Take the Money and Run Page #6

Virgil, when are you going to

stop doing that?

Don't you realize you're a father?

You have responsibilities.

Well, if she's my wife,

I'd build her one.

Do you mind keeping

out of this please?!

I don't want to discuss

it unless we're alone.

Well, I want to discuss it now!

Alright, you don't want to

discuss it alone...

O.k. I'm going to the next room

and if you want to talk about it

right now!

I can't come in alone I'm chained.

We can't be alone unless

we go some place

where they have tools or something.

These guys are with me for good now.

How do you think I feel?

I'm a young woman sleeping

alone here every night.

Don't you think that mean

something to me?

How do you think I feel?

I look back to the days when

you were in the Philharmonic.

I was never in the Philharmonic.

- You used to lie in bed...

- Shut up!

You used to make love to me...

you used to recite poetry and...

- Poetry?

- And play with that doll you got me...

Darling look... you guys look away

for a minute...

Sweet heart, don't you know,

no matter what happens

you're going to mean the same to me.

You... would you stop giggling?

You'd always mean the sun

and the earth and the moon to me.

Oh Christ!

With Louise's help, the chains

are removed from Virgil's ankle.

Once more the family takes flight.

Feeling guilty about their son's

education, Louise tries tutoring him.

He's been very depressed.

I think... I think if he'd been

a successful criminal

he would of felt better.

You know he never made

the "Ten Most Wanted" list.

It's very unfair voting.

It's who you know.

Virgil Starkwell embarks

on a series of crimes

that make him a wanted desperado.

Here he attempts to rob

the vault of a bank.

But, finds a family of gypsies

are living there.

By the end of six months the FBI

regard Virgil as a menace.

Although he doesn't make

the "Ten Most Wanted" list,

he does win

"gangster of the year" award

and is asked to speak

at many luncheons and universities.

While the end of the story,

We spoke to Mr. Daniel Miller

an FBI agent and the author

of the book "Mother was a Red".

The FBI actually wanted

Virgil very badly.

Mr. Hoover was quite upset by

Mr. Starkwell and his activities.

In fact, he confided to me

on several occasions... uh...

I can remember one very well.

After a bowling match,

on a Thursday night,

he said he couldn't sleep nights

and was smoking a little too much.

And um, he thought that this,

uh... this criminal as he put it,

might very well be part of

a subversive plot.

Obviously, uh, an atheist

and uh, a pinto,

and a time general to

disturb our society.

We finally traced him to a cheap

neighborhood down

in the lower east side of New York.

Where he was living at the time

at a sleazy run down tenement house.

Virg, I remember him. I used to live

with him a matter of fact,

in the same rooming house that is.

One day he told me

he was a gynecologist.

He couldn't speak no foreign

languages... who is he kidding?

I thought I saw his picture

on the post office.

I don't remember if it was

on a wall or on a stamp.

- Do you remember Virgil?

- Oh, yeah.

What was he like?

Well, now I think he's brilliant.

I mean absolutely brilliant.

When I just found out that

he was a criminal,

I just couldn't believe it...

I just thought I was gonna die.

Because he's a he just did

the best cover up job

I have ever seen in my life.

I mean unbelievable acting job.

I actually believed he was an idiot.

I mean I really believed... and

I wasn't the only one... like

everybody thought so... everyone

just thought he was a shemeal

and it turns out that he's a criminal.

Just to think that... that idiot was

a criminal I just can't believe it.

I mean you never met anyone like this

...you'd never meet such a nothing.

I can't believe it, there was a mind

working in there.

That could rob banks.

It's phenomenal.

You know, once... once

I said to him what do you do

he said, uh, I rob banks.

Go no, right!

But we finally caught up to him.

Oh I think it was April 11

when we finally captured Virgil.

It sorta was a very odd circumstances,

uh, an amateur photography

happened to be there at the time.

And, um, took the only known films

of his capture.

I was coming down here. This is

the spot where it actually happened.

You see, as a matter of fact,

I just brought my pants

into the cleaners and

I was sorta angry with him.

Because last time I brought 'em

in I asked him to sew a button

on it and they hadn't.

Could you get to the point?

Oh yes, well... I'll tell you exactly

what happened this morning,

uh, with me... and about the camera.

Well, back to this thing with

which I became known,

mainly because of what had happened

and I happened to have the camera.

I was having breakfast in the morning.

I think it was two fried eggs, a toas

I don't know if it was orange juice

or grape fruit...

but I remember I had a juice...

I don't remember what it was.

But at that time...

- it was orange juice... that's right!

- Can you get to the point!

In fact, I got 'em right here.

I'd like to show them to you.

The very last films of Virgil Starkwell

being captured by the FBI.

Now get your hands up, it's a stickup!

Hey, I know you... Virgil Starkwell...

Oh, Eddie... Haynes?

That's right! We were

in the marching band together.

You played the cello...

you were always...

I was the trombone... first trombone.

That's funny, my God!

- What are you doing?

- I'm with the Philharmonic.

No kidding, that's grand! I was just

talking to someone... Oscar Sunken

about the great visory

we had together.

That was hilarious!

You remember when we got caught

taking a shower together?

I do... I never saw anything

so embarrassed.

I'll never forget your face.

- My face? You dropped the towel.

- You dropped the towel too!

- Can I have your watch?

- Sure, sure, sure.

Remember we painted the car,

uh, yellow?

Yeah, it was Halloween.

Yeah that's right, it was Halloween.

It was really funny.

- It was yellow stripes.

- That's right, like a popcorn.

Keep your hands up or

I'd have to shoot you.

You remember the football game?

- You fumbled the last play.

- And you picked up the ball.

And then I ran the wrong way,

and everyone was yelling

go back, go back.

And I thought they were cheering.

You can't beat the good old days.

There were good old nights...

Shirley Shivrotze.

Wallet.

Oh I didn't hear you.

Look it's been great speaking

to you, really.

It's been nice to see you too Virgil.

Yeah, take it easy.

Maybe we'll see each other someday.

Good luck to you!

Oh Virgil I just realized I'm a cop.

- Oh Virgil I just realized I'm a cop.

- No kidding, how's it going?

It's a great job.

I gotta pension and I...

Do you remember when...?

Virgil Starkwell is tried on 52

accounts of robbery

and is sentenced to 800 years

in federal prison.

At the trial, he tells

his lawyer confidently,

that with good behavior he can cut

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