Looper Page #2

Don't blow your other foot off.

F***!

What the hell is going on out there?

How you doing, Abe?

Hey, Joe.

You didn't shoot your

other foot off, did you, Kid?

All right.

My great-grandfather told my

grandfather, "Men are like spiders.

It's the little ones

you've got to be careful of."

Don't know I agree with that.

Yeah? Huh.

What the f*** did my

great-grandfather know?

This man is from the future.

He was sent back here by the mob,

a one-way ticket, to run the loopers.

That's low effort, even for Abe,

so to pass the time,

he recruited some real muscle,

the gat men. Now he runs the city.

Any other city,

that would be impressive.

How can you kids

stand to wear those chokers?

Cravats?

Ties.

Ridiculous. You're aware

we don't have a dress code?

Fashion.

You know... Well, you don't know.

The movies that you're dressing like

are just copying other movies.

These goddamn 20th century

affectations.

Do something new. Huh?

Put a glowing thing around

your neck or use rubberized...

Just be new.

Okay.

It was nice chatting with you, Abe.

I do like you, Joe.

But we're sure enough

that Seth paid you a visit.

We have to do something.

Seth?

You're expecting we're gonna

break your fingers with a hammer,

or something awful.

But I'm gonna defuse that tension right now.

That's not gonna happen.

What is gonna happen

is that I'm gonna talk for a little.

Not even that long.

And you're gonna give up

your friend.

My friend? Seth?

Sorry, I'm confused.

Well, then I'll talk a little.

You know, you were

the youngest looper I ever hired.

You looked goddamn ridiculous,

they said.

Blunderbuss up to here on you.

They brought you in. I forget what for.

Watch shop.

Yeah. You rolled one of our fronts,

a watch shop.

And they had you, you know.

This kid, like an animal.

But you looked at me,

your hair stuck to half your face,

just one eye looking at me.

I could see,

like seeing it happen on the TV,

the bad version of your life.

Like a vision,

I could see how you'd turn bad.

So I changed it.

I cleaned you up

and put a gun in your hand.

I gave you something that was yours.

I'm grateful for that, Abe.

I gave you something

that was yours.

And I remember that kid.

And I think if you ask yourself, you ask,

Who would I sacrifice for what's mine?"

I think Seth would be deep and cozy

inside that circle.

I'll show you how much

I know you. Ahem.

I'm not even gonna break you.

I'm just gonna set you back a ways.

We know that you've been

stashing half your bars.

Which is smart, no law against it.

You're gonna get out.

You're gonna go overseas.

Studying up your Mandarin?

French? French.

You give him up

or you give us half your stash.

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