hey, watch the marble! dammit, what'd i tell you? i don't know. don't it say-- easy, come on over here. this here's somebody i want ya to meet. come on. this here's a friend of mine. yeah, easy. this here's mr. albright. mr. albright and me goes back to before the war when i was still in the fight game. aw yeah, easy always tryin' to do better. got his high school certificate from night school. he's threatenin' up on some college. and he's one of the few colored men around here who owns his own house. shoot, he pays a mortgage every month just like a white man. just somebody i know. a bidness man. oh, i don't ask him all that. he comes in here every so often looking for somebody to do a little job for him. he pays good. i didn't say that. but if there's a dollar laying in the street i don't think he'll let a little dirt stop him from picking it up. if you worried about making that house note this month, maybe you wanna pay him a call. all them pretty girls you be with ain't gonna buy you a house. sound like he just wants you to keep your eyes open for somebody. he'll pay you whether you see anything or not. if it was me i'd take that man's money and go on about my bidness. ain't nothin' to worry about. hey, easy. what girl is that? uh, huh. that's pretty lucky, hunh? maybe she looked in the phone book. what the hell you mean, coming up here all mad like you gonna do something?!. what did i tell you? to just take that man's money! i didn't tell you to do nothin'! i call myself trying to help you save your house. don't come up in here startin' no shit with me. easy, wait! watch my marble! my uncle left me that when he died! let's talk. let's just talk. she asked me to help her 'cause i told her that albright was lookin' for her. and i figured i could help you make a few bucks and throw albright off the trail too. she wanted to know something about you so i told her. i guess i must've give her your phone number. i don't know. i ain't lyin'. i don't even know her that good. she just asked me to help her. and she asked me not to tell nobody. i guess 'cause of her and frank green. i swear i don't know. she didn't tell me. i didn't mean to get you into nothin', easy. i just. she just. i mean you seen her, easy. man, she's something else. easy, what the hell you-- man, i don't-- there's a cabin out in malibu on route 9. i guess so. he's done this kinda thing out there before. yeah, that's it. naw. it's farther up. another ten minutes, i guess. easy, i swear, i ain't done nothin' to nobody. i swear, i ain't. there it is. easy, come on, man. that girl is lying if she told you i killed them folks.