week.
-Not ever!
-It's up to me.
I'm strictly short-con.
-I've heard that one before.
-Yeah, but I'm in control.
Sure. You're only 25 years old
already you can lay down
4 grand, without even
turning a hair!
Goes like anything else, Roy.
You don't stand still,
either go up or down, usually
down, sooner or later.
Well, that oughta be
a surprise, then.
You'll gonna head east
from here?
After the meet.
Back to Baltimore.
It was nice to see
you again.
You little prick!
-OK?
-I see him. Just wait. Hold it.
-That's the guy we followed.
Just wait!
Excuse, me? Can I borrow your
binoculars? Thanks!
Excuse me.
-What did you do to yrself all afternoon?
- I went out to the track.
What were you doing at the track?
Did you run into my mother?
No, how could I?
I was in the clubhouse.
Lilly wouldn't be in the clubhouse,
would she? How did ya know that?
-OK, I saw her.
-But she didn't see you, in other words?
I saw her out there, and I was curious.
You know she's always so nasty to me.
I know she was knocking me
to you every chance she has.
So, I called a friend of mine in
Baltimore, so now I know who she is.
You must have some very
knowledgeable friends.
I'm well connected, Roy. Cole
introduced me to a lotta people.
Very valuable.
Valuable for us.
Running your broker scam,
you mean.
What a team we'll make!
You won't regret this, Roy.
Regret what? I didn't say
I was coming aboard.
-Why not? I thought it was settled!
-Nothing was ever settled.
-It's yr mother talking against me!
-She's got nothing to do with it!
-I make my own decisions!
-It's not what Lilly thinks...
Who cares what she thinks?
I don't care what she thinks.
Left home when I was 17, with nothing
but stuff I bought and paid for myself.
Nothing from Lilly.
Darling, guess what?
I had to tell you right away.
I called a fellow I know in Tulsa,
the one who plays my chauffeur.
He says that there's a sucker there
that's made for us.
And a broker that just shut down,
we can use their office,
not change a thing!
I can scrape up 10 grand if I try,
I got a couple of aces in the whole,
some markers I could call on
for something real.
That leaves 15 or 20 to yr end.
We can start this weekend,
get the sucker into position...
-Hold it!
You're talking some
pretty tall figures,
What makes you think I have got
that kind of money?
Now, you must have.
Now, you know you do, Roy.
Maybe I like it where I am.
Well, maybe I don't. I had 10 good
years with Cole, and I want'em back.
I gotta have a partner.
I looked and looked
and believe me, brother
I kissed a lotta fucking frogs!
And you're my prince!
-Don't I get any say in this?
-No…
-That's what I say!
What I say is no.
We don't do partners.
What is it?
What's going on? Why don't
you wanna team up?
The best reason I can think of
is that you scare the hell outta me.
I've seen women like you before,
baby. You're double tough,
you're sharp as a razor, and you
get what you want, or else...
But you don't make it work forever.
Sooner or later, the lightning hits.
And I'm not gonna be around
when it hits you.
By God!
It's your mother.
-It's Lilly!
-What?
Sure it is. That's why you act
so funny around each other
What's that?
Don't act so goddam innocent!
You and your own mother?
-You like to go back where you been, huh?
-Watch yr mouth!
I'm wise to you, I should've seen it
before, you rotten son of a bitch!
How is it, huh?
How do you like it...
Stop!
Stop!
That's not like me.
I don't do this.
That's why we wouldn't
work together.
Yr disgusting. Yr mind's so filthy
it's hard even to look at you.
Goodbye.
And you don't even know it.
Mama. It's Mama. She's the one.
You'll get yours, Mama. Oh, yes.
-Yeah?
-Lilly, it's Roy. Lilly, I was wondering if...
I was wondering if we could just talk.
You know, like have a conversation.
Maybe we've both grown up.
Maybe we could just talk?
Sure, Roy.
-You want me to drive up?
-