somebody close to you, you'll ruin it with a lie." "If they're a stranger, who the fuck are they you gotta lie to?" "What do you need, man?" "Get me out of here." " Ten months, then you're on the street." " You know Doc Shelton?" "Yeah." "He's killed more guys than the electric chair." "Well, I got angina something, something." "And I'm not gonna last ten months." "And I don't wanna die in here." "Not in here." "You got it." "Gotta go, kid." "You got it." ""He downed the merch to Gags," is what he said." "This cocksucker's trouble." "We'll wack him out." " Is this the prowler?" "The guy Gags had?" " Has to be the one." "My name's Leo." "How are you?" "How am I?" "I'm Frank." "Here's your money." "Jesus Christ." "There's two inches of money out there." " Is it all there?" " I'm sure that it is." " Don't you say thanks or something?" " Whose money is this?" "Your money." "But I stopped this guy from giving you a hard time." "Thanks." "You're welcome." " It's no big deal." " I'll see you." " Where are you going?" " Where am I going?" "I'm late." "I thought we'd talk a little business... get to know each other." "No offense..." "You wanna meet people, join the lonely hearts club." " I know you already." " Yeah?" " Yeah." " How you know me?" "That merch you put down to Gags..." "Max Sherman..." "Puerto Rican fence, Cotazar..." "Where do you think they down it?" "To me." "I'm the bank." "I handle the fence for half the city." "You've been putting down two, three scores a month... month in, month out." "I see your stuff." "You got great taste." "A highline pro." "So I said to Gags, "I wanna meet this guy. "" " Did he tell you that?" " Yes." " Fine." " Let's cut the bullshit." " Who is he?" " How the hell do I know?" "You wanna put down contract scores all over the country... working directly for me?" "I am self-employed." "I'm doing fine." "I don't deal with egos." "I'm the boss of my own body, so why do I have to work for you?" "Maybe you don't." "I'll lay it out." "You can be the judge." "You don't look... you don't case, you don't do nothing." "We point you to a score." "When we say it's there, it's there." "They're all laid-out scores." "How they worked up?" "Alarm system diagrams, sometimes a front door key... sometimes the scores are in on it to rip off the insurance company." " Work cars, drops, tools?" " Whatever you need, you'd see me." "I'd be your father." "Money, guns, cars." "I'd be your father from here on out." " What's my end?" " You get a price." "No negotiation." "We got expenses you don't have." "But you'll know the price up front." " How big?" " Boxcar." "Nothing under six figures." "You'll be a millionaire in four months." " I'd be pulling a lot of exposure." " Our protection trades that off." " Yeah, I take a bust." " There'll be a lawyer and bondsman." "You never spend a night in jail." "I steal ice." "No furs, no coin collections, stock certificates... no treasury bonds, no nothing." " Just diamonds or cash." " Fine." "No cowboy shit." "No home invasions." " I work with a partner." " We take care of you." "A partner is your responsibility." "He beefs on you, that's your problem." "He beefs on us, that's your problem too." " Who are your inside people?" " That's my end." "You don't need to know." "What do you say?" "I don't know." "What do you mean, "you don't know"?" "I don't believe in lifetime subscriptions." "Maybe you don't fit in with my retirement program." "What'll you do?" "Pick corn with the chickens, watch TV for the rest of my life." "All right." "Two, three moves." "You wanna keep going, that's fine." "If you wanna split, that's fine too." "Everybody's businesslike." "Everybody's an adult." "Let me know, 'cause we'd be terrific." "That's fine." "I'll call you." "Wanna pick him up?" "We'll see." "Sure enough" "Sweet thing" "I've reached a turning point" "In my life" "I've reached a turning point" "Lord, Lord, Lord In my life" "I met a girl" "She's going on 110" "And she don't get excited No, no, no" "By you slick-talking men" "She cleans around the house" "Neat as a pin" "If I've got a hole in my socks" "Got a hole in my shirt" "These thing's she'll mend" "No more staying out late for me" "No more no restraint" "I've reached a turning point" "In my life" "I've reached a turning point Lord, Lord, Lord" "In my life" "Let's groove it one time" "And I don't know where I'd end up" "If that sweet thing" "If that sweet thing hadrt come along" " Hurry." "My car's parked in the red." " What are you doing here?" " Finding you." " Get away from me." "You were two hours late." "I do not need to be humiliated." " I wanna talk to you." " No!" "Hey, you!" "I'll take you for coffee and explain." " What's the big deal?" " You take me anywhere." "That's a laugh." "Maybe there's a reason." "Did you think of that?" " I'm talking to you." " Take a walk!" "All right?" "Just go on." "I don't wanna hear the reason." "There is no reason!" "That's all!" "Look." "You were looking forward to this!" "Come on." "In what I do, there are sometimes pressures." "What the hell do you think I do?" "Come on!" "Every morning I walk in, for five months, say hi..." "What the hell do you think I do?" "You sell little fucking cars!" "I wear $150 slacks and silk shirts!" "I wear $800 suits!" "I wear a gold watch and a perfect, D- flawless, three-karat ring!" "I change cars like other guys change their fucking shoes!" " I'm a thief." "I've been in prison!" " So what." "I don't care!" " So what?" " Don't tell me!" " I never even told my wife that!" " I don't care!" " Did I ever come on to you?" " No." " You see?" " See what?" "See I am a straight arrow." "I am a true-blue kind of guy." "I've been cool." "I am now unmarried." "Let's cut the mini-moves and bullshit... and get on with this big romance!" "What?" "I don't believe it!" "Do you think I've been waiting for you to come along?" "What is this shit!" "You think I'm kidding." "This is strictly on the up and up." "Jesus Christ!" " You are scared to death." " You're an asshole." "That's lovely." "What are you doing in your life that's so terrific?" "My life is fine." "Sure." "Here." "You don't know about me." " I know all about..." " You know bullshit!" "Why you gotta shout in here?" "Excuse me." "Can we have two coffees here?" " Sorry." "So?" " So what?" " So tell me." " Menus?" "No, thanks." "So what was it like?" "You know." "A lot of money." "Tuscan..." "Mexico City, Bogota... drifting." "You know." "Okay?" "It got twisted, ugly and empty." "It was over but we kept moving through the moves." "It ended very badly." "Now I get up in the morning, I take a shower..." "I go to work, I have a job, I have a Social Security card." "And my life is very ordinary, very boring... which is good because it's solid." "You're marking time." "You're hiding out." "You're waiting for a bus you hope never comes... because you don't wanna go anywhere." " All right?" " Do you have a license for this?" "How much was he moving?" "Nothing, till the end." "Then a kilo, an ounce." "I don't know." "Then what?" "He's dead." "That is good, because he's an asshole." "There was a lot of love in the beginning." " He was an asshole." " There was love!" "Big asshole." "He put you in a box..." "You know the kind of things they do to you ten times a day... if you do a bit in Columbia?" " Jesus Christ!" " Don't shout in here!" "I was alone." "I had no money, no clothes, no visas... standing on the corner of Bogota in Columbia..." "Things did happen." "Where were you in prison?" "Pass the cream." "Joliet." "The work..." "Whoa!" "God!" "Can we have some new cream here?" " What's wrong with it?" " It's cottage cheese." "The warden there was Joe Reagan..." ""Meatball Joe. "" "If that slob was a penologist, I'm a jet airplane pilot." "I did 11 years." "I got out four years ago." "What'd you go up for?" "I stole $40." "Yeah." "It started with a two-year bit, parole in six months... and right away I got into this problem with these two guys." "They tried to turn me out." "So I picked up nine more on a manslaughter beef... some other things." "I was 20 when I went in, 31 when I come out." "You don't count months and years." "You don't do time that way." "What do you mean?" "Why?" "You gotta forget time." "You gotta not give a fuck if you live or die." "You gotta get to where nothing means nothing." "I'll tell you a story all about it." "Once there was this Captain Morphis." "This 300-pound slob, he couldn't write his name." "He had this crew of 16, 17 guards and cons." "Prison groups... crews." "They would go into these cells and grab these young guys... and bring them up to hydrotherapy in the mental ward." "Gang bang." "If the guy puts up a struggle, they beat him and he winds up in the funny farm." "Anyway, word comes down that I am next." "And I do not know what I am supposed to do." "I'm scared." "11:30, 12:00, the lights come on." "I got this pipe from plumbing." "And I wack the first guard in the shins... and I go through a convict and another convict." "I get to Morphis and I wack him across the head twice." "Boom." "And then they jump all over me, do a bunch of things." "I spent six months in the hospital ward, but..." "Morphis... he is also fucked up real good." "Cerebral hematoma." "They pension him out." "He can't walk straight and he dies two years later... which is a real loss to the planet Earth." "Meanwhile, I gotta go back into the mainstream population... and I know the minute I hit the yard I am a dead man." "So I hit the yard." "So you know what happens?" "Nothing." "Nothing happens." "'Cause I don't mean nothing to myself." "I don't care about me." "I don't care about nothing." "And I know from that day that I survive." "Because I achieved that mental attitude." "See, later..." "I worked this out... in the stone cell." "What is this?" "That is my life." "And nothing, nobody, can stop me from making that happen." "And right there..." "that would be you." "Who's the old man here?" "That is David Okla Bertinneau." "He's a master thief." "And a great man." "He was like a father." "He taught me everything that I know about what I do." "And I told him about you." "Did you cut these out from magazines?" "Yeah." "Newspapers, whatever." "Why all of these dead people?" "Inside, you're on ice from time." "You can't even die right." "And here..." "Here, people grow, they get old, die." "Children come after." "Just a cycle." "I don't know." "Yes, you do." "You do." "You don't know from one day to the next whether you're gonna be killed... go home, or get busted." "Look, I have run out of time." "I have lost it all." "I can't work fast enough to catch up... and I can't run fast enough to catch up." "And the only thing that catches me up is doing my magic act." "But it ends." "It will end." "But I got this." "Right there." "It ends." "It's over." "So I'm just asking you... to be with me." "I can't." "I can't have children." "I don't fit into this." "Why..." "We adopt." "I'm not ready, see?" "And I have my life." " So I can't." " What?" "What is going on in your life that is so terrific?" "Mine's been a mess." "I was just thinking... that maybe between the two of us... we could make something happen, something special." "Something really nice, you know." "I'm just asking you." "I got a way now that I can make it happen faster." "Much faster." "And I'm just asking you, you know." "You're on." "They gotta be big scores." "They gotta be fast." "One, two, tops." "All right." "That's it." " Where?" " Third from the top... this side." " Alarm systems?" " Five independent systems." "Four silent ringers into an alarm company over the phone lines." "Infrared pots, magnetics on the front door... sonic alarm, both doors bugged." " What's this?" " This is the top floor." "Top of the elevator shafts." "Rows eight through fourteers alarm lines conduit with the phones... from the top of the elevator shaft." "What about taking the elevator to the top floor... open up the hatch and go in that way?" "No." "Elevators are locked down and bugged at night." "Your way, I gotta take out two systems." "Chop through the roof and get the lines that way." "Assuming we get the alarm, what is the box?" "Richmond-Lackett." " Terrific." "It's a burn job." " No way to drill?" " Drill?" " Yeah." "Drill what?" "They're custom-made." "You bang on this box all day, nothing happens." "And I am pulling a lot of exposure." "Sixteen, eighteen hours in there." "Your end covers the risk." "$830,000." "Four million at wholesale in unmounted stones." " What's the fifth alarm?" " We cannot run it down." " Why?" " It does not go over the phone lines." "We swept the lines in the whole building." "But we know it is there." "How long?" "Four, eight weeks... assuming we get the alarm and what to cut the box with." "I need a couple Cal licenses and two new work cars." "I'll set it up." "What time's our plane?" "Stay here and make out that fifth alarm." "You like it?" "I mean... do you think it'll do..." "it's okay?" "I love it." "I think it's terrific!" "What are you looking at?" "You." "That's all." "Sam!" " How you doing?" " I'm golden, glowing... and scoring like a champ." "I need a favor." "How's Okla?" "Angina." "Making some moves to get him out of there." "I got a hearing fixed up." "Who's the yo-yo in the white coat?" "Metallurgist." "Son-in-law's idea." "A load of tubing comes in, I taste it, I smell it..." "I chew it, I spit on it." "Hey, scientist cocksucker!" "18% zinc, 43% copper... 38% tin, and 1% I don't know." "A white coat." "Around here, he wears a white coat." "What's he?" "Gonna discover penicillin?" "You gotta be a real putz to wear a white coat around here." "Joey, excuse us." " What kind of steel?" " Swedish cold-rolled." "Two-forty-seven, here, here and here." "One-inch plates." "Copper to bind drills." "Titanium alloy here." "This is a well-made, very expensive, very special vault." "English." " Richmond and Lackett?" " I need very special equipment." " Drill a hole in the lockbox." " No." "Each one is made different." "There's no way of telling where the lockbox is." "I wanna cut a whole new door and walk in." "Seven, eight thousand degrees." "Portable equipment." " There's no other way to do it." " No." "Sonny, if I can build something... it's gonna be a son-of-a bitch to use." "So is it won'th it?" "It is won'th it." "You sweep the phone?" "Weekly." "It's clean." "Hello." "I'm Frank." "Leo said to call about California licenses and registrations." "I'll be in Division 126 in an hour." "I'm wearing a gray leather coat." "Good." "So what's to it, Sam?" "I gotta build a section of vault to tell." "I don't even know if it's possible to build a tool that'll cut it." "See me in a week." "The nature of this petition is David Bertinneau pleads for your Honor... to modify his 1958 conviction and issue a writ of habeas corpus." "He violated Chapter 38, Section 19-1, burglary..." "Chapter 38, Section 16-1, theft..." "Here's the California licenses I fixed in Sacramento." "...and dignity of the state." "That distresses me, your Honor." "This man is of reformed character, advanced age... and suffers from a severe heart condition... and may not be able to serve out his sentence." "He's spent over 21 years in incarceration... and has become a different person." "I don't know." "I remain unconvinced." " Are they picking their noses up there?" " I wanna hear this." "However, upon consideration..." "I will issue a writ of habeas corpus." "I'll write up the order." "I know how busy your docket is this morning." "My wife's in the market for a fur coat." "I'm a car salesman." " Whatever you say." " That's right." "Okla will be on the street in a week." "I need six thousand dollars for Earl Warren." "A week?" "Here." "Ten thousand." "You're a prince." "Buy yourself a new suit." "A week?" "All right." "Who lives here?" "Come on." "Who lives here?" "It's gotta be some millionaire guy." "Look at this!" "Tree!" "Bush." " Pink tree." " Hello!" "Pink?" " It's real nice." " Sure." "Come in the back." " Hi, Frank." " How you doing, Marie?" " This is beautiful, man." " Wherd you get back?" "Last night, late." "You make that fifth alarm?" "I made the fifth alarm." "Good." "So what's to it?" "Alarm system number five is a one-channel radio transmitter." "How's it triggered?" "There's a sonic detector off the ceiling." "They set off the alarm every morning when they walk in." "Ring, ring." "It's tripped." "They have ten seconds to transmit... a code word to the alarm company to cancel it." "The code word goes over the radio." "That's why there's no phone lines." "I tell you what." "You bug it." "Call Joseph." "Have him fix you one." "Go back out there." "You bug them for the word." "Come on." "It's getting cold." "This L.A. Move, you know... it's home-free for me after it's done." "You happy?" "Come on." "Want something to eat?" "Well?" "I see on your application..." "By the way, you misspelled "male. " It's M-A-L-E." "The other's what we put in postboxes." "I see you put under employer, "1959 to 1976..." "Joliet State Penitentiary. "" " Yes." " You work for the state, I take it?" " After a fashion." " What did you do at the prison?" "Desks." "I spot-welded desks and then I got promoted to shoes." "You were in charge of the shop?" "Lady, I was a convict." "I was doing time." " You were what?" " Frank, let's go." "You have to understand... we have more applicants than children." "Then why do you still have kids here?" "As a kid, I wouldn't be falling all over myself to stay in one of these places." "We will relieve you of some of the burden." "The point is, we establish criteria for parenting... and an ex-convict compared to other desirables..." "So we'll take a kid that's not so desirable." "You got a black kid?" "We'll take a black kid." " You got a chink kid..." " You don't understand." "No one likes older kids." "You got an eight-year-old... black, chink kid, we'll take him." "If it's a matter of..." "Here." " What is that?" " That is D-flawless... three-point-two karats, emerald cut." " This is not a marketplace." " Right." "You're not smart enough to take this any more than you are to know good parents." "Get out of my office." "You did not ask about us..." "about what kind of people we are." "There's a child waiting, and you're denying us him and him us." " Who the hell are you?" " Don't make a scene." " Our criteria..." " Your criteria!" "Your criteria are so far up your ass, they can't see daylight!" " This is bullshit!" " It's not happening." "Let's go." "I got some ABC-type information for you, lady." "I was state raised." "And this is a dead place." "A child in eight-by-four green walls." "After a while you tell the walls, "My life is yours. "" " Did you grow up in the suburbs?" " Yes." "Right." "What are you looking at?" " Jimmy's got better." " Yeah, it's because he charcoals them." "I'm gonna pull him over here." "Hey, how you doing?" " I'm wonderful, thank you." " That's good." "A very important thing for you to remember... is gonna be my name, Sergeant Urizzi." "Urizzi." "Why's that?" "Because I'm gonna do good things for you." "What for?" "Good conduct medal?" "I'm here to make life easy for you... smooth out the bumps and the humps." "You know, your relationship with us." "I didn't know I had one." "Look, we're your new partners." "We're in for ten points." "What did this set you back?" "Ten points of what?" "You know." "The guy, Leo." "Your action." "I don't get this." "What's with you?" "Listen." "Our end goes with the territory." "Don't you know you gotta come up?" "I am a car salesman." "You guys want a deal on a Buick?" " Come on." " Hey, motherfucker." "Don't come on to me, flash." "And you..." "You want to pinch me, you pinch me." "I'll be out in ten minutes." "If not, get the fuck off my car!" "You all right?" "What does..." "What does this mean?" "It means heat." "Police." "It means it's hard for me to make moves from now on." "Beepers on the cars, the works." "Are they in the walls?" "Can they hear everything we say all the time?" "Probably it's just the phones, but I'll check." "You're uneasy." "Fuck this house." "We move." "I'm okay." "I'm okay." "The bastards." "Hey!" "Jose Greco, sit down." "I got this business deal." "From your end of the L.A. Score." " Want me to put it to work for you?" " On the street?" "Juice?" "Juice?" "You couldn't get me out of bed for that." "I'm not cutting up nickels here." "Shopping centers." "Forth Worth, Davenport, Jacksonville." "It's strictly legit." " My money goes in my pocket." " Yours if you want in." "I'm gonna give you everything you need, kid." "Let me know later." "What I wanna know is why the minute I get locked up with you... everybody knows my business..." "my house is bugged, my wife is upset." "The guy at the Vehicle Bureau wants a fur coat." "There's a cop tail right now half a block down the street." "My car is bugged." "Here." "This one behind the bumper, I'm supposed to find." "The other one, in the wheel well, is supposed to fool me." "What is this?" " Leave it to me." " Leave what to you?" "Do it!" "I said I'll take care of it." " What about burning the vault?" " What about it?" " Can you do it?" " I don't know." " Fifth alarm system?" " Nothing yet." "What else you got on your mind?" "What are you talking about?" "You got family troubles?" "Something with the old lady?" " Is this Dear fucking Abby?" " You trying to adopt a kid?" "How do you know that?" "Barry mentioned to Mitch, Mitch to me." "You got friends." "Lighten up, for Christ's sake." "Why not come to me with your problems?" "What am I, a fucking stranger?" "I take care of my people." "Anything you want." "You want me, we do business." "I do not mix apples and oranges." "Bullshit." "With my wife, with my kids... that's my whole life." "We are very tight." "Kids are special, a miracle." "A little hoochie-koo, a drop of energy, wham-bam, Magic Sam." "There's something sacred there." "That's my attitude." "What happens?" "You state your model." "Black, brown, yellow, or white." "Boy or girl." "Where from?" "A couple of ladies." "They got babies... to sell." "Their own." "They sell them." "It's not the kid's fault that his mother's an asshole." "And you're not buying the mother." "You're not gonna get a kid on the street." "I want a boy." "Done." "You got a boy." "Yeah?" "I got a boy?" "Yeah." "What else you want?" "You son of a bitch." "Hey, Jess." "Hey, pal." "What are you doing?" "You playing sick in here?" "I got three chicks waiting for you." "You're gonna get me in a lot of trouble." "Goof." "Oh, this is my wife..." "Jessie." "Code blue." "You'll have to leave." "You'll have to leave." "After the hearing, Judge Ramsey's court writ him his mittimus papers." "The board had to release him to me." "On the stairs outside, he just dropped." "What did he whisper to you?" "He said thanks, you know... for getting him out." "That's the big thing, you know, not to die in the joint." "Not to die in there." "That's a big thing." " Who's Mr. Bertinneau's family?" " I am." "Look, I'm sorry." "He didn't make it." "If there's anything I can do..." " Are you okay?" " I'm sorry." "Do you want to sit down?" "Refill." "That's a nice baby." "You're lucky you got such a nice baby." "Thank you very much." "Can you warm this up?" "No problem." "What's his name, huh?" "No name, not yet." "So, here we are." "Are you okay?" "Long, long, long, long time." "You see that?" "Okla dies, and our baby is born." "You wanna name him after Okla?" "Okla's real name was David." "Our kid, his name is David." "David is a good name." "Let's do it." "Light this, then get out of the way." "Not bad." "I'll see you, kid." " Betsy thought it was serious." " No, there's nothing going around." "Did you call the doctor?" "He gave Ruth a shot." "Twenty-four hours, it was gone." "Must have been a flu bug or something." "Mexico." "We're in." "Thanks." "Have Julio wax the floor, will you?" " Green Mill." " Is Frank there?" "Wait a minute." "Frank?" "Oscar, get Frank." "Hey, come back." "Telephone." " Is that you?" " Hold on." "Do me a favor." " Go ahead." " We are on." "You understand?" "Yes, I understand." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Give me an excuse!" "Come on!" "Get out of that car!" " You're pinched, jagoff!" " For what?" "Driving without a taillight!" "Pick him up, huh?" "Hey, car salesman." "Urizzi." " You remember my name now?" " How can I not?" "Since the police department... does not hire..." "too many Puerto Ricans." "Asshole!" "I'm Italian!" "I'm pleased to meet you, you wop son of a bitch!" "You motherfucker!" "You're a stand-up guy." "You're a real stand-up guy." "You got a mouth." "You can take a trimming." "You could make things easy for everybody." "But no." "You gotta be a goof." "You're real good." "No violence." "Strictly professional." "I'd probably like you." "I'd like to go to the track, ball games... stuff like that, you know?" "Frank, there's ways of doing things... that round off the corners, make life easy for everybody." "What's wrong with that?" "There's plenty to go around." "We know what you take down." "We know you got something major coming down, soon." "But no." "You gotta come on like a stiff prick!" "Who the fuck do you think you are?" "What's the matter with you?" "Have you got something to say, or are you waiting for me to ask you to dance?" "Did it ever occur to you..." "to try to work for a living?" " Take down your own scores?" " Fuck this guy." "I'll tell you:" "I'm gonna be on your ass so much, you're gonna get careless." "And on that day, I'm gonna be in that place!" "And that is the last place..." "that you wanna be." "'Cause no matter what happens, I will never, ever... take a pinch from a greasy motherfucker like you." "You greasy cocksucker!" " I'll kill you right there!" " Dancing goes two ways!" "Get this asshole outta here!" "Cut him loose." "John." "You got eyes?" "You got him?" "Yeah, he's beeping in good." "Pull over." "He'll spot us." "John, what's he doing?" "Just relax and stay put." "Hit it!" "He's moving!" "Hit it." "Relax and fall back." "We got him." "We're right with you." "What do you think he's gonna put down?" "I don't know, but we're gonna be right on this guy's ass." "This guy is gonna be history." "Give me some coffee." "Here." "Forty volts." "You got a phone line." "Phone." "Hold it." "You got one." "Hook it up." "Go." "Phone." "One more, and we open her up." "Mexico." "All right, I'm inside." "Any surges on the line?" "They held." "Come on." "We own it." " Lit?" " No." "Go ahead." "You should come in." "The water's great." "Enjoy it." "We're going home." "Tomorrow we collect." " I just talked to Leo." " That's great." "Hey, Marie." "I'll go get the bags." "Come in, Frank." "Sit down." "How you doing?" " Good." " You look great." " Couldrt be better." " I know this is what you're here for." "That's it." "Mitch, what's doing?" "Your tan is great." "How long were you in San Diego?" "A few days." "Mitch told me all about the score." "Said that you were Dr. Wizard." "Hello, Frank." "Where's the rest?" "Don't worry about it." " What is this?" " This is the cash part." "Well, you're light." "830,000 is supposed to be here, and I count what?" "70, 80, 90?" "I put it into the Jacksonville, the Fort Worth... and the Davenport shopping centers with the rest." "I take care of my people." "You can ask these guys." "The papers are at your house." "It's set up as a limited partnership." "General partner is a subchapter "S" corporation." "You got equity with me." "Count me out." "I thought we had this good thing." "Plus, I got a major score in Palm Beach for you in six weeks." "You talking to me, or somebody else walk in this room?" "What's that supposed to mean?" "It means you are dreaming." "This is payday." "It is over." "You know, when you have trouble with the cops... you pay them off like everybody else, because that's the way things are done." "But not you?" "They don't run me and you don't run me." "I give you houses, I give you a car." "You're family." "I thought you'd come around." "What the hell is this?" "Where is gratitude?" "Where is my end?" "You can't see day for night." "I can see my money is still in your pocket... which is from the yield of my labor." "What gratitude?" "You're making big profits... from my work, my risk, my sweat." "But that is okay..." "because I elected to make that deal." "But now the deal is over." "I want my end and I am out." "Why don't you join a labor union?" " I'm wearing it." " Frank, don't." "Do it, slick." "My money in 24 hours... or you will wear your ass for a hat." "What'd I tell you?" "What'd I tell you?" "Where is he?" "Talk to him!" "Answer him." "Answer him!" "Answer!" "He's talking to you." "Answer him." "Answer him." "You're set up!" "Look." "I said, fucking look at him!" "Look at what happened to your friend... 'cause you gotta go against the way things go down." "You treat what I tried to do for you like shit." "You don't wanna work for me?" "What's wrong with you?" "And then you carry a piece in my house." "You one of those burned-out, demolished whackos in the joint?" "You're scary because you don't give a fuck." "But don't come on to me now with your jail shit, because you are not that guy." "Don't you get it, you prick?" "You got a home, a car, businesses, family... and I own a paper on your whole fucking life." "I'll put your cunt wife on the street to be fucked in the ass... by niggers and Puerto Ricans." "Your kid's mine because I bought it." "You got him on loan." "He is leased." "You are renting him." "I'll wack out your whole family." "People will be eating them for lunch in their hamburgers, and not know it." "You get paid what I say." "You do what I say." "I run you." "There is no discussion." "If I want, you'll work until you are burned out... you are busted or you're dead." "You get it?" "You got responsibilities." "Tighten up and do it." "Clean this mess up." "Get him outta here." "Back to work, Frank." "Joseph, get over here right away." "You're going on a trip." "What?" "Wake up the kid." "You're going away." "It's not what was supposed to be." "It can't be this way." "I want you to understand." "Do not take anything." "Do not pack." "Do it now." " Where are we going?" " We are not going." " You are going." " Where?" "What's wrong with you?" "I don't understand." " When are you gonna come?" " I'm not." "You will work out with Joseph where you're going to go." "Here's $410,000." "We just disassemble it and put it back in a box?" "I love you." "I'm not going anywhere." "You give Joseph 20,000 for month number one." "What are you doing?" " He stays with you a month." " Doesrt anything mean anything?" "25,000 for month number two." " I'm your woman, you're my man." " 30,000 for the third." "I made a commitment." "The hell with me, with you... with everything." "I'm throwing you out." "Get out." "Get out." "You want some milk?" "No." "I'm okay."