Take the Money and Run Page #2

- What's your name?

- Louise. What's yours?

Virgil. Starkwell, Virgil Starkwell.

- What do you do?

- What I do? What I do?

Um... I play the cello.

- Oh! That's fantastic.

- I'm a cellist.

- It's a wonderful job.

- Are you with the Philharmonic?

- Yes I am actually.

- Oh, that's fantastic!

Yes, I'm looking for my group.

Quite a good group, yeah.

I dress like this 'cuz I'm just walking.

- Do you kind of want to go for a walk?

- O.K.

I, uh... I knew I was in love,

but... first of all I was nauseous.

You know, I've never met

such a pretty girl.

I guess I'm sensitive.

Because, you know real beauty

makes me want to gag.

Plus, I don't know how to act with girls.

I'm nervous, shy with woman.

I have a tendency to dribble.

Uh, you know the only girl I've ever

known was a girl in my neighborhood.

But she wasn't an attractive girl.

I used to make obscene

phone calls to her collect.

She'd accept charges all the time,

but nothing ever happened.

But here I'm lying through my teeth

and I can't tell Louise

that I was in jail and I rob and steal

and never did an honest day's work

in my life.

You know a lot of people hold

those things against you.

But she was so sweet.

We just walked in the park.

I was so touched by her. I don't know,

after 15 minutes I wanted to marry her.

After half an hour, I completely gave up

the idea of snatching her purse.

I wanted to actually tell her

I wasn't with the Philharmonic,

but she was so impressed by it.

When she asked me

some questions about Mozart,

she got suspicious because

for a minute I couldn't place the name.

I, uh, I don't know...

when it comes to woman.

In prison I remember this psychologist

asked by if I had a girl, I said no.

Then he asked me,

do I think sex is dirty.

And he said it is,

if you were doing it right.

All I know is my heart

was really pounding

and I felt a funny tingling all over.

I don't know, I was either in love

or I had small pox.

- Hey, you want to have dinner tonight?

- Sure!

You're very beautiful.

I really mean that.

- Is it embarrassing, when I say that?

- Uh huh, it does.

That's a pretty hat.

Thank you.

- Yeah, I see it all over town.

- Really?

I haven't seen it around town.

Yeah, they have it on sale.

I passed them, while I was walking

around the streets.

I passed a million of them

in one of those bins.

That's alright.

I can watch to eat for nice.

Why?

After dinner, we went for a walk.

I uh, asked her for a lock of

her hair you know.

And we didn't have any scissors so

I tried pulling it out.

And she was a good sport

I tell you know.

I'm telling you when she gets

excited she stuttered.

She was so cute that way.

I like a girl who stutters.

They turn red, always gasping

for breathe you know it's sweet.

And she, um,

she was an expert on laundry.

She was fantastic.

I offered her to let her do my shorts

and she was very moved

by that I think.

She just knows everything

about underwear.

I never saw anyone who knew

so much about socks and T-shirts.

She was some kind of

genius that way.

G... g... good night Virgil.

Continuing his deception,

Virgil sees Louise more frequently.

When she questions him about his

cello playing, he avoids the subject.

In order to better understand Louise,

let us examine her background briefly.

Adopted at age two, from a cruel

and impoverished orphanage

by a cruel military man and his wife,

she was subjected to an upbringing

of extreme discipline.

Which left her shy and withdrawn.

Never having a real home,

she lived on army bases

while her father pursued

a brilliant military career.

But after 30 years the cadet

his rank to corporal.

Her mother, an alcoholic turns

to religion for comfort

and quickly becomes a fanatic.

She responds to Louise's need for love

by beating the child

and claims to have

conversations with God

in which they discuss salvation

and interior decorating.

Destitute and in love Virgil attempts

to change his life with one bold stroke.

And if you just take this to

window number 9.

Thank you.

What does this say?

Uh, can't you read that?

I can't read this. What is this?

"Abt natural"?

No it just reads, "Please put $50

thousand into this bag. Act natural."

Does it say, "Act natural"?

I, uh, am pointing a gut at you.

That looks like "gub",

it doesn't look like "gun".

No, it's "gub". That's a B.

No you see, it's an N... G-U-N.

George, would you step over here

a moment please.

What does this say?

"Please put $50 thousand

into this bag and... abt"

- What's "abt"?

- "Act"

Does this look like "gub" or "gun"?

"Gun". You see.

But what's "abt", mean?

It's "act"...A- C-T, act.

Please put $50 thousand

into this bag. Act natural.

- Oh, I see, this is a hold up.

- Yes.

May I see your gun?

Well, you'll have to have this note

initialized by one of our vice-presidents

before I can give you any money.

I'm in a rush.

- What?!

- You see I'm in a rush.

I'm sorry, but that's our policy.

The gentleman in the gray suit.

That's gun... l'm pointing...

That's "gub"...

I'm pointing a gun at you.

That's B.

- No, it's N.

- Miss Frank!

"I'm pointing a gun at you.

Abt natural".

- What is "abt"?

- No, it's "act".

No, it couldn't be. It's a plain B.

No, no, I'm afraid not.

That's "act naturally.

I'm pointing a gun at you."

Mr. Miller!

"I'm pointing a gub"

No, that's gun, G-U-N.

It's "I'm pointing a gun at you."

It looks like a B, but it's a N.

Hello, Louise?

Listen, I can't make our date today.

I've got to go to Boston

and give a concert.

Well, look, why don't I give you

a call in about a...

In about 10 years.

Virgil Starkwell is apprehended

in the act of bank robbery.

He is given 10 years in the State's

strictest maximum-security prison.

It is here that he mingles with

harden criminals for the first time.

The prison has not been built that

can hold me, Virgil tells another inmate.

I'll get out of this one,

if it means spending my entire life here.

After all, what a child becomes...

Let's face it, it's our fault.

Would you let a man say

a word or two...

I knew there would be a day

when I said this kid is rotten.

You know the expression, a rotten kid?

That's what this kid is.

- It has to do with the genes.

- What?!? Genes??

Don't talk fancy in front of the man.

Because you know, you might

make an impression and you know...

The time passes slowly for Virgil.

He works hard and tries

to adjust to prison life.

He becomes a model prisoner

and is put to work in the laundry.

Visitor Starkwell.

For me?

I'm not with the Philharmonic.

I know.

I'm sorry.

It's O.K. Virgil. You don't mind

I came to see you, do you?

No, I'm more than happy to see you.

But how did you find out I was here?

I called your landlady.

She told me where you were.

She said that...

Virgil, did you rob a bank?

I did not rob a bank. If I robbed a bank,

everything would be great.

Well, what did you do?

I tried to rob a bank,

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