Did you post that sign, sir?
Yes. Is there a difficulty, officer?
And that's your sign at the bottom of the hill?
Yes.
Please, come in, officer.
I am new to the area. Is a permit required to post signs?
Not on the house.
- But the utility pole's city property. - I see.
Very well. I will put the sign elsewhere. Thank you for informing me.
You're a long way from home, aren't you?
This is my home. I am an American citizen.
Were you a general?
I was a colonel.
Officer, what more can I do for you?
What's your name?
Massoud Amir Behrani.
And the names of your family?
Why do you need the names of my family? What is your name, Officer?
Deputy Sheriff Joe Gonzalez. Let me ask you a question.
Are you selling this house on your own?
I do not wish to offend, Officer,
but if you'll excuse me, I have work to do.
Civil code 1101.
Yes, you have informed me.
I suggest you come with me to witness the removal of the sign.
No, I'm talking about the disclosure law, Colonel.
You, as the owner, have the obligation to tell all prospective buyers
anything about the property they have a right to know.
I do not understand.
- You sure about that? - Are you interrogating me, Mr. Gonzalez?
I don't know. You tell me. I understand your friend, the Shah, made a habit of it.
I don't know who you think you're speaking to, but I've had enough.
You have done your job. Now you may leave.
You're used to giving orders, aren't you? Let me get right to the point here.
Pacific County has offered you money. They don't want any trouble.
The only one that seems to want trouble is you.
You don't want to do the right thing,
which is to sell this house back at the price you paid
so it can be returned to the real owner.
The real owner, Mr. Behrani. Now, that just won't wash.
I have more than one contact at Immigration.
People get deported every single day.
There are a lot of things I can do, Colonel.
I suggest you call the movers, so I won't have to.
What happened?
Well, the guy's obviously not right off the boat.
I think you're right.
He probably buys up seized property to make a killing.
I set him straight. I think he'll listen.
He will.
So, what do we do now?
I mean...
Look at us. We're both homeless.
Listen. My friend has a cabin a few miles south.
We can stay there.
Give to me an answer, Behrani. What did that man say of deporting?
- He said nothing, Nadi. - Do not lie to me! I heard him.
Who was that man? Tell to me, Behrani.
What have you done?
It's none of your business what I have done.
Have you no faith in me, no respect? That man said I must remove the sign.
- Coward! Liar! - Mawmawn.
You kasif liar!
It is your fault we were forced to flee from Iran.
- It is your fault we are here. - Mawmawn!
Yours and your Savak friends!
Mawmawn!
How long can we stay here?
Until we get things figured out.
You hungry?
I could eat.
Do you still love her?
Look, it's just...
it's not her.
She's a good person. A good mother.
Would this have happened anyway...
even if you hadn't met me?
Yes.
I miss my dad.
He worked really hard for that house.
It took him...
thirty years to pay it off.
And it took me eight months to fuck it up.
Hey. Hey.
Come here.
We're gonna get your house back.
Soon.
When this is all done, I promise,
I'll move you back in myself.
My son.
Do not follow the example of your father one day when you are married.
Do not do as I did last evening.
Do not be disrespectful, son. Look at me.
Bawbaw... were you a Savaki?
No.
I only bought fighter planes for Shah-jahn.
- Why did that man say we'd be deported? - I do not know.
But we are American citizens.
We own this house. They can do nothing to us now.
I feel bad for that lady, bawbaw-jahn.
The woman's house was taken from her because she did not pay her taxes.
That happens when one is not responsible. Do you understand?
Do not feel bad.
Americans do not deserve what they have.
They have the eyes of children who are forever looking for the next distraction,
entertainment, sweet taste in the mouth. We are not like them.
We know rich opportunities when we see them and don't throw away God's blessing.
You know I must raise money for your education.
I can get another paper route.
Man meedoonam,
azizam.
I know.
You are a kind child.
Quickly becoming a man.
You have my respect for your heart.
Soon all this will be over.
Bawbaw-jahn.
Thank you.
Hey.
Have a good day at work.
You need to see what you're doing to this family, Les.
Look at your children, at the damage you're causing.
- This is not the time for this, Carol. - When is the time?
When I'm not on my way to work.
Stop it!
Do you want to get arrested? Is that what you want?
You want to arrest me? God, go ahead. Arrest me in front of our children.
Daddy, please.
Please!
Oh, God, I didn't mean to do this.
Don't go. Please, don't go.
We checked, and we have no Joe Gonzalez on the force.
Did he have anything else on him that might help us to ID him?
We have hundreds of deputies in the department.
He wore a golden star,
a badge with two pistol barrels crossed...
and letters of gold spelling F-T-O.
There are only eight field training officers in the department.
Tell me if you see him here.
Yes. That is him.
That is the man who threatened me.
It's Burdon.
You're completely confident this is the officer?
I'm sorry this happened to you, sir.
I can promise you, it won't happen again.
Hi.
What do you think?
I cleaned the whole place.
What's wrong?
Kath, I need to go home for a while today.
I need to go home and explain things to Carol better,
to Nate and Bethany.
I should be home when they come back from school.
- You just said "home" three times. - It is my home.
At least until we make another one.
- Are you coming back? - In a couple of hours, three at the most.
I'll understand if you don't.
I don't deserve you.
Of course you do.
Fuck.
I told the kids that this was just temporary, you were taking time off, like a vacation.
I didn't know what else to tell them.
Tell them the truth, Carol.
Hello?
Deputy Lester Burdon?
Hello.
- Deputy Lester Burdon? - Yes?
Lieutenant Alvarez with Internal Affairs. Dispatch yourself to my office immediately.
Can it wait till I'm back on duty, sir?
No, deputy, it cannot. Be in my office in 45 minutes,
or you can come in tomorrow and drop off your badge.
Please, a moment. Wait.
Oh, excuse for me, please.
Oh, I am sorry for keeping you to waiting.
How is your foot?
- Better. Thank you. - Oh.
Can I come in?
- Please, come in. - Thank you.
I grew up in this house.
It's the house my father left to me and my brother when he died.
The county evicted me from this house by mistake,
and your husband bought it,
and now he won't sell it back for less than four times what he paid.
I don't want to argue with him. You know, I really don't.
It's just that if this goes to court, it could take...
- They are to deport us? - I don't know.
You must see. They will kill us.
They will shoot my children.
Hey. Hey.
You don't understand a word I'm saying, do you?
Please, you are a very nice girl.
Please, you write for me everything.
I want for to understand,
for discussing with my husband.
- Okay? - Okay.
Do you think you can frighten me with your stupid deputy coming here telling lies?
- What do you think I am?
- Do you think I'm stupid? - Don't!
In my country, you'd not be worthy to raise your eyes to me. You're nothing!
- Nakon! - Tell your deputy friend
his superior officers know everything.
You tell him that. This is our home!
- Please... - Our home!
Please stop!
Please to stop, Behrani.
- Kathy? K, is that you? - Yeah.
Mom said you sounded strange on the phone.
What's going on?
I need help. I really need some help.
What's wrong?
Do you think you could just come out here?
Please?
K.
K, I'm sorry. I just got a real shit storm here.
We just got the new models in, there's inventory...
I'll be right there. Just give me a second here.
I just feel lost, Frankie.
You know? I just, um...
I just feel lost.
Look, Ma and the aunts will be out there on the 18th.
They can help you, bring you back, straighten you out. Okay?
I'm sorry, K, but I gotta go. Okay?
Okay.
Yeah.
All right. Chin up, baby sister.
I'll call you later.
Okay. Hey, don't tell Mom, all right?
Okay, bye.
Fuck.
Pack of Royals.
Wild night, huh?
Seems to be heading in that direction.
- Have a good one. - Thanks.
This and, um, three on two.
- You need a funnel with that? - No. Just a book of matches.
Oh, God!
I'm sorry.
I don't want the house anymore.
I don't care.
Nadi! Nadereh!
I can't...
Don't go.
Nakon. Nakon. Nakon. Nakon.
You must sleep now. You must rest.
Please, some tea.
Please, have bath to relax.
Shh. Esmail.
That car in the driveway, is it that woman's?
The woman has tried to take her own life.
We must help her.
Pesaram, she is a bird, a broken one.
Your grandfather used to say that a bird which flies into your house is an angel.
You must look upon his presence as a blessing.
We have a guest in the house. You must be a gentleman, joon-am.
Very kind,
very polite,
very quiet.
Hello?
Do you need anything?
Hello?
Nah!
Bolandsho, bolandsho.
Your mouth... your mouth to open.
Very good. Your mouth.
- Very good.
Yes. Yes.
Biroon!
- Ah, very good.
I feel sorry for her.
- We should have moved. - Ghazatoh bokhor.
Yes, perhaps you are right.
We should have moved.
Put her down! Put her down!
- Aah! - Put her down!
What did you do to her? Step back!
- Shut up!
- Listen! Listen! - No! Move!
Les...
- Don't. - Move!
What did you do to her?
- She took a whole bottle of my mom's pills. - Bring 'em to me.
How many? When?
- English! English!
My wife says, 20 tablets, perhaps half an hour ago.
My wife made her lose her stomach. She has vomited the pills.
She also tried to shoot herself with that pistol.
I discovered her with it in her automobile. She was quite upset.
She'd been drinking a great deal.
That's bullshit.
Come here.
Pick her up. Carry her into that room.
Carefully!
Step away.
She'll be okay. All right, come on.
I don't want to see this door move.
Get some rest, 'cause tomorrow you're selling this place back to the county.
Kath?
Kathy?
- Kathy! - Hmm?
Fuck.
Fuck, fuck, fuck!
- Bawbaw? - Yes?
- I have to go. - Use the toilet.
Your mother will not look.
Esmail.
Today I want you to pretend to be frightened of this man.
- You must do everything he says. - Why?
He's weak. He's nothing without his gun.
He's very scared. And a scared man is dangerous.
We will...
remain lions in our hearts, pesaram.
- You're here. - I'm here.
Sir. Sir.
Please let us out so my family can eat.
- What's going on? - I locked them in the bathroom.
Why? That's crazy, Les.
No. What's crazy is trying to kill yourself.
Kathy, why?
I didn't think you were coming back.
Well, I'm back.
Do you really want to die?
I just wanted things to change.
You will get out when you call the goddamn county!
Sir.
Sir, may I speak with you?
- What? - Please open the door.
I wish to speak with you directly.
I think I have a possible resolution.
You and I will go to the government office
and I will sign the necessary papers for returning the house to them.
They to me will write a check for $45,000.
This check I will give to you and the woman,
in exchange for putting the house in my name.
- You would do that? - I would do that.
Wait.
- We can't do this, Les. - I think that this can all work out.
He signs the house to the county.
When he gets the check, he gives it to us, then you sign the house back to him.
It's wrong. It's just wrong to do it this way.
This has got to work. This way, you get some money.
He gets what he wants, the house.
It's a win-win situation. No one gets hurt.
Let's just go.
Please, let's just go.
Kathy, we could use that money.
To start new.
- It's our only choice now. - He'll never let it happen.
All right, leave the keys and go do what you promised.
But your son stays here with me.
You're not back soon, Ishmael and I will be gone.
But we have made an agreement.
No.
I will for you do nothing without my son.
Nothing.
Shit.
Fine. Let's just do this.
Move it, Colonel. Come on. You, too, Ishmael.
Excuse me, Mr. Burdon.
- Slow down. - Deputy Sheriff Burdon.
Sir? I know you're busy.
I just wanted to say I appreciate everything you taught me.
- I just wanted to say thanks. - Hey, I appreciate that.
And good luck to you, Brian.
All right.
Now, you listen to me.
When we get in there, you and Ishmael here,
you're gonna have to hear me a lot better.
You have to do exactly what I tell you.
Help. Somebody, help us!
Somebody call police, fast!
My name is Esmail, not Ishmael.
Pesaram. Pesaram! Help, somebody! Call police!
Esmail, please.
Drop it now!
- I said drop it! - Wait!
No!
We have an officer-involved shooting.
Goddamn it, this kid is gonna bleed to death.
Call to hospital!
Hospital!
Sir...
I want only my son! I want only my son!
- Sir... - I want only my son!
I want only my son!
My son!
It is him, he has done this.
I will kill you! I will kill you!
I will kill you!
Pesaram, I am here!
What is your name, Deputy?
Sir?
- What? - What is your name?
I'm so sorry about all of this.
I have a headache.
Please, excuse for me.
Please, I must to my son.
Burdon corroborates the whole deal.
Mr. Behrani? You're free to go.
This is your recourse. You can press charges against Deputy Burdon...
Please, I must to hospital, please.
Your son is at St. Vincent.
He's three blocks east. We can get a police escort!
I want only my son.
Emergency!
I must see my son. He is here.
- He has been shot. - His name?
What's his name, sir?
Behrani.
Esmail.
He's in trauma. You can wait in the lounge.
Please, God, don't take my joon-am.
I make my nazr. My nazr, hear me. Please to hear me.
I will give everything to one who is less fortunate.
Yes! I will make it for the broken bird.
Please, God, I'm making nazr to this woman.
To Kathy Nicolo.
And I to you promise, if you heal my son,
I will return her father's house.
I will also give to her all the money I have.
My God, Khoda. I make nazr only for my son.
Please, I want only for my son.
I beg you, I will do whatever is your will.
I will purchase ten kilos of the finest seed
and find an American mosque, and I will feed them to all the birds outside.
I will let the birds cover me and peck out my eyes.
Please, God, my nazr is in your hands.
Hi. You've reached the Burdon family.
We're not here right now, but if you leave a message...
We'll call you right back!
Let's go, Burdon.
- Nadereh. - Hmm?
Massoud.
Drink this.
Some tea.
I am tired.
Soon we will return to the flowers of Isfahan...
the mosques of Qom...
and to the fine hotels of old Tehran.
I have taken us so far off our course.
But now it is time to return.
It is time for us to go home,
to our destiny.
Oh, God!
Please!
Are you Kathy Nicolo?
Yeah.
Is this your house?
No, it's not my house.