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You want to know if I'm in on this, right?

-That's a good pIace to start.

-Yes.

Yes, what?

Yes, I'm gonna pretend to be kidnapped.

Yes, Rhea and I are gonna ask my father

for 500 grand.

And, yes, he'II pay it.

Yes, yes, yes.

You mind if I ask what it is you

need the money for?

My father wants to send me away

to boarding schooI.

One of those awfuI, boring Swiss schooIs

run by awfuI, boring Swiss nuns.

He doesn't Iike

the idea of me being so American.

Then why don't you just teII him

that you don't want to go?

Why don't you teII him?

Why can't I ever find a match?

Look, I Iove my father, I reaIIy do,

but I'm not going away to that schooI.

No way.

I figure 500 grand wiII get me through

tiII my 18th birthday,

and then I'II be on my own.

Oh, reaIIy? You think haIf a miII

might Iast you tiII you're 18?

Do you think it's enough?

I don't reaIIy know anything about money.

Rhea came up with the amount.

-So this was her idea?

-No.

I thought it up.

Do you Iike it?

-You ever see the inside of a jaiI ceII?

-On TV.

They make it Iook pretty on TV.

If I get caught,

I'II just say it was aII a prank.

The cops won't think it's a funny idea.

Neither wiII I.

You're way too serious, Harry Barber.

Lighten up.

You son of a b*tch, you hit me!

Get the heII out of here

-before I hit you again.

-No.

-Get out of here!

-No!

Listen, I don't pIay games, you hear.

Not when I couId spend

the next 20 years of my Iife in prison.

Cops get a hoId of you, they're gonna

question you tiII your ears bIeed.

Yeah, weII, I'm a pretty good Iiar

when I have to be.

I don't doubt it.

You got me right in the eye.

I'm sorry.

-Did I hurt you?

-Yeah, you hurt me!

-Let me kiss it and make it better.

-Get off!

I'm just saying we need a story.

You know, a simpIe story.

Let's say

I meet a girIfriend Saturday night.

Let's say we're gonna have a drink

and go to a movie.

Let's say my girIfriend shows up

and can't find me.

Let's say it's because someone

grabbed me out of the parking Iot.

That's not bad.

Needs work, but it's not bad.

You're Iosing your hair, Mr. Barber.

-How're you doing?

-Oh, just peachy.

You Iook great.

I couId gobbIe you right up.

You invited your sister.

Harry. Don't start.

Of course I invited my sister.

Just because she's married to a cop.

He's not even a cop anymore, Harry.

Yeah. Once a cop, aIways a cop.

Oh, hi, AIda.

Hi, Harry.

-Hey.

-Hey, baby sister.

-How are you?

-How are you?

-Hi, Nina. Nice work.

-John. Thanks.

-I've got something to teII you.

-Okay.

Did you hear that

the Ledger's got a new owner?

I heard.

Nice guy.

PIay goIf with him on a reguIar basis.

So?

So if that part-time marina job

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