tell on him.
I'm not gonna do that.
I'm not gonna hurt you.
You've got $310,000
in the bag here.
I'll take the 300 you scammed from
the airlines, and the 10 leftover...
I'll borrow from you
and pay back at another time.
Wait.
You take all my money,
but you're borrowing part of it?
At 18%. Now, don't ask another
fucking question. I'm leaving now.
You won't know where I am!
I don't even know where I'll be!
I'll find you, Leo. You leave
a trail like a fucking caterpillar.
Wait a minute.
What's this 18%-a-year shit?
You want to borrow 10,
the vig is 3 bills a week.
That's 15 for the vig plus the 10.
That's 25 big ones!
You go the whole year, buddy!
You hear me!
This is good.
This ''Mr. Lovejoy.''
It needs a better ending, but yes,
I can see why Harry wants to do it.
You understand. I knew Harry was lying,
saying this wasn't any good...
but holding on to it like you'd have
to break his fingers to get it from him.
That's funny.
I was thinking what I'll have
to break to get it away from you.
I'm explaining to you what
I'm doing here in case you thought...
I came to rip off any of this
dusty old shit that the man has.
I wouldn't make you out to be a burglar.
Not in that outfit.
Harry called you his associate.
What does that mean?
I never heard your name or read it in
the ''Hollywood Reporter'' or ''Variety.''
What he said.
I'm his associate.
You must bring
something heavy to the deal.
I do. Me.
It says here you're getting
Martin Weir for the part of Lovejoy?
That's right. Martin.
Come on.
How you gonna do that?
I'm gonna put a gun
to his head and say...
''Sign the fucking papers, Martin,
or you're dead.''
That's it.
I wonder, would that work?
You know who I see
for the part of Al Roxy?
Harvey Keitel.
Man could play it in his sleep.
He was pretty good
in the movie ''Fingers.''
Missed it.
You know who else?
Morgan Freeman. You know his work?
Morgan Freeman, yeah.
But he's a colored guy.
So what?
Where's it say in the script
the man's got to be white?
Color's what the part needs, man.
Somebody to do it with some style.
What do you think of the script?
First thing that's got
to go is the title.
The writer's name, Murray Saffrin,
would be better than Lovejoy.
I'm with you on that one.
You know what I'm thinking?
Why don't you and I
rewrite the script where it needs it?
You could write one?
There's nothing to it.
All you do, you get an idea.
Set down what you want to say on paper.
Then you hire someone else
to fill in the commas and shit...
where they belong,
if you're not positive yourself.
Maybe fix up the spelling
where you have some tricky words.
Although I've seen some scripts
I know the words weren't spelled right.
There were hardly any commas at all,
so I don't think that's too important.
You get to the end.
You write in, ''Fade out.'' You're done.
That's it?
That's all there is?
Then what the fuck
do I need you for?
Because I'm offering
my services on this one.
Tell you what.
If I need a ride sometime...
I'll let you know.
How could you arrest me here?
This is my country.
This is where you're going to die.
That was no misfire!
That was to turn you around...
'cause I don't want
to shoot you in the back...
unless you'd rather
try to run from me.
Is she there?
Did you bring my wife?
She's in the car.
They've got it all on tape.
- You sure you got enough?
-Play it back. You'll see.
How many did you frame?
-You better give me that gun.
-Okay, here it is.
That's the second bullet
I've stopped for you.
That's the second bullet
I've stopped for you.
You're going down, Orson.
Isn't somebody going to come
and take him away?
In a few minutes.
You really liked him, didn't you?
The cop did.
The cop did.
The one who killed him.
-He loved him.
-He loved him.
He was a great detective.
-But a lousy cop.
-And a lousy cop.
Is that all you have
to say for him?
He was some kind of a man.
What does it