Once Upon a Time in America Page #2

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Boy, I got a lot of work to do.

Hold it a minute!

Now it's 6:
35.

And I ain't got a damn thing to do.

Just you wait, a**hole.

I'll do something with your time.

Wait! Hey!

Since we're talking about time...

...it looks like you're gonna break

that lamp at 6:
36.

- Where'd you pinch this?

- It's mine.

- Prove it.

- I gave it to him.

Oh, yeah?

Who the hell are you?

- Where you from?

- The Bronx.

And you give away watches?

He's my uncle.

- And who gave it to you?

- My Uncle Nathan.

My little brother.

Tell your uncle

to stop by the precinct.

- He's dead!

- Alcoholic!

In Kishnev, Poland.

Then he don't need it no more.

It's been requisitioned.

- What's that mean?

- Pinched, by him. At 6:37.

Just remember,

I got my eye on you two.

I got my eye on you too!

Take it! Take it!

Take the lamp off. I can't hold it.

Max!

Who's this?

My uncle!

- That one. With the cream.

- The 5-cent one?

Yeah!

For the twopenny one she only gives

you a hand job. I can do that myself.

Not that one!

That one.

You sure?

Wrap it up pretty.

Good morning. Peggy home?

She's taking a bath.

That's great. Would you be

so kind to tell her I'm here?

Hey, Ma. Another bucket of water.

Wait!

- What do you want?

- Me?

- Mama said you were looking for me.

- Oh, yeah! No! The guys told me that...

- What?

- I'll come back some other time.

Noodles!

Noodles! Noodles!

Noodles!

Did you get it?

- His a**hole blinked, but we got him.

- Nice going, Fartface. And on duty too.

You boys caught me

with my pants down that time.

No, we caught you with

your schmuck in a minor.

- Put this someplace safe.

- That's all right. Hey, hold it!

Where you going?

Hold it! Wait a minute!

Hey, you, stop! Hold it.

- What are you gonna do with that plate?

- Depends. What time is it, Max?

I think it's time

we got our watch back.

- Okay, boys, we're even.

- The hell we are.

You'll be collecting your

pension before we're even.

Hiya, fellas!

What do you boys want?

First off...

- ... you're paying Peggy for us.

- Okay! That's it?

Go ahead while I tell him.

I can't believe it. My first time

and a lousy cop's paying for it.

Now, look, what else do you kids

want for that plate, huh?

Noodles was telling me about a guy called Bugsy.

Seems he's boss in this neighbourhood, thanks to you.

- Meaning what?

- Meaning he pays you off.

Will you slow down?

What is your hurry? Take it easy.

If you keep this up,

you're gonna come too fast.

Do you see what I mean?

You're so stupid. I can't believe it.

So why does Bugsy pay you?

What do you do for him?

- I close an eye once in a while.

- Well, now you close an eye for us.

Why?

What are you kids up to?

He'll tell you!

Me, him, Cockeye and Patsy,

we're working together.

Bugsy will flatten you.

And besides, I don't put up with no

trouble on my beat.

You'll put up, and you'll shut up.

You hear nothing, and you see nothing.

Just like you did for Bugsy.

Sh*t!

Don't get upset. That makes it worse.

It can happen the first time.

- It's them two talking out there.

- Can't you see you're ruining the mood?

We made our deal.

- So take a walk.

- Come here, honey.

- Feel good, bubeleh?

- He'll never get it up.

Relax. Okay.

Calm down, calm down.

Okay. Okay, come here.

I'm glad the baby's better.

- Happy Pesach, Deborah.

- Happy Pesach, Becky.

Hurry.

We're gonna be late.

- There's Deborah.

- Sorry. Mama needed help.

Good girl. I just locked up,

and I'm giving you the keys.

I thought I'd just practice

my dance routines, that's all. All right?

Deborah, you don't let the goyim in.

- Okay, bye.

- See you later, Debbie. Bye.

Get down off of there, roach!

That record's just like Ex-Lax.

Every time I put it on,

you have to go to the bathroom.

What are you doing?

- Give me a drink.

- We're closed.

Nice people don't drink on Pesach.

They go to the synagogue.

So, what are you doing here?

Somebody's got to keep an eye

on the place.

There are a lot of thieves out there.

One could get into your house.

Especially if you leave the door open.

You can pray here too.

Here or in the synagogue,

to God it's the same difference.

Come over here and sit down.

"My beloved is white and ruddy.

His skin is as the most fine gold.

His cheeks are as a bed of spices. "

Even though he hasn't washed

since last December.

"His eyes are as the eyes

of doves.

His body is as bright ivory.

His legs are as pillars of marble. "

In pants so dirty

they stand by themselves.

"He is altogether lovable. "

But he'll always be a two-bit punk...

...so he'll never be my beloved.

What a shame.

Somebody's there.

There ain't nobody.

- It's Max.

- Ah! So that's who it was!

Noodles!

Go on, run.

Your mother's calling you!

Noodles!

Just gonna go see what he wants.

- You been here long?

- No!

Were you in there?

You're one lousy kisser.

I seen you go in there after that ball-buster!

Here's the stuff from last night. We got

Shitsy Lipschitz wouldn't cough up any more.

We gotta get somebody else.

I came to divy up!

- Tomorrow, with the others.

- I also came to pick you up.

- I can't come right now.

- The houses, the stores, they are all empty.

We got our pick.

You pick that.

Yeah!

Some partner I got.

Have fun!

How's it going, boys?

- Who's that?

- Bugsy!

I hear you guys are in business

for yourselves now,huh?

I hear youse are doing real good.

Ain't you gonna introduce me

to your friend here?

I'll introduce myself.

Excuse the glove.

Son of a b*tch!

That's my cut.

You don't work for me,

you don't work for no one.

I don't like bosses.

You was better off

you stayed in the Bronx.

It would have been

better for you too!

- I'm gonna kill him one of these days.

- Yeah?

Meantime it looks like he's killed us.

Deborah, open up the door.

Deborah, open up the door!

Deborah!

- That stuff, is it ready?

- We're loading it.

- Che cazzo succede down here?

- Al, we got the big boys with us today.

- They wanna work for us.

- Doing what Bugsy did. We want his job.

Do you get that?

We the best escorts you ever gonna get.

A fangulo a ma, escort your

mother's ass out of here.

Okay. Let's go, Noodles.

We'll peddle your invention somewhere else, huh?

Hey, wait a minute!

What invention?

- You ship your stuff by the river, right?

- Si, sometimes!

And when you get caught by the coast guard

you gotta throw all the cases overboard.

- You lose the whole shipment, Capua.

- So?

For 10 percent,

we'll save it all for you.

- What do you got, a submarine?

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