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You're gonna love that. Sit down.

- How's your old man doing?

- Fine.

How old is he now?

- 74.

- He's 74?

He's about lived his three score

and ten, ain't he, like the Bible said?

Pretty soon he'll be gone.

He'll be dead.

And in the meantime...

what you can hold in

your hand, you got, son.

And what you can taste, you got.

And all the poontang you get,

that's yours, see.

Nobody can take that away from you.

I hate to be the one to tell you this.

But everybody out there...

everybody's a taker. I mean it.

From the top, son, to the bottom.

They're all takers.

And you have got to reach out there,

and you've got to take it.

If you don't...

somebody's gonna reach out there

like that, and they gonna take you.

Does that make sense?

- Maybe.

- Maybe?

Before you is a young, beautiful,

tender flower of passion.

So I'll tell you what.

You get over there...

I'll bet that pretty little thing will make

you forget whatever's gnawing at you.

Come on, sport, you need to get

your pipes cleaned out anyway.

It's my Tinker.

Here you go, killer, hold that.

You all be nice to one another now.

And I'll see you later. Bye!

Don't I know you from somewhere?

From the political rally.

Alligator.

Yeah.

Don't you find me pretty?

Yeah.

I'm thinking of adopting you.

Why are you so far away?

Come here.

I'll treat you like a king.

Why would you want to do that?

I could do things.

Certain things.

How old are you?

Fifteen and a half.

Fifteen and a half?

Ain't nobody up here older than 16.

Bama likes it that way.

Bridger, I won't let you down.

I never have let anyone down.

Just don't worry.

Bridger, he's busy

making the collection.

Look, it takes time to build a case

like this. You know, and I know.

I'm at his...

I'm at my hotel now.

Nice.

Excuse me, sir.

Are you a registered

guest at this hotel?

I'm not.

Then you'll have to leave.

Now.

Bridger, I'll get back to you!

I'll see you. $400.

Call.

Them fours look kind of small,

now, don't they?

Bama, I want to talk

to you a minute, okay?

Damn, Gator!

I'm gonna have to change

your name to Rabbit.

Son, don't interrupt me

while I'm winning at poker.

Now!

I believe you're serious.

Smiley, take Gator in the bar.

Bones.

Take care of this. Fellas, excuse me.

Sugar, I'll be back in a minute.

Chalky.

Fix us a couple of drinks.

What's on your mind?

I want out.

I want to go home.

There ain't nothing waiting on you

at home except a whiskey bust.

I'll worry about that when I get home.

I've seen your operation.

I don't like what I've seen.

All right, I'll tell you what we'll do.

We'll have a drink. Okay?

And we'll talk about it.

I always could drink your ass

under the table, anyway.

That's a great accomplishment.

Make those drinks strong ones.

I want to ask you something,

and I want you to tell me the truth.

Did you ever kill anybody?

Not so as you'd notice.

Have a good trip, Gator.

How much do you figure you

owe the state in back taxes?

Probably, if they tried real hard...

they'd get me $65,000

to 70,000, earning.

What if I told you...

that I knew for sure...

you could pay 'em back $20,000

and that'd be all you owed 'em.

You could...

give up all this stuff, you know.

Hell, I don't want to forget this stuff.

I kind of like this stuff.

Now what else is on your mind?

Nothing.

Good-bye.

I don't know what you're

worried about $20,000 for.

You can sell Bones here

for $10,000 to the circus.

He has a wonderful sense

of humor, don't you, Bones?

Am I talking too fast for you, Bones?

They must be a lot of fun to talk to.

A lot of fun.

- Great conversationalists.

- They are.

You sure are having a good time off

that junk old Bones put in your drink.

Did you put something in my drink?

Yellows.

"Yellows."

"Yellows."

That's a good color for you.

"Yellows."

He's making me mad.

"He's making me mad."

All right, Gator, look.

- You're gonna pass out in a minute.

- Pass out?

Yeah, you're gonna pass out.

Now, when you wake up...

you're gonna be in your car,

just outside the county line.

- I'm gonna pass out in a minute?

- You'll pass out in a minute.

Now you wanna go home.

That car's gonna be pointed.

You drive it there, hear me?

'Cause I love you, boy.

So don't make me hurt you.

- I'm gonna pass out in a minute?

- Just about a minute.

I'll just stand here for a minute,

and wait to pass out.

I'll just stand here between two men...

that ought to be P.O.'d at God...

because when he was

handing out brains...

he didn't give you nothing but height...

and you nothing but teeth.

- You'd say about a minute?

- Yeah.

I'd say about 50 seconds have gone by.

Making me...

Nine, eight, seven, six...

Nine, eight, seven, six, five,

four, three, two, one.

One, right?

I only got one second?

Oh, sh*t!

I'm still here.

Now wait a minute.

What am I laughing about?

I ought to be gone by now.

I was...

I was way off.

Way off.

You put him in the car like I said,

and you take him to the county line.

And don't you hurt him.

See, what's important, Charlie,

sitting and drinking like this...

it's the information and the

connection and the deal, you know?

You gotta know who the guy

with the brass nuts is.

You know what I mean? That's it.

Where are you from, buddy?

North of here.

Like 1,200 miles north?

Oh, no!

You don't look like

you're from around here.

I don't get out much.

What are you asking Charlie

all those questions for?

Charlie don't know a damn

thing about anything.

Why don't you just talk

about getting some squish?

That's exactly what

we were talking about.

I think you'd be better off...

You got to lose a few, like me.

Too big. And too much.

Did you ever hear of the water diet?

I mean, water's good, and ice.

Ice is very good for you, see.

Actually, a ton of ice.

This is Pogie. Let me

talk to Mr. McCall.

It's him. Okay.

I mean, eight glasses.

It's like a kind of a crash,

you know what I mean? Like a chicken.

Hello, Mr. Greenfield.

You don't know me.

I always used to see you up

at the State Capitol Building.

You're with the U.S. Department

of Justice. Am I right?

No!

I believe you got me mixed

up with my brother Irving.

My name is Tex. Tex Greenfield.

No, I've seen you up at the hotel.

I figured I'd seen you from someplace,

but I couldn't quite figure it out.

I think I gotta go now.

I got a couple of squishes

waiting for me over at...

So I got to putting

two and two together.

Mr. Greenfield and the Justice Department

are down here working on something.

You got something going, am I right?

You didn't finish your beer.

You know, it's funny to see a

guy like you in a place like this.

Seems like you might've

come to see the law.

I gotta go now.

Okay, Charlie!

- I gotta go.

- I know. The beer.

I'm sorry.

God!

I'm sorry, Mr. Greenfield.

I'm really sorry.

As soon as I heard you were over here,

I came over without my breakfast.

- Wonderful.

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