Knightriders Page #5

- You're not a real priest, are you?

- You're goddamn right.

No, just kidding.

No, I couldn't have any fun.

You're trying to sell these kids.

We don't even know who they are.

- Yeah, well, that makes us even.

- Oh, no.

I mean, are you just hanging posters

or are you actually with the group?

- We're part of the group.

- Good.

Where can we find Billy Davis?

- Billy's not here yet.

- Uh-huh?

Oh, Sheila! My prayers

have been answered.

I do a Little spotting

for several magazines.

I figure if I can get some

great colour stills... I don't know.

Anyway, that's why Judy's here. But

that's not my first order of business.

You see, I will be producing a piece

that we're going to shoot in Brower.

Now, we feel there's a good chance

for the network to pick it up.

Wait a minute.

Are you talking about TV?

Of course.

- Tuck, you know about this?

- No, I don't.

- Hi. Louis Tucker.

- Hi.

Better known as Friar Tuck,

God's humble servant.

Also known as the, er... funky friar.

Ooh! Get down, get down!

Yes, well, you see,

I thought I'd come ahead

and kind of plug into

what your Little group is all about.

- But Billy Davis isn't in town yet.

- Oh!

Hey, Morgan, these are TV poeple.

Er... not me. Uh, Joe Bontempi.

Silver Bullet Incorporated.

Anyway, they're looking for Billy.

I guess Steve set all this up.

Billy's in jail.

- Are you serious?

- He might not make the show.

But, er... he's the star, isn't he?

- We can handle it without him.

- No problem.

That's great.

My friend and I here

are gonna sell you tickets.

Don't forget to say hi to the bird.

They love that.

You want a ticket, leave your name

out here in front of the courthouse, OK?

You're gonna love the show, I tell you!

I'm gonna come back. I'll trade you

that ice-cream cone for a ticket.

How much you having?

Hey, mister, get on down here!

Buy a ticket!

This is the greatest show on wheels.

Meet me in front of the courthouse!

Yeah, yeah, see that?

You can't miss this ride.

The concept's...

Well, shoot!

You sprung him.

I'm missing out on all the fun this trip.

How you doing, Steve?

Ah. Ooh.

My God. What hit you,

the Pittsburgh Steelers?

No. Bakersfield Cowboys.

- Merl, you got any edibles on board?

- Some, yeah.

I'll tell you what,

I didn't sleep last night,

and I don't think I can turn around

and make it back to Lawrence.

I... I was thinking about taking some grub

and finding a place to camp out

around here somewhere.

Wa-oh-za-bo-zee-ooh! Ow!

That don't sound half bad.

We haven't had any sleep ourselves.

Let's look for a spot.

Steve, if you guys

are gonna camp out,

- let me take your bike into Lawrence.

- Nah.

You can ride in

with these guys tomorrow.

Nah. You ain't taking no long ride

on a bike, till that neck stitches.

- Merl, I just want to get back.

- Hey!

You gonna cool off and take it easy,

or do I have to shoot you

full of something?

This guy wants to handle us? What

do you mean, he wants to handle us?

I thought that's what you did.

Yeah, I can get you into Lawrence.

I can get you into Brower, even.

But... but I don't know the big circuit.

I'd still be with you for legal and all.

The big circuit?

You're gonna pull 15K out of Brower.

You could pull 30 or 40

out of some of these big county fairs.

Hell, Billy, I can't even get

those folks on the telephone.

They book acts from guys like this guy

that they've been dealing with all along.

We're not an act.

Yeah. Well, neither's bull-roping,

you know what I mean?

You do three or four

of these big gigs a summer,

you can do whatever the hell

you wanna for the rest of the year.

Hell, this guy's talking about setting

you up with all fancy new costumes.

He's even talking

about setting up some deal

with some cycle manufacturer.

I'm surprised you even brought

this guy around, Steve.

Well, damn it, Billy,

I'm just trying to help you along.

You guys is the most fun I get in my life.

I just don't want to see you all break up.

Damn it, Billy, you're all stone broke

most of the time.

And you take in every damn long hair

that knows how to make

a pair of sandals,

and you wanna pick up

the Blue Cross tab?

Do you have the sLightest idea

what gas is selling for, or two-by-fours,

or hamburger, or anything else?

You think it's breaking up?

It's money, Billy.

It's all to do with money.

Money makes the world go round,

even your world.

No.

It's just getting too tough.

It's tough to ilve by the code.

I mean it's real hard to ilve

for something that you believe in.

People try it

and then they get tired of it,

like they get tired of their diets,

or exercise, or their marriage,

or their kids,

or their job, or themselves,

or they get tired of their god.

You can keep the money

you make off this sick world, lawyer.

I don't want any part of it.

Anybody who wants to ilve more for

themselves, he doesn't belong with us.

Let him go out and buy some pimpy

psychiatrist's paperback says it's OK.

Don't ask me to say it's OK.

It's not OK.

Once I was in a jail in Alabama,

and I got my ass kicked

just like I did last night,

only then it was because

I was a n*gger lover.

Well, I woke up in the morning...

...and I didn't even have energy

enough to lick my wounds.

I found out I'd given up.

So, I tried to kill myself.

Tried to cut my wrist

with a bed spring. Ha-ha-ha!

See, I found out that

I'd given up on it all

because of where I was,

what was all around me.

Well, last night, I get my ass kicked

and I came up laughing,

because now I'm in Camelot.

You see, the way I see it

is this. You got two separate fights.

The one for truth and justice and

the American way of life and all that,

that's gotta take a back seat

to the one for staying ailve.

You gotta stay alive.

Man, you can have the most beautiful

ideals in the whole world.

But if you die, your ideals

are gonna die with you.

The important thing is

we gotta stay together.

We gotta keep this troop together.

And if keeping the troop going

means that we have to take

some of this promoter's money,

well, then I say let's take it

and get some sleep.

Hey, get rid of that grass

before we get into camp tomorrow.

I don't want that sh*t around.

- Bagman.

- Huh? Oh.

Shh. Listen, I've been thinking

about what you said.

That stuff you said earlier?

I've been thinking about it.

I've been thinking about it real hard.

- There's not two different fights.

- What?

There can't be two different fights.

You've got to fight for your ideals,

and if you die, your ideals don't die.

The code that we're living by

is the troop.

The troop is our code.

I can't let poeple walk on that idea.

- Billy.

- I can't!

- What the hell's going on?

- Billy's using your bike.

- Where's the wine?

- Here.

But you get your food and your supplies.

And it is right that everybody gets

the same amount of spending money.

All the decisions are made here.

But the merchants,

they're like serfs, you know.

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