Stakeout Page #4

Any trimline or videophone|or anything at all?

- You really are a phone man, aren't you?|- Why do you say that?

You're still working on another line.|Get it?

- Got it. - Good.|- Sixteen thirteen.

- Hope your phone breaks real soon.|- Promise you'll fix it if it does?

I promise.

Bye.

Eating in between meals?

"Eating in between meals?"

Wait a minute. Don't go!

Oh, sh*t.

You wouldn't be headed|in my direction, would you?

I'm sorry, I don't know your name.

- Uh, uh, uh, uh, Bill.|- Bill. - Bill. - Bill.

- I'm Maria.|- Hi.

Hi. Can I make you a trade?|A cup of coffee for a ride home?

My bike has a stupid flat, and it's|only getting ready to rain, and I-

Well, uh, um-

- Please?|- Yeah, yeah, what the hell.

- Okay, thank you.|- We'll put it in the trunk. Come on.

I don't believe this.

- Yeah.|- Hi.

- I'm gonna be a little late.|- No, no, no, no, take your time.

No, no, I stopped off|for a cup of coffee.

Well, uh, then have two cups.

Nothing going on here.|Just some dull old police work.

Great, great. Tell me, uh,|how's that forklift coming?

- I'll be about a half hour.|- Where are my doughnuts, you prick?

Maybe more.

You really are a nice guy,|aren't you?

- Don't say that!|- Why? You are.

You gave me a ride home.|You're unpacking my groceries.

You fixed my phone.|You're nice.

I know, I know, I know.|I'm nice. I'm nice. I hate that.

It's a curse.

It's like "medium. "

I always wanted to be bad.

Uh, these go in the sack.

You think bad is good?

Well, yeah. I always wanted|a little bad, you know?

I thought it would make|my nice better.

Let me tell you something.|Bad isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Bad is bad, and I think right now|I'd settle for a little nice.

I think.

What are we talking about?

Dinner.

Do you like Mexican food?

I made this mean camarones veracruzanos.|You like spicy?

I love spicy.

Good. Well, then, you're gonna|want to marry me after this.

Oh, Chris.

For crying out loud.

Oh, yeah.

We could be so hot together

Hot together

We could be so hot together

Together

- Aw, this is ridiculous.|- We happened to be at the same party

- We left it up to chance|- I'm gonna kill him.

I was born on the Day of the Dead, see,|and it's a very big deal in Latino cultures.

They want it to make fun of death and|to take it seriously at the same time.

So every year|as long as I can remember...

someone in my family's always given me|some kind of skeleton on my birthday.

And now I've got this full graveyard.

We could be so hot|Hot together

Got a big family?

My younger brother still lives|at home with my mom except this week...

and I've got a ton of relatives|in Veracruz.

About your brother- I, uh-|I happen to know a couple of cops.

I could ask around, you know,|find out what's going on.

- You think they'd tell you?|- Yeah, if they want their phones to work.

Oh, that would be nice. Oh, God.|I'm sorry. There's that word again.

God, I like your smile.

Excuse me.|I must be kind of drunk.

- Maria, let me ask you something.|- What, Mr Bill?

How come you know so much|about what's bad?

Well...

there was this man once,|and he was violent and crazy...

and dangerous, and I-

I was insane.

I was insane because|I was with him for a while.

It's all over now.

Did you love him?

I was crazy, I think.

- Where is he now?|- Why do you ask?

Why do you think?

- I think I have to go.|- Yeah, me too. I've got the late shift.

No, no, no, leave them.|I'll do them in a couple of years.

You want to know what|the best thing you said tonight was?

What?

- That you liked my smile.|- Oh.

I know, I know, I know.|I'm nice. I know.

I'm not that nice.

Honey, I'm home.

I bumped into her|at the goddam store.

What was I supposed to do,|pretend that I'd never seen her before?

Anyway, we're supposed to be watching the house,|right? So I was watching the house from the inside.

Nothing. Here are your doughnuts.|Here. I didn't eat one of them.

There's a glaze on it and everything.|I got you some Pringles and some Oreos.

You, uh, gonna get together|with her again?

- Maybe go to see a movie maybe?|- Oh, give me a break. Come on. Hey, she made me some dinner.

- That was it.|- Nothing more?

Nothing more.

Okay, Mr Liar.

Sergeant Bernie called,|said that Reynaldo McGuire...

was arrested on the 17th|for a GTA.

Wouldn't just happen to be|any relation, would it?

Give me a break, will you?|She told me her brother was in jail.

I checked it out.|I thought it was a lead.

- A lead?|- Yeah. A lead.

Okay. Fine. You tell me you're checking|out a lead, I'm gonna believe you're-

Checking out a lead.

I realize this is a sh*t detail.

Oh, boy. I mean, can we talk, you know?|Nobody's really gonna care what we do.

- Bottom of the barrel.|- Right.

But I would appreciate that you not act like|a walking hard-on while we're working together.

Excuse me.

Succinctly put.

All the money|in the cash register right now.

Okay, okay.|Take it easy.

Reach me up and get me|a hunting knife, would you, please?

Sorry, buddy, we're closed.

- Seventy-two.|- What do we got? What do we got?

- Two seventy-three.|- All right. That's plenty, man.

That's all we need.|All we need is gas money.

- Yeah, it's hardly worth rubbing people out for.|- What?

Nothin'.

What did I do now?

Reynaldo, right?

Ray.

I heard you got yourself|into a little trouble.

You a cop?

- You a criminal?|- No.

This girl's father's got it in for me.

He does, huh?

Why?

He doesn't want me|seeing his daughter.

- She's pretty precious, huh?|- Yeah.

So why'd you hot-wire the car?

We thought it'd be okay.

I was stupid.

It's not very pleasant|being in here, is it?

Why do you care?

I just want to find out what kind|of a guy you are before I get you out.

Get me out. I can't take|another night in this place.

You like to work with your hands?

I got a job here, construction.|Starts Monday morning, 7:30 to 5:00.

Five days a week.|Got to be home every night.

That's the deal.

Every night.

Take it and you're out of here.

Mess with me and you're right back in.|What do you say?

Deal.

Okay.

What rock did they find you under?

Anything I can do to make your stay here|more pleasant, buddy, you just let me know.

- Great.|- Hey, Lecce, I want to talk to you.

- You should be getting some sleep. What are you doing?|- I heard you wanted to talk to me.

Yeah, a couple of cops sitting on a stake-out in|fourth precinct just got caught on a procedure.

Seems they got overanxious,|blew their cover.

I don't want this to happen here.|You pass it on.

- No funny stuff. - No funny|stuff. Okay, got it. - Right. Right.

Okay, you got it. You got it.|No funny stuff.

Excuse me!|Bill, how are you?

- I'm okay. I'm okay.|- What are you doing here?

Well, I just had, uh, a, uh, you know.|No, no, no, what are you doing here?

- I heard you were supposed to be at work.|- Well, I was, but they let me off early so I could see my brother.

- You know, they only have certain|hours here, and- - Hey, fishman.

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