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CHESTER
(to NICK)
It’s safer not to leave any witnesses.
 
PEARL
(desperately to NICK)
Please!  I won’t talk.  Don’t let
him kill me…

She breaks down in tears.

NICK
(to CHESTER)
Get the keys.
(CHESTER hesitates)
You heard me.

CHESTER nods, pulls a cold look at PEARL, then crosses to the corpse of the suddenly departed PADDY DOYLE and begins searching his pockets.

NICK calmly rises to his feet, puts on his hat and regards the quietly weeping PEARL.

PEARL, weeping and sniffling, can sense NICK staring at her. She keeps her eyes on the table, afraid to look up at him.

She self-consciously wipes PADDY’s blood from her cheek and the palm of her hand with a cloth table napkin.