The Counselor Page #2

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Would that be me?

No, no.

Although, I have to

say that I always thought

a law degree was

a license to steal

and that you, for one,

hadn't really capitalized on it.

You're not the straight dude

people think though, are you?

I guess not.

I don't mean the caper, I mean you.

Women like you.

All right.

Do you know what

they like about you?

I'm a good f***?

Right!

No, they can sniff out

the moral dilemma.

The paradox.

"Moral dilemma."

Yeah, they're drawn to it.

Not sure why.

Maybe it's just that lacking

any moral sense themselves,

they're

fascinated by it in men.

Men are attracted to flawed women,

too, of course,

but their illusion

is that they can fix them.

Women don't want

to fix anything.

They only want

to be entertained.

The truth about

women is you can

do anything to

them except bore them.

Well

there's nothing about Laura

that I would want to fix.

Maybe not.

Do you think she

knows things about me

that I don't know about myself?

Jesus, Counselor, I'm not even sure

what sort of question that is.

Yeah.

Okay.

If you pursue this road

that you've embarked upon,

you will eventually

come to moral decisions

that will take you

completely by surprise.

You won't see it coming at all.

I don't intend

to take this up as a trade.

Yeah, one-time deal, right?

Which you've heard

a thousand times.

No, but a few.

What usually happens is that

after a couple of deals,

they know more than you do and they

set up shop across the street.

And how does that

work out for them?

Not well.

So,

that would be a moral issue.

Not for me.

Or for your associates.

Yeah, well...

They have a real aversion to

mixing business with pleasure.

Do you know what a bolito is?

No.

A bolo is one of

those skinny neckties

or one of those things

you throw in Argentina.

Yeah, right.

No. In this case,

it's a mechanical device

and it has this

small electric motor

with this rather

incredible compound

gear that

retrieves a steel cable.

Battery-driven.

And the cable is made out

of some unholy alloy,

almost impossible to cut it.

And it's in a loop.

And you come up behind the guy

and you drop it over his head

and you pull the free end of

the cable tight and walk away.

No one ever even sees you.

And pulling

the cable activates the motor

and the noose starts to tighten

and it continues to tighten

until it goes to zero.

It cuts the guy's head off.

Yeah, well, it can.

There's nothing he can do.

No.

Jesus.

Yeah.

How long does it take?

Oh...

Three,

four minutes, five maybe.

It depends on your collar size.

You're shitting me.

No, no, no.

It's just that

there's no easy way

to turn the thing off,

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