Killing Them Softly Page #5

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It wasn't my idea.

Waste of time, I said.

Waste of money, I said.

Why put Markie through it, I said.

You know, he called me up.

I had trouble understanding him.

Hell, I had trouble calling him back...

cause he got

my secretary the first time.

She couldn't understand him,

the numbers he left.

He's got a broken jaw.

- I heard that.

- Got broken ribs...

he got a broken nose,

three or four broken teeth.

There's some question about

his spleen, he said.

He was in the hospital

when I talked to him.

He's out now, I understand.

Must be his spleen's okay then.

You know, he's not happy, though.

I'm sorry to hear that

We aim to please.

That's what I'm supposed to tell them?

Tell them whatever you want.

Won't make a bit of difference anyways.

Trattman's got to be hit,

and they know it.

You know, you see...

I don't...

I don't understand that, I mean.

Do I have to explain this twice'?

What do you think the guys

on the street think?

I got no idea.

They think Trattman...

he did it before and now he did it again

and all he got was beat up.

But he didn't really do anything.

It's his responsibility. He did it

before and now it happened again...

so he's responsible for what guys think.

On the street, it's Trattman,

nothing but Trattman.

Look, there's no two ways

about it, counselor.

Trattman's gotta be hit.

He made a mistake.

Oh, wait a minute. I get it.

I see what you mean,

the public angle and all.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay, if they agree with you,

assuming that...

can you hit Trattman?

Sure.

Now what about

this Squirrel fella because...

he seems like

the leading candidate to me.

Probably not.

I need Mickey for that one.

Mickey? New York Mickey?

Why can't you handle it?

Cause Squirrel knows me.

Didn't I say that already?

He needed something done once,

Dillon couldn't do it...

so I did it, so he knows me.

He's gonna figure if...

he's waiting on somebody,

he's waiting on me or Dillon.

So what?

You ever killed anyone?

No.

It can get touchy-feely.

Touchy-feely?

Emotional, not fun, a lot of fuss.

They cry, they plead, they beg...

they piss themselves,

they call for their mothers.

It gets embarrassing.

I like to kill them softly...

from a distance,

not close enough for feelings.

Don't like feelings.

Don't want to think about them.

You need Mickey. What's the problem?

Mickey is expensive.

Not at the moment.

You get him for 10?

He'd do it for 15?

I think in this economy

a quick 16 for two days work...

would sound pretty good to Mickey.

We'll sell him a party.

Fly in, whack a guy, fly out, quick 15.

Fly coach.

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is a critical human factor.

Confidence.

Confidence in our financial systems

is essential...

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and recently

that confidence has been shaken.

All of us have a responsibility

to solve this crisis...

because it affects

the financial well-being

of every single American.

The House of Representatives

failed to act on Monday.

We saw the single largest decline

in the stock market in two decades.

But in the end of the day,

there's no real separation... between

Wall Street and Main Street.

There's only the road

we're traveling on as Americans...

and we will rise or fall on that journey

as one nation, as one people.

Hey, come here.

So where'd you have to go for these?

Sir?

I said, where did you

have to go for these?

Out of the building, right'?

What, you have to walk a couple blocks,

take a cab or something?

No, sir, we only have one man

on service today and he's very busy.

Are the drinks all right'?

No, as a matter of fact, they're mostly

evaporated by the time you get here.

Mickey. Yeah, the drinks are all right.

Bring me another one.

Yes, sir.

You mind if I drink

that beer while I'm waiting for...

Lurch to get back

from the airport over here?

Make you fat, though,

I thought you said.

Yeah.

So they grabbed me down in Maryland

on this gun thing.

What gun thing?

Well, I was going hunting,

for Christ's sake.

Me and this guy, Topper.

You know Topper?

- No.

- Nice guy.

Anyway we were going down

to Maryland to hunt geese...

down at Maryland shore.

Then we go down there and...

all of a sudden there's a couple

hundred cops all over the place...

and I got the shotgun in the trunk.

F***ing beautiful.

F***ing shotgun,

I just bought the f***ing shotgun.

I never even used it once.

Now, I'm under arrest...

felony possession,

so I might go to jail

for a f***ing shotgun...

I bought in a f***ing store to hunt

f***ing geese with, for Christ's sake.

Jesus.

Did you bring him a beer?

No, sir, he only wanted the one,

I thought.

What?

He only wanted one drink, I thought.

I'm drinking his beer.

I'm drinking the man's beer.

- Get him a beer.

- I don't want another one.

It's all right.

All right, don't have no more.

So, yeah, Topper...

You're hitting that stuff pretty hard,

aren't you, Mickey?

I can handle it.

So, Topper, yeah, Topper...

he feels responsible and,

you know, he's an old guy.

He hasn't been pinched

in about 30 years.

So we figure

the shotguns are gonna be his.

I'm just doing the old man a favor

driving him down there and all.

Yeah, but if they don't...

I do time.

If the shotguns aren't his, I do time.

It's that simple.

Done it before. I can do it again.

Rough on the wife, though.

Yeah.

The last time,

she actually took out the papers.

I didn't blame her.

She's been through it twice before.

So the papers come up.

I was gonna sign them, you know...

let her have what she wants

if that's what she wants.

The girl don't owe me nothing.

But I asked her to come up.

I says, "Margie, do this for me.

Don't do nothing now."

Do like when I come out

the last time and decide then."

She looks at me.

She says, "And you promised me then..."

She says. "And you promised me

then you were through..."

and here I am again

and I'll wait five more years...

and I'll be five more years older...

"and you're gonna get out again

and you're gonna do something else."

And I said, "Margie, I mean,

what can I say? You're right."

You're right,

but all I'm asking you to do...

"is wait till I come out again."

Cause I don't know who the guy is.

But I did.

I did. I knew she was seeing somebody.

I knew two days after

she was with him the first time...

and I didn't like the feeling it gave me

in my nuts knowing it.

But I didn't blame him.

Anyway, I said, "Margie..."

you ought to do this for me.

I ought to be around the same as him...

"because you and me,

we always got along all right."

Then she started crying

and shaking her head and...

I thought, you know...

But she didn't.

And it was all right.

You're not having any more of those.

You'll fall on your ass if you do.

I was drinking before you

got out of your father's cock.

Don't tell me what I do.

Next time, you know,

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