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[computer beeping]

[eerie synth music]

[water splashing] [electricity crackling]

[light percussive music]

[eerie ambient music]

[light percussive music]

[yelling]

[speaking foreign language]

[multiple voices speaking]

[multiple voices speaking]

[multiple voices speaking]

[baby crying]

[light percussive music]

[light percussive music]

[tugboat horn blowing]

[water splashing]

[helicopter whirring]

[light percussive music]

[seagulls squawking]

[rap music]

♪ Got no dough, so you turn to crime, baby ♪

♪ Now this house can be the home ♪

♪ Talkin' 'bout a home

♪ And the platinum phone screaming off the wall ♪

♪ You ain't got a cent, just forget the rest ♪

♪ So you hit the street but you can't compete ♪

[salsa music]

[people chattering]

- The 130th Spirit House

is dedicated to giving the neighborhood youth

an education in history

and a background in Islamic culture.

The Spirit House is funded

totally through private donations.

May Allah guide you, brother.

[speaking foreign language]

[singing in foreign language]

[tone warbling]

[speaking foreign language]

- Police!

Police!

[salsa music]

Police!

[light percussive music]

- Put your hands up.

Up on top of the car.

- Damn, Odell!

Man, this machine is fucked.

- If it is, you fucked it.

- Zapped my spaceship right off the screen.

Wasn't nothing even close to it.

- Maybe it was internal malfunctions.

- Internal malfunctions!

- A spaceship doesn't have to get hit to crash.

Some of them get internal malfunctions,

like when the astronauts cash in their tickets.

That's what usually did it.

Can I help you, brother?

[video game warbling]

[gunshot ringing]

- That's the seat McVeigh was sitting on

the night Percy Williams shot him.

Don't nobody like to sit on that seat.

- Something the matter, brother?

- There's a power in that seat.

- Machine is fucked.

- Internal malfunctions.

- Damn!

Did it again.

- They say it won't be long

before all those satellites

they sent up there years back

going to be crashing back down to earth.

Insides wear out up there.

Things go haywire.

- No, man, they just get tired.

You know, start out with this orbit

that's real high and wide,

and the next time around,

you get a little closer to earth,

next time, a little closer,

and so on,

till gravity hook into it

and it come crashing down.

You hear some noise on your roof,

and you got a Sputnik sizzling in the living room.

- Get you something to drink, brother?

- Maybe he don't drink.

- Man don't drink.

What'd he come into a bar for?

- Man is a fugitive from a chain gang.

Got a hunted look on him.

- The man's a wino

who should be out on the street.

- Damn, Odell getting hard-hearted

since he own this bar.

- Yeah, Odell, ain't nobody after the chair he's on.

Let the man sit.

- Got bloodhounds at his heels.

- He's got internal malfunctions,

if you ask me.

- Damn, Odell, look at it now.

Look what it's doing.

Looks like that thing they hook up to the dude's heart

for surgery on TV.

- You broke it.

- I didn't break nothing.

Damn machine up and quit on me.

- Sure you don't want nothing to drink, brother?

- I want my quarter back.

- You know what's on them satellites

that come crashing down?

Diseases.

Diseases we ain't even got a name for.

Space germs.

- Can't nothing live out in space, not even germs.

No atmosphere.

Odell, give me my quarter back.

- These ones can.

- Man sat on the death seat,

and he felt it.

The seat's got a power to it.

- Sit down, Smokey.

You'll get dizzy again.

- This machine has had it.

Give me my quarter back, Odell.

- Fly, I loaned you that quarter

in the first place.

Hey, brother,

do you speak English?

[speaking foreign language]

- You'll get everything eventually.

- Every time I come in here,

I bring that whole damn folder.

Birth certificate, death certificate,

doctor's certificate, job certificate,

landlord certificate, tax form,

receipts, bills.

And every time I come in,

the one little piece of paper I ain't got

is the one they want.

- Mrs. Brown, I think-

- If I was 10 years younger,

I'd take another job

and be shed of the whole lot of you.

- Mrs. Brown, look-

- Man tell me I got to be re-certified

because the regulations is changing.

Ain't nothing changing.

He just lost the damn form.

You look at that pile on his desk.

He can't find the telephone under that pile on his desk.

No way he going to find my ADC form.

- Mrs. Brown, I think-

- Got egg salad all down his front

every time he talks to me,

and it ain't even lunchtime yet.

- Mrs. Brown, I'll take over your re-certification,

if you want me to.

- Man wanted my folder,

but I wouldn't give it to him.

He done lost my whole life

under that pile on that desk.

Do he wash?

- Mrs. Brown, look,

I'm out of here in half an hour.

If we're going to get this done, I need your help.

- They never should have

let him pass the civil service test.

Man don't wash.

- The man is deaf,

the man is crazy,

or the man is a wino.

- It takes one to know one, Smoke.

- Odell?

- Mm-hm?

- When did we have that new sign put up?

- Let me see.

That was the day Mookie Wilson stole home.

- Late August.

- Yeah.

- I can't find the bill.

- That's because your cousin put it up,

and he can't write.

- Don't be smart.

[chuckles]

What you want for dinner?

- You mean what do I want,

or what do I want that you can cook?

- Uh-oh!

[laughing]

- Well, in that case,

where are you taking me for dinner?

- What do you want to have?

- You mean, what do I want,

or what do I want that you can afford?

[loud clapping]

Smokey?

What is he doing?

- Diagnosis.

Diagnosis.

Pour me a drink, Odell.

Scotch.

- Maybe it's rested up now.

Give me another quarter, Odell.

- Here.

You're just going to bust it up some more.

- How about Chinese food, Dell?

Think you can handle that?

- As long as the menu's in English.

I don't eat anything I can't pronounce.

- Oh, this man.

- What are you doing with that drink, Smokey?

- Diagnosis.

Crazy.

The man is definitely crazy.

[video game warbling]

- How about Szechuan West?

- You know I don't go down there.

- Oh, come on, don't be that way.

- Baby, you name me one thing,

one thing they got below 110th Street

that we ain't got up here,

you name it, and I'll stock it in the bar.

- Hey.

- Hey, Sam.

What it is, brother?

- All right!

- Yeah!

Touchdown.

- My man.

Man's still got them soft hands.

- Hey, Bernice, Smokey.

- Hi, Sam.

Try not to break anything valuable.

- You come just in time, Sam.

We got a client for you.

- I'm off duty.

- Uh-uh.

Check out the guy in the corner.

- Who's his tailor?

- Man's crazy.

I gave him a test.

- He don't talk, neither.

- What am I supposed to do?

- You the city, Sam.

You supposed to figure out where to put him.

- Men's shelter?

- It's all smelly there.

- Okay, the Hilton.

You got the tab?

- What they pay you for up there?

- I just make phone calls.

You want him out?

You can call the cops.

- Cops?

Aw, man.

- He knew the death seat when he sat down on it.

- It's not like I got to go

drum up more business for the city, you know?

[sighs]

Hi.

What's your name?

- Man don't talk, Sam.

[speaking foreign language]

- What's that he talking?

- Man might be Haitian.

[speaking foreign language]

They say them Haitians got diseases, man.

Voodoo germs.

You drank out of that glass he touched, Smokey.

- Man ain't no Haitian.

- Can you talk?

Nod your head yes or no.

- The only people

got worse diseases than the Haitians is the Polynesians.

- This is yes.

- Them poor suckers got leprosy.

- This is no.

Can you talk?

- You got leprosy,

first thing happens, your penis drops off.

- You can't talk, but you can understand.

- Damn, damn, damn!

Bust again.

Why don't you get someone to fix this, Odell?

- You're the only fool that comes in here and plays,

and you don't use your own quarters.

- Who wants to spend their own quarters

on a machine that's always bust halfway through the game?

- He got up on his feet.

- After it drop off,

they just don't seem to care no more.

- He's messing with the space shooter.

- You go to them Polynesian islands,

you see some long faces, man.

Don't never go drinking

out of somebody else's glass like that, Smokey.

- He fixed it!

The brother fixed it.

[video game music]

How you do that, man?

- Say, brother, how did you fix that machine?

- You don't go sending

somebody who can fix a machine like that

to no damn shelter.

The brother got talent.

- Yo, Sam, Bobby's wife has been

taking in boarders now and then.

- Bobby Carter's wife?

- Yeah, big white girl?

- She's in ADC.

She'd better watch her ass.

- You a cop or something?

Hey, this thing works, Odell!

- I don't want her to lose her benefits.

That's all.

She's not my case.

- Another thing you don't want to do

is sit on no toilet over there neither, Polynesia.

- Walter, my man, you are space-shot,

you know that?

You're cruising the stratosphere.

- You know how to fix things?

Man's got talent.

- Where you from, bro?

- Up.

Up, up, uptown?

- South Bronx?

- Man's from South Bronx.

They all crazy up there.

- What if he's dangerous though?

It's just her, the kid, and Bobby's mother.

- Dangerous?

Sam, you got to be a real pussy since you moved downtown.

Come back home, it's all dangerous.

- I never lived here, Fly.

- Sam's from Englewood.

- What's that?

- It's in New Jersey.

- You let people know that?

- I hear that playing those machines too much

does something to your brain cells.

- Look here, Sam,

I think she's charging 50 a week,

room and board.

- You got any money?

- You the city, Sam.

You pay for him.

- Every man's got a talent.

- Yep.

Yours is drinking.

- Yeah, and I'm the best too.

- Hey, Sam.

Don't tell Bernice.

- Make some phone calls, Sam.

Get the man a job.

While you're at it, get me one.

- 10 to six, Walter.

Just water.

- Thank you, sir.

If my wife calls, I have not been here.

- In this bar or on this planet?

[laughing]

- I'll walk him over.

It's on my way to the subway.

Come on.

Come on, brother.

- Sam, before you go,

you got a quarter I could borrow?

- Say hi to Snow White.

- David's cookies.

Come on.

See you later, guys.

- If I was you,

I'd throw that glass away.

- I can't promise you anything,

but I'll make some phone calls.

I'm afraid you're going to have to come in to the center

and go through some paperwork.

I hate to do this to you,

but I've got to cover my ass on this one.

We might be able to get you set up somewheres,

but it takes a little time.

Hey, brother!

Come on, man.

It's been a long day.

I got a couple ideas on some jobs,

if you can really fix things.

If this doesn't pan out,

I'm going to have to take you over to the men's shelter.

- Nice pants, man!

[laughing]

Wearing his pajamas and shit, man!

- What is that?

Change that shit, man.

- You don't talk, huh?

Well, that's good.

You don't talk, you don't talk people into things.

You don't talk, you don't lie.

My Bobby, he's off living with this other girl.

He's always talking people into things.

He's great at that.

If they had it in the Olympics,

he'd win a gold medal.

Bobby, Bobby.

I met him up at this place, he comes up to me,

and he starts talking.

Next thing you know,

I'm big as a house with Little Earl here.

Bobby's sweet, if he doesn't get bored with you

or see something he likes better right across the street.

You eat pork?

You don't, you're out of luck tonight.

That's what we're having.

You don't talk, so you can't complain, right?

- Oh, yeah?

- Yeah!

- Mother's going to come home and complain now,

like she's some kind of gourmet cook.

- I cut my knee.

- My philosophy is, you got complaints,

you just go eat somewheres else.

My mama made us clean our plates every night,

and she couldn't cook worth shit.

She'd couldn't even cook pudding, you know?

She'd cook chocolate pudding

and there'd be these lumps in it,

like tumors, you know,

like what people with breast cancer

have cut out.

- Get up there with that bucket.

Why, you,

[shrieking]

Look here, muscle-brain.

You pour the water down,

and mop-head will stand under and see if it leaks.

Hey, watch out with that ladder!

- There were six of us.

I'm from Alabama.

Can you handle that?

Pidcock, Alabama.

I'm up here taking care of the old lady and Little Earl,

and he's off making time with some girl

doesn't have any more sense

than I did when I was her age.

If they could see me now.

Where are you from?

You look like you might be from the South.

No way I'm going back there.

Not with Little Earl, I'm not.

I burned my bridges.

Here.

You look like you might be about Bobby's size.

Serves him right.

He didn't even come by to pick up his stuff.

You know, this stuff is going to rot your brain.

Sometimes I feel like I have been taken for a slave up here.

You know, they have them.

White slaves.

The Arabs keep them.

It's like a whole 'nother world up here,

a whole 'nother planet.

With all the talking he did,

Bobby didn't ever tell me how I couldn't go back.

Not unless I give up Earl,

and that's one thing I'm not ever going to do.

That's the one thing Bobby gave me

that he didn't take back later.

I've got to stay and keep Little Earl safe

from all that mess outside.

- Hello, hamster.

- The shoes are almost new.

He didn't wear them but once or twice.

Mother's okay, you know.

She's got a good heart.

But she resents it,

because she thinks I drove Bobby away from her.

He said he couldn't wait to get out of here.

He said it was like being in jail here,

and now he says that he's really in love

and all this stuff.

Like he doesn't remember

that he said the exact same things to me

when we first met.

Like I've got no memory.

Like I've got no feelings.

- I wonder where this hamster is from.

- The worst is being alone here all day.

Little Earl.

Yeah, but he talks just about as much as you do,

and when he does, he's five years old.

Sometimes I just think I am going to go crazy

living up here like this.

You eat pork?

- Three-toe.

- Phew.

Hmm.

Boy didn't marry her for her cooking.

- He didn't marry me, period.

[chuckling]

You're lucky you missed the rain.

- Mm.

Who's that?

- Boarder.

- What's his name?

- I don't know.

He doesn't talk.

They brung him over from Odell's.

He's nice.

- What's he wearing Robert's clothes for?

- They fit.

- What's Robert going to say,

he sees somebody walking around

in his clothes?

- Bobby's got his self a new wardrobe.

He don't care, Mama.

You going to work this weekend?

- Looks like it.

- Sit down and put your feet up. I'll bring you dinner.

[groaning]

- A bright, white light

streaking over the Statue of Liberty.

Government officials attribute the UFO sightings

to commercial air traffic

and unusually clear atmospheric conditions.

- If Big Earl was still living,

he'd straighten that boy out fast.

I see you got the TV fixed.

- No, it just fixed itself.

- Girl, nothing in this world fix itself.

Little Earl,

take your nose away from that machine.

Come give your grandma some sugar.

- Where's his tools?

You need tools?

Everybody needs tools.

- Look, just let him try,

and if he doesn't fix anything, it's not going to cost you.

- He doesn't have parts, either. You need parts.

- Come on.

What's it going to hurt?

You might even get some cheap repairs out of it.

- Hector!

[speaking foreign language]

We're in the Job Corps.

Come and get this guy.

- Here it is, brother, pinball graveyard.

I've been bugging Mr. Lowe

to unload these turkeys for months.

Mr. Lowe says you don't talk.

[speaking foreign language]

[laughing]

Hey, you looking for the outlet, brother?

There it is, right here, okay?

[machine chirps]

Yeow.

Are you going to fix these machines, brother, or what?

[video game warbling]

There she goes again.

[speaking foreign language]

That's the reason why these suckers

are all on the blink, man, that girl.

She can play all day on a quarter,

if she don't get bored.

Wears the machines down.

I mean, she's in here todos los dias,

like a fucking zombie.

Bing bong, bing bong,

bing bong, bing bong, bing bong.

[speaking foreign language]

Hey, you must be from Carolina, Puerto Rico.

That's where all the brothers come from, you know?

Like Clemente.

He was out of this world, man.

He made it to the top without a knife or a gun.

He used a baseball bat.

[chuckling]

Yeah.

Anyway, Mr. Lowe is a weasel-dick motherfucker,

so you watch your ass with him, okay?

And if you need anything, llama Hector, huh?

Hector, no mas.

[speaking foreign language]

[tone warbling]

- It's a whole new breed coming up.

- Uh-huh.

- They don't know.

Young bloods got no sense of history coming up.

They give themselves some African-sounding name,

Jamocha Ali, Rashid quadruple X.

They think they in touch with the past.

- Don't start up with that again, Walter.

It messes with my game.

- I remember when there was history here.

- Go light on them cookies, Smoke.

Suckers cost a fortune.

- They're good, though.

- Yeah, this was where it was, Fly.

Harlem was the place.

- Still is, Walter.

- Not like it was.

- Ain't nothing like it was.

That's history, man.

It don't stand still for nobody.

- Yeah, this is where it was, Fly.

Harlem was the end of the line.

- I don't see nobody here going nowheres.

- Yeah, you hit Harlem, you had made it.

Smokey remembers, don't you, Smoke?

- Some days I do, some days I don't.

- I'd rather be a cockroach on a baseboard up here

than the emperor of Mississippi.

- I remember certain Saturday nights.

I was a little boy peeking round my mama's legs.

What it was?

It was elegant.

- Harlem was the place.

- Yeah.

- End of the line.

[door creaking]

[rattlesnake rattling]

- Beer.

- What kind?

- Draft.

- On the rocks.

- Have any of you seen this man?

- We have reason to believe he's been in here.

- Lots of people have been in here.

What's his name?

- Didn't he tell you?

- How the man going to tell you his name when he can't talk!

- Where is he?

- Look, y'all got any kind of ID?

- ID?

- Your badges, man.

- Badges?

- What badges?

- We don't have to show you any badges.

- Look, if you're dicks, you've got badges.

- What makes you think we're dicks?

- I could answer that.

[laughing]

- Well, look, if you ain't dicks,

what the hell am I talking to you for, then?

- Government.

- Whose government?

- Immigration.

- We have reason to believe

this man is an illegal alien.

- So's half the fucking city.

So what?

- Could we see your green card, mister?

- Green card?

Man, what you talking, green card?

Green card, my black ass.

My people built this country, sucker.

You ever been to South Carolina?

Huh?

My people built that.

- Can't build a state, man.

- Look, all I know is when they got off the boat,

there wasn't nothing there.

Now there's shopping malls and,

what's that shit?

Miniature golf, from nothing.

Ask me for a green card.

My people was in the revolution, Jim.

How long you been here?

[exhaling]

- Keep the change, sport.

- That's $2, man.

- We'll be back.

- White folks get stranger all the time.

[video games warbling]

- Hey, Jefe, taking lunch now, okay?

- How's that colored fellow doing in the back?

- Haven't heard a peep out of him.

- They're clever with their hands, the colored,

but they forget things.

This one forgot his tools.

No management skills.

[speaking foreign language]

English, Hector, Se habla English here!

[video games warbling]

How's it going in here, brother?

You've been a busy man!

Since you're all finished here,

how's about you keep a lid on the kids

while I get a bite?

All you've got to do is make change.

You know how to make change, don't you?

Hector will be back 10 minutes late, as usual.

They give you a good day's work, the Spanish,

but they've got no sense of time.

- Are you the new fix-it man?

As fast as you can fix these things,

I can wear them down.

They don't make them fast enough.

Playing like, warp 10 on everything in here,

playing max on the difficulty scale,

and still, I'm totally inside their time, you know?

You know what that's like?

It's like everything in the world

is going slow-motion, except you.

Boring, right?

Can't do nothing about it.

You know everything that'll happen before it does.

Can't change it,

just shoot it down when it comes.

Bad enough in here.

You should see what it's like at home.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

Just once,

just once I wish it could be me going slow-motion,

everything else zipping past.

[beeping quickens]

Hey, what are you doing?

Hey, all right.

There's no way you'll beat me, though.

I'll wear you down.

[explosion booming]

That was fantastic.

[screaming]

[train rumbling]

[screaming]

- Excuse me.

You want to see a card trick?

No, really.

It's a story.

Move over.

Go ahead, move over.

I'm going to tell you a little story

about Joe and the bartender.

The bartender goes to Joe,

"You know, business has been real slow in my bar, Joe.

I was wondering if you could go out

and get four drinking buddies

to come drink at my bar, and I'll give you two bucks?"

Joe goes, "Sure, I could use the money," so Joe goes out.

Cut the cards.

Cut the cards.

Okay, I'll cut them for you.

So Joe goes out, and Joe's gone five,

he's gone 10, he's gone 15,

he's gone 20,

he's gone 26 minutes,

and he comes back huffing and a-puffing

and he says, "All right, Mr. Bartender,

here's your four guys."

The bartender goes, "Great, Joe, there's your two bucks,"

so they're just sitting around talking,

and the bartender goes, "Joe,

these four guys, they're kind of lonely, Joe.

I was wondering if you could go get four girls

to drink with the four guys?

I'll give you two more bucks."

Joe goes, "Sure, that's easy.

I've got lots of girlfriends,"

so Joe goes out.

Cut the cards.

#~That's right.

Okay, I'll do it for you.

So Joe goes out, and Joe's gone five,

he's gone 10, he's gone 15,

he's gone 17 minutes,

and he comes back huffing and a-puffing,

and he says, "All right, Mr. Bartender,

there's your four girls to drink with the four guys."

The bartender goes, "Great, there's your two bucks,

but, Joe, it took you so long to get the girls,

the guys, they left, so do me one last favor.

Go get me four more drinking buddies,

two cases of Ace High whiskey, and change for two 20s,

and I'll give you two more bucks.

The last time I'll send you out."

Joe goes, "Sure, but I'm sick of going out.

I don't want to go out anymore." So cut the cards.

Go ahead.

Okay, I'll cut them for you again.

So Joe goes, and this time Joe hurries back.

He's gone five,

he's gone 10, he's gone 15 minutes.

He comes back and says, "All right, Mr. Bartender,

there's your four drinking buddies,

your two cases of Ace High whiskey,

and your change for two 20s."

Bartender goes, "Great, there's your two bucks.

Thanks a lot."

So they're just sitting around talking,

and the bartender goes, "Are you a family man, Joe?"

He goes, "I certainly am.

I've got seven kids.

Four boys, three girls."

The bartender goes, "I've got three boys and four girls.

That's great, Joe.

How old are you, Joe?"

"Well, I'm 67.

My wife, she says she's 55.

She's really 65."

"Oh, that's great, Joe.

Joe, are you a gambling man?"

"I sure am. I play at the 96 Club on 42nd Street.

The other night I won $499.

My partner, he had a full house,

aces over eights, which usually wins,

but I said not this time, sucker,

I got a straight flush."

I have another magic trick for you.

Want to see me make all the white people disappear?

- The 10 Street, Columbo Circle, 125th Street next.

This is the Uptown A Express going to 2-7.

Change for the double A local across the platform, the D.

On the upper level,

change for the Number One Broadway train.

- See?

What did I tell you?

- Uptown A, 125th Street next.

- No, we're not late.

Look, it says here,

"Professor Maxwell,

seminar participants only,

wine and cheese."

- Oh, good, I'm starving.

- Four o'clock, there we are.

Now we've just got to find the...

[rap music]

Ed, do you recognize any of this?

- You mean the architecture?

- No, no.

The neighborhood, actually.

I don't seem to remember seeing quite so many-

- Maybe it's the back way in.

I remember there was a gate,

and you could see the library.

- Yeah, I don't see the library, Ed.

- Well, it's behind a wall.

- I think we're in Harlem, Ed.

- That's not where we want to be.

- No, it isn't.

You, uh,

you haven't been paying attention, have you,

after we got out of the subway?

- Well, I couldn't tell you, like,

where the subway entrance is,

[brakes squealing]

or how to find it.

Is that what you mean?

- We're lost.

[chuckling]

We're lost in Harlem.

[horns honking]

- I don't think we're going to make that reception.

- No, no.

["Burning My Heart Out"]

♪ Out of the madness

♪ Out of blue

♪ Out of the madness

- A couple of beers, please.

Do you have Bud?

♪ In the darkness

♪ Always wondering why

♪ Burning my heart out in the darkness ♪

♪ All for the sake of a lie

- Hi.

♪ Of our lives

- How's it going?

- We're in for the self-actualization conference

at the University.

- Do you know where the subway is?

- Good nose.

- We're from Indiana.

- That's right next to Illinois,

where Chicago is.

- He knows that, Ed.

- Well, a lot of folks around here

don't have a very clear picture of the Midwest.

- Can you, like, point in the direction of the subway?

[laughing]

- He's right.

That's where it is.

- So where are you from?

- I mean,

I didn't want to be like Ernie Banks.

I wanted to be Ernie Banks.

- Mr. Cub.

- And it never really dawned on me

that he was black, you know?

- Wrist hitter.

- I was, you know, what, seven years old,

and he was just Ernie Banks.

He was my hero.

- All in the wrists.

- There weren't any black people in my town.

At least, I don't think there were.

- Mr. Cub.

- Is it eight o'clock?

Geez, will you look at that?

This is really something, huh?

Wander in here off the street.

I mean, if people would sit down

and talk like this more often-

- Communication,

that's what it's all about.

- Three blocks south, one block east.

Subway entrance.

You want the A train, downtown.

Hm?

- Okay, right.

Thanks.

- Yeah.

That's quite a grip you got there.

- Give me five, brother.

- Thanks a million, folks!

- You a popular man today, brother.

You know, there were two others

in here earlier looking for you.

- Men in black.

No, man.

White skin, black clothes,

and they were stranger than these two.

- Motherfucker, hand it over.

Come on, fucker, I'll cut your fucking face!

Put it here.

- He's retarded, man.

He don't know what you saying.

- Fuck ain't retarded, he's just holding out.

- The money, mister.

Give him your money!

- Hurry up, punk!

That's for holding out, motherfuck!

- Pick it up, Willis.

- You got blood all over it, Rickey.

- Man, hustle your butt, or I'll cut your ass too.

- Let me go, Mister!

Let me go!

[tone warbling]

- There was blood on the floor

at the bottom of the stairs tonight.

I hope one of them poor boys

who hangs out there

didn't get hurt.

- They're not poor boys, Mama, they're junkies.

They bust that light down there again?

- Light was out.

- If the super doesn't put a lock

on that front door,

I'm going to wring his neck.

- Where are you from?

[speaking foreign language]

- Noreen, did a client come in while I was out?

A black man, around 30-something,

kind of strange, doesn't talk?

- No.

No-show?

- Third interview he's crapped out on this week.

- More power to him if he can do it without us.

♪ Wonderin' why

♪ Out of the madness

♪ Out of the blue

♪ Out of the past you come tearin' us both in two ♪

♪ Burnin' my heart out in the darkness ♪

♪ Always wonderin' why

♪ Burnin' my heart out in the darkness ♪

♪ All for the sake of a lie for the sake of a lie ♪

[dog barks]

[dog whines]

[dog barks]

[dog whimpering]

[dog barking]

["Two People in the World" by Little Anthony]

♪ Just two kinds of people in the world ♪

♪ Why can't we fall in love

♪ Just two kinds of people In the world ♪

♪ They are a boy and girl

♪ Boy meets girl and love begins ♪

♪ Oh, what a feeling you get from within ♪

♪ Oh, I should know 'cause I'm in love ♪

♪ I'm the boy who showed the girl ♪

♪ All the stars up above

♪ Just two kinds of people in the world ♪

♪ Why can't we fall in love

♪ Just two kinds of people in the world ♪

♪ They are a boy and girl

♪ Boy meets girl and love began ♪

♪ Oh, what a feeling you get from within ♪

♪ Oh, I should know 'cause I'm in love ♪

♪ I'm the boy who showed the girl ♪

♪ All the stars up above

♪ Just two kinds of people in the world ♪

- The girls and I had our first hit with this one.

Hope you like it.

♪ Ooh-la, ooh-la

- That's how it is, brother.

Cover charge is $15.

All you've got is five and some change, here.

If the boss wasn't around, I would slip you by,

but he's been in my ass all night.

Some other time, all right?

♪ Bye-bye, I make myself pretty ♪

- Yo, brother, you forgot your money!

[reggae music]

- Welcome to Babylon, brother.

You got that faraway look in your eye.

Come out here with intents

upon realizing the truth, I think.

There's many a peril laying out there for you, brother.

Don't want to lose the way.

Let Virgil guide you, man,

inform you in the ways of the night.

Children withering away up here, brother,

worshiping the idol of capital,

lusting after the false salvation

of here and now.

Black brother and sister perishing up here, man,

waiting for scraps from oppressor's table.

Oppressor got us for house pet,

doing tricks to get rewards.

Oppressor need a slave, him find it here.

Oppressor need a harlot, him find it here.

Oppressor don't need you at all.

Why get away from the mob?

- You fellas want to party?

- All people on the street at nighttime, brother-

- Hey, listen, I'll give you a blowjob if you fix my shoe.

- Look at what we own.

- You think you can fix it?

- Everything Babylon make-

- Come on.

- Everything it take in, it shit out here.

- Hey, listen,

listen, it's a bargain!

- Hey mop-head, bring your handsome friend back here.

- Nighttime is promise, brother.

You make deals in the night.

Pay all you've got for what you can't see,

and when sun come up, illuminate,

we been cheated again.

All the people desire walking the streets

at nighttime, brother.

All the people feeling.

People dream, people fear, people hatred.

All that's eating your heart in the day,

all them feelings too dangerous to show the oppressor,

come out prowling for confrontation at nighttime.

We're killing each other on these streets, brother.

♪ Oh brother

♪ Forgetting crime

♪ The thing they do

♪ The thing they do, the thing they do ♪

♪ Oh yes they do

♪ Remember you, oh yes they do

♪ Remember you, remember you

♪ Remember you, you've got to say why ♪

This place not your home, brother.

Virgil don't have to inform you this.

Here, brother.

Take the ship back.

Just for a night, take the ship back.

Just for a night,

take the ship home to the promised land.

♪ Here a crystal, there a crystal ♪

♪ Yeah, I know

♪ Hey

♪ For the medium

♪ For the baby

♪ Oh

♪ Oh, baby

♪ It's the last one for ya

♪ And now the water

♪ Oh yes, you're crying

[birds chirping]

[light percussive music]

- Have you seen this man?

[speaking foreign language]

Could you say that in English?

[speaking foreign language]

- Fucking Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash.

[speaking foreign language]

- I think we'll have to speak with your supervisor.

[speaking foreign language]

[rock music]

[blender whirring]

- Harriet Tubman made over 30 trips back South

after she escaped that first time.

Now, every time,

she was in danger of being captured

and sent back to the people who had owned her.

Men and women who had been slaves

made their way, with Harriet's guidance,

through hostile country,

going from station to station

on the Underground Railroad

till they reached New York.

Now, New York was the promised land.

New York was the end of the line.

Sometimes bounty hunters would track them up North

and kidnap them back into slavery.

[toy buzzing]

[door clicking]

- Randy Sue Carter?

We would like to ask you some questions.

- If you're looking for Bobby, I have no idea where he is.

- We have reason to believe

that this man has been living with you.

- He comes and goes.

Right now he's gone.

- Where does he work?

- Here and there.

He fixes things.

What do you want with him?

- Immigration.

- Immigration?

Give me a break.

We had a kid overdose right downstairs last night,

and you're pestering people

about whether they got some piece of paper

that says they're legal?

- Will he be coming back tonight?

- You want to know what my opinion is?

- Just the facts, ma'am.

- My opinion is that you people

just made up this immigration scam,

just to keep people under your thumb.

- Is he coming back tonight?

- What am I, his mother?

Wait for him.

See if I care.

Just don't do it in my kitchen.

- Ma'am, have you ever looked at his feet?

- What are you, sick?

[light percussive music]

[upbeat soul music]

♪ Sisters betting it getting it, letting it ♪

♪ Take them away from the street ♪

♪ Trying to get away straight from the heart ♪

♪ Get away straight from the start ♪

♪ Get away straight from the city ♪

♪ Hey, yeah

- You going to sit on that all night?

Very funny.

Look, can I get you another drink?

I don't care,

but the boss has been on my ass all night.

Good, I'll get you another one.

♪ Trying to get away

♪ Get away

♪ Can't get away

♪ Can't get away oh, oh, oh

♪ Get away straight from the heart ♪

♪ Get away straight from the start ♪

♪ Get away straight from the city ♪

♪ Hey, yeah, yeah

♪ Get away straight from my heart ♪

♪ Get away straight from the start ♪

♪ Get away straight from the city ♪

[audience applauding]

- Thank you, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Listen, I'm going to sit here for a minute,

but don't get any ideas, all right?

The man that owns this club

has been on my ass since I opened here

and I am trying to keep him off of it,

so if he comes by, you are my gentleman friend

from Philadelphia, okay?

Well, what's your name, honey?

You can't talk?

Well, some alibi you're going to be.

You can hear, can't you?

You like my singing?

Oh, well.

My voice isn't what it used to be when I was with the girls,

but it's got character.

- There you are, precious.

How's my girl tonight?

- Mr. Price, this is Louis.

Louis is from Philadelphia.

- Pleased to meet you, Louis.

- Louis doesn't talk.

- Well, that so?

Well, that's awful.

That's just terrible.

Must leave you out of the conversation, huh, Louis?

Hey, look here, precious,

what I found digging through the office.

Must have been taken 15 years ago.

- Oh, look at this, Louis.

This is me and the girls.

We were just kids.

[laughing]

- You were flying high in them days.

- Yeah.

- Must have felt like it would last forever.

- Mm-hm.

- I remember when you were working the Apollo.

I had to stand in line to get a ticket.

- That'll happen.

- Yeah, standing out in the rain a whole hour

just to see my favorite singer,

and now here you are, working my club.

- Here I am.

- You know, it's funny how when one is shooting up,

the other's tumbling down.

Must be a law of nature.

- That's real funny.

- But there's always some point

when the one shooting up and the one tumbling down

is on the same level,

even if it's just for one little second.

- Mm-hm.

[musicians tuning instruments]

- I was wondering, after your last set tonight,

maybe you and I can-

- Oh, Mr. Price, I'm so sorry.

Louis and I have made other plans.

- Well,

that's just too bad, isn't it?

Nice talking to you, Louis.

Flying high in them days.

- I will never tumble down that low.

- Another drink.

- Thank you.

Now, do you really like my singing?

Really?

[laughing]

As long as I have been wearing these things,

I still haven't gotten used to them.

Like to go blind, flapping them around in bed.

I'll only be a second, honey.

You haven't gone to sleep on me now, have you?

Look, make a noise if you're still awake, okay?

[thumping]

[chuckles]

I have been out with some guys who were quiet,

but this really takes it.

You know, I don't do this a lot.

People think because you're on tour,

you're always sleeping around,

but it's not true.

Well, most tours, it's not.

When we were young and foolish

and still singing in bowling alleys.

[chuckling]

Of course, that all changed when I hooked up with Rodney.

Boy, you know, I hardly even think about Rodney anymore,

but as bad as things got, I sure miss the girls.

Well, you didn't waste any time

getting comfortable, did you?

Well, here I am.

Still interested?

[clapping] [laughing]

How come I like you so much?

You could be anybody.

Louis,

hey, try and stay with me, okay?

I mean, let's just forget about that woman

that you saw on stage.

It's just you and me, okay?

[shrill shrieking]

I'm flying at four,

so I've got to be to Kennedy by three o'clock.

I remember when Rodney decided to go on the road with me.

As long as he didn't have to carry my bags, he said.

He wouldn't even let me carry them.

Sometimes we'd have to wait for a half an hour

for the porter to come.

Rodney was like that, though,

real proud about the little things.

Now, I don't know when I'll be back in New York,

because I don't have any bookings after Atlanta.

You were great in bed last night,

but you're going to have

to do something about them toenails.

- Yo, man, how about a little help?

Come on, put it in the hoop, man.

Come on, brother.

Come on, shoot it up!

[eerie ambient music]

All right.

Funny-looking motherfucker, but he can shoot, can't he?

[upbeat funk music]

- So how long you been up here, pal?

I mean, are you a native or what?

My first day in this precinct.

My partner upstairs,

he's been handing me all kinds of horror stories.

Like, you know,

how they're going to cook me, eat me alive up here,

I don't look out what I'm doing.

Yeah.

Can't be all that bad, I figure.

Looks pretty damn nice to me, Harlem.

I mean, you know, like, people are people, right?

I mean, you put on a uniform,

it's not like you hand in your status as a human being.

I mean, we're here to protect and serve, right?

Like it says on the LA, cruisers on "Adam-12".

You know, they never should have taken

that show off the air.

So, what do you think?

Yeah, well, take it easy, pal.

[light percussive music]

- Is Sam Prescott in?

- Are you clients of his?

- We're looking for this man.

- Ever see him?

- Are you gentlemen with an agency?

- Immigration. - FBI.

We're working together on this one.

- I see.

Okay.

This is an inter-agency request for information form.

You both have to complete this

and take it to the Applications receptionist.

That's line seven in the central office,

and I'm going to need documentation on both of you.

This can be birth certificate, alien naturalization papers,

draft registration, military ID card,

military discharge papers,

and I'll need a letter from your department heads

on official stationery verifying employment

and something with a picture on it.

No student IDs allowed.

This is form 10-7G.

Fill this out and have it notarized.

- We'll come back later.

When Mr. Prescott is in.

- And I'll need social security numbers on both of you.

[rattlesnake rattling]

[light percussive music]

- I'm sorry.

You just can't stay here.

If it was just me, it would be different,

but I have Little Earl and the mother to think about.

I have got to take care of them.

I mean, those guys just gave me the creeps.

Is there anything that you need?

Clothes or money or anything?

Well, I hope you understand,

but whatever you're messed up in,

I can't take the chance.

It's been nice knowing you.

[light percussive music]

[upbeat funk music]

[tone warbling]

[engine revving]

[stations switching]

[rock music]

[car crashing]

[engine revs]

[upbeat funk music]

- Great deal!

Casios, $40.

My low overhead ensures you great savings.

Casio 45s, $40, $40.

Great deal, sir.

Great deal, $40.

Anyone can be a musician.

Just try it.

It's a great gift.

Step right up!

Play a Casio.

[synth music]

- So I say to him,

"Barry, I wouldn't call what we have a relationship,"

and he says to me, "What would you call it?"

I said, "We're just seeing each other,"

and he says, "To me, that's a relationship."

I said, "Barry, call it what you want.

To me, we're just seeing each other."

I can't believe this guy.

I have gone out with him five times,

and he wants a relationship.

Why?

I can't believe it.

I don't want to get that serious.

I mean, I someday want to get married and have babies,

but five times?

He's cute and everything.

I mean, I knew he was interested in me right away.

Believe me, I knew he was interested in me.

I could tell immediately.

Can I help you?

Do you have an appointment?

You can't go in there

if you don't have an appointment.

Do you have something to deliver to Mr. Vance?

Look, go downstairs, have them call up,

and we'll get you a floor pass

and we'll start from scratch, okay?

[sighing]

Number one, he's short.

I mean, he can't help that,

but I can't help the way I feel about that,

and you know what else?

He wears those shirts

with the little epaulet things on the shoulders.

- Hey, brother, what's happening?

♪ Five o'clock

♪ I make myself pretty

♪ He tears my soul apart

♪ He walks up the stairs with the light in his eyes ♪

- I know how the man feels.

My bladder ain't worth beans these days.

[water splashing]

- I heard Bobby's old lady threw him out

on account of them guys been looking for him.

I wonder how he's making out.

- Oh, the flesh is weak, the spirit finds a way.

- What was that, man?

- I'm open.

Dell, hit me.

Hit me.

- Flea-flicker.

- Hey, now.

Buttonhook at 10.

- Look at them hands.

Z-out and fly.

Bump and run.

- Come on, let a man drink in peace, will you?

- The bomb.

♪ She's so bad, she's so bad

♪ Your mother, she's so bad, she's so bad ♪

- Where is he?

♪ She's so bad, she's so bad

♪ Your mother, she's so bad, she's so bad ♪

♪ Get up

♪ It's too early

♪ She knows that you've been groovin' ♪

♪ Cup of coffee doesn't help

♪ You should be sleepin'

♪ She's so bad, she's so bad

♪ Your mother, she's so bad, she's so bad ♪

♪ She's so bad, she's so bad

[grunting]

[glass breaking]

[grunting]

[clattering]

♪ Uh-huh, honey

♪ Take your leisure

♪ She won't let you

♪ She's so bad, she's so bad

[glass breaking]

♪ Your mother, she's so bad, she's so bad ♪

♪ She's so bad, she's so bad

♪ She's so bad, she's so bad

[groaning]

♪ She's so bad, she's so bad

♪ Your mother, she's so bad, she's so bad ♪

♪ She's so bad, she's so bad

♪ Your mother, she's so bad, she's so bad ♪

♪ She's so bad, she's so bad

[clattering]

♪ She's so bad, she's so bad

♪ Your mother

- Now, Smokey.

♪ Your mother, she's so bad, she's so bad ♪

♪ She's so bad, she's so bad

♪ Your mother, she's so bad, she's so bad ♪

[grunting]

[both shrieking]

- You know, I don't know if I like him in bed or not.

The sex is okay and everything.

It's not great, though.

He has fabulous hands.

He's got great hands.

He's from New Hampshire, though.

That's kind of weird.

I always thought I'd meet a guy.

[cleaner whirring]

[light percussive music]

- Who are you?

How did you get in?

Who sent you?

Did Gregory send you?

You want some of this, is that what?

Here, take all you want.

Look, whoever's paying you for this

isn't paying you what I could.

I've got an organization here.

We're diversifying.

We're moving in every direction.

This, this is nothing.

It solves some cash flow problems.

It solves some problems on the books.

You tell me who sent you,

and I'll cut you in.

That's what you want, isn't it?

A piece of the action?

It's stupid to go for just one score.

Oh, I knew it was a mistake

getting involved with you people.

You don't see the big picture.

You just don't see.

[light synth music]

[sighing]

What are you?

Look, whoever you are,

we can still talk.

There's still time.

I own real estate.

[device sparking]

[device winding] [ominous synth music]

- Three-toe.

[light percussive music]

[upbeat percussive music]

[light percussive music]

[upbeat percussive music]

[electricity crackling]

[light percussive music]

♪ My brother walked

♪ On the water

♪ My sister searched searched, searched, searched ♪

♪ Until they reached, until they reached, till they reached ♪

♪ That promised the promised land ♪

♪ When they felt that healing power ♪

♪ Oh, that blessed savior heard ♪

♪ Then they knew they'd be delivered ♪

♪ Safe unto the promised land

♪ Up, over the water search through the sands ♪

♪ Until we reach

♪ Until we reach the promised land ♪

♪ There's a bird who flies with glory ♪

♪ Soaring high as God is there

♪ On its wing it bears our sorrow ♪

♪ Speed into the promised land

♪ Up, over the water

♪ Search, search through the sands ♪

♪ You'll make it to the promised land ♪

♪ Walk, over the water

♪ Search, search through the sands ♪

♪ Till you reach

♪ Until you reach, reach the promised land ♪

♪ Oh that promised land

♪ Walk, walk on the water

♪ Search, search through the sands ♪

♪ Till you reach

♪ Until you reach

♪ The promised land

♪ Through this world we're bound to struggle ♪

♪ Till we make our final stand

♪ Searching for the hope of freedom ♪

♪ Sailing to the promised land

♪ Walk, walk on the water

♪ Search, search through the sands ♪

♪ Till you reach the promised land ♪

♪ Walk, walk on the water

♪ Search, search through the sands ♪

♪ Till you reach the promised land ♪

♪ Walk, walk on the water

♪ Search, search through the sands ♪

♪ Till you reach the promised land ♪

♪ Walk

♪ Walk on the water

♪ Search, search through the sand ♪

♪ Till you reach

♪ The promised land