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on me tomorrow for four months.
- Well, have a good rest, man.
Can I talk to you
for a second, Cosmonaut?
No, man, I'm on a roll.
This is a very emotional game.
Gotta do it.
- [Speaking In Russian]
- I counted these.
Leave it.
It's fine.
[Speaking In Russian]
- What's going on?
- Where are you at?
I was pumped up eight G's. I was ready
to go on a run when you came along.
- All right, listen.
- Hey, wait, I want a hot dog.
You're in town for five f***in' minutes,
you already got a sign on your back.
Oh, what, that f***in' Knish
rat me out?
You gotta stop listening
to that guy, man.
He sees all the angles, but
he doesn't have the balls to play one.
Hey, that guy hasn't had to
work in 15 years, Worm.
You don't think that's work,
what he does?
Grinding it out on his f***in'
leather ass? No, thank you.
I thought so, too, all right?
Now I know what real work is.
Speaking of which,
are you even gonna get a job?
Or are you just gonna go back
to printing those credit cards?
- Huh? You gonna go away again?
- I wasn't printing.
I was distributing. Distributing.
It's different, okay?
Second of all, I'm never
going back there.
Stop worrying
so much, okay?
Come here.
I just want you to think
long term, all right? Be smart.
Every place in Manhattan,
they all keep books, all right?
If you get listed as a mechanic,
then not only are you gonna
get the sh*t kicked out of you,
you're not gonna get a f***in' game
anywhere in New York.
It's stupid.
It's just bad business.
Look, this is what I love about you...
you think about the big picture.
That's great, okay?
But it's not me.
I don't play the game straight up,
and then if I lose,
go get some real work
or something, okay?
I see a mark,
I take him down.
That's what I do.
That's the way I live.
I know. Listen, you're the guy
who taught me all the angles.
- But I'm not the guy
with my nose open right now.
- Aw, come on.
I'm not gonna preach to you, but those
two guys in there, they're not rabbits.
Roman and Maurice?
Not as bad as KGB, but you don't want
to be f***in' with those guys.
With those fake
Versace shirts and sh*t? Jesus.
Look, you still got time.
Just go back in there, right?
Lose their f***in' money
back to 'em, all right?
Just make it look good.
Just catch a run of real shitty cards.
- Give it back to 'em.
- I can't. I can't.
I gotta put some scratch together, man.
I gotta get somethin' going.
Then go out to suburbia, man. Play
in a f***in' dentist's game, okay?
- Go to Swan Meadow,
play in the golf pro game.
- That's an idea.
I'll definitely do that,
but I can't dump to these guys.
You got to.
All right,
whatever, whatever.
Meet me at Stromboli's
in half an hour, all right?
I can't, I gotta go.
I have a meeting.
And then I gotta go to f***in' Queens.
I gotta load the truck.
Jesus, man, you're such
a f***in' workin' man now.
- Make it look good.
I mean it, make it look good.
- You know me.
- So, how'd you do?
- Ah, so-so.
Six thousand,
two thousand.
Oh, hold on.
Two more.
All right, so it's
ten grand total,
take back the two we lent you,
give you the white meat.
You know what?
Why don't you give me
all of it?
Usually, credit players
Otherwise, the juice starts
five points a week on Mike.
Oh, okay.
We'll owe you.
[Sighs]
Hey. I've been looking
all over for you.
Didn't want to
be found.
You know, Petrovsky waited and waited.
So did the rest of the group.
- Jo, look, I missed one meeting.
- It's not about the meeting.
I don't care about the meeting. Do
you even know why I left this morning?
- I found that gangster's roll
in your pocket.
- It's not what you think.
- It's not what you think.
- Who do you think I am?
You lie right to my face?
Look, old days at least
you never lied.
You lost everything,
Jo, this wasn't even a real game.
This was like Wiffle Ball.
- Can you lose your rent
playing Wiffle Ball?
- No, I couldn't lose.
- That's the point.
- No, Mike, you can lose.
I watched you, I stood by you while
you lost everything before.
- I don't think I can go
through that with you again.
- Jo, I wasn't gonna lose!
Why does this still seem
like gambling to you?
Why do you think the same five guys
make it to the final table...
every single year?
What are they, the luckiest guys
in Las Vegas?
- It's a skill game, Jo.
- Great. So why'd you
have to lie to me?
- Because I knew you wouldn't understand.
- Understand what?
Last night, I sat down
at this card table.
I felt alive for the first time since
I got busted at KGB's joint, okay?
You just told me you felt alive for
the first time at a f***ing card table.
- No, what...
- What's that supposed to
make me understand?
[Sighs]
[Rock]
Midnight, gettin' uptight
Where are you
- You said you need me
but it's quarter to 2:00
- I heard you was out.
Hey, f***in' Grama.
How you doin'?
- I was just thinkin' about you.
You know, I could use you.
- Oh, yeah?
See me in, like, two weeks.
I'll put you back on the payroll.
Well, I got some bad news for ya, Worm.
I'm out on my own now.
- Really?
- Yeah.
Go figure.
There were a lot of angry people when
you went away. A lot of people were mad.
I know, Grama, that's why I'm trying
to put together a roll here.
A lot of people coming up to me,
asking if I could help,
asking if I knew
where to find you.
- So, it got me to thinkin'.
- Really, you thinkin' now? That's big.
Hey, Jesus! Come on!
Take it easy.
It's just
a friend of mine.
Hey! Easy, easy, easy, easy.
God!
Get the f*** outta here.
What did I say?
- Hey, man, take it easy!
- Get the f*** outta here!
Okay.
Here's what I'm thinkin'.
Instead of you owing 15 grand spread out
to five guys, you owe 25 to me.
What? Where the f***
do you get off? 25 grand?
Where the f***
do I get off?
[Grunts]
Ohh.
Here's how it is. 25 grand,
and the juice is still runnin'.
Jesus Christ.
What the f*** are you doin', man?
You were my partner.
No, no,
I was your lackey.
But I learned
a few things, Worm.
I consolidated
your outstanding debt.
[Scoffs] Where'd you get
the scratch for that?
You've been rolling fags
in the Village again. [Grunts]
- Still a wise ass. Unbelievable.
- [Spits]
What I did was go partners
with an old friend of yours.
Bullshit.
Bullshit.
[Spits]
Teddy's got plenty of goons.
Why would he put you
under his flag?
Because as soon as he heard your name,
he became real excited for the prospect.
What, so you bought me up, Grama?
[Scoffs]
Yeah, got a real sweet deal, too.
There's not a lot of faith in you
out there in the business community.
Great, so you're a banker now, Grama.
That's really classy.
Not exactly. I don't have to tell you
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