Mississippi Grind Page #6

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suits available for

three ninety-five a night.

Can't you just, you

know, push the right buttons

down there and, uhh, comp us

a suite for old times sake?

Wadda ya say?

I'm sorry, sir.

What time do you get off?

I'll be here 'til eleven.

I want to meet you in the

players lounge at eleven fifteen

I gotta man.

What's your

man have to do with me?

That's a pretty ring.

Okay look.

I can get you the aarp discount.

That's ten percent off.

Gerry, hey.

What do ya say, huh?

We can do one night.

We can afford one night.

Let's just go someplace else.

Why?

Because...

How much is your regular room?

Ninety-nine dollars.

That's a little

steep don't you think?

C'mon, just give me the money.

Oh come, just one moment.

Do you realize this guy is

the Mel Greene of Tunica,

Mississippi? He has

a vip card so please can

you just comp us for

one night, that's all.

I'm sorry sir. I don't

have the authority to do that.

Oh, that's-okay.

No. No. I'm gonna need

to speak to a

manager. Right now.

- Please don't do that.

- A manager!

Hey! Gerry. Excuse us.

I'm sorry. One second.

Can I talk to you for a second?

Where's the money?

What money?

We're going to be fine.

Gerry, your lips are

telling me me that we're going

to be fine, but you're you're

slouching, like a kid who just

pissed his pants in the sandbox.

Where we at, huh?

Ger?

Ground zero.

I tried to tell you before...

Tried to tell me.

F***ing c*nt! I was

nailing her all night and

she f***ing turned

a queen on the...

You lost in Memphis.

What were we doing

in little rock?

I can win it back.

I can get it back.

I can get us all the

way to twenty-five.

It isn't about the money Gerry.

Yeah, of course

it's about the money.

C'mon, man what do you think

this is a vacation for me?

You're a piece

of work, you know that?

Hey, I did everthing right.

I played it right.

I just... I just can't catch

a break. I just can't win.

This story doesn't

have a happy ending, Gerry.

I think you should

go back home to Iowa.

Nope. Nope. Nope.

Can't do that.

Can't go back empty handed.

- I can't do that.

- You can't try to lose.

Oh, yeah, ye-yeah,

I'm tryin-yeah,

I'm trying to-

f***in-ahhh! F***!

Ohhh. It's closed.

I'm not trying...

I'm-ohhhh.

What's up faggots.

What's up with these guys?

Let's go find some girls.

Dude! What the f***!

Get off me bro.

What's your problem a**hole?

Where you going p*ssy?

Oh you want some?

You want to go?

Where is she at?

I left something on her voicemail.

Just.

She with someone?

Don't say that you don't know.

I know that you know.

I'll tell

her that you called.

You know what, forget that

forget that I called. Okay?

- Curtis...

- I'm serious. Vanessa,

listen to me. Don't tell

her I called okay? Don't.

Okay.

Can you do that for me?

Don't tell her, okay? Okay?

- Okay.

- Are you gonna tell her?

No.

Alll-righty.

I'll talk to you later.

Hey buddy.

You know you're missing a pinky.

How'd you do that?

Some crazy bastard bit

if off in a bathroom brawl.

Okay.

When I was eight years

old, me and my sister, we went

to live with our grandparents

for a couple years.

It was this old house on a hill

and my job was to mow the lawn.

It was one of these old, umm,

you know these, rotary blade,

that you push it. And my little

sister she jumps out and she's,

uhh, well she's screwing

around making fun of me,

or whatever, you know

like little kids do.

And she won't move so I give

her to the count of three.

Fair warning.

I thought so.

But one, two, three goes

by and she doesn't move.

So I ran over her foot.

She lost three toes.

But what about your toe?

My grandfather's

brilliant idea of justice.

This morning my ex-wife

caught me stealing from her

sock drawer.

Not the first time. Purple sock.

Same sock she had

when we were married...

I'm not a good person.

I'm not.

I don't deserve you.

But you appeared.

Like a Leprechaun.

Like a big handsome Leprechaun

right there in Iowa,

there you were. Boom!

And I had to follow you.

I mean, boom! Magic.

Right there.

And...

I can't do it without you.

We're in it together.

I will tell you one thing,

I didn't follow you down

this damn river to lose.

Long way down ain't it Gerry.

This is the horse.

Toto's revenge.

Seven to one.

I don't know.

Hey, it's

Toto's f***ing revenge.

Look, I saw we go with

the favorite here. Number one.

- Mississippi grind?

- Just feels right.

No, look. It's Toto.

Curtis, Toto.

Dorothy, Rainbows.

I mean this feels right.

You want to blow

it all on a long shot?

I want to win

it all on a long shot.

Alright. Good.

Toto's revenge.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I-I-I need you

to be with me on this.

I'm with ya.

No no, I-I, but I need you to

mean-I'm gonna ask you again,

is this our horse?

This is our horse.

Aw, Curtis.

Is this our horse, Curtis.

This is our horse Gerry.

Say it like you mean it.

Toto's revenge!

- That's our horse.

- Yes.

Yeah. And... and it is.

It's post time!

Here we go.

Go Toto!

Hot, damn!

Go! Go!

Go, that's it!

Go Toto that's it.

Yes!

Yes!

Yes! Yes!

C'mon, that's what

I'm talking about.

That's it. That's it.

Go, number three. Go Toto.

Run baby! Run baby! Run!

Run you f***ing horse!

It had to end this way Gerry.

Here's a hundred bucks.

Get yourself a bus

ticket and go home.

You didn't bet it all?

I saved one-hundred

each, just in case.

So we got two-hundred.

- No.

- We got two-hundred.

You have a hundred

and I have a hundred.

Stop it Gerry.

You're not gonna believe this

but this is f***ing amazing.

Thunderclap is running in the

next race she is forty-to-one.

- We're done.

- Forty-to-one. We bet that,

we're back.

It's over.

We're right back.

I'm seri-we are right back.

What about Tony Roundtree, huh?

W-wha? Hey.

What about my white suit.

Thank you for the ride.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry it didn't work out.

- Hey there.

- Hi.

Cash out.

Break number three.

Horse number one. Five-thousand.

One, two, three, four,

five, six, twenty, one.

Congratulations.

Everything okay sir?

What's up guys?

You on a meth break?

Yo, you

lost mother f***er?

New Orleans, Louisianna.

Last name Roundtree.

First name Tony.

You have an address?

Hey, any uh you fellas

know where a guy can play

some darts around here?

Darts?

I'll play your best

guy for one-hundred bucks.

C'mon man.

C'mon man.

Ball up.

Give me a break.

Lets go. C'mon.

Yeah!

Right into my trap!

Tony?

Tony Roundtree?

I'm Gerry.

You don't know me, I'm,

uhh, friend of Curtis'.

Curtis Vaughn.

Are you hosting a poker

game in here tonight?

Game!

Stealing from a baby.

Hundred bucks!

No we know why he

wanted to play darts.

Something funny?

I don't have it.

You don't have the money?

Uh, uh.

What are you gonna do abut it?

You're the Tony

Roundtree I'm looking for?

You met Curtis on

an amtrack train.

You were headed to Albuquerque.

You had on a blue velvet smoking

jacket, and you were traveling

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