The Mighty Quinn Page #5

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to her baby. Now, here we go.

Watch me cakewalk now, y'all.

Whoo

Come on without

Come on within

You ain't seen nothing

like the mighty Quinn

Come on without

Come on within

You ain't seen nothing

like the mighty Quinn

You hear Maubee, that ramblin' man

His story's been told across the land

Each and all is Maubee's friend

Even that Babylon mighty Quinn

He got caught up

in the web of politics, you see

But that mighty Quinn did set him free

Sunshine, it's for everyone

Sunshine come back again

Come on without

Come on within

You ain't seen nothing

like the mighty Quinn

Sister Mary!

- Come on without

- Hallelujah!

Come on within

You ain't seen nothing

like the mighty Quinn

Take your time, you hear, sir?

Now, hold tight.

You ain't seen nothing

like the mighty Quinn

Get in. I got us a ride here.

Yes, man. In a stolen car.

It's not stolen.

It's the governor's, bought by

the sweaty taxes of hard-workin' people.

What's him need it for? Him sleeping.

It's a touching story.

You're goin' up for murder, Maubee.

You're goin' to jail.

- Why do you think we're doin' this?

- What? This?

- Right now. This.

- Because you are a f***in' lunatic

who got his ass in a mess

and don't know what to do.

That's not why I picked you up.

Jesus!

Not because I'm in a mess, but because

you and your men couldn't catch me.

- I never even tried.

- You tried to run me off the road.

- I could have shot your ass.

- You could now.

I might.

Your ass! Your ass!

Soon come. Soon come.

- Isola...

- So how's the missis?

Ha, let's not spoil a good thing, hm?

You?

Isola...

She come out nice, man.

- Ubu Pearl.

- Who? The witch?

Yeah, man. Isola's aunt.

She only let me visit on Monday night.

What happen if you don't?

I get the hex.

My dick fall off and I wake up dead.

Sh*t, man!

- You better stick to your schedule.

- Yeah, man.

Yes, man. It's truth.

Truth.

Truth.

Lola!

Lola say if she met me today...

sure as hell she'd never marry me.

She say I changed.

Ah, she probably right.

What's happening?

- When?

- Sometime last night.

- Amen.

- Say amen.

- Amen.

- Let me hear you say amen.

Amen.

...grand time up in heaven

We shall have

a grand time up in heaven

Have a grand time

Walking with the angels

- Sing glory hallelujah!

- Sing glory hallelujah

We shall have

a grand time up in heaven

- Have a grand time

- Sing one more time.

We shall have a grand time up in heaven

We shall have

a grand time up in heaven

Have a grand time

Walking with the angels

Sing glory hallelujah

We shall have

a grand time up in heaven

Have a grand time

We shall have a grand time up in heaven

We shall have

a grand time up in heaven

Have a grand time

Walking with the angels

Sing glory hallelujah

Isola! Isola, stop! Wait!

Isola!

- All right, cool down!

- What do you want?

- Cool down!

- What do you want?

- Help me find him.

- He didn't do it.

- Do what?

- Kill any man.

- How you know?

- I was with him.

All right, all right. I believe you.

So tell me now.

If you don't, I can't help him.

I need to find him to do this.

You believe me?

Yeah.

- All right.

- He's at your house.

What house?

Where you were boys

and grew up together.

All right.

A ten with three zeros.

If the bank can't help you, then try

the Treasury Department on the mainland.

See if there's such

a thing as a $10,000 bill.

But there's no such thing as a $10,000 bill.

Yes, man! Yes, there is.

Issued in the '20s and again in the '50s.

Any bank that gets one

has to turn it over to the Secret Service,

and they tuck it away

in the Treasury Department.

- And?

- All right.

Let's say the White House

believes in this revolution. Hm?

Promises to support it.

Except Congress doesn't agree.

But there is this bundle

of money in the reserves,

currency no one will miss

and no one knows is gone.

But the bagman's killed, the money

has vanished, and the heat is on.

So what do they do? They decide to take

the money back and plug up the holes.

Bye-bye, Patina.

Are you saying Pater

brought the money?

That is exactly what I'm saying.

And Patina was here to pick it up.

Christ! Well, how come

they didn't send somebody down here?

What are you talkin' about?

We have two dead people. Of course

they sent someone. He was here.

- Nobody told me.

- I'm tellin' you.

Look, I didn't come in here to hear

myself talk. I want you to do somethin'.

Uh-huh.

Well, the best thing we can do

is to stay out of the way.

Governor, I'm in the way.

Hide your body, girl.

Make yourself and the baby unseen.

Somebody comin'!

- How you doin', mama?

- What you want?

- I wanna talk to your niece Isola.

- She not here.

Where to?

We'll have to get her to talk. Ubu Pearl.

- Who?

- The witch.

Let's go!

The money has got

to go back to where it belongs.

You wanna tell me what you know?

I know nothing for you.

You know about the money.

I'm not the bad guy. I'm just doin' my job.

I need your help.

You gonna die.

Come on. You know everythin',

you're not tellin' me nothin'.

I give you a thing

make your heart forget to beat,

your blood on fire!

Make you squirm

on the dirt like maggots.

I die, you die.

What happens if you die first?

I still gon' kill you!

Come on. It's too hot for this.

Talk to me.

Come on, mama. Talk.

It's OK. It's all OK.

Tell me what you saw.

Tell me what you saw.

- The fat American.

- Yeah?

He killed my auntie.

- Him kill her.

- OK.

We did a bad thing.

All of this because we did something bad.

No time for that. If the fat American gets to

Maubee before I do, then Maubee is dead.

You understand me?

Now, did Ubu Pearl tell

the fat American where Maubee is?

- I don't know. I couldn't hear.

- Then you tell me now. Where is he?

Where's Maubee?

Maubee?

Maubee.

I know you're in here, dammit.

- What the f*** you do that for?

- When we were children,

old Thunderstone said

you were better than me, man.

I hope you're havin' a good time.

Cos you don't have much time left.

- I not dead yet.

- There's a man who wants you dead.

Then I'm glad you got here first.

Playing's over. This is no time for games.

Maubee.

Come on, Xavier!

Old Thunderstone was right.

Isola's baby...

It's Pater's, isn't it?

Who killed Pater, Maubee?

Snake.

Right.

- You know that, huh?

- Yeah, man.

And I think I know who did it.

But I don't know why.

You killed a man who was already dead.

And Ubu Pearl, if that's who

you're protectin'... she gone.

She was murdered today.

- Murdered by who?

- By the man sent here to get the money.

- Isola and the baby?

- They're all right. They're OK.

But listen to me now.

They don't care about Isola.

They don't care about anything.

It's only the money they want.

Tell me.

Please.

I sneak into Ubu Pearl's to see Isola.

But she was gone.

The witch catch me.

I find out Isola's gone to Pater

to leave the snake.

Back up.

Before all this,

Ubu Pearl go to Pater.

She say "You make Isola pregnant.

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