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- God's eyes watching.

That sense that wrongdoing and repeating was a bad idea.

Punishable by someone.

Something bigger than yourself.

I never had that.

I was...

Untouchable.

? I wake in cold sweat

? And there is no one

? No one who cares

? This life no life

? It's killing me

? I am slowly dying

? I can't be

? What you want me to be

- Vida!

- Okay, shut the fuck up.

You're gonna wake the whole neighborhood, Jesus.

- Oh, fuck the neighborhood.

- Yo, so whose dance is this anyway?

Three words: CYO.

- Oh hell yeah, shut the fuck up, Rico.

Yeah, fuck all you knuckleheads.

No way, and you don't even like white girls, so far.

- What you talking about, man?

I love me some gringo loco pussy.

- Oh God.

- Yeah, when it comes to pussy,

I prefer mine to be gringo loco.

Well, gentlemen, shall we?

- We shall.

Look at these fucking squares.

It's gonna be like shooting fish in a barrel.

All right, Rico, how about some recon?

Go inside, check it out.

- No, you go do it.

You're the one that's supposed to know these fucking people.

- Who the fuck do I know?

Just because I know about Catholic broads

doesn't mean I know any.

- Bunch of fucking empty britches, I swear.

You want me to go in?

- Yeah.

- Sell her the plan?

- Do it.

- Great.

- Oh God this is nasty shit, here, take that.

- Attaboy Maxie.

Hey don't forget to bring back the friend.

- When you're young, you're rightfully stupid.

You have the excuse, you know, just a punk kid.

- Tell them we got the good shit, right here.

- Me and the boys are no different.

All we wanted to know was,

where are we going tonight, where's the chicks,

pass the booze, and well wherever the hell that took us

was fine by my.

Evening, Father.

- Ah, good evening young man.

What parish are you from?

- Uh, Our Lady of Deliverance on 42nd.

- Our Lady of Deliverance on 42nd.

- You got it.

- What's your name, young man?

- Max.

- Max.

There is no Our Lady of Deliverance on 42nd, Max.

- All right, Father, you caught me red-handed,

but the truth is, I am here

because I was invited by a very lovely young lady,

and I told her that I'd be on time, and I'm clearly not,

and I'm sorry for that, but I did promise her

that I would be here.

Now you wouldn't want me to lie to her, would you?

- What young lady are we talking about, Max?

- That one.

- You have a quick tongue, young man.

Watch it.

And enjoy the evening.

- Thank you, Father, thank you.

Hi.

- Hi.

- I'm Max Bornstein.

- You aren't a Catholic, are you?

- Oh no, no.

Last name kinda gives it away, doesn't it?

I love this song.

Come here.

So what's your name?

- Theresa.

- Theresa?

Where are you from, Theresa?

- New Jersey.

- You're from Jersey, no way, I'm from Jersey.

- You are?

- Yeah.

- Cool.

- Did you come here alone tonight?

- With my girls.

- Really, no guy or anything?

- No.

- Okay.

Listen, I don't mean to be forward with this,

Theresa, but do you wanna get out of here?

- I can't, my father is coming to pick me up

before nine, so...

- That's okay, I got a car.

- Hey! - Hey, Shh!

- What are you doing back there?

- Hey, you know this clown?

- Yeah, he's my boyfriend.

- Oh, good.

Hey guy, watch that.

- Motherfucker!

- You almost ready?

Whoa, wait wait.

Oh, shit. Come on.

Oh, shit.

Okay, hey look.

This isn't a place for a lady so

you want to say Pop's Diner, seven o'clock,

next Saturday, burgers and shakes?

- Yeah.

- Hey motherfucker, how's it going?

- Ah, what are you doing here?!

My baby, my baby.

I thought your exams were this week.

- Yeah yeah, no--

- Oh my god, are you hungry?

Come on in, come on in.

Come right in right now this minute.

You know he's gonna ask, right?

So I thought if you and I come up with an answer together,

you know, sort of like a practice run before he shows up.

- Mom, I'm not going back.

- Hell you're not.

- There's nothing there for me, mom.

These guys are Ivy League rich kids from the South

and I can barely understand them half the time

with their glee club bullshit.

- Oh, stop, watch your mouth, watch your mouth.

Oh my god, what am I'm gonna do?

What am I gonna tell your dad?

- No, I'm not going, Mom.

- You know he's gonna lose his mind.

- Yeah, shouldn't we all be used to that by now?

- You know what, just go to your room.

Just go to your room.

- No, I'm not gonna to my,

I'm a grown man, Mom, you can't tell me to do that.

- Look, can you please just...

I know I can't control you,

I know you're a grown man and I know I can't say that

but I can ask you to let your mother just sit here

and get her thoughts together before your dad comes home.

- Are we done then?

- You better gather your own thoughts.

You know how he is.

Oh my God.

- So what are you gonna do now?

- That wasn't enough?

- That's not what I mean, you pig.

I mean now that you're back, what do you wanna do?

- I dunno.

Sure as shit ain't getting involved

in the nine to five game, I can tell you that.

- Well I guess that means we'll be seeing

a whole lot more of each other, right?

- You know you're the only person I know

that's actually excited about the fact that

I dropped out of college.

- Max, come down for dinner.

- Shit.

- I thought you said you were in the clear for the night.

- Yeah, I thought we were too.

- Well, there's no way I'm gonna be here

when your father finds out about your dropping outta school.

- Yeah, well, thanks for the support.

I'll call you when my jaw heals up.

- Max!

- Yeah, I'll be right down!

- This is a surprise, son.

Two days early for your break.

How did your finals go, Max?

Why don't you give the stone face a rest, huh?

I know your schedule, son, I pay for it.

- Yeah, exams went well--

- No Max.

Come on, don't do this.

- Can I speak for myself?

- Please do.

- Oh Jesus, okay.

Dad, I've decided that I'm not

cut out for college and I'm not going back.

- You decided?

Who told you that you were in position to decide anything?

- Dad--

- And exactly what is your plan, hmm?

Exactly.

Nothing!

Not a god damn thing!

Max, your grandparents came here with nothing.

Two generations of busting our asses, for what?

So that you can sink our good name

in the pursuit of nothing!

Goodnight.

- Dad was real good at the heart to hearts.

But he was right.

Nothing was no kind of direction.

Surround myself with movers and shakers.

Yeah, okay.

Wonder what the boys are up to?

- Darling, you see that thing there,

that's a telephone.

When people wanna reach me they call me on this device.

Thank you.

No, no, no.

Yeah?

- Hey, Jay, it's Bornstein.

- Bornstein, holy shit man, how the hell are you?

- I'm good man, I'm good, I'm good.

I saw you fly by on the bike today, you still around?

- Yeah, yeah, I'm around.

What about you?

You back for break or you back for good?

- Nah man, I'm back for good.

Back for good.

I hear Tony's working down at the docks,

that sounds like a pretty good gig.

- No, no, no.

Fuck Tony and his hundred dollar a week bullshit.

No, you come see me,

you come see tomorrow.

Don't say no.

- Yeah, okay, what do you got cooking?

- Prime rib, baby.

Prime rib.

- Hey, I'm here to see Jay Klein.

- It's upstairs on your right.

- All right.

- Hey Max! - Holy jeez.

My man, look at you!

Look at that face.

- How ya doin'?

Look at you, you look like you haven't shaved in a decade.

- Tell me, what happened?

I thought they kept warm warm pussy

running on tap around campus,

you already blow through the buffet?

- Naw, no, I've been with Theresa this entire time,

you knew that, right?

- No. - Yeah.

- That's your thing Max,

I mean I've been working on a baker's dozen myself

but it's been a slow week, what can you do?

- Wow, look at this place.

- Hey, enough chit-chat.

Let's talk turkey, you want a drink?

- Yeah, whatever you have.

- Don't worry about that school shit anyway,

fuck all those Ivy League mama boys, you don't need them.

If all works out as planned,

you're gonna be making more money

than your pops within the year, mark my words.

- Cheers.

Have you ever heard of a spreadshot, Maxie?

Fucking porno, Max.

- Yeah.

- No, I'm serious, I'm in the porn business.

- Oh no, Jay, no.

Jay, no, no, that shit's illegal, man.

They'll lock you up in federal

if they catch you with it, I mean

that shit ain't no joke.

- Most shit that pays ain't no joke,

everybody's doing it, even the legal legals

are smacking their dicks against the door

looking at pics of plump 18 year old ass.

- I don't know, I don't know.

- What don't you know?

It's the future, Max, you know sex sells,

it always has, it always will.

Look, this shit's gonna break, believe me it's gonna,

and when it does, guess who's gonna

be there to count all that money?

Me and fucking you.

- I don't know.

- What do you mean you don't know?

What don't you know, Max, you wanna

go back to school, get some shitty ass

degree for a job that pays you $100 a week?

- What are we actually talking about numbers wise?

- Numbers?

- Yeah.

- Okay, cold hard facts, I am moving

over 5,000 sets a months, that's 5,000 picture sets,

you know what that means?

- Not yet.

- Cards cost me 12 cents apiece to print,

that's 72 cents a set, I move those for $2 a pack,

multiply that by 5,000 sets.

- That's $6,400 a month profit?!

- You're good with the math, Bornstein.

Look, and we're just getting started here,

I can't do this all on my own anymore,

I've got area men set up in New York

and New Jersey, we just made deals

with Miami and Baltimore, I'm talking to

a few guys in Philly and Pittsburgh.

Max, I'm not talking about getting rich

I'm talking empire.

- All right, so what exactly do you want me to do?

Do you want me to set up a camera

and fuck your old lady or something 'cause

I'm a little camera shy and you know this.

- No, you fucking boob, I want you

to drive the truck from the print shop

to the distribution center and I'll

pay you $200 a week cash and I'll give

you a little extra on the side for each delivery

don't tell me other drivers 'cause that's

between me and you and I don't wanna

hear anything from them.

- No, no, don't worry, what, that's all I do?

- Yeah.

- Oh fuck yeah, count me in, oh my God!

- You're in?!

- Yes, yes!

- Oh Max, you don't know what

kind of a relief that is!

- So...

What next?

- Did you see that fine pimp ass

love making machine outside?

- Yeah, I saw a brown van.

- It's a pussy getting machine, Max!

It's yours.

- Oh no, Jay, no, I can't.

- Look, trust is sacred in this business,

I mean until you walked in that door

I had nobody I could trust, I've been

losing sleep the whole time, I would have

committed suicide, but I'm too beautiful, so...

- Thank you, Jay.

Thank you, that means a lot.

- Okay, three rules.

One, don't steal from me.

- Never.

- Okay good, two, you get pulled over,

you get inspected at a weigh station,

you get in a wreck and you cover the

streets in blowjob porn,

you don't know shit about nothing never.

You got it?

You're just a fucking driver,

you don't know what's in the boxes,

you don't even give a shit.

- All right, yeah, deal.

Oh, is there gonna be a third one, or...

- Oh yeah, lose the smile.

Try to get your stone face back.

- Ah, that away.

Three days ago I quit college

and had my ass handed to me by my dad

for "ruining my life."

And now?

A new van, job that pays

twice what the average nine-to-fiver earned in cash.

Jay said it was just the beginning.

I'd say things were looking up.

Immigration, open up!

- Hey, who the fuck is knocking on my--

- Boo, motherfucker!

- Oh shit!

Fucking shit, Max!

What's the skinny, man, how've you been?

- I've been good, I've been good, how you doing?

- Come in, come in, man.

- Got some shit on your face.

- It's paint.

- Paint?

What are you doing here?

- Is that some boojee insult at

my place and my neighborhood?

- Yeah, it's Harlem.

- How did you find me?

- What, is somebody looking for you,

I talked to Tony about it.

- Fucking Tony?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, fuck Tony, you know fucking

Tony's fucking studying to be

in the academy, he's a fucking

turncoat.

- No, come on, he's just trying

to make some bread like the rest of us.

I don't wanna

talk about Tony, okay?

He better not show up here.

- All right all right.

- God!

So how long as you in town?

- I'm here for good.

- For good for good?

- Yeah, for good for good.

- You wanna get fucked up?

- That's the smartest thing you have

said all day, and actually, listen,

when I was down in Virginia,

I found this hookup for grass.

I can get this shit by the pound.

- Wow, yeah, grass was good

back when we were in high school man,

but since you've been gone,

something a whole lot prettier has come

into town and if you being here

isn't a reason to celebrate,

I don't know what is, man!

- What, are you talking speed or something?

'Cause that shit was all over campus

when it came to finals.

- No, I'm not talking speed.

I'm talking heroin.

- You got some?

- You want some?

- It was like nothing else.

- What'd I tell you, man?

- A warm hum tickling the

backside of your eardrums.

Oh my God.

Rhythm in the city, their heartbeat

slowing into one.

Symbiotic.

I didn't want it to end.

Oh that's dynamite.

- Can I help you with something there?

- Yeah.

You got anything heavier?

Come on man,

don't fuck around, I just wanna

get in and out and I got the cash.

- I got three picture sets left.

- Okay.

- Hey, pick your poison, step right up,

we got everything.

- I'll take 'em.

- You forgetting something?

How about that scratch, partner?

- Lanny.

You're too eager, you fat fuck.

Don't move!

- Fuck, easy, man!

- Don't you fucking move,

I'll blow your head off, Lanny!

Get the fuck up!

Yeah, I'm not done with round boy yet.

Get him the fuck outta here!

You and I, Lanny, have a long night together.

- Fuck you.

- Get him out of here.

- You didn't know she was 15, did you?

- What the fuck are you talking about?

- The girl in your magazine.

- I don't know anything, I'm nothing, I'm nobody.

- That's a federal offense, Lanny.

- Hey, I just sell the shit.

- You know what I want you to say.

- I don't know anything.

- You know what I want you to say.

- Fuck!

- Hey, you Willy?

- Who the fuck are you?

- I'm Max, here to pick up for Jay.

- Frankie!

- Here to do my taxes or something?

All right boys, load the truck.

- It's the brown econoline out front.

- 300 stroke in number three,

200 units pinup, Peck-u-lier.

- That's Peculiar.

There's a p on the other side.

- I don't jerk off to the title, man,

I just look at the magazine.

- Yeah?

- Hey, it's me.

- You good?

- Yeah, yeah, a little bit.

- Beautiful, listen, you get back

here by six for the job, yeah?

- Yeah, I can do that.

- Beautiful.

That's my fucking boy.

- Keep it moving, bitch, with that

fucking dirty pussy.

That's Black Rich right there,

man, try not to look so obvious.

Yo, Richie.

- What's up?

- Thank you.

Let's do this.

- Man, Buddhists, they spend

their whole lives meditating.

They're trying to achieve nothingness.

We got nothingness right here.

- I feel it, inside.

It's happening here again.

- Roll with it.

Roll with it like warm gravy.

- Shit.

Rico, I got to go.

- You work too hard.

- Yeah.

- One for the road.

To the Max.

- To the Max.

Life is comprised of first times.

First time in love, first time you get high.

- I'll see you tomorrow.

- First time you break a promise.

Hey.

- Where have you been?

My parents and I waited up all night for you!

- Teresa, look, I'm a working man now

and I have to go where the work is

and if duty calls...

- Are you drunk?

- No, I'm not drunk, I'm tired, all right?

Here, look, let's get a coffee please.

I'm tired, I've been busting my hump.

- You should've called.

- You're right, I should've called.

I will next time, and I'll make it

up to you and your parents.

I'm sure your father understands the sac...

Hey.

Hey, hey!

What's going on, why are you freaking out?

- I'm late.

- What are you talking about, I'm late.

- No, Max, I'm late, I think I'm pregnant.

- You're...

Oh shit.

Okay.

Okay.

Hey, we're good.

We're gonna be all right.

It's gonna be okay.

? Throw it in a frame

? Throw it on to see

? Everything we've been

? Everything we'll be

? Throw it in a frame

- Come in here!

Jay Klein sent me, I'm here to pick up.

- All right, that's cool.

I want you to take these film canisters

right here, all right?

There's fucking gold on that celluloid, you hear me?

This is Lisa.

My number one star.

She got pussy like sunshine.

- That's real nice.

You mind if I use your bathroom before I go?

- Yeah yeah yeah, it's over there.

But don't make a fucking mess.

- I won't.

- So I'm suck in Loredo...

- Oh, sorry, I'll be out in a sec.

- Sorry, got to go.

- I can leave.

- No, stay.

Like I have anything to hide.

You seem nice.

I like you.

- You seem very nice too.

- You go to school?

- No, well I did, I don't anymore.

Now I'm a delivery guy.

- I'm trying to go to school.

- You are?

- Yeah.

- That's really good.

It's not for everybody, certainly don't

let them tell you that you need it, but it's good.

Hey, can I ask you how...

You came to be here?

- Well...

Things really messed up at home

and I couldn't take it anymore.

So I left and I didn't know where to go.

Then I met Chuck and he saved me.

- Chuck saved you?

- Yeah, I owe him.

- This your only option?

- I don't know, is it?

- Sorry, I can't.

I'm sorry.

Hey, how you doing, I'm here to see Mr. Kendrick.

- If you put me off another week,

I'll burn the whole place down!

I've been serving you union fucks

ham and cheese on a platter

to get those books in print!

What do you give me?

Barnyard bullshit!

Yeah?

Yeah!

Do it!

I'll see you next Wednesday!

So we begin our business

four and one half hours behind schedule.

That's one strike.

We ain't the Orioles, son.

We don't do three strikes.

We do one and out.

You're getting started early, kid,

don't fuck up again.

Me and Jay go way back and...

You aren't representing him well.

Where your people from?

- Jersey.

- No shit, before that.

- Russian Jews.

- I knew I liked you for a reason.

- You like me?

- I like your kind.

Good with money.

My kind?

The Wops?

I love 'em, but trust 'em with money?

No fucking way!

I need people I can trust with cash.

- Yeah, I get that a lot.

- Don't let it leave this office,

but my mother is an Italian Jew.

Don't ask.

Okay.

- Is that it?

- Yeah, I think so.

He gave you a bottle of wine

from his mother or some shit, I don't know.

Well come on, open it, open it.

- I'm gonna open it, my hands are sweaty.

- Holy shit!

- You did good, you did good, you did good!

- That was just the one time.

- Just the time one,.

- Okay, two times, two times.

- All right, let's listen to some rock music, do drugs.

- Max!

- Fuck.

Hey Max, you got to see the China my parents got us.

- Yeah, one sec!

Oh yeah yeah yeah, yeah, I saw that earlier.

Hey listen, I got to make a run up to Westchester

'cause I have to drop off this statue

to this big art dealer up there.

I should be back a little later tonight,

maybe tomorrow morning, but it'll be

a reasonable hour, okay, I don't want you to worry.

All right.

- Hey, hey!

- Hey.

- How you doing?

- I'm chilling, what's up?

- You guys looking to score?

- Score?

Who are you, fucking Mickey Mantle?

- You don't wanna miss out on what we got, man.

- Oh yeah, come on, let's go.

- Hey!

- Hey, don't yell at me, all right?

We're good, man.

We're fucking high on life,

thank a lot, Officer.

- You a wiseass?

- What?

- Are you a wiseass?

- Yeah yeah, yeah, you know what?

- Rico Rico, come on.

- I'm fucking wise and you're a fucking ass!

You getting out of your car?

- Rico, Rico, hey hey hey!

Let's just... - What?

- Okay, all right all right all right!

- Easy, easy, easy.

Theresa's gonna kill me, man,

if she doesn't think I'm dead already.

How much longer you think we got, huh?

- They're just putting us through the system.

We're good though.

They don't have shit on us.

That's what they fucking do,

they fucking put us through the system.

Just fucking keeping us here.

But we're good, we're good, because they

don't got shit us, they're just

fucking puntas here wasting time

'cause they know time sucks for a junkie!

- Shit, oh my God, don't scream please.

Don't scream, Rico.

I'm not a junkie, man, don't fucking call me that.

Fuck.

Okay.

- Yeah, me neither.

- Yes, today, fucking today.

- Bro, you know that character

Bornstein you've been tailing?

- Yeah yeah yeah.

- We got him held up at the 42nd Precinct.

You wanna talk to him while he's locked up?

- Process him back out again.

I need him on the street.

But keep your eyes on him.

- You got it.

- All right, boys, you're processed!

Line up, you're outta there!

- So I got some takeout.

Some Italian, I know you like that.

I'm sorry, Teresa, I really am,

but it's not gonna happen again.

- Do you love me, Max?

- What?

What are you talking about,

hey Teresa, Teresa, hey.

Of course I love you.

I love you more than anything,

do you think that I like being

out there at all hours of the night?

- You're lying to me.

I'm done with this!

I'm done with you, do you understand me?

I want you to let me and the baby go.

- Theresa, Theresa, stop, stop, all right?

What's with the tears, you're

freaking out, it's gonna hurt the baby, okay?

- I can't be alone all the time, Max!

You're never here!

You're not here for us!

I need somebody who gives a shit about me!

I need somebody who isn't screwing around on me!

- Is that what you think--

- Stop lying to me!

Just stop!

- Okay, okay, Theresa, just stop.

- You don't give a shit about me!

- Yes I do.

- You don't give a shit about our baby!

- Okay, Theresa, Theresa.

- I've had enough of you!

- Theresa.

- Ow! - Oh fuck, fuck.

- I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go!

- Just breathe, breathe.

- Push, push, one more, one more!

- Well son...

- Well you're not looking too well.

- Well you know, I've been...

Really stressed. - Right, right.

- Working.

- Right.

Son...

I deal with junkies on a daily basis.

I pull the sheets over their faces.

They got faces that look just like yours.

We did everything we could to

guide you down a better road than this.

That's for sure.

But you refused.

Now it's your decision, maybe

it's too late for you.

Max, there's a baby being born.

That is your child, Max.

You got to get your shit together.

That woman, that child, deserve a father.

You stay on the boat that you're on right now...

They're gonna bury you before that

kid sees his third birthday.

Okay?

- Rico?

Rico!

Rico!

Rico?

Rico!

Rico!

- Theresa!

Theresa!

Theresa, I need you.

- You okay?

- I need you, I need you to just get me ice.

Call the neighbors please.

- Ice?

- Yes, please, just go get ice please.

- Okay, okay.

- Oh fuck, oh fuck.

- Leave, Theresa, leave.

Leave, Theresa!

Go away!

Okay, come on come on, I ain't got all day.

- Mondo.

- Yeah, he'll know.

Yeah, he's here.

Sit down.

- Something wrong, Mr. Kendrick?

- Mondo.

Fucking methadone.

The boys found it in your ashtray.

Are you a dope fiend?

- All right, look, Mr. Kendrick,

last week I was moving one of the shipments

and I fucked up my shoulder something proper,

so I go to Jay and I tell him hey, listen,

I need some sort of painkillers.

He hands me that.

I would never jeopardize your operation.

- Take these, he said?

- Yeah, yeah.

- Don't you fucking lie to me.

- I'm not lying to you!

Look, I don't even like that woozy stuff,

the feeling it gives you,

I don't even like it, but I need it

to get through the delivery.

- Jay, Kendrick.

Listen, your boy Max here says you

gave him fucking methadone

for a bum shoulder.

Yeah.

Take him for a ride, Mondo.

- Wait, no, Mr. Kendrick, no,

Mr. Kendrick, listen to me!

- I'm pulling your chain!

Jay vouched for you.

That's good enough for my book.

Here, take the cheddar, hit the road.

I got other business.

- Thank you, Mr. Kendrick.

- You're welcome.

- Okay, we're in position.

Let him make the drop, then we'll take the warehouse.

Do not engage the driver.

You understand, do not engage the driver.

- That's one small step for man.

One giant leap for mankind.

- Colombia, Colombia, this is Houston, AOS, over.

- Okay, okay.

- Max, what's going on?

- Police, open up!

Come on, let's go!

You're under arrest!

Put your hands up, get down, get down!

- Theresa, is he in?

- He's getting too big for you, huh?

- You've got 10 minutes.

- I'll be there in a second, buddy!

- You look pretty spry.

- Yeah, yeah.

You know, it's really risky for you to come here.

- It's okay, no one's on me.

What the fuck's going on with you,

I haven't heard from you since the bust.

- I'm good, I mean I didn't say

anything if that's what you're asking.

- I know, Max, I know you didn't

say anything, I'm just...

I ain't concerned about your

loyalty, it's just to who it's with.

- What are you talking about?

- Is it me or the junk?

Remember what I said?

- Yeah.

- Then why's your face look like shit, huh?

- Yeah, yeah, I'm good, I'm good.

I'm getting clean, I swear to you.

I remember what you said.

Those methadone pills that those

fucking goons found is because I'm getting clean.

Jay, this thing I got now is a fever,

I got the shakes and shit.

Mark my words, a few days I'll be good.

I'll be good, it's just a fever, Jay.

- They ain't got nothing on you?

- No, no.

They're trying to connect me to Kendrick,

but there's no connect.

- Okay.

Well I got something big going on

and it requires me being out of the country.

I need you.

- Yeah.

- Healthy.

- Theresa.

Denmark.

- Sorry?

- Look, we had a great start, we did,

but this sniffing butts with the feds shit

has gotten me all paranoid and I was thinking

why are we playing this game

on the illegal side of things.

- I don't get it.

- Denmark, pure, unadulterated

hardcore pornography,

- Right, so why aren't people

just getting their shit from Denmark?

- Oh they try, they try all the time,

but once it gets to the border it's

a crapshoot whether or not

it gets through customs, so what I've done

is I've set us up a business address

in Denmark and I've also set us up

a couple of business accounts overseas

so people mail us their cash, legal.

We deposit said cash, legal.

Then I send a wire to you detailing the order,

you in turn take that to the print shop

and we just fulfill orders, business as usual,

and as far as the feds know, there's no

paper trail stateside, so they don't

have a hard-on for us.

That's some good shit, Jay!

- I know, I know, we just

tell our boys over at to

remain in Denmark and as far as the

feds know, that's all that shit is.

- It's almost like a legit job, you know that, Jay?

- I know, almost.

Thing is, I don't mean to bust your balls,

but I need you to be clean, I need your head in the game.

They got Kendrick, they know who you are.

They're coming after us hard, so I need

you to lay low until I give you the go ahead, all right?

I'm flying out there tonight, I'll give you

a call as soon as I land.

- Yeah, no, I'm good, I'm good.

You sure you're gonna be okay over there?

- 100% pure unadulterated pornography?

Pretty blonde women, I think I'll be fine.

- All rise.

The honorable Judge Warren Spokefield is now presiding.

Case number 23434.

Morning, Judge.

- Good morning, please be seated.

- I thought there was only one of us.

- He took deals.

- In the case of The People versus

Kendrick, Leon, Bornstein, Walters, Frederick.

- You don't worry about a thing,

you made the right choice.

Goes out to 21.

Already have appointments waiting for them.

Mondo's gonna have a busy week ahead of him

starting with that rat Lanny.

Don't worry, kid, all this is gonna

be taken care of.

- Easy, Max.

You see, I heard that you were

open to making deals.

- Oh yeah, you heard that.

- Do you wanna go somewhere, maybe we could chat?

- Listen, that's very kind of you, Mr. Bron,

but I don't accept your offer because

I'm not a fucking rat.

- You know, you are looking at 10 years.

Do you want your child growing up without a father?

Think about your family for once.

Mr. Kendrick, Kendrick, he's done for.

We're not asking you to risk your life

or your family for that piece of shit.

We want you declined.

We know you're working for him

and we know he's the head of the operation.

You help us out and not only do you

come out clean, you have an opportunity to

keep yourself out of prison when we take him down.

- Oh I'm sorry, is that it?

- Well...

You know where to find us.

- Man, what the fuck you want, cop?

- I'm not a cop, I know you, I know you.

- You don't know me.

- Yeah, yeah I do.

Remember Rico?

- Where the fuck's Rico been, huh?

- He didn't make it.

- So?

- So I just need something, man,

I'm on trial downtown, I got this suit on,

that's why nobody's giving me the time of day.

I know you got something.

- Yeah, you got money?

- Of course I got fucking money,

I'm not out here skimming.

- Well it's your lucky day, let's go.

- Richie.

- Hey, ma.

- Who is this?

- It's Max.

- Speak up please?

- Max Bornstein, sorry.

- Max is a friend of mine, business associate.

- Max, hi.

I like your suit.

- Oh, thank you.

- Okay, ma.

Take a seat.

- Looks like you got a baby factory out there.

- They ain't mine, they're my cousins

or some shit, I don't know.

- Hey listen, does your mother know

what you're doing in here?

- Yeah, she knows.

She don't like it, but she knows.

Okay, if I'm gonna do it, she likes

to know where I am.

- Smart lady.

- She's the smartest woman I know.

What do you need?

- Yeah, a few bags.

- Shit's right up around here, I know a guy.

You're gonna have to wait here.

- Oh hell no, I'll go with you.

- No no, look, you're in my mom's house.

Relax, you stay here.

- All right.

- Hey Max.

I see you over there.

Come on.

You got a kid, don't you, Max?

- Yeah, yeah I do.

Adam.

- Yeah, I could see it in your eyes.

- You a seamstress?

- Oh, I could fix a hem.

Ain't no calm in the belly of the fearful, Max.

- Sorry?

- Let me look at you.

- What?

- You're carrying around some old man on your shoulders.

Yeah.

Some demon's got you deep in its clutches.

Just pay mind to that old man,

Max, he ain't going nowhere.

He'll follow you to the end.

- I think I'm gonna wait in Richie's room.

- Ladies and gentlemen of the jury...

- The trial lasted for three weeks.

The feds tried to blow it up into

an organized crime conspiracy,

but that's where I got lost in the shuffle.

You see I worked for Jay exclusively,

did everything through him.

With him long gone to Denmark and no other

evidence that a couple of photographs

will link me to Kendrick, I was just a

hard working delivery guy trying

to make an honest buck.

Richie, Richie!

Oh, hey.

- Oh, hey.

- Hey there.

- Hey, take a seat, I'd like to talk to you.

- Yeah, okay.

Sure.

- You know, my boy...

He's a good boy.

He's got a good heart, but his story,

it has a bad end.

- Oh come on.

Come on, Cecilia, that's not true.

- Yeah, well that's sweet, that's sweet,

but no need to candy coat it.

What you need, Max, you need to

get that old man off your back.

Your story, it rolls right back to blank pages.

I've seen your goodness, Max.

But it's goodness with no direction.

To make us whole, Max, we have to

surround ourselves with goodness, what

you got surrounding you now is

nothing but darkness.

You don't believe in nothing, no consequence.

You got to change that.

Hey Lily, go get mama that book over there?

Hand it to Max.

- Thank you.

- Thanks, sweetie.

- What's this?

- It's a book.

Or you could say it's a door.

Like the open door.

- Thank you, Cecilia, you were really

nice to me these past few weeks.

- Yeah yeah yeah, here's the thing though.

That's my only copy.

You're gonna bring it back, right?

- Yeah, I'll bring it back to you.

Listen, is Rich here?

- No.

- Okay, okay.

Tell you what, could you tell him I stopped by?

- Will the defendants please rise?

Has the jury reached a decision?

- We have, your honor.

- How did the jury find?

- On the count of production of

and distribution of pornography,

we the jury find the defendant Leon guilty,

the defendant Walters guilty,

the defendant Frederick guilty,

the defendant Bruce guilty,

the defendant Kendrick guilty,

the defendant Bornstein not guilty.

- Mr. Bornstein, you're free to go.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

this court stands adjourned.

- I told you you'd be all right.

- Thank you.

Hey, it's me, guess who got acquitted?

They had nothing on me.

- I let you live your life as you see fit.

I can't do this anymore!

- Oh come on, what's that supposed to mean?

You should be happy, you know that, right?

- I let you lie to me because

I wanna believe you're a good person, okay?

But none of it matters without us!

- I can't get away with it.

Besides, I'm done with that, I'm done with that.

I'm ready to start a new life.

You hear me?

- I'm pregnant, Max.

- Okay.

Okay.

What we got on tap today, huh?

- Today we celebrate.

I got that Colombian Frank up town, top shelf.

- No, no, no, man, I don't do speed balls,

it makes me really anxious and paranoid.

- No, you see, that's just the cut because

you do that ghetto street shit,

but this shit here is pure.

- All right, well let's celebrate then, yeah?

- No no, whoa.

All right, first off, you can't

fucking cook coke, okay, you got to

cold shake that shit or you're gonna ruin it.

Now let me show you something.

I just want you to smell this,

don't inhale it, just smell it.

- All right.

- You see how it smells like medicine?

- Yeah yeah, it smells like a fucking hospital.

- That's how you know it's good coke.

That's how you know it's good coke!

- Okay, okay.

No, no, no!

- Ma, dad, we can just start eating,

I'll save a plate for him.

- Hey Ernie, how you doing?

I'll be back soon, okay?

I've got 200 sets, two boxes, that's 400.

- Why so cheap?

- Because it's Christmas time and

I'm Santa Claus, I don't know, do you

want an answer or do you just want the product?

- Hello?

Oh, okay, yeah, sure sure, we'll be right there.

Max!

Max!

Max!

Max!

Max, can you hear me?!

Max!

It's your father!

- Wait, hold on, I'm gonna have

to call you back, Max, wait.

I'm sorry, buddy, Jay changed the locks,

I can't let you in.

- What, no.

- There's nothing I can do,

you got to talk to Jay.

You're over here, man, sorry.

I can't let you in here anymore.

- Why haven't I received one payment in weeks?

- Look, I'm a little behind, that's all it is.

My father died, you knew about that,

so I'm a little fucked up, you know, that's it.

- Listen, I'm sorry to hear that,

I really am, but your father just died,

so why are the numbers still

not in from the first of the month,

but I'm hearing from Ernie that boxes

are still flying out on the storage unit?

- Yeah, 'cause Ernie is such an honest guy.

Fuck him, all right, he doesn't

know what he's talking about.

Who are you gonna listen to, Ernie or me?

How long have we been at this, huh?

Since we were teenagers, right?

- Max, the bookstore owner called me.

Your showed up dope sick slinging my product.

What did I tell you the first day

I sent you down for the job?

Three rules, three rules!

You just broke the most important one,

you're the only one that I trusted,

Max, lose my number!

- Jay Jay Jay, Jay Jay Jay, listen, Jay.

Jay!

Fuck!

- Hey, hey.

- I'm babysitting, Theresa told me

she would be home by nine,

I have school tomorrow, I wanna go home!

- Okay okay, just where do you live?

I'm Theresa's husband by the way.

- I have to call my mom.

- Well please do that!

Hey guys, where's...

- Theresa's husband just got home.

He said he'll give me a ride.

- You don't know, okay well hey...

Hey buddy, just don't play with anything in there.

Hello?

Goddammit, goddammit!

Okay, did she say where she was going?

- I don't know, I think she went to a bar or something?

- She went to a bar?

She went to a bar, fantastic, I'll tell you what,

tell your mother to come and pick you up

'cause I'm not doing that shit.

Hey guys, we're gonna go find mom right now,

you guys ready for an adventure?

Theresa.

Theresa.

Theresa!

Hi.

So what the fuck is going on?

Huh?

Do you know who's in the car right now?

Our children, why?

Because the fucking babysitter

is losing her mind, she was supposed

to be home by nine, it's after midnight.

Yeah, mind your own fucking business, buddy.

- I don't wanna come home, okay?

You have the kids, you can watch 'em for awhile.

It's my turn to stay out like you've always done,

live my life!

- Oh that's great, with who, these people?

Who the fuck are these people?

- What business is it of yours?

You've had your separate life all these years

and now I have mine, see?

- Okay, come on.

Come on, come on.

- Get off.

- Come on!

Mind your own fucking business!

- I'm not leaving!

You leave!

Why are you still living with me anyway?

- How can you say that to me?

- Come on, Max, you don't love me.

You know what, I don't love you!

So just leave, okay, just get out of my life!

- Theresa...

- I've got him.

- All right, hey hey, Theresa!

Theresa!

Rich!

Rich, I got to talk to you!

Rich, Rich!

- What are you doing here so late,

my kids are asleep!

- Look, I'm really sorry, but I'm in

a hurry because my kids are

actually in the car and I just,

I really wanna talk to Rich.

- Yeah, I know what you want,

but guess what, you're not gonna get it tonight.

- What are you talking about?

- My Richie got arrested yesterday.

I don't know what's gonna happen to him,

I don't know when he's gonna come home.

- Okay.

I'm really sorry about that,

but I really need to get

into his room for my things.

- What are you telling me you're sorry about?

You just want that poison and now

you bring your kids here too,

are you crazy, I mean this is

no place for kids in the night.

- What do you want me to do?!

- Max, poor Max.

When I look at you now,

I don't even see your body.

All I see is your spirit just crying and crying.

If you can't stop this suffer yourself,

please, look at those little faces,

you got to do it for them.

- What do you think I'm trying to do, Cecilia?

- I'm telling you something!

You are still young and you still have

a chance to become the man that

you're supposed to be.

You've got those beautiful children.

Take them home.

Don't come back here,

I don't wanna see you no more.

- Oh shit!

- Hey, you seen Black Rich?

- No, I haven't.

- I see you with him before.

- Oh yeah?

Does that mean you're not holding?

'Cause if that's so, get the fuck outta here.

- I got enough for me.

- Oh yeah?

Does that mean you got enough for me?

Okay.

Can you get the fuck outta here,

my kids are here, come on.

Hey!

No, no no no no!

Hey!

Hey!

- Where did mama go?

- Hey!

Fucking where's my...

Where's my cut, where the fuck!

- Okay, I'll trade!

- No, no!

And that was it.

The ride was over.

I'm sorry I haven't come to see you at all.

It's been a hard couple of months.

I really wanted to figure out

what I wanted to say to you.

I'm sorry I wasn't at your funeral.

I was there, but I wasn't.

I wasn't there, I wasn't myself

and I haven't been myself in a long time.

I was running and I'd been running my whole life.

I got good at it!

I got really good at it.

I got so good at it, I forgot it was happening.

It didn't matter what anybody said, I was...

I was invincible.

No matter what anybody said,

didn't matter, rolled right off me.

Then I saw my son in the middle of the street.

No, no!

It hit me right then and there that

I hadn't seen my child since he was born.

Never truly seen him.

I stopped right then and there.

First time I think I stopped in my whole life.

You should see them now.

Kelsey looks like just her mother and...

Adam, let me tell you, he's pretty fucking stubborn.

I really miss you, Dad.

Here they come.

? We're never going home

? You didn't have to say

? You never met my eyes

? You kind of gave it away

? There's only one thing

? That's ever been in my skin

? And it's the one thing

? I can't ever be again

? I left a frightened little boy

? On the plane that day

? And that frightened little boy

? Is still waiting there today

? I had a dream on the way

? When the plane was going down

? And we were on our way

? To a small Western town

? Imagine my surprise

? In the middle of a storm

? To see a million eyes