Marv finally speaks. “What do I tell the Boss?”
Leo sets his cup down. “You checked the case before you left?” pulp-fiction
“Intel.” Leo leans back. “Let me tell you something useful. Not the kind they put in movies. In movies, the guy who talks fast gets the girl and the money. In real life, the guy who talks fast gets his teeth on the sidewalk.” Marv finally speaks
“This,” Leo says, “is a watch. Belongs to the Boss’s father. Worth about thirty bucks in scrap. Sentimentally? Worth your life and mine.” “Let me tell you something useful
“I waited. The old man takes it off every night at 10:17. Puts it in the same drawer. I walked in at 10:23. He was in the bathroom. I didn’t run. I didn’t climb a fire escape. I opened the drawer, took the watch, closed the drawer, walked out.”
Leo pauses. Smiles. Doesn’t answer.
“No shit,” Leo says. “You stole a man’s lunch and his hobby.”