Night and the City Page #8

Take it easy, take it easy.

Anything happens to you, I'm a dead man.

- You got to pay Al, you know.

- You?

What the f*** I got to pay you for?

I thought you loved boxing.

You got any money I can borrow?

How about that old tune,

your girlfriend there?

She win at cards a lot?

I'll tell you who I like.

I like that kid there.

And that kid over there. See him?

That kid eating Fritos is good, too.

And that lightweight, you know?

And, these two kids here.

They got fast hands.

They're brothers.

The brother thing I like.

Get them to fight each other.

Cain and Abel. I like that. I like that.

This, I don't know.

Everybody's from uptown,

it's like a night in Nairobi.

How about him?

Adam Carrington there.

And this kid, Battling Chan.

Got to get Moshe Dayan.

Come on, now.

Will you be serious?

No, I'm serious.

I'm serious as cancer.

Wait a minute.

Excuse me. Excuse me.

What do you mean, you're leaving me?

Feel better now?

No, worse.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Come here.

Come over here.

F*** you!

Let me kiss you, Helen.

Let me kiss you, Helen.

Just let me talk to you, Helen.

Don't walk away from me.

Just let me talk to you.

You go to hell.

Enough of this sh*t.

Where'd you get the money for

the liquor license, Helen?

- I earned it.

- What do you mean? Like tips?

You saved up your tips?

Don't you f***ing touch me!

I kept sticking him,

sticking him, sticking him.

Finally, wham, boom!

I hit him a hook.

- Harry, I want you to meet Bobo Epstein.

- Bobo.

- Tommy Carver.

- Tommy.

- Freddy...

- Freddy.

- DiMario.

- That's right. And Jap Epstein.

- Jap, how are you?

- They all got good boys.

Who's got the brothers?

- Me.

- They fight each other?

Heh. Not

without knives.

Helen, what are you doing here?

Hey! I did it.

I'm free.

Jesus. What happened?

F***in' Phil, you know.

Yeah.

- Helen, listen, listen.

- What?

This other place in California,

where's that at?

Somewheres out of Big Sur. Redwoods.

Something like that.

Maybe you should

try that place after all.

You know, New York, Phil,

with the license...

There's so many factors around here.

You should like, start

like real fresh, you know?

New York's a sewer,

if you think about it.

Jesus, what...

Come on upstairs, you can

tell me all about it.

No, I'm serious.

Sh*t happens.

Look what happened to you.

How can you tell me something like this?

Phil, I almost didn't.

I said to myself, Boom Boom,

keep your nose out where it don't belong.

But then I said to myself,

Phil's your friend.

Even then, I said,

"Don't tell him, Boom Boom."

But then I hear,

like the straw that broke

the camel's back...

You loaned this guy money.

I said to myself, enough

is enough, Boom Boom.

Do your duty.

Weather the storm of outrage.

Helen and Fabian.

Harry Fabian.

Where do you think he got the money,

from the money store?

How did she get a liquor

license with her record?

She must know some funny

phone numbers down there.

Or she knows somebody that

knows some funny phone numbers.

I mean, I'll do this for you,

you'll do this for me.

Come on, Phil. Do you think

I enjoy telling you this?

This is like agony for me.

This guy's a total f***,

which I'm sure doesn't come

as a big revelation to you.

I'm sorry,

but you're better off hearing it from me,

you know what I mean?

You should put their records

under their names, Harry.

You're right.

Absolutely right.

OK, so you put the records,

but put high wins and low losses, OK?

High wins, low losses.

Anything else?

Yeah. I was just thinking,

you know what?

You know what you should do?

Put Irish before Steve Cotton,

- put ice between Al and Cole.

- You finished?

You want these things today or not?

Yeah. Yeah, wait. Let me

finish, let me finish.

OK, let's see.

I got a great, great f***ing idea.

I should have thought of this before.

I cannot f***ing believe this.

This is a great, great idea.

You know that sporting

goods store Bojack's?

Well, one of the guys, Bo Feldman,

he sued his partner, I got

him the store more or less,

the guy still owes me.

So I'll get all these

boxing gloves, you know?

I'll get like a couple of hundred,

say, let's say 200 boxing gloves, right?

I'll say "free boxing gloves"

"to the first 200 customers," right?

And I'll put up here,

"Get punchy, New York."

Great idea.

Great f***ing idea.

Voila. Finished.

OK. 300 posters.

The tickets...

2,000 tickets.

2,001.

One for yourself.

And one.

- $1,500.

- That sounds fair.

- I'll pay you right after the fight.

- Bullshit!

Come on. Herman.

OK, right after the fight no good?

- OK, before the fight, you happy?

- Harry...

Herman, Herman, I'm gonna

write you a bad check.

Do you want me to do that?

I'll write you one right now.

What are you worried about?

My backer can't pay me till

around the end of the fight,

so what's the difference?

Worse comes to worse, you'll

take it out of the receipts,

it'll be right there.

Levon.

Why do we always go through

this every time with you?

I'm gonna pay you...

I'm gonna give Levon my ticket, Harry.

- OK, I don't give a sh*t.

- You know what I mean?

Yeah, give it to anybody

you want. How you doing?

How you doing, hey. OK,

well, give him two tickets.

Come on, let's go.

Radar hands here.

You got it, I'm gonna find it.

I like what I do 'cause it feels so good.

All right, let's keep the line going.

Here to see

Mr. Resnick.

I know the routine.

It's Father Time again.

He's with me, he's with me.

I got to check him for hardware.

Can't you hear?

I'm with him.

He's with me. It's OK.

Go ahead in, pops.

F***ing piece of sh*t.

Very good, you did your

homework. I'm proud of you.

- Thank you. Good, good?

- I'm gonna do the same for you.

You can have all the

security in the world here.

- I was gonna use some of my own people.

- No, no, no, no,

- it's on the house. It comes with the place.

- Really?

I handle everything.

I handle the bar.

- Everything's taken care of for you.

- What do you mean,

- handle the bar?

- That's what I do for a living, I handle the bar.

- Yeah, but...

- Thank you. I'm in a meeting.

This scumbag is selling

blow in the joint.

Get him out of here.

Save this for later.

- Get the f*** out.

- F***in' idiot.

What's with the bar? What do

you mean, you handle the bar?

'Cause I'm equipped for that. That's

what I do. I'm equipped for everything.

I have the chairs, I got the ring.

It all goes into the rental.

You take care of the gate and

the fighters, it's that simple.

No, no, no, no.

Screw you, man.

- Screw me? Screw me?

- Yeah...

No, no, that's not the deal, man.

That's not the deal.

Hey, you know, you can wipe

your ass with this. Go ahead.

Go to a Ukrainian f***in'

dance hall. Get the f*** out.

Al, Al. Hey.

Don't touch me.

Who are you to touch me?

Al! Do you know whose

brother this is?

All right, relax.

This is Boom Boom's brother.

I don't want to be

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