Thieves Like Us Page #2

in that grass.

Well, sh*t. I left my shoe.

I thought all the laws

in the country was in that grass

the way you all tore out.

Well, go back and get your shoe.

We're waiting for you.

I guess if he can make it without two toes,

I can make it without a shoe.

T- DUB:
Hey, wait for me, you guys!

(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)

Lookie here.

Come here.

Where'd you come from?

Come on down here.

Come here.

You belong to someone?

You're just a thief like me.

You sure look fat.

You sure you don't belong to somebody?

My foot feels just like a stump.

I sure wish them boys

would get back here.

I'm gonna go dingbatty waiting.

Man on a stump can't do much of his job.

Well, them boys'll be back here.

Takes time to locate a man

when you don't know where he lives.

Well, I ain't gonna be hearing

no more from my people.

You know,

that's the first thing the law does

is look up the people a man has been

writing to and watch them places.

Goodbye, Mama.

One thing about you, though,

whatever I ever did

was okay with you and cousin Tom.

(CAR APPROACHING)

You hear something?

Now what the hell?

They said three blinks.

I can't tell if that's going on

or off, or what it's doing.

I can't tell who that is.

Damn, I hate to let him go by.

Looks like another hungry night.

It's okay. I can rig myself up for anything.

Come on down here. Come on.

You and me are gonna

spend the night together.

You get to be my blanket. Come here.

Come on.

Oh, I'm sorry.

If them boys ain't back by daybreak,

though, I just got to go on in.

I can't help it.

I'm gonna go dingbatty waiting out here.

Hey, maybe you and me go in together.

Get us both something to eat.

(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)

You see a snake, you let me know.

I don't like snakes.

(TRAIN APPROACHING)

(ROOSTER CROWING)

Howdy, friend.

What the hell did I do with them pliers?

Here.

I see you're working on your headlamp.

Listen, you got a cold Coke?

Over there in that box.

It'll cost you a nickel.

Yeah, well, thanks,

but I had one this morning.

You're Dee Mobley, ain't you?

Mmm-hmm.

Well, look, have you had

a couple of visitors here lately?

Them's new shoes. Your feet hurting you?

Doggone whistling.

One of them is, anyway.

Yeah. Got new pants on, too.

Yeah. I just got these uptown.

Where the hell you been?

Waiting for Chicamaw

and that T-Dub Masefield.

Well, I come driving

out there myself last night to get you.

Yeah. I recognize the truck now.

Yeah, it was me. That was me.

Can you beat that?

And I just let you go right on by.

Well, boys are up them steps there.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Hey, Chicamaw, is that you?

Of course it ain't me. I'm here.

Chicamaw.

Where the hell you been, Bowie?

We thought you'd gone back to the farm.

I've just been sleeping under a train is all,

and thinking I was a lone wolf.

Where's that old T-Dub?

T- DUB:
Hey, hey, Bowie, come on in here.

I was gonna go back out there

and get you myself tonight.

Yeah. You wanna glom?

- Man, I'll say.

- Good.

You know,

we didn't get holed up in this place

till about 5:
00 this morning,

so I was gonna go back out

and pick you up tonight.

I don't know how the hell Dee missed you.

It was my own fault.

How's that?

Well, one of the headlamps

on that truck was shorted or something.

That thing blinked 50 times

if it blinked once.

I couldn't tell what was happening.

- How's your head?

- What are you talking about?

What's the matter with your head?

Well, look at his hair.

What's the matter with my hair?

He put some toilet water on his hair,

and the seat fell down,

hit him right in the head.

You guys are about half-crocked.

The seat fell down.

(ALL LAUGHING)

Here's you some Picayunes.

We're all out of Twenty Grands.

(WHISPERING) Damn it.

I haven't had a Twenty Grand in two years.

I don't want a Picayune.

(WHISPERING) You smoke anything

and you know it.

Hey, that food's pretty good, huh?

You hungry?

It's a hell of a lot better than

what he used to make in the prison, huh?

Here. Have some whiskey.

- Oh, I don't want...

- Come on. It'll help you.

- Give me some.

- It tastes good. It tastes good.

- Hey, hey.

- I know you want some.

- I'm trying to get him to drink some.

- Come on, will you?

All right.

Oh, hell. I just got a soggy cracker.

Hey, Bowie, how's that foot doing?

Bowie.

How's that foot?

- Oh, it's okay. I just needed a shoe on it.

- Yeah.

How's your foot?

My foot's fine. How's your foot?

Oh, you're paying attention.

(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)

RADIO ANNOUNCER:
The Firestone

Tire and Rubber Company,

makers of the famous Firestone ground-grip

tires for cars, trucks, tractors,

and all-wheeled farm implements,

brings you the 18th in

a series of transcribed Firestone...

Here's your newspaper and cigarettes.

Oh, thanks, Miss Keechie.

Damn it. I told her three times,

I don't want Picayunes,

I want Twenty Grands.

BOWIE:
That little lady

ain't got no business

running with a bunch of criminals like us.

Damn it.

Hey, lookie here.

Will you lookie here?

It's about us.

Let me see.

(MEN SINGING ON RADIO)

"Parchman, Mississippi.

"The escape of three life-term prisoners

"who kidnapped a taxicab driver

"in their desperate flight

was announced here tonight

"by Warden Everett Gaylord

of the state penitentiary.

"Combined forces of prison, county

and city officers were looking for the trio.

"The fugitives are

Elmo 'Tommy Gun' Mobley... "

- Tommy Gun?

- "... 35, bank robbery.

"And T-Dub 'Three-toed' Masefield,

"44, bank robbery.

"And Bowie A. Bowers,

"23, murder. "

They're pulling that toe stuff again on me.

All right, you sons of b*tches.

"Mobley and Bowers,

Warden Gaylord disclosed,

"took advantage of permits

"allowing them to go fishing

on prison property

"and Masefield of a pass to town.

"All three were privileged trustees.

"Bowers, the youngest of the escaped men

"who was serving a life sentence,

"had been commuted

from the death penalty. "

- I didn't know that.

- CHICAMAW:
I didn't, either.

"He was convicted

in the murder of a storekeeper

"in Selpa County

"when he was 16 years old.

"He was a member of

the prison baseball team.

"When asked why the three trustees

were able to escape,

"the warden, Everett Gaylord, replied,

"'If you can't trust a trustee,

"'who can you trust?"'

That's it.

Not a very long piece about us, is it?

Well...

Only had a machine gun once in my life,

and I never even got to fire it. I just

held it.

Goddamn toe stuff.

(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)

- Can I buy you a Coke?

- What with?

Well, Dee said it'd be okay

if we charged

for a couple of days until we get set up.

Oh, yeah, I know.

I read in the newspapers about you.

Yeah, well, them papers don't always

tell the whole story, you know.

How come you'd ever get in trouble?

Just some fellas

in the carnival I was working with

said they knew a fast way

to make some money.

I just went along to see how it was done.

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