THE SNOWS OF PAUL BLART, MALL COP

THE SNOWS OF PAUL BLART, MALL COP

The boys had picked up the cot and carried it
around the green tents and down along the rock
and out onto the plain and along past the smudges
that were burning brightly now, the grass all
consumed, and the wind fanning the fire, to the
little plane.
I love it.

Hey. Paul Blart. Ten-year veteran.
You rich bitch.

The peppers are hot.
It's the Loch Ness monster.

Sir, I'm gonna need you to pull to the right.
Shoot me, Harry.
Put it down. Put it down.
How what she had done could never matter since he
knew he could not cure himself of loving her.


to you by a fat chick at Victoria's Secret.
This I can use.

You shouldn't, she said.

Now, I kill you three,
I have something I want to say to you.

I could arrest you right now.
- Maya.



trying to take over the mall.

please pull to the right, out of traffic.
Now if this was how it ended, and he knew it was,
he must not turn like some snake biting itself
because its back was broken.
Now this is the key to retrieve the codes
Indeed. Now, you are at the mall, huh?
So when he got back to Paris that time he could
not talk about it or stand to have it mentioned.
- so I don't even know what...
Go to hell.
He swung with his left again and landed and the
gunner fell on him and grabbed his coat and tore
the sleeve off and he clubbed him twice behind
the ear and then smashed him with his right as he
pushed him away.
And if you did, too, believe me, I get it.
Get the Agent.
She was very good to him.
What, on that?




You should know my men are deployed
I love these nachos, I'll tell you that much.
Gotta hand it to you, Blart.
- It's not happening.
And I gotta say, he really does like you.

You don't know the fun it's been to shoot with
you.

- Wow, Paul, you got one.
Are you the guy
- Peanut Blart and Jelly.
Germain.
I'm late for my shift at Foot Locker.

- Here. Yeah.
She's biting my neck. She's biting my neck.
Brooks. I lost visual on the hostages.
So good to hear your voice.
.
Go away, pain.
Hey, you. Scuba Dooby-Doo.



You see they were his guns still and he never
bought any others.
Nor of Monte Corona, nor the Sette Communi, nor
of Arsiero.
Whoa, whoa, this is all done already.
The broth was too hot.

Chompers, get down!
Maybe they will be back with another truck today.
Is it really? Absolutely.
You just have to...
- Okay. Bye.
Every night for two weeks.
Or until the plane doesn't come.
The two boys had a Tommie slung and they were
coming along behind her.
You do it, he said.
At the Crillon.
- Right. So there you go.
Move it!

- Amy.

Hey, Stewie, you don't mind

- Yeah?
Oh, man. This dude
Hey, listen, I...

Yeah!

This isn't happening, this is not happening.

Well, there would be no more quarrelling.
He had sold vitality, in one form or another, all
his life and when your affections are not too
involved you give much better value for the money.
Wow. Our boy Stuart just turned me on
And it doesn't matter what you do.
Hold it together.
Come on, come on, come on.
Twist it.
you kept your weight under control.


which, judging from your text messages,
- Yeah, sure. You could just text me, or...
He could stand pain as well as any man, until it
went on too long, and wore him out, but here he
had something that had hurt frightfully and just
when he had felt it breaking him, the pain had
stopped.
That was last year.
and cut down on shopper frustration.
Do you? I'm only a middle-aged woman who loves
you and wants to do what you want to do.

Did you walk far? No.
and they got hostages.
Then she took the flashlight and shone it on the
other cot that they had carried in after Harry
had gone to sleep.
Then, in town, they will fix up your leg and then
we will have some good destruction.


You're kidding.

It'll be over quick. She won't feel a thing.
Do not lie to me.
If you don't go toe-to-toe



What?
when I tried to make out with your purse?


We got a cute little redhead
This was a pleasant camp under big trees against
a hill, with good water, and close by, a nearly
dry water hole where sand grouse flighted in the
mornings.
It's more amusing.
You might think about some one else.
giving the illusion that you have a gun,
nifty video that you made a few years back.

Well done. Yeah.
We'd better get going.




With all due respect, sir,


Blart!
- Okay?


.
I mean, the holidays are tough enough
However you make your living is where your talent
lies.
Oh, yeah. That's the good stuff.

- Not yet. Just...
And, you know, not always, but sometimes,
Hey, everyone. A couple requests.
sugar nearby.
It is the wife of the working man who suffers
from this shortening of hours.

Ain't that right, Maya?
brewing in the industry right now,
It was morning and had been morning for some time
and he heard the plane.
Send.
That bastard crosses there every night, the man
said.

He'll make you good broth and I'll have them mash
some potatoes with the Klim.

No, no. That's the same one. No!
Everything, the Skischule money and all the
season's profit and then his capital.
and just say, "Whatever."
THE MARVELLOUS THING IS THAT IT’S painless, he
said.
- Hey, you want some? Here.
For this, that now was coming, he had very little
curiosity.

The golden horse's head outside the Boucherie
Chevaline where the carcasses hung yellow gold
and red in the open window, and the green painted
co-operative where they bought their wine; good
wine and cheap.

with that scumbag,

- Yeah?
- Paulie.

Don't worry about me, okay?

but you are gonna feel this.
She makes you feel alive, doesn't she?
Yeah.
a little weird the other night, huh?
Awesome, Grandma.
This knowledge that you're going mad for me.
- Get back at me, man.
On the men?

- Yeah, sure. No problem, Mr. Ferguson.
just finishing up their games.
But he had always thought that he would write it
finally.
Time to pluck the grape from the vine.
Yes Bwana.
For Christ sake shoot me.
That'll stop them.
No.


I hear them in the mall. You know?

The bawling and the steady noise and slow moving
mass raising a dust as you brought them down in
the fall.
- What a moron.
Can I see you for a second, please, ma'am?
All right then.
You said you loved it.
- Go.
Welcome to the games!
He took her away from a British gunner subaltern
after a row.
Not always.
He keeps the play alive.
There won't be any rain.
With an inexperienced driver
and put Chief Brooks back on?

You know what? No, I'm good.





Blart?

It must have gone around another street.
So then the letter in answer to the one he'd
written came in on a platter one morning and when
he saw the hand writing he went cold all over and
tried to slip the letter underneath another.
- Come on, move, move!
Hold your fire! Hold your fire!

Black Friday's coming.

If you hadn't left your own people, your
goddamned Old Westbury Saratoga, Palm Beach
people to take me on *'Why, I loved you.
Looks like Paul Blart turned into
- Okay. Does anybody else want a drink?

to making it, too, Paul. Just so close.
Until then, you use it.
I noticed I wasn't so moody.


I'm not about all this technology, Vijay.
- Hey.
The phone. Her right leg. Right there.
- 'Cause Stuart's buying.
Well, thank you.
Paul, you've always been a straight shooter,
It was strange, too, wasn't it, that when he fell
in love with another woman, that woman should
always have more money than the last one? But
when he no longer was in love, when he was only
lying, as to this woman, now, who had the most
money of all, who had all the money there was,
who had had a husband and children, who had taken
lovers and been dissatisfied with them, and who
loved him dearly as a writer, as a man, as a
companion and as a proud possession; it was
strange that when he did not love her at all and
was lying, that he should be able to give her
more for her money than when he had really loved.
And what happens is the capillaries...
If you're all right it's the most fun that I've
ever had.
your dream girl, or maybe your daughter.

I just want the $30 million
He could see him with his long nose, picking up
the cards and then opening, Sans Voir.
Go.
I mean... I mean, I'm still on it.
Guys, motion detector just went off
- Actually, it's for all of us.

Why? No codes, no Cayman Islands?


for the credit-card machines.
- Yeah, you do.
It's your classic two-bird,
Yes.

I'm just saying I've been down that road.
for being upset.
You touch them, I swear I'll end you.
Open the door.
there'll be no witnesses.
Maybe we could talk later or something?

Let me tell you something.
It just fills the cracks of the heart.
It's just that there's a huge,


No, no, no, no. You did fine, you know?

- Yeah, give me your cell phone.
but I can help you find the nearest exit

Paul, your radio's still on.

Go, Dad.
this just keeps getting better and better.
Not yet. Now I'm ready. Okay.
- Hey.
- Thank you.
Nothing passed out Williamson until he gave him
all his morphine tablets that he had always saved
to use himself and then they did not work right
away.



and as a general rule, do as I say.
The next year came the inflation and the money he
had made the year before was not enough to buy
supplies to open the hotel and he hanged himself.
I'm worried about you.

But it was the snow all right and he sent them on
into it when he evolved exchange of populations.
It did not go away but moved a little closer.
Except that he would rather be in better company.
He waved to Helen and to the boys and, as the
clatter moved into the old familiar roar, they
swung around with Compie watching for warthog
holes and roared, bumping, along the stretch
between the fires and with the last bump rose and
he saw them all standing below, waving, and the
camp beside the hill, flattening now, and the
plain spreading, clumps of trees, and the bush
flattening, while the game trails ran now
smoothly to the dry waterholes, and there was a
new water that he had never known of.
You never notice them.
That was

Marie, his femme de menage, protesting against
the eight-hour day saying, ''If a husband works
until six he gets only a riffle drunk on the way
home and does not waste too much.

- I'm out of here.
I just...
- Oh, wow. Are you okay?


I'll go on hurting you.


Well, I need this one now.
- Strawberry blonde, actually.
taking down an assailant without a gun.
The gunner asked him outside and they fought in
the street on the cobbles in the dark.
He had whored the whole time and then, when that
was over, and he had failed to kill his
loneliness, but only made it worse, he had
written her, the first one, the one who left him,
a letter telling her how he had never been able
to kill it .
Helen had taken Compton aside and was speaking to
him.
'Cause I got all the access codes
Then one of her two children was killed in a
plane crash and after that was over she did not
want the lovers, and drink being no anaesthetic
she had to make another life.
What can I do for you?


Just then the hyena stopped whimpering in the
night and started to make a strange, human,
almost crying sound.
Listen,
- Dad, what does all that have to do
We're gonna split some onion strings.

I guess what I'm asking is that you don't.
You're lagging behind.
Sir. Sir. Sir.
Listen, I think you're making a big mistake.
Yeah!

Ma'am, I should warn you, I do have
I don't mean that.

this is not happening, this is...
Safety never takes a holiday.
Just give me your number
You went with a medium?


I got snipers at the ready,
Please make your way to the nearest exits.
She shot very well this good, this rich bitch,
this kindly caretaker and destroyer of his talent.






you gotta do like the kids say,
one-stone scenario.

- Yeah.
He remembered long ago when Williamson, the
bombing officer, had been hit by a stick bomb
some one in a German patrol had thrown as he was
coming in through the wire that night and,
screaming, had begged every one to kill him.
Oh, right, yeah. Life of a security guard.

without adding heartbreak to the mix.


The woman heard it and, stirred uneasily.
Sweet mercy.

all the luxury items that I have stacked up
It's a minivan.
issue you a citation.
Maybe you could never write them, and that was
why you put them off and delayed the starting.
You shoot marvellously, you know.
I'm only talking, he said.
Veck, six guys in standard formation,
I was hoping we could get an ETA

who only brings goodness to this world.

Yeah, right.
- 555...
'cause I already have the dragon.
- I don't have one.
- Oh, yeah.
Our voices! We have our voices.
He having no idea that he would be arrested.
were you guys like,
Just a little sleepy.
Roger that.

And 15 for you.

Light.
A line of lombardy poplars ran from the house to
the dock.
Secure the suspects.
The only thing I ever really liked to do with you
I can't do now.

...01...

You know I love you.
I think I'm just gonna turn in.

- Yeah.
Blart, get back! Will you talk to him, please?

Foul. Foul. Foul. Foul.

I don’t like to leave things behind.
Peanut butter.
Could you do me a favor
It's all right. That's not my style.

I can't listen to it, he said.
than it needs to be, okay?
I mean, you are impossible
Thank you, Amy.

I'm just kidding.
huge controversy


He wants to talk to you.
Yeah!
Nah, I'm on duty.
he's taking us to Cayman Islands"?
They found me later in the fetal position,
Rot and poetry.
Oh, hey, guys.



- Okay.
you present a huge target.


Here she came now.
- No, it's just that you said security guard,
- Great. Bye.



you don't.

Tan jacket, red scooter,




My, God. You are my angel pie.
means I probably won't even get a card.
At the Hotel in Triberg the proprietor had a fine
season.
Please take the broth, she said gently.

I wasn't... I didn't even realize that.
That's not fair, she said.

Throw a few jabs your way,



And there in the cafe as he passed was that
American poet with a pile of saucers in front of
him and a stupid look on his potato face talking
about the Dada movement with a Roumanian who said
his name was Tristan Tzara, who always wore a
monocle and had a headache, and, back at the
apartment with his wife that now he loved again,
the quarrel all over, the madness all over, glad
to be home, the office sent his mail up to the
flat.

- What's he doing?

I can't observe and report from the outside.
Hello?
Oh, my God. These peppers.
Make it all the way around the track!
My first week riding on the job,
What the hell should I fool with broth for? Molo
bring whiskey-soda.




Hey, yo, Paul. Come here, man.

Maybe the plane will come.
We could have stayed in Paris or gone anywhere.
- Oh, God!
For Christ's sake, he said, that's been my trade.
When the gunner went down his head hit first and
he ran with the girl because they heard the M.

Veck.

for the busiest shopping day of the year?
It's the Puss Moth you know.
Your lorry is on the way.


Couldn't I read to you? Read what? Anything in
the book that we haven't read.

But she wanted some one that she respected with
her.
Oh Harry! There was no answer and she could not
hear him breathing.

Okay, okay. Come on, don't die. Don't die.
Bad leg, he told him.
Where did you read that? You're such a bloody
fool.
Let's go, men. Take it down.
You've all completed the written exam.
I gotta report it. Reporting it.

All right, let's go! Pick it up!
The gunner hit him in the body, then beside his
eye.
Then they began to climb and they were going to
the East it seemed, and then it darkened and they
were in a storm, the rain so thick it seemed like
flying through a waterfall, and then they were
out and Compie turned his head and grinned and
pointed and there, ahead, all he could see, as
wide as all the world, great, high, and
unbelievably white in the sun, was the square top
of Kilimanjaro.
Oh, for Christ sake stop bragging, will you? He
looked at her and saw her crying.
- So that's $9.95.
you have been so sweet as to enter them

There were many more of them.


Comet! Don't come back till he's dead!
I'm not ready for this right now.

Yeah? Oh, hey, Paul, how you doing?
We'll have one together.
it's gonna help the kiosks


- I'll meet you over there.

You take hostages in my mall,
- Yeah.
Paul Blart is not a badass.

When she goes, he thought, I'll have all I want.

all bets are off.
- Best night of the week.

"If you want something done right,
I wish we'd never come, the woman said.

it's not like you really had a chance, okay?
it would be the sloppy joe.

- Come on! Come on!
The sun was gone behind the hill and there was a
shadow all across the plain and the small animals
were feeding close to camp; quick dropping heads
and switching tails, he watched them keeping well
out away from the bush now.

It showed very tiny and then made a wide circle
and the boys ran out and lit the fires, using
kerosene, and piled on grass so there were two
big smudges at each end of the level place and
the morning breeze blew them toward the camp and
the plane circled twice more, low this time, and
then glided down and levelled off and landed
smoothly and, coming walking toward him, was old
Compton in slacks, a tweed jacket and a brown
felt hat.


No problem.


But now I hate it.
Brooks, I took out a girl,
- No. The brainee.
He was a fat man, very brave, and a good officer,
although addicted to fantastic shows.
The neighbors who, at night, when some one lay
drunk in the street, moaning and groaning in that
typical French ivresse that you were propaganded
to believe did not exist, would open their
windows and then the murmur of talk.
Who are you, Olivia Newton-John?
I'm tired.


And the worst day for a birthday.
You do all these things...

Security Guard or Officer.
You know what? Yeah. Autumn Ash.
the Mustang was named after the horse.
I need this location secured.
They're mine.
...why not me, too? I'll be...
She had blushed and laughed and then gone
upstairs crying with the yellow sporting paper in
her hand.
I got a newsflash for you.
Foul. Foul.

Veck got away with my daughter and Amy.

- It's a security guard.
Attention shoppers.

So now it was all over, he thought.

You want fruit?

What is this?


There may be hostages.
You need a pen, don't you?
Eyes on the prize.

But the lovers bored her.
and I'll remember it.
They are around every camp.
Compton started the motor and got in.
What are you doing?
That must bother you.
Finally he lost it all.

You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?
I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed, he
said.
I will. I'm a Blart, remember?
I'm gonna throw up.


Hey, fellas! You looking for me?
I have motion sensors by all the doors,

One was down the valley from Triberg and around
the valley road in the shade of the trees that
bordered the white road, and then up a side road
that went up through the hills past many small
farms, with the big Schwarzwald houses, until
that road crossed the stream.
It's yours. I insist.
It was snow too that fell all Christmas week that
year up in the Gauertal, that year they lived in
the woodcutter's house with the big square
porcelain stove that filled half the room, and
they slept on mattresses filled with beech
leaves, the time the deserter came with his feet
bloody in the snow.

When did you get it?

Now I'm ready.
Paul, this is Sergeant Howard

All right.


and they have eyes on us.
The steps by which she had acquired him and the
way in which she had finally fallen in love with
him were all part of a regular progression in
which she had built herself a new life and he had
traded away what remained of his old life.

I did when you were all right.


We quarrel and that makes the time pass.

Detect, deter, observe, report.
He heard the hyena make a noise just outside the
range of the fire.

It's a clear night.
See if we can tap into the security cameras.
Don't drink that, she said.
I told you I'd take you down.
I'm the leader.
with his imaginary friend can screw it up.
Well, that's why you always have to have


Told my mom everything about us.
Yes Bwana.
I'll stop that.
It simply occupied space.

in a hail of gunfire, of course.
What?


Then, later, when it got bad, it was probably
using that weak carbolic solution when the other
antiseptics ran out that paralyzed the minute
blood vessels and started the gangrene.
Pretty much everybody, you know, tends
If he works only until five he is drunk every
night and one has no money.
Thank you, Officer Blart.
you black out if you don't have

My Sword and my Armour.
The husband of the woman who ran the Bal Musette
drove a taxi and when he, Harry, had to take an
early plane the husband knocked upon the door to
wake him and they each drank a glass of white
wine at the zinc of the bar before they started.
do the sweet potato fries.

The boy got the rifle from the kitchen and shot
him when he tried to come into the barn and when
they came back to the ranch he'd been dead a
week, frozen in the corral, and the dogs had
eaten part of him.
You know, Paul, everybody texts these days.
Not the Paris that he cared about.
Oh yes.



that no one does anything stupid.
I mean,

Somehow her father was there and he had been very
rude.

Hello?
- Thanks, Leon.


"Likes morning rain, walks on the beach."
And he had chosen to make his living with
something else instead of a pen or a pencil.
Tell them to bring SWAT.

It's not snow and them all saying, It's not snow
we were mistaken.
Why? You tell them why, he said.

You know. You so know.
- Where's he going?
I went down and looked at it again today.
But here's the craziest part.
- Okay.

Have at it. If you...

Well, it looks like you just ran out of mall.
They change every day, so make sure
- I found it first.
You know the only thing I've never lost is
curiosity, he said to her.

I'll pass it on to Howard.
Are you gonna have pie?




- That's a plane.
They were all perched heavily in a tree.
I'm gonna stick with what I do best.
What the heck is this?

- Let's go! Move it!
Brooks. Only one more left.
I was all right when we started talking.
You guys all high-fived?
he's gonna roll over on you all night long.
Yeah, and I'll punch my number in.
about how easy all this was gonna be,
You don't have to destroy me.

- How's your blood sugar?
Yeah, I don't think so, sweetheart.
doesn't deviate from the book at all.
Give me that.
When and if she decides to turn

You know, she doesn't need a green card.

I need you to exit the building immediately.
- '65 Mustang.
so I got this for you.
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and go with C,
- Dad?

before the bank closes. I'm...
You know that.

Copy that. Never been a wild card.

It's not good for you.

So this was how you died, in whispers that you
did not hear.
You know what you should do?
Here is a list of the 15 that I need you to hit.
Yeah, listen. I've got 50 highly trained,

I didn't mean to start this, and now I'm crazy as
a coot and being as cruel to you as I can be.


for perfectmatch.com."

Well, he would not have to fail at trying to
write them either.




- Oh, hey, Blart.
Plus, she has some crazy sexy feet.

- How's that working out for you?

- Hey! Hey. Glad you made it, Paul.
No thanks.


Everyone deserves a card on their birthday.
She was a fine woman, marvellous really.
and enter the mall.
"What are you looking for in a woman?"
You know, minus dying


I need to know where it's headed.
- Eight. Got it.
The one experience that he had never had he was
not going to spoil now.
Well, that is exactly what we want.

Dad. I'm so sorry.
Paul. Think, Paul. Think!
to know that you love peanut brittle.
I'm not lying.
- That's because it's a margarita.
call up my friend Sameer Oh?
protective vests under our...
Unless you consider the game of Uno wild.

What are you talking about?
If it doesn't work out, you'll always have us.
- Hi.


And how quiet it got and then somebody saying,
''You bloody murderous bastard.
Okay.

- Give me your cell phone.
- Yes.




Everybody out, now!
- You said it,
of West Orange Police Department.
and then she left us.
About the half-wit chore boy who was left at the
ranch that time and told not to let any one get
any hay, and that old bastard from the Forks who
had beaten the boy when he had worked for him
stopping to get some feed.
You liked to do many things and everything you
wanted to do I did.
That same night he left for Anatolia and he
remembered, later on that trip, riding all day
through fields of the poppies that they raised
for opium and how strange it made you feel,
finally, and all the distances seemed wrong, to
where they had made the attack with the newly
arrived Constantine officers, that did not know a
god-damned thing, and the artillery had fired
into the troops and the British observer had
cried like a child.
You're a fine woman, he said.

And in that poverty, and in that quarter across
the street from a Boucherie Chevaline and a wine
cooperative he had written the start of all he
was to do.
Then that log house was burned down and all the
guns that had been on deer foot racks above the
open fire place were burned and afterwards their
barrels, with the lead melted in the magazines,
and the stocks burned away, lay out on the heap
of ashes that were used to make lye for the big
iron soap kettles, and you asked Grandfather if
you could have them to play with, and he said, no.
Well, thank you for the ride, Paul.
that loser in high school. Give me that.
There's a breeze coming up.
You shouldn't drink.
Harry, why do you have to turn into a devil now?
I don't like to leave anything, the man said.
This is Commander James Kent,
Should we have a drink? The sun is down.


He heard a shot beyond the hill.

whether the title should be
if you just tell me where you parked.

Today's the first time any have lit on the ground.
You were equipped with good insides so that you
did not go to pieces that way, the way most of
them had, and you made an attitude that you cared
nothing for the work you used to do, now that you
could no longer do it.
The drunkards killed their poverty that way; the
sportifs took it out in exercise.

Yeah, I'm there.

She could see his bulk under the mosquito bar but
somehow he had gotten his leg out and it hung
down alongside the cot.
so I'll tell you what.
See if we can gain access
What?


- Wait a minute. Blart?

they look at me and you, and...
Wow. Wow.

were laughing it up back at the crib

They always picked the finest places to have the
quarrels.

Maya. Hey.
and let's face it, son,



- Thanks.
Now the only thing I need are my codes,
If you wanted to shoot we could have gone
shooting in Hungary and been comfortable.
And here you go. Safe and sound.
- My cell?
"Man, any brain-dead mall cop
"I'll let you sign me up

Let's go!

What about the tea? I don't really care about it,
you know.
I know.
Okay, who's talking to Blart?
- Okay.

If something's gonna work,

You are probably


You're good on computers,
What?
The other way was to climb steeply up to the edge
of the woods and then go across the top of the
hills through the pine woods, and then out to the
edge of a meadow and down across this meadow to
the bridge.
Please pull to the side, sir. Out of traffic.
I don't think so. Which one?

That's my report on how to ease
Oh, no. Come on, Ma.
Let me stop you right there.
It wasstrange how easy being tired enough made it.
You spoiled everything.
- Well, you shouldn't.

That seemed safe.
We did have some good times
Nothing.
- Hey.
Ma, no.

- Yes, sir.
I've never loved any one else the way I love you.

Till some one threw a bucket of water from a
window and the moaning stopped.
Because once someone takes the time

"Yeah, you and what army?"
All right.
Ayee he was tired.
I don't need my strength up.




Beefing up your profile with that

- Dad!


I'm not laughing.

New Jersey SWAT.

I'm sorry, what were you saying?

I'm going to die tonight, he said.
They had had an argument one time about our Lord
never sending you anything you could not bear and
some one's theory had been that meant that at a
certain time the pain passed you out
automatically.
There you go. Nachos in my face.

- Loading dock's ready.
I'm at the West Orange Pavilion Mall.

This is Sergeant Howard
- Yeah, that'd be great.
He thought they were a special glamourous race
and when he found they weren't it wrecked him
just as much as any other thing that wrecked him.

Don't be melodramatic, Harry, please, she said.
- Yeah, right?
Or it can have a wide snout like a hyena.

You better run.
This year, it falls on a Black Friday, which
Guys, what is wrong with you?
You just gotta keep looking.
You stinking bastard.





Are you able to...
Drinking together, with no pain now except the
discomfort of lying in the one position, the boys
lighting a fire, its shadow jumping on the tents,
he could feel the return of acquiescence in this
life of pleasant surrender.
How when he thought he saw her outside the
Regence one time it made him go all faint and
sick inside, and that he would follow a woman who
looked like her in some way, along the Boulevard,
afraid to see it was not she, afraid to lose the
feeling it gave him.
Why don't we just start wasting hostages?
You've got a hell of a breath, he told it.



Nachos about to be gone.
Waterproof shoes and Baggies on the socks.
Did Molo change the dressing? Yes.
Pahud, no, I'm not with Parisa.

I've been walking around here
All I heard was "lunch" and "friend."


Whoa, whoa, whoa. Relax.

I'm sure you heard about it.
No, that's not true.
The other one!

What makes you think it will come tomorrow? I'm
sure it will.



You know, that one was me.
That's funny now.

"Tell us about yourself."
The boys have the wood all ready and the grass to
make the smudge.


- Well, let's make some noise.
And I'm not gonna sugarcoat it,
and you're on the front lines

but "backup" seems like


situation unacceptable!
- What?
- Yeah.


The Turks had come steadily and lumpily and he
had seen the skirted men running and the of
ficers shooting into them and running then
themselves and he and the British observer had
run too until his lungs ached and his mouth was
full of the taste of pennies and they stopped
behind some rocks and there were the Turks coming
as lumpily as ever.


at American Joe's, right?

to the Cayman Islands with the hostages.
Please don't make this more difficult
Get down!
Feel the nub.
Listen, he said.
She was a damned nice woman too.

Stop it.
Rotten poetry.
- Yeah.
and it's perfectly acceptable...

Maybe the truck will come.

Let's do this.
Oh, that's not so bad.

You know I like you to drink.

- Hello, early retirement.
And most people,
think that it's derivative of Abe and Louie's,
This is not happening,
Well, it looks like they moved the hostages

Sir.
- Paul, come on!
you might as well bring
that you two were "basically together."
Yeah, I'm currently working on becoming


Follow me.
Still this now, that he had, was very easy; and
if it was no worse as it went on there was
nothing to worry about.

- Oh, yeah. Never better.

You like that?
Wow. Veck Sims.
Entry team, clear the mall. We'll pursue.

We're basically already together, so...

Parisa's phone?
Paul?
- Yep.

No, no, no, no, no, no. He looking.
For years it had obsessed him; but now it meant
nothing in itself.
- Yeah, I think it is.
You gonna pull up with your left hip forward

"If Veck gets the codes,


Yes, it could.
Well, how about something special
so you better chew.
- Anything.
sweating over her right now.
Thinking he had done his duty and that you were
his friend and he would be rewarded.
They were dull and they were repetitious.
of the West Orange Pavilion Mall.

Let's not quarrel any more.
It's much easier if I talk.

any food? Do you need any water?
Basically like a thermal they have you wear.
Okay, there are 223 stores in this mall.

had something special.
* * *It was evening now and he had been asleep.
You know, I'll check in with them later.

Who are these sloppy joes for?
Here I go! No!
''What's that? Water.
Now he would not care for death.



I think we might make it as easy as we can until
the plane comes.
I did not hit a woman. I just...
I never want to quarrel.
She thought he did exactly what he wanted to.

This is all I could get.
I'm gonna put a bullet in your head.

You're the most complete man I've ever known.

I missed lunch.
Why should he blame this woman because she kept
him well? He had destroyed his talent by not
using it, by betrayals of himself and what he
believed in, by drinking so much that he blunted
the edge of his perceptions, by laziness, by
sloth, and by snobbery, by pride and by
prejudice, by hook and by crook.
Oh, no.
Kids don't talk like that.
Perfect.
You know it doesn't bother me, she said.
- Veck, this guard is...
Molo! he shouted.


- Blart?

What are you doing? Get down.
Is there something else?



What...


Why can't you just punch in, shut up
Very impressive,


No, I'm sorry, Paul. I don't know.
No problem.
- Of course.

So does anyone.


a pretty universal term.
Let's mount up.
Cole Porter wrote the words and the music.
That's the way we're made to be destroyed.

Left it in the casuals. You know what?
- Can I ask you something?
- Paul!
Amy, huh? What a coincidence.
Too tired.
Oh, my God.


Blart, this is Brooks. What's going on?
they're on their way to McGuire Airfield.

with this panther?
That was where they walked up the sleigh-smoothed
urine-yellowed road along the river with the
steep pine hills, skis heavy on the shoulder, and
where they ran down the glacier above the
Madlenerhaus, the snow as smooth to see as cake
frosting and as light as powder and he remembered
the noiseless rush the speed made as you dropped
down like a bird.
Hey, why don't you go over to the bar
Have your guys fall back, now.
I never have.
Get set.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
A fourth planed down, to run quick-legged and
then waddle slowly toward the others.
Half hour. But I eat in 20, which leaves me
Could you close up the arcade for me?
She was still a good-looking woman, he thought,
and she had a pleasant body.




That was one story he had saved to write.

- Yo, you hear that? That's Paul, baby!


Maya! Maya, get inside.
I don't want to move, the man said.
It was difficult getting him in, but once in he
lay back in the leather seat, and the leg was
stuck straight out to one side of the seat where
Compton sat.
She said she loved it.
Okay, my lip is numb.


But you're a pen salesman, dude.


You know, video game might
The party's over and you are with your hostess
now.

Your damned money was my armour.

Open, open, open! Thank God.
Then I didn't pay any attention to it because I
never infect.
I taught you to shoot, didn't I? Please don't
talk that way.


She gave me you.
on Parisa's cell phone?
It's not worth moving.
And then, while they lifted the cot, suddenly it
was all right and the weight went from his chest.


That was close.


He could promise that.
Pahud, no one can blame you
Hey, yo. Hey, there's some crazy-ass people
He's sleeping with some concierge.
It's bad for me.


And the Secretary repeating to the other girls,
No, you see.

I was just wondering,
Yeah.
Confusing, right? Cut yourself some slack.
But sadly, no codes!
You had better move over to the other side.
Wouldn't you like me to read? she asked.
it's off to the Cayman Islands then, huh?
We went to high school together.

He had had his life and it was over and then he
went on living it again with different people and
more money, with the best of the same places, and
some new ones.
Pahud, do you still have GPS

around the back to secure the perimeter.
No, I was just saying that

Hey, thanks
I've loved Africa.

That was the day he'd first seen dead men wearing
white ballet skirts and upturned shoes with
pompons on them.
But I got tired.

It was not her fault that when he went to her he
was already over.
No.
- A Happy Meal and absolute silence.
It's her phone, it's hers.

They got one assailant
Let him trail you today.
No matter how nervous we get.
from the inside immediately.
All right.
Yeah, let's just go.

Just give it to him, Dad.
I do.
Yes!
Could you eat now? He saw Molo behind her with
the folding table and the other boy with the
dishes.
hey. You know, Black Friday's coming."

You never would have gotten anything like this in
Paris.
What's the genesis?

There and at the Pavillion Henri-Quatre in St.
Here.


a couple of clever comebacks, like...
He looked over to where the huge, filthy birds
sat, their naked heads sunk in the hunched
feathers.




So here you go.
He had traded it for security, for comfort too,
there was no denying that, and for what else? He
did not know.
- Come on.
I couldn't stand it when you felt that way.


- Yeah, I know.

He should be back by now.

Take the cot up very gently and carry it into the
tent.
And the windows shutting.
Come and get me, Veck.
- Yeah, Paul.
Don't! Please don't.
No, he's neither. His name is Blart.

They were snow-bound a week in the Madlenerhaus
that time in the blizzard playing cards in the
smoke by the lantern light and the stakes were
higher all the time as Herr Lent lost more.

Hey! Don't make this hard.
Then he'd started to cry.

Sorry about the test, Dad.
of keeping New Jersey safe.
The mind is the only weapon
Yeah, well, you'll be needing this.



This must be Pahud.
He had to hold it in the cup until it cooled
enough to take it and then he just got it down
without gagging.
The concierge who entertained the trooper of the
Garde Republicaine in her loge, his
horse-hair-plumed helmet on a chair.
Was one of them
Dispatch, they can get me. You know.


Everyone's too busy shopping.

with me that actually contains the...
The boy refusing and the old man saying he would
beat him again.
So, he said to himself, we did well to stop the
quarrelling.

a state trooper, myself.
You're sweet to me.
you are no longer communicating
She's talking to him.
Okay. I'm calling an audible here, everyone.
Bye! You blinked! You blinked.


Lock and load, boys. We're going in.
There he is.

- Hey, Dad, why don't we check for matches?

Happy birthday, Amy.

Hey, I haven't heard back
'Cause I don't see any vest
Knocking your bindings loose, kicking the skis
free and leaning them up against the wooden wall
of the inn, the lamplight coming from the window,
where inside, in the smoky, new-wine smelling
warmth, they were playing the accordion.
My men are gonna do it again, the right way.
another holiday alone.

She's got tremendous upper body strength.
- I think that's your color.
The zebra, small rounded backs now, and the
wildebeeste, big-headed dots seeming to climb as
they moved in long fingers across the plain, now
scattering as the shadow came toward them, they
were tiny now, and the movement had no gallop,
and the plain as far as you could see,
gray-yellow now and ahead old Compie's tweed back
and the brown felt hat.
Go get him!

Nor did he hunt any more.
That's all right.
Oh, my God.
I sort of made up my own.
In Schrunz, on Christmas day, the snow was so
bright it hurt your eyes when you looked out from
the Weinstube and saw every one coming home from
church.



All right, bro. Back off.
Okay, next question.

- You okay? You seem a little down.

He is a pro.
While it grew dark they drank and just before it
was dark and there was no longer enough light to
shoot, a hyena crossed the open on his way around
the hill.
I believe in magic!
- I can do that. I can do that.
- Can you hold onto these?
I have a date tonight.

into the teller area.
What the hell is he doing? Come on!


We got him trapped in Rainforest Cafe.

Why what, dear? Why nothing.
- Yello?
- Gentlemen ready?
We are ready.
- Everybody out!
Oh, Blart.
Mine is named hypoglycemia.
It's on a plaque in my room.
down through the specialty shops.

If you have to go away, she said, is it
absolutely necessary to kill off everything you
leave behind? I mean do you have to take away
everything? Do you have to kill your horse, and
your wife and burn your saddle and your armour?
Yes, he said.
- It's out there.
There must be something I can do.
- Okay.
Sorry.
Molo, she called, Molo! Molo! Then she said,
Harry, Harry! Then her voice rising, Harry!
Please.
I got your codes
this mission so that some mall monitor
on your away hip thusly,
What? No. She's not my girlfriend.
And PS, your skin's gonna clear up.
it's a little too, "Hey, look at me"?
Sir! Sir! Sir! Sir! Sir! Sir! We get it!

that I'm hitting on your girlfriend, do you?
to get to know the real you,
in.
And how some one had said to Julian, Yes, they
have more money.

that crashed into the minivan?
And you seriously...

Nachos are good, man.
Oh, God. All right, think, Paul, think.
Well, that one. That one right there.
At my command,
You're so pathetic.
I wish I had a bat. I would bust you open,

Don't pee. Don't pee.
This is what you been doing?
tonight, and I want to see you there.
Get him! Get him! Get him!
Remember?


Reports are, they're inside the bank
Yeah. I'll see you soon.

Prancer, take the back.
I've got you two. You know?


Report back to me immediately.
- So... They're good.
back when she was still trying to trick me.
Listen, I'm gonna have to call you back.

Hang on.
Look, I understand your sensitivity.
Yeah, well, I didn't have to go online, Paul,
Yeah.
They've been there since the day the truck broke
down, he said.



- You're not gonna do squat.
It's protecting the people

We don't need any wild cards
We both are, you know? Stranded.
Sir. Sir. Sir, sir, sir.

- Come on!
SWAT's on the way.
Please tell me what I can do.
But I know who the leader is. It's Veck.
What're you gonna do, Paul?
Oh, my God. Oh, that's a hot pepper.
- No.


It was actually named after

There wasn't time, of course, although it seemed
as though it telescoped so that you might put it
all into one paragraph if you could get it right.
You can take the leg off and that might stop it,
though I doubt it.

It's a bore, he said out loud.
Blart!
Give me a gun.
- Are you calling me fat?
and can't really get it out. Pie. Here we go.
I just wanna make sure

And besides, Black Friday's coming,




- I don't know when. I'll talk to you later.
He thought of all the time in his life he had
spent gambling.
She married you, got citizenship,


Not that dreadful talking kind.
And I'm the cock that gets on it to crow.

Every kid has a cell phone.

Hello?
We got a 911 operator connecting us
- I think this'll work.
It's a bit formfitting,
The birds no longer waited on the ground.


Wait a second.
After she had the lovers she did not drink so
much because she did not have to be drunk to
sleep.
Blart!
The street that ran up toward the Pantheon and
the other that he always took with the bicycle,
the only asphalted street in all that quarter,
smooth under the tires, with the high narrow
houses and the cheap tall hotel where Paul
Verlaine had died.
He sold wine too, bad wine.
Come on, Paul. Playing games.
There were a few Tommies that showed minute and
white against the yellow and, far off, he saw a
herd of zebra, white against the green of the
bush.
He would as soon be in bed with her as any one;
rather with her, because she was richer, because
she was very pleasant and appreciative and
because she never made scenes.

- Everyone in the back room, now!
He says he's a security officer in the mall.


All right. Let's try this again.

Feeling alive?
into your phone just for me.
Well, I guess I know who I'm killing first.

I got lost behind the Sears.


Bring whiskey-soda.
- I don't believe this.
It was never what he had done, but always what he
could do.
So this was the way it ended, in a bickering over
a drink.
Do you think that it is fun to do this? I don't
know why I'm doing it.
- Yeah, I'm fine.
No, thank you very much.






I set you on fire at the pancake festival?




to Orange Julius,




Not my first rodeo.

I don't think so.

Then they were over the first hills and the
wildebeeste were trailing up them, and then they
were over mountains with sudden depths of
green-rising forest and the solid bamboo slopes,
and then the heavy forest again, sculptured into
peaks and hollows until they crossed, and hills
sloped down and then another plain, hot now, and
purple brown, bumpy with heat and Compie looking
back to see how he was riding.
That's not supposed to be here.
Well, I don't hit women,

I'll meet you on the corner of Ne and Ver.

I don't know what to say.
Backup!

Not as awesome as this.

- Okay.
You're gonna pull up,
with Chief Brooks. Is that clear?

Really? Is he blind?

It's trying to kill to keep yourself alive, I
imagine.
I guess
Amy.
You're running out of time, Bryant!
What is, my dear? Anything you do too bloody long.
What do you want, Veck?
- Yeah. Just minivans, right?
- Hey.
My God. There they are.
No.


five minutes for social time,
- Well, I hate her.




Behind the house were fields and behind the
fields was the timber.

at least six body bags.
The rest was plaster walls and the windows of the
neighbors.

Yo, we got a straggler.
I'll wait till I bathe .

You're gonna want to go to Lord and Taylor.

.
- Hey, not talking to you. Okay?

than to try to explain it to civilians.
Are you kidding me? We used to abuse
Okay.
It's its own thing.
but that's 'cause we're required to wear
Time for some big-game hunting.

she went over her minutes.
I left everything and I went wherever you wanted
to go and I've done what you wanted to do But I
wish we'd never come here.
- He has an army.
And who gave you this?
- No, no, no, no, no, no.

Do it.
Hans, that he skied with all that year, had been
in the Kaiser Jagers and when they went hunting
hares together up the little valley above the
saw-mill they had talked of the fighting on
Pasubio and of the attack on Perticara and
Asalone and he had never written a word of that.
How do you feel? she said.
Later he had seen the things that he could never
think of and later still he had seen much worse.
Do not lie to me, Paul Blart.
- This is not happening.
She was wearing jodphurs and carrying her rifle.
from today, it's this.
- Yeah.
Okay.
All righty.
Hey, everyone's going to American Joe's
Again, like you always do.
Probably should have capitalized on that.

are the only thing keeping the cops outside.

Got him.
Thank you.
And then instead of going on to Arusha they
turned left, he evidently figured that they had
the gas, and looking down he saw a pink sifting
cloud, moving over the ground, and in the air,
like the first snow in at ii blizzard, that comes
from nowhere, and he knew the locusts were
coming, up from the South.
Your flight's been canceled.
none of the above!

looks like you got your eyes on the inside.


Yeah, you heard me. Never!
on lonelyloser.com.



Good.
Hey, Blart!
You can't.
and they have hostages.
They're a filthy animal though.
Paul, the pain of this breakup



Isn't that lovely? You know I thought perhaps you
would.
- What, what?
Okay. You know, I'm sorry, I've just...

And it was snow they tramped along in until they
died that winter.
Now in his mind he saw a railway station at
Karagatch and he was standing with his pack and
that was the headlight of the Simplon-Offent
cutting the dark now and he was leaving Thrace
then after the retreat.
No, he said.
- Yeah. I think we are.
Look, I know you been feeling down,

communications in check.
- All right. 555...

I wish you wouldn't, she said.
- No, you didn't.

It's fine, Ma.
I don't remember what I said.
I'm just using the boric now.

- Got it.
into the loading dock.


I just want you to grab a hold of it, tight.
Hey. Can I give you a lift?

You know, my mom always said,

She liked to read in the evening before dinner
and she drank Scotch and soda while she read.

- Stay within the minutes.

The people he knew now were all much more
comfortable when he did not work.


- Round six.
He's one of my security guards.

From the apartment you could only see the wood
and coal man's place.
Driving kind of recklessly back there, sir.
Okay, bro.

You give a damn about so many things that I don't.
- We got a three-block perimeter...
But let the record show,
I am gonna finish what I started.
to the Mission.
Okay, okay, now what is it you really want?
That was so much fun.
you know, but...

Commence tanning. Three, two, one.

That's it. Treat her gentle, son.
We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought.
You did not have to like it because you
understood it.

Isn't that cute?

He lay still and death was not there.
Is that a tattoo?
The barrels of the guns that had hung on the deer
feet on the wall of the log house lay out there
on the heap of ashes and no one ever touched them.
You, too!

- I got it last night.

giving the illusion that you have a gun.
Where did we stay in Paris? he asked the woman
who was sitting by him in a canvas chair, now, in
Africa.
think, think, think, think! Think!

No, no, no. She's fine, she's fine.
It had moved up on him now, but it had no shape
any more.

Molo, letti dui whiskey-soda! she called.
Brooks, I'm observing the bank now.
pretty good.
at Door 26. Everybody on it.

He had been cruel and unjust in the afternoon.
With honor, sir.
- Okay.
Okay, roger that.
But I don't want to bother you.
Then the noise the hyena made was so loud she
woke and for a moment she did not know where she
was and she was very afraid.
Listen, Blart, time's up. We're busting in.
Let's face it, we eat to fill a void, right?
I'm going in to bathe, she said.
It's Officer Blart, reporting from Sector 5.
Well, Veck Sims, welcome to the show.


- It's not over yet.

- Don't you just love Fridays?



Security guard? Really.

Okay.
- Sure.
I'd have gone anywhere.

Feel the burn, baby.
Hey.
What about a drink? It's supposed to be bad for
you.
- Rudolph, where are you?
- We prepare.

- Hey.

this was a bank...

Darling, you don't know how marvellous it is to
see you feeling better.



the P-51 Mustang.
No. Not buying it. No.

I prefer handwritten sentiments.

were you serious about that Happy Meal?
You have got to be kidding me.
- What's going on? Who is that?
He's the one makes the noise at night.

Never believe any of that about a scythe and a
skull, he told her.
Other poplars ran along the point.
He could beat anything, he thought, because no
thing could hurt him if he did not care.

Don't do it! Blart!
- Absolutely.
You think I'm gonna carry the phone
away from the food court,
Oh, Paul.
down at the bank named Amy.
Not all I want but all there is.
Hey, Blart. Wow, nice shirt.
No, he had never written about Paris.

I've gotta cash my paycheck

- Everybody out!
This is adding up, sir. He'll be back.
I mean, I am sweaty,

- There you go.
I love you, really.
It's overdue now.
But he had always remembered Williamson, that
night.

Paul, this is Sergeant Howard again.
He will hook you up.
Bravo. That was awesome.
- Hey, Amy. I'm on my way.
Thank you, sir. But I think
That was where our fishing began.
Heart of a warrior.

Backup! Backup!
But, you know, I would settle offing
It went in pairs, on bicycles, and moved
absolutely silently on the pavements.

Yeah, this is Blart.
Let's do this.
...01...



Nonsense.
and grab yourself one of those girly drinks?

What the hell are you bothering me for?
that you approach an assailant,
I'm full of poetry now.
- Come on.

He turned his head on the cot to look toward her.
Well, just in case, I wrote down


I said I'd go anywhere you wanted.
Trippy.
Hey, Blart, I heard you got your ass handed
Harry, what are you saying? You're out of your
head.
She didn't drink so much, now, since she had him.
But I'm not alone.
Hey. It's too late to go in that way, guys.
- It's a winner.
We got a high roller.


You wanted to speak to me?
Tell him you are now my homeboy.

with some guy named Paul Barth.
- Great. Nobody talks to them but me.
Parisa's dad took her cell phone away,

Don't be silly.

Slap it, honor it.

Sir, I took a sworn oath to protect this mall
It moved up closer to him still and now he could
not speak to it, and when it saw he could not
speak it came a little closer, and now he tried
to send it away without speaking, but it moved in
on him so its weight was all upon his chest, and
while it crouched there and he could not move or
speak, he heard the woman say, Bwana is asleep
now.


- I could.

No, I meant now, Ma. Get the pie now.
His personal boy was sitting by the bed.
A road went up to the hills along the edge of the
timber and along that road he picked blackberries.
All right.
Then there were other mountains dark ahead.
- I can't leave her.
So why do you not head over
It wasn't this woman's fault.
It's the busiest shopping day of the year.

Did your mom crochet that on a pillow?
Outside the tent the hyena made the same strange
noise that had awakened her.

in the blood.
Sincethe gangrene started in his right leg he had
no pain and with the pain thehorror had gone and
all he felt now was a great tiredness and anger
that this was the end of it.
Okay.
Let's get in the back, huh?
Wow. Them's some heavy words, Paul Blart.

You've never lost anything.
- Fun fact for you...
which you and I both know you don't?
That was before the lovers.
That is such a tough call, but...


Yeah, it's a landslide.
There were birches along the stream and it was
not big, but narrow, clear and fast, with pools
where it had cut under the roots of the birches.
you curl up in a corner, suck your thumb?
He had been in it and he had watched it and it
was his duty to write of it; but now he never
would.

Can't you let a man die as comfortably as he can
without calling him names? What's the use of
clanging me? You're not going to die.
Although they're docking the paycheck

And don't worry,
Fun fact for you, a lot of people think


- I'm about to end this.

Oh, no!
- Hey.

There was no hardship; but there was no luxury
and he had thought that he could get back into
training that way.
He wrote this letter at the Club, cold sober, and
mailed it to New York asking her to write him at
the of fice in Paris.
How long do we get for lunch?
There's gonna be a new shipment tomorrow.
What's the matter?
Is there anything you need? Do you need

You...
I haven't any head to go out of.


You said you loved it there.
What do you say?
How about now?
to write me off.


He knew his neighbors in that quarter then
because they all were poor.

But he had never written a line of that, nor of
that cold, bright Christmas day with the
mountains showing across the plain that Barker
had flown across the lines to bomb the Austrian
officers' leave train, machine-gunning them as
they scattered and ran.
Yeah.

Dear God!
It's okay.
- No. I don't drink.

and ready to bring this thing to a resolution.
All right, Dad.
- Just a Code B check.

All right, now, I'm gonna get you all out.




Blart.
- Hey.
False alarm.

What's the matter, old cock? Compton said.

They had bolted, too, before he got the picture.
Told you, boy. You better hurry up.

That's who's been screwing all this up?

He'd helped to haul the old man in so everybody
could know how bad the old man had been and how
he'd tried to steal some feed that didn't belong
to him, and when the sheriff put the handcuffs on
the boy he couldn't believe it.

You aren't gonna touch her,
If you remember one thing
The rich were dull and they drank too much, or
they played too much backgammon.
Why don't you turn in? I like to sit here with
you.
I need to shoot over to the bank
I'll be ready to take on-scene command
I know a lot about sharks.


I was just speaking from the heart.


for getting my back there, brother.
And why had they always quarrelled when he was
feeling best? He had never written any of that
because, at first, he never wanted to hurt any
one and then it seemed as though there was enough
to write without it.


- Is this all right?




Well, Veck Sims, welcome to the show.
- Everything's gonna be okay.
I'm Amy, by the way.

Good hang.
We'll get you right in, he said.

No. What with all the parties
Come on. Oh, yeah?

Don't you judge me.




This is Sims. He's a new trainee.
Tell it to go away.
- I didn't.

Just around behind the hill.
...78.

You ought to take some broth to keep your
strength up.
Oh, my God. Oh, God.



I don't quarrel.
She liked what he wrote and she had always envied
the life he led.
Darling, please don't drink that.
and I just kind of got that

Blart? You there, Blart?
It's closed.
It was not so much that he lied as that there was
no truth to tell.
You know what? More than anything.
And then he knew that there was where he was
going.

traffic flow from Macy's
Sir. Sir! Sir. I am warning you, sir.
Down. The other one. That's the back one.
Jimmy, give me your cell phone.
New Jersey SWAT.





I can't believe you don't have a cell phone.
The next time I see you, Paul,
Nor about any of them.

When there was no snow you gambled and when there
was too much you gambled.
I prefer face-to-face interaction
"with the eyes of an eagle?"

What are you talking about?

Don't pay any attention to me.
- $9.95?

Good to know.
And since everybody thinks

And these little piggies went
So now he would never have a chanceto finish it.
- Yeah.
- Everybody on the floor!
Are you still in the mall?

I don't know. Give up, I guess.


I'll eat with you and then we'll put the cot in.




Security blood runs deep between...
Make sure the toy is the sea monster,
Great, so I'll see you tonight
The puck travels to the far board...


There was a log house, chinked white with mortar,
on a hill above the lake.

- Yes.
The easy way or the hard way.
Give me a radio.
- Dad!


God, you're an idiot.
of when you're gonna give up.

What?

- I didn't know that.
for a minute.
Just give me a few minutes.
I'm kidding. I can't grow a beard.
He had seen the world change; not just the
events; although he had seen many of them and had
watched the people, but he had seen the subtler
change and he could remember how the people were
at different times.
It says it'sbad for you.


Kindly tie up the person beside you,
I've had some issues with weight myself.
How would you like to sign your name
Gonna need your first and last. Last first.

Christ, he said.
Some do, sweetheart. The older ones, okay?
No not the same.

Not so many, Harry.
so if you wanna enter my mall,
- You are. You are.

We stick to the plan.



Well-built and a great hugger.


It's pretty intense.
She's talking to him, and I told her not to.


is trying to be a hero.
- I don't have one.


So, you all set
Blart, come on!
They can bring my net out later and hang it from
the tree and build the fire up.
You kept from thinking and it was all marvellous.
She was always thoughtful, he thought.

the first American Joe's actually opened

But she did not hear him for the beating of her
heart.

It was very pleasant and we were all great
friends.
I don't understand why you're laughing.
- Blart!
- Winning! I know this, because I am all set!


I've loved the country.
- Here we are.
Really.

She was sitting on a canvas chair beside his cot.
- That lemonade is insane.

I don't think so, Ma. It's fine.
- Yeah.


- Hey.
I was hoping that you and I could have

Do you do men hair? Do you do men hair?
It's bound to come.
What are you nodding about?
I do.
Yeah, illegal immigrant status.
Foul. Foul.
You can't die if you don't give up.


Hi. Hey! Hey! You got me...
She had a great talent and appreciation for the
bed, she was not pretty, but he liked her face,
she read enormously, liked to ride and shoot and,
certainly, she drank too much.
You really know a lot of facts, Paul.

- No one's going in there.


I won't be able to take the Memsahib.
You want to be troopers?

However, you must now pass

How do you feel? A little wobbly.
But, in yourself, you said that you would write
about these people; about the very rich; that you
were really not of them but a spy in their
country; that you would leave it and write of it
and for once it would be written by some one who
knew what he was writing of.
This time there was no rush.
Hey. Blart? He's one of my guys.

He'll be back. He'll be back.
you'll be as safe as the President.

He'd hit him twice, hard, on the side of the jaw
and when he didn't go down he knew he was in for
a fight.
- You want to get out of here?


But as soon as I started eating healthier,

It is awfully good.



Wow, yeah. That's great.

No, but it's a thick T-shirt.
I just called you fat.
Her husband had died when she was still a
comparatively young woman and for a while she had
devoted herself to her two just-grown children,
who did not need her and were embarrassed at
having her about, to her stable of horses, to
books, and to bottles.
I'm sorry?


No way!
There never was another part of Paris that he
loved like that, the sprawling trees, the old
white plastered houses painted brown below, the
long green of the autobus in that round square,
the purple flower dye upon the paving, the sudden
drop down the hill of the rue Cardinal Lemoine to
the River, and the other way the narrow crowded
world of the rue Mouffetard.

Okay, I gotta go.
And I need to get this mall locked down
my department would be proud to have you.

I had a good sleep.
As you learned the hard way,
50 more yards!
You say the word,
You could dictate that, but you could not dictate
the Place Contrescarpe where the flower sellers
dyed their flowers in the street and the dye ran
over the paving where the autobus started and the
old men and the women, always drunk on wine and
bad mare; and the children with their noses
running in the cold; the smell of dirty sweat and
poverty and drunkenness at the Cafe' des Amateurs
and the whores at the Bal Musette they lived
above.
Hypoglycemia.


There was always gambling then.
Only it's bad for me.


He was going to sleep a little while.
five minutes to get refocused.
Ladies. Problem.
but with me,
That's what I mean by giving up.

I don't see why that had to happen to your leg.
sporting a full beard.



You know, since you're asking,
Don't pay any attention, darling, to what I say.
One thing he had always dreaded was the pain.
Yeah, I mean, everybody's going, so...

Blart.




He probably would.
And just then it occurred to him that he was
going to die.

All right.


I'll always love you Don't you love me? No, said
the man.

Closing time already.
I don't think so. I'm taking you down.

Love is a dunghill, said Harry.

Jimmy, take the wheel.


He said the police were right behind him and they
gave him woolen socks and held the gendarmes
talking until the tracks had drifted over.
He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of
them and how he had started a story once that
began, The very rich are different from you and
me.


I would recommend no,
And, there you go.
- Too tight!

from each store's credit-card machine.
Dean, come on!
No. I didn't say that we were together.

- No.
and there's no way I'm compromising
- You will. You're gonna.
It isn't coming, is it?

Well, that's one way to go, but our hostages
- Yeah.

What was this? A catalogue of old books? What was
his talent anyway? It was a talent all right but
instead of using it, he had traded on it.
She had come out from the tent now after her bath.
to your profile
There's only room for one.

Then it's just me and Veck.

where they're holding the hostages.
Ma'am.

It really helps heal.
Come on!

And where the hell is Rudolph?

That's better than anything I got.
you had the chance to be the MVP,
He had just felt death come by again.
You're smarter than me.
He had gone to a place to dance with her
afterward, she danced badly, and left her for a
hot Armenian slut, that swung her belly against
him so it almost scalded.

Dad!
I know it's bad for you.
You see, jackass? I don't need the phone.

I'll just have some tea.
Memsahib's gone to shoot, the boy said.

in this situation.
No.
It's no contest.
Let's get all these civilians out of here.
But that would probably... You know.
They knocked out the video cameras.


He's drilling the safe,
Soon as I get my money.
I shot a Tommy ram, she told him.

- We got a guy on the inside.

Or you can shoot me.

We just don't want to see you go through
and he lent it to me.
so my dance card's gonna be pretty full.
Yeah, I know.
Hey, you know where a men's room is?
They've got his daughter.
This is Sergeant Howard. I need four units
How'd you know I was at the mall?
- Who am I speaking with?
Does Bwana want? Nothing.


I dug myself into a really deep hole
You always said you loved Paris.
You won't talk to me like that again, will you?
Promise me? No, he said.
Don't.
There was a bell on a pole by the door to call
the people in to meals.
Okay?

- That's stunning.

- Yes, sir!
''Where is the policeman? When you don't want him
the bugger is always there.
Amy, Paul Blart here.
the authority to make a citizen's arrest.
Hey, I'm sorry, mall's closed,
Hey, life is heavy.

Sorry, Jimmy, I had the button pressed.

left hip forward, placing your right hand
I'm awfully sorry about the odor though.


And you were just so close
and all inside it.

I know where that is. Thanks.
Now he would never write the things that he had
saved to write until he knew enough to write them
well.
- No, I can't do that.
Wait! Look, Veck's after
Not tonight, Ma.
And that night missing her so much it made him
feel hollow sick inside, he wandered up past
Maxim's, picked a girl up and took her out to
supper.
Silence, my ass.
- Or we could just text each other.


Sir. Sir. I am warning... Sir.
But his wife said, ''Who is that letter from,
dear? '' and that was the end of the beginning of
that.

The plane will be here tomorrow.
give up your cell phones,
- But I'm sure I will.
We all have our crosses to bear, sweetheart.
- Wow.

What is it, Harry? she asked him.

You'd better put on your mosquito boots, he told
her.
and you blew it.

Nope. Nope. No.

That's cowardly.

You...
Yeah, look. A lot of people...

How do you feel? Much better.
And behind the mountains, the clear sharpness of
the peak in the evening light and, riding down
along the trail in the moonlight, bright across
the valley.
He had found that out but he would never write
that, now, either.
- What? When?
its doors in 1972.

The dressings had all come down and she could not
look at it.
What have we done to have that happen to us? I
suppose what I did was to forget to put iodine on
it when I first scratched it.


So what made you want to pursue security?
I wish I had a coworker here, like, "Tyler,



She had been married to a man who had never bored
her and these people bored her very much.

They got 12 stalls and heated seats.
My name's Paul Blart.
You're acting coy. Come on. It's natural.
How do you know? I'm sure.

I'm Commander Kent. My team is deploying.
to be admitted into the training program.
Oh, yeah. Hey, Jimmy.
I will edit out the sweaty parts.
It's too early for snow.


Yeah, it's good to hear

I don't know. Couldn't that get you fired?
Veck? The trainee?
But what about the rest that he had never
written? What about the ranch and the silvered
gray of the sage brush, the quick, clear water in
the irrigation ditches, and the heavy green of
the alfalfa.
I've been writing, he said.
Oh, God. Oh, God.
So happy!
and let's get some visuals.

He had been contemptuous of those who wrecked.
Need a little more volume up top.
My uncle can. Stay snug.
"Why do you think
That's the good destruction.



'Wouldn't you like some more broth? the woman
asked him now.


You see, if we could reroute the customers


That's not entirely true.
a Snickers bar like every 20 minutes,


Back to your mediocre lives.
This is Commander James Kent.
You were sleeping when I left.

By dinner she was fairly drunk and after a bottle
of wine at dinner she was usually drunk enough to
sleep.
What's up, man?
"The Devil's Crotch."
How little a woman knows.

- Dad.

And he had felt the illusion of returning
strength of will to work.
Africa was where he had been happiest in the good
time of his life, so he had come out here to
start again.
And remember, survive this,
Thank you.



I don't want to hurt you.
He remembered Barker afterwards coming into the
mess and starting to tell about it.

I would like a whiskey-soda.
He had never quarrelled much with this woman,
while with the women that he loved he had
quarrelled so much they had finally, always, with
the corrosion of the quarrelling, killed what
they had together.
- I am pretty great.
How could a woman know that you meant nothing
that you said; that you spoke only from habit and
to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what
he said, his lies were more successful with women
than when he had told them the truth.
Now I'm afraid I'll have to stop at Arusha to
refuel.
P.
Do you think you will be able to sleep? Pretty
sure.
Now look, no one's gonna try
Sweet mercy.
stuck in my head now,
of the West Orange Police Department.

And I'd say, considering
you're untrained, you're unarmed,

In the Black Forest, after the war, we rented a
trout stream and there were two ways to walk to
it.
Great. Wait for me.
One thing I know is
They were the descendants of the Communards and
it was no struggle for them to know their
politics.
You know, we're all just here having fun.
Hello, he said.

What do you want me to say, Veck?
You bitch, he said.
We're getting the leader on the horn.



Your bloody money, he said.
I love you now.
with being happy for the rest of your life?
Right now, you're the man with the gun.
It's good for me.
Backup! Backup!
There she is.
I mean, you can't pass the trooper exam,
and find out
He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he
wore it all out.
It can be two bicycle policemen as easily, or be
a bird.

but the guy, he ran away.
Whoa!
You should get the security tape,


- Come on, Blart!
Ouch.
I put all my weight on her.

They'll be here by noon.
Thank you.
You said, and I quote,

"If I don't have a girlfriend by November,
Trapped is fine by me.
- Where's he going?
Coming on the left.

but it's not.



guarding the hostages.
There was so much to write.



But it... Whatever, you know.

with this girl, you gotta help me. Please.
cheer you right up.
Ask those bastards.
Here we go! Here we go!
Let's hit it now.
Now is it sight or is it scent that brings them
like that? The cot the man lay on was in the wide
shade of a mimosa tree and as he looked out past
the shade onto the glare of the plain there were
three of the big birds squatted obscenely, while
in the sky a dozen more sailed, making
quick-moving shadows as they passed.
You better move it!


Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Listen to me, Blart,
The people all are gone.

Have there been any demands?
Wait! No, no, no! No, no, no, no, no!


Yeah, well, so here's the deal.
That was me. I can't...


for today, Friday.
That's poetry.
I'll be right out.
Now she came in sight, walking across the open
toward the camp.

There he is!
Will you have some breakfast? Thanks.
''Those were the same Austrians they killed then
that he skied with later.
just like you said.


I don't mind it.
At those prices,
Okay, keep the balls in the pit, kids. Kids!
that doesn't need a holster.


who used to eat lunch
I didn't hear a word you were saying.
She loved anything that was exciting, that
involved a change of scene, where there were new
people and where things were pleasant.
Nobody wins with a head butt.


No problem.
He looked at her face between him and the fire.

I mean, people,
Look at them, he said.

But he would never do it, because each day of not
writing, of comfort, of being that which he
despised, dulled his ability and softened his
will to work so that, finally, he did no work at
all.
Well, you'll be back at home in no time.

Yeah, I should have known better
I'm gonna need you to go into the bank




- Establish a perimeter
Yeah, I am pretty great.
Well he would never know, now.
Since you refuse to come out,
so you can eat me.
'It's a little bit late now.

I love you.

Yeah, you know, it had its moments. Yeah.
What oath? We don't have an oath.
I would love a Happy Meal,
We have seven assailants in custody, sir.
a whole Bonnie-and-Clyde thing going on.
300 bucks?
And then... And then what?
All right, next, get up here!
Sugar. Sugar.
Blart.
Let's see.
If it had not been she it would have been another.
And now this life that she had built again was
coming to a term because he had not used iodine
two weeks ago when a thorn had scratched his knee
as they moved forward trying to photograph a herd
of waterbuck standing, their heads up, peering
while their nostrils searched the air, their ears
spread wide to hear the first noise that would
send them rushing into the bush.
- Blart! Can we focus here, please?
That woman is like an angelic goddess

They knew who had shot their fathers, their
relatives, their brothers, and their friends when
the Versailles troops came in and took the town
after the Commune and executed any one they could
catch with calloused hands, or who wore a cap, or
carried any other sign he was a working man.


Now what are you trained to do?
Dad!
Hey, we're on the move.

Okay. Situation update?

- Hi. Do you need something?



I... Yeah, yeah, it is.

Paul. Paul, can you help me out?
Here come the love sweats.
keep your mouths shut,

- Yeah.
- What's wrong with that?


the credit-card codes, and I got them.
On anything she knew about, or had read, or that
she had ever heard.

and then, like, sell it to one of those shows,
The house was rebuilt in the same place out of
lumber now and painted white and from its porch
you saw the poplars and the lake beyond; but
there were never any more guns.
Unfortunately, the mall will be closing early.
Good to be here.
So when you and Rudolph
Hello?
you know, where people crash into stuff.
If he lived by a lie he should try to die by it.
Hey, Blart, they need you
I don't joke about shopper safety.
Around that Place there were two kinds; the
drunkards and the sportifs.
- I'm on it. 94, move 'em out.

You just hang in there, okay, sweetie?
He lay then and was quiet for a while and looked
across the heat shimmer of the plain to the edge
of the bush.

- Yeah.
Right. Awesome.

because of its service and theme,


But I specifically heard you say
to underestimate.
There are other fish in the sea.
I never finished high school.


- I'll just use one of their pens.
Ah, that's intelligent.

They had made this safari with the minimum of
comfort.
It was always yours as much as mine.

Do you feel anything strange? he asked her.
I'm not going in the tent tonight.
I'm getting as bored with dying as with
everything else, he thought.
- 555...
All right. Thank you.

Don't tell me one of your beat cops
Why don't you use your nose? I'm rotted half way
up my thigh now.
They got into a taxi and drove out to Rimmily
Hissa along the Bosphorus, and around, and back
in the cool night and went to bed and she felt as
over-ripe as she looked but smooth, rose-petal,
syrupy, smooth-bellied, big-breasted and needed
no pillow under her buttocks, and he left her
before she was awake looking blousy enough in the
first daylight and turned up at the Pera Palace
with a black eye, carrying his coat because one
sleeve was missing.
I do, he said.

Yeah, I'm gonna want some pie.
"Gee, Paul, you don't have to tell me

He had destroyed his talent himself.
He looked at her, What else'I don't mean that.
all the way home.
's coming.
No, you don't.

She did not wake.

No, he would not write that, although it was well
worth writing.

There were only two rooms in the apartments where
they lived and he had a room on the top floor of
that hotel that cost him sixty francs a month
where he did his writing, and from it he could
see the roofs and chimney pots and all the hills
of Paris.
Why do I know that? That's where we always stayed.
Parisa.
No can do, sir.

The trail went up into the hills and the cattle
in the summer were shy as deer.

I mean,
Oh, I will. Suck on that!
- Sure.

There's plenty of room to land and we have the
smudges ready at both ends.

I've been destroyed two or three times already.
Think. Think. Think, think, think,
But what was left you packed on a sled wrapped in
a blanket and roped on and you got the boy to
help you haul it, and the two of you took it out
over the road on skis, and sixty miles down to
town to turn the boy over.
Silence.
He remembered the good times with them all, and
the quarrels.
Can I have my codes now, please?
But perhaps he wouldn't.
if you ever, you know, need rides anywhere,
Okay? But you know what we do have?
He knew that.
You're really taking care of business.
- No. No, no, no, no.
I watched the way they sailed very carefully at
first in case I ever wanted to use them in a
story.

Bomb! Bomb! Bomb! Bomb!
from Donner or Vixen.
It said in Black's to avoid all alcohol.
Volume. Right, let me just see what I've got.


... he can't handle it.
There's a few kids inside,
Let's tap into security now,


To windward.
- Paulie, come on!
Yes. I'd like to welcome you to our mall.

She had gone to kill a piece of meat and, knowing
how he liked to watch the game, she had gone well
away so she would not disturb this little pocket
of the plain that he could see.


- Let's go!
Foul. Foul.

Right now, I'm goose egg for eight.
- This place sucks.
What is that? Your intuition? Because, just then,
death had come and rested its head on the foot of
the cot and he could smell its breath.


that I came here for.
It was a puff, as of a wind that makes a candle
flicker and the flame go tall.

Well, good, let's get you out of there.
Better inform all your friends, boy.
I really don't drink.
Was it you, sugar mouth?

We have to do everything we can.
You know, if you're doing the sloppy joe,


- What should we do?
Do you think you should? I'm having one.


Call me back, Paul!
Now he remembered coming down through the timber
in the dark holding the horse's tail when you
could not see and all the stories that he meant
to write.

I hope you don't mind if I use one.
Yeah, and I just bought a Camry,

Nothing, he said.
Well, your mother certainly
He thought a little about the company that he
would like to have.
Well, Sergeant,

here's what I want you to do.
but I'm not sweating over anyone.
She's trying to take
No.
She had liked it.
- Please.

That's it. It's locked.
In her dream she was at the house on Long Island
and it was the night before her daughter's debut.
You're pushing it.
Hey! Back away from the vehicle.
You're a good shot now.
or a nice handwritten sentiment.
What up?
Do you do men?

I'm punishing her.

written on their arm.
I'm dying now.
You see, alcohol instantly turns to sugar



How many winters had he lived in the Vorarlberg
and the Arlberg? It was four and then he
remembered the man who had the fox to sell when
they had walked into Bludenz, that time to buy
presents, and the cherry-pit taste of good
kirsch, the fast-slipping rush of running
powder-snow on crust, singing ''Hi! Ho! said
Rolly! ' ' as you ran down the last stretch to
the steep drop, taking it straight, then running
the orchard in three turns and out across the
ditch and onto the icy road behind the inn.
- What is it?
I said that she's into leather.
- I got it.
Snap. Pop goes the weasel.
is far too much for me to bear, man.
I couldn't get them out.




that gets in the way is gonna get smoked"?
- Oh, no.
Why don't you take my daughter

She looked at him with her well-known, well-loved
face from Spur and Town & Country, only a little
the worse for drink, only a little the worse for
bed, but Town & Country never showed those good
breasts and those useful thighs and those lightly
small-of-back-caressing hands, and as he looked
and saw her well-known pleasant smile, he felt
death come again.
Come on. Come on, come on. Come on.
I'm sorry, sweetie, I popped my ears.
And, go!
Okay, ladies, need to see some ID.
Paul, it looks like


I want to write, he said.
and that ex-boyfriend Pahud,

I'm so sorry if I called you the wrong thing.
Talking is the easiest.

in three, two, one. I'm in charge.

I heard you applied to be a state trooper.
Still got the Baggies! Hot jiggity.
- Yeah.

- No, no, no. They're good. They're good.
I'm supposed to be on my way
If you need me, I'm over by the kiosks.
now you got me thinking ponytail.

I love it too.





Gary usually delivers the leftovers
Try just a little.
Leon, I can't give you the Heimlich,


I made quite a good shot on the Tommy.


- Let's do this thing.
Yeah. That one, yes. That...
- Excuse me. Sorry.

It's that I've gotten so very nervous not being
able to do anything.



I'm afraid I'm gonna have to

for lunch tomorrow to cheer you up?
Okay. Bye.
Just looking for some hair extensions.
The mall has been taken over,
It had begun very simply.
Man, that hypoglycemia is a killer.
No, he thought, when everything you do, you do
too long, and do too late, you can't expect to
find the people still there.


underneath here, so...
Oh, God.





Which, of course, we both know
Who is this?
armed professionals out here.



That's not fair.

Come on!
Now, in the event



Look, I know you're new here and all,
the obstacle course
But that was not humorous to Julian.
- Okay. Ready?
you are making a big mistake.
She was leaning back in the chair and the
firelight shone on her pleasantly lined face and
he could see that she was sleepy.
- Hi.



see how much candy fell out.
That's how you know when it starts.
That was one of the things he had saved to write,
with, in the morning at breakfast, looking out
the window and seeing snow on the mountains in
Bulgaffa and Nansen's Secretary asking the old
man if it were snow and the old man looking at it
and saying, No, that's not snow.
- Yes. Yes, sir. On my way out.

If we would have hired a good mechanic instead of
a half-baked Kikuyu driver, he would have checked
the oil and never burned out that bearing in the
truck.
I don't drink.

- Amy? From unbeWEAVEable?
She would have bought him anything he wanted.

How every one he had slept with had only made him
miss her more.
You did good, Dad.
that you bring me back the codes
And it's under her leg.
That in some way he could work the fat off his
soul the way a fighter went into the mountains to
work and train in order to burn it out of his
body.
Go Green Hawks.
He slipped into the familiar lie he made his
bread and butter by.
Yeah, whatever. Amy.
There is no sense in moving now except to make it
easier for you.

I'm paraphrasing, of course. You stay here.
I'm gonna get a closer look.


He knew at least twenty good stories from out
there and he had never written one.
in my Amazon shopping cart,


the last push-up bra in this size.
He thought about alone in Constantinople that
time, having quarrelled in Paris before he had
gone out.
Oh, dear God. Please.
Suddenly, she had been acutely frightened of
being alone.
.


But that night he was caught in the wire, with a
flare lighting him up and his bowels spilled out
into the wire, so when they brought him in,
alive, they had to cut him loose.
Yes. The Summit 5280 fountain.
That's good.
My father talked forever about you.
I'll be back for the Mem.
at Victoria's Secret.
- Catch you later!
I track Parisa's phone with GPS.
and get all these people out of here.
Let's go.
quite the badass.
your voice, too, Pahud.
Is he crying?
her life around, I'll simply take it back.
Game over.
But if he lived he would never write about her,
he knew that now.
- That's true. She could.

Over.
She was looking at him holding the glass and
biting her lip.
Hello, Blart. You there?



I'm Maya.
I don't give a damn about the truck.
You can't take dictation, can you? I never
learned, she told him.

He could not speak to tell her to make it go away
and it crouched now, heavier, so he could not
breathe.
I'm sorry it didn't work out, dear.
- Get out of there!
- And I was... I wouldn't... Doing anything.

You seriously undermissed...
You know I do, Paul. You know I do.

- Paul Blart?


Okay, Paul, call me back!
The locataire across the hall whose husband was a
bicycle racer and her joy that morning at the
cremerie when she had opened L'Auto and seen
where he placed third in Paris-Tours, his first
big race.
See if we can establish visual.

we are retaking this location,
Compton came back more cheery than ever.


I don't know. Don't you think

Surprised? I know.
and punch out like the rest of us?

waste the guy yourself."
It came with a rush; not as a rush of water nor
of wind; but of a sudden, evil-smelling emptiness
and the odd thing was that the hyena slipped
lightly along the edge of it.