The Hot Rock Page #4

I wouldn't be surprised if you

heard something by next week.

I'll be in touch with you.

That's good news.

All your friends ask is that you...

meet them halfway.

I'll certainly try.

Anything worth trying...

is worth trying more than once.

Three times at the very least.

- I'll do my best.

- You must.

Even though the effort

lands you in the hospital.

In a hospital?

That's what I said.

Good-bye, Al.

Here's the matriel request, Doctor.

What is it this time?

More uniforms, uh... A truck.

Yes, sir,

and it's gotta be kind of huge.

A kind of huge truck.

And it can't be hot.

You can rent it but it better not...

be traceable back to you,

if we're caught.

You might consider buying it.

A legitimate kind of huge truck.

Hey, listen. I'll be back on time...

and I don't want you

to think I'm a quitter...

but if you're not there,

I ain't waitin'.

Down.

- Go!

- Wait.

Here, take this.

- What's that?

- Hard candy.

- Let me have some. My throat's dry.

- You wouldn't like it.

- Let me be the judge of that.

- You didn't get it.

- I did. I got it.

- Oh.

Okay. This is it. Let's go.

Come on.

That's some kind

of crazy hard candy.

- Tastes like medicine.

- It's a new flavor

they're test marketing.

The hell it's a new flavor.

That's stomach junk.

- What do you got, an ulcer?

- Gastritis.

Years away from ulcers yet.

All these years you've

made me feel inferior with

your nerves of steel routine.

I've got better things to do

than to listen to this.

Section four.

No, no. Johnson's

on the next shift.

Cut that out!

Cut that out! Guard!

Stop picking your feet!

I told you! I'm gonna tell you again!

- "I'm gonna tell you again.!"

- Guard! Guard! He's after my feet!

I told you

not to pick your feet!

Guard, he's after my feet!

- Goddamned feet! Good-bye!

- Guard! Guard!

- Guard!

Your feet are dead!

Your feet are dead!

Guard!

What the hell?

Why didn't you bring a ladder?

- I can't climb one of these things.

- Go on, for God's sake.

You shouldn't have brought

a stupid rope. I can't

climb any stupid rope.

Help him.

- Help him?

- Yeah, help me.

- Come on.

- Use my shoulder.

- Like this?

- Yes.

- Okay?

- "Yeah."

Where's that thing?

That handle?

- There's no thing. Wait.

- Go on.

I... can't... feel...

I can't...

- Are you there?

- Always. Go on.

Oh, God, my leg.

Go on. Go.

Come on.

Hit it.

I didn't think it

cornered too good.

We're not moving.

What the hell? Come on!

Let's get moving.

No. W-We're staying

here till 6:
00...

till all the other

trucks start goin'.

Then Murch will drive us back.

Well, that's

really good thinking, waiting here.

And back in the city, we hand over

the stone and collect our dough.

- Mm.

- Well, um...

We can at least start, uh,

working on that tomorrow.

What do you mean

start working on it?

Well, it's, uh...

- It's just not gonna be

that easy, that's all.

- Why not?

You hid it in the police station.

- It's where I was.

- Well, surely then...

at the museum you could have...

- Or somewhere!

- He swallowed it.

What happened then?

When did you next see the diamond?

Not until the next day.

I'll sort of skip over that part,

if you don't mind.

- I wish you would.

- Right. The next time

I had the diamond...

I was in a police station

in a detention cell on the top floor.

And that's where you hid it?

Well, what else could I do?

I couldn't

keep it on me, not in jail.

Couldn't you have just

kept on swallowing it?

No.

Gee, that's a nice watch.

I'd really like that watch.

Keep goin' to church

and maybe God'll reward you.

I didn't say I'd like

a watch like that...

I said I'd like that watch.

- It's yours.

- Thanks.

Here's the matriel

request, Doctor.

Is it going to upset me?

I think it's safe to say that.

Yes, sir.

Whoo!

Yeah.

You're sure you've driven

one of these things before, right?

-

- I don't wanna know

the answer, neither do you.

Let's load. Come on.

You phony. You've never even seen

one of these up close before.

You know, you got

some kind of mouth.

I got books at home

how to make one of these.

All right, all you do is hit

this here. Hit this switch here.

Hit this. Hit... this one here.

Over here. These two here.

Double it over.

Hit that switch there.

Hit your battery and your starter.

Come on, baby.

You're gonna click.

You're gonna click.

We're gonna go.

Come on, baby.

What do ya say?

I told you I could

drive anything, yeah?

Hey!

What do ya say, Kelp?

There's

the police station roof. Get ready.

This is it!

Murch, you ass!

It's the wrong roof!

I counted the blocks

over from the river.

I could've sworn I got it right.

Well, just don't stand there

like a dummy. Will ya go ask questions.

If you're gonna be a sorehead

about this, I'll go ask 'em.

You probably

couldn't even find them.

I'm, uh, sorry

to bother you, gentlemen...

but we're looking

for the Ninth Street Precinct House.

That's right, Officer.

There is one on Ninth Street.

Two blocks straight ahead.

Aw, hell.

Two blocks ain't bad.

That's it.

Come in.

- Lieutenant, the phone's gone dead.

- Aw, again?

Uh, did you try, uh,

jigglin' it and everything?

- Yes, sir.

- Yeah?

Somebody's jamming our signal.

We can't broadcast

and we can't receive.

Well, did you try...

monkeyin' with it

and everything?

I'm tellin' ya, somebody

set up a jammer on us.

We used to have the same thing

in the South Pacific.

Okay. Okay.

I'd better tell the captain.

Get me the cap...

We'll have to blow it.

You sure you guys

got the right place?

- " Yeah."

- Sir?

Bombs.

There's bombs in the street, sir.

Bombs, huh?

It's a revolution.

It's a goddamned revolution.

They always try for

the police stations first.

T-T-Tear gas in the stairwells.

They're cutting us off

from the detention cells.

Break out the riot guns

on the double. On the double!

Come on, fellas. Go.!

I'm not gonna be the first

American policeman to lose a station.

Can you see it?

Take cover.

Take cover!

- Go on!

-

Me, fellas?

You doin' all this to free me?

That's beautiful, man.

That's the most beautiful

thing I ever heard of.

How the hell

can it not be there?

- Did you take it?

- It's been here for weeks.

Somebody else took it, that's all.

We beat 'em, men!

I've had it with that

stinking stone, man!

I'm done! That's all!

Good-bye, Charlie.

Not me.

I've got no choice.

I'm not superstitious...

and I don' believe in jinxes,

but that stone's jinxed me

and it won't let go.

I've been damned near bitten...

shot at, peed on and robbed.

And worse is gonna happen before

it's done. So I'm takin' my stand.

I'm goin' all the way.

Either I get it...

or it gets me.

And if I ever find out

that you talked to anyone...

Come on. How dumb

do you think I am?

Anyway, Dad made me

swear not to tell.

He knew?

Well, of course he knew.

He's my lawyer, isn't he?

He has to know all the facts.

Now, come on. He's my father.

He wouldn't cross me

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