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Remember, if you guys have to return your textbooks by 5 o'clock today,

you'll be fine, alright?

Okay, okay, and if you leave anything behind in your locker, it's gonna be

thrown out at the end of the day.

Questions?

Anybody have any questions?

Hey,

Erica.

How's your new boyfriend next door?

He's not next door. He's behind me. I ain't never even seen him. I ain't never

even seen him.

Who are your neighbors then?

Goldberg Pyle and his brother Goober?

Eat shit.

What was that?

Hey, come back here, faggot.

Hey, I said come back here.

Kicking stones down by the gypsy shaft.

Along the wrong side of the tracks.

Stepping over all the cracks.

Cross my fingers too.

Wishing on that lucky day.

When I finally make my getaway.

Won't be nothing left to see. No, no.

Only one thing left to do.

But just to run through the valleys and down through the woods.

Out in the alleys past the old neighborhoods. And I know I got so far

to travel and the power is late.

But it's out of the darkness when I make.

my great escape.

When I make my great escape.

on me?

No. I'm working on my mud fort.

What are you doing?

I'm planting vegetables.

Hey, thanks for moving in here. Now the kids at school call me faggot and walk

on the other side of the hall.

I have to live somewhere.

Yeah, well, why don't you go inside until I get done working on my garden?

Why?

So I don't have to worry about catching something and dying.

It can't be transmitted through the air.

Yeah, well, just to be on the safe side, I think you should go inside.

But I'm working on my mud fort.

Hey, what would you do if I come over there and whooped your ass?

How long would that take?

About ten seconds.

I'd wait until you were finished, and then I'd continue working on my mud

fort.

You mean you'd just let me beat you up?

I'd try to stop you, but I probably wouldn't be able to. I'm not very big.

Well, in that case, it'd only take five seconds.

So is that what you're going to do?

Maybe later.

You son of a bitch.

I warned you what would happen if you got all dirty again.

There's some boys outside playing baseball.

If you're going to make the effort to get to know them, it'll be very nice.

Oh, I'm going to go out to some girls from the office tonight, so put yourself

a dinner in the microwave.

You know, have you thought any more about Colorado?

I'm not going to camp.

You know, but if you just gave it a chance, you'd meet some nice friends.

Why can't I go see Dad?

If he says yes, I'll put you on the next plane.

Go ahead.

You know, you and his little friend Cindy could go to the movies and get him

for half price.

She's 23, Mom.

Oh, amazing.

Old enough to drink.

Yeah, but she doesn't.

Man, I was on World 8.

You know it's not good to spend too much time with these games.

Alright,

well I have nothing against going fishing, but I'm not touching the worms.

I'll take care of the worms. I'll take care of the worms. Yeah, let's see about

that.

Good night.

Edge first.

It ended up giving me two pints of blood.

I guess that's a lot for a baby.

My grandmother says you're going to hell.

She says you'll suffer eternal torture from a billion flames hotter than the

center of the sun.

She must be some kind of genius.

What?

Well, my doctor's really smart.

He says he has no idea what happens to people after they die.

If your grandmother knows, she must be a genius.

She's a clerk at Kmart.

Maybe she's just an underachiever.

No.

She's an idiot.

So maybe I won't go to hell after all.

Are you sure those germs of yours don't travel through the air?

How old are you?

Eleven.

Jesus, you're a midget.

Well, if you look at the lower limit of what's considered normal for my age, I'm

only four inches shorter.

Oh.

So... You know how to play Battleship?

G9.

No. Sam, you sure?

Yep.

D7.

Myth.

Have to eat my lunch now.

Why don't you just eat whenever you're hungry?

Because if I only ate when I was hungry, I wouldn't be here.

Do you want to go to Peterson's?

What's that?

It's a supermarket.

Food?

You got any money?

In my bedroom.

What do you want to do with him?

You want to burn him?

Where'd you get it all?

Allowance.

And fines.

Fines?

It's a little hard to explain.

This is great.

Since I know what the story is, I'll be the navigator and you can be treasurer.

What's the treasurer do?

He carries all the money and pays for things.

I'm supposed to pay for both of us?

Well, I'm navigating for both of us. You want it to be fair, don't you?

How far is Peterson's?

Why?

If I walk too far, I get kind of tired.

What do you mean that the depth of the water would be the key?

Obviously, in the middle of the ocean, the shark would win.

And on dry land, the lion would win. So how much water are we talking about?

Two and a half feet.

And how big is the shark?

Eleven feet.

I still say that the lion would win.

Wrong. How can you be sure?

Because they did research on it at Stanford University.

The shark won easily.

They just let two animals kill each other out of college? No, you idiot.

They just had them fight long enough to see who was going to win. And then their

trainers pulled them apart.

How?

Haven't you ever heard of a leash?

Never heard of a shark with a leash?

Well, there's a lot of things you've never heard of.

I guess that's true.

Hold on.

My mom says that every drop of water that lands here eventually ends up in

the Mississippi.

That means it goes to my dad.

He's still in New Orleans.

What does he do?

You ever heard of a rock group called Led Zeppelin?

No. Well, they're really famous.

You know who the guitar player is?

Your dad?

No, a guy named Jimmy Page. My dad sold him his car insurance.

Or a Pontiac Trans Am.

Know what you're going to get?

I don't know. It's been a long time since I've had any candy.

My mom has me eating lots of vegetables.

Gotcha.

Are we allowed to do this?

Of course. How is she supposed to know what you're going to get?

Wow.

Not bad, huh?

Well, get out your money.

You missed.

Hey, how much you pay for that faggot?

Hey, you guys took a wrong turn. This is a no homo zone.

I ain't a homo.

Neither is he.

He got it from a blood transfusion.

Well, then what's that awful smell?

We see we're walking across the grass and we accidentally stepped in your

mother.

Can't hit us all with that.

I'll only be aiming at you.

Come on, then.

Hey, what about your little brother, huh?

What about him?

When he fell off the jungle gym at school?

They had to take him to the hospital. He could have caught something then.

Yeah, but he didn't.

But he could have.

Then everybody would be calling him faggot and queer.

And he'd get sick and die.

And they'd write homo on his headstone.

Then when your mother went to bring him flowers, she'd say little Eddie Horner

homo. And you know what the worst part of battle would be?

Probably before he died, a bunch of assholes like you who ain't sick thought

it might be fun just to beat the shit out of him.

Sorry, you're sick.

Now all of a sudden I'm yelling the same stuff at them?

Well, they know I'm not a faggot because a faggot wouldn't yell faggot back.

Now that's why you should have yelled faggot too.

I just wouldn't feel right saying that. Why the hell not?

Well, they were nice to me at the hospital. They played games with me. You

played games with homos?

Just talk about something else.

Sometimes I don't know about you.

What's that supposed to mean?

Oh, nothing.

Do you want to play Nintendo?

No.

I'm getting kind of tired.

I think I should go take a nap.

Well, uh, we should work on the mud fort tomorrow.

You want to?

Leave it.

Where can I eat in the living room?

I don't get home for dinner that often. When I do, I want us to eat together.

That's part of being a family, isn't it?

You know, some women saw that little AIDS boy down near Peterson's yesterday.

It's in the newspaper?

No.

Jan told me.

You know, I've seen him in the backyard there, but I didn't know he left the

house.

The other day I heard him coughing.

I said I heard him coughing.

Oh, well, I don't think you have to worry about anything.

I mean, with that fence there, no one could catch anything.

What if he wants to come over and play?

Oh, Eric, think of some excuse.

You're so good at that.

What if I bump into him out on the street?

Well, that's common sense.

You just keep a safe distance.

What's a safe distance?

Seven feet.

Guess that rolls out sleepovers.

And Mom wants you to come to dinner.

Well, Mom's working late, so it's cold.

Well, then there's something I have to warn you about.

What?

She likes to call me sweetie.

Sweetie. You gotta promise not to laugh.

You want some more carrots, sweetie?

No, thanks.

Are we ready for dessert, then?

I'll try a little. Yeah, I bet.

You didn't even finish your meatloaf muffins. Will you shut up?

She's not going to hear me, sweetheart.

Don't worry about it, sweetie. She's not going to hear me.

Here we go.

Dexter tells me you have a girlfriend.

Yeah, well, I did, but I had to dump her.

Spin, spin, spin.

His father has a girlfriend named Cindy.

Yeah, since they get settled in their new apartment, I may be going down

there.

How does your mom feel about this?

Um... Actually, we haven't really talked it out much yet.

Well, I'd love to meet her.

She works quite a bit.

20, 22 hours a day.

What does she do?

Real estate.

And at night she works at the mini-mart.

You know, the one downtown.

25 cents.

I gotcha. Damn.

Whenever I catch her twirling her hair, she has to pay me a quarter.

25 cents, yes.

Uh, are you gonna finish that?

Oh, um... Uh, well, the doctors say it's completely safe, Eric, but when it comes

to other people's children, we've decided, um... not to take any chances.

Forgot.

I've got a plan.

Just as soon as they find the cure, we're heading out to Baskin Robbins and

ordering one of those monster sundaes where everybody just digs right in.

It's a good plan.

What is it?

She's afraid that they might not find a cure in time.

Hey, what if they don't find a cure?

I'm sure they will eventually.

Well, what if they're looking in the wrong place?

What do you mean?

Well, have you ever seen that movie Medicine Man?

You found the cure for cancer and all you can say is, I know?

What is it?

Vermilion. It's flour.

You want me to start eating flour?

Shh. I came here six years ago.

Why?

For three tribes.

I'll tell them where it might be.

Flowers and leaves.

Maybe even pine cones.

It can't hurt to try.

My mom has me eating lots of vegetables, especially broccoli. All I ever eat is

candy and I never get sick.

Hey, that's it.

Somebody gets sick.

And all they eat is fruits and vegetables.

It's the only thing we stop eating.

This is stupid.

About 50 years ago, a doctor noticed a mold was growing on his bread.

He started feeding it to people.

Everybody said, this is stupid.

You know what it turned out to be?

Aspirin.

Still 100.2.

How you feeling?

Okay.

Let's try Butterfinger combined with Bubblicious.

I'm not so sure I understand why you have to try all this stuff too.

Don't you know anything about scientific method?

Little.

Well, you have to have a control group so you can see if the results are

uniform.

You have a control group?

Yep.

Is Dexter here?

Yes, he is, but he's grounded.

Why?

Because he used up all his money buying candy.

Oh. Okay.

How long was he grounded for?

Till tomorrow.

Okay.

What's that?

Uh, we were gonna play submarine.

Well, grounded is grounded, so...

I'm gonna have to wait till tomorrow. I understand.

Just a minute, okay?

Dexter, get your ass down here.

Why? Because I'm changing your punishment. You have to play with Eric.

Grab the sacrificial paddle.

Hey,

what do you think of this one?

I'm wondering about something.

Where do bugs go to the bathroom?

It's not on leaves.

How can you be sure?

Because bugs eat leaves.

Not even bugs are stupid enough to shit on their own food.

What do you say?

Go ahead.

Hmm.

Oh.

Tastes like crap.

No shit. Don't you know where bugs go to the bathroom?

Sweet and crap.

It's too weird.

You can't be afraid to try it.

Afraid to touch it.

How do you feel?

Okay.

She's here.

You got me.

Okay.

Dexter?

Is your friend Eric staying for dinner again?

What? That means yes, white woman.

Okay. Thanks, Sally.

Ow!

Settle down.

Go get some yogurt.

You guys are, like, very wound up today.

Dexter, take his nap.

Okay.

I'm sorry.

Goodnight.

Good night. Night.

Shit. Notebook.

Where have you been?

I thought you weren't going to... I asked you a question.

Uh, Gordy Johnson asked me if I wanted to go to the mall with him.

And, uh, I didn't think you'd mind.

Is, um, is that that doctor's boy?

Yeah.

You know, you really, you should have left a note for me.

You know, maybe Gordon would like to go with us to see the fireworks.

Maybe.

Two. Three. Well, that's a dime, isn't it? Oh, dear.

There. Oh, thank you very much. That's so neat of you.

What?

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

The mysterious Dr. Fishburne derives the extract from a plant found deep in the

Louisiana bayou at a backwater location he refuses to reveal.

I knew it was a plant.

The government's trying to suppress its findings.

Bastards. Why would they do that?

Because they're embarrassed.

I mean, think of all the money they spend each year. And this Dr. Fishburne

guy goes out in his backyard in his underwear one morning and picks up the

cure for AIDS.

Hey, maybe your mom could drive us down there.

It's right here.

Look, I don't want you boys thinking that something like this cannot happen.

If it does, I think Dr. Jensen is going to know about it before the national...

Examiner. Examiner.

Mom, call him.

No!

Why don't we wait until your next appointment and you could ask him then?

This is for after lunch.

I'm like, I didn't see that.

So your dad lives in New Orleans, right?

Yeah.

Maybe he can get some of that secret extract and mail it to us.

Maybe it's already here.

That one again?

Yep.

Just don't like it.

Look at that thing. If that don't look like a plant from the bayou, then I

don't know bayous.

This is the worst yet.

Grandma says that the worst it tastes, the better it works.

You're a Kmart clerk, Grandma?

Drink.

I need to talk to Eric for some kind of leaf that he took in today. Eric has

something to do with this. Eric.

Eric. Eric.

I need to know what you gave Dexter today.

I need to know what kind of leaf you gave him. It's poisonous, and he told me

that you have it written down in a notebook.

Here's the one. It says down by the river. Down by the river where I watched

this one. Where the bridge crosses.

Back inside.

What were you thinking?

What?

Tell me.

Tell me, huh?

Not measles, not chicken pox, AIDS.

What are you trying to do, huh? What are you trying to do, fucking kill us both,

huh?

There's gonna be some big changes around here.

Big changes.

I don't really care what you think.

I don't want him over here.

I don't want my son over there.

I don't care that they're friends. I don't want them associating with each

other. Period.

Well, he's gonna be fine, thank God.

But his mother's officially on notice.

If she allows him to see you, I'm gonna have her ass thrown in jail.

For you.

Come Monday morning, your ass is going to summer camp.

Hey, Dad.

Sorry we missed you. Cindy and I are in Lake Charles on Tuesday.

We'll call you as soon as we get back.

When we get down there, where are we gonna sleep?

What are we gonna eat? We don't gotta worry about that.

I already talked to my dad, and he said we could stay with him.

I might even be able to talk him into taking us fishing.

I can't.

You have to, Dex.

Tomorrow morning, I'm out of here. I just think she would be really, really

worried. She's already worried because you're sick.

And you and I both know that the only thing that's gonna make her happy... is

when we go to New Orleans and Dr. Fishburne has the cure.

Dear Mom, I've gone with Eric, but I brought along my medicine, so there's no

reason to worry.

We plan to be careful and sensible.

Whatever you do, make sure you remember to tape Star Wars, 8 p.m., Channel 5.

I love you very much.

Sincerely, Dexter.

And he drops a penny into a wishing well.

Nobody hears him as far as he can tell.

He sees a thousand other wishes lying there.

And he rightly wonders if the gods will care, if the gods are gonna care.

So he runs through the valley and all through the wood, down in the

alleys, past the old neighborhoods.

And he's got so far to travel, and the hour is late, but it's out

of the darkness when he makes his great escape.

La, la, la, la, la, la, la.

Oh,

la,

la, la, la, la, la, la. When he makes his great

escape.

When he makes his great escape.

He's the biggest fish in the world. He weighs over 2,000 pounds.

That's why they call him the Sturgeon General.

What if he decides to tip us over?

He wouldn't do that.

One time this kid, he went swimming after eating, and he got a stomach cramp

and he started to drown, but the Sturgeon General grabbed him by his

shirt and put him on the shore.

How fast do you think we're going?

Three miles an hour.

How far is it to New Orleans?

About 1,200 miles.

How long will it take us to get there?

Hey,

where are you headed?

Minneapolis. Memphis.

Centralia.

Peoria. How much you got?

What?

Wanna ride, you gotta pay for the gas, you know.

Where you headed?

New Orleans.

I could give you $20.

20 bucks?

Man, you wanna go to New Orleans for 20 bucks?

I don't know, I think you're gonna have to do better than that.

40. That's all I got.

Hey, phony, we're ready to float, man.

Just saying, Kuzan. We locked and loaded?

Yeah. All right.

All right.

$162.

Check my pockets.

Eric! Eric! Shut up, Dex. No, Eric. Just let me handle this. Look, just look.

Please.

What do you say?

And we really took this moron pony to the cleaners.

The money we gave him won't pay for half his gas.

This gold is from New Orleans. He's on his way home.

Now what makes you think that?

Shit!

Look how far we've gone.

Dex,

you awake?

Dex, you awake?

Dex, you awake?

What?

I was just saying, how far we've gone.

About five or six days, we'll be down there.

Maybe when we stop for gas, I should call my mom.

You can't.

They'll trace the call.

We'll probably be in Iowa by 1 tomorrow afternoon.

X?

Get up.

Come on, get up.

Get up, get up, get up. I'm too tired.

No, you're not. You're just bored. Come on.

Come on.

I don't have a battleship.

I don't have Monopoly.

I don't even have a deck of cards.

Wait a minute.

What is it?

Come on.

Are you sure these girls are real?

Of course they're real.

I've never seen anyone look like this before, and my mom sure doesn't.

These aren't moms. These are women.

This is what they're supposed to look like.

How do you know they're not computer animation?

The computer animations like walks on the beach. The computer animations enjoy

classical music.

She was born in 1975.

She doesn't look that old.

Holy shit.

There's gotta be $300 here.

We should put it back.

Why if they come in here and think we're trying to steal it they don't even know

we're down here

Don't

give it to me

Oh my god.

Are you a model?

No.

What's your name?

Angel.

You misspelt your tattoo.

It doesn't say angel, it says angle.

I'm aware of that now.

Looks finer with two people, doesn't it?

What y'all feel like doing?

Man, I just want to get smashed, you know, that.

Smashed, man, that ain't like you.

I was thinking maybe we could just... You know what I mean?

Oh,

let the good times roll, my man.

Now with that, Cousin.

Fire up that grill, we got some of them steaks. Yeah, make mine a T-bone.

This sucks.

up 10 before it gets dark.

It's just me.

Oh, shit. You pissed all over your sleeping bag.

Sweat.

Sweat?

You're shivering. How can you sweat when you're cold?

I don't know.

Just do.

Here. You need to change your clothes.

Here's my sleeping bag.

Were you having a nightmare or something?

No.

What's the matter?

It happens sometimes.

When I wake up, it's dark.

Astronomers believe that the universe is 18 billion light years across.

So?

Suppose you kept going another 18 billion light years.

What if there's nothing out there?

Suppose you kept going another trillion times further.

So far out you see nothing.

Since the light from the universe would be fainter than the faintest star.

Infinitely cold.

...infinitely black.

Sometimes... ...if I wake up... ...in Stark...

...I get really scared.

Here. Hold on to this while you sleep.

And if you wake up and you're scared, you'll say, wait a minute.

I'm holding Eric's shoe.

Why the hell would I be holding some smelly basketball shoe?

A trillion light years from the universe.

I must be here on Earth to save from my sleeping bag.

Narrag must be close by.

This is what's trying.

Let me leave the lantern on.

How long before we run out of pills?

Three more days.

There.

Get that away.

You sure?

I'm not stupid.

Let's get something to eat.

I'm not hungry.

Okay. I'll go get the tickets.

Let's go.

What is it? Let's go.

Are those the boys you were talking about?

Right there.

Done.

How you doing, man?

It's in my pocket.

Open this, man.

We're going to.

I don't care.

Damn it.

Told you.

Like a dead end.

What are you gonna do with that?

You gonna give me a manicure or something?

Where's my money, huh?

We need it to go to New Orleans.

Oh, you need it, huh?

Y'all are in over your heads, you understand?

All right.

So you wanna play with Pony?

What the hell are you doing? Are you crazy?

I'm dying anyway. It doesn't matter if he hurts me.

You two, what are you talking about? What's he talking about? He has AIDS.

You'd be crazy to stab me.

My blood is like poison.

One drop could kill you.

Bullshit.

Hey, Paulie!

Jimmy!

Jimmy! Get out, man! Get the hell out! Get the hell out of here!

Go free!

I didn't go.

My blood's like poison!

Pussy!

Desley, you're from the venom of a cobra.

Man, you're like a damn superhero or something.

That was rad.

Here.

I'm feeling kind of sick.

You gonna be alright while I go take this?

Yeah.

Are you cold?

No.

What's the matter?

My blood is poison.

You have a virus, Dax.

You're gonna be exactly like everyone else the moment someone finds the cure.

Dr. Fishburne has the cure.

I got it.

I wonder if I can see Dexter.

I'm lucky I keep throwing up.

Mostly I'd have to stick this feeding tube up my nose and into my stomach.

Sounds gross.

It hurts.

Doesn't that?

Not nearly as much.

So you can't eat anything, huh?

Not right now.

That's too bad.

You know, maybe you can curl one up and put it into my IV.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know what?

I'm going to see if I can't sneak any more leaves in here.

That's okay.

Dr. Jensen said that stuff in New Orleans wasn't real.

I don't know.

Your mom told me.

Hey.

Look at this.

Look at that.

Is this you? Yeah.

God, you're an ugly baby.

Check it out. It's angle.

You all right?

I like the old man.

Oh, yeah.

What's this do?

This one makes the bed go up.

Or down.

Yeah, what about this one?

Okay.

Come here.

What? He stopped breathing.

What's the matter?

He stopped breathing.

I was just talking to him and he thought he was dead.

No. I'm sorry, honey. I guess we all knew this was coming.

No.

By the power invested in me, I hereby order that the execution begin.

Ah,

feeling better, I guess.

And, uh, you must be Eric.

So, uh...

I guess your road to the Nobel Prize hit a few potholes.

It went up the Grand Canyon.

Okay.

Let's open wide and say ah.

Does that hurt when you talk?

Well, see that hairy chest?

I get it.

He knows he's dying.

What?

We tricked the nurses into thinking that he was dead.

And Nurse Murphy said that everyone knew it was coming.

So you tricked them?

Well, we pretended that Dexter stopped breathing, and he jumped up and screamed

and scared them.

She must have hit the roof.

Yeah, Dexter laughed his ass off. Oh, well, that's what happened to it. I

thought he was just on a diet here.

Listen, history is full of very sick people

who suddenly, for no reason at all, get better.

And when that happens, we call it a miracle.

moment I met you, I knew you were special and that you might be one of

those people.

Yeah.

You know I'm telling you the truth, don't you?

Mm-hmm.

You can feel that inside you, can't you?

So don't let me down, okay?

I'm counting on you to make me famous.

What did you say to him? The

young boy was upset.

Look, don't you ever, ever assume that one of my patients is going to die.

Thank you.

Mister, my friend, he stopped breathing. I think he's dead.

Go get a nurse.

Oh, shit!

Shit! Oh, my Jesus Christ!

Oh!

Oh, you scared the living daylights out of me. Oh, and we are amused, are we?

I'm not laughing. You see me laughing?

My shift ends at four.

It's mine. Okay, here comes the break. Nobody cry.

Four. I think you earned that, actually.

I'm terribly impressed.

He gets all the good ones, and me, I... You know, a poor workman likes his

tools. Oh, an 11. I told you, I told you. Oh, me?

See, I'm good at this game.

Go in through the emergency airlock.

Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.

Hal, I won't argue with you anymore.

Open the doors.

Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore.

Goodbye.

You ready for another victim?

Sure?

Doctor, my friend, I think he could be dead.

I don't know what to do.

It's great.

I'm sorry, Claire.

I should have tried harder.

Tried what?

To find the cure.

Dexter's life.

It was sad.

Alone.

He made it go away.

Dexter was so happy to have us.

I know that.

There are some of his things that I think... Get out.

Get in that car.

Get your ass in the car now.

Wait a minute.

Let me talk to you.

I have nothing to say to you.

Mom, it's just... Eric, shut up.

Can I just talk to you for a minute inside?

Please.

Just a minute.

What?

I want to tell you two things.

The first is Eric's best friend died today and he is going to the funeral.

The second is if you ever lay a hand

on that boy again, I will kill you.

Take as much time as you want Hey

You mind if I go ahead and walk home?

No, of course not.

You're gonna... come around and visit every once in a while, aren't you?

25 cents.