A Slight Case of Murder Page #4

didn't we? That's the main thing.

That stickup we done

was just an accident.

Accidents will happen.

Yeah, but with all the dough we got...

we ought not to be waiting around

for nobody.

What are you squawking about?

You'll get your cut.

Nobody gets no cut till we do

the Remy job and get out of here.

One job a day is enough for me.

Come on. Deal up, somebody.

Want to go down and get me

a drink of water, Innocence?

We'll watch the window for a second.

Yeah.

I don't know what's the matter

with Innocence...

but it's getting so I don't like him no more.

It's funny, but I was just gonna say

the same thing, Dutch.

Well, when we start the fun with Remy,

it'll be pretty easy.

You know, anything is liable to happen.

Yeah, anyway, it's easier

to split four ways than five.

Sure.

Where do we put all the stuff?

Let's put it right here, beer and all.

Tell you what, you get the rest of it in,

and I'll go up and open some windows.

Here we are.

Come on, honey.

Oh, what a lovely,

old-fashioned house, Nora.

We've been renting it for the last

three years. Your father seems to like it.

You know, it was the deer that sold me.

You know, I got a streak

of the artist in me a mile wide.

- Mike, bring Douglas in.

- Okay.

Come on, you.

Go chase yourself.

Calling all cars. Calling all cars.

Stand by for a man on the...

Hey, lay off me, you lug.

Who do you think you are?

You want to get clunked?

Hello, boys. Have a good trip up?

- Hiya, boss.

- It was okay. Kind of quiet.

I and Mr. Marco will occupy the room

we had last year.

Miss Marco will use the front bedroom.

- Rustle the baggage.

- Okay.

Wait a minute. What was that you said?

I said, "Okay."

How many times do I have to tell you

to say "Yes, ma'am"?

Okay.

- Yes, ma'am.

- Now, remember that, Harold.

- Come on, Mary. I'll show you your room.

- Swell.

Hey, take it easy, you mug!

Cut it out, will you?

Who do you think you are?

- Hey, Gip.

- Yeah?

- Did you get in a jam coming up here?

- Me? No. Why?

- There's a copper coming up the walk.

- A copper?

There he is now.

You take the kid into the kitchen.

I'll handle the law.

- Come on, little boy.

- Take your hands off me.

I don't get pushed around

by a lot of mugs like you.

Come. I'll give you a bottle of beer.

So what?

Good afternoon.

Have the Marcos arrived yet?

- No.

- When do you expect them?

I don't know.

Well, they're due here anytime now,

aren't they?

I don't know.

Oh. Well, thanks very much just the same.

What did he want?

Who knows what any cop wants?

He asked for the boss.

There can't be nothing wrong

about the boss now.

Still and all,

I do not like the idea of a copper.

I don't like the idea of any copper.

What's the matter, boys?

Nothing, boss. The law was here.

- Local?

- State trooper.

State trooper, huh?

Well, you ought to have thrown him out

on his ear.

We don't have to worry anymore.

The old days is gone.

I've been polite to my last cop.

- I bet that's him again.

- What?

Wait a minute, boss. Let me handle him.

Some gall.

- Oh, hello.

- Hello, Mike. Remy here?

Yeah. Come in.

- How are you, Sam?

- Hello, fellows.

- Hello, Remy.

- Oh, hello, Sam. Glad to see you.

- Say, tell me, who won the third?

- My Dandy.

Say, that's great. I'm doing okay.

How much did I make?

I got the tab here. Here it is. Here.

Let you see it in a minute.

There it is, $4,890.

$4,890?

Yeah, that's right. Come here.

Well, glad to hear that.

Sit down.

Look, Remy, that's what I come

to talk to you about, that dough.

What about it?

Well, I just want to tell you

that I'll take care of it tomorrow...

when the insurance company

settles with us.

Hey, don't tell me you got knocked off

on the first day of the meeting.

- Ain't you heard about the stickup?

- What stickup?

Well, you know the armored truck...

that brings the bookies' dough

from the bank?

- Yeah.

- It was knocked off by five guys.

Nobody's got any money

to make book with.

They got pretty near a half-a-million.

Who done it? Anybody we know?

Who knows? They all got away.

All the bookies' dough, huh?

Gee, ain't that terrible?

Nearly half a million.

Say, wait till I tell the boys.

They'll be interested.

Hey, Mike, Gip. Come in here, will you?

What do you think happened?

Some people held up the armored car

with all the bookies' dough in it.

- All the bookies' dough, huh?

- Yeah.

Ain't that terrible?

- That's fierce. Did they all get away?

- Clean.

Oh, well, I'll be in the kitchen

if you want me, boss.

Say, listen, Sam, tell me.

How did you manage this afternoon

without any sugar?

Well, we done business with IOUs.

Say, there'll be enough markers

around here tonight...

to paper the Pennsylvania Station.

Hey, I can recite.

You wanna hear me recite?

"When you see a man in woe

Walk right up and say hello"

That's swell.

- Pretty good, huh?

- Elegant.

"Walk right up and say hello"

I'd rather hear him say goodbye.

- So long.

- I'll be seeing you later, Remy.

Yeah, drop in tonight, will you?

There'll be some of the old gang

around here.

Okay.

Well.

"Walk right up and say hello"

Just a little ray of sunshine,

that little fellow.

"Walk right up and say hello"

Douglas. Hey, wait a minute, Douglas.

You hadn't ought to do that.

Oh, what's the odds?

Mary thinks the house is too, too divine.

- What's the matter with you?

- Remy, take the beer away from that kid.

- Yeah, it ain't good for the kids, is it? Here.

- It's not that. He'll ruin the piano.

- Michael?

- That's you, Mike.

Get the guest bedroom ready

for Mr. Marco's prize.

Okay.

I mean, yes, ma'am.

Hey, when do we put on a feed bag?

You go into the kitchen, Douglas.

Gip will get you something to eat.

Okay.

- Hey, when do we eat?

- Sit down.

Here. Drink this,

and I'll fix you something to eat.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

Sit down.

Hey! Hey!

Is that bedroom ready

for Mr. Marco's prize?

No, and I don't think

you can use that room.

- Why not?

- There seems to be some people in it.

People? What people?

- How many people?

- Four fellows.

- Four?

- Well, what are they doing there?

Just sitting around in chairs.

- Well, did you tell them to get out?

- Now, wait a minute.

You mean, four people

that don't belong here?

I don't think they belong here regular.

Well, did you tell them to get out?

Well, I was gonna speak to them about it...

but, boss, I don't think them people

are in any position to listen to much.

They don't seem to be alive.

- What, you mean they're dead?

- That's about it.

Why, I never heard of such gall in my life!

What does that landlady mean

by going away...

and leaving four dead people

in this house?

Now, now, now, wait a minute, will you?

What was the matter with those fellows?

Somebody shot them, boss.

- Shot them?

- Yes, sir. Right there in that room.

Interrupted their card game.

And one guy had a king full, too.

There they sit, just as natural as anything.

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