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- You go ask.

- Dude, I'm not goin', look at him.

- No way, I'm not goin'. - Dude, I'm not gonna ask him.

- I'll ask him.

- What the hell do you want?

- Nothin'.

- I think this guy's a mobster.

- He ain't no mobster. - Dude, yes, he is.

- You guys are all friends?

- Yeah.

- You wanna play fastpitch with us tomorrow?

- Let me get this straight.

You're asking me if I wanna baseball?

- Not baseball, fastpitch.

You know, against the wall.

Man, brother, you can hit.

- You got a nice swing, man.

- Thanks.

- How old are you?

- Old enough to have a nice swing.

- No, really, how old?

What's your name?

- Bob.

What's your name?

- Jimmy.

- And you two?

- I'm Ray.

- Kevin.

- Nice to meet you boys.

You know, when I was a kid,

we didn't chalk the box, we painted it.

- Asshole.

I thought you wanted me to play ball.

- I thought you were grounded.

- Friend of yours?

- Not really.

Justin Blake.

He plays ball with us sometimes.

- Guy's crazy, he's been suspended from school twice.

- Try three times.

- I wouldn't even ask him to play again.

That guy ain't nothin' but trouble.

- Do you live in Ellie's?

- What makes you think that?

- Well, I've been there in the morning and saw you there,

and been there at night, even saw you there, too.

- I like the place.

Good food, good coffee.

Is there a crime in that?

- I guess not, I was just saying that--

- Well, maybe there is a crime in that.

Maybe that's because you guys have been following me around.

I know you've been following me around.

Why?

- It's like a game. - Yeah.

- A game?

- A spy game, where you pick someone who's interesting

to follow them around.

See what they're doing, where they're going.

- And this time, we picked you.

- We're playing again tomorrow.

You wanna come?

- I don't care what you say, they're the Cubs,

for Christ sakes, I don't care who they pick up,

they're never gonna win it, no.

- It's definitely their year.

It's not their year, no. - I think they have a shot.

- Yeah, Will!

- We got a better shot of seeing Santa Claus coming down

our chimney than we do of seeing the Cubs go to the Series.

- I think you're wrong there, hon.

They've got the youth, the talent, might just be our year.

- I drove by today, I saw you playin' ball.

Who was that playin' with ya?

- Just me and the guys.

- Yeah, I know, I saw you and Jimmy and Kevin,

but who's that man?

- He's just some guy.

- Some guy?

How old is he?

- I don't know, he's older than us.

- No kidding, how old?

- What guy, Ray?

- How old?

- I don't know, 50?

- You're hanging out with a 50-year-old dude?

- He seems nice, okay? And we needed another guy.

Justin couldn't come-- - Justin?

Honey, we don't want you hanging out with that kid.

He's not a good kid.

- He's a punk is what he is, and as far as this

other guy goes, I don't want you hanging out with him.

- He seems fine! - Did you hear what I said?

I don't want you hanging out with this guy.

You understand me?

- Answer your father, Ray.

- Do you understand me?

- Yes.

- Yeah! - There we go!

Bases loaded.

- Top of the seventh, 5-4, bases loaded!

Jimmy is in big trouble.

- Knock it off, man!

I'm tryin' to concentrate!

What, you wanna pitch?

You gotta be kidding me.

That's it, Bob!

Keep doin' that crazy old-man shit!

Yeah, Bob!

- I can't believe you struck me out in three pitches.

- My stepfather doesn't want me hanging around you anymore.

- Then what are you doin' here?

- I don't always listen to what my parents tell me.

- Well, you should.

- Did you listen to everything your parents told you?

- Always.

- No one always listens to their parents.

- Well, I did.

- That's bullshit.

- Hey, watch your mouth.

- But it is.

- You know why it's not bullshit?

- Why?

- Because they know what the hell is goin' on,

and you're just a kid.

And mainly, you only get one mom and one dad.

You should always listen to 'em.

- Red Badge of Courage.

What's it about?

- Civil War.

Used to teach it to my students every year.

- You used to teach?

- Yeah.

- What kind of teaching?

- High school English.

- You always carry old books around?

- Always.

- But why?

- You should always have a good book on you.

Read this part.

Out loud.

- "Across the smoke-infested fields came a brown swarm

"of running men who were giving shrill yells.

"And they came on, stooping and swinging their rifles

"at all angles.

"A flag, titled forward, sped near the front.

"As he caught sight of them, the youth was momentarily

"startled by a thought that perhaps his gun was not loaded."

- What do you think?

- It's good.

It's real good.

- It's yours.

- Really?

- Yeah.

Read some more.

- "He stood trying to rally his faltering intellect

"so that he might recollect the moment when he had loaded

"but he could not."

"A hatless general pulled his dripping horse to a stand

"near the colonel of the 304th.

"He shook his fists in the other's face.

"'You've got to hold 'em back!' he shouted, savagely.

"'You've got to hold 'em back!'"

Hey.

So, Ellie's is closed and Bob's still in there.

- Doing what?

- Nothin', he's just sittin' there.

- Maybe the owner's just letting him stay there,

until it's time to close?

- No, I'm telling you, it's closed.

All the workers are gone.

- That's weird.

- It's gettin' late.

Talk to you tomorrow.

- What you doin', honey?

- Just readin'.

- What book is that?

- The Red Badge of Courage.

- Is it good?

- Yeah.

It's good.

- Well, it's gettin' late.

- Just a little longer, Ma.

- Okay, honey.

Goodnight.

- Night.

- But, his life.

- Go talk to him.

- Man, this guy ain't comin'.

- You heard him, he said he'd be here.

- Dude, he's not comin', let's just play, let's play ball.

Come on, man.

- Yeah, let's just play, me and Jimmy against you.

And if your friend comes, he'll be on your side.

- He's not here right now, dude, come on.

- No ball today, boys, let's go for a ride.

- Where are we goin'?

- For a ride.

Well, are you coming or not?

You boys hungry?

- Yeah.

- What do you want, boys?

- Hotdog.

- Four hotdogs. - And fries.

- Four fries. - And shakes.

- Four shakes.

- What's this?

- What's it look like? Books.

- I know it's books, but what for?

- To read.

What did you think, you were gonna play baseball

and drive around cemeteries all summer?

- You mean you want us to read those?

- That's right.

- Treasure Island.

What's it about?

- Pirates.

- The Call of the Wild.

What's this one about?

- A man, a dog, and a woman.

- A woman?

I'll take that one.

- Sherwood Anderson.

Never read anything by him before.

What's it about?

- Small town in Ohio, turn of the century.

- So you want us to read this whole book?

Come on, man, let's go play baseball.

- You start reading these books,

and then we'll talk about playin' baseball.

- Ray!

Ray!

- What's wrong? - Where's Ray?

- He's on the porch, what's up?

- I ran into Mr. Miller today, he said he saw you

up at Janson's yesterday with some older guy.

It's that same guy, isn't it?

Look, if I hear or see about you hanging out with this

guy again, you're not gonna leave this house for months!

You're gonna get to know the inside of your room real good!

- You're not my father!

- What is going on?

- Ray!

Ray, get down here now!

- Ray.

Ray, open up.

Ray, honey, open the door.

- Go away!

Leave me alone!

- Harry, it's Will.

- Will, what's up?

- There's this guy, I don't know, he's around 50?

Anyway, he's been hanging around Ray and his buddies.

- Well, who is he?

- I don't know, I've never seen him before.

I've been telling Ray to stop hanging around with him,

but he's not listening to me.

- Is he from the neighborhood?

- I don't know.

- Look, I'll find him and when I do,

I'll introduce myself to him, okay?

- Thanks, Harry, I appreciate that.

- Why did we stop?

- Yeah.

- You okay?

- Yeah.

- What you writing?

- I don't know just yet.

- What's it about?

- Daddy.

- Well, I'd like to read it when you're done.

- Okay, Mom.

- Night.

- Night.

- "Thy soul shall find itself alone,

"'mid dark thoughts of grey tombstone.

"Be silent in that solitude,

"which is not loneliness.

"For then, the spirits of the dead,

"who stood in life before thee,

"are again in death around thee,

"and their will shall overshadow thee.

"Be still."

Poe.

Edgar Allan.

He had a horrible childhood.

His father left when he was one.

His mother died a year later.

He worked for various newspapers.

He wrote The Raven.

Black Cat.

Murders in the Rue Morgue.

The Fall of the House of Usher.

A great American writer.

I want you to take those home and I want you to read them.

I want you to come back here tomorrow,

and tell me what they mean.

Okay?

Get outta here.

What's wrong, Ray?

- I don't like this place.

- Why's that?

- My dad's funeral was here.

When did he die?

- About three years ago.

- How did he die?

- Car crash.

Coming home from work.

How do you become a writer?

- A writer.

- How do you become a writer?

You get up in the morning, you walk out your door...

Then you live.

And no matter what's thrown at you,

whether it's good or bad...

You write.

Let's go.

So you gonna do anything this summer?

- Yeah, I think I'm gonna go up to Michigan.

- Well, that's good. - Yeah, it'll be fun.

- Hey, Ray! - Hey, Harry!

- How you doin'? - Good, how about you?

- I'm doin' great!

Who's this? - It's Bob.

- Bob?

Where are you guys comin' from?

- The church. - The church?

What're you doin' in church?

- Readin' books.

- You're readin' books?

Bob, could I talk to you for a sec?

Hey, I'm gonna need to talk to you tomorrow.

- About what?

- Don't worry, we'll talk about it tomorrow.

- We can't talk now?

- Be at the 22nd District tomorrow at 8AM.

Got it?

Hey, Ray, I'll see ya!

Hey, say hello to your dad for me.

- See ya, Harry!

- Alright, boys, let's hear them.

Ray?

- If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking, by Emily Dickinson.

"If I can stop one heart from breaking,

"I should not love in vain.

"If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain.

"Or help one fainting robin, unto its nest again,

"I shall not live in vain."

Dickinson is saying that if you do something good to help

someone or something, that your life has meaning.

Your life has purpose.

- That's good, Ray.

Jimmy?

- Fog by Carl Sandburg.

"The fog comes in on little cat feet.

"It sits looking over the harbor and city,

"on silent haunches and then moves on."

I think he means how the fog moves,

in and around.

And sometimes disappears like a cat.

- That's good, Jim.

Kevin?

- Plowmen by Robert Frost.

"I hear men say to plow the snow.

"They cannot mean to plant it, though.

"Unless in bitterness to mock,

"at having cultivated rock."

Well, I think people like farmers,

plow the fields so they can plant the crops.

But when you plow the snow,

all you're doing is clearing the road.

Nothing grows.

- That's good, Kevin.

There's this poem by Walt Whitman.

It's called O Captain! My Captain!

And it's...

It's...

- I wrote a poem.

You want to hear it?

- Yeah.

- Not a Stranger, by Ray Combs.

"When I was seven, I sat with you.

"Book in hand, reading stories.

"Your warm smile opened my soul.

"As the pages turned.

"Three years and hundreds of stories went by.

"I reached for you, but you were nowhere to be found.

"Dragged into darkness by death.

"The pages turn no more.

"Now this stranger,

"but not a stranger,

"has turned the pages again.

"And there's a sadness and darkness there.

"I see it in his eyes.

"I feel it in my empty soul.

"As the pages turn again."

- Hey, Harry, come on in.

- How you doin'? - Good, how are you?

- I'm good. - Good.

- You thirsty? You want something to drink?

- No, no, I'm good. - Alright.

Let's talk out here.

So what's up?

- I've been lookin' all over the neighborhood for this guy.

I can't find him anywhere.

- Nowhere? - No.

- Did you try at Ellie's? - I went down to Ellie's.

No one's seen him for three or four days.

I think he was up to somethin' and knew that I was onto him,

and he took off.

- You think he's gone?

- He's gone for good.

- Hey, Harry.

Thanks, man. - Hey, that's what we do.

- No, I owe you one. - No, no, you're alright.

- No, no, I do, I do.

Hey, you coming by Saturday? - Yeah.

- You want this book, you want your book?

You want your book?

- Give it!

- What is this shit?

You want your stupid book?

Take it!

- Bob!

Where were you?

We were worried, we thought you'd left and

thought something happened or...

- Look, kid, I don't want you hanging around me anymore.

- What?

I've got some stuff I'd like you to read, it's poetry,

and stories.

- Look, I want you to go, just go.

Go on, go.

What are you, deaf?

I just told you to go!

Get the hell outta here!

Go!

I'm sorry.

- Why?

Why?

You need to read this.

- So what are you guys doing this weekend?

- Just going camping with my family, how about you?

- Cubs are in town.

I might get tickets to the game this Sunday.

- Nice.

- What about you, Ray?

- Nothin', just hangin' out.

- Hey, assholes!

What are you losers doin'?

- Knock it off, man, seriously.

- Hey, don't you walk away from me when I'm talkin'!

You want me to kill you?

- What?

- Do you want me to kill you?

Then you'll be dead.

Just like your dead father.

- Police! - Ray.

- Let me see your hands! - Ray.

- Let me see your hands!

Let me see your hands!

Stand up.

- Okay, Madden, let's go.

Why didn't you come see me when I told you to?

I wanted to talk to you about you hanging out with Ray

and his buddies.

Well, you're here now, so we're gonna talk about that,

and we're gonna talk about what went on today.

What are you doin' hanging around with those kids anyways?

You lookin' to molest them?

- I'd never hurt those kids.

- You would never hurt those kids.

That's what you want me to believe,

but you hurt a kid today, I saw ya!

We're doing a background check.

You already got a battery charge.

But that report comes back and there's somethin' in there,

you're in for a real shit storm.

- Harry, can I talk to you?

He's clean.

- What? - He's clean, nothing.

- Clean?

- Your friend and his kid are in my office too.

- Jeez.

- He didn't do it, he didn't do it, I'm telling you!

- Easy, easy, Ray, Ray. - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

What's goin' on?

- He's tellin' the truth, Harry, I guess, 'cause Jimmy

and Kevin said the same thing, I mean,

Bob actually saved him, he pulled Justin off him.

I mean, Justin has been after Ray all summer.

- Are you talking about Robert Madden?

- Can I help you, miss? - I'm his sister.

I'm here to bond him out.

How much is it?

- It's a $2,000 bond, that's $200 in cash, or credit.

- I don't have a credit card.

I have 80.

- I got some money.

- Thank you.

- Great.

- How do you know Robert?

- We're friends.

- You're friends?

- Yeah.

Me, Kevin and Jimmy.

- What do you guys do?

- Play baseball, read books.

Poetry. - Poetry?

- Go crazy ridin'.

- Crazy, my god.

What do I need to do now?

- Just sign right here.

This is your brother, right?

- Right.

- Well, just so you know, when his case comes to court,

he's gonna be charged with simple battery.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, Fitz.

They don't wanna press charges.

- Okay.

- Thank you.

We've still got one little problem we have to deal with.

We can't make all of this go away today because it's already

in the system, so we still have to do the bond thing.

And when his case comes up in court, it's gonna get tossed.

And you're gonna get most of this bond money back.

Take maybe three, four weeks after the case is dropped.

Okay?

- Okay.

Thank you.

So, you don't have to wait around.

Thanks for coming up here to help straighten things out.

- Is there something wrong with him?

- What do you mean?

- When we go to the cemetery...

He gets really quiet.

- What cemetery?

- Mount Greenwood.

Did something happen?

- Yeah.

Something happened.

- What?

- I...

He hasn't said anything to you?

Okay.

Alright.

Robert used to be married.

He had a wife and two boys.

About the same age as you.

They were...

They were supposed to go on a family trip to Maine,

to see Arcadia.

You know, the national park?

But Robert's principal asked him to stay

and work a summer camp.

So Robert stayed and he worked it,

but he wanted his wife and boys to see the park.

So he told them to go.

He told them to go without him.

They drove off the road.

Somewhere in the middle of upper state New York.

The I90, they crashed through the guard rail.

All three of them died.

Robert couldn't take it.

He couldn't go to the funeral.

He couldn't get himself to go to the cemetery.

He just couldn't do it, so he left.

He never said goodbye to his wife.

He never said goodbye to his boys, he just left.

That was about three years ago,

and no one heard from him since.

Then he showed up at my place six weeks ago.

So, yeah, something happened to him.

Something happened.

- Miss Madden.

Look, I didn't get a lot of info from the reports and I...

I'm sorry for your loss.

I'm sorry for your brother's loss.

His case...

Your brother's case stops today.

- Thank you.

Thank you.

- Yep.

- Where is he?

- He left.

- He's gone?

- Yeah, he packed up this morning and he left.

- For good?

- Look...

I really appreciate everything you did for him.

But I, um...

- You guys feel like playin' baseball?

- Nah.

- Me either.

- Can't believe he just took off without saying goodbye.

- He's done it before.

- Think he's gone for good this time.

- Hey, Ray. - I thought you'd left.

- Think I'd leave without saying goodbye to you guys?

I got somethin' for you here.

Jimmy.

Kev.

Ray.

I want you to have those books, boys.

They're first editions, they've,

they've been in my family a long time.

Look, I wanna thank you boys.

You've helped me a lot.

Thank you.

This is really good, Ray.

- Thanks.

You asked me how to become a writer.

Well, you are a writer.

Thank you.

- Bob!

Are you ever coming back?

- I don't know, kid.

You take care?

- Bob!

Bob!