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Don, a pawn shop owner and his volatile associate, Teach, are waiting at Don’s Resale Shop for Fletcher, a third man who is helping them to commit a robbery of a valuable coin collection. Fletcher is late and they can’t track him down on the phone. While the two men wait, Bobby, Don’s somewhat stupid and drug-addicted gopher, comes to the shop to tell the men that Fletcher is in the hospital after being mugged. Teach rewards Bobby for telling them this information by asking Bob to stick around
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DON: Where’s Fletch, Bobby?
BOB: Masonic.
DON goes to telephone and dials information.
DON (into phone): For Masonic Hospital, please.
BOB: . . . I think . . .
[... …. ….]
BOB: He’s in the hospital.
DON: Which hospital?
BOB: I don’t know.
TEACH: Well, then, you better make one up, and quick.
Mamet, David, American Buffalo, Concord Theatricals, pp. 91-94.
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