The Man with the Golden Arm Page #9

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He's the only guy

I ever had for a friend.

He's nobody's friend anymore.

He'd mash you with a steamroller if you

got between him and a pop in the arm.

Come on talk Sparrow.

Ok beat it.

Doc...

...Lennox!

Let me out.

Oh, Molly. Please?

(Zosh) Yes?

I thought I'd come see

how you've been, Zosh.

Alone, that's how I've been.

Something to eat, sausage.

Alone and worried sick.

Where is he? You know where he is?

Did he go to you?

What do you want anyway?

Zosh, what you told Bednar.

You've seen the papers.

You see how bad it makes

Frankie look what you said.

I didn't tell Bednar anything.

The papers they twist everything all up.

They wouldn't be able to,

if you didn't let them.

I can't help what they do.

What do you expect me to do,

sittin' here?

Just tell Bednar that Frankie

wasn't here when it happened.

That he didn't do it.

I never said he did.

Well that's how it sounds, if he

was the only one around at the time.

And you know it was somebody else.

What do you mean, who?

I don't know, but maybe

Bednar could figure it out

if he didn't think it was Frankie.

What business is it

of yours anyway?

I just wanna' help that's all.

Who are you kiddin'? You think I

don't know what you really want.

You think I don't know what you and

him have been up to behind my back,

while I've had to sit here

all these years?

Had to sit here all these years.

No Zosh, you got it wrong.

No you got it wrong.

'Cos you'll never get him.

He put me in this chair and as long

as I sit here he'll never leave me.

He knows he belongs to me.

- No Zosh, I come here only to help.

- I wouldn't want to live if he left me.

And I'd rather see him dead

too than have him go to you.

Zosh, please.

Get outa' here! Get outa' here,

you lousy tramp. Get out! Get out!

(Molly ) Frankie, no!

I can't stand it any longer.

- Just a little longer.

- Please help me. Keep me warm.

I can't stand it.

I gotta' get out and get a fix.

Open the door, Molly, do like I say.

Open the door or I'll kill ya! I'll kill ya!

- Frankie listen. If you really...

- I can't, I can't.

Then I do have something

put away to make it stop.

Gimme' quick. Gimme' quick.

Where? I'll get it.

(Frankie) Molly! Molly open

the door, let me out! Out! Out! Out!

Molly open the door!

Please Molly! Molly! Molly!

Frankie?

Frankie answer me.

Frankie answer me.

Are you alright?

Don't think you can fool me into opening

this door, because I'm not gonna'.

Are you alright Frankie?

Please answer me.

Molly, Molly if you love me,

kill me please.

Oh, I'm so cold, I'm so cold.

So cold.

Make me warm please.

Oh, please warm me.

Molly.

Please Molly make me warm.

Oh, Molly I'm so c... cold.

Make me warm.

Make me warm.

Oh God, God. Please God.

Please make me warm Molly.

I'm so c-cold.

So cold.

- I waited for you at Anteks last night.

- I told you it might not be right away.

I thought maybe you

were sick or somethin'.

I just wanna' tell you,

don't look for me at Anteks no more,

he threw me out last night,

we had a little argument.

So make it the Safari, huh?

Yeah, sure Johnny, sure.

Pretty good, huh, Molly?

Take it slow now.

Oh, I'm alright. Just a little rocky.

It's the most gorgeous day

I ever saw.

I think it's the first day

I ever saw.

I've got a craving

for something sweet.

You got anything sweet.

- Sugar.

- Gimme'.

More, c'mon more.

Ooh, how can you, Frankie?

Oh, I never felt this good in my life.

I feel like all the things inside me

have settled into place.

Thanks Molly.

Molly-O.

Look out you'll scrape your face off.

I don't care.

- You got a razor I can use?

- Can I trust you with one?

Cross my heart.

(both laugh)

- Is this the place?

- Yeah.

Ok, come on.

No please.

You don't need me up there.

(Loud knock on door)

Where is he, Molly?

He didn't do it, honest.

I'm not a judge; they pay

me to bring him in that's all.

If you tell me where he is, I promise

he'll get every break a junkie can get.

He's no junkie either.

That's finished.

Oh sure, you bet.

See for yourself.

He ain't runnin' away from you.

So, where is he?

With Zosh.

Alright Molly, let's go see.

Hello Zosh.

What are your doin' here? Frankie

don't you know Bednar's lookin' for you.

Don't worry about it Zosh, I ain't afraid.

I didn't do it, you know that.

Who did then? Who?

I come to tell you somethin', Zosh.

I'm leaving here.

Bednar will arrest you.

He told the newspapers you...

What?

I'm leaving. You won't have

to worry about money or anything;

I'll find a way to send you some regular.

And Vi'll take good care of you.

Leaving me!

Not leaving you Zosh,

just leaving.

You saw what happened

since I come back.

It's like Dr Lennox told me.

I got in the same old routine and

before I knew it I was on it again.

But you can't leave me.

You gotta' stay and take care of me.

I know I'm responsible

for how ya' are Zosh,

but I can't go around the rest of my life,

stoning myself to death about it.

I've been carrying my heart

ever since it happened.

Even now it hurts me to think about it,

but...

...well, it's not I wanna' leave.

I gotta' leave.

You mustn't leave.

Frankie, you mustn't leave.

Zosh. Say good-bye to me Zosh.

You think your foolin' me;

I know what's pullin' you away, Molly.

No.

You're only goin' just so you

can be with that little tramp.

- Frankie, no.

- Good-bye, Zosh.

No Frankie, please don't leave.

Frankie no, don't leave me.

Get dressed, Zosh.

Zosh!

Zosh!

Zosh?

Zosh, don't move. Don't try

to talk, you're gonna' be alright.

I love you so much. So...

Zosh.

(Sound of Ambulance siren)

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