Hoffa Page #9

Scribbled on, the initials J.R.H.,

and the outlines of a plan for the diversion

of moneys from the pension fund.

These notations, including the initials of

James Riddle Hoffa,

are in the handwriting of

Carol D'Allesandro.

Who the f*** keeps stuff that long?

What are you doing?

You going with me?

I was just putting a few things

I thought you'd need.

You don't take anything to prison, Jo.

It's not the end of the road.

Eventually...

everything's gonna finally be all right.

- You got nothing to be ashamed of.

- I know that.

Fitz is gonna be president until I return.

I don't think there's

anything else to be said on that.

No?

Fine.

Otherwise...

Jimmy...

Fitz...

I tell you...

you don't know what to do,

what good it do I tell you?

Jimmy, uh... Petey...

You don't have to say anything, Fitz.

You'll do fine.

Wave bye to Grandpa.

Let's do this thing.

- Sir!

- Hold on!

Let him through, let him through!

All right. Don't worry about it.

I ain't in any rush.

I know you got a job to do. So do l.

I wanna say...

that this is... an unhappy day in my life.

All of my petitions that I have filed

have stated that the government

has wiretapped, room-bugged,

surveilled, and did everything

unconstitutional that they could do

to try and place me in jail, which they

have temporarily succeeded in doing so.

But I wanna say to my

members of the International

Brotherhood of Teamsters...

don't believe what people would

have you think with fancy words.

I never benefited one dollar

from the loans made by the pension fund.

Legal loans.

Loans that made profits for the union,

and what is wrong with that?

- What is wrong with that?

- Not a thing, Jimmy.

Tell that to Robert Kennedy.

Come on, Jimmy. Give us a story.

How does it feel to be going to jail, Jimmy?

Mind your own business.

Pricks.

I can't even scratch my nose.

- Does it itch?

- No.

What the f*** you complain about then?

- What time is it?

- 6:
00.

Check it out.

This is it!

Bob.

Jimmy's got a lot of friends.

- Hiya, Jimmy.

- Hi, Jimmy.

Hey, Cooney.

- Yeah, he's on.

- That's par.

Bobby! I thought...

- Weren't we gonna go meet him?

- There's no point in that now. I'm out.

We were gonna go out and meet you.

How are you?

I looked for you over at the office.

They told me you were here.

- How's Jimmy?

- Fitz, you'd know if you went to see him.

- How is he?

- You gotta get him out.

He's not doing well.

You gotta get him outta there.

- We're working on it.

- How serious is that? I'm not kidding you.

We're working on it. I have a plan.

I'm sorry I can't share it with you now...

You gotta get him out.

- We're gonna get him out.

- He can't do eight more years, I tell you.

- Look, you'll just have to trust me on this.

- You got to get him out.

The idea is this:

the Teamsters endorse Nixon.

- And they go to Nixon.

- They what?

They give you a pardon.

- They give me a pardon.

- Yes.

We give them the endorsement

and the money, they give me a pardon.

- Yes.

- I voted for the guy three times.

Jimmy...

You've been gone five years.

It feels like a thousand.

When?

Jimmy! Jimmy! Jimmy!

What's his name? I can't hear ya!

Jimmy! Jimmy! Jimmy!

In a minute.

In a minute. Vamp with it.

Jesus Christ!

I'm tired.

Well, now, time to just rest up, huh, Jim?

I wanna thank you, Fitz.

You done a good job.

You done a good job.

You kept it together.

You done what you were supposed to do.

What happened...

We rode it out. Here we are.

Now, tomorrow, tomorrow we go in,

first thing. End of the week,

we announce I'm gonna make a speech,

as back in office.

Get the TV if you can.

Bobby, give him the list.

These guys are out. I don't like the way

they were behaving when I was in.

I got no complaints you, Fitz.

But these guys, they're gone.

Jimmy...

I gotta get back in the swing.

Indulge me. Tomorrow...

- Jimmy... Jimmy...

- Jimmy what?

You know what they used to say

in the old days:
Tell me now,

because I'm gonna find out

about it anyway.

Jo, go tell them I'll be right there,

would you, honey? Please?

- OK, sweetheart.

- Thank you.

- You what? You f***in' lied!

- I did the best I could.

You big piece of sh*t!

You what? You f***!

Frankie!

Frankie!

What do I want you to do?

I want you to kill the cocksucker!

I want you to stuff his arms up his ass,

that's what I f***in' want!

He made the deal with that prick Colson

to get me out of prison.

He made a deal

I gotta resign from the Teamsters.

That's the deal:
I gotta resign.

I'm out. I'm out!

Next ten f***in' years I'm out

the American labor movement.

Six more months I'm eligible for parole.

I never would've done this

if I knew what this is.

They weren't allowed to tell me.

I never would've agreed. Fitz. Fitzsimmons.

All the time he's telling people

he's scheming to get me out,

he done nothing! Nothing!

What am I supposed to do?

I want him f***in' dead! That's what I want!

I want him f***in' dead,

that's what I f***in' want!

What do the lawyers say, Jimmy?

F*** the lawyers! F*** the law!

I don't want law, I want justice.

I took that prick off a loading dock

Are you telling me

you don't understand this?

Yeah, I understand it.

And I can't get close to it.

You can't get close to it?

What does that mean?

Does it mean no, D'Ally?

Is that what it means?

If you think I'll f***in' stand still for this,

you're out of your mind,

'cause if he don't reverse it,

you don't reverse it,

I'll do what I gotta do to get the union back!

- What does that mean?

- I'm gonna do what I gotta do.

What does it mean?

What does it mean?

We talking words here, D'Ally?

We using words?

That what we're doing?

We're gonna use words?

Too f***in' late.

Too late.

That concludes this press conference.

Thank you very much,

ladies and gentlemen.

Hey, Frank!

John.

I didn't want to bring this up

at the news conference.

We've been friends a long time,

but Jimmy's saying

you and Charles Colson conspired to keep

him out of the union for the next ten years.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

When he talks like that,

he's lying through his teeth.

By the way, I got news for Jimmy Hoffa:

I ain't that easy to get rid of.

What is it Jimmy wants?

- He wants to talk with you.

- He's too hot.

This whole thing is too hot.

You gotta tell him the sh*t he's doing.

You!

You gotta stop it.

Need to cool down.

When it dies down, we'll talk.

- He needs to talk with you.

- Or what?

Is there no "or what" with that?

Or, he says, you and him

can't get together, reverse this thing,

he's gonna go to the press.

All right, tell him it's not necessary.

Tell him I know he doesn't mean it.

Tell him I'll meet him. Where?

The roadhouse. 2:00 tomorrow.

Tell him it's gonna be all right.

You tell him ten more minutes,

then we're gone. We're gone.

You tell him we waited four hours.

We're gone. He'll know what that means.

- What the f*** are you doing here?

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