Betsy. Come here.
You're a Secret Service man, aren't you?
Just waiting for the Senator.
You're waiting for the Senator?
That's a very good answer.
Shit, man.
I'm waiting for the sun to shine.
Yeah.
No. The reason I asked if you were a Secret Service man...
I won't say anything, because I...
I saw some suspicious looking people over there.
- You did? - They were right over there.
They were just here. I...
They were very, very...
- Suspicious? - Yeah.
Where'd they go?
Is it hard to get to be in the Secret Service?
Why?
I was just curious, 'cause I think I'd be good at it.
I'm very observant.
I was in the Marine Corps.
I'm good with crowds.
I notice there's a little pin there. That's like a signal, isn't it?
- Sort of. - Signal.
A secret signal for the Secret Service.
What kind of guns you guys carry?
.38s?.45s?.357 magnums?
Something bigger maybe?
Look, if you're really interested, if you give me your name and address...
we'll send you all the information on how to apply. How's that?
- You will? - Sure.
Okay.
Why not?
My name is Henry...
Krinkle. K-R-I-N-K-L-E.
154 Hopper Avenue.
- Hopper. - Yeah.
Like a rabbit. Hip, hop.
Fairlawn, New Jersey.
- Is there a zip code with that, Henry? - Yeah. 610452.
- Okay. - That's six digits.
61045.
Okay.
I was thinking of my telephone number.
I've got it all, Henry, we'll get all the stuff right out to you.
Thanks a lot. Great. Hell. Jesus.
- Be careful today. - Right. Will do.
You have to be careful living around a place like this.
Bye.
Damn it.
Faster than you, you fucking son of a...
I saw you coming, you fucking shit-heel.
I'm standing here. You make the move.
It's your move.
Don't try it, you fuck.
You talking to me?
Then who the hell else are you talking to? You talking to me?
I'm the only one here.
Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?
Oh, yeah?
Okay.
Listen, you fuckers, you screw-heads.
Here is a man who would not take it anymore.
Who would not let...
Listen, you fuckers, you screw-heads.
Here is a man who would not take it anymore.
A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit.
Here is someone who stood up.
Here is...
You're dead.
Yeah, man?
Shut your mouth. Give me the cash out of the drawer. Come on.
Let's go. Give me the goddamn cash.
- Don't shoot. I'm getting it. - Stop taking so long. Come on.
Let me have it. Give me the bread.
- This all you got? Get the rest. - That's it.
- I don't have any more. - Give me the rest of the cash.
- That's all I got. - Give me more.
- I got no money. - Reach in your sock. You got more bread.
- That's it, man. - Give me the rest of the fucking bread.
- Did you get him? - Yeah, I got him.
Shit, man.
- Is he dead? - I don't know. His eyes are moving.
Listen, I ain't got a permit for this thing. I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Don't worry about it. I'll take care of it.
- Can I give you some money? - No. Just get out of here.
No, man. I'll take care of it. Go ahead.
That's the fifth motherfucker this year. You wanna buy that little dope?
Walt Whitman, that great American poet...
spoke for all of us when he said:
"I am the man. I suffered. I was there."
Today I say to you, we are the people.
We suffered. We were there.
We, the people, suffered in Vietnam.
We, the people, suffered, we still suffer from unemployment...
inflation, crime and corruption.
"Dear Father and Mother.
"July is the month I remember which brings...
"not only your wedding anniversary...
"but also Father's Day and Mother's birthday.
"I'm sorry I can't remember the exact dates...
"but I hope this card will take care of them all.
"I'm sorry again I cannot send you my address...
"like I promised to last year.
"But the sensitive nature of my work for the government...
"demands utmost secrecy.
"I know you will understand."
We are, all of us...
"I am healthy and well, and making lots of money.
"I have been going with a girl for several months...
"and I know you would be proud if you could see her.
"Here name is Betsy, but I can tell you no more than that."
Hey, cabbie, you can't park here.
Come on, let's go. Move it.
No more will we, the people...
bear the burden of suffering for the few.
No more will we fight the wars of the few...
to the harm of the many.
"I hope this card finds you all well as it does me.
"I hope no one has died. Don't worry about me.
"One day there'll be a knock on the door, and it'll be me.
"Love, Travis."
- Don't you have some idea? - I'm not the one who wants to talk.
But you must know that the reason I didn't marry him...
is because I couldn't stand to be a cause of divorce.
Now, he's getting a divorce anyway, and...
Phillip wants to marry me, Brock.
I do love him.
What about us, June?
Our marriage?
You've got to know that our marriage wasn't legal.
In the eyes of God, we are married.
Brock, please don't do this to me.
I love him...
Damn!
Goddamn!
Are you trying to get rid of me?
- You looking for some action? - Yeah.
- You see that guy over there? - Yeah.
All right. You go talk to him. His name is Matthew.
- I'll be over there waiting for you. - Okay.
Is your name Matthew? I want some action.
Officer...
I swear I'm clean. I'm just waiting here for a friend.
You gonna bust me for nothing, man?
I'm not a cop.
- I ain't no cop. - Then why ask me for action?
Because she sent me over.
I suppose that ain't a.38 you got in your sock.
.38? No.
I'm clean, man.
- Shit. You're a real cowboy? - Yeah.
That's nice.
It's all right. $15, 15 minutes. $25, half an hour.
Shit.
Cowboy, huh?
I once had a horse in Coney Island. She got hit by a car.
Take it or leave it.
If you wanna save yourself some money, don't fuck her.
'Cause you'll be back every night for more.
She's twelve-and-a-half years old. You ain't never had no pussy like that.
You can do anything with her...
come on her, fuck her in the mouth, fuck her in the ass, come on her face.
She'll get your cock so hard, she'll make it explode.
But no rough stuff. All right?
All right, I'll take it.
Hey, man! Take out no money over here.
You gonna fuck me?
You're gonna fuck her. You give her the money.
Catch you later, copper.
- What did you say? - See you later, copper.
I'm no cop, man.
If you are, it's entrapment already.
I'm hip.
Buddy, you don't look hip.
Go ahead, have yourself a good time.
You're a funny guy.
But looks aren't everything.
Go ahead, have a good time.
You're a funny guy.
The room will cost you $10.
I'm timing you, too.
Come on.
Are you really twelve-and-a-half?
Listen, mister, it's your time. Fifteen minutes ain't long.
When that cigarette burns out, your time is up.
How old are you?
You don't want to tell me?
- What's your name? - Easy.
- That's not any kind of name. - It's easy to remember.
But what's your real name?
I don't like my real name.
What's your real name?
Iris.
What's wrong with that? That's a nice name.
That's what you think.
No, don't do that. Don't you remember me?
Remember when you got into a taxi? It was a checker taxi.
You got in and that guy Matthew came by and he said he wanted to take you away.
He pulled you away.
No, I don't remember that.
- You don't remember any of that? - No.
That's all right. I'm gonna get you out of here.
We better make it or Sport will get mad. How do you wanna make it?
I don't want to make it. Who's Sport?
That's Matthew. I call him Sport.
Want to make it like this?
Listen, I... Can't you understand something?
You're the one who came into my cab. You wanted to get out of here.
I must have been stoned.
What do you mean? They drug you?
Come off it, man.
What are you doing?
Don't you wanna make it?
No, I don't wanna make it. I wanna help you.
Well, I can help you.
Damn, man! Goddamn it!
Shit, man! What the hell's the matter with you?
You don't have to make it, mister.
Goddamn it! Don't you wanna get out of here?
Can't you understand why I came here?
I think I understand.
I tried to get into your cab one night, and now you wanna take me away.
Is that it?
Yeah, but don't you want to go?
I can leave anytime I want to.
Then what about that one night?
Look, I was stoned.
That's why they stopped me.
When I'm not stoned, I got no place else to go.
So they just protect me from myself.
No. I don't know.
I don't know. Okay, I tried.
Look, I understand.
And it means something, really.
Look, can I see you again?
- That's not hard to do. - I don't mean like that.
I mean, you know, regularly. This is nothing for a person to do.
All right. How about breakfast tomorrow?
- Tomorrow, when? - I get up at about 1:00.
Well, I got a thing...
Come on, do you want to or not?
Yeah, I want... Okay, all right. 1:00.
See you tomorrow.
Iris, my name is Travis.
Thanks a lot, Travis.
So long, Iris. See you tomorrow.
Sweet Iris.
This is yours.
Spend it right.
- Come back anytime, cowboy. - I will.
Why do you want me to go back to my parents?
I mean, they hate me. Why do you think I split in the first place?
There ain't nothing there.
Yeah, but you can't live like this. It's a hell.
A girl should live at home.
Didn't you ever hear of women's lib?
What do you mean, women's lib?
You're a young girl. You should be home now.
You should be dressed up, going out with boys, going to school.
- You know, that kind of stuff. - God, are you square.
Hey, I'm not square. You're the one that's square.
You're full of shit, man.
What are you talking about? You walk out with those fucking creeps...
lowlifes and degenerates out on the street and you sell your little pussy for nothing...
for some lowlife pimp who stands in a hole?
I'm square? You're the one that's square, man.
I don't screw and fuck with a bunch of killers and junkies the way you do.
You call that being hip?
What world you from?
- Who's a killer? - Sport's a killer, that's who's a killer.
- Sport never killed nobody. - He killed somebody.
- He's a Libra. - He's a what?
I'm a Libra, too. That's why we get along so well.
He looks like a killer to me.
I think that Cancers make the best lovers...
but, God, my whole family are earth signs.
He's also a dope shooter.
What makes you so high and mighty? Will you tell me that?
Didn't you ever try looking at your own eyeballs in the mirror?
So what are you gonna do about Sport and that old bastard?
- When? - When you leave.
- I don't know. Just leave them. - You're just gonna leave?
- They've got plenty of other girls. - You just can't do that. What will you do?
- What do you want me to do, call the cops? - Cops don't do nothing. You know that.
Sport never treated me bad.
He didn't beat me up or anything like that once.
But you can't allow him to do the same to other girls.
You can't allow him to do that.
He's the lowest kind of person in the world.
Somebody's got to do something to him. He's the scum of the earth.
He's the worst sucking scum...
I have ever seen.
You know what he told me about you?
He's calling you names. He called you a little piece of chicken.
He doesn't mean that.
I'll move up to one of them communes in Vermont.
I never seen a commune before, but I don't know, you know?
I saw...
some pictures once in a magazine. It didn't look very clean.
Why don't you come to the commune with me?
What, come to the commune with you? No.
Why not?
I don't go to places like that.
- Come on, why not? - I don't get along with people like that.
- Are you a Scorpion? - What?
That's it, you're a Scorpion. I can tell every time.
Besides, I got to stay here.
- Come on, why? - I got something very important to do.
What's so important?
Doing something for the government.
The cab thing is just part-time.
Are you a narc?
- Do I look like a narc? - Yeah.
I am a narc.
God! I don't know who's weirder, you or me.
Sure you don't wanna come with me?
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna give you the money to go.
- No, you don't have to do that. - No, I want you to take it.
I don't want you to take anything from them.
And I wanna do it.
I don't have anything better to do with my money.
I might be going away for a while.
You're just a little tense, that's all.
I don't like what I'm doing, Sport.
Baby, I never wanted you to like what you're doing.
If you ever liked what you were doing, you wouldn't be my woman.
You never spend any time with me anymore.
I've got to attend to business, baby.
You miss your man, don't you?
I don't like to be away from you, either.
You know how I feel about you.
I depend on you.
I'd be lost without you.
Don't you ever forget that.
How much I need you.
Come to me, baby.
Let me hold you.
When you're close to me like this, I feel so good.
I only wish every man could know what it's like to be loved by you.
That every woman everywhere...
had a man that loves her like I love you.
God, it's good so close.
You know, at times like this, I know I'm a lucky man.
Touching a woman who wants me and needs me.
Yeah, it's only you that keeps me together.
Now I see it clearly. My whole life is pointed in one direction.
I see that now.
There never has been any choice for me.
Ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the United States...
Senator Charles Palantine.
Thank you, Tom.
Ladies and gentlemen...
we are met today at a crossroads: Columbus Circle.
This is no ordinary place.
It is a place where many roads...
and many lives intersect.
It is appropriate that we meet here today...
because these are not ordinary times.
We meet at a crossroads in history.
For far too long, the wrong roads have been taken.
The wrong roads have led us into war...
into poverty, into unemployment and inflation.
Today I say to you, we have reached the turning point.
No longer will we, the people, suffer for the few.
Now, I would lie to you if I told you the new roads would be easy.
They will not be easy.
Nothing that is right and good has ever been easy.
We, the people, know that.
And we, the people, know the right roads and the good.
Today I say to you, we are the people, you and I...
and it is time to let the people rule.
Thank you.
All right, let him go, pull back.
Palantine!
Thank you.
Over there. Get that man.
Give him some air!
Give him some air, will you?
- I never saw him. - I saw him run.
Where was he?
- What's happening? - How you doing?
Got the money?
- Iris in her room? - Yeah.
Hey, Sport, how you doing?
Okay, my man. How are you?
- Where do I know you from? - I don't know.
How's everything in the pimp business?
- Do I know you? - No. Do I know you?
- Get out of here. Come on, get lost. - Do I know you?
How's Iris?
You know, Iris.
I don't know nobody named Iris.
Iris. Come on, get out of here, man.
You don't know anybody by the name of Iris?
I don't know nobody named Iris.
No?
Get back to your fucking tribe before you get hurt.
Do me a favor. I don't want no trouble, okay?
You got a gun?
Get the fuck out of here, man. Get out of here.
Suck on this.
You crazy son of a bitch!
Fucking son of a bitch, you! I'll kill you!
I'll fucking kill you!
Crazy son of a bitch! I'll kill you!
You fucking bastard! I'll kill you!
You crazy son of a bitch! I'll kill you!
Stop!
No! Don't shoot him!
"Dear Mr. Bickle...
"I can't say how happy Mrs. Steensma and I were...
to hear that you are well and recuperating.
"We tried to visit you at the hospital...
"when we were in New York to pick up Iris.
"But you were still in a coma.
"There is no way we can repay you for returning our Iris to us.
"We thought we had lost her, and now our lives are full again.
"Needless to say...
"you are something of a hero around this household.
"I'm sure you want to know about Iris.
"She's back in school and working hard.
"The transition has been very hard for her, as you can well imagine.
"But we have taken steps to see...
"she has never cause to run away again."
"In conclusion, Mrs. Steensma and I...
"would like to again thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
"Unfortunately, we cannot afford to come to New York again...
"to thank you in person, or we surely would.
"But if you should ever come to Pittsburgh...
"you would find yourself a most welcome guest in our home.
"Our deepest thanks.
"Burt and Ivy Steensma."
This guy Eddie, the owner-operator, comes up and says:
"I want to swap tires." I said, "These are new tires."
"Why don't you throw in something else, like your wife?"
His wife was Miss New Jersey 1957.
That's why the fleet has no spares.
Doughboy, wizard, killer.
- Charlie T. - What's happening?
Travis, you got a fare.
Shit.
- See you later. - See you, Travis.
Hello, Travis.
Hello.
I hear Palantine got the nomination.
Yeah. Won't be long now. Seventeen days.
I hope he wins.
I read about you in the papers. How are you?
It was nothing, really. I got over that.
Papers always blow these things up.
Just a little stiffness, that's all.
How much was it?
So long.