- Bobby Kopas: It ain't sunk into that thick brain of yours yet. See, everything goes a lot easier and a lot less trouble when you're doing business with me. You understand what I'm talking about?
- Vince Majestyk: You make sounds like you're a mean little ass-kicker... only I ain't convinced. You keep talking and I'm gonna take your head off.
- Frank Renda: You know, we could be in LA tonight.
- Frank Renda: Get in a couple of broads.
- Frank Renda: Go to Mexico city in a few days.
- Frank Renda: Cruise around, get a boat, anything you want!
- Vince Majestyk: I've been to LA and I've been to Mexico and I've been laid.
- Frank Renda: Well, what DO you want?
- Frank Renda: I want to get a melon crop in!
- Det. Lt. McAllen: [when Vince comes out of Larry's hospital room, he is met by McAllen and Harold] Majestyk, I'm sorry about your hired man.
- Vince Majestyk: He's not just a hired man.
- Det. Lt. McAllen: A deputy was killed last night. Run over or beaten to death about the same time your migrants left. We'd like to locate them, talk to them.
- Vince Majestyk: Why don't you talk to Frank Renda instead?
- Det. Lt. McAllen: The Denver police have got a watch on his place. He hasn't been there. We don't know where he is.
- Vince Majestyk: You don't know much about anything. Stay the hell away from me.
- [starts to leave]
- Det. Lt. McAllen: We pull out, you know what'll happen.
- Vince Majestyk: [turns around] Well, let's see what's happened with you hanging around. So far, he's managed to run off my crew, shoot up some melons, break my friend's legs, and kill one of your deputies. Don't you talk to me about police protection!
- [points to Harold]
- Vince Majestyk: Keep these hotshots off my property!
- [opens the exit door]
- Det. Lt. McAllen: You're not gonna get those melons picked if you're dead.
- Vince Majestyk: [turns around again] If I'm dead, it won't matter, will it?
- Det. Lt. McAllen: Suit yourself. You're on your own.
- Vince Majestyk: Lieutenant, I've been on my own from the beginning!
- [walks out the door]
- Deputy Harold Richie: Are we really pulling out?
- Det. Lt. McAllen: We'll let him think so and see what happens.
- Nancy Chavez: If you want to go to bed with me, why don't you say so?
- Vince Majestyk: I don't want to talk about it. I want to do it.
- Vince Majestyk: [while in a jail cell eating food, Majestic looks over to Renda's plate who is eating alone and ask him...] Hey buddy, you going to eat those sausages?
- [Renda pushes the plate off the table to the floor]
- Vince Majestyk: You don't eat it, nobody eats it, then, huh?
- Frank Renda: [casually] Help yourself.
- Vince Majestyk: I'll tell you what, I'll take one of those cigarettes if you have a spare one.
- Black Prisoner: [stops Majestyk from going over to Renda] Hey man, I'll give you one.
- Vince Majestyk: Oh, thanks.
- [looks st Renda]
- Vince Majestyk: I got a cigarette, so I don't need one.
- Black Prisoner: [softly] Hey man. don't you know who that is?
- Vince Majestyk: [excited, whispers] He's a TV star!
- Black Prisoner: Man, that's Frank Renda.
- Vince Majestyk: Yeah, I saw him play the accordion on TV.
- Black Prisoner: No, man, that's Frank Renda. He's a hitman for the Mafia!
- Det. Lt. McAllen: [enters his office, along with deputy Harold, to see Majestyk standing with another officer] Okay, Ben.
- [the deputy leaves the room]
- Det. Lt. McAllen: Have a seat.
- Vince Majestyk: I've been sitting for four days. I guess another day won't matter. When do I go to trial?
- [sits down]
- Det. Lt. McAllen: The guy you hit, Bobby Kopas, dropped the charges.
- Vince Majestyk: [stands up, relieved] Well...
- [grows suspicious]
- Vince Majestyk: Why'd he do that?
- Det. Lt. McAllen: Said he thought it over. Wasn't important enough to waste a lot of time in court. You think that's the reason?
- Vince Majestyk: [happily] Lieutenant, whatever the reason, it's all right with me, as long as I get back to my place.
- [starts towards the door]
- Det. Lt. McAllen: Maybe you'd better stay here.
- Vince Majestyk: [turns around annoyed] Now, why would I do a dumb thing like that?
- Det. Lt. McAllen: Because Frank Renda's still walking around free.
- Vince Majestyk: Yeah, I know.
- Det. Lt. McAllen: The eyeball witness who saw Renda commit murder was a police officer. He was killed when Renda escaped. No witness, no case. You've given Renda a real good reason to want to kill you and I can't think of anything that would stop him from trying.
- Vince Majestyk: So, you want me as bait. You don't let me go, unless I hang around. Let him take a whack at me, hmm?
- Det. Lt. McAllen: Something like that.
- [Majestyk sits back down]
- Vince Majestyk: Why is it I get a feeling from you that you hope he pulls it off? Just so you can nail him for murder.
- Det. Lt. McAllen: That did enter my mind, but we'll settle for attempted. As I remember it, you're the one that wanted to make the deal, so you could go home and pick your melons. All right... go pick them.
- [Majestyk casually walks out of the office]
- Wiley: [Frank and Wiley enter their new cabin lodge, where they meet Frank's lawyer, Dick Richard] Hello, Richard.
- Dick Richard: Wiley. Hello, Frank.
- Frank Renda: Hello, Dick.
- [astonished by the quality of the house]
- Frank Renda: Hey!
- Dick Richard: How do you like it?
- Frank Renda: It's not bad.
- Wiley: Looks like a dude ranch.
- Dick Richard: Belongs to a stockbroker I once represented.
- Frank Renda: Yeah, and where's he? In jail?
- Dick Richard: Lewisburg, as a matter of fact.
- Frank Renda: I figured.
- Dick Richard: [chuckling] Conspiring, they say. To defraud the United States government.
- [Frank goes to the bar to pour himself a drink]
- Wiley: I'll have one, too. I can use it.
- Dick Richard: Frank, where you been? Looking at melon fields?
- Frank Renda: I've been busy.
- Dick Richard: You're out on $5,000 bond, pending a district court examination in ten days.
- Frank Renda: [agitated] What are you talking about? I thought I was clear.
- Dick Richard: Oh, you are, but they have to go through the motions.
- [Frank makes an exasperated groan]
- Dick Richard: Frank, this is not the time to do anything impulsive.
- Frank Renda: There's a melon I gotta pick.
- Dick Richard: Also, there are some very big offers that have come in. Big offers from big people. Now, what am I supposed to tell them?
- Frank Renda: [heading towards the stairs] You tell them I got something to do.
- Dick Richard: Frank.
- Frank Renda: Hey, if they don't like it, tough shit. Okay?
- Bobby Kopas: [Lundy is driving Frank, Wiley, and Kopas past the melon field with migrant workers Larry Mendoza hired] We're up to it, now, Mr. Renda.
- [directs Frank to the field]
- Bobby Kopas: Sir.
- Frank Renda: I thought you said nobody was working for him.
- Bobby Kopas: Oh, no crews. Just some migrants he hired, that's all.
- [They drive past a crew of road workers. Frank grows suspicious and leans towards Lundy]
- Bobby Kopas: Go up a ways and turn around.
- [Lundy circles around and they drive back past the road construction zone]
- Frank Renda: [to Kopas] How long's that been here?
- Bobby Kopas: Oh, they're always patching up the road, getting in the way, you know what I mean?
- Frank Renda: How LONG?
- Bobby Kopas: [growing nervous] I don't know, two, three days, sir, I think.
- [Frank discovers one of the road workers is actually Deputy Harold in disguise. An angry Frank yanks Kopas backwards]
- Frank Renda: Don't you know cops when you see them?
- Bobby Kopas: [playing dumb] Cops? Are you sure? I never thought about cops being around.
- [Frank lets go of Kopas]
- Frank Renda: [to Lundy] Pull over.
- Gene Lundy: Hmm?
- Frank Renda: Pull over... and stop!
- [Lundy stops the car]
- Frank Renda: [to Kopas] Okay, asshole... get out.
- Bobby Kopas: [scoffs] What, right here? My car's all the way over in Edna. That's about a four or five-mile walk.
- [Lundy impatiently opens Kopa's door and he gets out]
- Frank Renda: [signals Kopas] Come here, you.
- [Kopas leans down near the door's backseat]
- Frank Renda: You know, I ain't known you for a half-hour and you're talking shit to me out of the side of your face. I say I want nobody working for this guy and he's got a dozen people living here! The cops set up a grandstand to watch the show...
- [angrily clenches Kopa's hat as Wiley almost starts to laugh]
- Frank Renda: ... and you don't even know that they're cops! I don't see where you're doing me any good, at all.
- Bobby Kopas: But I watched him for you, didn't I, so he wouldn't run, huh?
- Frank Renda: Yeah? Well, YOU better run off, now, and you better do just like Lundy says and don't you, ever, EVER talk no shit to me, again. Do you hear?
- Bobby Kopas: [uneasily] Yes, sir.
- [He scrambles to get his hat after Frank lets it go]
- Vince Majestyk: [bangs on the truck's roof for Nancy to stop] Stop!
- [the truck stops and Vince gets out from the flatbed, closes the tailgate, and gets into the driver's side]
- Vince Majestyk: Move over!
- [Nancy moves to the passenger seat, as Vince gets in]
- Vince Majestyk: Guess there is no way to get rid of you, is there?
- Nancy Chavez: I told you, you were stuck with me, Vincent.
- Frank Renda: [Lundy is showing Frank and Wiley the inside of their new, spiffy camper] A regular vacation, huh?
- Gene Lundy: Yeah.
- Frank Renda: Having a good time?
- Gene Lundy: I could use a rest. That stunt, hitting that bus, it took a couple years off me, man.
- Frank Renda: Where is he?
- Gene Lundy: [to Wiley] Got a couple of beers?
- Frank Renda: Where is he?
- Gene Lundy: [directs a can of beer to Frank] Want a beer?
- Frank Renda: WHERE IS HE?
- Gene Lundy: He turned himself in. They're holding him in Edna, last I heard.
- Wiley: It's kind of a tight fit, but it's got all the comforts of home, huh?
- Frank Renda: We're not home, my love, he is.
- Wiley: Frank, he's in jail, you're free. We can go anywhere you want.
- Frank Renda: There's only one thing I want.
- Gene Lundy: So, he gets out of jail, you have somebody kill him. It's the same difference, the dude's dead.
- Frank Renda: I said I want him, you understand? I want to look him in the face, hold a piece against his gut, and when I know that he's sure, I'm gonna kill him.
- Gene Lundy: Can I ask you a question? What, you just gonna walk up to that jail and ask those cops for a visitor's pass? How are you gonna get close to the dude?
- Frank Renda: You find that sucker he hit. Tell him to drop the complaint. It was all a mistake.
- Gene Lundy: Mm-hmm, suppose he doesn't want to do that?
- Frank Renda: I SAID TELL HIM, NOT ASK HIM! Then, you get a couple of our people. You find him, you call me, I come up, I'll have a talk with him, and then it's done.
- Gene Lundy: Frank, there's a dozen guys who would do it, guys who the cops aren't waiting to bust!
- Frank Renda: [enraged] I SAID I WANT HIM! ME! Hey, I never killed anybody for free before, you see, but this one, I'm doing this as a special favor to myself and that's before I go to Matzatlan or lie on any beach! Am I getting through to you?
- [he goes to the back room and slams the curtain shut]
- Vince Majestyk: [goes inside a local bar to meet Julio and a contractor sitting down] Julio.
- Julio Tomas: [happily] Hey, Vince, they let you out, man? That's great.
- Vince Majestyk: I've been looking for you. Why can't you get me a crew?
- Julio Tomas: Hell, man, you've been in jail.
- Vince Majestyk: [annoyed] Mendoza hasn't. He told me you turned him down the last two mornings.
- Julio Tomas: Oh, it's the time of the year, Vince. I've got too much business. Other people ask first.
- Vince Majestyk: Okay, I'm asking you now for tomorrow morning. Twenty people. $1.40 an hour.
- Julio Tomas: Vince, I got crews signed for more than a week You're just too late, amigo, that's all.
- Vince Majestyk: [to the contractor] What about you? Will you give me a crew?
- Labor Contractor: Maybe in ten days. I can't promise you nothing, right now.
- Vince Majestyk: [frustrated] What the hell is this? A stickup? What do you want, a bonus? What?
- Julio Tomas: Vince, it's not the money. How can we get you people, if we don't have any?
- Vince Majestyk: Hey, Julio. What the hell is the problem?
- Julio Tomas: [persuasive] Vince, will you listen to me? I gotta work for a living. I can't do it from no damn hospital, you understand?
- Vince Majestyk: Okay. This I understand. Okay.
- [starts to leave]
- Julio Tomas: Vince. Next season, okay, amigo?
- [Vince leaves]
- Labor Contractor: [to Julio] If he's still around.
- Bobby Kopas: [Vince goes outside the bar to see Kopas sitting on the hood of Lundy's car] Hey, I hear you're looking for a crew. Maybe I can get you some winos.
- Vince Majestyk: [agitated, walks towards Kopas] Maybe I can fix it, so you'll never smile again.
- Bobby Kopas: You touch me, you'll be back in jail before noon.
- [Kopas points across the street, where Vince sees Deputy Harold disguised as a road worker, sitting in a work truck and smiling at Vince. He walks towards his truck, but turns around to Kopas]
- Vince Majestyk: Hey, what did you drop the complaint?
- Bobby Kopas: I'm being a good neighbor. And you think I'm pulling something, huh? Now, why would you think that?
- Vince Majestyk: [shrugs] See me lose my crop?
- Bobby Kopas: You know, I think you're mixed up. Standing there in deep shit.
- [chuckles]
- Bobby Kopas: And all you're worried about is losing your melon crop.
- Vince Majestyk: [walks towards Kopas again] You've been talking to somebody, huh?
- [Kopas quickly walks toward the passenger door of Lundy's car]
- Bobby Kopas: Yeah, like who you got in mind?
- Vince Majestyk: He get you to drop the complaint?
- Bobby Kopas: [get inside the car] I'm tired of talking to you, but I'll tell you one thing. Somebody's gonna set your ass on fire and I'm gonna be there to watch.
- [Lundy speeds away]
- Gene Lundy: [sarcastically, to Kopas] Real nice, big mouth. Real nice.
- Bobby Kopas: I had to give him one. The son of a bitch.
- Bobby Kopas: [disgusted and shocked Renda sacrificed Lundy for Vince to kill] You never saw him at all. You just told Lundy that.
- [Renda angrily cocks his gun]
- Bobby Kopas: You used Lundy. You used him to set him up.
- [Renda shoves Kopas into the hallway and he begins to back up slowly]
- Bobby Kopas: I don't even know what I'm doing here. I don't give a damn about that melon picker. Hey, this is none of my business, you know what I mean?
- [Kopas accidentally tumbles down the stairs, but quickly gets back up and continues to back away]
- Bobby Kopas: I don't want to have anything to do with this anymore. Stay away from me.
- Frank Renda: You get out there.
- Bobby Kopas: No.
- Frank Renda: [yells] GET OUT THERE!
- Bobby Kopas: I don't even have a gun! He'll kill me!
- Frank Renda: You got a choice. Stay here and I'll kill you.
- Bobby Kopas: I'm staying.
- [Renda fires a warning shot, causing Kopas to run out the door]
- Gene Lundy: [Kopas and Lundy meet up with Renda and Wiley, coming back from a plane from Mexico, and gathers their luggage] Hey, Frank. Smooth flight?
- Frank Renda: [getting out, mildly sarcastic] Yeah.
- Gene Lundy: Rough, huh? Okay. Hey, Wiley, how you doing?
- [to Renda]
- Gene Lundy: Your lawyer says he had to put up a bond, you gotta appear at some kind of hearing, but there's nothing he can nail you with.
- Wiley: [laughs] God!
- Frank Renda: See?
- Wiley: Nothing like a little dumb luck, huh?
- Frank Renda: What do you mean, "luck"? The secret is, never run until you know you're being chased.
- Wiley: And have a fast lawyer available at all times.
- Frank Renda: Real fast.
- Gene Lundy: Hey, your lawyer, he's waiting at the lodge he rented for you.
- Frank Renda: Hey.
- Gene Lundy: He wants to talk to you.
- Frank Renda: Hey.
- Gene Lundy: Huh?
- Frank Renda: What about my melon picker?
- Gene Lundy: They turned him loose. That's the question, now, what the cops have in their minds.
- Frank Renda: No, the question is, what's he doing?
- Gene Lundy: [sighs] He's around. We just saw him.
- Bobby Kopas: Probably at home, waiting on you. Uh, Mr. Renda, I was wondering if, when you finish him off, you let me put a couple slugs in him.
- Frank Renda: [unimpressed] Who's this asshole?
- Gene Lundy: This is our friend, Bobby Kopas, the fellow Majestyk hit. He's been making sure nobody works for him, so there won't be a crowd hanging around there.
- Frank Renda: You know him good, huh?
- Bobby Kopas: Well, I know he's a stuck-up son of a bitch. He's got a few melons and think he's a big grower.
- Frank Renda: How long has he lived here?
- Bobby Kopas: Too long, huh?
- Frank Renda: [annoyed] You know, it seems that I ask you questions and you don't answer them. I'll try you again. Would you like to show me where he lives?
- Bobby Kopas: Why, yes sir, any time.
- Frank Renda: Right now?
- Bobby Kopas: You bet.
- Nancy Chavez: If you want to go to bed with me, why don't you say it?
- Vince Majestyk: I don't want to say it, I wanna do it. Let's go.
- Nancy Chavez: I have to use the Ladies room. If it isn't locked.
- Vince Majestyk: If it is, I'll kick the door down.
- Frank Renda: [meets Vince face-to-face at the bar] How you doing there, buddy?
- [sits down]
- Frank Renda: You okay? I just came by to tell you something. Maybe you know it already. But I want to make sure. I'm gonna kill you.
- Vince Majestyk: [points across] Hey, there's a couple cops over there.
- Frank Renda: Yeah. Otherwise you might be dead already.
- Vince Majestyk: When is this big event gonna take place?
- Frank Renda: What's the difference? Tomorrow. Next week. You can hide in the basement of that police station, but I'm gonna get you, my baby.
- Vince Majestyk: Seems like there's no use trying to get on your good side.
- [he stands up and clocks Renda, sending him to the floor. Harold and another deputy stand up in shock and Kopas rushes over to help Renda up, but shoves Kopas away, with Vince doing the same]
- Vince Majestyk: [to Renda, pointing to the deputies] Hey, why don't you call the cops?