"(COUGHING AND WHEEZING)" "(PUNCHING)" "(GRUNTING)" "(CALMING MUSIC)" "VOICEOVER:" "In this latest case, a Monterrey officer took 30,000 dollars off the record." "Even though he committed no crime." "News Channel Five." "VOICEOVER:" "A twenty year old woman had been left in a coma after being tased by a Colorado police officer while handcuffed." "VOICEOVER:" "New tonight, an elderly World War II vet is in the hospital with a broken neck." "Witnesses are blaming it on a fight with a Philadelphia police officer." "VOICEOVER:" "That fight happened late last night on the 1800 block of North Orange Avenue." "Fox 36 spoke to witnesses who saw it all happen." "VOICEOVER:" "The next thing that happened, he put both hands on the cop's shoulder, not in an aggressive manner, the cop picked him up, flipped him in the air and dropped him on his head." "VOICEOVER:" "Hundreds packed both the Compton and Downey Walmart Saturday night, once word spread that they were accepting electronic benefit transfers or EBT cards with no limits." "Wow, you're pretty good at this." "Mind if I join you?" "The loss of a loved one hurts." "Hurts a lot, more than most anything we can ever imagine." "To lose someone so young as your mother to something so, unexpected as a heart attack is, well, beyond reason." "It's my understanding that you and your mother were extraordinarily close." "So as you work your way through your grief and find your way forward," "I'd like you to hold onto this one truth." "You are not alone." "There's always a place in the congregation for you Jeremy." "So if you ever wanna talk, just to sort things out, drop by, my door is always open." "You can mark my words, by the time this CFPB, fully implements this administration's new banking regulations, maintaining a healthy liquidity for this bank will come down to forfeitures and maintenance fees, they're so mishandling everything" "in Washington, it won't be long before bank's will be back to giving free toasters to their customers, they're so financially challenged they have to open a goddamn Christmas club just in order to save enough money to buy things" "they neither need or can afford and most likely put it on layaway for Christ's sake." "Oh... (LAUGHS) no offense Rev," "I didn't mean to take the Lord's name in vein." "Well as is with his capacity for forgiveness," "I am certain our savior's sense of humor is inexhaustible." "Well said Reverend, well said." "Wasn't it honey?" "I liked your speech at the funeral." "Yeah you liked his eulogy my dear." "Whatever it's called, it touched me." "I think I'll quit while I'm ahead." "Good day everybody, hope to see you all again this Sunday." "(UPBEAT GUITAR)" "(HOWLING)" "BULLY:" "So long sucker!" "(SIGHS)" "Jeremy, you know you're not supposed to leave the house without me." "Why can't I just do stuff like all the other kids?" "Because you're not like all the other kids." "I've told you over and over that your condition makes you different, special and we have to be careful." "My condition is not fair." "Always being careful is not fair." "Not having friends, not going to real school is not fair." "Not having a father is not fair mom." "Nothing is fair!" "I know nothing is fair Jeremy." "I wish I could make it all be different, all of it." "I wish your father were still with us, so you could know him and he could see what a wonderful young man his son is becoming." "But he's gone Jeremy" "and I can't bring him back." "No one can." "I wish, that we did not have to be careful with your condition." "But we do son, it's not safe for you to be out alone, without me." "I know you know that too." "I, will never leave you, ever." "Your mother was a good employee." "One of my best... (LAUGHS)" "The customers really liked her." "She was very proud of you." "You know, I know your mother, wanted the best for you and I mean to help you in any way I can in my small way." "So, when that insurance policy payment comes in" "I want you to come by the bank and I'll see to it personally, that I set you up with a good money market account and a refinancing package for the house." "How does that sound?" "Sam honey, I don't think now's the best time." "We're very sorry for your loss." "(GRUNTS) What the hell was that?" "WOMAN:" "Can't you see he's too sad to talk about stuff?" "SAM:" "Yeah, he's too retarded." "That's why his mom kept him cooped up all these years." "I know it's been a long day for you son, but there are some things you need to know and I figured it was best to get right to 'em." "If that's alright with you huh?" "Well, first thing's first, you are the sole beneficiary to your mother's life insurance policy." "Valued at 150,000 dollars and unlike most people, your mother had the mortgage on the house nearly paid off." "Now I would advise you to take a portion of the life insurance policy payout and cure the mortgage and own the house right out and the fact of the matter is that if you don't go spending like there's no tomorrow," "this money should enable you to live on for at least the next several years." "Now there's one other thing." "If you continue your studies, you will be entitled to social security death benefits for both your mother and your father." "That's just a little perk from the government." "Money's money right?" "No sense letting' it go to waste in Washington." "Do you have any questions?" "Jeremy, do you have any questions son?" "No." "Well, your mother was a good person." "That's more than I can say about some of the people in this town, maybe even most." "I hope you can take some comfort in the fact that she was well thought of." "Now if you need anything, my office is right down on Main Street." "Just call or stop by." "Good luck to you Jeremy." "I'll let myself out." "(DRAMATIC MUSIC)" "Here you go, whenever you're ready." "Anywhere you'd like." "You know Jess, Ned will be leaving for Marine basic training in the spring," "I was thinking it might be nice if the two of you started dating again." "Ned and I went to a couple parties together last summer but we never really dated." "Maybe it's time you did." "I know he likes you." "I don't really have a lot of time to date." "I work here six days a week and" "I help my mom with stuff around the house." "Oh, I see." "That's okay." "Forget I even mentioned it." "Just thought it might be nice, is all." "How 'bout over here, at the counter." "What would you like to drink?" "Uhh, orange juice?" "Large or small?" "I'd go for large, it's only 20 cents more and you get twice as much." "Okay, large." "One large OJ coming up." "Nice suit." "You on your way to a job interview or something?" "Uhh no, my mom died." "I'm sorry, I didn't..." "Do you have scrambled eggs and cheese?" "Sure." "I'll put your order in." "Cheese scramble." "WOMAN CUSTOMER:" "Miss?" "JESS:" "Was there something wrong with your order?" "Yeah, everything was wrong with the order." "The bacon was burnt, the eggs were runny." "I mean the toast, a little like buttered cardboard." "There was nothing special about the special and I don't think we should have to pay for it." "If it was so bad, why did you finish your meals?" "What are you talking about?" "We barely touched the food." "Oh, my husband's being very kind." "It was more like slop." "Come on honey, we're leavin'." "You can't just leave without paying." "MALE CUSTOMER:" "Oh, yeah watch us." "Alright, and don't try to stop us or maybe we'll just put in a call to immigration okay?" "Paco over there, doesn't look like he's got his green card." "Hey, have an awesome day, you suck!" "Can you believe those jerks?" "They order the cheapest thing on the menu, don't even pay for that, not to mention the tip." "(SIGHS) I mean who does that?" "Worst of all, the difference comes outta my paycheck." "I can pay for mine and for theirs if it'll help." "That's so sweet." "Thanks but, no thanks." "It's okay, it's only 10 bucks." "Not to mention the tip." "Trust me, people like that, they don't tip." "How 'bout a refill of OJ, on the house." "Thought you were too busy to have a love life." "So, why you talking to boy weirdo?" "If you're here for breakfast take a seat, if you're here for trouble just take a hike." "Maybe I'm here for both." "You're in my seat." "JESS:" "Leave him alone Ned, he's not bothering you." "Actually he is." "He's bothering me just by being here and breathing in my space." "Hey, little weirdo?" "Rumor has it, your old lady left you a ton of cash when she kicked the bucket, is that true?" "JESS:" "You're such a jerk." "Hey, hey, I'm talking to you." "Leave him alone Ned!" "Or what?" "You'll do this?" "(GLASS BREAKING)" "JESS:" "Stop!" "VOICEOVER:" "Yeah, yeah get him Ned!" "JESS:" "Ned, stop it!" "(GRUNTING AND PUNCHING)" "Ned, stop it!" "Is that what you like?" "Help him." "Somebody help." "Yeah. (PUNCHES)" "(HEART BEATING)" "(PUNCHES)" "Ahh!" "What the?" "You want some more?" "Come on, let's see what you got!" "Hey, I've got something for you if you don't get off him and leave right now." "I mean it Ned, get out." "Whatever." "I was gettin' bored anyway." "Let's bounce." "I have to go." "Hey?" "(GLASS BREAKING)" "(LAUGHTER)" "Oops, sorry, my brick slipped." "(LAUGHTER)" "Don't be shy." "Come on outside." "What do you want?" "We figured since your mommy's not around, like forever," "(LAUGHTER) that you can come out and play now." "(POLICE SIRENS)" "You see this?" "This means I gotta come runnin' whenever duty calls." "Even when that duty calls in the middle of my goddamn dinner, from an 80 year old lady whose cat got scared because some punks threw a rock through her neighbor's window." "It wasn't a rock." "It was a brick." "(LAUGHTER)" "(CHOKING)" "You wanna be a tough guy huh?" "Let me tell you somethin' tough guy, they eat tough guys for breakfast where you're headed." "NED'S FRIEND:" "You're choking him." "Hey sheriff just let him go, you're gonna kill him." "(CRASHES AND COUGHING)" "Get in the car!" "And you two knuckleheads better be home with lights out before I finish taking my bedtime piss or there's gonna be hell to pay with your parents." "Everything alright?" "The boy in your car broke my window and beat me up today." "You don't look so beat up to me." "Where's the damage?" "Are you deaf or just slow?" "I don't understand." "Well let me see if I can clear it up for ya." "For whatever reason, your mother saw fit to keep you tucked away in this house for all these years." "My curious side wonders why." "Was she tryna keep you away from the town?" "Or was she tryna keep the town away from you?" "My not so curious side doesn't give a rat's ass why." "Your mother was a stuck up bitch who wouldn't keep with the program." "She kept poking' her nose where it didn't belong and now she's gone and you're still here," "pokin' your head out into the town, my town." "So this is how it works, we have laws and we have rule, I enforce the laws" "and I make the rules." "You break either one, and I break you." "Understand me?" "I said, do you understand me?" "Yes, I understand you." "Good." "(POLICE RADIO)" "Does it hurt?" "What do you think?" "You practically crushed my windpipe!" "Why'd you have to be such an asshole to me in front of my friends." "Because I'm the sheriff and that means something." "Means I can't have my son running a muck just 'cause his old man is the man." "Try to let that sink in son." "I guessing you don't know how to cook." "No uhh, my mom always made my food." "My mom always made me cook." "Oh, um, the booze is for my mom, the energy drinks are mine." "I work a lot of doubles so they help get me through." "I know they're probably worse for you than the booze right?" "I'm really sorry about what happened at the restaurant." "Ned's been a jerk for as long as his dad's been sheriff, which has been like forever." "He broke my window last night." "Broke your window, why would Ned break your window?" "I think he broke my window for the same reason he beat me." "Why?" "Because you're pretty and he likes you." "You think I'm pretty?" "Yes." "And I got beaten up and a broken window because you are." "I'm sorry." "It's okay, I taped up the window and well, I, I heal fast." "Yeah, I noticed." "Kinda freaked me out a little." "Sorry." "I just mean I was surprised, you got perfect." "I mean, you were perfect and then you were cut and bleeding and then you got perfect, got good again." "Like when you came into the diner." "So, does the pain go away right away too?" "Yes." "JESS:" "Wow." "It's a condition." "That's some condition." "I should probably go now." "I could make you something, if you want." "That way you don't have to eat cereal for dinner and breakfast." "By the looks of it, for lunch and dinner again." "I'm not a gourmet chef or anything but" "I'm better than terrible." "Do you know how to make tuna fish casserole without the peas?" "Uhh, is mac n cheese close enough?" "There's a box for that." "Um, I'm sorry ma'am but apparently there's no money left on your card." "That can't be right." "It's only the middle of the month." "Let me swipe it again." "You've tried it three times ma'am." "Obviously you've already used all the money put in your account for the month." "You're holding up my line." "I don't care about your line, I care about my food." "Um, ma'am I'm going to have to ask you to get out of line so I can take care of the other customers." "This is not right." "I'm a citizen of this country, I have rights!" "Ma'am your card was denied." "Now please get out of line or I'm gonna have to call the manager and if necessary, he'll call the police." "I don't care, call the manager." "Yeah Bob, can you please come up front, I'm on one." "You know what?" "On second thought, go to hell." "CASHIER:" "Hey Jess." "Hey." "CASHIER:" "Can you believe that lady?" "I felt kinda sorry for her." "Kinda hard to feel sorry for someone that makes a scene about running outta free money." "Yeah but, who knows her deal, right?" "You know one of these days your mom's gonna get you arrested and me fired." "I know, I'm sorry." "So, who's your friend?" "Jeremy." "Jeremy Rollins." "Hi Jeremy, I'm Caitlyn." "Caitlyn was in my graduating class." "I was home schooled." "He's so cute." "I know." "(CALMING MUSIC)" "So, not bad huh?" "Um, I um, I liked your macaroni n cheese very much." "(CHUCKLES)" "Come to my bedroom." "What?" "I wanna do something with you that I'm," "I'm very good at doing." "Um, I don't think that..." "Almost done." "Done." "Let me see." "Wow, Jeremy, that's so beautiful." "That's how you see me?" "I uhh, I draw what I see." "That's yours." "You're amazing." "Can you make me more food tomorrow?" "Oh, uhh, I don't know, I suppose, but I have to work." "I can wait." "Okay, just be to eat a little something to hold you over 'til I get here." "Okay." "You play guitar?" "Uhh no, not yet." "Can I see it?" "Sure." "It's beautiful." "Yeah, uh my mom just um, gave it to me for my birthday." "That's so awesome." "Can I play it?" "Yeah, you know how to play?" "I used to play a little." "(GUITAR PICKING)" "# I'm trapped in a bubble, can't wait 'til it pops" "# My thoughts are so troubled, serving bagels and locks" "# This air is thick, you can cut it with a knife" "# There's something really wrong here" "# This ain't no life" "# I gotta run from this town without pity or grace" "# I gotta find a new life that a better place" "# It used to be good here" "# But grief let us dry" "# Now all we can do here" "# Is try to survive" "# I'm really sick of it all, everybody here sucks" "# If you play the game straight, you're out of luck" "# I gotta run from this town without pity or grace" "# I gotta find a new life at a better place #" "You said you used to play a little bit." "That was very good." "Okay I, used to play a little more than a little." "I used to dream I was gonna be a singer songwriter when I grew up." "Why did you say, you used to dream?" "Because I grew up and the dream went away." "But you're only 18." "Yeah but, sometimes I feel 80." "Besides, my mom was always telling me I wasn't any good and wasn't gonna make it so" "I guess at some point I just started believing her and stopped believing myself." "She sold my guitar last year for booze money." "Oh, my God, my mom, what time is it?" "I gotta go, she's gonna kill me." "Why would your mother kill you?" "I just mean she's gonna be really angry." "Because I drew you and you played my guitar?" "No because I'm late, I gotta go." "I'll figure out something for tomorrow." "Mom!" "You little tramp (SLAPS)!" "You got off work almost three hours ago." "You were supposed to go to the store, pick up what I need and then come straight home (SLAPS)!" "Mom, please don't do this, not here." "I wouldn't be here doing this, if you hadn't made a pit stop to get yourself laid by the village idiot." "Yeah, I went looking for you at the store." "There's only one Jeremy Rollins in this town." "Give it to me!" "And your tip money!" "No." "(CHUCKLES) What did you say?" "I said no." "You ungrateful little b... (SLAPS)" "Stop." "(GLASS CLINKING AND CRASHING)" "(MYSTERY MUSIC AND HEART BEATING)" "(PUNCHES)" "So give me the goddamn tip money." "I hate you." "Well that's too bad, 'cause you're gonna end up just like me." "(CHURCH BELLS)" "And to some the world might seem like a much harsher place than in years past, and to others a much darker and dangerous place." "I say, let us not dwell on what we think it used to be, but on what it can and should be" "for as long as the Lord, our savior, is with us to light the way my friends, we are bound for glory on Earth and in Heaven" "but know this, in the last days perilous times will come." "Men will become lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers," "disobedient to their parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, having the form of Godliness but lacking the power there of" "from such, turn away, second Timothy, chapter three, verses one through five." "God willing I'll see you all next week." "Go and live in his light." "Amen!" "Honey, why don't you go talk with the good Reverend about arranging our impending nuptials." "Mhm." "Cost versus benefits sheriff, cost versus benefits." "SHERIFF:" "And when the cost starts to outweigh the benefit?" "SAM:" "Yeah, you liquidate the asset and write it off as a loss." "Simple as that huh?" "No need making things complicated." "That is a list of bank owned assets, currently inhabited by fiscally irresponsible or" "mortgage challenge individuals." "While they're not quite deadbeats, they are dying, slowly and painfully" "of an agonizing demise into default." "And you wanna ease the dying of their pain and suffering." "No one prophets from a prolonged re-acquisition process." "Least of all, you?" "No, least of all, we." "The outcome is inevitable." "Foreclosure followed by eviction." "The only difference is how much time and money is wasted waiting for nature to run its course." "(MOANING)" "REVEREND:" "Ticklish?" "BLONDE WOMAN:" "Oh, Reverend. (MOANS)" "(CRASHING AND MOANING)" "I can't exactly go around knocking on people's doors flashing my badge and asking them for their homes." "Yeah of course not, such a gross display of power would be in bad taste, that's where asset forfeiture laws come in handy and let's say for example," "there's a minimum wage earning, single mother, on food stamps, who's struggling to meet her payments for her adjustable rate loan, she's caught selling a controlled substance to make end's meat." "The house would be confiscated and then auctioned off." "Yes and the majority of the sum would go to satisfying the core of the mortgage and then the local police authority would have the rest of the revenue to utilize as they see fit." "The justice department at work." "(LAUGHTER)" "Hey, I brought us some brunch." "I thought we could eat together during my break." "Okay." "Don't just stand there, let me in." "Close the door, let's eat, I only have 30 minutes." "(CALMING MUSIC)" "You're so lucky to have had such a loving and caring mom." "It's a shame she's gone." "I wish my mom would've been more like yours was." "I hate to say it but my mother's a bloodsucker." "She doesn't care about anyone but herself, she just, uses people and cheats the system to get what she wants." "Apparently her disability insurance was her bread and butter, until last night." "Until last night?" "Her friend from the state disability insurance office got busted late last night." "She was found unconscious at her desk with a bunch of kick back money and files for all the people she was helping to scam the system." "My mom was one of them." "Was one, is." "The state police came to our house this morning to talk to my mom, she might be going to jail." "That's very sad." "Can I ask you a question?" "What exactly is your condition?" "Does it affect other people?" "Is that why your mom, why you stayed in your house so much over the years?" "Did you have something to do with my mom's friend collapsing?" "Maybe, if your mom care about her a whole lot." "You mean more than anyone else?" "Is that how it works?" "My mom told me not to talk about it." "She said if I did, I'd be taken away and terrible things would be done to me." "I would never tell anyone Jeremy." "I, I don't really understand why I can do what I can but" "I know what it does, if somebody physically hurts me, the pain or pain injuries somewhat transferred from me," "to the person that they care about most, or love." "Can you control it so the transfer doesn't happen or is it automatic and outta your control?" "I've never been able to actually keep it from happening but if I can ignore the pain, I can stop it from happening for a little while but that's very hard to do." "Almost impossible." "How long have you had your power?" "Every since I was born I guess but it's not a power, it's a condition." "Like a sickness, a disease, maybe even a curse." "I think it's a power." "I've gotta get back to work before they fire me but" "I'll see you after okay?" "K." "You know, she's probably over at freak's house sucking' face." "Shut up." "Dude I'm just sayin'." "Yeah well you keep your stupid sayin's to yourself 'cause you don't know what you're talkin' about." "I'm gonna pound that punk and it ain't gonna be pretty." "Thought your old man said to lay off on the rough stuff." "Jess!" "You're late, wait, let me guess." "You were sucking face with boy weirdo?" "His name's Jeremy and you don't know what you're talking about." "Ow, touchy, touchy." "I mean it Ned, stay away." "First of all, you don't tell me what to do." "Not in this town, secondly." "FRIENDS:" "Dang. (LAUGHTER)" "May I help you?" "I'd rather not discuss that standing out here." "It's nobody else's business, may I come in?" "What is this about sheriff?" "Why are you in my home?" "I'm here to investigate a report that you're engaged in illegal activity in this house." "(LAUGHS) Illegal activity?" "That's not true, who said this?" "Do I have your permission to look around?" "Why should I do that?" "I have rights." "Yeah, you have rights and I have a badge." "If you have nothing to hide, wouldn't it be better if we just figured this out right here and now." "Otherwise, I gotta take you down to the sheriff's station, you and your son." "I may have to arrest you if I don't get the answers I need from you and hand your son over to child services." "Okay, go ahead and look." "Thank you, you and the boy stay in the living room." "Would you come in here please Ms. Garcia." "(FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "You wanna explain this?" "(FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "Drug possession with intent to distribute is a federal offense, you're lookin' at up to five years in jail and forfeiture of assets." "That legally is for, you're gonna lose your house." "No, that's not right, I didn't do anything, that's not right." "Everybody does something." "Hey you got somebody you can call to take care of your son?" "'Cause from what I understand, child protective services ain't a whole lotta fun." "Baby daddy maybe. (LAUGHS)" "(FOREIGN LANGUAGE) son of a bitch." "You're the one who put that shit in here, you're the one!" "It's your word against mine." "(FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "And I'm the one wearing' the badge." "(FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "SHERIFF:" "Speak English!" "MS. GARCIA:" "You're in my house and I have rights too." "SHERIFF:" "I said knock it off!" "(SLAPS AND GRUNTS)" "You know there's no smoking in here." "Put it out or get out." "There, it's out." "Speaking of going out, how 'bout you and me, going out?" "Sorry, I'm just too busy." "Busy with that home schooled retard?" "For your information, Jeremy is probably the smartest, most creative person in this town and he's as much a gentlemen as he is smart." "Yeah well, you better tell Mr. Weird and wonderful that he better keep his ass in the house and off my streets." "(DRAMATIC MUSIC)" "(CELL PHONE BEEPING)" "(SIGHS) Damn." "VOICEOVER:" "Hi, you got me but I can't take your call right now." "Leave me a message and I'll be sure to call you when I'm done doing what I'm doing, bye for now." "Where the hell are you?" "I've been calling you for the last 30 minutes." "Dammit!" "(PHONE RINGS)" "Where the hell have you been?" "Oh, (CHUCKLES) sheriff." "Oh, well that's good to hear." "Good work sheriff, listen can you do me a favor." "See if you can track down that fiancee of mine somewhere around town." "She's late for our lunch and" "I have called her at home and on her cell phone and I can't seem to get a hold of her." "Yeah, well I just wanna make sure she's alright." "Alright, yeah, thanks sheriff." "Mhmm, okay, bye." "(DEEP BREATHING)" "Oh, God, Jeremy what are you doing here?" "You said I could just drop by." "Shoot!" "(WHIMPERS AND CRASHES)" "Well for God's sake don't just sit there, put on your pants." "This isn't what you think." "I, I think it is what I think." "Jeremy, Jeremy wait!" "Just stay here for a moment Jeremy." "I need, we need, I need to speak with you." "You remember Ms. Cummings." "Yeah, I'm truly sorry that you had to witness" "Sheila and I, Ms. Cummings and myself behaving in such a shameful and sinful manner." "Lust and desires of the flesh are complicated things Jeremy." "Jeremy hey, what you thought you saw, wasn't what happened, Reverend Hicks was just helping me work through some physical intimacy issues before my wedding, husband and wife stuff, that's all." "You're not telling the truth Ms. Cummings." "Jeremy, it would destroy me and damage the church if word of this ever got out." "Then why were you doing it?" "'Cause I am weak Jeremy." "I don't know what else I can say." "I do, let me give you a ride home." "I will tell you all about the birds and the bees on the way." "I don't live here." "I know that." "And you can cut the innocent babe in the woods act." "You may have been raised locked up in a house by a half crazy lady but you weren't raised by wolves." "Yeah, Sheila's in the car with the boy." "Jeremy you're a smart boy and you know things, I can tell." "I'm good at reading men." "My mother wasn't crazy, she was concerned." "Oh, is that why she kept you caged up and on a short leash like some dangerous animal?" "She had her reasons." "You mean she had her secrets." "We all have secrets Jeremy." "It's just some are bigger, more important and in some cases, more dangerous than others." "(PHONE RINGING)" "Hi baby." "Of course I'm alone." "Oh, I'm sorry sweetie, I've been shopping all day." "Silly me, I left my phone in my car." "Oh, I forgot about lunch, I'm so sorry." "It's just that when we're getting married," "I wanna look so good for you. (LAUGHS)" "I'll make it up to you tonight." "I promise." "You were scared for me, you were worried about me?" "Aww, well now that you know that I was alone, and safe and sound, what's in it for me?" "Paris?" "(LAUGHTER) Oh, baby, our honeymoon can't come quickly enough." "I'll see you at home tonight, don't be late, bye bye." "(LAUGHTER)" "And now you're in some of my secrets." "Listen, let's not make this more complicated than it needs to be." "You saw and heard some things that frankly, you didn't need to see and hear and were none of your business." "What Reverend Hicks and I do, is private and personal." "So what I need you to do, is keep your mouth shut and pretend that you never heard or saw any of it." "Do you understand?" "What's in it for me?" "(SMACK)" "(HEART BEATING)" "(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)" "(CRACKING AND GASPS)" "Oh, ah!" "What did, did you just hit me?" "I wouldn't if I were you." "Well you're not me!" "(PUNCHES AND GRUNTS)" "I warned you." "(CRACKING AND CRYING)" "(SCREAMING)" "What in the hell is this?" "What are you (CRIES)?" "What are you?" "It's like you said, we all have secrets." "It's just that some are bigger, more important and in some cases, more dangerous than others." "No wonder your mom took her mutant son's secret to the grave." "Don't talk about my mom." "Not even about how she died?" "What do you mean?" "What's in it for me?" "A secret for a secret." "I tell you if you don't tell on me." "Yes." "You're a smart boy Jeremy, you catch on quickly." "Tell me." "Your mother was a whistle blower." "She was going to be." "She found out that my fiancee and his bank were not exactly playing it straight with some of their mortgage phone customers and she figured out that Sam and some of his boys were robo-signing forged mortgages at high amounts and" "forcing innocent people to foreclose on their homes." "How do you know all this?" "Don't let the boobs and the grey hair fool you." "I am not naive, shit most bimbos wouldn't last a fucking day with that flagstone gullible goat I'm about to marry." "Sam's too self adsorbed to even realize he's being played by his bed warming barbie doll." "You gotta know 'em to catch 'em and more often than not, you gotta have somethin' on 'em to marry 'em. (GIGGLES)" "Sam keeps a duplicate copy of his bank statements at home and I read them." "Your mom was right." "And she was going to go to the feds." "So she was stopped." "Stopped, how, and by whom?" "I was told my mother died of a heart attack." "But who and what caused that heart attack Jeremy?" "Stop playing games with me and tell me what you know!" "What you are doing is wrong Mr. Abram." "Hard working, honest people are losing their life savings and their homes, these foreclosures are destroying families." "I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to report it to the banking commission, I have no choice." "We always have a choice June." "I saw my signature forged on some mortgage assignments, next to an officer's title I don't even have." "My resignation." "I'm going to tell everybody I've gone home so as to not create a big scene." "I'm afraid there is going to be a big scene nonetheless." "Good evening sheriff, thank you for coming." "I'm gonna need you to come with me Ms. Rollins." "Come with you?" "(TASER)" "When she comes too, I'm gonna put the fear of God into her." "Don't worry, she's not gonna say anything to anybody." "She never regained consciousness." "Sheriff Bower and a taser, killed your mother." "It wasn't supposed to be that way." "He was just supposed to stop her." "But since tasers can't be traced, he literally got away with murder." "She should've left Wellinoff alone." "We have a deal right?" "Right." "Great, I'll take you home now." "No, I'll walk." "Suit yourself." "(CRACKS) Damn!" "(PANTING)" "(DRAMATIC MUSIC)" "Hey sweetie, look what I have for you, happy birthday!" "A guitar?" "It's very nice mom." "You could learn how to play it online." "I know you'd be great, in no time." "Girls love guys that could play guitar." "How am I ever gonna get a girlfriend?" "Listen to me Jeremy, some day when it's meant to be you're gonna meet the perfect girl that's gonna love and care for you exactly as you are, you'll see." "I don't even understand why or how I'm the way I am." "How is anyone else, ever going to?" "Jeremy, I don't know why or how you are the way you are, but I do know this, you are not here by chance." "I am sure some day, it will be made clear to you." "You weren't here when I came for lunch and I was worried so I waited." "Is everything okay?" "No, no, nothing is okay." "My mom didn't die of a heart attack." "She was killed." "What?" "Sheriff Bower killed her." "What do you mean Sheriff Bower killed her, why would he?" "My mom found out that the banks were cheating people outta their homes with these fraudulent foreclosures and she was gonna turn in Sam Abram and his bank to the OCC but she was killed before she could." "I have to tell someone about what happened to my mom." "About everything." "Jeremy, slow down." "Where have you been, how do you know this?" "With bad people." "Jess, do you trust me?" "Yes." "Then listen to me okay, we have to leave this town." "We have to find someone who can get this information to the right authorities and then we have to go." "Go where?" "Does it matter?" "No." "Who are you calling?" "My mom's lawyer, who mother talked to." "VOICEOVER:" "You've reached the Goodman Law Practice." "NED:" "There she is." "It's Ned, run." "NED:" "And look who she's with, go, hit it!" "(SKIDDING)" "(CRASHING)" "NED:" "Step on the gas!" "(UPBEAT GUITAR)" "JEREMY:" "Here." "(HOWLING)" "You can hide like a pair of scared little rabbits all you want but I'm gonna find you." "Reverent Hicks?" "No, stay away!" "Forgive me." "JESS:" "No!" "(SCREAMING)" "Holy shit!" "(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)" "JESS:" "Somebody help him!" "Untie the rope!" "Is he dead?" "NED:" "I don't know." "Dad?" "SHERIFF:" "Yeah?" "You gotta get down to the warehouse district, somethin' happened to the Reverend." "I'm just around the corner, I'll be there in a sec." "What happened?" "The Reverend tried to hang himself." "Well at least he's still alive." "Nobody leave, I need statements from all of you." "I think you better run over to the warehouse." "And you just might wanna have Sheila come too." "Who was first on scene?" "They were, but we were right behind." "What the hell were you kids doing here anyway?" "Nothing worth mentioning." "I'll decide what's worth mentioning!" "What the hell happened here?" "It seems the good Reverend wanted to go meet his maker, a little ahead of schedule." "Come here, I said come here!" "Look, look at him!" "Is he dead?" "Not quite." "Well what he go and do that for?" "Because he was weak." "I know what you did to my mother and I'm gonna see that you're held responsible for it." "Your mother died of a heart attack son." "And there ain't nothin' you're gonna say or do here today that's gonna change any of that." "You killed her." "Shut him up!" "That's a big claim you can't back up." "I told you not to come out into my town and make trouble." "This town is trouble." "You're all just too blind to see that you're a part of it." "(PUNCH)" "(HEART BEATING)" "Sheriff, don't hit him, you don't know what you're doing." "(PUNCHING AND GRUNTING)" "You think this is funny?" "I'm gonna beat that smirk of your face." "(CRASHING)" "JESS:" "Stop it, stop beating him!" "Sheriff you don't understand, stop it." "You stay out of it." "Sheriff, you do your job." "(SMACKING AND GRUNTING)" "(PUNCHING AND GRUNTING)" "(GASPING AND COUGHING)" "You can do better than that, can't you sheriff?" "This is your town, your rules." "I break them, you break me." "(GROWLING)" "Jeremy, you're doing this on purpose, stop it." "I can't save him from their actions." "Stop your babbling kid." "Sheriff, earn your keep, make sure he doesn't talk." "(GRUNTING)" "Sheriff, you don't understand, you can't hurt him." "Please stop, you're killing him." "You're killing Ned." "(GRUNTS)" "Oh, no." "(CRACK)" "Sheriff look!" "(DRAMATIC MUSIC)" "No, Ned." "JESS:" "I tried to tell you but you wouldn't stop." "You, you did this!" "No, I've done nothing." "His blood is on you, you've done it to yourself." "(DRAMATIC MUSIC)" "(CRIES)" "Jeremy, you are not here by chance." "I am sure some day, it will be made clear to you." "What are you doing?" "Don't, please don't." "Do you trust me?" "Yes but..." "Do you understand me?" "Yes." "(DRAMATIC MUSIC)" "(WIND AND CRACKLING)" "(SOBBING)" "Oh, my God, Ned!" "You're okay, you're okay." "(GASPING AND COUGHING)" "What just happened?" "(CRYING)" "(SAD MUSIC)" "Don't you get it?" "Do you understand?" "(PEACEFUL MUSIC)" "(CALMING MUSIC)" "(RADIO)" "I just finished it." "Thank you." "(UPBEAT GUITAR)" "# I'm caught in a bubble, can't wait 'til it pops" "# My head keeps on spinnin', I can't make it stop" "# My future looks bleak, and my prospect is him" "# I wanna make things right, don't know how to begin" "# This place is so foul, so full of strife" "# Is something really wrong here, this ain't no life" "# I gotta run from this town without leaving a trace" "# I gotta find a new life at a better place" "# A better place" "# It used to be good here but creep left his trap" "# Now all we can do here, is try to survive" "# It all seems so pointless, my life is on hold" "# There's no highway to heaven, there's a yellow brick road" "# I'm really sick of it all, everybody here sucks" "# If you play the game straight, you're out of luck" "# I gotta run from this town without leaving a trace" "# I gotta find a new life at a better place" "# A better place." "# I had my dreams, no different from the rest" "# They were all stolen, now we're just doing our best" "# And I've made my mistakes, can't take them back now" "# Just wanna clean slate, deserve it somehow" "# If you give me a chance I'll show you what I can do" "# I'm not afraid to be wrong here if I got you" "# If you trust in me we can try something new" "# Get a clean fresh start, just me and you" "# We gotta run from this town without leaving a trace" "# Gotta find a new life at a better place" "# A better place"