A Better Way to Die Page #2

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ifyou give me one more chance.

Just Iisten to me.

Take care of everything

you have to take care of down there.

And then get up here

as fast as you can.

Beautiful night forbaseball in Chicago.

One away, bottom haIfofthe fifth.

One-one tie at this point.

Hubert tossing a dandy for Toronto.

HeIIo? PIease stop!

Hubert set. Inside and tie ball one.

He came afterhim a bit on that one.

Reallysetting the tone for this at bat.

- What seems to be the probIem?

- And it's Iong! This ball is way back!

And it's out ofhere!

- Is this an ambush?

- What?

RoII over. On your beIIy. Let's go.

- It's the ''hurt guy on the road'' trick.

- No, sir. Just a hurt guy on the road.

I invented that trick, son.

If anybody tries to ambush me, -

- your partner here

gets it between the eyes -

- and up the kester!.

There's no ambush. It's just me.

- No ambush?

- No, sir.

WeII, sh*t.

- They caII me FIash.

- They caII you FIash?

- WeII, they caII me Boomer.

- They caII you Boomer?

Boomer.

FIash.

I Iike my nickname better.

- Did you come up from the city, Boomer?

- Yes, FIash. And I'm never going back.

- Are you the nervous type?

- Nobody's nervous.

Jesus, f***!

- Breakfast time. Time for breakfast.

- Yes, it is.

I've got cheddar cheese and crackers.

Danishes, doughnuts, croissants.

Beefjerky, turkey jerky, boIogna.

Tuna in springwater or oIive oiI.

- You Iike protein shakes?

- Yes.

MeaIs in themseIves.

I've got Swiss vaniIIa, chocoIate fudge.

Banana-strawberry

and my favourite orange-pineappIe.

- I'II try a chocoIate fudge today.

- Fantastic!

Who's your daddy?

What's with the piece?

My Iine of work requires it

from time to time.

''FIash. Finder of Iost sh*t.''

Say you Iost your granddaddy's watch

your daddy gave you five years ago.

I can find her for you.

Or you're Iooking for some fancy

Chinese pottery you Iost in GuatemaIa.

- I'II find that too. I find Iost sh*t.

- No sh*t?

- No, Iost sh*t.

- You hunting for something right now?

- Affirmative.

- What?

That's cIassified, soIdier.

- What did those bastards take from you?

- What didn't they take from me?

They got my car, aII my bags, my money.

- Nothing that matters.

- HoIy cow. Let me see that.

Oh my. You've got yourseIf an agenda.

A Iong-term agenda.

- Lucky Iady know it's coming?

- It'II come at her Iike a curve baII.

- Think she'II take a swing at it?

- I wish I knew.

What the f*** are you doing?

I see it.

Watch the road, man.

Worry not, Boomer boy. She'II swing

for the fences and then some.

- Home run?

- Out ofthe park, happy ending.

You've got good energy, boy.

Things are going to go your way.

Don't worry.

I'm going to stake you to a bus ticket.

- We've got to get you to this girI.

- You're aII right, FIash.

Hey, FIash, is there any speciaI reason

you're driving ...

... 400 miIes an hour?

Affirmative.

It's recentIy come to my attention -

- a carIoad of feIIers

has been traiIing me.

FeIIers. ProfessionaIs. Assassins.

- It's hard to teII.

- Assassins?

You knowwhat?

You can just Iet me out up here.

Look, drop me off. PuII over.

No stopping untiI the next town.

You wait untiI the next town,

or you can jump out right now.

Give me the phone.

- Where? What?

- Press the green button.

Green button.

HeIIo?

FIash?

He's got his hand fuII at the moment.

You've got the wrong guy, Iady.

My name isn't Harry.

- Just put the speakerphone ...

- One second.

Put it down there.

Just put it back in the cyIinder.

No, EngIish, sweetheart.

Whoever answeredsounds Iike Harry.

I thought maybe you found him.

- Not yet, Mrs JeIIybeIIvetus.

- GeIefaveta.

Where are you?

Right now I'm hauIing ass,

heading north going up to MiddIetown.

Did you check that number in Chicago?

Yes. Somejerk named Rifkin

kept hanging up on me.

Ifyou think my co-piIot

sounds Iike Harry, -

- maybe we ought to get him

to give Mr Rifkin a caII.

Now that's an ambush.

Who's number one?

That has got to hurt.

You knowthe best way to make

that pain go away from your head?

You re-diffuse the pain.

I'II bet you forgot aII about

that IittIe pain in your head.

- What do you know about Harrison James?

- I don't knowjack.

No one's asking about Jack.

What do you know about Harry?

Now what do you know?

What the f*** are you doing?

Mr Van Adder Iikes them

to sweat it out a bit.

I work for him and you work for me.

Hence, by transit of f***ing property,

you do what the f*** he says.

Sh*t isn't professionaI, man.

That's the sh*t that's fIoating in

your bowI, so Iive with it, CIeveIand.

Why don't you and your cousin do

what I'm paying you to do?

CIeveIand, why don't we teII this guy

to f*** off?

We can go back down south tonight.

Lou ...

I wouId Iove to get Iaid tonight

by my wife in my bed.

But we need this job. We need the dough.

Zoe and Cassandra need the dough.

Carpe per diem.

- Seize the cash.

- F*** that.

We're not going to f*** that!

You hear me?

UntiI one of us wins the f***ing Iotto,

we'II deaI with these white fucks.

Shoot this piece of sh*t. I'm jammed.

F*** that! I don't have time

to shoot everybody, -

-just because this white douche bag

says we shouId. It'II f*** up my karma.

You waste him.

Merry f***ing Christmas, asshoIe.

We do this job, we get the cash.

We head back down south.

Together.

Peace, brother.

Peace.

- Do I know you?

- Do I know you?

You know something about this?

You know something about

who kiIIed FIash?

Yeah. It wasn't me.

- You're the one with the voice, right?

- What are you taIking about?

Who the f*** are you?

Why are you driving this truck?

I traded it for my VoIvo. It's faster.

- Stop the truck. I want out.

- Sorry, no can do.

- No sIowing down.

- I'm serious. I want out.

You can wait untiI the next town

orjump out now.

But I'm not sIowing down.

I was just saying that I'm in troubIe

and I needed some heIp.

And I was ready to offer to untie you, -

- treat you to a nice dinner and buy you

a bus ticket to anywhere you want to go.

Ifyou wouId be wiIIing to make

one simpIe phone caII for me.

I'II throw in 300 bucks.

- Give me the number.

- Okay, here it is.

If he buys you as Harry,

ask him where he thinks you are.

Where I am?

- Where Harry is. You have to be smart.

- I'II be cIever.

Big Daddy's Diaper Service.

You mess 'em, we press 'em.

How are you doing there?

I need to speak with Rifkin.

- Harry James, you sockcucker.

- That's right. It's me, Harry.

StiII aIive.

You didn't sound too good on those

messages. I was hoping you were dead.

Harry James is on the Iine

with Yanosh Rifkin.

- Now?

- Yeah, we have an exact Iocation.

- Ifwe had that Iine monitored ...

- Then Van Adder did too.

We need to get together.

Set up a meeting.

I Iike meetings.

I can't teII you exactIy where I am

because we might have eavesdroppers.

Get to Chicago by Sunday.

Esquire Lounge.

Tarbender will tellyou what to do.

- He's gone.

- What happened?

You got yourseIf a date in Chicago

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