The Night of the Following Day Page #2

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Shut up!

What's going on, man?

She tried to leave and I stopped

her. That's what's goin' on.

Please!

Shut up!

I saw it. I was upstairs,

and I saw what you did.

You're gonna make a speech, huh?

I got other things to take care of.

If you wanna...

Shut up.

Listen to me, man.

If you wanna get freaky,

you don't do it with her.

You make the speech.

I'll change my clothes.

Come on.

Please!

l-l... Please!

Wally.

What's the matter?

I think we ought

to call it off, man.

- What are you talkin' about?

- It's turning sour, man. It's coming apart.

No, listen. Last night after

I came home, I went upstairs.

You know what I found? Vi, in the

bathtub, crashed out of her skull.

She's on junk.

She's usin' it again.

Vi's been straight for months. You oughta

know that. You've been with her, haven't ya?

She was out of

her skull on junk,

and she should've been there

pickin' us up at the airport.

That's a fact.

Yeah.

Did you talk to her? Of

course I talked to her.

She said she took

a sleeping pill.

She was probably

telling you the truth.

You know how Vi gets all tensed up.

So she took a pill. She konked out.

That doesn't mean she's gonna

cave in when it gets rough.

Bud, ya know Vi.

She's family.

She... Wally! That was a cop.

That was a cop last night

that took us home here.

So what? He's only one of a lot of cops who

are gonna be lookin' for us after tonight.

No, man, there's not

gonna be any tonight,

because this genius pimp that you found in

Miami, or wherever you got him, is psycho.

I hear some racket. I come down. He's

rollin' around the floor with the kid,

Knockin' her around, throwin'

her head against the wall.

I wanted to smash his face right then.

That was the end of the caper. That's it.

Okay, okay. Everybody's

a little nuts these days.

Now, come on, Bud. He'll be all

right. He's gonna do his job.

What happens if he

knocks the kid off?

You know what they do in this

country if you kill somebody?

They chop your head off.

They chop your head off!

He's not gonna kill the kid.

How do you know, man? He was in

Paris, sittin' in front of you and me,

and he said, "I think we

oughta knock the kid off."

you and I said, "No good.

No rough stuff." Right?

And he went along with us,

didn't he? Please, listen.

This guy is not responsible.

He's crazy, Wally.

He's, he's, he's

psycho. Really.

He's, he's not so crazy that

he doesn't want to stay alive.

He's my responsibility. I brought him

into this and I'll take care of him.

You don't... You don't understand

the whole operation, man.

This isn't your caper. You

don't understand. This is, uh...

I mean, it's not like

stealing oranges, man,

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