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we start on... Rick.
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Rick. That's a wonderful name
for the mysterious stranger.
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Don't editorialise.
Just start typing.
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Exterior, day. A picturesque square.
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Amidst the throng of merrymakers,
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the camera picks up a rather tall,
rather suntanned American...
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We'd better change his wardrobe
for a liar-and-a-thief suit.
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You know, various shades of black.
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Moving with the grace of ajungle
cat, Rick approaches the table
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where Gabby is getting
the brush-off from her actor.
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His almost super-human intelligence
takes in the situation at once.
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He hesitates. If there's
a single chink in Rick's armour,
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it's a pretty face.
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He comes to a decision
and moves to another table,
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where two denizens
of the underworld await him.
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Call them first gangster
and second gangster.
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Well, Rick?
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- Have you thought it over?
- I'm considering the proposition.
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It is a plan of simplicity and beauty
yet highly original, very daring.
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- Voilà, monsieur.
- We need you for two things only.
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To open the safe
and deliver the note.
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A few hours' work.
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And for this, a million dollars.
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Which we will, of course,
split three ways.
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Half for me. The other half to be
divided between you two.
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But you already agreed.
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Gentlemen, it's a well-known fact
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that I am not only a brilliant
safe-cracker, but a liar and a thief.
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Half for me, the other half
divided between you two.
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Very well. I will pick you up
with a car at four.
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Until four, then.
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And, Rick, resist at all costs
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your continuous and overwhelming
impulse to perform the double-cross.