Lawless Page #4

Wait, wait, wait!

My name's Jack Bondurant.

I come from Blackwater Station.

That's impressive.

I'll give you four dollars,

but keep it to yourself.

Those boys out front,

they only get but three and a half.

I was told five.

Let's get it unloaded.

I respect you Bondurants

standing up to

that Commonwealth's District Attorney.

He's got everybody in his pocket.

He takes a sh*t and

half of Virginia falls out his ass.

There's something you ought to know.

I heard what happened

to your brother, Forrest.

Them cocksuckers that

did it used to work for me.

- They work for you?

- They left my outfit.

Got an offer from some

slick-looking deputy. He wore perfume.

Charlie Rakes?

Yeah, that was him.

What happened to Forrest...

...had nothing to do with me.

Make sure you tell Forrest that.

Tell him Floyd Banner says hello.

Give him this.

Say it's a gift

from the Midnight Coal Company.

Yeah. Now I remember

them Bondurant boys.

That boy's brother,

he's the one who walked

They say he goes around drinking

white mule through a hole in his throat.

I got every lawman in three

f***ing states up my ass!

The last thing I need

is some hard-ass crackers

pulling a damn blood feud on me!

Now get this sack of sh*t out of here!

You're gonna hold on, Forrest.

You gotta hear me out.

I sold your whole lot

to Floyd Banner in one damn go.

Would have taken you a month

to off-load that.

Not only that, I sold it

for five dollars on the barrel.

That's twice what you get.

Right here?

That's two thousand dollars,

minus my commission.

Look at you.

You think you're

so goddamn smart.

You're swanning around

like you're Al Capone.

With your new best friend.

You take a good look, Jack.

That's your new best friend.

Yeah, you're wrong there, too.

Special Deputy Rakes was the one

hired the men to do that to you.

- Who told you that?

- Floyd Banner himself.

Oh, Floyd Banner himself.

Well, that must be gospel.

What's that?

It's a gift.

From Floyd Banner.

It's an address, Forrest.

For where you can find them

bastards who cut your throat.

I say we get 'em tonight.

Anything else I can

do for you, Forrest?

Sweep your f***in' floors, maybe?

I got somewhere I gotta be.

Can I come in?

- Better be quick then.

- I'll be quick.

Got me one of them cameras.

- Stand right here.

- Here?

Lord, if my daddy caught me with one

of those things, he'd murder me.

You gotta keep steady now,

so as I can get it.

All right.

Why'd you stop fooling around?

That's how the movie stars

do it in California.

All right.

One, two, three.

- Now you.

- All right.

Ready?

How'd I look?

Like trouble, Jack Bondurant.

I got me a new car.

Forrest?

Hey.

Huh?

- It's nice, isn't it?

- Yeah.

Where's Forrest?

- What?

- Jack.

- Have they gone without me?

- You don't have to be like...

Sh*t. I found out where they was.

You know how they say

you ain't got no balls, Jack?

They was wrong.

You send these to Rakes.

You're looking real sharp there, kid.

The trumpet has been blown,

the battlement stormed,

and the walls have come tumbling down.

Who's there?

I kept hearing the country

was in a real bad way.

Folks outta work, people dusted out,

losing their homes and

their farms and all.

But from my perspective,

the situation was something

different entirely.

once we started shifting that

liquor across the county line,

that money just started

pouring in.

That don't mean the runs were easy.

Rakes was coming at us day and night.

Go on, boy, gimme a reason.

Y'all get the f*** out of Franklin.

Then Cricket,

he had one of his ideas.

He stuck a souped-up

carburetor in that Ford.

It was thing of pure beauty.

He's gifted, that boy.

Me, well, ain't no one could say

I couldn't drive a damn car.

- Forrest, dance with me!

- I ain't dancing to this.

Come on...

Meanwhile,

Howard and me hammered out

four 300 gallon submarine stills.

They were the biggest stills

Franklin had ever seen

and we hid them deep in the woods

where Rakes could never find them.

Come on, you gotta look tough, Cricket.

Get off my property, boy!

I catch you near my daughter again,

God Himself won't

be able to help you!

- You hear me?!

- One, two, three.

By that time,

Jimmy and them others caved in,

made deals with Wardell.

All except our cousin, Spoons.

But Rakes took him

out of the picture altogether.

We Bondurants,

we were the last ones standing.

You just gonna watch me forever?

Um...

Uh... What...

What you doin'?

Damned if you don't

keep a girl waiting.

Forrest?

Now hold on, Bertha, before you

start talking about your soul,

vanity and all that sort of stuff, I wanna

make sure you understand something.

This here vehicle,

you know what that is?

That's a Rumbleseat Roadster.

It's a Ford V8.

Not many in the world get a

chance to drive in such a thing.

It's only fair of me to warn you

before you open that door

and get inside, nothing's gonna

be the same as it was before.

Your whole life is

gonna change forever.

Now you can sit there on that gate

and you can shake your head,

talking about "Daddy this" and

"Daddy that" till you're blue in the face

or you can climb down off that gate,

you can live a little bit,

- you can get inside my car...

- Hey, Jack...

Hold on, Bertha, this is the best part.

- There's kudzu fields just up...

- Jack.

Yeah?

You still got the price tag

on your coat.

No, I don't.

- Come here.

- Where?

Jeepers, Jack.

It sure goes fast.

Fast?

Now we're going fast.

Don't you like it?

It don't matter if I like it,

I can't wear this.

I just wanted to

get you something nice.

Where do you think I'd be able

to wear something like that?

I'll take you somewhere so you can

wear something like that every day.

Why don't you try it on?

What? Here?

- Yeah, ain't nobody around.

- You're around.

I... I'll just... listen to my radio,

look out at this tree here.

I won't look, you can go back

behind the car and put it on.

All right, seeing as

you bought it and all.

You better not look.

- You better not be looking.

- I'm not looking.

Just over here at this

woodpecker on a tree.

Well?

How do I look?

Come on.

Oh, sh*t, Jack. Goddamn.

I got you, you dumb hick.

Watch your step, here.

Whatcha think?

- What do I think about what?

- My place of employment.

- Hey.

- Hot socks, Jack.

What's she doing here?

Miss Bertha Minnix,

meet my partner, the Cricket Pate.

Pleased to meet you, Cricket Pate.

The pleasure's all mine, miss.

Boy, oh, boy, Jack, your

brothers are gonna sh*t their grits.

Don't you worry about it.

This is it.

- It's a real hideout.

- Howard's up in the look-out.

It's the biggest distillation

set-up in these hills.

We're able to put

out 1,000 gallons a week.

No one around here comes

close to doing that.

You're an outlaw, Jack.

No, that's just a matter

of perspective.

I'm just doing what

any man around here would do

if he had the same

strength of character.

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