Pickup on South Street Page #4

receiving the film from her,

you broke up the ball game.

Can't you see how important this is?

We just want your cooperation,

and the charges will be dropped.

- Isn't that right, Captain?

- I'd like to make this rap stick...

but what he's got to do is more important.

You boys are talking in the wrong corner.

I'm just a guy keeping my hands in my pockets.

If you refuse to cooperate, you'll be as guilty

as the traitors that gave Stalin the A-bomb.

- Are you waving the flag at me?

- I know something inside you should give.

And I know you pinched me three times,

got me convicted three times...

and made me a three-time loser.

And I know you took an oath

to put me away for life.

Well, you're trying awful hard

with all this patriotic eyewash, but get this:

I didn't grift that film,

and you can't prove I did.

And if I said I did, you'd slap that fourth rap across

my teeth no matter what promises you made.

- Do you know what treason means?

- Who cares?

- Answer the man!

- Is there a law now I gotta listen to lectures?

MacGregor, get him out of here.

Get him out of this building.

Hello.

If that's Winoki,

ask him if he put my beer back on ice, huh?

Hey, Willie, what've you been

feeding the Tiger lately?

Watch it, bud.

Going up, please.

- May I help you?

- I'd like to see a copy of the New York Times...

January 5, 1947.

- Fill this out, please.

- Sure.

- So, who told you to ask me?

- The pinboy in the bowling alley.

So who told you to ask him?

The fella that works at

the Houston Street Auction Shop.

So why didn't you go to the cops?

Look, 20 bucks if you tell me

where I can find Lightning Louie.

- Put it on the table.

- Not till you tell me.

- I'm Lightning Louie.

- Then why'd you tell me your name was Godkin?

Look, blubbermouth, you give me back

my dough or there's gonna be trouble.

Lum.

- What's my name?

- Uptown or downtown?

- My downtown name.

- Lightning Louie.

For another 20 I'll give you the name of the stoolie

who knows everything about cannons.

I hope you bust.

174 Bowery.

Over a tattoo shop.

One flight up, head of the stairs.

Her name is Moe.

A woman?

Tell her I sent ya.

Lum, bring me another order of chow fun.

Cha siu bow.

Who is it?

Lightning Louie sent me.

- Who?

- Lightning Louie.

- Are you Moe?

- Who are you?

You've been recommended as the best

pickpocket stoolie in the business.

What kind of talk is that,

calling me a stoolie?

I was brought up to report

any injustice to the police authorities.

I call that being a solid citizen.

But you get paid for it.

You're gonna knock it?

I'm looking for the pickpocket who lifted

my wallet in the subway this morning.

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