did you?
you should of shot the girl.
on the other thing, good news! we got the go ahead, we got a date. i got a firm date on the swiss thing.
you goin down, a body shop?
old as you are, it's a good deal.
that they are and indeed they are. how you doing, bobby?
anything you guys want, you're here? y'want to get a present for the little lady.
no, you're the boss hog, joe.
uh huh.
ebbet's field's gone.
and half of that's yours. you n'your team.
i told you we're on for the "other" thing? the swiss thing?
the other thing?
it's the shot of the century.
i'm locked into it. it's such a beautiful deal, joe.  we waited so long.
i put myself, n'my friends in hock, set the deal up.
if it was me.
you should of popped the girl.  look:
i was a publisher man, i'd publish the plans.  it's the mona lisa.
yeah, no, i'm saying, that's what i would do, f'i was in the book business. unfortunately, i'm a thief, so, i have to do that thing. you understand.  joe:
you understand my position.
well, look here, it's the golden rule. you know the golden rule. whoever's got the fucken gold, he gets to make the rule.  huh?
yeah. you're a pitbull.
i'm in hock to my people for the toys, all the toys you told me you need, do the other thing.
while i what? go wee wee all the way home to my ? go wee wee all the way home to my backers? you told me this:
i want you do do the swiss job.
well, now, that's bullshit, joe, you know that, you just tol me you're goin travelling-- i give you the money now, and you're gone. you gone play me for some kind of sucker? the other job. it's set up.
alright.  alright.  let's just.
you'll do the swiss job?
well, then, it's not alright. what are you telling me?
you think about it, joe. i got your money sitting for you, right here. you do the job, and i swear to you.
you'll do the job?
i'm sorry i put you in a position.
well.
that's not unreasonable.
now?
you're ahead of me every turn. how about that.
the date holds, you got the shipment on the fourteenth.
i swear to you.
so be it.
nobody's perfect.
y'ever split a piece of cake? one kid gets to cut the cake, the other gets to choose. we're gonna get the gold. your guy gets to go, my guy gets to go.
you go with the gold. that's the deal.
that's absolutely right.
i've never known him scared.
she said that.
she does.
please.
she did. she came to plead for him?
the sonofabitch screwed me once, he's gone screw me again. why, why, why would she think that i'd believe her?
to you.
he put her up, to come to you.
well, no, but as rational men, don't we have to "doubt" her?
then, let me put a question to you: you had the job.  you had the job.  how would you test her sincerity?
what race is that?
get in the car.
where's the gold?
when we put it to you.
you're gonna be telling us the area codes, belgium and luxembourg.
this is all you know. this is all you know.  this is all you know. n'we got you, going to st. croix
yeah, no, actually
yeah, no. it's charming. and then what?
you "slip away." me and my guys go to the meet, we find a truck full of pig iron. zat the thing?
he did.  and where's the gold. where's the gold all this time?
yeah, no, where's the gold, what's the back-up plan?
yeah, yeah, what there was a change in plans? you couldn't get to me to tell me?
do you mind if i say something personal?
it's rumplestiltskin.
you had to go out on a limb -- you had to go out on a limb, didn't you? didn't you.
yeah, we had, basically, we had in mind a different deal.  a different deal. how bout that, i hear, if you're flexible, it keeps you young.
well, that's very sentimental. but what if the gold's on the boat.
yeah, no, i don't got to search the boat.
yeah, no, your wife just made another deal. the deal she made, we get the gold, we let you live. whaddaya think?
that's right.
yeah, that's what we did for her, we let you live.
oh, yeah, let's siddown. you fucken dog inna manger, we sit here a little long enough, the boys in blue come visit, n'there goes the neighborhood.
you're bust, baby. you got broke.  go cry a little you fortunate motherfucker, she don't step up, you're gone stay here, for, like, a little bit of forever.
don't make me lose my respect for you. by the way, we already had the gold. pincus gave it up. that's what she traded for your life.
yeah, we don't want, to send you out there broke.  here: go buy yourself something nice.  you don't mind if i pay you in gold?
what is it, with your pal?
cute. very cute.