find a dummy. that's what we've got.
stand.  sit.
i take notes.
for those who pay me.
people.
oh, yeah. anybody that pays me is smart.
no. no, brother, you don't.
why don't you give me a cigarette?
if you know, why do you ask?
yeah.
i wish the poor.  had enough sense to have somebody give him a good greasing for the beating he's going to get. 'cause this way all he gets out of it is the ride. hey, those speeches! ain't they awful? ain't they just plain awful? question to you: if somebody told him he was a sucker, do you think he'd quit?
what i need is some sleep. shut up!
since you won't let me sleep you might at least give me a drink.
what's up?
so you told him.
who told you?
that you're not going to be governor.
all right! that you've been framed, you poor sap.
and how! oh, you decoy, you woodenhead decoy! and you let 'em. you let 'em because you thought you were the little lamb of god. but you know what you are? well, you're the goat! you are the sacrificial goat! you are a sap.  because you let 'em.
enough? he didn't even get anything out of it. oh, they'd have paid you to take a rap like that, but they didn't have to pay a sap like you. oh, no, you were so full of yourself and hot air, all you wanted was a chance to stand up on your hind legs and make a speech: my friends, what this state needs is a good five-cent cigar. what this state needs is a --
he wants to know if it's true.
here.
he's not used to a lot of things. are you, willie?
are you, willie? are you? are you.  are you, are you, are you?
hi.
yeah, i quieted him down.
oh, he reared some. he's been telling me all the things he's going to do. he's going to do big things, this fella. he's going to be president. he's going to kill people with his bare hands. i quieted him down.  hey! who's lucy?
he talks like she's his mammy.  she's going to blow his nose for him.
yeah, well give me a receipt for the body and i'll be on my way.
there he is.
whoops!
how'd you get him here? he was out stiff.
hair? he must have swallowed the dog.
hey!
what's he up to?
same for me.
hey, i need a boy.  where's a boy? take that downstairs; they're waiting for it. right away, on the double. listen, baby, you've got to double- space all of this.  he can't read, see.
and they need four copies. hi, jack. how are you?
fix your tie, willie.
yeah. we need a college man around.  for research.
you low-down, no-good redneck.
i'll kill him.
i'll kill him.
i hate all women.
was she pretty?
was she pretty?
was she pretty?
let him go? i'll kill him. i'll drive him out of this state.
public or private.  i know him. how about what happened in chicago? that girl on skates.  and the time you both went to st. louis.  there's a new invention, you know, photography and newsreels. willie stark in a nightclub.  willie stark with a blonde.
i could also break every bone in his neck. after all i've done for him.  now he goes two-timing me.
lucy? if she had her way he'd be back in kanoma city slopping the hogs right now. and he knows it. he knows what she'd do for him. she had her chance.
he'll ditch her.  give him time.
we're late.
yeah?.  oh, i see. dumond can't come. he says his wife is sick.
yes? this is it, willie. jeff hopkins on the wire.
no. no, i don't.
good evening, governor stark. i thought you might like to know that judge stanton kept his promise. he gave the story to every paper in town.
why? because his name is stanton?
phew! awful lot of smoke. awful lot of whisky. you sober?
i'll have one with you. what are you hiding out for?
for four days? you've been back in town for four days.
willie's worried about his boy.
well, why don't you put something on the phonograph -- a low-down, mean blues. play it over and over again until you're sick of it. then crack it and go back to work. i do it all the time.
no, it isn't your problem. i'll wait for you if you want to powder your nose.
hmmm. yeah, i can see it. i've got to look in the mirror to be able to see it. soft, white skin.  not like mine. i had smallpox when i was a kid. where i lived it seemed nearly all the kids had smallpox.
it leaves your face hard. then she's got poise. look at the way she holds her head.  at just the right angle. that takes training. that takes years of training.
i see what willie sees. willie's got big ideas, jack.
a girl like that could be a governor's wife. or even a president's.
he ditched lucy, he ditched me, and he'll ditch you.
he'll ditch everybody in the whole world because that's what willie wants. nobody in the world but him.
you and your high-tone friends. what do they know? what do they know about anything? why did you have to mix her in?
am i? well, why don't you go down and ask her. or ask him. ask willie.
go ahead, ask him.
ask him!
ow-oo.  oh.  oh.
i'll help.
i'm going back to the capital and get hold of duffy.
somebody's got to go back to the capital. i'll go in the other car.
yes, governor.
eleven.
who else do you think he promised, willie?
you'd be smart.  play square with him. you're going to need people like us around.