You Only Live Once Page #5

Hello?

Yes, May.

Well...

Have the O'Donnell's over,

they play poker.

Just a minute, dear.

If you don't mind, I'd like

to speak to my wife.

Won't you even give me

a recommendation?

No. How can I?

Nobody will talk to me

without one.

Hold the line a minute,

honey.

Listen.

I'm not running a reform school...

I'm running a business, and I can't

waste any more time on you. Get out.

And I wanted to go straight...

Open up.

Stand back.

Hold it.

Wait there, please.

- Nice day for it.

- I'll say so. This is some weather.

Just a minute, please.

Get back.

Eddie.

Any cops been around here?

Cops, why?

What are you doing with that gun?

Please, tell me what's the matter.

Oh, kid.

The bottom has dropped out

of everything.

Darling, what's happened?

Read this.

What's this got to do with you?

It's my hat,

look at the initials.

Your hat?

But, how could it be?

It is. Somebody stole it

when I was in Tony's Beanery...

they planted it to take the heat

off themselves and put it on me.

You believe me, Joan, don't you?

I do, Eddie, I do.

I took a chance on being blasted,

just to hear you say that.

I've got to make a run for it,

give me the keys to your car.

But, you didn't do it.

Give me them,

I've got to go.

You can't, there must be

some other way.

Do you want me to burn

for a job I didn't do?

Aren't you going to help me?

Eddie, you can't run. You'll never

be able to prove your innocence then.

What do you want me to do?

Give myself up?

Yes.

Are you crazy?

It's sensible. Anything else

will make you look guilty.

I'm a three-time loser. They're

looking for a goose to cook, I'm it.

You think they'll believe

I was out looking for a job?

If you love me,

stay here and face this.

If I do, it means the chair.

You're looking at it wrong. You're

innocent, you don't have to run away.

Try to make a jury believe that,

or anyone.

You can prove it, if you stay.

Run away, you'll never get a chance.

You must believe me.

Okay, kid.

We'll play it your way. But, you're

gambling with my life and if you...

I'm not wrong,

I know it.

Stick 'em up, Taylor,

or you're a dead man.

Don't, Eddie.

Let him.

Save the State the expense

of a trial.

Don't shoot.

He's giving himself up.

Think that jury will bring in

a verdict before our deadline?

That verdict

is our deadline.

Eddie.

Please, forgive me.

Please, forgive me.

Eddie.

Let's go.

Go ahead! Take a good look!

Monkeys! Have a good time!

Get a big kick out of it!

It's fun to see

an innocent man die, isn't it?

If you think I'll go to the chair,

you're crazy.

They're never gonna kill me

for a job I didn't do. Never.

Never. I'm innocent.

I didn't do it.

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