come on, like you mean it.
pleasure to meet you, patrick.
hey, no kidding? where are your offices?
boston, huh? did you get your degree up there?
harvard?
did you study under kim greene?
kim and i are close friends!
you mean him.
really? but he's been married for twenty years--they've got six kids.
where would i have seen your work?
absolutely! i was there twice last year. which building is yours?
did you build the estadio olympico?
i'm sorry, i'm not familiar with it. what style?
you know, i really should take your card.
what's up, doc?
the teeth, the teeth. i got 'em capped.
you don't think they're too big?
you ever been laid in this office?
i wanted to talk to you about your friend patrick.
well that's what i'm trying to figure out. how long have you known him?
that's what you've been looking for--a farter?
i thought so. anyway, i hope you don't think i'm being meddlesome. i just think you should be careful with this guy.
i mean let's face it, mary, you're beautiful, you've got money, you trust people--i'm just saying, there's a lot of psychos out there.
there she is--i brought you a little thirst-quencher, mag.
no, i'm not. i just want to get you-drunk so you'll pass out and i can have my way with mary.
thanks, but i've got to be going. unfortunately, doc, this isn't a social visit.
well. i've got a little more news about your friend healy.
mary, the man's a killer.
i've got a friend in the boston police department. he faxed me this this morning. i'll just give you the highlights. after a short stint as a petty thief, patrick r. healy graduated to armed robbery by the age of fourteen. at sixteen he committed his first murder--a pretty teacher's aid named molly pettygrove. he was incarcerated until age twenty-two when, despite a grim psychological profile, the state was forced to release him. in his mid-twenties and again in his early thirties he was suspected of homicides in the states of utah and washington. unfortunately, the bodies were so badly decomposed that there wasn't enough evidence to hold him, and on and on and so forth and so on.
okay, just calm down. it's going to be okay.
don't get all gooey on me now, you'll give me a big head. the important thing, doctor, is you've got to distance yourself as much as possible without pissing this psycho off.
okay, pat, take it easy--don't do anything stupid.
whoa, whoa--i don't know what you're talking about.
okay, okay, i might've gotten some bad information.
who?
i love her, okay?!
you heard me, goddamnit. i. i love her.
i mean i'm a fucking fraud. i'm no architect. don't be a putz--who's been to santiago twice in a year? estadio olimpico--please!
i knew shit. the only thing i knew was that you were a fake and i made up everything else. my real name's norm. i deliver pizzas.
so then in '94 i went back to dade community college for a semester and when the wal-mart cashier job fell through i hooked up with the pizza barn.
just dumb luck. i delivered a pie to her one night and she answered the door in her nightgown--that was it for me. i went home that night, shaved my beard, and a week later i was laid out in her office with a broken back.
friend. baseball bat.
oh yeah, the plan was going along just fine until you showed up.
what line? the day you first laid your oily rap on my future wife you started a war!
why you son of a--
four.
i never said that.
hey, this is a pretty nice place.
hey, buddy, don't do anything rash now.
i think everybody could use a drink.
what?
whoa, whoa, you're getting crazy now. why would i cross the line--what do you think i got no pride?
like i'm going to try to figure out a guy who's idea of courting is blowing farts in the chick's face
don't flatter yourself--i was following her, i always do. how the hell you think i got rid of mary's boyfriend steve?
are you shitting me--mr. goody-two-shoes? he was like a fucking eagle scout. you two should be kissing my balls--if it wasn't for me, she might've married that schmuck!
look, if it wasn't you who sent the letter, and it wasn't me who sent it?
interesting query, mary.
well isn't this nice--now we've got the whole gang together.
uh, well. not exactly. you see, i exaggerated a little there.
name's norm. i live up in pompano with my folks.
oh please.