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[exciting music]

♪ ♪

[mysterious music]

♪ ♪

[train passes]

girl: Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability.

One-quarter of them turn reasonable

and become your enemies,

one-quarter are afraid to stop and speak,

and one-quarter are killed and you die with them.

The blessed final quarter keep you alive.

Sinclair Lewis said that,

long time before the new millennium.

Long time before everything changed.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- [woman grunts]

- Escaped positive!

[alarm blares]

♪ ♪

- [yelps]

[device beeps]

[beeps increase speed, pitch raises]

♪ ♪

[gun cocks]

[applause]

man: Raise your right hand and repeat after me.

I do solemnly swear.

president: I do solemnly swear.

man: That I will faithfully execute the office

of President of the United States.

president: That I will faithfully execute the office

of President of the United States.

man: And will, to the best of my ability...

president: And will, to the best of my ability...

man: Preserve, protect, and defend

the Constitution of the United States.

president: Preserve, protect, and defend

the Constitution of the United States.

man: So help me God.

president: So help me God.

man: Congratulations.

[applause]

president: Thank you, Chief Justice.

My fellow citizens,

four years ago when I stood before you

on these hallowed steps,

we faced together the awesome task

of healing the sick and weary soul of our great nation.

Don’t think a day’s passed since then

that I haven’t prayed in thanks for the unity

we have found in that battle.

Together we have won back our country

from the talkers and the promise-makers.

Together we have put the darkness--

- Is there a problem?

[radio stops]

- Didn’t I tell you keep it off the streets?

- Did ya?

president: Together we have seen the dawn

of not just a new millennium...

[glass shatters]

- There’s kids around here, man.

You got to think about that.

Clean this up.

president: Most courageously of all,

we have risen at last to the challenge

of this terrible disease.

Never again will the whiners and the crybabies

tell us we can’t protect ourselves and our children.

Yet even now we must ask the Lord to tell us

what sin and what sinners

we have yet to cast out of our midst.

We must ask for His help in returning

to the great moral principles this country was built on.

To the wellspring of our freedoms and our tradition...

- I think I got it, Blue.

- Got what?

- Shh.

- Of why He has stricken us with this mortal plague.

- You are such a drama queen. It’s unbelievable.

- You don’t know anything.

- Laurie, how?

- You know that dance we went to?

The guy with the red hair.

president: More than anything, I am proud...

- Hi.

president: That is growing today among our youth.

And to all you fine young men out there in the Home Guard,

I just want to say...

thanks.

[cheering, applause]

- Could someone please give me a break?

- Hey, Bucky, you want to shut your sister up for a minute?

- Blue. - Bucky.

- It’s your night for dinner.

woman over PA: In honor of the inauguration,

all workfare reclamation centers

will be closing one half hour early.

- I’m going to get tested, Blue.

I’m gonna go to that Operation Helping Hand place

right now.

- What’s the hurry?

It’s two weeks to quarterlies. Less.

Hello?

- Think I could sleep one minute till I found out?

- Excuse me, could we get some help?

What? What? Find out what?

That you’ve got a terminal case of hypochondria?

- These sores I keep getting in my mouth

are not hypochondria,

and neither is the way I’m always tired all the time.

man: 1.8. 345.

- Hey, there’s my bus.

I’ll send you a postcard from quarantine.

- Laurie.

I can’t believe you would take such a chance.

Laurie: I had to, Blue.

There was a connection between us.

- Well, did you call him, find out if he was sick?

[upbeat music playing]

Oh, man, Laurie.

- All right, all right, so I didn’t get his name.

He was just this guy, you know?

Anyway, who knows if it was even him?

I--I could have got breathed on on the streets.

Anyway, you’re not always so careful, are you?

- It kind of hasn’t been much of an issue lately, has it?

- You mean it gets better?

God.

- It’s no big deal, all right? We’re gonna get through this.

[man shouting indistinctly]

- Hi.

"You’re safer at home. Don’t take the test."

- Just get rid of it.

[horn honking]

- Name, address, certificate number.

After you’ve been called into the examination room,

you will be requested to remain there

until the results of the test have been determined.

- Blue?

[indistinct speaking over loudspeaker]

Laurie: Come on.

I would die if you weren’t here with me, Blue.

I would really just die.

- You’ll be all right.

man: Nothing like a little good news, is there?

You’ll be receiving a registered copy

of your certificate in the next day or so.

Bye bye.

- Doctor?

Doctor, I’m sorry to bother you again,

but I’ve been waiting for my grandson for over six hours.

- Can I have that magazine?

man: Mrs. Chaney, I’m sorry, but you’ll know something

as soon as we do, I promise.

- Thank you. - Please, Doctor!

Can’t you tell me where--

[door opens, closes]

Laurie: Keep that thing out of sight.

man: Mrs. Chaney.

- Where’s Tommy?

- If you could please step up to my office--

- I’m not stepping nowhere until I see my boy.

- I’m afraid that’s not possible right now, Mrs. Chaney.

- He’s sick.

[crying] He’s sick! He’s dying.

- Mrs. Chaney, please, please calm down.

Please, please, your grandson will be receiving

the best care he possibly can.

It’s a question of public safety.

- Tommy! - This is a medical facility.

I cannot allow you to create a disturbance.

- Laurie, we’re gonna get out of here right now

before they come back.

- We can’t just go.

They have my name.

- Shit.

Um, I figured as long as I was here,

I might as well get it done too.

- Name, address, certificate--

- Yeah, I know, thanks. - Okay.

What are you doing with that?

Security! Security!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Hey, watch it.

man on radio: Carter, what’s your 20?

♪ ♪

- Move it. They’re heading west.

- [panting]

- Hey! Come on, this way!

Come on!

- Come on.

♪ ♪

- Come on, get in!

[grunts]

- What the hell is this?

- There’s cops after them, Torch.

They were running out of the center.

- You’re a good man, Willie,

a lot better than you should be.

Now clear them out of here.

- Come on, Torch. They’re gonna get nailed.

We gotta hide! man: Get it open!

[banging on door] man: We can’t.

[banging continues]

- Come on, get back.

♪ ♪

- What are they gonna do to us?

- Shut up.

♪ ♪

- There’s a staircase up here.

- Officers, officers, wait, please!

Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!

There were two girls with--with guns!

They went that way, right that way!

Hey, did they rob a bank or something?

Come on, come on.

- I can’t believe that worked.

- Wait, wait, wait.

You never saw this place.

You never met me.

You hear me?

This never happened.

- Okay.

[dark music]

♪ ♪

- I saw that.

Bucky: You’re telling me you ain’t scared you’d get it?

Hunter: I’m telling you she was behind the fence.

Bucky: Yeah? And her guts were spilling out

and her blood was flying around.

Hunter: Somebody’s got to clean up the trash.

Too bad you missed it, Bucky.

You got to do more night patrols with us, man.

Anyway, enough about that. I want you to follow up

on that chink over there at the Laundromat.

That guy shows up late for his quarterlies

one more time,

I’m gonna put him on report.

man: Yeah.

- Now Payne, still keeping an eye on that bureau character?

- Kinda.

You know, my guess is he’s clean.

He hasn’t been around that weird bookstore much.

- Yeah, I don’t buy it.

Stay on him for a while.

- You got it.

- Bucky, you’re up.

Now did Rockland or did Rockland not start

that strike bullshit down at the impound place?

- Well, it’s hard to tell anything about him.

Mostly he keeps to himself,

except for this guy from the grocery

he goes to the movies with.

- Just the two of them?

- Yeah, at least since I’ve been on this.

- Doesn’t surprise me a bit.

Guy’s got "faggot" written all over him.

[all chuckling]

- Don’t you think that’s something

police should get into?

- Department of Health.

They’re much faster.

Blue.

Why don’t you hang out?

Why don’t you stick around a little?

- You know what you are, Hunter?

A walking advertisement for not fucking.

Government ought to put you on a poster.

[man chuckles]

[door closes]

[TV playing, low volume]

man over TV: Thank you. No, please, no.

We’re having a good time.

We’re having a good time tonight.

All right, first of all, say hello over here...

- Mom?

- Why do you have to be like that?

- Makes me sick just listening to you guys.

Mom? Mom?

- If you’ve got a problem, talk to the chef.

- Mom, you’re home from work now.

Do you want to wash up or you want to keep sleeping?

- Sleep.

- Not just you guys, it’s everything.

- What does that mean?

- Just everything, the way everything is.

- What? You liked it better when we were kids?

Everybody taking drugs? People killing each other?

Nobody having any respect for anything?

- You know, I hate it when you talk like that.

You sound like you’re trying to get an A from teacher.

man: She just graduated...

- If I do any more dancing, the Vice President’s going

to have to clear his schedule.

woman over TV: The President seemed to be

working on breaking a record

held by John F. Kennedy, who...

- If anything’s going to save us

from earning less than Mom,

and sharing the same room till we die,

it’s this.

Unless you think

they’re going to be giving out jobs for Christmas.

[channel changes]

woman over TV: In case you’re wondering,

that three-carat Cabochon ruby on the First Lady’s necklace

is on loan...

announcer: "Monkey Shines" will be back after this message

from Operation Helping Hand,

making your hard choices a little easier.

- And they all come with a five-year guarantee.

- I can get you a great deal

on some very nice land in Florida.

- What are you so worried about?

[echoing] I got protection.

announcer: Don’t be fooled.

The only way to play it safe

is not to play at all.

[TV clicks]

man: In response

to the unprecedented massing of troops on the 16th Parallel,

the president took time out of tonight’s revelry

to warn that the United States will not hesitate

to use any means at its disposal

to ensure the security and the freedom

of its allies in the region.

Pentagon sources report that all forces...

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

[distant siren wailing]

♪ ♪

- What am I doing?

woman: Hey.

Hey, could you help me?

- What’s the problem, ma’am?

- You’re the problem.

man: What are you doing?

- Just lending a helping hand.

- I told you about coming back here.

- [grunts] Torch: Who else knows?

- Knows what?

- What’s happening here.

Blue: I wish I knew.

- Simon, move it.

The auto shop’s set up.

[siren wailing]

Lennie, drive.

Blue: What are you doing?

- Keeping you right where I can see you.

woman: I’m not saying you’re out of trouble yet.

At least you’re with the good guys now.

- Welcome to the quarantine express.

- [gasping]

- All right, anybody here tattooed yet?

’Cause if you are, we cannot help you.

- No.

- [woman gasping]

- Okay, pull out, Lennie.

[van accelerates]

Willie, we’re moving.

45 minutes, they would have had you in quarantine.

You’re safe now.

But forget about going home,

’cause that’s the first place they’re gonna look.

Right now we’ve just got to get you out of here.

- And then what?

- Not my department.

woman: We have safe houses.

They’re not the Hilton Hotel, but they’re better

than where you were headed.

- [coughing]

- Careful not to breathe too deep around these guys.

- Can’t you get it that way?

woman: Don’t you read the government reports?

The plague’s a mystery.

Nobody knows for sure.

Isn’t that what they’re saying?

Only way you can get this disease

is straight into your blood stream,

one way or another.

- I’m cold. So cold.

Tommy: Can I at least call my grandma?

I want her to know I’m all right.

woman: No phone calls.

We’ll get a message to her when it’s safe.

Willie: There’s cops behind you!

A block away.

Torch: Lennie, move it!

[tires squealing]

You took the wrong fuckin’ route, Lennie!

The weapons are on the other side.

Tommy: Well, what was he supposed to do?

[barrel spinning]

Lennie: We’ll never get across that.

Please tell me this isn’t happening.

Willie: Don’t even think about going

back down there.

The cop’s still sniffing around.

- Back up the van.

- One hand right in front of the other--that’s right.

You’re doing great.

- Ha.

I didn’t know you had a date tonight.

- You wait over there, over there.

- Here you go. Okay.

All right, one hand in front of the other.

Willie: These cops keep hanging around.

I don’t get it, man.

You lost that other guy, I know you did.

- Right across there.

- Lennie, pull out!

[engine turns over]

Don’t move.

Willie: Come on, man. Come on, move it.

[device beeps]

- Come on.

- [panting]

- Get back.

- Don’t be crazy.

Come on.

Willie: We got trouble, man.

There’s a cop coming down Fredonia.

He’s headed straight for us, Torch.

They must have some kind of tracking thing in the van.

- Don’t listen to him.

Walk when I walk.

Okay?

Okay.

- [grunting]

Oh, oh, oh, my God!

Oh, my God.

- Just get up very slowly.

- No, I--I can’t move.

- Guess you’d rather stick around

and wait for the bomb to go off.

- What bomb?

- What did you think I was doing back there?

Setting my alarm clock?

Don’t look down!

Look at me.

- It’s gon--it’s gonna break.

The ladder’s gonna break.

- What’s your name? - What?

- I asked you what your name was.

- It’s Blue.

- Don’t look down. Look at me.

Look in my eyes, Blue.

Don’t look down, look in my eyes.

Just get up very slowly.

You can trust me

or you can die.

That’s it, that’s it.

Okay. It’s gonna be okay, Blue.

You ain’t got nothing to worry about.

Look at me.

I’m telling you, when I go, it ain’t going to be

from falling off no fuckin’ ladder.

[tires screeching]

Willie: Come on, you guys.

- Aah!

[siren wails]

- Aah!

- Give me your hand. Come on!

Come on!

[siren wailing]

Give me your hand.

Come on!

Shit! Shit!

- Hands up now!

- Call for back-up.

- Wipe out?

man: We have the authority for this?

man: Are you giving me trouble?

man: I don’t know about this, man.

- All you need to know is that we got orders.

- Yes!

- Okay, okay, easy with this guy.

- Okay, I got it!

[engine turns over]

- Do you do this every night?

[fabric tears]

What are you doing?

- You better wear a blindfold till we get where we’re going.

- I’m not putting this disgusting thing on my face.

- There are doctors where we’re going, food, beds.

You don’t put that on, they don’t get there.

man: How many milligrams?

[people chattering]

- Help me get this guy in the chair, okay?

[man coughing]

woman: Where are we?

- Someplace they don’t know about.

Yet.

- Okay, bring him over here.

Lay him down real careful.

- [grunts] - Okay.

Now you just hang in there.

We’ll make you as comfortable as you can be.

woman: You’ll let my son know I’m all right?

man: Absolutely.

woman: You just hold real steady.

- You okay?

- You’d think it would get a little easier.

[people chattering]

woman: Stuff we smuggle in from New York.

- Lennie, take her home, man.

- Where am I taking you?

Blue: 14 West 90th Street.

♪ ♪

- Yeah, Hunter?

She clocked in at 6:03.

- I don’t want to hear about it.

- Me either.

I want to hear about this.

I don’t get it.

Did Laurie get tested or didn’t she?

- Why are you going through my things?

- Where did you get this from?

- Stop the presses.

I’m only going to be a half hour late for work today.

Did you have a good run?

- Mom’s really impressed that you’ve taken up

early-morning jogging.

- Oh, yeah, yeah. It was great, you know?

Really gets the blood going.

- I don’t have blood anymore,

I just have coffee.

- You should eat something, Mom.

- Thanks.

- What’s going on, Blue?

- Bucky,

you know the stuff they keep telling us

about the quarantine?

How great it’s supposed to be?

All clean and happy and wonderful?

- Yeah. - It’s all lies.

They lock these people up,

they don’t give them medicine. - Where are you getting this?

- They won’t let their families visit them.

- The quarantine has to be total.

It’s too much of a risk.

- Then why can’t they talk to anybody on the telephone?

You tell me that.

- You tell me where you were last night.

- Listen to this. You have to hear this.

man: Authorities attribute the hijacking of the ambulance

to an unnamed group intent on causing panic in the city.

While no suspects have been arrested,

intelligence sources confirm that the terrorists

plan to use the contaminated blood of the victims

as a weapon in future operations.

- You know, I never thought I’d hear myself saying this,

but I’m beginning to think

the only choice they have is to kill these people,

like they did when it was drugs.

I just don’t know what else they can do.

reporter: Applauded by lawmakers in the state capital.

The Department of Public Health

asks any citizen with information

regarding the activities of this group

to contact any member of your local Home Guard

or call Operation Helping Hand.

On the international scene...

Willie: I know you like her.

Otherwise you wouldn’t bother to be so mean to her.

I remember you used to try that shit with my mom

when you were going out with her.

- At least in those days,

we used to have a little privacy.

- Fine.

I’ll turn myself in to the state.

- You meet any hot social workers, you get their number.

Go downstairs.

Willie: Torch? - Yeah?

- Was my mom a good cook?

- Yeah, Willie, she was a good cook.

- And she could grow stuff too, couldn’t she?

Radishes and stuff.

I remember I used to help her water.

Think we could start growing stuff again, Torch?

Torch?

She’s not gonna get any more dead--

- You watch your mouth! - Look.

She was my mom.

I can talk about it if I want to.

She’s not going to get any more dead

if you sleep where it’s clean

or eat regular food like a person

or be nice to some girl you like.

She’s as dead as she’s gonna get.

- I hope you flunk your English test.

- Too late. It was yesterday.

And I aced it.

Blue: Laurie, it was unbelievable.

The way these people have been treated.

When they get to quarantine, they put these tattoos on them,

these big Ps for positive

so they can track them down with radar.

- Do you swear to me that when all of this is over,

you will forget this entire thing ever existed?

I mean it, Blue.

- This is it.

Right up that ramp.

- [sighs] - Come on.

- We fix cars here, ma’am.

You want a doctor, find a hospital.

- They know me. I was here last night.

I know what’s behind that curtain.

- [sighs] If you’ll excuse me,

I have a lot of work to do.

- Please, my friend needs somebody to give her the test.

We don’t want to go back to Helping Hand.

- Boss!

- I think maybe we should just go.

- No! - Hey!

- You both heard it this morning.

Beds and medicine and hospital stuff.

What is this?

- We just crossed the Continental Divide of weirdness.

- Listen, you want to take the test?

Be under the 4th Street Bridge in an hour.

Just the two of you.

Anybody else shows up, this doesn’t happen.

- No.

[horns honking]

No. - Come on.

- No! - Come on.

- So who’s this person that it’s such a big emergency?

Willie: Nobody.

Just somebody I met in the park.

woman: All right now, you just hold real steady.

- [sighs]

Are you sure this is sanitary out here?

- You mean without any magazines in the waiting room?

In the Helping Hand clinic where I work,

we got all the white tile you could ever want.

And I wouldn’t go there to get my nose blown.

- You work for them?

- Not every double agent wears a trench coat.

[engine approaching]

- Somebody’s coming.

- Not to worry.

Just our friendly mobile testing unit.

Instant results round the clock.

Laurie: I don’t know if I’m ready for instant.

- Hi.

- Uh, the keys are in the cab, Anna.

Equipment’s running a little hot.

Should be okay, though.

Laurie: What’s his problem?

- Who cares?

Torch? Hey, Torch?

What is your problem?

- Hey, I ain’t got no problem

except for you yelling at me.

- I don’t get this.

What we went through last night and then...

- Wait a minute, did I get you pregnant

and leave you by the roadside somewhere?

I don’t remember this.

- I am not talking about marriage here.

I am talking about saying hello.

- Hello.

- I’m okay! Blue, I’m okay.

She said it’s just allergies or something!

- Oh, God!

Come on, let’s get out of here.

My mom’s on night shift.

We’ve got some major celebrating to do.

- Thank you guys so much!

Thank you, really.

- God, does it feel good to say, "I told you so."

- Blue! Blue!

- What?

- Look, just because he’s messed up

doesn’t mean we don’t need all the help we can get.

Is there any way somebody could get a hold of you ever?

- What do you mean?

In case Mr. Hero needs someone to impress?

- Blue.

Ha.

You take care of yourself, okay?

[jazz music playing]

♪ ♪

[knocking on door]

Bucky: Blue, aren’t you going to show up to your own party?

You want a beer or something?

[knocking]

- Fuck.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[knocking]

- Hey, what are you doing in here?

People are starting to wonder.

What’s that thing on your head?

- I guess you think everything in the world

is just wonderful now.

- ♪ Throw me off balance ♪

♪ ♪

- Fine.

Maybe it’s all true.

Maybe all this terrible stuff

is actually happening,

but, Blue, you’re crazy if you think

that there is one thing

that you or I or anybody else can do about it.

- I guess I don’t see it that way.

- Just don’t do anything stupid, okay?

Please? Really.

man: Hey, you guys! You got to hear this!

man: The mobilization of forces that have been on alert

since yesterday’s unprovoked attack.

- We have acted decisively

and we have acted justly.

We have acted because we cannot,

we must not allow tyranny to cast its evil shadow.

We have acted because

as long as one man

is not free,

no man is free.

[partygoers cheering]

[music continues]

♪ ♪

- Hey, Blue.

We could use an extra hand tonight.

- What? The regular girl call in sick?

- Look, I’m sorry.

What do you want me to do?

You want me to eat dirt? I’ll eat dirt.

- That would be nice.

- Chicken.

[tender electronic music]

♪ ♪

Bucky: Laurie?

Where’s Blue?

- I don’t know.

♪ ♪

[water dripping]

- Hey. Oh, hi, man.

- Use ’em, okay?

But bleach the needles, everything.

- Got anybody I could use this with?

- Not my department.

Where in the hell have you been, man?

- Hey, Willie.

- Hey, Blue.

[music blaring]

♪ ♪

- There you are.

- Hi.

- Hey.

Listen, Laurie, I need some help.

And, uh, I don’t know who else to turn to.

- Help with what?

- Is Blue having some sort of problem?

- Why would you think she was having a problem?

- Well, she seems so down these days, you know?

That’s too bad ’cause there’s so much to be up about.

You know, things are really starting to come together.

- She’s fine.

She’s perfectly happy.

- Hey, Laurie, how about this--

- If Blue is having some sort of problem,

and the cops get wind of it,

you’re going to wish real hard

that you would let someone who was Blue’s friend

get her out of it before it was too late.

- Blue’s fine.

- Okay.

Blue: Can you believe that somebody

would name their kid Drizella?

Torch: Criminal.

Blue: It was after some aunt of my dad’s.

But my mom turned it to Drew pretty fast.

Bucky couldn’t even say that.

All he could say was Blue.

I guess it kind of stuck.

Hey, it’s your turn.

What’s this for?

- For your face.

- Oh, yeah. That’s right.

- I got mine from Willie’s mom.

She hated her own name, Ellen.

She said it sounded like someone who won prizes

for their handwriting.

I kind of liked it, but I said, "Okay,

we should make up names for each other."

Only you had to take the name you got given, period.

No going back.

We wrote our names on the inside

of matchbook covers, right?

We switched,

counted to three, and looked.

I don’t know where she came up with it,

but she put down Torch.

I put down Ellen.

Nearly killed each other on the spot.

- What was your name before?

- Can’t say.

It was another part of the deal.

- Who was Willie’s father?

- She got pregnant on the job.

She said meeting me got her out of the trade,

but the truth is, Willie pretty much talked her out of it

before I even came along.

- What happened to her?

It’s all right.

You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to.

- It was in the beginning.

When they first started taking people away.

The whole world was sticking its fucking head in the sand.

Oh, but not her. No, no.

She had this crazy idea that sick people

were supposed to get taken care of.

She started making trouble,

driving people up the wall.

They wanted her bad.

When they raided this place we were staying,

she was the only one they took.

The troublemaker.

Then one morning, Willie wakes up

and she’s just not there anymore.

The way I heard it,

she came up positive, they broke out the champagne.

It meant this time they had her for good.

No paperwork.

Of course, they were very interested

in what she could tell them

about her secret terrorist network.

And the doctors who were present

knew how to be effective...

in their interrogation

because what the--

what the blood test also showed

was that the subject

was somewhere between three and five months pregnant.

The patients in the quarantine tried to take care of her.

But after a beating like that...

- Was it your baby?

[siren wailing]

[siren recedes]

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- Where’d you toss Willie’s bag?

- Can you feel anything with that on?

- Enough.

- Did you know she was sick before she got caught?

- They call it denial.

- So--sorry.

Have you ever taken the test?

- Everybody’s got these fucking calendars in their head.

So you find out you got five years.

So what do you do?

Start X-ing off the days in your datebook,

take the necessary precautions and you go from there.

- All that stuff that they say about nothing being safe--

- Hey, Torch, you get anything for breakfast?

- Where is my shirt?

- Hey, you ever heard of knocking, man?

- I’m starving, man.

- Uh, well, pick up a doughnut on the way to the bus.

- He’s a growing boy.

You can’t give him doughnuts for breakfast.

- I get him the jelly kind.

It’s got fruit inside.

- You didn’t actually say that.

Well, don’t wake me till Christmas.

- Oh, no, no, you got to get home

before your brother gets up.

- Nah, he can go to hell.

- That’s a very bad attitude.

You got a cover to keep now.

- I do?

- Please, no bright-eyed idealism

before I get my coffee, all right?

Willie: Morning, guys.

Do you need a toothbrush, Blue?

Don’t worry, it’s brand-new.

- Yeah, thanks.

[Etta James’ "Out of the Rain"]

♪ ♪

- Torch?

♪ ♪

Come on, man.

♪ ♪

woman: ♪ Out of the rain ♪

♪ Under the shelter ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I’ve been so long where ♪

♪ The sun don’t shine ♪

♪ Standing at the crossroads ♪

♪ Could have went either way ♪

♪ But now I’ve found you ♪

♪ Storm’s behind ♪

♪ Out of the rain ♪

- [laughs]

Be strong, little brother.

♪ ♪

- [laughs]

♪ ♪

woman: ♪ Over the wall ♪

♪ I’m out in the open ♪

♪ Back on the right tracks ♪

♪ I’m feeling no pain ♪

♪ ♪

♪ You took a sparrow ♪

♪ Let it fly with the eagles ♪

♪ I see a long way ♪

♪ I feel love again ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Out of the rain ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Rain ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Rain ♪

♪ ♪

- See, it’s not so bad.

Nice and slow.

Thank you. Yeah.

- [coughs]

- It’s okay.

Okay, Mom.

man: [moaning] Mom. Mom.

- Take it easy. I’ll be right back.

man: Where are you, Mom?

Mom.

Ma. Ma.

- I’m right here.

- [panting]

I guess you couldn’t get Dad to come, huh?

- No, no, he’s here.

He’s right over there.

He’s coming.

- Hey.

- [whispering] It’s Russell.

- Russell.

- Hey, Dad.

You don’t still hate me, huh?

- No, I don’t hate you, Russ.

I love you, Russell.

- I love you too, Dad.

- So why haven’t I heard any hot details yet?

- ’Cause there haven’t been any.

- Every night with this guy for a month

and I’m supposed to believe that?

- That’s right.

- Well, I don’t.

- Laurie, when have I ever lied to you?

- Fifth grade, Scott Berkowitz.

- You promised me that you would never ever mention that again

as long as you lived.

- How could you do it, Blue? He smelled like pastrami farts.

[gags]

- Actually, it was more like corned beef

when you got up close.

- Stop.

What are you looking at my watch for?

- Just wanted to see what time it was.

- Well, what’s your hurry?

We haven’t had a normal conversation in a million years.

I mean, come on.

Why can’t you put up posters a half an hour later?

- We’re not exactly putting up posters today.

- Then what are you doing?

- You don’t want to know.

- Don’t tell me what I don’t want.

- If I got caught or something,

you would be better off not knowing.

- Just tell me.

I miss talking to you, Blue.

I miss telling each other everything.

- We found out that there’s this Helping Hand clinic

in New Jersey that’s closing tonight

and they’re shipping everybody that they’re holding

to quarantine.

- And you’re going to rescue them on the way?

- Yeah, we’re going to get them into safe houses.

- These people you’re rescuing them from,

they don’t have guns?

Blue?

- We have guns too, Laurie.

- Blue, don’t go, okay?

Really, don’t go. Just don’t do it.

- It’s 70 people.

They’re going to lock them up and starve them.

- I just don’t think--

you know, if this guy really loved you,

he wouldn’t want you to be in all this danger

all the time.

- It’s not about him.

It’s just, I don’t know,

you get put on this planet and what do you do with that?

- So what are you saying?

You telling me that I’m fucked up

because I want to have a normal life?

- I’m not saying that. You know it.

- No, I don’t.

I don’t know anything.

- I have no intentions of getting killed.

- Nobody ever does.

- Well, I got to go.

- So go.

- Call you tomorrow morning?

- You’re gonna be late.

Go on.

Willie: Truck’s coming in a little early, Torch.

You’d better hurry up.

- No escort? Willie: Not that I can see.

And I can see all the way to Canada.

You got enough people down there for this?

- We got everybody we know out here, Willie.

Now you stay low.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[horn honking]

- Hold it!

[all clamoring]

- Go! - Get back!

[all shouting]

- Nobody move! Do not move!

Now if you’d kindly drop your weapons

and put your hands in the air.

Now!

Put it in the truck. Do it.

[men shouting] - It’s not holding!

- Come on! Come on!

- Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go!

- Come on! - Whoo!

- Yeah! We did it!

Fuckin’ did it! - Come on!

[siren wailing]

- Hey, by the truck! Come on.

- Where are you, man? I can’t see you.

[glass breaks]

Wherever you are,

if you get out to Pearl Street you’ll be in the clear.

- Oh, shit. - What is it?

- My--my walkie.

man: Check under the bridge.

Willie: Cancel that about Pearl Street.

It’s starting to look like a cop convention down there.

If you’re holed up somewhere... - Shut up.

Willie: Just sit tight.

- It’s a kid.

- It’s not a kid, man. That’s a sniper.

Willie: Torch, where are you?

Come on, Torch, answer me.

I can’t see you.

What’s going on down there?

- There he is, Captain! I got a clear shot at his ass!

[gun fires]

- No! - Torch!

[siren wailing]

- Willie!

[siren wailing]

[body falls]

No! Willie!

No!

Willie!

[helicopter hovering overhead]

No! Get off, will you?

Get off me! Get off me!

No! No!

Willie!

[siren wailing]

man: Get sanitation here.

- Bucky, come here!

[helicopter hovering]

Now you know why we had to come out here today.

But it’s cool, man.

People make mistakes.

It’s your job to keep an eye on her now,

make sure she learned her lesson.

I can count on you for that, can’t I?

Get in the car.

- [panting] Oh, Willie.

Oh!

- How could they have found out?

man: Somebody told them.

Lennie: Yeah, somebody who knew

exactly what was coming down today.

Anna: What are you saying?

Lennie: I’m saying somebody fucked us!

Anna: Are you accusing me?

Lennie: Who else? She’s been with Helping Hand--

- Shut up! - Shut up!

Shut up! Would you just shut up?

Come on, we’ve got to get out of here

before they come back.

Safest way is under the highway.

Let’s go.

Come on!

- [grunting]

[blow lands] Aah!

- I’ll make you a deal.

You give me the whereabouts of just one kidnapped positive,

and we can all get some sleep.

Does that hurt?

- [grunting]

- One name, one address.

- Santa Claus.

The North Pole.

Aah!

- Safe houses, addresses, phone numbers.

[blows landing]

- Ah! - Hey!

- What?

- He won’t be much use to you if he’s dead.

- Okay.

- I’d kind of hold off on that for a minute

if I were you.

We just got the blood work in on this one

and, um, in a word, positive.

- Dead man.

- [spits]

- Fucking bastard! Fuck!

[metal clangs]

[bell tolling]

[TV playing low volume]

man: Looks like some clear skies ahead of us.

man: [coughing]

man: Enemy casualties are reported,

high and heavy fighting...

- You’re not Egan.

[coughing]

- What happened to Egan?

- What do you think happened to Egan?

Welcome to Tri-State Regional Quarantine.

woman: Terrorism from the city. Channel Six...

- [coughing]

Hunter: It’s not just us

who make these things happen, you see.

It’s also the fine regular people out there

who know what’s wrong when they see it

and they’re not afraid to speak up about it, you know?

’Cause I--I mean, I don’t care what kind of lineup you got.

You ain’t gonna win no football games

if you ain’t got the crowd out there...

[TV continues, indistinct]

♪ ♪

[birds caw]

- Blue?

[whispering indistinctly]

- [sobbing] Anna.

♪ ♪

- Are you sure he has it?

- You think Anna would have said so if she wasn’t sure?

Laurie: Oh, God, Blue.

You didn’t sleep with him ever, did you?

- Willie’s dead.

- What?

- Hunter shot him.

- He’s dead?

- Yeah, we just buried him today.

- He swore he wouldn’t do--

- What? Who swore? What are you talking about?

Laurie?

- What?

What? Why are you looking at me like that?

- What did you do?

- [whimpers]

- You told him?

You told Hunter?

- I was so scared, Blue.

I didn’t want you to die or wreck your life.

Listen.

They promised me they weren’t going to hurt anybody.

- No! - They swore!

Come back here!

- Blue! Blue! I need to talk to you, wait!

Talk to me! Talk to me!

[glass shatters]

- Shit.

- Stop doing this.

Right now is when we should be very careful

with how we use our energies.

- Energies?

Hey, Blue.

[somber music]

- Blue?

Wait a minute.

We have to decide about stuff.

- What stuff?

- Everything.

[glass smashes]

Planning stuff.

Getting everybody back on track.

I can’t believe you’re just going

to let it all go to pieces.

♪ ♪

- [sobbing]

♪ ♪

[gasps]

- It’s okay, it’s okay. It’s me.

- How did you find me?

- I followed you the other night.

- Go away.

- I swear to you

I did not have anything to do with the raid.

- Fine.

You were just following orders

and God forgives you.

Now would you go away?

- I found you a way to see him,

the guy you were with.

- What?

- I don’t know what else I can do.

I can’t get him out.

I can’t stop what’s happening.

- Nobody can get into quarantine.

- Yeah?

It’s all just money and connections,

like everything else.

But you got to meet the driver in half an hour

or forget it.

- Mon--what money?

- Guess who just got elected treasurer

of your local Home Guard.

- Jesus, Bucky.

After Hunter kills you, what do I do for a brother?

- If you hate me for the rest of my life,

what do I do for a sister?

- Don’t let anybody get a close look at that thing.

- When I get inside, where will I find him?

- Usually they take new arrivals to the Helms Wing.

Okay.

I make my delivery, take care of my business,

back where I drop you off at 6:00, 6:05.

Now you hear that clock bell ringing,

you get down there.

You don’t show up...

- She doesn’t show up, what?

- They find out that the tattoo is fake,

they shoot her on the spot.

- Jesus.

[dog barking in distance]

Do you have a watch?

- Yeah.

- Better synchronize.

What time do you have?

- 2:47.

Now the drop-off’s going to be around the corner

on White Street about 6:30.

- Come on, set your watch.

- I will when I get in there.

[engine starts]

- You don’t have a watch.

Don’t be crazy.

- Bye, Bucky. Tell Mom I love her.

- Blue, don’t do this!

♪ ♪

- All right, you’re clear.

♪ ♪

- How you doin’ tonight, man?

- How do you think I’m doing?

- Get that radiator fixed?

- Yeah, I got it fixed.

- Yeah. Take you a long time?

- Yeah, it took me a while.

[both grunting]

[dog barking]

[men grunting]

- Past curfew, babe. Get inside.

- Okay.

- This one’s still warm.

- It’s going to be the end of our marriage

if you go on this way.

I’ve had about enough.

Don’t you realize that?

woman: You’ve had enough?

Other people drink.

man: Not the way you do.

woman: Why?

man: [coughing] woman: What’s wrong with me?

man: I don’t know.

You’ve got everything in the world that you want.

I wish you could see yourself. You’re like a crazy...

- Friend of yours?

woman: Help me.

Help me.

- Hi. - Did they hurt you?

- They didn’t get me. I snuck in.

- [whispering] You snuck in? You crazy fuck!

You got a way to get out?

- Yeah.

My ride’s at 6:00 at receiving.

man: [coughing]

woman: What are you trying to say?

- In there. Go in there.

You shouldn’t have come here.

They’ll shoot you. - No, no, don’t talk.

Don’t say anything.

- Don’t touch the blood.

- What did they do to you?

- Did they get Willie? - Torch.

- His body? Did they get his body?

- No.

Come on, sit on the bed.

Come with me.

All right, put your hands up. - What?

- I want to get this shirt off you.

It’s filthy.

Come on.

- Ah!

[sighs]

- Lie back.

Lie back.

- [panting]

Oh, that feels good, Blue.

Feels too good.

- There’s no such thing.

- What are you doing?

[footsteps approach, men chatter]

You’ve got to get out-- - No, no.

They don’t scare me.

- No, no, what are you doing?

- Look, I can stay as long as I want.

It’s counterfeit, black market special.

- You know how fast that thing is gonna peel off?

Boy, would they love this.

A negative dropping in on her boyfriend.

Would they make an example or what?

- Not if she wasn’t negative anymore.

- You came here to off yourself?

- I came here to be with you.

- No.

- Come on.

- You’ve got your whole life to live.

- Don’t tell me what I got.

- Blue?

- We never got to go to the movies.

We never got to go out for breakfast.

♪ ♪

[pounding on door]

man: Guess what. Check-up time.

Get to the door or I’m coming in.

- Hit the light.

Get out of sight.

man: Get to the door.

Back off.

Back--back off.

- Okay.

- You know what to do.

Come on, lift the arms. All the way, all the way.

All right, pants.

Shorts too.

Come on, turn around.

What’s that?

- It’s a mole. We’ve been through this.

- Crack a smile.

All right, you’re clean.

[bottle rattles]

What’s that?

- It’s a hooker. I got a hooker up here.

- You get Chinese food up here too?

- You know how it is. - Oh, yeah?

Get her out here.

Come on!

- Hey, come out here.

Hey, bitch!

- I’m coming out. I just hurt my leg.

- You okay? - Yeah.

- What do you care?

Never seen you before.

- Yeah, she just got Q-ed a couple hours ago.

- Working fast, huh?

Show me your label.

Come on. Move out of the way, huh?

Can’t see it good.

- You see it now?

- It’s very nice. I see it, all right.

Show me her tits.

- What?

- Hey, I’m here, I might as well kill two birds, huh?

Now show me her tits.

- I’ll show you.

- No, no, I want him to do it.

Show me her tits.

Come on.

Rub ’em.

- Mister, please.

- Don’t "mister" me.

She’s here after curfew.

She ain’t even on my list.

You two ain’t got any symptoms yet.

Hardly ever get that.

Now rub

her tits.

Come on.

No, not there, not there-- her tits.

Come on, rub ’em, rub ’em.

[zipper unzipping]

[panting]

Show me her--

show me her bush.

[whispering] Your legs.

I want to see it.

man: Hey, you making friends down there?

- [panting]

No, sir, I’ll be right out.

[zips zipper]

See you two tomorrow.

You got it?

[door opens, closes]

- That’s it, you’re out of here.

[shade lifting]

I want you to go down this ladder

and I want you to cut through by emergency down there.

That’ll take you right to receiving.

Come on.

- I’m not going.

- What, you want to go through that shit again?

- I want to stay here with you

and finish what I started.

- Yeah? Yeah?

You want me to fuck you? Is that what you want?

- Don’t. Ah!

- Is that what you want?

- Stop. - You want me to fuck you?

Shut up!

I’ll fuck you. In every drop of me

there’ll be a trillion little poison cockroaches

walking around inside you for a year,

five years or more.

Pretty soon,

you’ll be checking yourself out 20 times a day--

- You’re hurting me, Torch.

[crying]

- You put your dress back on and you go back.

- What? What--what do I do?

- You live.

Whatever that means, you live.

- I can’t just live, not without--

- What? Not without love?

- Come on, Torch.

We’d live as good as we can

for as long as we can.

And we can grow old together,

even if it doesn’t take so long.

♪ ♪

We could fix up the place,

we could--we could see

if we could get some paint somewhere.

We’re gonna have to be careful in how we make it look

because in 100 years...

They’re gonna be bringing people through here on guided tours.

Behind the velvet rope over there,

some--some lady with blue hair

is gonna be giving a lecture on how...

Torch,

the father of the resistance,

lived in this humble room.

- Died in this humble room.

- Not alone.

- It’s almost time. You got to go.

- All right.

I’m going as long as you tell me one thing.

Tell me that you don’t want me here.

No, no, for real.

And you tell me

that you want to be alone

when you’re going blind

and your head is swelling up with sores.

Tell me that you want me to be alone

when I know what’s happening to you.

I’m outside

picking Pepsi cans out of the trash.

♪ ♪

I can’t kiss your forehead

or bring you a glass of water

or help you go to the bathroom

when you can’t get out of bed.

Tell me that’s what you want, I’m out the window.

Say it!

- All right, you tell me this.

You tell me how I’m supposed to sit here

and watch you lose 80 pounds

and spit up mucus till you die...

[crying] from what I did to you.

- No.

Oh, no.

As messed up as this place may be, it’s still a hospital.

And that means pharmaceuticals.

- So?

- So if it gets too bad, we could just go to sleep.

♪ ♪

A light dinner.

Four grams of Seconal.

Two each.

- Just go to sleep?

- Yeah.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- It’s morning.

[birds singing]

So--so right now, I’d be--

I’d be--

Right about now

I’d be yelling at Willie to get up for school.

- On a Saturday? What are you--

- Saturday? - Yeah.

- Somebody’s supposed to meet the guy from the printer’s

under the bridge to pick up the new deaf-mute cards.

- We came out of this.

No one to do anything with them anymore.

- There’s you.

- No.

[bell tolling]

- You got two minutes, Blue.

- I’m not going.

♪ ♪

- Security!

- No!

Torch: I got a negative in here!

♪ ♪

I love you, Blue.

♪ ♪

You better hurry!

You just missed her. She went down the hall.

♪ ♪

- You know, she would have been back by now.

- No, there might be traffic.

The bridge might be closed.

- Yeah, and pigs might fly.

You ask me, this whole thing’s a trap.

What are we trusting this guy for anyway?

- Because he’s her brother.

- Come on, Sam.

[truck approaching]

- Blue. - Is Torch okay?

- He’s okay.

Anna: Where are they keeping him?

Bucky: They didn’t hurt him?

- Did they tattoo him yet?

- Look, can we do the press conference later?

Right now, we’ve got a lot to figure out,

like who’s going to go meet that guy from the printer’s

up the bridge.

- If you need me to do it-- - What we need you to do

is go be an upstanding member of the Home Guard,

starting with getting to roll call on time.

- They can go to hell.

- Bad attitude.

You’ve got a cover to keep.

We both do.

- Well, I can handle the cards.

- Okay.

I think we owe him 20 more dollars.

Do me a favor, don’t talk the guy’s ear off.

Just get the cards and come back.

man: ♪ Many rivers to cross ♪

Blue: We mostly need to figure out...

[trails off indistinctly]

man: ♪ But I can’t seem to find ♪

♪ My way over ♪

[Jimmy Cliff’s "Many Rivers to Cross"]

♪ Wandering I am lost ♪

♪ ♪

♪ As I travel along ♪

♪ The white cliffs of Dover ♪

♪ Many rivers to cross ♪

♪ And it’s only my will ♪

♪ That keeps me alive ♪

♪ I’ve been licked, washed up for years ♪

♪ And I merely survive ♪

♪ Because of my pride ♪

♪ ♪

♪ And this loneliness won’t leave me alone ♪

♪ ♪

♪ It’s such a drag to be on your own ♪

♪ ♪

♪ My woman left me and she didn’t say why ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Well, I guess I’ll have to cry ♪

♪ Many rivers to cross ♪

- ♪ Rivers to cross ♪

- ♪ But just where to begin ♪

♪ I’m playing for time ♪

♪ There have been times I find myself ♪

♪ Thinking of committing ♪

♪ Some dreadful crime ♪

♪ Yes, I’ve got many rivers to cross ♪

- ♪ Rivers to cross ♪

- ♪ But I can’t seem to find ♪

♪ My way over ♪

♪ Wandering, I am lost ♪

♪ As I travel along ♪

♪ The white cliffs of Dover ♪

♪ Yes, I’ve got many rivers to cross ♪

- ♪ Rivers to cross ♪

- ♪ And I merely survive ♪

♪ Because of my will ♪

[dramatic saxophone music]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪