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ORDELL" You keep drivin' down Ninth, to where they got all them car dealerships. We're gonna leave this heap in a parking lot and get one the cops don't know about. (pause) Hey, where's Melanie?

LOUIS: That's what I gotta tell you. She bugged me the whole time. Got pissy with me ëcause I wouldn't let her carry the bag. Started running her f***in' mouth .. I couldn't remember right away when we came out where the car was parked, so she got on me about that. "Is it this aisle Lou-is, is it that one?" She was totally f***in' with my nerves.

ORDELL: So what, you left her there.

LOUIS: I shot her.

Ordell just looks at him. Ordell still doesn't say anything .. then says;

ORDELL: You shot Melanie?

LOUIS: Twice. In the parking lot.

ORDELL: Couldn't talk to her?

LOUIS: You know how she is.

ORDELL: You couldn't just hit her?

LOUIS:Maybe .. but at that moment .. I dunno ..

ORDELL: You shot her twice?

LOUIS: Uh-huh.

ORDELL: Is she's dead.

LOUIS: Pretty much.

ORDELL: What do you mean 'Pretty much', that is no fc**ing answer. Yes or no, is she dead?

LOUIS: I think so

ORDELL: You think so? Tell me Louis. Is she dead?

LOUIS: She is dead.

ORDELL: Where did you shoot her?

LOUIS: In the chest and stomach.

ORDELL: Well, if you had to do it, you had to do it. What we don't want is that bitch surviving on us. Anybody but that woman.

Ordell shrugs it off, and digs into the shopping bag. He pulls out the towels and sees forty-thousand dollars on top of a bunch of paperbacks.
His stomach drops. He just looks inside the bag for the longest time.

Louis drives, oblivious to Ordell's dilemma.

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