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Hello.

Hold your arms.

You walk 55 minutes, I blow a whistle, you sit five minutes.

I blow the whistle again, you get up, and you walk for another 55 minutes.

Who did it change for?

They're murderers.

Snowball and Green Eye.

That's Green Eye.

Let's just put him in any cell.

See what happens.

Sort of let the cons fall where they may, huh? Why not?

Except maybe the last one we'll put him in with green eyes.

He'd use a little company.

This is my spot. I was here first. Shut up. I'll call the guard.

Here's the lieutenant.

Make him feel at home.

My name is Maurice.

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What are you in for?

Grab an old lady's purse?

Jewelry store.

Armed robbery.

Jewelry store.

Of course.

That lifts you up a notch.

Gives you a place in history, huh?

Well, not quite, Jules.

It is Jules, isn't it?

Use the front.

Watch and wait.

Show us strength, huh, Jules?

I know you.

Open you up, get you started.

You never shut up.

You run off at the mouth and drive everyone crazy.

Just a lot of crap.

So you wanted to get to know the big man, huh?

Green Eyes.

And now we got the same hotel room.

What an honor.

What a reward for a jewelry store.

But it'll cost you more than that, my quiet punk.

They're from the galleys?

Not many cars have lived through that hell.

I can't get rid of the galleys. I'll carry them with me as long as I've got

hands.

Well, don't cry, Jules.

We all got problems.

My dearest, I felt you today.

You were very close today.

Your head on my bosom.

Your strong, angry hands gently caressing me.

Sometimes, in the night,

When I try, I can find the feeling of your presence.

Yesterday, I even remembered your fingers in my hair.

The visits are hell, and hell is paradise compared to what I

endure on seeing you, teased by the cages that separate us.

But there's too much time in between.

And now, it's harder for me to hold the memory, the feel

and smell of you.

I need a letter from you.

That ain't wrong. Get back to your father.

Because I'm cold.

God, I'm cold.

Because I'm cold.

Shut up and let's have some peace around here.

This is the beginning.

My turn. There'll never be any peace with him around.

Never.

Only the Negro counts.

Only Snowball.

and there's nothing he hasn't done.

All right.

Nothing.

You wouldn't understand, Maurice. You're too small to judge a man his size.

Who's denying it?

He's... He's Green Eyes with a coat of shoe polish. Green Eyes covered with

Green Eyes isn't in the same class.

What an ass.

Wouldn't you have liked him to talk about you all over France when he talked

about Green Eyes?

Marvelous when they couldn't find the corpse.

Farmers were all out looking for it.

Cops, the dogs.

in the clay. Snowball is a king.

He may come from a desert, but he comes with his head up.

And his crimes.

Next to them, green eyes, yours is nothing.

Tell us, you wuss!

I'm not trying to pass myself off as a king.

I care he's no one rule.

Snowball, what do I know about his crimes?

Maybe just a lot of crap.

Crap?

Don't interrupt him. Crap?

What do I care about his crimes?

Hey, I got my own. Your own?

All you got is one.

I say my crimes, I know what I'm talking about.

I said my crimes, you keep your mouth off them.

All I want from you is one thing and that's to read my woman's letter.

I've read it.

You write anything else?

Nothing. I've read it all.

All right. You've read it all.

What about this part?

Read this?

Don't you believe me?

Read it!

But if you don't trust me, take it back.

Go on, take it.

But don't ask me to read you women's letters anymore.

You're taking advantage of me, Jules.

If you defy me, it's going to end in trouble.

Now you look out!

We're going to have a little carnival in this cell. Now look out!

Trust me anymore. Maybe you think I'm playing dirty games with you and her.

I think you're screwing me, Jules.

Very nice. Don't get worked up.

You've been lying to me.

Let it go.

That's our Jules.

You're making a mistake if you're listening to Maurice.

He's just trying to turn us against each other. Me? The nicest kid you'll ever

meet.

You want to know what's really in the letter? I'll read it to you. You want me

to?

Don't fool around. You can't tell what will happen.

I'll read it.

I'll read it. I'll read it. I got it. I got it. I got it.

I'll read it.

She figured out you can't read or write.

She knows someone else has been doing the writing.

Raineyes has a writer. That's his business.

Want me to read it to you?

Hey, darling.

I realize now it wasn't you who wrote those lovely letters.

And I understand why.

It was your words from your lips that I needed.

I don't know if I will ever come visit you again.

I want to start my life all over.

Been too long?

Oh, God, she knows.

You're blaming me?

Well, that's it.

Dumpin' me.

And you... You made sure she'd think the letters were from you.

You think you're smart.

Green eyes can still grind you up.

Stop poisoning us, Maurice.

Tell me.

Why didn't you read that to me before?

Answer me!

Do you want to take off with my wife?

Admit it!

Oh, I'm sick of you.

I'm going to tell you the matter in front of him.

Me? Well, you should have said so.

I can always vanish into the fog.

I'm the kid who slipped through walls. Everyone knows that.

Oh, no, Jules, you're handing us a line. Admit that you were after his woman,

and then we'll believe you.

Reese, you are a vulture.

You're against everybody.

If you have anything nasty to say, it's always for me.

You had me by the throat just now.

I felt myself turning blue.

It's a good thing you're getting out of here soon.

Don't talk about my leaving, Reese.

Why not?

Us two, we're staying locked up.

You know what you owe us.

Some respect.

You're after something all by your lonesome. What about you?

What are you up to with your smiles?

To him and to the guards, huh?

Go ahead!

You worm your way in with them. It won't save you from me.

You got out of things before it was because of the faces you made.

I took pity on you, but you're going to get yours before I leave here.

You want to stay on with green eyes.

I've known that for a long time.

But now he despises you.

You'll always be alone with yourself.

Not so terrible.

You'll get used to it.

You'll learn to live with it.

We should be free friends.

But with you, it's impossible.

Because green eyes in me are chums.

So you take it out on me.

Because I'm a punk.

You hate me.

It kills you that I haven't forgotten my hair, doesn't it?

You'd have gotten a charge from seeing my hair fall from the clippers, wouldn't

you?

You'd be delirious to see me sitting on a stool with my curls falling all

around.

On my shoulders.

On my lap.

On the floor.

You'd have loved it, wouldn't you?

You'd love to hear me talk about it.

Other people's suffering makes you warm up all over.

Let me go without any courage, isn't she?

Loving me cold.

Why don't you laugh?

Maybe you're waiting for me to break out and ball or throw a fit.

So, Jules, you've been making fun of me, huh? Did you get a hot with all those

pretty words?

She must have panted when she read those letters.

Take it easy, big guy.

She may still come.

Visiting hours have just begun.

That's not your jacket. That's Green Eyes.

I made a mistake.

You're right.

Slot!

I don't even know what she looks like anymore.

She just melted.

My woman.

My little girl.

Green eyes.

Maurice, you find her.

Hold her. Grab her by the ankles. Hold her sweet face. Hold her tender neck.

guy.

Maurice, my little alley cat.

Swear to me when you get out, you'll kill her.

I swear.

If I meet her, I'll kill her.

You're full of it.

As soon as you lay eyes on her, you'll say goodbye to green eyes. Never.

Never say never, Maurice.

I've known too many cellmates who swear up and down.

Show me the spot in the letter where she says she's going to leave me, huh,

Jules? Why should I?

You don't trust me anymore.

Ah, Jules, I didn't mean it.

We've known each other too long now.

I'll lay off you, but she's switching my guts. What can you do about her?

Chill her.

Blot her out.

We've got guts in this cell.

You make me laugh.

The two of you.

Don't you see where I am?

I'll never again see the sunlight.

The grave's open at my feet.

Soon they'll decide I gotta have my head sliced off.

I'm not alive anymore.

I'm all alone.

That's not true.

I'm alone.

Too white, too pale, too drained by this cell.

You should have seen me before.

Always with a flower in my teeth.

They used to call me... Harlow.

Harlow with the flowery teeth.

can I do?

Your woman could follow you to Cayenne.

No, they wouldn't let her.

If it was me, I'd find a way.

I know you would, but you're not my woman.

Too bad.

You put a work over there where the men have no women.

I don't want to hear any more about it.

You.

In a year or two, you'll be a cocky little stud.

Cruel one.

You'd like my woman, huh?

Just seeing you through her makes me... a little dippy.

I'll admit it.

I make a nice couple, huh?

Get you excited.

You're gonna have a hard time shaking her off.

That's why you've got to take revenge.

Show me a portrait.

You've seen it plenty of times in the shower.

Show me again. One more time.

Please.

You like her, huh?

She's a beauty.

Too bad I can't spit in her face.

Closing time.

You're a woman.

You ought to remove her.

You like being the only one that can look at her.

If I am here, I could see her too.

I'm only talking about her because... All right, all right, bounce.

You're going to get mad at me now? You got it.

You keep your mouth shut.

I've had enough of you two, all of you.

You don't exist anymore.

30 days, maybe I'll get the knife.

My head will be on one side of the machine and my body on the other.

I'm a terror, an almighty holy terror, and I can abolish you.

You like my woman so much, you go ahead, take her.

Pluck her from the garden.

Don't think you're fooling me.

I knew it.

For a long time, you've been circling around me.

Trying to find a spot to jump in and land on without realizing I've been

watching you and can squash you like a flea.

It's about time.

Woo -hoo!

Leave me alone. I didn't do anything.

You've had a thing for her since the first day you saw me in the showers.

When you looked at me, it was to find out how she was built.

So imagine how her body fitted into mine.

That's because I don't read or write. Don't take me for a moron.

I got eyes. I see more than you think.

Don't you believe I'm your friend anymore?

Yeah, so you say.

A friend for 30 days more, that's no friend.

You'll find others, like Jules.

It's not the same thing.

You can say that again.

Friends like you.

Woo -hoo!

36 is back.

Come on, continue.

Friends like me.

Oh, you're back, huh?

Feeling better after you got slapped down?

Another guy would try to help out. But not you.

You make sure that things get worse.

You egg us on against each other, men who should be the closest friends. Yeah,

two buddies. They're one man.

But it's nice to watch.

Don't think that just because we had a quarrel, we're on the outs.

And what's more, I still intend to take revenge for him. You!

Me? Oh, Maurice.

We're talking about the kind of strength that it takes to send someone to glory.

I'd love to see you when the blood begins to fly.

Me, though. I'm getting out. Yeah, day after tomorrow.

You wouldn't dare.

Oh, carrying you? Not a bit.

Look, if you're both so anxious to cut it down, why don't you draw lots for it?

Stop all the crap.

I said draw lots.

I'm still in charge here.

One of you will use the knife, but I'll be the executioner.

You're joking, Green Eyes.

Am I looking?

Playing with us.

Am I?

Where do you think you are?

You pay close attention to what happens.

Blade's gonna fall.

One of you is gonna get it right in the neck.

Who'll it be?

You, Jules?

Huh?

Your eyes open.

Or is it the punk?

You gonna make a little murderer out of you?

The last time loser, huh, Maurice?

Don't kid with me.

I'm not.

For me, it wasn't as easy.

You're not sure of me anymore?

Explain it to you both like a father.

Listen now.

Moments like that are...

Because it's so sweet.

Follow me.

It's too sweet.

Too gentle.

What do you mean, sweet and gentle?

The thing that's pushing me down is so nice.

I don't fight it.

I just let it happen.

On the day of the...

You listening, Jules?

On the day of the crime, it was the same thing.

Are you listening?

This concerns you.

I said, are you listening?

How many in the whole prison, on all fours, can climb as high as I have?

Who's as young as I am? Who knows Miss Forsythe the way I do?

You talk about Snowball, you don't know one goddamn thing about him.

Are you listening to me?

No, Green Eye, stop.

Look at him drool. He's all excited.

Go on.

Everything began.

To move around me.

To come alive.

There was nothing more for me to do.

I had to kill someone.

And now it's your turn.

I'm going to kill my wife.

It's easy to change your life, you'll see.

I realized the moment I killed, I saw the danger, you understand me, the

of being in someone else's skin and I was scared.

I wanted everything to back up, stop there.

I cried hard.

I ran left and right.

Squirmed, I twisted and ducked.

I tried everything not to be a murderer.

I tried to change my shape.

To be a dog.

A cat.

A horse.

Tiger. A table.

A stone.

I even tried to be a rose.

My hands.

My legs.

My body.

People thought I had a fit.

I wanted to go back in time.

Undo what I'd done.

Start all over from before the murder.

My back looks easy.

But my body couldn't make it.

They tried again.

It is impossible.

And the people, they laughed.

They didn't even guess what I had done.

My dance.

They should have seen me dance.

I danced.

I danced.

Help me, Maurice.

Dance with me.

Get away from me.

Dance like a whore.

And I was on my own.

It happened so easily.

Easily, I took the steps that are leading me to the guillotine.

Now I'm calm.

I'm free.

The dancing frees me.

But not all the way.

I still feel there's something holding me down.

At times I feel like I'm choking.

My new life really begins when I'm completely free.

Completely alone.

Right, Jules?

You'll get used to it.

Gotta come slowly.

In the beginning, I scared myself.

Now I like myself.

Don't you like me? Don't leave me alone.

I'm bigger than Snowball, you know. I'm the one to look up to.

Keep him alone.

You're frightening him. He's a leaf.

I'm wilder than Snowball. Don't get me started.

Why not?

Let yourself float. Drift into it.

You'll always find someone to lend a hand.

Maybe snowball if I'm not around.

Leave me alone.

Come on, Jules, draw.

Green eyes.

Don't suck me in. Don't try to charm me into it.

I'm not around.

You're backing down.

You haven't even got the class Maurice has.

I'd like you to be the one to kill my woman.

You gotta have blood in your veins to do something like that, Jules.

You gotta have the stomach for it.

It's got to be written in your face.

I'd see my picture in the papers the way Green Eyes did.

You were in all the papers the day they reconstructed the crime.

They took your picture when you came out of the car.

You covered your face with your cap.

Yeah, I remember.

They brought me there in a Talbot.

Those photographers could only see us now in the cell.

The two of us.

I mean the three of us.

Strange. I always think there's only two.

Yeah, of course.

The two good -looking ones.

Got nothing to do with good or bad looks.

Are you going to slice up my woman?

What should I use to do it with her?

You. How did you do it?

Mine was different.

It wasn't revenge.

Fate acted in through my hands.

To be fair, they should cut them off, not my head.

And for me, everything was simple.

The girl was already under me.

All I had to do was put one hand delicately on her mouth, the other

her neck.

In ten seconds, it was over.

Then what happened?

Forget it.

No, please tell me.

After you'd finished, what did you do?

It was strange.

First I took the girl to my room.

No one saw her come up.

She wanted my lilacs.

What lilacs?

You never told me about lilacs.

I always had a bunch of lilacs in my teeth.

She followed me like... like she was hypnotized.

Later... later she wanted to scream because I was hurting her.

I thought that once she was dead, I could bring her back to life. I really

believed that.

And then what happened?

Forget it.

Please, tell me.

What happened?

I couldn't get the body out.

I couldn't get it through the door, so I went to the window.

I was scared to go out.

If I mind, there was a huge mob in the streets.

I thought they were waiting for me to show myself at the window.

I pulled the curtains aside a little.

With your hands?

What about the blood?

What blood? There wasn't any. I smothered her.

That still wasn't very smart.

What about fingerprints?

I thought of everything.

You never think enough.

What about the lilacs?

caught me.

The lilacs.

You left the lilacs in her hair, didn't you?

No one ever told me.

Not one cop ever told me.

It's all over. No one said a thing.

I should have thought of it.

But not now.

Not when it's too late.

And it's your fault, you scheming bum.

You should have been there.

You should have been there to warn me.

But you waited until it was too late. Why didn't you tell me in time?

Don't get excited.

Your hair.

The tiny buns.

It's fate.

You use words you don't even know what they mean.

The lilacs turned me in.

What can I do, Jules?

Stink! What more can I do?

There must be more.

It's not fair!

Come on, Jules, stink!

Come on, Jules, for Christ's sake.

Don't ask him anything.

I can't just see his eyes.

He's happy.

He stinks. He's a maggot.

Jules!

Like a flat tire.

Go ahead.

Touch me.

Touch me!

You can touch me.

But take care.

It may not take much for me.

To bounce back and rub you into the wall.

You've just seen what I'm really like inside.

But look out.

I may never forgive you for that.

You've had the guts to take me apart.

But don't think I'm going to stay in pieces.

Be nice.

Already reorganizing.

I'm building myself up again, starting from scratch.

I'm healing.

Healing.

I'm already stronger than a fortress.

Stronger than a prison.

Do you hear me?

I am the prison.

In my cells I guard big convicts.

Soldiers.

Slanderers. Pimps.

Look out!

I'm not sure that my guards and dogs can hold them back if I let them loose on

you. I got ropes.

Knives. Ladders.

Guards make my rounds.

Spies are everywhere.

I am the prison.

And I stand alone.

I'm getting ready for my own execution.

I'm ready to bleed.

Look out, Jim!

My jacket!

You won.

Frank. Frank.

Leave me alone.

But Jules.

My real name is Julian.

He calls you Jules.

One means they're getting annoyed.

Shut up.

Frank talked to you nicely, but you spoil everything.

I wanted to say that this woman came after all.

I don't care.

I don't give a damn about green eyes.

If you don't care, then what are you doing up there?

Admittedly fascinates you. He turned you inside out.

Shut up.

Service alone.

Leave me alone.

Far be it from me to disturb you.

Green Eyes is my friend.

Green Eyes is the man.

Because of his murder.

His murder?

You saw it a little while ago.

It was a glamorous murder.

You're in agony because you'll never do anything half as beautiful.

You're jealous.

Your eyes can do what he wants.

I'm not judging him.

I'm just saying it wasn't so great.

It was easy.

You wouldn't understand.

Oh, the Marquis is more intelligent than we are.

His lordship is going to tell us about the galleys again.

How many more times are you going to tell us about your blood?

About the crimes you've carried around in your blood for more than 300 years.

Shut up. If I feel like it. I said shut up, Maurice. You disgust me.

Don't you dare make fun of his crime.

You, what have you done? What have you got to advertise?

The robberies?

Takes no talent. Any shoplifter can do that.

I'd like to have seen you on that job with Serge.

In the Rue de Neva.

In the dark with the police firing at us from the rooftops.

Serge. Serge who?

Probably Serge Delance. That's right.

That's right, Serge Delance. In person. I made my debut with Serge. You don't

believe me. That'll prove it. Well, you can find it out. You can find it out

from men.

Men, Maurice. Not fleas like you, but men. So what?

What's that next to Green Eyes? Green Eyes. Talk about a king.

Talk about Snowball.

Snowball.

Snowball him and his whole tribe.

You still tingle from the smile he threw you on the stairs.

Me, I'm on Green Eyes' side.

They can rip me apart for him.

Since he's not here, I'm going to defend him.

You've got no right to stare at his crime in the front. Now drop it.

I warn you, on my mother's grave, it will end badly for both of us.

Act like I'm scared of you.

Stop squawking, you little pimple. You nauseate me.

Go ahead, insult me.

Slides off.

Get tough, Jules.

Now, when I'm looking at you.

There are nights when you slip me your blanket.

Me? Yes, my old chap.

I wouldn't dream of it. I wouldn't dream of it.

I haven't thought about it for a long time. Green eyes, too. Another chance to

spit in your face.

You haven't learned much about me if you think I'd sacrifice myself especially

for your carcass.

Is that so?

And what's it doing over me in the mornings?

This running sack of fleas.

Explain to me how it slips over me at night.

You think I need your kindness?

You're in a fog.

Sometimes I can see you turning around to watch us live.

You watch us struggling to breathe.

And you're jealous.

It heated you up.

You miserable funk.

You turned upside down. You're soft.

I can't stand your slimy face.

Calm down.

In two days you'll be out of our way.

That's what you think. That's right.

He's too much of a coward to leave this woman. He won't remember you or the

lilacs. Bloodsucker. Not as much as you.

Right now, you don't exist anymore, don't you see? He's the man.

He's in the visiting room talking to his woman, huh?

His woman, you hear me?

He's talking to her through the wire screen. He's backing away so that she

soak up his body. A little while ago, you were tearing him down.

Change your tune?

He wanted to do it just as bad as I did.

Wanted to do what?

You know what?

You're wasting your time.

You're mixing up your work with his.

You could never pull it off. One look at you and anybody could tell you're just

not built for it.

I'm not saying you're a failure, that you're worth nothing as a thief. A

A thief? A thief? A thief? A thief? A thief? A thief? A thief? A thief?

Safe. Safe.

Safe.

Safe. Safe. Safe. Safe.

to answer me. I'm asking you why your bed isn't made.

What's going on here?

Well, I don't talk to the man.

Well, I don't know any more about it than you do.

I just about believe it.

You guys suffocate with honesty.

Oh!

Oh!

Now, you'll paint your tomb with me.

Hey, Green Eyes.

From an admirer.

Your friend Snowball sent you two smokes.

Smoke, punk?

Don't bother.

Do you want it?

No.

He's right.

He's too young to smoke.

The Negro author asked me to tell you not to worry.

He's a real friend.

How'd it go with your woman?

We had a little fight, but it wasn't anything.

She's not taking off.

Oh. She really goes for your green eyes.

I was looking her over just now.

That's a tasty piece.

Somebody.

You gonna try looking her up?

Would that bother you?

No, no.

I like her. See how you do with her.

No kidding.

You mean we'll be all right with you?

Not.

I've taken off.

My feet have already left the ground.

Besides, you've got an understanding.

Son of a bitch, you mean it.

You're leaving her right in the palm of my hand.

She's all yours.

I get it.

When she was staring at you through the grating just now, she was giving herself

a last thrill.

Well, she'll really be ready.

You talk to her about me.

Tell her you'll be taking my place when my head's cut off.

We'll adopt you.

You want anything from the kitchen, you just make a noise.

You'll get all you want.

It's a deal.

I'll write her and tell her about you.

You can come back and pick up the letter.

Do it now.

I'll be back in an hour.

But you, you don't know what you have to see and put up with to be a prison

guard.

You don't realize that you have to be the other half of the cons.

I mean just that, the other half.

You have to be the opposite of their friend.

I don't mean their enemy.

Just think about it.

Hey.

Get the letter.

You'd like me to get all the blame, huh?

So you could haul me off and work me over.

Because you're the man.

What'd I say?

Nothing.

For you, it was nothing.

You accused me.

I didn't accuse you. I just told you to tell him.

I'm the one who got hit.

Come off it, will you?

There's no risk with him. He's a better guy than most of the cons.

A guard is a guard probably because of you that sells him to his protection.

Because of the man.

The tattooed big man.

Look, I'm not sticking up for the guards.

This one's all right.

It's not the first time he's done things for us, but you don't count that.

He risks his job because he's big -hearted. You don't even care.

Big -hearted?

Oh, you.

Big -hearted.

You hear him?

Everything Green Eyes does is all right with you, huh?

Perfectly natural.

You'd go to the guillotine for him.

It's all right. It's Green Eyes.

Don't get fooled.

Because his friends, I mean his real friends, they're on the floor above.

Green Eyes gets his orders from the grid beyond.

They send him cigarettes.

From where?

From across the ocean.

Brought by a special guard in full uniform who offers him his friendship

message from the heart.

You were talking about Snowball's smile. You thought it was for me. Well, you

were wrong. You were wrong.

Our delicate assassin had already plucked it from Snowball's teeth.

All the convicts are divided into two warring camps. And the two kings, they

float smiles at each other above our heads or behind our backs or even right

front of us. And to top it all off, they wrap up their women and they make gifts

of them.

Shut it up, Jules.

I'll do what I want about snowballing my woman. You can shut the hell up about

it. All the king has to do is whistle.

Whistle, and we go circling around the cell like a pair of rats in a cage.

Yes, sir, you're right.

I want I can make you circle around and around like the horses in the merry -go

-round, like I used to waltz the horse around.

I do what I like here.

I can walk the halls, climb the stairs, pass the guard towers, the courtyards,

the fields.

I'm the one they respect.

They're afraid of me.

The prison belongs to me.

You sell it out cheap.

What did you say?

Nothing.

I sell it out cheap?

So what?

You're not going to ask me to follow the rules, are you?

Pass out of a man a month from death wouldn't be human.

What do they mean, your rules, after what I've done?

The cutting myself off and the rest of the men you expect me to respect your

rules?

I envy you.

Can't help looking up to you.

I know you envy me.

In order to get into my skin, you gotta be my size.

Be my size, you gotta do what I did.

about those letters to my wife.

You know, how you tried to break us up.

Are you wrong?

What is the truth?

I can't explain it.

It felt like you were writing to a woman of your own.

That's all right with me.

You got something out of it.

Hey.

Write her a letter.

Huh?

Draw her some flowers.

Flowers and a dove.

Like that.

Give it to the guard.

The last present.

Smoke, punk?

Leave me alone.

Oh, what's the matter?

Love affair over?

You mad at me, huh?

Leave me alone.

How long are you going to wear that face?

I didn't say anything.

Got it in for me now, huh?

Nothing. You're a double -crosser.

Now watch it, punk.

Then words shouldn't be said.

I know now that you've always been a traitor.

And I have the right to say it.

Because it hurt just now.

To find out that you were the Negro's friend.

Without letting us know, that's what really hurts.

You're crazy, punk.

And even now, if I had to, I'd risk my neck for you.

You're a traitor.

Now, what if I like to betray?

Who are you?

You're a punk.

Small -time hood.

Who are you to judge me?

Here in this cell, I carry all the weight.

I don't know what it all means.

I know my shoulders have got to be wide.

The way a snowball carries it for the whole prison.

Maybe there's a number one somewhere, the biggest man of all who carries it

the whole world.

You can bitch all you want, but I've got all the rights.

As my woman belongs to me, I can do what I want with her.

If I want, I can order you to wipe her up.

No, Green Eyes.

I think it's all over.

You're saying no to me?

Now, you listen, punk.

I never believed in that comedy of one of you offending me.

It was for you to have a little glamour.

I didn't mind giving you a taste of what it's like to be strong.

But don't you step out of line.

I'm still Green Eyes.

To me, you'll always be Green Eyes.

Fine.

Terror of man.

But you've lost your force.

You're a fine criminal for us.

You belong to your woman more than you think.

When I was in cell 108, I used to pass your door and I went through the halls.

All I could see of you was your hand holding the grill.

I saw a gold ring on your fourth finger.

That's what I knew you were, real bad.

I didn't think you really needed it.

But you do.

You belong to your woman more than you know. And Snowball sends me cigarettes.

That bothers you too, huh?

It's not worth talking about.

Then shut it off. Talk to Jules.

It's not worth it.

I can't.

What next?

You're impulsive.

Yes, impulsive.

You've done this.

I'll never turn my back on you.

You're capable of getting up quietly in the middle of the night and strangling

me. You think I'd wait for nighttime?

You're delighted, eh?

Now that it's me who's all alone.

You get yours!

You're threatening me, you wretch.

I'll kill you!

I'll kill you! I'll kill you!

I'll kill you!

Jules has got a tattoo.

The Avenger.

Oh, boy.

Hey, I sailed on it before I was sent to naval prison at Corsica.

Were you in the Navy, Jules?

No, I was never in the Navy.

Well, Avenger?

I was at the pen of Clairvaux. I know a guy who was called Avenger.

And a lot of others.

Panther. What a breast.

The Panther.

Poissy prison.

Invincible mainland penitentiary.

Invincible Port of Lorient.

Slasher. Port of Cherbourg.

Slasher.

Lorient prison.

Tornado. Front of Port Central Jail.

Tornado Port of Brest.

How come you know if you haven't been anywhere?

I've known about things like that all my life.

Things like that are bigger than life. I've known about the signs of tough

the mark of misfortune ever since I can remember.

Go on.

The Jackal.

Rest.

Victorious. Rochefort.

The Imp.

Neem prison.

The Avalanche.

Too long.

What a guy.

Nice open three men. 20 years at hard labor. Did them at Fort Doula.

He's talking about battleships and you're talking about convicts at

Never mind. We understand each other.

That's one on me.

You've got a long road to travel to get in the green ice class.

Never mind that punk, Jules. I'm with you.

Hey, the Avenger.

That's a name you want to carry. It's not an easy one.

There's three of them already.

There's one at Clairvaux with about 10 armed robberies doing 15 years.

There's another one at Fran, trying to slash a cop.

The worst of all is Robert Garcia in the cage at Fréjus.

He's the champ you gotta knock out.

Know what that takes?

A murder.

A genuine murder. Nothing else will do.

Green Eyes, I'm with you. Don't worry.

I'm taking you in.

Now you know why I need a snowball for a friend.

He's the one that's holding us up.

Don't worry, Jules. He's solid. You know it.

The whole prison's under his command, but right under him is me.

And then you, Jules. You too belong with us. Let's see the tattoo!

Let's see it!

Let's see it!

I wanted to separate it from the rest.

I wanted to separate it from the whole world.

I tried to cut you off, Green Eyes.

Wanted us to be left alone.

I wanted the whole world to know that we were here and we were at peace.

I wanted us to be brothers.

That's why I mixed up the jackets.

I slaved to get here and to stay here with you.

You haven't lost out yet. You can always return.

Don't worry.

There's a better way.

I won't leave.

There's more than those cheap robberies to get you where we are.

It's tattoos, maybe.

The Avenger.

Something you read about in a magazine with those stories about the galleys.

If you don't like it, you can keep your mouth shut.

Oh, I get it. The big man.

Because Green Eyes is listening.

Only those tattoos on Green Eyes are real.

He wasn't scared of the needles.

I told you to keep it shut.

You're repulsive.

Can't stand the way he slobbers after your woman.

You won the woman ditched into your skin.

It's very beautiful my girl Where did she come up doing your

green eyes right about here If

you're better be friends again, yes always

don't let me intrude

Pet each other.

We're talking about his woman.

I've got the right, do you mind?

If I let you.

His woman?

That's right. From now on, you have to ask me.

Why? You understand, you punk? Are you going to paint her into your skin?

Like the Avenger?

Huh?

You stink of the cell.

You disgust us. You're a phony. You're phony to your bones.

Your stories about the marks on your wrists and your galleys is phony.

Your rages are phony. Your tattoos are phony.

The marks on your wrists.

Phony. Your tattoos.

Phony.

The phony.

Your tattoos are phony.

Phony to your bones.

You're a phony. You're a phony.

Phony. You.

Phony.

Stop it.

Let me breathe.

Let me breathe. I'm going to rip you.

I accuse you. You decorate yourself with our jewels.

You steal our crimes.

You're bloated.

Will I?

And the green eyes wait no more.

Green eyes. Don't scream.

Big guy. Don't scream.

Hey, don't scream.

Come on, Joe. Joe.

Me help you.

You know what you've done?

Killed Maurice.

A punk.

Who really hadn't done anything.

For nothing.

For the glory of it.

You're leaving me alone, Green Eyes.

Now. You'll make me sick. Even now? Don't talk to me!

I think you know what misfortune is.

You think I wanted it?

I wanted nothing of what happened to me.

It was all given to me, a gift from heaven or hell, but something I never

wanted.

You thought that all by yourself you could become as big as me.

And it takes all your courage to kill a punk.

I wanted to become what you are.

What I am in spite of myself.

I never even knew I was strangling the girl. I was carried away.

I didn't want to catch up with anyone to become someone else.

Proud of what you've become.

Makes you shine.

I wanted to shine.

Take your place.

Am I crime too?

Right up to your crime.

Out of love of misfortune. Who the hell cares?

You, you cheat to get in.

And I'm part of Snowball and all the true convicts of the world.

Because we all carry the same curse.

My crime comes from something.

Let's see by the look on their faces whether you belong with us.

Oh, green eyes.

I understand.

I'll never be what you are.

I'm stronger than any of you.

You don't have to dance to undo my crime.