Devlin, should I actually kiss her here? No, no.
Move on to the next scene.
Brendan. Brendan. Brendan.
Where's Dode flopped?
I know you two are cozed up, so you tell me or you won't.
Now, last time I checked,
you were giving me ultimatums.
It worked. You went to Laura, told her my tale.
Part of the plan? Turned out to be.
I just feel so cheap and used.
Gol, I must seem a real cad. Sometimes I just hate myself.
Whatever happened to us, Brendan? Where's Dode flopped?
We used to be a pair and a half.
Sometimes I miss having someone to talk to.
Do you ever miss having someone to talk to?
Oh, yeah.
You must.
I need to hear Dode's tale about Emily. It's important.
Well, you better be sure you wanna know what you wanna know.
Laura's working with me now, and I'll have The Pin and Tug in my corner soon.
The sooner I get the truth from Dode, or the truth about Dode from you,
the safer you'll both be.
No?
Pass it on to Dode, anyway.
Maybe he'll have the sense to get out from under you before he gets hurt.
You didn't.
Did you?
So Dode and Kara are shacked up, but what's their play?
I don't know, Dode passed Emily the note. He knows something.
Now Kara's got him under her thumb, she's gonna use him somehow.
But I don't know and I don't know.
So all we can do is wait until she shows some cards.
Anyway, tomorrow we see if The Pin hires me or breaks my knees.
I give us 70-30. And if we're in, I get under his skin and see what's what.
You stick to Kara. Keep your specs peeled for Dode.
And stay away from Laura.
I think she's with us, Brendan.
I'll let you know when she is.
Okay.
You the Pin's?
What's his answer?
Chuck Burns. Long-haired lug, deals, shines a blade.
I know him. I just can't pin him to any crowd.
He's definitely not muscle for anyone.
He taps the Carrows crowd, but doesn't hang with them.
I mean, if you've got a guess, I could check it out.
Pin. If he's with The Pin everything's kablooie, and I gotta blow the burgh.
I'll check it. I'm in third now.
Never mind.
If I don't call by 3:00, call in the bulls.
So?
So.
That's what you'll get every week for your services.
Unless, of course, there's some specific job,
in which you'll get sliced in with my crew.
Square? Yeah.
We're doing a thing tonight down at the Hole.
Know it?
South of T Street. Yeah.
It's a little welcome-you-in thing.
6:00.
I know what you did. I was in the tunnel.
I saw you hide her.
Dode.
Anyone I tell, it would ruin you some way.
And I'm gonna tell someone.
Are you making an offer? Maybe.
Or maybe I'll just do you in.
Hire another hash head to blade me?
Don't need no blades, shamus.
I just gotta squawk. What do you want?
Just to see you sweat.
Brendan? Brain.
Are you all right?
So I'm gonna start you on the dope circles.
Anyway, there's not much else doing.
I'm tailing out this big deal, but it's almost done.
Oh, yeah, what was it?
It was big time. Biggest I ever done.
And there was a snag in it, but it's almost done now.
What was it?
You're going to make me curious, being so curious.
I want to lay something out.
You're coming into a certain situation,
and I'm sort of bringing you in because of it.
I didn't tell Tug to hit you for the Brad Bramish thing.
He got hot and he just hit you.
He's been doing that.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Muscle you can't control's no good at that.
You're working for me, not for Tug. That's all.
All right.
It's tough sometimes.
It's twisted.
Complicated. I don't know.
Everyone's got their thing.
You read Tolkien? What?
You know, The Hobbit books.
Yeah.
His descriptions of things are really good.
Oh, yeah.
He makes you want to be there.
Don't go to class. What?
Fifth period, Trueman and the VP come in, asking for you.
Did they call your mom?
Probably, I got in late.
Get out of there, too, then.
Meet me behind the library. I've got some stuff.
Frisco Farr was found on a sidewalk,
three weeks ago, outside of Pinkerton's Deli.
He was in a coma.
His stomach contained a sausage sandwich,
a horse dose of heroin
and traces of choleric tricemate,
which is a poisonous chemical found in laundry detergent.
He's still under. Nobody's talking, so nothing's come of it.
OD? No.
The chem the junk must've been cut with put him down.
Bad junk, bad brick.
Could that form of heroin be called brick? It was a concentrated powder.
Its street handle's "whip," "rock" or "brock."
From Laura.
I told you to stay clear of Laura.
You tell her to stay clear of me?
I got to get voicemail.
No, tell her I'll be at The Pin's at 1:00.
Any news with the Lug? No.
No news.
This isn't good. No.
Ask.
Administration.
Gary Trueman's office, please.
This is Trueman.
What the hell are you doing, asking for me in class?
What the hell are you doing out of class?
What?
The VP and I needed to ask you a few questions about Emily Kostich,
who you might have heard is missing. It's a very serious thing.
The police are involved.
The VP and I knew you two were close,
so the VP and I came to ask you questions,
but you were truant.
What? I've been cut loose.
I'm not safe here. We shouldn't have met in the open.
All right, lay low, but ask on the underneath for Dode.
He set up whatever Emily walked into.
It's getting more and more urgent that we talk.
What are you going to do?
I would have liked to have played it safe, but there's no time.
The Pin's not letting anything drop.
I have to push things a bit. How?
I don't know. Find Dode.
What with the poking, genius?
Maybe you're poking for your bull friends!
Don't be a sap. I can't even face up at school, the VP's so hot for me!
Yeah, maybe you're looking to make good!
I'm looking to find this big game The Pin's played.
Not to gum it, but just so when its tail jams in my back,
I know who to bill for the embalming!
You ought to ask him what you wanna know.
I did, he didn't tell me!
The Pin's not giving me the straight. That makes me nervous.
Makes me angry.
Yeah.
That's understandable.
There was 10 of them.
I don't know where he picked them. He didn't tell me.
So we get 10 kils of brock.
There ain't enough marks in the whole burgh to eat that.
So he unloads eight up north, even up to the docks.
I don't know who. Didn't tell you.
Yeah.
That was eight. So that's the 10th in there.
We gotta break it off into doses.
Sell off around the High, maybe some by Shorecliffs.
What about the ninth brick?
Yeah, there were some problems with that.
Yeah? Yeah.
It disappeared.
Someone skimmed it.
We started raising hell with all the likely suspects,
and what do you know? It came back.
But it came back bad.
One of ours took a dose off the top, laid him out.
Frisco.
Yeah, poor Frisco.
You heard about that?
We'll catch the rat.
Just takes time.
I heard something fell with Emily Kostich.
Emily who?
Kostich.
Don't know her.
Has The Pin talked about her? Not to me.
He might know something.
Ask him. Tell me what he says, 'cause,
you know,
if you heard something, I wanna check.
Sure.
Pow-wowing? Just shooting the shat.
Yeah, just shooting it. Good.
Tug, I got a call, someone who says they know something about Emily.
Emily? Emily Kostich.
Where she's at now.
Says we'd want to know. He wants to meet. Yeah?
So we'll meet.
4:00.
Emily used to be Tug's girl.
You know Emily, didn't you? A while back.
You've heard she's missing. Yeah, I heard that.
So maybe you want to come along, too?
What does Emily got to do with you?
Show, maybe we'll find out.
4:00.
That's my ride.
4:00.
Payphone, anywhere.
The mobile customer you have called is not available...
What time is it?
Brendan, you've fallen... What time is it?
3:40! You're exhausted. You've swallowed a lot of blood!
Get back in the car. Shut up! Shut up!
You need to go to the hospital. You're sick!
Shut up, please! Please!
Okay. What you gotta do is
drive around to the Pie House lot.
So Dode's gotta go by you or me to get down to the tunnel.
If you see Dode,
then honk four times, long-short, long-short.
And don't be seen.
Get back in the car. Do it!
Please, I need you to do this.
I need you here.
Please.
What are you doing, Dode? You gonna stop me?
What do you think you're doing, Dode?
I saw you. I saw what you did.
What did you see? I saw you.
What'd you see me... I was in the tunnel, and I saw you!
You were with her, dead, and you took the body! I saw you hide it!
Yeah, I did. That's all you saw. What about before?
Before what?
Before I got there. Did you see who killed her?
You killed her. I found the body, Dode.
No, you... I thought you didn't.
But we figured you out. I got the news on you, 'cause you hid the body.
Who's we? Shut up!
Shut up! You're always talking, always this and that, smartso! You gotta shut up!
I didn't kill her, Dode. You're not going to talk!
Dode, I know what you think of Em. Shut up!
And I know you tried to help her.
You're going to shut your mouth!
Me and Kara, we're gonna bury you, and we're gonna get paid doing it, dig?
We're gonna put it over real nice!
I'm telling you now, you're in over your head.
You don't want to put your hand in this!
She's dead! You... Why was she scared, Dode?
She came to me. Who was she scared of?
I think I know why, I just gotta know who! You're trying to confuse me.
Dode. You couldn't stand it, your little Em.
She was gonna keep it. It was mine, and you couldn't stand that!
What was yours? I had you pegged.
What was yours?
I loved her,
and I would have loved that kid.
I'm gonna bury you.
What'd I miss?
Dode here says Emily Kostich is dead.
Oh, yeah?
He says he knows who did it.
He says he knows where the body is.
He says he wants more money than I think the information is worth.
That so, Dode?
So walk. What's the info have to do with you, anyways?
Plenty. Plenty, he says.
And he wants cash on the nail.
That's a pot-skulled reef-worm with more hop in his head than blood.
Why pay for dirt you can't believe? No. You'll believe this.
Maybe you will. No, you will.
'Cause it's someone close to you. Real close.
Maybe it's hot, but it's Dode. You can't trust it.
Real close.
I'm not getting my shoes wet for this. Let him milk you if you want.
Stay.
It's still too much.
No, it isn't. You won't complain when you hear it.
So maybe you should.
You had her up against the wall with the brick.
I know my business. It's still too much.
No, it isn't, 'cause that's not why she was killed,
but it's real important to you,
'cause the person who killed her is real close.
'Cause he's got a lot to lose.
And he knows if I don't bury him by spilling to you,
I spill to the bulls and I bury him for real.
And he's really, really scared.
She had a kid in her, and he couldn't stand it!
Tug, it's all right!
Tug, stop!
Tug!
Tug.
She sprung it on me, just...
It's a hell of a thing to spring on a guy.
I don't remember much.
Laura talked me down after.
Said whatever...
She knew her, said it wasn't true.
But I still think sometimes.
I think
about it being true,
about it being mine.
Maybe I did it
'cause I thought it was true.
It's a hell of a thing.
You up? What's the stats?
Everyone's just laying low.
You're here with us now, at my folks' place.
Everyone's assuming it's war.
No one's said anything, yet.
Everyone's laying low.
War?
You're with us. The hell I am.
All right, I'm with you.
So just lie low. Sleep some more.
Laura, she said you should sleep.
Brendan? Yeah.
Are you... What? Man, have you heard about Dode?
I was there. You...
Where were you yesterday? I called.
Kasprzyk took my phone, turned it off. I just now got it back.
All right, listen. Are you okay?
Just listen.
Is my name in the papers with the story? No.
All right. Is it just Dode's name in the papers?
Yeah. What do you mean?
Listen, I'm gonna be calling you tonight, probably late.
So sleep with your phone on. Could you get a car if you needed to?
If it's late enough I could take my mom's. Be ready then. I'll call.
Brendan, did you hear about Dode?
You scheming tramp. You set that poor kid up.
You held Dode like a card till you could play him. For money!
I don't know what you're talking about.
You'd bury me at the same time, but it was mostly for the money.
You got Dode thinking Em had his kid, thinking I did it,
and that was enough for him, but he stuck to the money,
'cause you had your claws in him!
'Cause he couldn't come away from the deal without it and make you happy!
Brendan, I think you just need to just sit down for a second.
I think you're just a mess right now.
Can you please, sweetheart, could you go run and get my shoes from my locker?
Still wish you knew what you wanted to know?
You know, if it's any consolation, it probably wasn't Dode's kid.
It might have been Tug's kid. Frankly, I wouldn't bet a horse.
It was kind of a crowded field there at the end, if you know what I mean.
Meanie.
What are you doing? Showing your ace.
Far enough.
Everyone's paying social calls.
So what are the stats?
The stats are war. Tug got hot. He panicked.
Tug's been after my digs from the get-go.
No, he's been anxious, 'cause he thought if you found out he killed Emily,
you'd turn him over.
He was right. Yeah, well.
I told him to get this straight, no roughing. I wasn't even there.
All right, so he's a hothead. So you don't want him on your side.
At least let's have a pow-wow before we start digging trenches.
Maybe we can all walk away amiable enemies.
Yeah, all right.
4:00. Tomorrow?
Tonight. Let's clear it all before it boils up again.
Wait!
I'll drive you back.
So here's the sit.
You and The Pin are gonna pow-wow, tonight.
4:00, his place.
Bring all the muscle you want, you won't need it.
He wants to talk straight,
and you're gonna work with him for whatever he needs.
'Cause you don't want war. The hell I don't.
The Pin's sitting on the brick profits. Hitting him now would be post.
Make peace, wait for your chance.
He's right, Tug. Smooth it out.
Besides, he's got you on the Dode thing.
War will mean you versus him and every bull in the burgh.
Yeah, we'll talk.
You going? Yeah.
Go away.
I'm sorry, Brendan.
I'm so sorry.
Don't go tonight.
I gotta make sure everything plays out smooth.
It'll play out however it plays, without you there.
I gotta make sure.
Why?
'Cause if there's war, I'm in it, too.
I'm just scared.
If things go bad tonight...
Just be careful.
Your folks left a car here? Yeah.
Take it and Laura's. I'll go first in yours.
The hell you'll take mine.
The scenic route. Draw off any tailers.
They'll think it's you, might even radio back you're alone.
Mr. Smarts.
You got a cigarette?
I don't smoke. I've seen you smoke.
I don't smoke cigarettes.
Give me 15 minutes, then go.
Write this down.
I'm gonna be out of The Pin's by 4:15.
So at exactly 4:15, you put an anonymous call into the bulls.
You tell them there are drugs in the trunk of the black Mustang
outside The Pin's house.
Can you get the car? Yeah.
All right, after you call the cops, go to Tug's house. 12 Elm.
Park outside and wait. Laura's inside.
She hasn't got a car, but if she blows on foot or gets a pick, tail her. All right?
All right? Okay.
I'll call you when it gets light.
Thanks, Brain.
Talk.
I want full assurance that any heat from Emily and Dode is on just you.
I don't even want my name pulled into the shindig.
Second, you owe me six C's.
No rush.
But I want your shake that they'll be home in not too much time.
That's square. You did them, after all.
Lay low, it'll blow over. Stick on this,
one of you will dish it to bury the other. You'll both get the rap.
As for the six, did you borrow it?
Yeah.
Then you owe it. Shouldn't need a shake on that.
All right to both. Good. Let's seal it up and blow for keeps.
Third thing,
the last brick...
It's yours.
That's not the point.
I'm gonna start selling it.
How do I know it's not bad?
Why would it be? Why was the last one?
Because someone got greedy.
Tug here's had the means to swipe half of it and cut it bad for a long time.
Now we're splits, the loss of my trust is retroactive.
Did you, Tug? No.
All right, let's shake and blow. Not good enough.
What would be good enough?
I want to see him dose it, just to prove it.
Then we're square.
Hell for that. I didn't touch your junk! That's all!
I wanna see it. To hell!
Your not wanting to dose, it's proving something to me right here.
Oh, it better be.
It's telling that I ain't under your thumb no more!
That I ain't playing lapdog to no gothed-up cripple!
I'll dose it.
What?
If that'll shut you two apes up, I'll take the dose.
If I don't die, we're all right as rain.
Deal?
Fine.
Tangles.
Johnny, go with him.
Where is it? Where's the brick? What's happening? What did you do with it?
I didn't touch the brick. You better give it back.
What's happening?
Cops? No.
The brick...
The brick is gone.
Make peace, huh? Talk it out?
Get your boys in my den so's you could snag it under my nose!
No, it's not that! Was it bad, Tug?
Snag it so I don't know, or sell it off to flat the war odds!
You're right! I really did all that! Pin, think about it!
Tug, no!
Brendan!
No!
Help me!
No! No!
Brendan! Please!
Please help me.
It's the cops!
Cops! Help me.
Brendan, please.
Hey, where are you? Library. Where are you?
Did she blow last night?
No, stayed there until 6:30, then walked to school.
You didn't give her a ride, did you? No.
She came to school, straight from Tug's? Yeah.
She there now? Yeah.
Not with me, but here.
All right, tell her I wanna meet up on the field in half an hour.
Then go home, get some sleep.
Will do.
Did you see it all?
With The Pin and Tug?
No, I took your advice and didn't go.
No?
What happened?
The papers say six dead,
three around the house,
girl in the back of Tug's car, and The Pin and Tug.
Yeah?
Tug tried to shoot his way out when the police got there.
They tied him to Dode, too. Same gun.
And the girl.
Huh.
Well, it's a good thing you weren't there. Yeah.
Do you think the girl was Emily?
Probably.
You loved her.
Yeah, I did.
You did all of this because you loved her.
And now it's finished.
No.
What?
It's not finished.
Tug pulled the trigger on Em, and he got the fall for it.
But the bulls could have found that out without me.
I set out to know who put her in the spot, who put her in front of the gun.
That was you, angel.
What are you talking about?
It was you.
Brendan. What?
You want the whole tale? You want me to tell it to you?
Tell it to me.
All right, from the top.
You had your fingers in Brad Bramish for appearances
and to keep him buying from The Pin, who you were hooked with.
When Emily came to you and Brad, you saw her for what she was,
an insecure little girl trying to get in.
She goes on the back burner.
Meanwhile, maybe you're getting bored, or maybe just greedy,
but when The Pin scores big with the bricks, you take your shot.
You hook one, take half, cut it back to size, but you cut it back bad.
Maybe accidentally, maybe to down The Pin's operation, doesn't matter.
You put it back. Poor Frisco doses off it and lands in a coma.
So now The Pin's fuming, maybe he's jealous of Brad,
so he comes to Brad's car looking for blood, or at least a scape.
You're in big trouble. There's gonna be a war over this.
And there's Emily. She trusts you. She wants in.
It's duck soup. No!
You frame her for the bad brick, then you cut her loose.
You turn on your heel and bite her in the throat.
Last week at the payphone, Del Rio and Sarmentoso,
she saw something she was scared of.
Tug's car driving by, The Pin riding shotgun.
But she wouldn't have seen The Pin.
No, she was across the street, angel. She saw the driver's side. She saw you.
She saw you, and she ran like she saw some devil.
Brendan, why...
She took the hit, Dode hid her away, but The Pin was on to her.
He tracked her down and told her to meet, that they'd make good.
He gave her a time and a place and sent Tug. Just to get the straight.
But maybe you had talked Tug up. Or maybe he just blew a fuse.
But when Em sprung it on him that she had her kid,
he did what anyone could count on Tug doing.
He hit her.
She took the hit for you, and you let her take it.
Stop! Stop! That's the tale.
Are you gonna tell me it's not? Stop it. It's not.
Will you tell me it's not?
It's not.
It isn't true.
I hope it isn't.
I want you to have been on my side all along,
not just trying to get me under your thumb,
like Brad and The Pin and Tug.
But I think you knew that party was gonna blow up.
I think that was your final play.
But I hope I'm wrong.
I hope everything I wrote in the note
that I dropped at Gary Trueman's office this morning is wrong.
About your and Brad's involvement in The Pin's runnings.
And I hope you didn't steal the brick last night in your purse.
I didn't.
Good.
That means you didn't let me walk into a slaughterhouse.
And you didn't lead The Pin and Tug and their crews to the slaughter.
And when Trueman reads my note, takes my cue and searches your locker,
he won't find a damn thing.
Brendan,
don't do this.
It's done.
Done?
Well, that's most of it.
Nine out of 10.
I told Em to tell Tugger it was his.
Told her it would soften him up.
She said she wished she could keep it, but she didn't love the father.
I was gonna drive her down to the doctor the next day.
Most wouldn't.
She was already starting to show.
Three months.
Do you know whose kid that makes it?
Or have you known all along?
Mother...
You get your straight? Yeah.
I wouldn't have, if I... It's all right.
Chuck Burns came to. The knife guy. He spilled it all to the bulls.
Turns out Brad Bramish hired him on his own. It was just a grudge thing.
Fits.
You did good, Brain. Go sleep.
Yeah. You, too.
What'd she whisper to you?
She called me a dirty word.
All right, you don't have to tell me.