You and Me Page #7

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I wouldn't have had the nerve.

Go on.

Mr. Morris...

when your life has a bad spot in it

and it's spoiling everything it touches

and it's liable even to take your life

away from you

Don't you think it's better

to just cut it out clean...

no matter how much it might hurt?

I do.

So do I.

That's why I came here.

Hello.

Oh, you came anyway.

What do you mean I came anyway?

Nothing, nothing at all.

I just wondered.

If you wanna back out, just say so.

No, Joe, I don't wanna back out...

All right, then pipe down and come on.

Monaghan reporting.

Everything quiet.

It's a frame. We've been turned in.

Joe's girl's done it.

Your girl framed us, Joe.

A squealer.

Shut up.

Just a dirty little stool pigeon.

I said shut up.

Take the guns away from them.

Stop, I'm ticklish.

Where's your gun?

It's a heirloom.

This man has no gun.

So your brain clicked for a minute, did it?

If you aren't a pretty sight.

My wife wanted me to collect stamps.

I don't know why my hobby

had to be idiots.

If you had a grain of sense

you'd know I'd find out about this

without this young lady

If you can bribe a man for $50.

Don't you think

I can make him talk for $55?

For the love of Pete, Gimpy,

put your hands down.

You make me nervous.

Thank you, Mr. Morris.

And to think that the law says

that eight useless guys like you

have to be put in a nice

comfortable prison

and fed at the taxpayer's expense.

Well, you're not gonna get off

that easy.

My taxes are high enough already.

You're gonna work for your living,

the same as I do.

That's why I listened to Helen when she begged

me not to toss you back into the can.

I've done all that I know how

for you.

And it evidently hasn't done any good.

So she's talked me into letting her try.

She seems to think she can knock

some sense into your heads.

But I doubt it.

But maybe you won't resent her

and discount everything she says

the way you do me

just because I happen to be

your employer.

Will you need the guards?

Are you sure?

Now you listen to me.

I'm going.

But if any one of you leaves this room

before Miss Roberts says he can

he'll be sent to prison

for breaking in here tonight.

I know who you all are

and I wanna see every one of you

back on the job tomorrow morning

at 8 o'clock.

And that doesn't mean 3 minutes after.

Come on, boys.

Oh...

and when you leave,

please turn out the lights.

Do you think the guy's on the level?

I don't know.

I still don't like the idea of being here

at 8 o'clock in the morning.

This job didn't pan out so well.

Maybe the next one will.

Sit down.

Say, what does she want?

Didn't you here me?

I said sit down.

Say, Joe, what...

Hey, Cuffy...

Aw, never mind, come on.

We might as well make ourselves comfortable

while the cops are downstairs.

Now you listen.

What I have to tell you isn't hard

to explain.

You should have learned it at school.

The school we all went to.

Only I learned something at that school.

Everyone didn't, I guess.

Something you've heard all your life

and laughed yourselves sick at.

You've heard it from long-winded reformers

You've read it in editorials.

It's the oldest chestnut in the language.

It's that... well...

crime doesn't pay.

I don't mean because you get caught

by the law and punished.

'Cause sometimes you're not.

I don't mean because it kills

something decent inside of you.

'Cause a lot of you wouldn't care about that.

What I mean is...

It doesn't add up in dollars and cents.

You can't make any real money stealing.

Yeah? We'd have made 30 grand out of this

if you hadn't butted in.

You can cut that down to

15% of 30 grand.

That's all the fence would have given you.

And not a cent more.

Shifty was gonna give us 25%.

Shifty would have given you 15%,

and that's all.

I used to know bigger people than you

who did business with him.

That's all he ever gave them.

Maybe I can show you better.

Let me prove it to you in black and white.

You figured the haul at $30,000.

Okay.

Haul, $30,000.

15%...

that's what the fence

would have given you.

15% of 30,000 is...

4,500, I'll put that over here.

Now the payoff over here.

The getaway car, how much?

One grand.

Okay.

Getaway car...

one thousand.

You sell it for half that,

say $500 there.

You could have stolen it,

but the brain in back of the job

didn't want a hot car on his hands.

Sure, we always stole it before.

Yeah. Imagine.

Buying a getaway car.

The trucks to haul away the hot stuff.

You can't hire trucks for less than 200 apiece

for the chances they take.

How many?

How many?

I don't know. Joe handled it.

Joe?

Yeah, Joe.

Okay, I guess you'd need two.

Three then.

You were tipped off to bribe

the watchmen.

Mr. Morris had a little talk with them.

He told them the only way to save

their jobs was by going through with it.

Like nothing had happened.

Three watchmen

at 100 apiece

makes $300.

The two stockroom men you bribed

in the fur and silver departments squawked.

Why the...

And me trusting him like a mother.

They wouldn't risk their good jobs

for $50 apiece.

That makes another 100.

The getaway tickets,

we'll up them together.

One, two, three, four, eight of you.

Joe wasn't going.

Eight of you at $40 apiece, I suppose.

Let's call it $300.

I'll throw in the tools

and the money for the doctor,

and your guns

and all the other little expenses...

I won't even count them.

Oh, wait.

There's the mouthpiece.

Can't get a lawyer for less than a grand.

They always charge that.

Now, let's see.

$2800.

28 from 45 is... $1700.

And now for the boss.

You think you're gypped by Mr. Morris.

That your wages aren't high enough

for the hours you spend working for him.

So you make up your mind you won't work

for this boss anymore.

But there's always a boss on any job.

You simply traded Mr. Morris

for another boss.

But this one doesn't pay your wages in advance

and get his profit afterwards.

This one takes his profit first.

And you get what's left

to divvy up among you.

His cut is a third, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's right.

Okay.

A third of 1700 is 566,66.

$566,66.

That's the boss's share.

Subtracted form 1700 is...

four, three, three,

three, one, one.

$1133,34.

to be split between eight of you.

Ten. There's two more guys

with the boss.

Okay, that makes it easier for me.

$113,33 for each of you.

and for $113,33

you throw away your jobs,

lose your homes

be hunted by coppers

and sooner or later be sent to prison.

Some of you are two-time losers.

If you get sent up again

you're in for keeps.

Only the biggest sap in the world

thinks crime pays any dividends.

But, sister, you ain't trying to tell us that

the bigshots don't make any more than that.

The bigshots aren't little crooks

like you.

They're politicians.

What's keeping them guys?

Get outta here.

Get in. I told you the bigshot

didn't like you, didn't I?

Get in!

Sister, you're all right.

Sure she's all right. Hey, Joe!

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