Patriot (2015) s02e03 Episode Script
The Guns of Paris
1 Them good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin', "This'll be the day that I die.
" - [MAN CALLS OUT IN FRENCH.]
- [CLICKS.]
gonna have to talk fast, man.
It's a cassette, so they rewind it.
It takes, like, 40 seconds.
- How'd they catch you? - My guys fucked up.
Yeah, my guys fucked up, too.
It's a real fucking jellyfish, this.
- What's that? - It's a real fucking jellyfish.
- This.
- The situation we're in? Yeah.
I'm not really following you, man.
I grew up in Bembridge, on the coast of the English Channel.
Lot of jellyfish.
Very hard to eradicate.
You try to kill one, say, spear it or what have you, you can make two.
They regenerate.
- Two what? - Two jellyfish.
I'm saying you try to solve a problem and, in doing so, you make two more problems, which is the scenario we're in here.
The "American Pie" scenario we're in here.
We try to handle this physicist, miss, and now both our governments are exposed.
You're with Defense Intelligence? - Great Britain? - I am.
You were part of the advance team? Yeah.
I was arrested at the airport on the way in.
They fucked up my passport, said I was born in 1876.
Yeah, that's why I didn't get any advance information I was shooting the wrong guy.
Yeah.
Sorry, mate.
How long you been in here? - Egypt or this box? - This box.
I guess a week.
John.
John.
Yeah, I heard you.
I'm just trying to remember my name.
- Call me Spike.
- Is that your name? No, I just picked it, just in this moment, 'cause it's cool.
- Yeah, it is cool.
- [CLICKS, SONG BEGINS.]
- I started singing - I'll talk to you in 3 minutes or so.
- Okay.
Spike.
- Bye, bye, Miss American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry Them good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye And singin', "This'll be the day" "that I die" [PHONE RINGS.]
Hello? MILLS: Mr.
Leslie Claret? This is Mr.
Leslie Claret.
Mr.
Claret, this is Detective Emile Mills calling to confirm our request to interview you concerning your colleague, John Lakeman.
An interview scheduled between you and Sergeant Poullian upon your arrival this evening.
Yeah.
I'll be there.
How many fillet welds would you use in that scenario, John? I would use two.
I like the little Asian guy better.
- [GRUNTS.]
- [TIRES SCREECH.]
Except for Lakeman, who's simply not going.
- [GUNSHOT.]
- [GRUNTS.]
[TIRES SCREECH.]
["SURE SHOT" BY BEASTIE BOYS PLAYING.]
'Cause you can't you won't, and you don't stop Well, you can't you won't, and you don't stop Mike D, come and rock the sure shot I've got the brand-new doo-doo Guaranteed like Yoo-hoo I'm on like Dr.
John yeah, Mr.
Zu Zu I'm a newlywed I'm not a divorcée, yeah And everything I do is funky like Lee Dorsey Well, it's The Taking of the Pelham One Two Three If you want a doo-doo rhyme then come see me I've got the savoir faire with the unique rhymin' I keep it on and on it's never quittin' time and Strictly handheld is the style I go Never rock the mic with the pantyhose I strap on my ear goggles and I'm ready to go 'Cause at the boards is the man they call the Mario Pull up at the function and you know I Kojak To all the party people that are on my bozack I've got more action than my man John Woo And I've got mad hits like I was Rod Carew, yeah Because you can't you won't, and you don't stop Because you can't you won't, and you don't stop Oh, well, you can't you won't, and you don't stop I keep my underwear up with a piece of elastic Use a bullshit mic that's made out of plastic To send my rhymes out to all the nations Like Ma Bell I got the ill communication 'Cause you can't you won't, and you don't stop 'Cause you can't you won't, and you don't stop Well, you can't you won't, and you don't stop Keep on and rockin' the sure shot.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE.]
JACK: My plan didn't work either.
My plan to help John.
What was the basis of it? Ah, dime sock.
Lights out.
That didn't work? Fucked it up.
What was the basis of your plan? The basis was chuck that fucking money in whatever the name of this river is.
The Alzette.
- Chuck it in the Alzette.
- Why? So John stops riding bikes into cars.
- Did you fuck it up? - Yeah.
Yeah, I fucked it up, too.
Yeah, you said that.
Well I'm gonna go see John.
DENNIS: I fucked up way back.
Too.
First.
Thigh slice.
Then I went to the E.
R.
Probably, the whole basis is me.
The whole car thing, this whole fucked up thing.
Me.
Don't do that to yourself, man.
It's a fucking intense thing going on here.
Still, it's pretty fucked up.
- This whole thing? - Yeah.
Yeah.
He needs real help, you know? Not the Three Fucketeers.
Yeah, well, I'm going.
[PHONE CHIMES.]
[SEAT BELT INDICATOR CHIMES.]
[FLIGHT ATTENDANT SPEAKING FRENCH OVER P.
A.
SYSTEM.]
FLIGHT ATTENDANT [OVER P.
A.
.]
: Please fasten your seatbelts.
We've begun our descent into Luxembourg City.
We're landing in approximately 25 minutes.
[WOMAN SPEAKING FRENCH OVER P.
A.
SYSTEM.]
[PANTING.]
Leslie.
Tom.
Leslie, I'm not a tugger.
I know that, Tom.
I know damn well.
But I'm John's father.
And from one father to another, could you please just walk past your sign, outside with me, so we can say some things to each other? About John.
[LESLIE GRUNTS.]
Leslie, father to father.
[INDISTINCT P.
A.
ANNOUNCEMENT.]
Leslie.
Yeah, Tom? How you been, Leslie? Not too good, Tom.
Not too good.
I'm sorry to hear that, Leslie.
Got shot in the face, Tom.
Shot right in the face.
Yeah.
Well, I thought we could talk about that, Leslie.
And you'll notice that I'm not staying at the King Gerald, because I wanted to be in a neighborhood, Tom, where it would be a little easier to score.
Leslie, my son is not an engineer.
Leslie, he's [EXHALES.]
Leslie, John is an intelligence officer.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE.]
[EXHALES.]
[SHOES SQUEAKING.]
[THUD ECHOING.]
And he's worked in that capacity for well, too long, fighting his battles by himself almost always by himself.
Now, I know you've faced an awful lot, Leslie, but he's enduring hardship beyond anything you've faced.
He's devoted and essential, Leslie.
He's a fine young man, and I've been maybe not a terrific father to him.
He's a better son, anyway.
I know that anyway, Leslie.
I know about that, Tom.
I do.
And I know about trying to fix that Tom I do.
I'm so worried about him, Leslie.
He has this dog that won't leave his side because it knows he's hurting.
And I have to ask him to keep going because what he's doing is vital.
And all I can do is try to protect him as much as I can along the way which is why I'm here and hope that someday, someday soon, this will end, and he'll be restored and he can understand and forgive me.
You say he's not doing too well, Tom? Not too well, Leslie, no.
I've been driving him, Tom.
Me, too, Leslie.
Pushing the boy.
Can I see him, Tom? Try to work this out, man-to-man? [BIRDS SQUAWKING.]
I don't understand what you want.
I want to know where John's father is, where he'll be Thomas Tavner for a given afternoon or evening.
[CAR ENGINE RUMBLING.]
I don't know anything about that.
I know I arrived here to see John.
Then he had your daughter, and now you do, and now I want to leave.
[DOOR OPENING.]
[DOOR CLOSING.]
[EXHALES.]
My mom said that you would bring me to Disneyland to meet Chip the Cup.
I'm very excited, Alice.
[CAR ENGINE STARTS.]
- [GUN COCKS.]
- [MARTIN SPEAKS FRENCH.]
[GUNSHOTS.]
- [COINS JANGLE.]
- God [GRUNTS, GROANS.]
Slow down.
[BEEPING.]
[TRAIN RUMBLING.]
DENNIS: I can't tell which two fingers are mine.
Holy shit.
Fuck.
[PANTING.]
Can you? Dennis, come on.
Quiet down.
Does anybody have another finger? - Are we missing one? - Yeah.
Also, ow, man.
Fuck, it hurts to get shot.
They look exactly the fucking same.
How is that possible? - We're-we're two men.
- Dennis, you got to quiet down, man.
I sell big pipes.
What the fuck? [CRYING.]
: I sell big pipes.
Hey.
You're going into shock.
Can I go to the hospital this time? No, you went to the hospital last time.
That's why we're all shot now.
Why doesn't everybody shut the fuck up here? I don't know, man.
Why don't we find, like, a disgraced veterinarian? I'm not going to a French cat doctor.
- Dennis.
- Cats don't have fingers.
- Apes do.
Sort of.
- Yeah.
Oh.
Okay.
Well, we'll just find a fucking French ape doctor, Edward.
It's 2:00 in the morning.
Dennis, you saved my life, man.
Come on.
You can keep it together.
You came through.
Blue ribbon balls.
I would put a blue ribbon on your balls, man, if I had a blue ribbon.
Yeah, McClaren.
But you have to quiet down.
I don't want you getting arrested.
You're my best friend, man.
Dennis, cover up those fingers.
Put your hand in your coat and don't follow me.
Eddie, leave at the next stop.
Tell him everything.
I'm a consultant with a governmental department that collects intelligence and implements processes that are paid for and directed outside the prescribed structure of oversight.
I don't know shit about Donnelly nut spacing systems or tamped fixture rim-riding grip configurations.
I'm a righty in real life.
I'm sorry that I fucked with your important work.
And with your life, which is also probably important to you.
But I'm obligated, in instances, to effect action central to the completion of a specific and critical task without regard for ancillary repercussions, which I'm sorry, Leslie has meant, over this period we shared, you.
I'm a goddamn mess, son.
And it's largely due to you.
Hey, guy.
Good evening.
LESLIE: Evening.
You have, um Your nose, sir.
Thanks.
I, uh let it rip this week.
Really, you know really fucking let it rip.
You get it, yeah.
[CHUCKLES.]
John? Can we, uh Can we do that lefty? [INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
JOHN: Fuck.
TOM: What? JOHN: I have to tell you something.
You You're gonna be mad at me.
Tell me what? John.
JOHN: I've been fingerprinted before.
TOM: What? JOHN: I Before.
I was TOM: What? JOHN: I was 14.
But, you know, same fingers as now, so I have to tell you.
My finger's back there.
Back where? Back where it got shot off, at the at the little grocery thing.
When were you fingerprinted? In Denton.
For buying beer and driving your Mustang.
- At 14? - Yeah.
Christ, son.
Something could have happened to that car.
- I know.
- It was cherry.
I know.
That's why I didn't tell you.
You know, I send you all over the goddamn planet with the understanding that things you touch while operating in many gray areas of the law, son many goddamned gray areas cannot be traced back to you, my son.
Now I learn that they can.
You people have to tell me this stuff.
Yeah, well, you just really liked that car.
- Well, it was cherry.
- I know.
You always say that.
It's it's kind of gross.
- Gross? - Yeah.
- Why? - I don't know.
It just is, though.
TOM [EXHALES DEEPLY.]
: Fuck.
We can't do this.
- This what? - Cantar Walley.
If they can put you here at this time as John Tavner an employee of ours They can put you here at the same time, we can't do this.
Fuck.
JOHN: Let's go get it back.
- What? - My finger.
I'm sorry.
I fucked up.
I did.
You have to get up now.
We have to leave here before there are more questions.
Home? No, we're leaving the hospital.
I have to, uh remain on this task for a time.
The other side is still here.
How do you know? Look at you.
They are intent to gain back what they gave to us.
[WHISPERING.]
: I have to find the young man who gave Mikham the money weeks ago son and kill him.
Lakeman.
The police mentioned the name Lakeman.
It's gonna be cool, man.
Carol's here.
- So what? - [DOOR CLOSES.]
So she can put your fingers back on.
CAROL: Edward? We're in here.
[CHUCKLES.]
Hey.
Welcome.
I still can't tell which ones are mine.
What's going on? Efram, go unpack.
Thank God you're here, as a veterinarian.
- As a what? - As a veterinarian.
- Why? - 'Cause you can put his fingers back on.
- I can do what? - You can put Dennis's fingers back on.
He had his fingers shot off, and he can't go to the hospital.
- W-What? - I can't say, honey.
Work.
My dad.
I'm not at liberty to But we both got shot.
I took a shoulder graze.
So we're glad that you're here to put his fingers back on as a veterinarian, as that is commonly seen in feature films.
What is? When guys can't go to the hospital, a disgraced veterinarian operates on them.
- I'm not disgraced.
- I am.
- Maybe I could help you or - Th-That part's not important.
The important part is that because you almost work on humans, you can then work on humans and it's not a big deal and you can just do it.
I cannot.
Edward, animals don't have fingers.
- Apes, we were saying.
- Apes? What the fuck? I don't operate on apes.
I've never seen a fucking ape.
- Okay, Efram's here, geez.
- Okay, I'm sorry.
You're just You're telling me you got shot.
I don't know what's going on.
You're I thought we were taking a few days off.
Um, how long do I have? To have these back on? Before they die? Like, three hours, probably.
[EXHALES.]
Like, from now? Or from when I was shot? You need to go to the hospital immediately.
I did that once.
- It fucked everything up.
- Who are you? Jack Birdbath.
Of course.
Can you try? It's already been, like, 20 minutes.
I already lost my wife, and I'm 42, so it's already creepy.
And this, I mean Can you try? John.
Yeah? I don't know.
What? Never been in the field before.
It's not the field.
It's a 7-Eleven.
Y-Yeah.
I don't know.
I I feel unusually nervous.
You ever bought a pack of cigarettes before? Yeah, I used to smoke before you were born.
Your mom made me stop.
You're just buying a pack of cigarettes.
Okay.
You just walk in there up to the counter, and I'll come in behind you.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I feel unusually nervous to play a role here.
How do you feel? My hand hurts.
No, I mean, besides that.
Pretty good.
Okay.
I don't.
Hey, you got to get in front.
Why? Because you have to go in first.
[EXHALES.]
[ENTRANCE BELL CHIMES.]
[INDISTINCT POLICE RADIO TRANSMISSION.]
Funyuns.
[GRUNTS.]
Okay Woah-oh, yeah Takin' you in Make you feel like It's never been good Takin' you in Make you feel like It's never been good Can't even sing a love song She said, "Don't you know " It's not that love's wrong?" Goin' in and out where you don't belong There's a love song comin' along Takin' you in Make you feel like It's never been good Takin' you in Make you feel like It's never been good I know it's not easy Lovin' what's left of me Hang on, lovers Here comes a love melody What'cha doin' up there Where you don't belong? You don't know nobody up there You better come back down [SONG FADES.]
" - [MAN CALLS OUT IN FRENCH.]
- [CLICKS.]
gonna have to talk fast, man.
It's a cassette, so they rewind it.
It takes, like, 40 seconds.
- How'd they catch you? - My guys fucked up.
Yeah, my guys fucked up, too.
It's a real fucking jellyfish, this.
- What's that? - It's a real fucking jellyfish.
- This.
- The situation we're in? Yeah.
I'm not really following you, man.
I grew up in Bembridge, on the coast of the English Channel.
Lot of jellyfish.
Very hard to eradicate.
You try to kill one, say, spear it or what have you, you can make two.
They regenerate.
- Two what? - Two jellyfish.
I'm saying you try to solve a problem and, in doing so, you make two more problems, which is the scenario we're in here.
The "American Pie" scenario we're in here.
We try to handle this physicist, miss, and now both our governments are exposed.
You're with Defense Intelligence? - Great Britain? - I am.
You were part of the advance team? Yeah.
I was arrested at the airport on the way in.
They fucked up my passport, said I was born in 1876.
Yeah, that's why I didn't get any advance information I was shooting the wrong guy.
Yeah.
Sorry, mate.
How long you been in here? - Egypt or this box? - This box.
I guess a week.
John.
John.
Yeah, I heard you.
I'm just trying to remember my name.
- Call me Spike.
- Is that your name? No, I just picked it, just in this moment, 'cause it's cool.
- Yeah, it is cool.
- [CLICKS, SONG BEGINS.]
- I started singing - I'll talk to you in 3 minutes or so.
- Okay.
Spike.
- Bye, bye, Miss American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry Them good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye And singin', "This'll be the day" "that I die" [PHONE RINGS.]
Hello? MILLS: Mr.
Leslie Claret? This is Mr.
Leslie Claret.
Mr.
Claret, this is Detective Emile Mills calling to confirm our request to interview you concerning your colleague, John Lakeman.
An interview scheduled between you and Sergeant Poullian upon your arrival this evening.
Yeah.
I'll be there.
How many fillet welds would you use in that scenario, John? I would use two.
I like the little Asian guy better.
- [GRUNTS.]
- [TIRES SCREECH.]
Except for Lakeman, who's simply not going.
- [GUNSHOT.]
- [GRUNTS.]
[TIRES SCREECH.]
["SURE SHOT" BY BEASTIE BOYS PLAYING.]
'Cause you can't you won't, and you don't stop Well, you can't you won't, and you don't stop Mike D, come and rock the sure shot I've got the brand-new doo-doo Guaranteed like Yoo-hoo I'm on like Dr.
John yeah, Mr.
Zu Zu I'm a newlywed I'm not a divorcée, yeah And everything I do is funky like Lee Dorsey Well, it's The Taking of the Pelham One Two Three If you want a doo-doo rhyme then come see me I've got the savoir faire with the unique rhymin' I keep it on and on it's never quittin' time and Strictly handheld is the style I go Never rock the mic with the pantyhose I strap on my ear goggles and I'm ready to go 'Cause at the boards is the man they call the Mario Pull up at the function and you know I Kojak To all the party people that are on my bozack I've got more action than my man John Woo And I've got mad hits like I was Rod Carew, yeah Because you can't you won't, and you don't stop Because you can't you won't, and you don't stop Oh, well, you can't you won't, and you don't stop I keep my underwear up with a piece of elastic Use a bullshit mic that's made out of plastic To send my rhymes out to all the nations Like Ma Bell I got the ill communication 'Cause you can't you won't, and you don't stop 'Cause you can't you won't, and you don't stop Well, you can't you won't, and you don't stop Keep on and rockin' the sure shot.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE.]
JACK: My plan didn't work either.
My plan to help John.
What was the basis of it? Ah, dime sock.
Lights out.
That didn't work? Fucked it up.
What was the basis of your plan? The basis was chuck that fucking money in whatever the name of this river is.
The Alzette.
- Chuck it in the Alzette.
- Why? So John stops riding bikes into cars.
- Did you fuck it up? - Yeah.
Yeah, I fucked it up, too.
Yeah, you said that.
Well I'm gonna go see John.
DENNIS: I fucked up way back.
Too.
First.
Thigh slice.
Then I went to the E.
R.
Probably, the whole basis is me.
The whole car thing, this whole fucked up thing.
Me.
Don't do that to yourself, man.
It's a fucking intense thing going on here.
Still, it's pretty fucked up.
- This whole thing? - Yeah.
Yeah.
He needs real help, you know? Not the Three Fucketeers.
Yeah, well, I'm going.
[PHONE CHIMES.]
[SEAT BELT INDICATOR CHIMES.]
[FLIGHT ATTENDANT SPEAKING FRENCH OVER P.
A.
SYSTEM.]
FLIGHT ATTENDANT [OVER P.
A.
.]
: Please fasten your seatbelts.
We've begun our descent into Luxembourg City.
We're landing in approximately 25 minutes.
[WOMAN SPEAKING FRENCH OVER P.
A.
SYSTEM.]
[PANTING.]
Leslie.
Tom.
Leslie, I'm not a tugger.
I know that, Tom.
I know damn well.
But I'm John's father.
And from one father to another, could you please just walk past your sign, outside with me, so we can say some things to each other? About John.
[LESLIE GRUNTS.]
Leslie, father to father.
[INDISTINCT P.
A.
ANNOUNCEMENT.]
Leslie.
Yeah, Tom? How you been, Leslie? Not too good, Tom.
Not too good.
I'm sorry to hear that, Leslie.
Got shot in the face, Tom.
Shot right in the face.
Yeah.
Well, I thought we could talk about that, Leslie.
And you'll notice that I'm not staying at the King Gerald, because I wanted to be in a neighborhood, Tom, where it would be a little easier to score.
Leslie, my son is not an engineer.
Leslie, he's [EXHALES.]
Leslie, John is an intelligence officer.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE.]
[EXHALES.]
[SHOES SQUEAKING.]
[THUD ECHOING.]
And he's worked in that capacity for well, too long, fighting his battles by himself almost always by himself.
Now, I know you've faced an awful lot, Leslie, but he's enduring hardship beyond anything you've faced.
He's devoted and essential, Leslie.
He's a fine young man, and I've been maybe not a terrific father to him.
He's a better son, anyway.
I know that anyway, Leslie.
I know about that, Tom.
I do.
And I know about trying to fix that Tom I do.
I'm so worried about him, Leslie.
He has this dog that won't leave his side because it knows he's hurting.
And I have to ask him to keep going because what he's doing is vital.
And all I can do is try to protect him as much as I can along the way which is why I'm here and hope that someday, someday soon, this will end, and he'll be restored and he can understand and forgive me.
You say he's not doing too well, Tom? Not too well, Leslie, no.
I've been driving him, Tom.
Me, too, Leslie.
Pushing the boy.
Can I see him, Tom? Try to work this out, man-to-man? [BIRDS SQUAWKING.]
I don't understand what you want.
I want to know where John's father is, where he'll be Thomas Tavner for a given afternoon or evening.
[CAR ENGINE RUMBLING.]
I don't know anything about that.
I know I arrived here to see John.
Then he had your daughter, and now you do, and now I want to leave.
[DOOR OPENING.]
[DOOR CLOSING.]
[EXHALES.]
My mom said that you would bring me to Disneyland to meet Chip the Cup.
I'm very excited, Alice.
[CAR ENGINE STARTS.]
- [GUN COCKS.]
- [MARTIN SPEAKS FRENCH.]
[GUNSHOTS.]
- [COINS JANGLE.]
- God [GRUNTS, GROANS.]
Slow down.
[BEEPING.]
[TRAIN RUMBLING.]
DENNIS: I can't tell which two fingers are mine.
Holy shit.
Fuck.
[PANTING.]
Can you? Dennis, come on.
Quiet down.
Does anybody have another finger? - Are we missing one? - Yeah.
Also, ow, man.
Fuck, it hurts to get shot.
They look exactly the fucking same.
How is that possible? - We're-we're two men.
- Dennis, you got to quiet down, man.
I sell big pipes.
What the fuck? [CRYING.]
: I sell big pipes.
Hey.
You're going into shock.
Can I go to the hospital this time? No, you went to the hospital last time.
That's why we're all shot now.
Why doesn't everybody shut the fuck up here? I don't know, man.
Why don't we find, like, a disgraced veterinarian? I'm not going to a French cat doctor.
- Dennis.
- Cats don't have fingers.
- Apes do.
Sort of.
- Yeah.
Oh.
Okay.
Well, we'll just find a fucking French ape doctor, Edward.
It's 2:00 in the morning.
Dennis, you saved my life, man.
Come on.
You can keep it together.
You came through.
Blue ribbon balls.
I would put a blue ribbon on your balls, man, if I had a blue ribbon.
Yeah, McClaren.
But you have to quiet down.
I don't want you getting arrested.
You're my best friend, man.
Dennis, cover up those fingers.
Put your hand in your coat and don't follow me.
Eddie, leave at the next stop.
Tell him everything.
I'm a consultant with a governmental department that collects intelligence and implements processes that are paid for and directed outside the prescribed structure of oversight.
I don't know shit about Donnelly nut spacing systems or tamped fixture rim-riding grip configurations.
I'm a righty in real life.
I'm sorry that I fucked with your important work.
And with your life, which is also probably important to you.
But I'm obligated, in instances, to effect action central to the completion of a specific and critical task without regard for ancillary repercussions, which I'm sorry, Leslie has meant, over this period we shared, you.
I'm a goddamn mess, son.
And it's largely due to you.
Hey, guy.
Good evening.
LESLIE: Evening.
You have, um Your nose, sir.
Thanks.
I, uh let it rip this week.
Really, you know really fucking let it rip.
You get it, yeah.
[CHUCKLES.]
John? Can we, uh Can we do that lefty? [INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
JOHN: Fuck.
TOM: What? JOHN: I have to tell you something.
You You're gonna be mad at me.
Tell me what? John.
JOHN: I've been fingerprinted before.
TOM: What? JOHN: I Before.
I was TOM: What? JOHN: I was 14.
But, you know, same fingers as now, so I have to tell you.
My finger's back there.
Back where? Back where it got shot off, at the at the little grocery thing.
When were you fingerprinted? In Denton.
For buying beer and driving your Mustang.
- At 14? - Yeah.
Christ, son.
Something could have happened to that car.
- I know.
- It was cherry.
I know.
That's why I didn't tell you.
You know, I send you all over the goddamn planet with the understanding that things you touch while operating in many gray areas of the law, son many goddamned gray areas cannot be traced back to you, my son.
Now I learn that they can.
You people have to tell me this stuff.
Yeah, well, you just really liked that car.
- Well, it was cherry.
- I know.
You always say that.
It's it's kind of gross.
- Gross? - Yeah.
- Why? - I don't know.
It just is, though.
TOM [EXHALES DEEPLY.]
: Fuck.
We can't do this.
- This what? - Cantar Walley.
If they can put you here at this time as John Tavner an employee of ours They can put you here at the same time, we can't do this.
Fuck.
JOHN: Let's go get it back.
- What? - My finger.
I'm sorry.
I fucked up.
I did.
You have to get up now.
We have to leave here before there are more questions.
Home? No, we're leaving the hospital.
I have to, uh remain on this task for a time.
The other side is still here.
How do you know? Look at you.
They are intent to gain back what they gave to us.
[WHISPERING.]
: I have to find the young man who gave Mikham the money weeks ago son and kill him.
Lakeman.
The police mentioned the name Lakeman.
It's gonna be cool, man.
Carol's here.
- So what? - [DOOR CLOSES.]
So she can put your fingers back on.
CAROL: Edward? We're in here.
[CHUCKLES.]
Hey.
Welcome.
I still can't tell which ones are mine.
What's going on? Efram, go unpack.
Thank God you're here, as a veterinarian.
- As a what? - As a veterinarian.
- Why? - 'Cause you can put his fingers back on.
- I can do what? - You can put Dennis's fingers back on.
He had his fingers shot off, and he can't go to the hospital.
- W-What? - I can't say, honey.
Work.
My dad.
I'm not at liberty to But we both got shot.
I took a shoulder graze.
So we're glad that you're here to put his fingers back on as a veterinarian, as that is commonly seen in feature films.
What is? When guys can't go to the hospital, a disgraced veterinarian operates on them.
- I'm not disgraced.
- I am.
- Maybe I could help you or - Th-That part's not important.
The important part is that because you almost work on humans, you can then work on humans and it's not a big deal and you can just do it.
I cannot.
Edward, animals don't have fingers.
- Apes, we were saying.
- Apes? What the fuck? I don't operate on apes.
I've never seen a fucking ape.
- Okay, Efram's here, geez.
- Okay, I'm sorry.
You're just You're telling me you got shot.
I don't know what's going on.
You're I thought we were taking a few days off.
Um, how long do I have? To have these back on? Before they die? Like, three hours, probably.
[EXHALES.]
Like, from now? Or from when I was shot? You need to go to the hospital immediately.
I did that once.
- It fucked everything up.
- Who are you? Jack Birdbath.
Of course.
Can you try? It's already been, like, 20 minutes.
I already lost my wife, and I'm 42, so it's already creepy.
And this, I mean Can you try? John.
Yeah? I don't know.
What? Never been in the field before.
It's not the field.
It's a 7-Eleven.
Y-Yeah.
I don't know.
I I feel unusually nervous.
You ever bought a pack of cigarettes before? Yeah, I used to smoke before you were born.
Your mom made me stop.
You're just buying a pack of cigarettes.
Okay.
You just walk in there up to the counter, and I'll come in behind you.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I feel unusually nervous to play a role here.
How do you feel? My hand hurts.
No, I mean, besides that.
Pretty good.
Okay.
I don't.
Hey, you got to get in front.
Why? Because you have to go in first.
[EXHALES.]
[ENTRANCE BELL CHIMES.]
[INDISTINCT POLICE RADIO TRANSMISSION.]
Funyuns.
[GRUNTS.]
Okay Woah-oh, yeah Takin' you in Make you feel like It's never been good Takin' you in Make you feel like It's never been good Can't even sing a love song She said, "Don't you know " It's not that love's wrong?" Goin' in and out where you don't belong There's a love song comin' along Takin' you in Make you feel like It's never been good Takin' you in Make you feel like It's never been good I know it's not easy Lovin' what's left of me Hang on, lovers Here comes a love melody What'cha doin' up there Where you don't belong? You don't know nobody up there You better come back down [SONG FADES.]