Thief Page #3

This is strictly on the up-and-up.

Jesus Christ!

- You are scared to death.

- You're an a**hole.

That's lovely.

What are you doing in your life

that is so terrific?

- My life is fine.

- Yeah, sure. Here.

- You don't know about me.

- Yeah?

- I know all about...

- You know bullshit.

Hey.

Why you gotta shout?

Excuse me.

Can we have two coffees here?

Sorry. So?

"So"? So what?

So tell me.

Menus?

No, thanks.

So, uh, what was it like?

You know, a lot of money.

Tucson...

Mexico City, Bogot.

Drifting, you know.

Okay?

Okay.

It got twisted

and ugly and empty.

It was over already, but we kept

moving through the moves.

It ended very badly.

Now I get up in the morning,

I take a shower...

I go to work, I have a job,

I have a Social Security card.

And my life is very ordinary,

very boring...

which is good,

because it's solid.

You're marking time

is what you are.

You're backing off.

You're hiding out.

You're waiting for a bus

you hope never comes...

because you don't want to get on it

anyway because you don't wanna go anywhere.

Do you have a license for this?

All right,

how much was he moving?

Nothing, till the end.

And then kilo amounts.

I don't... I don't know.

And then what?

- He's dead.

- Hmm?

He is dead.

That is good,

because he's an a**hole.

- There was a lot of love in the beginning.

- The guy was an a**hole.

- There was love in the beginning.

- A big a**hole.

He put you in a box.

You know the things they do to you...

ten times a day

if you do a bit in Colombia?

- Do you? Jesus Christ!

- Don't shout in here.

I was alone.

I had no money,

no clothes, no visa...

standing on the corner

in Bogotin Colombia.

Things did happen.

Where were you in prison?

Would you pass the cream, please?

Joliet.

The warden...

Whoa, God!

Hey, can we have

some new cream here?

What's wrong with it?

"What's wrong with it?"

It's cottage cheese.

The warden there was,

uh, Joe Reagan.

"Meatball Joe."

If that slob was a penologist,

I'm a jet airplane pilot.

I did 11 years.

I got out, what,

four years ago.

What'd you go up for?

I stole $40.

Forty dollars?

Yeah.

Started with a two-year bit,

parole in six months.

And then right away...

I got into this problem

with these two guys.

They tried to turn me out.

So I picked up nine more...

on a manslaughter beef...

some other things.

I was 20 when I went in,

31 when I come out.

You don't count

months and years.

You don't do time that way.

What do you mean?

Why?

Why?

You gotta forget time.

You gotta not give a f***

if you live or die.

You gotta get to where

nothin' means nothin'.

I'll tell you a story

all about it.

Once there was

this Captain Morphis...

this 300-pound slob.

He couldn't write his name.

And he had this crew...

of 16 or 17

guards and cons.

Prison groups, you know?

Crews.

They would go

into these cells...

and grab these young guys...

and bring 'em up

to hydrotherapy in the mental ward.

Uh, gang bang.

If a guy puts up a struggle,

they beat him half to death...

and he winds up

in the funny farm.

Anyway, word comes down

that I am next...

and I do not know

what I am supposed to do.

I, uh... I am scared.

11:
30, 12:00,

lights come on.

I got this pipe

from plumbing...

and, uh...

I whacked the first guard

in the shins.

I go through a convict

and another convict and...

Anyway, I get to Morphis,

and I whack him across the head twice.

Boom. And then they jump

all over me, do a bunch of things.

I spent six months

in the hospital ward, but...

Morphis, he is also

f***ed up real good.

Cerebral hematoma.

They pension him out,

he can't walk straight...

and he dies two years later...

which is a real loss

to the planet Earth.

Meanwhile,

I gotta go back...

into the mainstream population...

and I know the minute I hit the yard,

I am a dead man.

So I hit the yard.

So you know what happens?

Nothin'.

I mean, nothin' happens.

'Cause I don't mean nothin' to myself.

I don't care about me.

I don't care about... nothin',

you know?

And then I know

from that day that I survive...

because I achieved

that mental attitude.

Then, uh...

see, later, I...

I worked this out.

In the stone cell.

What is this?

That is my life.

And, uh...

nothin', nobody can stop me

from makin' that happen.

And right there,

that would be you.

Who...

Who's the old man here?

That is David Okla Bertinneau.

He's a master thief...

a master...

and a great man.

He was like a father.

He taught me everything...

that I know about what I do.

And I told him about you.

Did you cut these out

from magazines and...

Yeah. Newspapers, whatever.

Why...

Why all of these

dead people?

Inside,

you are on ice from time.

You can't even die right,

you know? And here...

here, people grow.

They get old, they die.

Children come after.

Just a cycle, you know?

I don't know. I...

Yes, you do. You do.

You don't know

from one day to the next...

whether you're going to be killed,

go home, or get busted.

Look, I have run out of time.

I have lost it all.

And so I can't work

fast enough to catch up...

and I can't run

fast enough to catch up...

and the only thing

that catches me up...

is doin' my magic act.

But it ends, you know?

It will end.

When I got this,

right there...

it ends, it's over.

So I'm just asking you...

to be with me.

I can't.

I can't, uh...

I can't have children.

I don't fit into this.

What? So we adopt.

I... I'm not ready, see?

And-And I have my life.

- So I... I can't.

- What?

I mean, what is going on

in your life that is so terrific?

Mine's been a mess.

I was just thinkin',

you know, that...

just maybe

between the two of us...

we could make

somethin' happen...

somethin' special,

somethin' really nice.

You know?

So I'm just, uh...

I'm just askin' you...

uh, to, uh...

Look, I got a way now

I can make it happen faster.

I mean, much faster.

And, uh, I'm just...

I'm just askin' you,

you know?

You're on.

They gotta be big scores.

They gotta be fast.

One, two tops.

Right.

- That's it.

- Where?

Third from the top, this side.

- Alarm systems?

- Five independent systems.

Four silent ringers into an alarm

company over the phone lines.

Infrared pots...

magnetics on the front door,

sonic alarm.

- Vault door's bugged.

- What's this?

This is the top floor.

Top of the elevator shafts.

Floors eight through 14's alarm lines

conduit with the phones...

through the top

of the elevator shaft.

What about taking the elevator

to the top floor...

open the hatch,

and goin' in that way?

No. Elevators are locked down

and bugged at night.

Your way, I gotta take out

two systems.

Chop through the roof

and get the lines that way.

Assuming we get the alarm,

what is the box?

Richmond-Lackett.

- Richmond-Lackett?

- Yeah.

Terrific. It's a burn job.

- No way to drill?

- "Drill"?

- Yeah.

- Drill what?

They're custom-made. You bang

on this box all day, nothin' happens.

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