His Kind of Woman Page #7

with a man on it waiting for you.

Yeah, I know.

He hasn't got a name either.

What's the difference?

No matter where you get it,

money can buy just so much.

There are some things

it doesn't buy at all for me.

For instance, murder.

All you have to do

is get on that boat and sail away.

Could've been a nice trip.

Now I don't know.

I know. I wouldn't care for it.

When Milner goes back home again,

it's gonna be me.

You'll find your money in the drawer

of that table, less expenses.

We're losing time. Put the gun down now.

The man behind you has a bigger one.

Let's keep it nice and polite, huh?

Have him introduce himself.

We've met before.

Lusk knew about me, Thompson.

I'm no good to you anymore.

You're gonna have to try again.

Different place, different boy.

Maybe. But you're still going

down to the boat.

Dan.

Dan?

Get rid of her. Out there.

I thought I told you

not to come around here anymore.

I brought you a gun.

Give it to Cardigan. He likes guns.

- What's the matter with you?

- That'd take a long time to say.

All right, I stole a gun for you.

Take it, and we'll call it quits.

Look, I don't need it.

Now, will you get out of here?

I spent six months and a lot of money,

honestly come by...

...to try and get Mark Cardigan.

And I was ready

to kiss it all goodbye for you.

- Big mistake.

- Wasn't it, though.

Thanks for straightening me out.

You do it so nicely.

There's nothing to it.

Will you take this thing?

I can't sneak it back.

Give it to Cardigan.

- It happens to...

- He knows how to use them.

He'd like that one. Give it to Cardigan.

Don't feel so bad.

There are a lot of places in the world.

They all got women in them.

Not all of them, Thompson.

The government's got a few places.

- All clear.

- You heard the man.

I see. Thank you.

That was Morro.

The Lusk fella didn't fall.

- He was murdered.

- What?

There's a boat in the bay

that has no business being here.

And neither do we.

- Well, what do you know.

- I know this, I'm locking the door.

- Mark, you've got to do something.

- What does he have to do?

They're taking Dan out to that boat.

They may kill him.

- Who's taking him away?

- Taking? Maybe he's leaving.

I wasn't talking to you.

Mark, he's in trouble.

We were told to remain indoors.

That's what we intend to do.

- Shut up, Gerald. Let me think.

- A little late, isn't it?

Yes, since I've been doing

your thinking for the last 15 years.

Do you wanna go out there for me?

- I have a wife.

- Well, then, shut up and let me think.

While you're at it,

remember that you have one too.

Now might I drink hot blood

and do such bitter business...

...the earth would quake to look upon.

- Hamlet again.

- Mark, this is no time for histrionics.

What fools ye mortals be.

Throw a line over here!

Manuel, come quick!

Get a rifle up on the boat deck!

Take the light. Give me that rifle.

There he is! There he is!

Hold the light on him!

Lower the port boat.

On the double, men.

Away!

You lost him. Here, give me the light.

Hey, Milner.

It's me, Cardigan.

Here, take this.

Follow me.

Stay with me.

This is my private hunting ground.

I know it like an owl knows his tree.

Well, what do you know?

I'm really wounded.

It's okay.

You mind telling me

who I'm shooting at and why?

If this was one of your pictures,

you could step out there and ask.

- But I'm afraid their guns are loaded.

- You know something?

All my life, I've suspected myself

of being a phony.

Half of it, I've been acting.

A hundred lives in a hundred stories.

All phony.

This is the only time the guns were

ever loaded with anything but blanks.

- How's it feel?

- Fine. You couldn't know how fine.

- Is that what brought you out here?

- That's part of it.

- What's the rest of it?

- She did. She asked me to come.

Are you in love with her?

My wife tells me I've never been in love

with anything, except myself.

- Who has?

- People have.

You suppose I can go

bring him ashore?

- Who?

- The guy on the boat.

Do you know him?

From what Lusk said,

it must be Nick Ferraro.

- Ferraro.

- It figures.

- What has Ferraro got against you?

- He likes me.

He's the only guy

who ever wanted to be me.

Lusk knew that. That's why he's dead.

I don't like the inference.

- Where does that leave us?

- In a lot of trouble.

Until somebody knocks him off, it's gonna

be the short, unhappy life of Dan Milner.

I'm too young to die. How about you?

Too well-known.

If you do get killed, I'll make sure

you get a first-rate funeral...

...in Hollywood,

at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

I've already had it.

My last picture died there.

Good luck, bucko.

I'll keep Thompson and company busy.

Take me to Ferraro.

The captain.

Come on.

See if you can cover him from above.

We'll never smoke him out from here.

How about flanking him?

Okay, get around behind him on that cliff.

I'll cover.

Look, mister, you're covered

from all sides.

You either come out with your hands up

or we'll blast you out.

Make up your mind. Are you coming out?

Hold it.

Drop that gun.

Drop it!

There he is. Take him topside.

Get going.

You take that side.

Deceased.

Or as you say in plain terms,

"Gone to heaven. "

Do you know me?

Yeah, I know you.

I'd know that face anywhere.

I don't blame you for trying

to trade it in on a new one.

Do you judge everyone

by his face, Milner?

That and smell.

- What's your method?

- I have several methods.

For example...

...if a man fights me fairly, in the open,

the way a cop does, I respect him.

On the other hand,

when a man makes a deal with me...

...takes my money and then

double-crosses me like you did...

...that's something else again.

I hate welchers, Milner.

In Chicago, I gave everyone a fair shake

as long as they played square with me.

But there's only one way

to handle welchers.

Yeah, boss, they all had good funerals

but that one where you was real sore.

I dumped part of him

in an alley in Cicero...

...and another part

over on the east side.

He got two funerals.

Point is, Milner...

...if you want to fight me

in the open, clean and fair...

...I'll fight back clean.

Like this.

If you wanna fight below the belt,

like a welcher...

...if you wanna fight dirty,

I can do it that way too.

Some guys have to learn the hard way.

All right, boys. Take him.

Be careful of his face.

Pick him up.

Take off his shirt.

Stand him over there.

What's the matter with you?

Your friend shot a hole

in the main steam line.

We haven't been able to rig a clamp on it.

Engine room is full of steam.

Why not let

the Yankee boy scout fix it.

They're all handymen, these Americans.

Here's a roll of tape, Milner.

Wrap this around it.

Maybe you can stop the leak.

Let him work up a good sweat.

Take him below.

Are you still alive, Thompson?

So am I.

Talk to me, Thompson.

Milner's gone to get Ferraro.

It's a pretty night out, isn't it?

But pretty soon it'll be dawn.

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