Idlewild Page #7

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At least from me, you haven't.

The deal was $1,250.

Plus twenty-five large.

Twenty-five large?

You trying to pinch me?

Pinch you?

If you recollect, on the night

of their unfortunate demise,

old man Spats

had a deal with Ace

for twenty-five large. That

was Ace's deal. I'm square.

You're square

when I say you square.

And so far I haven't

said so, have I?

Look, you inherit the club,

you also inherit its debt.

I guess we have to

see about that.

Won't we?

Telegram.

Sally B. Shelly?

You know her?

Anybody heard of

Sally B. Shelly?

Sawed-Off,

you heard of Sally B. Shelly?

That's nice. Ladies, you

heard of Sally B. Shelly?

Anybody heard of

Sally B. Shelly?

You heard of Sally B. Shelly?

Ain't no damn Shelly in here.

Never mind.

You heard of Sally B. Shelly?

Nobody heard of Sally B.

Shelly? Anybody heard of her?

Monk, Monk.

Yes, Angel.

Who you looking for?

I have a telegram here for Sally

B. Shelly. I'll get it to her.

Thank you, Monk.

Thank you, Miss Davenport.

Now what am I supposed to

do now? What we gonna do now?

Okay, unscrew the flask.

Yep, yep, just like that.

Okay, okay, now turn it up.

Just like that.

Let's drink

and we gonna party.

Yeah.

Thanks a lot.

See, you feel better already.

Now, I'm your boy...

Ow! Now, come on, now.

Please, I take care of you.

Percival.

Percival, I got it. I got it.

What?

I got it.

What? What?

The job in Chicago.

They want me in Chicago.

Oh, that's great.

Well, they want me to leave in

two days, and I got so much to do.

I gotta pack, I gotta

get my music together.

Great.

You're happy for me, right?

Of course.

Well, we gotta celebrate.

Well, it's getting late.

I think I better get home.

You trying to leave here

without us?

No?

I'm tired.

Here comes our Rooster,

Trumpy, just like you said.

Got to go this way.

Got to go this way.

I want that...

It's square, right?

Then give me a sample first.

I wanna kill that snake.

Keep your ass

away from my husband.

I can take it

from here, ladies.

Y'all done

a good deed tonight

and the Lord sho' nuff gonna

bless you in due time.

Now excuse me

while I tend to my wife.

How the hell I keep

getting myself into this?

There goes my ticket

out of here.

Zora, I know. But it

ain't what it look like.

You must think

I'm some kind of damn fool.

Well, I'm fed up.

I know that.

I've half a mind to come over there

and smash her right in the face.

Dishrag!

Come on, girl,

let's go.

You got any reefers on you? Girl...

I know so, heifer.

What you need... Did

you see his hand come up?

Hey, Percival.

Hey, Angel.

Huh? Wow.

I didn't realize

it was getting so late.

I'm glad you came.

Yeah.

You got a lot of records. Yeah, I've

been collecting since I was eight.

Rooster got me started.

I love this one.

Cab Cal?

That's one of my favorites.

That is one hep cat.

Hair always fried.

Wearing the sharpest vines

in the city.

One day he's gonna come to

Idlewild, and I'm gonna play for him.

You knew.

You knew all along,

didn't you?

You must think I'm some kind

of fool, huh? No, no. No.

That's great. Angel, you got

it all wrong. I can explain.

Sh*t.

Zora, wait!

I was gonna have that cleaned.

I can explain!

I'm listening.

Okay, it's hard to explain.

Wait!

Look.

Hey.

I know we've been

through a lot.

And I ain't perfect, but I

swear to you, I'm a changed man.

You asked me

to trust you, Rooster.

And that's exactly what I did.

And look at

what I got in return.

I can't do this no more.

It's time for me to start

thinking about me and the kids.

You keep messing around at that club,

and you're gonna get yourself laid out.

And we don't want

to be around to see that.

Y'all say goodbye

to your daddy.

I don't want to go, Daddy.

Eula Mae, y'all go on

with your mama.

You'll be all right.

Come on, babe.

Come on.

So where y'all going?

Over to my mama's.

I'll just meet y'all

over there when I get settled.

Well, I pray they don't

send you over in a box.

Take care, Rooster.

Bye, Daddy.

Zora, no need to be like that.

Come on, now, we got a little baby.

Just had a baby.

Come on, Zora.

How am I supposed

to get to work?

I didn't think

she'd miss anything.

Train tickets and a telegram

were lying on the floor.

So I snatched a few items

and never looked back.

No one saw you?

I guess they were too busy

looking for white carnations.

I auditioned for a talent scout

two weeks before I came here.

I never thought in a million

years I'd get the gig.

Well, you know you got to

go, right? I don't know.

Come on. What do you

mean, you don't know?

I don't know.

You gotta get out there

and make a name for yourself.

And, by the way,

what is your name?

Sally.

Sally B. Shelly.

Just a name. Not much.

Sally B. Shelly.

I like it.

And soon enough, the rest of

the world's going to love it.

Starting with Chicago.

You really think so?

No doubt in my mind.

Come with me.

They didn't invite me.

I'm inviting you.

We're a team. I sing

best when I sing for you.

I don't know.

I have so much to do

around here.

I have to

take care of my father.

Percival,

if you don't mind my saying so,

I think it's the other way around.

You need him as an excuse

so you can blame him

for not following your dreams.

Look, I checked the trains.

There's a 9:
00

to Chicago tonight.

I'm buying us two tickets.

Now, hold on, Angel.

It's Sally, remember?

Sally.

We can do this.

I got my whole life here.

Look, tonight's my last show.

We could leave from the club.

What do you say,

piano player?

I'm gonna take that as a yes.

Well, you know,

as the old saying goes,

what goes around,

comes around.

What you know? You ain't nothing

but a stupid-ass flask, anyway.

Stupid? Well, you're the

one talking to a flask.

I got to stop

drinking this sh*t.

What goes around, comes around

What goes around, comes around

Come on, sing it with me, man.

It's called karma.

What the hell?

Ain't no going around that

one. Ain't no going around that.

You'll have to get out

and tell them to move the car.

What seems to be the problem,

ma'am? Did y'all run out of gas?

No, sir.

Not at all.

These are my grandchildren.

I see.

Couple of months ago,

my daughter run off to Detroit

and left them with me.

We ran out of money

a while back.

We've been

sleeping in this car.

This morning,

this morning, the good Lord

sent me a message.

He told me to drive

and keep on driving until He

told me to stop. And I did that.

And then the good Lord told me

to turn down this here dirt road

and to stop right here.

And then?

Then he told me

to cut the car off

and to wait.

And that's what

I've been doing.

We've been waiting

for almost seven hours.

Waiting for what?

I don't know.

I don't know.

But then you...

Take this.

Waiting for you.

You.

You're the angel that God

told me to wait here for.

I doubt that very seriously,

ma'am.

Thank you, Jesus.

Yes.

Emily.

Emily, look.

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