The Curse of the Jade Scorpion Page #3

- So the drink didn't smooth things out.

- No, not exactly.

You better get used to her,

'cause she's here to stay.

There's something about that broad that

I don't trust. She's got an evil streak.

We got a reservation for 8:00

at the Rainbow Room for George's 50th.

That'll be fun.

We'll split a cab uptown.

C.W. I'm not going to have time to go

home to change, so does this look okay?

Sweetheart, no matter how bad

the economy gets, you will never starve.

Good.

Oh, wait. Come here.

Miss Fitzgerald? Okay, take a card.

You gotta see this, Fitz.

All right, that's a six of hearts.

- That's amazing. How'd you do that?

- It's magic.

- He could do it all afternoon.

- I want you to teach me.

Mr. Magruder, I'll have that report

for you first thing in the morning.

Fine. Are you coming to celebrate

George Bond's birthday with us tonight?

Not really.

I'm up to my neck in work.

Why don't you come?

It'll be fun. George is a great guy.

Most of the personnel

here seems very nice.

The only one that gives me

the dry heaves is Briggs.

C.W.? He's cracked a lot of cases.

Of course, I don't see how.

Such a drone.

Gets his tips from street contacts

like ex-cons and blind beggars.

There's something about him

I don't trust.

- Any examples?

- Many.

He's smarmy with those office wisecracks

and double-meaning jokes.

I mean, who is he, really?

He's this shallow,

skirt- chasing egomaniac who's

probably more lucky than good.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky.

I think you're being too rough on him.

It's more that he's just

kind of a schnook whos more

insecure than anything else.

He's got no wife, no family.

Well, he was married.

Short and stormy. Picked a tramp.

- That's a surprise.

- Excuse me, fellas.

Come tonight.

It'll give us a chance to be together,

and I have the perfect excuse at home--

an employee's birthday.

- How much longer is this gonna go on?

- Not longer, Betty Ann.

I'll be free by the end of the year,

and then we can be together openly.

You love me, but you spend

all the important holidays with her.

Life can get so damn complicated

when you think it's simple.

Come tonight.

So we can eye each other and steal

touches and play little games in code?

Yes, that's part of the romance.

Someday we'll be able to look back

and know that at one time in public...

when one of us brought up the subject of

Paris, it meant at that very moment...

that we were dying to make love

with one another.

- You're such an adolescent.

- But cute?

[ Chattering, Laughing ]

- Look at this.

- Oh! Oh!

Happy birthday, George.

Here's to George Bond,

insurance man, father.

- Amateur magician.

- Please, no card tricks tonight, huh?

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