Glengarry Glen Ross Page #19

Roma goes to the inner room.

LEVENE:

You are a shithead, Williamson...

Pause.

WILLIAMSON:

Mmm.

LEVENE:

You can't think on your feet you

should keep your mouth closed.

(pause)

You hear me? I'm talking to you.

Do you hear me...?

WILLIAMSON:

Yes.

(pause)

I hear you.

LEVENE:

You can't learn that in an office.

Eh? He's right. You have to learn

it on the streets. You can't buy

that. You have to live it.

WILLIAMSON:

Mmm.

LEVENE:

Yes. Mmm. Yes. Precisely.

Precisely. 'Cause your partner

depends on it.

(pause)

I'm talking to you, I'm trying to

tell you something.

83.

WILLIAMSON:

You are?

LEVENE:

Yes, I am.

WILLIAMSON:

What are you trying to tell me?

LEVENE:

What Roma's trying to tell you.

What I told you yesterday. Why you

don't belong in this business.

WILLIAMSON:

Why I don't...

LEVENE:

You listen to me, someday you might

say, "Hey..." No, f*** that, you

just listen what I'm going to say:

your partner depends on you. Your

partner...a man who's your "partner"

depends on you...you have to go

with him and for him...or you're

sh*t, you're sh*t, you can't exist

alone...

WILLIAMSON:

(brushing past him)

Excuse me...

LEVENE:

...excuse me, nothing, you be as

cold as you want, but you just

f***ed a good man out of six

thousand dollars and his goddamn

bonus 'cause you didn't know the

shot, if you can do that and you

aren't man enough that it gets you,

then I don't know what, if you

can't take some thing from that...

(blocking his way)

you're scum, you're f***ing white-

bread. You be as cold as you want.

A child would know it, he's right.

(pause)

You're going to make something up,

be sure it will help or keep your

mouth closed.

Pause.

84.

WILLIAMSON:

Mmm.

Levene lifts up his arm.

LEVENE:

Now I'm done with you.

Pause.

WILLIAMSON:

How do you know I made it up?

LEVENE:

(pause)

What?

WILLIAMSON:

How do you know I made it up?

LEVENE:

What are you talking about?

WILLIAMSON:

You said, "You don't make something

up unless it's sure to help."

(pause)

How did you know that I made it up?

LEVENE:

What are you talking about?

WILLIAMSON:

I told the customer that his

contracts had gone to the bank.

LEVENE:

Well, hadn't it?

WILLIAMSON:

No.

(pause)

It hadn't.

LEVENE:

Don't f*** with me, John, don't

f*** with me...what are you saying?

85.

WILLIAMSON:

Well, I'm saying this, Shel:

usually I take the contracts to the

bank. Last night I didn't. How

did you know that? One night in a

year I left a contract on my desk.

Nobody knew that but you. Now how

did you know that?

(pause)

You want to talk to me, you want to

talk to someone else...because this

is my job. This is my job on the

line, and you are going to talk to

me. Now how did you know that

contract was on my desk?

LEVENE:

You're so full of sh*t.

WILLIAMSON:

You robbed the office.

LEVENE:

(laughs)

Sure! I robbed the office. Sure.

WILLIAMSON:

What'd you do with the leads?

(pause, points to the

Detective's room)

You want to go in there? I tell

him what I know, he's going to dig

up something...You got an alibi

last night? You better have one.

What did you do with the leads? If

you tell me what you did with the

leads, we can talk.

LEVENE:

I don't know what you are saying.

WILLIAMSON:

If you tell me where the leads are,

I won't turn you in. If you don't,

I am going to tell the cop you

stole them, Mitch and Murray will

see that you go to jail. Believe

me they will. Now, what did you do

with the leads? I'm walking in

that door--you have five seconds to

tell me:
or you are going to jail.

LEVENE:

I...

86.

WILLIAMSON:

I don't care. You understand?

Where are the leads?

(pause)

Alright.

Williamson goes to open the office door.

LEVENE:

I sold them to Jerry Graff.

WILLIAMSON:

How much did you get for them?

(pause)

How much did you get for them?

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