Live by Night Page #6

Might even go by your house...

tear out a piece of that N*gger

girl before I cut her throat.

You ain't got this sh*t

but you leavin' town, boy.

You just forgot to pack your bags.

Alright.

Go ahead.

Bring the car around.

Alright, We'll get you to a doctor.

It hurts.

Yes,

hurts but it's not gonna kill you.

We shouldn't have

show him the pictures.

- What pictures?

- Figgis.

All we had to do to put

this f***ing guy down.

Price was too high.

- I can't think that you've shot me.

- What?

- I got him before he got a shot.

- It wasn't me who shot you.

It couldn't have been nobody else.

Fasani was back there.

It was Fasani who f***ing shot you.

No, Fasani was coming

from back there.

Fasani came over here. He came on

this angle, like this, right here.

I was over here.

I got these motherfuckers.

You hit me.

Just get the f***ing car.

It's gonna be a great casino.

Right?

Albert had been paying RD

on his own to come after us.

But once we killed

members of the Klan...

the Klan took it personal.

They came to finish me

off at the hospital,

but we had guards

posted at the doors.

When the Klan's men gave up and

went home Dion had them followed.

The subsequent string of beatings,

bombings and murders...

effectively put an end to the

power of the KKK in Tampa.

- How do you feel?

- Good.

You?

Good.

Irv's wife moved out and

took their son with her.

No one saw Loretta

for the whole season.

Can I take your name?

You wanna get married?

We are married aren't we?

Graciela Isabella...

I think I can't remember them all.

Lunes, Martes...

- I don't have that many names.

- Wait.

Graciela Coughlin.

Best thing ever

happened to that name.

I bought buildings.

We're married and just like that,

now you bought some buildings?

Yes, I bought three buildings

by the Perez factory.

What are you going to

do with these buildings?

I want to give shelter to

abandoned women and children.

It's important, Joe.

What happened?

Cuban politics for a cause?

I fell in love with you.

You restrict my mobility.

Come here.

I love you.

After months of seclusion...

Loretta emerged from

home and declared

that she would only wear white.

A decision made for

her by Jesus Christ.

to whom she would now be with.

Her show was a hit.

And a vision of Tampa, cleansed

of sin, didn't include a casino.

What's the problem

with this preacher?

There's no problem

with the preacher.

Everything's gonna

work out fine.

Nothing can jeopardize

our casino deal.

- Absolutely, Maso. 100%.

- Do what you need to.

Look I'm gonna go down there.

I'm gonna talk to her and...

What needs to be done, will be done.

Okay?

Just make sure that the problem goes

away. I don't want to hear about it.

Alright. Thanks a lot...

You do not need to

listen to know me.

Ask me anything you wanna

know about my business.

It's your business, not mine.

I'll tell anything you wanna know.

I came down here, it was all about

getting revenge, making money.

Now everything I do,

every step I take,

Is about You and Me

and protecting our future.

And that's what you

need to understand.

But if those steps make you,

little by little someone else...

then you will not be you anymore.

You are you, except for all

those bad things you did.

You're almost you.

I want the real you.

You have me. Come here.

You have me.

Gambling destroys the spirit.

- She's right.

- Amen.

One hears much...of

personal liberty.

But when you've seen

the barbarity of man...

and been treated to

personal dosages...

You see..It is simply

the liberty for gambler.

For the gambler to fritter

away the gifts of God...

- By using it for himself.

- Amen.

Personal liberty is the liberty...

of a Murderer.

A seducer.

A wolf who wants to

remain in a sheepfold.

I ask you...

How cheap is your virtue?

- No. Not cheap.

- Not at all.

- How cheap is your virtue?

- Not cheap.

My virtue's always

been pretty cheap.

What virtue?

And they seek to build a house

of gambling on our waterfront.

We act.

God bless you.

There is only one way to deal.

With her around the

casino gets voted down.

The casino gets voted down.

Me and you are on...

I'll handle it.

Okay?

- Mr Coughlin.

- Miss Figgis. Such a pleasure.

Thanks so much for seeing us.

Great show today.

- You know my father.

- Ah! Chief.

And this is Mayweather.

Mayweather is taking the good

word and preaching it down south.

- Pleasure, sir.

- My Pleasure. That's good.

They need to hear about this in

Miami. Keep up the good work.

I'm trying, sir.

What can I do for you?

I was hoping I could just have

a word with you for a second.

I was hoping to...

talk a bit about the Ritz.

My father says there once

was a good man in you.

I was nowhere near to part it.

You do quite a lot

for the people here.

But we both know that your good work

is medicated by your evil deeds.

We do?

You profit from the illegal

addictions of others.

Their weakness,

sloth and lascivious behavior.

But you can free yourself of that.

I don't want to.

Of course you do.

Miss Figgis, you're a lovely woman.

And your story is amazing.

I'm not surprised

that that the folks

are up 3, 4 since

you started here.

More like 5 times.

More booze has been drunk in the

last ten years, than ever before.

People don't wanna be told

that they can't do it.

The same could be

said for fornication.

People want it, but don't wanna

be told they can't have it.

No why should they?

I'm sorry?

If people want to fornicate,

I see no reason to stop them.

And if they wish to

lie down with animals?

Do they?

I'm Sorry?

The people wish to lie

down with animals?

Some do.

And their sickness will

spread if you have your way.

Forgive me.

I see no co-relation between

alcohol and lying

down with animals.

There is a co-relation

across all sin.

It's all against the wishes of God,

therefore all equally offensive.

Let me apologize. I think we

got off to the wrong foot here.

I am just here to ask you

if you would be amenable

to omitting the Casino

issue from your sermons.

And in exchange we're gonna

bring a business here.

And business will create jobs...

which will reduce the sinfulness

that comes with poverty

and idle hands.

We would be want to

contribute to the church.

We would be want to

build a few churches.

If God rewrites the Bible to

cast gambling as virtuous...

I will refrain from

speaking against it.

But until then we don't get to

pick our sins, Mr. Coughlin.

I can't do it.

What?

It's gonna f*** up the whole deal.

What do you mean, you can't do it?

I don't know. No one touches her.

That's a mistake.

No sh*t.

- Can we get you anything?

- No We are okay.

We know you men are busy and We

don't want to waste your time.

We are not going to invest

in the casino at the Ritz.

- Are you... sure about that?

- I'm afraid so.

The publicity is too much.

One woman who preaches

in a f***ing tent?

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