Force of Evil Page #8

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to have real fear in you.

You don't know what it is

To wake up in the morning

and go to sleep at night

And eat your lunch

and read the papers

And hear the horns

blowing in the streets

And the horns

blowing in the clubs,

And all the time,

wherever you are,

Whatever you're doing,

whatever you're seeing,

Wherever you are,

you're afraid in your heart.

Is that what life is?

Joe!

Play louder.

Go on, play.

Is that what life is?

Joe, you didn't know

what was right for you.

A person has to know

what's right for them

And do it,

no matter what.

I took a risk

to make a million.

Wasn't that right for me?

I lost,

but hall is wrong

If he thinks Im gonna spend

the rest of my life in jail.

I'm leaving, Doris.

I'm running away

with a pocketful of money.

You want to come?

The money is for you, too,

if you want it.

Oh, Joe,

I don't want this money.

Nobody wants it.

I want somehow

to get you, Joe,

To save you

for yourself and myself.

Somehow

you're wild and crazy

And stuck in a trap,

And somehow you won't

fight to get out...

and somehow I love you.

Thanks.

Sam.

Joe!

You make up

your mind yet, Ficco?

I'm thinking it

over, Ben.

It's only going to be

one way, Ficco,

And no other.

You took that gun of yours

and jazzed up the town.

You killed one man,

And you kidnapped another.

I was on the outside, Ben,

with a gun and broke.

You was on the inside,

With the money

and the organization.

I wanted in.

All right,

Im taking you in

On my terms, Ficco,

not yours.

Any way you say, Ben,

as long as Im in.

All right.

Here's the situation.

All the legal Charlies

From the corner cop up

to hall and the governor

Are going to be

screaming for action

After what you did

tonight.

They'll raid my banks

up and down the line,

Night and day,

And everybody

working for me

Is going to want

to quit.

I want you

to take your boys

And hold

those people in line.

Do what you have to do,

go as far as you have to go.

No matter

how tough hall gets,

Those banks

are going to operate.

I want that money coming in,

no matter what,

And nobody quits.

Understand?

Not even the janitor.

It's a deal, Ben.

Phone's no good to us.

Hall's got it tapped.

It's a direct wire

Right to the special

prosecutor's office.

And another thing, Ficco-

No phones.

Nobody talks over the phone

about anything.

Everything is tapped

right down to hall.

You'll get in touch with me

through Joe Morse.

You'll report

to him personally

Every day, everything.

He'll know where I am.

I don't think I can do

business with Joe Morse.

What do you need him

in this for anyway, Ben?

Blow him off.

Get rid of him.

He won't be worth a dime

when the going gets tough.

These shysters

scare easy.

Besides, he won't want

to do business with me

On account

of his brother.

I'll handle him.

You just

turn his brother loose.

I'll take care of Joe.

We got a problem

there, Ben.

Joe! Are you crazy?

Are you crazy,

coming here like this

In the middle

of the night?

Tucker:
Ive been waiting

for you all night, Joe.

Where have you been?

Where's my brother, Ben?

Where's my brother?

Where's my brother?

Where's Ficco?

Where did Ficco

take my brother?

This is Ficco. I made

all my arrangements, Joe.

He's coming in with us

To help us hide this mess

from hall's glory boys.

Joe!

Tucker:

settle down.

I've had

enough of you, Joe.

I've had a bellyful

of you and your brother.

Right

from the beginning.

Where's my brother?

I'm running

this combination,

And you're

working for me,

Just like Ficco.

Is that straight?

I'll have Ficco

turn your brother loose

In the morning.

And you see to it

That he keeps

his mouth shut

When hall

works him over.

Leo Morse won't talk.

He's dead.

Why didn't you tell me?

You weren't

interested.

Where is he?

I had him dumped

on the rocks

Near the river

by the lighthouse

Under the bridge.

Tucker:
we'll let him

stay there.

I tell you what, Ficco.

I'll take Joe

out of town for a while.

I don't want him here

When the police find

his brother's body.

Ficco:
why don't you

leave town alone, Ben?

Morse ain't no good

for the combination.

Sure. Ficco is better

for the combination.

He's a killer.

He wants to kill me.

Don't you, Ficco?

Ficco:

I will!

Like you had Bauer killed.

Like Bauer!

Like my brother.

Yeah, like

your brother!

Tucker:
shut up, Joe.

I'll give it to you

straight, Ben.

I'm not going

to my own funeral.

You're no better than Ficco.

You were a gunman and a killer

before we became partners,

And I showed you

How to hide your business

from the police.

Now you're going back

to your old trade.

You made a deal with Ficco

to run the racket with a gun,

And Im in the way.

Is that it?

You killed before, and now

you want to kill again.

But Im not going to end up

On the rocks in the river

like my brother.

I'll walk out of here alive

to hang the both of you.

This is Joe Morse.

Tell Mr. Hall

and the police

I'll be down to see them

in an hour.

Doris was waiting for me

downstairs,

And we left

before the police came.

I wanted to find Leo,

to see him once more.

It was morning by then, dawn,

And naturally

I was feeling very bad there

As I went down there.

I just kept going

down and down there.

It was like going down

to the bottom of the world

To find my brother.

I found my brother's body

at the bottom there,

Where they had thrown it away

on the rocks by the river,

Like an old, dirty rag

nobody wants.

He was dead,

And I felt

I had killed him.

I turned back

to give myself up to hall,

Because if a man's life

can be lived so long

And come out this way-

Like rubbish-

Then something was horrible

And had to be ended

one way or another,

And I decided to help.

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