A Good Thing (2023) Movie Script
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Take that off. You look ridiculous.
Somebody took my money.
It's good to see you, too.
I had two of these in my apartment.
One with clothes, one with money.
I went back tonight and the money's gone.
I think Kevin took it.
Where you been?
What?
Where have you been?
I've been where you've been, right?
Wherever should have
been for the last week.
Hiding.
Hiding?
Yeah, hiding.
Remember Dave?
The guard?
Yeah, Kev's plan did have some holes.
Some?
And that bastard stole my money.
What money are you talking about?
My the police are looking for me, I
need to get the fuck out of here money.
Oh, you mean the
police are looking for us,
we got to get the fuck
out of here money, right?
Yeah, whatever.
We need to go to talk to him. Now.
So, let me get this straight.
Kevin gives us bad information on a job.
Dave... well, you know.
Your priority is to find Kevin and
talk to him about your missing money?
We need to talk to him anyway, right?
We can't talk to him.
You don't know where he is?
You check with that girl he's always with?
What's her name...
We can't talk to him...
because I already did.
Jesus.
When?
How?
Bill?
Like I said, we already talked.
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You were careful right?
You got rid of the body?
Sure did.
No finger prints, I.D., no cameras.
We have to be careful.
We?
We weren't around, remember?
We were hiding.
This Wild Bill shit is gonna get us caught.
Me and you have a script.
You think it up, I make it happen.
When you don't do your
part, I have to improvise.
You've been texting me
all day to meet you here.
What is it?
The job did go to shit,
but we got what they needed.
They paid us?
Yeah, it's in the car.
Good. Let's go get it and split it
up so I can get the hell out of here.
Get the hell out of here and go where?
I just need that money.
What?
You remember that lady
who served food at Riverdale.
The one you were crazy about?
Ms. Jackie?
Ms. Jackie?
Yeah. Ms. Jackie. I saw her.
You did?
How was she doing?
Good I guess.
How did she look?
Like shit.
Riverdale House.
Man, I hated it that place.
Hey, man, you had some
good things happen there.
You had some bad things happen there.
We met there remember?
Which category would that fall under?
Fuck you.
You came there after your mom died.
None of your family would take you in.
Yeah, so they shipped me off.
Right to the foster care home.
That wasn't a home,
that was gladiator camp.
Hey, you remember Big Tony?
Do I remember Big Tony?
Motherfucker, do you remember Big Tony?
He kicked your ass, daily.
You told me to fight him in the cafeteria.
You said you would help me.
Yeah, and you didn't want to.
Hell no, he was huge.
But, you did it.
And that beating we gave him
sent a message to everybody.
Yeah, it did.
Who would have ever
imagine it would be us here?
What happened?
Pulling off the big jobs.
We are never going back to the bottom.
Where did you get that?
I grabbed this out of my apartment.
I don't know the last time I
wore it. I found it in the pocket.
Whatever, man. Toss that shit.
You wanna know something?
You plan on killing me?
What?
You remember Mo from Crown Heights?
Yeah.
Well, whenever someone would
say you wanna know something,
he would say the person hearing it probably
wouldn't live long enough to repeat it.
You want to know something or not?
Alright, lemme hear it.
I can't remember what
my mother looked like.
She's just a blur.
Yeah It's been a while, I guess.
I read this book that said your
mind will do that sometimes,
you know, block stuff out.
Why would it block out your mother?
We used to go to this park.
I remember it had all these yellow
flowers, and butterflies were everywhere.
One time, we saw this butterfly
come out of its shell, or cocoon...
Yeah, whatever you call it.
She said, we were witnessing a miracle.
Sounds magical.
She said the caterpillar did a good
thing becoming what it was supposed to be.
She said, God gave it wings as a reward.
That is total bullshit.
I only had one picture of me and
my mom, but I lost it a while back.
Look, man, I don't want to sound.
What's the word?
Insensitive, but who gives a fuck?
What?
Who gives a fuck?
And fuck that. Fuck them, too.
Fuck who?
Fuck them. All of them.
Everybody in our past.
Anyone in the way of our future.
Fuck them.
We've been taking care of each
other since we was twelve years old.
They left us. They're not here.
Who gives a fuck? Why are
you even thinking about them?
My mom didn't leave me, she died.
What's the difference?
She ain't here, right?
You need to get focused, man.
Focused?
Focused on what?
On this, motherfucker, this.
We are winning.
That's what this is?
This is winning?
Dave is dead, and you shot a security
guard who just happened to be a cop.
How was I supposed to
know that, he wasn't in uniform.
Oh yeah, let's not forget,
you didn't even have a
motherfucking mask on when you did it.
We are winning.
You done?
I don't know about you, but I'm
over all this winning that we're doing.
This is a speed bump. An ant hill.
Kevin's been handled...
Do you hear yourself?
Loud and fucking clear.
Do you hear yourself?
Dave...
Here we fucking go, man.
Dave knew the risks. We all did.
Dave died right in front of me.
And after all he did, what did he have?
No property, no kids, no nothing.
He didn't even have a girlfriend he could
trust with his gym locker combination.
Dave had us.
Not going out like that, man.
What, you got another option I
don't know about or something?
You got like a master's degree
or high school diploma maybe?
Because as far as I know,
this is it. This is what we do.
Been doing no one better.
I just need my money, Bill.
See, this has been your whole
problem since we were friends, man.
You always thinking about yourself.
Who else am I supposed to look out for?
Go get your money, man.
You should get out of here, too.
I need to get. Not here to you.
I'll be around.
I'm just, you know, laying low.
I would lay low too, but I
have a small problem to fix.
As long as it's not my problem.
Well...
A girl was in the office Saturday night.
Nobody was there but us.
She was hiding.
Did she see us?
Maybe, maybe not.
After the guard was shot...
After the cop was shot, she
ran out one of the side exits.
What exit. Kevin said
all the doors were locked.
She must have used something
to break through the glass.
She ran down the street camera.
From what I hear the cops
are already looking for her.
I had my mask on, right?
At some point you did.
At some point you didn't.
But hey, if she didn't go to the cops
by now, she probably won't, right?
What if the cops find her?
A lot riding on a bunch of ifs, huh?
Do you have any idea where she is?
You hungry?
Do you have a plan?
It's not my department, remember?
Alright, talk to her.
It's probably not her.
And let her go.
And if it is her?
Then take her I.D. Tell her
we know where she lives.
The usual stuff.
That ain't the usual stuff.
I gotta go, I gotta go.
Motherfucker!
I told him not to fuck with
Kevin in the first place...
All he has to do is talk to her,
take her I.D., that's it.
Simple. Easy.
He can handle that.
He can ask a simple fucking question
and just leave it at that.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck.
What are you going to do?
What you told me to do, boss.
Just talk.
We saw you sitting by yourself. Figured
we should be polite and keep you company.
Hey, don't be rude.
Say hello.
Hello.
I saw you eating.
I usually get the steak and
eggs, or something like that.
I don't like the food here so much.
Me either.
That's probably because by the
time I taste it, it's usually cold.
Why is it cold?
I like to play with my
food before I eat it.
Bad habit, I guess.
Pardon me.
Where are my manners?
My name is... Seymour?
My name is Gloria.
She said hello.
Pardon me. Are you ok?
Yeah, I cut it... On a wine glass at home.
You must've been in a
real rush to open that bottle.
You said you don't like the food here.
I don't.
Then why come?
I know Seymour's name, what's yours?
MC.
Your mother named you letters?
What my mother named me
is none of your damn business.
Don't mind him.
He's been in a mood all night.
When I first met him,
it took him about six months
before he told me what his name was.
Y'all come here often?
I haven't seen you here before.
Yeah?...Where have you seen us?
Everyone looks so familiar nowadays.
Who can say.
Works for me.
I'm out of here Bill.
Bill is a nice name.
You should use it more often.
The Bible.
A classic.
What are you reading about?
The truth.
Oh, that's heavy.
The truth will set you free.
It also cut like a two edge sword.
That's a lot of power?
You believe in telling the truth?
I don't know what I believe in anymore.
Sounds like she's conflicted.
I never read it.
You should.
I read it to my son every night.
How old is your son?
Doesn't matter.
He's three.
That Bible talk about
anything else? Let's go man.
It talks about a lot.
Love, judgment, forgiveness and revenge.
No wonder you're conflicted.
Where'd you get that from?
What?
Where'd you get that clip?
Do you understand what's going on here?
Look at me.
You need to tell me
you never saw us before.
You understand that?
And then what?
Me and my son live happily ever after?
Exactly.
We go away.
You never see us again.
You're not like him.
Do you know that?
Lady, you have no idea what I'm like.
We good?
Fucking Fantastic.
Where were we?
I need to use the bathroom.
Sure.
We'll be right here when you get back.
She doesn't know who we are.
We don't even know if it's her. It's her.
And when the cops find her,
she is gonna talk, guaranteed.
She has a three year old son.
And I like Applejacks.
What does it have to do with anything?
Exactly.
I'm not killing a woman with a kid.
Then don't.
You lose something?
Fuck! Fuck!
I worked too hard to see everything
taken away by some Bible thumping rat.
You listening to me?
You need to get your head on straight.
Let's say she was there.
That doesn't mean she knows who we are.
That's what we came
in here to find out, right?
Did she see us or not?
The cops just found Kevin.
It's only a matter of time before
they make the connection to us.
We don't have time to be fooling
around with this Mickey Mouse bullshit.
Do you know me from somewhere?
Answer the question.
I've never seen you before tonight.
That's for the tip.
I remember you, though.
What did you say?
I said I remember you.
Let me be clear.
We never met.
You just told him that.
I said I've never seen him before.
I don't know what you think you
remember, but you remember the wrong.
Got it?
I don't know you, you crazy bitch.
When I was growing up it
was just me and my dad.
We don't have time for stories.
We never had much, but that old
man loved me with everything in him.
Gloria listen to me...
I remember we would
squat from house to house.
Tell him we never met.
Laying where we could
until we couldn't. Tell him!
And I remember this one house
and stayed for what felt like a year.
It was really only three months.
But we were really getting it together
there and feeling like people again.
We don't give a fuck.
Say we never met.
Then one night I woke up.
Things were falling and crashing.
I saw my father fighting two men.
They were breaking into our home.
The fight was fierce.
Hey!
Let her finish!
He was yelling for me to
run away, but I couldn't.
I couldn't move forward to help either.
I just stood there... and watched.
They stabbed him over and over.
His blood was everywhere.
I can still hear his scream.
After a while, that
scream turned into a voice.
Voice? It was always there.
Talking, judging.
Saying the same thing to me over and over.
What thing?
You left me to die.
And I would hear it.
It wasn't your fault.
But I could have done something, anything.
My dad would have done anything for me.
And I just didn't even try to help him.
I was too scared.
Gloria, listen to me, okay?
Please tell Bill we never met.
After that, I started
drinking and using drugs.
I was using anything I could to escape.
I could never get the sound
of that scream out of my head.
And that's when I took a
walk across Kings Highway.
I walked into the middle of
the road and just stood there.
At first the cars were pretty far away so
the sound of that voice, sound of the
car's engines were just about the same.
Kings Highway?
After a while, barely hear the voice.
When it was almost completely
gone, something hit me.
When I woke up, I thought I was dead.
My eyes were blurry.
My ears were ringing.
And I looked over and I saw
this guy laying next to me.
People dragged us out the street.
His clothes are ripped and he was bleeding.
I remember seeing his arms
waving and his mouth moving.
I knew he was fighting people off.
That's when I slipped
my haircut into his pocket.
When he saw the lights
from the sirens, he took off.
I never got a chance to say thank you.
I never even knew its name.
That was you.
I remember some things,
but not exactly like that.
There was traffic,
I didn't want to wait, so I ran
across the street without looking.
I guess you were ahead
of me and you stopped.
I didn't have time to
avoid you and we collided.
That's what I remember.
Well, when I went to the hospital,
I found out I was pregnant. So,
it seems like you saved two lives that day.
Even if it was just by accident.
What an amazing act of kindness.
You should add this to your
acts of kindness resume.
I was just trying to beat traffic.
What's your son's name?
His name is King.
See. Glad we got that cleared up.
That's where she knows me from. That's all.
You still drinking, using that stuff?
No.
I went back to school and got a job.
I'm glad you're okay.
Are you?
Am I what? Are you okay?
Because, I've been watching you for
a while and you haven't looked okay.
She's fine.
To be honest, my boyfriend...
Boyfriend?
Man troubles.
What did he do? He left you?
I guess you could say that.
He was a lot like my dad.
Loving more than anything.
Not enough to not leave you.
He was going to marry me.
I don't give a shit about
any of that. Are you okay?
Are you not? Of course she's okay.
You're good, right?
I didn't want a big wedding.
I just wanted to buy a house for
King and my soon to be husband.
Nah, this bitch isn't okay.
And if she's not okay,
we're not okay. Gloria!
There was rent in my tuition.
I didn't know how to save for a house.
Couldn't get married, didn't
know how to house, right?
I insisted that we get second jobs.
I was going to give King the life I lost.
The one that was stolen from me.
If this is about money, here, take this.
If that's not enough, I'll
get you more. No problem.
That work for you, Gloria?
I took an office job on
the weekends. Easy work.
No ones usually even there.
Hello.
Hey, you picked King up yet?
Oh you're close.
Look at me.
Think about King.
We can all go our own
way if you just say it.
You going your own way?
All I had left to do was put my shoes on.
Two men came rushing in.
Only God knows what they were looking for.
Here it is, MC.
I hid under a desk.
I figured they would just leave
when they got what they wanted.
Then, a security guard showed up.
They took one look at him and shot at him.
Over and over.
I remember sitting there thinking,
they didn't even ask that guard anything.
They didn't ask him if he
had a family, or dreams.
He just shot him.
Fuck. Dave.
Dave.
Stick.
No, no, no.
Dave. Come on.
Let's go. Let's go.
We can't just leave bro.
Let's get the fuck out of here.
We ain't got time. Let's go.
When they left, I held the guard's
head and watched his eyes close.
Shut up, shut up. Shut up.
Maybe, that guard thought he was
just going to stand in front of that door,
and get in someone's way.
But what he was really doing was standing
in the way of another guy's future.
And I tell you this Gloria, fuck anybody
standing away of anybody's future.
Maybe, he was just working second job.
Wrong place, right time, I guess.
Gloria, we can fix this.
Shut up MC.
You can't fix dead.
Shut up.
If you say anything else, it will
only put you and King in harm's way.
We're already in harm's way.
Can I tell you a secret?
No.
Why don't I tell you a secret?
Because I've been sitting here
for the past week trying
to figure out what to do.
Go to the police or try
to move on with my life.
And like an answered prayer, you
walk in and sit right in front of me.
So which one did you land on?
Revenge or forgiveness?
It wasn't forgiveness.
I'm going to do this bitch right here.
Gloria, he is going to kill you...
What are you going to do?
We are all going to
walk out of here safely.
Not all of us.
Why not?
I've been hearing that voice again.
I think I finally figured
out how to make it stop.
Give me the gun. I can do what you want.
She walks away from this, look around,
the cops are already in the way for sure.
Taking care of her is
the first step in fixing this.
Let's just leave, man.
What's wrong MC, you
got a soft spot for her?
She reminds you of someone?
Hey, Gloria.
Your son's gonna be in foster care any
day now, so you might want to know this.
When he gets there, he's
gotta be strong from day one,
not like MC was.
MC would curl up on his bunk and look
at his little picture of his
mommy and cry like a little bitch.
Fuck you. You know what the
other kids called him a bitch.
You know why I did that Gloria?
While he was out knitting one day,
or whatever the fuck he was doing,
I took that little picture, I
wiped my ass with it, set it on fire.
You know why I did that Gloria?
Because, I'm always looking out for us.
If you don't know me by now,
you will never ever know me.
And now, Gloria, like always,
I have to take care of us again.
Oh, don't look at me like that.
Your mommy left you with weakness in you.
I squeezed it out.
Now just when we are about
to be somebody in this world,
you want to run off and have a good cry.
I told you I was going to lay low, man.
I told you I was going to Queens...
Fuck it.
MC is all about MC, right?
That's not true.
Hey, Gloria?
You think you know MC, huh?
Well, so do I.
Let's play a little game and
see who really knows him best.
MC is got himself a one
way ticket out of Dodge.
You wanna leave? Okay go.
Flight leaves in a couple hours.
Still got some time.
Not much though.
Dead cop, dead Kevin.
Not long before the cops
come knocking on our doors.
That's what you said, remember?
How about this?
You leave right now, you
can take your money and mine.
I'll be here anyway.
Don't leave me here.
Fuck her. You don't know her.
You don't owe her anything.
Arizona's waiting.
A whole new life.
I told you to say you didn't know us.
Just say you were okay.
I told you that.
Wait.
Hey MC...
A little piece of advice.
Wherever you go, there you are.
You're standing in my way, MC.
I'm gonna count to three and
then I'm gonna unload this clip,
on whoever's in front of me.
You're going to shoot me, Bill.
I don't think I have to.
One.
Put the gun down.
Shoot him. He is going to kill us.
She ain't lying, MC.
Two.
You don't even know her. This isn't right.
When does the other fact
into anything that was done.
Move now. I won't move.
You're in my way, MC.
I know, Bill.
Three.
No, no, no.
Get up. Get up.
Marcus... Carter.
Marcus Carter.
Go...
Thank you.
Thank you again, Marcus Carter.
Marcus...
I was sure you were gonna move.
I can see her.
I can see her.
I started out helping others
we started out sisters, brothers
all of my time was taken
all of my taxes paid in
I am not my brother's keeper
staring at the old grim Reaper
Waving down his blade at me
Telling me I won't succeed
There goes the devil
telling me to lie again
which is I'm around me
says it's all right to pretend
that you can get more than you give
and he wears a raincoat
that celebrities if autograph
because they're working for him
on his secret special
staff he gets a couple more
send to him every weekend
And dear God, I hate to say I'm sorry
But I just wanted you to love me
Even though I still love money
and dear God I hate to turn the table
But I just hate waiting tables
in my mid twenties I need more money
I dig of the devil
creeping in my life's design
said where does it get you
being such a damn nice guy
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Take that off. You look ridiculous.
Somebody took my money.
It's good to see you, too.
I had two of these in my apartment.
One with clothes, one with money.
I went back tonight and the money's gone.
I think Kevin took it.
Where you been?
What?
Where have you been?
I've been where you've been, right?
Wherever should have
been for the last week.
Hiding.
Hiding?
Yeah, hiding.
Remember Dave?
The guard?
Yeah, Kev's plan did have some holes.
Some?
And that bastard stole my money.
What money are you talking about?
My the police are looking for me, I
need to get the fuck out of here money.
Oh, you mean the
police are looking for us,
we got to get the fuck
out of here money, right?
Yeah, whatever.
We need to go to talk to him. Now.
So, let me get this straight.
Kevin gives us bad information on a job.
Dave... well, you know.
Your priority is to find Kevin and
talk to him about your missing money?
We need to talk to him anyway, right?
We can't talk to him.
You don't know where he is?
You check with that girl he's always with?
What's her name...
We can't talk to him...
because I already did.
Jesus.
When?
How?
Bill?
Like I said, we already talked.
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You were careful right?
You got rid of the body?
Sure did.
No finger prints, I.D., no cameras.
We have to be careful.
We?
We weren't around, remember?
We were hiding.
This Wild Bill shit is gonna get us caught.
Me and you have a script.
You think it up, I make it happen.
When you don't do your
part, I have to improvise.
You've been texting me
all day to meet you here.
What is it?
The job did go to shit,
but we got what they needed.
They paid us?
Yeah, it's in the car.
Good. Let's go get it and split it
up so I can get the hell out of here.
Get the hell out of here and go where?
I just need that money.
What?
You remember that lady
who served food at Riverdale.
The one you were crazy about?
Ms. Jackie?
Ms. Jackie?
Yeah. Ms. Jackie. I saw her.
You did?
How was she doing?
Good I guess.
How did she look?
Like shit.
Riverdale House.
Man, I hated it that place.
Hey, man, you had some
good things happen there.
You had some bad things happen there.
We met there remember?
Which category would that fall under?
Fuck you.
You came there after your mom died.
None of your family would take you in.
Yeah, so they shipped me off.
Right to the foster care home.
That wasn't a home,
that was gladiator camp.
Hey, you remember Big Tony?
Do I remember Big Tony?
Motherfucker, do you remember Big Tony?
He kicked your ass, daily.
You told me to fight him in the cafeteria.
You said you would help me.
Yeah, and you didn't want to.
Hell no, he was huge.
But, you did it.
And that beating we gave him
sent a message to everybody.
Yeah, it did.
Who would have ever
imagine it would be us here?
What happened?
Pulling off the big jobs.
We are never going back to the bottom.
Where did you get that?
I grabbed this out of my apartment.
I don't know the last time I
wore it. I found it in the pocket.
Whatever, man. Toss that shit.
You wanna know something?
You plan on killing me?
What?
You remember Mo from Crown Heights?
Yeah.
Well, whenever someone would
say you wanna know something,
he would say the person hearing it probably
wouldn't live long enough to repeat it.
You want to know something or not?
Alright, lemme hear it.
I can't remember what
my mother looked like.
She's just a blur.
Yeah It's been a while, I guess.
I read this book that said your
mind will do that sometimes,
you know, block stuff out.
Why would it block out your mother?
We used to go to this park.
I remember it had all these yellow
flowers, and butterflies were everywhere.
One time, we saw this butterfly
come out of its shell, or cocoon...
Yeah, whatever you call it.
She said, we were witnessing a miracle.
Sounds magical.
She said the caterpillar did a good
thing becoming what it was supposed to be.
She said, God gave it wings as a reward.
That is total bullshit.
I only had one picture of me and
my mom, but I lost it a while back.
Look, man, I don't want to sound.
What's the word?
Insensitive, but who gives a fuck?
What?
Who gives a fuck?
And fuck that. Fuck them, too.
Fuck who?
Fuck them. All of them.
Everybody in our past.
Anyone in the way of our future.
Fuck them.
We've been taking care of each
other since we was twelve years old.
They left us. They're not here.
Who gives a fuck? Why are
you even thinking about them?
My mom didn't leave me, she died.
What's the difference?
She ain't here, right?
You need to get focused, man.
Focused?
Focused on what?
On this, motherfucker, this.
We are winning.
That's what this is?
This is winning?
Dave is dead, and you shot a security
guard who just happened to be a cop.
How was I supposed to
know that, he wasn't in uniform.
Oh yeah, let's not forget,
you didn't even have a
motherfucking mask on when you did it.
We are winning.
You done?
I don't know about you, but I'm
over all this winning that we're doing.
This is a speed bump. An ant hill.
Kevin's been handled...
Do you hear yourself?
Loud and fucking clear.
Do you hear yourself?
Dave...
Here we fucking go, man.
Dave knew the risks. We all did.
Dave died right in front of me.
And after all he did, what did he have?
No property, no kids, no nothing.
He didn't even have a girlfriend he could
trust with his gym locker combination.
Dave had us.
Not going out like that, man.
What, you got another option I
don't know about or something?
You got like a master's degree
or high school diploma maybe?
Because as far as I know,
this is it. This is what we do.
Been doing no one better.
I just need my money, Bill.
See, this has been your whole
problem since we were friends, man.
You always thinking about yourself.
Who else am I supposed to look out for?
Go get your money, man.
You should get out of here, too.
I need to get. Not here to you.
I'll be around.
I'm just, you know, laying low.
I would lay low too, but I
have a small problem to fix.
As long as it's not my problem.
Well...
A girl was in the office Saturday night.
Nobody was there but us.
She was hiding.
Did she see us?
Maybe, maybe not.
After the guard was shot...
After the cop was shot, she
ran out one of the side exits.
What exit. Kevin said
all the doors were locked.
She must have used something
to break through the glass.
She ran down the street camera.
From what I hear the cops
are already looking for her.
I had my mask on, right?
At some point you did.
At some point you didn't.
But hey, if she didn't go to the cops
by now, she probably won't, right?
What if the cops find her?
A lot riding on a bunch of ifs, huh?
Do you have any idea where she is?
You hungry?
Do you have a plan?
It's not my department, remember?
Alright, talk to her.
It's probably not her.
And let her go.
And if it is her?
Then take her I.D. Tell her
we know where she lives.
The usual stuff.
That ain't the usual stuff.
I gotta go, I gotta go.
Motherfucker!
I told him not to fuck with
Kevin in the first place...
All he has to do is talk to her,
take her I.D., that's it.
Simple. Easy.
He can handle that.
He can ask a simple fucking question
and just leave it at that.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck.
What are you going to do?
What you told me to do, boss.
Just talk.
We saw you sitting by yourself. Figured
we should be polite and keep you company.
Hey, don't be rude.
Say hello.
Hello.
I saw you eating.
I usually get the steak and
eggs, or something like that.
I don't like the food here so much.
Me either.
That's probably because by the
time I taste it, it's usually cold.
Why is it cold?
I like to play with my
food before I eat it.
Bad habit, I guess.
Pardon me.
Where are my manners?
My name is... Seymour?
My name is Gloria.
She said hello.
Pardon me. Are you ok?
Yeah, I cut it... On a wine glass at home.
You must've been in a
real rush to open that bottle.
You said you don't like the food here.
I don't.
Then why come?
I know Seymour's name, what's yours?
MC.
Your mother named you letters?
What my mother named me
is none of your damn business.
Don't mind him.
He's been in a mood all night.
When I first met him,
it took him about six months
before he told me what his name was.
Y'all come here often?
I haven't seen you here before.
Yeah?...Where have you seen us?
Everyone looks so familiar nowadays.
Who can say.
Works for me.
I'm out of here Bill.
Bill is a nice name.
You should use it more often.
The Bible.
A classic.
What are you reading about?
The truth.
Oh, that's heavy.
The truth will set you free.
It also cut like a two edge sword.
That's a lot of power?
You believe in telling the truth?
I don't know what I believe in anymore.
Sounds like she's conflicted.
I never read it.
You should.
I read it to my son every night.
How old is your son?
Doesn't matter.
He's three.
That Bible talk about
anything else? Let's go man.
It talks about a lot.
Love, judgment, forgiveness and revenge.
No wonder you're conflicted.
Where'd you get that from?
What?
Where'd you get that clip?
Do you understand what's going on here?
Look at me.
You need to tell me
you never saw us before.
You understand that?
And then what?
Me and my son live happily ever after?
Exactly.
We go away.
You never see us again.
You're not like him.
Do you know that?
Lady, you have no idea what I'm like.
We good?
Fucking Fantastic.
Where were we?
I need to use the bathroom.
Sure.
We'll be right here when you get back.
She doesn't know who we are.
We don't even know if it's her. It's her.
And when the cops find her,
she is gonna talk, guaranteed.
She has a three year old son.
And I like Applejacks.
What does it have to do with anything?
Exactly.
I'm not killing a woman with a kid.
Then don't.
You lose something?
Fuck! Fuck!
I worked too hard to see everything
taken away by some Bible thumping rat.
You listening to me?
You need to get your head on straight.
Let's say she was there.
That doesn't mean she knows who we are.
That's what we came
in here to find out, right?
Did she see us or not?
The cops just found Kevin.
It's only a matter of time before
they make the connection to us.
We don't have time to be fooling
around with this Mickey Mouse bullshit.
Do you know me from somewhere?
Answer the question.
I've never seen you before tonight.
That's for the tip.
I remember you, though.
What did you say?
I said I remember you.
Let me be clear.
We never met.
You just told him that.
I said I've never seen him before.
I don't know what you think you
remember, but you remember the wrong.
Got it?
I don't know you, you crazy bitch.
When I was growing up it
was just me and my dad.
We don't have time for stories.
We never had much, but that old
man loved me with everything in him.
Gloria listen to me...
I remember we would
squat from house to house.
Tell him we never met.
Laying where we could
until we couldn't. Tell him!
And I remember this one house
and stayed for what felt like a year.
It was really only three months.
But we were really getting it together
there and feeling like people again.
We don't give a fuck.
Say we never met.
Then one night I woke up.
Things were falling and crashing.
I saw my father fighting two men.
They were breaking into our home.
The fight was fierce.
Hey!
Let her finish!
He was yelling for me to
run away, but I couldn't.
I couldn't move forward to help either.
I just stood there... and watched.
They stabbed him over and over.
His blood was everywhere.
I can still hear his scream.
After a while, that
scream turned into a voice.
Voice? It was always there.
Talking, judging.
Saying the same thing to me over and over.
What thing?
You left me to die.
And I would hear it.
It wasn't your fault.
But I could have done something, anything.
My dad would have done anything for me.
And I just didn't even try to help him.
I was too scared.
Gloria, listen to me, okay?
Please tell Bill we never met.
After that, I started
drinking and using drugs.
I was using anything I could to escape.
I could never get the sound
of that scream out of my head.
And that's when I took a
walk across Kings Highway.
I walked into the middle of
the road and just stood there.
At first the cars were pretty far away so
the sound of that voice, sound of the
car's engines were just about the same.
Kings Highway?
After a while, barely hear the voice.
When it was almost completely
gone, something hit me.
When I woke up, I thought I was dead.
My eyes were blurry.
My ears were ringing.
And I looked over and I saw
this guy laying next to me.
People dragged us out the street.
His clothes are ripped and he was bleeding.
I remember seeing his arms
waving and his mouth moving.
I knew he was fighting people off.
That's when I slipped
my haircut into his pocket.
When he saw the lights
from the sirens, he took off.
I never got a chance to say thank you.
I never even knew its name.
That was you.
I remember some things,
but not exactly like that.
There was traffic,
I didn't want to wait, so I ran
across the street without looking.
I guess you were ahead
of me and you stopped.
I didn't have time to
avoid you and we collided.
That's what I remember.
Well, when I went to the hospital,
I found out I was pregnant. So,
it seems like you saved two lives that day.
Even if it was just by accident.
What an amazing act of kindness.
You should add this to your
acts of kindness resume.
I was just trying to beat traffic.
What's your son's name?
His name is King.
See. Glad we got that cleared up.
That's where she knows me from. That's all.
You still drinking, using that stuff?
No.
I went back to school and got a job.
I'm glad you're okay.
Are you?
Am I what? Are you okay?
Because, I've been watching you for
a while and you haven't looked okay.
She's fine.
To be honest, my boyfriend...
Boyfriend?
Man troubles.
What did he do? He left you?
I guess you could say that.
He was a lot like my dad.
Loving more than anything.
Not enough to not leave you.
He was going to marry me.
I don't give a shit about
any of that. Are you okay?
Are you not? Of course she's okay.
You're good, right?
I didn't want a big wedding.
I just wanted to buy a house for
King and my soon to be husband.
Nah, this bitch isn't okay.
And if she's not okay,
we're not okay. Gloria!
There was rent in my tuition.
I didn't know how to save for a house.
Couldn't get married, didn't
know how to house, right?
I insisted that we get second jobs.
I was going to give King the life I lost.
The one that was stolen from me.
If this is about money, here, take this.
If that's not enough, I'll
get you more. No problem.
That work for you, Gloria?
I took an office job on
the weekends. Easy work.
No ones usually even there.
Hello.
Hey, you picked King up yet?
Oh you're close.
Look at me.
Think about King.
We can all go our own
way if you just say it.
You going your own way?
All I had left to do was put my shoes on.
Two men came rushing in.
Only God knows what they were looking for.
Here it is, MC.
I hid under a desk.
I figured they would just leave
when they got what they wanted.
Then, a security guard showed up.
They took one look at him and shot at him.
Over and over.
I remember sitting there thinking,
they didn't even ask that guard anything.
They didn't ask him if he
had a family, or dreams.
He just shot him.
Fuck. Dave.
Dave.
Stick.
No, no, no.
Dave. Come on.
Let's go. Let's go.
We can't just leave bro.
Let's get the fuck out of here.
We ain't got time. Let's go.
When they left, I held the guard's
head and watched his eyes close.
Shut up, shut up. Shut up.
Maybe, that guard thought he was
just going to stand in front of that door,
and get in someone's way.
But what he was really doing was standing
in the way of another guy's future.
And I tell you this Gloria, fuck anybody
standing away of anybody's future.
Maybe, he was just working second job.
Wrong place, right time, I guess.
Gloria, we can fix this.
Shut up MC.
You can't fix dead.
Shut up.
If you say anything else, it will
only put you and King in harm's way.
We're already in harm's way.
Can I tell you a secret?
No.
Why don't I tell you a secret?
Because I've been sitting here
for the past week trying
to figure out what to do.
Go to the police or try
to move on with my life.
And like an answered prayer, you
walk in and sit right in front of me.
So which one did you land on?
Revenge or forgiveness?
It wasn't forgiveness.
I'm going to do this bitch right here.
Gloria, he is going to kill you...
What are you going to do?
We are all going to
walk out of here safely.
Not all of us.
Why not?
I've been hearing that voice again.
I think I finally figured
out how to make it stop.
Give me the gun. I can do what you want.
She walks away from this, look around,
the cops are already in the way for sure.
Taking care of her is
the first step in fixing this.
Let's just leave, man.
What's wrong MC, you
got a soft spot for her?
She reminds you of someone?
Hey, Gloria.
Your son's gonna be in foster care any
day now, so you might want to know this.
When he gets there, he's
gotta be strong from day one,
not like MC was.
MC would curl up on his bunk and look
at his little picture of his
mommy and cry like a little bitch.
Fuck you. You know what the
other kids called him a bitch.
You know why I did that Gloria?
While he was out knitting one day,
or whatever the fuck he was doing,
I took that little picture, I
wiped my ass with it, set it on fire.
You know why I did that Gloria?
Because, I'm always looking out for us.
If you don't know me by now,
you will never ever know me.
And now, Gloria, like always,
I have to take care of us again.
Oh, don't look at me like that.
Your mommy left you with weakness in you.
I squeezed it out.
Now just when we are about
to be somebody in this world,
you want to run off and have a good cry.
I told you I was going to lay low, man.
I told you I was going to Queens...
Fuck it.
MC is all about MC, right?
That's not true.
Hey, Gloria?
You think you know MC, huh?
Well, so do I.
Let's play a little game and
see who really knows him best.
MC is got himself a one
way ticket out of Dodge.
You wanna leave? Okay go.
Flight leaves in a couple hours.
Still got some time.
Not much though.
Dead cop, dead Kevin.
Not long before the cops
come knocking on our doors.
That's what you said, remember?
How about this?
You leave right now, you
can take your money and mine.
I'll be here anyway.
Don't leave me here.
Fuck her. You don't know her.
You don't owe her anything.
Arizona's waiting.
A whole new life.
I told you to say you didn't know us.
Just say you were okay.
I told you that.
Wait.
Hey MC...
A little piece of advice.
Wherever you go, there you are.
You're standing in my way, MC.
I'm gonna count to three and
then I'm gonna unload this clip,
on whoever's in front of me.
You're going to shoot me, Bill.
I don't think I have to.
One.
Put the gun down.
Shoot him. He is going to kill us.
She ain't lying, MC.
Two.
You don't even know her. This isn't right.
When does the other fact
into anything that was done.
Move now. I won't move.
You're in my way, MC.
I know, Bill.
Three.
No, no, no.
Get up. Get up.
Marcus... Carter.
Marcus Carter.
Go...
Thank you.
Thank you again, Marcus Carter.
Marcus...
I was sure you were gonna move.
I can see her.
I can see her.
I started out helping others
we started out sisters, brothers
all of my time was taken
all of my taxes paid in
I am not my brother's keeper
staring at the old grim Reaper
Waving down his blade at me
Telling me I won't succeed
There goes the devil
telling me to lie again
which is I'm around me
says it's all right to pretend
that you can get more than you give
and he wears a raincoat
that celebrities if autograph
because they're working for him
on his secret special
staff he gets a couple more
send to him every weekend
And dear God, I hate to say I'm sorry
But I just wanted you to love me
Even though I still love money
and dear God I hate to turn the table
But I just hate waiting tables
in my mid twenties I need more money
I dig of the devil
creeping in my life's design
said where does it get you
being such a damn nice guy