Mikey and Nicky Page #6

- The winding stem is gone.

Winding stem is gone.

- Let's see.

- Look at this. Look what you did.

I'm sorry.

You don't have the time, do you?

You think this is a joke?

- This is funny to you.

- No.

- I had the watch 20 years.

- Oh.

- Yes.

- That's long enough.

What's this? Is this the winding stem

here, this thing? Is that it?

I think it's one of the hands.

The hands?

One of the hands?

Jesus Christ, there's nothing left

of this watch.

You know... you know there's

really something wrong with you.

Don't you have any notion of anything

that goes on outside of your own head?

Don't you have any idea

how people feel?

Can't you understand

that my father gave me this watch?

It's the only thing I have

from my father.

So, what do you want?

You want another one?

- Forget it. I'm goin'.

- Hey, Mike.

- I'm sorry about the watch.

- Take your gun.

And I'm sorry about the girl too.

What else you want me to say?

Nothin'.

I don't want you to say anything.

- I just don't want to do it anymore.

- What?

- Be your friend.

- Then I'll be your friend.

Huh-uh.

No, you'll be my friend

when you're not in trouble.

See, I don't want you to be my friend

just when there's nobody else around.

What are you talking about? I'm your

friend when other people are around.

No, you're not. You don't know

who I am when other people are around.

I spoke to you maybe five times

since you met Dave Resnick.

I introduced you,

I got you the job

and now I can't get you

on the phone.

What are you talking about?

Hey, what are you talking about?

- Are you crazy?

- I call, and you never call me back!

You don't call me. You haven't

called me in months.

Yeah, because after three months you

don't call back, I don't call anymore.

Hey, you don't even

say hello to me.

I walk into that restaurant, you're

sitting with Dave Resnick and Sid Fine

and I gotta say hello to you three times

and you don't answer

and when I walk away

I hear you say

"Jesus Christ! Call that guy back.

I forgot to give him the order. "

- That was a joke.

- That joke was for Resnick.

For you, not for Resnick.

That's why I said it loud enough

for you to hear it.

That was a joke for you.

You call me "The Echo. "

And you tell everybody

that I have to say everything twice

because I got a tunnel in my head.

The second time is the echo.

Mikey, everybody says everything.

I mean, what's the difference?

I was kidding.

Don't you ever kid?

You make me out a joke

to Resnick.

Just like you made me out

a joke to that girl.

Mikey, you're wrong.

And I'd do anything for you.

Anything.

And unless you're sick or in trouble,

you don't even know I'm alive.

And now look what you did.

Now you called me, now I came, and

look what you did, and for no reason.

No f***in' reason!

Bullshit!

Go find yourself another friend!

You're wrong!

Really. Mike?

Hey, Mike. Hey, Mikey.

Jesus Christ, come on.

Hey, Mike.

Hey, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Honest to God.

You were wrong.

I wouldn't do anything bad to you.

I love you, Mike.

Please don't walk out on me.

Mikey?

Please.

Please don't walk out on me.

Please don't walk out on me.

Mike?

Screw you.

You wanna walk?

Hey, walk.

You got a good excuse now

not to come with me, right?

'Cause I call you

"The Echo," right?

That's bullshit.

I know what you're doin'.

So screw you!

I tell you, screw you!

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Is that right?

What am I supposed to do?

Carry you around in my pocket, Mikey?

I can't help it I'm not home

when the phone rings.

I'm a plenty good friend of yours.

Mikey, look, come on, will ya?

What other friends have you got?

Hey, Mike.

Oh, I'm a Yankee Doodle.

Hey, Mike.

Look, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry that...

Let me just talk to you

a minute, will ya?

I'm sorry Resnick doesn't take you

to all the restaurants.

I don't ask him not to.

Look, I swear to you.

He doesn't like you.

You get on his nerves.

I'm the one that stood up for you.

I'm the one that asked you

to come into the bank, Mike.

Look, with all this crap about how much

you do for me, what you give me...

I'm the one that lent you

$200 when you needed it.

I don't remember you

doing sh*t for me.

You're a piece of nothin'.

Warren Kinney?

Warren Kinney.

I just lost the guy,

about five or six blocks...

I want you to come around

the other side of the car.

Guy beat the sh*t out of him.

- Okay, come on. Get in.

- We were on Tenth

about five blocks from here,

we had a fight.

He busted my watch.

My father's watch, he busted it.

It's the only thing I got

from my father.

He threw it in the street

and he busted it.

What did he do that for?

Because he's crazy,

and a prick.

Let's go after the guy.

Take a right on Hall.

Why don't you tell me where we're goin'?

I can read the street signs.

Back on the beat,

same spot I left him.

I said he was around here.

I didn't say he was standing in the

middle of the street waiting for us.

I should have had a driver

on this, damn it.

Every place I've been tonight,

I couldn't park.

There's a "No Parking" sign

every time I turn around.

Make a right.

Finally ended up... I waited in a

no parking zone for you all night long.

- You should have taken a driver.

- Oh, Jesus.

I take a driver,

I gotta pay him a buck too.

Shouldn't have needed a driver

on this.

Make a left here.

Is that him?

No.

Hey, you sure?

Yes, I'm sure.

You wanna shoot him just in case?

What's the matter?

I just asked you a question.

Well, for Christ's sakes, if I say

it's not him, I ought to know.

Yeah, you ought to know.

Honey?

- Go to bed. I'll be in.

- Honey. Sweetheart.

- Let me in?

- I told you not to come here.

Jan, don't make me

yell through the door.

Look...

Look, Nicky, I want you to go away.

I really mean it.

- They're gonna kill me.

- Well, I'm not interested.

- Dave Resnick...

- I'm not interested.

- He's after me.

- Why are you telling this to me?

- Honey, I'm serious now.

- Hmm.

Ed Lipsky's dead.

Dave Resnick had him killed.

I told you that he would. People get

angry when you steal their money.

Listen, I, uh...

I did some serious thinking

- about myself last night.

- Good.

And about the way

that I've treated you.

And I just want you to know

I understand more

what you were trying to tell me.

I'd just like a few minutes

to talk to you about it.

No.

Open the door. I said, open this

goddamned door before I break it down.

You really have changed.

I wouldn't have recognized you.

I ought to

smash your face right in.

B*tch.

Son of a b*tch!

I'm sorry, baby.

God, I'm sorry, honey.

- I'm sorry.

- Don't be sorry. Just get out.

Please, baby,

don't treat me this way.

Is this how your girlfriends treat you?

Tell me how they treat you

and I'll try to copy it.

- Jan, I'm sorry.

- What, is everybody else busy tonight?

All your girlfriends busy? The boys

too busy to have a drink with you?

It's a shame Resnick wants

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