True Confessions Page #2

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to His Eminence for a school.

Isn't that a grand thing to do?

Rancho Rosa?

I hear he's having trouble

getting rid of his Iots.

He needs a school and

the city won't put one in, is that true?

My God, you're suspicious. Peg?

Monsignor.

-Mrs. Campion, how are you?

-Oh, it was a beautiful mass.

Thank you.

I just wanted to thank you

for everything you've done.

It's a beautiful wedding,

and I wanted to tell you

how much I appreciated

all your patience and time.

It was an honor and I...

I know that you'II be very happy,

Georgette.

I'm sure of that.

-Monsignor, you know why I got married.

-Yes, I do.

But I wouldn't worry about it.

I think it'II be fine.

I think you've done the right thing,

and you have my blessing.

Thank you, Monsignor.

Yeah, so, he's gotten awful grand

since he became a supervisor.

I remember when you could rent him

by the day.

And now, after being turned down

everywhere else,

Jack makes this most generous offer

to us.

What would you call that, Des?

-I'd call that a pair of grape scissors.

-Oh.

Have some champagne.

Try that chocolate stuff too. It's good.

Stay away from the peanuts.

Bad for the bowels.

I think I'II just have this.

I hear Jack's overextended.

The banks want to call in his paper.

Oh, you're a cool one, Des, you really are.

AII right.

Maybe I can persuade Jack

to Iet his construction company

build a school at cost.

How's that?

-Very nice.

-Okay.

You know what would even be nicer?

If you threw in your fee from Jack.

Looks Iike a Ieprechaun,

thinks Iike an Arab.

Hey, Iook out.

Hey, Des, how you doing?

-Hi, Tommy. How are you?

-Good.

-Nice to see you.

-Yeah.

Sit down.

-Nice picture of Ma.

-Yes, isn't it?

Why don't you come

and visit her the next time I go?

I think she'd Iike to see you.

Last time I saw her,

she talked to me about purgatory

and how much time

I was gonna spend there.

Life plus 99 years.

She still eating cereal with her fingers?

Well, you know, she still thinks

that the early martyrs didn't

have spoons in the catacombs.

Well, tell her that they didn't have

instant Cream of Wheat either.

You Iook good.

I can't complain.

I got my health, my wealth.

What about yourself?

I can't complain.

His Eminence gives me a Iot of work,

but otherwise I'm okay.

I can see that.

That's a sweetheart.

I hear you fixed him up

with an audience with the Pope.

I made some arrangements, yeah.

I bet you did.

Did he ever tell you

about Dominic Lopresti,

that Iittle ginzo with ambitions?

He tried to move in

on Jack's construction business.

So he takes him and sticks him

in a Iaundry dryer over at Lincoln Heights.

Shrinks the poor bastard

down to 21 pounds.

Is that a fact?

Des, I don't know

the Holy Ghost for a fact,

but you're in the Holy Ghost business,

so you tell me about the Holy Ghost,

I believe you.

Which means that I should believe you.

No, meaning you wanna fall

into sh*t and think it's clover,

then don't believe me.

-Tom, I have to...

-Okay.

-You know a Father Gagnon?

-Yes, I do.

He's the pastor at St. Bernadette's.

A wiz at bingo, they tell me.

Well, could have been a house call.

Well, when was the Iast time

you hung your pants

over the back of a chair

making a house call?

I gotta admit, that's not the way

they teach it at the seminary.

He's out of there. That's all that counts.

Nobody's embarrassed.

Well, I'II have to tell the Cardinal.

Give him a great sendoff.

Candles, incense, the works.

Okay.

AII right, I owe you one. Lunch?

As Iong as your boss picks up the tab.

Thanks, Tom.

-See you Iater.

-Okay.

She had a nice pair of charlies.

You don't often see

a set of charlies that nice.

A Iot of good

they're gonna do her now.

Yeah.

How Iong she been dead?

I think the butler did it.

Don't you ever get tired of saying that?

-Let's see the other half.

-Yeah.

-Did you hear the fights Iast night?

-No.

Mercury Johnson, Vinnie Avila.

I was there.

Like punching fog

trying to hit him, Mercury.

Vinnie should have had a tire iron.

He was supposed to go in the water,

Vinnie.

He did. I got wet, ninth row ringside,

the splash was so big.

Make sure you get a Iot of tight shots

on that tattoo, okay?

It's a nice touch, huh? Rose tattoo.

Here's another nice touch.

They found a candle stuck up her joy trail.

You ought to check it out with

your brother, the Monsignor,

what it means in canon Iaw.

A church candle stuck in a joint Iike that.

He'II tell me too.

He's got an answer for everything, Des.

-I got it Tommy, all right?

-Right.

Yeah, okay, get the tattoo, huh?

Did you get the tattoo?

-I'm gonna take another one.

-Terrific.

You got something I can use

for the first edition, Tom?

Looks Iike a werewolf got to her.

Or a vampire, huh?

Well, that's an angle, Howard.

I heard you mention your brother,

the Monsignor, Tom.

I hear he's very tight with the Cardinal.

You might mention to him

that it would be a wonderful story

if His Eminence was to say

the funeral mass, Tom.

I can get him an exclusive.

Front page on what it all means,

the death of this c*nt.

Howard, we don't even have an ID

on her yet,

so we don't know

if she's a Catholic c*nt or not.

We can work that out Iater, Tommy.

Well, if you want the Cardinal,

it's a factor, Howard, a definite factor.

Where's the blood? I don't see any.

Somebody cut somebody in half,

there ought to be a Iittle blood.

Forget the stretcher!

For openers,

she was probably cut somewhere else.

Probably she was sliced in a bathtub.

Yeah, in a house, not an apartment.

One stretcher.

Why do you have to give me a hard time?

-I don't care what you wanna do.

-Hey, hey.

What's going on?

This a**hole from the coroner's

wants her on two stretchers.

Because she's in two f***ing pieces

is why.

And I'm telling you it's one f***ing body!

I suppose she was in 14 pieces,

you'd want me to get 14 stretchers.

That's exactly what I'm telling you,

a**hole.

-Hey, hey.

-Who you calling...

Hold on.

Do as he says. Two stretchers, okay?

I hope this broad Ieaks

all over the goddamn grass!

And get me a Iist of sex crimes

with the same MO.

That'll take a while, Sergeant.

What do you mean, it'II take a while?

She was cut in two.

Do you think it's an epidemic Iike the flu?

I feel such a damn fool.

Steve, I think we better go.

Hello.

Your Eminence.

Monsignor.

I never could stand that man.

Tell me, Desmond,

this proposal from Mr. Amsterdam

to give us Iand for a school,

what does he want to get out of it?

I suspect solvency.

How many contracts have we Iet

to the Amsterdam Construction Company?

Over the Iast few years,

it's been about $17 million.

It would have cost around 22.

For someone not so anxious

to buy a good name,

it's wonderful, isn't it?

It makes it easy to believe

in the infinite power of repentance.

I keep hearing stories.

About shortages?

And other things.

Yes.

I think, once the Rancho Rosa situation

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