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And do you know who owned those fields?
Arturo Duran's family.
His people get tired of fucking you one way, they fuck you another.
We have a good I. Lfe, you and I.
These people want to bring down everything you're here for:
The food, the fucking, the gambling, the shows.
They think this is all for a government to decide.
- What do you th. Ink? - I made a mistake.
Yes, you did.
But you're a damn good poker player.
You know what I'd like to do with my life if I weren't a policeman?
What you do.
I love the game.
Don't start doing the wrong thing with your life.
Wa. It a m. Inute! You gotta celebrate with me tonight!
We were d. Iscuss. Ing three at a t. Ime.
I gave myself a Christmas present:
Chinese, a negrita, and I think the other one was Danish.
- How was it? - I felt left out.
Celebrate with me.
You said we were on the same boat.
- We were. - There was a very elegant lady.
Roberta Duran. You danced with her. She's a friend of mine.
- It's terrible about her husband. - Have you seen her?
- Disappeared, they say. - Disappeared?
- Come on! Disappeared! - She was released.
I'm glad.
It's easy to lose track of people in Havana.
- Damn right! I was trying to find her! - Excuse me? I must find the head.
Can you imagine what it looks like in this place?
I've been trying to find her for an interview.
But the government closed down the paper. The editor's in jail.
- You're kidding? - No. He's leaving Havana tomorrow.
What are you gonna do?
I was going to join Fidel, but you have to bring your own gun.
- So I'm going to Miami Beach instead. - You're not going...
No! It's the tragedy of the Cuban middle class, my friend.
We know what should be done, but we go to Miami Beach instead.
We're paralyzed by self-doubt and intellectuality...
...and by you.
- We want to be so much I. Ike Amer. Icans. - You're getting messy, chico.
And we need to be ourselves.
Have something to eat. The food is terrible in Florida.
No food, Baby. All right?
I'll miss you.
- You be careful, okay? - Yeah.
I'm hearing rumors...
...about big poker, no limit.
It m. Ight be true. Where's Joe?
Down the hall getting the bad news.
Joe, are we gonna set up in the same...
What's he say. Ing?
Take off.
Nobody's serv. Ing out there! What. Is th. Is?
They're fighting in Santa Clara.
Rebels just cut the island in half.
Our half is smaller than their half, Jack.
- Meyer, th. Is. Is Jack We. II. - Where's the offens. Ive I pa. Id for?
- It's supposed to be an armored train. - An armored train.
Like China, like Siberia, like the Boxer Rebellion!
- We prom. Ise... - Shut up and listen!
Here's what you're gonna do tomorrow:
You're gonna talk to Batista's people.
You're gonna explain to them how upset I am...
...and they better get off their asses and start fighting soon...
...or they'll go back to being a bunch of banana eaters.
Remind them that the only reason there's civilized plumbing in this country...
...is because the Americans came here in '98 and beat the shit out of Spain.
Batista's palace had an outdoor crapper before we put one inside!
The only reason he's got an army is because we gave him one.
He better start using it or he'll wind up on a corner selling beans, like he started.
We. Invented Havana!
And we can goddamn well move it someplace else if he can't control it.
Now you explain that to him.
Do you want to go for a walk, Jack?
Why not?
What do you th. Ink, Joe? Are we rained out?
No. The game's still on. He said he'd back you, he will.
He's full of tantrums. Doesn't interfere with business.
Listen. The professor, is he around?
The professor's here. Still screwing widows at the Nacional.
Some things never change.
Not him. He's seen it all.
I need to talk to him.
I like this town, Jack.
They call it the pearl of the Antilles...
...the Paris of the Caribbean.
- It's a city. - There are other cities.
Believe me. New York is good. Chicago.
How long can they hold off the rebels?
I don't know. If Batista takes a powder, it's all over. Havana's closed.
Forget the army. Forget the generals. They'll all be running for their yachts.
This town's crawling with spooks now.
Used to be all you had was the FBI on your ass. No more.
- You take any heat from them? - They don't deal with people like me.
These guys went to Yale. They play bridge.
They fuck each other.
You know, they won't let me back in the States.
I'm not a citizen anymore.
Not a citizen?
What'll you do. If the rebels take the c. Ity?
Meyer's talking about Santo Domingo.
Ever been there? It's nowhere.
Maybe I'll go to Costa Rica.
I got a friend there. Retired.
W. Idow.
Meyer's got his money both ways.
He's making deals with the rebels, trying to buy insurance.
He thinks I don't know.
Not gonna work.
I'm gonna go stick my head in church.
When are you leav. Ing?
Last.
Hi, sonny.
- Hi, Professor. - Joe Volp. I sa. Id you were back.
Spending time at the Nacional?
Twin sisters from St. Louis and loaded with mazoola.
Rebels are fighting in Santa Clara.
Yes. History's overtaking us, my boy.
The wheel turns. I hope you stay till the bitter end.
I'm going. One more game.
Want to come w. Ith me?
Take the ferry. Dr. Ive to Vegas. You want to go to Vegas?
Nonsense.
Atom bombs and sandy pussy. What's your hurry?
I always stay here too long.
Every time I came down here I thought: "This is where anything's possible.
"I can find the best fuck and biggest game of my life."
I'm ahead, way ahead, man. It's...
...stupid for me to stick around too long.
I met this woman.
I know her 72 hours...
I don't know.
You stick with her.
Take the advice of an old man.
There's nothing like a woman, or two. They love men. Even jerks.
The biggest jerk you ever knew somehow has a woman that's nuts over him.
Women are perfect. The rest. Is bullsh. It.
I can't. She took off.
I think I know where she is. She's down where they're fighting.
Goddamned if I know why.
It's time to get out, Professor.
So when are you leaving, sonny?
After the game.
I just get this...
What are you gonna do?
Hell, I don't have to do anything.
But you do.
I got somebody I gotta get out of there. Americano.
Santa Clara. I got a friend in there.
Speak Spanish!
I gotta get her out.
Seņora, what has happened here?
Where's the woman w. Ith the car?
Where's the...
Woman, seņora.
Car.
Finca! Duran. Oh, shit!
It means lost, right?
Bye-bye, Yankee!
I got your note.
How did you get through?
By not speaking Spanish.
I didn't think I'd see you again.
That's how I thought it would go, too. What. Is th. Is place?
This is Arturo's family home.
- What are you do. Ing? - The rebels have a transmitter out back.
I don't understand why you came.
Are you sorry?
What's the transm. Itter for?
They'll try to contact Havana tonight, to contact our group. They don't know.
When I was. In pr. Ison I saw Bufano.
Who's Bufano?
He's with us. He's supposed to be with us.
Talking with the police. I don't believe it, but I saw him. I'll try...
So you tell the rebels not to contact the group. Then what?
- I don't know. - Menocal's looking for you.
He missed you by just a few minutes yesterday.
- I think I'm safe here. - Nobody's safe here!
Jesus! I just drove through it!
There are soldiers all over the road! There is no front line in this war!
If he looks for you, he'll check the airport and ferry!
- What do you expect me to do? - Get out of Cuba.
Just for a little while.
- I know a guy with boats. - I can't leave now.
Why not?
You think one out-of-work actress will make any difference?
Come on!
What has th. Is got to do w. Ith you anyway?
This isn't our business! This is their business!
You put this place on like a costume!
You've got your lines in espaņol.
You're not poor. You're not hungry. You're sure as hell not Cuban!
I don't have to be Cuban to know when things are unfair.
Th. Ings are unfa. Ir! Where have you been?
- I don't want to live that way. - You don't marry into a revolution!
If you need war, you'll run the rest of your life!
Don't tell me how to make sense of my life! I don't know you.
All you see here is a place for a card game because there's a fever to gamble now.
That's not what's going on!
People's lives are ending!
Families are tearing apart!
You don't really understand any of this...
...because you spend your life playing cards.
I feel more honest playing cards than I do believing these mountains are mine.
Oh, shit!
Does this phone work?
They haven't slept for weeks. They are so excited.
Can you imagine how they feel?
How close they are, how far they've come!
Listen, Bobby.
I don't know about a lot of things.
But the things I know, I know well.
I try to keep out of the way of stuff I don't understand.
Mostly.
All this is like living your life in the newspapers.
Like you read what to do.
But they make too much out of everything.
Most of the time, nothing's going on.
Just everyday stuff.
You take a walk. You buy a necktie.
You eat a sandwich. Life.
Jesus! You can't live ideas.
Most things that are alive don't even have ideas.
What's really go. Ing on happens before ideas.
Before talk.
Before anybody says anything.
And after.
In the quiet.
It isn't an idea.
It's a feeling. It's like...
...being part of something more than yourself.
Like a song some people sing together.
I don't think this is anything I can explain.
You mean, not to me.
I'm not in there singing, am I?
Something is happening.
I bailed you out, what...
...48 hours ago? I made you a sandwich.
I drove all the way to... I don't even know where this place is.
Then why are you here?
You want to change the world, Bobby?
Change mine.
How can I?
What about my world?
If I go with you...
... what will happen to mine?
It's gonna be okay, Bobby.
What are they bomb. Ing? There's nothing to bomb!
I'm not doing this. This is somebody else.
You got a cigarette?
I came 200 miles after you without a cigarette.
I've never heard it this quiet.
What's th. Is?
I don't know. Nothing.
A scar.
- No, it isn't. Tell me. - Why?
Because you don't want to.
- It's a diamond. - What?
- I swallowed it. - Please.
Tell me.
I knew this old hustler when I was a kid.
You know, a mechanic.
A crooked player.
He showed me how he had this diamond sewed into his arm by a doctor.
So when I was in Yokohama, I bought a diamond and had a Jap doctor do it.
See the idea was...
...that no matter how bad things got, no matter what they did to you...
...no matter what...
...you still have this last chance.
You'd always have this diamond.
You still feel that way?
I was in my twenties.
I do.
Tell me about the boat.
Our boat?
What?
You know about boats?
Do I know about boats?
Where do you want to go, pal?
You want to go to California?
Are you going with me?
Sure, I am.
I haven't been there in a while. Any place else?
Anywhere?
Anywhere in the world.
- Where you been? - Out of town.
- Tell me about the game. - It's tonight.
- What t. Ime? - You got a schedule problem?
- What's go. Ing on? - What are you talk. Ing about? Noth. Ing.
Is this about a broad? About that broad?
It's about a card game. What t. Ime, Joe?
They want to start early. 6:30, same suite.
You feeling lucky?
It's com. Ing. In from the Keys.
I can have it hosed down and refueled by midnight.
- Midnight? - Yes.
They start blowing horns, kissing, nobody notices one little boat.
- Listen, the lady's traveling alone. - Yes?
Can you get her set up okay?
Say, the Edgewater? Nice room?
It's high season in Miami.
But I know a guy who can clear up a room for me.
Just for the night. I'll try to get out of here sometime tomorrow.
No later than midnight for the lady.
After that, who knows?
Boats get impounded, funny things happen.
- He wants her out of the country. - What?
Do you understand me? He wants her out of Havana. Now!
- Who? - Arturo.
Do it!
- What happened? - It's okay.
You've no idea how fried people can get over one boat.
- What happened? - Honest to God!
Everybody's trying to get out. I don't know what's going on.
- Do you have some antiseptic? - Soap's fine.
I tried to buck the line.
Boy! Some people have a short fuse.
And these were women and children.
It was really over a boat?
Yeah, a 72-footer.
Hell, it's worth a couple of punches.
It's arranged?
About midnight.
- My things are at the house. - You can't go there.
I know.
I gotta get the guy with the boats paid off.
There's a fr. Lend of m. Ine, Joe Volp. I...
...he's holding some dough for me at the Lido.
Now, it's gonna take a while. Are you gonna be all right here?
You're good at this.
I like doing it.
Maybe you should go with a prizefighter.
No. You.
Are you sure?
Do you mean...
...do I miss Arturo?
Of course I do.
You shared a lot.
Revolution.
No. He just made me feel...
I wanted to be simpler when I was with him.
More honest. Myself.
How many times have you lost everything? Lots of times, yes?
Maybe it's possible to come back from that.
There are so many ways to be happy, and I...
I feel that with you sometimes. But sometimes...
...I feel...
...terrible about the thought of being happy with you, because if it weren't...
Don't.
Don't say it.
I'll be back as soon as I can. Remember the phone.
One ring, and if it rings again...
...it's you.
So long.
You say someth. Ing, Mr. We. II?
Marion.
What'll you have?
- How's the book coming? - Good. Quite well.
What happened to you?
Aren't gamblers pacifists? Like musicians, afraid to hurt their hands?
You here collecting recipes?
No. I'm off duty.
I thought you guys didn't sleep?
Not cookbook writers.
You guys.
What's th. Is about?
Is Arturo Duran alive?
- Arturo Duran. Why would I... - Where. Is he?
Who has h. Im?
- You're in a funny mood, Jack. - Yes, I am.
I'll tell you how funny.
I'm going to stand up in this bar, and I'm going to make an announcement.
I'm going to announce how a fake fairy from Gourmet Magazine is a spook.
You are, aren't you?
Quiet down, Jack.
I'll break your face.
No, you won't. Not in front of these people.
That's what you are, isn't it? Some kind of spy?
Menocal works for SIM and for you, doesn't he?
The OSS, the CIA whatever it is you call yourselves now.
Don't do anything stupid.
I think I will. Everybody! I want to tell you something!
What?
Talk to me.
Smart.
Here's what I want.
I'm Jack We. II. I got some. Informat. Ion for Colonel Menocal.
Holiday traffic, Mr. Forbes.
Something to report?
Nothing to report.
Why do you come?
I work for some people.
- What people. - You've done business with us.
I see.
A joke.
Not at all.
They want Arturo Duran alive.
Well.
C.O.D.
He's dead.
Now let's not fuck around.
They're not interested in details. They want what they want.
Do they know...
...that Mrs. Duran is in your apartment...
...right now?
Sure. They sent me to Santa Clara to bring her back.
Doesn't do her justice.
Either of you.
It was a good idea, but finally it didn't work. He spit on it.
See, there? Spit.
Let's save some time, okay?
Marion Chigwell's laid it all out.
- I can call him. - Call him.
Remember W. Ilson?
W. Ilson's prepared to offer you asylum. Here it is.
What the fuck. Is go. Ing on here?
You people pay me to keep the Communists under control...
...and now you say, "Let th. Is one go. We need h. Im."
You need him for what?
You're crazy.
You're like, I don't know, like pregnant women.
- You have a whim... - I just do what they tell me. Come on!
And what happens to me?
I'm your trash collector, but when I go to the embassy I'm treated like shit!
Asylum. V. Irg. In. La. And. It's beaut. Lful. Now, where is he?
- And I live on what? - $25,000 and a job.
Another joke?
Okay, $50,000. All cash.
I'll need a few hours to get the authority.
- Where. Is he? - I haven't said yes or no.
- How do I know you can deliver? - I'll show you photographs.
Touch. Feel. Talk to.
They're going to make him part of the new government, aren't they?
Christ, you're fools.
They just want to talk to him. Where. Is he?
You won't get a fucking thing out of him.
He's a real Cubano.
- Yeah? Then what do you want him for? - Insurance.
In case it goes the other way.
You son of a bitch.
What are you do. Ing here?
No, it's all right.
- Where. Is she? - She's all right. Listen.
I'm going to get you out of here.
- He thinks I'm with the CIA. - He's been swindling the CIA for years!
Why the hell do you have to be so ignorant?
- Where. Is she? R. Ight now? - She's safe.
- We're do. Ing th. Is ton. Ight. - You can't!
- Yes, I can. Just do what I tell you. - Why aren't you play. Ing cards?
- We don't have t. Ime for th. Is. - Why?
Once I asked you for help, and you said no!
I changed my mind.
Bullshit!
Are you gonna make it? Or am I just wasting my time?
Come on.
What are you gett. Ing out of th. Is?
Nothing.
You're a liar.
She's beautiful, isn't she?
More than that.
I want to thank you for seducing my wife.
I mean it.
The anger kept me going.
It was like strong, cold coffee.
Sometimes when it was bad...
...the only way to keep my mind together...
...was to concentrate on ways of killing you.
She's a hell of a lady.
Does she know I'm alive?
She buried you, man.
Deal.
Better make it fast.
It's like meat going bad.
He won't keep.
Have him at his house, cleaned up, 11:00. The money will be there.
You want buy a young girl? Some enchanted evening?
What happened? I was so worr. Led. The telephone kept ringing.
- We have a boat? - Everything's all right.
I washed this blouse and dried it in the oven.
Well, almost dry. You don't have an iron. It's so wrinkled.
You look fine. No, I don't have an iron.
I never had an iron.
I can get some new things in Miami.
Are we going?
There's one more thing to do.
- Then do it. - I will.
- Is a 72-footer a big boat? - Yes, it's pretty big.
- We'll take. It to M. Lam. I and then where? - Bobby...
It doesn't matter. Maybe from Miami we can take a train.
A long trip and not worry about where we get off.
Listen, kiddo.
- People don't say that anymore. - Listen to me, will you?
It's from the '20s.
If I had never met you...
...I'd have lived my life...
He's alive.
Arturo's alive.
He's at your house.
And he's okay, and he's waiting for you.
Oh, God.
There's nothing to say, Bobby.
For a moment...
...for one moment...
...I was lost...
...in a sweet place.
But lost.
Wa. It.
Let me take you there.
Nowhere.
Batista's left the country! Come on!
Come on! Let's go!
It's all over.
That's my car!
You stood up a lot of guys.
They're upstairs playing right now. It's not too late.
Yes, it is.
It's 1959, Joe.
Where's the lady?
She's with her husband.
Nobility.
I always said you were a noble guy.
We're noth. Ing but cocks leading our brains around...
...just like the nuns told us, right?
Who's ahead?
Looks like fun.
Time to leave, Jack.
Anejo and coffee.
Things go well?
Great.
How about you? You win or lose?
It's never over, so we never lose.
Then you never win either.
All passengers prepare to board.
Please stand by your cars.
- Have passports ready. - Menocal's looking for you.
He's probably at the embassy.
He's been there and gone.
Last night.
Gone? Where?
Probably V. Irg. In. La.
And I'm off to the Far East, writing a new book:
The Cuisine of Indochina.
Indochina.
Where's Indoch. Ina? I mean, I know, but I don't know.
It's a long way away, Jack.
I'll see you.
Pick a card.
You're not celebrating.
It wasn't my fight.
How is he?
He's wonderful.
He's with them.
You too?
But I thought you might be here.
It's funny.
I didn't know I was leaving until 20 minutes ago.
Were you wa. It. Ing for me?
All my life.
All passengers should prepare to board.
Please stand by your cars.
That old trick.
The other one was a quarter. This is a half.
Where are you go. Ing, We. II?
Don't know. California, maybe.
How did you get Menocal to let him go?
I lied...
...about a few things.
You don't quite believe what you know, do you?
I do.
I know I love you, Bobby.
And I know a butterfly can flutter its wings over a flower in China...
...and cause a hurricane in the Caribbean.
I believe it.
They can even calculate the odds.
It just isn't likely.
And it takes so long.
All passengers and all autos...
... should be boarding immediately.
Have your passports ready.
You know where to find me.
Walk. Into any cas. Ino...
...and ask any high-stakes poker player...
..."Where. Is Jack We. II?"
Right.
So long, pal.
I do this sometimes. Drive down from Miami.
It isn't that I expect her. The ferry doesn't run anymore.
But it happens sometimes.
I see a boat offshore and...
... something goes faster in me.
Hope, I guess.
What the hell. Fidel Castro was on the Jack Paar Show.
So anything can happen.
I even read the newspapers now.
Not just looking for point spread, the odds or the morning line.
Human interest, that's what I read.
A dozen lines about what happened on a street corner in Indianapolis...
... or identical twins meet after 30 years, smoke the same brand of cigarettes...
... and both married to somebody named Shirley.
Like that.
Somebody came out of Havana...
... told me Baby Hernandez was the big winner that night.
Lives in Jersey now.
And I got a postcard from Joe Volpi...
... postmarked Santo Domingo.
So I guess he's still doing it, running things for Meyer.
It's a new decade. Things are different.
We got our own kind of revolution going.
I'm doing okay these days.
I'm way ahead.
But it's not the same.
I sit with my back to the wall, watch the entrance.
You never know who's gonna walk in.
Somebody blown off course.
This is hurricane country.
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