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they build your business, then you can’t fucking turn around, enslave them, treat them like children, fuck them up the ass, leave them to fend for themselves . . . no. (Pause.) No. (Pause.) You’re absolutely right, and I want to tell you something.
    Aaronow: What?
    Moss: I want to tell you what somebody should do.
    Aaronow: What?
    Moss: Someone should stand up and strike back.
    Aaronow: What do you mean?
    Moss: Somebody . . .
    Aaronow: Yes . . . ?
    Moss: Should do something to them.
    Aaronow: What?
    Moss: Something. To pay them back. (Pause.) Someone, someone should hurt them. Murray and Mitch.
    Aaronow: Someone should hurt them.
    Moss: Yes.
    Aaronow: (Pause.) How?
    Moss: How? Do something to hurt them. Where they live.
    Aaronow: What? (Pause.)
    Moss: Someone should rob the office.
    Aaronow: Huh.
    Moss: That’s what I’m saying. We were, if we were that kind of guys, to knock it off, and trash the joint, it looks like robbery, and take the fuckin’ leads out of the files . . . go to Jerry Graff. (Long pause.)
    Aaronow: What could somebody get for them?
    Moss: What could we get for them? I don’t know. Buck a throw . . . buck-a-half a throw . . . I don’t know. . . . Hey, who knows what they’re worth, what do they pay for them? All told . . . must be, I’d . . . three bucks a throw . . . I don’t know.
    Aaronow: How many leads have we got?
    Moss: The Glengarry . . . the premium leads . . . ? I’d say we got five thousand. Five. Five thousand leads.
    Aaronow: And you’re saying a fella could take and sell these leads to Jerry Graff.
    Moss: Yes.
    Aaronow: How do you know he’d buy them?
    Moss: Graff? Because I worked for him.
    Aaronow: You haven’t talked to him.
    Moss: No. What do you mean? Have I talked to him about this? (Pause.)
    Aaronow: Yes. I mean are you actually talking about this, or are we just . . .
    Moss: No, we’re just . . .
    Aaronow: We’re just “talking” about it.
    Moss: We’re just speaking about it. (Pause.) As an idea.
    Aaronow: As an idea.
    Moss: Yes.
    Aaronow: We’re not actually talking about it.
    Moss: No.
    Aaronow: Talking about it as a . . .
    Moss: No.
    Aaronow: As a robbery.
    Moss: As a “robbery”?! No.
    Aaronow: Well. Well . . .
    Moss: Hey. (Pause.)
    Aaronow: So all this, um, you didn’t, actually, you didn’t actually go talk to Graff.
    Moss: Not actually, no. (Pause.)
    Aaronow: You didn’t?
    Moss: No. Not actually.
    Aaronow: Did you?
    Moss: What did I say?
    Aaronow: What did you say?
    Moss: Yes. (Pause.) I said, “Not actually.” The fuck you care, George? We’re just talking . . .
    Aaronow: We are?
    Moss: Yes. (Pause.)
    Aaronow: Because, because, you know, it’s a crime.
    Moss: That’s right. It’s a crime. It is a crime. It’s also very safe.
    Aaronow: You’re actually talking about this?
    Moss: That’s right. (Pause.)
    Aaronow: You’re going to steal the leads?
    Moss: Have I said that? (Pause.)
    Aaronow: Are you? (Pause.)
    Moss: Did I say that?
    Aaronow: Did you talk to Graff?
    Moss: Is that what I said?
    Aaronow: What did he say?
    Moss: What did he say? He’d buy them. (Pause.)
    Aaronow: You’re going to steal the leads and sell the leads to him? (Pause.)
    Moss: Yes.
    Aaronow: What will he pay?
    Moss: A buck a shot.
    Aaronow: For five thousand?
    Moss: However they are, that’s the deal. A buck a throw. Five thousand dollars. Split it half and half.
    Aaronow: You’re saying “me.”
    Moss: Yes. (Pause.) Twenty-five hundred apiece. One night’s work, and the job with Graff. Working the premium leads. (Pause.)
    Aaronow: A job with Graff.
    Moss: Is that what I said?
    Aaronow: He’d give me a job.
    Moss: He would take you on. Yes. (Pause.)
    Aaronow: Is that the truth?
    Moss: Yes. It is, George. (Pause.) Yes. It’s a big decision. (Pause.) And it’s a big reward. (Pause.) It’s a big reward. For one night’s work. (Pause.) But it’s got to be tonight.
    Aaronow: What?
    Moss: What? What? The leads.
    Aaronow: You have to steal the leads tonight?
    Moss: