"The Sting" Lines - Hooker

Polk. We want to talk to you about Henry Gondorff.

Don't think I know him.

LUTHER: The wallet. . . you gotta go after him. He got all my money.

Don't worry. We got the wallet. What happened? He get ya with the knife?

ALVA. Why Johnny hooker.

Even Alva.

Lonnegan: What was I supposed to do? Call him for cheating better than me in front of the others?

Excuse me, my name's foley. Mr. Shaw sent me.

Mrs. Vanderkieft: So, Hooker comes up to the booth. . . naturally, he was impressed. . . I was even more gorgeous then than I am today. . .

Excuse me. I'm lookin for a guy named Henry Gondorff. You know him?

Gondorff. Maybe it's just for look on his face when we pull off the sting.

Henry. . .

Gondorff: Yeah?

Henry? I told him the tale but he didn't go for it. He wants to see my partner tomorrow at three.

Luther: Its nothin compared to what you could be makin on the Big Con. You're wastin your time workin street marks.

Hey, Look, you think I'm gonna run out on ya or somethin? Luther, I owe you everything. If you hadn't taught me con, I wouldn't know nothin.

Snyder: Freeze!

Hi there, Snyder. Things a little slow down at the Bunco department tonight? Somebody lose the dominoes?

Polk: Yeah?

Hooker. It'll be around one o'clock. You know where.

Lonnegan. Make sure I can get to the cashier this time.

How am I gonna do that?

Man. Gondorff asked me to look after you.

How do I know you're telling the truth?

Gondorff: Why'd you move out of your room?

How do you know?

Luther: That's the way I want it.

How do you like that Luther huh? After five years.

Gondorff. We had him ten years ago when he decided to be somebody. Trust me, I've seen enough to know.

How many guys you conned in your life Henry?

JIMMY. Hooker!

How ya doing Jimmy?

Gondorff: All right, buddy, i'm gonna send a boy by your room in five minutes and you better have that money or it's gonna be all over Chicago that your name ain't worth a dime. You won't be able to get in a game of Jacks in this town.

How'd ya do?

Lonnegan: You boss is quite a card player, Foley. How does he do it?

He cheats.

Gondorff: Luther didn't tell me you had a big mouth.

He didn't tell me you was a screw-up either. You played the Big Con since then?

Gondorff: it's got. . . charm. It's cheaper than the Ambassador and there's always a bance partner outside. I'm sorry about Luther. He was the best street worker I ever saw.

He had you down as a big timer. What happened?

Gondorff: Plenty. Does he bet on fights? Is he a ladies man? A boozer? Does he play the market? Who does his dirty work? Do you know anything?

He runs the numbers on the South Side.

Twist. We coulda met up at the club or something.

He thought it might be good for him to see the set up.

Gondorff: And?

He threatened to kill me.

Gondorff: Hell, they don't do that, you know you're not getting through to 'em.

He tried to put himself away as legit, so I went right into the pitch.

Loretta. What does this guy want?

He'd like to kill me.

CRYSTAL. He was cheating.

He's got kids.

LUTHER: Can you see him?

He's heading toward the avenue. . . Oh, oh!

LUTHER: Oh, I pray he makes it.

He's in! Cab takin' off. . . Hey, I don't think it's going toward. . . what was it you said? Mason Street? (Laugh) Hey, don't you think that man is gonna be surprised when he pulls out that handkerchief. . . and sees he got him a big wad of toilet paper.

Gondorff: Lonnnegan's the big one in the blue suit.

He's not as tough as he'd like to think.

Lonnegan: And you were gonna pay me back?

I am after the race. . . I gotta get back before Shaw misses me.

LUTHER: I got a hundred bucks for you and your friend if you deliver the money for me.

I dunno. That little mug that got you is mad enough at me already. What if he's out there waitin' around a corner with some friends?

JIMMY: You sure you wanna start off that big? Bet like that could put a real dent in us.

I feel lucky tonight.

Gondorff: Well?

I gave him the breakdown just like you told me to.

DAWN. Gee, I thought you got an honest job.

I got a date with Crystal.

Lonnegan: You Lee me twenty-five grand. Besides, if your set-up's as good as you say, you'll get even more.

I gotta talk to my partner first. We can't afford to expose our game too much.

LUTHER. You're late. Where you been?

I had some appointments.

CRYSTAL. An' I cover myself in em. . . Your friend had the seven palmed. I saw it in the mirror.

I know. Deal another. From the top.

Erie: If you stopped gamblin, you wouldnt have to grift so much.

I like griftin.

Polk. He deserves what he gets.

I mean completely played. Until he's beat and the score is taken. You come in before we beat him and I'll kill him. You'll have a tough time explaining that, won't ya?

Gondorff: This isn't like playing winks on the street. You gotta do more than outrun the guy.

I never played for no winos.

Gondorff: No. I lammed it around for a while till things cooled off. Philly, Denver, Baltimore, nuthin towns. But don't kid yourself friend. I still know how. You gonna stay for breakfast or do you already know how to eat?

I picked something up on the way.

Loretta. It's two o'clock. We're closed.

I remember. You told me. That's why I came.

Oh. Gawjuss! D'ja hear that music out there? The conductor, Corio? He couldn't keep time in a watch factory. How long do I gotta put up with that?

I thought you were terrific tonight!

Gondorff: Who?

I wanna play for Lonnegan.

Lonnegan: Okay, Foley. So what did you think you were gonna get me to do?

I want youto meet me tomorrow at Klein's Drug Store near Shaw's place. That's 66 Marshall Street.

Lonnegan: Where ya from Foley?

I was born in New York. . . Hell's Kitchen. . . but I moved out fast.

LUTHER: Oh, Johnny, that was beautiful m. Let's see it.

I was sure he was on to us.

Loretta. Yeah. Sleepin.

I was thinkin. . . Wait a minute. . .

DAWN. Yeah. . . If ya like knock-knees.

I wasn't lookin' at her knees.

Gondorff: You just worry about your end, kid.

If we ever get to it. . . . . . . What, are you, doing?

DAWN. Well, that's a job in itself.

Isn't she terrific!

Erie: What are you gonna do when Snyder rushes his finger right to Lonnegan? You're committin suicide kid!

It doesn't make any difference now. If snyder knows about it, so does everybody else.

LUTHER: I gotta. Look. I run some slots down in West Bend for a mob here. I got a little behind on my payoffs so they figure I been holdin' out on 'em. They gave me to four o'clock to come up with the cash. I don't get it there, I'm dead.

It don't look too good, Gramps. Y'only got twenty minutes.

Gondorff: Never mind how I know. Why'd you move out of your room?

It was too noisy.

Floyd: Doyle, we're gonna be in the station in a minute.

It's not gonna look so good killin' a guy you owe money to. There's better ways to take him down.

Gondorff. What's the matter kid?

Just a little nervous, that's all.

Polk. We'll shoot you down on sight.

Just as long as I get to finish the play.

Loretta. What the hell for?

Just do what I tell ya and everything will be Jake.

CRYSTAL: I don't gamble. On nothin.

Just for half an hour. Then we'll go for food.

Loretta. And you expect me to go out. . . Just like that.

Lady, I don't know what to expect anymore.

Gondorff: All right, we'll have to play him on the fly. I'll get Ivy lookin' for a place.

Lemme know when you get somethin'.

Twist. Yeah?

Les, I got Lonnegan with me. He wants to see you a second.

LUTHER: Yeah. . . yeah. Good. Got one here.

Let me have the money. You got anything else you want to keep, you better stick it in here, too.

Polk. Lieutenant Snyder here says you done a lotta confidence work in his town.

Lieutenant Snyder don't know confidence work from shinola. You got nothing on me.

Loretta. No. I what's wrong with the front door?

Look, I don't have time to mess around. There's somebody out there I don't need to see. You got a fire escape or anything?

LUTHER: Lordie, what a bundle. Did you know he was that loaded?

Lord, no! I just cut into him. I woulda settled for pawning his shoes.

DAWN. Oh, Hooker. Delivering flowers for Western Union?

No, Dawn

Lonnegan: Good. I'll talk to him, too.

No.

Polk. No questions, no court appearances, nothing.

No.

Polk. You wanna drink or something?

No.

Mrs. Vanderkieft: It was like a disguise. So. Suddenly...

Say. . .

New Waitress. Who?

The waitress. . . She works here.

CRUSTAL. You lost three grand.

They'da fired him.

Gondorff. I better do some packin' I'm gonna be a hot number after tomorrow.

Then why you doin it?

Gondorff: Right down to my socks pal. We're talking about a guy who'd kill a grifter over a chunk of money that wouldn't support him two days.

Then you don't wanna do it.

CRYSTAL. Where'd we go?

There's a new place.

CRYSTAL. Hi, Hooker. You delivering flowers for Western Union.

They're for you.

Conductor: Thank you, ma'am, thank you. You'll do just fine, Mrs. Lombard.

They're waiting for you in the card room.

Lonnegan: You're not gonna break him with a two thousand dollar bet.

This is just a test. The big one comes later. Be careful with that, though, it's all I got.

FOUR: What self-employed? You got no security, kid. Your suit's in and outa here like the handle of a butter churn.

This suit ain't coming back. I'm on my way now. I got a feelin'. There's a big one comin' up for me out there.

JIMMY. Ah, c'mon, Hooker, why don't you just-

Three grand!

JIMMY. Place your bets.

Three grand.

CRYSTAL. Now, I haven't figured out how I get my butterfly wings yet. . . But somehow I get em. . . Big. . . Silk wings with sequins all over em. . .

Twenty.

CRYSTAL: Just my luck. Oh! Well, I guess I can still make it back to the ten o'clock show. Thanks for the big evening Hooker. Next time you wanna spend fifty bucks on me, mail it.

Wait a minute. . . I'll give ya the cab fare. . . Thirty cents! Ah, forget about it.

Lonnegan: Here? Since when is Western Union opening stores in an alley?

We go in the side door. We don't need advertising

Lonnegan: Not until I get some answers.

We got a partner downtwon runs the central office of the Western Union. Race results from all over the country come in there and go right across his desk on their way to the bookies. All he does is hold them up a couple of minutes until he can call us and get a bet down on the winner. Then, he releases the results to the bookies and we celan up on a race that's already been run. It can't miss, unless the Western Union cops get onto it.

Erie: Aw, Come on. It was the onlything to do. He knew he was holding you back.

We were partners. If it werent for Luther, I'd still be hustlin pinball down at Gianelli's.

Floyd: That's between them. So you got two guns goin' after the guy lifted the take...and one of them's even for free now.

Well, what did I tell ya?

LUTHER: No.

Well. . . how 'bout a handkerchief?

That's nice.

What are you gonna do now?

LUTHER: I'm gettin too slow for this racket. You hang on too long, you start embarrassing yourself.

What are you talking about? We just took off the biggest score we ever had.

Erie. Maybe it'll be my day.

What happened?

Lonnegan: We're gonna place another bet tomorrow.

What is this? That's MY money!

LUTHER: How 'bout you? I'll give ya the whole hundred.

What makes you think you can trust him? He didn't do nothin'.

Loretta. 65

What time you get off work here?

Luther: I never played no big con. I hung around and picked up a few things, but there ain't mo rich boys gonna trust a hungry man like me enough to get conned. I been lookin for this one all my life, Johnny. Now I got a chance to step out at the top.

What ya gonna do with yourself? Play church bingo? Knit?

LUTHER. You're a con man and you blew it like a mark. I didn't teach you to be no mark.

What's eating you? I've blown money before.

LUTHER: I think it's the best. It's the only reason I ain't quit before now.

What?

Gondorff: Sounds good J.J. He's slowing down already.

When's his next trip?

Loretta: Loretta. But don't bother to remember. I'm only fillin' in for a couple days...till I can get a train outa here.

Where ya goin'?

Loretta: It isn't any better.

Where's June today?

Mrs. Vanderkeift: Honey, when you pull a half million dollar Con, you don't wait around to read what the papers say about it tomorrow. Then Hooker went back to the greasy spoon. . . He wanted to say goodbye to Loretta.

Where's Loretta?

Gondorff: You can't play your friends like marks, Hooker. You know how easy it'd be for one of Lonnegan's guys to nail you? It almost happened last night, right?

You having me tailed?

Gondorff: You know anything about him?

Yeah. He croaked Luther. What else do I gotta know?

Gondorff: Glad to meet you, kid. you're a real horse's behind.

Yeh? Luther said you could teach me something. I already know how to drink.

Billie: You Hooker?

Yes.

LUTHER: Thanks. I'm obliged to ya, but I gotta get goin'.

You ain't goin' nowhere on that leg.

Loretta. Two a.m.

You doin' anything tonight?

Lonnegan: Then I'll just keep my money and we'll have another game.

You don;t have any money to keep. He hired a dame tp take it from ya. Shaw's been planning to beat you for months. He was just waiting for you to cheat him so he could clip ya.

Conductor: He seemed pleasant enough and had a lot of money on him. And quite free with it, I might add. Two hundred-dollar suit, expensive baggage. I'll vouch for him.

You gonna drink now?

Lonnegan: How?

You gonna stay in?

Mrs. Hastings. Who?

You got a back door to this place?

MOTTOLA: What do we do?

You got a bag or something?

Loretta: She don't work here no more.

You got a name?

LUTHER: Give it to me, please. I gotta now it's all there.

You just sit tight, old man. We're gonna have to get you to a doctor. I'll call a cop.

Loretta. I don't even know you.

You know me. I'm just like you. It's two in the morning and I don't know anybody.

Gondorff: Great little dame that Billis. Runs a good dime-a0dance. Always makes sure the girls have their dresses dry cleaned. Her place is one of the few the syndicate don't own.

You live here?

Gondorff: Aw, I conned a senator from Florida pn a stocks deal. A real lop-ear. he thought he was gonna take over General Electric. Some chantoozie woke him up though and he put the Feds on me.

You mean you blew it?

Gondorff: Somebody turn off the shower.

You sober?

Polk. But put em together and it could add up to a lotta years.

You stink, Polk.

Gondorff: You see anthing, let us know, huh? If they got you on the spot, we'll fold up the con. You'd be too easy to find. You got that?

You sure it'll be that one?

Luther: G'night boys

You sure thats the way you want it Luther?

Gondorff: That's all right. Once they start listening, they're in trouble. Just don't give him more than than he asks for. If you rattle his imagination a little, he'll come up with all the right answers himself. But all he's gotta do is catch you in one lie and you're dead.

You think he'll show?

LUTHER: No class grifter woulda done it, that's all.

You think my play is bad?

MOTTOLA: Hey. . .

You wanted by the law or somethin'?

Gondorff. You beat him, kid.

You were right Henry. It not enough. But it's close.

MOTTOLA: You think?

Pocket's the first place they look.

Loretta. Looks like your friend missed ya.

Yeah. . . This time anyways.

Gondorff: You just won't learn will ya? Hell, you come in here, I teach you stuff maybe five guys in this world know, stuff most grifters couldn't do even if they knew it, and all you wanna do is run down a bullet. You're just like all them new jerks. Lotsa nerve and no brains. And ten years from now when me and the others are through and you dumb guys are all dead, there won't be one gee left who knows the Big Con was anything more than a way to make a living. I oughta pack in the whole thing.

A couple days, that's all I'm askin'. I can stay clear that long.

LUTHER: What happened?

A little man with a knife just jumped out of a doorway.

LUTHER. How much did you lose?

All of it.

Snyder: Then you'll have to come up with another grand somewhere.

All right.

Loretta. No.

All right. Do me a favor? Go into the bathroom, open the window, and wait for me in there.

Gondorff: And that dick from Joliet, that Snyder? It's you he's looking for, ain't it?

All we need is a couple of days, Henry. A couple of days and we'll get Lonnegan and stomp on him.

Lonnegan: I'm a banker friend. That's legal in thsi state.

All you gotta do is put a bet down at Shaw's place. I'll supply all the money and the information.

Snyder: You scored blood money today, Hooker. You need a friend.

Aw, find yourself a shoplifter to roll. You got the wrong guy, pal. I been home with the flu all day. You can stake out my toilet if you want.

Luther: Aw, you sound like some sucker.

But you played the Big Con. You said it was nothin. A game for flakes and momma's boys.

Gondorff: I just don't want you coming back to me halfway through and sayin it's not enough. Cause it's all you get. Thanks for not watering my hat.

Can you get a mob together?

Gondorff: Why?

Cause I don't know enough about killing to kill him.

Lonnegan: Why don't ya then?

Cause it's better to do it all at once. We're putting down four hundred grand next week. At five to one we make two million. 20% of that is yours if ya stick with us.

Lonnegan: You're past-piston', aren't ya?

Could be.

JIMMY. I'll lose my job -

Deal it anyway, Jimmy. . . Ten. Makes twenty-four. . . Don't worry, pal. I knew it was my night.

CRYSTAL. Food?

Gamblin.

Twist. Yeah. See you tomorrow.

Gee, I sure feel sorry for that guy on the coast who's mortgaging his house.

LUTHER: Help! Help! Stop thief! Stop that guy!

Get behind him! Cover that side of the alley!

FOUR: So, it's you again, Hooker? What is it today? Puttin' in or takin' out?

Gettin' my suit back, Four Star.

Lonnegan: You really picked a winner, kid.

Give 'em a little time.

Gondorff: You never do kid.

Gondorff, am I gonna learn the Big Con around here or not?

Billie: Whyncha say so? I thought maybe you was a copper or somethin. C'mon. . . Gondorff?

Gondorff. . . The great. . . Henry. . . Gondorff.

Gondorff. Yeah?

I appreciate you sticking your neck out. I wouldn't have asked ya if it weren't for Luther.

LUTHER: In one damn night? What are you spraying money around like that do? You coulda been nailed.

I checked the place out. There weren't no cops in there.

Erie: I thought you blew all your money?

I did. That stuff I gave him was counterfiet. They'll pinch him the first place he tried to spend it.

ALVA. If you ain't a sharper in them linens. Wasn't I knew you so good, I'd swear you had class. Luther said you was something to see today, Johnny.

I don't know, Alva. I gotta get faster tyin up that bundle. I'm still giving em too much time to think.

Gondorff: Lonnegan after you too?

I don't know. Haven't seen anybody.

Erie: You could buy yourself some things. Clothes or a nice car. . .

I don't look any good in clothes and I don't know how to drive. What else ya got to sell Erie?

Loretta. You mover right along don't ya?

I don't mean nothin by it. I just don't know many regular girls, that's all.

FOUR: Don't kid me, Hooker. You'll never change. Once a grifter, always a grifter. Nice lookin' kid like you. What do you need with all this? Y'know what y'oughta do? Y'oughta go into garbage! There's a lotta money in garbage, believe me. It's nice outdoor work. . . it's exercise. . . you build up your muscles. . . so it smells a little, nothing's perfect! If I had a son, that's what I'd tell him. Garbage. Anyone can do it. What do you need? An old truck and a dirty shirt.

I don't see myself in a job, Four Star. I like to be the way I am. Self-employed.

Polk. You won't even get a review till you're seventy.

I'll chance it.

Polk. You wanna sit in a can for forty years? Starting tonight?

I'll make parole.

CRYSTAL. Can't. I got a ten o'clock show. I need the five bucks.

I'll spend fifty on ya.

Snyder: Not on purpose maybe, but that don't make no difference to Lonnegan. He'll swat ya like a fly.

I'll square it with the fixer.

Gondorff: You know about the packing company? The chain of Savings and Loans? You know he's got half the politicians in Chicago and New York in his pocket? There ain't a fix in the world gonna cool him out of he blows on ya.

I'll take him anyways.

Lonnegan: What about the money you came to collect? Isn;t he gonna miss it?

I'll tell him you paid it. I keep all his books. He trusts me. If ya help me out, I'll pay ya bacj the twenty-five grand he stole outta my own pocket.

Gondorff: I'm fine. I just can't find the shampoo.

I'm Hooker.

Lonnegan: Okay, then why the rat?

I'm gonna take over his operation, Lonnegan. I need you to help me break him.

Gondorff. What?

I'm. . . I'm sorry Henry.

Lonnegan: What makes you think you can beat him?

I've been planning thos for two years. I know his organization backwards and forwards. But I need somebody respectable and not completely legit. What I'm gonna do isn't very legal.

Loretta: Hooker. . .

Loretta. . . I went to look for you in the diner. . . There was a new waitress. . . She said you were gone. . . I thought that after last night. . . NO! You the guy that was in my room that night?

Lonnegan: You for lucky once. That's not enough.

Lucky! I could do it every day.

Billie: No.

Luther Coleman sent me.

Erie: Listen to me Hooker. Whatever you do, don't go back to your place tonight. . . don't go any place you usually go, ya hear me?

Luther!

Erie: You gotta get outta town or somethin.

Luther! We gotta tell Luther they're on to it. . . if he doesn't know!

LUTHER: Hey. . . Hey. . . man!

Luther, y'know what? First thing, I'm gonna go get me my suit outta hock.

Lonnegan: It's worth that much to ya?

Maybe a couple million.

Loretta. Go soak my feet. We had a special chicken soup today. I may take it home and use that.

Maybe you wanna stay out for awhile. . . maybe have a drink or somethin?

Loretta. You had?

Meat load, apple pie, and a cuppa coffe.

LUTHER: Naw, you had him all the way. He just-

My God! Luther! We're millionaires!

Snyder: Nobody can buy you a prayer if I put the finger on ya. I figure your end of the sore was at least three gees. I want two no matter what it was.

My end was only one.

FOUR: And you're getting all dressed up for it in a hock shop.

Naw, I'm dressing up for a lady. I got me a date with one of them girls over at the gaiety.

Gondorff: Did he hold you up on anything?

Naw, he just sat there and listened. I don't know if he bought it or not.

CRYSTAL. I been thinking about doin a new act. Something classy.

Naw, just a little hard times. They're all over now.

Gondorff. You wanna wait for your share?

Naw. I'd just blow it. Send it to Alva.

Gondorff: Let 'em wait.

Nervous?

ERIE. Rummy!

Nice goin today Erie. That guy turned out to be an oil well. Which way did he go?

Gondorff: Did he say he wouldn't?

No

Twist: The tipsters day it's run out of a packing house on fourteenth by a guy named Combs. Lonnegan comes out every three weeks or so to check on it, but stays away from day-to-day stuff in case it's raided. This is Combs favorite torpedo. Names Reilly. He's the guy who hit Luther. They also got the numbers runner you conned. He was found in a quarry with a knife in his eye. You ever see him?

No.

Man. She was gonna kill ya kid.

No. . . Why would she?

Lonnegan: You got a system, Foley?

No. You can still lose witha system.

Gondorff: Hell, we'll never get a telegraph store set up by then. Any chance of talking him out of it?

None. I woulda stalled him but I didn't have many friends in the room.

FOUR. See ya next week Hooker.

Not me!

Lonnegan: You got the four hundred grand yet?

Not yet, but. . . Hey, there's only a grand in here.

Gondorff: What happened to your face?

Nothin. I fell gettin; off a bus.

MOTTOLA: That okay? Don't show?

Nothing.

CRUSTAL. I don't know, Hooker. You crazy or what? I mean, how can you go eat chop suey after you lose three thousand bucks?

Oh, I. Luke eat it. I just can't pay for it.

FOUR: It's waitin' for you. . . loudest one we got.

Oh, come to Poppa, Baby. You don't mind if I change here?

Lonnegan. I didn't get the bet down in time.

Oh. . . For Pete's sake.

Luther: Naw, I think I'd just like to rest my eyes. Wait for Alva to come home.

Okay, Luther. Me and Erie will. . . go take a walk

MOTTOLA: Not bad. . . not bad.

Okay, pal. Just shove it in there and you better move. You only got fifteen minutes.

LUTHER: Lord, Lord, you can't trust no one.

Our man's runnin' like a bat outa hell to the taxi stand. . .

Lonnegan: Where's my money?

Shaw has it. I couldn't very well take it back from him.

Lonnegan: SHut up! Nothin's gonna save your behind!

Shaw'd kill me too if he knew I was tellin' ya this.

Lonnegan: I'll think about it. . . Where ya going?

Shaw's waiting. . . at 12:30 if you're interested.

Man. Her name's Loretta Salina. Lonnegan's people set her up in the diner.

She could've killed me last night.

Gondorff: Good. You can't do it alone you know. It takes a mob of guys like you and enough money to make em look good.

So? I know plenty of guys.

New Waitress. Oh, She was the temporary.

She didn't tell me she was leaving.

MOTTOLA: Okay, okay. So what are you gonna do with it then?

Simple. . . easy. . . safest way. I run some money myself a coupla times. You just put it down here. . . Ain't no hard guy in the world gonna frisk you there.

ALVA. Don't seem to be no help for it. No matter what we do the girl turns out good. You now, Rolanda.

Since when you been goin to church at night?

Gondorff: You know that huh?

Yeah.

Lonnegan: Get on with it then.

Some time after 1:00, a guy is gonna call you and give you the name of a horse. All you do is take this two grand. Across the alley to Shaw's place and bet it on that pony. There's nothin; to it, but don't take too long. We only have three or four minutes after you get the call.

LUTHER: He won't know you're carryin' it. C'mon, you gotta help me out.

Sorry, pal. I'll fix you up, call you a doc, but I ain't gonna walk into a bunch of knives for ya.

CRYSTAL. You like to hear my idea for the new act?

Sure

New Waitress: if you're looking for a waitress, I'll get ya some coffee, but if you're lookin for a date, we'll talk.

Thanks, but never mind. I'm just gonna use the phone.

Loretta: Here's your order.

Thanks. I guess I shoulda had the meatloaf.

MOTTOLA: All right. I'll make your drop for you, old man. And don't worry, you can trust me.

That ain't no good. If those goons out there decide to search ya, you'll never fool 'em carryin' it there.

ERIE: Due north. He was gonna take it all.

The lowlife! He can blow his nose all the way. Here ya go Luther. Six gees.

Man. Let's get her outta here.

Who are you?

CRYSTAL. Chinese?

Why not?

Polk. I'm gonna get Gondorff whether you help me out or not.

Will you wait until the chump is completely played?

CRYSTAL. Just stay where ya are, will ya? Y'wanna see what's behind this screen, go pay for a ticket.

Y'wanna get outa here tonight? I come into a little dough.

FOUR: Them burlesque broads? Them girls are all cheap tramps!

Yeah!

Luther: I wouldn't turn ya out if you weren't ready. There's a guy in chicago named Henry Gondorff I want you to look up. There ain;yt a better inside man alive. He'll teach ya everything ya gotta know.

You'll take a cut of what I make, won't ya?

LUTHER: Naw. It's okay. . .

You're crazy carryin' that kinda money in this neighborhood. No wonder you got hit.

Snyder: I'll tell ya what ya did, smart boy. You and luther Coleman played The Switch on a loaded mark on Forty-seventh. If he hadn't been a numbers runner for Doyle Lonnegan, it woulda been perfect.

You're crazy! I'm not stupid enough to play for rackets money.

Singleton: Into the backstretch, it's War Eagle still by a length, Dancing Cloud closing on the inside is second by two, Lucky Lady is third by one and a half followed by Bluenote, Jail Bait, Wit's End and Mojo.

You're doing great Erie. He loves ya!

Gondorff: You gotta keep his con even after you spent his money. And no matter how much you take from him, he'll get more.

You're scared of him aren't ya?

Lonnegan: Day dreamin', kid? Ain't always healthy.

i was afraid you weren't going to come. We haven't got much time.