Billy Bathgate Page #6

Can I have a clubhouse

ticket, please?

Yes, sir.

- 35 cents.

- Keep the change.

Excuse me. Excuse me, please.

Hey, come here.

I want you to take

these flowers...

- Mr. Wilson.

- Phil.

Good afternoon, ladies.

Just popped up in the Atlantic.

I gotta talk to you.

Something's gone wrong.

You're in a lot of danger.

Don't be melodramatic.

This is not a joke.

Aren't they the most

beautiful things

you've ever seen?

Who do you like in

the next race, Charlotte?

Flowers for Mrs. Preston.

No, look at these.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on, royal Anna.

Billy, there was something

I wanted to tell you.

Do you remember that man

who came to church?

Which man?

The one at Schultz's baptism.

The one he respects so much.

- Yes, Luciano.

- I've met him before.

Where? With Bo?

I was drunk.

- Did you tell Mr. Schultz?

- VNo.

You think I should have?

Go, royal Anna!

Go! Come on!

Go, royal Anna! Go! Come on!

Go!

Oh, damn.

- I'm gonna go bet.

- No! I'll do it.

You stay here.

Put $50 to win on phantom fox.

- Satisfied?

- Don't get up.

Don't leave until I get back.

What if I have to pee?

I'll bring you back a can.

I love you, Mrs. Preston.

Carter!

Hello, drew dear.

What's the rush?

I thought I saw Irving.

You did.

Good to see you.

Fancy meeting you here.

I hope so.

- Oh, hello.

- Excuse me.

- Carter.

- Drew.

Darling!

- Harvey.

- Harvey.

What are you doing here?

I've been looking everywhere.

I got the damnedest call.

What the hell's going on?

It's the husband.

Come on.

You should have told us.

How was I to know?

What's this all about?

It's the husband.

Come on.

What's with the troopers?

The guy's a big shot.

The kind of stuff

big shots do, I guess.

You didn't see this coming?

Sure, like I saw

it coming with Lulu.

I don't get it. She must

have figured out something.

She didn't know nothing.

She seem scared to you?

She's not like ordinary people.

She's not scared of anything.

- Have you reached a verdict?

- Yes, we have, your honor.

Will the defendant please rise?

How do you find the

defendant, guilty or not?

We find the defendant

not guilty.

- Congratulations.

- Thank you.

- Irving, how...

- Yes, I'm good.

- You okay?

- Yeah.

Come on in.

Is Mr. Schultz here?

He's upstairs.

I'm sorry about your nose.

It was an accident.

It's all right.

Mr. Schultz is waiting

for you upstairs.

He wants me to go up there?

Yeah, have a good time.

Hey, look who's here.

Close the door, will ya?

I'd like a little privacy.

- Did she say anything?

- Who?

- Who?

- Mrs. Preston?

Yeah, I think that's

the lady's name.

Yeah, she said she liked you...

Very much.

She said you have class.

She said that?

Who knows? In a better

world, another time...

What? They've issued

another indictment.

This time it's Dewey.

It's the state.

What is it with this state?

What's next?

City tax and

after that Bronx tax?

And then bathgate Avenue tax?

It's not fair.

We're gonna wait this out. I'm

gonna get in touch with hines.

We're gonna work something out.

What does a man have to do,

tell me, to be

deserving of a break,

to be able to reap

the fruits of his labor?

I'm gonna get Dewey.

I am gonna get that bastard.

You can't kill Dewey.

It's too big.

Not some fire inspector...

I wanna know where he lives,

what time he comes out...

You cannot just go ahead...

Otto, Otto!

Don't you tell me what

I can or cannot do.

You work for me.

You do as I tell you.

Is that clear?

All right, we'll

be moving across

to new Jersey for awhile.

- Remember hines?

- The fixer.

Now, he's our last chance.

There are 17 $1,000

bills in there.

You tell him we're waiting

for an answer in Newark.

You should have seen him

at the height of his power.

He was a king back then.

Never saw

the real Dutch Schultz.

Terrible thing when

the money won't flow.

Nothing makes me sadder than to

refuse such a generous offer.

Mr. hines, we need

your help with Dewey.

Mr. Dewey is a prosecutor

who wants to be president.

There is nothing I can do.

Tell Schultz the business...

Between us is over,

I'm through with him.

Mr. Schultz ain't

gonna like this.

He's always been generous

with you. He deserves...

He deserves nothing.

That goddamn son of a b*tch.

What does he mean he won't take

my money after all these years?

My money's not good

enough for him?

He's a nothing.

I'll stick it in his teeth.

Forget about him.

You got other problems...

Don't tell me to forget!

You promised me hines. You

told me he'd take care of us.

And now this?

Is this how good your

judgment is these days?

Don't worry about Dewey.

Dewey is as good as gone.

You made an agreement

with Luciano.

I don't need his advice.

He drove hundreds of Miles

to stand up for you.

He didn't have the decency

to break bread with me.

I don't trust that man.

The man is sympathetic.

Dewey's everybody's problem.

Luciano knows...

The dutchman gets

knocked down, he's next.

Meantime, I'm in

the frying pan!

Let me tell you

for the final time.

I will take Dewey out.

Luciano will thank me.

They will come and

thank me for it.

Mrs. Preston told me

something about him.

She thought she had

seen him before.

- What are you talking about?

- She said...

She said she was drunk.

She didn't remember much.

She was pretty sure it was him.

She was with Bo.

You hear this kid?

This is what I'm talking about.

This is why he is my prodigy.

What else she tell you?

What else went on with you two?

All right. It's all right.

Fine.

He's a kid. I know. I'm calm.

- Get up.

- What did I do?

That's for not telling

me sooner. I tried.

You should have come

to me right away.

I didn't hear the rest of you

give me the word.

Come on, that's not fair.

Shut the f*** up.

You're ugly and dumb

and that's the truth.

Otto, get Dixie.

I want him here.

Right, fix me a rye.

Make it straight up.

That conniving scum.

Can you tell me how you

know what he respects?

I like something I tell ya.

I don't like something

I tell ya that.

Ya cross me, I kill ya.

Everything is clear.

Everything is above board

and honest, right, Irving?

I see the whole

world ganging up on me.

I see the man who takes

me into his church,

the man who makes me

his brother and embraces me.

He's the same man who

turns my Bo against me.

Is that love or is that...

The sicilian kiss of death?

I don't care how many

d.A.S come after me.

They think I am finished,

but I will show them.

Come on, boys. Give me a smile.

Dutchman's making a comeback.

What is this?

I asked for scotch.

Can't you do one

damn thing right?

- But you just told me...

- I'm fed up with you.

- You're fired.

- What?

I don't want to tell you twice.

Get out of here.

- Why?

- You know why?

'Cause you always want

to know the reasons.

Always poking your nose.

Always interrupting.

I'm sick of the sight of you.

- Mr. berman...

- Beat it.

You can't fire me.

I work for Mr. Schultz.

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