Kansas City Confidential Page #3

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- Lay off, will you?

- When you're ready to talk.

- You got me wrong.

- What'd you do with your cut, Pete?

- I don't follow you.

- You will.

There's no money in there!

- You were one of them, weren't you?

- I don't know what you're talking about.

Listen, this ain't my bag.

I copped it out of a car.

- You're lying.

- Give me that.

What's this plane ticket? This wire?

What's so interesting in Borados?

So, we start all over again.

Go ahead, go ahead, but I still don't know

what you're talking about.

If I can't open you up,

maybe the cops can.

Wait!

No cops.

- So, you were one of the gang?

- I had other reasons.

I'm interested in this one.

Your plane leaves in 50 minutes, Pete.

You're not gonna be on it.

Look, I gotta get to Borados.

That wire means 300 grand to me.

Your cut? Who set it up?

I don't know.

Look, we didn't have nothing against you.

We didn't even know you.

It just fell that way.

Lucky me! Who else was in on it?

I don't know that either.

We all four of us wore masks.

I thought there were only three.

Three and the big guy.

Look, look, I'm giving it to you straight.

That's the way it was planned.

We all did business with a mask.

He could know us, but none of us

could know him. Get it?

None of us could squeal that way

if one of us didn't get away.

That explains everything but this.

I won't know what that means

till I get there.

All right, partner.

- We'll find out together.

- Partner?

The big man set me in on this,

so we split five ways.

You're kidding.

If I don't split five ways,

there's gonna be no split at all.

Okay, go ahead, hang yourself.

- It'll be a pleasure.

- All right.

So, I'm moving blind

but I got you for a bird dog

- to point the way as we go along. - You

forget, even I don't know the big guy.

So, I'm taking a chance, but remember...

I'm taking no chances with you between

here and Borados, partner.

Now, get ready.

We don't want to miss our plane.

Mexicana de Aviacin announces

the departure of its flight...

- Give me some cigarettes.

- In the machine, seor.

Passengers, kindly board your

plane to the local gateway.

Flight 589, now boarding.

Flight 589, now boarding.

- I want a ticket to Borados.

- Yes, sir.

You just have time.

You make connections for

Borados in Mexico City, 10:30 a.m.

- Round trip?

- One way.

That will be $92, please.

Hey, Barney, look who's here.

Over by the cigarette machine.

Familiar?

- That's Pete Harris. Go ahead, brace him.

- So it is.

- Don't worry about this boy.

- You stay here.

Cops.

I don't get it. This man reached

for a gun and he's clean.

Don't worry, seor,

this man's wanted for murder.

All that dough...

What's that he's trying to say

about dough? What dough, Pete?

You haven't got a chance, Pete,

but you can go out clean.

He's right, Pete.

Tell us about the dough.

- Who was down here with you?

- What are you doing in Mexico?

Where were you going?

Got anything you want to tell us?

You haven't got a chance.

Is he trying to tell us

that somebody's down here with him?

Sounds like it. Maybe there is.

The ambulance will be here at once.

This is a laugh.

- All that dough.

- What dough?

What dough, Pete?

Have to ask...

- Ask who, Pete?

- Come on, Pete.

Time's running out. Tell us. Who?

Ask...

Pete! Pete!

You forgot your claim check, seor.

Your baggage is aboard the plane.

Thanks.

Attention. Would Mr. Pete

Harris please board the plane?

Flight 589 now leaving.

- Good morning, my customers.

- Good morning.

It looks like maybe today

it's going to rain, finally.

I hope so. At least it'll cool off.

Then everyone can go outside and play.

Buenos das, Seor Kane.

Well now, Seor Romano,

I see you have found something you want.

- Perhaps you will like this one.

- Yeah.

- Don't you want to buy it?

- It's not bad for a bottle.

- How much?

- Only 11 American dollars.

Eleven bucks?

But, of course, seor,

if you're looking for something cheap...

I get nothing but the best.

Then shall I wrap it

into a nice package for you?

Don't bother.

I bought it for a nice package.

But seor, you're too generous.

That will be 11 American dollars.

Charge it, with the rest.

That Teresa, she is a jewel.

The smartest girl that ever worked for me.

That's the 12th time she has

sold that same bottle of perfume.

On that kind of business, I can afford

to give her 50 % commission.

- Who is that vaselino?

- He came here yesterday.

You mean to tell me

you been here two hours

and not met Tony Romano?

- Come, I'll introduce you.

- Don't bother.

Say, Tomaso, why doesn't it rain if

it's gonna?

The one thing I have no control over,

the rain.

Yeah, the minute I get outside, though,

it'll start coming down like...

- Cats and dogs.

- Morning.

-Seor Foster!

- Good morning, Tomaso.

- What's everybody so gloomy about?

- The weather, seor.

- She's so uncertain.

- Up in the States, they're having blizzards.

If something like that would

only happen here.

But no. Nothing but sunshine

and people catching fish.

If just once a fish would catch a man.

That's possible, Tomaso.

All depends on the bait.

Seor Foster, Seor Kane.

How do you do, Mr. Kane?

- You look right at home here.

- Should be.

I've been coming down here every season

for a good many years.

Seor Foster,

I have your tobacco for you.

Good, Teresa. I was almost out.

- Good fishing.

- Thank you.

When are you going to try your hand

at some of this fishing, Mr. Romano?

In this heat? I got better sport.

- How about some cards again tonight?

- I'll give you a chance to get even.

Come early and bring a lot of money.

Hi, Tim.

Glad to see you, Scott.

Well, you're certainly looking in the pink.

That little girl of yours? How is she?

She's a big girl, now.

She's home preparing for her bar exams.

Be a lawyer any day.

It's been years since

anyone's seen you around the old haunts.

Yeah, two years, one month and

eight days since I got my walking papers.

Still bitter, Tim?

You spend 20 years of your life being a cop

and then get thrown out.

What am I supposed to do,

stand up and cheer?

Well, maybe it was time to get out.

It was beginning to affect your health.

Call it forced retirement.

All right, Scott, forced retirement.

"You backed the wrong party,

Captain Foster,

"so now we've got ourselves a new boy."

I call it a frame.

Well, whatever it was,

you've been through it.

It'll only stir up old memories.

How about that urgent telegram

to meet you here?

How far did you ever get on that

Southwest Bank job?

Exactly nowhere!

You must be hearing plenty from the

front office on that one.

You don't know the half of it.

Every bank in the country is on the alert

to spot the serial number of those bills,

and, up to now,

not one of them has turned up.

How'd you like to crack that job?

How would I like to find oil

in my back yard?

I don't know, but I might be able

to deliver that gang to you.

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