Kuffs Page #4

Ted. Ted?

Ted? Oh, sh*t.

Ah! Ted!

Jesus! I'm sorry.

I... I'm sorry about

the coffee, all right?

I didn't know you'd turn

out to be such a nice guy!

Ted, Ted, Ted! Wake up!

Come on, Ted.

I don't know what the hell

to do with a jumper!

Ted. Ted!

Ted, come on!

Ah, don't snore, Ted.

Come on, Ted.

Wake up, buddy.

I need your help.

Come on! Come on, come on!

Come on.

Wake up, Ted.

Ooh. Uh, why don't you

stay with the radio, Ted?

He's gonna stay with the radio.

You see that?

You see that? I want you to get that son

of a b*tch off my building right now.

Maybe we should wait for the police?

You are the police!

What the hell you think

I'm paying you for?

He's awfully high up there.

How'd he get up there?

Don't you lock

your building at night?

- Kuffs?

- Maya.

What are you doing here?

I thought you were in Brazil.

- Uh, well, I...

- Where are you going?

You remember Robert?

Hi.

Yeah.

Come on. He's gonna jump.

Come on.

It's bad luck if he jumps.

Come on.

Wait a minute.

Are you a cop now?

I'll talk to you in a second.

What the hell took you so long?

I've been waitin' all night.

Okay. Now, he's down here.

Did you see that?

Maya with Robert?

I don't get it.

She left him for me.

Come on, come on.

Maybe they're just friends.

Then again, maybe they're not.

You think he's better looking than I am?

Come on!

Okay. He's out there.

Now go ahead and do your stuff.

Go ahead.

Howdy.

Pretty nice view

you have here.

Would you... Would you mind

coming on back inside here, please?

Please?

He doesn't want to come in.

What do you mean?

Look, this is my first

day on the job.

I have no idea what to say

to a potential suicide.

It's simple, sonny.

You want to keep your business?

You get him in here,

or you don't get paid.

I see.

Go ahead.

Hey, a**hole!

Yes, you. Look, if you're

gonna jump, jump.

Otherwise, use the bridge

like everybody else.

- You're screwing up traffic down there.

- Say what? Are you crazy?

- How'd I do?

- What do you mean?

- That's all I could think of.

- What do you mean that's

all you could think of?

- It's the best I can do.

- You gotta do better than that.

Ooh! Ooh!

He's coming in.

- He's coming in!

- Is he?

- I'll be a son of a b*tch. It worked.

- Of course it worked.

Let's stand back and give

the guy some room here.

I knew it was gonna work. I'm a professional.

Let's get him a chair.

- You! Cop!

- Hey.

Die!

Maya Carlton?

Yeah.

Hi.

Hi.

I just came to see

if you were all right.

I've really got to go.

Wait a second.

Um, I want to apologize

to you...

about my note.

That was...That was not good.

No, it wasn't.

You, uh,

you look amazing.

You know, when I saw you

coming down on that stretcher,

I... I almost died.

Mmm.

Was that you

on the phone?

Yeah. Yeah,

that was me.

George! George, come on!

You're getting a hard-on.

I can't help it. It's you.

- No, it's you.

- Yeah.

Uh, look, what are you doing

with this Robbie character?

Kuffs, come on.

You left me.

Yeah, right.

Does he, uh...

Does he know about the child?

You know, I don't need Robert

and I don't need you.

I've got to go. I just wanted to see

if you were all right.

Take care of yourself.

Women.

Well, Capt. Morino wouldn't give me the search

warrant for the laundry.

Ted got suspended.

He doesn't know that yet.

He's still asleep.

I don't know, maybe it's just

the post-gunshot blues,

but I'm beginning to feel like I'm not exactly

cut out for this line of work, you know?

Want to see what a gunshot

wound looks like?

Gotta say my point of view

on guns has changed.

Do cause

quite a bit of pain.

See, the, uh, bullet

went in here...

and then it came out the back.

You feel it hit, and then

there's this, uh,

this kind of a sharp pain.

And then it goes numb.

Yeah.

Scarier than sh*t.

Now, the guy who jumped,

he was a, uh, a writer.

Ooh! Tried to kill himself

twice before.

I don't know.

I know Kane killed my brother.

I know Sam Jones is in it with him.

What the hell can I do about it?

I don't have any money.

In two weeks, I'm probably

gonna lose the business anyway.

There's this $50,000 balloon payment due

on change of ownership...

that Capt. Morino

hasn't spotted yet.

That's it, that's it.

I'm doomed.

If you're not the cleaning lady,

you're in the wrong apartment.

I've come to make peace,

Mr. Kuffs.

I'm sorry you think

I killed your brother.

I didn't, but I do represent

certain business interests in your district.

There's a $25,000

down payment for your services.

Most of the time, all we'll ask you

to do is look the other way.

You took your brother's job,

Mr. Kuffs.

You could have a future here.

Then again,

you might not.

I think I like having a future.

Thank you, Lee.

Aah!

We're gonna die, Sam!

Oh, I scared you,

didn't I?

You're in big trouble, kid.

Sam, I gotta tell ya.

I was pretty set to quit

the business this morning.

Then your little buddy, Kane,

dropped by, offered me a bribe...

$25,000 to look the other way

while you tear up my district.

I asked for 50,000.

We settled on 37,500.

I think I did pretty good.

Capt. Morino, please.

It's Sam Jones. It's an emergency.

Police? I'd better

talk fast, huh?

You're into a

land-grab scam, Sam.

Now, the problem is,

you're greedy!

You don't want to pay top dollar, and people

don't actually want to sell to you.

So you use Kane and his hoods

to come in, shake everybody up...

and then you come in like a savior with bags

of money and buy everything up!

See, I did a little

research on you.

You're a big shot

art collector,

a major player

on the charity circuit.

You're rich, so you think

you're above the law.

But you've made

two mistakes now, Sam.

Number one, you had Kane

kill my brother.

Number two, the land you're grabbing

happens to be in my district.

And in my district, Sambo,

I am the law.

Capt. Morino, one of your

patrol specials...

just broke into my car

and is threatening me.

George Kuffs.

He wants to talk to you.

Naw,

I don't think so.

It's just you and me, Sam.

No corroborating witnesses.

Your word against mine.

Pull over right here, huh?

I'll walk the rest of the way.

I wish there were something

I could say, Mr. Kuffs,

to make you feel better

about yourself.

I guess you could tell me you're gonna leave

town for 200 or 300 years.

That'd make me feel

a little better.

Thank you.

Oh, God,

that felt good!

I almost told him I knew about

him and Kane and the laundry.

What if there were drugs

in that tube or something?

What he doesn't know I know can hurt him,

so why the hell should I tell him, huh?

Yeah, you see, this way I can stake him

and Kane out with my team.

I can catch them both

red-handed!

I like it.

It sounds good.

Guess what I have in the bag?

Capt. Morino wants you

to call him right away.

He sounded really pissed off.

Yeah, in a minute.

Hey, guys,

what's going on?

Nothing personal, George,

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