2:02:01
I've been dying to see your show,
but I've been so busy.
2:02:04
I just dropped by
to make Nick a proposition.
2:02:07
If it's some new way of marking cards,
Nick, don't listen.
2:02:11
Aside from that, I'll leave you.
But I'm dying of curiosity.
2:02:14
Come back, silly.
Get yourself a drink and sit down.
2:02:18
- All right with you?
- Of course. It's all in the family.
2:02:21
- Sit down and start propositioning.
- All right.
2:02:27
Well, as I told you, the place...
2:02:30
No, thanks.
The place is doing awfully well.
2:02:33
So well that some money men approached
me about opening another one.
2:02:38
It's getting very fashionable.
2:02:41
I'd like to. I think it would go.
2:02:43
But I can't possibly run
two places single-handed.
2:02:47
And they don't know
anything about this business.
2:02:49
So I told them about you.
2:02:51
The long and short of it is,
we want you as a partner.
2:02:55
With an extra cut for running
the place. How's it strike you?
2:02:58
Pleasantly. I'm flattered, naturally.
2:03:02
And it's no secret
there's no place I'd rather be...
2:03:05
...than a gambling club.
2:03:07
Except the theatre on opening night.
2:03:11
It sounds like something
you'd be good at.
2:03:14
I've always had a yen to run a club.
And lots of ideas.
2:03:17
- Well, then, great. Then it's a deal.
- Wait, wait a minute.
2:03:22
It depends on how much I'd have to
put up for the partnership, because...
2:03:28
Nick, we don't need your money.
We need you.
2:03:32
But how much are you
and the others putting in?
2:03:36
Fifty thousand.
2:03:38
And for me it's free?
2:03:41
Tom, I can't let you put up my share.
2:03:45
I'm not. I swear I'm not.
2:03:47
Look, our thinking is that
with your know-how and your...
2:03:52
...well, class is the only
word I can use...
2:03:54
...you'll draw all the right people.
We'll make our money back in no time.