Dog Day Afternoon Page #29

SONNY:

I told you. That I got a lot of

pressures. You said to me that you

needed money, and I knew that you

needed money! I saw you there lying

in the hospital like that... and I

said... sh*t, man, I got to get this

guy some money.

LEON:

(excited)

But I didn't ask you to go rob a

bank.

SONNY:

(getting louder)

All right. I know you didn't ask

me. You didn't ask me but I did it.

LEON:

Well...

SONNY:

I did it on my own. I did this all

on my own. I ain't laying it on

anybody. Nothing on anybody. I'll

tell you something, though, it's

about time that I squared away my

accounts... you know. I am squaring

away my accounts with life. Maybe

this whole thing is gonna end,

somehow. Maybe it'll just end!

Maybe I'll just close my eyes and

the whole fucken thing will be over.

That would be all right too! I

said... I thought I would square it

away with you... you know? That I

would get you down here and that I

would say so long to you... or, if

you wanted... you know, to take a

trip...

LEON:

What trip?

SONNY:

I'm getting out of here, man. I'm

not going to stay here and I'm not

giving up. I mean, huh, they're

going to kill me, anyway. So f***

it! But, if I can get out of this...

I am going to get out. And, how I'm

going to do it is to get a jet out

of here and I'm flying the f*** out...

That's all, Leon. If you want to

come with me, then you're entitled...

you can come. You're free to do

what you want.

LEON:

I'm free to do what I want? And you

think I would want to go with you

some place on a plane? Where?

Where ya going?

SONNY:

I gotta jet coming here and we're

gonna try to get the f*** outta this

thing. And we're gonna go, man!

LEON:

You're crazy.

SONNY:

That's it.

LEON:

You're really crazy.

SONNY:

I know!

LEON:

Where you gonna go?

SONNY:

Who the f*** knows? I think we're

gonna go... we worked it out to

Algeria. So, I don't know. So I'll

go to Algeria.

LEON:

Why you going to Algeria?

SONNY:

Huh... I don't know. They got Howard

Johnson's there. I don't know why

the f*** I'm going there for.

LEON:

Howard Johnson's... you're warped.

You know that? You're really warped!

SONNY:

I know that. I'm warped... I'm

warped!

LEON:

(stuttering)

God, Algeria! Do you know there's a

bunch of... they walk around there...

God! People walk around with masks

and things on their heads. They're

a bunch of crazy people there.

SONNY:

What am I supposed to do?

LEON:

(bitchy)

I don't know... you could have picked

a better place.

SONNY:

Denmark? Sweden?

LEON:

(pleased)

I like that... yeah!

SONNY:

Sal wanted to go to Wyoming. I told

him it wasn't a country. We gotta

get outta the country! To hell with

a guy who doesn't know where Wyoming

is. Okay. Can you imagine what

kind of a shape I'm in?

Laughter from both Sonny and Leon.

LEON:

So! Sal is with you?

SONNY:

Sal? Yeah... Sal is with me.

LEON:

Oh... wow! Sonny, you're really

into one mess now.

SONNY:

I know I am. I know!

LEON:

(making fun of Sonny)

Sal... Sal... Naturale, oh boy!

SONNY:

He ain't going out. And if I go out

he's just gonna kill the people.

There's a lot of lives that I'm

responsible for... that's all. So,

I can't do anything. I got myself

into this mess and I'll get myself

out of it... the best way I know

how! One of the ways is not giving

up. I'm telling ya!

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