Year of the Dragon Page #7

We gotta talk it out.

So talk.

I don't know what got into me

with this Chinese girl.

I care more about you

than anybody in the world.

I mean, if you don't know that,

Connie, then....

So, what do you want me to say?

Do you want me to forgive you, Stanley?

Is that what you want?

The truth is,

I don't know what I want.

You wanna marry her?

You wanna have babies with her?

Look, I didn't plan for things

to happen this way.

It just happened.

How do you think that makes me feel?

It makes me feel pretty low, Stanley.

I feel pretty low myself.

- lt's about time.

You used me up, Stanley,

and then you burned me down.

And I was a rock. I carried the cross

with you in Brooklyn and queens.

I lived in a f***ing war zone with you.

Now you're gonna go off and have babies

with a woman 1 0 years younger than me.

I don't have any pity for you, Stanley.

I hope you feel bad.

Look, why don't we just

let things ride for a while.

Just let some time pass.

I don't have any time.

- I just need some time to think.

I'm out of time.

I'm 35, sliding into 40.

So, what do you want me to do?

You want me to just walk away,

just like that?

Is that what you want?

It's over, Stanley.

Don't you get it? We're not playing

from the same sheet music anymore.

Now, will you get out of here

before I start to cry?

And I don't want to do that.

Not in front of you.

I got my pride.

Are you okay?

I'm washing my face.

Look, Connie.

I'd feel a whole lot better if you'd just

keep the house and the bank accounts.

I mean,

whatever's mine is yours.

I don't want the house, anyway.

Stanley?

What the hell is going on?

- They got Connie.

Stanley. What are you, crazy?

Stanley.

Stanley, get out of there.

Stanley.

Are you crazy?

- He's evidence.

He's dead.

Long time no see, Joe Tai.

It's an honor and a pleasure

to see you again, general.

Time looks like it's been good to you.

- And to you too, honorable cousin.

The last time, as I remember,

both of us were taking orders.

Now we give them.

How is the health of our old friend,

the great Sao mong Khawn...

...who paved the golden road

of our success together?

Truly, he is one of the great ones.

He'll be happy to see you, Go Joey.

I think so.

Come.

I think we'll surprise him.

Perhaps the general

doesn't recognize you.

The general likes heroin in his soup.

Keeps him happy.

Thank all gods,

he feels no pain.

Come, Go Joey.

A Kalashnikov.

Best rifle ever made.

The Russians used to give them

to us to fight the Burmese.

But now it's harder to get.

They want dollars.

Everybody wants dollars.

one bullet,

by the time it gets to me...

...costs me one American dollar.

Dollars are like small fish.

Difficult to catch.

But not to be thrown back,

except as bait for something bigger.

l'll make it 4500 a kilo.

- You give me 6500.

And I'll refine it to number four right here.

- No, no.

You'll have 200 keys

in Bangkok in two weeks.

We can't control the quality unless

we refine it to stage four ourselves.

We've always bought stage three.

You don't think my dragon pearl is good?

I have the best chemists in the world.

- maybe.

Better than your people in Hong Kong.

- Lin Shin Sao.

But then we would be forced

to unemploy our chemists.

Go Joey.

I offer you the chance of putting

your old friend out of his misery.

He was going to betray us

to the American.

Hold him.

Save me. Save me.

No, don't.

Don't shoot me.

You don't have the bullet to spare.

Each bullet can kill one Burmese soldier.

Then you don't have to use a gun.

Don't do this to me.

I'll buy him from you, $5000.

Buy?

U.S. dollars. Cash. Now.

- Why?

Why not?

If you think this sh*t-faced old worm

is worth $5000...

...you can have him.

- Good.

The food's been great...

...and your hospitality has left

an impression, general.

But time is pressing.

I must be in Hong Kong...

...before the banks close on Friday.

my final offer.

I'll make it 4900 a key

for your number three dragon pearl.

I'll take 200 kilos deliverable

in Bangkok early next week.

Another 800 kilos for the next

three months. Nothing beyond that.

White Powder ma's offer

makes yours insignificant.

Piss on him. Nam Soong triad is like

dog sh*t littering the streets.

They'll be extinct in two years.

I think perhaps I put my money

on White Powder ma.

I think so.

I think White Powder ma

will be pleased to hear this.

Tell him yourself, general.

I give to Ban Sung...

...in honor of our association.

Let no motherless f*** ever raise

his head again between us.

Come on,

let me get a shot.

Come on.

Press. Come on, let us in.

I'm sorry, Stanley.

She looks beautiful, Stanley.

Let me through.

Let me through.

Let me through.

Let me in.

Let me in now.

my deepest condolences

to you, mr. White.

If it makes you feel better,

she said it wasn't the Chinese girl.

Connie was a bigger person than that.

She knew what was gonna happen.

You should've listened to her.

You were talking to Connie

behind my back?

Yeah, I was talking

to Connie behind your back.

I know Connie even longer than you.

Why shouldn't I talk to her if I want to?

You and I don't agree on anything

anymore.

That's your problem.

You're fighting the whole world.

I'm sick and tired of Vietnam

as an excuse for everything you guys do.

You act like everyone in WWll and Korea

came home to a picnic.

Well, it wasn't.

We lost 50,000 men in Korea too.

Nobody gave a sh*t.

But we fitted in.

Why can't you fit in?

What is it that's so different?

I don't know what you're talking about.

- You know what l'm talking about.

You're not one of them

professional veterans...

...making a career of pissing

and groaning about the war.

You made something out of yourself.

But you're still acting like you're

on a crusade.

You think you got the right

to trample over anything.

We got an arrangement,

a treaty with these Chinese.

However tarnished it is, it works.

Life is arrangement, Stanley.

Life is getting along. That's why

this neighborhood is what it is.

That's why 8 million people

every day in this city can function.

Lou, I don't wanna argue with you

anymore, all right? Honest, I don't.

Take it easy.

You need anything, you call me,

you hear?

There's always a bed at my place.

You know, your arrangement

is what killed Connie, Lou.

mr. Tai?

- mr. Tai?

mr. Tai, people in Chinatown are saying

Ronnie Chang was your protg.

And his involvement in the murder

of Captain White's wife implicates you.

That was a terrible tragedy.

But I hardly knew Ronnie Chang.

Ronnie Chang represents much

of what is bad in Chinatown.

We are trying to get rid of this element.

my sources say you're

back from Bangkok.

Was there a business

purpose for this trip?

I have interests there.

I import foods from the Far East.

I also have a company that distributes

films in Thailand. Why do you ask?

Would this business take

you into the jungle...

500 miles north of Bangkok...

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