Glengarry Glen Ross Page #4

LEVENE:

The deal still stands, our other

thing.

Williamson shrugs. Starts out of the booth.

LEVENE:

Good. Mmm. I, you know, I left my

wallet back at the hotel.

SCENE TWO:

A booth at the restaurant. Moss and Aaronow seated. After

the meal.

MOSS:

Polacks and deadbeats.

AARONOW:

...Polacks...

MOSS:

Deadbeats all.

AARONOW:

...they hold on to their money...

MOSS:

All of 'em. They, hey: it happens

to us all.

AARONOW:

Where am I going to work?

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MOSS:

You have to cheer up, George, you

aren't out yet.

AARONOW:

I'm not?

MOSS:

You missed a f***ing sale. Big

deal. A deadbeat Polack. Big deal.

How you going to sell 'em in the

first place...? Your mistake, you

shoun'a took the lead.

AARONOW:

I had to.

MOSS:

You had to, yeah. Why?

AARONOW:

To get on the...

MOSS:

To get on the board. Yeah. How

you goan'a get on the board sell'n

a Polack? And I'll tell you, I'll

tell you what else. You listening?

I'll tell you what else: don't ever

try to sell an Indian.

AARONOW:

I'd never try to sell an Indian.

MOSS:

You get those names come up, you

ever get 'em, "Patel?"

AARONOW:

Mmm...

MOSS:

You ever get 'em?

AARONOW:

Well, I think I had one once.

MOSS:

You did?

AARONOW:

I...I don't know.

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MOSS:

You had one you'd know it. Patel.

They keep coming up. I don't know.

They like to talk to salesmen.

(pause)

They're lonely, something.

(pause)

They like to feel superior, I don't

know. Never bought a f***ing thing.

You're sitting down "The Rio Rancho

this, the blah blah blah," "The

Mountain View--" "Oh yes. My

brother told me that..." They got a

grapevine. F***in' Indians, George.

Not my cup of tea. Speaking of

which I want to tell you something:

(pause)

I never got a cup of tea with them.

You see them in the restaurants. A

supercilious race. What is this

look on their face all the time? I

don't know.

(pause)

I don't know. Their broads all

look like they just got f***ed with

a dead cat, I don't know.

(pause)

I don't know. I don't like it.

Christ...

AARONOW:

What?

MOSS:

The whole f***in' thing...The

pressure's just too great. You're

ab...you're absolu...they're too

important. All of them. You go in

the door. I..."I got to close this

f***er, or I don't eat lunch," "or

I don't win the Cadillac..." We

f***in' work too hard. You work

too hard. We all, I remember when

we were at Platt...huh? Glen Ross

Farms... didn't we sell a bunch of

that..."

AARONOW:

They came in and they, you know...

MOSS:

Well, they f***ed it up.

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AARONOW:

They did.

MOSS:

They killed the goose.

AARONOW:

They did.

MOSS:

And now...

AARONOW:

We're stuck with this...

MOSS:

We're stuck with this f***ing sh*t...

AARONOW:

...this sh*t...

MOSS:

It's too...

AARONOW:

It is.

MOSS:

Eh?

AARONOW:

It's too...

MOSS:

You get a bad month, all of a...

AARONOW:

You're on this...

MOSS:

All of, they got you on this

"board..."

AARONOW:

I, I...I...

MOSS:

Some contest board...

AARONOW:

I...

MOSS:

It's not right.

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AARONOW:

It's not.

MOSS:

No.

Pause.

AARONOW:

And it's not right to the customers.

MOSS:

I know it's not. I'll tell you,

you got, you know, you got...what

did I learn as a kid on Western?

Don't sell a guy one car. Sell him

five cars over fifteen years.

AARONOW:

That's right?

MOSS:

Eh...?

AARONOW:

That's right?

MOSS:

Goddamn right, that's right. Guys

come on:
"Oh, the blah blah blah, I

know what I'll do: I'll go in and

rob everyone blind and go to

Argentina cause nobody ever thought

of this before."

AARONOW:

...that's right...

MOSS:

Eh?

AARONOW:

No. That's absolutely right.

MOSS:

And so they kill the goose. I, I,

I'll...and a f***in' man, worked

all his life has got to...

AARONOW:

...that's right...

MOSS:

...cower in his boots...

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