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        WAITPERSON joins JACK in the area.

                        JACK
                Got to talk to you, man.  We got
                to be real careful.

                        WAITPERSON
                What're you talking about?

                        JACK
                You know who's here?  Angelo DiMarco.
                That name mean anything to you?

                        WAITPERSON
                Not really.

                        JACK
                Mr. Kingpin, Mr. Mainman who'd just
                love to find out he's got some
                competition in an area he considers
                his own private kingdom.  Can you
                dig it?  He thinks he's gonna scare
                me into kissing his ass but no way
                that's happening, man.  But we got
                to keep cool, I don't want to make
                it easy for him.

                        WAITPERSON
                What's he doing here?

                        JACK
                Trying to catch me in the act, I
                assume.  We'll have our showdown,
                but by my rules, not his.

                        WAITPERSON
                Listen, maybe this is something you
                should handle alone.

                        JACK
                Don't panic: We just got to be careful.

                        WAITPERSON
                I was planning to talk to you anyway --
                I'm done, man.

                                JACK
                What's that supposed to mean?

                        WAITPERSON
                I want to give you the stash right now.
                I don't want anything more to do with it.

                        JACK
                You can't do that.

                        WAITPERSON
                I'm doing it.

                        JACK
                What's the big deal?  DiMarco's nothing,
                man, we just got to be a little careful.
                I'll pick it up tomorrow, same plan as
                ever.

                        WAITPERSON
                I want to give it to you now.

                        JACK
                DiMarco knows me, man, and he's already on to
                something, you know, like the only reason he's
                here is to see what I'm up to.  Last thing I
                want is dope on me.

                        WAITPERSON
                You're sure he's not here for the wedding?

                        JACK
                He could care less about the wedding.
                He doesn't even know Trudy.

                        WAITPERSON
                How's he know you?

                        JACK
                I used to do business with this guy,
                Polo, who worked for him.  He thinks I
                burned Polo and got into business for myself.
                He's here to see for himself. I have to stay
                clean.

                        WAITPERSON
                I can't leave it in the building, I can't
                take the chance.  And I've already done
                more than I wanted to.

                        JACK
                Just take it home with you, we'll
                connect tomorrow afternoon sometime.

                        WAITPERSON
                Why do I have to take all the risks?
                I've already done more than my share.
                You think it was easy in Astoria,
                tourists all over hell, trying to figure
                out who the dude with the stash was, and
                then figuring out where to hide it
                once he made the transfer?  It was a
                million deaths, it's been like that every
                time, I get so goddamn nervous. It isn't worth
                it. This is the last time, man.  I go to the
                coast for the pickup, I hide it here and take
                all the risks.  You do shit.

                        JACK
                Fine.  Take it home with you tonight, it's the last
                time.

                        WAITPERSON
                You take it home.

                        JACK
                Brad/Brenda, I explained to you--

                        WAITPERSON
                I'm not taking all the risk any more.

                        JACK
                Angelo doesn't know you, there's no risk.

                        WAITPERSON
                My boss does, and he's already suspicious.

                        JACK
                How can he suspect anything?

                        WAITPERSON
                He does, is all.  I just have this
                feeling.  I wait til the wedding's over, I'll go
                nuts, I'm already going nuts.  I got to give
                it to you right now.  It's your gig, not mine.

                        JACK
                Can you get it and put it somewhere
                else?  Someplace near the exit, where I can
                grab it on the way out?

                        WAITPERSON
                Where?  You see any way to get privacy
                around here?  I'm already nervous about where I put
                it.

                        JACK
                So where does that leave us?

                        WAITPERSON
                We can dump it in a trash bin and forget it.

                        JACK
                Are you crazy?

                        WAITPERSON
                Hey, if neither of us--

                        JACK
                You can take it home, goddamn it.  No one
                suspects you.

                        WAITPERSON
                What am I going to do, get it now and
                carry it around all evening?  I swear, think my
                boss suspects, I think he's nosing around,
                snooping, trying to find it.

                        JACK
                Man, that's paranoia.

                        WAITPERSON
                That's easy for you to say.

                        JACK
                Brad/Brenda, I let you in on a good
                thing--

                        WAITPERSON
                Maybe not as good as I thought.

                        JACK
                You got problems at home, you told me, you got
                sick parents and lots of doctor bills, so I
                give you a chance to make some easy money, I--

                        WAITPERSON
                Hey, who's doing who a favor?  You
                said you were being watched, you
                needed someone else to deal with
                the pickup from the coast.  Help me out, old
                college classmate, old friend.

                        JACK
                You're getting paid well.

                        WAITPERSON
                But the risk isn't worth it any
                longer.

                        JACK
                You can't let me down like this,
                man.

                        WAITPERSON
                I'm sorry, Jack.  I got to watch out
                for number one.  Just like you.

                        JACK
                There's got to be a way.

                        WAITPERSON
                I can't think of one.

                        JACK
                If it's too dangerous where it is,
                where your boss may find it, how about
                moving it?  Put it where you can get it later.

                        WAITPERSON
                Why don't I give it to you right
                now and you do that?

                        JACK
                Because goddamn Angelo is on my
                case!  I know he suspects something.

                        WAITPERSON
                So we're back where we started.

                        JACK
                How about planting it on someone
                that leaves the building.  Something
                you can get to later.  With the dirty
                dishes, or food, or something.  Get it
                out of the building but keep it on the
                grounds.

                        WAITPERSON
                Like what?

                        JACK
                I don't know.  Aren't there supplies
                or something that go out of the building
                when the wedding's over?

                        WAITPERSON
                Sure.

                        JACK
                Something you can get to later.

                        WAITPERSON
                Why's it always me, me, me?  I
                don't see you taking much risk,
                old buddy.

                        JACK
                Jesus, if you knew how close my
                ass was to grass . . .

                        WAITPERSON
                Doesn't move me.

                        JACK
                Look, goddamn it, I gave you the
                chance of a lifetime!

                        WAITPERSON
                You didn't say it'd be dangerous!

                        JACK
                It's not, if you cooperate!


                        WAITPERSON
                Not for you, maybe!

          They stop, at a standoff.

                        JACK
                Okay, okay.  Can you put it
                with something that goes off the
                premises, where I can get to it later?

                        WAITPERSON
                Everything going off the floor gets
                locked up in one storeroom or other.

                        JACK
                How about giving me a key, asshole?

                        WAITPERSON
                I don't have all the keys, man.

                        JACK
                Somewhere where you have a goddamn
                key!  Do I have to do all the
                thinking around here?

                        WAITPERSON
                It's your game.  You understand me?
                As far as I'm concerned, my role here
                is finito, the end, over and out,
                good buddy.  Because this isn't
                exactly what--

        Jack is suddenly aware that Angelo is headed their way.

                        JACK
                Shut up!  That's him coming.

        They stop, nervously, as Angelo enters the area.

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