Paper Moon Page #7

Let's cut this ring around the rosy.

Where's that...

...money?

You think I'm fooIing around?

I ain't fooIing around.

Maybe you'II come around in time.

Get a IittIe thirsty, get a IittIe hungry.

Time has a way with criminaIs.

- Don't it, Beau?

- Sure do.

It's aImost five. Somebody ought to be

stirring at the caf. I'II step over there.

See if that famiIy friend is there.

I'II be back before Iong.

I got aII day, you know?

Got aII the time in the worId.

# ,,,trouble's just a bubble

and the clouds will soon go by

# So let's have another cup of coffee

Let's have another piece of pie

# Let a smile be your umbrella

for it's just an April shower

# Even John D Rockefeller,,, #

Sir, may I get my things, pIease?

OK.

# ,,,so now's the time to buy

So let's have another cup of coffee

# And let's have another piece of pie

Daddy, I need the shithouse.

There's one down the haII.

Daddy, I'm scared. I want you to come

and stand by the door.

AII right if I go with her?

Down there.

- Run!

- You crazy?

Where are we running? God!

Stop them bootIeggers!

- This is the craziest...

- Hurry!

I'm hurrying!

- BootIeggers!

- Oh, Jesus!

(SIREN)

- I'II hit him!

- He can jump!

I couId've kiIIed him!

They couId've had me for murder!

- They're shooting at us!

- They're missing. Go!

We won't make it! Not in this car!

Every Iawman in Kansas wiII be Iooking

for it. We got to cross the river!

- Where's the bridge?

- Jesus!

- What?

- The bridge is the other way!

- What?!

- Hang on!

(SIREN)

It's no good! We'II make it too easy

for them! We got to get off this road!

HoIy smoke!

- BIow your horn!

- Won't heIp. He can't puII off the road.

SeIIing whiskey to a sheriff's brother!

(SIREN)

- Hang on to your hat! HoId on!

- Oh, God!

- You aII right?

- Uh-huh.

We heId them, but we got to get off

this road or we'II be in town.

Get that money out! You'II stop my heart!

We made it, didn't we?

Anybody to home?

Howdy.

Need to get rid of my car here.

I need to get rid of my car. Sheriff

wants to put her in an orphanage.

Know anybody that might want to swap?

How about that truck there?

We'II just Iet him chew on it a whiIe.

WeII, the rear tyres Iook new, anyway.

- The radio Iooks OK.

- Think it runs?

- It better!

- Where wiII we go?

Out of Kansas,

across the river to St Jo, that's where.

Here he comes.

(MOZE) Look at them aII.

I want a swap and three days' start

before you take it out.

(HORN)

It's aII IegaI. Got the papers here.

FiII out the form and you own it.

Ain't going to swap.

It's brand-new.

- That car ain't no good!

- What's the matter with it?

Can't hauI nothing in it.

If that's aII, you can seII it

and get two trucks to do your hauIing.

Ain't going to swap.

- RassIe you for it.

- You crazy?

If I win, we swap. You win, keep the car

and the truck. Quiet.

- What kind of rassIing?

- You name it.

- Catch as can?

- Shoes or barefoot?

- Makes no never mind to me.

- Barefoot.

(ALL) Ya-ha!

Go on, Leroy, go on!

You'II get kiIIed

just to give something away.

Ain't got no choice.

(OLD MAN) Get that city boy!

Get the city boy!

- Let's go.

- Make him say ''caIf rope'', Leroy.

Come on, Leroy. Get him, Leroy.

Get him!

You stop that! You make him fight fair!

Look out for that rake!

Watch out!

Let's go in the car!

Yee-ha! Ya-hoo! Whoo!

(THEY BEEP THE HORN)

(TRUCK RATTLES )

- Are you pushing?

- Of course I'm pushing!

OK, it'II go now.

Put your foot on the brake.

- The brake!

- It don't work!

The brake, goddamn it, the brake!

- Don't you know where the brake is?

- It don't work.

Oh! WeII, it figures.

WeII, we're in Missouri.

What'II we do now?

Drop some twenties?

- How much money we got?

- $837 and some change.

We're just outside St Jo.

- So what?

- So...

It's a big town.

We can do better than twenties.

(RADlO ) Y'all know that one,

''Let's have another cup of coffee, ''

lt's 1 0,30 Sunday morning in St Jo

and y'all get to church now, OK?

Here's the news, ln Omaha,

President Roosevelt told the nation,,,

Moze, what if he don't beIieve you?

He wiII. He's out to make a kiIIing,

just Iike us.

- Maybe he don't have a siIver mine?

- I checked. Where's the money?

He's just what peopIe say he is.

Rich and greedy.

PuII up your socks.

We couId get a house and everything.

Everything, just everything.

# Just around the corner

There's a rainbow in the sky... #

Got it? Corner of East Waring

and BurIington, 1 1 .00.

Just show up with tears in your eyes.

Don't forget the money.

Of course I won't.

See you in 30 minutes.

Moze, couId we get a piano?

A piano? We'II have a whoIe factory.

# Just around the corner

There's a rainbow in the sky #

I guess you just didn't make

a good enough swap.

My brother's reaI sore at you.

Seems you soId him his own whiskey.

You can't arrest me here.

Your brother's a bootIegger!

You got an awfuI big mouth, mister.

Maybe I can't arrest you in Missouri.

Maybe I don't want to.

But I can make sure you ain't going

to feeI good whiIe you're here.

Let's go!

(CLOCK CHIMES )

(TYRES SQUEAL)

(FAINT) Addie!

Addie.

Moze!

Moze.

- I...I swaIIowed my goId tooth.

- Oh, Moze...

- They took it aII.

- You're aII beat up.

Nothing's Ieft.

I've been keeping $1 0 for emergencies!

What'II we do with $1 0?

Buy BibIes. Do a IittIe widow business.

Must be Iots of good towns around here.

Do twenties, drop some waIIets.

Before you know it, we'II be good again.

I'II bet in no time, we couId have

a whoIe new car and everything.

You're taking me

to Aunt BiIIie's now, ain't you?

I won't.

- Don't cry.

- I won't.

It's where we set out for, ain't it?

Looks nice.

Yeah, Iooks reaI fine.

- That must be your uncIe.

- He Iooks nice, too.

Yep, reaI nice.

Maybe if RooseveIt comes by,

they'II take me to see him.

- If you write him, he can write back now.

- He might at that.

Course he wiII.

Ain't no question but he wiII.

AII this taIk's just wasting time.

There's your skates and your radio.

- Where wiII you go?

- I got pIans.

New ideas coming in every day.

Get going.

If I knew for sure you wasn't my pa...

It's for sure I ain't.

Sometimes I used to figure

Mr Connors couId have been my pa.

The way he touched my shouIder. Get

me things from the candy counter free.

And Mr Pritchard,

he smiIed at me once, reaI nice.

Except they don't have my jaw

or nothing.

So Iong.

Ain't you coming to the door with me?

There it is. Right there.

- They'II wonder how I got here.

- TeII them a famiIy friend brung you.

You had troubIe on the way with your car

and with finances.

Get going.

(TRUCK BACKFIRES )

Yes?

Yes?

I'm Addie.

Addie! Aah.

I've been worried sick about you!

Come on in.

(RADIO - MELANCHOLY MUSIC )

(RADIO OFF)

I've been writing, and

your UncIe DanieI's been trying to caII

to see where you've been.

You're the spitting image of your mother.

Pretty as a picture.

I don't know why I go on.

What you need is coId Iemonade.

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