The Stone Killer Page #2

from files. Steinholtz?

Get onto homicide

about that killing at the airport.

Give it to Briers. l've got six reports to do.

You've got six reports

and a phone call to homicide.

With authority comes responsibility,

Steinholtz.

l'm so happy, so proud. Honoured, even.

Say, two from the tap, please.

Come on, Susie, hurry up.

We gotta get out of here.

-Don't you know who that guy is?

-No, l don't know who he is. Who is he?

Well, you ought to know.

He's with the police, all right.

-Okay.

-Don't stall.

-We got trouble enough last month.

-All right.

-You got a nervous clientele.

-Yeah.

We could bankrupt this guy.

So, you like Los Angeles?

lt's better than a sharp stick in the eye.

Well, you never did run

in the popularity stakes, did you?

Stay a while, J.D.

You remember J.D., don't you, Lou?

Come on. Let's go back

and wash our hands. Come on.

Mexican grass. A good, mild high,

but not a real competitor any more.

Old heads dig it.

Lebanese Gold, overrated.

Middle-class market,

you know, suburban swingers.

Moroccan. Real rough gauge.

Uptown, the Village.

And last,

Nepal Coarse.

For God-trippers.

J.D.'s the best grass man on the East Coast.

Half this town climbs on him.

Well, you gotta have pride.

l remember you.

You bought me two years on Rikers lsland.

l remember you.

You're gonna bag this stuff?

With your sheet, you can get five to 10.

That's a lot of years.

Captain, l know what l got in my hand.

Question is, what do you got in yours?

Did you hear about that airport killing?

Only what they say on TV.

l don't want to miss the gossip, any of it.

Anything l hear about

the killing at the airport.

Only.

The foundation for good business

is insurance.

The foundation for good insurance

is premiums paid on time.

Now Armitage is dead, how about

the Wexton man who got himself arrested?

Lipper?

l've given the contract to the Wexton people.

The police have taken him to the hospital

for tests.

Los Angeles General Hospital.

Emergency call for Dr Gordon Gowe.

Los Angeles General Hospital.

Emergency call for Dr Gordon Gowe.

What's the matter, Lipper?

No matter what the machine says,

l'm not being cut.

Where'd you get that idea from?

They're doing it to guys

at Dannemora Prison in New York,

and at San Quentin.

l read about it.

They cut away half your brain.

Not here, Gus.

They put needles in your skull.

They say you can taste the burning

in your mouth.

ls that right?

-You can taste it.

-Damn.

We never did anything that bad in Vietnam.

l could tell you things

that would blow your mind.

But we never got that ugly.

You want to talk about Vietnam?

Some other time.

Ain't no sound like it, baby.

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