Thunder Road Page #5

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This is Henderson 6741.

What's she gonna set me back, Frank? | Figure it out, will ya?

Hello. Momma? Is Papa there? | Could I talk to him, please?

What do you think, Frank?

- About 450. | - When will I get it?

Wednesday oughta do it.

Hello? Hello, Papa?

I'm in Henderson City. | They tried to box me in tonight.

They tore my car up pretty bad -

too bad to get it through | those inspection blocks into Memphis.

I'm all right, but I'll be holed up here | for three days. You know where.

Please don't you or anybody else | try to contact me.

You might be followed. | That Kogan's playing it pretty rough.

I'll be in Memphis Wednesday | and home Thursday.

Don't worry about me... | I said, don't worry. I'll be all right.

I'll see you Thursday. Bye.

Long distance. | Cet me State 1-6721 in Memphis, please?

This is Henderson 6741.

This Kogan fella - when's someone | gonna do something about him?

Well, the Treasury man tells me I'm | standing pretty close to the horse's head,

but Kogan's standing closer.

Hello. Francie? Honey, | I won't make it to Memphis tonight.

My car conked out on me. | It's gonna tie me up about three days.

I'm in Henderson City.

I don't know | where I'm gonna be staying yet.

How 'bout you meeting me | Wednesday night at Foster's caf?

That caf on Henderson and Cherry | where we ate the last time?

You duck out after the first show, huh?

There's nothing wrong, Francie. | My car just conked out, that's all.

Honey, honest, I'm all right. | There's nothing wrong. I'm fine.

I'll see you Wednesday.

OK.

- You Robin Doolin? | - Yeah, I reckon I am.

I'm a Treasury agent. Troy Barrett. | Alcohol, Tobacco Tax Division.

I wanna talk to you.

I'd rather talk to a skunk.

- We're not really that bad. | - You are in these parts.

Wait a minute. | After all, I didn't try to trick you.

I did come right out with it.

Your brother's a big man | in these parts, isn't he?

- How come he didn't serve in the army? | - He served. He just...

He just what?

- Officially, I'm not supposed to be here. | - Then what are you doing here?

Your brother Luke's not in Memphis, here | or at any of his normal delivery points.

Somebody tore up two cars last night | on the Chalk Cap road.

I think it was your brother.

If it was, he's still loaded, | his car's torn up and maybe he is.

So use your head a little, boy.

Do you know who Carl Kogan is?

All right. Don't answer - you don't have to. | But I know that you know.

So do we. We didn't, but we know now.

He's the head of a big city operation | trying to move in on Harlan County.

There's something else we know.

Niles Penland, Jed Moultrie, | Mike Williams - a Treasury agent -

lost their lives because of him.

Another thing we know for sure.

Your brother's the one person | that's stood in the way of Kogan.

What do you want of me?

I want to meet your brother. I'll meet him | any place, any time, unarmed.

Use your head a little. We're on your side.

It's Kogan we want this time.

There's a chance your brother can make | it easier for us to lay our hands on him.

If he's still alive.

And he won't be | if he makes the wrong move.

There's another trap set for him. Coes | into operation when he hits the road.

We got that much from | the two Kogan men we tagged last night.

You gonna help me out? | Agree to have me meet your brother?

Mr Barrett, I don't think I can arrange that.

All right.

Here's my telephone number. You call me | if you wanna or have Luke do it.

Luke? It's me - Robin.

- What are you doing here, Robin? | - I caught a bus.

Mom don't know where I am. | She tried to stop me, but I came anyway.

Took an awful chance.

When I talked to Pop, | I told him not to tell nobody.

You shouldn't have done it, buddy.

How about yourself? | Today, after school, a man stopped me.

Barrett.

Luke, he's got no beef with you, | just as long as you're clean.

But Kogan - he's never gonna be clean.

All Barrett wants | is for you to help get Kogan.

Keeping kinda strange company.

All the man wants to do is talk to you.

He said he'd come unarmed, | any place you say.

Oh, no. Nobody ever charmed me | with a "Play pretty".

I don't make no deals with nobody.

Luke, the man's all right.

Yeah.

All he's trying to do | is stop you from running.

He said his men are gonna have to tag | you to keep Kogan from killing you.

Barrett's on our side.

Barrett. Barrett and Kogan.

Nobody's gonna kill nobody. I'm just | making one more routine run, that's all.

Papa's got the still shut down | and everything's cool.

I appreciate you coming all this way, | but everything's set.

Don't go, Luke.

Please don't go.

Don't badger me, Rob.

I've tried to explain it to you.

You just can't seem | to get it through your thick head.

From Harlan to Memphis, Kentucky, | Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina -

I got my name on one police blotter.

That's from trying to outrun Kogan.

Otherwise I'm entirely clean. | You wanna know why? Cos I don't fix.

I don't buddy up with one living soul.

You ramble on back home and you | keep your mouth shut about where I am.

This is my problem. You understand that?

Yeah. I understand. | I just came down here to help.

I am your brother, you know.

When brothers meet, do they quarrel?

Co on, Rob, git.

Out!

All right. I'm gone.

- Roxy, what in the world...? | - I drove Pop's pick-up down.

I told the landlady | you were expecting me.

I've got some bad news for you.

You must have been | pretty rough on Robin.

He accepted an offer from Stacey Couge | to drive a load into Memphis tonight.

- I thought I'd better tell you. | - Drive from where to Memphis?

From Stacey Couge's garage.

Oh, no, he ain't. | He ain't driving inch one toward Memphis.

- But your car's not here. | - It will be, in time to cut Robin off.

- That takes care of tonight. | - Quit fussing.

I told you before, | Robin's not about to be in this business.

You just can't see for looking! Don't you | know you're the one that's gotta quit?

It ain't like that. Quitting's gonna be done | in Memphis tonight.

Time it to be at the city limits | a little bit before midnight.

Drop the woman and kid | off at Porter's caf,

then drive into the drop exactly on time.

If you're early, kill time. | Just don't circle the same block too often.

You going some place?

You can't stop me this time.

- You have been stopped, buddy. | - That's what you think.

I asked you a hundred times | to let me go with you, but you never did.

I've taken this man's money, | I'm gonna drive his car.

You don't understand. | These fellas are trying to bum-rap you.

That's one of Kogan's cars. | They use you as bait for me.

Stacey Couge, you dirty turncoat,

you move toward that shotgun, | I'll make a skullcap out of it for you.

Rob, pick up the shotgun | and put it in my car.

You can call your friend, Stacey. | Tell him his plan worked.

I'm on my way.

- Luke, I never thought... | - That's right. You didn't think.

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