07x19 - b*llet (Part 2)

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07x19 - b*llet (Part 2)

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Lou, I'd like you to meet a
friend of mine, Diane Yates.

Agent Yates. FBI.

Shaver enters the sh**ting lane...

(g*nsh*t)

We have a serial k*ller.

Last one was years ago.

Your father's a suspect in a
series of unsolved sh**t.

MILLER: Here come the
FBI storm troopers.

(both gasp)

Anything?

William Shepard.

What the hell?

(g*nsh*t)

("Snake Song" by Townes
Van Zandt playing)

Keep it steady.

Don't think. Just...

trust your hands.

There you go.

♪ I get lonely ♪

That's it.

That's a decent Adams.

(chuckles)

See if you catch any fish
with it first before you go

celebrating too much.

I mean, that's the problem in life.

Pride.

People think they can't help it.

But man has a choice...

And that's where

he's different from an animal.

That's right.

It's from East of Eden.

Only showed it

times.

(chuckles): Yeah.

At the drive-in.

Well, I guess you're right,

but it doesn't make it any less true,
take it from me.

They got a Dirty Harry double bill

playing in town.

Maybe we could go.

Sure.

We'll see.

Hey.

Why don't you go grab
us some firewood.

(guitar playing)

Paul.

You're a good kid.

♪ ♪

(instrument imitates rattlesnake)

♪ Well, the future, he don't ♪

♪ Try to find me ♪

♪ Skin I been through ♪

(g*nsh*t) ♪ Dies behind me... ♪

Dad?

Dad?

Dad?

(Paul gasps)

(Paul screams)

We have no sign of the
sh**t from the post office,

but we found his van abandoned
at an old campground.

Cause of death looks
like a single b*llet.

Exit wound through
the top of the skull.

su1c1de.

Bill Shepard.

k*lled four people,
then himself back in .

We got a different take, John.

Yates?

You got me, G-Man.

You're suspended pending an OPR.
That coming from you

or HQ? Even if I wanted

to protect you, I couldn't
once those sh*ts were fired.

And you're about a hundred
miles out of your jurisdiction.

YATES: And you'd be about miles

away from this cabin without her.

No thanks to you playing keep-away.

Well, such a cr*ck investigator,

figured you'd find it on your own.

Always this insubordinate,
Lieutenant?

Not to me. Can we get on
with this? Absolutely.

Yates. Ryan, when you're done

putting 'em on the table,
come and see what we've got.

So ME estimates

Bill Shepard offed himself
about years ago.

But all that time
someone's been paying

property tax on this cabin
using a local checking account.

Even after Shepard d*ed,
paid up every year.

So there's checks from the
late ' s, early ' s.

The signatures are different.

They changed somewhere
around the fall of .

From this... to this.

Bill Shepard dropped off the
face of the earth in ,

but our first body dropped in .

So Shepard's dead before
the first murders?

Means someone else did the k*lling.

Yeah. Bill's son, Paul Shepard.

Yeah, the bag from his video store.

Half-empty box of
-aught-six cartridges.

Same as our sn*per's a*mo.

Paul claimed that
his father ran off,

but he's been coming up here.

Makes him what, ,
when the first m*rder occurred?

Awful young for a serial k*ller.

Old enough to pull a trigger.

(phone ringing)

Scotty, tell me you
found Paul Shepard.

No, but I sure as hell
know where he's been.

VALENS: Theodore Kutler,
-year-old grad student.

Took a b*llet coming out of his
apartment couple hours ago.

Witnesses?

Well, several people
heard the sh*t,

and one witness saw a muzzle
flash from that building.

There was a shell casing

found on the roof.

Getting sloppy.

He's on a spree.

I'll take that.

Last I heard, Ninth and Cherry
was still Philadelphia proper.

Well, if you want to get that
evidence processed this year,

we're gonna have to
send it to my lab.

Unless, of course,
you don't trust me.

STILLMAN: Scotty, work

the scene, huh?

Not looking for a jurisdiction w*r.

It's only a matter of time
before the media finds out

we have an active serial
k*ller on a rampage.

Well, what do you propose?

Joint task force.
Your guys and mine. Hey, look,

no one's up to speed like Rush.

She runs point on this.
Fair enough.

But we prosecute.

Yates, too.

It's her case. No deal.

Yates has already
booked a one-way ticket

to the Anchorage field office.

Cavanaugh?

Change of plans.

Rush and I have field
command with your oversight.

According to who?

Well, you, actually.

Just got off the
phone with the SAC.

Let him know your plans

to pursue the case,
and he signed off.

Even you don't have
the balls, Yates.

Well, call him yourself, Ryan,
if you don't believe me.

'Course you're gonna have
to explain how I went off

the reservation for a week,
opened this case solo,

while you sat in your
corner office clueless.

Don't pout, Ryan.

It causes frown lines.

Bad news is she likes you.

Or maybe she just
cares about the job.

You've known her, what, three days?

Yates talks a good game,
but she's reckless.

Being told that before our
victim was a grad student,

he was the manager at the
Long View Video store.

That was Paul Shepard's place.

MILLER: Anything different
about Paul lately?


He seem aggravated, depressed?

No. No more than usual.

You-You guys need, like,
a warrant to be here?

'Cause I'm in charge.

JEFFRIES: When was the
last time you saw Paul?

Uh, yesterday?

No, no. Day before.

Uh, no. Thursday.

It was...

It was Thursday.

What are you doing on that thing?

Oh, totally Tweeting all this.

Dude.

Hey, Brian,

focus.

Tell us about your
relationship with Paul.

All right, uh, Theo was the manager;
Paul was the owner.

Little more detail.

Like why Theo didn't
work here anymore.

He quit? Get fired?

Oh, oh, definitely fired.

What the hell happened, Theo?

We were robbed.

Yeah, I can see that.

They wrecked the place.

But the windows aren't broken.

The locks are untouched.

The alarm didn't go off.

You see where I'm
going with this, Theo?

I was kind of out of it last night.

My girlfriend and I
were fighting, and...

I went over there.

Might have neglected to...

You might have neglected?

♪ Next to me... ♪

Do you understand
what this means, Theo?

The insurance won't pay
if the alarm wasn't on.

♪ Mistake, mistake... ♪

Maybe I could chip in.

It's-It's not just the money.

I mean, look at this stuff.

It's-It's irreplaceable.

I mean, do you... do you have any

idea how long it took
me to fix this place up?

Huh?

(sighs) ♪ Right in between... ♪

You know what?

Just-Just get the hell out of here!

Yeah, those repairs cost,
like, a ton.

Paul had to close the other stores

just to make up the difference.

You know, it's not like the
vid biz is a growth industry.

MILLER: We're gonna need access

to your safe, any
financials you have here.

All right, in the office.

Um, I-I got...

tardiness issues.

You think Paul's
gunning for me, too?

You might want to stop
Tweeting about it.

(garbled radio transmission)

Where is your husband right now,
Mrs. Shepard?

I don't know. When was the
last time you saw him?

Uh, yesterday morning.

Is that normal?

Disappearing for a day and a half?

What's going on?

We're just looking to talk to Paul.

If it was just to talk,
then the FBI wouldn't be here.

Well, that's right, Mrs. Shepard.

The fact is, we think

your husband may have been
involved in a sh**ting.

He own a r*fle you know of?

You think he sh*t someone?

Claire, I understand how
difficult this is for you,

but Paul's out there right now,

and no matter what
he did or didn't do,

the best thing for everyone
is to bring him back safely.

He's, uh...

's, uh...

He's been under a lot
of pressure lately

with the video stores.

There a place that he
goes to when he's feeling

stressed or under pressure
other than the cabin?

What cabin?

YATES: The cabin

your husband owns in Mount Pocono.

Which is where

we found this.

RUSH: That's Bill Shepard,

Paul's father.

His father? Uh...

He ever talk about him?

Oh, my God.

He ever tell you how
his father d*ed?

No.

I found out on my own...

♪ It's a bad man's world ♪

♪ It's a bad man's world ♪

♪ It's a bad man's world ♪

♪ It's a bad man's world ♪

♪ It's a bad man's world... ♪

What the hell are you doing?

I'm sorry.

I, I was just looking for stamps.

You told me your father
walked out on you.

This is a su1c1de note.

What's the difference?

Gone is gone.

How did it happen?

He sh*t himself.

Nothing I could do.

You?

Paul...

You were the one who found him?

You should have just asked
me for the damn stamps.

I'm sorry.

That must have been so hard.

It's something I
will never do to you.

You understand me?

I will never leave you...

Or the family we're making.

Well, what if we
can't make a family?

♪ It's a bad man's world ♪

We've been trying for two years.

Then we keep trying.

It's so expensive.

Come on.

You let me worry about that, okay?

(chuckles)

♪ It's a bad man's world ♪

♪ I'm a bad, bad girl ♪

♪ It's a bad man's world. ♪

He never liked to
talk about his family.

That part of him was... closed off.

You really have no idea who
your husband is, do you?

RUSH: "I can't do this anymore.

"I am nothing.

"Less than nothing.

"This world is full
of people willing

"to kick you when you're down,
like the secretary too blind

"to realize she works for thieves;

"like the repo men,
devoid of common human decency.

"Like the judgmental bus driver
who offered nothing but pity.

"And finally, to my son Paul,

"I'm sorry, but I'm too
weak to take you with me.

"I tried to make something special,

but nobody seems to care.
Nobody ever will."

su1c1de note written by
Bill Shepard in .

We believe

his son Paul used this note
as a blueprint for revenge.

Barry Jensen, Felicity Andrews,
Preston Schmall, Fred Norris--

k*lled between and ' .

Mel Shaver, Walt Granville,

Theo Kutler; cut down
within the last five months.

He's not haphazard.
Not in it for the thrill.

Shepard has an objective.

There was a pattern
to his first killings.

Figure out the pattern today,
maybe we catch him

before he kills again.

We were able to remotely clone
Paul Shepard's cell phone.

Anything he hears or says,
we pick it up.

Got this five minutes ago.

Hey, it's Paul.

I was hoping you guys were around.

I wanted to drop by.

Tonight's lasagna night, right?

Anyway, I'll-I'll try again later.

Number belongs to
Charles and Rita Gleason

of Morristown, New Jersey.
YATES: Shepard's

aunt and uncle. Raised him
after his father d*ed.

CAVANAUGH: Turned off
his phone after that,

but we were able to
pick up a GPS signal.

(computer beeps and chirps)

Right outside the Gleasons' house.

There's no sign of Paul Shepard.

Aunt and uncle were
at a neighbor's.

Came back, their car was missing.

He took their car?

So how'd he get here?

We're clear.

STILLMAN: What do you got?

JEFFRIES: ID on that dead

truck driver-- Ned Cotner.

Reported missing last night.

Up near Paul Shepard's cabin.

STILLMAN: Shepard must
have carjacked him.

Left the truck and the body

at his aunt and uncle's place,
took their car.

May have a line on the next victim.

Now, most of Paul
Shepard's original victims

were mentioned in his
father's su1c1de note.

Bill Shepard k*lled
himself when he was .

Paul Shepard

turned in October

last year.

Well, children of suicides dread

reaching the age of
their parent's death.

MILLER: Paul got revenge

on the people he blamed
for his father's failure.

Well, now he-s getting revenge

on the people he
blames for his own.

Felicity Andrews, k*lled in .

She neglected to
file loan paperwork.

Bill Shepard blamed her

for losing his drive-in
when he defaulted.

Theo Kutler forgot

to lock up Paul's video store,
resulting in a break-in.

The loss crippled his business.

Then there's Preston Schmall,

repo man,

sh*t in ' .

Took his dad's car,

disabling his ability
to go to work.

JEFFRIES: According to witnesses,

Paul's father begged Schmall
to give him another week.

Even suggesting they
shared a brotherhood--

both former marines.

Been looking through
Paul's correspondence.

Found a dozen letters

from his accountant, Kenneth Hoag.

"Paul, you have to face facts.

"The IRS will not go away.

I won't be able to stop them
from taking your store."

You think this accountant is
a matchup for the repo man?

Guy's not just Paul's accountant.

They went to college together.

Fraternity brothers.

Well, let's pick him up
before Paul picks him off.

Is Paul in some kind of danger?

He may be, Mrs. Gleason.

That's why we need your help.

Any idea why he came here?

He's my nephew.

I practically raised him.

He doesn't need a reason.

When's the last time you saw him?

Uh, not since Thanksgiving.

Did something happen
on Thanksgiving?

What does that have to do
with a dead body out there?

Just trying to find your nephew.

Well, nothing happened
at Thanksgiving,

and obviously, I-I don't know

where Paul is. Clearly,

you don't either.

Has Paul had any trouble recently?

Paul doesn't get in trouble.

Don't you find it strange

that he took your car,
and he left a truck

with a corpse in it?

Well, you're suggesting

he had something to
do with the dead body.

Yup, that's what I'm suggesting.

That's ridiculous.

You said that you
practically raised him.

How did he end up living here?

Oh, my sister Martha d*ed
when he was very young.

And then his father left.

We were all he had.

Poor boy.

You don't know what he was like

when he first came here.

Paul?

Paul?

Darling, are you all right?

It's East of Eden, Aunt Rita.

James Dean,

Raymond Massey.

Directed by Elia Kazan.

You've seen it before?

Dozens of times.

My dad showed it every year.

That's nice, dear,
but you're not eating.

You must be hungry.

You don't have to
wait to be served.

You're family.

One of us, okay?

(dramatic orchestral
score plays on TV)

He was so forlorn.

A glass half-empty

kind of kid for a long time.

But he adapted?

He was a good student.

Got a job after school,
volunteered at the church.

And you weren't curious

where he'd disappear
to all those weekends?

Oh, he went camping a lot.

No. No, not camping.

No. See, while you were
here baking pies, Aunt Rita,

he was out there dropping bodies.

Yates, Yates... You think

Paul k*lled someone?

Ma'am, we just want to talk to him.

So if you could tell us...

He couldn't even hurt a fly.
Felicity Andrews.

Preston Schmall, Fred Norris.

Barry Jensen, and that's
just on your watch.

It's a lie. No, it's not a lie.

You look at Barry.
You see that blood?

Now, you tell me who's
living the lie, sister.

Yates.

Mr. Hoag, I'm Lieutenant Stillman.

We need to talk about Paul Shepard.

Yeah, I'll tell you what
I told your detective.

I don't discuss my clients.

I understand, but this
is urgent. I don't care

if it's a matter of
national security.

I won't talk without my lawyer.

And don't try to scare
me with some federal BS.

I eat the IRS for breakfast.

STILLMAN: Sir, we believe

Paul Shepard is a serial k*ller,

and you're his next target.

But if you want to
take your chances

out there, be my guest.

CAVANAUGH: Must have been hard,

having Paul move in with you.

This -year-old

stranger comes to your house.

You got your own son to consider.

We made do.

Smooth sailing from the word go?

Well, between you and me,

the kid was always half q*eer.

Rita's blood,

not mine.

q*eer how?

Well, never into sports.

Not a lot of friends.

He'd sit and watch
movies on the TV,

disappear for days.

Sounds sketchy.

Well, he outgrew it, though.

He turned his obsession
with movies into a living.

And he always looked
out for my son Tom.

They were tight for a long time.

They were tight?

Always said you don't
do business with family.

I've had some setbacks, Tom.

Cash flow. You know how it is.

You said that last month,
month before.

So I want to know when, Paul.

Shh.

I have partners,

and they won't wait anymore.

So, what?

You're gonna kick me out?

It's me, Tom.

I used to baby-sit you,

take you to the movies.

We're family.

I got my own family
to consider, Paul.

Rosie's pregnant.

Oh.

Again?

Hey.

It's good news, right?

Yeah. Of course.

I'm sorry. Congratulations.

I'll, um...

I'll find

another way out of this.

I'm sorry, Paul.

Yeah. I know you will.

You still own that
first store of yours.

Got to be worth something.

I don't know what hurt him worse:

losing the stores

or finding out Tom was
having another kid.

You know where your son is now?

Oh, he was supposed to come by
this afternoon, Sunday dinner.

Uh, he should be here now.

Excuse us.

CAVANAUGH: Thank you.

(man speaking indistinctly on TV)

(knocking) MILLER: Tom Gleason?!

Philadelphia Police.

(knocking) We're coming in,
Mr. Gleason.

MAN (on TV):
We're not gonna do that.

I'm gonna leave it on there. Why?

Because... So now...

You can take that leg of lamb, see.

Look at this. Oh, my.

We're going to have to go.

Well, is that about Paul?

Did you find him?

We'll be in touch.

You'll look out for him, right?

I don't want to see him get hurt.

Yeah, we'll take care of him,

just like he took care

of Barry, just like he
took care of your son, too.

Tom?

What do you mean?

What happened?

Sweet Paul just put a
b*llet between his eyes.

No.

What the hell was that about?

(gasps) You'll be all right.

Come on. Let's go inside.

Who's Barry?

One of our victims.

No, he's more than that.

Oh, you're so freaking smart?

You call him Barry; all the others

you call by their last names.

You keep calling him Barry.

Like you know him.
I don't need to explain myself.

Yeah, well, I'm done

unless you do.

I'm not going down
on your sinking ship

till you tell me what's going on.

Look, I was there.

I was years old.

His body just fell into my lap.

(g*nsh*t, Yates screams)

Oh, my God!

(screams)

One day you're a kid
at the movies and...

And then you're not.

Still keeps me up at night.

I mean, why?

Why Barry? Well, why not me?

Why not anybody else
there that night?

And now he's k*lling again.

And I am so close.

I'm going to find out
why he m*rder*d Barry...

and then I'm gonna
put a b*llet in him.

Look, Paul Sheperd
is out there, okay,

with a high-powered r*fle,
waiting for us to release you.

Hoag's either too stupid to talk

or he's hiding something.

Now, you won't cooperate,

we can't keep you.

He's a dead man walking,
don't even know it.

If I'm so important,
you won't let me out of your sight.

Why protect him?

Huh, some fraternal code,

secret handshake crap?

I'm just going to
wait for my attorney

if it's all the same with you.

Well, it's your funeral, pal.

Come on. Let's go.

Sit down, Kenneth.

Ryan Cavanaugh,

FBI.

I understand you're
reluctant to cooperate.

Protecting your client.

I respect that, but I'm not here

to talk about Paul Shepard.

I'm here to talk about you.

I know everything about you,
Kenneth.

Took me no more than an hour
to download your entire life.

You don't scare me.

Those Web sites you frequent?

You're one sick pup, Kenny.

And then there's the hooker in
Atlantic City five years ago.

Used your company credit card.

Not to mention the inside
trading in the ' s.

That's illegal.

Maybe,

but when your wife and
your clients find out,

who's really going to care?

VALENS: Tell us about Paul Shepard

and we'll keep this to ourselves.

Absolutely.

We went to school together,

like, a hundred years ago, okay?

I've been trying to
dig him out of a hole.

He'd been hemorrhaging cash;
he didn't file his tax returns.

Problems

with the IRS? I told
him declare bankruptcy,

but he said he was
starting a family

and he didn't want
to lose his house.

So you tried

to help him out.

I felt bad for the guy.

Hooked him up with
an associate of mine,

someone interested
in buying the store--

a guy named Mel Shaver.

("Start a w*r" by The
National playing)

You know, when I was a kid,
movies were everything,

more than entertainment.

They were like an escape.

I wanted to share that vision,
and that's The Long View.

For years we've been
the premier video store

in Philadelphia.


I'd like to think that we're

more than just a business.

We're a beacon for the
community, a refuge.

I can see it's working great.

Yeah, it's been a rough year.

But we've seen tough times before.

We've always bounced back.

People love movies.

There's nothing you offer

I can't get better and
cheaper on the Web.

Bottom line:

I want the space, and I'll take
the inventory and sell it off.

You know, you're wrong
about my business.

People want face-to-face
interaction.

They appreciate what we do.

Paul, you seem like a nice guy,
but let's be honest:

nobody cares about that crap.

♪ I'll get funny again... ♪

Not anymore.

♪ Walk away now ♪

♪ And you're gonna start a w*r. ♪

Now, he said "Nobody cares"?

Yeah, I thought

it was kind of harsh.

You don't hit a guy when he's down.

That's the same words

Bill Shepard's su1c1de
note ended with.

Why he sh*t Mel Shaver.

Echoing Paul's father.

Paul ever talk to Shaver again?

Why don't you ask Shaver?
Well, he's

a little dead right now.

Yeah.

Paul needed to sell.

He didn't have a choice.

Bled the business dry.

He was writing checks
grand at a time.

Company called Lifespring.

You know what that was?

Fertility clinic.

He couldn't afford the treatments

so he used company money.

Look,

Paul was ducking me
when it got bad, okay?

I had to track him down
at this coffee place.

He would sit there all
day at this computer.

Coffee joint got a name?

Alfonso's.

It's just up the block
from his video store.

He...

Manager says

Paul was a fixture at Alfonso's.

He was there this morning.

A public computer--

a perfect place to
profile his victims.

Let's see what we got.

Looks like he cleared the browser.

CAVANAUGH: Cleared-- maybe,
erased-- no.

Credit report, background check,

and a Facebook page for...

Juanita Renaldo.

RUSH: His next victim? YATES:
According to Facebook,

she works at Lifespring Fertility.

You got a number for her? Yeah.

Juanita Renaldo?

My name's Detective Rush,
Philadelphia Police.

I need to know where she is now.

Map and train schedule.

Today?

All right, thank you.

Juanita Renaldo has
been out of town--

yoga retreat-- comes back today.

On a train into
th Street Station.

(indistinct
announcements over P.A.)

There she is.

YATES: We've got her.

Bring the van around.

Juanita Renaldo,

you need to come with us now.

What's going on?

We don't have time to explain.
We got to move.

I don't understand.

(g*nsh*t) Oh! You understand now?

(crowd screaming)

He's heading to the subway.

Got him.

Cavanaugh.

(grunts)

You move a muscle

and I'll blow your
frigging head off.

RENALDO: I don't get it.

Who'd want to k*ll me?

You recognize the
name Claire Shepard?

She's been patient at the
clinic for a couple years.

Her husband Paul.

Oh, God, this guy?

Did something happen between you?

I was just trying to help him.

I'm sorry. This is declined, too.

Well,

it must be some sort of mistake.

I'm sure it is.

Well, could you maybe
try splitting it

across a couple of these?

I-I can't do that, sir.

Please, y-you have to help me.

My wife and I

have been coming here for months.

We've tried and tried.

Don't turn us away.

Dr. Shandir sponsors these
experimental trials.

It's an option

if you can't afford the cycle.
I can afford it.

I've been affording it.
It just hasn't worked!

Please don't raise your voice

to me.

I'm just trying to help.

Is there a problem, Paul?

No, no, no, sweetheart.

There's no problem.

Right?

Sir, just take the
card and go home.

Come on, sweetie.

A lot of people come
through that clinic.

It was sad.

Guy really wanted a child.

What about the experimental trial?

Supposed to start last month.

calls up and cancels just before.

I told him he couldn't get

back in the program if
he changed his mind.

Did he thr*aten you?

No.

Just said it didn't matter.

Nobody cared anyway.

RUSH: So Juanita was
supposed to be target # ,

just like Fred Norris,

who pitied his father.

But he failed.

Juanita's in protective custody.

So what's his next move?

Take himself out,

just like Dad.

What's Bill say to
his son in that note?

"To my son Paul,

I'm sorry I'm too weak
to take you with me."

I keep thinking

about what Claire said,

that Paul would never
leave her behind.

All he ever wanted was a family.

He was willing to give up
his business if it meant

having a child. But he cancels

his appointments at
the fertility clinic.

"Nobody cares."

RUSH: Yeah, he's done.

He's gonna take himself out
and take Claire with him.

No answer at Claire's house.

Agent's not responding either.

Paul's already there.

Officer down.

sh*ts fired.

(indistinct whispering)

(over TV): I think you can
understand me, though.

I think, behind your eyes,
you're...

you're just as alert as ever...

They're going to say
things that aren't fair.

Blow them out of proportion.

Mr. Trask...

But you know me.

You've always known me.

("Crash into Me" by Dave
Matthews Band playing)

So, uh, why do you
want to work here?

The hours are long.
We don't pay very well.

The boss is a stickler.

(chuckles) I like movies.

Who doesn't?

I get lost in movies.

It's like... dreaming
while you're awake.

I don't know. I just
wanted to be closer to it.

I get that.

♪ Into your heart... ♪

East of Eden.

Oh, yeah.

You like it? Yeah.

Not bad for a melodrama.

Well, it's a little
more than a melodrama.

That's debatable.

(laughs) Not really.

I mean, it's Steinbeck.

Oh.

Okay, smart man.

Convince me.

♪ Oh, when you come crash ♪

(chuckles)

♪ Into me... ♪

What you said about the movies-
about living in a dream--

that's how you've made
me feel all these years.

Paul,

please... Shh.

Excuse me, Mr. Trask...

This part's great.

...for daring to speak
to you this way, but...

(along with TV):
"It's awful not to be loved.

"It's the worst thing in the world.

"It makes you mean and violent

and cruel."

And that's the way Cal
has always felt...

We're in the middle
of something here.

Put the g*n down.

You know that's not
going to happen.

How you doing, Claire?

You hanging in there?

Yeah.

YATES: You hear that, Paul?

You're terrifying your wife.

Why don't you be a good
husband and let her go?

It'll be over soon.

RUSH: Is that the master plan?

Eat a b*llet,
just like your father?

My father built something,

and it was ripped from his hands.

I just tried to correct

the mistakes of the past.

Murdering all those people...
Tying up his loose ends,

balancing the books.

But it didn't matter.

RUSH: Your father's not
a touchstone, Paul.

He was bad in business,
and he blamed everyone else.

He could have tried again.

He could have made an effort-
for his son.

You think I don't know that?

The man sh*t himself
yards from me.

You see his note?

It said, "Nobody cares."

But I cared.

Why couldn't he see that?

Like... like I didn't even matter.

I mean, every step of the way,

I just tried to build
something that would last.

RUSH: He had the drive-in,

so you got the video
stores to prove him wrong.

But it ends the same.

Easy, now, Paul...

years old, and I'm every
inch the failure he was.

You're wrong.

You've got something he never had.

You've got a real family.

You've got a beautiful wife

sitting there right next to you.

You've got a child.

Juanita from the fertility clinic--

that's what she told us.

Claire here is pregnant.

How?

YATES: Experimental treatments.

You canceled the appointment...

Claire went anyway.

Claire?

I...

I...

I just really wanted
to make you happy.

You should have told me.

I was waiting until I
knew it was for sure.

PAUL: "Man has a choice,
and it's...

the choice is what
makes him a man."

YATES: That's right.

(gasps) All right.

Sending Claire up!

(grunts)

He's secure.

I don't care.

What are you doing?

I want to know why.

Why did Barry Jensen have to die?

(chuckles) Why do you care?

I'm the one who was with him.

Oh, yeah.

I remember you.

Your phone number, right?

Well, if you didn't care about
that guy before I sh*t him,

why do you care now? We were kids.

He didn't deserve it.
Now, I want an answer: why?

Take it from me.

Answers-- they're overrated.

I want an answer! Diane,
don't do this.

He's not worth it. Don't you
get high and mighty with me.

Roles reversed, you'd do the same.

What do you prove by sh**ting him?

He's got nothing to lose.

Except my child, right?

Nothing to lose

except my unborn child.

Claire isn't pregnant. (chuckles)

It's a lie.

Go ahead. sh**t me.
RUSH: You pull that trigger,

and you're doing him a favor.
That's all you'll accomplish. sh**t.

I've waited years to find out
why that kid d*ed in my lap.

Now, you're going to tell me,

and in exchange for that,

I'm going to give
you what you want:

end your miserable life.
Is that a deal?

Diane, we are not...
This is happening, Detective,

whether you like it or not.

I had to prove him wrong.

Barry? My father.

Said he was nothing when he d*ed.

Less than nothing.

But to me,

he was everything.

Barry didn't know your father.

He wasn't paying
attention to the movie.

Just wanted to get
inside your pants.

Would have been fine any other day.

But they were playing East
of Eden that night.


And your boyfriend...

just didn't get it.

Man, I'm telling you,
she's good to go.

I got the peach schnapps,
couple ludes.

Tonight's the night.

Excuse me.

Just need a small popcorn.

Easy, little man.

Anyway, she's waiting for me.

Come on. Movie's about to start.
Dude, so what?

It's East of Eden.

It's a classic.

Yeah, if you say so.

They've played it every year
since this theater opened.

Kid, look around you.

No one's here to see the movie.

(screaming)

You need to see a movie,
go to the cineplex.

Nobody here cares.

Nobody cares.

("Keepsake" by State Radio playing)

♪ One gonna heal my body ♪

♪ Nothing gonna heal my pain ♪

♪ One gonna settle me down ♪

♪ And bring me back up again ♪

♪ One gonna put my family ♪

♪ Back together again ♪

♪ One gonna hold my woman ♪

♪ Another gonna hold my job ♪

♪ One gonna help me get up ♪

♪ And one gonna help me stop ♪

♪ One gonna help me talk right ♪

♪ One gonna lay me down to sleep ♪

♪ Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, oh ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh, o oh ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ Oh, mmm, mmm, mmm ♪

♪ One gonna hold my guts ♪

♪ And another gonna hold my bones ♪

♪ One gonna keep me warm ♪

♪ And another gonna keep me cold ♪

♪ One gonna bring religion ♪

♪ Right from a Coleman stove ♪

♪ One gonna help me keep her ♪

♪ And another gonna help me take ♪

♪ One gonna run me down ♪

♪ Hell, a b*llet's in my way ♪

♪ You're gonna keep my soul ♪

♪ It was yours to have long ago ♪

♪ Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm ♪

♪ Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm,
mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm ♪

♪ Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ One gonna buckle my belt ♪

♪ Around the ceiling pipe ♪

♪ One gonna buckle up my knees ♪

♪ And one gonna
lock them up tight ♪

♪ One gonna hold
the pen while you ♪

♪ Drag my arm across the page ♪

♪ One gonna hold my memory ♪

♪ Another gonna close the door ♪

♪ One gonna leave me restless... ♪
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