Taylor Lacher credited as playing...
Gene Lundy
- Bobby Kopas: [Lundy is driving Frank, Wiley, and Kopas past the melon field with migrant workers Larry Mendoza hired] We're up to it, now, Mr. Renda.
- [directs Frank to the field]
- Bobby Kopas: Sir.
- Frank Renda: I thought you said nobody was working for him.
- Bobby Kopas: Oh, no crews. Just some migrants he hired, that's all.
- [They drive past a crew of road workers. Frank grows suspicious and leans towards Lundy]
- Bobby Kopas: Go up a ways and turn around.
- [Lundy circles around and they drive back past the road construction zone]
- Frank Renda: [to Kopas] How long's that been here?
- Bobby Kopas: Oh, they're always patching up the road, getting in the way, you know what I mean?
- Frank Renda: How LONG?
- Bobby Kopas: [growing nervous] I don't know, two, three days, sir, I think.
- [Frank discovers one of the road workers is actually Deputy Harold in disguise. An angry Frank yanks Kopas backwards]
- Frank Renda: Don't you know cops when you see them?
- Bobby Kopas: [playing dumb] Cops? Are you sure? I never thought about cops being around.
- [Frank lets go of Kopas]
- Frank Renda: [to Lundy] Pull over.
- Gene Lundy: Hmm?
- Frank Renda: Pull over... and stop!
- [Lundy stops the car]
- Frank Renda: [to Kopas] Okay, asshole... get out.
- Bobby Kopas: [scoffs] What, right here? My car's all the way over in Edna. That's about a four or five-mile walk.
- [Lundy impatiently opens Kopa's door and he gets out]
- Frank Renda: [signals Kopas] Come here, you.
- [Kopas leans down near the door's backseat]
- Frank Renda: You know, I ain't known you for a half-hour and you're talking shit to me out of the side of your face. I say I want nobody working for this guy and he's got a dozen people living here! The cops set up a grandstand to watch the show...
- [angrily clenches Kopa's hat as Wiley almost starts to laugh]
- Frank Renda: ... and you don't even know that they're cops! I don't see where you're doing me any good, at all.
- Bobby Kopas: But I watched him for you, didn't I, so he wouldn't run, huh?
- Frank Renda: Yeah? Well, YOU better run off, now, and you better do just like Lundy says and don't you, ever, EVER talk no shit to me, again. Do you hear?
- Bobby Kopas: [uneasily] Yes, sir.
- [He scrambles to get his hat after Frank lets it go]
- Frank Renda: [Lundy is showing Frank and Wiley the inside of their new, spiffy camper] A regular vacation, huh?
- Gene Lundy: Yeah.
- Frank Renda: Having a good time?
- Gene Lundy: I could use a rest. That stunt, hitting that bus, it took a couple years off me, man.
- Frank Renda: Where is he?
- Gene Lundy: [to Wiley] Got a couple of beers?
- Frank Renda: Where is he?
- Gene Lundy: [directs a can of beer to Frank] Want a beer?
- Frank Renda: WHERE IS HE?
- Gene Lundy: He turned himself in. They're holding him in Edna, last I heard.
- Wiley: It's kind of a tight fit, but it's got all the comforts of home, huh?
- Frank Renda: We're not home, my love, he is.
- Wiley: Frank, he's in jail, you're free. We can go anywhere you want.
- Frank Renda: There's only one thing I want.
- Gene Lundy: So, he gets out of jail, you have somebody kill him. It's the same difference, the dude's dead.
- Frank Renda: I said I want him, you understand? I want to look him in the face, hold a piece against his gut, and when I know that he's sure, I'm gonna kill him.
- Gene Lundy: Can I ask you a question? What, you just gonna walk up to that jail and ask those cops for a visitor's pass? How are you gonna get close to the dude?
- Frank Renda: You find that sucker he hit. Tell him to drop the complaint. It was all a mistake.
- Gene Lundy: Mm-hmm, suppose he doesn't want to do that?
- Frank Renda: I SAID TELL HIM, NOT ASK HIM! Then, you get a couple of our people. You find him, you call me, I come up, I'll have a talk with him, and then it's done.
- Gene Lundy: Frank, there's a dozen guys who would do it, guys who the cops aren't waiting to bust!
- Frank Renda: [enraged] I SAID I WANT HIM! ME! Hey, I never killed anybody for free before, you see, but this one, I'm doing this as a special favor to myself and that's before I go to Matzatlan or lie on any beach! Am I getting through to you?
- [he goes to the back room and slams the curtain shut]
- Bobby Kopas: [Vince goes outside the bar to see Kopas sitting on the hood of Lundy's car] Hey, I hear you're looking for a crew. Maybe I can get you some winos.
- Vince Majestyk: [agitated, walks towards Kopas] Maybe I can fix it, so you'll never smile again.
- Bobby Kopas: You touch me, you'll be back in jail before noon.
- [Kopas points across the street, where Vince sees Deputy Harold disguised as a road worker, sitting in a work truck and smiling at Vince. He walks towards his truck, but turns around to Kopas]
- Vince Majestyk: Hey, what did you drop the complaint?
- Bobby Kopas: I'm being a good neighbor. And you think I'm pulling something, huh? Now, why would you think that?
- Vince Majestyk: [shrugs] See me lose my crop?
- Bobby Kopas: You know, I think you're mixed up. Standing there in deep shit.
- [chuckles]
- Bobby Kopas: And all you're worried about is losing your melon crop.
- Vince Majestyk: [walks towards Kopas again] You've been talking to somebody, huh?
- [Kopas quickly walks toward the passenger door of Lundy's car]
- Bobby Kopas: Yeah, like who you got in mind?
- Vince Majestyk: He get you to drop the complaint?
- Bobby Kopas: [get inside the car] I'm tired of talking to you, but I'll tell you one thing. Somebody's gonna set your ass on fire and I'm gonna be there to watch.
- [Lundy speeds away]
- Gene Lundy: [sarcastically, to Kopas] Real nice, big mouth. Real nice.
- Bobby Kopas: I had to give him one. The son of a bitch.
- Gene Lundy: [Kopas and Lundy meet up with Renda and Wiley, coming back from a plane from Mexico, and gathers their luggage] Hey, Frank. Smooth flight?
- Frank Renda: [getting out, mildly sarcastic] Yeah.
- Gene Lundy: Rough, huh? Okay. Hey, Wiley, how you doing?
- [to Renda]
- Gene Lundy: Your lawyer says he had to put up a bond, you gotta appear at some kind of hearing, but there's nothing he can nail you with.
- Wiley: [laughs] God!
- Frank Renda: See?
- Wiley: Nothing like a little dumb luck, huh?
- Frank Renda: What do you mean, "luck"? The secret is, never run until you know you're being chased.
- Wiley: And have a fast lawyer available at all times.
- Frank Renda: Real fast.
- Gene Lundy: Hey, your lawyer, he's waiting at the lodge he rented for you.
- Frank Renda: Hey.
- Gene Lundy: He wants to talk to you.
- Frank Renda: Hey.
- Gene Lundy: Huh?
- Frank Renda: What about my melon picker?
- Gene Lundy: They turned him loose. That's the question, now, what the cops have in their minds.
- Frank Renda: No, the question is, what's he doing?
- Gene Lundy: [sighs] He's around. We just saw him.
- Bobby Kopas: Probably at home, waiting on you. Uh, Mr. Renda, I was wondering if, when you finish him off, you let me put a couple slugs in him.
- Frank Renda: [unimpressed] Who's this asshole?
- Gene Lundy: This is our friend, Bobby Kopas, the fellow Majestyk hit. He's been making sure nobody works for him, so there won't be a crowd hanging around there.
- Frank Renda: You know him good, huh?
- Bobby Kopas: Well, I know he's a stuck-up son of a bitch. He's got a few melons and think he's a big grower.
- Frank Renda: How long has he lived here?
- Bobby Kopas: Too long, huh?
- Frank Renda: [annoyed] You know, it seems that I ask you questions and you don't answer them. I'll try you again. Would you like to show me where he lives?
- Bobby Kopas: Why, yes sir, any time.
- Frank Renda: Right now?
- Bobby Kopas: You bet.