Park.
Right.
I'm sorry about this, but
give me your wallet. Right.
You guys the Rasta Devils? Right again.
Now give me that watch.
What happened to Gilmore? Heard
he got bounced from the Heathens.
He was dipping in the
treasury. Norton had to cut him.
He just cut him.
Oh.
That means everything north
of 55th Street is up for grabs.
What about
the block association?
This is interesting. What's
your name? I'm Franklyn.
That's with a "Y."
Franklyn curt. Man, you crazy?
Hey, man! What you tryin' to pull, man?
Oh, shit. The man. i
Let, s get out. i
Man, I didn't even open it. Why
don't you stall 'em? Five minutes.
How am I gonna know when
it's f ve minutes? My watch!
That, s all right. They didn, t take
anything. Aren't you Ernie Souchak?
That's right. I thought I recognized you.
Great piece today. That's what
Alderman Yablonowitz said to tell you.
Great piece.
You lost your badge.
Right.
Huh?
Giving me one lousy cigarette doesn't
give you the right to kick me out of town.
Are you crazy? Nobody's
trying to kick you anywhere.
All I'm suggesting-
Mmm.
All I'm suggesting is that you go and do a
story in New Orleans for a couple of weeks.
They got this hot consortium of
developers there. They're all ex-chicago.
You pick up Yablonowitz
the minute you come back.
Howard?
You need a lobotomy.
Down the corridor, third door on
the left. They got diplomas in it.
I just want us to lay back
for a while till things cool.
Especially till after we
run your story on his mother.
I don't want you
in here permanently.
I like it here. The
nurses give me bed baths.
How 'bout if I order you
to New Orleans?
How 'bout you go screw yourself?
How 'bout dinner Sunday night?
How about
the Nell Porter story?
It's better than
the New Orleans one.
You're on shift work,
you two.
He bugs me weekdays,
you Sundays.
Souchak, just because it's out of chicago
- Nothing personal, Sylvia.
You know I love you, respect you
and long to tear your clothes off.
- Ahem.
- Dump this mick and let me take you away from all this.
Where to, if you won't
leave chicago?
Another part of chicago.
Oh, come on.
Grow up, Sylvia.
What the hell do I know about
the intercontinental crack?
continental Divide.
That too.
Fresh air makes me nauseous. I bet
they got hills up where she comes from.
Sort of.
We call them the Rockies.
The Rocky Mountains?
Mm-hmm.
So you've heard of them.
Good night. Thank you
for two-thirds of dinner.
Souchak, it's a scoop.
She's never been interviewed.
Four years she's been up
there, completely alone.
Apart from her eagles. She's
a highly respected scientist.
She's an eagle freak.
She is a holy woman.
Ohh! Why didn't you
say that?
That makes all the
difference. A holy woman.
Is there any more
cauliflower?
It'd be something new
to write about.
I like writing the old thing
over and over. A new angle.
Really? Some big eagle up there
wheeler-dealing little eagles?
Fixing eagle elections?
A crooked eagle in Nebraska?
souchak, the Rockies run
through eight different states.
Nebraska isn't one of them.
Try Wyoming.
souchak, for my sake
as managing editor,
if you wanna f nish off
Yablonowitz, you gotta stay healthy.
Go to Wyoming.
Howard,
you talked me into it.
The answer's no.
sylvia.
Don't make eyes.
Making eyes at a Souchak
never worked.
I'm a Souchak,
so it just won't work.
Howard?
- Uh-huh?
How do people get up the Rockies? How?
They havejeeps,
things like that?
eeps, helicopters.
They got everything.
so you think we did the right
thing? Oh, for God, s sake.
You think he, II be okay? sylvia, he, s
a grown man. What can happen to him?
That, s what I keep
asking myself.
Listen, I know souchak. He, II
be having the time ofhis life.
Look, you go on.
Leave me here to die.
I always wanted to die
in the mountains.
You get the view and everything. Mountains?
These here is bumps
in the ground.
What are you doing?
checking for