clarence puts the suitcase on the table.
lee's looking over the cocaine and sampling it.
monty brings in a briefcase of money and puts it down on the table.
everything's just as it was.
this is a mexican stand-off if there ever was one. gangsters on one end with shotguns. bodyguards with machine guns on the other. and cops with handguns in the middle.
boris has caught a lot of buckshots, but he'll live. he's lying on the kitchen floor. dimes stands over him. he has the sawed-off in his hand.
dimes on the phone talking with the department. boris is still moving on the floor. marvin is sitting on the couch with his hands cuffed behind his back. alabama is crying over clarence, then she feels something in his jacket. she reaches in and pulls out his .38. she wipes her eyes. she holds the gun in her hand and remembers clarence saying: