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(SCHOOL BELL RINGS)

(LOCKER DOOR OPENING)

(TELEPHONE RINGING)

Brendan?

Emily?

Yeah.

How's things?

Status quo.

Yeah?
Mmm-hmm.

That's good.

(EMILY SIGHING)

What's going on, Em?

You know,
it's good to see you, Brendan.

It's been some time.

Two months.

Yeah, I didn't even know your
locker. I had to ask Brain.

Em,
why don't we meet somewhere?

I can't.

Why not?

I screwed up real bad,
you know.

I really screwed up.

Screwed up how?

Look, I did what she said
with the brick.
I didn't know it was bad,

but The Pin's on it now
for poor Frisco, and they're
playing it all on me.

Slow down, now. What?

You gotta help me, Brendan.
Please.

I think Tug... Oh, no!

Brain!

Brendan, it's been awhile.

Where you been eating?
Back of school.

Yeah, no one's seen you.

What's it been,
a couple of months?
It's been awhile.

You gave Emily
my locker number?

Few days ago, was I wrong?
No.

You know, it's been so long
I don't know your two's stats.

Yeah, it's been awhile.
Who's she been eating with?

I don't know,
that's hard to keep track.

Is it?

Can be. Can be hard
to keep track of those things,

because lunch is...
Lunch is a lot of things.
Lunch is difficult.

Uh-huh.

She hadrt been doing
too good, Brendan.

Yeah, well, I'm not looking
for a patch up.

Em's life is her own,
but she asked for my help.

Help with what?
I don't know.

I don't even care. It's not my
business. I just want
to know she's okay.

So I gotta find her.
That's all this is.

Well, I know
she's been poking in

with the Ivy-bound
cheerleading elite,
Laura Dannors crowd.

Laura Dannon
there on the Linc'?

And Brad Bramish.

Cream on the upper-crust.

Anyway, Em tagged after them
for a bit,
but it didn't work out.

She picked her way down
the food chain.

Last I saw, she was with
what's her name,
the drama vamp.

Small-time dealer, the evil
one, the one you dated.

Kara.
That's my bus.

You know her locker number?
Kara's?

Em's.
269.

Thanks, Brain.

Keep your specs on.
Find me if she shows.

Will do.

Hello, Kara.

Hello, Brendan.
Kara.

Come to see the show?
No, I didn't.

Lapdog, blow.
Stay.

I need words.
Well, I'm listening.

About Emily Kostich.

Run and get my purse.
Go on, hurry up.

Still picking your teeth
with freshmen?
Well, you were
a freshmen once.

Way-once, sister.

You and Em tight for a bit.
Who's she eating with now?

Eating with?
Eating with. Lunch. Who?

You're a cutie.

Brendan.

I don't know where she is.

I know you do, so why don't
you want me to find out?

Well, maybe
I'm looking out for you.

Oh, I appreciate that.

Brendan.

If you're ever looking
to get back into things,

I could use you.

Okay. So...
Go. Say your line. Okay.

Go.
So I just...

No, he's got to come in first,
and then you can say
your line.

WOMAN: Hello?

Yes, hello, ma'am, this is
Tom. I'm a friend from school.

Could I speak to...

Oh, sure, Tom.
Laura's here. Just a sec.

LAURA: Yes?

I'm calling for details.
For what?

Details about the party.
Who is this?

Or I'll hang up.
You don't know me.
I'll save you some time.

I know everyone, and I have
all the time in the world.

Folly of youth.

Ask whose invitation I've got.

What you said...
Emily Kostich.

15 Busch Street, in Stockton
Cove. Buzz 42 at the gate.

9:00. But who gave you...

"The sun, whose rays
Are all ablaze

"With ever-living glory,

"Does not deny
His majesty

"He scorns to tell a story!

"He don't exclaim,

"'I blush for shame
So kindly be indulgent.'

"But, fierce and bold,

"In fiery gold
His glories all effulgent!

"I mean to rule the earth
As he the sky

"We really know our won'th
The sun and I!"

(PEOPLE APPLAUDING)

And the stupid coach,
the coach won't let me play.

So, cheers.

Beautiful. I mean,
I am Brad Bramish, Coach.

You gotta let me play.

How am I supposed to put in
my best game

if I'm worried about whether
or not I'm gonna be in there?

Hey.

Hey!

What are you doing here?
Leaving.

Oh, yeah?

Brad's not the kind of guy
you wanna mess with.

Fearless flyer.

Quit your yapping
and fix me one.

I'll never get through
all this.

Uh-huh.

So why are you here tonight?
I'm looking for Emily.

Em's been AWOL for a good
month. Nobody's seen her.

I saw her yesterday.

Nearly nobody.

Listen, you're scratching
at the wrong door.

I didn't know Em well enough
to know the details
of what she was in.

I just got wind
of the downfall.

If you haven't got a finger
in Em's troubles,
then why did her name

get me into your
rather exclusive party?

Keep up with me now.
I don't know,
but it sounded like you did.

And a body's got a right
to be curious.

Now I'm not so sure.
Well, put that body to bed.

I don't know a damn thing
about whatever troubles
and that works for me.

I just want to find her.

Coffee and Pie.

Coffee and Pie, Oh My?

And you didn't hear it
from me.

GIRL: It's Tugger.
LAURA: All right.

Will you wait here for me?
Sure.

You'll sit right here
and wait?
I'll just be five minutes.

Yes.
Okay.

TUGGER: Why don't you
say something?

LAURA: I will not talk
about this.

We'll talk about this
right now!
I won't!

I'll talk about this now!

(PIPE PLAYING)

Where's Dode?

Hey, Brendan,
maybe you shouldn't be here.

Kara told me
you know where Em's at.

And why you looking for Em?

She asked for my help.

Well, listen, man, I got
plenty on my plate without
dealing with some jilted ex.

It's not about that.

Well, whatever it's about,
act smarter than you look
and drop it.

Where's she at?

You better get
while it's good.

Heel it now, dig?

Throw one at me if you want,
hash-head. I got all five
senses and I slept last night.

That puts me six-up
on the lot of you.

Just easy, bro.

(SCREAMING)

Where's Em?

DODE: All right! All right!
All right!

Where's Em?

She's with me.

She was tight when she called
you, man. Came to me freaked.

Told me to shake you
if you came by.

Said you'd only
make things worse.

Deal with whatever
this ain't about and drop it.

Tell Em I wanna see her.

Tell her if she wants my help
or not, it's her business.

But I want to hear it
straight from her.
She don't want...

Today! She knows
where I eat lunch.

And stay out, man!

I must've sounded pretty crazy
on the phone yesterday.

You just gotta
forget about it.

That's how you can
help me out, is just,

please, forget about it.

Brendan,

I know that you're mad
at all these people,

because you think I went away
from you and went to them.

But you got to start seeing it
as my decision.

You know, stop getting angry
just because where
I wanna be at

is different from
where you wanna be at, okay?

Who fed you that line, Em?

Stop picking on Dode. Okay?
He's a good guy.

The Pie House rat?

He's a good friend.

So what am I?

Yeah, I mean, what are you?

Eating back here,
hating everybody.

I mean,
who are you judging anyone?

God I...
I really loved you a lot.

I couldn't stand it.

I had to get with people.
I couldn't handle life
with you, anymore.

(SOBBING)

I'm sorry, Brendan. I'm sorry.

You gotta come back to me, Em.
No!

You're in a spot
but I can get you out of it,
if you just come back to me.

No, you're not hearing me!
I don't wanna be put away

and protected.
Whatever befalls you,
I'll deal with.

No.

Just tell me about the trouble
with the brick, The Pin.

What?
Are you gonna fix things,
like you did with Jerr?

No. Okay?

I came here to say goodbye.
Okay? For good.

Whatever you have to do
to let me go, you gotta do it.

You gotta promise me, though,
okay? You have to.

That you're not... You're not
gonna torture yourself.

Please.

That you're...
You're just gonna let me go.

Just let me go.

BRAIN: Do you know
anything else about this?
BRENDAN: No.

Slim pickings.

Why did you let Dode fly
when he went back to,

who's her name,
at the theater?
Kara.

It's their turf. I couldn't
hear them without being seen,

and that would only
biff their play.

Best to know that it's there,
let it ride and see
what comes of it.

Anyway.
Well, if this is
what I think it is,

it didn't come straight
from Dode, unless he's playing
out of his league.

I can only give you
my best guess.
Yeah.

When the upper crust
does shady deeds,

they do them in different
places around town.

One of them is by the pier,
another one is by
the bike trails in State Park.

I mean, there's a lot of them.

And the pitch is, they've got
little symbols for each one.

So they can tell each other
the place without word
getting around.

This might be that.
But Dode wouldn't know it?

No, this is the upper crust.
Dode's pie-pan grease.

Call anything up?

How many places
start with "A"?

Or if it's a shape,
could be just a random symbol.

Even if you figure it out,
what good would you do?

You said her business
was none of yours.

So she's all right.

Forget it now, go home. Sleep.

(FOOTSTEPS POUNDING)

Brendan, you're up early.
Couldrt sleep.

Find Emily?

You all right?

Yeah.
What are you here for, zero?

Forced into taking
the early bus. The others
don't run by my street.

So what's the word with Em?

She's gone.
Can't raise her?

No, I can't.

So what now?

Now, I don't know. I guess...

I don't know.

I can't let her go, Brain.

I was set to, but I can't.
I don't think I can.

Do you think you can help her?

No.

You think you can get
the straight, maybe break
some deserving teeth?

Yeah, I think I could.

Well...

Tell me to walk from this,
Brain.

Tell me to drop it.
Walk from it. Drop it.

But you're thick, Brendan.

Yes, I am.

I need you to op.

Like on Jerr, but that was
cake to this, and unlike Jerr,

there's not much chance
of coming out clean.

24l7 on this one.

You okay to op for me again?

So what first, tip the bulls?
No.

Bulls would gum it.

They'd flash their dusty
standards at the wide-eyes,

probably find some yegg
to pin, probably
even the right one.

But they'd trample
the real tracks
and scare the real players

back into their holes.

If we're doing this,
I want the whole story.
No cops, not for a bit.

So what's first?

I don't know.

Your mom still have that cell?
In her car.

Can I borrow it for
a few days? Get me the number?

Yeah.
Wait for my word.

And cover for me first.

I'm gonna be a little late.

BRENDAN: Stop it.
EMILY: What did you do,
Brendan?

Are you crying for
him? You're crying for Jerr?

Trueman went straight
for him. He knew the lay!

You ratted on Jerr!
Stop it now, Em!

What, you telling me
it isn't true? Look at me!

You ratted him out,
because you were jealous!

No, I spun on him and
I bulled the two-bit toker,

'cause I know what his world
would do to you!

I love you too much
to see that!

You don't love me,
you just wanna keep me!

You're the only thing
I love!

You're the only thing I love!

And this is how I do it.

I wanna keep you safe.

You can't keep me safe,
Brendan, all right?

I'm in a different world now.

And you can't keep me out
of it, and you can't beat it.

Not if I don't want you to.

Here's the cell number. Yeah.
Keep it on vibrate.

Better stop meeting me
in the open, too.

I'm gonna start getting
visible. I need you
on the underneath.

I'll call.
Trueman, the Ass.
VP, wants words.

I'll bet he does.
Keep him off me.

Stonewall him, he won't bite.
Just keep him away from me.

I'll try. So what's first?
Make Em's troubles mine.

Emily said four words I didn't
know. Tell me if they catch.

Brick.
No.

Or bad brick.
No.

Tug?
Tug.

Tug, might be a drink.

Like milk and vodka,
or something.

Poor Frisco.
Frisco.

Frisco Farr was
a sophomore last year.

Real trash.
Maybe hit a class a week.

Didrt know him then
and haven't seen him around.

Pin.
Pin.

The Pin?
The Pin, yeah?

The Pin's kind of
a local spook story.
You know the kingpin.

I've heard it.
Same thing.

Supposed to be old,
like 26. Lives in town.

Dope runner, right?
Big time.

See, The Pin pipes it from
the lowest scraper
to Brad Bramish himself.

Maybe. I mean, ask any
dope rat where the junk
sprang, and they'll say

they scraped it off that,
who scored it off this,
who bought it off someone.

After four or five
connections, the list
always end with The Pin.

But I bet you, you got every
rat in town together
and said show your hands

if any of them have actually
seen The Pin, and you'd get
a crowd of full pockets.

You think The Pin's just
a tale to take whatever heat?

But what's first?

A show of hands.

Hello, Brendan,
are you here for the show?
No.

Well, then,
could you go then, honey?
'Cause I have this headache.

Try smoking like a chimney.
I've heard that helps.

Hey, isn't this Dode's brand?

You don't know Dode's brand.
I do now.

I'm gonna start shaking
things up.

Give me the story,
you might miss the bite.

The story about what?
All right.

The story about what?

I don't want to play games
if you've got a headache.

Get me
if you want to spill it,

but I can't guarantee
safe passage after tonight.

I don't know...
Tell The Pin

that Brad was my calling card,
and I need words.

Brad Bramish?

(BELL RINGING)

Tail Kara at lunch.
She's got rehearsal,
but she'll blow early.

She goes home, drop her,
or else wait for my call.

Will do.

I mean, am I crazy, huh?

I mean, this is all
I am trying to say here!

Okay, if you put me
in the game,

Brad Bramish is gonna do
what needs to be done, baby.

Okay?
But they don't put me in!

What needs doing,
ain't gonna get done!

Huh? And then
don't come crying to me.

Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo! If you don't
put me in the game!

Now, am I right?
Of course I'm right!

And don't come to me
if you don't let me play!

BIFF: Didrt.
BRAD: Shut up!

Hey!

What are you doing here?
Just listening.

All right, you got me.
I'm a scout for the Gophers.

Been watching your game
for a month, but that story
right there, just clenched it.

You got heart, kid. How soon
can you be in Minneapolis?

Yeah?

Cold winters, but they got
a great public transit system.

Yeah?
Yeah.

Oh, yeah?

There's a thesaurus in the
library. "Yeah" is under "Y."

Go ahead, I'll wait.
You know, who invited you?

To the parking lot?

Gee, I guess I invited myself.

Maybe you wanna
go somewhere more private.

With you? Sure.

If this boy knows what's good
for him, he'll just beat it.

Whooping this small fry's butt
ain't gonna help me none.

Sure ain't gonna help him,
neither.

(BRAD GRUNTING)

MAN: Come on, Brad!

Hey, was there a fight?
Yeah.

You're quite a pill.

Uh-huh.

Where are you going?
Home.

Why did you take
a powder the other night?

Same reason
I'm taking one now.
Hold it!

I wanna help you.
Go away.

Look, I can't trust you.
You ought to be smart enough
to know that.

I didn't shake up the party
to get your attention,

and I'm not heeling
you to hook you.

Your connections
could help me,
but the bad baggage they bring

could make it zero sum gain
or even hurt me.

Better off coming at it clean.

I wouldn't have
to lead you in by the...

I can't trust you.

Brad was a sap, you werert.

You're with him,
so you're playing him.

So you're a player.

With you behind me,
I'd have to tie one eye up,

watching both of your hands.
I can't spare it.

You're not Brad.
No, I'm not.

BRAIN: You didn't call.
Sorry. Kara went home though,
didn't she?

Yeah, but she stopped
at a payphone

and made two calls
that she didn't want
on her phone bill.

Get the numbers?
No. Sorry.

It's all right.
Me and Brad front-page news?

All the buzz.
You really do that?
Yeah.

Why? Is Brad The Pin?
Brad is a sap.

I downed him on his field,
and his crew didn't bite.

So now I know he's a sap,
and anyone who acts like
he isn't is profiting by it.

That's not why I roughed him,
though.

For kicks?
Economics.

Brad's the school's biggest
jake buyer,

so if this Pin is behind
all the selling,
I just got his attention.

Anyway, now we've shaken
the tree, let's wait and see
what falls on our heads.

Will do.

TRUEMAN: So you didn't know
this boy?

BRENDAN: No sir, never
seen him.
TRUEMAN: And he just hit you?

Like I said, he asked
for my lunch money first.

Good thing I brown-bagged it.

Okay, Brendan, I've been
looking to talk to you.

And you've helped
this office out before.

No, I gave you Jerr to see
him eaten, not to see you fed.

Fine.

Very well put.

Accelerated English.
Mrs. Kasprzyk.

Tough teacher.
Tough, but fair.

Okay, we know you're clean.

And you've...

Despite your motives,
you've always been
an asset to this office.

And you're a good kid.

I want to run some names
past you.

Hold it, we're not done here.
I was done here
three months ago.

I told you then I'd give
you Jerr, and that was that.

I'm not your inside line,
and I'm not your boy.

That's not very...
You know what I'm in

if the wrong yegg
saw me pulled in here?

What are you in?
No.

And no more of these informal
chats, either. You got
a discipline issue with me,

write me up or suspend me,

and I'll see you
at the parent conference.
Hold on!

I could write you up
for talking back to a VP

and for looking at me
in that threatening way.

I would exercise
a little tact, Mr. Frye.

You can't pull a stunt
like that unless there's
something I need you for.

So is there?
Maybe.

Maybe.

Maybe there's something
you need from me.

Maybe.

All right, I need you
off my back completely
for the next few weeks.

There might be some heat soon.

If it's something
I can't cover,
I won't go to bat for you.

If I get caught like that,
it's curtains anyway.

I can't have brass
cutting me favors in public.

I'm just letting you know now,

so you don't come kicking in
my homeroom door
once trouble starts.

Okay. Okay,
here's what I can do.

I won't pin you for anything
you aren't caught at.

But if anything comes up
with your prints on it,
I can't help you.

Also, if I get to the bottom
of whatever this is,

and it gets too hot,
and you don't deliver,

VP's gonna need someone
to turn over, police-wise.

And I'll have you.

So there better be some meat
at the end of this,
like you say.

Or at least a fall guy.

Or you're it.

BRAIN: Nope, Dode is MIA.

BRENDAN: I'm 9 of 10
that Kara's got him,
but who knows where.

I shook,
but she's not spilling.

No more job offers,
so she's gotta play.

And I know enough about Kara
to let that worry me.

All right, keep your specs on
for him. Any other news?

Some. Laura Dannon came to me,
looking for you.

She did, huh?
Fourth period.

Nearly shook me upside down.

Can't say I didn't enjoy it.
But why'd she come to me?

She's tapping Kara,
and Kara knows you know me.

Yeah, well,
she's some piece of work.

If I had known where you were,
I might have told her.

That's the spirit.

Ask around for Dode.
Tail Kara again at lunch.

I got knives in my eyes.
I'm going home sick.

I'll call you tonight.
All right.

I wanna see The Pin.

I wanna see The Pin.

I guess you do.

(CLANGING)

You The Pin?

Yeah.

So now I'm very, very curious
what you're gonna say next.

Maybe I'll just sit here
and bleed at you.

Helled,
if you're gonna go breaking
my best clients' noses

and expect me to play sandbag.

Anyway, you've been
sniffing me out before then.

Sniffing for me
like a vampire bat

for a horse with a nick on
its ear that he can suck on.

They do that.

So now you got Tugger
to bring you in,

which he never does.

And you got me listening.

So I'm very curious

what you have to say that
better be really, really good.

Why don't you call Ms. Dannon
in from the hall first?
She ought to hear this.

No dice, soldier.

Would've been a neat trick,
though.

I was just gonna come up
with some bit of information

or set up some phony deal,
anything. She'd let me walk.

Then I was gonna go to
the Vice Principal and spill
him the street address

of the biggest dope
port in the burgh.

He knows zippo.

1250 Vista Blanca,
the ink blotter on the desk,
in the den,

in the basement of the house
with the tacky mailbox.

You gonna do what now?

No good, soldier.

All right, Tugger, enough.

Tug!

LAURA: Tug, stop!

My glasses?

The hell with you then.
Which wall is the door in?

PIN: Sorry about this, kid.

But what the hell
with what you said before?

Where you were at, with all
of us and Tug a fist away.

You gotta use your nut.

Allay the situation.

So, yeah,
you're not scared of me.

I got it.

But I'm also thinking
you're a little nuts, now.

So you've got that tradeoff
with your situation.

But nuts isn't all bad,

so maybe it was a good play.

I don't know.

So Laura talked me down.

Why don't we take
you upstairs,
back with the living?

I thought we had orange juice,
Brendan. I'm sorry.

How about some Tang?

No, that's more like soda,
isn't it?
Water's fine, ma'am. Thanks.

Wait a minute,
we have apple juice here,
if you'd like that.

Or we've got milk,
but you're having that
on your corn flakes.

BRENDAN: Apple juice
sounds terrific.

It's country style.

That's perfect.

And I'll even give it to you
in a little country glass.

How about that?

Boys?
I'm fine, Mrs. M.

Thanks, Mom.

Okay, well,

I'm gonna go do something
in the other room.

So how abouts we take another
snap at hearing your tale?

I don't know. It starts out
same as before. I mean,
this floor ain't carpeted.

We're cooled off.

Your muscle seemed pretty cool
putting his fist in my head.

I want him out.

Looky, soldier...
The ape blows or I clam.

So clam!

What've you got
I can't beat out of you
back in the basement?

Give us a few minutes, Tug.

I'll call you if whatever.

So?

About a year ago,
I had a small-time dealing
partnership with Jerr Madison.

Know him?
Till he took the fall for you.

Yeah, well.

I didn't ask him to,
but he was a straight player,

and I got out clean, almost.

Nothing on my official record,
but the VPs play it
like I owe them one.

When I made it clear
I wasrt gonna be playing
their hound dog,

well, they didn't like it.

They keep badgering me,
calling me in.

Gee, that's tough.
I don't like being told
whose side I'm on.

So now they think
I'm on your trail.

I'm in a nice spot
to know their movements,

feed them yours.

I got you.
You haven't got me, yet.

What? Price?

Considering the benefits
my services could yield,

I don't think
that's unreasonable.

And what are your services
exactly?

So I can be specific
on the invoice.

Whatever serves
your interests.

Fair enough.

I'll have my boys
check your tale,

and seeing how it stretches,
we'll either rub or hire you.

You'll know which by the end
of the day tomorrow.

We're done.

I'll drive you back.

Just drop me at school.

How long was I out?
Half an hour.

It took all of it for me
to cool The Pin down.

Thanks.

You trust me now?

Less now than when
I didn't trust you before.

Maybe if you can tell me
your angle in all this,
I could.

Emily tried to get with Brad
and I about three months ago.

Three months ago.
And you stonewalled her.

Oh, all right.
If you've already got
the world's address...

Three months ago.

And I liked her, but she
wasrt us and it didn't work.

And when she left, she took
some souvenirs with her.

Dirty habits she wasrt
strong enough to control

and a connection to The Pin
to keep them going.

A few months pass,
and the next I hear,

The Pin's raging over
a certain situation with
the junk Em's partial to.

And it's all coming
down on her head.

You're saying Em scraped
the junk off The Pin?

I don't care how hard she was
hooked, I don't buy that.

You werert there. She wasrt
herself. It had dug deep.

It was awful.

And whether she scraped
or copped

or just ran her tab around the
world and into her own back,

it must've been grand.

I've never seen
The Pin so hot.

And when he thought
his precious, his bricks
of whatever it was,

when one of them was missing,

he scared me.

Why are you telling me
all this? What's your play?

You think nobody sees you.

Eating lunch
behind the portables.

Loving some girl
like she's all there is,
anywhere, to you.

I always seen you.

Or maybe I liked Emily.

Maybe I see what
you're trying to do for her,

trying to help her,

and I don't know anybody
who would do that for me.

Now you are dangerous.

Devlin, should
I actually kiss her here?
No, no.

Move on to the next scene.

Brendan. Brendan. Brendan.

Where's Dode flopped?

I know you two are cozed up,
so you tell me or you won't.

Now, last time I checked,

you were giving me ultimatums.

It worked. You went
to Laura, told her my tale.

Part of the plan?
Turned out to be.

I just feel so cheap and used.

Gol, I must seem a real cad.
Sometimes I just hate myself.

Whatever happened to us,
Brendan?
Where's Dode flopped?

We used to be
a pair and a half.

Sometimes I miss
having someone to talk to.

Do you ever miss
having someone to talk to?

Oh, yeah.

You must.

I need to hear Dode's tale
about Emily. It's important.

Well, you better be sure
you wanna know
what you wanna know.

Laura's working with me now,
and I'll have The Pin
and Tug in my corner soon.

The sooner I get the truth
from Dode, or the truth
about Dode from you,

the safer you'll both be.

No?

Pass it on to Dode, anyway.

Maybe he'll have the sense
to get out from under you
before he gets hurt.

You didn't.

Did you?

BRAIN: So Dode and Kara
are shacked up,
but what's their play?

BRENDAN: I don't know,
Dode passed Emily the note.
He knows something.

Now Kara's got him under
her thumb, she's gonna use
him somehow.

But I don't know
and I don't know.

So all we can do is wait
until she shows some cards.

Anyway, tomorrow we see
if The Pin hires me
or breaks my knees.

I give us 70-30. And if we're
in, I get under his skin
and see what's what.

You stick to Kara. Keep your
specs peeled for Dode.

And stay away from Laura.

I think she's with us,
Brendan.

I'll let you know when she is.

Okay.

(BELL RINGING)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

You the Pin's?

What's his answer?

(GIRLS CHANTING)

BRENDAN: Chuck Burns.
Long-haired lug,
deals, shines a blade.

BRAIN: I know him.
I just can't pin him
to any crowd.

He's definitely not
muscle for anyone.

He taps the Carrows crowd,
but doesn't hang with them.

I mean, if you've got a guess,
I could check it out.

Pin. If he's with The Pin
everything's kablooie,
and I gotta blow the burgh.

(HORN HONKING)
I'll check it.
I'm in third now.

Never mind.

If I don't call by 3:00,
call in the bulls.

So?

So.

That's what you'll get
every week for your services.

Unless, of course, there's
some specific job,

in which you'll
get sliced in with my crew.

Square?
Yeah.

We're doing a thing tonight
down at the Hole.

Know it?

South of T Street. Yeah.

It's a little
welcome-you-in thing.

6:00.

(TELEPHONE RINGING)

DODE: I know what you did.
I was in the tunnel.

I saw you hide her.

Dode.

Anyone I tell,
it would ruin you some way.

And I'm gonna tell someone.

Are you making an offer?
Maybe.

Or maybe I'll just do you in.

Hire another hash head
to blade me?

Don't need no blades, shamus.

I just gotta squawk.
What do you want?

Just to see you sweat.

BRAIN: Brendan?
Brain.

Are you all right?

So I'm gonna start you
on the dope circles.

Anyway, there's not
much else doing.

I'm tailing out this big deal,
but it's almost done.

Oh, yeah, what was it?

It was big time.
Biggest I ever done.

And there was a snag in it,
but it's almost done now.

What was it?

You're going to make
me curious, being so curious.

I want to lay something out.

You're coming into
a certain situation,

and I'm sort of bringing
you in because of it.

I didn't tell Tug to hit you
for the Brad Bramish thing.

He got hot
and he just hit you.

He's been doing that.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Muscle you can't control's
no good at that.

You're working for me,
not for Tug. That's all.

All right.

It's tough sometimes.

It's twisted.

Complicated. I don't know.

Everyone's got their thing.

You read Tolkien?
What?

You know, The Hobbit books.

Yeah.

His descriptions
of things are really good.

(COUGHING)

Oh, yeah.

He makes you want to be there.

(TRAIN HORN BLOWING)

(TELEPHONE RINGING)

(BRENDAN GRUNTING)

BRAIN: Don't go to class.
BRENDAN: What?

Fifth period, Trueman
and the VP come in,
asking for you.

Did they call your mom?

Probably, I got in late.

Get out of there, too, then.

Meet me behind the library.
I've got some stuff.

BRAIN: Frisco Farr was found
on a sidewalk,

three weeks ago,
outside of Pinkertors Deli.

He was in a coma.

His stomach contained
a sausage sandwich,

a horse dose of heroin

and traces
of choleric tricemate,

which is a poisonous chemical
found in laundry detergent.

He's still under.
Nobody's talking,
so nothing's come of it.

OD?
No.

The chem the junk must've been
cut with put him down.

Bad junk, bad brick.

Could that form of heroin
be called brick?
It was a concentrated powder.

Its street handle's
"whip," "rock" or "brock."

From Laura.

I told you to stay clear
of Laura.

You tell her
to stay clear of me?

I got to get voicemail.

No, tell her I'll be at
The Pin's at 1:00.

Any news with the Lug?
No.

No news.

This isn't good.
No.

Ask.

(COUGHING)

WOMAN: Administration.

Gary Truemars office, please.

This is Trueman.

What the hell are you doing,
asking for me in class?

What the hell are you doing
out of class?

What?

The VP and I needed to ask you
a few questions
about Emily Kostich,

who you might have heard
is missing.
It's a very serious thing.

The police are involved.

The VP and I knew
you two were close,

so the VP and I came
to ask you questions,

but you were truant.

What?
I've been cut loose.

I'm not safe here.
We shouldn't have met
in the open.

All right, lay low, but ask
on the underneath for Dode.

He set up whatever
Emily walked into.

It's getting more and more
urgent that we talk.

What are you going to do?

I would have liked
to have played it safe,
but there's no time.

The Pin's not letting
anything drop.

I have to push things a bit.
How?

I don't know. Find Dode.

(DOOR CREAKING)

What with the poking, genius?

Maybe you're poking
for your bull friends!

Don't be a sap. I can't even
face up at school,
the VP's so hot for me!

Yeah, maybe
you're looking to make good!

I'm looking to find this
big game The Pin's played.

Not to gum it,
but just so when its tail
jams in my back,

I know who to bill
for the embalming!

You ought to ask him
what you wanna know.

I did, he didn't tell me!

The Pin's not giving me
the straight.
That makes me nervous.

Makes me angry.

Yeah.

That's understandable.

TUGGER: There was 10 of them.

I don't know where
he picked them.
He didn't tell me.

So we get 10 kils of brock.

There ain't enough marks
in the whole burgh
to eat that.

So he unloads eight up north,
even up to the docks.

I don't know who.
Didrt tell you.

Yeah.

That was eight.
So that's the 10th in there.

We gotta break it off
into doses.

Sell off around the High,
maybe some by Shorecliffs.

What about the ninth brick?

Yeah, there were
some problems with that.

Yeah?
Yeah.

It disappeared.

Someone skimmed it.

We started raising hell
with all the likely suspects,

and what do you know?
It came back.

But it came back bad.

One of ours took a dose
off the top, laid him out.

Frisco.

Yeah, poor Frisco.

You heard about that?

We'll catch the rat.

Just takes time.

I heard something
fell with Emily Kostich.

Emily who?

Kostich.

Don't know her.

Has The Pin talked about her?
Not to me.

He might know something.

Ask him.
Tell me what he says, 'cause,

you know,

if you heard something,
I wanna check.

Sure.

PIN: Pow-wowing?
Just shooting the shat.

Yeah, just shooting it.
PIN: Good.

Tug, I got a call, someone
who says they know
something about Emily.

Emily?
Emily Kostich.

Where she's at now.

Says we'd want to know.
He wants to meet.
Yeah?

So we'll meet.

4:00.

Emily used to be Tug's girl.

You know Emily, didn't you?
A while back.

You've heard she's missing.
Yeah, I heard that.

So maybe you want
to come along, too?

What does Emily
got to do with you?

Show, maybe we'll find out.

4:00.

(CAR HORN HONKING)

That's my ride.

4:00.

(COUGHING)

Payphone, anywhere.

RECORDED VOICE: The mobile
customer you have called
is not available...

(COUGHING)

What time is it?

Brendan, you've fallen...
What time is it?

3:40! You're exhausted.
You've swallowed
a lot of blood!

Get back in the car.
Shut up! Shut up!

You need to go
to the hospital. You're sick!

Shut up, please! Please!

Okay. What you gotta do is

drive around to
the Pie House lot.

So Dode's gotta go by
you or me to get
down to the tunnel.

If you see Dode,

then honk four times,
long-short, long-short.

And don't be seen.

Get back in the car.
Do it!

Please, I need you to do this.

I need you here.

Please.

What are you doing, Dode?
You gonna stop me?

What do you think
you're doing, Dode?

I saw you. I saw what you did.

What did you see?
I saw you.

What'd you see me...
I was in the tunnel,
and I saw you!

You were with her, dead,
and you took the body!
I saw you hide it!

Yeah, I did.
That's all you saw.
What about before?

Before what?

Before I got there.
Did you see who killed her?

You killed her.
I found the body, Dode.

No, you...
I thought you didn't.

But we figured you out.
I got the news on you,
'cause you hid the body.

Who's we?
Shut up!

Shut up! You're always
talking, always this and that,
smartso! You gotta shut up!

I didn't kill her, Dode.
You're not going to talk!

Dode, I know
what you think of Em.
Shut up!

And I know
you tried to help her.

You're going
to shut your mouth!

Me and Kara, we're gonna
bury you, and we're gonna
get paid doing it, dig?

We're gonna put it over
real nice!

I'm telling you now,
you're in over your head.

You don't want
to put your hand in this!

She's dead! You...
Why was she scared, Dode?

She came to me.
Who was she scared of?

I think I know why,
I just gotta know who!
You're trying to confuse me.

Dode.
You couldn't stand it,
your little Em.

She was gonna keep it.
It was mine,
and you couldn't stand that!

What was yours?
I had you pegged.

What was yours?

I loved her,

and I would have
loved that kid.

I'm gonna bury you.

(CAR HORN HONKING)

(COUGHING)

What'd I miss?

Dode here says
Emily Kostich is dead.

Oh, yeah?

He says he knows who did it.

He says he knows
where the body is.

He says he wants more money
than I think the information
is won'th.

That so, Dode?

So walk. What's the info
have to do with you, anyways?

Plenty.
Plenty, he says.

And he wants cash on the nail.

That's a pot-skulled reef-worm
with more hop in his head
than blood.

Why pay for dirt
you can't believe?
No. You'll believe this.

Maybe you will.
No, you will.

'Cause it's someone close
to you. Real close.

Maybe it's hot, but it's Dode.
You can't trust it.

Real close.

I'm not getting my shoes wet
for this. Let him milk
you if you want.

Stay.

PIN: It's still too much.

No, it isn't. You won't
complain when you hear it.

So maybe you should.

You had her up against
the wall with the brick.

I know my business.
It's still too much.

No, it isn't, 'cause that's
not why she was killed,

but it's real important
to you,

'cause the person
who killed her is real close.

'Cause he's got a lot to lose.

And he knows if I don't
bury him by spilling to you,

I spill to the bulls
and I bury him for real.

And he's really,
really scared.

She had a kid in her,
and he couldn't stand it!

Tug, it's all right!

Tug, stop!

(DODE GROANING)

Tug!

(COUGHING)

Tug.

(POLICE SIREN WAILING)

TUGGER: She sprung it on me,
just...

It's a hell of a thing
to spring on a guy.

I don't remember much.

Laura talked me down after.

Said whatever...

She knew her,
said it wasrt true.

But I still think sometimes.

I think

about it being true,

about it being mine.

Maybe I did it

'cause I thought it was true.

It's a hell of a thing.

You up?
What's the stats?

Everyone's just laying low.

You're here with us now,
at my folks' place.

Everyone's assuming it's war.

No one's said anything, yet.

Everyone's laying low.

War?

You're with us.
The hell I am.

All right, I'm with you.

So just lie low.
Sleep some more.

Laura, she said
you should sleep.

(MAN TALKING ON TV)

BRAIN: Brendan?
Yeah.

Are you... What?
Man, have you heard
about Dode?

I was there.
You...

Where were you yesterday?
I called.

Kasprzyk took my phone,
turned it off.
I just now got it back.

All right, listen.
Are you okay?

Just listen.

Is my name in the papers
with the story?
No.

All right.
Is it just Dode's name
in the papers?

Yeah. What do you mean?

Listen, I'm gonna be
calling you tonight,
probably late.

So sleep with your phone on.
Could you get a car
if you needed to?

If it's late enough
I could take my mom's.
Be ready then. I'll call.

Brendan,
did you hear about Dode?

You scheming tramp.
You set that poor kid up.

You held Dode like a card
till you could play him.
For money!

I don't know what
you're talking about.

You'd bury me at
the same time, but it was
mostly for the money.

You got Dode thinking
Em had his kid,
thinking I did it,

and that was enough for him,
but he stuck to the money,

'cause you had
your claws in him!

'Cause he couldn't come away
from the deal without it
and make you happy!

Brendan, I think you just need
to just sit down for a second.

I think you're just
a mess right now.

Can you please, sweetheart,
could you go run and get
my shoes from my locker?

Still wish you knew
what you wanted to know?

You know, if it's any
consolation,
it probably wasrt Dode's kid.

It might have been Tug's kid.
Frankly,
I wouldn't bet a horse.

It was kind of a crowded field
there at the end,
if you know what I mean.

Meanie.

(KARA SCREAMING)

(THUDDING)

KARA: What are you doing?
Showing your ace.

PIN: Far enough.

Everyone's paying
social calls.

So what are the stats?

The stats are war.
Tug got hot. He panicked.

Tug's been after my digs
from the get-go.

No, he's been anxious,
'cause he thought if you
found out he killed Emily,

you'd turn him over.

He was right.
Yeah, well.

I told him to get this
straight, no roughing.
I wasrt even there.

All right, so he's a hothead.
So you don't want him
on your side.

At least let's have a pow-wow
before we start
digging trenches.

Maybe we can all walk away
amiable enemies.

Yeah, all right.

4:00.
Tomorrow?

Tonight.
Let's clear it all
before it boils up again.

Wait!

I'll drive you back.

So here's the sit.

You and The Pin
are gonna pow-wow, tonight.

4:00, his place.

Bring all the muscle you want,
you won't need it.

He wants to talk straight,

and you're gonna work with him
for whatever he needs.

'Cause you don't want war.
The hell I don't.

The Pin's sitting on
the brick profits.
Hitting him now would be post.

Make peace,
wait for your chance.

He's right, Tug.
Smooth it out.

(COUGHING)

Besides, he's got you
on the Dode thing.

War will mean you versus him
and every bull in the burgh.

Yeah, we'll talk.

You going?
Yeah.

(DOOR OPENING)

(SIGHING)

Go away.

I'm sorry, Brendan.

I'm so sorry.

Don't go tonight.

I gotta make sure
everything plays out smooth.

It'll play out
however it plays,
without you there.

I gotta make sure.

Why?

'Cause if there's war,
I'm in it, too.

I'm just scared.

If things go bad tonight...

Just be careful.

Your folks left a car here?
Yeah.

Take it and Laura's.
I'll go first in yours.

The hell you'll take mine.

The scenic route.
Draw off any tailers.

They'll think it's you,
might even radio back
you're alone.

Mr. Smarts.

You got a cigarette?

I don't smoke.
I've seen you smoke.

I don't smoke cigarettes.

Give me 15 minutes, then go.

BRENDAN: Write this down.

I'm gonna be out of The Pin's
by 4:15.

So at exactly 4:15,
you put an anonymous call
into the bulls.

You tell them there are drugs
in the trunk
of the black Mustang

outside The Pin's house.

Can you get the car?
BRAIN: Yeah.

All right,
after you call the cops,
go to Tug's house. 12 Elm.

Park outside and wait.
Laura's inside.

She hasn't got a car, but if
she blows on foot or gets
a pick, tail her. All right?

All right?
Okay.

I'll call you
when it gets light.

Thanks, Brain.

(CAR APPROACHING)

Talk.

I want full assurance that
any heat from Emily and Dode
is on just you.

I don't even want my name
pulled into the shindig.

Second, you owe me six C's.

No rush.

But I want your shake
that they'll be home
in not too much time.

That's square.
You did them, after all.

Lay low, it'll blow over.
Stick on this,

one of you will dish it
to bury the other.
You'll both get the rap.

As for the six,
did you borrow it?

Yeah.

Then you owe it.
Shouldrt need
a shake on that.

All right to both.
Good. Let's seal it up
and blow for keeps.

Third thing,

the last brick...

It's yours.

That's not the point.

I'm gonna start selling it.

How do I know it's not bad?

Why would it be?
Why was the last one?

Because someone got greedy.

Tug here's had the means to
swipe half of it and
cut it bad for a long time.

Now we're splits,
the loss of my trust
is retroactive.

Did you, Tug?
No.

All right,
let's shake and blow.
Not good enough.

What would be good enough?

I want to see him dose it,
just to prove it.

Then we're square.

Hell for that.
I didn't touch your junk!
That's all!

I wanna see it.
To hell!

Your not wanting to dose,
it's proving something to me
right here.

Oh, it better be.

It's telling
that I ain't under your thumb
no more!

That I ain't playing lapdog
to no gothed-up cripple!

I'll dose it.

What?

If that'll shut you
two apes up,
I'll take the dose.

If I don't die,
we're all right as rain.

Deal?

Fine.

Tangles.

Johnny, go with him.

(TICKING)

MAN: Where is it? Where's
the brick? What's happening?
What did you do with it?

MAN 1: I didn't touch
the brick.
You better give it back.

(THUDDING)

(BANGING)

(ARGUING)

(THUDDING)

(GUN FIRING)

PIN: What's happening?

Cops?
TANGLES: No.

The brick...

The brick is gone.

Make peace, huh? Talk it out?

Get your boys in my den
so's you could snag it
under my nose!

No, it's not that!
Was it bad, Tug?

Snag it so I don't know,
or sell it off to flat
the war odds!

You're right!
I really did all that!
Pin, think about it!

Tug, no!

(GRUNTING)

PIN: Brendan!

No!

Help me!

(GROANING)
No! No!

Brendan! Please!

Please help me.

MAN: It's the cops!

Cops!
Help me.

Brendan, please.

(PANTING)

(POLICE SIRENS WAILING)

BRENDAN: Hey, where are you?
BRAIN: Library. Where are you?

Did she blow last night?

No, stayed there until 6:30,
then walked to school.

You didn't give her a ride,
did you?
No.

She came to school,
straight from Tug's?
Yeah.

She there now?
Yeah.

Not with me, but here.

All right, tell her
I wanna meet up on the field
in half an hour.

Then go home, get some sleep.

Will do.

Did you see it all?

With The Pin and Tug?

No, I took your advice
and didn't go.

No?

What happened?

The papers say six dead,

three around the house,

girl in the back of Tug's car,
and The Pin and Tug.

Yeah?

Tug tried to shoot his way out
when the police got there.

They tied him to Dode, too.
Same gun.

And the girl.

Huh.

Well, it's a good thing
you werert there.
Yeah.

Do you think
the girl was Emily?

Probably.

You loved her.

Yeah, I did.

You did all of this
because you loved her.

And now it's finished.

No.

What?

It's not finished.

Tug pulled the trigger on Em,
and he got the fall for it.

But the bulls could have
found that out without me.

I set out to know who put her
in the spot, who put her
in front of the gun.

That was you, angel.

What are you talking about?

It was you.

Brendan.
What?

You want the whole tale?
You want me to tell it to you?

Tell it to me.

All right, from the top.

You had your fingers
in Brad Bramish
for appearances

and to keep him buying
from The Pin,
who you were hooked with.

When Emily came
to you and Brad,
you saw her for what she was,

an insecure little girl
trying to get in.

She goes on the back burner.

Meanwhile,
maybe you're getting bored,
or maybe just greedy,

but when The Pin scores big
with the bricks,
you take your shot.

You hook one, take half,
cut it back to size,
but you cut it back bad.

Maybe accidentally,
maybe to down The Pin's
operation, doesn't matter.

You put it back.
Poor Frisco doses off it
and lands in a coma.

So now The Pin's fuming,
maybe he's jealous of Brad,

so he comes to Brad's car
looking for blood,
or at least a scape.

You're in big trouble.
There's gonna be a war
over this.

And there's Emily.
She trusts you.
She wants in.

It's duck soup.
No!

You frame her
for the bad brick,
then you cut her loose.

You turn on your heel
and bite her in the throat.

Last week at the payphone,
Del Rio and Sarmentoso,

she saw something
she was scared of.

Tug's car driving by,
The Pin riding shotgun.

But she wouldn't have seen
The Pin.

No, she was across the street,
angel. She saw the
driver's side. She saw you.

She saw you, and she ran
like she saw some devil.

Brendan, why...

She took the hit,
Dode hid her away,
but The Pin was on to her.

He tracked her down
and told her to meet,
that they'd make good.

He gave her a time and a place
and sent Tug.
Just to get the straight.

But maybe you had
talked Tug up.
Or maybe he just blew a fuse.

But when Em sprung it on him
that she had her kid,

he did what anyone could
count on Tug doing.

He hit her.

She took the hit for you,
and you let her take it.

Stop! Stop!
That's the tale.

Are you gonna tell me
it's not?
Stop it. It's not.

Will you tell me it's not?

It's not.

It isn't true.

I hope it isn't.

I want you to have been
on my side all along,

not just trying
to get me under your thumb,

like Brad and The Pin and Tug.

But I think you knew
that party was gonna blow up.

I think that was
your final play.

But I hope I'm wrong.

I hope everything
I wrote in the note

that I dropped
at Gary Truemars office
this morning is wrong.

About your and Brad's
involvement
in The Pin's runnings.

And I hope you didn't steal
the brick last night
in your purse.

I didn't.

Good.

That means you didn't
let me walk into
a slaughterhouse.

And you didn't lead
The Pin and Tug and
their crews to the slaughter.

And when Trueman
reads my note, takes my cue
and searches your locker,

he won't find a damn thing.

Brendan,

don't do this.

It's done.

Done?

Well, that's most of it.

Nine out of 10.

I told Em to tell Tugger
it was his.

Told her it would
soften him up.

She said she wished she could
keep it, but she didn't
love the father.

I was gonna drive her down
to the doctor the next day.

Most wouldn't.

She was already
starting to show.

Three months.

Do you know whose kid
that makes it?

Or have you known all along?

Mother...

You get your straight?
Yeah.

I wouldn't have, if I...
It's all right.

Chuck Burns came to.
The knife guy. He spilled
it all to the bulls.

Turns out Brad Bramish
hired him on his own.
It was just a grudge thing.

Fits.

You did good, Brain. Go sleep.

Yeah. You, too.

What'd she whisper to you?

She called me a dirty word.

All right,
you don't have to tell me.