Criss Cross Page #3

I don't want to get

hooked into anything.

Just don't rush me.

I might get a better offer.

Well, honestly!

The way you talk.

I realize you're supposed

to be kidding,

but i wish you wouldn't.

Don't mind him.

When they tease you like that...

what they really want

to do is pinch you,

only they know it's

not nice in public.

[Laughing]

Why don't you go

with the children, steve,

and take in a picture show?

My first night?

Don't stay home

on my account.

I'll only go to sleep

in a little while.

[Girl] sure, steve.

Why don't you

come with us?

No, thanks. I don't think

i feel like a movie tonight.

You want to go

bowling?

No, i'm no bowler,

pop.

Hey, steve.

Were you gonna call

somebody up or something?

Who, me?

Well, you keep looking

over at the telephone.

Oh, do i?

I didn't realize.

Say, where's

the evening papers?

Ah.

Look, steve, i still have

your old ice skates.

What do you say

we go to the ice palace

and have some fun?

What is this?

I came home to settle down,

not to go ice-skating.

Leave me alone. All i wanna

do is lie around the house

and read the paper.

Go on, both of you.

Beat it.

Brute!

I'll do the dishes, helen.

Never mind. Go ahead.

Let me help you,

mrs. Thompson.

Thank you.

[Pop]

Excuse me.

Hey. Psst.

Steve!

Oh!

[Thinking]

Anna. We were married.

About two years ago.

It lasted seven months.

A man eats an apple.

He gets a piece of the core

stuck between his teeth.

He tries to work it out

with some cellophane

off a cigarette pack.

What happens? The cellophane

gets stuck in there too.

Anna.

What was the use?

I knew one way or the other

i'd wind up seeing her that night.

[Chattering]

[Rhumba]

[Stops]

[Rhumba]

Steve!

Oh, steve, if you knew

how many times a day

i think of you.

How are you?

When did you get back?

Why didn't you

answer my letter?

Your letter? Yeah.

Well, you got it,

didn't you?

Yeah, i got it.

Well, why didn't

you write?

Well, l...

l-l-i guess i never

had anything to say.

Oh, steve!

A fella can't write if he's

got nothing to say, can he?

When did you get back?

A couple of days ago.

I don't know.

A week.

A week,

and you never called me up?

Steve, did you come

in here tonight to see me?

Is that why you're here?

- I was just passin' by.

- Oh! Like that!

I saw the old place

and i thought i'd drop in

and have a look around.

I guess i figured i'd see ya.

All the fun we used to have

in this place, remember?

All the good times

we had together?

Yeah.

And all the fights.

Ha-ha!

The fights we had.

Boy, we sure used to go

'round and 'round.

What did we ever have

to fight about anyway?

It was crazy.

We were in love,

weren't we?

I guess you can't fight

with anyone unless

you really like 'em.

Wouldn't be

much fun, would it?

- Then we'd make up.

- We'd make up.

Those were times,

weren't they, steve?

That was the best part, i think.

The making up part.

Excuse me.

You're sitting in my chair.

You runnin' around

with him?

Steve, this is slim dundee.

I know him.

He's a well-known man.

Steve thompson.

You wanna join us?

No, we just ran into

each other and stopped

to say hello, that's all.

Well, so long.

Wait a minute, steve.

What?

You'll give me a ring,

won't you?

Sure, sure. We'll probably run

into each other now and then.

Why shouldn't we?

Here you are, pop.

Papers from

the bonding company.

Sign 'em

and i'm all set.

How did he make out

on the gun range, johnny?

Did he pass?

Two eighty-nine out of

a possible three hundred.

Two eighty-nine?

I don't know how you

ever got along without me.

Pip, pip.

Look at him go.

I can still shoot

rings around you

any day in the week.

Oh, reading glasses.

Used for reading purposes only.

I've got perfect eyesight.

All the doctors remark on it.

[Alarm bell clanging]

Here they come.

[Alarm continues]

You got a defense

against an aerial holdup?

They're liable to start

coming at you someday

with a helicopter.

I'll tell ya something.

Nobody ever got away with

a heist on an armored truck

in 28 years.

As a matter of fact,

they don't even try anymore.

You hear that, pop?

The deal is off.

[Man]

Holy smokes!

Is that you, thompson?

Are you comin'

back to work here?

Figured you guys needed a hand.

Holy smokes!

They're takin' thompson back.

Company's goin' to the dogs.

What do you wanna

sit around inside

these armored trucks for?

Take o'hearn.

He's got the jitters.

He goes out to catalina,

spends his two-week vacation

in a glass-bottomed boat...

so he can look out

four directions

at the same time.

[Laughing]

Hey, walter.

How's the wife?

My wife? She's at the beach.

We took a place down at balboa.

See, she thinks she's run-down,

needs a change.

Actually, she likes

to take sunbaths.

All women are nuts

about gettin' sunburned.

I don't care. I indulge her.

I'm not picayune.

Steve, you used

to have a wife,

didn't you?

Whatever happened

to her? How is she?

Well, so long, pop,

and thanks a lot.

So long, fellas.

I'll see ya all soon.

So long.

Yeah, take it easy.

I certainly made no hit

with that crack about

his wife, did i?

Well, you know how it is.

He's divorced, but he's

still got her in his bones.

I guess it takes some time.

Oh, but it's all finished.

Now don't get me wrong.

He's all through with it.

There's no question about that.

That's just like you,

calling me up at my house from

a drugstore around the corner.

You're sore?

Keep eatin' that stuff,

you're gonna get

as fat as a horse.

Steve, i wanna

tell you something.

That fellow, dundee?

Slim dundee?

He just asked me for a date.

He just took me out, that's all.

Eat your lunch

these days?

Come on, steve.

Come on what?

You can be a nice guy

when you want to.

I don't think

you eat your lunch.

I think you still spend your money

on costume jewelry junk instead.

[Laughing]

Just like old times.

What's like old times?

Bawling me out.

Only this time in front

of a drugstore counter.

I'm not sore because you

went out with somebody.

It's perfectly all right.

It's none of my business.

What do you expect me to do,

sit home and mope?

I didn't mean to do

anything wrong.

"I didn't mean

to do anything wrong."

Half the time you don't know

what you're doin'.

Trouble is you always know

what you want.

If you're

gonna get nasty.

Workin' these days?

I get jobs.

Department stores, selling.

What'd you want?

I mean, why'd you call me up?

- Do you have to ask?

- I don't know what you're talkin' about.

I made the first move, steve.

You don't have to be proud.

What's being proud

got to do with it?

Do you think i like

meeting you like this?

Don't you think

i know what went on

in your mother's mind...

when she heard

my voice on the phone?

Oh, steve, when i

sent you that letter,

and then when i saw you

back in town, i thought...

well, i hoped...

we'd get together again?

Yeah, steve.

Why not?

Take in the races, the shows?

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