- Fuck you.
I don't give a fuck where you been.
You fucking pull a knife on me,
you better use it quick, you little cunt.
- On your feet.
Let me see your hands.
Let's see both hands.
All right, stay right there.
Keep 'em up.
- I can't take a pinch, Danny.
I'm on parole.
I could do hard time.
- Keep your hands up.
- Tell them I mugged you.
I dragged you in the alley.
I tried to take your money.
- I got my gun on me, all right?
I'm fucked anyway.
- Thanks, Danny.
- Don't you ever fucking come near me again.
- What are you assholes doing here?
- Yeah, that's right. He's my son.
What for?
Where?
What precinct?
Sergeant mckeene, yeah.
Thank you, yeah.
Yes.
Brian.
Brian!
Brian.
Damn it.
Brian!
Brian.
Damn it, Brian!
Brian.
Brian!
Brian.
Brian!
Brian.
Didn't I tell you not to come down here?
Didn't I?
What the hell are you doing down here?
Your brother's been arrested.
You better go get your father.
- So when she gets home, she's wearing a-
like, a mouse.
Anyway, he says, "jesus, katie.
What the hell happened to you?"
And she said, "I don't know.
"I asked mrs. Garber, I said,
"'mrs. Garber, what's a specimen? '
"And she told me to go piss in a bottle.
"So I told her to go shit in her hands,
and that's when the fight started. "
- I'll see ya.
- Pop.
- What's the matter?
- It's Danny.
He's down at the 68th precinct.
They arrested him.
- What did he do?
Son of a bitch.
Get in the car.
- Just so you know...
Just so you know, that was my christmas money
I bailed you out with.
- You'll get your money back. Don't worry about it.
- Yeah? I'm gonna get my money back?
What, are you gonna mug somebody with a gun?
You're a fucking thief now?
I should have let you rot in there.
- I didn't ask you to bail me out.
- Yeah, well, it's the last time, never again.
Look, you don't come home tonight, huh?
I don't want you in the house now.
I don't want you there ever.
You hear me?
- Okay by me.
- Fucking bum is what you are.
That's what you turned out to be, a fucking bum.
You understand?
- Takes one to know one.
- What did you just say?
- Nothing. - What did you just say to me?
- Dad, stop. Get off him.
- Hit me.
Go ahead. Hit me.
- Hey, you didn't knock me down, all right?
I slipped.
You remember that.
You did not knock me down.
- So what.
My old man hit me ten times harder
than I ever hit you, and I didn't go down neither, huh?
You coming? - No.
Whitey won't show up till noon, so we're good till then.
Get some blankets and shit from the house,
and we got soap and all in the men's room.
- Have to give that one a ten, huh?
- North.
- You know I haven't been in here since I was a kid?
Old man used to take me.
I remember we saw the dirty dozen.
He loved that one, pop.
- Remember, he used to take us on walks
across the brooklyn bridge?
- Yeah, yeah, and we'd take the train back, right?
First car, so we could look down the tracks.
- I don't know why he hits you and not me.
- Who knows?
He probably don't even know.
That's just the way it is. That's all.
I keep having this dream.
He hauls off to let me have it,
and I clock him.
I hit him so fucking hard.
He looks at me like he can't believe it.
And I hit him again.
He goes down like a rock.
He looks up at me...
Knows he can never hit me again.
Maybe someday I'll have the balls to do it.
- What are you gonna do now?
What's whitey charging for the stones?
- $50... Cash at the door, no advance.
- What you got here, like, 600 seats?
- Give or take. Why?
- That's 30 grand cash just sitting here that night.
- No way, Danny. No.
- We can do this.
You know where the money's gonna be.
You know how to get it.
- This is whitey we're talking about here.
- Whitey's not family. We're family.
- Shit, Danny.
- What are you gonna do?
You gonna stay here the rest of your life?
You gonna be an audience?
You gonna be the guy who watches what other people do?
We can get out of here and go somewhere
and live real fucking lives, do what we want to do,
not just see if we can get through a fucking day
without getting hit.
- You really think that it's possible?
- Yeah, and we've got to take it.
No one's gonna give it to us.
I need this, Brian.
You need it.
- I don't know much about this kind of thing.
They said they were the best.
As long as your father burns bills,
I figured, what the heck?
I want you to tell Danny to come back home.
- Danny's leaving.
Me too.
He hurt him bad, ma.
- I won't let him do that anymore.
- What are you gonna do, reason with him?
- Look, your father's not easy.
I know this.
But there's good in there.
I know you don't see it, but I do.
I remember things,
things you don't even know about,
things that happened before you were born.
Thing are not all one way, Brian.
He knows how hard it is out there.
He's trying to teach your brother how to be a man,
and you too.
- You really believe that, ma?
Why do you stay with him?
- Where am I gonna go?
I don't need anybody feeling sorry for me.
I made my choice, like the church says,
for better or for worse.
- I don't see anyone from the church here
when he comes home drunk.
- Don't talk that way about your religion.
And watch what you say about him.
He's still your father.
- He doesn't like to keep cash in the box office.
He always moves it to his office in the back of the theater.
- Who takes care of it?
- Me, usually.
He'll probably have me taking it back there
every ten minutes or so.
- What's near the office, doors, a window?
- There's a door right next to the stairs that go backstage.
- Can you make sure that's open?
So the concert starts at 9:00, so by 10:00,
all the cash that's gonna be there,
should be there, right?
- I guess.
- So by 10:00, you've got to make sure
whitey's not backstage, okay?
Keep him busy in the lobby.
I'll get through the door, find the office, grab the cash.
You meet me back here at 10:30.
- You should at least say good-bye to mom.
- Danny.
Look at me.
Look at me, Danny.
I'm sorry what he did to you.
- I'm all right.
- What kind of trouble are you in?
- Look, I've got to give something to pop.
Then I've got to get out of here.
- He's sleeping it off.
You don't want to wake him.
Trust me.
Let me make you guys something to eat, okay?
I've got some sloppy joes on the stove, okay?
It will just take a second.
Go-just sit down,
and I'll bring it right out, okay?
Brian, you got a phone call before.
- I did?
- Yeah, some guy, lynn burger or lam burger
or some kind of "burg"... Carnegie dally.
- From carnegie mellon?
- Whatever.
I wrote his number down on the napkin holder.
- Ma.
Tell pop this is the money I owe him.
- Ahhh.
- Oh, come on.
Just put it down and let it cool off.
- You need the iceberg that sunk the titanic
to cool this off; Let me tell you.
- So what are you, mr. Gourmet all of a sudden,
food critic from the brooklyn spectator?
- So do you use, like, an actual flamethrower...
- I'll give you a flamethrower.
- No, not the towel.
- You gave me a good scare there, boy.
Yeah, I didn't think he was gonna make it.
I heard your head hit the ground and went out like a light.
He was out cold.
- My head didn't hit the ground. I told you, you never-
- sure as hell did.
I heard it hit the ground, and all of a sudden, pop.
The sprinklers by the... The...
What the hell do you call it, maggie?
You know, the kiddie pool.
You mean... You mean, when he was a kid?
- Must have slipped or something.
I don't know.
- He doesn't remember that, Paddy.
He was five or six.
- You went down, and you didn't move.
And I run over, and I picked you up,
and just as limp as a...
Like a rag doll.
You was white as a sheet.
And I had you in my arms,
and I ran all the way to the hospital.
I run in the emergency room, and you wasn't moving,
wasn't even breathing, and I'm...
And I'm holding, you know,
and I look down at you,
and you're so small,
so still,
and just there for that minute,
oh, I hated you.
And I thought you was gonna die.
I thought you was dead already, maybe.
And I said to you,
"don't you die.
"Don't you go and make me...
"Care like this
and then go die on me. "
And then they took you away from me,
and everybody starts running around,
and they're doing whatever it is that they're doing,
and they made me go outside,
and I yelled at them.
I said to them, "you give me my boy back.
You give me back my little boy. "
Yeah, you gave me a good scare there, Danny boy.
- Paddy.
Go back to bed.
- Ehh...
- Let me take you back to bed.
It's all right, Paddy.
It's all right.
- Thanks for getting back to me.
I sent you a letter.
- Yeah, I didn't really get a chance to read it.
- Well, people don't usually send us polaroids of their work.
We wrote to tell you that you have to send in an application.
- Um-
- the stones want a wah-wah pedal.
What the fuck is that?
- I don't know. Ask one of those guys.
- Pain in the ass.
- Right, application.
I don't know.
- The thing is, I've had these polaroids
up on my bulletin board here,
and a lot of people are commenting on them,
and I see by your zip code that you might qualify
for some hefty student-
- I'm not underprivileged.
- Okay, I understand.
What school are you in now?
- Um... University of lafayette.
- Mm-hmm, don't know it.
Anyway, I'd like to send you an application.
We think this could be a good fit.
- Look, those pictures,
I just sent them because I was curious.
It wasn't, like, a serious thing.
- I'm not sure I understand.
Brian?
- Same to me or anyone else.
I'm making you a promise right here.
If I don't have all my money by noon tomorrow,
I will come back here and burn this fucking theater
to the ground and you along with it, understand?
Say yes, whitey.
Say yes.
- Whitey?
Hey! Hey!
- It's okay, kid. I'll be right with you.
- Next time you see me, I will not be talking.
You came along just in time.
Scared me off, you did.
- You okay?
- You kidding?
I had him right where I wanted him.
Come on. Don't give me that look.
I got this all under control.
After tonight, I'm gonna be in the clear.
Come here. I got something for you.
It's gonna get busy tonight,
so I wanted to give you this before I forget.
I put $1,500 in there for you, just for you,
'cause you help me out a lot here.
- You don't have to do this, whitey.
- No, I do. Really, I do.
Jimmy cheeks will get his, believe me,
so I put aside for you.
- I don't know what to say.
- Well, that's a first.
- I don't deserve it.
- Don't say that.
You're a good kid, Brian.
You can't hide it.
If you were my son, I'd be nothing but proud.
Anyway, we have a lot to do for tonight.
After lunch, we've got to find some kind of dressing room
for these guys.
I hear they're fussy bastards.
We got ten kegs of beer coming at 4:00.
Make sure you're here, ya little shit.
- I'm not gonna do it.
I just can't, Danny.
I'm sorry.
- What's the matter?
- I can't rob whitey.
I wish I could be like you.
I really do.
I wish I had your balls.
I wish I wasn't so fucking afraid of everything.
I wish- no matter how hard I try,
I'm never gonna be like you, Danny,
and you're always gonna hate me for that.
- I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
- Yes, you do.
You do.
- Brian, you're my brother.
- I know.
Can't that be enough,
just that?
Take this.
It will get you out of here,
at least get you set up somewhere else.
Don't rob whitey, Danny.
You can do something else.
It doesn't have to be this.
- I wish I could do what you do, make something out of nothing,
instead of always the other way around.
- I've been thinking a lot about the tent lately,
about you and me camping.
Sometimes I wish it could be simple like that again.
- I'll see ya.
- Danny.
I'm sorry I jacked you that time.
- Don't be.
I never took you camping, you asshole.
- It's gonna be good.
- How are we doing?
- They're still not here? - They're on their way.
Pete called; Look out for a limo the size of new jersey.
Here, I'll cover for you.
Put that in the office, okay?
Okay, how many?
- Two. - Two, okay.
- Come in. Have fun.
Enjoy the show.
- Look like you're gonna have a good crowd, whitey.
Too bad it's for "1 nit only. "
With all the money I spotted you,
maybe you could have bought a few es.
- A couple of es.
Yeah, I should get some es.
I'm gonna get some es.
Vip. How many?
- Hey, hump.
- Where the fuck have you guys been?
- Is mick here? Did he ask for me?
- Yeah, he wants to know who the fat fuck is
who's gonna block his spotlight.
- They're not here yet, and what the fuck is that?
- What?
- What do you mean, what?
You look like you've got a camel strapped to your chest.
Ohhhh.
- Guys, we've got, like, 9,000 kegs of beer in there.
- Yes, but that would involve an exchange of currency.
- Yeah, unless you can also arrange
for a student by platis.
- You mean gratis, asshole?
- Okay, you guys, just sit somewhere
and try not to fucking embarrass me.
- Okay, one ticket, $50.
Thanks very much. Have a good time.
Come on in. I.D., ladies?
Just kidding. Come on in. Come on in.
Very good. Thanks, very much.
How many, one?
One, $50, a ticket.
Here we go. No checks.
- I can't believe we're almost there.
- I know. - Ahh.
- Good thing we got here early.
- Just one?
The world's gone mad, I tell ya.
One ticket. Thanks, very much.
Okay, there's your change.
One? One for you.
All right, very good.
Ladies, ladies, come on.
Time's a-wasting. How many? Two?
- Yes. - Oh, there you go.
Come on in. Come on in.
Enjoy the show. Enjoy the show.
- Thanks. - How many?
Just one? This is very sad, very sad.
Go in. Meet a boyfriend. You'll have fun.
- I can't believe we're almost there.
Ahh.
- We sold out.
I just locked the doors.
They're three blocks away.
- You're drinking the beer that I brought in.
- Get the fuck out of here with that commie shit.
- Oh, oh. Hey, hey, hey.
Thank you.
Love you.
- I told you that we do not do pills.
We do not.
- No, I got it. No.
- Thought you'd be gone.
- Um, long story. - I wish I had known.
I would have let you in the vip entrance.
So what happened?
Your trip get postponed or something?
- Yeah, it's just temporary.
Thank you for the gift.
- You liked it?
- Nobody ever did anything like that for me before.
- So just out of curiosity, what did I do to scare you off?
- You didn't do anything,
anything you could help, anyway.
- Here.
- Oh, thanks.
You know, when my mother was my age,
she was married already.
She didn't really want to be, but she met my father.
She just fell in love with him right away.
She had all these plans.
You know, she was gonna go work for the airlines,
and she wanted to be a stewardess,
but she just couldn't help herself.
She was, like, 20 when they got married.
I never thought you could feel like that about somebody
so soon like that.
You know, like, enough to want to give up everything else.
I just couldn't let anything like that happen to me.
- Would that be the worst thing in the world,
to stay here with someone you like?
- I'll see you later.
- Yeah!
- Come on, mick.
Come on, stones.
Let's go.
Come on, stones.
- Fucking bullshit!
- You're not gonna get away with this.
- Give me my fucking money!
- You're not gonna get away with this.
- Who's running this joint?
- That's the little prick who works here.
- Where's our money?
Give us back our fucking money.
- Hey, hey, hey.
I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened.
- Where's our money?
Give us back our money.
- Get out of the way. Get out of the way.
- You're fucking dead.
- Look, I don't know what happened.
- Get out of my way.
Get the fuck back.
Hey!
Hey, Brian!
Brian.
Brian, I'm coming for you.
- I got you. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
Let's go.
Get away.
Get the fuck off me.
Get off me.
Come on.
- You're bleeding.
What'd they fucking do to you?
- You all right?
- What the fuck?
- Fuck.
Danny, no.
No, Danny, Danny.
Danny, Danny.
It's okay. It's okay.
Danny, Danny, Danny, Danny.
- It fucking hurts. - No, no, no, no, no.
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.
Don't take it out. Don't take it out.
Don't take it...
Fuck...
No, no, no, no, no.
Help!
Danny.
Danny!
Nooo!
Danny!
- Shh, it's all right.
It's just a storm.
I'm not gonna let anything happen to you.
- Don't leave me.
Don't leave me here.
- I'm not going anywhere.
Nothing bad is ever gonna happen to you.
I'm gonna make sure.
I'm not leaving.
- Eternal rest grant unto him, oh, lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon him.
May his soul and the souls of all the faithfully departed
through the mercy of god rest in peace.
Into your hands, oh, lord,
we humbly entrust our brother, daniel.
In this life, you embraced him with your tender love.
Deliver him now from every evil-
- don't take away my son, please.
Don't take away my boy.
It should be me.
It should be me, Danny.
- Pat.
- Take me.
Take me.
Please, give me back my little boy.
Danny.
- Come on, pat.
- It will be all right, pat.
- Easy.
It's okay. It's okay.
We got you.
- You okay?
- Tell you the truth, I had a lot more fun
last time I was here.
I'm glad I got to see you before you leave.
- I'm not going to I. A...
They gave that job to somebody else.
- Shit. Shauna, I'm sorry.
So you hook up somewhere else.
- Mm-hmm.
- All the experience you got, all the places you've been,
no problem.
- I never been anywhere, Brian.
Never really been out of brooklyn,
and now I'll never get out.
- It's okay.
Come on out now.
You okay?
You're not scared anymore?
- It's all right.
He got it out of his system.
Just make sure you're both asleep
before he comes back.
You okay?
Can I... Can I get you something?
- How's pop?
- Asleep.
- What is this?
Camp rockaway.
When your brother was a kid,
we thought it would be a good idea
to send him to summer camp.
You know, let him get some fresh air,
trees, things like that.
Your father saved up for it all year,
but Danny...
Danny didn't want to go.
No way.
Took him to the bus anyhow.
I was determined.
L-oh, he cried.
He-he-he held on to me.
He-he begged me not to make him go.
He...
He even promised he'd be good all summer.
So I took him back home.
I don't know if I did it for him or for me,
but I couldn't bring myself to put him on that bus,
and to this day, I'm sorry I didn't.
It would have been so good for him,
would have given him a chance to see what he could do
out there in the world.
The thing is, he wasn't strong enough to go.
And I should have been strong enough to make him go.
- The stones come to brooklyn.
Pretty fucking stupid, huh?
- Hey, it could have happened.
- No, it couldn't.
- Think they'll ever find whitey?
- I hope not.
He really pulled it off.
He rented all the equipment, the whole nine yards.
Even jimmy cheeks thought the stones were coming.
- Everybody's wondering if you knew.
- No.
I probably should have, but...
I always believed everything he said.
Are you going back to pittsburgh tomorrow?
- Yeah, classes start next week, so...
- Yeah.
How long you think it will take to get there?
You all right?
- They even have travel agents in pittsburgh?
- I wouldn't worry.
I have a feeling people in pittsburgh
really like getting out of pittsburgh
every once and a while.
- We've got a stop to make.
- Been a long time since I've seen you around here.
- I just came by to tell you I'm leaving.
- Yeah, your mother told me.
Going to school to draw pictures.
- Gonna try.
- Any good at it?
- Looks that way.
- Make a living with it?
- I don't know.
- You, uh, need any money or anything?
- No, I just came to say good-bye.
- Well...
I guess you said it.
Brian.
- That's for my brother.
- # oh I got into a fistfight #
# on my first day of school #
# oh I came home with a fat lip #
# and a blackened eye to boot #
# oh it seems the local bullyboy #
# well he didn't like me much #
# when he knocked me down I got right up #
# oh what else could I do #
# oh I came home to my old man, told me what I had to do #
# 'cause tomorrow that same bullyboy #
# be waitin' there for you #
# oh there's good and there's bad #
# in this world that we live in #
# I'm tellin' ya son #
# oh believe what you feel not what you heard #
# I'm tellin' ya son #
- # I met a girl at 16 #
# and she broke my heart in two #
# oh I learned to drink at 17, had my first woman too #
# oh the times they were a-changin' #
# and my old town I outgrew #
# had to see the world and live my own life #
# so many things I had to do #
# well I quit my job at the cannery #
# and saved a buck or two #
# oh I knew I'd miss old mom and dad #
# well it's what I had to do #
# oh there's good and there's bad #
# in this world that we live in #
# I'm tellin' ya son #
- # oh believe what you feel not what you heard #
# I'm tellin' ya son #
# oh I left home where I was staying #
# and I didn't get a hug and we said good-bye #
# oh take care he said, you'll do all right #
# forget what I told you #
# I'm tellin' ya son #
# oh pop was right that night #
# could've been all round the world #
# sometimes I think about my hometown #
# people I left behind #
# oh maybe someday I'll settle down #
# and meet a lovely little girl #
# until then, I'll go wanderin' #
# it's the life I choose #
# I carry in my heart the words he said #
# it seems like yesterday #
# my pops been gone now a couple years #
# still remember what he said #
# oh there's good and there's bad #
# in this world we live in #
# I'm tellin' ya son #
- # oh believe what you feel not what you heard #
# I'm tellin' ya son #
- # oh there's good and there's bad #
# in this world that we live in #
# I'm tellin' ya son #
- # believe what you feel not what you heard #
# I'm tellin' ya son #
- # I'm tellin' ya son #
# I'm tellin' ya son #
- # I'm tellin' ya son #
# I'm tellin' ya son #
- # I'm tellin' ya son #
# I'm tellin' ya son #
- # I'm tellin' ya son #