Frank: Hello.
Fritzy: Hello.
Frank: Hey.
Fritzy: Hello.
Frank: Hiya, Freddie.
Fritzy: How are you?
Frank: Alright, how do you feel?
Fritzy: Alright.
Frank: What can I do for you?
Fritzy: I just want to call you, say "hello" to you.
Frank: You're calling me up?
Fritzy: Yeah, why not? You gotta call me up only?
Frank: How do ya feel, Freddie?
Fritzy: Well, you, when I was layin' there [In Italian, like I was dying], uh, I couldn't dial.
Frank: How do ya feel?
Fritzy: Yeah, alright, ya know. I got a little lump there where they went in on me, you know?
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Yeah, now I gotta put hot compresses on it.
Frank: Did you get what he got? No, huh?
Fritzy: Yeah, of course I got what he got. Who do you, you know.
Frank: Did they go to the heart or to the...
Fritzy: Of course they went to the heart. They went to the heart, to the neck, to every vessel in my body, they went to.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: Wherever there's a vessel that leads to the heart and up to the brain, they went to.
Frank: You kidding?
Fritzy: I'm not kidding.
Frank: I believe you.
Fritzy: What I gotta ma, I make stories, ya know? The only thing is I gotta, uh, uh, it started to lump up over there. Then I says, well, you know I called the doctor, he said, "Well, that's a little thrombosis there." He says, "You know, you just put heat pack on it, that's all."
Frank: Otherwise, you're alright, huh?
Fritzy: Otherwise, everything's fine, ya know.
Frank: Don't be going out, it's damp out.
Fritzy: Yeah, I know. I know, ah, but.
Frank: Take it easy, ya know.
Fritzy: Uh, I just got, I told 'em, I was, ya know, I wanted to [UI]. He says, "I don't want you to, just walk lightly, walk gently. No, uh." Otherwise, I says, "Maybe I could start running with you, doc." I was kidding around, ya know? He says, "You can't do no runnin' for a little while."
Frank: No runnin'. Just walk.
Fritzy: Yeah. He says, "You're walkin', that's it." So what are ya' doin' there?
Frank: Layin' down here.
Fritzy: Yeah? I figured you got, by one o'clock you start rollin' over. So I says, "Let me give him a call."
Frank: Nah, I get up at 12. I went to bed about five o'clock.
Fritzy: Well, that's usual. Everybody alright?
Frank: Yeah, everybody's good.
Fritzy: That's good.
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: What, what, what'd youse eat? Where'd you go last night?
Frank: We went down the restaurant down the block there, ya know.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: The old place.
Fritzy: The old place?
Frank: Down the basement.
Fritzy: Yeah? In the hole?
Frank: We were all there.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: He took care of us that guy. Marone.
Fritzy: How come?
Frank: Ya know, not the other guy, that fuckin' cocksucker.
Fritzy: I know, I.
Frank: The other guy was good.
Fritzy: Yeah, he take, he cooks nice for ya?
Frank: Yeah, we all enjoyed it.
Fritzy: Ya gotta see the way I'm eatin'.
Frank: Like a bird, huh?
Fritzy: Not a fuckin' drop of oil. Nothin'. No fats. No nothin'.
Frank: Sure, you can have a little oil.
Fritzy: I can't even have fish. I'm allergic to iodine.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: I'm allergic to iodine.
Frank: You gotta be kiddin.'
Fritzy: I'm tellin' you, I'm allergic to the iodine. That's why I reacted, uh, the way I reacted with the medication.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: There's iodine in the, in the dye that they shoot into you. So I got very itchy. But I've been itchy. Remember I tell ya I got the fuckin' itches?
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: That was from fish. Maybe. I don't know. But, we're gonna see. The what?
Frank: Shrimp has iodine.
Fritzy: Shrimp, shellfish.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Even the fish that swim have iodine.
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: Only sweetwater. Sweetwater fish don't have iodine.
Frank: I had, I had the salmon in sweetwater.
Fritzy: Sweetwater salmon?
Frank: Yeah, I had it down at, uh, uh, what's the name, Marylou.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: A little one, it was a baby one. How nice.
Fritzy: Yeah, well.
Frank: Down there. It was like a big chunk of, the whole fish.
Fritzy: Yeah, but it's gotta...
Frank: Fillet it.
Fritzy: But it's gotta come out of sweetwater. Salmon...
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Salmon spawns.
Frank: [Aside to Helen] What are you doin' there?
Fritzy: She's searchin' your pockets. Hello? She's searchin' your pockets. She's makin' a raid on ya.
Frank: [To Helen] What? Get over here. Sit down. What weekdays, you nut? I wasn't. Weekdays? I was there with you when I had the salmon. When I had the salmon, you nut. She says I go there weekdays.
Fritzy: You go there alone.
Frank: Yeah, I go there, uh, with my girlfriend.
Fritzy: Yeah, is that who you go there with? In other words, she's catchin' up to ya. Tell her I said, "Hello."
Frank: She knows I'm here all the time.
Fritzy: I know, I know. You're a, you're an honest, you're a good man. God bless ya.
Frank: She knows that.
Fritzy: You're not like me.
Frank: You're alright, you're a good man. You take care of your family, don't ya?
Fritzy: I take care of 'em.
Frank: [UI] worries about...
Fritzy: I take care of everybody, I take care of.
Frank: I know that, Freddie.
Fritzy: I take care of, I try, anyhow.
Frank: ...sittin' there. Sit over here, by me. Get over here. I want to look at you. C'mere.
Fritzy: You, you're in love.
Frank: Son of a gun, she got here, what time is it now? She must have somebody on the side.
Fritzy: You think so?
Frank: I'm watch...
Fritzy: Why, I got, hey, I got the big investigation company, I got. I got investigators. They follow, you'll never know you're being followed.
Frank: He's got investigators. He's got, he's got Fearless Fosdicks, you know. You better watch out.
Fritzy: That's right. I could, I could, you, you'd never know you're being followed.
Frank: You won't even know that, what, you're being tailed, you know.
Fritzy: You never see the same guy twice.
Frank: You see they wear the black hats and the black coats.
Fritzy: Yeah, but you don't see him twice.
Frank: Like The Shadow.
Fritzy: Tell her, "You don't see the guy twice."
Frank: You won't even know you're being followed.



