War Path

Okay.

Today is July 27th, 3 p.m.

I am Lawrence Page, Lieutenant City Homicide Division,

conducting this formal interview.

Would you please state your name?

Mitchell Stanton, agent 1-4-9-8-7.

Agent Stanton, you have been advised of your rights,

and you are giving this statement freely,

and without coercion.

Is this correct?

An audible response, please.

Yeah.

Now agent Mitchell,

would you please start from the beginning

and tell us about what happened.

Have you talked to anyone else yet?

Excuse me?

The survivors.

A few.

We haven't found everyone yet,

but the ones we have spoke to

had some interesting perspectives.

Your name came up a lot.

Oh.

Does this make you nervous?

No, it's just that I'm concerned

about the lies they've been telling you.

This whole thing was a blood bath.

Okay.

Then go ahead and tell us your version.

I should have my lawyer here.

I don't know shit!

Fuck.

Guy's name is Richie Verdo-Verdiljak.

Look he's a short guy, maybe 140 pounds.

Soaking wet.

You can toss him around a little,

but don't get crazy.

No head trauma this time.

He's got some information our clients back East wanna hear.

Yeah, what's that?

He knows where this dumb fuck is.

Richie's got a cousin,

a guy named Dominic.

He's the one my clients want dead.

but only Richie knows where he is.

Connect the dots.

They want it done clean.

No witnesses.

what tha!

What do you want me to do Richie?

Be creative.

After that, you know what to do.

Where are you getting your tools?

Doesn't matter.

I don't trust her.

Man, you owe her that much.

How much?

Eight.

That's per guy?

Total.

Man with all due respect,

that's not a whole lot for what I gotta do here.

Times are tough.

You don't wanna do it,

I got a dozen guys who will.

So you in or out?

Let me get this on.

Hello?

Oh!

Watch this,

You're just staring at yourself, aren't you?

You look pretty.

I'm trying to get - I'm trying to be cute for you.

Marry me.

Enjoy your new home.

Real cool, cool! Real funny.

Drive off, go.

Are you alright?

And here we are ring shopping.

Yeah it's a good one.

Shshshsh.

Hey

Let's go!

Come on, put your pants on.

You gotta lose some weight.

You squished me.

I'm sorry.

I hope the sex was good cause we're running late.

Yeah, you mad?

Very

I mean yeah, the sex was very worth it.

Dude could you have at least taken a shower?

Nope.

I'll save that for your momma later.

Oh man I know you can do better than your mama jokes.

You guys haven't booked me on a job in five months.

You couldn't wait five more minutes?

Yeah, your momma couldn't wait five more minutes.

My mom's dead bro.

Yeah.

I know I fucked her to death.

Look, Frank shouldn't be getting it all, man.

We're doing the work.

There's always Craigslist.

Yeah, right dude.

Always about money, huh?

No, it's deeper than that.

It's like a respect thing.

The guy doesn't even know me.

Respect is overrated.

Guy knows your name,

it means you fucked up.

Look, you just made this whole thing,

sound a hell of a lot different when you got me into it.

Just be happy you have a job, huh.

Stick with it though, man.

Couple of years we'll be fucking gods, huh.

That's enough, man.

Come on man!

Come on, fucking, fucking do it!

Hey man, she's looking

Hey.

Tell her I said hi.

I'll tell your mom you said hi.

I don't see anything wrong with it.

And you made sure the safety was off?

Very funny.

You used it since?

No.

Everything's good.

Try it again.

Come on.

I'd rather just exchange it.

I don't do exchanges.

Yeah, but it didn't work.

So -

You're saying that your parts didn't work?

My parts were just fine,

you know that.

Keep telling yourself that.

Come on, I just don't want this one anymore.

Don't be so picky.

You know, you can actually use a gun more than once you know.

You don't have to keep coming back to me

for new stuff all the time.

Yeah, I know.

But if I'm gonna get these from some scuzzy dealer,

might as well be a nice blonde one.

Eric says hi, by the way.

So in his mind just saying hi to me means what?

I'm gonna bend over and just let him do his thing?

I think he's just trying to be nice.

It's funny.

He used to always talk about how we should just hook up,

get it over with, and now he won't even leave the car.

Well, you're both single,

if you change your mind.

He used to do that when you and me were dating.