Dark Meridian Page #4

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been waiting for a few hours.

And your guest, how's he doing?

Our guest, he's, um...

He's fine.

I don't know if he can

hold on much longer.

Let's end this.

Send him home

and clear out of there.

And tell Eddie

to find Lenny now.

Yes, sir.

I want you at the flat

as soon as possible.

Detective Soleno,

have you seen him?

Yeah. Yeah, we said hello.

Good. Tell him

to escort you home.

Dad, come on.

This isn't a game, son.

Until I hear from your brother,

I'm not taking any chances.

Now finish your business

and get the hell out of there.

Yes, sir.

Well?

Uh, he wants you

to take me home.

Is that what you want?

Look, I wanna catch this guy,

but we need to do it quick.

Yeah, I know.

His address is right down here.

But we gotta assume

he knows we're coming.

- All right?

- All right.

This it?

Yeah.

Third floor.

Let's go.

The door is open.

We're all clear.

Place is a sh*t hole.

Yeah, it's the purpose of

a safe house, Tevi,

to be discreet.

Oh.

You got something?

A phone number.

- And, uh...

- It's Jacob.

Lenny...

It's my f***in' dad.

It's Katie and the kids.

What the...

What is all this?

What's wrong?

Tevi!

Sh*t!

I know where he's going!

Tevi, come on!

Tevi, come back here!

You can't go there

by yourself, come on!

Tevi!

Tevi!

Oh, sh*t!

You break something?

I don't know.

Doesn't feel like it.

Your hands are getting old.

You should leave

the pounding to me.

Where's the fun in that?

You hear from Lenny?

He's on his way.

He's been on his way for hours.

That's all right.

He'll be here soon.

You want me to give him a call?

Is there somewhere

you need to be?

No.

Relax. He'll get here

soon enough.

Is the old man coming, too?

Just Lenny.

He still with us?

He's fine.

Water...

Water...

You want some water?

Water...

Water...

- Water...

- You want some water?

Give him some f***in' water.

I've given him all the water

he's going to get.

You're a f***in' a**hole.

What's with you?

Just giving him some water.

I'm not giving

this a**hole sh*t.

He's a f***in' dead man.

That's right.

He's a dead man.

But before he dies, Lenny has some

questions he wants to ask him

and I'd like to hear

the answers to those.

He can't do that if his f***in'

throat is swollen shut, a**hole.

You still think we

got the wrong guy?

I told you, I don't know.

Are you f***ing crazy?

You're really think they

would try to f*** us, huh?

Give us the wrong guy?

Why would they do that?

It's possible.

I don't trust the Garvans.

Do you trust

the Garvans, Andrei?

Eddie, you trust the Garvans?

I don't.

'Cause if I was in their shoes,

there's no f***in' way that

I would give up Garen

for someone like Luther.

I mean, it doesn't make any sense.

It's just not a smart play.

I don't think they'd risk it.

Yeah, why is that?

It's a hard secret to keep.

People like Garen

don't stay hidden for long.

- We'd figure it out.

- Yeah, but when?

Once, uh, he kills Lenny?

Comes after my dad?

One of you two?

We already gave him Luther.

- We handed him on a motherfuckin' silver platter.

- Your father believed

- garen for Luther was a smart move.

- My father's too trusting.

He'll believe any bullshit

anybody tells him.

- Your father made this deal.

- My father is an old man!

He's an honorable man.

He's a good man.

He's a father to all of us.

Your father believed Peter

Garvan would keep his word.

You think Peter Garvan's

gonna keep his word?

When has Peter Garvan

ever kept his word?

That still means something to

him and to Peter Garvan, kid.

You know what I think?

- I think...

- You think too much.

I think.

I use my brain.

You f***in' moron.

You havin' a party or what?

Just keepin' our guest cozy.

Is he still alive?

He's alive.

Huh.

You sure have put

a beating on this guy.

We had a few things to

discuss before you got here.

You already started

without me, huh?

There's my baby brother.

Hey, come over here.

How you doin'?

- Good.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

- You sure?

Mm-hmm.

All right.

First time I saw somebody get

popped, I had nightmares for weeks.

I'm all right.

All right.

I didn't want you to miss this.

Okay?

All right.

Wake him up.

There he is.

Man of the hour.

Do you know who I am?

I'm Lenny Marek.

I'm the brother of

the man you killed.

And I'm the man

who's gonna kill you.

No, no, no...

Not me...

What's he saying?

Not me...

Has he been talking?

What's he talking about?

Has he been talking?

He's trying to say it's not him.

Lenny, he's trying to say

he's not the guy.

- Not me...

- What do you mean?

Why is that?

Tevi doesn't think

this is the guy.

That's not what I said.

You don't think this is the guy?

I just think it's possible

that it might not be him.

Why is that?

'Cause nobody knows what Garen looks like.

This guy could be anybody.

We don't?

- No.

- I do.

I do.

Looks like him.

- Lenny.

- Tevi, come here.

Come here.

What makes you think

this is not the guy?

I just don't understand why they

would give us their top guy.

If this guy's as special

as everybody says he is,

why would they just

hand him over to us?

We gave 'em our top guy.

I know, but...

Look, I don't trust

the Garvans either.

But we expect them to keep

their word, and we keep ours.

Okay?

Yeah, but what if they lied,

what if we're wrong?

They gave us the wrong guy, some

a**hole that owes them money,

we're gonna be doing them

a favor by offing him.

Then we'll go after them

with everything we've got,

and we'll win.

And they know it.

Okay?

I just don't think that this

is the guy that killed Jacob.

Why? 'Cause he gave you

some sad story? Hmm?

Look at this man.

This man is going to die.

Do you understand?

There's nothing you can do about that.

You can't stop that.

Whoever he is,

however unlucky he may be,

he's seen your face,

he's seen my face,

he's seen us talking,

he knows who we are.

It's game over.

- Do you understand?

- Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

Look, I'm gonna ask him

a few questions,

see if he can

fill in some blanks.

And if he can't,

I'll put him out

of his misery quick.

Sure.

All right.

Are you Garen Muller?

Are you Garen Muller?

No. No.

Well, he speaks!

Well,

if you're not him,

you're one unlucky motherf***er.

You were given to us

by your former employer

as restitution for

the murder of my brother.

And whether you are or not him,

you'll pay for his card.

No...

Let him go.

No...

I'm not the guy you want.

- Mm.

- It's not me.

You sure about that?

I promise.

- You promise?

- I promise.

Somebody wants to play, huh?

- F*** you.

- -Mm-hmm.

Glad you got

a little fight left in you.

I didn't think you would.

What difference does it make?

You're all a bunch

of goddamn animals.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

And now that we

understand each other,

let me make something

very clear.

You can die fast,

or you can die slow.

The choice is yours.

I want your confession.

I want you to admit

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