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Nervous, huh, kid?
Matty, when your father
went away...
I weIcomed him asking me
to look after you.
I considered it an honor.
And not because
he was Benny Chains...
or because your mother was
my sister, but because of you.
Ever since you were
a LlttIe kid, you been nalls--
tough as fucking nalls.
When you go down there,
be decisive...
because that is
the motherfucker...
who is responsibIe
for your pop being sent away.
Matty, tonight is the night
that you become a man.
This is aLL wrong.
TotaLLy aLL wrong.
Teddy, you know.
You got to know.
Guys, this is Bobby BouIevard.
That's the Llfe, Matty.
It's aIways the guy
you don't want it to be.
Hey, Matty.
How you doin', kiddo?
Hey, Bobby.
Oh, no, Matty. Matty, come on.
Why wouId I wanna rat
on anyone? No.
Come on. Hey, hey, Matty...
who taught you
the hook serve, huh?
Got you points off your dad
first time you ever set foot...
on a handbaLL court
with him, huh? Who?
You did, Bobby.
You remember the time I got you
that bundIe of ''HustIers,'' huh?
You made a fuckin' fortune...
seLLing 'em to those kids
at Aquinas Prep.
Wasn't me, I swear.
I'm no informant.
Shut the fuck up!
I feeI better aIready.
Come on, Matty. Now's the time
for stomach, son. OK?
You gotta decide,
does this guy Llve or die?
Come on.
Just give the trigger
a gentIe squeeze.
I'm sorry, UncIe Teddy.
It's aLL right. It's fine.
Don't worry about it.
Look, you're not cut out
for this. We know that now.
Go on outside.
What are you gonna do to him?
Nothin' much.
Bang him around a LlttIe bit.
Move him outta town.
It's your fuckin'
Iucky day, Bob.
Go on. Here.
Make yourseIf a phone caLL.
Sure. OK, JllI.
Right. I'Il see you
at the stadium. Bye.
So, Mr. Demaret.
-Matty.
-Matty. Fine.
So, personneI teLLs me you were
up for an assistant's job...
but you got Joanne over there
to convince me to meet with you.
-So...
-Excuse me.
So I wanna be an agent,
you know, a sports agent.
And why am I gonna
make you that?
WeLL, honestIy, Mr. McCreedIe...
I think I been preparing
for it my whoIe Llfe.
When I was a kid,
I started going to baLL games...
and I remember spending
a Iot of time aIone...
but I couId aIways count on
baLL season to keep me company.
I had this uncIe in the ushers
and ticket taker union...
LocaI so I got to know
aLL the ushers...
at Yankee Stadium and Shea, too.
Before I knew it,
I was wired at the Garden...
and I never missed a Rangers
or a Knick game.
As far back as I can remember,
working with baLL pIayers...
was reaLLy aLL
I ever wanted to do.
WeLL. Good patter. Yeah,
Iet's see what's on the page.
''BacheIor in sports marketing.''
-Work...''Ubonne PIumbing''?
-That's right.
Now defunct.
You were the president.
''White's Taxi and Livery.''
AIso president.
''Gianda's Catering HoIe.''
That's Benny Chains' pIace,
right?
Yeah, that's correct.
He owns it.
So are you, Llke,
reIated to him?
Yes, I am. He's my father.
WeLL, that's a pretty
cIose reIation.
WeLL, you've got enthusiasm...
but there's nothing in your
job experience for me to--
-Listen, I know--
-No, I'm gIad that you came in.
I know what you're thinking,
because I've heard it before.
It's aIways
the same story for me.
I get coId-cocked the minute
my father's name is mentioned.
You gotta just--
you can do this, aLL right?
Look past the name
and just hire yourseIf a guy...
who's gonna bust his hump
every day for you. Gimme a--
Let me stop you right there.
You put on a good show...
but I think I know what
you're reaLLy trying to do here.
You come on aLL nice
and respectabIe...
then I hire you, and then
you Iay the strong arm on me.
WouId you just hear me out?
When my father started
this pIace...
you know how many guys
Llke you and your father...
tried to break off a piece?
I'LL teLL you what he toId them:
Go whistIe.
ALL respect,
but you've got me wrong.
Do I?
I'm here for a job, aLL right?
Just a fucking job.
In what prosecutors
are caLLing...
a death kneLL
for organized crime...
indictments have been
handed down across the board.
The government's case
is onIy the Iatest bIow...
to the weakening
power structure of--
That's game!
I set you up for that.
Nice fuckin' yonkas, Benny.
Too good.
The man is too fucking good.
That's why he is the boss.
ToweI.
You know why
your dad's so hard to beat?
Most guys Iet it bounce,
but Benny Chains anticipates.
He charges, no hesitation.
What's that, Manganaros?
Yeah. I was in the city
on an interview.
Got you guys
some of the good stuff.
-Another sport agency?
-Yeah. Last one, too.
Fuck 'em. You know, Teddy,
in the Iast year...
I been to over fourteen
interviews.
Various companies,
same resuIt--door sIammin'.
Listen, to those cocksuckers,
you are what we are.
Yeah, weLL, they're right.
It's time I did
something about it.
-Hey, aLL right.
-Hey, the champ!
What about another one?
Jesus, that was quick.
Mercy ruIe?
WeLL, you know, cIosed 'em out!
The man was outcIassed.
What can I teLL ya?
I got somethin' for ya.
OK, just in time. Here.
CoupIe of scoots, huh?
That from Cristian?
Yeah. The man's a sport,
a gentIe, LlkeabIe guy.
I never paid a check
in his joint in the oId days.
I feeI haIf-bad
about coLLectin' this.
So why did you?
We got to.
We're coLLectin' everywhere.
Guys supposed
to be comin' across...
with a set amount every week
aren't hittin' their figures.
How are we gonna
kick it up above...
if it doesn't fIow
into us first?
You figure they're hoIdin' out,
or just not earnin'?
Not earnin'?
There is no not earnin'.
You think peopIe
stopped fuckin'...
and stopped bettin' and stopped
borrowin' this month?
What the fuck's the matter
with you? You don't get it?
Someone's steaLlng from us.
Look, Pop,
is there anything I can do?
Nah. Nothin' for you to sweat.
We're workin' it out.
Come on. Teddy,
wouId you heIp me out here?
You said it yourseIf.
Outside of BrookIyn,
no one's gonna give me a shot.
What are you compIainin' about?
You drive a CadllIac.
Look, Pop, I got a handIe
on the Iow-IeveI stuff...
keepin' the taxis running,
overseeing the crap games...
the odd union meeting,
but it's time.
I'm ready to step up.
If you're jammed up here...
there's gotta be somethin'
I can do, right?
You brought us the sandwiches!
What eIse can you do?
Listen, I'LL see you Iater.
Hey, Tony.
These Iadies--their check
is on us today, OK?
Of course.
For dessert,
you can go powder your noses.
Just Ieave your numbers
with Tony.
Listen, Chris,
not for nothin'...
but your oId man's
not gonna Llke this.
He says no more checks
on the arm for random broads.
You're hurtin' him too much
ever since that bacheIor Llst...
came out in the[/I] ''Post.''
What do you want me to teLL ya?
The Iadies Iove me.
What's up?
Why is it every junkie
thinks newspaper cIeans gIass?
CouIdn't teLL ya.
Here ya go. Thanks, chief.
No, don't do that.
That's extortion,
for christ's sake.
The window's even dirtier
than it was before.
Come on,
what's the matter with you?
Guy's got the worst job
in the worId.
Nah, worst job has gotta be
mop boy at Show WorId.
I'LL teLL you what,
I'm not moppin' up spooge...
but it's not that fun
for me anymore.
I never thought
I'd have a fuckin' job.
My father wants me to have
days a week--Iunch and dinner.
Man, when I was growin' up...
I didn't see him running
no diner room Iunch and dinner.
You got that right.
Man had crews running whlle
he sat there at the Bergen...
sippin' his espresso
and countin' money.
Yeah, but he had to get out.
You know that.
Another conviction,
he'd be gone for Llfe, right?
But he's stllI named Scarpa,
and where does that Ieave me?
With a smaLL piece
of a restaurant...
and aLL the hassIes
of his oId Llfe.
Bad press. Fed survellIance.
Liquor board shakedowns.
Not to mention peopIe whispering
when we waIk into a room.
Face it, Chris.
To reguIar peopIe...
we're stone fucking goombahs,
you know?
But to knockaround guys,
to our fathers...
we're nothin'
but a coupIe of errand boys.
Shit. Sometimes I think
I ought to change my name.
No, I need the name.
Gets me Iaid once a week...
at Ieast.
-Hey, Johnny MarbIes.
-Matty.
-Scarpa.
-What's up?
AImost bent my pIane
on this jet up there.
Just dodged a goddamn Aer Lingus
air bus. Irish bastards!
Why don't you stop fIyin'
this bottom feeder...
upgrade your pllot's rating
to jets?
Sign me up.
FIy aLL over the worId...
work in a stewardess-rich
environment.
What I reaLLy need
is a shot with your father.
I'm serious. WouId you
taIk to him for me?
TeLL him it's been a year since
anything's been up my nose.
OK, ten months, but I'm ready.
I'm Iocked down.
-You ready to go, or what?
-Yeah. Where's TayIor?
I got nothing for you,
my friend.
I checked the meter
on my machines.
Now, they've had pIenty of pIay.
I gave you that key
so you couId borrow a LlttIe...
fIoat yourseIf for a few days.
But haIf that money is mine,
and I want it.
What can I teLL you, TayIor?
I run a business here.
I have expenses.
If I'm not paying fast enough
for you, turn 'em off.
Take them out of the store.
What the fuck are you doing?
Are you crazy?
They're your own
fucking machines!
Don't do this to me, por favor.
The mllk guy's getting paid...
the potato chip guy's
getting paid...
the beer guy's getting paid...
every-fucking-body's
getting paid...
and you Iook through me?!
You fuck!
I got it, I got it.
It's right here.
Hey, Teddy. Good to see you.
Hey, Deserve, we were
just taIking about you.
Look at him. Teddy Deserve.
Guy gets kissed more
than a mezuzah.
I'LL see you Iater.
One day, TayIor, you're gonna be
waIking in here with Teddy.
Nah. He'LL use me
when it suits him...
and he knows I'LL do the work.
But I don't get
carried away with it.
My mother's a Jew, and you know
what that means to them.
I saw your bit
on the handbaLL court...
you know,
taIking about being ready.
-You meant that shit, right?
-Yeah.
'Cause we've been down
this road before, Matty.
I was tweIve years oId, Teddy.
How Iong are you going to keep
hoIding that against me, huh?
Time to move past it.
You think so?
-Fucking-a.
-So do I.
And I told your father that.
You did?
Remember the probIem
we were taIking about?
-Shortages?
-Right.
Georgie Yarkus out in Spokane...
is fIoating your father
some wood for a short term.
Got to go get it,
but we got nobody we can trust.
We're stllI hashing out
the detalls...
-but you couId be invoIved.
-Yeah?
I done what I couId, Matty.
It's on you to convince him.
I'LL see you Iater at the haLL.
Hey, Iook aLlve.
-Evening, Matty.
-How you doing, man?
Sounding good, Jimmy.
How you doing?
Hey, what's up, Matty?
-Hey, how you doing, Joe?
-Hey, paying customers, Matty.
-Hey.
-Hey, Matty.
-How you doing?
-Good.
Pump it out, gentIemen.
Get your rent.
There it is!
Come on, sweetheart!
-Hey, Matty!
-FeLLas. Hey.
Did you have a visit
from Tuxedo-Max?
That's right.
HeIp yourseIf to a cummerbund.
Twenty up! Twenty up!
Come on. BllIy's babes
need the bread.
You need this money picked up
from Yarkus in Spokane?
I'm your guy.
The answer's no.
You get detected crossing state
Llnes with aLL that Iumber...
feds trace you back to me,
I'm fucked here.
Listen, I can get
this done for you...
'cause MarbIes has got a pIane.
He can fly out and pick it up.
Better that way. Besides,
it's a simpIe fuckin' run.
Hold on. MarbIes?
He's haIf an idiot
and that is the good haIf.
Come on. He's in, he's out.
Pop, Llsten to me. I swear
to god, he's turned it around.
And I'LL oversee
the whole thing.
WouId you give me this much?
I can get this job done.
Matty, I hate to knife you here,
but it's my experience:
A guy gets something done
because he needs to.
Now, maybe it's my doing.
The way I raised ya,
privllege and such...
but I'm having a hard time
figuring out...
what it is you need.
Not for nothin',
but most guys go in for it...
'cause they don't got
no other way to survive.
Oh, yeah.
WeLL, neither do I.
Listen, I got us
an opportunity, MarbIes.
You need to fIy to Spokane.
Felts FieId.
There'LL be a guy there
named Georgie Yarkus.
He'LL hand you a bag.
Don't Iook in the bag...
don't open the bag,
don't Iet go of the bag.
OnIy stop for fueI,
then get back in the pIane...
and fIy straight home to me.
And don't fuck this up.
Benny Chains said to teLL you,
''Don't fuck this up.''
I know, onIy stop for gas.
Don't worry.
I keep her on the barber poIe
the whoIe way back.
Come on, stay aIert.
WeLL, just one.
-Have a good fLlght.
-Thank you very much.
-Hi, Louise.
-Sheriff.
-How are you doing, Louise?
-Good, Donnie.
-Yeah.
-Say it again, Tease.
If I had mad moochie,
do you know what I'd buy?
I beLleve I do, Decker.
Doctor Go-Fast design
pro-modeI street Iuge.
-Carbon-fiber front fender.
-With the vibe-absorb seat.
-Yeah. Z-roLLer trucks.
-Fuckin' boss speed, man.
Even hyper super-mondo wheeIs.
DefiniteIy super-mondo
wheeIs, man.
That don't Iook
store-bought to me, Stan.
Nope, it's marijuana, Donnie.
-Want to deaI with it now?
-Best I deaI with it Iater.
Hey. Fifty-four gaLLons.
Just top her off.
I swear to Christ, Matty.
I swear to fuckin' Christ.
What did you do?
I swear to Christ. I didn't
turn my back for a second.
What are you saying to me, huh?
I stopped to get fueI. I don't
Ieave the bag in the pIane...
I'LL teLL you that much.
But these cops--
Cops? What cops?!
They Iooked right through me.
It was Llke they knew every
thing I'd ever been gullty of.
I couIdn't doubIe back
to the pIane.
It wouId've seemed too obvious.
I had to make a decision:
WaIk right into 'em,
expose your father...
or stash the bag.
A few of the boys
were going down the way to--
What? I'm not invited?
No, I'LL taIk to you about that,
but I just wanted...
to extend to you, you know,
an invitation, 'cause I--
Fifty-four gaLLons
of octane Iow-Iead, pIease.
That'LL be . sir.
-Credit or--
-Cash. I'LL pay cash.
You just keep the difference.
Don't be ridicuIous, sir.
Let me open my strongbox here.
-One moment.
-No, it's gonna take too Iong.
Why are you in such a rush?
I got a scheduIe.
Hey, this one ain't tagged.
-I have your change.
-No, reaLLy, it's OK.
Take your change, son!
We don't see too many hundred
doLLar bllIs around here.
That's one-seventeen...
eighteen, nineteen, twenty.
Forty, sixty...
Long as they keep
moving through.
-Where's that fLlght headed?
-Last fLlght of the day.
The onIy pIace they fIy
is BllLlngs.
Listen to me! Who the fuck
has the money, MarbIes?!
Matty, I have no idea.
That road is totaI bacon, dude!
That was sick!
Fuck. ALL right,
where the heLL are you?
Wibaux, Montana.
W-e-e-b-o--
No, W-i-b-a-u-x.
-X?
-Yeah, X.
What do you want me to do now?
Don't do anything, OK?
We're coming out.
What are you doing?
What are you,
a fucking baLLerina now?
No, it's t'ai chi. First off...
I'm refining my center,
and it stretches you out.
I'm aLL crimped up from sIeeping
in the fucking pIane.
PIus, it's a deadIy art.
You're a fucking hard-on.
That hurt.
I absorbed the impact, though.
Shut up, aLL right?
I go on the Llne for you.
I give you a shot. For what?
Jeez, Matty, I toId you,
there were cops.
It feIt Llke a set up.
What can I teLL you?
Look, I know I fucked the dog
on this one--
No, you didn't just
fuck the dog. You fucked me.
Matty, l swear, alI right?
If I have to work...
the rest of my Llfe,
I'LL pay you back.
Where was the Iast pIace
you saw it?
Right here.
You toId me not to take
my eyes off it. I didn't.
I thought it went to BllLlngs.
I was wrong.
But I scoped every passenger.
Crew, too.
I watched every piece
of baggage come off.
It's got to be here somewhere.
I'm coming with, right?
Do what the fuck you want.
HeLLo. My friend here
Iost a bag yesterday...
and I was wondering
if you'd be so kind--
Hey, you find that bag yet?
Like I said Iast evening,
I am the Iost and found...
and no bags have been turned in.
Louise, l know this is gonna
sound irreguIar...
but what was in that bag
was extremeIy important.
What I need from you is a Llst
of arriving passengers...
airport staff, home addresses...
phone numbers,
this sort of thing.
Sir, that is quite impossibIe.
WeLL, I'm wllLlng to pay.
What I can do
is caLL the sheriff...
and ask him to heIp you
with your search.
No, that's aLL right.
CouId you teLL me
who I can rent a car from?
You're taIkin' to her.
Look at this pIace.
Guys Llke us couId be
running it in a week.
First thing you do
in an open town...
is the controI the cart-out.
I'd put my name on every garbage
truck running through here.
Listen, someone's
got that money.
My uncIe, he says we got
to announce ourseIves to them...
make them want to find us.
Make them beg us
to take that money back...
they're so scared, so Iong as
we Ieave them the fuck aIone.
OK, how do we do that?
I don't know.
Like this:
we find the toughest guy here...
I mean, the worst guy they got.
The guy aLL the other guys
cross the street to avoid...
and we gIaze this tough guy...
give him the beating
of his Llfe...
way past the worst
he's ever given.
Looks Llke they're
muItipIying, Donnie.
Best we keep on our toes.
Let me take care of this.
-How are you doing?
-Fine.
Listen, I need some information.
I want you to take this.
I can't break that.
Your tab onIy came to . .
Look, dear, what's your name?
Bernadette.
Bernadette. You just teLL me
where I can find...
a LlttIe troubIe in this town.
Used to be you wouId
have aIready found it.
But since I'm taken...
you couId aIways try
the Shamrock tonight.
It's Llke a fucking
homecoming over there.
Are you kidding me?
They got action here, Matty.
LegaI fucking action.
Grab a tabIe. I got the beers.
Hi there. Do you boys
need anything?
No, we're good...very good.
Listen, I'm Iooking for the guy
who runs this pIace.
Owner Llves up at Mlle City.
No, no, I mean, you know,
the guy who runs the pIace.
I'm the night manager.
You seLLin' somethin'?
Never mind. Just give me
three beers, wouId you?
Seven-fifty.
Here. Keep it.
Hey, Gordy.
Howdy, sidewinder.
Take your best shot.
Gotcha.
Howdy, sidewinder.
Take your best--
Got me.
Howdy, sidewinder. Take--
Got me.
You see anybody in here
with an unusuaLLy thick roLL?
Nah. I've been watching.
Who the fuck
are Brooks and Dunn?
They're reaI good, aren't they?
They're Teri's favorite.
Hey, Teri, come here.
How are you, dear?
PeopIe reaLLy dance to this?
-Sure.
-Show me.
-Show you?
-Yeah, come on.
ALL right.
It's easier than easy.
Jesus Christ.
You dance good.
Where are you from?
BrookIyn.
Oh, great.
These are nice guys here, Gordy.
We were just dancin'.
Why don't you keep to yourseIf?
WeLL, you were askin' about me.
You got my attention now,
don't ya?
You run this place? You the man?
You the guy I come to...
if I wanted to sort
some things out?
No, I'm Brucker. I'm the guy
askin' what the fuck you want.
I am aIso the guy decides
if you and your friends...
waIk the fuck outta here or not!
Yeah, he'LL do.
Five hundred.
Five hundred what, douche bag?
Five hundred fights.
That's the number l figured
when I was a kid.
Five hundred street fights...
and you can consider yourseIf
a Iegitimate tough guy.
You need 'em for experience,
to deveIop Ieather skin.
So I got started.
Of course, aIong the way...
you stop thinkin'
about being tough and aLL that.
It stops bein' the point.
Get past the sllLlness
of it aLL.
But then...
after...
you reaLlze that's what you are.
Look, I got no probIem
with you, aLL right?
I'LL teLL you,
you Iearn a Iotta things...
on the way to five hundred,
none more important than this...
Son of a bitch.
Listen to me.
Before we waIked in here
this was your town, right?
WeLL, this is how
you get it back.
Something of ours went missing.
Whoever took it has gotta be
making it obvious...
so I want you to find out who.
When you do, you come
meet me at the moteI.
Do you reaIly think
whoever's got the money...
wouId be stupid enough
to just geek around with it?
CooI.
-Chocodlles?
-Oh, yeah.
That it?
No.
Where do you keep
your Cocoa Puffs?
Get that, wllI ya, Teddy?
-Yeah?
-Hey, Teddy. It's me.
It's you? It's Matty.
Where the fuck have you been?
I'm with MarbIes. I'm trying
to take care of this thing.
But I figure it's pretty
much under controI now.
Don't piss down my back
and teLL me it's raining.
You teLL me what's
reaLLy going on here.
Hey, Pop, Llsten. I've had
a few compLlcations, that's aLL.
-Yeah, Llke what?
-Where are you exactIy?
-Look, l'LL be home tomorrow.
-You'LL be home?
I toId you not
to fuckin' go anywhere.
You got the bag with you
at Ieast, right?
Yeah. I'm going
to get it right now.
You don't have the fuckin' bag?!
-Pop, Llsten--
-He begged me!
It's under controI,
I swear to you.
He begged me for this shot,
and you, you convinced me...
to give it to him.
Pop, wouId you Llsten to me?
I shouId have known
fuckin' better.
Shit.
Matty, that bag
is not fuLL of nickeIs.
It's got about
a haIf mllLlon doLLars in it...
and now your father
owes the guys above...
and Georgie fuckin' Yarkus.
If we don't get that bag back...
in the next forty-eight hours,
it's the three Rs for us:
the roof, the river,
or the revoIver.
Get that fucking money.
Yeah, I know. Teddy, Llsten...
I've been trying
to deaI with this--
Fuck. Fuck!
CIueIess, do me a favor.
CaLL Santos over at the .
-Air transport union.
-Yeah.
We need a fLlght pIan
and a tall number.
Looks Llke more than the usuaI
Thursday night Macarena...
-huh, HesIop?
-Yeah.
Hey, CIute,
anybody been in here...
spending an unusuaI
amount of cash?
Yeah, these two LlttIe
skateboard punks.
They wrecked
the beef jerky dispIay...
stuff aLL over the fIoor.
Hey, Gordy.
That's a pretty fancy
new setup you got there.
Afraid I got some bad news
for you boys.
Kinda Llke that scarrage
on your face--
I ain't in the mood,
Tease, aLL right?
Look at these fuckers.
Covered in camoufIage...
sitting out in the woods
aLL day, stakin' out a turkey.
What do they need
to do that for?
Go to fuckin' Graztiti's,
get a ButterbaLL.
You know, we were gonna go once.
November .
-Come on.
-Yeah.
Just me and my pop,
goin' upstate for deer.
I remember, I was gonna get
woken up at : in the morning.
The knock came, aLL right.
WhoIe fucking door
came off its hinges.
OC task force, feds, NYPD.
No. Didn't take any chances
with Benny Chains that night.
You know, I aIways wondered
what it wouId have been Llke...
if we had Ieft
the night before, you know?
At Ieast have those coupIe days
together before he went in.
Man, yes!
So this couId've been you, huh?
Yeah.
Yeah, the hat,
the face-net, the whoIe deaI.
A different way for me.
What can I teLL you?
I found out what you toId me to.
Hey, dude. You think
if we give 'em back the money...
you think they'LL Iet us go?
I've been thinking, dude.
You beLleve this?
A coupIe of kids.
Back home you find
a bag of dog shit...
you go Iooking for
who it beIongs to, right?
-Donnie.
-Morning, Stan.
-Back to the saIt mines?
-Gotta make one stop first.
ALL right, no, I see...
it's a vaLld point
about spLltting, dude.
CouId we not take
the Iuges with?
No, man, they're too buIky.
We gotta sacrifice 'em.
-But my stuff--
-Dude...
we'LL get you new stuff.
Oh, yeah.
Go time.
-Oh, shit.
-Oh, shit.
What the fuck is that?
I knew you weren't sick,
you Iying sack of shit.
Fuck. Hey, Dad.
Watch your mouth.
-What's in the bag, son?
-I don't know, Iook.
More of that reefer
I saw you smoking?
Give me that!
No. Fuck.
Where'd you get this?
Get in the house.
We're gonna taIk about this.
Get in the house.
We were rich once.
Fuck!
Son of a bitch.
So, what do you think, Stan?
Wanna bring in the hypos...
or caLL straight to the federaI
bureau about the money?
What I think is, we work
pretty darn hard, Don.
Pretty darn hard.
That we do.
And we work pretty cheap,
too, don't we?
Stan?
So, fifty-fifty cIean.
for you, . for me.
That's sheriff tax.
You know what, Stan?
Why don't you keep it aLL?
I'm more than a LlttIe
uncomfortabIe here.
Your comfort
concerns me not a hitch.
You're keeping your haIf
'cause you're in it with me.
And we're partners, Donnie.
Partners, OK?
OK.
It's one thing running around
here trying to track the bag...
...but cops? That makes it
a different story for me.
I'm not fuckin' around
with any cops.
They start asking where
the cash came from....
-how we gonna answer that?
-He's right.
WeLL, I gotta do something.
'Cause in heIping you...
I might have kllIed my oId man.
How the fuck do you figure that?
ALL right, I Iost the bag...
but I ain't getting
arrested behind it.
What good is that gonna do us?
Arrested.
Can you beLleve this guy?
That'd be the good news.
That bag was Llke Llfe support
for my father.
He needed it yesterday.
What can I do you for, boys?
WeLL, I'd say about
a haIf a mllLlon, Sheriff.
Is that so?
See, my friends and I, we're
Iooking to get out of your town.
But before we do, there's
something we can't Ieave behind.
This ain't the Iost and found.
PeopIe around here are reaI
carefuI with their property.
You wouIdn't wanna mispIace
your cow or nothin'.
You got some set of oysters
on you there, boy...
waIkin' in here Llke you beIong.
But be that as it may...
you say you Iost some money,
a high doLLar amount.
As a pubLlc servant, I'd Llke
to heIp you get it back.
Why don't you teLL me
what happened?
Listen, why don't you and I just
have a LlttIe word in private?
Come on, son.
You see, where
I come from, Sheriff...
there's what you caLL
the spirit of sharing.
PeopIe heIp each other.
But since I've been out here...
I've picked up on
a reaI streak of independence.
How's that?
The way I see it, is you've
been watching my money for me...
protecting it.
And I appreciate that. I do.
You and your partner have
an opportunity to profit here.
You're driving mighty cIose
to the Llne now, Skip.
Why don't you just cut
the buLLshit?
Do you know who I am?
WeLL, I couId caLL Mary
down at the hoteI...
and have her read me
the registration.
-Why don't you teLL me?
-My name's Matty Demaret.
Look, I don't normaLLy
voIunteer this much...
but I'm gonna teLL you
because it's important.
I'm Benny Chains' son.
WeLL, I don't know
no Benny the Chains...
but Iet's just say
there is this money--
Look, I saw you take it
off the kids, aLL right?
I know you fucking have it.
So what you and I have to do...
is come to some sort
of understanding.
ALL right.
You understand this.
Stand down! Stand down!
Get back behind the counter.
Turn around.
Turn around!
Keep it trained on him, Don.
Stan!
You had it coming,
you son of a bitch.
Guy you ass-whupped in that bar
is a cousin of mine.
By marriage. Get him up!
Forget this shit, MarbIes.
Straight to the airport.
Abso-fucking-Iutely, man.
We oughta chock this one up...
in the Ioss coIumn
and just move on.
Move on? Look at him!
What are you gonna do?
You're gonna kllI
a coupIe of cops?
PuLL over.
MarbIes, puLL over!
Matty, what if
they caLL the feds?
Look, if that sheriff
was gonna caLL the FBI...
or anybody eIse,
he wouId've aIready.
TayIor's P.O.
wouId've been puLLed.
That whoIe fucking moteI
wouId've been swarming with Iaw.
They wouId've
taken us into custody...
the minute we waIked
into that station.
They don't want us
in the system...
because they don't want anybody
eIse knowin' about the money.
-What are you taIking about?
-They're keeping the money.
Look, you two can Ieave
if you want to.
But I ain't goin' anywhere.
Scarpa. Goddamn,
I've heard that name.
Yeah, weLL, BllI Kurtis
was taIking about him...
on the history
of organized crime on A&E.
-You get A&E with sateLLite?
-Yeah.
You think that's his kid?
Oh, yeah, I sureIy do.
You know something eIse, Don?
That Demaret kid
wasn't just jaw-wagging.
His daddy Benny Demaret...
seems Llke he's just under
the top guys.
HoIy shit, Stan. An underboss?
Look, we're not
rousting juvies here.
They're not just gonna
Iet this go, that kind of money.
They're gonna caLL their uncIes
and their fathers...
and they're gonna come here
Iooking for the money.
The pIace is gonna
be crawLlng with 'em.
You're watching too darn much
of that sateLLite, Donnie.
Nobody's comin'
to this marine's town...
and doing a damn thing.
Just think about it.
They can't just caIl...
and say they Iost the money.
They'd have done it aIready.
They do that, they end up
in a barreI of acid...
or whatever eIse they do
with their bodies these days.
I see what you're saying.
I just don't figure on them
Ieaving empty-handed.
See, that's the thing.
We can't Iet 'em Ieave.
I'LL teLL you one thing,
next time I see those fucks...
I'm gonna be packin'.
I keep a piece in my pIane.
I'm sorry, Johnny.
That is a big HeartIand Lodge
buck right there.
Feature this.
State senate thinks they can
teIl me how to run my shop.
So, yeah, there is
a three-day waiting period...
technicalIy.
But that's mostIy enforceabIe...
for your garden variety
Latino stick-up men...
which you boys
don't appear to be.
No, sir. DefiniteIy not.
Listen, I appreciate
you moving this aIong for us.
Here's a bllI
for aLL your trouble.
They troubIe? I thought
they wouId be troubIe.
No. No. No troubIe.
Question 'em, mostIy.
Just question 'em.
Just wanna
yoggIe-doggIe with 'em.
You give me a caLL
if you see 'em.
You sure nobody from out of town
has been here?
No. Oh, out of town.
Yeah, John Heater
come up from Beach.
Had a party goin' huntin'
up Big Timber.
-No strangers?
-No stranger than you.
-I gotta say this one time.
-What's that?
You and Scarpa
take the car and drive.
Leave me here with MarbIes.
It's his fauIt anyway.
Are you serious?
No, there's no way.
It's not even a choice.
Matty, I'm not just taIking
about this LlttIe fieId trip.
I'm taIking about aLL of it.
You had it right
in the first pIace.
Looking for a reguIar job,
being a citizen.
I tried it, man.
It's the onIy thing Ieft now.
You don't want a piece of this.
Matty, for ninety-nine guys
out of a hundred...
this is Iose-Iose.
It's not Llke the way
it was thirty years ago.
It's not Llke the stories
your uncIe was teLLing us...
when we were growing up.
Now it's either a buLLet
in the back of your head...
or jall for Llfe.
Just snap it back in there.
So you know aLL this...
but I don't see you
trying to get out.
I said you. Come on,
we're taIking about you, here.
Sorry I got you
into this, TayIor.
It's just more
of the same for me.
Just more of the same.
You feLLas are on a reaI
busman's hoLlday, aren't ya?
Hey, Iook at you.
You roLL into town with
more guys than Sinatra, right?
OK.
Teddy, I just want you to know
how truIy sorry I am.
I know I fucked this up
right from the get...
but I'm gonna do everything
I can to make it right.
MarbIes, that voice
is cutting right through me.
You are unLlkabIe.
If it wasn't for Matty...
I'd Iove to kllI you right now.
As it is, I'd Llke to kick you
through the uprights...
Llke a fuckin' fieId goaI.
So, where are we at?
We've had a wrinkIe.
-Cops are invoIved.
-Dirty fuckin' cops.
Yeah, he said cops.
They give you that makeover?
They do nice work.
-You want to taIk inside?
-No. We're not gonna taIk here.
We'LL go over the state Llne
into North Dakota.
If anybody's Iookin', we don't
want 'em to find us yet.
Sheriff Decker's a Llfer.
Came from the mllitary,
highIy decorated.
Been in office eighteen years.
The man controIs the town.
Good. A man
used to running things...
gonna think he can run us, too.
MarbIes, pay the check.
Matty, you ride with me.
I gotta ask you something.
None of my guys
wouId even be here...
if they weren't trying
to heIp me out.
They shouIdn't suffer
for that, you know?
If we get that money back...
nothin' happens to MarbIes,
aLL right?
Used to be there was a way
to do things...
and things got done.
No room for whining,
no room for mistakes.
Now, everybody's feeLlngs
are invoIved.
A guy steps wrong now, he ends
up on the witness stand...
or on the fuckin'
Barbara WaIters.
But I'LL teLL you what, Matty.
Since you're askin'...
I'LL give you a one-time-onIy.
Nothing wllI happen
to your friend. OK?
Thanks.
You know, this whoIe thing's
my fauIt, anyway.
I figured
I wasn't a kid anymore.
-I figured I was ready for this.
-Age got nothin' to do with it.
You take TayIor,
you put him in that basement...
it don't matter if he's
a toddIer or years oId.
He's gonna puLL that trigger,
and you're not...
'cause you're not made that way.
And that's good, OK?
Don't get down on yourseIf...
and the sheriff
wlll surface soon.
We'LL sort the thing out.
You might want to notch
it back there a notch.
We got work tonight.
I don't know, man.
I'm not feeLln' ready.
We ran a check. We know
who you are, Mr. Demaret.
We're wllLlng to deaI.
Don't want
guys Llke you unhappy.
Good. So Iet's
get this done, then.
I'LL come down.
No, I don't want you waIking
into my station again.
We meet tonight.
I'm off duty at tweIve.
Brickman's Meats.
It's past the tracks.
-So why not now?
-I'lI say when.
Bring your friends
if you're worried.
I'LL teLL you what.
I don't Llke the sound of this.
If you want to see
your money again...
that's where it's gonna be.
You're not taIkin'
about Ieavin' are ya?
I am.
I think you shouId
come with me, cuz.
Matty needs us.
Matty's got aLL
the backup he needs.
Bus roLLs by the interstate
and goes to BllLlngs at : .
I booked us a room
at the Sheraton...
back in New York
by tomorrow morning.
My father works things
out with Benny Chains...
six months from now,
nobody's gonna remember a thing.
No. No chance. No fuckin' way.
You're my first cousin...
and I have
a responsibllity to you.
This whoIe thing is my fauIt.
It's my doing and I'm sticking.
If you gotta go, you go.
ALL right, Iet's go in and see
how we set this thing up.
That makes it twenty.
-How about a check?
-I go to cash it...
you canceI it the minute
I waIk out of town? Nah.
-Borrow it from your friend.
-Hey...
Mr. New york mlle-a-minute,
why don't you shut your mouth?
You're makin' my ears hurt.
That'LL be enough
of that, feLLas.
-Go on and have a drink.
-Ain't none of your business.
You don't want me
to make it my business, huh?
Believe me.
Come on.
Can you imagine these
hllIbllIy bastards...
tryin' to be tough guys?
Fuckin' great. Great to see
you guys throwin' in Llke that.
I mean, l didn't expect
to see you so earIy.
I thought we were
gonna meet Iater...
but stllI, you guys were
Llke the goddamn cavaIry.
Where's Scarpa?
He stepped out.
Why? What's goin' on?
Where's your fucking cousin?
Wait. Matty said
nothing wouId happen to me.
-Check with Teddy.
-Who do you think sent us?
Come on. Where's Scarpa?
I don't know.
This is no time
for bean shootin'.
-Maybe he's at the hoteI?
-We were[/I] at the hoteI, MarbIes.
WeLL, then, I don't know
where the fuck he is.
WeLL, I guess
it's just you, then.
BeLleve this?
It's aImost time.
I'm teLLing you, MarbIes
and Scarpa are ballin' on us.
That's about the onIy thing
you can count on in this Llfe.
There's nobody wouIdn't hurt you
if it heIped them.
Yeah, weLL, I know that now.
You ready? Let's go.
ShouIdn't be Iong now, Donnie.
We just waIk right into it.
Keep this guy taIkin',
aLL right?
Turn off the part of your brain
that thinks. Just react.
It's gonna be a Iot Iouder
than you can fuckin' beLleve...
and you might not hit a thing.
Come on. Over there.
So where are
the other two cIowns?
Where the fuck is my money?
No, we want to see
the other two.
Come to think of it,
we can find them Iater.
SIow down, farmer Brown.
Jim, don't point
a fucking gun at me.
-Fuck! I knew it!
-Shut up.
I know you thought this was
a manageabIe situation...
but some situations
are unmanageable.
Now, is a dumb shit Llke you...
at least smart enough
to bring the money?
Hey, asshole!
Put 'em down.
Put the guns down!
What the fuck is he doin' here?
WeLL, it's Llke this, Don.
There's a Iot of money
in the bag.
HoIy shit!
-Chris.
-HoIy shit.
-I thought you'd Ieft us.
-No, I had to come back.
Where's MarbIes?
What? I thought
he Ieft with you.
No. He said he wouIdn't Ieave.
Let's see what we got here.
It was you.
-You came out here to do this.
-I know what I toId you, kid...
but nobody fucks up
Llke your friends did here...
and comes out of it cIean. No.
BuLLshit. You came out here
to take that money.
There were never any shortages.
You're the one who's been...
robbing from my father,
you son of a bitch.
Matty, it's not Llke that.
Stop fuckin' teLLin'
me how it is, Teddy.
My whoIe Llfe,
you been teLLin' me how it is.
You've been Iying to me.
You put me in that basement
with Bobby BouIevard...
'cause you knew
it wouId break me.
You came here tonight
to kllI me.
TeLL me I'm wrong.
Go ahead. TeIl me I'm wrong
about any of it.
What the fuck
do you want to know?
I did what I did.
WaIkin' off
that handbaLL court...
dumping game after game
to your fucking old man.
Can I teLL you,
I couId beat his ass...
carrying a Iawn chair
in my Ieft hand...
so, yeah, now I'm takin' mine.
-No, you're not.
-I'm not?
What are you gonna do, Matty?
You gonna shoot me?
You're not gonna shoot me.
I got shoes
oIder than you, kid...
and tougher, too.
TayIor?
There it is.
Good.
This'LL finaLLy get me out of
the shit that Teddy put me into.
Yeah, that's good.
Look, I know
I was wrong about you.
Matty, you can come in
with me now.
You know, there was a time
I reaLLy wanted to hear that.
Ever since I was a kid,
I've been tryin' to Llve up...
to what I thought
you wanted me to be.
I fucked up my whoIe Llfe
for it...for you.
Matty, I thought
it was what you wanted.
I never wanted you
in this thing.
That's what you said, but you
know the truth, same as I do.
You never once Iooked at me
Llke I was a man.
You never wouId have, either,
if I hadn't have done this.
I'm out.
I'm out.
I'LL see ya, Pop.
You toId him?
Yeah, I did.
Good, you're finaLLy
done with it.
Done with this, too.
-What now?
-Now?
Now we get the heLL outta here.