Inherent Vice Page #4

11.

TARIQ (CONT'D)

It's a lot of money. I can't give

you details.

I swore an oath I wouldn't tell.

DOC:

How about just his name?

TARIQ:

Glen Charlock.

DOC:

You know where he's staying now?

TARIQ:

Only who he works for. He's a

bodyguard for a builder named

Wolfmann.

MOMENT. Doc writes: paranoia alert.

DOC:

If you don't mind my asking, Mr.

Kahlil, how did you hear about me?

TARIQ:

Sledge Poteet.

DOC:

Wow. Blast from the past.

TARIQ:

Said you helped him out of a

situation back in '67.

DOC:

First time I ever got shot at.

You guys know each other from the

place?

TARIQ:

That's right -- they were teachin'

us both how to cook.

DOC:

I remember him when he couldn't

boil water. So if you don't mind

an obvious question: You know

where this Glen Charlock works

now, why not just go over there,

look him up directly?

TARIQ:

Because Wolfmann is surrounded day

and night with the Aryan

Brotherhood Army and outside of

Glen, I've never enjoyed the

company of Nazis.

12.

DOC:

So send some white guy in to get

his head hammered.

TARIQ:

More or less.

DOC:

When you were inside, were you in

a gang?

TARIQ:

Black Guerrilla Family.

DOC:

And you say you did business with

the who now, the Aryan

Brotherhood? Can you explain that

to me...

TARIQ:

We found we shared many of the

same opinions about the U.S.

government.

DOC:

Alright, that racial harmony.

I can dig it. There something

else?

TARIQ:

My old street gang. Artesia

Crips. When I got out of Chino I

went looking for some of them and

found it ain't just them gone, but

the whole turf itself.

DOC:

What do you mean ‘gone’?

TARIQ:

Not there. Grind up in little

pieces. Seagulls all pickin' at

it. Figure I must be trippin',

drive around for a while, come

back, everything's still gone.

DOC:

Uh-huh.

TARIQ:

Nobody and nothing. A ghost town

except for this big sign, ‘Coming

Soon On This Site.’ Guess who the

builder is...?

DOC:

Wolfmann again.

13.

TARIQ:

That's it.

DOC:

Can you show me on the map?

They look at map.

DOC:

So you're, like, what again,

Japanese?

TARIQ:

How long you been doin' this?

DOC:

Looks closer to Gardena than

Compton is all I'm sayin'.

TARIQ:

WW Two. Before the war, a lot of

South Central was still a Japanese

neighborhood. Those people got

sent to camps, we come on in to be

the new Japs.

DOC:

And now it's your turn to get

moved along.

TARIQ:

More white man's revenge. Freeway

up by the airport wasn't enough.

DOC:

Revenge for...?

TARIQ:

Watts.

DOC:

The riots?

TARIQ:

Some of us say, ‘insurrection.’

The Man, he just waits for his

moment...

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