Quicksilver Page #2

I just want to know who

I'm loaning five bucks to.

- Where you from, Terri?

- DC.

Thanks.

Thank you.

- Three.

- Five.

That's too much.

Five... or get out.

Okay. We'll take 'em.

Five thousand.

Come on, come on.

Take it.

No, I haven't seen him for a while.

Yeah, I know.

It's business before pleasure, baby.

- I gotta go now.

- Catch you later.

Bye.

Hey, Gypsy.

What's happenin'?

- What is this?

- Huh?

You deliver short,

hustle my customers for yourself?

- What you talkin' about, man?

- You don't work for me no more.

Go back to bumpin' envelopes.

Disappear.

The street is

free enterprise, Gypsy.

You work your side...

I work mine.

Come on, man!

Emilio, let me have a hot dog

with everything on it...

and a vegetarian

for my friend here.

It's ''cherridy,'' man.

Beautiful.

Look at the wheels.

They're new.

Yeah, well, almost new.

And dig, man, it's got two sections--

got your hot dogs, got your ices.

The umbrella, I'd get rid of that.

I'd put my own, you know.

Thank you.

''Hector's Hot Dogs.''

- Uh-huh.

- So, what do you think, man?

You know what I think?

I think you're gonna get flat feet

standin' in one place.

Ah, there's no future on a bike.

You fall, you get hurt...

you can't work, no money.

Look, I want something

to look forward to.

Can't stay on a bike forever, man.

Seventh Avenue, two of'em, Shortstop.

Go ahead.

I'm telling you, they would never

kick a door down, not my guys.

Apache, Midway. Go.

Whoa.

Excuse me.

You dropped somethin'.

Thanks.

All right!

Come on. Come on, fellas.

Back to work.

Anyway, I see interest rates

going down.

The Fed is expanding the money supply,

so I would...

move to decrease our cash position,

increase stock equity.

Yeah, but not yet.

Interest rates'll bump

a few more points first, man.

I'd buy high tech-- I BM, Teledyne.

What?

That's what old man Anderson said.

I wasn't sure. Now I am.

Listen,jack.

I wanna be straight with you.

Anderson wants to back us.

But it's you they really want.

I'm just part of the package.

I mean, not that I'm not good.

I make that jerk Anderson

look like a hero.

But I don't have half

of what you have.

You had the touch,jack.

Anyway, he'll back us 1 00%%.

I spoke to the lawyers, Burke and Blum.

They're the best.

Two years, three years tops,

we buy out Anderson's interest.

jack, we'd be back

in business our way.

Gabe, I'm happy for ya. I am.

But... I can't.

- What do you mean, can't?

- Look, you're my friend. The best.

I know you want it to be like it was,

but it's not for me.

Not now.

You're telling me that driving a bike

and delivering junk, that's for you?

I don't believe it,jack.

I don't.

- If not now,jack, when?

- Gabe, don't you understand?

I don't have it anymore.

I don't have the nerve.

Okay... you see, that was my--

That's what drove me.

And it went that day.

I don't know where it went,

you know, but it's gone.

You see, now all I'm

responsible for is me.

Okay? I pick up here, I deliver there.

It's simple.

Nobody worries, nobody gets hurt.

I pay my rent...

I got a couple extra bucks.

If I need more,

I work a few more runs.

And... when I'm on the street,

I feel good, man.

I feel good.

I feel... exhilarated.

I go as fast as I like--

faster than anyone.

A street sign says ''One Way, East,''

I go west.

They can't touch me.

When I'm on a bike, I forget about--

Well, I don't know.

- Hey, no, no, no.

- No, I got it. I got it.

Thanks for the coffee.

Hey, what's that mean

right there,jack?

- Collateral.

- Right. What's ''collateral'' mean?

What's this? ''Loan application.''

What are you doin'?

I'm borrowing some money--

you know, for the cart.

So?

- So, what?

- So, what does ''collateral'' mean?

It means you ain't gettin' no loan.

What it means is you've

gotta have capital goods.

- Capital goods?

- Yeah.

Something that is worth the same amount

or more than the principal.

The principal is the amount of money

that you want to borrow.

- Seven grand.

- Right. You got something worth $7,000?

Oh, yeah.

His pretty ass on the street!

Let me get this straight.

You mean I gotta have something worth

seven Gs if I wanna borrow seven Gs?

- Right.

- Sh*t, if I had something...

worth seven grand, what the hell

would I need to ask the bank for?

Well, it's a little more

complicated than that.

Don't you understand, brother...

that you's a spick... a beaner?

I mean, ain't gonna be

no white shirt and tie for you.

It takes it to get it.

The man says, ''If you don't have it,

then you ain't gonna get it.''

It ain't the man that steals

your future. It's your bitterness.

Oh, I guess I'm just

a dumb ol' uptown n*gger.

I don't know nothin' about

whatjack here knows, right?

- Right.

- Well, if that's the case...

and jack is so smart,

then what's he doin' here?

Hey, Voodoo, you got

something to say to me?

I say you full of sh*t,jack.

I say he'll beat your ass on any street,

any day of the week.

Oh, yeah? Well, where did you hear this?

I wanna know how you knew that.

Because your big mouth would

catch too much wind, that's why.

All right, flyboy.

Money talks...

and bullshit walks.

Check it out.

It's on the table, man.

- Hey, I'll take some of that.

- Yeah!

Hey, Voodoo, we down.

- Hey, where you going,jack?

- Look, Hector.

This is a job, okay? It's not a game.

I got deliveries to make.

Hey, but the fellas,

they got the money down on you.

I got a cheese sandwich and a coffee.

Give the change to Bernadette.

Hey, watch it!

Yo! One side!

What's the matter with you? What are

you doing riding on the sidewalk?

Are you crazy?

What the hell are you doing?

Wait a second!

I gotta get this stuff picked up!

I'm tellin' you,jack,

forget about it.

You're messin' with something

you don't know nothin' about.

All I'm sayin' is...

he could've avoided him.

He could've. I was there.

He ran him down for nothin'.

Not just for nothin'.

Voodoo was known to carry product

for some people.

- Yeah, to Gypsy.

- I don't know who.

- He doesn't know who.

- The brothers know who.

I don't wanna know who.

Voodoo stepped into that meat grinder

because he wanted the fast money.

He volunteered.

just be happy

it wasn't a closer race...

or there would've been

two funerals.

Dig?

Yeah, Quicksilver.

Oh, yeah, sure.

She's still with us.

Right. Uh-huh.

You got it. Terri.

- What?

- Terri, you got a command performance.

2829 Grand.

- What's ''a command performance''?

- That means you did a good job.

They asked for you by name.

- Come here.

- I can't. I'm workin'.

Yeah. 2829 Grand.

- Yeah.

- That's me. Come here.

You know where this is?

You didn't look at the address.

- 21 West Eighty-eighth Street.

- Know where that is?

Yeah, it's off the park.

What do you need me for? You got a car.

You wanna conduct an interview,

or do you wanna work?

- I was just--

- Look, Terri.

I'll find someone else.

Give it back.

No, that's all right.

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