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♪ Ooh ooh ooh ♪

♪ How much is that doggie
in the window? ♪

Arf, arf!

♪ The one with the waggly tail ♪

♪ How much is that doggie
in the window.. ♪♪

♪ Dimples and cherry cheeks ♪

♪ Cherry cheeks
Cherry cheeks ♪

Get behind my counter
and sell some makeup, honey.

At ease, soldier.

♪ I rode one day to Santa Fe ♪

- How'd it go in there, son?
- Great.

We made
our own record.

When she's ready,
pop her on the jukebox.

I know your mom will want
to hear it.

I will do, dad.

♪ ...by the sweetest
angel face ♪

♪ With dimples
and cherry cheeks ♪

♪ Cherry cheeks ♪

Baby, why are you
so secretive about your songs?

'Cause what if
you don't like 'em?

Impossible.

[slurping]

You all done there,
sugar?

Looks like I am,
lemon drop.

[glass shatters]

You're such
a spaz!

Alright, Luke.
Cut it out.

Face it, JP,
your cousin's a fream.

So is his outcast
fream girlfriend.

Stick it up your wazoo,
Frankenstein.

Wow, classy lady, Bingo.

They can drop dead twice, Bingo

'cause you're my star,
and all we need is love.

- And music.
- Mm-hm.

[intense music]

[siren blaring in distance]

[phone rings]

[continues ringing]

[continues ringing]

Never got a chance to ask.

How did round two go with IAD?

I don't know.

Bad.

So what happened?

Someone snitched
about Burrell.

You're kidding me.
Who?

Could have been anyone who knew.

[scoffs]
Oh, Scotty, come on.

You don't think
it was one of us?

Pick a stick.

- What's it today?
- Crackpot in the witness room.

'Says he saw a murder
54 years ago.'

- Drawing straws.
- How about we just do our job?

What's with him?

You saying
you witnessed a murder?

Kinda.
I mean, sorta.

Which is it, Lloyd?

I saw blood..

...lots of it,
back in 1953.

Well, blood isn't a murder.

I know what I saw.

You gonna write
this down or what?

Go on.

Late one night, my parents are
throwing pans at each other.

I snuck out
to practice pop flies.

My ball gets away from me

so I chase it down the alley

behind
Valentine's Five And Dime.

The wallet belonged
to Bingo Zohar.

I heard my parents talkin'
few days later

about him being shot
behind some...blues club

in Point Breeze.

And where was this five and dime
you found the wallet at?

Germantown.
My old neighborhood.

That's clear across Philly
from Point Breeze.

It was all white in '53.

That's...what I'm sayin'.

You never told your parents
what you saw?

Shouldn't have been out,
you know?

Then...just got easier
not to believe my eyes.

Pretend it was a...dream
or somethin'.

Well, it sounds like this memory
ain't exactly crystal.

Yeah, well, maybe, uh

this will help.

Hung onto it.

Fifty four years.

[Scotty]
'Why come forward now?'

My eyes.

I'm losing 'em.

Doc says a few more years,
I'll be blind.

Guess I thought
I'd tell what I saw might..

...set things right.

We can't fix your eyes..

...but...we'll try
to set things right.

[theme music]

[Rush]
'Bingo Zohar, 19 years old.'

[Valens]
Shot and killed behind
Red Hot Mama's Blues Club.

Corner of 20th and South.

Rounded up the usual suspects,
all black.

Never could
pin it on anyone.

Cops never found the bullet
that cleared Bingo's chest.

Makes sense
if it's only the dump site.

Strange substance
on Bingo's sleeve.

Cops back then
couldn't ID it.

Now if he was murdered
in the five and dime..

Changes the suspect list.

'He'd recently moved
from Brandywine, old farm town.'

Parents died in a car accident.

[Valens]
'He was living
with the Valentine family.'

Uncle Ed,
Aunt Julianna..

...cousin JP.

- Who's the girl?
- 'Girlfriend.'

Uh...Miranda Allison.

'Recording booth
behind the family.'

Typical of the old
five and dimes.

And doer dumping the body
on the other side of town

gets the spotlight off himself.

Maybe he did it
on the way home.

[Rush]
'Arthur Brown AKA Aces.'

Worked the night shift
with Bingo at the five and dime.

And lived at 22nd and South.

Two blocks from the dump site.

If we're lucky, evidence
still has Bingo's shirt.

Send it to the lab, maybe
they can ID that substance.

Meanwhile,
have a talk with Aces?

Let's have a look around
the old five and dime.

See if we can't find
that bullet.

- You're kidding, right?
- Afraid not.

It's been 27 years
since this holistic store

was Valentine's Five And Dime.

That so?

Kinda out of the realm
of possibility

that you'll find
some 50-year-old bullet.

Could have got lodged
in a wall or a floorboard.

So what?

You think you're digging up
my floors or walls?

It's not out of the realm
of possibility.

These are fresh walls.
I just had 'em painted.

And my floors
are Malaysian bamboo.

So maybe you should look
somewhere else

for your phantom bullet.

Did you find anything
during that remodel?

Like a bullet?

Uh...no.

'Cause if I find out
you tampered with evidence

I'll stick you
in the slammer with guys

who ain't familiar
with Buddhist teachings.

You do, and karma will be
all over your ass, pal.

Oh, I'll be all
over your ass, pal..

...with a warrant.

Goji berry?
They make you happy.

You eat enough,
you never stop smiling.

Yeah, this place looks great.

Just like the stories
I used to hear growin' up.

Yeah, people tend to
embellish the past.

Red Hot Mama's was a dive,
but a fun one.

When I came into some money,
I decided to make reopening it

'my pet project.'

Well, there's
a blues resurgence.

'Kids hearing it
for the first time.'

Oh, you wouldn't believe
what these kids

will pay for a drink.

[Jeffries]
'Six dollars.'

- Nine.
- Bingo Zohar?

You know him or what?

I remember Bingo.

Cat was one of a kind.

Shot down
back of this alley.

See, we think he was killed
at Valentine's Five And Dime

where you two worked
the night shift together.

I wasn't working
that night with Bingo

if that's what
you're implyin'.

I ain't implyin' it.
I'm sayin' it.

I quit Valentine's
the week before.

Got tired of cleaning up
after white folk

getting treated
like dirt.

Bingo treat you that way, too?

He treated me with respect.

Kid was way ahead of his time
in more ways than one.

[Wynonie Harris singing
"Bloodshot Eyes"]

♪ Now just because
you're pretty ♪

♪ And you think
you're mighty wise ♪

♪ You told me
that you love me ♪

♪ Then you roll
those big brown eyes ♪

♪ When I saw you last week.. ♪

Uh...I apologize, sir.

I figured after hours,
Mr. Valentine's

no negro music rule
don't apply.

Won't play it again.

This is Wynonie Harris, right?

- You know Wynonie Harris?
- Yeah.

I saw him play
in a chicken shack

back on Brandywine Creek
where I'm from.

Heard about your folks.

Sorry.

I used to sing
this song for my mama.

The only thing
that'd make her smile.

My daddy
was a drunk, see.

Confused her
for his punching bag.

I think it made her feel
a little better

hearing other people
carrying it around, their pain.

Let your mama know
she wasn't alone.

Yeah.
I think I know how she felt now.

So you're telling me your uncle
lets you listen to this music?

[chuckles]
Come on.

The night he found my stash
of Louis Jordan records

smashed every one.

Said he wouldn't have

this corrupting
devil music in his house.

Mm-hmm, now that sound
like old man Valentine.

[both laughing]

Hey, you ever see when Wynonie
shakes his leg like this?

Yeah...yeah,
yeah, yeah.

And then..

...he does that spin.

- Bah!
- Hey.

Ha.

♪ Don't roll those
bloodshot eyes at me ♪

[snapping fingers]

♪ I could tell
you've been on a spree ♪♪

Hey, you got some pipes.

Yeah, it's my thing...singin'.

Hmm.

Yeah, just not in front
of other people usually.

Hey, you ever try this one?

[music continues]

Got to be good friends,
the two of us.

Listening to that music
late at night.

Kid was real decent.

[Jeffries]
'But Mr. Valentine
had a problem'

with Bingo listening
to thatmusic?

Old man feared it was
the beginning of the end.

First black music..

...then blacks sitting
at his lunch counter.

Saying he would have hurt
Bingo over it?

What Mr. Valentine said was law

and he had the temper
to back it up, too.

But Bingo couldn't hide his love
of rock 'n' roll from no one.

[Miller]
'Understand your husband,
Ed Valentine'

passed away
a few years ago.

It'll be 12 years
this Christmas.

God rest his soul.

He was a good man?

Oh, yes.

Ed was an officer
in World War II.

We were happily married,
60 years.

Where was your husband
the night Bingo was killed?

Asleep in his bed.

Right next to mine, of course.

Well, Bingo was
like a son to us.

We understand
your husband didn't approve

of the rock 'n' roll music
Bingo listened to.

No, he certainly did not.

Sounds like neither did you.

Well, the stuff was distasteful.

Ed said all negro music was.

N-no offense, dear.

None taken.

We were a generation

that made it
through the Depression, the war.

We wanted stability,
common decency.

And negro music wasn't that.

Well, Ed said it made
the kids go wild.

And, believe you me, it did.

♪ ...above
the fruited plains.. ♪

You're gonna be
radioactive out there.

Yes, I wanna sing
somethin' real, with teeth

not the usual fake-O,
happy land stuff.

♪ ...shed his grace on thee.. ♪

Doesn't matter
what your song is, baby.

Just matters
that you're singin' it.

Everyone'll see
what I see.

That I'm a fream.

That you're
the razz's berries.

♪ ...sea ♪♪

[applause]

JP And The Wishing Stars.

I know someone's mother
is proud.

[chuckles]

Now please welcome to the stage
Bingo Zohar performing

'"Jeannie
With The Light Brown Hair."'

[scattered applause]

♪ I dream of Jeannie ♪

♪ with the light brown hair ♪♪

Boo! Hiss!

Wake me when
the snooze fest is over.

[scattered laughter]

[feedback whines]

♪ Hold back the door and ♪

♪ Stop all the clocks ♪

♪ I just got the news
that my baby wants to rock ♪

♪ All she wants to do is rock ♪

♪ All she wants to do
is rock ♪

♪ All she wants to do is rock ♪

♪ Rock 'n' roll all night long ♪

[screams]

♪ My baby don't go
for fancy clothes ♪

♪ High-class dinner
and picture shows ♪

♪ All she wants to do
is stay at home ♪

♪ And huckle buck with daddy
all night long ♪

♪ All she wants to do is rock ♪

♪ All she wants to do is rock ♪♪Rock rock♪

♪ All she wants to do is rock ♪♪Rock rock♪

♪ Rock 'n' roll
all night long ♪

Miranda, stop him.

Stop your boyfriend
from doing..

'...whatever it is he's doing.'

He's not mine anymore.

Just look at him.

♪ All she wants to do
is rock.. ♪♪

Bingo drove the girls wild

with those swiveling hips
of his.

'Disgraceful.'

Kind of like Elvis. Hot.

So Miranda was pushed aside?

Something you want to share,
Mrs. Valentine?

Well, shortly
after Bingo's death

Miranda's mother caught her

playing Russian roulette
with a loaded handgun.

Sent her to the state
mental ward, poor thing.

Hmm. Sounds like the
poor thing was off her rocker.

[Jeffries]
'Early '50s, white kid
singin' black music'

'it reminds me of Elvis.'

[Stillman]
Yeah, I hate to admit it.

I broke up
with my junior high sweetheart

because she joined
the Elvis Fan Club.

- No.
- Trini Rene.

[Stillman]
Back in the late '50s

the girls were
either Elvis girls..

[Will]
Or Pat Boone girls,
I remember.

I told Trini my family
wouldn't approve

of me goin' out
with an Elvis girl.

[both chuckle]

I guess I was
a square.

No, man,
you were a cube.

My family hated
Elvis too

especially the ones who thought
he ripped off black music.

He certainly was
a polarizing figure.

Yeah, have to be
to make history.

I got the results back
on the shirt.

From Bingo's sleeve?

Can't believe Evidence still
had it after all these years.

Yeah, pretty dependable guys
in that unit.

'Nitrocellulose.'

Used primarily
as a car finish back in the day.

It could be from the car
that dumped Bingo.

Makin' it a long shot.
Lot of cars used it.

It's back to square one.

You have a conversation
with the jealous girlfriend?

- I'm on it.
- Have Vera go with you.

No, I got it covered.

What the hell is his problem?

[Valens]
'Where were you the night your
boyfriend was shot, Miranda?'

Bingo and I went
to the drive-in.

We saw"The Band Wagon"
with Fred Astaire.

Uh, he dropped me
off early.

- How early?
- About...10 p.m.

That was the last time
I saw him.

The next morning,
I received the phone call.

He was dead.

I understand you were locked up
in the nuthouse.

Suicide attempt.

Eighteen and your boyfriend
is murdered?

I would say that
that warrants depression.

Where'd the gun come from?

My mother kept a gun
in her bedside table

next to her pills.

And I bet,
you're gonna tell me

you don't have it anymore.

I didn't kill Bingo.

He was my first love

the purest of all my romances.

'Well, till you saw him
on stage'

turnin'
the other girls on

and you got pushed
to the back row.

It wasn't the girls
Bingo loved.

- It was the music.
- Yeah, right.

Bingo never betrayed me.

He shared his limelight.

[The Dominoes singing
"The Sixty-Minute Man"]

♪ Ooh hoo-ooh ♪

Bingo, play that song
you showed me for my girl.

She let me polish
her headlights.

[laughs]

Easy on the word painting, Luke.

Got a lady present.

♪ Looky here girls
I'm telling you now ♪♪

Hey, how do you get your hair
like that, Bingo?

Miranda's the one
with style.

- Ask her.
- Need to grow it out.

But it ain't gonna hide
that Frankenstein head of yours.

Ha ha.

How about you, JP?
Gonna grow your hair out, too?

No. No.
High and tight is right for me.

You sound like your dad.

Yeah, well, imagine
what my dad would say

if I came home
looking like you.

Who cares what he'd say?
Don't be a square, JP.

Bingo, someone saw
that"Bandstand"scout

at your last show.

We hear those rumors
after our shows, too.

Nothing ever comes of it.

[Luke]
'Maybe we should add some rock
'n' roll beats to our line-up .'

Maybe dance like Bingo instead
of all this sidestepping stuff.

JP And The Wishing Stars
will not be gyrating

their privates on stage
like a bunch of natives.

It might serve you to practice
gyrating your privates.

[laughter]

Uh, JP, Come on!

It was just a joke.
Hey, come back!

[Miranda]
'The music was changing.'

So were the times.

And, uh, Mr. King
of the quartet

was left in the dust.

And you should hear the music
my granddaughter listens to.

Uh, milkshake this
and booty that.

She made me a playlist..

...and I learned
to appreciate it.

Like you learned
to appreciate Bingo's music?

[JP]
'It took me a while,
I guess I was..'

...a stick in the mud back then.

Where were you
the night Bingo was killed?

At Wishing Star practice.

Like clockwork Saturday nights.

You and The Wishing Stars
ever incorporate

Bingo's style
into your act?

We did.

As a matter of fact,
we picked up some of his moves

and played
one of his songs too.

Yeah? Which one?

I can't remember the name,
but the chorus

was something like, uh

♪ I'll take my chance
'cause the truth be told ♪

♪ You only get one dance ♪♪

That sounds meaningful.

- I liked that one.
- Not too racy?

Well, it wasn't always
the lyrics that were racy.

It was the, the beat
that unnerved people.

The beat?

Things were
different back then.

Neighborhoods were segregated,
even the music.

And the beat was considered
an African-American...thing.

So Bingo bringing that sort
of thinginto your world

had repercussions.

Oh, sure.

And some people took the heat
more than others.

Dad, can we watch"Bandstand"?

No one wants
to watch kids dance.

That show is gonna
get yanked.

We're gonna watch
Milton Berlelike we always do.

Uncle Ed, you haven't received
a telegram for me, have you?

Hoping to hear
from"Bandstand",actually.

They don't play
your kind of music.

[chuckles]

Nothing for you,
Bingo.

But JP here was accepted
at Princeton.

Go show him the letter, son.

Didn't go
to college myself.

JP, first one
in the family.

[Julianna]
'I noticed that you
and Bingo are pinned.'

[Miranda]
Oh, it's just for fun.
Ironic, actually.

Ironic?

Oh, well,
it's our anti-commitment

to never plan for the future
for the rest of our lives.

If you don't plan for a future,
what will you live on?

Love and music.

Miranda, I'm sure your mother
has explained this to you

but your husband's livelihood
will be your livelihood.

I guess I thought I'd get
my own job or something.

Oh. As a teacher or a nurse?

Miranda dear, I suggest you
secure a future for yourself

before the bloom
is off the rose.

You don't want to end up
a penniless old maid

now, do you?

Since JP is going
away to college

I'll need someone
to take over the store someday

so I am promoting you
to counter manager, Bingo.

[chuckles]

[Bingo]
'Uh, thank you, sir.'

'But I..'

I was really hoping
to focus on my music.

Can we afford to give
promotions right now, Ed?

Mother, don't you worry your
pretty little head about money.

I fired Aces anyhow.

Aces?
But he's your best worker.

That job is the only thing

that's keeping his family
out of the poorhouse.

Well, he should've thought
about that before he left

that devil music on the jukebox.

Oh, no, sir,
I left that record on.

[Ed]
'No need to cover
for him, son.'

Kid's a bad apple.
Now, he's gone.

- 'So Aces didn't quit.'
- 'He was fired.'

Bingo was determined
to find him.

He wanted to make it up
to him somehow.

And when was this?

A few days before he was killed.

[Jeffries]
Aces worked five solid years
for Mr. Valentine.

Gets fired 'cause of Bingo.

Maybe he catches up with him at
the five and dime, gets even?

So why make the distinction
of quitting--

[Valens]
'Wake up, Miller.'

The guy's coverin' his motive.

Unless he's covering
his motive.

You want to let me finish?

Scotty.
We need to talk.

So go ahead.
Air it out now.

'Cause if I got to watch you
stompin' around here

like some bullheaded jackass
one more minute

somebody's
gonna lose some teeth.

Ain't gonna be
the only one, brother.

You really think one of us
ratted you out to IAD?

You tell me.

Who do you think
you're talking to, Scotty?

You know us
better than that.

Then who was it, hmm?

Told that IAD jerk
about Burrell?

Get real, man.

You think
we're the only ones who knew?

'People talk, but you start
turning on the people that's--'

It ain't your job they're coming
after now, is it, Will?

They're out to get me, man.

Using this Burrell thing as an
excuse to hang me on the shoot.

IAD's on a fishing expedition.
That's what they do.

Nah.

This guy won't let it go.

They want my badge.

Boss will never
let that happen.

And you got to know, none of us
would everhelp them.

I don't get it, Will.

That was a good shoot.

Well, you did
the right thing.

Then why are they
comin' after me?

I don't know.

But you got to hang tough,
circle the wagons.

And stop acting
like such a jackass.

[sighs]

Alright, then, maybe
I should scream or something

so they don't think
we're in here hugging.

Yeah, make it sound good.

Scotty, look!

'No cop in their right mind'

'plays along with IAD!'

'They don't like us.
We don't like them!'

- What's going on?
- Scotty and Will.

Having a talk.

About time.

Found Aces'
Social Security records.

Checks out.

He was fired a week
before Bingo's murder.

Picked up a part-time job

finishing cars
at an auto repair.

Using nitrocellulose.

It's the same substance
found on Bingo's sleeve

the night he was killed.

Hm. Looks like Bingo
found Aces after all.

[Jeffries]
You were with Bingo
the night he was murdered.

Found nitrocellulose
on Bingo's sleeve.

From your job
working on cars.

Turns out you didn't quit
the five and dime.

You were fired.

I lose everything
'cause some white kid

forgets to take a record
off the juke

while Mr. Valentine spends
his night pawing the makeup girl

behind his office door?

World ain't just.

So you got even.

You could say that.

I saw Bingo that night..

...standing about
where you are now.

- Why lie about it, Aces?
- Why do you think?

Grew up black, didn't you?

Maybe...it was different for you

but for my generation

the color lines weren't drawn
exactly fair.

Talk about that night.

Treated the kid bad.

Stomped on his dream.

♪ You ain't nothin'
but a hound dog ♪

♪ Been snoopin' 'round my door ♪

♪ You ain't nothin'
but a hound dog ♪

♪ Been snoopin' 'round my door ♪

♪ You can wag your tail ♪

♪ But I ain't gonna feed you
no more ♪

♪ You told me
you were high-class ♪

♪ But I could see
through that.. ♪

You're a hard man to find.

♪ ...but I could see
through that.. ♪

It ain't right
what my uncle did.

He's trying to give me
a promotion.

I told him
I wouldn't take it.

Man, you really
don't get it, do you?

What?

We do not live
in the same world.

This is two towns.

Rules ain't the same in both.

You think it's hep
to dress like a colored man

sing like a colored man?

That make you cool?

But you don't suffer
the consequences

of a colored man.

Do you?

No. I don't.

That ain't right.

Hey, but this music..

...it's the only thing
that speaks to me.

You don't even know
what it means.

You think
I don't know about loss?

About wanting the pain
to go away, but it won't?

About living when you think
you can't go on?

I'd be lost
without my music.

Then sing it
like you mean it.

Make it your own.

How do I do that?

Ain't you always, uh,
scribbling somethin' down?

Your songs?

I ain't ready
to share that yet.

Then get out of my face.

[Miranda]
'Bingo.'

Mrs. Valentine told me
you turned down the promotion.

- How could you?
- What are you doing here?

What about our future?
You have to take it.

You have to tell Mr. Valentine
you will, right now.

[Bingo]
'Keep it down.
What has gotten into you?'

- Don't tell me to keep it down!
- Let's talk out back.

♪ ...I ain't gonna feed you
no more ♪

♪ Ooh ♪♪ Yeah yeah hound dog.. ♪♪

So Miranda came here
the night Bingo was murdered?

Brought her out back to talk.

Same place his body was dumped.

"Bingo and I went
to the drive-in.

"Saw"The Band Wagon"
with Fred Astaire.

He dropped me off early."

But you saw him
later that night.

Behind Red Hot Mama's.

- That wasn't me.
- You panicked.

'Demanded Bingo take
that promotion.'

- 'Secure his future.'
- And yours.

So what happened to living
on love and music, Miranda?

I lost faith in myself.

In us.

There were no opportunities
for me then

and I was terrified
I'd be dependent

on a broke musician
the rest of my life.

Mrs. Valentine
got to you.

The times got to me.

I didn't want to end up
like my mother.

Nobody does.

And so...I told Bingo
he had to give up

everything that he was.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, Bingo,
but Mrs. Valentine was right.

I can't be a nurse.

Blood makes me queasy.

A-and I'm not gonna
be a teacher.

- Why not?
- Kids think I'm weird.

We'll make it
on my music.

No.

I have to hurry
before my rose is off the bloom.

I think your rose
is just fine.

[sighs]

You love me, right, Bingo?

Of course I do.

Then we should
get married.

Settle down.

Buy a house, a car,
start a savings account.

You'll need a job,
a steady paycheck.

We don't need
any of that.

We got love
and music

the only things
that are real anyhow.

Huh, you remember?

'Bingo..'

...if that telegram
from"Bandstand"were coming..

...it would have made it
already.

It's time to grow up.

You need
to be realistic

about the limitations
of your talent.

And you're just not..

...that talented.

But we can be happy together.

Settled.

Safe.

Right, Bingo?

I'll talk to my uncle.

He's probably
still at the store.

I love you, Bingo.

It was a lie, of course.

Bingo was tremendously talented.

But talent ain't the same
as security.

Mm.

And the next morning
Bingo was dead.

Turns out..

...security doesn't exist.

[phone rings]

[Rush]
'What's up?'

Warrant came through
on the old five and dime.

'Feel like fishing
for a bullet?'

What do we got?

Did some more digging
on nitrocellulose.

Turns out it was used
for making records.

The old recording booth
in the five and dime.

You know,
if Bingo was recordin'

when he got shot, he could have
fallen back into the record.

[Stillman]
'That's how he got
nitrocellulose on his sleeve.'

[Vera]
Looks like karma's
on our side today.

.40 or .45.

Wasn't common back in the '50s.

Street thugs were using
.38 revolvers then.

But my father had a .45.

World War II military issue.

He an officer like Uncle Ed?

War hero, too.

We know Ed worked nights
at the five and dime.

Gettin' made over
by the makeup girl.

If Bingo caught him,
it could've turned ugly.

Your husband wasn't
at home with you

the night
of Bingo's murder.

He was at the five and dime,
wasn't he?

I'm not sure.

Frankly, it was so long ago.

Spent a lot of nights
at the store, old Ed.

And not by his lonesome, either.

I used to tell myself that

she was for his urges..

...and I was the one
he truly loved.

Now you know I'm a fool.

We found a bullet.

Matches the type of gun
Mr. Valentine used in the war.

Ed was a philanderer,
but he..

He-he never would've hurt
his own nephew, his own blood.

His own blood caught him
with his pants down.

Could've ruined his marriage,
his reputation.

Isn't it time to stop
protecting your husband?

Ed wasn't with me that night.

But he wasn't at the store,
either.

[door opens]

Oh, sorry to scare you.

Oh, no, you didn't scare me.

I'm just, um, uh, looking
for Uncle Ed.

Oh, he's at the store, dear.

No, ma'am, I just came
from there and, uh, he..

It's one thing when he's
doing it behind closed doors

but to go out with her..

Someone could see.

My marriage
just one big stinking lie

and I am a fool
to believe otherwise.

But it isn't foolish to believe.

If only I had gone
to college

I could've done
something with my life.

I dropped out for him.

To start a family.

A home.

Well, maybe
it isn't too late.

It is for me.

[sniffles]
But I was good at it.

I loved it, you know.

Nobody should keep you
from doing what you love.

There's something
I need to show you.

That's from "Bandstand."

They saw you perform,
Bingo, and they liked you.

A lot.

They want a record to play
for their producers..

...by tomorrow morning.

Well, you'd better hurry.

Oh.

Use the recording booth
at the store.

But I don't know
what to sing.

Well, you must have something.

I-I have an original, actually,
been puzzling together.

Not ready, though.

You can't get the chorus right.

Let-let's hear it.

Uh..

♪ I'll take my chance ♪

♪ 'Cause truth be told ♪

♪ You only get one life
to live ♪

I...it just
doesn't work.

Chance. You can't rhyme chance
with chance.

Dance.

You only get one dance.

That's it.

That's great.

♪ I'll take my chance ♪

♪ 'Cause truth be told ♪

♪ You only get one dance ♪♪

[both laughing]

- Oh.
- Oh.

[sighs]

Um.

What if I'm no good?

What if you are?

No one should stop you
from doing what you love, Bingo.

Ed came in
a few minutes later..

...reeking of cheap perfume
and whiskey.

And you never left him.

I should've.

But then Bingo..

I stayed.

Arranged the funeral.

Kept up appearances.

It was easier.

That chorus.

You ever tell anyone
about it?

No. Why?

"I'll take my chance

"'Cause truth be told

You only get one dance."

You weren't
at Wishing Star practice, JP.

You were at home.

You must be confused.

We talked
to your old pals.

They kicked you out.

Wanted to play
rock 'n' roll.

Not you, though.

You heard your mother confess
she was trapped

in a loveless marriage

and that your father
was a philanderer.

Before Bingo came along
everything made sense.

You father was a great war hero

your mother,
the doting housewife.

[Stillman]
'And you..'

...the golden boy
everyone wanted to be.

But Bingo had that new style,
that cool new sound.

And everyone in your life
started changing because of him.

No.

Bingo was a fream.

He didn't have the power
to change people.

But he did.

That's why you had
to get rid of him.

Restore your world
to its rightful place.

Do you really think that I could
shoot my own cousin?

No.

You didn't need to.

But it happened.

I just wanted him...to leave.

I wanted my life
back the way it was.

So you took your father's gun..

...to scare him off.

But he wouldn't listen,
would he?

I..

...just...wanted him..

...gone.

♪ I'm taking my chance ♪♪

[muffled singing]

Jeez, JP, you scared me
half to death.

- We have to leave now.
- What?

I'm taking you back to
Brandywine where you belong.

What's wrong with you?

I heard the lies
that you made my mother say.

I'm about the only one
not lying.

Everything was perfect
until you came.

Perfect?

What's so perfect
about a smart woman

like your mom baking cookies
instead of following her dream?

Or a guy like Aces getting fired
just 'cause he's colored?

Shut up!
You don't know anything.

What's perfect about
Miranda out of her gourd

'cause she's scared
she's nothin' without a man.

It's a twisted world, JP.

It ain't all puppy dogs
and holding hands.

- Open your eyes.
- I was happy.

Everyone was happy.

My family was happy.

And I'm gonna make sure
they're happy again.

I know times are changin'
and for the good.

And I'm seeing to it
the only way I know how.

Not if I can help it.

[gunshot]

[exhales sharply]

[Elvis Presley singing
"Can't Help Falling In Love"]

♪ Wise men say ♪

♪ Only fools rush in ♪

♪ But I can't help ♪

♪ Falling in love with you ♪

♪ Shall I stay? ♪

♪ Would it be a sin ♪

♪ If I can't help ♪

♪ Falling in love with you ♪

♪ Like a river flows ♪

♪ Surely to the sea ♪

♪ Darling so it goes ♪

♪ Some things are meant to be ♪

♪ For I can't help ♪

♪ Falling in love with you ♪

♪ Take my hand ♪

♪ Take my whole life too ♪

♪ For I can't help ♪

♪ Falling in love with you ♪

♪ For I can't help ♪

♪ Falling in love ♪

♪ With you ♪♪

[theme music]