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or if I don't stop by or well,

if I turn up dead or missing,

well, you just shoot

that letter on over

to the state's attorney's

office,

let him get to work on it.

Would you like to know what

happened to that gentleman

with the amusing license plate?

No.

There's an intercom

over there.

Go on over and press the third

button, it will connect you

to our surgical annex.

Over here?

Who is down there?

Don't tell me, I've

picked your curiosity?

[ Noise ]

Not surprisingly, Mr. Bogen.

I have an abiding

interest in the human brain

and the relationship of

the brain to the body.

Do you know that

some people are born,

live their whole normal lives

and die with only half a brain?

Hell, I met more

in my [inaudible].

I want a human body, a

normal human body but one

that can encompass my

superior intelligence.

I detest having to live a life

through proxy, through the limbs

and senses of these creatures.

And so I experiment.

If half a brain can do

the work of a whole one,

perhaps a whole human brain can

hold an intellect equivalent

to my own.

So more power to you.

And you weren't

at all concerned

about my subjects

down in the basement?

Is there anything

I can do for them?

Nothing comes to mind.

I keep them alive for

future experiments

and for their occasional

entertainment value.

Yeah, well, they got

their problems and I got mine

and you got yours

and right now, Myron,

I'm the problem you

got to worry about.

Like you say you're

a very clever fellow.

You want me to stay quiet, I

can see, 'cause I got a feeling,

you got a whole fleet of cars

in that swamp back there.

You don't want guys

who have guns

and badges snooping

around this house.

Now, you want to keep doing

whatever it is you're doing.

And Myron, you made them

folks downstairs go away.

I want you to do the same thing

for Howard Oates,

you make him go away.

Otherwise, you go

and find yourself

in a whole world of hurt.

Now, do we have a deal?

[ Noise ]

Talk dirty to me,

honey, talk dirty.

Ain't no time to talk dirty.

Now listen up, tomorrow night.

Tomorrow night.

Howard's going

to be out of town.

Out of town.

You get yourself an alibi.

A what?

An alibi, you know, will see

a friend, go to a beauty parlor,

whatever you got to do

to have people see you.

Now, you got that?

Oh, an alibi?

You do as I say now.

Oh, you going to do

it, you going to do it.

I'm going to do

it now and ain't--

nobody going to point

finger at us.

He's going to be dead?

He is going to be

dead, deader than dead,

deader than a dog

in a garbage dump.

Oh, you're my

knight in shining armor.

Well, well,

fancy meeting you

here, cupcake. [laughs]

Oh no, don't be shy.

Come on, give old

Howard a little kiss now.

[ Noise ]

Shop and Stop,

Lance Bogen here.

Done, Mr. Bogen.

Been a pleasure

doing business with you.

[ Noise ]

Oh, Lance it's me.

Holy sh*t, Lorretta,

what are you doing here?

Did you do it, is he gone?

Oh, Lorretta you got

to stick with the plan.

Howard turns up missing, you

don't want people hooking us up.

Then you did it,

you really did it?

It's done, baby.

You won't be seeing

Howard no more.

Tell me, tell

me, how'd you do it?

Had it done, angel cake,

man has got his act together,

he don't do it, he has it done.

You hired a hit man?

No. Had some a

whole lot better.

Well, I'd say for two.

Who?

Honey, I got the

Stackpools working for me.

Go on.

Yeah, I got me a little

look at some real sweet.

You know that night we

saw that road block?

Well, that little luck

and some sharp thinking

by yours truly is all it took.

So you got something

on the Stackpools?

Oh yeah, I got

'em by the short.

I got 'em by the short

whatever the hell they got.

And they took care of Howard?

Yeah, just like that.

I said, "You take care of

Howard Oates," and they did it

and that ain't all, that's

just the first installment.

What do you mean?

Well, honey, them Stackpools

is loaded with the green stuff.

I checked it out.

They got all them real goods,

they got like oil and gas, coal,

you know, all that

flammable sh*t, real money.

And you go and get it?

Ah-huh honey,

that's we're going

to get it if you play it smart.

That means you can't be

hanging around here, see?

You can't be acting

like Howard's dead before

somebody even tells you

that he's missing.

Now you got to play cool, baby.

Oh, it sound too hot to play

it cool, you got to do me, baby,

f*** your little Scarlet.

All right, take

your panties off.

And Howard's gone for

good, what'd they do to him?

Will they make him suffer?

Oh, I'm sure they

will, I'm sure they will.

[ Inaudible Remark ]

One.

Two, two, two--

Sure, I didn't think

I'd hand that letter

over to you, did you, Myron?

Hardly.

Hardly is right, why I do

that to kill me deader

than stale cheese.

We both know that.

Now I know what's floating

around that big old head

of yours, whatever

I do or don't do,

I'm a permanent burr

up your butt.

I see I can't keep any

secrets from you, Mr. Bogen.

Well, it ain't no secret,

man, it's just common sense.

So, let you do what you do,

just letting you stay around

and keeping my mouth shut,

that's a prize to me, a risk.

I figure, man takes a risk but

he ought to get paid for it,

seems reasonable to me.

But I'm sure you also realize

that it's a calculated risk.

You press too hard and you

make it worth it for me

to employ desperate measures.

What? You mean like drag me

down in that basement playroom

of yours and snipping off pieces

of me till I tell

you who my lawyer is?

Maybe, make me call up my

lawyer, have him deliver

that letter in person.

I wouldn't do that

if I was you, Myron.

I see, you've

thought it all out.

Uh-hmm, see if old Wheeler

here, his nose is as good

as you say it is why he

probably sniff these on me

when I first came in.

[laughs]

So that matched this

against Otis's muscle any day

of the week or against your

big old brain for that matter.

Now, ain't going to be no

torturing tonight, Myron.

Pity and what exactly is

that you would expect

from me, Mr. Bogen?

Call me Lance,

Myron, not to worry now.

I thought this whole thing out.

Now, I'm not going

to bleed you dry.

Now Mom always said only a

dumb slaughters the milking cow

and I'm not going to slaughter

you, no, I'm just going

to scoop off a little cream.

Say about 2,000 a week.

Oh, now, don't got acting like

that some hardship, Myron.

I know you got cabbage to spare.

Go on over to the

right dresser drawer.

Myron, Otis,

Wheeler, Ernestina,

it's been a pleasure doing

business with you all.

See you next week for

another payment and don't get

up Myron, I'll show myself out.

Wheeler,

you follow that greasy,

white trash hookster.

We'll watch, listen to him,

smell him and when he sleeps,

we'll catch him all right,

we'll catch the little fox

and I'll cut that grin

right off his face.

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