Middle Men Page #4

in their suite at the Hard Rock,

in need of some legal advice.

They used my body like

a f***ing bowling ball!

They started this business, but have

no idea what the f*** they're doing.

Now, a couple of months ago,

they make a whole bunch of money,

and they come out to Vegas.

They start partying for weeks,

and, from what I understand,

they go through a pound of blow,

hit every hooker in town and...

You know, basically

just pissed everything away.

- So who are their partners?

- A couple of Russian guys from LA...

- Nikita something.

- Sokoloff?

Yeah, I think that sounds about right.

You know him?

I mean, I know of him.

He's supposed to be a lunatic.

Yeah?

Party over.

You new here? What's your name?

They were kicking the sh*t

out of these two numb-nuts

because they couldn't pay up

like they were supposed to.

So beautiful.

Why are afraid of me?

So, what kind of business is it?

That's the best part.

Seems like these two morons,

what they did was they collected

a bunch of these dirty pictures

and they put them on the Internet.

I'm telling you,

within a couple of months,

they make over a million dollars.

Yeah, it's just the thing is,

I got a wife, I have children.

I have no interest in getting involved

in the porn industry,

you know what I'm saying?

I got it, but let me ask you a question.

Steve Wynn, Barron Hilton,

are they pornographers?

- No. Why?

- Know why?

Because they got that sh*t playing on

every TV in every one of their rooms.

You can't name a hotel chain that

doesn't make a ton of money off porn.

- I mean, are they pornographers?

- I mean, I see what you're saying.

Well, but I'm not asking you

to make a porn movie.

I'm just asking you to straighten out

a business situation.

Haggerty, he always had an angle.

He was probably looking

to steal the business

as soon as I straightened

out the Russian problem.

If this was real

and I was going to be involved,

Haggerty couldn't be a part of it.

...make a little money!

He had Feds all over him for some scam

he'd run and he stunk of desperation.

- Welcome back to the Hard Rock, Jack.

- How you doing? Thanks.

- What suite?

- The Penthouse.

From what Haggerty told me, I knew

there was a lot of money in this deal

and that was good. The money

was in porn, and that was bad.

Why I even knocked on the door

is beyond me.

How you doing? Jack Harris.

- Buck Dolby.

- May I?

- Please.

- Thanks.

- Why are you here?! Who sent you?

- I'm sorry, Jack. I'm sorry.

- Why are you here?

- No, no, no, he's OK.

How do you know what they look like?

This is not what we agreed on!

This is not what we talked about.

He's not part of the circle!

This is part of the agreement

because I checked him out.

Yeah, bullshit!

I know why you're here!

Look, we gotta get the f***

out of here right now.

- OK, just... I'll deal with him.

- Gotta get the f*** outta here.

- He seems high-strung. Should...

- I'm sorry. He's off the rails here.

Hey, hey! I got my eyes on you, b*tch!

Thank you for coming.

Would you like a drink?

I'm OK.

First and foremost,

I would like to apologize

for the cleanliness

and hygiene of this hotel suite.

- Don't worry about it.

- Oh, man.

You know, he's been up

for five straight days.

I called a doctor...

He won't let anybody up.

You gotta get out of here right now,

but you can't use that front door.

Why don't we try and get

some food in him, OK?

- I'm gonna give room service a call.

- We're afraid we're gonna get cracked.

- You mean whacked by the Russians?

- Yeah, yeah.

I gotta tell you something

about myself you don't know, OK?

I'm a multi, multi, multi-millionaire.

I'm an American entrepreneur.

The irony right now is that

I feel like an anaphylactic polar bear

with a bunny rabbit shoved up his ass.

I'm not gonna explain it to you.

It's just that thing, money,

money, money, money.

Everybody's trying to get

to that bunny rabbit.

We owe them a considerable

amount of money.

- I understand.

- But we figured what's the rush, right?

I mean, we're all friends.

I mean, I'm half responsible

for the substance abuse indulgency

and that's part of the problem

that we overlooked.

Here's the thing. I know for a fact that

man back there is posing as a doctor,

when the truth is, there's five guys

out front with a black hood,

they're waiting to kidnap me. They

wanna take me to liquefy my accounts

and they're gonna shoot me

in the head, execution-style.

I'm not gonna let that happen to you.

They made their presence felt

about five days ago,

where they kicked the sh*t out of us.

I mean, they bum-jacked us pretty good.

I mean, they got my eye, as you can see,

but, like, they really hurt Wayne.

- They hurt him real bad.

- Listen, here's the thing.

You can take me, but I'm not

gonna let you take River Dancer.

She stays, all right? All right?

Listen, listen...

- Do you see what I'm dealing with?

- Tell you what.

Let me try and get her out of here.

You look after him. We'll go from there.

- That sounds good.

- I love you.

- I love you. I do.

- No, you don't.

- Don't touch me.

- I love you.

- No, you don't. No, you don't.

- Yes, I do. I do.

- You do?

- I do. I do.

Look, I love this guy

like a brother, all right?

I mean, I hate him, but I love him.

Rachel, you remind,

you remind me of my mother.

Yeah? My name's Jessie.

Yeah, my mother's name was Brenda.

Oh, you know you can't go there, Wayne.

- That's not good.

- She used to hit me out of my skin.

Come on, come on,

come on, let's sit here.

Hey, why don't you grab your stuff?

I'm gonna get you out here, is that OK?

- I need to get paid.

- Sure. I'll take care of that.

- Whoa, you've got a halo on your head.

- Just look at my eyes.

Yeah. I don't wanna believe

in the circle anymore.

He seems to be doing a little better.

How do you feel?

- I've had a couple days rest.

- Is your eye OK?

It's OK, but...

You just gotta take care

of the Russians.

I don't gotta do anything, OK? I just

want to understand what's going on.

I want to figure out

what you two did right.

Obviously it was something because you

made a million bucks in two months.

I already know what you did wrong,

you didn't pay off your partners.

But so far as I can tell, you guys have

a solid idea, you just got overwhelmed.

You got in over your head. And maybe

you don't know how to run a business.

- But you do, right?

- Yeah, I do.

Well, will you do that for us?

Look, I have no interest

in making a living creating porn.

I have a family.

I don't wanna be a pornographer.

So if I come onboard, I want this to

be a legit business. A hundred percent.

I understand.

I couldn't agree with you more.

So now, you guys can help me.

You two have figured out a way

to take a credit card

from somebody anywhere in the world,

and deliver a product

anywhere in the world,

and neither side ever sees each other?

- That's correct.

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