Live by Night Page #4

tides have been calm all summer.

When you say Senor Famosa's name...

so we worry you may

overtake our supply routes..

No, I use Senor Famosa's

name to reassure you...

that from now on,

you can work directly with me...

and you can charge

me a higher price..

What do we get in Return?

You can get access to Ormino's cops

and judges which we now control.

And most them

wouldn't do business

with you otherwise

because you're Cuban.

And you want exclusive

access to our Molasace?

No. But you just can't sell

to the white operation.

Albert White is a paying customer.

We have never had

a problem with him.

I know Albert White.

I thought you might like

to deal with someone

who treats you like a human being.

It is possible that this

would bring bloodshed.

This would definitely

bring bloodshed.

These are very favorable times.

Albert White is what we get.

The local sheriff wanted to see us.

Apparently he was a custom

down there to talk

about how you really

break the law...

before you did it.

- What kind of guy is the chief?

He is a cop, so he is an a**hole.

Other than that, he's okay.

What are you doing?

Don't f*** with the guy's stuff.

Sheriff will come in find some Diego

going through his f***ing pages.

Hey this is Figgis right here.

Please, sit down.

I wouldn't insult you by asking

the nature of your business.

So you won't have to

insult me by lying.

Is it fair?

Sounds fair to me.

Is it true you're

Police captain's Son?

Yes, sir.

- Did he served overseas?

- France.

Tell that to the Marines.

Yes Sir, they told that to us.

I was a soldier and

then a US Marshall.

I have killed seven

men in my lifetime.

Truth be told their faces

horror me most nights.

You Keep your business

north of Second...

South of 27th and East of Nebraska.

You and I will have little

in the way of discord.

Sounds good.

I know we live in a fallen world...

But just because I

breath corrupt air...

Rub elbows with corrupt men...

Never make the mistake of

thinking that I am corruptible.

I won't make that mistake.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I thought you were alone.

It's alright, Loretta.

This gentlemen were just leaving.

Honey, your manners.

Oh. Yes, father.

Miss Loretta Figgis.

Please to meet you, miss.

I am Joe Coughlin.

Dion Bartolo.

Loretta is taking the train

on a long journey today.

He's going around.

- California.

- Is that right?

She's gonna be a star in hollywood.

- It's only a screen test, daddy.

- No.

A screen agent came here

and picked out a few girls.

- My brother's out there.

- Your brother's In Hollywood?

He's a stuntman on toes.

Born of horses.

Please to meet you, miss. Chief.

Gentlemen.

- You sure you don't want a banana?

- No, I had some.

You picked a fruit

like this in Boston.

Oh, I know.

It looks good.

- What?

- There she is.

Watch this.

Here you go.

Hello. Good afternoon.

How are you?

- I'm well. How are you?

- Excellent.

Do you...You and your brother

come to any decision...

Not yet, We are still

considering Mr Coughlin.

Yes, it would be quite

a upheaval for us.

- Alright, I understand. Of course

- We don't make changes easily.

Well There's all kinds of change.

Where I was staying,

we use'd to play chess a lot...

this is the kind

of change where you

get your pawn to the

end of the board...

and it changes into a queen.

It's not what you think about here.

- Yes. I do play chess.

- You do?

My father taught me.

Meanwhile you might

do well to remember

that the pawn,

the king end up in the same box...

at the end of the game.

The end, not about the end.

It's about when you

playing the game.

You hang me upside down

light me on fire again.

I will win while I'm playing.

I have feeling you win

most of the games you play.

Not yet. But playing hard.

Why don't you join me?

Some people say that liquor

is only a side business.

Is that so?

I heard rumors that you give

most of your money away.

A lot of it in Cuba.

Anything that's foolish?

Not foolish,

Just not my cause, that's all.

What is your cause?

Distribution of Demon Rum.

And no man should really

want out another man's life.

If you corner the Rum market,

you'll be a king.

I would still have to

deal with Albert White.

But how will you hold the

power once you have it?

You don't think I'm strong enough?

I don't know if you're cruel enough.

And if you are,

that would be very sad.

Powerful men don't have to be cruel.

But they usually are.

Tell me something,

do you think there is such

a thing as an noble man?

I have nothing against an noble man.

They just really look past Forty.

My father died for Cuba.

My mother died of a broken heart.

He would often tell us

"You can not truly live unless

there is something for

which you would die."

Sounds like a good man

He was.

- We will never be lovers.

- No?

Why's that?

We will not be lovers.

We cornered the rum market

and lived like kings

Fast. Come on. Hurry up.

Banks collapsed. Jobs dried up.

Okay. Let's go.

The Suarez-Coughlin partnership

created a rare stability.

We paid off Albert's guys in Central

Florida to put down their guns.

So when Albert wanted to hit us

he had to use his Miami Crews.

When they showed up,

we bushwhacked them.

Albert was living

on the run in Miami...

and there wasn't a spic in central

and North Florida we didn't sell to.

Put the sh*t out.

Get on the floor.

Get down.

Get down. Get Down.

This is what happen when Catholics

trying to sell liquor down here.

The guy's name is RD Pruitt.

Well, we better go find him.

- He is in the klan.

- So what?

So the five million other

guys in this country.

The klan has a lot

of f***ing Juice.

They're immigrants with

4th graded education.

Oh. They're gonna love you.

A Catholic who works with

coloreds and lives with Cuban.

The bigger problem

RD's brother in law.

- Who is he?

- Chief Figgis.

Joe Coughlin.

Don't shake hands with papist.

No offense.

None taken.

Help if I tell you I haven't been

to church in half of my life?

Alright now.

RD...

Word is your cousin

troubled down in Ybor.

How's that?

Well we hear you are

stick enough places.

I don't know a damn

thing about that.

I'm just playing with you.

You all know that.

RD.

This is a businessman who

has come here to do business.

And I say yes that you do with him.

That man is a bootlegger...

and a fornicator with n*gger.

He needs to be tared and feathered.

Not to be done business with.

I'm just fine.

You take a joke right?

Sure, I would take a joke.

Not when you become one, right?

So you like the Parisian, right?

And if I did?

I might be able to cut you

around 10% of the house stake.

- You'd do that?

- I wish.

Well,

I ought to be worth more than 10%.

What were you thinking?

- I was thinking 60.

- 60%?

The biggest club in town?

- That's right.

- For what exactly?

My friends might look

on you more kindly.

- What friends?

- 60%.

- Son, I ain't giving you 60%.

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