He'll make a million in cash and he's off the street forever. Scatter takes it: 'Now that's what I need.What you come to see Scatter about?' Priest tells him he's got $300,000 and wants to buy 'thirty keys' which he'll deal in four months. Scatter (Julius Harris), the owner and chef, invites Priest and Eddie to the kitchen. The Curtis Mayfield Experience is on stage performing the tune 'Pusher Man'. Later that night Priest and Eddie meet at Scatter's nightclub. Freddie, in a stocking mask, runs up behind him and pulls the gun Priest gave him. Freddie and his partner are in a car waiting for a 'fat cat.' A middle aged White man appears and gets into a Cadillac. Priest says he has to get out, before he kills somebody, or somebody 'ices' him. Priest says they'll get the coke from his mentor, Scatter. Eddie doesn't believe they can get thirty keys for that price. Enough for them to live on for the rest of their lives. They're going to buy thirty 'keys' of coke, and in four months they can turn it into a million dollars. Eddie knows it's a rotten game, but it's the only one 'the man' left them to play, 'and that's the stone cold truth.' Priest lays out his plan. Three hundred thousand, one fifty each, enough to keep your nose open for about a year. Eight track stereo, color TV in every room, and can snort a half a piece of dope every day.' Priest asks how much money they have. Priest and Eddie go to Eddie's apartment. Eddie knows it's serious since Priest never comes around when he's hanging with his gambling buddies. Eddie (Carl Lee), Priest's partner, is shooting craps with a bunch of guys. Priest insists he get the money, then meet him that night at 'Scatter's' - a nightclub owned by an old-school drug dealer, and Priest's mentor. Freddie pleads he doesn't want to have anything to do with violence. If he doesn't get his money 'tonight' he's going to put Freddie's young wife out on 'whore's row.' Priest gives Freddie a gun. He doesn't have the money he owes Priest. Freddie is one of Priest's fifty dealers. Fat Freddie (Charles MacGregor) and his drug dealer partner arrive. Priest puts the boots to him in front of a family who had been sleeping-a woman and two kids. He chases the junkie up a fire escape and crashes through an apartment window. With Curtis Mayfield's frenetic 'Junkie Chase' on the soundtrack, Priest takes off after him on foot, down the street, through grimy back alleys and vacant lots. In the fight that follows one of the junkies gets away. They jump him as he walks through the door. Unbeknown to Priest, the junkies are waiting as he arrives for his pickup. The Caddy is a black, tricked out, two-door convertible, customized with a Rolls Royce-inspired grill and oversized headlamps. He's got to make a 'pickup.' He gets dressed-designer fedora and a classy long coat-gets into his Cadillac Eldorado, and rolls through the streets of New York City. After making love and snorting some coke, he tells one of his girlfriends, a White woman (Polly Niles), he's got to leave. Priest (Ron O'Neal) is a thin, light skinned Black man with shoulder length relaxed hair and a handle-bar mustache. They pound the pavements then duck into the doorway of a dilapidated building and wait for the first unlucky dude to come through.
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