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[woman 1] Elwood.

[breathing heavily]

Elwood?

[exhales]

El.

[exhales deeply]

Mama, you see El?

[metal clacking]

[woman 2] He's out back, looking like he fell out.

[grass rustles]

[pensive music plays]

[people chattering indistinctly]

[man] Damn, Evelyn.

You just gonna lay 'em all out?

[Evelyn] Gin is gin.

Y'all know Percy can't count and drink at the same time.

- [Evelyn chuckles] - [Percy yawns]

- You too tired, Percy? - [Percy grunts softly]

After this next loss, I'm gonna have to hear

your mouth all the way to Cali.

[Percy] No, look, she knows she ain't driving.

She complaining already.

You know what I'm sayin'? She... Look.

- [Percy chuckles] - [ice rattling in glass]

She knows she ain't driving, she complaining already.

What you need to do is put that boy to bed.

[Evelyn] No, what you need to do is mind your business

and get what's coming to you.

[Percy] What's coming to me?

[Evelyn] All right, Elwood. Get on down now.

- [Elwood whines] - [knocking on table]

[Percy] Knock knock.

I'm gonna get what's coming to me.

[chatter continues]

[Evelyn] I'll clean it, Mama.

[Percy] Come back and help me win, Evelyn.

You hear?

[Evelyn] I said I'd do the washing up, Mama.

[Evelyn's mom] At least let the child know you're leaving.

[Percy] Mmm-hmm.

[pensive music continues]

[ornaments jingling]

[Evelyn's mom humming "O Come, All Ye Faithful"]

[Elwood exhales]

[rustling]

[Evelyn's mom and Elwood laughing]

[Evelyn's mom continues humming]

[children chattering indistinctly]

- [metal rattling] - [Elwood gasps] Ow.

Ow! [whimpers]

[Elwood crying]

[pensive music continues]

[people chattering indistinctly]

[pensive music continues]

[shouts playfully]

[Elwood giggles]

Hey, Elwood.

Oh, I'm making me a Elwood bed sandwich.

[both laugh]

[water dripping]

[Evelyn's mom humming]

[breathing heavily]

[sighs]

Oh, Elwood.

Elwood.

Baby, I'm not going anywhere.

I'm not going anywhere.

Come here. Come on.

Nana's not going nowhere.

Come here.

[both exhale]

[sound effects playing on TVs]

[woman 1] Hattie, don't you look mod.

Nobody gonna call her grandma.

[woman 2] I'd be glad to have a grandson

- that would carry my shopping. - [static bleeping]

[woman 1] You raised a fine young boy, Hattie.

[Hattie] Well, Elwood didn't need much rightin'.

He spends more time reading than anything else.

[woman 2] Uh-huh.

[woman 1] You hear about all the goings-on in Selma?

[Hattie] Mmm-hmm.

[woman 1] Mr. Parker telling us not to talk

about political things on the clock.

Said, "That don't got nothing to do with you all."

[woman 2] Hell it don't. Long as we working,

I don't see how it makes a difference.

[Hattie] And we work hard, too.

Well, Jim Crow just ain't gonna slink off his wicked self.

...however difficult the moment...

[man on TV] Yes, sir.

...however frustrating the hour,

- it will not be long. - [man on TV] No, sir.

Because truth crushed to earth

- will rise again. - [man on TV] Yes, sir.

- How long? Not long. - [man on TV] Yes, sir.

Because no lie can live forever.

[man on TV] Yes, sir.

- How long? Not long. - [man on TV] How long?

Because you shall reap what you sow.

[crowd] Yes, sir.

- How long? Not long. - [man on TV] How long?

[Elwood breathing heavily]

[bus engine rumbling]

[people chattering indistinctly]

[pen clacks]

[school bell rings]

The first order of business in my class will be

to strike out all the latest epithets of white youths,

which are quite imaginative.

[student] Mr. Hill, you a Freedom Rider?

That's how you got that scar over your eye?

Nashville.

White man slugged me with a tire iron.

[soft music playing]

[Elwood] Hello.

Where'd you come from?

[entry bell jingles]

[door closes]

[soft music continues]

[entry bell jingles]

[anchor on TV] Two of the 850-pound satellites

have orbited the Moon,

photographing and mapping wide areas,

sometimes sweeping as low as 25 miles above the surface.

Here are some of the pictures.

Pictures helping to determine

the height and slope of lunar mountains,

and the depth of craters.

These remarkable views show the crater Copernicus.

Pictures too of the back side of the Moon.

And a view of Earth from 240,000 miles in space.

[car horns blare]

[people chattering indistinctly]

[soft music continues]

- [entry bell jingles] - [cracking knuckles]

- [Mr. Hill] Mr. Marconi? - [Mr. Marconi] Yes.

[Mr. Hill] Very nice to finally meet you, sir.

- Oh, thank you. - I've heard a lot about you.

Oh, well.

I'm, uh... I'm looking for Elwood.

- I'm his teacher. - Oh. Uh...

[chuckles] Right there.

- [Elwood] Mr. Hill. - [Mr. Hill] Mr. Elwood.

Don't worry. Good news.

You know that colored college just south of Tallahassee?

Melvin Griggs Technical School?

They've just opened up courses

to high-achieving high-school students.

And I thought of you right off the bat.

[Elwood] Well, that sounds great, Mr. Hill.

But I... I don't think we have the money

to pay for classes like that.

Oh. Well, that's the thing.

- [entry bell jingles] - They're free.

[Elwood] They are?

This fall, at least.

So word gets out in the community.

Imagine a textbook with nothing to cross out.

[soul music playing on radio]

[Elwood grunts]

[grunts]

[exhales]

[tapping]

[sniffs]

[officer] Here you go, sir.

[car engine idling]

[students chattering indistinctly]

[student drumming on table]

[King Jr. on speakers] We pass on the expressway

going to the airport in Atlanta,

we pass by what is known as Funtown.

[table drumming stops]

- I didn't wanna... - [table drumming resumes]

...have to tell my little daughter

that she couldn't go to Funtown

because of the color of her skin.

[table drumming stops]

- [table drumming resumes] - To make us feel

that we do not count.

We must believe in our souls that we are somebody,

that we are significant...

- [pencil clatters] - ...that we are worthful,

and we must walk the streets of life every day

with this sense of dignity

and this sense of somebody-ness.

[cover rustling]

[announcer on TV] For the ninth consecutive day,

those students continued their protests

against segregation and...

[man 1] You can't pull us apart.

[laughs]

[man 2] Yeah.

[people chattering indistinctly]

[man 3] Mr. Hill said you might come.

We're organizing bail. Can we count on you, Elwood?

[Elwood] Yes.

- I can give half my paycheck. - [object clatters]

I'll be back next week.

Glad you felt the need to stand up.

[object clatters]

[footsteps retreating]

[woman speaking indistinctly on phone]

[Hattie] Well, it was a good photograph of him at least.

[woman] Now, ain't you proud of your Elwood for steppin' up.

[Hattie] Of course I'm proud he was there.

His mama would be proud of him, too.

- [Elwood chuckles] - [Ms. Erica] Yeah,

she came back now, she wouldn't recognize her boy.

That theater was showing The Ugly American

and Invaders from Mars.

[Hattie laughs]

Has everyone in Leon County gone crazy?

[Ms. Erica speaks indistinctly]

All right, yeah, I'll tell him.

- [Ms. Erica] Bye, now. - [Hattie] All right. Bye.

[Elwood] Nana, next time,

I wanna do the civil disobedience part.

[Hattie] I love you, El.

[Elwood] I love you too, Nana.

- You hungry? - No, I'm okay.

[radio chattering indistinctly]

[tuning radio]

["Walk Through the Valley" playing on radio]

[phone ringing]

- [song continues playing] - [phone continues ringing]

["Walk Through the Valley" continues playing]

- ♪ Walk through With the valley ♪ - ♪ God knows I know ♪

[coin clattering]

♪ Every child of God Has the assurance ♪

♪ There'll be peace Through the valley ♪

♪ David said, "Though I walk Through the valley ♪

♪ In the shadow of death ♪

♪ I will fear no evil" ♪

♪ Now, I can imagine I hear another Battle-scarred soldier... ♪

[coin clanks]

[timer beeping]

[camera whirring]

[camera clicking]

[Elwood chuckles]

[camera continues clicking]

["Walk Through the Valley" continues playing]

- [song stops] - [siren wailing]

[footsteps thumping]

[police radio chattering indistinctly]

- [car bangs] - [man 1] Get in the car!

[man 2] Easy. All right, I'm going.

[engine starts]

All right.

- [man 1] Come on. - [car bangs]

- Stay still. - [man 2 groans and shouts]

[car slams shut]

[engine revs]

[car speeding off]

[hissing]

[eerie music playing]

[snarling]

[car horn blaring]

[engine rumbling]

[eerie music continues]

[men chattering in distance]

[man on car radio] Though I walk

through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil. For thou art with me.

Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me...

[eerie music continues]

[car approaching]

- [man] Going north? - [Elwood] Huh?

Where you headed?

[Elwood] Melvin Griggs Technical College.

I've never heard of that one.

Come on.

[door handle rattling]

There you go. Come on.

[radio static crackling]

This thing always give me trouble.

[music plays on radio]

Oh, yeah, there we go.

Yeah.

["Young Girl" by Frank Lynch playing on radio]

What's your name, man?

Elwood Curtis, sir.

[man] Sir?

I like that.

You like my wheels?

Just got 'em.

Headed up to New York to see my old lady.

You ain't but what?

Fifteen, by the look of you.

Already a college boy?

Almost 17, sir.

Still and all young.

Making our race proud, boy.

When I was your age, I was working at a catfish factory.

[announcer on radio] Hey, kids,

turn in your straight A report cards

for a free admission to Funtown

this holiday season.

[kids] Hooray!

[announcer] Take a ride on the Ferris wheel,

- the Tilt-A-Whirl... - [man] Goddamn. What's this?

- Don't look back. - [siren wailing]

- Be cool. - [announcer] Try your putting

- skills against dad... - [Elwood] Huh?

...at Goofy Golf.

- [Elwood] Why? - [sniffs]

You don't know me, do you?

- [Elwood] No. - [siren growing nearer]

I mean, we just met.

[man] I'll tell 'em that.

- Keep your eyes down. - [radio stops]

- [Elwood] Okay. Okay. - [breathing heavily]

[man] Don't look back.

- [Elwood] What do you mean? - [engine shuts off]

[siren fades]

[man] Let me deal with this.

- [Elwood] Okay. - [car door opens]

- Okay. - [car door closes]

[officer] Well, lookie here.

First thing I thought

when they said to keep an eye out

for an emerald-turquoise Impala...

[eerie music playing]

- ...only a spook... - [man groans]

...would steal that.

- [heart beating loudly] - [rhythmic static rustling]

[Hattie muffled] The boy was walking.

He was walking.

The man just pulled up and offered him a ride.

He just... He just...

He just got in the wrong car.

There has to be something we can do.

Why? Why?

Why would a boy his age heading to college...

So that's it?

That's it?

- [heart beating loudly] - [rhythmic static rustling]

- [rustling fades] - Act out of your station...

and you will pay.

["The Old Ship of Zion" playing on radio]

White woman...

accused my daddy...

- on his way home... - [knife clacks]

...from his second job...

[floorboard creaking]

[chuckles] My big, cheerful daddy.

I saw you.

I waved at you...

from across the street

on my way home from school.

White woman say...

"He didn't get out of my way."

Two days later, still waiting on the judge,

hanged in his cell.

God was the judge that day.

Lord, I didn't take no more than my portion.

White man teach ya

not to take no more crumbs than he give you.

- Nope. I paid. - [knife grating]

My daddy paid.

My Monty paid,

protecting others from paying.

Percy paid when he got home.

The Army don't protect you here, honey.

[floorboard creaking]

Why?

[footsteps approaching]

Why?

Because your portion...

is pain.

But not my Elwood.

Not my Elwood.

["The Old Ship of Zion" concludes]

[Elwood] Nana. I'll be back soon.

[chuckles] Yeah?

[radio static buzzes]

You see what Mr. Hill brought you?

Ain't that nice?

Come on, sit down with Nana.

Have some cake.

[plate scraping]

- [radio static buzzes] - [windshield wipers swishing]

[officer] This a repeat for you, young man?

[Elwood] No, sir.

[officer] You two are sitting next to a bona fide car thief.

[man singing] ♪ Long gone... ♪

♪ Ain't he lucky ♪

♪ Long gone... ♪

♪ To Kentucky ♪

♪ Long gone... ♪

♪ What I mean... ♪

♪ Long gone Sam On the Bowlin' Green ♪

Shut up, you hear me? Shut up!

[man] ♪ Long gone... ♪

You hear what I said? I said shut up!

♪ Ain't he lucky? ♪

[guard] Shut up, will ya?

♪ Long gone... ♪

♪ To Kentucky ♪

♪ Long gone ♪

Look alive back there.

Here we are.

Welcome to Nickel Academy, boys.

Old Nickel.

All right.

[engine shuts off]

[officer grunts]

[eerie music playing]

You two, let's go.

You stay there.

Now, let's go.

- Good day, Dan. - [Dan] Hey, John.

[John] Always good to see ya.

- I got two for ya. - [Dan] Rust never sleeps.

- Hey, how's it going? - [boy 1] Swell.

[boy 2] Fine, if you don't mind sharing a seat next to...

All right.

[chattering indistinctly]

[eerie music continues]

[car door closes]

[engine starts]

[tense music playing]

[metal partition rattling]

[tense music continues]

- [keys jangling] - [seat squeaking]

- [tense music stops] - [John] Let's go.

[chalk scratching on board]

[man] When Trevor Nickel passed the baton

to the current director, Hardee,

he devised these four ranks of behavior here.

You start out as Grub,

work your way up to Explorer, then Pioneer,

and finally Ace.

Uh, earn merits by acting right,

and you work your way on up this ladder.

Achieve the highest rank, Ace,

you graduate,

and get to go home to your families.

If they'll have you.

That's between y'all.

Now, an Ace listens to the house men

and his house father.

And does his work without shirking

or malingering.

And he applies himself to his studies.

An Ace does not roughhouse.

He does not cuss,

he does not blaspheme or carry on.

He works to reform himself from sunrise to sunset.

It's up to you how much time you spend here with us.

We don't...

We don't mess around with idiots.

You mess up,

and we have a place for you.

And you will not like it.

[keys clacking]

I'm gonna see to that personally.

[exhales heavily]

[squeaks and slams]

[man] That's you over there.

Desmond, show him the ropes.

Yes, sir, Mr. Blakeley.

You know when to say, "Yes, sir,"

which is always.

- [Griff] Chickie. - You'll be okay.

[Griff] Chickie Pete.

[chattering indistinctly]

Don't think I won't be watching you.

[people chattering indistinctly]

[engine revving]

[footsteps running]

Well, so... [clears throat]

Brian has $1.50 already.

On Tuesday, he made, uh, 50 cents.

And finally, on Wednesday, he made a dollar.

How much does he have so far?

- [boy] He broke! - [boys laughing]

[teacher] Zero, ten.

You carry the one.

You carry the one, see?

[Desmond] Okay, here you go. Here you go.

[boys laughing and chattering]

Oh, my God.

- [Elwood] Nice. - [Spencer] Jaime!

[Elwood] We get to play football.

[Desmond] No.

- [Spencer] Jaime! - [Desmond] They do.

[boys yelling indistinctly]

[Spencer] Jaime!

- Lookin' good, ladies. - [chattering indistinctly]

[Elwood] Is that kid in trouble?

[Desmond] He's half Mexican.

They don't know what side of Nickel to put him on.

[boys cheering]

[boy coughs]

[machine whirring]

[Elwood] What's that?

[exhales]

What is that?

[lighter clicks]

[boy 1] Ice cream!

[boys laughing]

[Elwood clears throat]

- [boy 2] Ice cream! - [boys laughing]

- [boy 3] Ice cream! - [boys laughing]

[boy 4] Ice cream.

[boy 5] Ice cream!

[Elwood breathing heavily]

[muffled laughter]

[Blakeley] You get two minutes.

You won't want more.

[water running]

[boys shuddering]

Hey, give him back his soap.

Hey, knock it off now!

[boys clamoring]

[boys continue clamoring]

[Blakeley] All right, that's enough now.

I said that's enough.

[boy] Yo, move, move.

[Blakeley] Knock it off!

[boys speaking indistinctly]

Big kids aren't allowed to sit at the little kids table.

[boy 1] You eat that oatmeal like your mama made it.

[Elwood munching]

[Elwood] What?

I ain't never seen someone eat this food like that.

[Elwood chuckles]

Like they liked it.

[Elwood] Dumped a lot of cinnamon in it.

[boys chattering indistinctly]

I'm Turner.

I'm Elwood.

From Tallahassee.

Frenchtown.

- [Griff] Frenchtown. [scoffs] - [boys laugh]

Frenchtown.

[Turner] I don't know why you bein' so loud.

You know they got their eye on you this week.

[mimics dog barking]

[boys laugh]

[Griff barks and growls]

[boys laughing]

I'm from Houston myself.

That's a real city right there.

None of this country shit y'all got going on up here.

[boys continue chattering]

[Elwood] Hey, thanks for that.

I didn't do shit.

[discordant music playing]

[discordant music fading out]

[low electrical humming]

[boys chattering indistinctly]

[boys laughing]

[boys continue chattering]

[Turner] You eat that oatmeal like your mama made it.

What?

[Turner] I ain't never seen someone eat this food like that.

Like they liked it.

Dumped a lot of cinnamon in it.

[boys continue chattering]

I'm Turner.

I'm Elwood.

From Tallahassee.

Frenchtown.

- [Griff] Frenchtown. [scoffs] - [boys laugh]

[Black Mike] Frenchtown. [laughs]

[Turner] I don't know why you so loud.

You know they got their eye on you this week.

[mimics dog barking]

[Black Mike mimics barking]

- [Griff growling] - [boys laughing]

I'm from Houston myself.

That's a real city.

None of this country shit y'all got going on up here.

[boys continue chattering]

Thanks for that.

[Turner] I didn't do shit.

["I Gotta Get the World off My Back" playing on radio]

[pops lips]

[music stops]

[metal squeaking]

[butcher coughs]

[bangs on car roof]

[butcher coughs]

[Harper sighs] That don't bode well.

I can't help it we don't got

every can of beans he asks for.

[Turner] Uh, fiver?

[Harper] Uh, ten. For stress.

I got my draft notice this morning.

You're lucky to be in Nickel.

- [music playing on radio] - [Turner] Gonna miss your girl?

[engine starts]

We got molasses back there?

Barbeque joint's next.

[flies buzzing]

[people chattering indistinctly]

- [Desmond] Boss. - [boy] Hey, don't bruise 'em.

[Desmond] Boss!

Hey, El.

Start with the ones at the bottom.

Fill the baskets up by the trees

and bring it to the truck.

That's it.

[Elwood] Okay.

[leaves rustling]

[indistinct chattering continues]

[Desmond] You work this side of the row.

[leaves rustling]

[plucking fruits]

[smacking]

[Black Mike] What're you gonna do, hmm?

- [smacks] - [groans]

- [door opens] - [Elwood] Hey! Leave him alone!

- [grunts] - [coin clatters]

- [door opens] - [footsteps approaching]

[Lonnie] Oh, shit.

- Fight! - [door slams]

[Elwood grunts]

Damn, Mike, why'd you have to hit him so hard?

[Elwood groans]

[Blakeley] Hey!

[door creaks and thuds]

Back up.

[footsteps approaching]

Ain't you the new boy?

[Black Mike] He started it.

I don't care who was at fault,

who started it, or why.

Mr. Spencer's gonna deal with this.

[Black Mike] Shit.

[Elwood grunting]

[boy 1] Dead man walking.

[boy 2] Man, he don't even know.

- [boy 3] He gon' learn today. - [boys laughing]

[engine rumbling]

[marble clacking]

[muffled indistinct shouting]

[static buzzing]

[static continues buzzing]

- [Elwood exhales] - [buzzing stops]

[boy coughs]

[door opens]

- [footsteps approaching] - [boy coughs]

[Blakeley softly] Come on, boy.

- [in normal tone] Get up. - [boy coughs]

Let's go.

[Elwood grunts softly]

[Elwood] Sir?

[Elwood breathing heavily]

- [Spencer] All right. - [keys jangling]

Here we go.

[vehicle approaching]

[key turning]

Come on.

[door shuts]

All right. Let's get up.

You know the drill.

[Black Mike breathing heavily]

[Elwood shudders]

[Spencer sniffs and clears throat]

[Corey cries]

[Spencer] Thought you'd had enough after the last time.

[crying quietly]

Pissed himself, again.

[machine whirring]

[belt whips]

- [belt whips] - [Black Mike cries out]

- [belt whips] - [Black Mike cries out]

- [belt whips] - [Black Mike cries out]

[whipping continues]

[Corey shakily] I'mma hold on... and...

[Black Mike screaming]

Be... Be still.

I'm gonna... [gasping]

hold on and...

- [door opens] - [Black Mike whimpering]

[Spencer] Shut up, punk.

[Corey shuddering]

[machine continues whirring]

[Earl] All right, Corey, come on.

[door creaks]

[machine stops]

[door opens]

[whirring noise returns]

[footsteps approaching]

[Earl] Let's go.

[Elwood breathing shakily]

[whirring grows louder]

[machine humming]

[Spencer] Elwood Curtis.

[footsteps approaching]

Grab on to the rail and don't let go.

- [belt whips] - [Elwood groans]

[Spencer shushing]

Don't make a sound.

Or you'll get more.

[belt whipping]

[Elwood groans]

[whipping continues]

[Elwood groans]

[Elwood groans]

[machine continues whirring]

- [whipping continues] - [Elwood groans]

[whirring intensifies]

- [whirring stops] - [mouse clicks]

[siren wailing outside]

[sighs]

[sniffles]

[Hattie] Elwood, honey, blink.

[breathing raggedly]

[music playing faintly on radio]

[woman muffled] "Who shall separate us

from the love of Christ?"

[Elwood grunts]

"Shall tribulation, or distress..."

- [Elwood grunts] - "...or persecution..."

[continues grunting]

"As it is written, for thy sake

we are killed all the day long.

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

[music continues playing on radio]

[clearly] "Nay, in all these things

we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us."

"For...

I am persuaded

that neither death, nor life,

nor angels, nor principalities,

nor powers,

nor things present, nor things to come,

nor height, nor..."

[Hattie] Young man.

Young man, do you know, uh, a student named Elwood Curtis?

- [Turner] Yes'm, I do. - [sighs in relief]

Thank God.

They told me that he can't have visitors.

I just...

Would you please?

Would you please?

- [Turner] Yes, ma'am. - [panting]

I came all this way.

It's a crime that they won't let me see him.

It's a crime.

[sighs] What kind of place is this that I...

They won't let me see him.

- [Turner] I'm sorry, ma'am. - Ah.

Anyway...

I thank you.

What is your name?

It's... It's Turner, ma'am.

Oh.

- Turner. - [Turner chuckles softly]

Well, I'm glad I can rely on somebody around here, Turner.

When was the last time you had family to come visit you?

[Turner] Uh... Um...

Well...

- You know, they don't... - [Hattie] You know...

I came all this way...

[smacks lips] And I can't hug Elwood.

So I guess you'll have to do.

Hmm?

- What are they feedin' y'all? - [Turner chuckles]

You can't muster up a bigger hug than that? You...

I'mma remember that next time.

Turner.

Hug me again.

[Turner exhales]

What are they feedin' y'all?

[Turner chuckles]

You can't muster a bigger hug than that?

I'm gonna expect it next time, Turner.

[Turner] Yes, ma'am.

I'll see Elwood gets this.

Thank you, son.

[Turner] How you makin' out here, hero?

- [music playing on radio] - [footsteps receding]

How you like that witch doctor?

Come in here with your damn head cut off,

and he give you a aspirin.

Come in here, head cut off, both arms,

- both legs cut off... - [Elwood chuckles]

...and that damn witch doctor'll be like,

"You want one tablet or two?"

[laughing]

How'd you get in here?

[scoffs]

I ate some soap powder.

I have a stomach ache for a whole day off.

Or two.

I know how to sell it.

[doctor and patient speaking indistinctly]

[Elwood] Man, aren't you worried

they'll know you're faking it?

Man, I ain't faking.

That soap powder's awful.

But that's me choosing.

Not anyone else.

[Charlie groaning]

[Elwood] Go look.

See who it is.

Ask what's wrong with him.

[scoffs] Man, I'm not asking nobody shit.

[Elwood] Scared?

[Turner] Damn, you don't know.

Pop back there for a look, maybe you have to

- trade places with him. - [chuckles]

- Like in a ghost story. - Mmm-hmm.

[tuts]

[Spencer] Where's Doctor Cooke? I need to talk to him.

[nurse] I think he's on a cigarette break.

- [Elwood shuddering] - [Spencer] all right.

Tell him I'm looking for him. I'll be back later.

- [Elwood continues shuddering] - [footsteps recede]

[Turner] I've never been sent to the White House before.

I got smacked across the face for smoking once.

[Elwood] Do they do it like this to everyone?

[sighs] Man, you already got off lucky.

[Elwood] Lucky?

Sometimes they throw you in hell.

Sweat box up in the eaves under that tar roof?

Sweat your soul outta you.

[exhales]

Sometimes,

they take you, we never see your ass again.

[Elwood] What?

[sighs] Parents ask the school what happened,

and they just say you ran away.

I'll show you sometime.

Show you something that's not in the books.

Where it is.

Boot Hill.

See, the problem is, Elwood,

you didn't know how it works.

You wanted to do some Lone Ranger shit.

Run up and save a boy.

And they punked out Corey a long time ago.

Mike and them play rough.

That's just how they do.

I used to think out there

was out there, and once you're in here,

you're in here.

But now that I've been out, and I've been brought back,

[scoffs] I know.

Out there, in here, it's the same.

Just in here, nobody has to act fake anymore.

If everybody looks the other way,

then everybody's in on it.

If I look the other way, I'm as implicated as the rest.

[Turner chuckles quietly]

It's not how it's supposed to be.

[Turner] Don't nobody care about "supposed to."

The fix has always been in.

Game's rigged.

That's what I'm telling you.

It's not like the old days.

We can stand up for ourselves.

Man, that shit barely works out there.

What you think it's gonna do in here? [scoffs]

- [scoffs] - You say that

'cause you got no one out there sticking up for you.

I got my grandmother.

I got a lawyer.

Yeah.

When's the last time you heard from them?

[Turner chuckles]

You gotta watch how people act.

What they do.

And then try to figure out how to get around them,

like an obstacle course.

I mean, if you wanna walk outta here.

Graduate.

Walk outta here.

'Cause ain't nobody gonna get you out.

Not your grandma.

Not your lawyer.

Just you.

[whistling cheerful tune]

[men speaking indistinctly]

[man 1] Give me $40... $40...

[man 2] That'll pay you. Do it again. Do it again.

Watch. Check it out. Check it out. See the ball.

[boy] What're you gonna play then?

[man 2] The ball, the ball, the ball. Find her, which one?

[man 1] Give me $40.

Hey! Okay. Okay. [continues indistinctly]

[man 2] See. [man 1] Forty.

[boys speaking indistinctly]

Oh.

[Spencer] An Ace.

He listens to his house men and his house father.

He does his work without shirking or malingering.

And he applies himself to his studies.

[water splashes]

He does not roughhouse.

He does not cuss,

he does not blaspheme, carry on.

[boys chattering indistinctly]

[Elwood] Why're you doing that?

[Spencer] He works from sunrise to sunset to reform himself.

[somber music playing]

Now, when Trevor Nickel passed the baton

to our current director, Hardee,

he devised these four levels of behavior here.

You start out here as a Grub.

You work your way up to Explorer,

- then Pioneer... - [thudding]

- ...and finally, Ace. - [alligator hissing]

Earn merit by good behavior,

you work your way up that ladder.

You achieve this highest rank of Ace,

then you graduate.

And you get to go home to your families.

If they'll have you.

But that's between y'all.

[somber music continues]

[thuds]

[Elwood] I'm not scared of you.

[chuckles]

[door opens]

[Turner] My Aunt Mavis made sure I had nice clothes

for school and three meals.

A guy at the Houston airport started seeing her.

He taught me how to box.

The day I put myself between Aunt Mavis and his fist,

he took me out for ice cream.

"Bring this boy the biggest sundae you've got."

Every bite was like another sock in the mouth.

[Elwood] Hmm.

Guess I wouldn't want them to visit either.

I don't know how I'd feel if my parents turned up here.

[door opens]

[boys laughing]

[Turner] Hey!

Hey, look out!

[boys clamoring]

Jackasses!

They know I hate that shit. Fuck y'all!

[Griff] Turner.

You know you miss it. [chuckles]

Hey, Turner!

[grunts]

Gotta keep 'em on their toes. [chuckles]

[Blakeley] I don't wanna hear nothing

'bout your skin itching,

you're blistered up, it's too hot.

Y'all need to get your counts up,

- else they're gonna say... - [Turner] Blakeley.

[Blakeley] ...I ain't working y'all hard enough.

[Turner] Mr. Blakeley.

Mr. Blakeley, sir,

Elwood's been reassigned.

- Reassigned? According to who? - [car door closes]

Oh, Ha... Harper.

Mr. Harper, sir.

You know, we need a extra set of hands.

Well, we need extra hands too, son.

So, can we take him?

You keep your nose clean.

[Elwood] Yes, sir.

[Blakeley] Well, we down a hand.

But, boys, that can't stop nothin'.

- [music playing on radio] - [Harper] Turner here says

you're not a math dummy,

and you know how to keep your mouth shut.

[Elwood] What are we doin'?

[Harper] Sometimes the State gives us

more than we strictly need.

So we pass it on.

[Turner] For a small fee.

[Harper] Community service.

Used to be a lot worse in the old days

from what my aunt says,

but inspectors kept sniffin' around.

Now, we only lay off the south campus stuff.

[Elwood] You mean the Negro students' stuff.

[Harper] We had this good old boy, used to run Nickel,

Roberts.

He would've sold the air you breathe if he could've.

That was a real crook.

[Elwood] Had to end up somewhere.

[Turner] Beats workin' the fields, if you ask me.

[Elwood] Uh-huh.

[Harper] Beats getting mangled in a machine.

[pensive music playing]

- [people chattering indistinctly] - [ping-pong ball bouncing]

[coin clinking]

[Elwood] Bad penny?

[grunts]

[laughing]

[chattering continues]

[Turner mimics Blakeley] You keep your nose clean.

[Elwood] I can smell it on him in the morning. Whew.

[Turner mimics Blakeley] Keep your nose clean.

Keep your nose clean. [chuckles]

[exhales] Borracho.

[Elwood sighs] Enough reasons to drink here.

[Turner in normal voice] You think he went here?

[Elwood] Huh?

They say his name's in the sweat box.

[pensive music continues]

- [Elwood chuckles] - [footsteps approaching]

Well, this is so exciting.

[Elwood] Thank you, Mrs. Hardee.

[Mrs. Hardee sighs] You boys are so nice

to come help out today. [chuckles]

Oh, uh, almost forgot,

I have a box of books to donate to the Nickel library.

[Elwood] Yeah, we can help with that.

The box is in the garage. [chuckles]

It's Trollope, and Austen, and Dickens,

and people with names like that. [chuckles]

Well, ta-ta.

Used to be worse around here.

Used to be, when you graduate,

you didn't go back to your family.

You just had parole.

And they sold your monkey-ass to people in the town.

[chuckles] Had to work off your debt.

[Elwood] Debt from what?

[scoffs] Never thought about it that way.

This can be a three-day job we play it right.

[scoffs]

We till the garden and fix up her house.

Shit, she may even adopt our Black asses.

Well, not you. You got family.

I'd "Yes'm" her for a chance out of Nickel.

That ain't no freedom.

I mean, you know Director Hardee and his wife

ain't supposed to use us like we're slaves.

Man, all those guys on the school board

have us do chores.

Sometimes it's favors, sometimes it's for real money.

[Elwood] And it's against the law.

[chuckles]

Man. [chuckles]

The law is one thing.

You can march and wave signs around

and change a law if you convince enough white people.

[muffled music playing playing on speakers]

[tuts] I saw those college kids in Tampa

with their nice shirts and ties

sitting at the Woolworths.

I had to work,

but they were out there protesting.

And it happened.

They opened that counter, but,

I mean, I didn't have the money to eat there either way.

Gotta change the economics to all this, too.

[Elwood] Hmm.

My grandmother got me that lawyer, man.

Make a move there first.

The courts play both the white and the Black.

They just move us around when they're ready.

[Elwood] Mmm.

Then we have to be like knights.

Checkmate.

How many people you know done that, El?

There are four ways out of Nickel.

Serve your time or age out.

Court might intervene, if you believe in miracles.

You could die.

They could kill you.

You could run.

Only four ways out of Nickel.

[car horn honks]

[scoffs] Hour late.

[rock music continues playing on speakers]

[static crackling]

[music fades out]

[pensive music playing]

[people chattering indistinctly in distance]

[pensive music continues]

[Harper] I sat down to dinner at that guard's house once.

Roast beef.

His wife made an angel food cake.

I was in the Scouts with his sons.

He taught us how to make a fire.

[boy] Take it serious...

[ball clattering]

[finger-drumming on metal]

What's it about?

[Elwood] A British mother is trying

to marry off her oldest daughter

so they can keep their estate and title.

[man chattering indistinctly on radio]

Nobody wants to marry her?

- She ugly? - [Elwood chuckles]

[Elwood] She's described as having a handsome face.

[Turner scoffs]

- Damn. - [Elwood chuckles]

[Turner chuckles]

I know my mother loved me.

She just loved liquor more.

["Stick Around" by Tony Allan playing on radio]

♪ If you love me or not ♪

♪ I want you to know ♪

You can use the steps right here,

if you can't swim like your friend.

♪ Things are gonna get hot ♪

Take off your dungarees.

♪ I wish you'd stick around ♪

♪ Stick around ♪

♪ Who's to say I hope that you will ♪

♪ And if there comes a day When you've had your fill ♪

♪ Now just go and wait Remembering still ♪

♪ I wish you'd stick around ♪

♪ Stick around ♪

♪ I found a girl once Who said she'd be mine ♪

♪ Fun every night And my life was divine ♪

♪ Till some guy came by Who had more than me ♪

♪ So she changed her mind And I had to be... ♪

[water warbling]

[music gets muffled]

[muffled music continues]

[people chattering indistinctly]

[door opens and closes]

[chattering stops]

[coughs and clears throat]

Corey.

Desmond.

Desmond.

Chickie Pete.

There you go.

Elwood.

I ain't seen you lately, Elwood.

You been keeping your nose clean?

Yes, sir, Mr. Blakeley.

You know, you may have...

grand dreams and great designs for yourself.

But if God says

that you're supposed to be sweeping streets,

you sweep streets,

like Michelangelo painted the chapel.

That's Dr. Martin Luther King, boy.

Yeah.

[exhales]

[Elwood exhales sharply]

[Turner] Grandma okay?

[Elwood sighs softly]

She says she visited,

but they wouldn't let her see me.

"He's sick and can't have no visitors."

"What's wrong with him?"

"How the hell should I know, lady?"

How can they do that?

Sick?

I'm sick?

[scoffs]

[pen scribbling]

[dreamy music playing]

[narrator on TV] Scientist, engineer,

astronaut, the world.

All followed the progress of Apollo 8.

For this was preparation.

An advance scout

marking the way for those who would follow.

Those who would orbit.

Those who would land, navigate,

track, observe,

record, describe.

[dreamy music continues]

Bones would break before they come loose.

[Elwood] They've grown into the heart of the wood.

[insects chirping]

[mouse clicking]

[man on TV] No matter who you are

- or where you wanna go... - [siren wailing]

...the all-new 1976 hatchback models

provide the ultimate in style comfort, and practicality.

- [door opens] - And for a limited time,

at all New York dealerships,

get cash rebates up to $500.

Now, award-winning models of sedans what...

- [switches TV off] - [Elwood] Hey.

You hear me outside?

[Elwood] What?

A rat run across my feet, and I screamed.

- That was me. [chuckles] - Oh!

Denise Hather,

afraid of a little old rodent?

Hush. It was big as a dog.

- [Elwood] Hmm. - [chuckles]

- Barked like one too. - Yeah?

- [Denise] Yeah. - Maybe it was a dog.

Look here.

[smacks lips] Found one.

- [Denise] This is it? - Yeah, that's it.

'67 Econoline.

Needs a new finish,

but the guys on 125th owe me one.

I can supplement the Horizon jobs

- with my own work. - Yes.

Weekends,

bring Larry on. Come on.

You think you can count on Larry?

[scoffs] Larry, bellyaching about this child support

is about as dependable as US steel.

If there's one thing he'll do, it's work.

Well, that's great, El.

It's happening.

[chuckles] What'll you name it?

[Elwood] Don't know.

Something easy to find in the Yellow Pages.

Yes.

- That has rum in it. - Ooh, bless.

I got us some sandwiches too.

[Elwood] Mmm.

[bag rustling]

- Can you turn the TV on? - [Denise] Mmm-hmm.

[man 1 on TV] Come on, let's go.

- [Elwood clears throat] - [man 2] Go where?

[man 1] Pineville. Let's head to Pineville.

[Denise tuts] It's started already.

[man 2] Pineville's south. I don't go south.

[man 1] I used to know a girl in Pineville.

If she's still there, we get this broke.

- Now, come on. - And then what?

[Elwood] "You're married to me now."

- "And here's the ring." - [chuckles] What?

Get off my back, I ain't married to you.

- Now what do I care? Come on! - [Elwood chuckles]

You married to me, all right, Joker.

- Now here's the ring... - You better watch

- what you say, El. - [Elwood] Hmm.

[Denise] Mmm-hmm.

I'd marry me Sidney Poitier.

- Oh, yeah? - Mmm-hmm.

Yeah.

- I believe it. - [Denise chuckles]

Come to pick up the turpentine every day.

Come out of the west, enter the swamp,

heading across the line,

to the paintmakers up north in Ohio.

Now we try for that train.

My mother's watch.

[Turner] A deck of marked cards.

[Elwood] My dad's Purple Heart.

He threw it away.

Feels like I lost it though.

[sucks teeth and chuckles]

Uh, my big toenail. [chuckles]

[scoffs]

That's all you got?

Really got nothing left to lose.

[Elwood] Mmm.

That makes you one dangerous mother--

[Spencer in distance] Tradition go back 40 years.

If you listen to that birdsong...

Let's head on in here.

You gotta understand.

Sometimes, for your greater good,

you gotta do a little bad. That's Shakespeare.

[door opens]

[voice gets closer] Sometimes a bough,

- it's gotta bend... - [door closes]

...so it don't break off from the tree.

No.

Sometimes,

good sportsmanship,

that means letting the other team win.

- Sometimes. - [Elwood shudders]

I suppose that's right, Mr. Spencer.

[Spencer] All right, you're...

You're not receiving me clearly, here, Griff.

You're gonna have to take a dive

in the third round.

You mean throw the fight?

Lose, sir?

That's right. Third round.

I'm getting through to you now?

- You hear me? - Yes. Yes, sir.

- You hear me now? - Yes, sir, Mr. Spencer.

All right, then.

Now, you know you can beat him.

So that's just gonna have to be enough.

Spirit of the season of giving, Griff.

Good boy. Come on.

Good.

[door opens]

[door closes]

Well, ain't that some shit.

[Elwood] Don't people bet on this?

Every year.

Man, that match ties us

to a whole 365 days of humiliations.

["White Christmas" playing]

♪ I am dreaming ♪

♪ Dreaming of a white ♪

♪ White Christmas, y'all ♪

♪ Just like the one that ♪

♪ I used to know ♪

♪ Honey, it's where The treetops ♪

♪ Treetops glisten ♪

♪ Little bitty, little bitty Little bitty children ♪

[all chattering excitedly]

♪ They try to listen ♪

[bells jingle]

♪ To hear ♪

♪ Before the sleigh bells ♪

♪ That are ringing In the, the snow... ♪

[song continues playing over speakers]

[Turner] The first Christmas is the hardest.

[boys cheering and laughing]

[song continues playing faintly]

[vehicle approaching]

[crowd cheering]

[bell dings]

[crowd cheering]

[whispering indistinctly]

[bell dings]

[boy] That's right! Let's go, Griff!

[crowd chanting] Chet! Chet! Chet!

[Turner] Cracker looks like Frankenstein.

[chuckles] Square head.

Look at those arms, man.

Those things are pistons.

- Smoked hams. - [boxers grunting]

[man] Take him to dinner now, take him, Big Chet!

Damn.

Look at Griff's strut.

[Turner] If I got all this respect...

When's the next time fools who hate and fear you

are gonna treat you like Harry Belafonte.

[man] Come on, Griff. Come on, Griff.

Right there, right there.

[boxers grunting]

[chattering indistinctly]

[Elwood] Turner!

Turner, that's a $100 bill!

He's putting the hurt on that white boy, at least.

Makes me feel good.

He's dancing and ducking.

Run straight at it!

Stick! Stick!

- [bell dings] - Stick! Move him!

Whoo! Yeah! Let's go!

[boy 1] You got it! You got it!

[crowd clamoring]

[boy 2] You got it! You got it!

Earl too, huh?

[Turner] This is it. This is it, El.

Third round.

[bell dings]

[crowd cheering]

[pensive music playing]

He's about to go.

He's about to fall. He's about to fall, El.

You don't think Griff could knock down Big Chet

by accident, do you?

[Turner] He's makin' it look good for sure.

[crowd cheering]

Jab! Jab!

Work that shoulder!

[Griff] You ain't got me!

[crowd chanting] Griff! Griff! Griff!

Griff! Griff! Griff! Griff! Griff! Griff!

Griff! Griff! Griff! Griff! Griff! Griff!

[crowd cheering]

[Elwood] Turner!

Turner!

[loudly] Turner!

This isn't the fight!

[cheering continues]

- [imperceptible] - [pensive music continues]

[Chet grunts]

[crowd cheering]

[bell dings]

[growls]

[imperceptible]

[pensive music fades out]

The Nickel Academy Annual Boxing Championship,

by unanimous decision...

the winner is Griff!

[crowd cheering]

[man] Let's go!

[uneasy music playing]

[Griff] I thought it was the second.

[boys cheering]

I thought it was still the second.

[crowd] Griff! Griff! Griff!

[Griff] I thought it was still the second, Spencer.

Spencer, wait, hey, I thought it was the second,

I ain't know! Spencer!

[crowd] Griff! Griff! Griff!

Mr. Spencer, I thought it was the second.

I didn't know! I swear!

[crowd noise stops]

I... I ain't know, I thought it was the second.

- [crowd cheering] - [uneasy music resumes]

[cheering fades out]

[disquieting music playing]

[mouse clicking]

[Denise] Babe, you all right?

When are you gonna give that computer a break?

[Elwood] Just a few more minutes.

They're digging, I'm digging.

[disquieting music fades out]

[people chattering indistinctly in distance]

[Hattie] Elwood!

[Elwood] Nana!

Elwood. [chuckling]

Elwood!

[chuckles]

[breathing heavily]

[boy 1] Can we squeeze in with y'all?

[Hattie] Come on, baby.

- [tapping on table] - [grunts excitedly]

[chuckles]

[Elwood] It's been a long wait for some good news.

[smooches]

[exhales]

Good news, good news, good news.

Well...

Lyndon Johnson's carrying on

with President Kennedy's Civil Rights Bill.

So you know if that Good Ole Boy's...

doing the right thing...

- Things is changing. - [Elwood chuckles]

Things gonna be way different when you come home.

El. You can pick up right where you left off

with no more hassle.

[Elwood] Hmm. [chuckles]

I'm sure Melvin Griggs will have you.

And them books you've been reading,

they ain't goin' nowhere.

Yeah.

I've been, um, taking less hours.

Spending more time at the church.

[sighs]

And I told that trashman to be careful

with that big old truck the way it blocks the road.

And so early in the morning, when you can really hear

everybody get up.

[tapping on table]

[Elwood] Nana, what is it?

What's wrong?

[Hattie] You know, Mr. Andrews...

our lawyer who was so excited about your appeal.

I went to see him.

Went downtown, took the bus.

I paid him $200.

It wasn't enough.

But he was so adamant and persuasive

with Mr. Marconi that he...

he and his wife kicked in another $100.

[Elwood] Hmm.

The landlord was showing his offices to a dentist.

A dentist.

When I asked for Mr. Andrews,

they just looked through me like I wasn't there neither.

He picked up stakes,

moved to Atlanta without a word.

He took that $300.

- And he knows. - [bird caws]

Hmm.

- Hmm. - [bird caws]

[Elwood] You... You mean he's gone.

He's gone. He... He didn't--

After all this time--

[Hattie] He said...

Elwood.

Look at me, son.

He said what we have here

is a classic miscarriage of justice.

That's what he said.

And I know we hoped to have you home by now, El,

- and I think-- [sighs] - [Elwood] It's okay, Nana.

It's okay.

I let you down.

I'm okay, Nana.

- El, I let you down. - No.

No, I'm okay.

I'm hanging in there.

[wistful music playing]

[Turner] I'm sorry, El.

I don't know why I ain't give you that letter.

- I guess I was just... - [Elwood] It's okay, Turner.

It doesn't matter now anyway.

[wistful music continues]

[Larry] Elwood.

Elwood.

Hey! Come on, man.

[Elwood] Yeah. All right. Got it?

- [Elwood grunts] Ooh. - Yeah. Yup.

This might be solid brass, man.

I've got dibs on this.

[Elwood] Hey!

Somebody died.

[Larry] What, in this bed?

[Elwood tuts] Come on.

All right.

- You're through? - Yeah.

Almost. All right.

- [Elwood] I'm clear. - [Larry] Clear?

Come on.

[Elwood grunts]

Yep.

[Elwood grunting]

Where... Where shall we rest?

[Larry] Elwood. It's gettin' heavy, man.

Come on, I gotta get this door.

- [train chugging] - [train horn blaring]

[wistful music continues]

[both chuckle]

It's weird being out here, man.

[Turner exhales]

Wait till you're "out" out.

[footsteps approaching]

How would you do it?

Well, I wouldn't run into the swamp.

Hide in there so the coast is clear,

then hitch a ride somewhere west or north.

All right, that's how they get you.

And you can't wash no scent off.

That's only in movies.

So what would you do?

[Turner sighs]

So I'd come out here into the free world.

Snatch clothes from--

Snatch clothes from the wash line...

[Elwood chuckles]

...and then head south,

'cause they ain't expecting it.

Put as many miles between me and the dogs as I can.

Tire 'em out.

See, the trick is not doing what they know you gonna do.

Yeah, why wouldn't they think

- that you're not gonna-- - Oh!

And don't take no one with you.

A'right, not one of those dummies.

[sighs] They'll just take you down with 'em.

- Mmm. - Gotta go it alone.

[Elwood chuckles]

[Turner sucks teeth] El, what time you think it is?

[chattering indistinctly]

Elwood, what--

[tires screeching]

[man] Watch out, you numbskull!

What the hell, Elwood?

You think Reverend King's out here

in Marianna opening supermarkets?

[chuckles softly]

Here.

You dropped this.

Why you gotta carry that around with you?

Anyone'd think you a student. [chuckles]

I've been writing everything down.

Everything what?

Our community service.

The deliveries, the payoffs,

the yardwork, the chores,

the names of everybody and the dates.

Why would you do a thing like that?

You told me.

No one else is gonna get me out of here.

Just me.

Man, no... No one ever listens to me.

[chuckles] All right, why you gotta start?

Goddamn it, it's not an obstacle course, Turner.

All right, you can't go around it,

then you have to go through it.

And walk with your head up

no matter what they throw at you.

All right, I get it. You mad.

And need to get it off your chest. That's cool,

- but... - No, I'm telling you.

There's a fifth way out.

Get rid of Nickel.

They'd put us in the goddamn ground.

They gonna take you out back and bury your ass.

Man, shit.

Oh, Jesus...

Man, they're gonna take me out back too.

[car horn honks]

Elwood, I vouched for you, man. The hell is wrong with you?

[pensive music playing]

[chattering indistinctly]

[yells]

[pensive music continues]

[brakes squeal]

- [Elwood] Turner! - Where is he going?

Turner!

Get your nig...

Get your ass back over here.

I'm tired of your shit, man.

You got the keys or not?

[keys thud]

Goddamn baby.

It's a waste of time.

[door slams]

Head full of stump-water.

[Elwood] Give him a break.

What are you, his girlfriend?

[crickets chirping]

[machine whirring]

[Turner] El.

Elwood.

Elwood.

El.

El.

El?

Elwood?

[TV playing indistinctly]

[man] Man.

Holy shit.

Long time, long time, long time.

How you been?

[Elwood] All right.

It's me, man. Pete Evans.

- Chickie Pete. - [Elwood] Chickie Pete. Man.

- Hey. Hey. - How you doing?

You look good.

Yes, sir.

Been ages.

Yeah.

Uh, drinks.

- Hey. - On me.

- I got a early morning. - No.

- So I'm gonna... - You gotta...

You gotta let me buy you a drink.

Excuse me. Excuse me, sir.

Can I, um...

Can I get two? Uh, whiskey neat, please.

Thank you.

[Elwood exhales]

[clears throat] Well, you know, I just been

saying the same thing.

I look back on it,

think back on it, and I say that if I...

I could've played professional,

well, if things would've turned out differently.

- You think so? - Oh, man, I know so.

I used to... [chuckles]

I used to hit 'em with...

Hmm.

Hmm.

[laughing]

Oh, man, I could've

been in a funk band,

an orchestra.

I could've been like one them cats, like, uh,

Haydn, Bach, Vivaldi.

Backin' up for Miles.

I could've been a doctor, inventing shit, saving lives.

I got ideas, man.

Mmm.

Damn.

To Nickel.

[glasses clink]

[Chickie Pete smacks lips and exhales]

It's a long time ago.

[tuts] Yeah, my hands, man.

[chuckling]

You know, I spent the last 30 days dryin' up.

- [Elwood] Oh, well... - Um... [clears throat]

My hands, man.

You know, I spent the last 30 days dryin' up.

Oh, man. Uh...

It's okay. It's okay.

I can handle it now.

I always drank, um...

It used to be,

uh, the more I tried to settle down,

the more I would just get blotto every night.

You know?

I couldn't sleep in the dark.

Still can't sleep in the dark, but, um...

I told this guy, last May...

Just tell me

- how the jail... - [women laughing]

Mmm. [chuckles]

The whole program...

I'm living with my sister up in Harlem now. [chuckles]

[Elwood chuckles]

You know? Until I can figure out my next move.

I like it up there, but, uh,

you know Chickie Pete gon' be all right, baby.

[both chuckling]

The one thing that Nickel taught me is

how not to die.

Yeah.

How you been, man?

[Elwood exhales] I've got a, um,

- moving company. You know? - Mmm.

Trucks, employees.

All right. All right, moving on up.

- Hey. - I see you.

- [chuckles] - I see you.

You got a lady?

[Elwood] Mmm...

Nah, I mean, I did,

but it didn't work out.

Denise.

She, uh... She said I had a lot of work to do on myself.

[both laugh]

Yeah, I'm still looking for the one.

I hear you.

I hear you, I mean, it can, um...

it can be tough

trying to find someone who can understand.

- Maybe one day. - Yeah.

You seen any of the other guys lately?

I ran across a few over the last few years.

Black Mike, uh, is a criminal. [chuckles]

Nate, um, strung out,

and, um, Desmond got his arm blown off in Vietnam.

You got out in '67, right?

You don't remember?

[smacks lips] Remember what?

[Elwood clears throat] You really don't remember?

[Chickie Pete clears throat]

I mean, I remember...

what they did to Griff.

[scoffs] I remember what they did to me.

How they stuffed that one kid inside the laundry machine.

How they made another one eat a light bulb.

You know what I do remember?

Ghosts.

Yeah.

I remember slippin' on skin,

on flesh,

and, uh, whatever else they had inside the showers.

Yeah.

So, um... [clears throat]

I don't... I don't know

what more you want me to remember.

[Elwood] Nothing, man.

- Time served. - Yeah.

- Yeah. - Mm-hmm.

- They kicked me out. - Mm.

Uh, went up to Atlanta and then trained it up north.

Yeah.

You know, I've been here since '68.

Twenty years.

Yeah.

- That's nice. - Mmm-hmm.

That's real nice. Everybody's welcome up here.

- [chuckles] Mmm-hmm. - You know?

What happened to that one...

To that one kid you used to hang with all the time?

- What kid? - A kid.

Man, you know that, um, kid,

you all thought that hiding spot was so secret.

- Huh. - Yeah.

Okay. [clears throat]

Well, maybe it'll come back to me.

I gotta go leak.

[Elwood scoffing]

[grunts]

[siren wailing faintly]

[quiet eerie music playing]

[Chickie Pete clapping hands]

[Elwood] Hey, I gotta take off.

Oh, no, I get it, I get it.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Elwood] Um...

Look, man, I, uh...

I hate to ask you, but, uh,

if you need a extra hand,

I could use the work.

Staying on a couch right now.

- Right. - Yeah.

You got a card on you?

[Elwood grunts softly]

[Velcro opens]

[Elwood clears throat]

- Not on me. - Well...

I can handle the work

is what I'm putting out there, okay?

Um...

Now, you just go ahead and give me a ring.

For the old days, I remember.

There we go.

[Elwood] I will.

[Chickie Pete chuckles]

[eerie music continues]

All right, man.

All right.

[woman] Babe? Up so early again?

- [Elwood] Hey. - Hey.

Well, they found more graves.

Unmarked.

[softly] Oh, God...

They're asking people to come forward.

- Give witness. - Oh.

Is there gonna be a trial?

[Elwood sighs]

[woman] Mmm.

[mouse clicking]

[eerie music continues]

[Blakeley] Turner.

Turner.

We need more pants.

This inspection shit, we counting on y'all.

Spit shine 'em real good.

[bucket creaking]

[people chattering indistinctly]

[Desmond] Ain't been eating like this

since I don't know when.

They should inspect this place all the time.

[Black Mike] Why're you talking, man?

Just eat.

- Not eatin', huh? - [Turner chuckles]

[boys chattering indistinctly]

[boys] Ice cream!

[all cheering]

Hey, y'all, you have a seat.

Son, have a seat.

I'mma get to everybody. Hold it down.

Y'all want them to think this some kinda circus

we runnin' over here?

Looking like y'all ain't never had ice cream before.

Lee, put one back, boy.

Matter of fact, put both them back.

[chattering continues]

[Turner] Elwood.

What're you gonna do?

[scoffs] What, you think they're gonna put your picture

on the cover of Life magazine?

You think anyone cares what's going on at Nickel?

This is just one place.

There's Nickels all over this country.

You're dreaming.

- [Turner sighs] - [Elwood] Mmm.

[Turner] El.

[hammering]

[chattering indistinctly]

[tools clattering]

What the hell?

You gonna pick that up?

Where you going?

- [Turner] Oh... - [Harper] Elwood.

[Turner] Don't do it, El.

No, no.

[Harper] Elwood?

[footsteps approaching]

Hold on a minute, Elwood.

[Elwood] What is it, Mr. Harper?

Need you to head over to the farm

and find Mr. Gladwell.

Those men from the State aren't heading there today.

They're gonna send some other experts for that.

So, you go there,

find him, and tell him he can relax.

[Elwood] I... I like the bleacher repair.

We... We still need to paint, too.

Can you get, like, one of the little kids to do it?

I don't even know what Mr. Gladwell looks like,

Mr. Harper, sir.

Sir, I would rather... [breathing heavily]

I'd rather work on the bleachers.

You acting crazy today, all of you.

He's got a straw hat and a farmer's tan.

You do what I ask you to do,

and on Friday, it's back to usual.

[Turner] Elwood, wait up.

- [Elwood] What, Turner? - [sighs]

That notebook you got in your pocket,

I'll get it to 'em. I'll...

I'll do it.

[Elwood] Hmm.

Look at you, man. Come on, you look sick.

I'll get it to the inspectors.

I can slip it in their car window

when they're not looking.

They won't even see me.

[Turner exhales]

[chuckles]

[soft music playing]

[narrator 1 on TV] In Mission Control,

they anticipated loss of signal from Apollo 8.

With the Moon between the spacecraft and the Earth,

all contact would be lost

until it appeared on the other side.

- [metal squeaking] - [men laughing]

[Turner whispers] Goddamn.

Okay. It's now or never. [sighs]

[men laughing heartily]

[narrator 2 on TV] Timmy is scared...

- [dog barking] - ...and that's natural.

But it isn't good for him to stay scared.

Right now, Timmy's beginning to decide

if he's gonna stay scared of things all his life.

[narrator 1 on TV] Now, Mission Control

and the world could only wait.

Wait for the first contact with Apollo 8

as it emerged from behind the moon.

[insects chirring]

[man on radio] See you on the other side.

[narrator 2 on TV] It's mighty hard

to give children the kind of care they need.

Suppose these were your children.

What would you do?

[soft surreal music playing]

[surreal music fades out]

[radio chattering indistinctly]

[door opens]

[footsteps approaching]

[Jaime] Oye, primo.

They're gonna take him tonight.

[Turner] Tonight?

Shit.

Goddamn, I told him this would happen.

I ain't hear nobody out for ice cream.

When'd they take him?

[Black Mike] They got him right after lunch.

[Turner] Where is he?

Shit.

Sweat box.

[Turner] He's been in there all day?

- [atmospheric humming] - [unsettling music playing]

[Elwood breathing raggedly]

[humming intensifies]

[Elwood exhales]

[unsettling music continues]

- [muffled clacking] - [Elwood gasping]

[Hattie] Elwood.

[unsettling music stops]

[humming fades out]

Elwood?

Oh.

[Elwood breathing laboriously]

[footsteps approaching]

[door unlocks]

[latch clacks]

[Elwood shudders]

[Turner] They're gonna take you out back tonight.

[Elwood breathing heavily]

El.

Yeah?

- [Turner] El, come on. - Mmm.

El, let's go.

I can't. I can't.

El, come on. We gotta go.

I'm tired.

El, get up. Let's go.

El, please.

[Elwood breathing heavily]

[grunts]

El, come on.

El.

El, let's go.

- El, we gotta go. - [grunts]

[breath shuddering]

[Elwood] Turner, why?

How long you been planning this?

[Turner] Shit, they've been running around

like cockroaches, all these lowlifes.

Spencer, Hardee.

Jaime heard them talking about taking you out back.

[people chattering indistinctly in distance]

That was it.

Tonight or not at all.

[Spencer] It sounds fucking demeaning.

[men laughing]

There it is. I call.

[Earl] They gonna shut us down?

[Spencer] I'll be goddamned

if Tallahassee tells me what to do.

[man] Will somebody open a window?

It's hot in here.

- [Spencer] Call. - [Elwood breathing heavily]

- [Turner] Let's go. - [Elwood grunts]

[Elwood] Why're you coming with me?

[Turner] They'll snatch you up in a hot minute, dumb as you are.

No outfoxing the dogs once they on your trail.

Most you can do is get far away as you can.

Put miles between you and them.

[Elwood breathing heavily]

[Elwood] Tallahassee?

[Turner] Yeah, good.

We gotta get far by sunup.

We can jump a train

and those dogs gonna need wings to catch us.

[Elwood] They were gonna kill me

and bury me out there?

[Turner] Sure as shit.

Can you ride it?

[Elwood] I can do it.

You got me out.

[Turner] Yeah.

[hopeful music playing]

[Turner] Whoo!

That's it, El.

You're doing great.

We got it.

[Elwood chuckles]

[hopeful music fades out]

[Elwood] Hey, Turner.

How much further?

[Turner] Shit.

[car accelerating]

Come on, follow me!

[Elwood grunting]

Let's go, El!

[tires screech]

[Elwood panting]

[Elwood grunting]

- [engine accelerating] - [tires screeching]

[bike rattling]

[Elwood grunting]

[running and panting]

- [engine accelerating] - [tires screeching]

[panting and grunting]

[Turner] Zigzag, El!

Run zigzag!

Let's go, El!

No!

- [gun fires] - [body thuds]

[Turner gasping]

[gentle ethio-jazz music playing]

[dogs barking]

[panting]

[gentle ethio-jazz music continues]

[Turner panting]

[gentle ethio-jazz music continues]

[panting continues]

[crying] He's all right!

He's all right!

He's all right!

He's fine!

He's fine, he's fine!

He's fine.

He's fine.

He's fine.

[Turner panting]

[gentle ethio-jazz music continues]

[gentle ethio-jazz music continues]

[reporter] So what's new with this year's fashion?

- How would you-- - Uh, polka dots.

[reporter] Polka dots?

[woman] ACE Moving Company.

- Blam. - [woman] Bam.

[Elwood] That's us.

- [woman] Yes, the big box man. - [Elwood] Let's look at this...

[woman] Oh. How do we see...

- How do we see ourselves? - [Elwood] How's it--

- I think we-- - Hey, what's it looking at?

- Um, two beautiful beings. - Mm-hmm.

[woman chuckling]

[both chuckle]

- Love you. - [Elwood] I love you, Millie.

[chuckles]

[gentle ethio-jazz music continues]

[Millie] Turner, what're you gonna do?

[gentle ethio-jazz music fades out]

Are you really gonna go?

[chuckles]

[Turner grunts]

[wind blowing]

[man singing] ♪ I left my home in Nashville ♪

♪ Look a-here what I got ♪

- [insects chirping] - [birds chirping and cawing]

♪ Twenty long years on a chain gang ♪

♪ Sweatin' and bustin' rock ♪

♪ Judge, he come from Memphis ♪

♪ Put me in the pen ♪

♪ If I ever do see His face once more ♪

♪ He never get home again ♪

♪ That judge be long gone ♪

♪ To Kentucky ♪

♪ Long gone Don't mean maybe ♪

♪ Long gone What I mean ♪

♪ A long gone judge On a Bowlin' Green ♪

♪ Bowlin' Green ♪

♪ Sewin' machine ♪

♪ A little kitten sittin' ♪

♪ On a sewin' machine ♪

♪ Sewin' machine ♪

♪ Sew so fast ♪

♪ Sew eleven stitches ♪

♪ In a little cat's tail ♪

♪ Bowlin' Green ♪

[soft surreal music playing]

[dreamy music playing]

[pensive music playing]

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