Night and the City Page #11

Hey, make sure those curtains

don't cover those lights. OK.

Father Time be bad in his day,

but his day is history.

Go eat a f***in' banana.

Father Time should be eating a banana.

Keep him regular.

Father Time be dealing

with time marching on.

All right, you son of a b*tch.

Come on, put 'em up, you cocksucker.

All right, f***-head.

Get up!

You want Father Time?

- Yeah.

- Come on, you f***.

I'll show you the good old days.

I'll show you the good old f***in' days.

I'll show you how it was in the old days!

Hey, what are you doing?

Al, hey, hey.

Stop it, guys.

Come on, please.

Come on, guys.

Stop! Stop!

Stop it! Stop it! Stop!

Somebody help him.

Come on, get up, get up.

What the f*** you doing?

Come on, man!

Al.

Al, Al, Al.

Al, take a pill, Al.

What's he doing?

Al!

- What's he doing?

- Take a pill, Al.

Harry. Harry.

Al. Please, Al.

No.

Al.

I didn't do nothing, man.

He beat me.

Wake up, Al.

He beat me.

I didn't do nothing!

He beat me, man.

I didn't do nothing!

Can anybody help me here, please?

Call an ambulance.

Call an ambulance.

Call something.

Anybody know CPR or anything like that?

Does anybody know anything?

Somebody help me!

The guy's dying!

What do I do?

What do I do?

Come on, man, come on, come on.

Don't f***in' do this.

Don't f***in' die.

Don't f***in' die.

Come on, Al, wake up!

Wake up! Wake up!

Wake up! Wake up!

Al...

No.

This is... This is...

Christ, this is terrible.

I mean, this is terrible.

You see, what happened...

What a fine man, a leader.

What a fine man.

This is a tragedy.

It's terrible.

It's terrible.

You see, what happened...

A victim that was...

What? What?

But I wasn't even there.

I grieve for him.

I wasn't even there.

I just want to be understood.

Hey, hey, because if I could,

Boom Boom, if there was any way,

please, don't you think, don't you...

I mean, please, he was

like my father to me.

No, you know what, he

was more, more, because...

Boom Boom, no, it's not my fault, no.

This city, you know...

This city is... gosh.

Helen...

Hey, Helen.

Hey, Helen.

I f***ed you over.

That's a forged license.

Really?

Yeah, I found out about it,

about 3 this afternoon.

They showed up.

Some people, you know.

Helen, I swear to God, I just,

I didn't mean to do it.

I'm just an a**hole...

No, you did the...

The best you could by me,

I guess, under the circumstances.

What happened to you?

Phil heard.

Look, I got 12,000 here.

This is all I got.

Maybe I can make a pool.

We can pay someone down there.

There's other guys besides

Dugan, you know, I mean...

Al Grossman died.

Fights are off.

It's all over.

I'm a dead man, too, now.

Take it back to Peck.

You don't need him on

your ass, too, do you?

I worked out something

with my brother-in-law.

I'm gonna swap this place

for his out in California.

Good. Good for you.

Want to come out there with me, Harry?

You know, keep me from going crazy?

Look, you know I know you,

and I know that you wouldn't hurt me

if you could've helped it.

Helen, you're killing me here.

I guess it's "kill Harry week,".

Come on out with me.

Come on.

Lay low.

Boom Boom will cool out.

You need to buy some time, Harry.

I'm so tired of running, Helen.

Then stop.

Give me a kiss.

Hey, Harry.

Where are they?

There they go, the motherfuckers!

Say it out loud

I'm freaky styley

and I'm proud

Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!

I'm here, I'm here.

All right? I'm here.

I'm here, I'm here!

You beat on ladies, you f***?

She's a good chick.

You want to kill me? I don't give a sh*t.

I don't give a sh*t!

I loved Al so much,

you know what I got for it,

you know what the f*** I got for it?

This is what I got from the guy

who beat Al to death,

the guy you cowards

should really be after.

This is me doing your f***in' job,

f***in' me, with my bare goddamn hands,

standing between some

giant f***ing animal,

hated Al from the get-go,

beating him to death!

This is me! I'm using my body

to save his f***in' life.

He's laying, I'm holding

his face in my hands.

I said, "Don't you die,

Daddy! Please, don't you die!"

He's laying there. I'm holding

his face in my hands,

and this big bastard's kicking me.

I'm holding his head, the bastard's

kicking me, nobody's doing nothing.

"Don't you f***in' die, Al, please, man.

I won't let him kill you, man.

I won't let him kill you."

Where the f*** were you

guys when we needed you,

when Al needed you?

What the f***?

You see this?

You see this?

What do you think?

Me and Al were just in

for the f***in' money, man?

The money? Hey!

There's the money.

I got kicked, punched and smacked around

six ways from f***ing Sunday, man.

I held a dying man in my arms,

so f*** you!

F*** you! F*** you!

How'd I do here?

How'd I do here?

I don't know.

Are we even?

Are we even?

Are we even?

Are we even?

Are we even?

Are we even?

Harry.

The restaurant, where is it, Big Sur?

Yeah, around there.

Good. Everybody's there's

into punishment food, right?

Beans, yeast, whole grains.

We got to fly in the face to that.

We got to go high cholesterol:

Deli, egg rolls, chicken fat.

They'll kill each other

to fall off the health wagon.

Natural food is not natural, believe me.

We'll call it, like, Greenstreet's,

you know, like Sydney Greenstreet,

like the fat man, like Greenstreet's...

- I'm calling it Helen's.

- That's good, too.

We'll get pictures of

all the famous Helens:

Keller, Reddy, of Troy.

Then six years down the line,

all goes well,

you could run for mayor,

like Clint Eastwood.

Or President, like Ronald Reagan.

Enough, enough.

You know what I'm doing,

saying all this, Helen?

You know what this is?

Guess what this is.

This is my Harry Fabian imitation.

Pretty good, right?

Boxing. Jesus, I must have

been out of my mind.

Yes

I'm the great pretender

Pretendin'

I'm doing well

My need is such

I pretend too much

I'm lonely

But no one can tell

Yes

I'm the great pretender

Adrift in a world

of my own

I play the game

But to my real shame

You've left me

To dream all alone

Too real is this feeling

of make believe

Too real when I feel

What my heart

can't conceal

Yes,

I'm the great pretender

Just laughin' and gay

like a clown

I seem to be

What I'm not, you see

I'm wearing my heart

Like a crown

Pretending that

you're still around

Yeah

hoo

Too real when I feel

What my heart

can't conceal

Yes,

I'm the great pretender

Just laughin' and gay

like a clown

I seem to be

What I'm not, you see

I'm wearing my heart

Like a crown

Pretending that

you're still around

Around

Yes,

I'm the great pretender

Just laughin' and gay

like a clown

I seem to be

What I'm not, you see

I'm wearing my heart

Like a crown

Pretending that

you're still around

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