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ERNIE

So where to boss?

CURTIS

Oh I got a special place for you, Ernie. But first - I know how you love a joke.

ERNIE

Oh, yeah, I do love a good joke, boss.

CURTIS

Good. Knock knock.

ERNIE

Who's there?

(CURTIS grabs ERNIE's arm and twists it behind ERNIE's back, forcing ERNIE to the ground.)

CURTIS

What were you doing for four hours at the police station this afternoon talking to an officer Eddie Souther?

(ERNIE, caught and terrified, says nothing.)

TJ

"What were you doing for four hours at the police station this afternoon talking to an officer Eddie Souther" who?

CURTIS

One of my boy's been talking to the cops and my gut tells me it was you, Ernie.

ERNIE

It wasn't me boss, it was Joey.

JOEY

I wouldn't tell on you, boss.

(he is moved)

I love you.

CURTIS

TJ?

TJ

(giggling)

What?

CURTIS

Pablo?

PABLO

Me? I would give my life for you. I didn't tell on you!

CURTIS

So it wasn't any of you. Huh. Well I guess I just gotta go with my gut.

END