The Long Good Friday Page #3

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I'm not surprised.

She went to church to say her prayers,

not to get blown up.

- But why?

- Someone tried to discredit you in front of...

The Yanks?

No, nobody knew, did they?

- Well they mustn't find out.

- They're sleeping.

Right, I want everybody in the corporation

working on this, fast!

And I want Colin here.

Where is he? He should have been here.

Where is he?

- He went swimming.

- Swimming?

He should have been here.

Right, I want everyone working.

Razors, you round them all up

and get them moving, fast.

Right, keep them on their toes because

I want this settled, tonight.

And you'd better see your mother.

Yeah.

Listen, if anyone hears anything, anything at all,

I'll be at the Mayfair casino, right?

It's the work of a maniac.

I'll have his carcass dripping blood by midnight.

More bad news...

...Colin.

- Colin?

- Yeah.

He's dead.

I did my national service with Colin

We did 6 months in the glasshouse together.

Two kids of 18, 6 months. They put us right

through it, the bastards.

Salisbury Plain manoeuvres.

Used to hump this bleedin' great wireless about.

One window, snow, blizzards,

freezing the bollocks off the ponies.

I got lost.

In them days you stayed lost,

until they nicked you for being AWOL.

And Colin, on a 24 hour pass,

he came out looking for me on his own.

It's lucky he found me or I

would've froze to death.

Yeah.

Colin never hurt a fly...

...well only when it was necessary.

It was always clean, never anything

malicious about Colin.

- Why size him up?

- On my grief.

Sorry, H.

Me and Colin was very close.

I've known him since we was at school.

What's going on?

They try and blow up me mum,

wipe out me best mate...

What are they trying to do?

Put the frighteners on me, wind me up, what?

Harold,

I've kept it all incognito, they're gonna

collect the body in an ice cream van.

There's a lot of dignity in that, isn't there?

Going out like a raspberry ripple.

They're gonna store the body in the

freezer down the abattoir

Alright, granddad.

Thanks for the call.

- Did anyone see anything?

- Not what happened,

the pool attendant found him but

I told her it was a haemorrhage.

- Good lad.

- Better close the bars, Harold.

No, open up, let 'em enjoy the holiday.

If you hear anything, anything at all,

you give me a bell.

Come on.

- Thank Christ you're here.

- Any news?

Colin's murdered.

- Colin's what?

- Dead.

- Where?

- In the swimming pool.

- Drowned

- Don't be stupid, he did life saving.

What does it all mean, a bomb in here and...

- A what?

- There's a bomb in the casino.

You'd better show us.

I wonder how it got disconnected?

Well the wire must have come loose

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