The Paper Page #6

Do you understand?

Good.

Sorry. I've had better days.

Hey, Bernie, please.

Forget about it.

It's coal into a furnace.

I've been doing this for 36 years.

Every day you still start from zero.

You okay?

No. I'm in a foul mood.

I gotta get out of here

early tonight, so...

page one is up to you

and Alicia, but...

play nice.

I'll give it a shot.

Why does that Sedona thing

have to be today?

Because "Gotcha" is wrong.

I don't want to be wrong today.

Hang with it if you want, but have Lou

do a subway page one just in case.

All right.

I mean, we might get it.

It's not even 4:
00 yet, so...

- Oh, man!

- Good luck.

See what you can do with this.

Eighty-six Bahrain.

They weren't from Long Island.

I think it's fine.

Anybody got another word for...

Ed, you got Nazis.

It's nine inches.

For Christ's sake! I don't have

nine inches for Nazis!

Did Wilder call back?

Do you have any change?

You have no change?

Oh, Henry, no!

Check the dr...

Do you really want to run "Smashed"

for the wood on the subway?

Whatever fits. I don't care.

You have any change?

You got another word

for "mangled"?

It implies he was drunk

while driving the train.

He could have gotten drunk

afterwards.

You're accurate and ethical.

I want you out of this building.

"Torn," "mutilated"...

I don't care.

"Mutilated."

That ought to work.

Haven't you gotten anything

on Sedona yet?

It's 6:
15.

Beep Wilder!

- You got another word for...

- I got another word for all of them.

Get out of the chair.

No, don't change that.

Oh, that's pretty good.

- That baby's over here.

- For God's sake!

We're minutes away, okay?

I struck out with the cops.

There's something definitely going on.

None of those sons of b*tches

are talking.

- Where did you go?

- Police headquarters.

You gotta go to the precinct for this!

Of course nobody's talking at TCPI.

- Jesus Christ!

- I got "Smashed" with a question mark.

From Williamsburg, where

the prompt arrest of two suspects...

in the brutal murder of the two

white Arizona businessmen...

I've got "Smashed" with a question mark.

What do you think?

It's not gonna matter.

I took up a collection, and you

can never ask anyone again.

Did McDougal call in?

- No message at all from McDougal?

- I have no motive for lying.

I'll make a proof of "Smashed."

I'll show it to you.

I'm going to Composing.

I'll check it out there.

Nice chair.

My back feels great.

Yeah, great chair.

I got about two minutes

to sub that Bahrain piece!

Come on, guys!

It's not funny.

Police discovered the bodies of

two men sitting in a parked vehicle.

Talk to me, Chuck. What do you got?

It's old news. Carmen!

Wilder whiffed with the cops.

Go to the 9-1 in Brooklyn.

- Get to the bottom of this bust already!

- You want this for tonight?

Give me a break.

It's only...

Seven o'clock.

What do you think?

- I hate it.

- Me too.

- What happened to "Gotcha"?

- Artwork's not back yet.

Perp walk's not for

another ten minutes.

- That's our backup.

- Hold page one until 8:00.

Not a minute more. It's $ 12,000

every half hour we wait.

Those are union drivers

waiting out there, mister.

"Those are union drivers

waitin' out there, mister."

Shoot it!

Deanne. Just give me a second.

All right? It won't kill you.

- What are you doing here?

- I came to see my daughter.

It's good to see you.

My God.

I don't believe this.

You're married.

You're married.

Oh, my God.

I have to sit down.

I made it clear.

I don't wish to see you.

You sound like you just

walked out of your shrink's office.

Hold it. That was

a rotten thing to say. Hold it.

I'm sorry.

Let me start over.

- Why are you here?

- Why?

I saw your name in that piece

we ran on the Murray Hill trial.

I was proud,

Mrs Whatever-Your-Name-ls...

and I wanted to tell you that.

Thank you.

Let me just ask you this.

Would you have cared to come if

my name hadn't been in your paper?

Do you hate me?

If you hate me, there's no point.

I don't know you enough

to hate you.

It turns out the guy they've

been looking for for 18 months...

has been dead for five years.

He was 90 years old.

He couldn't have stolen a motorcycle...

and driven it from Kansas City

to Ozone Park.

- That is so funny!

- That's just an example.

I could tell you dozens of stories

exactly like that.

You could do a whole series

on the Justice Department.

- People would like that.

- I bet they would.

- So, where's Henry tonight?

- Working.

Give my regards. You sure

you don't want some juice?

- You have another, though.

- I think I will.

So, Tom, did you bring the list?

You can't take it.

Just a look.

I'm supposed to memorize every

single investor in a major bank?

You'll know what you're looking for

when you see it.

Tell me something.

Did you honestly find

even one of my stories funny?

No, Tom, I didn't.

- Just wanted to know where I stood.

- You knew when I called.

Oh, my God!

Jumps right out at you,

doesn't it?

Everybody stay back.

Just relax. Stay back.

Justice! Justice! Justice!

Stay over there.

Thank you very much.

Beyond the barricade.

Excuse me. Can I just...

Excuse me.

New York Sun.

Hey, go around!

Can't you see the cable?

Sorry.

There they are!

Damn it!

Sh*t!

Sh*t!

- Would you make room?

- What do you think your chances are?

Get out of the way!

Hey! I'm down here!

Good luck. Stand back.

Everybody back.

Carmen on four.

Tell me, tell me.

Nothing. I'm sorry. I can't

even get into the building.

They're not talking

to any reporters.

The guy from The Sentinel

is standing over there and crying.

You're killing me here.

It's 8:
20.

- Wife line!

- Oh, Jesus!

Hang on, Carmen.

I'm not late yet.

No, the Sedona thing.

I got something.

You did go to the Justice Department.

This ticks me off! What do you have?

I saw the investor list.

I'm reading it.

It's just your average bunch

of Wall Street schmoes.

Trusts and stuff,

names I don't recognize.

I'm thinking, "This goes nowhere."

Then, all of sudden, pow!

Pow? Hold on.

Hang in there, Carmen.

Yeah, so, pow.

Sedona Savings' single largest investor,

who alone lost over $5 million?

E & R Interstate Trucking.

Nicholas D'Onofrio, proprietor.

Are you telling me

these banker schmucks...

Iost $5 million of the Mob's money?

Dumb fellas, huh?

Unwise guys.

Oh, hon, you are so good.

You are so good.

I love you!

This is great. Do you know

how good you are at that?

I mean, you drive me crazy

when you're like this.

What are you wearing?

Oh, baby.

As fear of racial tension mounts...

New Yorkers got

their first look at the suspects...

in the brutal Williamsburg

killings this afternoon...

following their booking

at police headquarters.

Formal charges will be filed

tomorrow at the arraignment...

We gotta get that cop quote.

They gotta say it.

Oh, come on! I dump a big,

fat juicy steak in your lap...

and you ask for sauce?

Hang on.

Carmen, you have to get a quote.

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