Scenes with Shooter
3 scenes
S Slade
Six stacks, is that right, Shooter?
Shooter
Six.
S Slade
Well, we've been playing 30 hours... uh, that rate, six thousand, that makes roughly, uh, $200 an hour. Thank you for the entertainment, gentlemen. I am particularly grateful to Lancey, here; it's been a rewarding experience to watch a great artist at work. Thank you for the privilege, sir.
Lancey Howard
Well now, you're quite welcome, son. It's a pleasure to meet someone who understands that to the true gambler, money is never an end in itself, it's simply a tool, as a language is to thought. Good evening, uh... Mr. Slade.
S Slade
Good evening, Mr. Howard.
Shooter
[Shooter's wife Melba is altering a jigsaw puzzle piece with a nail file]
Melba, why do you do that?
M Melba
So it'll fit, stupid.
Shooter
No, I'm not talking about that. What I'm asking is... do you, uh, have to cheat at everything?
Shooter
Yes. At... solitaire. I've yet to see you play one game of solitaire without cheating.
Shooter
Look, you're just cheating yourself, don't you understand? You'll be the loser, no one else but yourself!... You've ruined the puzzle, now, that doesn't go in there.
M Melba
[She forces the altered piece into place]
Does now.
Shooter
[Slade blackmails Shooter into cheating on his dealing so the Kid will beat Howard]
Hey, why are you doing this? It can't be for money.
S Slade
Yes, for my kind of money, gut money. I wanta to see that smug old bastard gutted. Gutted!
Shooter
Like he gutted you.
S Slade
Yes, that's right, that's right!
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