The Newton Boys Page #4

are back there drinking...

him and Avis

are off scouting marks.

JESS:
I think we should get

in the booze business.

Everybody knows all big money

is in bootlegging now.

WlLLlS:
Yep, and where's

all that money going to end up?

-I don't know.

-ln a bank,that's where.

JOE:
Willis thinks it ain't

wrong 'cause banks is insured.

[Laughter]

JESS:
You'd think

we were doing them a favor.

See, if nobody ever

robbed a bank...

then all them insurance

companies would go broke...

'cause nobody would need 'em.

WlLLlS:
That's right.

I take it you ain't

working today,Jess.

What's she read,Joe?

JOE:
14.6 since the last time.

WlLLlS:
This getaway map's

got to be perfect,Joe.

We gotta be able to drive this

with the headlamps off.

When do we get out,Willis?

Where's it end?

When we're millionaires,

that's when.

DOCK:
How much

is a million dollars exactly?

WlLLlS:

A million, Hoss? A one...

with that many zeros.

JESS:
You got more guns in

the running,you got more crime.

And it just ain't worth it.

JOE:
Are you done yet?

JESS:
I'm just giving

this fellow my opinion...

of this new Volstead

prohibition business.

JOE:
You ain't less of a drunk

now than when hooch was legal.

JESS:
That's exactly my point.

That particular law

ain't doing its job.

JOE:
Let's go,Jess.

-Have you got a wife?

-Mm-hmm.

-You got kids?

-Mm-hmm.

JESS:
All right. Here you go.

If I get arrested,

you've got to bail me out.

-Mm-hmm.

-All right.

JESS:
You have a good night.

JOE:
Never knew making money

the easy way...

would be so damn much trouble.

DOCK:

It's colder than a bull's balls.

JOE:

Colder than a day-old dumpling.

[Laughs]

JESS:
Colder than Pa's ass

at plowing time.

[Laughter]

[Snap]

GLASSCOCK:
This may encourage

folks to write more often.

WlLLlS:
Well, boys,

it's our lucky night.

JESS:
Oh,yeah?

WlLLlS:
Yeah. I was

up on that pole thinking...

and I decided we going to get

that other bank,too.

DOCK:
Ah, hell,Willis.

I'm tired already.

GLASSCOCK:
What are you

talking about, both banks?

WlLLlS:
Yeah,

both banks at the same time.

It's so cold out here there

won't even be a dog barking.

Jess,you go with Glass.

Dock,you come with me...

and,Joe,

you're soldiering the street.

All right?

DOCK:
Two banks?

WlLLlS:
Yeah. What do you say?

-OK.

-All right.

WlLLlS:

Glass,what does your watch say?

GLASSCOCK:
Are you positive

you can blow that safe?

JOE:
Sure, he can.

DOCK:
Why you got to be

questioning everything?

WlLLlS:
When that 2:40

freight whistle blows...

you light yourfuse and let's

get the hell out of here...

to someplace

where it's a bit warmer.

Well, let's go, boys.

-Willis?

-Yeah?

DOCK:
Do you know the money's

in there?

WlLLlS:
It's a bank, ain't it?

Uhh. What?

DOCK:
Stand back and let me

show you the two-step method.

[Drops crowbar]

What the hell you talking about?

DOCK:
Step one.

Step two.

[Wind blowing]

DOCK:
That's an awful big shot

you're pouring.

WlLLlS:
Yep.

Like Ma always said...

God hates a coward.

[Distant train whistle blows]

JOE:
Whoa, mister.

Whoa, now. You're going

to have to go another way.

MAN:
There ain't no other way.

Well,turn around,then.

It ain't safe.

I'm too tiredfor your nonsense.

Get out of my way, boy.

Get up there!

[Neighing]

MAN:
Wrong way! Whoa!

Get out of here!

[Yelling]

JESS:

You are a real desperado,Joe.

JOE:
I told him it wasn't safe.

[Dog barking]

ALDRlCH:
But you said he...

He threatened to--What was it?

Blow up your entire family

with dynamite?

MAN:
That was just atfirst.

I can't remember too much,

but he was friendly.

Kind of funny.

You know,we sent out a posse

and that airplane,too.

ALDRlCH:
Oh,yeah, I know...

but, believe me,

these fellas are long gone.

Thank you.

MAN:
Thank you, Mr. Aldrich.

I'll buy all of that gum.

LOUlSE:
Well, hello, stranger.

WlLLlS:
Hello, Lou.

Matter of fact, I'll buy

the whole damn cigar stand.

One of my wells just come in.

-Congratulations.

-Thank you.

Now, I was figuring...

that big-headed boss

of yours in there...

I slip one of these hundreds

in the till over there...

sneak you out,we take

a slow drive in the country.

What do you say?

Willis, I don't know.

Two hundred.

OFFlCER:
Will Reed?

MAlD:

That's him. He's one of them.

I'll be back

in just a second, love.

Ma'am, gentlemen,

can I help you with something?

OFFlCER:

Come upstairs with us...

and explain

what we found in your room.

WlLLlS:
I don't see how

that's any of your business...

but come to think of it...

it shouldn't be a problem.

What'd they do?

They just searched me,

made me put this on.

-Well, get it off.

-Whatfor?

MAN:
That's them, all right.

I know them voices anywhere.

Had on that same red sweater.

OFFlCER:

Thank you very much, sir.

-That's whatfor.

-Take him on back down.

JOE:
Lying son of a b*tch!

I ain't never seen

that old man in my life!

OFFlCER:
Tomorrow,you boys

are going to be indicted...

for robbing the Lyceum

Motion Picture Theater.

If you got a statement to make,

I'll be down the hall.

JOE:
I got a statementfor you!

That old man can't even see!

WlLLlS:
Settle down,Joe.

JOE:
We didn't rob

no damn picture show.

WlLLlS:
Settle down! Yelling

ain't going to do us no good.

They got us.

We got to figure out

how to get out of here.

JOE:
But we weren't even

500 miles of here that night.

They can't prove

we robbed nothing.

WlLLlS:
Hell,they just did.

Hey, don't you get it?

This here's a shakedown.

Congratulations

on yourfirst one.

JOE:
They already got

that 2,000 from our room.

WlLLlS:
Which is, I'm sure,

three times the amount...

that was stolen

from the picture show.

JOE:
Willis.

All the time I was growing up,

you and Dock,you was...

off in the penitentiary,

God knows where else.

I never knew it was like this.

Lord help me, I never knew.

WlLLlS:
It is, little brother.

It is.

But don't you worry,though,

'cause we going to get more.

Now I'm about to show you

why we wear...

our savings account.

Jailer! Let me out of here!

I got a confession!

WOMAN:
Sweet boy...

Syncopate your mama...

All night long.

With a Dixieland shake...

Play it down...

Then do it again.

Every time...

I hear that tune...

Enough said...

'Cause I'll be with you soon.

That's just why...

I've got

the Milenberg joys.

Take it, boy.

JESS:
Oh. I'm sorry.

LOUlSE:
So,you're not

an oilman, are you?

WlLLlS:

What do you mean by that?

LOUlSE:
Well,you know,

there's talk around the hotel...

and all that money

they found in your room.

WlLLlS:
All that money?

Me and my brothers

made that money gambling.

LOUlSE:
You're a gambler?

WlLLlS:
No.

I am no such thing.

I'm just making my money now

playing high-stakes poker...

so's I can be that oilman.

[Jazz music playing]

JESS:
Hey, little darling.

I have a question for you.

WlLLlS:
Now,what I am

is a businessman...

just like a lawyer or someone

working in the stock market.

I'm just making a living.

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