The Asphalt Jungle Page #3

the Club Regal.

Wasn't that where Doll worked?

- Yeah.

It's coming in bunches, it looks like.

Go home, Dix. Stay home.

Don't get your flag at half-mast.

Remember, you still got old Gus.

Thirteen hundred? You must be crazy.

For Dix? What do I care for that hooligan?

I'd like to help you out, Gus,

but I got mouths to feed...

...and rent to pay and all that stuff.

Why don't you wise up,

you wise guy?

You're a low-down scum.

A low-down, dirty scum,

to talk to me like that.

Look, Gus.

I guess I can make it, all right.

Yeah?

- Dix, it's me, Doll.

Doll?

Hi, honey.

Come on in.

Close the door.

- Well, sure, Dix. Sure.

I'm awful sorry to bother you,

honey, but...

Doll, if you're gonna smoke,

you gotta learn to carry matches.

Doll, what are you crying about?

Nothing...

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, Dix.

I don't know what I was thinking about,

bothering you at this time of the night.

I'll just run along.

Gus told me the Club Regal

got knocked over.

Yeah. Can you imagine, raiding the Regal?

The cops must have all gone crazy.

So it's a clip joint. So what?

And it would have to happen on pay night.

How about a drink?

- Hey, don't care if I do.

One of my eyelashes is coming off.

Were you locked out of your room?

How'd you guess?

Here's how.

Dix, if it wouldn't be too much trouble,

could I stay here a couple of days?

Just a day or two.

All right. Stay if you want to,

but don't you go getting any ideas, Doll.

Everything is here, from the observed

routine of the personnel...

...to the alarm system,

the type of locks on doors...

...the age and condition of the main safe

and so forth, so forth.

Take my word for it, Mr. Emmerich.

This is a ripe plum ready to fall.

My friend, according to the boys,

all takes are easy...

...but as a lawyer, I make lots of money

getting them out of jail.

Please, Mr. Emmerich.

Perhaps you know my reputation.

I've engineered some very big things.

That's a fact, Mr. Emmerich.

Doc here is tops.

Am I to understand you gathered this

information before doing your last stretch?

That is correct.

I was ready to begin operations...

...and the cops grabbed me for

an old caper I'd almost forgotten about.

The Adelphia Finance caper.

You took them for 160,000,

didn't you, Doc?

A hundred and fifty-eight.

You really believe

there's a million in this thing?

Maybe even more.

- You mean by that...

...that the take will be worth

half a million to us in actual cash?

You know as well as I do

that in no case will a fence...

...give you more than 50 percent.

- That's right, sir.

Well, what are your main problems?

- There are three.

Money to operate, personnel

and finally, the disposing of the take.

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