Killing Them Softly Page #8

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Have I really got to do that?

All of it?

I got to be there and everything?

Frank you made a mistake...

and you got to show you understand

you made a mistake...

and you gotta make things right...

otherwise they're gonna

want someone to do something...

like with Trattman.

Never did the right thing.

Jack, he's not a bad guy, you know.

I mean, he's not a bad guy at all.

None of them are, kid.

They're all nice guys.

He was always all right to me.

Sure, got you almost six years

in the f***ing slammer.

That wasn't his fault.

Kid when somebody does something...

and gets somebody else jail for it,

it's his fault.

That's the rule.

Well, he didn't mean it.

That's got nothing to do with it,

nothing at all.

That them?

No, John's got a Caddy.

I know what he's got.

What I want to know is, that them?

Nope. I'd have said it if it was.

I think you got him all wrong

You know, that jail thing...

you know, he had it worse than I did,

you know,

with his family and everything.

He's never gonna have to do it again.

That's him.

I'm not sure.

Yes, you are.

How long is he gonna be, kid?

I don't know.

Okay, I asked you nice.

Now, does he f*** her here

or does he f*** her someplace else?

She's got a roommate.

He knows a guy that's

got a motel down in Haverhill.

Okay. It's just gonna be friendly then.

Look, now, I was gonna get it started

and everything so we could have a start.

There's probably going to be

a lot of noise and...

I've known guys, heard a lot of noise...

got too good a start

and left somebody standing around...

with their thumb up their ass.

F***, f***.

Give me that start, kid.

Kid, you're going too fast.

Jesus, they're gonna have

all kinds of cops up in here.

Yeah, and one of them's

gonna catch you. Slow down.

Kid.

Kid, just slow down.

I can't.

Kid, you got to.

Slow the f*** down.

Kid, my car's in Primrose.

We got a long way to go.

Just slow the f*** down.

You want to f***ing drive?

You know what you got to do, right'?

Sure. I go down to where my car is,

I leave this one, and I go home.

Just leave it?

Christ, I wipe it down.

You gonna be all right and everything?

Yeah, I'm gonna be f***ing fine.

Where's your car parked again?

For Christ's sake,

it's in a lot down on Brownwood.

Okay, just making sure.

Sometimes guys forget.

I f***ing got it.

Okay, you gonna remember now?

I know, I know.

I dump the f***ing car...

and I don't go too fast

and I wear my f***ing seat belt.

It's the answer spoken

by young and old...

rich and poor.

Democrat and Republican...

black, white, Hispanic,

Asian, Native American,

gay, straight...

disabled and not disabled.

Yes, we're all the same.

We're all equal.

That we have never been

just a collection of individuals...

or a collection of red states

and blue states.

We are and always will be

the United States of America.

Next he'll be telling us

we're a community,

we're one people.

In this country,

we rise or fall as one nation,

as one people.

Had yourself quite a party.

I do the best I can. Beer.

So everything is under control,

I take it, at long last?

For someone I'm trying to

help out and everything...

you're awful hard to get along with.

Could have made you drive up

to see me, you know...

I didn't have to come down here.

Trying to be nice to you.

You're trying to be nice to me'?

Sure. I'm a nice guy.

I like to make things easy on people...

do people favors now and then.

Do me a favor, don't do me any favors.

I see how you work.

Tell you what, just give me the money.

Excuse me.

Are you gonna count it?

I gotta take a leak.

Leave me alone, all right'?

Have another ginger ale,

for Christ's sake.

Beyond our shores,

parliaments and palaces...

those who are huddled around radios...

in the forgotten corners of the world...

our stories are singular,

but our destiny is shared.

Tonight we proved once more

that the true strength of our nation...

comes not from the might of our arms

or the scale of our wealth...

but from the enduring power

of our ideals...

democracy, liberty,

opportunity and unyielding hope.

Yes, we can! Yes, we can! Yes we can!

Yes, we can! Yes, we can! Yes we can!

Feel better?

No. There's only 30 in there.

Three guys.

Yeah, I had to ask them

if I should pay you for the kid.

But, you know, they said I should, so.

They were right too.

That's only ten apiece.

Correct.

The price is 15.

Dillon charges 10.

Recession prices.

They told me to tell you that too.

I made a deal with Mickey for 15.

Yeah, yeah, but the way they got it...

Mickey got in a fight with a whore

the dumb sh*t...

and now they got him in the can

and you're filling in for Dillon...

and you get what Dillon gets, no more.

Talk to Dillon. Take it up with him.

Dillon's dead.

Dillon died this morning.

They're going to be

very sorry to hear that.

Sure, sure, they are.

It's gonna cost them more.

You know, this business

is a business of relationships.

Yeah, and everyone loved Markie.

You are cynical bastard, you know that?

To reclaim the American dream

and reaffirm that fundamental

truth that out of many,

we are one.

You hear that line? Line's for you.

Don't make me laugh. We're one people.

It's a myth created by Thomas Jefferson.

Oh, now you're gonna

have a go at Jefferson?

My friend.

Jefferson's an American saint...

because he wrote the words,

"All men are created equal"...

words he clearly didn't believe,

since he allowed his own

children to live in slavery.

He was a rich wine snob who was sick

of paying taxes to the Brits...

so yeah, he wrote some lovely

words and aroused the rabble...

and they went out

and died for those words...

while he sat back and drank his wine

and f***ed his slave girl.

This guy wants to tell me

we're living in a community.

Don't make me laugh.

I'm living in America,

and in America, you're on your own.

America's not a country.

It's just a business.

Now f***ing pay me.

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