God... has created us.
But only God truly knows
why we make the choices that we do.
And sometimes life leads us down a road
where there can be no happy ending.
We make small choices that...
later on in life hav e cons equences
that we could ne v er hav e fores een.
We s eek out pleasures that v ery often
are tools for the destruction of our souls.
Without God as our guide,
we wander unprote cted through this v alle y
of the shadow of death.
By our v ery natures, we are weak.
Let thos e of us who hav e gathered here today
reach down into our own understanding
and there find a place of forgiv eness in our hearts.
So let us not judge our brother James Richard Daniels.
Instead, let`s join together
with his loving wife Marsha and his brother Edward
in remembrance.
And let`s learn from Jimmy`s life,
and from the tragedy of his final y ears.
Though confus ed and lost,
with God`s grace and mercy,
let`s pray that Jimmy`s soul
has made its way to God`s holy place.
And let`s take with us the clear understanding
that there, but for the grace of God, go I.
I`m sorry Marsha for your loss. Can I help?
Thank you Father, no. I`v e had time to prepare for this.
It wasn`t exactly unexpe cted.
Maybe if you`d stuck around, we wouldn`t be here today.
Who are you to point at me?
Eddie, let`s get out of here.
- At least I was there for him. - Yeah, that was the problem.
Marsha, are you all right?
Edward, are you all right?
No. Hav en`t you noticed, Father?
I`m not.
Ryan?
Eddie, what happened to Jimmy?
What, that`s it? Just like that?
``What happened to Jimmy?``
You do two y ears in prison without letting anybody visit you,
wouldn`t e v en accept the letters that Jimmy fucking wrote you, man.
Disappeared for two more y ears, nobody hears nothing from you.
You just show up and you wanna know what happened to Jimmy?
I heard he got hims elf clean. I heard he had it licked.
How could you hear that? You ain`t been around.
You don`t know what it`s been like.
- How you doing? - You know me, I do all right.
Stabilized.
You clean?
How could you ask me that? I`m fine.
I just wanna know how you`re doing.
I guess I`m doing about as good as I can do
without having my big brother around to watch ov er me.
Eddie, I`m sorry.
You know, about being away so long.
This whole thing with Jimmy.
Really, I`m-- I`m sorry.
Yeah...
Well...
I`m sorry too.
( honking )
Sal !
H e y, Eddie. I`m sorry to hear about Jimmy.
H e was a nice kid.
N ice kid.
Ryan.
H e y, Sal.
It`s a lucky thing, you coming back just now, huh?
I mean, in time for the funeral and e v erything.
Yeah. Lucky thing.
I guess you`re gonna be a comfort to your brother.
You know, like the old days.
Listen, uh...
I want you to hav e a drink on me.
I mean for Jimmy, huh?
Thank you, Sal. This is v ery generous.
Yeah.
Very generous, Sal. Very generous !
Eddie, sorry about your brother. That`s a tough break.
Mike, a couple drinks on me for Eddie boy.
Already been taken care of, compliments of Big Sal.
Well, I`ll be damned. Look who`s here.
- It`s a free country. - Yeah?
Vincent might not think so.
Not today, Mike, not today.
All right,
for Jimmy`s sake. God rest his soul.
Keep lov erboy outta sight.
Asshole.
To Jimmy.
Did you s ee Carla?
I almost didn`t re cognize her.
She looks cold.
Don`t start with that shit, all right?
Vincent, though... Vincent looks the same.
Vincent`s making lots of mone y for people.
Big Sal gav e his blessings to work this whole neighborhood,
- so stay out of his way. - Eddie?
I need to talk to you.
Not right now, okay, Doreen?
Eddie, you shouldn`t hav e left me back at the--
- at the cemetery. - Come here.
Sorry about that.
She`s really cool,
but she`s a little fucked up right now, you know?
So, tell me about the joint.
When I got there, I didn`t shit for fiv e days.
Oh fuck.
I can`t remember much of the first y ear.
Took me that long to get my head straight, you know?
And then all I could think about was Carla,
what she did to me.
You should`v e s een that look in her e y es when the y took me away.
Look Ryan, e v erybody knows that Vincent made Carla s et you up.
I know.
That`s what I can`t get out of my head.
Stop. Just stop right there.
Carla is Vincent`s property now. Right after you got s ent up,
he put her in rehab, he married her, the y had a kid,
now she`s a regular Suzie Homemaker.
So get it fucking straight--
he will fuck you up again if you e v en look at her.
Yeah, I`ll tell him.
That was Charlie ov er at the Skillman Lounge.
H e said Vincent just left, he`s looking all ov er for Ryan.
Thanks Mike, I owe you one.
You don`t owe me shit. It`s my place I`m worried about.
No problem. You got it.
Listen, about that talk you were gonna hav e
with Big Sal about me, you s et that up y et?
H e y, asshole, forget about Sal.
You`re already ov erextended all ov er the street.
Nobody wants to deal with you. Just get Ryan outta here.
All right... but talk to Big Sal ! Don`t be a hard-on.
Come on, there`s gonna be a taste in it for you.
Take a hike !
( salsa music playing )
H e y, ``paysan.``
I can`t belie v e this, twice in one day.
First I bump into you at church, and now here.
This is nice, am I right, huh?
You know what? This calls for a celebration.
Eddie, run across the street and go get us some beers.
Peanuts always make me so dry. Do the y do that to you, Mitch?
- Yep. - Vince, Ryan and I were--
Eddie, I got a real thirst here.
Thank you.
We`re only gonna be a couple of minutes.
We might e v en be quicker than that.
So how you been? Now look at you,
you`re still dressing in rags.
Your tastes were always more expensiv e than mine.
Sometimes expensiv e tastes get you expensiv e things.
Things that are real warm, real comfortable.
I don`t know-- things that fit real good.
If you don`t mind that another man wore them before you.
Peanut?
Wait, wait-- let me s ee if I can remember.
That`s right, you`v e always been a lov er not a fighter, right, Romeo?
You ne v er did know how to play your hand and it s eems like
the game ain`t exactly going your way right now.
You knew what would happen if--
if I e v er saw you again. You knew.
You know what? All that can wait.
Today is a day of celebration-- of old friends getting together.
And today we hav e peanuts...
and now we hav e beer.
So, Ryan, you take a couple of days,
and you mourn your dead junkie brother,
and then you go away.
And then what?
If my old friend here
isn`t out of Astoria v ery, v ery soon then...
let the games begin.
Oh and, Ryan...
I`ll be watching, my friend,
I`ll be watching.
Mitch, what are you doing?
What I was told to do.
Yeah?
Now I`m telling you to get out.
H e ain`t gonna like that.
Mitch, I said get out.
- Ryan: So he s ent you? - Woman: Yeah.
Well, I`m here.
Seem to hav e done real well for yours elf.
E v erything has its price.
And e v eryone?
- Did he hurt you? - What do you care?
You know me better than that.
I knew a lot of things till you s et me up.
- H e made me do that. - Did he put that look in your e y e
when the y dragged me out of our bed?
I was high and I was s cared.
And I needed help and Vincent was there.
Nobody could get you to marry him--
not if you didn`t want to.
There are so many things you don`t understand.
All I know is my brother`s dead.
- I`m sorry about Jimmy. - Yeah?
You can`t feel too sorry-- e v en though you got clean,
that outfit, thos e earrings, this car
were paid for by that shit Jimmy shot into his arm.
And it all comes from Vincent.
So tell me,
when you`re with him and you`re alone in his bed,
and you`re playing the submissiv e little hous ewife,
do you still feel sorry or are the perks too fucking good?
I hate you.
Tell your husband I got a few things to take care of,
and then I`ll be gone.
H e came to the stopov er on 1 4 th Street,
just rolled ov er and nodded out right on the pass enger s eat.
The truck was right in the middle of the inters e ction.
The doors were locked, ``Freebird`` playing on the radio,
engine running. Some ps y cho took out a bat
and started smashing it on the side of the truck.
Cops had to smash in the windows, the y pulled him out.
The y gav e him a DWI right on the spot.
Jimmy said, ``The y had to get a tow truck for my tow truck.``
Jimmy could ne v er keep a job.
Yeah. After that, nobody`d hire him.
Marsha left him and...
Jimmy had nothing.
H i.
Come here.
H e kinda looks like Jimmy.
Yeah, Jimmy and I took after our mother.
Ryan and I are just hanging out.
Well, I-I`ll go into the bedroom and--
Why don`t I leav e you two alone for a while?
Why? Come on, it`s early.
It`s all right. I`ll s ee ya later.
All right. H ere, us e my ke ys.
Thanks.
Do you think I s cared him off?
No. It`s okay.
It`s all right.
We okay?
No.
Go ahead.
I lov e you, baby.
I lov e you.
I lov e you too.
H e y, Champ.
Your eggs look like someone murdered `em.
The y`re bleeding all ov er the place.
The y got shot like what happened to that man where you work.
Boom-boom-boom, you`re dead, I got you, you`re dead.
Who could`v e told you that nice little story, huh? I wonder.
It`s 8:00 a.m. and he`s just getting in.
( speaks Spanish )
Carla: Enough.
I`ll fix you something to eat.
You s ee how nice Mommy talks to Daddy?
Maybe if Teressa is nice,
she might be come a mommy too one day.
So how`d it go?
Couldn`t be too concerned, if you stay ed out all night.
Why? Should I be concerned?
- No. - No, what?
No, Vincent, you shouldn`t be concerned.
Teressa, take Tyler out to the park.
Daddy wants to talk with Mommy for a minute, okay?
Giv e me fiv e.
All right!
( alternativ e rock music playing )
.. The first time is always the best ..
.. Yeah... ..
.. Sit back, relax and don`t resist ..
.. Resist, resist ..
.. Now you`re on the other side ..
.. Resist, resist... ..
So how`d it go?
I conv e y ed your message, he`s leaving and that`s it.
That was all?
We spoke, and now he`s leaving. What els e can there be?
- I don`t know, you tell me. - Vincent, there`s nothing there.
Then tell me.
Say it.
What els e?
You know what els e.
Tell me.
Come on, puss y cat,
tell me.
- That you`re my man? - Mm-hmm.
Who takes care of me, and I take care of him?
- And I`m his. - Yeah.
H uh? Isn`t that what you wanna hear, baby?
H mm?
You mean e v erything to me.
You know that, don`t you?
If I e v en thought for a s e cond--
- H i, Father. - Ryan. How are you?
It`s been hard.
I just-- I wanted
to thank you for calling me about Jimmy
and the words you said at the funeral.
H e always lov ed this place.
What is it, Ryan?
Father, it`s Eddie. I`m worried about him.
I just don`t know enough about what`s going on.
Sometimes I can help.
- Come inside. - No, I can`t.
Come inside the confessional.
I can help.
( heavy breathing )
Yes...
Ryan !
I knew you were gonna be here.
H e y.
Jimmy and me us ed to come up here, you could ne v er find us.
Bullshit, I knew where you were.
I just didn`t wanna spoil it by finding you.
- You can s ee Manhattan from here. - Yeah, there`s more past that.
Not for me. Not anymore.
- What about Jers e y? - Oh, Jers e y! Ew!
Come on, pack your bags, get your shit, we`ll just go.
- H e y, come on, stop that! - H e y, Ryan`s rules are back!
I`m your big brother. I`m suppos ed to watch out for you.
You were suppos ed to look out for me and Jimmy.
- That was your job. - It`s not too late.
- Jimmy might think so. - ( beeper sounding )
- Gotta go. - Is that Vincent?
H e y, you s ee this?
Some people make it outta here and some people don`t.
You did it the hard way but you made it out.
I didn`t. I`m still here. This is my world. And I like it.
H e`s calling me, I gotta get back to it.
Do you, Eddie, I mean, do you really?
Yeah.
Eddie, come on, I`m still your big brother.
Yeah... you`re still my big brother.
H e y.
I`d invite you in, but you know how she is.
U m, this is some of Jimmy`s stuff.
There wasn`t much left. H e just about sold e v erything.
You sure you don`t want any of this?
I`m sorry, but I gotta walk away from this.
I feel like I`v e been hit by a freight train.
It`s been hard on me. It`s been really hard.
Oh, uh... thes e are...
Jimmy`s letters that you returned unopened.
It hurt him that you wouldn`t read them,
but he wrote you all the time.
H e just stopped mailing them. I guess--
he didn`t want you to know he was in trouble.
Didn`t want to bother you with that stuff.
H e wrote up until the end and towards the end
he was just-- well, you wouldn`t hav e re cognized him.
Woman: Marsha.
I gotta go, Ryan.
I gotta go.
You know, when we were all growing up,
you three brothers were really something.
You were really something.
What happened, Ryan?
What happened to all of us?
Mitch, what exactly did he say to you?
H e said he`d be here.
Where is the little prick?
Three times I paged him, nothing.
That whole fucking family was always just one big pie ce of shit.
We`ll find him.
I want him out on the street now.
And no more fuck-ups.
Doreen: Eddie ! Get up!
Eddie !
Get up!
What happened ! What did he hav e? What`d you giv e him?
What did he take? What did he take?
Eddie, come on, breathe, Eddie. Breathe.
Doreen, call an ambulance. Doreen, call an ambulance.
Eddie, come on. Eddie, come on.
Roll ov er, cough it up, cough it up.
Come on, come on, breathe, Eddie.
Breathe, Eddie. Come on, don`t fall asleep.
Don`t fall asleep, Don`t fall asleep!
Eddie, don`t fall asleep! come on, come on !
Doreen, call an ambulance ! Call an ambulance !
Eddie... no more, okay?
No more.
H e y...
finally a companion for life.
Who els e will marry you looking like that?
Whoe v er she is,
she`ll be a satisfied woman, that`s all I can say.
By the mere fact that a woman knows I`ll be
her brother-in-law, that`s enough to satisfy her?
It might--
if you weren`t so damn ugly.
Can I help it if my brother got the good looks?
Nope.
Go on... say it.
Okay.
You`re in a lot of trouble here.
- You`re out of control. - What are you doing?
- I`m not a kid anymore. - Then stop acting like one.
Listen, I want you to go into a program and get clean.
Why? It ain`t like before.
I`m just chipping now.
That`s exactly what I us ed to say.
It ain`t like that. I swear.
I swear on Jimmy`s soul, I swear.
- Where`s Eddie? - Oh, uh--
Listen to me, where is Eddie?
Eddie?
No, Eddie ! Eddie, no!
No, Eddie ! Come on ! Jesus, you swore !
You son of a bitch ! You swore on Jimmy`s soul !
You want this shit, huh?
You want this shit?! Go ahead, go after it!
Ryan, don`t! Come on !
You want it?!
That shit-- Vincent will fucking kill me !
Go ahead, go down after it! You want it?
Don`t! God damn it.
No, don`t! H e`s gonna fucking--
Eddie ! Eddie, I`m sorry.
I fucked up. I`m sorry. I fucked up with you and Jimmy.
I`m sorry. I fucked up with you and Jimmy. I`m sorry.
No, leav e it. Leav e it!
- No! - Come on, get the fuck out.
No, he`ll kill us. No!
Come on, we`re getting the fuck outta here.
- No! - We`re getting the fuck outta here.
Enough`s enough.
Doreen, get out. Get the fuck out.
Get out! The fuck out!
- You`re fucked, Ryan. - You wanna fuck around?
Come on, giv e me some, old man !
- Oh y eah? - Giv e me some ! Fuck you !
Old man? I`ll show you who`s an old man.
- Fuck you. - I`ll fuck you.
Let`s go, out. Let`s go! Out!
Shoot me, old man.
I`ll show you old man.
Come on, do it, you fucker.
Go ahead. No more of this shit.
No more ! Tell fucking Vincent, you hear?!
You can`t come in here and fuck around with people`s business.
Tell him what I said, ``Fuck him and fuck you ! ``
Look at him, he`s a big shot, huh?
Come a long way.
I owe it all to you, Sal.
You put in the word, you brought me along.
You`re a good earner.
And you got great taste in women.
- Is he treating you okay? - Yeah, Sal.
I mean, if there`s anything you need, anything at all,
you should giv e me a call, `caus e Vincent won`t mind.
You won`t mind, will you, Vincenzo?
What about me, Sal?
There`s plenty of me to go around, hone y.
Salut.
What`s wrong?
Don`t worry, I`ll say goodby e to lov erboy for you.
No, you promis ed me. You promis ed me.
Sal, I`m sorry, I gotta go. Something just came up.
- Can`t it wait? - No, the nativ es are restless.
You know how it is. It`s a little-- street thing
but I gotta take care of it personally.
Oh. The personal touch always works.
- Put Carla in a cab for me? - Absolutely.
Go ahead.
You take care of your little street thing, okay?
And--
make sure it don`t interfere with business,
be caus e you know how I feel about that.
And Vincenzo--
you be careful,
`caus e you ne v er know who`s behind things.
Look before you leap.
You understand?
Ryan, we ain`t eight y ears old, and this ain`t the play ground.
Ain`t gonna be little Tommy Murphy coming through that door.
Why don`t you get outta here? I don`t want you here !
- Go, leav e ! - I`m not leaving without you.
Come on with that bullshit look. I can deal with Vincent.
- Just let me handle it-- - I`m fed up with your shit!
God damn it, we can make up a story.
- No more stories ! - Let me-- damn it!
Vincent, Ryan`s sorry--
You fucking prick, get ov er there !
- Don`t touch him ! - Take this Irish bitch with you.
And shut her the fuck up!
I hear one sound from either of you then you`ll be next.
You understand? Not a word.
Not a sound.
Just watch.
You like it when people watch?
Let`s giv e them a show.
Motherfucker.
This is gonna be fun, Ryan.
Eddie and me are walking outta here or you can kill us.
Either way, we`re free of this game.
You want a fucking game? I`ll giv e you a game.
Mitch.
I`m not gonna let you leav e...
I`m not gonna let you die...
No...
I`m gonna teach you once and for all
not to touch...
what I own.
Vincent, don`t do it.
Carla, it has nothing to do with you.
- Listen to me. - Get outta here, Carla.
No, we made a deal.
I`m yours.
And I`v e giv en you e v erything I hav e.
And I`v e giv en it only to you.
But-- if you do this thing,
if you touch him with that,
then you`ll hav e broken your word to me,
and we will hav e nothing.
Is that what you want, Vincent?
Is that what you want?
Or do you just want me?
Just me, giving you e v erything that I hav e?
H e y, what about Eddie?
H e`s still mine. I want him back out on the street.
Get the fuck out of here.
So what did you expe ct?
Did you think that things would really be different?
No.
Once that shit gets underneath your skin,
once it runs through your v eins and gets inside your head,
it ne v er lets you go.
It waits, until you hurt inside,
until you are really needy and confus ed,
and then it whispers to you.
Oh God.
Jimmy thought he`d kicked it.
So many times he thought he was free.
But then something would happen, some-- thing--
that would make him listen to that voice inside his head.
And I`d come home,
and I`d find him laying there on the floor,
rolled up in a little ball,
sometimes the needle would still be in his arm.
And I`d wait...
I`d wait for him to come down.
And then I`d just hold him.
I`d just rock him like a little baby.
And then he`d cry and he`d beg me to forgiv e him
and swear that it was the last time, but it ne v er was.
Be caus e that shit was inside of him--
hidden in his mind,
waiting, whispering.
( rumbling )
Look, Ryan, that voice is still inside Eddie
and it`s still inside you.
I know you think about it, about getting high.
Just one little taste, one last time.
Jimmy us ed to feel that way.
H e`d fight it.
Then he`d wake up in the middle of the night cov ered in sweat.
How do you sleep, Ryan?
How are your nights?
Does it whisper to you in your dreams?
Get out... Ryan.
Get the fuck out.
Otherwis e you`re gonna end up dead
in some alle y or on some rooftop,
or right under H ellgate Bridge--
just like your brother.
Father, I just really...
wanted to talk to someone.
I`m listening.
I`m not sure anymore about--
what`s right or-- what to do.
I hav e thes e--
feelings, but, uh--
I gotta do something.
Why do you hav e to do something?
Be caus e e v ery--
e v eryone that I-- that I lov e is in pain.
You blame yours elf?
Yeah.
Do the y blame you?
The y-- the y-- the y say that the y don`t but I--
the y hav e to.
And that`s what hurts you the most?
It`s not my hurt that-- that concerns me.
Then what is your confusion?
If I stay here, it may caus e them more trouble,
but if I go, I can`t liv e with what might happen.
Why hav e you come here?
I told you. I needed to talk.
It sounds like the ones you lov e
are the ones you need to talk to, to work things out.
What if the y won`t listen?
Well, at least you would`v e tried.
There`s no good way out of this.
Sometimes we hav e to choos e the less er of two e vils.
We all hav e to face that.
H i-- hi, it`s me.
Vincent could`v e killed you.
You gotta get away from this.
If I could do it, if I could get you
and the kid outta here, would you go?
Ryan...
I`v e giv en my word.
And besides...
I`m his wife now.
- You weren`t always. - No, I wasn`t.
But that was a long time ago.
It`s not that long.
There are so many other things.
It doesn`t matter.
None of that matters.
I had to do things in prison to surviv e.
Things happened to me too.
Things I`m not proud of.
And it almost destroy ed me.
But always...
always I thought about you,
and what happened between us.
And sometimes, I would just imagine...
us together just like we are now.
I`d clos e my e y es and I could block it all out.
But, Ryan, I hav e Tyler now.
I hav e to think about him, about his well-being.
And you just don`t walk away from a guy like Vincent.
E v en Vincent wouldn`t hurt his own kid.
- Carla-- - No!
Don`t you say it. Don`t you fucking say it.
Isn`t this hard enough?
I can`t let all thos e feelings back in
and then hav e to liv e like this.
Carla, I lov e you.
- No... no. - I lov e you.
What?
You and Mitch hav e a hard day at the office?
Oh, you know me too well.
Actually, I was...
playing in a card game ov er at City H ighland,
and I started losing.
And you know how I feel about losing.
At the end, there was just three of us left in the game.
So I took it eas y.
I watched e v ery mov e the y made.
How the y were playing their cards.
How the y were working the table.
How the y looked at each other.
I just waited--
until e v eryone was real relaxed...
and at eas e.
And then...
Tyler, come sit with Daddy.
Come here, sporto.
I lov e you.
And then?
Well, when you gamble,
you gotta be ready for almost anything.
Sometimes you win. Sometimes you los e.
But that`s what makes the game so exciting.
The possibility that you could los e it all.
Espe cially the one thing you lov e the most.
But then, gamblers know that.
Daddy, Mommy was trying to make me
eat more meatloaf but I didn`t want to.
Mommy just wants to s ee you
grow up to be big and strong,
be caus e Mommy lov es you.
And Mommy lov es Daddy too.
Don`t you, Mommy?
Don`t you lov e Daddy?
( knocking on door )
Hold on.
I said, hold on !
Hold on.
What do you want?
Vincent wants to s ee you.
What? Hav en`t the two of you had enough fun for one week?
Well, Vincent`s-- uh-- v ery emotional, v ery s ensitiv e.
And I think this whole thing is getting way out of hand,
so why don`t you come down to the bar, hav e a few drinks,
we straighten this whole thing out, and we`ll be done with it?
Straighten it out?
Yeah. Vincent, he ain`t a bad guy.
Ryan, come in.
Pour yours elf a drink and hav e a s eat.
Make yours elf at home.
The night is young and lov e is in the air.
Isn`t that right, puss y cat?
Oh, Carla, this is Ryan.
And Ryan, this is my wife-- Carla.
Why did you do this? Don`t do this shit--
Carla s eemed to be missing the good old days so much,
I thought I`d giv e her a little reminder.
Mitch, make sure that Ryan is comfortable
and s ee that he doesn`t leav e.
And make sure he pays attention.
Ryan, did you know that from time to time...
my wife does me little favors?
Little things to keep the relationship exciting.
You know, games.
Oh, it works wonders to rekindle the old passions,
to spice up thos e long e v enings.
But then, I`m lucky.
Be caus e you hav e to admit that...
e v en after all thes e y ears,
my wife is still quite the looker.
And having my child certainly hasn`t hurt her figure.
In fact, all this music, this dancing--
this champagne--
has put me in a v ery romantic mood.
A v ery romantic mood.
Don`t you do it! Don`t you fucking do it!
Ryan, hasn`t life taught you
not to interfere between a husband...
his wife...
and the little games the y play, huh?
Don`t you fucking do it!
- Shut up. - No, Mitch, don`t hurt him.
Just make sure he pays attention.
I`m sure that my wife`s desire to demonstrate
her undying lov e and de votion to me--
will be painful enough for my good friend.
Won`t it, Ryan?
No, don`t look away, Ryan. Ryan--
this is the best bit.
You s ee, Ryan...
she`s mine.
And always will be.
Should anyone or anything try to change that...
there`ll be a lot more pain.
It`s up to you.
You understand?
Throw him out, Mitch.
2 4 hours a day, I want Louie keeping an e y e on her.
And I want e v erybody watching the streets for anything,
anything at all.
Consider it done.
So... you want me to tap a little deeper
into that priv ate source of mine?
- I`m kinda in the mood. - Sure, knock yours elf out.
- One more thing. - What?
Get the word to Eddie that Mike y needs to s ee him.
Why, what`s going on?
Oh, nothing new.
- Ryan: God`s damned me. - Father: What?
H e`s left me with no alternativ es.
Either way I turn, I`m damned.
There are always alternativ es. You`re just confus ed.
No, there`s-- there`s no confusion.
It`s finally-- it`s clear to me.
It`s-- it`s what I`m gonna hav e to do.
No, no, it`s man`s confusion that blows the will of God,
man`s s eparation from God`s grace,
and then he can`t s ee the alternativ es
that faith and absolution can make v ery clear.
But, Father, I`m only a man. I can only--
I can only make choices as a man.
I`m afraid-- not for mys elf but for e v eryone els e
that I`v e put into this situation, that I`v e placed in pain.
Ryan, you must hav e faith, you must belie v e.
Will you pray for me, Father? Will you pray for my soul?
Ryan, what is it, what happened?
It`s not what happened, it`s just--
it`s what I`v e gotta do.
Fast hors es-- the y make you a lot of mone y.
Speed-- he finishes first, finishes first.
This hors e is slow. We don`t want him.
- This one`s a pocket of gold. - Sweetheart, come here.
Louie, I told you-- stay away from my son.
Sorry.
I need your help.
Pleas e, there`s no one els e I can trust.
- ( phone rings ) - Take this to him.
H ello. Who is this?
Who is this?
Marsha: You`re up to something.
You getting high without me? What are you trying to cut me out of?
No, it`s just business.
Look, maybe later,
we should talk about some things.
H ere. Take this,
go back to the apartment. I`ll meet you in a couple hours.
Go-go-go-go. Go.
I can`t belie v e you`re making a s cene
- with that junkie in my place. - I`m sorry, Mike. I`m sorry.
I should hav e my head examined, you`re too nickel-and-dime shit.
- This is out of your league. - What? I can do this.
Fuck this.
After what your asshole brother pulled in here the other day,
I gotta get somebody els e to handle this.
Maybe I can get Ralph or Frankie.
No, no, come on, I`m your man.
I do right on this, you tell Big Sal.
I`ll be there and back in under and hour and boom,
you got play for the late night crowd, and you won`t let Vincent down.
All right.
All right, but straight there and straight back,
just pick up the package and get outta there.
Thes e are dangerous people.
You fuck up, and nobody`s gonna back you up on this.
There`s a lot of cash in this env elope.
Don`t fuck up.
Trust me, Mike.
Trust me.
You want one? The y`re good.
I guess not, huh?
Mitch--
it`s time.
- Mitch ! - Yeah?
Teressa, come on, Teressa, come on, stop.
Stop, stop, stop, stop!
- H mm? - Stop, stop, stop.
Stop, stop.
Mitch: I`ll take you to dinner tomorrow.
Eddie?
Doreen: Eddie?
Vincent. Shit.
Vinny, come on, Vinny!
Get the fuck outta here, Vince-o.
Eddie? Eddie?
Eddie !
Eddie.
Eddie... Ryan !
Ryan !
- Eddie. - What happened?
H e`s been hurt bad.
- What happened? - ...Me and my dope.
Go upstairs. Eddie, sit up, sit up.
- Can you walk? - I don`t know.
- Let me s ee. Let me s ee ! - What am I gonna do?
Eddie, you gotta go to the hospital.
- No! Fuck-- - All right, take it eas y.
- We`ll put you in bed. - I`m s cared, Ryan.
Get upstairs. Eas y.
H e`s gonna kill me.
H e`s gonna fucking kill me, Ryan.
You know he ne v er stops talking about you.
H e`s got tons of stories about when you guys were little.
You`re his big brother.
H e actually told the whole neighborhood
that someday you`d come back and take care of him and Jimmy.
H e actually belie v ed that.
For a while, at least.
Some story, right?
Yeah, some story.
It`s been tough on him with you gone.
H e just really sort of has me.
And we hav e our problems, you know?
Sometimes we get too fucked up and stuff.
But at least we hav e each other.
I`m glad you were there for him, Doreen.
Eddie told me when you guys were little,
it was you who first turned them on...
You know?
Got them both high.
H e said it was great.
It`s hard to shake once you`v e been in it for too long.
It`s lucky for you-- you got out.
Yeah, I was lucky.
Wish I knew what he was doing out in Brooklyn.
The only time he e v er went out there was with Vincent.
When the y were doing some--
well, you know--
business.
Once like...
a month ago,
and then last week--
when Jimmy ov erdos ed.
Eddie was with Jimmy the day he died?
Yeah.
Eddie went with Vincent.
H e was gonna hook up with Jimmy.
- Then the y were coming here. - Doreen, this is important.
Are you sure that was the day Jimmy died?
Yes.
I was waiting here for them.
And then Eddie showed up alone
and he s eemed really worried about something.
Then we both got high...
and pass ed out.
And later that night,
we heard that Jimmy died.
And it was just a whole fucked up day--
and e v erything.
Eddie didn`t say anything about what he was doing tonight?
No.
H e was just talking to Mike...
and then I followed him out to Brooklyn.
I`ll be back in a little while.
If anything happens to Eddie, call an ambulance
or get him to a hospital. Okay?
Okay.
But where are you going?
To watch out for my little brother.
Salv adore.
Charlie.
How`s U ncle Dominic?
H e`s getting old. But we`re all getting old.
It feels like rain.
Maybe you can put in a good word.
There are some things that are simply out of our hands--
and there are some things that aren`t.
That`s why you`v e come, isn`t it?
Your man, he`s out of control.
Come inside, we`ll talk.
H e y...
don`t start that shit.
H e y, we`re clos ed. You hear me?
We are clos ed, come back tomorrow.
Look who it is. What the fuck do you want?
It`s all right, Mitch.
I`m sure Ryan is just looking for a little action.
After all, this is the best game in town.
I think it`s time for me to take a leak.
I`ll be right back.
You just miss ed a group of nice Latino gentlemen
who were here looking for Eddie.
Apparently he was a v ery bad boy tonight.
Very bad.
Not only did he rip off a kilo of their pure heroin,
but he put quite a few holes
in a number of their most-v alued employ ees, huh?
And you know how hard it is to get good help thes e days.
But the best part is that he stole 60 Gs from me.
60,000 of my hard-earned mone y,
so he`s suddenly v ery popular.
We both know Eddie didn`t rip anybody off.
You`d be surpris ed at what some people will do
for that much mone y and drugs.
I mean, do you e v en know what 60,000
and a kilo looks like, huh?
H e doesn`t hav e a clue.
H e doesn`t know his ass from his elbow.
Go around behind the bar.
Go on, Mitch won`t bite you.
Go on, take a look.
Take a look in the ice maker.
Latinos aren`t stupid. The y`ll figure this out.
Maybe I`ll point `em in the right dire ction.
I think it`s a little too late for that.
The y`re probably ov er there right now,
sort of-- working things out.
Go on, call him up. Call him up, asshole.
You s ee, Eddie`s probably entertaining guests right now.
And you know how thos e Latinos lov e to party, huh?
( growling )
I know you`re hit.
I just don`t know if you`re aliv e.
Fuck you.
Good. Good, you`re still there.
That`s more than I can say for poor Mitch.
Vincent: Mike?
Mike, are you all right?
Mike: I`m all right. Are you all right?
Yeah, I`m fine. Listen to me,
go get Sal, bring him here
so he can take care of this little situation.
Then we`ll pay Eddie a visit,
s ee if he`s still in one pie ce.
Mike: Vincent? Vincent!
Mike, just go.
Just go, do what I tell you.
Looks like we got ours elv es a little Mexican stand-off here.
You`re hit. I`m hit.
And you got a gun, I got a gun.
I can`t get at you and you can`t get at me.
I think there`s three things you`re missing.
What`s that, pretty boy?
First of all, I think you`re hurt a lot wors e than I am.
In fact, I think you`re bleeding to death.
You can`t get to your feet, otherwis e you`d hav e
been ov er the top of this bar already.
And what`s number two?
I got your kilo and 60 grand.
Yeah sure, till Sal gets here.
And what`s three?
I got a telephone.
Oh, great.
Let`s order some pizza, huh?
How many we`re gonna get for 60,000, you dumb fuck?
Carla, it`s me.
Carla, hang up the phone !
Yeah, he`s here. You wanna talk to him?
- Vinny, wanna talk to Carla? - Fuck you.
Vinny`s in one of his moods.
I`ll tell you.
I`ll tell you--
I`ll tell you I lov e you.
Yeah. What`s your answer?
I know, baby, so am I. So am I.
Come on now. Go ahead, you--
you tell me.
You hear that, you asshole, she lov es me.
Now listen you-- you wake up--
wake up Tyler and-- and take nothing.
You just-- put on your coats and you get in a cab
and meet me on the corner of Eddie`s block, understand?
Vincent: I`ll fucking kill you.
I`ll kill you both.
I`ll find you.
And then I`ll kill you.
I`ll kill all...
I`ll kill both of you.
I could kill you right where you lay.
You better do it.
You better fucking do it.
Pray to God that I don`t get up off this floor, Ryan.
You better go to that priest,
and pray to him that I don`t get up.
You know, next time I s ee Father,
I am gonna thank him--
be caus e he told me some things.
H e told me all about you--
and Eddie and Jimmy--
and some things about Carla you don`t e v en know.
That`s when I realized there`s only two things I owe you.
One...
thanks for taking care of my son.
And number two--
Eddie. Oh, Jesus, Eddie.
Oh, Eddie.
I gotta call a hospital. I gotta get you an ambulance.
Doreen.
Where`s Doreen?
It`s all right. Don`t worry about it.
Don`t worry about Doreen.
Gotta talk to you about Jimmy.
Eddie, it`s all right. Don`t worry about Jimmy now.
I did it to him.
I did it.
I know, Eddie. I know.
I giv e him that shit.
I knew it was poisoned.
I told him not to do it.
I went out to cop something good.
But then Doreen and I...
got high and I forgot him.
I forgot Jimmy.
I killed him.
I killed Jimmy.
I gotta call you an ambulance.
Ryan, don`t leav e me. Pleas e--
The y broke the phone. I gotta go outside.
I gotta get you to a hospital, make the call.
You should`v e been watching out for me.
- You should`v e been here. - I`m gonna make one call.
Don`t worry. I`ll be right back.
- Don`t worry. - I`m ready, Ryan.
H elp me up. I`m gonna go.
I`m ready. I`m s cared.
I`m so s cared.
It`s Eddie, he`s upstairs. H e`s hurt real bad.
- I gotta get him to the hospital. - I`ll go with you.
No, I`m not sure about Sal. H e could show up.
- You gotta go. - What about Vincent?
H ere. H ere.
What is this?
That`ll keep you going till you get s ettled somewhere.
What are you talking about?
- You`re coming, aren`t you? - Yeah.
Now there`s a bus leaving for Miami.
I want you to go to the Ocean View Hotel, okay?
You`ll be safe there.
Is my daddy coming with us?
No, uh...
your daddy can`t come with you--
right now.
Your daddy lov es you, though.
Your daddy lov es you v ery, v ery much.
You promis e you`ll meet us?
Port Authority, okay? The y got a bus to catch.
Mommy, who was that man?
Come on.
Eddie? Eddie, come on !
I`ll take you down--
to the stairs... Eddie?
Eddie, come on.
No, Eddie, come on, wake up.
Eddie, Eddie.
Come on, Eddie, pleas e--
Pleas e, Eddie.
Come on, Eddie, wake up for me.
Pleas e, wake up for me, pleas e.
Come on, I told you I`d come back. Come on.
I told you I`d come back, you son of a bitch.
Come on, wake up.
I`ll do anything, you son of a bitch ! Fuck!
I can`t stop you.
You hav e to make that de cision for yours elf.
But I lost you once and I don`t wanna los e you again.
Oh God.
No!
H e`s dead, Sal.
Vincent`s dead, shot right through the head, point blank.
Should we go after Ryan?
What should we do, Sal?
Peanuts always make me thirsty.
- The y do that to you, Mike? - Come on, Sal.
This whole thing with Vincent and Ryan--
shouldn`t we get e v en for Vincent?
Shouldn`t we do something?
No.
This one, we leav e alone.