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Dead End Page #5
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- 1937
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First thing you know,
I'll be pounding a beat in Harlem.
This is a tough enough precinct,
but Harlem...
Pal of mine got killed there.
Of course, you know
what they always say.
The quickest way to get killed
is to kill a cop.
Yeah, that's what they always say.
Yeah, but I'd rather not be
the one that gets killed
just so they can kill someone else,
see my point?
Well, there ain't no profit
in chasing kids.
I bet you'd like to get your hands
on one of the big boys
with the rewards on 'em?
Who wouldn't?
Yes, sir, who wouldn't?
I'd buy myself a soft drink stand
on the Merrick Road.
Nothing around here
but making old hags take in the garbage.
Why didn't you go on home
to dinner with him?
Doc did a pretty good job.
Jimmy, come on up.
Supper is ready. Come on.
Ain't we ever gonna eat anymore?
You know,
there must be something in it.
I mean to have a place to go to.
You sit in the same place every night.
It's your own chair.
Not me. I'll take mine
in a dump with music,
where you can have
anything you want you can pay for.
You can have one thing one night,
something else the next.
I'm gettin' sick of what I can pay for.
I can remember different.
You've changed more
than your face, all right.
So you're gettin' ready for a little woman
and some kids, huh?
I got enough dough.
Well, I always say,
every sucker for what he wants.
That Francey.
That girl you want to see.
Why do you have to bother
with that cheap little...
Cheap little what?
Maybe I'm wrong.
We all make mistakes, boss.
That's why they put rubber
on the ends of pencils.
Well, who's the important
guy wants to see me?
Come on, come on. I'm busy.
Francey?
How do you know my name?
Who are you?
Well, for the love of...
Marty.
Yeah.
How are you, Marty?
You did something to your face.
Yeah. Plastic, they called it.
They said you were out
around Colorado, the newspapers.
Yeah.
Gee, I'm glad to see you.
- No. Don't.
- What's the matter?
- I ain't good enough for you?
- No, it ain't that.
You know, Francey,
Go on, you with all your fancy dames.
Where do I come off?
- They don't mean nothing.
- That chorus girl. What's her name?
Nothin'. She ain't got nothin'.
None of 'em have.
Remember that night on the roof?
Yeah, I remember.
The sky was full of stars
and I was full of dreamy ideas.
Yeah. Me too.
A couple of crazy kids, we were.
We were gonna get married.
I bought a ring
at the five-and-dime store.
Only we didn't have money enough
to buy the license, remember?
Gee, it seems like yesterday.
We were talkin' about it right here.
Yesterday?
Seems like a million years.
Listen. You got to take care of yourself.
What are you doing here, anyway?
You got to get away.
I don't want 'em to get you.
What difference
does it make where I go?
They got their finger on me everywhere.
They won't recognize you.
Even I didn't.
Yeah, but you can't change these.
with acid and things. It's no good.
But I'm getting out of here.
I come back for you.
- I wouldn't be good for you.
It's a dream. I'm having a dream.
What I wanted for so long.
I'm tired. I'm sick.
Can't you see it?
Look at me good. You've been
lookin' at me like I used to be.
Why didn't you get a job?
They don't grow on trees.
- Why didn't you starve first?
- Why didn't you?
Well, what did ya expect?
I don't know.
Here. It's hot.
Be careful where you spend it.
And keep your lips buttoned up.
I wouldn't tell on you, Marty.
Not if they tied me
to wild horses, I wouldn't.
Honey, could you spare
another twenty bucks?
- I got to...
- No!
Okay, Marty, forget it.
I was just...
All right, all right. Beat it.
For old times' sake,
will you do me a favor?
Please. Will you kiss me here?
Just for old times' sake?
Thanks.
I know. Two double gins.
Sausage for you
and water for you, right?
Yeah.
Chez Pascagli never forgets an order
I know what you feel.
Anybody would.
Twice in one day.
Yeah. Twice in one day.
I told you we shouldn't have
come back.
But you wouldn't listen to me.
Never go back.
Always go forward.
- Shut up.
- I read that.
You know where?
When I was a kid.
My old lady bought it in a store...
a sign, I mean... and hung it over the bed.
I've always kept it in mind.
What do you say
we go back to St. Louis, huh?
That Dawn La Gatta.
I bet she's waiting for you.
She was all right. Regular.
And as respectable as a whistle.
I mean in the right way.
I betcha there's "welcome"
on the doormat for you there.
All right. All right.
Forget about the dames.
But twice in one day.
And that's what I come back for.
That's what I take a chance for.
I get this.
What I been thinking about
all these years...
Aw, forget it.
Listen, Marty.
You come back here for a reason.
And I came with you.
Because where you go, I go.
Let's get out of here tonight.
Too many people know you here.
Tonight, huh?
What do you say?
You see what they did
to that rich kid today?
They took him down
in that old warehouse.
Well, there's no reason
he can't be taken further away.
No, no.
We're too hot.
Kidnappin' ain't in our line.
I come home for something.
I didn't get it.
But I'm coming out with something,
even if it's only dough.
- Oh, no, Marty...
- Shut up.
Go out and get Whitey.
Find out what he knows
about that rich dump.
Go ahead, Hunk.
Get going.
Not a sign of Tommy anywhere.
Yeah, I know. I've been all over.
Don't worry, Drina.
He knows his way around.
He can take care of himself.
He can take care of himself
too well.
How could he
have done such a thing?
Where does he learn
about knives and...
He had an expert teacher.
Anyway, it's not hard to learn
in a place like this.
But, he's not a bad kid.
Not really bad.
He never has been.
The famous Baby Face Martin
used to live on this block.
He wasn't such a bad kid either, at first.
He was smart and brave
and decent, at first.
Like Tommy, you mean.
Ever since he was a little kid,
I've tried to teach him what's right.
I don't know what else to do.
I've tried to bring him up decent.
What chance have they got
against all this?
They've got to fight for a place to play,
fight for a little extra something to eat,
fight for everything.
They get used to fighting.
Enemies of society,
it says in the papers.
Why not? What have they got
to be so friendly about?
It didn't do those things to you.
Didn't it? Well, it did
enough to me, the other way.
It made them accept it
It made me into a fool.
I spent my life dreaming
about tearing these places down.
Well, I found out today.
I saw myself and these rotten holes
we live in through somebody else's eyes.
I wanted to tear them down
with my fingers.
Yeah, you always talked about that...
how you were going to
tear all this down
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