"answer that." "Bickle?" "I can't sleep nights." "There's porno theaters for that." "I know." "I tried that." "So what do you do now?" "buses." "Figure I might as well get paid for it." "Harlem?" "anywhere." "Will you work Jewish holidays?" "anywhere." "Let me see your chauffeur's license." "How's your record?" "It's clean." "like my conscience." "You gonna break my chops?" "I got enough trouble with guys like you." "you can take it on the arches." "I didn't mean that." "Physical?" "Clean." "Age?" "26." "Education?" "Some." "there." "Military record?" "Honorable discharge." "May 1973." "Were you in the Army?" "Marines." "I was in the Marines too." "So what is it?" "You need an extra job?" "Are you moonlighting?" "I just wanna work long hours." "What's moonlighting?" "Look just fill these out and check back tomorrow." "please step up." "please." "Because it's crowded on 57th." "May 1 0th." "which washed away  the garbage and the trash off the sidewalks." "I'm working long hours now." "sometimes even eight." "sometimes seven days a week." "but it keeps me real busy." "$350 a week." "when I do it off the meter." "All the animals come out at night." "junkies." "venal." "a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets." "Harlem." "I don't care." "Don't make no difference to me." "It does to some." "Some won't even take spooks." "Don't make no difference to me." "please." "you are gorgeous!" "Beautiful little girl." "I can't afford to get stopped." "We wouldn't want that to happen." "There'll be a big tip for you if you do the right things." "You got a way." "You got a way." "Now you're talking!" "will you?" "I clean the come off the back seat." "I clean off the blood." "Can I help you?" "what's your name?" "My name is Travis." "That's nice." "What can I do for you?" "I'd like to know what your name is." "Gimme a break." "You can tell me what your name is." "I'm not gonna do anything." "Do you want me to call the manager?" "You don't have to" "Troy!" "I mean...." "Can I have a Chuckles there?" "Do you have any Jujus?" "They last longer." "I'd like to get them too." "What you see is what we got." "I'll take these." "Coca-Cola." "We don't have Coca-Cola." "Royal Crown Cola is all we got." "A dollar eighty-five." "Twelve hours of work and I still can't sleep." "Damn." "Days go on and on." "And they don't end." "All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go." "I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention." "I believe someone should become a person like other people." "I first saw her at Palantine campaign headquarters at 63rd and Broadway." "She was wearing a white dress." "She appeared like an angel  out of this filthy mass." "She is alone." "They  cannot  touch her." "You delivered two boxes." "I think it's a total of 5000 campaign buttons." "all the ones we had before and our slogan is... and "are"is underlined." "These new buttons have "we"underlined." "I think there's a difference." "We are the people"is not the same as "We are the people." "Let's not fight." "we'll make it real simple." "We don't pay for the buttons." "come here a minute." "What?" "send a copy to all headquarters." "I gotta xerox that New York Times article." "Don't forget the new photos." "I didn't." "We have to emphasize mandatory welfare." "That's the issue to push." "then the issue." "Senator Palantine is a dynamic man." "fascinating man." "You forgot sexy." "I did not forget sexy." "You sound like you're selling mouthwash." "We are selling it." "Are we authorized to do that?" "Very funny." "You can get in trouble selling pharmaceuticals here." "My uncle's in jail because of that." "anything would be jail." "Look over there." "I love you." "Notice anything?" "put your glasses on." "just a minute." "All right." "That taxi driver's been staring at us." "What taxi driver?" "The one that's sitting there." "How long has he been there?" "It feels like a long time." "Does he bother you?" "No." "You mean yes." "You're being sarcastic." "You're quick." "You're really quick." "I try to be real quick." "I'll play the male in this relationship" "Good luck." "and tell him to move." "And I don't need good luck." "you do." "You just think you don't." "You're blocking our doorway." "You think you might move your cab?" "mascara... rouge." "they call it." "it's Blush-on." "Wiz." "That's Blush-on." "My wife uses it." "Ask Travis." "He's a ladies' man." "A cup of coffee." "she uses a lot of it." "And then perfume." "The spray kind." "Then in the middle of the Triboro Bridge-- she changes her pantyhose." "yeah." "What'd you do?" "and I jump in the back seat and whip it out." "You know what this is?" "It's love." I fuck her brains out." "That's the greatest single experience of my life." "Then she gave me a $200 tip and her phone number in Acapulco." "Charlie T." "Travis." "Got change for a nickel?" "Doughboy will do anything for a buck." "So how's it hanging?" "What's that?" "I turn on the radio." "Some fleet driver from Bell just got all cut up." "Stickup?" "he got cut up by some crazy fucker." "Cut half his ear off." "Where?" "It was on 1 22nd Street." "Fucking Mau Mau land." "Travis?" "don't you?" "You handle some pretty rough customers." "I have." "You carry a piece?" "You need one?" "I know a fella who can get you a real nice deal." "Lots of shit around." "I never use mine." "I'm conservative." "But it's a good thing to have just as a threat." "I'm gonna go dig my dirt." "Look." "Piece of Errol Flynn's bathtub." "Dig the symbols." "F-4-0-5-4-3-4." "And the watermark." "There's one person there's two persons and there's three persons." "The Pines." "you give me half of what you got." "I don't want to." "I'm gonna get in my cab and boogie." "I'm so terribly sorry." "Nothing." "That's very cute." "Thank you." "you wanna see something?" ""You wanna see something?" "If you had these three fingers missing on this hand and that hand missing on that hand..." "...how would you light the match?" "I wouldn't." "Go ahead." "Give it a try." "I don't think I could do it." "No?" "It's gonna be difficult." "I'll give it a try." "I got my thumb back for a second." "Thank God." "Just a minute." "I can't do it." "The guy at the newsstand can." "I don't work at a newsstand." "he's probably Italian." "No." "You're sure?" "He's black." "he might've been a thief." "the mob blows his fingers off." "but it's true." "they leave a canary on the body." "It's symbolic." "Why not a pigeon instead of a canary?" "I don't know why not." "Wait a minute." "you can walk into a pet store kill it right there." "Put it on anyone you want." "I'd like to volunteer." "I'll take you right over here." "if you don't mind." "Why do you have to volunteer to me?" "Because you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen." "Thanks." "But what do you think of Palantine?" "The man you're volunteering to help elect President." "but I'm sure he'll make a good one." "I'll canvass." "How do you feel about his stand on welfare?" "but I'm sure it's a good stand." "You're sure of that?" "day and night so I'm sure the gentlemen will sign you up over there." "so it's kind of hard for me to work in the day." "Then what exactly do you want?" "Would you like to have coffee and pie with me?" "Why?" "Why?" "I'll tell you why." "I think you're a lonely person." "and I see you here." "I see a lot of people around you and I see these phones and all this stuff on your desk and it means nothing." "And when I came inside and met you I saw in your eyes and how you carried yourself that you're not a happy person." "And I think you need something." "you can call it that." "You're gonna be my friend?" "What do you say?" "so.... that's all." "Just outside." "Right around here." "I'm there to protect you." "Come on." "Just take a little break." "I have a break at 4:00." "If you're here-- 4:00 today?" "I'll be here." "I'm sure you will." "All right." "Four p.m." "Right." "Outside in the front?" "Yes." "my name is Travis." "Betsy?" "Betsy." "four o'clock p.m." "I took Betsy to Charles' Coffee Shop on Columbus Circle." "I had black coffee and apple pie with a slice of melted yellow cheese." "I think that was a good selection." "Betsy had coffee and a fruit salad dish." "She could've had anything she wanted." "000 volunteers in New York alone isn't bad." "But the organizational problems!" "I know what you mean." "I got the same problems." "my possessions." "I'll get organiz-ized." "You mean "organized"?" "Organiz-ized." "Organiz-ized." "It's a joke." "O-R-G-A-N-E-Z-I-E-Z-D." "Thimk." "Do you like where you work?" "We've got some good people." "Palantine's got a good chance." "You know you have beautiful eyes?" "Do you like the guy you work with?" "He's okay." "But do you like him?" "He's funny and very good at his job." "Though he does have a few problems." "I'd say he has quite a few problems." "His energy seems to go in the wrong places." "When I walked in and I saw you two sitting there I could just tell that there was no connection whatsoever." "there was something between us." "There was an impulse we were both following." "So that gave me the right to talk to you." "I never would've had the right to talk to you." "I never would've had the courage to talk to you." "I felt there was nothing." "I knew I was right." "Did you feel that way?" "I wouldn't be here if I didn't." "Where are you from?" "Upstate." "I don't like him." "I just think he's silly." "I don't think he respects you." "I don't believe I've ever met anyone quite like you." "You wanna go to a movie with me?" "I have to go back to work now." "I don't mean now." "Another time?" "Sure." "You know what you remind me of?" "What?" "That song by Kris Kristofferson." "Who's that?" "The songwriter." "He's a prophet...." "He's a prophet and a pusher... a walking contradiction." "You saying that about me?" "Who else would I be talking about?" "I'm no pusher." "I've never pushed." "Just the part about the contradictions." "You are that." "I called Betsy again." "She said maybe we'd go to a movie after work tomorrow." "That's my day off." "but I called her again and she agreed." "no." "Betsy what?" "I forgot to ask her last name." "Damn!" "I gotta remember stuff like that." "Don't worry about anyone committing themselves until things come in from California." "I think we should've waited for the limo." "but I mind going to California without the right preparation." "the candidate?" "I am." "I tell everybody that comes in this taxi that they have to vote for you." "thank you Travis." "I'm sure you'll win." "Everybody I know will vote for you." "I was gonna put your sticker in my taxi but the company said it was against their policy." "They're a bunch of jerks." "I have learned more about America from riding in cabs than in all the limos in the U.S." "yeah?" "That's true." "Travis?" "Sure." "What bugs you the most about this country?" "sir." "there must be something." "he should clean up this city here because it's like an open sewer." "It's full of filth and scum." "Sometimes I can hardly take it." "Whatever becomes the President should just really clean it up." "You know?" "it's so bad." "you know?" "I think that the President should just clean up this mess." "He should flush it right down the fucking toilet." "Travis." "But it's not gonna be easy." "We'll have to make radical changes." "Damn straight." "Here you go." "Keep the change." "Thank you." "Nice talking to you." "Nice talking to you." "You're a good man." "I know you're gonna win." "I think." "all right?" "Come on!" "baby." "This is a real drag." "come on!" "Don't make a scene." "You wanna get busted?" "be cool!" "Don't start no trouble." "just forget about this." "bitch!" "Get your ass out of here!" "Hi there." "Have a nice day today?" "Not particularly." "Got a present for you." "Now back to Gene Krupa's syncopated style shortly." "Why'd you do that?" "What else am I gonna do with my money?" "I wish you'd have listened to this." "except my record player doesn't work now." "Your stereo's broken?" "How do you stand it?" "I can't live without music." "but I would really like to." "Then you haven't played this record yet." "But I was thinking maybe we could listen to it on your record player." "going back through 40 years of Chick Webb." "You gotta be kidding." "What?" "This is a dirty movie." "no." "This is a movie that a lot of couples come to." "All kinds of couples go here." "You sure about that?" "I see them all the time." "Come on." "Where are you going?" "I have to leave." "Why?" "I don't know why I came in here." "I mean" "I didn't know you'd feel that way about this movie." "lf I had" "Are these the only movies you go to?" "I mean I come and-- This is not so bad." "Let's fuck." "There are other movies I can take you to." "but I can take you other places." "We're just different." "Wait a second." "I have to go." "I've got to go now." "I want to talk." "But I have to go." "Taxi!" "Can I talk to you at least?" "Won't you at least to talk to me?" "Take the record." "please." "now I've got two." "Let's go." "Can I call you?" "I got a taxi." "Betsy." "it's Travis." "I'm sorry about the other night." "I didn't know that was the way you felt about it." "I didn't know." "If l-- I'd have taken you somewhere else." "Are you feeling better or...?" "you know." "It can happen." "Yeah." "huh?" "Would you like to have some dinner with me in the next few days or something?" "How about a cup of coffee?" "and we could.... okay." "Did you get my flowers and the...?" "You didn't get them?" "But I sent some flowers." "Can I call you again?" "Tomorrow or the next day?" "sure." "So long." "I tried several times to call her..." "she wouldn't come to the phone." "but with no luck." "The smell of the flowers made me sicker." "The headaches got worse." "I think I got stomach cancer." "though." "You're only as healthy...." "You're only as healthy as you feel." "You're only as healthy as you  feel." "Let's not have trouble." "Why won't you talk to me?" "You think I don't know you're here?" "You think I don't know?" "Please leave." "Take your hands off!" "I just want you to know" "Please." "This is no place to do this." "Take your hands off!" "Just leave." "then!" "I wanna tell you you're in hell!" "And you'll die in hell." "There's a cop over there." "You're like the rest of them." "I'm calling the cop." "Officer!" "Officer!" "because I'll call the police!" "cold and distant." "Many people are like that." "Women for sure." "They're like a union." "cabbie!" "Pull over to the curb over there." "Right over there." "don't." "The fucking meter." "What are you doing?" "What are you doing with the meter?" "Did I tell you to do that with the meter?" "Put the meter back." "I don't care what I have to pay." "I'm not getting out." "Put the meter back on." "Put it down." "That's right." "Put it down!" "That's right." "Why are you writing?" "Don't write!" "Put the thing down." "Just sit." "Pull over." "Pull over to the curb and sit here." "We're gonna sit." "you see that light up there?" "In the window?" "The light?" "The window in the second floor." "The one that's closest to the edge of the building." "The light up in the window." "Second story." "blind?" "Do you see the light?" "you see it." "Good." "See the woman?" "Do you see the woman in the window?" "Yeah." "I want you to see that woman because that's my wife." "But that's not my apartment." "It's not my apartment." "You know who lives there?" "you wouldn't know." "But you know who lives there?" "A nigger lives there." "How do you like that?" "And I'm gonna kill her." "There's nothing else." "I'm gonna kill her." "What do you think of that?" "What do you think of that?" "Don't answer." "You don't have to answer everything." "I'm gonna kill her with a .44" "Magnum pistol." "I have a .44" "Magnum pistol." "I'm gonna kill her with that gun." "Did you ever see what a .44" "Magnum can do to a woman's face?" "It'd fucking destroy it." "Just blow it right apart." "That's what it can do to a face." "Did you ever see what it can do to a woman's pussy?" "You should see what a .44" "Magnum's gonna do to a woman's pussy." "What's that?" "you know...." "You must think I'm pretty sick or something." "Right?" "You must think I'm pretty sick?" "right?" "You think I'm sick?" "You don't have to answer." "I'm paying for the ride." "you know." "Italian suit... with a beautiful blonde." "the guy was a midget." "The blonde was a lady." "I got you." "Those midgets are funny." "Sometimes I like to hold a midget." "They always want to sit in the front seat." "Then I pick up these two fags." "They're going downtown." "They're wearing rhinestone T-shirts." "They start arguing and yelling." "and starts beating him." "I don't care what you do in the privacy... behind closed doors." "This is a free country." "you're adult." "don't go busting heads." "Do what you want." "Tell them to go to California." "one's got to pay the other alimony." "you know?" "California." "So I tell them to get out." "I saw a cop chase this guy with one leg." "you know." "The cop?" "they chase anything." "You got that five you owe me?" "loading." "I be broke if I hadn't caught me some people from Ohio out at Kennedy." "tipped me $5." "How's the action around?" "It's very slow." "I'm shoving on." "wait." "Killer." "You can have them!" "don't be hitting my man!" "boy!" "you know." "so.... that's why they call me the Wizard." "I got...." "It's just that I got a...." "Things got you down?" "happens to the best of them." "they got me real down." "Real...." "I just want to go out... really do something." "you mean?" "it's...." "I don't know." "I just want to go out...." "I really want to...." "I got some bad ideas in my head." "Look at it this way." "A man takes a job." "And that job... that becomes what he is." "like.... and that's what you are." "I've been a cabbie for 1 7 years." "Ten years at night." "And I still don't own my own cab." "You know why?" "Because I don't want to." "That must be what I want." "driving somebody else's cab." "You understand?" "you become the job." "one guy lives in Sutton Place." "another guy's a doctor." "another guy gets well and people are born." "your youth." "Go out and get laid." "Get drunk." "Do anything." "we're all fucked." "you know?" "I don't know." "That's about the dumbest thing I ever heard of." "but what do you want?" "I'm a cabbie." "I don't even know what you're talking about." "Maybe I don't know either." "you're gonna be all right." "I know." "I've seen a lot of people and I know." "man." "you know." "You're all right." "What do you think of your opponent's chances in the upcoming primary?" "Mr. Goodman is a fine man." "prefer him  to our opponent in the other party." "I think that my programs are better defined than his." "They're more imaginative." "I have a better chance of winning." "though." "He's not going to win." "I am." "I see." "one more thing I'd like to ask you." "How do you feel your campaign is going?" "When we came up with our slogan "We are the people"  when I said "Let the people rule" I felt I was being overly optimistic." "I must tell you that I am more optimistic now than ever before." "The people are rising to the demands that I have made on them." "The people are beginning to rule." "I feel it is a groundswell." "I know  it will continue through the primary and in Miami." "And I know it will rise  to an unprecedented swell in November." "That bitch!" "I'll blow her brains out!" "goddamn it!" "I'm gonna get my hands and kill her!" "goddamn it!" "Sport." "That guy keeps following us." "Don't look at him." "guys." "Wanna take a walk?" "everywhere." "in cars... everywhere." "There's no escape." "I'm God's lonely man." "June 8th." "My life has taken another turn again." "over and over  one day indistinguishable from the next." "continuous chain." "And then suddenly  there is change." "This here's Easy Andy." "He's a traveling salesman." "Travis?" "You got a .44" "Magnum?" "It's an expensive weapon." "It's all right." "I got money." "It's a real monster." "put a round right through the engine." "Here you go." "high resale weapon." "Look at that." "That's a beauty." "I could sell this gun to some jungle bunny in Harlem for $500." "But I just deal high-quality goods to the right people." "How about that?" "This might be too big for practical purposes." "I'd recommend 38 snub-nosed." "Look at this." "That's a beautiful little gun." "but basically a service revolver." "It'll stop anything that moves." "they use that in Africa for killing elephants." "That .38 that's a funny gun." "Some of these guns are like toys." "you go out and hammer nails with it all day..." "It's got a really nice action to it and a heck of a wallop." "You interested in an automatic?" "It's a Colt .25 automatic." "It's a nice little gun." "It's a beautiful gun." "one in the chamber." "If you're dumb enough to put one there." "Here." "Look at this." ".380 Walther." "Holds eight shots in the clip." "That's a nice gun." "That's a beautiful little gun." "Look at that." "they used this gun to replace the P 38." "Just given out to officers." "Ain't that a little honey?" "How much for everything?" "All together?" "Only a jackass would carry that cannon in the streets like that." "Here's a beautiful handmade holster I had made in Mexico." "Forty dollars." "two-fifty for the .38... one-fifty for the .380." "Take this and wait here." "I'll walk down with you." "How about dope?" "Grass?" "Hash?" "Coke?" "Mescaline?" "Downers?" "Nebutal?" "Chloral hydrates?" "amphetamines?" "I'm not interested in that stuff." "nitrous oxide." "How about a Cadillac?" "A brand-new Cadillac... two grand." "June 29th." "I gotta get in shape." "Too much sitting has ruined my body." "Too much abuse has gone on for too long." "it'll be 50 pushups each morning." "Fifty pull-ups." "There will be no more pills." "no more destroyers of my body." "It'll be total organization." "Every muscle must be tight." "yeah." "it looks so good." "and it's throbbing now." "The idea had been growing in my brain for some time." "True force." "All the king's men cannot put it back together again." "Where do we get more?" "Where do you think?" "At headquarters." "All the way back there?" "Come on." "They'll work." "Maybe it's the speakers." "I've done this 1 00 times." "don't worry." "When was the last time?" "I've never done this before." "What?" "come here." "aren't you?" "Just waiting for the senator." "You're waiting for the senator?" "That's a very good answer." "man." "I'm waiting for the sun to shine." "the reason I asked if you were a Secret Service man" "I won't say anything" "Is because l" "I saw some suspicious-looking people over there." "You did?" "They were right over there." "They were just here." "very...." "Suspicious." "Where did they go?" "Is it hard to get to be in the Secret Service?" "Why?" "because I think I'd be good at it." "I'm very observant." "you know." "I'm good with crowds." "isn't it?" "Sort of." "A signal." "A secret signal for the Secret Service." "What kind of guns you guys carry?" "maybe?" "if you give me your name and address we'll send you all the information on how to apply." "How's that?" "You will?" "Sure." "Why not?" "My name is Henry Krinkle." "K-R-I-N-K-L-E." "154 Hopper Avenue." "Hopper?" "hop." "New Jersey." "Is there a zip code?" "6-1-0-4-5-2." "1 .... 6-1-0-4-5." "I was thinking of my telephone number." "I've got it all." "we'll get all the stuff right out to you." "great." "Thanks a lot." "Hell." "Jesus." "Be careful today." "Right." "Will do." "You have to be careful around a place like this." "Bye." "Faster than you." "Fucking sick." "you fuck." "Shitheel!" "I'm standing here." "You make the move." "You make the move." "It's your move." "you fuck." "You talking to me?" "You talking to me?" "You talking to me?" "Then who the hell else are you talking to?" "You talking to me?" "I'm the only one here." "Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?" "yeah?" "you screwheads." "Here is a man who would not take it anymore." "Who would not let" "you screwheads." "Here is a man who would not take it anymore." "Who stood up against the scum... the shit." "Here is someone who stood up." "Here is...." "You're dead." "qué pasa?" "Melio." "Qué pasa?" "man?" "Shut your fucking mouth and give me the cash out the drawer." "Come on!" "Let's go." "Give me the damn cash." "Don't shoot." "Stop taking so long." "Come on!" "Let me have it." "Give me the bread." "This all you got?" "That's it." "man." "That's all I got!" "You got more." "I got no money!" "Reach in your sock." "Give me the rest of the fucking bread." "I got him." "man." "Is he dead?" "I don't know." "His eyes are moving." "I ain't got a permit." "I don't know what I'm gonna do." "Don't worry." "I'll take care of it." "Can I pay you?" "Just get out of here." "man." "I'll take care of it." "Go ahead." "That's the fifth motherfucker this year!" "that great American poet spoke for all of us when he said  "I am the man." "I suffered." "I was there. " Today I say to you  we are the people." "We suffered." "We were there." "suffered in Vietnam." "suffered." "We still suffer... inflation  crime and corruption." "Dear Father and Mother July is the month I remember  which brings not only your wedding anniversary but also Father's Day and Mother's birthday." "I'm sorry I can't remember the exact dates but I hope this card will take care of them all." "I cannot send you my address  like I promised to last year." "But the sensitive nature of my work for the government demands utmost secrecy." "I know you will understand." "I am healthy and well and making lots of money." "I've been dating a girl for a few months and I know you'd be proud if you could see her." "but I can tell you no more than that." "you can't park here." "let's go!" "Let's go!" "Move it!" "bear the burden of suffering for the few." "No more will we fight the wars of the few  through the heart of the many." "as it does me." "I hope no one has died." "Don't worry about me." "One day there will be a knock on the door and it'll be me." "Travis." "Don't you have some idea?" "I'm not the one who wants to talk." "You must know that the reason that I didn't marry him  is because I couldn't stand to be a cause of divorce." "Now he's getting a divorce anyway." "Brock." "I do love him." "June?" "Our marriage?" "You know our marriage wasn't legal." "we are married." "please don't do this to me." "I love him" "Damn." "God damn!" "Are you looking for some action?" "Yeah." "See that guy over there?" "Go talk to him." "His name is Matthew." "I'll be over there waiting for you." "Your name Matthew?" "I want some action." "Officer." "I swear I'm clean." "I'm just waiting here for a friend." "man?" "I'm not a cop." "I ain't a" "Then why are you asking me for action?" "Because she sent me over." "I suppose that ain't a .38" "you got in your sock." ".38?" "man." "you're a real cowboy?" "man." "All right." "That's all right." "half an hour." "Shit." "huh?" "I once had a horse." "On Coney Island." "She got hit by a car." "take it or leave it." "don't fuck her." "She'll be back for more." "She's 1 2 years old." "You ain't never had no pussy like that." "Do anything you want." "Come on her... in the ass." "Come on her face." "she'll make it explode." "But no rough stuff." "All right?" "I'll take it." "man!" "Don't take out no money over here." "You gonna fuck me?" "You're gonna fuck her." "You give her the money." "copper." "What'd you say?" "copper." "man." "it's entrapment already." "I'm hip." "you don't look hip." "man." "You're a funny guy." "But looks aren't everything." "man." "Have a good time." "The room'll cost you ten bucks." "I'm timing you too." "Come on." "Are you really twelve?" "it's your time." "1 5 minutes ain't long." "your time is up." "How old are you?" "You won't tell me?" "What's your name?" "Easy." "That's not any kind of name." "It's easy to remember." "but what's your real name?" "I don't like my real name." "What's your real name?" "Iris." "What's wrong?" "It's a nice name." "That's what you think." "don't do that." "Don't you remember me?" "Remember when you got into a taxi?" "It was a checkered taxi." "You got in and that guy Matthew came by and he said he wanted to take you away." "He pulled you away." "I don't remember that." "You don't remember?" "I'm gonna get you out of here." "We better make it or Sport will get mad." "How do you wanna make it?" "I don't want to." "Who's Sport?" "That's Matthew." "I call him Sport." "Wanna make it like this?" "I...." "Can't you understand something?" "You came into my cab." "You wanted to get out of here." "I must've been stoned." "Why?" "They drug you?" "man." "What are you doing?" "Don't you wanna make it?" "I don't wanna make it." "I wanna help you." "I could help you." "man!" "Goddamn it!" "man." "What the hell's the matter with you?" "mister." "Damn it!" "Don't you want out of here?" "Can you understand why I'm here?" "I think I understand." "I tried to get into your cab and now you wanna come and take me away." "Is that it?" "but don't you wanna go?" "I can leave any time I want." "Then what about that one night?" "I was stoned." "That's why they stopped me." "When I'm not stoned I got no place else to go." "So they just protect me from myself." "I don't know." "I tried." "I understand." "really." "can I see you again?" "That's not hard to do." "Not like that." "regularly." "This is nothing for a person to do." "How about breakfast tomorrow?" "Tomorrow?" "I get up at 1 :00." "One o'clock?" "I got that thing." "I don't know" "Do you want to or not?" "all right." "One o'clock." "One o'clock." "Okay." "See you tomorrow." "Iris." "My name is Travis." "Travis." "Iris." "See you tomorrow." "Sweet Iris." "This is yours." "Spend it right." "cowboy." "I will." "Why do you want me to go back to my parents?" "They hate me." "Why do you think I split?" "There ain't nothing there." "But you can't live like this." "It's a hell." "A girl should live at home." "Didn't you ever hear of women's lib?" "women's lib"?" "You're a young girl." "You should be at home now." "going out with boys." "You should be going to school." "are you square." "I'm not square." "You're square." "man." "What do you mean?" "You walk out with... lowlifes and degenerates... man?" "For some low-life pimp?" "Stands in a hall." "man." "I don't go screw and fuck with killers and junkies like you." "You call that being hip?" "What world you from?" "Who's a killer?" "That guy Sport's a killer." "Sport never killed nobody." "He killed" "He's a Libra." "He's a what?" "I'm a Libra too." "That's why we get along so well." "He looks like a killer to me." "I think that Cancers make the best lovers but my whole family's air signs." "He's also a dope-shooter." "What makes you so high and mighty?" "Will you tell me that?" "Don't you ever look at your own eyeballs in the mirror?" "What'll you do about Sport and that old guy?" "When?" "When you leave." "I'll just leave them." "Just leave?" "They got other girls." "You can't just do that." "What are you gonna do?" "Want me to call the cops?" "The cops don't do nothing." "You know that." "Sport never treated me bad." "He didn't beat me up once." "But you can't allow him to do the same to other girls." "You can't allow him to do that." "He's the lowest kind of person." "Somebody's got to do something to him." "He's the scum of the earth." "He's the worst... ever seen." "You know what he told me about you?" "He called you names." "He called you a little piece of chicken." "He doesn't mean it." "I'll move up to one of them communes in Vermont." "but I don't know...." "I saw some photos once in a magazine." "It didn't look very clean." "Why don't you come with me?" "no." "Why not?" "I don't go to places like that." "why not?" "I don't get along with people like that." "Are you a Scorpion?" "That's it." "You're a Scorpion." "I can tell every time." "I gotta stay here." "Come on." "Why?" "I got something important to do." "So what's so important?" "Doing something for the government." "The cab thing is just part-time." "Are you a narc?" "Do I look like a narc?" "I am a narc." "you or me." "Sure you don't wanna come with me?" "I'll give you the money to go." "You don't have to." "I want you to take it." "I don't want you to take anything from them." "And I wanna do it." "I don't have anything better to do with my money." "I might be going away for a while." "that's all." "Sport." "I never wanted you to like what you're doing." "you wouldn't be my woman." "You never spend any time with me anymore." "baby." "don't you?" "I don't like to be away from you either." "You know how I feel about you." "I depend on you." "I'd be lost without you." "Don't you ever forget that." "How much I need you." "baby." "Let me hold you." "I feel so good." "I only wish every man could know what it's like to be loved by you." "everywhere had a man who loves her like I love you." "it's good so close." "at times like this I know I'm a lucky man." "Touching a woman who wants me and needs me." "It's only you that keeps me together." "Now I see it clearly." "My whole life is pointed  in one direction." "I see that now." "There never has been any choice for me." "Ladies and gentlemen..." "Senator Charles Palantine." "Tom." "Ladies and gentlemen..." "Columbus Circle." "This is no ordinary place." "It is a place where many roads and many lives intersect." "It is appropriate that we meet here today because these are not ordinary times." "We meet at a crossroads in history." "the wrong roads have been taken." "into poverty into unemployment and inflation." "we have reached the turning point." "suffer for the few." "I would lie to you if I told you the new roads would be easy." "They will not be easy." "Nothing that is right and good has ever been easy." "know that." "know the right roads and the good." "you and I." "And it is time to let the people rule!" "Thank you." "let him through." "Pull back." "Over there." "Get that man." "Give him some air!" "will you?" "I never saw him." "I saw him run." "I saw him." "Where was he?" "What's happening?" "Got the money?" "Iris in her room?" "how you doing?" "my man." "How-- man?" "I don't know." "How's everything in the pimp business?" "Do I know you?" "No." "Do I know you?" "Get out of here." "Get lost." "Do I know you?" "How's Iris?" "You know Iris." "I don't know nobody named Iris." "man." "You don't know Iris?" "I don't know nobody named Iris." "No?" "Get back to your tribe before you get hurt." "okay?" "You got a gun?" "man." "Get out of here." "Suck on this." "You crazy son of a bitch!" "Fucking son of a bitch!" "I'll kill you!" "I'll kill you!" "I'll kill you!" "I'll fucking kill you!" "Son of a bitch!" "I'll kill you!" "You fucking bastard!" "I'll kill you!" "You crazy son of a bitch!" "I'll kill you!" "Don't shoot him!" "Dear Mr. Bickle:" "I can't say how happy Mrs. Steensma and I were  to hear that you are well and recuperating." "We tried to visit you at the hospital  when we were in New York to pick up Iris but you were still in a coma." "There is no way we can repay you  for returning our Iris to us." "We thought we had lost her and now our lives are full again." "Needless to say you are something of a hero around this household." "I'm sure you want to know about Iris." "She's back in school and working hard." "The transition has been very hard for her as you can well imagine." "But we have taken steps to see she has never cause to run away again." "In conclusion Mrs. Steensma and I would like to again thank you  from the bottom of our hearts." "we cannot afford to come to New York again..." "or we surely would." "But if you should ever come to Pittsburgh you would find yourself a most welcome guest in our home." "Burt and Ivy Steensma." "I want to swap tires." "These are new tires." "like your wife?" "1 957." "That's why the fleet has no spares." "Killer." "Charlie T." "What's happening?" "you got a fare." "Shit." "see you later." "Travis." "Travis." "Hello." "I hear Palantine got the nomination." "won't be long now." "Seventeen days." "I hope he wins." "I read about you in the papers." "How are you?" "really." "I got over that." "Papers always blow these things up." "Just a little stiffness." "That's all." "Travis...." "I'm...." "How much was it?" "So long." "INC."