The Killer Elite Page #6

Another assignment in national interest.

Well... this one does have

a little fringe benefit.

Dammit, Mike.

You're so busy doin' your dirty work

you can't tell who the bad guys are.

Don't worry.

I know who the bad guys are.

Anybody that tries to hurt me.

They're all tryin' to hurt you, Mike.

All the goddamn power systems.

All the wheelers and dealers

at the top with their gin and fizzes.

They need you to do their blood-letting

while they make speeches about freedom.

They're full of sh*t. There's not one power

system that really cares about its civilians.

OK, that's enough.

Would you take a little air?

Set one of those automatics

at the back door.

Now check the back, all right?

You take the boat,

check out the ketch.

I'll go this way.

What the hell are you doin'?

Where you goin'?

Going out to use the night.

"To use the night"?

Isn't that adorable?

I got a maniac out there with a.30-06.

He'll blow you apart if you take ten steps.

He'll have to see me first.

Look, kid.

Look, do me a favour. Go over there

and do the tiger claw and the crane stance

and the chicken wing and all that other

crap in the corner. Out there it's no good.

- Can you talk to her, please?

- She's been shot at before.

What kinda whacked-out family is this?

- Where is she?

- Hey.

Hey!

Jerome! Don't shoot!

It's that whacked-out chick in a wet suit!

- Can you hear me?

- I hear you.

- Well, get your finger off the trigger!

- OK.

OK.

That's... that's great.

Now Hansen knows exactly where we are.

You people don't care if you live or die.

Of course we do. It's in the manner

of living and dying one finds relevance.

Ah. That's how you're gonna do it? You're

gonna go back to your country to die.

- Who's gonna keep you alive there?

- I don't need an army.

I'm not a revolutionary.

Nor do I want power.

We've heard that before.

Wait a minute. I understand it now.

He wants to go back to die

on his own native soil.

It's that salmon-up-the-river sh*t.

Every country, if it hopes

to become a democracy,

needs at least one voice raised in

opposition. I happen to be selected.

Let just one other person hear my voice,

that is a beginning. It's enough.

Huh. Huh. I'll give you this.

The other sheep I've dipped have always

been running away from their countries.

You're the first one

to jump back into the frying pan.

That's what I was tellin' you.

You're risking your life keepin' him alive

and gettin' him back someplace where

they're gonna finish him off anyway.

Why did you have to drag your daughter

along? Shouldn't she be in a convent?

For the same reason, Mr Locken, you are

not able to keep her from going outside.

Mac, do me a favour.

Run a check on the back again, will ya?

Then check on the boat.

I'm very glad that I'm not

your insurance broker.

But you are.

I am? You'd better check your

goddamn policy. And pick up a weapon.

Cos that philosophical bullshit

won't get you on that ship!

Now pick up a goddamn weapon!

Bullshit.

Mike!

I got the girl.

Tell her father to come out.

And you and Mac and Miller

go out into the light.

Further out.

Otherwise she takes three

straight into her inscrutable smile.

Let's go, now.

Mac.

- Did you go through her purse yet?

- Not yet. I haven't had time.

I thought, for the right price,

you always had the time.

You're right, man. I got the right price.

Like me to cut you in?

Don't be stupid. Who are you loyal to?

Your boss? We both have the same boss.

- What do you mean?

- What do you mean, what do I mean?

We both work for the same guy.

Collis?

Don't feel bad. I got the highest buyout

figure any one of us ever got.

I set a new standard. Look at it that way.

Well...

Well, this one is Bora Bora.

For the next five years.

The good life in the sun.

Ahh!

Put it down, Mac.

Go on.

Well, why didn't you kill me?

I like you, Mike.

We've been there, man.

If not me, it would've been someone else.

- Shoot him!

- He happens to have a gun at your head.

You wouldn't shoot an

18-year-old girl. Would you?

You bet I would. You bet I would.

Can you believe this, George?

It's lovely, isn't it?

It's all I gotta hear now

is a little Chinese soap opera.

Shut up. Shut up!

Notched every one of these

little.38s myself, you know.

Well...

Uh...

Be quite a scene now if we all

started shootin', wouldn't it?

Be somethin' else, wouldn't it?

Where's Miller?

Miller?

Come on down.

Sh*t.

I'm comin'.

Well, hurry up.

Mike, I've got nothing against this girl,

and I'm dead set against killing you.

It's the Chinaman I want. It's his problem.

It's his kid here. So give him to me.

I'll see if I can't hustle Collis into boosting

my fee. Give you a nice piece of it.

But, Mike... if you don't work this out

with me, we're both screwed.

Collis has a mixed bag

of killers backing me up.

For all I know

he's sent them after both of us.

Well...

Win a few, lose a few.

Now, stay right where you are.

Put your pistol down.

All right. Put your cane down.

- Yeah.

- I hear you've gotten pretty good with it.

I'll see you again, George.

See ya.

Where you goin', Mike?

Where are you goin'?

Mike?!

Phew! Close, partner. Close.

He didn't mean it, Jerome.

Yeah.

Yeah?

Let's go back in

and get comfortable.

The optimum would've been

a confession from Collis.

With Hansen dead, we have no witness,

but it's a step in the right direction.

I don't give a damn about that.

That's your department.

I just wanna know what to do. I'm sure

not followin' up Collis' rendezvous plan.

He'll find out Hansen blew it and send that

pack down before I get Chung out to sea.

Listen carefully.

Tomorrow morning, get over to Suisun

Bay where the Mothball Fleet is anchored.

Line G, Queen Victory.

And wait. I'll have transportation

for you around 12 noon.

All right. 12 o'clock.

And Mike?

Yeah?

I want you to know I'll get Collis, and

when I've nailed him, his job is yours.

District supervisor. How does that sound?

What have you got there? An upper?

Downer.

Maybe I oughta have one, huh?

- Where have you been?

- We looked for him all night.

Come on, let's go. Let's go.

Come on, you guys,

give him a hand with the staysail!

Hold on, I'll give you a hand.

Somethin' funny.

Somethin' funny.

Who the hell's payin' for

this graveyard, anyway?

I don't like it, partner.

Don't like it at all.

I don't like it either.

We'll go around and

tie up on the other side.

- Hey, Mac!

- Yeah?

- Take over, will ya?

- Yeah, I'll take the wheel. Stand back.

Why don't you go check that Uzi

and the other stuff?

Hey.

Why don't you take the kid down below

and stay there till you hear from me?

- Mac! Cut it to starboard.

- I got it, Mike.

Ready to dock!

Somethin' don't sound right to you,

you take off, right?

- OK.

- Let's go, Mac! Mac?!

I'm comin'.

Yeah, hold it. I knew it.

- Collis!

- Yeah?

I got Chung down below on his ship. Any

funny move, he's got orders to take off!

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