The Last Days of Disco Page #10

but otherwise I do it myself.

That's a great moment in life, when you can start

sending all your shirts out for laundering.

At the agency, after my last promotion,

I briefly had that.

In any case, I doubt I'll be

working there much longer.

- What?

- I'm thinking of quitting.

- You can't do that.

- Why not? What's it to you?

You assured me, if I helped you,

you'd be around to protect Des.

Well, the situation's changed.

How has it changed?

I can't say.

[ Scoffs ]

You can't say?

Maybe Des is more involved...

than I thought.

Or more involved with someone you know.

That's a conflict, Josh.

I still can't believe Alice

is really serious about Des.

- Why not?

- She seems so much smarter than that.

That doesn't matter. There's something

deeply ingrained in human biology.

Women prefer bad

over weak and indecisive...

and unemployed.

I don't know about that.

You think they do prefer

weak, indecisive and unemployed?

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[ Dean Martin]

Everybody

Loves somebody

- Sometime

- Jimmy's terribly closed off now.

His previous girlfriends

weren't very nice to him.

I still think I'll be able to break through

to him emotionally at some point.

- [ Continues]

- [ Sniffing]

- [ Exhales ]

- Bernie wants to see yo u.

My sometime

Is now;

Can you wait for me?

Let's have breakfast together.

- I have something I want to talk to you about.

- Come on.

There's no tellin'

where love may appear

Something in my heart,

Keeps sayin'

My someday,

[ Bernie]

18,886.

- Uh, Bernie, you wanted to see me?

- Yeah.

Sometimes I get the impression

you hardly know me, Des.

I care about ideas.

I care about them a lot.

Do you know that in college my senior paper

was on Ernest Hemingway?

Thanks,babe.

I'm not a nice person, Des...

but some things are important,

such as loyalty.

Loyalty is not eyewash,

not like niceness.

I've been loyal to you, Des. I could have

fired you lots of times, but never did.

Maybe you're not aware of this, Des,

but there's some sort of investigation under way.

I think to myself,

how could this happen?

How could they get

this information?

Has some disgruntled employee,

former or current, informed on us?

Is there some sort of spy here?

How could agents even get in? I mean, really.

They would stand out in this crowd...

and normally... not get past the door.

Do you know how they got in?

Uh, no.

Could Van be letting them in?

They're coming in

as ad agency clients.

What? Oh, I can't believe it.

After all I did for that guy.

So you don't know anything

about this investigation.

No!

Well, a sort of acquaintance of mine who now

works in Morgenthau's office approached me...

but I didn't tell him anything.

- You didn't tell me about that.

- I didn't think it was important.

- It only just happened.

- When?

Tonight. Just now.

Why did you use

the past perfect then?

I used the past perfect?

Yeah.

I was approached.

Sounds like a while ago.

Everybody loves somebody

Sometime

Everybody falls in love

Somehow

- Something in your kiss

- Des.

- Get away. Don't talk to me.

- Bernie knows about the investigation.

- I haven't told you anything.

- There was some leak at the precinct level.

Bernie had an informant. But it's been fixed.

It's not a problem any longer.

It's a problem! I never said anything to you.

You have to make that clear to everyone.

- That doesn't matter.

- What?

When everything comes down

it's gonna be very rough.

Your whole life will be open for examination,

and it might not look so good.

- Cut out the drugs, Des.

- What?

Don't make such a spectacle of yourself

as a drug user.

Don't receive them, don't consume them

and don't pass them on to others.

What are you talking about?

You could be charged with dealing.

Dealing? Those were gifts!

Well?

Who's accusing me of this?

This is you, isn't it, Josh? That's a conflict.

We both like the same girl.

- So, you really want to go to Ibiza.

- A-beeth-a.

- Ibiza. Ibiza.

- Ibiza.

- Ibiza.

- [Van ] They go topless in Ibiza.

- I hear San Sebastian's great.

- Oh, it is. It's grand.

- Bye, Ruth.

- Ciao!

Rocky. Rocky.

Get that tall guy.

Ciao! Good night.

- Look out!

- [ Groaning ]

- Oh, God!

- Drive. Drive. Get outta here!

We'll get you! Prick!

- [ Van] Jimmy's hurt. Get him to the hospital.

- [ Woman] Oh, my God!

[ Woman Speaks, indistinct]

- Stat.

- [ Chattering]

[ Jimmy ]

I didn't know anything about it.

The agency just funneled clients

they wanted to get into the club through me.

Usually before I got in the car

I hadn't even met them.

I just assumed they were clients

from out of town.

That the I.R.S. was our largest client

didn't occur to me then.

I swear I didn't know

anything about it, Des.

- At first.

- You scumbag.

Josh promised me

you'd be protected.

Oh, great.

What's a little shocking is they'd do something

so obvious and clumsy and move so fast...

no matter how richly

I may feel you deserved it.

They were just some creeps

mad Van turned them away before.

Van's operating under tremendous pressure.

I'm starting to feel a lot of sympathy for the guy.

Oh, great.

No, that's priceless.

You and Van.

Oh, I love that.

Oh!

Want a snort?

Guess not.

I he ve a very bad feeling

about the club, Des.

It's like a meteorite is headed straight for it.

It's gonna destroy everything.

The greatest club the world has ever seen

is gonna be smashed to smithereens.

Yeah, well, I don't think

it'll be a meteorite.

Bye.

Alice and I

are having breakfast together.

It's a date.

You can't come.

Sorry.

Try to get some sleep.

That's what guys do who want to date you?

They say they have a book idea ?

- Maybe.

- Did he say what the book was?

He said he had some crazy ideas for a book

on the criminal justice system.

Of course. That makes sense.

Crazy ideas are the kind that Josh would have.

Be careful of that guy. I was there

when he flipped out. Really scary.

He got up on a table at a cafeteria

off Harvard Square...

and started weirdly singing this hymn.

Apparently religious mania...

is highly typical of manic depression

entering its manic phase.

Josh is not just your garden-variety loon.

He is a serious nutcase.

What gets me is this serious nutcase

now presumes to judge others.

You really think the neurological effects

of coffee are similar to that of cocaine?

That's what I read somewhere.

[Sniffs, Coughs]

[ Josh ]

In addition to amazing stories...

there are a lot of entertaining

prosecutors ' anecdotes- . .

And then there's the whole culture

of the downtown legal district.

It could be good.

Like everything,

it all depends on execution.

This is sort of related.

It's an article I wrote for Harper's

during law school.

Did you really just want to have lunch

to discuss, um, a book proposal?

Um, no.

How serious are you and Des?

Is it absolutely, completely,

irrevocably serious?

Did he tell you the story about how he was

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