Small Time Crooks Page #2

- You gonna tell me, or are you gonna

have a tantrum? -For God's sakes!

For some reason you're always

shooting down my dreams.

Because you get

the kind of dreams people get...

...after putting opium

in their brownies.

Can I for one minute

tell you about this bank?

You're not a bank robber.

You got a two-year mandatory

vacation that proved that.

What I'm not is a stickup man.

That's all we proved.

When I hit that bank that time,

we were inexperienced.

The whole group of us

put on rubber masks.

They were all Ronald Reagan masks.

It was confusing.

I didn't know who was who.

You're lucky your lawyer

knew the judge.

Can I please tell you

my idea, Frenchy?

I noticed a few weeks ago,

a couple doors down from the bank...

...there's a pizza joint

that folded.

A little hole in the wall. And it's

for rent, Frenchy. It's for rent.

Then it hits me.

And, believe me, I'm no genius.

You don't have to sell me.

What I figure is,

we tunnel under.

We take the pizza joint, tunnel under,

we come up under the vault of the bank.

I know the layout 'cause I used to

know a guard. I got diagrams!

We clean out the vault,

we go to Florida.

Ray, we're poor

but we're happy, ain't we?

We're not happy.

You're always complaining.

Are you happy doing cuticles? Is that

the way you want to spend your life?

My mother told me. She said, "Don't get

involved with a guy from the rackets."

What's wrong with you? We had dreams.

I don't know what's gotten into you.

- Did we not have dreams when

I first met you? -Yeah.

Yes, granted, I was in the rackets.

I was running numbers.

You were an exotic dancer. We fell

in love, your parents didn't approve.

I tried to go legit. I couldn't

make a go of the pet cemetery.

What do you want me to do?

But, but...

Frenchy, this pizza place is

Just waiting for us.

It's gonna look suspicious, a group

of guys drilling in an empty store.

That's where you come in.

You front the place.

- What?

- You front it. You make pizzas.

With what?

I can't cook pizzas.

Cook cookies!

What's the difference?

Or you tell fortunes. You look like

a Gypsy. Or make it a travel agency.

You work there, and we'll

tunnel under into the bank.

- God.

- Frenchy, come here, come here.

- See this? See how beautiful this is?

- Yeah.

See what you're seeing there?

It's not just New Jersey.

When we first met, there was a sunset

just like this. Remember that?

Yeah. In New Jersey. But in Columbia

there was an earthquake.

Sorry, but the location

was taken by someone else.

What?

They made a deal yesterday.

I told you, if you waited too long...

Who did?

Who took the place?

Gimme...

You got the name?

Mrs. Nettie Goldberg.

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