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I still have a dream.

It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up,

and live out the true meaning of its creed.

We hold these truths to be self-evident

that all men are created equal.

With this faith,

we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation

into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

With this faith,

we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together,

to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together,

knowing that we will be free one day.

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

-Yes. -Yeah.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Yeah!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi,

from every mountainside.

Let freedom ring. And when this happens,

when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet,

from every state and every city,

we will be able to speed up that day

when all of God's children, black men and white men,

Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics,

will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

"Free at last, free at last.

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."

Get off the streets, my brothers.

Keep it cool. Keep it cool.

This is Kyle Simpson. Please, keep it cool.

Now, get off the streets. Keep your kids in.

Stay back from the windows, please.

Keep it cool, fellas. Keep it cool, will you, please?

You can believe that. Give us a chance. Get off the streets.

Appeals are being made to all of Cleveland,

particularly to our black citizens,

not to mar the memory of Dr. King by disorder and violence.

The police are concerned...

Wrong night!

Wrong night, guys! Call it off!

Get out of here! Blow!

I don't wanna see you!

Call it off! Call it off!

I don't want nothing to do with you, Johnny.

Go ahead, call him "white-man's nigger" now.

He can't hear you.

Go away, Johnny, please.

Don't, man.

Please.

Tank.

Tank.

I know how you feel.

No, you don't, Johnny.

I never felt so bad in all my life.

Come on in, Tank.

Come on.

You swore you wouldn't go back on the juice, Tank.

What's the difference?

Damn.

Listen to me. He was a big man.

B.G. always said so, even Corbin said so,

but he was holding us back.

And Memphis proves the answer is guns and more guns.

-Tonight's on. -Without me.

With you.

We've planned every move with you.

We need you.

Tonight, Johnny?

More than ever, tonight.

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow, please?

It's not the first time you let us down, is it, Tank?

-Larry, you drive. Rick, come with me. -How do you expect...?

-We'll work it out. -We need four.

Jesus.

Johnny!

Johnny! Johnny!

Johnny, wait! Don't do it without me!

I'll go with you!

Johnny!

-How long we been here? -Too long.

-Damn Tank. Let's go. -I want two more.

What?

Wait a minute.

Stand still.

Split.

Split, for God's sakes. Split.

In Cleveland, as in the rest of the country,

the King burial still dominates the news.

Conservative reports are that yesterday's funeral was attended

by 150,000 people.

This tribute was organized...

A hundred and fifty thousand people, jeez.

Word of honor, I never thought that guy was so important.

Because, my friend and white brother,

you can't conceive of any nigger being important.

-That's a word I never use. -Please do.

-To thine own self be true. -Oh, balls.

Lieutenant Stone.

When?

Okay.

Well, the charge is no longer assault.

Johnny Wells is wanted for murder. The guard died.

He should have died hereafter.

We want Johnny Wells.

You the boss, boss.

Neither sleet nor hail nor funerals can stop this courier.

I keeps the happy dust moving.

You protect me, we's all on the same payroll.

I's a nigger which knows his duty.

-Negro. -Nigger, sir.

Nigger, stool pigeon, and faggot.

...that was his greatness.

He was a prince of peace and we honor him,

He was a prince of peace and we honor him,

and we honor the great multitude that followed that mule train

in order and in dignity in Atlanta.

Cry. March. Pray.

That's the way to win whitey's heart.

Free at last?

-Free to stop begging. -No, baby.

In his way, he was a fighter.

He was a beggar.

The man from love.

Well, the man from love got his head shot off.

And all those people learned nothing.

Death is a fast teacher.

They'll learn.

The scene's clearer now.

I think about you and I get scared.

Don't.

One by one,

bang, bang, bang,

that's how it goes.

Nobody's ever heard of me.

Booker Goodwin Thompson?

Junior-high-school teachers don't make it on television.

-Who is it? -Tank.

Hi, Jeannie.

-B.G. -Man, I'm busy.

I've been thinking.

Corbin's gonna need more protection,

-another bodyguard. -You?

Me.

I'll do anything you guys ask.

-Anything. -We don't want you around.

-B.G... -It's committee decision.

-You can't do that, B.G. -It's done.

Jeannie,

please, help me.

Every cop in town looking for my brother,

and you want me to help you.

I didn't feel good.

I got no job.

I haven't got a dime.

Jeannie, I...

I wanted to go with Johnny.

I couldn't.

King's death turned me around.

-I was shook. -Goddamn it, you were drunk.

I took a drink at the wrong time.

Don't kill me for it.

I swear, I've had my last drink.

We're not running a rehabilitation center in this revolution.

We don't have the time.

B.G.,

-I got no place to go. -Then die.

The only sign of intelligence you show

is standing out here in the rain listening to me.

Mr. Charlie told you you can't think, so you don't think.

-That's the truth. -Yeah, that's the truth.

Yeah, he tells you you're unskilled.

He tells you you're unskilled and semiskilled,

and you believe it.

-But didn't you clear the land? -Yeah.

-Didn't you lay the tracks? -Yeah.

-And didn't you build the cities? -Yeah.

Yeah, now what you got?

-You got equipment? -No.

-You got factories? -No.

You got a membership card in the white-man's union?

-No. -Do you have any money?

-No. -No.

You ain't got nothing.

No, Negroes, I ain't here waxing for nothing,

so start putting some money in that bucket.

We gotta get our own thing going.

Our own program.

Now, look at that.

Look at those two fine young studs there.

Look at all that spaghetti on their chest.

Young studs.

Beautiful and stupid.

Been running up hills?

Been crawling in water having yourself a killing good time.

Now you're back and you ain't got nothing,

just like the rest of us.

You give that gal some money and I'll tell you like it is, baby.

You know what got you into your present bag?

The machine. The super machine.

Because that machine makes machines.

Know what that makes you?

Obsolete.

They don't need you anymore, baby.

That's what I mean by "obsolete".

Now, let me hear you say it. What are you?

-Obsolete. -I can't hear you.

Obsolete.

We gonna do something.

We gonna get together.

We gonna say, "Hey, Mr. Charlie Machine.

You all right, baby. Do your thing."

But this is P-E-O-P-L-E, people time.

And I mean power.

-Black Power. -Yeah.

-Black Power. -Yeah. I want you to feel it strong.

And I want you to say it. I want you to say it loud and clear.

-Power. -Power!

-Power! -Power!

Black Power!

-Black Power! -Yeah!

There was a company fink who tried to get me

to sell out the boys in the shop.

I'm the man who burnt his tail against the blast furnace.

Yes, as I remember, you did three years for that.

That's right.

Now, do you really wanna mess with me?

You ready to do some more time?

What you talking about?

Johnny's not the only one up the creek.

You are too.

Hold it, man.

What you putting down?

Come on to my place. We'll have a couple of drinks.

Now, let me tell you what a man said way back in the 16th century.

A very hip man. Now, he said...

Help yourself.

Anything here is yours.

Nobody should be poor, Tank.

And you, you're a man for the fleshpots.

Daisy, how much you get for the head of a brother?

What's the going rate?

How much?

Do you wanna talk to my accountant?

How do you feel when you sell a man?

I mean, you grew up around here.

You knew Johnny.

I don't care what happens to Johnny.

Or to you.

Or to my whole useless existence.

There's no law says you gotta go on living.

Just check out.

In good time, Tank.

I'm still working out the style of my departure.

Okay, Daisy-girl, what'd you bring me down here for?

I thought you'd be interested in photography.

Private and confidential.

Come.

Doesn't do you justice, Tank. A little out of focus.

The photographer was an amateur, but the police paid him well for it.

There, that's better.

Don't worry about it, Tank.

The cops have a certain affection for me.

I might get this photograph removed from the files.

I might.

Got another one.

This one's going up in every post office today.

There he is, as photogenic as all Africa.

There isn't a cop who doesn't know every detail of that face.

One thousand dollars.

No publicity, no red tape, no delay in payoffs.

One thousand dollars paid directly into your hands.

You got the wrong house, mister.

You must have made a mistake.

Maybe you want the next house.

Sorry to call on you so late, Mrs. Hudson,

but these welfare cases keep piling up.

Oh, that's all right.

Good night.

See you next Tuesday maybe.

-Good night. -Good night.

Night.

Tank, what's the matter?

I need you, Laurie.

-You in some kind of trouble? -No.

Who was that?

Mr. Oakley.

I thought so.

-I could make trouble for you. -No, please...

Mrs. Hudson, you know welfare cannot hand out those checks

-if you have a man around. -I know, but this man isn't...

Come on. Come on. Level with me.

Isn't this the gentleman we've been looking for?

-No, Mr. Oakley, he's just a friend. -You know, sir,

nonsupport of your children is a punishable offense.

-He's not the... I told you... -If he hasn't got a job,

we'll find one for him.

You look strong enough.

You so right, man. I'm strong enough.

I'm strong enough to show you what I think of you

and your whole goddamn welfare system!

Tank!

What are you, crazy? You think you got bumpers on your ass?

Lunatic! Lunatic!

-Tank. -Get out of the street!

Mr. Oakley!

You people down here in the Hough area are crazy.

-Just plain crazy. -He didn't mean it.

-You'll hear from me! -He didn't mean it.

-You'll hear from me! -Mr. Oakley.

-Oh, you stupid, drunken... -Laurie, I'm sorry.

Those damn welfare people, they...

I can't feed the kids on "sorry".

They eat food, not "sorry".

I feel about your kids like they was mine.

Then feed them like they was yours.

Bring me some money.

Bring me some money.

You don't like me being on welfare.

That lousy check don't buy nothing.

I have to do a whole lot of other things I don't like.

Laurie. Laurie.

This city is killing me. It's killing both of us.

-Look, forget about that welfare. -You took care of that.

We'll get out of town, just you and me and the kids.

With What?

Tank, you need somebody to hold you together,

but it ain't me.

I got too many troubles of my own.

-Laurie... -Turn me loose, Tank.

I gotta go put the kids to bed.

Because I gotta go meet a guy who can do something for me.

Laurie.

Stay with me tonight.

Give me the break I need, huh?

Just quit me.

You wanna find Tank? Go to Laurie's street.

Hi, baby.

Easy, Tank, easy.

Hey, Tank.

What are you doing here?

-Hey, Tank. -What are you doing here?

I gotta see Ma. She's sick. She don't know how sick.

-Don't do that, Johnny. -Look, the guys got me a passport.

-The cops keep checking the house. -Hey, guy, you coming or not?

I'll be gone, Tank. Maybe for a long time.

Tank.

I gotta see Mama.

But she'd tell you herself it's not worth the chance.

Well, what's worth what, brother?

I mean, what's worth taking chances for?

Look, I'm gonna take that lady in my arms tonight,

and nobody's gonna stop me.

It was me who got you into this mess, Johnny.

No, I've been thinking about that.

It was my fault for trying to push you into something you weren't ready for.

You're from another time.

You were great in the mills.

Steel, fire, the old union bit.

And when you came on strong, all of us kids knew it.

But revolution is not your stick.

The disciplines are too tough for you.

If I don't have you guys, I don't have nobody.

They cut you loose from the committee.

-They cut you loose, Tank. -B.G. told me.

I can't live with that, Johnny.

-Fix it, please. -I can't, Tank.

Listen, Johnny, I can get myself together.

Honest to God, I can.

-I got three days' work next week... -Beautiful, beautiful.

Johnny, if you talk to B.G., if you put in the good word...

Please, Johnny?

I'll try.

Yeah, I'll do that.

Thanks, Johnny.

Thanks.

Now, dig, man.

They're having a meeting.

Tell B.G. I'm gonna see Mama.

I need a couple of cats around the house, just in case.

Okay, Johnny.

And I'll come with them.

I love you, Johnny.

I love you, Tank.

Isn't this a waste of time?

We'll listen to what he has to say.

We know what he's got to say.

Oh, yes, we know.

It's gonna start with "In the name of unity."

You know what? They're here with a white guy.

Figures.

Well, well, well.

Well, how are you, Jeannie?

How you doing?

Hi, B.G.

Hello, Alma.

Hi, Corbin.

Sit down.

What is this, a barrier between us?

It looks like it, doesn't it?

Well, I hope we can bridge this barrier.

I know we haven't always seen eye to eye on everything.

There's one thing we don't see eye to eye on right now.

I asked Ted to come.

You got the ball.

You wanna talk?

We'll listen.

But you won't have anything to say.

We might have, when he leaves.

Is that the way it is, Corbin?

That's the way it is.

You remember me, Corbin?

We were together in Selma.

They threw us in the same jail.

I remember you

when we cried together in Mississippi.

That's when we heard they'd killed those three kids.

Two white, one black.

I remember you when you read a pamphlet I wrote in Birmingham.

And you said, "That's good, Teddy. That's good."

Other times, man. Other times.

Things have changed.

I haven't changed.

I have every right to be here.

Man, oh, man, when whitey talks about his rights.

You get off that "whitey" crap!

-I'm no conscience-stricken liberal. -We're wasting time.

Selma, lunch counters, Birmingham,

yesterday.

A phase we went through together.

Now we don't walk together anymore.

It's policy now.

No whites.

That's great.

Stomped on, spilled blood, but you can't work here anymore.

Disqualified.

Wrong complexion.

Don't shout, friend.

We got to do it alone.

You can't do it alone.

Without me, you can't win.

Without me, you're gonna get killed.

If you'll excuse us now, Teddy, Kyle wants to talk to us.

Here's the money. Everything's accounted for.

Here's something I wrote.

If you don't wanna read it, you can use it for toilet paper.

It's been charming.

Teddy.

We got to do it alone.

We don't want your know-how.

We got to develop our own or die.

Think about it.

Go help the white brother.

He's in deep trouble.

Change him.

That's your job.

Teddy.

If you wanna help us, send us some guns.

You folks can buy them easier than we can.

That's the way to win a war,

alienate your friends.

Get to the main drift, Kyle.

Who's the brain here? Do I talk to you, Corbin, or B.G.?

No stars in the movement. They kill them too quick.

You talk to all of us.

The meeting Saturday,

there's money there.

There's help.

White help too.

Ted was scheduled to speak.

Before I walk out of here,

I wanna be sure that you cats are not gonna mess things up.

We're gonna have that meeting in peace,

not even a firecracker.

I'm asking you to come in with us on some constructive action.

Oh, Jesus. Here we go crawling to Washington.

Walking straight, my brother. Marching.

-Again? -Thousands and thousands, again!

The poor people in this country are going to be organized.

There's your power.

And not just a black caucus, everybody.

I hate niggers like you.

Making your pile in the opportunity programs,

lapping it up big at the white-man cocktail parties.

Maybe he's bucking for the Senate.

And if I were, would you be against that?

Before you yell "Black Power", learn what it means.

Well, I'm not yelling for you, Reverend.

Don't come at me with none of that "Reverend" crap,

or big as you are...

He's only nonviolent when it comes to whitey.

Don't you accuse me of selling out to anybody ever,

-or as God is my judge... -I am accusing you.

Cut it!

Cut it.

After the revolution, you dudes can kill each other all you want.

You got no revolution.

A revolution is a plan, not a gun.

I'm begging you to think straight.

Violence is a self-defeating mother.

Work with us.

And peace, brother, peace.

Damn. I've known you since you were a baby.

I don't recognize you anymore.

You can't. I'm off my knees now.

I like my man with a gun.

Jeannie, the nonviolent program...

Is dead.

Killed by white violence April 4th, 1968, in Memphis.

-The man who died... -Was murdered.

As were four little girls in a Sunday School house.

As was Medgar Evers. And after him, 47 others.

How many of their killers went to jail? Nobody.

That's over.

We gotta make them know that every time they even think

of picking up a gun against a black man,

there's a black gun waiting for them.

That's not the way, B.G.

You'll bring the whole military machine down on our heads.

You...

You will be the excuse for fascism in this country.

You'll bring on the camps.

What the hell do you think we've got now?

Then you have no idea what it could be.

I don't hate you, B.G.

I don't wanna see you in a camp.

I don't wanna see you killed.

And I don't wanna see you responsible for other people being killed.

Now, you listen.

When you're born black in this country, you're born dead.

Don't talk to us about being killed, we know about that.

You're an honest man, Kyle.

Go ahead, have your meeting. Nobody's gonna bother you.

You go get those bills passed,

bills the whites won't obey anyway.

You do your thing and we'll do ours.

But get this straight.

I don't know about a revolution without arms.

And I don't know about a revolution that doesn't punish its enemies.

-Get out of here, Tank. -Hey.

-Stay out of here, Tank. -I gotta see B.G.

What are you doing here?

Jeannie. Jeannie, your brother's back.

-Where is he? -He came to see me.

He asked me to bring you the message.

Where is he?

He's going to the house to see your mother.

B.G., Johnny wants a couple of cats around the house in case of the cops.

That idiot.

Rick, Larry.

Where you going?

B.G.

B.G., please.

Johnny came to me.

Johnny trusted me.

You keep away from that house.

And keep away from us.

You're no goddamn good.

B.G.

Johnny, he knows where I'm at.

He's gonna talk to you.

Johnny's already talked to us.

I'll tell you his exact words.

"Don't trust Tank. Cut him loose."

Johnny?

Johnny said that?

Yeah, nigger.

Johnny said that.

Yeah?

Who do I see about the reward?

-What reward? -Johnny Wells.

Just a minute.

Lieutenant.

It's about Johnny Wells.

Wait a minute.

Joe.

Get everything around these ends and make your way to our cover.

-Right. What's up? -I think we've got Johnny Wells.

-Yeah. -This is Teddy.

-Give me B.G., quick. -He's not here.

Well, where can I find him?

Look, Teddy, why don't you forget it, huh?

Johnny.

Johnny.

You damn fool.

Get out of here.

The police are all around here, they'll kill you.

-They'll kill you. -I'm going, Mama.

Just tell me how you are.

Oh, Johnny.

I'm all right, Johnny.

I'm all right.

Mama?

All right, now, just move back and no one will get hurt.

I warn you. Move back.

Come on, move it back here.

Move back here.

Just move back and no one will get hurt.

We gotta keep this place clear, fellas.

-Why? -That's our orders.

-Please? -We just wanna...

Now, listen, fellow, it's for your own protection.

Get back in, will you?

Clear the balconies.

Please, clear the balconies.

Please, go indoors.

Please, clear the balconies for your own protection.

Please, clear the balconies and stay indoors.

Please, go indoors.

Please, clear the balconies for your own protection.

You stay here!

Please, clear the balconies and stay indoors.

I'll call you, Mama.

-We're here to make an arrest. -I know you will.

There will be no trouble.

Just clear the balconies and stay indoors.

Please, get back, ladies and gentlemen.

-Mike! -There he is.

You haven't got a chance, Wells. Come on down.

Clear the balconies or you'll get hurt.

We're gonna fire one shot into the air. Just one.

Johnny!

Stay out here.

Stay out here.

If we stay on the balcony, they won't be able to shoot him.

Don't you believe it!

Don't move! Stay out here!

Nobody move! Stay here!

Put down the gun, Wells.

Johnny! Johnny!

Drink it slow, Tank, man.

-Yeah. -Drink it slow.

I got no time to drink slow, got no heart to drink alone.

Give everybody another little taste.

-Yeah! -All right!

Especially the pretty little girl over there with the light brown eyes.

-Thank you, sir! -In the flesh, baby.

Black and beautiful and ready.

Tank, man. Tank, you flying high, man.

Oh, yes, one of them there spaceships, up in orbit.

Tank, man, you fly.

Hey, hey, hey, you back in the steel mills pouring iron?

That's mule's work, man.

Hear that, baby? That cat thinks I'm a mule.

You ain't no mule, Tank, that's for sure.

Well, you tell him because he don't know.

Brother Tank is no mule!

-Hey, Stack. -Yeah, man?

You call yourself a barman, man?

Keep moving.

I'm drinking faster than you are pouring.

Yes, and you're drinking faster than you thinking, man.

Hey, he's all right.

You know one thing, man, you gonna go to heaven when you die.

No, I ain't. Where my friends go, there go I.

Hey, princess.

You drinking faster than I'm buying.

Hey, Tank!

You hit it. You hit the number.

There's my man, my main man.

Hey, Ralph, come in out of the cold, baby.

Tank, you've caught that big number.

How do you like that?

My friend, he plays his nickels with me

and bets his dollars with the biggies.

But I'll drink with you anyway.

How much you hit them for?

How much, man?

He's sure inquisitive.

He don't mind you knowing his business,

he just don't want you to know all of it.

Hey, give this girl another drink.

I gotta be going now.

-Where you going? -Give them all what they want, Stack.

Coming up.

See you, princess. Don't let this guy overpower you now.

-See you. -Hey, Tank, where you going?

-Come back. -I'll see you.

Laurie.

Laurie.

Laurie.

Where is Laurie?

Where is Laurie?

Where is Laurie?

Where is Laurie?

There's stop, go, stop, go.

Hey, stop.

Where is Laurie?

Oh, you noisy, beautiful bastard!

Remember me?

Tank Williams.

Tank Williams!

I gave you 20 years, and you don't remember nothing.

You don't remember nothing.

Twenty lovely, beautiful years,

and you don't remember.

I miss you.

I miss you, baby.

I miss you, son of a bitch.

Steel, oh, I miss you.

That's where it's at. That's beautiful.

That's power, real power!

I'm the fastest gun in the West.

And they don't call me Lightnin' Trigger for nothing.

You wanna try to out shoot me?

Ready? Draw.

I've got you!

I got you! I got you!

You can't beat me. I'm the fastest gun in Cleveland.

Hey!

Look at that Rolls-Royce. First one I ever seen in the flesh.

Come on, play another one.

Well, why not? Why not? I'll try him again.

He got me with a lucky shot.

Hey. Man, that's great shooting.

He got me.

You try it, Johnny.

Johnny?

You're Johnny?

Right, I'm Johnny.

But I'm not gonna shoot it out with you, man.

Sir, are you one of those militants?

I mean, would you really like to kill all of us?

Well, present company excluded.

Tell me, sir.

Is all of this target practice part of the plan?

Plan?

Oh, you know:

Tell her.

Well, she's not really supposed to know.

Yeah, I mean, you can't expect a black man

to take you into his confidence just like that.

It takes time.

You gotta pay your dues. Right, friend?

-Yeah. -Yeah. Yeah.

Tell us the plan, please?

-Yeah, tell it like it is, brother. -Please, do.

You know, I really shouldn't.

Come on.

Well, y'all seem like nice people.

Come on in, close.

-Come on, guy. You level with us. -Please, tell us.

-Well, then, next Thursday... -Next Thursday?

...you wake up, you go to wash your face, no water.

Somebody's cut the water.

So you go to the phone,

but all you hear is a scratchy record like Donald Duck.

"We're out of order. We're out of order due to black folks."

So you run to the television to turn on the news

and all you see is a big black face like mine,

saying, "We done took over."

-Come on. -Right, friend?

The next thing you do is you grab your head

and you yell, "My money!"

And you run to the bank.

And behind the counter,

the prettiest little black girls you've ever seen.

But when you say, "Give me my money",

all they do is smile and say, "Sorry, no money".

Right, friend?

Maybe you people find this funny, but I find it very unfunny.

Funny part of the plan comes now, mister.

Earth's too hot for you.

"I'm going to my moon!"

You're in Cape Kennedy.

Everything is A-okay.

Four, three, two, one, zero.

Minus zero.

You ain't going nowhere.

Some little nigger done blew the fuse.

Well, night, folks.

Time to go.

The politicians, they don't have the answer.

The people beating their breasts calling themselves leaders,

they don't have the answer.

-Jesus is the answer. -Amen.

But the people, they're twisting and they're turning

and they're running here and they're running there,

but they're running in the wrong way,

and they're running in the wrong direction.

They're running, and sometimes, like Johnny Wells,

they get their self killed.

Oh, if Johnny Wells had been searching for Jesus,

he wouldn't be laying dead out there tonight.

-Oh, God have mercy. -Amen.

He should have known that Jesus is the way.

-Amen. -All my brothers and sisters,

our young men, they got to find another search,

they've got to go on a Jesus search.

-Oh, yes. -Preach it, sister.

-Talk that talk. -Thank you.

Thank you. Yes, Jesus is the way.

Any other way is a worriation of the spirit.

Any other way is a sickness of the soul.

Oh, she was one of those pale broads, Johnny.

Just like one of those Pepsi-Cola ads.

Every time I'd blink my eyelids, she'd jump.

Hey, if you're white, you're right.

If you black, get back.

Well, I gave them a little backlash.

Hey there, little pretty.

Bring that little old basket around here.

Hey, $20. That's beautiful.

You're a cute little female yourself.

-Look deep in the rock. -Oh, thank you.

Stretch out your hand, reach inside your soul,

and find Jesus there.

Thank God Almighty.

Thank God Almighty.

My, oh, my.

That's part of our trouble right there.

That's all of our trouble.

Every time I feel the spirit

Moving in my heart I will pray.

Every time I feel the spirit

Moving in my heart I will pray

Upon the mountain Where my lord spoke

Out of God's mouth came Fire and smoke

I looked around me It looked so fine

I asked the lord if all was mine

Tank, son. Get ahold of yourself, boy.

Hey, Brother James.

I know how you feel. I know how close you and Johnny was.

But come on, let me walk you home.

Come on.

I'm with you, Brother James.

It's a bad night out.

Better be off the street.

They'll wonder why I'm not there.

-What's the matter, Tank? -I forgot something.

I forgot something.

You've known him ever since he was a child.

We live close together.

Honey, give Tank some coffee.

Better take care of yourself, boy.

I told him.

I told him it was crazy to come here!

What are you shouting for?

Take it easy, man.

Don't take it on yourself, son.

It ain't your fault.

I said, "Johnny, don't go there!"

-Okay, man. Nobody here... -Then don't be saying it!

Nobody said nothing.

Excuse me, Mother Wells.

Excuse me.

It's all right.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

It's been years of getting his act together.

-Those two. -You've been a mother to this child.

Tank. Hey, Tank.

-Hey, wait a minute, man. -What for?

-B.G. wants to talk to you. -Later for you, man.

What are you running away from? What are you afraid of?

I ain't afraid of nothing.

What you want?

Just tell me, man, where you working now?

-Why? -You seem all right for money.

Tank!

Tank!

Turn him loose. You're crazy. You're gonna kill him!

Tank!

Tank!

You're gonna kill him!

Tank!

Tank, turn him loose, you crazy fool.

Tank, you're gonna kill him. Tank.

Let him go.

Let him go.

He suspects me. He said so.

-Suspects you of what? -He didn't say nothing...

-You're a liar! -Tank! Tank!

I wanna talk to you.

On the roof.

Now, let's go.

Since when did we start beating up on each other?

Since when?

And what's this strangling scene?

"Brother".

Now I'm a brother.

B.G., man, there was nothing in the world I wouldn't do for you guys,

but you cut me loose like I was a dog.

"Brother Tank, get lost".

We couldn't trust you.

Afraid you'd get drunk and talk.

Even tonight you're drunk.

Johnny died because somebody talked.

Somebody must have told the cops he was at the house.

Tank, you gotta help us.

The man who told on Johnny must know about us.

He can kill the committee.

I ain't got nothing to do with the committee, remember?

Tank.

Help us,

and we'll take you back in.

You mean that?

True?

That's Bible.

Hey.

Hey.

You guys.

Larry.

Rick.

It'll be just like old times.

B.G., I'll do anything for you.

You do the thinking, and me,

I'll whip any man in the house!

Hey, I'll take on all three of you.

Hey, Cleveland!

This calls for a celebra...

Hey, let's get a bottle.

Hey.

Hey.

Why didn't I think of it before?

That's it.

It was him.

You know who told on Johnny?

It was Clarence.

Clarence.

-Who's Clarence? -You know Clarence.

Hey, Rick, it was you who named him Daisy-girl.

I saw him running like hell into the police station.

B.G., I saw him with my own eyes.

-You're sure? -Dead sure.

Okay.

Let's break it up.

Hey, where you going?

Don't go after him. Let me go. I'll do whatever you want.

There's plenty of time. We'll take care of that.

We wanna talk first.

You go get some sleep.

You...?

You sure you don't want me to stay and talk with you guys?

No, you go ahead.

See you, huh?

See you.

He did it.

-I swear he did it. -You know for sure?

I'm sure.

Check it out.

Clarence?

Clarence.

Clarence.

Oh, my prophetic soul.

I knew you would turn up, Tank.

I knew it.

-Drink, Tank? -No.

-Pot? -Nothing.

Extraordinary.

Claude, this is Tank.

Proof that the fallen angel was black.

-Daisy, I wanna... -At the moment, he hates me.

Don't look at me that way, Tank.

I was only destiny's handmaiden.

Man, you really lay it on.

I gotta talk to you, Daisy, alone.

I have no secrets from Claude.

Besides, I might need a witness.

Like hell you do.

-Clarence, he's gonna hit me. -Tank. Tank.

-Stop! Make him stop! -What's wrong with you?

-Tank. -Stay in there, baby-doll,

or you'll get that pretty face all broke up.

Clarence!

All right, let's get it over with.

-Clarence! -The boy in there's the hysterical type.

Clarence!

Daisy, you gotta get out.

-They think you did it. -Think I did what?

-Told the cops where Johnny was. -Me?

They... They... They know who you work for.

It's so decent of you to come and tell me, Tank.

Just let me get this boy out.

-You gotta get dressed. -Look, Tank...

You gotta get out. Now.

-Now, look, you Neanderthal... -Where are your shoes?

-Clarence! Clarence! -Where are your shoes?

-Your shoes, where are they? -Clarence!

-Where are they? -Clarence!

Where are your goddamn shoes?

Find them.

Daisy,

please, don't make me kill you.

There isn't a soul in the world who'd shed a tear.

Clarence!

Nothing, Claude.

It's James Bond in colored time.

That's the trouble with every black man I know,

he has no sense of the ridiculous.

We'd like to know what you did with your time tonight.

-Time? -Yeah.

Let me think.

Tank,

this is your second visit here tonight.

-What time was your first? -He's a liar. That's a dirty lie!

-You shut up! -I'll kill you, you dirty bastard!

-Damn it, Tank! -I'll kill you!

Okay, man.

How much you get for selling Johnny?

Nothing.

But our friend here came into a lot of money tonight.

Where'd he get it?

Cat buys me a drink.

I ain't gonna ask him where he got the money.

Big Tank wouldn't do nothing like that.

-Not Tank, never. -Just checking.

Well, check this, brother.

Tank sold his mother, his father, and the Clark Street Bridge.

Now, listen. A friend comes into some money, let him swing.

Bought drinks for everybody. What's wrong with that?

More power to him, I say.

All right.

I get the picture.

Now, you wait a minute.

It's none of your business, but I'll tell you.

Tank hit the number today. He hit it big.

And I'm the cat to know it because I paid him off myself.

Why are you lying, Ralph?

Tank ain't hit no number, and you ain't give him nothing.

He was flush when he walked in here and you know it.

Listen.

Tank and Johnny were like this.

I've known Tank for 15 years.

I don't know if he had any money or not.

If I did know, I wouldn't tell you.

Hey, wait a minute. What's this all about?

What are you asking questions for? What the hell's this all about? Hey.

Now, the cat drops at least $25 at Little John's.

He buys a bottle for the crowd at Parker's.

Two more for the girls at Phoebe's.

He gives Sister Crawford's girl $20.

He leaves his change at the Red Apple.

He threw away money in every bar in town.

Tipping like a big man everywhere he went.

You can't go in there.

Now, look, fellas. Don't give me a hard time.

I know what's being put down in here.

-Now, get out of my way. -You can't go in.

You're gonna have to let me in there, man, or kill me.

You understand?

That cat has been broke for years,

and tonight he's been making like Rockefeller.

-Hold it. -So, what is it...?

-Kyle's out there. -No.

Wait a minute.

Let him in.

What is this, a public forum?

Take a chair, Kyle.

Go ahead.

What number hit today?

When?

T...? T...? Today?

The winning number. What was it?

Let me think.

Let me think.

Think.

Three-four-one?

Yeah.

That was it.

Three forty-one.

That was it.

The number was 4-4-4.

Three fours.

Tonight you told me you were broke.

Suddenly, you're spending money like water.

Where'd you get it?

I... I'll tell you.

Just... Just give me a minute.

We'll wait.

Where'd you get it?

I'll tell you.

The blood bank.

That's it.

The blood bank.

You know that place over on Prospect.

I so... I sold them some blood.

How much did they give you?

Let me see now.

This...

This juice, it's got...

Got my head all messed up.

See, there were a couple of 105...

He's a liar.

-Alma. -No, he's a liar.

Do you wanna know what they pay for blood? Well, ask me.

Ask me and my whole family.

Well, we're regular customers.

They pay you $5 for Rh positive and 7 for negative.

And that's all they pay you, you son of a bitch.

You son of a bitch.

Rick, Larry, me,

we saw you give Johnny's mother $20.

You put it in the bowl next to the door.

Where'd you get that money?

I didn't... I didn't know what I was doing.

I didn't know

what I was doing.

Tell me.

Who can tell me why I did it?

Alma.

Larry.

Rick.

Please.

Well, that's that.

Rick.

Larry.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

What is this?

Is this a verdict?

Are you a jury?

-This is a council, friend. -What council?

You're talking about killing a man.

By what right?

The revolutionary right to punish our enemies.

B.G.,

Corbin,

to kill a man, to take a human life,

you have to have an authority,

you have to have a legality.

What legality?

The white man's?

Now, you listen, Jesus, Holy Ghost, or whoever you represent,

since the first black man was brought to this country,

the white-man's laws have propped-up slavery, lynching, and castration.

Are you instructing me, for chrissake?

I've been fighting that mess all my life!

Then don't talk to me about legality.

Your laws were not made to protect black people.

Corbin, wait, man. Don't. Don't be blind.

Today, we can make better laws.

Today, there is a conscience that can be reached.

We don't believe it.

Not in this society.

It's got to go.

It's got to be wrecked.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Kyle, let gentler souls than ours build your Utopia.

You hate guns, you hate violence.

So did we, remember?

Our whole program was born out of nonviolence.

You name me a people in all history less violent than we were.

Name a people more patient,

a people more forgiving of insult and abuse.

But whitey took up that gun, whitey used violence.

Whitey is the mother of violence.

We loved Johnny.

We needed him.

Whitey's money bought his death.

This man stands between me and every choice I've made.

Corbin.

Corbin!

Get up, Tank.

Get up.

Yes?

What happened?

Well, come here.

Where?

Well, where's that?

Mr. Williams is expecting me.

-He is, huh? -Yeah.

One flight up, Room 11.

Hey. Take my advice.

Get paid in advance like I was.

Tell me.

I will.

Everything.

Everything.

Just a minute.

Laurie...

Laurie.

Made in Cleveland, U.S.A.

Goddamn.

You're so tired.

I just feel cold.

Come close to me, baby.

Get under the covers.

Laurie,

did you know that the police killed Johnny?

It was me who told the police where to find him.

They gave me a thousand dollars.

B.G., Rick.

You're a dead man, Tank.

I know.

But I had to see you again.

Laurie,

I need somebody to tell me why I did it.

I... I don't know why I did it.

I was in the police station telling them.

And I don't even know how I got there.

Rest, baby.

Rest now.

In the whole world, there's nobody to tell me why I did it.

The only two people I ever loved was you and Johnny.

I swear it.

Just you and Johnny.

I love you, Tank.

Hey!

Rick, look! Here!

Here, guys!

Larry!

Come on! Here! Here!

Give me that.