" They're waiting for you, you ready?" " Cocoa's always ready, but I ain't moving until I get some decent clothes." "Now I thought I made that perfectly clear." "Hey, I gave you $200 for some clothes." "Where'd you get these, at Goodwill?" " Decent clothes is what you asked for and decent clothes is what you got." "Elfonza King." "What's this bit at calling herself Cocoa Delange?" " Everybody's got his thing to do, Sergeant." "I sure don't envy you boys at the Attorney General's office trying to look after this hot piece of cheese." "Turning state's evidence and a Harlem racketeer don't lend to living very long, does it?" "Well what the hell does?" "Christ, if you don't die of cancer or a heart attack, you go through the windshield of your car." "She's got a mouth." "For sure." "Look, she's in here only for contempt of court, so if she's got such a big mouth, how come she wasn't willing to testify against her boyfriend before now, huh?" " Running half the rackets in Halem, New York and trying to buy a piece of Reno, Nevada, is two different things." "She knows you guys are gonna get him sooner or later, so why should she keep taking the wrap for him?" " Can't see why some people wanna stop a little honest enterprise just 'cause it's black." "The man's a racketeer." "He doesn't exactly do everything legal, Lieutenant." "Things they're trying to nail him for are not my idea of honest enterprise." " So you never heard of racketters in Nevada before now, huh?" "Besides, they can't prove anything on this kid, all he's doing is the same as groups who send in white guy to buy a house for a black family in Beverly Hills, now what the hell's wrong with that?" " Well if it was my neighborhood," "I Wouldn't like it." "Is that all I have to sign?" "Don't get upset, Lieutenant." "All you need now is the body." "What a body." "Yeah, yeah." "What's the holdup?" "You ready?" "Yeah, and who are you?" "Lieutenant Ramsey Miller." "Attorney General's office." "For your protection." "You just call me Ramsey." "Sounds cozy." "Yeah, let's go." " A year and a half without even committing a crime." "# Lady Cocoa, where have you been" "# Come out and meet the people" "# Welcome back to the game of life" "# Called pop goes the weasel" "# Strange you smile just like a child" "# Delivered from all evil" "# Don't you hear that drummer playing" "# Pop goes the weasel" " Get in the back of the car, Cocoa." "You smell that, Lieutenant?" "I don't smell anything." " It's the smell of pine and balsom" "It's the smell of freedom." "Let's go." "# And if you ask me what is life" "# I'd sketch it on an easel" "land then I'd name that masterpiece" "# Pop goes the weasel" "# The body aches, the body cries" "# The poor rich are regal" "# Hey mister won't you satisfy" "# Pop goes the weasel" " Sure hope that matron had enough smartsto give me a fingernail file." " If she didn't, we'll get you anything you need." " You goddamn right 'cause that's the way my deal goes, right?" " I said we'll get you anything you need." " Hey tell me something will you?" "What?" "What's that?" "This is Officer Douglas Fuller of the Carson City Police Department, now he'll make sure that you show up at the hearing tomorrow." "When we get to the hotel, you two will register as husband and wife." "Oh yeah?" "Well that should take care of an immediate need." "Well does it talk or is it fully automated yet?" "Very funny." "Doug?" "Got nothing to say." "It does talk, congratulations," "Ramsey, I see that raises standards on your civil service test." "# Lady Cocoa, where have you been" "# Come out and meet the people" "# Welcome back to the game of life" "# Called pop goes the weasel" "# Strange you smile like a child" "# Delivered from all evil" "# Don't you hear the drummer play" "# Pop goes the weasel" "# If you ask me what is life" "# I'd sketch it on my easel" "# And then I'd name my masterpiece" "# Pop goes the weasel" "# The body aches, the body cries" "# Poor, rich, or regal" "# Hey mister, won't you satisfy" "# Pop pop pop goes the weasel" " Yes sir, may I help you?" "Mr. and Mrs. Cornell." "Yes, Mr. and Mrs. Cornell, reservations have been made for you, will you please sign in?" "You have room 1010." "Your baggage please?" "It's on its way." "Fred!" "I'll take the key, sir." " Good afternoon, sir, can I take this?" " Is there anything else I can do for you, sir?" "No, that's it." "All right, let's go boy, I know what will do it." " Hey, this the biggest you could get?" " It's big enough for you, little lady." "You're only gonna be here one day." " Well in that case I'm gonna need a few things." "[Ramsey} Yeah?" "What kind of things?" "You know, little girl things." "Hair stuff, nail stuff, perfume stuff, that kind of number." "Okay, later." "Now!" "Okay, later." " I don't want it tomorrow, I want it now!" "All right, all right!" " Tell that yoyo I want some conversation." "When Cocoa talks, everybody talks!" "I'll be back in awhile Doug, and don't open the door to anybody but me." "Lots of luck, Dougie poo." "I hate modern." "Let's get it straight." "My job is to make sure you get to the hearing in the morning." "Now I could think of a lot of things that I'd rather do than play nursemaid to you." "But as long as it has to be this way, we can make it easier on ourselves if you'll cooperate, okay?" "Ain't we the man of duty." "I don't need your protection." " The Attorney General thinks so." "The Attorney General?" "He don't know his ass from a hole in the ground." "I'm hungry" "Tell me what you want." " Well I think I'll have some vishoius some escargot, asparagus with hollandaise, cream spinach, oh and some mashed potatoes with butter, lots and lots of butter." "Chateaubriand wine, some strawberry shortcake, two strawberry shortcakes with tons of whipped cream and a milkshake." " Where do you want me to send the body?" " Ha ha, just order it, I'll eat it." "Hey my man, you're gonna have to do something about this confusion on the wall, I can't eat my strawberries with this staring me in the face, now one of them has to go." "Strawberries would be easier." "You're right." "No you're not right." "Strawberries are aesthetic, but this painting's a fuck up." "You see, the basic difference between abstract, modern, and traditional art is a quality and time not valued." "That's Percival Reeds, London art critic in his book Understanding Art published in 1963." " You want the strawberries or not?" "Yes." "Emphatically yes." "But that excuse for art has got to go." "See if they've got a Meticiliani." "That would go just great with my strawberries." "Who knows, she might be right." "Well I brought some of the things she wanted." "Fingernail polish, eyebrow crap, that sort of thing." "Well my man, I didn't know you were hip to that sort of thing." "When you get to be my age, if you ain't learned it, you ain't gonna." " There's something I wanted you ask you, Ram." " Well don't sit there chewing it, spit it out." " This is an important job, right?" "Very." "When that little broad spills what she knows to the grand jury, it's gonna blow the lid off half the rackets on the East coast, especially Eddie." "And him and a lot of other creeps will be leaving this country like a Sunday morning Christmas rush." " Yeah, well that's just it, I mean if this job is so important, Why'd you pick me?" "'Cause you're a good man." "Aw don't bullshit me." "I mean you got no black officers in the DA's office, so you come across town and you get one off the beat." "But why me?" "I mean why a patrolman instead of a detective with some experience?" " Captain said you had a good record." "Anyone who could handle themselves on a beat like yours." "You mean in the ghetto." "It's a tough place." "Down there you have to think for yourself and that's what I want here." "Don't worry about it though, Doug." "I checked you out all the way." "You work hard." "Ain't nothing glamorous about our work, it's simply duty." "But you're like me." "You know how to do it." " You trying to tell me we're brothers, Ram?" " God, I don't give a damn whether you're black, green, orange, lemon, or banana." "You've got character." "You're the one I wanted." "Besides, you can run faster than me." " You got that right, buster brown." "Look at this shit!" "What?" "!" " This snot rag excuse for a dress." "That's what." "You want another one?" " Spare me, Ramsey, with your taste you'll probably bring back something from a Sears catalog." "I gotta check into the hotel." " Thought you just went to do that." "No, I had to, you know" "Yeah, who is it?" "Room service, sir, your order from the kitchen!" "Good afternoon, sir." "And a very good afternoon to you, sir." "Aha, hmm, hmm?" "Voila!" "Magnifique." "That'll be all, you can just leave it here, okay?" "Well I hope you enjoy it, sir." "Well he'd better because he's certainly gonna have to eat it." "Say what?" " Well you didn't ask me if I liked it." "Well do you want it or not?" "No, I changed my mind." " Would the lady care to reorder?" "Yes she would." "You see, after a hot shower one needs something light." "Like a royal Caesar salad with a light wine." "Zinfandel." "After a hot shower?" "But of course." "Caesar salad." "Zinfandel." "That's right." "I mean it's really not healthy you know." "What ain't healthy about it?" " Eating hot things after a hot shower, it slows down the body process, makes your skin flabby." "You see, the vital juices in animal spirits are directed affected by the amount of sustenance invested into the corporal body." "Rene Descartes in his autobiography in 1630, published in 1938." "He was a French philosopher and he once said any" " All right, all right, I believe you." "Get her the salad." "Oh, right away sir." "I'll see you later." " You know, the trouble with most of us is we ignore our instinct." "You take liver, if you don't like it you shouldn't eat it." "If you don't like spinach you shouldn't stick it in your mouth and taste stuff that's good for you, probably choke on it." "Take cigarettes for instance." "You like tobacco you should smoke." "Everything you want to do is not necessarily the best thing for you." "Doctors say smoking causes cancer." "A doctor, did you ever see a doctor live past 60?" "You tell a doctor you got health insurance and you get paid, he'll take out every fucking organ in your body." "What's so funny, don't you believe me?" "That's just it." "I do." "I remember when I got it at 'Nam." "_ Nam?" "Yeah, in Vietnam." "We were on patrol in one of those dinky little villages." "I don't remember the name of the place." "I got stupid, stepped in a hole with a tiger trap." "Bunch of bamboo spikes nearly tore my leg off." "By the time they got me back to the base hospital this doctor thought gangrene had set in." "He wanted to take my leg off." "I told him if he touched my leg" "I'd blow his head off." "I'd rather die than be crippled." " Well sounds stupid to me, I'd rather live myself." "Forget it." "I didn't think you'd understand anyway." "What's to understand?" "So a soldier loses an arm or a leg or whatever!" "You ever think of what you people do to people when you bust them for a traffic ticket, possession of a little grass." "You don't just take away an arm or a leg, you take away their whole freedom!" "And you wonder why people always screaming fuck the pigs!" " I think you got your values a little mixed up." "A solider has no control over his destiny." "The people you're talking about do." " Freedom's just another word for love." "Janis Joplin, Colombia Records, 1971." "This ain't gonna get it." "I wanted my day's freedom to have some time out, that's what was promised me and that don't mean a mental jerk off between you and me!" "Okay, what do you wanna do?" "I wanna get out of here!" "I want you to take me back downstairs to that dress shop so I can buy something!" "I can't do that." " Oh not to worry, I won't be any trouble." "I just want the fun of putting on a new dress." "I've got my orders." " Fuck your orders, you're paranoid!" "Obeying orders almost got your leg blown off." "I just wanna feel like a woman again, and I won't be any trouble." "Now why don't you break down and have a heart." " Pigs don't have hearts, remember?" " And you creeps ain't got no honor either!" "Now I was promised I could do and have and say what I please, remember?" "!" "Within limits." "Limits my ass!" "It is the unwritten bylaws of the" "American cop out creed!" "I only regret that I have but one cop out to give to my country!" "Nathan Hale, 1776." "And they hung his ass." " I think you've got your quotes a little mixed up." " 40 feet with that bull, buster brown!" " Will you stop calling me that?" "!" " It'd save yourself a lot of trouble if you'd just let Cocoa have what they promised her." " Well that's not the way I read the orders." "What did they do, huh?" "What did they do, take away your fig machine when they said shit, you stupid grunt?" "!" "Get your clothes on." "Really?" "Yeah really." "Oh wow." "Wow, we're gonna have fun, we're gonna have a good time." "And I'm gonna look so pretty." "Oh thank you." "Thank you so much." "Don't thank me." "Thank the tiger trap." "And remember!" "No trouble, right?" "!" "I'll be good!" " And another thing, no more philosophy, okay?" "Philosophy's just another word for discretion, John Sheldon, 1615." " And no more bad language." "Shit." "But Madam, surely you're not, your order from the kitchen." "Viola, Caesar salad!" "Yes, but it's not spaghetti." " But madam, you ordered the Caesar salad." "You see?" "With the zinfandel wine!" "You made a mistake there." "And I know just what you did." "When I said spaghetti, you thought of Caesar, so you bought me a salad instead of pasta." "But I forgive you." "It's a natural mistake." "Come on, Doug." "But sir!" " That's okay, I forgive you too." "Ooh, you forgive me too?" "!" "Oh that is wonderful that you forgive me!" "You are so noble!" "Put it under." "He's got six." "Hit it." "21!" "Give me my money." " You know you got lucky that time." "Okay" "You gonna play it all?" "Do it again." "Hit it." "He's got 10, hit it." "No." "Oh when your right your right." "Little greedy here." "Whip it on me." "Get off of my money." "Voila." "You're not splitting 10s." "Can she do that?" "Marker for 80 please!" "$80 marker!" "Can she do that?" "Stay out of this." "Hello!" "Pay the lady!" "When you hot, you hot honey." "How many?" "Okay, one more time, my man." "Wait, Cocoa, wait a minute." "Be kind." "Hello!" "Gotcha!" "We got you." "Blackjack." "Pay the lady, sweetcake." "We played that one good." "I played it good, you dummy." "Try again?" "No!" "Be greedy, can't be pushy in this life, you gotta take you, here hold this for me please." "My $20." "No, this is..." "This for my man Ray." "Thank you kindly." " You have a good night with it, honey." "Thank you, honey." " Come on, we got shopping, honey." "Gotta buy me some new clothes." "Come on." "What happened here?" "What the hell happened here?" " You wouldn't believe it, that broad's gotta be the luckiest stupidest broad" "I've ever seen, she made every dumb play." "Yes ma'am, can I help you?" " Yes, I want to buy some clothes." " Anything special you'd like to see?" "Yeah, everything." "No, I would like to see that dress there in a size five." " I think the one in the window is a five." "How about that, Dougie?" " You didn't win that much money." " Would you have a cute pair of pants, a nice little top for me?" " Yes, I'll bring it into you in the fitting room." "Okay, thanks." "Straight ahead." "Faye, would you please?" "Can I help you?" "Yeah, my chick would like," "I mean my wife would like to..." "Honey, you tell her." "Some night clothes." " Surely, I have just the thing for you-." "Come with me." "Newlyweds." "Hey, how you doing buddy, what's happening?" "Just get married?" "Yeah." "Yeah, me too." "Can you believe it?" "I'm living with her for three years and we never wear a stitch of clothes." "And now we get married she gets shy and she wants to wear night clothes, man can you dig that, brother man?" "That's kinda silly, isn't it?" "Oh man, right on, brother." "Hey by the way, my name's Arthur Orwell." "My chick's Marie." "You can just call me Artie, buddy." "My name's Doug." "My wife's named Cocoa." "Oh Cocoa, I like that." "Oh that's nice." "It looks beautiful on you." "Thank you." "I'll be back in just a minute." "In the meantime, try this on." "Okay" " And we finally decided to make it legal." "And what the hell, if it doesn't work out, Reno's only 30 miles away, buddy." "All right!" "Are you staying in the hotel?" "Yeah." " Right on, us too, that's hip ain't it?" "Hey, you like this?" " On you, but I don't look good in orange." "Do you think he'll like this on me?" "right." "We just got married." "We lived together for three years." "I didn't dig it, but it's the only way he could handle it." "It's really strange now, now that it's legal" "I'm getting so scared all of a sudden." " Not to worry, it'll work itself out." "I don't know, now that we have that piece of paper I'm getting so insecure around him." " Just chomp around in your beaver, honey, and don't worry about it." "You just get married too?" "Yeah." "Kinda." "Hey Doug." "Huh?" "What's that?" "Where?" "There, bulge in your pocket." "Oh how beautiful, what a shiny thing, surprise for me." "Cocoa, you didn't." "Oh well they'll never miss it!" "Just want to get the swing of things here." "Hey" "Finish all your shopping?" "Yup, did good." "Me too." "Yeah, she nearly finished off the bankroll, I'll tell you." "I didn't, honey." "Nah, she really didn't." "So what are you guys doing tonight, man?" "We don't know yet." "Oh wow, man, there's a great band in the dining room." "Well we don't know." "Oh come on Cocoa, why don't we all have dinner together tonight." "I don't know really." "Oh please try." "It'll be a lot of fun." "It's no fun eating all alone." "Sorry, honey." "Yeah, thanks a lot." " Well we'll see you later, okay?" " Oh come on, want us to pick you up?" "No, don't bother." "Maybe we'll see you later." "Oh no, I can dig it." "It's the same scene as our pad, man." "Right on, brother." "Where you going now?" " Well if you must know, I'm gonna shit, shower, and shampoo." "Hello?" "How's it going, Ramsey?" "Smooth." " ls the little bird in her golden cage?" "That little bird's got a mouth on her like a hawk." " Well take good care of her." "She's a valuable piece of property." " Jim, I ain't lost one in 18 years." "I don't intend to have anyone pluck her feathers." "Well stay with it." "Yeah." "Hey I got a problem." "Doesn't everybody?" "What's your problem?" " Well I can't get this on my back." "~ So?" "Well would you?" "Just the back, okay?" "That feels good too." "Wait a minute." "There, now you can get all of it." " Who does this for you when I'm not around?" "It doesn't get done." " How many showers have you taken today?" "Not enough." "Did you ever try to wash the stench of a prison off of you?" "100 baths wouldn't be enough." " You seem to have had it pretty comfortable." "Sure, they can buy you frills, but they can't buy freedom." "It's like a disease eating at me." "I had to get out of there just one day." "He should've known that." "He?" "Eddie." " How did you get mixed up with him anyway?" " How does anybody get mixed up with anybody?" "It doesn't figure." "You're hard outside, Cocoa." "But I think you're soft on the inside." "Why'd you prostitute yourself like that anyway?" "Prostitute my ass, it was fun." "Besides, he was good to me." "Besides, how else would I get a chance to get the kind of things he could get me, you know?" "Clothes, jewelry, respect too." " Some respect, he's just a cheap hustler." "Cheap?" "He was only the first black man to buy into Nevada." "How many black men you know buy into the cream?" "That's why they want his ass." "They want?" "We want him because he's a criminal who defied the state laws of Nevada." "Black hasn't anything to do with it." "That's the biggest bunch of horseshit I've ever heard." "Boy, got you so brainwashed it's pitiful." "They wash away everything except your blackness, but you sure damn will try hard enough." " Cocoa, I don't think you're that stupid." "You've got a lot to learn." "Well not your kind of lessons." "Establishment bullshit." "With your yes sir, massa Ramsey, lift that barge, tote that bail, yes sir shit." "Your black loyalty is a bunch of bullshit." "At least he took care of me when I was in the joint." " If you're so loyal, why are you testifying?" "Because I..." "You know I haven't been this close to a man in..." "I know." "No you don't know." "You don't know." "It's like when the softest thing around you is a shower." "And you gotta share that with a lot of other girls." "And their bodies are bouncing and rubbing against yours." "After awhile, you kinda like it." "And at night, you lie awake in a hard cot." "And you know what?" "You toss, you roll, you rub around." "'Till there's hot pain aching between your legs." "And it never goes away, it just continues on and on and on." "And you lay on your back 'cause if you lay on your stomach, the rough sheets just rub against your breast." "Drive you out of your mind." "Had enough?" "If it's all you're gonna do." " How long have you been in jail?" " Too long without, if that's what you mean." "Hey what's the matter?" "Doug, what's wrong?" "What's wrong?" "What's wrong?" "What's right?" "Tell me what's right about it." "Doug, I don't understand." "You better get dressed." " All right then, I'll get dressed!" "But I wanna go downstairs for dinner!" "That's out!" " Out my ass, I wanna go out for dinner!" "_ No way!" "I wanna go out for dinner." "That was part of my bargain, one free day to do as I please, you don't think" "I bought these fucking clothes for the members of the committee do you?" "!" " It can't be done, Cocoa, it's too dangerous." " Dangerous for you, but a necessity for me." " Get the menu and order anything you want, but you eat it in the room." "That's it." " You just blew it, buster brown, this birdie ain't gonna sing, so you just call your boss and tell him I wanna go back to the slammer!" "But Cocoa, be reasonable!" "FUCK you!" "I was better off in the slammer, at least I was first cabin there!" "'Cause Eddie saw to that!" "Who is it?" "Ramsey." "What bit you?" "Where's Cocoa?" " She's in the shower again, it's her escape." " What the hell's happening here?" " She wants me to take her downstairs to dinner." "That's out." "Yeah, well tell her that." "I can do that too." "She copped out on us." "What?" "!" "She copped out on us." "She wants to go back to jail if she can't get what she wants." "Christ." " It's a simple case of blackmail." " 18 years on the force and now this." "I got retirement coming up, but she's not gonna fuck that up." "Take her to dinner." "I can't do that, Ramsey!" " What do you mean you can't do that?" " Well I couldn't control a situation like that, what if they try to hit her?" "Hell, I'll be there." "Well that's not enough Ramsey, what if somebody" "What's with you?" "!" "You falling for this broad?" "No!" "Look, I just don't wanna see her get killed." "All right." "All right." "We got the other choice." "We take her back to jail." "Either way we lost what we started out with." "It's never an easy business, Doug." "Dinner awaits." "Hello." " Hey, I'll be with you nice boys in a minute." "Thank you." "I'm going downstairs." "I still don't like it, Ram." "There's no other alternative," "I want to check the place out and make sure there are no creeps around." "What time do you plan on taking her down?" "Half hour, all right?" "All right, now relax." "My instinctive nose tells me there's nothing to worry about." "Nobody knows she's here." "See you later." "Shoot." "What'll it be?" " Plain soda water, my indigestion's killing me." "Got it right here." "Damn that feels good." "Seen any funny looking people around?" "Nope." "Who's he?" "He's probably an." "Where, from Sicily?" "Pardon me, but I seem to know you." "I can't place the face." "Cleveland." "Never been there." "I'm from San Francisco." " I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else." " Stick around, I'll buy you a drink." "No thanks, I don't drink, it's bad for my complexion." "Bitch." " Can I show you to a table, sir?" "Hi." "How you doing?" "Okay" "You look beautiful, lady." "Oh Doug, what's happening brother?" "Hi, Marie." "How you doing?" "Glad you guys could make it." "This is great, honey, honey come here." "Same as we're having here." "They're great, you'll love them." "I'd rather not drink." "Well I would." " Don't you think you should eat something first?" "Uh uh." "It's been some time you know." "I know it." " Would you like a cocktail, sir?" "Oh." "Oh, the band is popping." " Hey, have you ever danced to Greek music, man?" "Oh wow, it's something else." "Speaking about something else, you guys wanna come up to my room, man?" "Why?" "Do you smoke?" "Yeah!" "Beautiful." "I got some of the best shit in the world." "And it's from Turkey." "Hey Dougie, do you smoke man?" "No, no, I don't smoke." "Well whatever's fair." "Hey Cocoa, let's go dance, come on." "I'd love to." "Is that all right, Doug?" "No, I don't" " Come on Cocoa, let's go dance man." "Is he always so lively?" "Yes." "Let's dance." "Huh?" "I don't think so." "Let's go." "Hey, I gotta get to the little girl's room, will you show me?" "Huh?" " I gotta get to the little girl's room, will you show me?" "Sure." "Hey, where are you going?" "Oh, to the ladies room." "That's all right, isn't it?" "With Marie, she's coming with me, come on, Marie." "Hey Marie, I've just seen an old boyfriend and I gotta talk to him without Doug knowing." "You haven't!" "You cheating on Doug already?" "He's too cute." " No, it's nothing like that, it's just that" "I just gotta let this dude know that it's over, you know, the persistent kind." "Yeah, don't I know." "Women, man." "Hey listen man, relax, she's okay, come on." "Hey you know, you can't be too possessive." "We're only married to them, we don't own them." "She makes me a little nervous running around like that." "Are you gonna help me?" " Sure, what do you want me to do?" " I'm gonna get to a phone and page him." "I'll go to front desk." "Hell, why don't you come up to my room and telephone him, then you can have some sweet privacy if you want him to come up and see you." "Yeah, that's good." "Okay." "Come on." "Hey, this one's the hot one, come here." "Oh wow!" "Excuse me!" "Excuse me!" "Excuse me!" "What happened, where'd she go?" " She stepped onto the elevator with the other girl." "Where are you going?" "!" " I'm gonna ask Arthur for their room number." " No no no, I'll do that, you go up to our room in case they're headed up there." "Go, go!" "Marie!" "Cocoa!" "Cocoa!" "Marie!" "Marie!" "Eddie!" "Oh Eddie, what are you doing here?" "I thought..." "Jesus, when I saw Big Joe downstairs," "I should've known something was going on." "What are you doing here?" " Hey, look, look, after you've been locked away for a year and a half, you think I'm not gonna take advantage of a chance like this to see you?" "Aw gee." "Come on, baby." " You know you shouldn't be here, you really shouldn't, if they" " Hey now look, look woman, if my girl can take all those chances you've been taking for me, go through all that shit, well I can take a few chances for you to make sure you're all right." "You are all right aren't you?" "Oh yeah, I'm all right now." "I just wanna get out of the stinkin' joint and be back with you." "Soon, baby, soon." "You know I spent over 100 grand trying to get the courts to get off their butts and try and make a decision on your appeal?" "My people say it should be this month." " Yeah, well you tell them to hurry it up then." " Yeah, well I wish they'd hurry too." "I just can't stand that place, just messes with my mind." "Not being able to see you." "Blaming you, hating you, loving you." "Not being able to tell you what I'm thinking." "Hey now baby, don't." "Baby, please don't do that." "I'm here now." " Just gives me the chills, Eddie." "Now I had this brilliant idea to bullshit my way out of this, I let them think that I was gonna testify against you." "Boy did they eat that up." "I've been dining, dancing, new dress." "Do you like it?" "Mmm, yes." "On the state." "You're too much, you know that?" "There ain't nobody else for me but you." "You know that don't you?" " I just wish I could've told you." "I'm so glad you found me." "You and those honeymooners." " Oh, well I was a little confused." "But you know me baby, I always like to check things out, cover myself." "Yeah I know." "I've been watching you." "You have?" "Mmmhm." "That's pretty good looking company they got you traveling with." "You mean Doug." "You don't have to worry about him." "He's just a little Boy Scout doing his duty." "You're the only man that I know." "Yeah." "Well baby, this Boy Scout, has he been asking questions about me?" "Wanting to know about my business?" "Cops always talking." "They always wanna know something." "But I didn't tell him anything." "You didn't?" "Hell no, why should I?" " Well you know how tricky they can be." "Maybe back up in the prison, somebody, anybody asking questions about me or the things that you've seen me do since we've been together." "Hey Eddie, I'm your woman." "Now I've been in that cellblock for over a year protecting you." "Now I haven't and I won't say anything." " I know that, I know that, it's just" "Just nothing." "Now I need you." "It's been so long." "Yeah, I know, I know." "I needed you too." "There ain't no time now." "Please." " Hey now, look, you gonna be missed, girl." "And you know I don't like to rush those things." "They're gonna have everybody and the scout pack up here looking for you if you don't hurry up and get back to your room." "But Eddie" "Uh uh uh." "Soon, baby." "Soon." "Okay" "Cocoa." "I'm always close." "Just you and me." "Remember that." "Okay- okay" "Yeah." "Yeah yeah, page her please." "Ram, yeah, they're not even registered in the fucking hotel, I just called the desk, they never heard of them." "What about Arthur?" "You lost him?" "What?" "No, she's not here." "Okay, I'm coming right down." " Excuse me, can I get in my room through here?" "Sure." "Thank you." "Hello operator, would you page" "Mr. Douglas Fuller please?" " Something's starting to smell around here-." " Yeah, and I'm getting the same odor." " Douglas Fuller, telephone call." "Douglas Fuller, telephone call." "This is Douglas Fuller." "' Hi." "Doug?" "Cocoa!" "Where are you?" "I'm here in the room." "Stay there, we'll be right up." "She's up in the room." "Come on." "Excuse me." "Would you like me to?" "Aw, no that's all right." "Why, why?" "I wasn't gonna talk." "I wasn't gonna say anything." "What?" "!" "I wasn't." "I wasn't gonna testify." "He should've trusted me." "Damn his black soul." "I just wanted to get out!" "He was here, Doug." "Doug, get him he was here!" "Here in the hotel?" "' Yes!" " Whoever did this is probably in Reno by now." "Not if I can help it." " Don't be impulsive, Doug, you'll get reckless." "Watch her, Ram." "Get him, Doug, you get him!" "Hey, you see a little redhead and a guy with long hair?" " Yeah, they went out to get their car." "It's crazy around here." "And I danced with him." "Son of a bitch." "Hey, hey!" "Hey!" "Where you going?" " What happened, Doug, you catch 'em both?" " Arthur out in a pool and she, he's in the bathroom." "Marie?" "Some dude in drag." "Shit." "Well come on." "The lid's coming off here and I wanna get her down to the police station in Carson City where she'll be safe." "The vacation's over and I left word at the desk for you to follow us there." " Well let's get the hell out of here, come on." "Cocoa?" "Cocoa, I'm sorry." " Hurting doesn't have to be forever and this one won't be." " Especially if that car catches us." "What?" "Oh shit." "Eddie must pay pretty well." "These people never quit, do they?" "Can you lose them?" " Well it's 3O miles to Carson City." "Look, I'll drop you off around the next corner." "Now can you find some place to hide until I can bring help?" " Yeah, I've got a friend that's got a boat at the marina." "Slip 42, The Seagull." "Got it." " Hey Ramsey, let me have your gun." "I got an empty one." "What if they catch me?" "You got a hell of a lot more padding than we do." "Get ready." "Now!" "What are you gonna do now?" "It's too cold to walk and I ain't swimming Lake Tahoe." "We have to walk." "What are you doing?" "!" " Not to worry, you ain't any Boy Scout around here." "What?" "Shhh!" "Oh it pays to have a little training" "Okay, I started this mother, let's see if you can drive her." "I hope this dingy's got a hot shower." " I think it does, but if it doesn't," "I know what we can do." "It's hot, huh?" "Yeah, feel better?" "L will I hope." "It's been a pretty busy day." "Yeah." "'Cause everything changes so fast." "I thought I understood Eddie." "You know I could've turned him in a million times." "Why'd he think I'd do it now?" "Maybe he didn't know that." "Yes he did." "He knew me." "I never really knew him." "You know, all those times in Harlem I've seen him in action." "Cold, practical." "I've seen him hurt people for far less than what he thought I was gonna do." "I thought he knew I was different." "I was his woman." "A businessman like him can't afford the luxury of sentiment." "You're a nice man, Doug." "Just doing my job." "Is that all I am to you?" "Your job?" " Do you want me to commit myself?" "If you don't..." "I will." "Don't turn around." "Keep your back to me." "Your other friend is floating out on the lake." " What the hell are you talking about?" "I thought you were dead." "How'd they miss you?" "Wrong boat." "We were on the other one." "This one didn't have a shower." "How much, Ram?" "What'd you do it for, 40?" "50,000?" " I don't know what you're talking about." " You're never gonna get a chance to spend it." " You've got nothing on me, Doug." "I'm betting my 18 years, clean years against you." " You were the only one that knew we were here." "Not true." "I called the precinct which is why they're responding." "Headquarters isn't gonna believe you." "You've got not proof and they'll never believe the cunt." "Why you murdering bastard!" "Hold it, Cocoa." "He's right." "That's one thing about the letter of the law." "You've got to have facts." "That right, Ram?" "You got it right, kid." " The son of a bitch knows we don't have any proof." "Shoot him, Doug." "Turn around, Ram." "Slow." "What do you think Eddie will do now?" "Would he go according to the letter of the law?" "What do you mean?" "You know Eddie, baby." "What would he do if Ramsey crossed him?" " He'd have his balls for breakfast." "Give me my gun back, Ram." "Here's the one you killed them with." "What are you gonna do?" "I'm gonna make you a hero." "18 Year Veteran Slays Mobsters." "Wait 'till your employer reads that little gem." "Now wait a minute." "Lieutenant Ramsey just killed a couple of men in a gun fight." "You'll find one below and the other one's out on the lake." "He saved our lives." "Lieutenant Ramsey's a damn good cop." "Let's go, Cocoa." "It's getting light." "You have a lot of talking to do." "Just about an hour." "So what else is new?" "You know something, this is the first time I've felt really clean in years." "I'm finally gonna be free." " Freedom's just another word for love." "# If you ask me what is life" "# I'd sketch it on an easel" "# Then I'd name my masterpiece" "# Guy gets girl" "# The good guys win" "# Hooray for flag and eagle" "# Well that's the way the story goes"