Lady in Cement Page #5

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Paul, you stay here with Kit.

- Al, listen...

- Please, relax.

I'm not allowed to get mad these days.

Doctor's orders.

I'd feel a lot calmer if I could get

another medical opinion.

Ain't gonna be no problem.

Don't worry, Miss Forrest.

Whatever he doesn't break I get to keep.

Hey, you could have gotten rid of me

with one small scream.

- Come on, Mr. Rome. We walk.

ROME:
We walk.

You know, Paul and Kit

would make a beautiful couple.

You never know,

they could wind up married.

Yeah, the gang in cellblock 8

would love that.

For your information, wise guy,

my boy made all-American at Amherst.

You're not ashamed? With all those

guys burning their draft cards...

...your kid becomes an all-American.

AUDREY:

One, two, one, two, one...

Get it out of your mind.

Well...

- Ooh, company.

- This is business.

Ain't you gonna introduce me?

- Go lose yourself for an hour.

- What am I supposed to do?

- Read a book.

- For a whole hour?

Look at the pictures.

Reminds me, I gotta get

Santini's kid a catcher's mitt.

I told you, get it out of your mind.

I wonder what part of her I paid for.

I lost a few thousand bucks

in your gambling joints.

That's the old Mungar.

Everything I run now is legit.

- Like Jilly's?

- That's a respectable business.

Oh, yeah.

I met the queen who runs it.

Tell me, what's your noble concern

about this little girl over here?

She's my neighbor.

You go over once in a while

and borrow a cup of bullets?

Just because I'm wearing a white hat

now don't mean I can't hire some pro...

...to put you in traction,

for openers!

You make me blow up.

I like to be nice to people.

Now, get out of here...

...and stay away from that girl.

And this broad too.

MAN [OVER RADIO]:

Car 77, proceed to 85 Meridian.

Resident claims there's a drunk

molesting her.

Car 46, go to St. Agnes Convent.

Mother Superior charges nuns ' habits

stolen from laundry.

CORONER:

She was knifed, nice and clean.

SANTINI:

What are you doing here?

ROME:
Give me a minute,

I'll think of something.

Did you know her?

Yeah, we talked.

I got two murders on my hands.

If you got something, give it to me.

I could throw you a few hints, Dave.

You might start at Jilly's...

...where there's a fun couple

named Danny Yale...

...and a butch girlfriend named Seymour.

Or you could find Al Mungar

and lean on him a little bit.

And last but not least...

...there's a good-looking broad with

a crazy breaststroke named Kit Forrest.

- What ties them all together?

- Could be cement.

BIRDIE:
Hurry back.

My mother's coming to dinner.

- That's good news.

- How the nags treating you?

Who knows the nags? I don't bet horses.

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