The Friends of Eddie Coyle Page #4

is never to ask a man why he's in a hurry.

All you got to know is I told a man

that he could depend on me...

because you told me

I could depend on you.

Now, one of us is gonna have

a big, fat problem.

Another thing I learned.

If anybody's gonna have a problem,

you're gonna be the one.

- You finished?

- No, I am not finished.

Look, I'm gettin' old. You hear?

I spend most of my life

hanging around crummy joints...

with a bunch of punks, drinking their beer,

eating the hash and the hot dogs...

and watching the other people

go off to Florida...

while I'm sweatin' out

how I'm gonna pay the plumber.

I done time when I stood up,

but I can't take no more chances.

Next time, it's gonna be me

going to Florida.

Now you listen.

You're still a kid.

Then you come out, and you go around

and say, "Look, I'm a man.

"You can take what I say,

and it happens.

I go through. "

Well, you're learning

something too, my friend...

and I advise you to learn it right now.

When you say that,

when you get me out there all by myself...

on what you say,

you better be right there in back of me...

because when you say it happens,

it's gonna f***in' happen.

- If it don't, you got your thing caught in the zipper.

- Now, just -

Now, I don't want any talk from you

and any sh*t from you.

I want 10 guns.

I want 'em tomorrow night.

I'll be right there with the money.

Same place where we were before.

I'll be there with the money.

You be there with those goddamn guns...

because if you ain't...

I'll be lookin' for ya,

and I'll find ya too.

Because I ain't the only one

that's gonna be lookin' for ya...

and we know how to find people.

All right. Uh -

Look. I have to go to Rhode Island

tonight, and I'm gonna be back late.

Then I gotta see some people

late tomorrow afternoon.

C- Can I meet you someplace early where

I can get free by, let's say, uh, uh, 3:00?

'Cause listen, man. You're coming up

faster than we said, you know...

and - and I got other people to see too.

Tomorrow afternoon's okay?

Yeah.

Look. Have the money, huh?

Uh...

if I work this fast,

I'm gonna need the money fast.

No sweat. I'll have the money.

No sweat.

You better kick it along, huh?

Listen. I've been on the road

all f***in' day, one thing or another...

and by the time I get home tonight,

it's gonna be morning.

So just stay off of my ass, huh?

I always wanted to see how much

one of these things could do.

You get the Magnum mill?

No, I got the Hemi.

You can have one too, you know.

Just get me, say, another, uh,

Where the f*** you taking me?

Take a left. You go a hundred yards

or so, there's a clearing.

They're all there.

You gotta go up the hill.

Get out.

No. Go up the hill.

I said get out.

Now you go up there,

and you get your friends and the rifles...

and you come back down here

and we'll do business.

- Here. Not there.

- Why?

Because I think you need the exercise.

'Cause I like the moonlight.

And 'cause I'm not so f***in' stupid

as to drive this car into the woods...

to find two other guys with machine guns

who know I got money.

This life's hard, man,

but it's harder if you're stupid.

Now go up there, and I'll stay down here,

and I'm gonna be watchin'.

When you get down here,

I'll tell you what to do next. Now move.

I don't know. I can't see.

Hmm.

Plenty cold out here.

Been waiting a long time.

Shh.

That's it! Far enough!

You two there hand the rifles

to the kid that was with me.

Then stand still.

Now get your ass down here.

Put the rifles in the trunk

and shut it.

Shut the goddamn trunk.

Hold it!

I got a. 45 on ya.

Now, where's the ammo?

Uh, yeah, we couldn't get no ammo.

You can steal the goddamn guns

out of the stores...

but you can't get any bullets?

Look, we'll get it for you.

Honest.

The kid who was supposed to get it got sick.

He wasn't on duty when it came up.

We're not gonna trust

just anybody, you know.

All right.

I'm gonna be nice to ya.

I really oughta

keep some of this back...

for you putting me in the ditch

with the ammo, but -

F*** it.

My problem is, I'm a nice guy.

When you get that stuff, you call me.

You hear?

Yeah, okay, Thanks, huh?

Thanks a lot.

Come on. Let's go.

- Come in, Nancy.

- Vern.

- Stay cool. We're being robbed.

- You're kidding me.

- No.

- They're really here?

- Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

- Get to work, sweetie.

You too, lover.

Nice piece of ass.

You ripping off some of that?

Oh, just get the hell over there.

I don't care what the hell you're doing.

May I have your attention?

I want to remind you not to attempt

anything courageous or foolish.

It would come to the same thing.

I want you to remember that these men

have someone at my house...

and they say he'll kill my wife

if anything goes wrong.

I believe them.

It's not at all unusual.

I've been held up four times

in 36 years...

and I can tell you

the important thing is not to panic...

and not to try to resist.

That's right. No one will get hurt.

Keep the shades drawn until 9:15.

Then let the people in.

Tell 'em the rest, quick.

If anyone wants a large amount of currency...

tell them the time lock is stuck...

and I've gone to get assistance.

- Is that clear?

- Okay, let's go.

What did you do?

I said, what did you do?

- Nothing. Honest, I -

- You hit the alarm! I told you not to, and you did it!

The rest of you, get in the vault!

Get in the goddamn vault!

Get in the f***in' vault!

Jesus! For Christ's sake, bingo!

Christ, Artie, what happened?

Ah, somebody got stupid,

and somebody got nervous and shot him.

- Jesus.

- Ah, that's the way it goes.

They'll have everybody there -

the F.B.I., everybody.

Not on that bank. No federal insurance.

S.P. Only. We're okay.

I don't know.

Geez, I don't know.

- When do you have to see The Man?

- In a while.

Okay.

Make sure it's right.

You guys gonna go again?

Well, we talked about it.

We can make one more move.

Oh, geez, I don't know about that.

You just get the guns.

Next week, I'm goin' south.

Get some caramel candy.

F*** you.

You know where I'm goin'.

Hey, I tried to tell you,

but you didn't listen.

- Looked like a pipe, Artie.

- You didn't listen.

You wanna set up a hit,

then Dillon's your man.

But he was eight minutes behind

in that truck.

Ah, it's too late now.

Yeah, it looks like it.

Hey, you just get the guns to Scal.

Yeah.

There's this truck.

It bothers me.

I know it sounds funny because I suppose

you would think that what would be worrying me...

would be the guys in the truck...

or maybe some guy I don't even know

watching me pretty close in the bar or something.

But I have seen the truck.

Put two guys in that truck,

they could get the pope.

The only time I see an engine like that

is in a Cadillac.

So you know you aren't gonna run away

'cause that thing's gonna run right away with ya.

In the windshield they got

a crack on the passenger side.

You open it right up,

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