Catch .44 Page #7

f***ing delusions

- this b*tch is even interested in you?

- B*tch?

You're going to treat

this woman with respect.

If you call her a b*tch again...

I will shoot you dead.

Now Mel is the reason

why I'm here.

He is becoming careless.

He's becoming senile.

All he does

is crack pecans all day.

That's why I'm retiring.

I came here to collect my pension.

And now I'm going

to collect my girl.

Your girl?

I'm not your girl.

I'm not your f***ing girl!

This mess is because of you!

You understand?

This is not because of Mel.

Mel wouldn't do this!

I'm so glad you are

such an expert on Mel.

How many times have you talked

to him over the last...

three months?

Once?

I work with the guy every day.

- I know Mel.

- Yeah, I know Mel too, okay?

I know Mel. This is just...

this is all just a test.

- It's a test.

- You think this is a big test?

Does that look like

a f***ing joke to you?

We're all f***ed!

Ronny!

Will you please shoot this girl

and let's get the f*** out of here?

I'm not going to ask you again,

Billy, to calm down.

F*** you, Ronny!

You know what?

Since you are being

such a brave girl,

and Billy here is-is...

a whiny little b*tch,

I'm going to make a deal with you.

You don't have to tell me

yes or no.

You just have to show me.

I want you to shoot him

and then we will

walk away together

- and disappear.

- Don't listen to him.

But if you don't,

I'm going to have to...

I will have to shoot you both.

He's full of sh*t.

He'll shoot you before you even get

a shot off once I'm f***ing dead.

Look at what he's doing...

he's double-crossing Mel,

now he's double-crossing us.

You don't want to end up

like your friends here.

I'm telling you,

he's a f***ing liar!

He's gonna f*** you

like he's f***ed all of us.

He's gonna shoot us

and he's gonna take the money.

Will you shut the f*** up, Billy,

and-and... and let...

let the girl think, for f***'s sake?

Let her make

her own decision.

How do I know

you're telling the truth?

I came in here freely

of my own accord, didn't I?

- Liar.

- I could have...

I could have did you both quickly

like I did them, but I didn't.

He thought he could walk

in here and put a couple in us,

but he's stuck!

You're stuck, Ronny.

Tes...

marry me?

I love you.

I'm telling you,

he's on the f***ing insane train.

You're going to have

to shoot him now.

- You're a f***ing psychopath!

- Make your decision.

Don't do it.

He's insane.

- Two, one.

- Don't.

Shoot him.

Don't f***ing...

Shoot him.

- You can do it. Shoot him.

- Don't.

I am so sad

that you make this decision.

We could have worked.

- I am sorry, Tes.

- No no! Wait! I'll do it! I'll do it!

I'll do it. I'll kill him.

I'll kill him. I'll shoot him.

This is great.

- I knew that you...

- Don't...

...you would make

the right decision.

...F***ing shoot me.

Don't shoot me.

There is no money.

Ronny,

there's no f***ing money!

Don't shoot me!

You need me to do

the countdown again?

- Don't... listen...

- Three.

- No, don't f***ing shoot me!

- Two.

- Listen to me. Don't f***ing sh...

- One.

Jukebox:

# I'd write a letter #

# To my false true lover #

# Whose cheeks are like #

# The morning pink #

# Oh, love is handsome #

# Love is kind #

# And love is pretty #

# While it's new #

# But love grows cold... #

What do you know?

# As love grows old #

# And fades away #

# Like morning dew #

# And fades away... #

# Like morning dew. #

Coffee?

Coffee's good for you.

It'll make you feel better.

I am...

done.

I am

done.

Don't even know who

the f*** I am any more.

I don't know who the hell

the f*** I am.

I'm gonna tell you

a little story, Ronny,

a parable.

You know what a parable is, right?

Like out of the Bible.

- Yeah.

- A long time ago,

these cowboys and Indians

were involved in a big fight.

American Indians...

pre-casino, big fight.

Big fight... arrows, bullets.

You know how it goes.

One of these cowboys...

let's call him Bucky...

Bucky gets himself captured

by one of the Indians...

not just any Indian,

the big Indian.

Big world-famous f***ing Indian,

Chief Running Bear.

So Bucky thinks he's f***ed.

Thinks his life is over,

he's gonna be killed.

But Running Bear, instead of killing him, he takes

him back to the tribe.

And he forgets all about

being a cowboy.

He forgets all his cowboy ways.

Old Bucky couldn't want

for nothing.

As you can imagine,

him and Running Bear

got very close.

Very close.

Running Bear makes

Bucky his consigliere.

Bucky makes...

heavy wampum.

Heavy wampum.

You know what happens next?

He makes a mistake.

- He just started to get restless.

- Okay.

- He didn't have enough.

- No no.

He starts forgetting everything

that Running Bear had done for him.

He looks at Running Bear and he

goes "Look at this motherf***er.

He's drinking

too much firewater,

smoking too much

peace pipe.

I can do it better than him. "

He just says "F*** it. "

Then he starts f***ing

Running Bear.

And he fucks him.

And not no "Brokeback Mountain"

kind of f***ing.

You following me, Ronny?

The moment that he starts

to f*** Running Bear,

he loses somethin'.

Do you know what he lost?

He lost f***in' respect for him.

Respect.

Right.

He's looking at lost respect.

In that moment

the cowboy loses everything.

He lost the thing

that was most important to him.

And for what?

For what, Ronny?

So he could steal

a couple more furs?

All I needed was to have

something for myself, Mel...

something that would

let me know who I was.

I've been working with you

seven years.

Seven years.

I always liked you.

I always looked after you.

But I never trusted you.

Trust doesn't exist in this world,

does it, Mel?

No. It does not.

It does not.

I know you've been stealin'.

Was this, like, some kind

of goodbye present?

All this?

Well, Running Bear,

he had a heart...

Ol'\C6.

He had mercy.

He understood mercy once.

Can he set the cowboy free

in the desert

all alone?

Mel:
How the f***

would Running Bear do that?

Set the cowboy free?

Well, I don't think

that's going to happen.

He sets the cowboy free,

he knows that eventually

someday that cowboy's gonna

come back and start f***in' him again.

What are we gonna do now, Mel?

You know what we do.

Maybe I f***ed up,

maybe I made a mistake,

maybe I was desperate,

just trying to get something to feel,

you know, anything anything.

But I ain't going back

to the way I was.

Ain't going back to the way I was.

I wouldn't do that to you, Ronny.

I wouldn't send you back.

You know why?

Because Running Bear

has respect.

There was never any money,

was there?

Not for you, cowboy.

Why don't you tell me a story?

I liked that, uh, that cowboy story.

I liked that.

Only this time, could you...

could you...

let the cowboy

and the cowgirl

ride off into

the sunset together?

Somethin'...

somethin' good.

Somethin'

with a happy ending.

I'm all out of stories.

Sorry, cowboy.

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