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[beeping]

(male #1 on TV)
'4-13 is in.'

(male #2 on TV)
'We copy you down, Eagle.'

(male #1 on TV)
'Houston, uh,
Tranquility Base here.'

'The Eagle has landed.'

[all cheering]

[Creedence Clearwater Revival
singing "Bad Moon Rising"]

♪ I see a bad moon rising.. ♪♪

You just missed the moon
landing you little troglodyte.

Get out of here, Laura.

Don't have a spaz.

I don't care about your
stupid toy, Danny boy.

It's not a toy.
Get out.

Why don't
you get out?

You haven't left the
house in three days.

- Mom! Laura's bothering me.
- Mom sent me.

Personally I could care less

'if you stay a friendless
goober your whole life.'

'Hello?
Earth to Danny..'

♪ There's a bad moon
on the rise.. ♪♪

Wow, he's leaving the house!
Hold on. Let me get a picture.

[door closes]

♪ Hope you've got
your things together ♪

♪ Hope you are
quite prepared to die ♪

♪ Looks like we're in
for nasty weather ♪♪

[dramatic music]

[music continues]

Detective McAvoy, Lilly Rush.

A retired detective.
Just Mack, now.

Well, you said you got
something for me to look at?

Yeah, couple days ago guy comes
into the Fairmount Station.

- Drops this off.
- 'Some kind of model rocket?'

Yeah, he found it up near
the bluffs over the Wissahickon.

Some, uh, civilian desk
jockey processed it

and didn't even bother ID'ing
the guy who brought it in.

Yeah, civilian humps
doing cops' work.

Yeah, take a look here.

'"The Chestnut Hill Rocket Boys
launched this vehicle'

"July 20, 1969 AD in
peace for all mankind."

Signed "Danny Finch."

Day after we landed on the moon

Danny Finch's body turns
up in the Schuylkill.

'He was 12-years-old.'

That was my first
year in Homicide.

Tough way to start out.

Yeah, tough on the family.

Any suspects?

Scumbag Reggie Blunt.

He got popped for
a laundry list of murders

around the city
that year.

And the DA lumped my
kid's case in with them.

Never got a conviction

but everybody was sure
he did it, except me.

Talk to Danny's friends
back in the day?

'No, he didn't have any.'

Boy was a loner, you know,
science nerd type.

Blunt went down
for the other murders

and Brass said there was
no more meat on the bones.

He pushed me
to move on.

This gives you
something to chew on.

Yeah, this rocket
was in the park

'two miles upstream from
where the body was found.'

I interviewed all the kids
in the neighborhood.

I got nothing.

But this makes me think that..

...maybe he did have
some friends after all.

- These Rocket Boys.
- I don't know, Mack.

A toy rocket's a tough
sell with the bosses.

I've been 39 years
turning over in my sleep

what could have
happened to this kid.

You have any idea what that
does to you, detective?

No one else around here
will give me the time of day.

And I hear you take
cases nobody else will.

You find this
kid's murderer..

...maybe I can get
to sleep again.

Rocket Boys, huh?

Yeah, you think
I'm crazy, huh?

I don't think
you're crazy, Mack.

[theme music]

[instrumental music]

This baby is a freaking
marvel. Check it out.

Custom-machined, high-grade
chrome nickel washer.

(Lilly)
'A 12-year-old kid built this?'

Get it to Evidence,
see if they can lift

any prints inside the cylinder.

Pretty skimpy box on this kid.

You sure your boyfriend
did all his homework?

Blunt gets credit
for the murder

suddenly Mack's
strong-armed to move on.

Blunt gets shanked
in Graterford in '78.

He knew anything about it,
he took it to his grave.

Old crackpot Mack.

Oh, you knew him, boss?

He was in homicide when
I was still walking

a beat in Fishtown.
He's a good cop.

Bosses thought he cared
a little too much.

Autopsy report's got Danny with
abrasions on the face and body

'a cracked skull,
blunt-force trauma.'

Kid got banged up pretty bad.

Aw, Chestnut Hill
Chemistry Award, 1968.

I didn't even know they
had chemistry in 6th grade.

Danny's sister Laura
is in with Jeffries now.

See if she knows anything
about this rocket.

Or the Chestnut Hill
Rocket Boys.

Can I smoke in here?

[chuckles]
Uh, no.

Sorry. I thought police
station, you know, maybe.

Not unless you're
planning on confessing.

[sighs]
I lost my baby brother the day
they put a man on the moon.

I still can't look at it
without thinking about him.

You two were close?

I was pretty awful
to him, actually.

It breaks my heart now.

At that age,
you just don't think.

Danny say where
he was going that day?

He never told
me anything.

He sort of holed up
in the science.

'Skipped a grade
when he was eight'

ended up in my class.
Drove me crazy.

We found this up in the park.

Danny's name on it.

Know anything about it?

Math, science, chemistry.

He was more about equations
than this sort of thing.

What about a Chestnut
Hill Rocket Boys club?

Danny in a club? No way.

But...the week
before he died..

...I saw him with some boys
from the neighborhood.

Right, right here.

- Alright, perfect.
- Okay.

'Perfect.'

Neil Armstrong readies the
launch vehicle for ignition.

How come you always
get to be Neil?

- 'Huh, Chuck?'
- Cause I'm the commander.

You can be Buzz Aldrin,
the mission specialist.

Okay, she's set to fly, captain.

Saved every cherry bomb
I could find from 4th of July.

Rocket's loaded and
ready for liftoff.

Loaded and ready.
This baby's going to the moon.

I hope you know it's
not going to work.

Go play with your Bunsen burner,
Poindexter. Busy here.

Look, you can't just pack
it full of explosives.

You have to cut the powder
with sulfur, otherwise--

Kid, we need your help,
we'll ask for it. Got it?

Alright, men.
Let's light this candle.

Let me do it, Chuck.

[sighs]
Here we go!

(together)
Ten, nine

eight, seven

six, five

four, three..

[screaming]

[laughing]

(Danny)
'Told you so.'

♪ I thank the Lord for the
night time the night time ♪

♪ To forget the day
forget the day ♪♪

That stunt caused
a lot of trouble.

Chuck's dad about
skinned him alive.

Remember their names?

Just Chuck Pierce,
the cute one.

But those three, they were
always together, though.

Ever see them with
your brother again?

Chuck came by the next day.
Asked to see Danny.

'I remember being disappointed.'

I thought he
was there to see me.

Civvie who took in the
rocket's a real paperweight.

Oh, let me guess,
less than helpful.

Like pulling teeth.

I finally got him to remember
what time the guy brought it in.

I went back and dug through
the catch desk sign-in sheets.

Came up with a name,
Mike Collins.

Great, got to be what, 800 of
them in the Philly phone book?

Yeah. Go, Irish.

Your boyfriend
called again.

Mack asked if we want
him in on interviews.

Told him, thanks. We're good.

You going to share your
desk with this guy, Lill?

(Lilly)
'Aw, he was a good cop.'

Tough to walk away when
you got business to settle.

I'm still sweating cases
after I get my gold watch

do me a favor,
put me out of my misery.

Count on it.

Crackpot Mack said Chuck Pierce
used to run with some boys

Seth Rundgren and Bobby Kent.

All three of them
interviewed in '69.

Said they were watching
the moon landing together.

Doesn't look like Chuck
let go of the rocket thing.

Naval aviator, applied
for NASA in the '90s.

Private air captain now.

Lear jets of the
rich and famous.

Poor man's Neil Armstrong,
this guy.

Let's see what Neil Armstrong

has to say about
the Rocket Boys.

Yeah, it was a real shock
when Danny turned up dead.

Block was never
the same again.

Yeah, how so?

Predator on the streets.

Parents wouldn't let kids play
outside after dark anymore.

Only now, thinking Danny might

have been with friends
the night he died.

You friends with Danny
back then, Chuck?

Friends?
Not really.

No, Danny was kind of a..
Kind of an odd duck.

On the night of the moon
landing did you see him around?

No, I was at home
watching it on TV.

- Pinnacle of human achievement.
- You with anyone?

Yeah, I was, I was with, uh,
Seth Rundgren and Bobby Kent.

Haven't seen those guys in
years. They lived on my block.

The Chestnut Hill
Rocket Boys, right?

Yeah, well,
rockets were a phase

I mean probably because
of the moon landing and all.

I think we were into
sharks the next week.

[chuckles]

Then, uh, why'd
you stop by Danny's

the day after you and your posse
blew the neighborhood to China

trying to launch a rocket?

Ah, well, we wanted
to see what he knew.

I mean, a rocket
without a brain to guide it

is pretty much
just a pipe bomb.

- Hmm.
- He help you out?

Oh, yeah, sure, he'd do anything

anything to be our friend.

We, we were just out to have
a good time but this kid..

[chuckles]
This kid was obsessed.

Once we're in,
we got to move fast.

The foreman, Mr. Wallace,
hates kids.

Heard he killed a guy
on his site once.

They say he buried
the body in the yard.

Never found it.

We have to make the
nozzle out of something

that'll hold up to
the heat from takeoff

launch the vehicle all
the way into the mesosphere.

Geek, you don't shut it

I'm gonna launch you
in the mesosphere.

We're supposed to be
sneaking in, nimrods.

Wallace is going to
hear us a mile away.

Shh.

This is it.

Up and over, men.

Uh, guys?

I'm really not so great
at climbing fences.

Ah, gee, there's a surprise.

There, we need that piece.

The one that's shaped like a
cone right on top, it's perfect.

[dog barking]

Hey, hey!

Hey!

'Come here!'

- Hey, you little bastards!
- Come on. Go, go, go!

Get the hell off
this property.

You think you're
going to steal from me?

Aw...bite it, dirtbag.

You runt, show
your face in here again

you'll see what happens, man.

Come on! Come on!

That guy was a damn menace.

'Everybody knew it,
but like I said'

that kid Danny,
he was obsessed.

You saying he went back?

He told us that everything we
needed to launch a rocket

was inside that fence.

When was this?

Oh, I don't know maybe
a week before the moon landing.

[beeping]

(Neil Armstrong)
That's one small step for man

one...giant leap for mankind.

Night, Lill.

You find anything on
the rest of Chuck's crew?

Well, Seth Rundgren
has a colorful history.

A court-ordered lockup
'86 to '90.

Schizo-affective disorder.

Bobby Kent's a floor manager

at Zane's Sporting Goods
in Germantown.

What about this
Wallace character?

Picked up an assault
and battery in '68

for slapping around a junkie

trying to steal
copper from his site.

Put the guy in ICU
for three weeks.

You get something
off that rocket, Nick?

Rocket science, people.

Well, the factory
that machine-tooled

the metal cone
Danny used as a nozzle

'was located
right here in Philly.'

"DWC Custom Manufacturing."

Place was knocked down, the
summer of '68 and guess who's

on the books as site foreman
for the demolition company.

Dick Wallace.

Meaner than a junkyard dog.

[instrumental music]

Best demo company
on the Eastern seaboard.

Ain't a building they put up
I can't pull down on a dime.

'69, though

you were just starting
to make a name for yourself.

I paid my dues.

Took any job
that'd have me.

Demo, drywall,
construction.

Site watchdog.

Yeah, I was the ogre.

Somebody had to be.

Rob you blind, otherwise.

Like that junkie you
busted open back in '68.

Freak pulled
a knife on me.

What am I supposed
to do? Bleed on him?

Sure, I get it.

Sometimes you got to crack
a few skulls, get things done.

Yeah, you said it.

What about Danny Finch?

(Scotty)
'Kids tried to sneak on your
lot, you make a few threats.'

Week later, this boy
turns up beaten to death.

(Will)
'Danny thought he could
outsmart you, sneak back in.'

It's not like
you didn't warn him.

Yeah, I warned him alright,
not that it did any good.

[clattering]

You got to be some kind
of special nitwit, right?

It's almost $14.
It's all I got.

W-we just need maybe 200
grams of potassium nitrate.

Forget it.

Seriously, kid, amscray.

Look, I'm sorry we broke in

but my friends,
they're counting on me.

I'm like Wernher von Braun
to them.

Wernher von Braun.

The scientist who
created the space program.

Without him...without me
that rocket will never fly.

I've been up all night
working out the mix

trying to get it right.

If I do, maybe
they'll see that I'm..

That you're what?

Nothing.

Probably hopeless anyway.

The calculations
never come out right.

It's going to explode
or fly off course.

I'm gonna regret this.

Should be about
the right mix.

Need an emulsifier
to bind the powder.

'The right nozzle, it should
burn clean instead of a..'

...fast explosion,
know what I mean?

Hey, kid.

Calculations will only
get you so far in life, right?

At some point,
you got to get outside

you got to make it work.

[whispering]
Wow.

Wow, this is perfect.

- Yeah, the scrap metal's--
- Yeah, I know.

Saw the perfect part for the
nozzle when we were here before.

Well, take what you
need, alright?

Just don't be bringing
your little hood pals back.

Hey, kid.

You blow yourself up, you leave
my name the hell out of it.

You dig?

Alright, now beat it.

You gave a 12-year-old
kid dynamite?

It was a different time.

No lawsuits, no helmets,
no safety seats.

We let kids be kids.

So, Danny..

...he managed to
launch that rocket, huh?

Looks like it.

[chuckles]
That's good.

Good for him.

Seth Rundgren?

(Lilly)
'Detectives Rush, Vera.'

- Need a hand?
- No, thanks.

Few questions
about Danny Finch.

Danny Finch.

Mind if we come inside,
talk about it?

The last time I saw Danny

'he wanted us to break
into a construction site.'

(Lilly)
'We heard.'

We climbed a fence
and-and a man came out

with a baseball bat
and chased us away.

Right. What about after that?
The day of the moon landing.

You see Danny that day?

[clattering]

Please don't touch that.

Oops.

'Seth.'

The day of the moon landing.

T-t-there was no moon landing.

Come again?

It's the pinnacle of human
achievement and it was a hoax.

T-t-they shot the whole thing
on a, on a soundstage.

Who's they?

NASA, the CIA, LBJ.

Lyndon Johnson
faked the moon landing?

'I've talked to agents
who were there.'

They tell me things

t-t-the, t-the truth
about what happened that day.

Danny think the same way?

He said it was the scientists
who made it happen.

Without them, the Eagle
never would have landed.

Seth the broadcast about
the Eagle landing happened

the day Danny died.

If he said that, it means
you saw him that day.

Three of you were with him
when he launched the rocket.

The Chestnut Hill Rocket Boys.

I know what
you're trying to do.

Y-you're trying to get me
to say that I, I see Danny.

'But he's gone.'

I-I know that.

But you still see him sometimes?

They say it's the disease.

It, it, it makes me believe
things that aren't true.

Who's they?
Chuck and Bobby?

Seth, you talk to them lately?

Your friends
when you were 12.

How many of them
do you still talk to?

Guy gives new meaning to
the word certifiable.

Keep pushing, we'll never get
a straight story out of him.

Just lock up
under pressure.

Stick a tail on him, see
what he does, where he goes.

Believe his rap about not
talking to Bobby and Chuck?

Not for a second.

I did steal his phone
bill off his desk.

Lot of calls
to one number.

Bet it ain't the CIA.

I got a few minutes before
I'm back on the floor.

Say you're looking for some
contact info for Seth Rundgren?

Yeah, know any way we
can get a hold of him?

I wish I could help, but..

I haven't talked to
him in, gosh, ages.

[phone ringing]

Go ahead. Pick it up.
We'll wait.

Hello.

What up, liar?

Got your number off
of Seth's phone records.

He's been calling you 20 times
a week for the past month.

You sure you haven't
talked to him in ages?

You can hang
up now, Bobby.

The three of you were with
Danny the night he died.

Seth already told us.

Question is why is
he calling you so much?

And why are you
both lying about it?

Look, Seth has a
pretty weird imagination.

That's one way of puttin' it.

Something go down with Seth
and Danny that night?

No.

Oh, come on, Bobby.
Unstable guy..

Maybe not even
his fault, right?

Out in the woods,
a dare gone bad.

Guess we got to take you
downtown, sort this all out.

Okay, okay, alright.

It isn't about Seth.

Seth and Chuck
are lying to protect me.

♪ I'm going up the country.. ♪♪

This is outstanding.

Nice job, Danny.

Yeah.

Nice job.

Bobby, why do you say
everything Chuck says

right after
he says it?

I don't.

Actually, you kind of do.

Shut up, dork.
What do you know?

Hey, ease off.

He's the reason
we're out here.

Ought to be at home
watching this on TV.

You kidding?
This is way better.

We're living it, man.

Right, Danny?

Yeah, this is the best.

Never really been
in the woods before.

We're explorers.

Conquerors.

I'm Neil Armstrong,
commander of the--

Ow!

What was that?

There's something
in the woods.

[screaming]

[screaming]

Die, wusses!

♪ Got to get away ♪

♪ I'm gonna leave the city.. ♪♪

Chuck!

♪ Got to get away ♪♪

My half-brother, Malcolm,
and his dirtbag buddy, Griff

they used to beat our
ass every chance they got.

You left Danny
behind with them?

Nothing we could have done--

And when Danny
turns up dead?

They killed Danny,
what do you think

they would have done to me?

Where are your
parents in all this?

Dad split, and mom
was working all the time.

She left Malcolm
in charge of me.

Best thing that ever
happened was the two of them

shipping off to Vietnam,
the second they turned 18.

Griff died over there.

Malcolm came back even worse.

And where is he now?

Up at Graterford, doing ten
to twenty for armed robbery.

[dramatic music]

So, now Brother Bobby's
trying to pin a murder on me

that's swell.

It sounds like
you got it comin'.

Made his life hell.

Life is hell.

Better he learned
that early on.

Nice record
you got, Malcolm

armed robbery, assault

killing animals.

Not a big leap
to doing in a kid.

You made your minds up.
Pull the trigger already.

Says here you got a shot
at parole in seven months.

Number might come
down or go up

depending how interesting
you make our time here.

This is a simple question.
See Danny that day or not?

Yeah, we saw him.

Kid was about
to wet his shorts.

- You like that sound, maggot?
- Let me go.

Should have learned
to run faster, professor.

Might have lived
a little longer.

Hey, what have
we got here?

Man, that is
one big-ass firecracker.

Fuse and everything. What are
you gonna do with this, dork?

Let's light it
under his twerp ass

see how many pieces
it makes of him.

Leave it alone. It's ours!

Leave it alone!
Or what, wuss?

Light it up, Griff.

[screaming]

Oh!

Broke my nose!

Kill him!

[groaning]

[screaming]

Ah!

[coughing]

What? The rocket's
mine, numb-nuts.

Wait up.

Deviated my septum,
little bastard.

[whistling]
You hear that?

Still whistles when I breathe.

Got your asses kicked
by a couple 12-year-olds?

Seth wanted that
rocket real bad.

He was crazy enough
to take us on for it.

Hey, I was honest with you.

That's got to be
worth something, right?

Right. We'll get
back to you, Malcolm.

No, you won't.

'I been in here long enough.
I ain't stupid, but hey..'

Tell Bobby his big brother
says hello, would you?

(Mack)
Uh, took you long enough.

Thank you.

[both chuckles]

Never much into housekeeping.

[chuckles]
Nice.

Those interviews
that you took

from the boys
in the neighborhood..

...still got them?

I got everything.

So, where do you want to start?

Seth Rundgren, Bobby Kent
and Chuck Pierce.

Here you go.

You ever have a case like this?

You know, one
that sticks with you

doesn't let you rest?

Yeah, I, I do.

Name's Cooper.

And the kicker is
he's still out there.

Unsolicited advice?

Don't let it sit for 30 years.

Starts eating away at you.

Trust me on that.

Their stories are exactly
the same across the board

pinnacle of human achievement.

Still doing it today.
Chuck says it.

Seth's got the same
lines, word for word.

Like "The Manchurian Candidate."

Danny gets killed
here in the park

'and dumped in the Wissahickon.'

Then floats all the way
down to the river.

Some of the injuries could have
come from the beating he took

but the marks
on his legs and arms..

maybe postmortem, bumping off
the rocks as he drifted?

Well, it was a rainy summer.

Creek was swollen.

Would have only
taken a few hours.

Now, that spot
could be right where

our Michael Collins
found the rocket.

Michael Collins?

'The guy who brought
in the rocket.'

Probably a fake name.

Michael Collins
was the third astronaut

on the Apollo 11 mission.

Third astronaut?

Armstrong and Aldrin
landed on the moon

put their footsteps
down, became heroes

and Michael Collins..

He stayed in orbit around
the moon and never landed.

The boys were
playing astronauts.

If Chuck was Armstrong,
and Bobby was Aldrin--

Seth was Michael Collins.

[birds chirping]

Michael Collins.

Y-you-you followed me.

You found the rocket here?

No, not, not, not here.

Up the path by the ravine.

You brought it in
'cause you wanted us

to reopen Danny's case. Why?

I don't want to-to
see it anymore.

I-I want it to stop.

What do you want
to stop, Seth?

What I remember.

It can't be real.

What wasn't real?

The moon landing, the launch?

No, our..

...our launch was-was real.

You chickens
through running away?

Oh, you made it back.

You got away.

- Holy crap.
- How did you do it?

Danny punched Malcolm
right in the honker. Paw!

Nah, it was all Seth.

I'd be dead if he
didn't come back.

(Bobby)
'We're all dead anyways.'

Malcolm will never let this go.

Forget it.
He can kill us tomorrow.

Right now...we got
a rocket to launch.

(in unison)
Yeah.

Let's do it.

♪ Walking along the
river road at night ♪

♪ Barefoot girls dancing
in the moonlight.. ♪♪

- This is right here.
- Yeah.

- Great.
- This is it.

Engraved it

so whoever finds it
knows who we are.

The Rocket Boys.

- It's great.
- Hey, guys, listen.

(Neil Armstrong on radio)
'One small step..'

They're walking
on the moon.

(Neil Armstrong on radio)
'...one giant leap for mankind.'

♪ Skip it across
Green River.. ♪♪

Wow.

They did it.

You light it, Seth.

Whoa!

(in unison)
Ten, nine

eight, seven

six, five

four, three, two

one!

♪ With flat car riders
and cross-tie walkers.. ♪♪

What happened then,
after the launch?

What happened out here?

We had to jump.

It was only way
to get home

before our parents caught us.

Chuck and Bobby told me
he-he didn't make it

but I-I know
that's not true.

Because I saw him.

I think you're gonna
have to come with me.

How long you been at him?

Hour or so. Guy's
all over the place.

Still think he
knows who did it?

I don't know.

A whole lot
more than just

phone calls
between these three.

Chuck and Bobby have been paying
Seth's way the last 20 years.

A lot of money.

Got Chuck's name on receipts
for clozapine, loxitane.

Heavy meds.

They're doing everything
they can to keep him quiet.

Boss!

Get the medics!

This is Rush in Homicide.

Get a medic unit
in here now.

[door opening]

Pronounced him at
the ER at Roxborough.

Guy was a mess. I shouldn't
have left him alone.

(John)
'Yeah, well, nothing
you could have done, Nick.'

Something happened
at that creek.

And Seth would rather die
than tell us what it is.

[door opens]

Your friend's
on the slab, Bobby.

Seth?

Killed himself right over
the table you're leaning on.

Died keeping your secret.

Almost like you
killed him yourself.

Poor guy.

Never really had a chance.

Friends like you...I guess not.

Don't seem very
surprised, Chuck.

We did everything
we could to help him.

Why is that?
Goodness of your heart?

We were practically brothers,
the three of us.

We couldn't let him down.

That's what everybody
did his whole life.

- You tried to help him.
- That's right.

Just little things.

- Making sure he was okay.
- 'Little things?'

Like the 14,000 bucks
for his mental hospital?

Ten years' worth
of antipsychotic meds?

That wasn't me.

What happened
at the creek, Bobby?

Seth said Danny made the jump,
Chuck said he didn't.

What's Chuck paying
all that money to hide?

Alright, so I...I paid
a few of Seth's bills.

It's only because he
couldn't afford to do it.

- Bobby, either.
- You were keeping him quiet.

- No, I was helping him cope.
- 'With your secret.'

Tearing him up inside
for the past 39 years.

(Scotty)
'The jump, Chuck.'

Tell us what
happened at the jump.

Chuck bent over
backwards to help Seth.

That's the kind of guy he is.

End of story.

I got nothing else to say.

Little memento for you.

Sit here with
your dead friends

and think about
how they got that way.

(Scotty)
'Now, Chuck's not gonna break
unless we got him cold.'

Bobby's so deep
in his thrall

it's like getting him
to rat out Jesus.

Hero worship.

(John)
'Chuck's throwing
money at the problem'

but Bobby's doing all the work.

'Cause Bobby
actually cares.

I got this.

[door opens]

Get up.

I gotta cuff you before
I take you to your cell.

Wait...what?

(Nick)
'Chuck tossed you
under the bus.'

You're locked up for murder.

Chuck wouldn't..

- He wouldn't do that.
- Well, he did.

And he's gonna get away with it
because you're too spineless

to do the right thing.

Get up!

(Bobby)
'I didn't do anything.'

I didn't do anything!

Save it! Bedtime story
for your cellmate.

Wait, Chuck said
I did something?

- Why would he do that?
- I don't get it.

You follow the guy
around like a sheep.

- I'm not a sheep.
- Ba, ba, ba.

That's all I hear when
you open your mouth.

Guy thinks he's the king
of the world, jetting around

and you're stuck here
cleaning up the mess.

With Seth? I was
glad to do it.

Chuck said we were a team.

He's my best friend.

Sit down.

[clattering]

Last chance.

Or you're gonna spend
the rest of your life

in a cell half the
size of this room.

We tried to get back home
after we launched the rocket.

Chuck said he knew
the way, but he was wrong.

[dramatic music]

Not this place again.

We've been out
here all night.

We gotta get home.

Too far to jump.

We gotta go around.

That's what you said last time.

How we got lost
in the first place?

We're never gonna make it back
before our parents wake up.

- What about your dad?
- I said it's too far.

Standing around talking about
it is just gonna take longer.

We can do it. You?

Not a chance.
Forget it.

We can do anything.
We're the Rocket Boys.

Will you shut up
about that? It's stupid.

It's not stupid.
It's the best thing ever.

You don't get it. I'm not
even supposed to be out here.

My dad finds out,
I'm dead, okay?

We go around.

What's this?
Let's go.

I'm with Danny.

[chuckles]
You'll never make it, Seth.

Yeah? Watch me.

[intense music]

[laughing]
He's right.

See you at home, suckers.

[chuckles]
Almost didn't make
it over, fat-ass.

Lay an egg, psycho.

I cleared it by a mile.

Yeah.

[instrumental music]

Race you to the bend.

I never saw a kid
so proud of himself.

Chuck said he was too weak,
he didn't make it.

But he did.

So how'd he end
up in the water?

I don't know.
We ran ahead.

Look, Chuck was the leader.

If he said it,
it had to be true.

After a while, I started
believing it myself.

But Seth never did.

It just chewed him
up on the inside.

I've been checking
into your family, Chuck.

Who knew the Pierces were
such an American dynasty?

Yeah, dad's a war hero.

Built a textile
company from scratch

turned it into an empire.

You got a point?

It's hard to live
up to. Only son.

A lot of pressure on a kid.

I thrived on it.

- Some people do.
- Right.

Right, 'cause you were
following in his footsteps.

And 12-years-old or not,
you were a leader.

That's why, when Danny
fell in the crick

you tried to save him.

Kid was so out of shape..

...he couldn't hold
himself above the water.

He must've panicked.

That's what happens,
situations like that.

[whispers]
Yeah.

Maybe he was gonna
pull me down with him.

I...I had to save myself.

I..

I mean...so help me, God.

I let him drown.

Then covered it up.

Papa Pierce found out,
worse than being punished

he'd have been
disappointed in you.

It was an accident.

And I spent the rest of my life
trying to make up for it.

[Lilly sighs]

You know, there's just
this one little detail

that doesn't fit.

Danny didn't drown, Chuck.

There's no water
in his lungs.

- That's got to be a mistake.
- 'No mistake.'

Someone cracked him in
the skull with a blunt object.

(Scotty)
Whack.

(Lilly)
'We didn't just check
into your family, Chuck.'

We checked into you.

(Scotty)
'Being an astronaut,
now that would've gotten'

your old man off
your back for once.

No, but NASA rejected you.
Three times.

It's a good thing he's not
around anymore to see you.

Bus driver in the sky
for rich people.

Now Danny, he was
a real leader.

Danny was weak.

He was no leader.

Buddies thought he was.

Launched the rocket,
made the leap.

Danny said jump and they jumped.

But you...you were scared.

And Papa Pierce finds
out about that

might as well not
go home at all.

You go to hell, alright.
I was no coward.

And Danny's death
was no accident.

You know what, I want a,
I want a lawyer.

You're dying to shut us up.

Can see it on your face.

Know what we did to piss you
off, what did Danny do?

Danny shouldn't even
have been there.

Danny was no Rocket Boy.

Maybe not at the beginning,
but he made the jump.

'He made it across.'

He wasn't the hero.
I was.

[dramatic music]

It's okay, Chuck.
You can do it.

You're Neil Armstrong, remember?

Just shut up!

I'm not scared, alright!

Then jump. Come on.
It's no big deal.

Help me!

Chuck!

Chuck!

Chuck, Chuck, I lost my glasses!

I can't see!
Chuck!

Help me!

Chuck! Chuck, help!

[coughing]

[dramatic music]

Chuck!

Chuck, help me!
Chuck!

(Bobby)
'Hey, what's going on?'

I won't tell them
you were scared, Chuck.

(Seth)
'Hey, where are you, guys?'

You think I was scared?

(Seth)
'What's going on?'

[screaming]

[dramatic music]

[instrumental music]

[Procol Harum singing
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale"]

♪ We skipped
the light fandango ♪

♪ Turned cartwheels
across the floor ♪

♪ I was feeling
kind of seasick ♪

♪ The crowd called
out for more ♪

♪ The room was humming harder ♪

♪ As the ceiling flew away ♪

♪ When we called out
for another drink ♪

♪ The waiter brought a tray ♪

♪ And so it was that later ♪

♪ As the miller told his tale ♪

♪ That her face
at first just ghostly ♪

♪ Turned a whiter
shade of pale ♪

[instrumental music]

♪ She said there is no reason ♪

♪ And the truth
is plain to see ♪

♪ But I wandered
through my playing cards ♪

♪ And would not let her be ♪

♪ One of 16 vestal virgins ♪

♪ Who were leaving
for the coast ♪

♪ And although
my eyes were open ♪

♪ They might just
as well been closed ♪

♪ And so it was ♪♪

(Lilly)
Stay tuned for scenes
from our next episode.

[theme music]