Thunderbolt and Lightfoot Page #4

What's this?

That's my route.

Just follow the streets

and it takes you right back to the garage.

If you don't mind my saying,

I think you should get a job.

- Nobody asked you.

- All right, all right.

Read me the first street.

Left on 12th Avenue South to 9th Street,

right on North 3rd to the viaduct...

One at a time!

Left on 12th Avenue South.

You boys are being paid

by the hour!

Whoo!

We haven't got all day on this mother.

Got to move it.

Baby, baby

Baby, down baby

Baby, baby

There's a kid now. Pull over.

It's my truck. I know what to do.

You're on the wrong street.

What?

I said you're on the wrong street.

- What's he talking about?

- By me.

You're too early.

You're supposed

to go down the next street first,

and then come up this street.

Well, listen.

While we're here, can I sell you anything?

No, I'm waiting for Judy Ann.

They have a better flavor of pistachio.

Look, kid, go f*** a duck.

Here comes, uh,

Lightfoot.

He's late, as usual.

Hey, the woman

came to the window again today.

Stark-naked this time.

Stark-naked?

No kidding?

What did she do?

Just stood there and stared at me.

How close was you?

As close as I am to you right now.

Did you see everything?

What do you mean, everything?

You know what I mean, everything.

Clear as day.

What did you do about it, big mouth?

I'll kill you for that!

Sit down, Red. Sit down!

Young kids,

they don't believe in anything anymore.

You'll get yours when this is over.

One way or another.

You can believe in that.

All maintenance

personnel off the floor.

Bringing in the guard dogs now.

To hell with them damn dogs.

They treat them better than they treat us.

Every night,

they rush us out of here like animals.

Let's not argue now, Sam.

Those dogs ate up a man here once.

- Ate him?

- Yeah.

Wrong man came on duty, dogs ate him up.

They'll go through

a plate-glass window to get at you.

Now, a man just don't fool around

with those kind of animals.

Hey, man. Play it cool.

What did you think about that shot?

You know, the double rail.

Three-ball in the corner pocket?

Pretty honky I'll tell you.

I thought it was a pretty good shot.

There wasn't anything wrong with it.

Wasn't the best shot, but it's all right.

- Who's that guy?

- Oh, he's a new guy.

He won't even come outside anymore.

Matter of fact, when he gets to work,

he keeps that door locked tight.

Why's that?

Well, one time we got him out

here on the sidewalk, you know.

And I kind of got up close to him

and unzipped my pants

and took out my pecker.

And I put that dude right in his hand.

He turned white. He didn't know

whether to hold it or drop it

or run off down the street with it.

It was the funniest thing

I ever saw in my life.

We just all rolled

up out of here on the sidewalk

splitting our guts. It was really funny.

Hey, Mario.

Hey, boss, it's raining.

Work between the drops.

Hey, Mario, what do we do about the rain?

Take your lunch hour now.

Lunch? It's 9:
00 in the morning.

Sh*t! Son of a b*tch.

My own brother-in-law.

Got every skirt

in the neighborhood chasing after him.

You'd think

he'd share one with me just once.

Just once, it never happened.

Stick out your tongue.

I'll teach you how to lick your eyebrows.

You'll have every woman on the block

hangin' off your ass.

Hey, can I borrow the truck?

- What for?

- Doctor.

You got a dose?

Full disaster, man.

Yeah, go ahead. We're on our lunch hour.

What the hell.

Just don't wrap it up.

It's my ass if you do.

Hey, don't worry. I'll be back in an hour.

- I'm just gonna go upstairs and clean up.

- All right.

Hey, where'd you get those pants?

You freak!

I love you! Come back!

Where'd you get the dents?

Progress.

Hey, Leary,

I had a dream about you last night.

What about?

I dreamt you said hello to me.

Now, don't you go getting

smart again with me, Lightfoot.

I'll break both your arms.

Oh, well, I'll keep that in mind.

You just remember what I said.

John and me go back a long way together.

Before Korea even.

But you don't mean nothing

to me, you understand? Nothing!

What'd you try and kill him for then?

Because we were friends.

Thank you.

You boys are new around here. Aren't you?

Yeah.

Here's your receipt.

Oh, thanks.

You're gonna need some help with that box?

Ah, no thanks. We can manage by ourselves.

Thank you.

Okay. Suit yourself.

Relax. Relax.

One tank to a pop.

Johnny got four of them in Korea.

They gave him a Silver Star. He was a hero.

- Hero? - That son of a b*tch

even saved my life once.

Come on.

This isn't gonna work.

I wish Dunlop was still here.

How did you

take care of the alarm last time?

Dunlop monitored

the frequency of the signal on the wire.

He duplicated it

and then ran it back into the circuit

with a spring-loaded snap switch.

The whole deal fit into two lunchboxes.

We don't have Dunlop now, do we?

Yeah, you took care of that.

Trouble with these new alarm systems,

they buzz directly

into the branch manager's bedroom

and the telegraph office.

Now, this lulls whoever

is busting into the vault

into a false sense of security,

because he doesn't hear an alarm go off.

Yeah, It's still a hard-wire system,

runs right through the telegraph lines.

There's no antenna there, I'm sure of that.

We just got to make sure

that the alarm isn't reported.

Now, the big risk, of course being is

if they've run a hard wire into someplace

else, like the Sheriff's office.

How far away is that?

I clocked that on the truck

doing 40 miles per hour.

Now, if the police come down on us hard,

say, at an average of 80 miles an hour,

I figure we're seven minutes on the inside,

10 minutes on the outside,

depending on which route they take.

However, I think to be absolutely sure

that we should use

five minutes as our bottom line

from the time you trip

the alarm inside the vault.

Unless a patrol car

happens to be cruising closer.

All right. Five minutes it is.

Now, Leary and I

will take care of the manager's house.

It's Sunday so the bars will be closed.

The only place open

will be the telegraph office.

At exactly 10:
30,

Goody, you're gonna drop Lightfoot off

in the alley behind the Liberty Lounge.

The window's already been fixed

so you can climb right in

and change your clothes.

You stay there until 11:30.

Don't fool around the bar or anything.

You stay right there until

11:
30, in the can. Understand?

At 11:
30, you climb out of there

and you get into the telegraph office.

You got to get in there before 11:35,

because that's when the alarm goes off.

Now, you'll see a light

light up on the console.

When that lights up,

that means Leary and I are in the vault.

And we don't care how you get inside.

Look, I don't know if I

can pull this thing off.

How am I supposed to know what to do?

What's the matter?

Is the job too tough for you?

You know, you can't

stop this thing once you start.

Billy the Kid.

All right,

this isn't a game, you know.

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