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This is Bob.

Thank you.

If you're looking for trouble, you came to the right place.

If you're looking for trouble,

look right in my face.

I was born standing up and talking back.

Yeah, yeah.

Funny

thing

about a heat wave.

You'll be cruising along, cool as can be.

And then, when you're not looking, it hits you like a blast furnace.

So you sweat.

And you wait.

And just when you think it's going to blow over, it gets even worse.

People can be that way.

Dallas Winston was.

So's Tim Shepard.

They can't help it.

It's just the way they are.

Hey, Cherry.

Hi, pony boy. I didn't see you.

Oh, God, I've got biology in ten minutes.

Hey, you got your wheels outside?

Actually, I've got a couple of stops I have to make. I'll tell you what. I'll

cover for you with Mr. George.

Well, so now, brown cow, what have we here?

Hey, Cherry.

I thought you were going cruising after school.

Or are you slumming with the lowlifes now?

She's with you, isn't she?

That's funny. You know, for a little run, you got a big mouth.

A fella can get hurt with a big mouth.

Okay, Greg, I'm real impressed.

You're a real he -man, okay?

Look, I've got a history exam.

Can we go, please?

You know, here I thought you're shopping for hairspray. Turns out you go for the

greasy kid stuff. Cut it out!

Get up!

Looks like you're running a little light on the old salad oil.

Greg. You know what they say, sport? A little dab will do you.

That's not what I call too neighborly, sport.

Thanks, Eric.

Well, now, what do you say? What do you know, pony boy?

Well, same old, same old.

Mr. Harper says there's a good article in the American Digest.

Oh, yeah?

I like my stories condensed.

How about you?

You like your stories condensed?

Huh?

You know, as in Cram.

Sorry, Greg.

All right, everybody out.

Let me out, Greg.

So she's banging at the window, begging Greg to say sorry. Oh, please, please.

Let me out of here.

You know, you're real smart. You're out of the joint four hours, and you're

already in trouble.

Hey, Tim looks out for his own. Still number one around here. Yeah, that's

right. Free game, kiddo. Hey, Tim.

You always do that to us, Tim.

You beat Stampin' License Blades.

Man.

So where are you going to be staying?

Go to birth at your mom's? Just got out of one jail. Don't need to go to

another.

Figure I'll give you a floor of the honor.

We sort of got through our fill in and breathing down our necks.

Might be able to get you a job at the building I'm doing.

Grunt work, man, not my line. Yeah, well, the pro board might sit a little

different. Oh, come on, guys.

Oh, shoot.

Get out of here.

Plenty of time for work, Buck. Sea's full of fish.

Yeah, well, not in your muddy creek.

As far as this town's concerned, you're just a set of stripes with a number

across the back.

So, Tim, is it true what they say about the joint being tough and all? That's

just a bunch of bull.

Not too rough, man.

The blade should throw it every day is all.

That's cool.

How about you, Soda King?

You itching to tangle, baby?

Okay,

Soda. The party's over.

It's all right, Soda Pop. This one's on me.

a high -test lady to me.

So you're working here now?

Only choice customers.

You gotta be a prom queen with a saddle -sitting shotgun.

DJ, I haven't changed you much.

Wrong.

I'm more dangerous than ever now.

Especially around phone booths.

What do you got? One of them tame ponies takes the trail slow and easy?

Actually, he's a quarter horse.

He's meaner than mean and twice as wild.

Wow.

Sounds too much for you.

I can handle it.

Just take a little patience.

And the right touch.

Figure you have that?

So you're back in town for good?

Or bad.

Depends on the wind.

It doesn't make sense.

Why can't Tim stay? Look, we've been through this ten times before.

We've got room to spare.

Make it 11.

You know how the welfare lady operates.

How's it gonna look? Like we're taking up for a friend. Doing the right thing.

Like he did for me today.

What do you got against Tim? You're always down on him.

Hey, my number one lookout's your belly, which happens to be full.

So what's it gonna cost? An extra box of cornflakes? Damn straight. I offered

him a job. He thinks he's too good for it.

Terry, he's a stand -up guy.

Always was and always will be. He even went to jail for us. And nobody asked

to put a gun to a cop's head. And for what?

Ever since they've been on our tails.

Look, Tim and me, we go back a ways.

And it's not like I don't care.

He's one of us.

We owe him.

Here,

let me give you a hand with that. I don't need no hand!

Long time ago how to get by on my own.

Passing through, are you?

No.

Figured I'd give a straight life a whirl.

Really, Mom.

I'm home for good now.

So I think I'll go lay out in the old sofa.

I wouldn't go in there.

If there's any cobwebs, I'll take care of you.

Already taken care of.

Your old stuff is gone.

You can turn off the water now, Mom.

Hands clean.

Uh -huh.

You know,

Timbo,

we've been missing you quite a bit, boy.

In the joint, you never squelch a shot.

Yeah?

Well, I never played against myself in the joint.

Where you boys hold up?

South Street Hotel.

Enjoying the good life, are you?

Well, now things change while we's inside, Timbo.

Pack of weeds is up.

Dime won't even buy you a nickel.

Sounds like y 'all need a job.

Yeah, we got one in mind.

What with the water and power?

One with a fat payroll truck.

If we case it out real good, it's a sure deal, just like you said, Tim.

Yeah, well, a man says a lot of things behind bars.

Table's all yours, boys.

What's your problem, man?

You think you're better than us?

smarter.

Oh, now, that's pretty big talk for a boy being out of date.

Try a couple months, see how you're surviving.

My mind's all made up. I ain't going back in that joint.

You're still in the joint, Timbo. You just don't know it yet.

Whatever you say, man.

If you boys will excuse me.

I got me a couple of lonely ladies just dying for my company.

Sooner or later, you're going to come running down.

midnight man i want you all to be careful a little something going on in

the war in the jungle you never know what you'll find or what'll find you in

nam or on the street so be careful

If you're looking for trouble, you came to the right place.

If you're looking for trouble... Evening, Chappell.

Evening, Officer Jarrett.

Crawl board know you're loafing by the road?

Who's loafing?

Hey, I'm all rehabilitated.

Thinking about wearing me a tie.

You boys accepting applications?

You got yourself a real king -sized attitude, don't you?

Let me tell you something, punk.

You put a gun to my partner's head, now it's payback time.

You drive one mile over the speed limit, you so much as spit in the streets.

Yeah.

I'm coming to look for you.

The same gun's gonna be pointed your way.

The hammer's caught, boy.

It's waiting on you.

No parking, Shepard.

Never looked for trouble.

Never read.

I don't take no orders.

No kind of man.

So we're in my caddy, right?

Boyard, she's on the box.

Got my shirt off.

Boom, she spots my scar.

What scar?

This one here.

Got it in the laundry first week at the camp.

Yes, sir, then what'd she do?

Knocked her for a loop, man. Thought she'd damn near open my stitches.

So then what happened?

Alice came on the radio.

Oh, shit, man, that never happens to me.

Want more bacon, Tim?

Only if it's crispy.

Oh, yeah.

Can't sit in your duff waiting for these things to happen.

You can quote me on that, Hemingway.

Shoot, that's Steve.

I gotta go.

Buckles, get me alive if I'm late again.

Hey, man.

Don't ever let him see you sweat.

Got that?

Because when you do, he'll walk all over you.

You right, man.

What the hell, man? What's Devin Darius so long in the shower?

Supposed to meet his boss at 8 o 'clock.

He's real particular about his ankles.

Scrubs them real hard.

So what about him?

His ankles?

Your drawings. When am I going to get to see them?

As soon as you're done with that story you're writing. I mean, I'm the hero. I

figure I got me a claim.

There's still a lot of chapters left to write.

Don't be so sure, pony boy. You know what they say, man.

You could die young.

Okay.

You laugh, you die.

Careful now.

Those palm trees?

Those Mexican palm trees.

A place called Baja, California.

In a joint, man, that's all this old geezer talked about.

He said you could sit on the beach, sip pineapple drinks with an umbrella zoom.

20 grand, he said, and you could live like a king for the rest of your life.

Well, for starters, it wouldn't help if he did a job.

Okay? Chop, chop, let's move.

What do I like about you, Daryl? You're always looking out for me.

You got your fancy kid, and I got mine.

Benson, you're dropping half your ten pennies on the floor. What's the matter

about the fellow I mentioned? Martinez, I want the edge of those joints up, not

down.

So you're the con, huh?

Ex -con.

Society and me are paid up now. First time in the big house? Not if you count

Judy Hall.

Benson, you drop one more of those nails, it's coming out of your salary.

Judy Hall, huh?

That's cookies and milk next to the big house. Mr. Beto is a good man. I've

worked with him before.

You know what a lolly collar means? Pulls up an I -beam.

Anchor bolt.

Bolts down the frame.

What is this, 20 questions?

I don't know, Curtis. My sister -in -law's been on me to put her boy working

after school.

Mr. Beto, I'm more than willing to vouch for him.

Voucher?

Look, I don't need no voucher, especially from you, Curtis.

Mr. Beto?

The next time you're considering hiring an ex -con, make sure you look her in

the eye, okay?

Good work there, Benson.

Keep it up.

How'd you do on your essay?

I could have done worse.

I bet you got an A, didn't you?

A -minus. Mr. France said my paper reeked of hair tonic.

Listen, pony boy, about the other day, I felt terrible.

I forget it. That's old news.

It's just when I'm with the other kids, it's like I'm a different person.

It's the way things are.

Everybody's trying to be what they're not.

That Tim Shepard boy, he was something else, wasn't he?

Yeah, I can tell you. You bet I do.

I don't know.

He's kind of scary.

He looks at you like a wild animal.

Sometimes you gotta see past all that. The pose and all.

Tim, he's just hurt and lonely as the rest of it.

Just shows it left.

Can't fill your tank, lady, with no pumps.

Oh, no, I just, uh... Yeah, I saw your car.

See, I parked it over there. I thought maybe we could... Thought what?

I thought maybe we could... Thought maybe you could help me out with my blue

jeans?

You know, you have an incredible talent for making people feel very

uncomfortable.

Better watch that pretty little dress of yours.

Might get it all dirty.

This whole thing?

My daddy bought it for me for the Conchie Club barbecue.

Must have missed that one.

That one, he loves to show me off.

Treats me like a Barbie doll.

I saw you back there a few minutes ago.

What'd you do, quit your job?

What job?

In the diner.

Give the man his apron back?

Oh, he must have got me mixed up with someone else. I don't wear aprons.

What I mean is, if you need a job, they're looking for somebody over at the

stables.

Yeah?

Do what?

Oh, you know, clean up the stall, pick it up.

Look, maybe I'd better go.

No.

I mean, look, darling, why don't you hurry?

You came over here picking for something, right?

Got your dress all dirty.

Maybe we can smudge it up a little more than you and me.

Get your hands off.

Look, I was just trying to help.

Oh, I need help, darling.

All us greasers do.

Take us on, wash us off. It's just that easy, ain't it?

Go on. Daddy's waiting.

Mr. Beto, didn't you ever need a break? Con just won't push hard to get your

life going. I'm running a business here, kid, not a charity. Look, it was a

courtesy I even told you about, Tim. I could have hired him and you wouldn't

have known the difference. Curtis, I was taking a chance when I hired you. Are

you not satisfied with the work I'm doing? Can I say that? I am not saying

I bid you low.

I give you quality work on schedule as contract. And you're doing a great job.

Just don't rock the boat.

If that's all, I've got to get going, okay? Mr. Beto, before I was asking for

favor. Now I'm telling you what I've got to have.

Curtis, what's this shepherd kid got on you anyway?

He's my friend.

And what I owe him is my affair.

Something wrong with Soda Pop?

Yeah, something's wrong.

My paycheck's wrong.

Not the way I see it.

You and Steve were late last week.

What, all of the lousy 40 minutes?

Well, that doesn't include the lousy hour you spent on Tim Shepard's car.

Look, come on, we'll make it up next week.

Fuck. The man just got out a couple days ago. He needs his wheels.

Oh, maybe he does, but not on my time.

Your time?

Since when do you own a clock?

Kid, would you take a gander at that piece of paper you're holding in your

That's my John Henry on there.

Look, come tomorrow, we'll be in here ten minutes early, okay?

Now, come on. Speak for yourself.

The way I see it, this man here owes me $8 .70.

Now, either I get what's coming to me, or...

So I'm begging and pleading, right? Then out of nowhere, Beto gives in. He says,

Tim starts the day after tomorrow. I couldn't believe my ears.

Man, I wish I'd seen that. Well, I'm glad you didn't. It ain't a pretty sight

seeing a grown man scraping his knees.

You got that peanut butter coupon?

Danny, I think it's true what Tim says.

It's canned beans, not peanut butter.

You mean about Mexico being a paradise and all?

Kid, for us, paradise is right here in these coupons.

Yeah, but umbrellas and pineapples.

Can't arrest a man for dreaming.

Dreaming? Yeah, I remember doing that once.

Hey, it's after nine.

Don't you know to call when you're going to be late?

Don't you start on me now, Darry.

I'm not in the mood.

Why? What happened?

What happened?

I quit my job. That's what happened.

Like Tim says, give them an inch.

They want to walk all alone.

Hey, Tim!

Are you going to marry him? You got to bring him up here and set him on the

roof. Yes, sir, Mr. Boss, sir, ma 'am.

What the hell are you doing here?

Picking up some money for Tim.

For what?

For souping up his caddy.

I thought you had an interview down at the Dairy Queen.

So what?

So what?

How are you going to get a job full of grease?

Get off my back, diary.

It's only chump change anyway.

Hey, that bed has been on my back for two days.

If you keep it up, it's going to burn a hole in it.

Buck tells me you've been playing pool with a couple of hard dogs.

Yeah, well, I'm a friendly kind of guy.

Buck pegs them for prison scum.

You mean like me?

Pipe fitters out of the joint.

Still can display their talents is all.

I just bet they are.

You're going to be losing faith in me now, won't you, Derry?

You going to get these shingles out of my carpenter's way or am I going to plow

them over?

Ma 'am, will you listen to that windbag?

Two cents. You just what?

Quit your job like my brother?

I knew it.

I saw this coming a mile away.

But all I know is Soda Sullen giving me all this lip.

You saying that's my doing? You did your royalty, man. Like everybody owes you.

Cadets, come on!

Not everybody, Derry.

Just some.

I'm serious, Sherry.

I mean, it's more than just your cheerleading splits.

You know what it is?

No, but I'm sure you're going to tell me.

It's the way you walk.

You know, your head held up high, your hair blowing in the wind.

You know, the way you sashay.

I tell you, it makes God feel proud to stand next to you.

Believe me, I don't say that to too many girls.

true, I don't.

Would you excuse me?

Yeah, sure.

You can't

come in

here. Well, I was worried about you.

I figured you might have overdosed on all that mush.

I was thinking about what you said just now.

judge and all.

A lot of people not being able to see past the outside.

That's a tough way to get by.

Well, life's a drag, ain't it?

What do you say we dish in?

Come again?

We can scoot out the back door and nobody be the wiser.

Oh, I see. Just drop great like you never existed.

You can't stand him.

Like fudge. You don't know that.

This is ridiculous.

I'm not going to discuss my feelings in a public bathroom.

The door's right there.

Must have forgotten my reading glasses.

Get out of here.

Now!

Uh -oh.

Not that way, boy.

You use the back door.

So, do you wait?

I think you ought to go back to Bucks.

No way.

Come on, man. Just tell him you're sorry.

About what?

It's his doing, not mine.

Yeah, but... Terry says we all have to do a little bit of heat and curl.

Yeah.

Terry would know a lot about that.

I mean, what has it got him?

Nothing but a big dead end.

Come on, man. It's not so bad.

Maybe not for you, pony.

You got a gift.

You're a writer.

What do I got?

Nothing.

Just another greaser going nowhere.

You don't mean that, man.

Tell me you don't mean that or I'll go to sleep.

Go to sleep, pony boy.

Go to sleep.

So, Ma, like I'm telling you, they think I'm this top -notch roofer. I mean,

Derry really loves my work.

Give me that pillowcase.

And my boss, he's this real great guy. He's even talking about making me

Uh -huh.

You know what else, Mom?

She's a great girl I haven't seen.

Social girl, real high society.

Even threw over her fancy boyfriend for me, too.

Shoot. I need change. Well, good damn.

What's this?

It's a birthday present.

That was three months back.

Well, it's a little indisposed.

That's the money I earned, Mama.

A week's worth.

It's clean.

I don't want your money.

But I earned it. It's for you. What do you think? You could come back here and

buy me off.

Mama, you got the wrong idea. I'm not trying to buy you off.

Daddy, you go tomcat and monson and come back here, tail between his legs, a

bottle of cheap perfume in his hand.

I'll wrap it for you. I'll put it in your sewing box. Thinking I'm some kind

$2 slut he could buy off? It'll be there for you when you need it, Ma. Much as

he cared.

Much as he ever cared.

Ma, you gotta take this money. It's for you. I earned it. Get out and take your

dirty money with you.

You're no damn good.

You never was.

You're just like your father.

My wallet's gone.

Are you sure?

No, I'm kidding.

Yeah, I'm sure.

You know, while I was up on top, you were the only one down here.

Something on your mind, friend. Spit it out.

All right.

I've been here two weeks. I don't have to worry about where my wallet is. You

show up, and suddenly it's missing. What's the problem? There's no problem.

a little misunderstanding.

So you say.

I say it's stolen.

And the only one near it was this ex -con.

So what?

Want to check my pockets? Is that it?

Huh?

How about you, Mr. Beto, huh?

You got a big bug up your butt!

Want to look at my car? Is that it?

Can you believe this, man?

No!

I'm sick of being blamed for things I didn't do!

I stand accused here, right?

Don't I?

Mr. Beto here thinks that I'm guilty.

Don't you, Mr. Beto?

I don't need this.

I don't need any of it.

That's it. I'm calling the cops.

Hold up!

Strong.

This is?

When do we move?

I didn't see your mom around.

I know. Why do you think I'm here?

Boy, this cat sure has turned some heads in its time, huh?

Yeah, I guess that's where I'm going. Where might that be?

I heard about the work down Sugar Shade Way.

Going alone?

Or with your pipe fitter buddies?

Well, I figured me and the boys knock over a couple dozen armored trucks,

rob a bank or two.

Listen, Tim, about the wallet.

They catch that vicious pickpocket?

Where is he now? Death row? They found it after you left. The job's still there

if you want it.

Yeah? Well, I don't.

So maybe some of this has been my doing. I saw the way my brothers looked up to

you. So does hanging on every word you say.

It's that fault of taste.

What I'm trying to say is maybe I'm a little jealous, okay?

Well, your worries are over, pal.

Because as of tomorrow, I'm history.

Oh, you think Randolph's going to change things?

What do you get off lecturing me, Curtis?

Seems to me I remember a time running off looked pretty damn good to you. Oh,

come on, man. That was years ago.

Oh, was it now?

I remember it like it was yesterday.

We were 15.

Enjoyed riding that borrowed car. You cracked it up and started running.

You had a sheet.

You said, why should I take the fall, huh?

Well, I was wrong.

I've been taking that fall ever since, Curtis.

You're never going to let me forget it, huh?

Ain't nothing to forget.

Right there, behind your eyes.

Say what?

Wherever you're going, let me tag along.

And what do you got, rocks in your head? No, man, I won't be a problem, honest.

Forget it, man.

You need a guy like me looking after you, Tim.

A guy like you, man, you can't even take care of yourself.

Quit a good job over at Buck's for chicken feed.

Yeah, but you said, Tim, that... Forget what I said, man.

What your brother says.

What Darius says, man. That's what goes.

Darius is living a sucker's world.

And you know it. Man, don't ever talk down to your family. You hear me?

Never!

Because that's all you got, man.

I want you to go back to Bucks.

And I want you to say you're sorry.

And I want you to get your old job back.

And I want you to work your ass off.

Okay?

Because if I hear different...

I swear to God I'll come back here and personally whip the tar out of you.

Is that clear?

Runs like a jewel, man.

There's a lot of pumps.

Oh, God.

It's a little short of help. Yeah.

Is it my

imagination

or are those glasses you're wearing?

Well, we're facing a big crowd tonight.

Those boys want to see what they're drinking.

And what boys might that be?

Power plant boys.

It's their bonus day.

Well, every year this time they get an extra week to pay.

What's their first, huh? Yeah, my deal, too.

Best part's the armored truck.

What armored truck?

Well, it goes right out to the plant, pays them in cash.

That's how come they come in so flushed.

What time's that armored truck pull in?

Beats me.

Three, five, six, when? Oh, I don't know. Within an hour, I guess.

What's the big hoo -ha, Derry?

Hey, Darren.

Your brother didn't pay for his beer.

He can have my next paycheck.

Now what? I've been out here studying your prison power.

Man, you must have been a son too long.

Y 'all got a date up at the power plant, right? With an armored truck. Just like

you told me, right to my face. You better get that truck on.

Get out of here, man.

Aren't you?

It's none of your damn business.

Son of a bitch coming to my house, joking with my brothers, all that time

scheming and waiting for the big score.

You put my family at a risk.

You got it wrong, man.

Tell that to Soda.

He thinks you're some type of hero.

I tried, man.

From day one, I tried.

I went to Matthew, the shepherd. I even got down on my knees to bed him.

What you did, you did on your own, man.

You owe me, Derry.

I owe you nothing, Jack.

No more.

That's it.

owe me, Derry.

You'll always owe me, man.

Shut it down, Shepard.

I always heard.

Hey, Shepard.

Never believed it till now.

You're going back to the slammer, Shepard.

Back where you belong.

Now turn around.

Turn around.

You're in the list, Shepard.

Republic rolling.

Got it?

You got it?

Just like you always said, Jerry, patience is a virtue.

Tim being on parole and all, Judge Malden gave him two choices.

Get a job or go back to jail.

He got a job, all right.

Had the same power plant he was going to rob.

Maybe a heat wave isn't so bad after all.

It pushes people to their limit.

Some for better, and some for worse.

For the better, it's just a freak of nature.

For the worse, it's only more of the same.