Force of Evil Page #2

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Is it a social visit

or a business visit?

I haven't seen you

in an age.

What is it?

I'm busy.

Leo, Ive come to take you

out of this air shaft

And put you in a real office

in a real business

To pay you back

for everything

Because you're

my older brother.

That's why Im here.

Come around

after Im dead.

I had to fight to get

this proposition for you, Leo.

I had to stick my neck

way out.

Now, you listen to me!

Something very serious

Is about to happen

to your business.

You're one of 20 or 30

numbers banks in the city-

One of

the smaller ones.

Suppose a combine moves in.

Suppose it organizes

and merges these banks,

Eliminating the little ones,

like yours.

You're listening now,

aren't you?

Suppose it reduces

the overhead-

Legal fees, bail bonds.

Supposing it reduces the cost

and guarantees the profits.

A man like you would be

out of business, wouldn't you?

You couldn't compete,

could you?

But suppose

you had a brother

And this brother made your bank

the number-One bank

In the combination,

in the merger,

In the corporation.

What corporation?

Tucker?

Come in.

I've got the tickets

for the winners, Mr. Morse.

And what does

this corporation

Expect from me,

brother Joe?

In return

for the organization-

I have no secrets

from Doris.

If you want to talk,

talk. If not, go.

In return for the organization

and service,

In return for taking you

into the combination,

The corporation gets 2/3

of the profits and you get 1/3-

2/3 for Tucker, brother Joe,

and 1/3 for me,

For my own business?

Do you know

what that is, Joe?

Blackmail! That's

what it is! Blackmail!

My own brother

blackmailing me!

You're crazy!

You're absolutely crazy mad!

You're not listening to me!

I don't want it!

You know why

you don't want it?

I'll tell you why,

because you're a small man.

Because if it's a small thing,

you're a tiger.

But if it's a big thing,

You shout and yell

and call me names.

"Oh, no, a million dollars

for Leo?

"Oh, no, must be

the wrong address.

It must be

somebody next door."

The answer is no!

You understand

your "no" won't stop

The merging of these banks,

yours included!

Leo, Leo, this

is your chance,

The one

I got for you.

You take your chance, Joe,

and get out of here.

I'm an honest man here,

Not a gangster with that

gangster Tucker!

Are you telling me,

a corporation lawyer,

That you're running

a legitimate business here?

What do you call this?

Payoffs for gambling.

An illegal lottery. Policy.

Violation 974

of the penal code.

Policy-The numbers racket.

I do my business honest

and respectable!

Honest? Respectable?

Don't you take the nickels,

and dimes and pennies

From people who bet,

Just like

every other crook,

Big or little,

in this racket?

They call

this racket "policy"

Because people bet

their nickels on numbers

Instead of paying their

weekly insurance premium.

That's why-Policy.

That's what it is,

and that's what it's called.

And Tucker wants

to make millions,

You want to make thousands,

And you,

you do it for $35 a week,

But it's all the same,

all policy!

This is

my secretary,

My stenographer,

My friend

Doris Lowry.

She's been with me

a long time.

She's like

a daughter to me.

And you...

I wanted to be

the lawyer,

And I could have

been the lawyer

If I threw you

out of the house

When our

parents died,

But, no, I worked

for you like a fool.

For you!

And I gave you

everything!

Why do you talk this way

to me in front of strangers?

She's no stranger to me!

You're the stranger!

And Ill tell

the whole world

Because

you're my brother.

And I owe it

to the whole world,

Because you're my brother,

what you are-

A crook and a cheat

and a gangster.

Leo, be calm.

Tucker

will make you honest

Tucker will make you

respectable.

He's giving me a quarter

of a million dollars

To create public sentiment

to make policy legal,

Like bingo, bango,

and the Irish sweepstakes.

I'm paying you back, Leo.

I'll make you rich,

With an office on wall

street up in the clouds!

Be calm, Leo.

Be sensible.

All right. I am sensible.

I am calm.

I'll give you my answer

calmly and sensibly.

My final answer.

My final answer is finally no.

The answer is no-

Absolutely

and finally no,

Finally and

positively no!

No! No! No!

N- O!

Bunte, this is Morse.

Are you clean? Can I talk?

I want you to get a tip in

to the police

So they throw a raid

into my brother's bank.

I'll take

the responsibility.

I want this done right away,

this afternoon.

I want my brother to know

that Tucker is running policy.

I want to force him in.

I'm on the street.

Let's not make a big spiel

out of this.

I want my brother kept in jail

till I get him out.

Going home, Doris?

Yes, Mr. Morse,

But I wanted to talk

to you first if I could.

About what?

Well, that's not very easy

to say, Mr. Morse.

It's not very easy

to say.

I've been thinking

about it all afternoon.

If there's something

you want to say,

Say it, Doris.

Well, I just wanted

to say that-

You know Im grateful

For everything

you've done for me.

You know that,

don't you?

You sound so sad.

Is there something wrong?

Has something happened?

I haven't forgotten

That you gave me

my first job, Mr. Morse.

Believe me,

I haven't forgotten it.

And I haven't forgotten how,

when times were bad

And you had no money

to take home,

I always had

my salary.

I haven't forgotten that.

You sound as though

you were leaving me, Doris.

No, Mr. Morse,

Im not leaving you.

There's nothing

I wouldn't do

For you or Mrs. Morse.

You've both

been so kind.

But Im leaving

this job.

Something my brother

said upset you.

Black sheep like to make

everybody else look black.

That's right, and it's

very easy when they are black.

But Im only here to say

that all afternoon

I've been thinking

that's the way I feel now,

And I simply can't work here

anymore, Mr. Morse.

I simply can't.

I have to leave.

Then leave.

Then quit.

You're young, Doris.

You'll discover

as you grow older

That sometimes

a man does things

He'd prefer

not to do.

I'm not trying to say

anything about you, Mr. Morse.

I'm only talking about myself

And why I feel

I can't stay here.

Then leave.

I'm sorry, Mr. Morse.

Thanks for the tears.

That Mr. Morse's brother

is Tucker's lawyer,

Isn't he, Mr. Bauer?

He's worse.

He's Tucker's brain.

That's

Tucker's brain.

What are you

talking about?

Who is it?

Open up. The police.

Go on! Open up!

Hey!

Stay where you are!

Don't anybody move.

The other door!

Open up!

Open up!

Open up!

What's going on

here?

Sorry, Mr. Morse.

You did that

too late.

Everybody gone crazy

all of a sudden?

Who sent you?

We got a warrant-

Violation 974.

Milletti's office.

What's going on,

Mr. Morse?

That's all right.

Take it easy.

Take it easy.

It'll be all right.

Policeman:

now listen, everybody.

We're going downstairs quietly,

you understand?

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