Lucky Number Slevin Page #6

- Now's the time.

I've got at least... Jesus.

The Boss says he wants you to look nice

for The Fairy.

You're early.

Why don't you come in and fixyourself a drink?

I was just getting ready.

You'll have to excuse the

I wasn't expecting you for....

You Iook good

You want some wine?

- No.

Is something the matter?

Somebody's trying to kill you.

Who?

Me.

That was close.

- Yeah.

Close.

I hired you to do a job

It wasn't supposed to look like a job.

So you take out the lsraelis

bomb the damn building...

and now the job

that was not supposed to look Iike a job's

beginning to look very much

Iike a job.

All right. F*** it.

If the Rabbi wants a war...

..I'll give him a war.

Saul.

Saul.

Saul the phone's been

Oh.

I thought you were Saul.

People have been thinking I'm somebody else.

Your predicament reminds me of a story.

Hitchcock North By Northwest.

The movie where everybody thinks Cary Grant

is a man named George Kaplan

but the thing is there is no George Kaplan.

It's just a made-up name.

But names even made-up ones...

..can bring about quite a bit of trouble.

Now...

the woman in the piccture with Grant

her name was er

- Eva Marie Saint.

Oh...you know this movie.

- I know this movie.

I took my father to see it in 1959.

His English wasn't very good

but boy did he like Miss Saint.

After the movie he turned to me and he said

You see he couldn't pronounce

the word beauty so he'd say Buick.

Caused quite a bit of confusion.

- Using the wrong name'll do that.

Is that my money?

This is everything I owe you.

It's the Sabbath. You see.

I know.

Normally Saul turns off the ringer.

Saul!

I tell you you can't find good help these days.

Saul's dead.

They're all dead.

Oh I've been in this room before.

Looks the same as it did 20 years ago.

Somehow...

Somehow it seems different.

The way your car seems different

when someone else is driving it.

Then again it's been 20 years

since I've been in a car.

Two decades spent behind three inches

of bulletproof glass

due to a natural fear of high-powered rifles

and quiet...rooftops in New Jersey.

..Iocked away in my own paranoia

a prisoner in my own home.

Only to be delivered to fate by a boy.

Well Anthony it Iooks as though you've won

if such a term may be applied

If I were wearing a hat I would take it off.

Should we get on with it then?

You can keep your hat on Schlomo.

Looks like we were sold a bill of goods

by the same salesman.

Nice speech though.

I wish I was standing for it.

You...you brought this upon our heads.

Me?

- You...you hired Goodkat to kill my son.

After you murdered my son?

I had no hand in that.

- Oh sure.

Just like in '84?

I suppose you had no hand in that either.

Just a finger maybe?

Time's up Rabbi.

Lying to a dead man's

the same as lying to yourself.

You were getting too big.

See...

..problem when two men are standing in a room

is you can only look at one of them

and they were looking at you

with their backs turned

Then they called you The Boss.

It was clear what had to be done.

Try and appreciate how it feels Schlomo...

..to wake up in the middle of the night

with six. bullets burning in your stomach.

Lying in a pool of your own blood and sh*t.

The dead eyes of...

..of your wife...staring back at you.

The only thing keeping you from passing out

is the sound of the footsteps of the man

going down the hall...

..looking for your son.

I managed to save my son Schlomo.

And now...

..after all these years...

..in spite of our agreement!

You...you...

f***ing backstabbing Philistine.

You managed to take my son away from me.

Well...

..now I've taken your son away from you.

I told you I had nothing to do with...

You haven't heard.

Will l?

Look at my face Schlomo. Look at my smile.

Your son is dead.

Your son is dead.

I'm gonna kill you. Hm.

Rabbi.

Are you familiar with the Shmoo?

Fisher.

Fisher listen to me.

I already told you

I'm not Nick Fisher.

Then who is Nick Fisher?

I think you mean who was Nick Fisher?

Fisher was the answer to a question.

How do you get to two men

that can't be gotten to?

You get them to come to you

But to do that I needed a name

And where do you find names?

In books

And who has books?

Well your bookies have books

He's clean.

Crooked bookies

who work with big-time crooks.

- So...why are you here?

I was Iooking for a gambler

One who was in both books

with a lot of red in the minus column

Got him.

And that's when I found Nick Fisher

A Iowlife that no-one was gonna miss

Nick Fisher.

OK:

There was a time..

All that was left to do was make the phone ring.

All I had to do was pull the trigger

and wait for you to call the man

who does the jobs that no-one else wants

I want an outsider brought in

There's a specialist.

Calls himself Mr Goodkat.

Fine.

Tell him he can expect me in the morning.

Are you ready?

Yeah.

It's just that one last thing.

Mr Goodkat.

It's been a long time.

I'm sorry to have kept you waiting Mr Goodkat.

So I'll get right down to business.

Slim Hopkins the man who ran my book

was hit yesterday.

And I guess you've already heard about...

my son.

- Yes I heard.

I need you to sort it out for me.

Who's the mark?

Yitzchok.

Yitzchok The Rabbi's son?

You remember The Rabbi?

I remember The Rabbi well.

Thing is

it can't look Iike a job.

If Yitzchok gets hit The Rabbi will go to war

So...I need you to make it look like

it ain't what it is.

Can that be done?

Anything can be done.

Good. How?

Kansas City Shuffle.

I'm not familiar with the term.

I'll need to see Slim's books.

Slim's books were taken when he was hit

What are you looking for?

This is our guy. Nick - 1729.

Nick Fisher.

Why him?

A loser.

Pick him up. Bring him here.

Still not talking to each other huh?

Can't say that I blame you

Why are you here?

- Big job.

I was under the impression

you no longer worked New York

Like I said...very big job.

And you thought as long as you're in town

you'd drop by and see your old pal Schlomo

and say "Hello. How about them Yanks?"

No. But something like that.

Only problem is you and I aren't old friends.

And I hate baseball.

And since we're not friends and

you hate baseball why the f*** are you here?

It's because we're not friends that I'm here.

Because if we had been friends

Because that is right at the top of my list

of things that friends do not do to their friends.

The good news for you is

my friendship is for sale.

You see it seems to me

than he does to The Boss dead.

And more money means more to me

than less money.

And you are the guy that sleeps with

all that green under your mattress.

I'm listening.

You will pay me double to kill The Boss

what The Boss was paying me to kill Yitzchok.

Oh.

- And that...

And that will make us friends.

Right Rabbi?

Hm?

And...since friends do favours for their friends

Pray tell? What is this favour?

Concerns a matter of debt collecction.

One debt in particular.

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