"SAM:" "PreviouslyonAquarius..." "Everybody's doing the funny." "CHARMAIN:" "We got a hit." "TinaGreenwood, VinelandHighsenior, reportedmissing rightafterThanksgiving." "SAM:" "The widow Gladner isa careergal, andguesswhat she'stheproprietressof." "LUCILLE:" "You want your passportstamped?" "GoseeGuapo." "Get right with Guapo, you're right with me." "BRIAN:" "This was done with an M16." "Carried one for two tours." "I know the holes." "The shooter is U.S. military." "Our son is AWOL from a combat zone." "MAN 1:" "Your son is a traitor." "MAN 2:" "Soldiers need to know thewarwe 'refighting." "This your new girlfriend, Roy?" "ROY:" "I turned over a new leaf, Officer." "This'll be the last time the law comes knocking." "(YELLS) -(GUNSHOT)" "Hal's been shot." "The doctors say he's gonna die." "SADIE:" "Who is he, Charlie?" "Youknewhiminprison?" "I kept you safe, like you were my baby." "I shape the rock!" "I'm back, Charlie!" "JAY:" "Sharon?" "Sharon?" "SHARON:" "I'm in here!" "(SHARON EXHALES)" "I thought it always cooled down at night." "(CHUCKLES)" "You and your flat stomach do not get to complain." "JAY:" "Huh?" "Even the breeze is warm." "You talk to Roman?" "He thinks he'll make it back in time." ""Thinks."" "Hey, I could pop any second." "Oh, it's fine." "Just get it over with, please." "We should give you a trim, so you're ready for your hospital room close-up." "(CHUCKLES)" "Hi." "Sorry, do I know you?" "(INHALES DEEPLY)" "RALPH:" "Charlie?" "Charlie, bring your narrow ass out here." "Charlie boy!" "(LAUGHS)" "Where's Charlie?" "You put your hands on me again." "(CLICKS)" "Well, I ain't going nowhere, not till I see Charlie." "You hear that, Charlie boy?" "Get your ass out here!" "EMMA:" "Charlie." "Charlie, they're back." "Everybody has guns." "You have to do something." "(WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY)" "Charlie!" "RALPH:" "Damn, Charlie." "Got your women out here fighting for you now?" "You ain't got nothing, but an army of bitches." "Oh, you done this all wrong, Charlie." "(COCKS GUN)" "MAN 1:" "Hey." "MAN 2:" "Easy, girl." "RALPH:" "My man Ebbie here's trying to tell you that you a stupid bitch." "Now do you want to be a stupid live bitch, or a stupid dead bitch?" "Ralph." "We're not gonna fight you, but we're not gonna surrender." "We're gonna do to you as the flowing river and ticking time do to the rock." "See, you'll change our water's path, but we'll change your very shape." "You just as crazy as ever." "RALPH:" "Charlie, you never toldmeyouhad ababy ." "You know this is what we're put on this planet to do, right?" "Try to raise them better, so we can be better." "I got three girls myself." "CHARLIE:" "Man, what are you..." "(GURGLES)" "So, we gonna be setting up some numbers." "Sharking weed if we can get a good price to move it." "Now, we gonna be trying to sell that to some white folks." "Think you can handle that, Charlie?" "Now, these girls." "You turned them out yet?" "I ain't in that game no more, man." "(CHUCKLES) All I taught you about cash for cooch?" "Have you gone limp?" "Yeah, I came here at the right time." "Just like jail all over again." "I gotta save you from yourself, Charlie." "What I got with them ain't business." "RALPH:" "Man, everything is business." "Except me and you." "You think Sadie'll ball just because you say so?" "You ain't met the real Sadie yet." "She ain't met the real Ralph Church." "(INDISTINCT TALKING)" "CUT:" "Sam, get your ass in here, now." "SPRING:" "All six killedbythesameM16." "Four of them in the forehead, two in the back." "CUT:" "This biker, what's his name?" "BRIAN:" "Roy." "Knew about it." "Pop him on conspiracy." "See if he'll flip." "I don't think that'll work." "CUT:" "What's she doing here again?" "Out of uniform." "Off the record, baby, there's no complaints." "Cut, I think you're actually devolving." "If it wasn't for Charmain," "I'd be the seventh body in that warehouse." "Here's your moment." "I'm glad you're not dead." "Evolving now." "Feels better, right?" "Although you're our very own Tiny Tim." "Devolving again." "These stiffs are just six fewer drug-dealing illegals." "Guapo was born in Hollywood, so..." "CUT:" "I don't care if he dropped out of the Liberty Bell." "He was scum." "He's dead." "And that is good." "Close it quick, or stick it in a drawer." "I'm good either way." "I'm sorry our head cheerleader's such a bitch, but let's focus on the big game, shall we?" "What's next?" "Lucille's tight with Roy." "I'll hit the Peach Pussycat." "That's right, Spring." "His job is a visit to the local strip club." "And he makes more than you." "This one, you don't even want to know." "It's just not a world for us old farts." "Spring, I need a favor." "This girl's missing since November." "I need to know if she's on a slab somewhere." "Can you pass her description around to your fellow ghouls?" "How can I resist?" "Spring, I find your name ironic." "(MONITOR BEEPING)" "(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER PA)" "(NURSE HUMMING)" "(GASPS)" "(GRUNTS)" "I want the" "police." "Lucy, I'm home!" "Hi." "SAM:" "Mmm." "Is that blood?" "You okay?" "Oh, yes, that's not mine." "I'm fine." "You want to talk about it?" "Not really." "I just lived it, so..." "I just want to know." "(SIGHS) What?" "Guess this is your life." "No, this is my job." "And it's not often like this." "Usually, I'm just driving around listening to Django Reinhardt on the radio, looking for all the places that'll let me eat on the cuff." "I don't know what that means." "For free." "Hmm." "A lot of these places you eat have waitresses?" "You got something against waitresses?" "Hmm." "Only the pretty ones." "Oh." "Well, then you'll love my favorite." "Mary." "She's 250 pounds." "Sideburns, bat wings." "She fills me full with all the double patties I can eat down at Don's Drive-In." "That usually doesn't come out." "I'll take care of it." "You're gonna do my laundry?" "God, no." "I'll buy you seven new ones." "Wait." "Am I a kept man?" "Just keep up the good work." "How was your day?" "(INHALES DEEPLY)" "Well, my husband's partner's gonna live." "Probably in a wheelchair." "(PHONE RINGING)" "Hodiak." "Uh..." "May I ask who's calling?" "Oh." "Mmm-hmm." "It's your father." "Daddy?" "Hal has asked to see the police." "Fortunately, the attending physician is an old family friend." "Knew to call me first." "Is there anything we should know about what happened to Hal?" "Look, Grace, maybe your father and I should..." "If this is about Hal and other women, I know." "So does Betty." "You and Hal aren't as good at keeping secrets as you think." "You could be a little better." "Ken." "The election is in nine months." "Your lives are going to be lived completely in the public eye." "You do not live apart." "You do not get divorced." "I'm sorry, Daddy, but, no, that's..." "Honey, I love you, but all you know is life with me, life with Ken." "You think the world just exists." "It doesn't." "It's made by men who bend it to their will, and the women we care for either choose to live in our world, or leave it." "I hold the paper on your firm." "You, Hal, and I will help Dick Nixon take the White House." "I gave my word to Dick, personally." "So, Hal doesn't tell the police what went on that night." "You do." "(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)" "(INDISTINCT TALKING)" "What is he doing?" "Praying." "Charlie needs to get off his knees." "He says he has a plan." "Great." "What?" "He says it's evolving." "SADIE: (SIGHS) Wanna...the LA City Chamber of Commerce for 10 bucks and then give all the money to Ralph, then do his damn laundry?" "We need a plan now." "CHARLIE:" "Plans." "Plans, plans, plans." "Everybody wants a plan." "The Earth had a plan." "The sun had a plan." "To make you happy, our plan is to open our hearts and feed those in need." "(MUSIC PLAYING)" "CHARLIE:" "You need to trust there are things I know, that I learned in prison, that are about how you survive there." "I know that, Charlie, but we're not in prison." "We're free." "Yeah, well, so's he. (SPITS)" "And he thinks I owe him, and he's collecting." "What if we just took off?" "Someplace he couldn't find us." "Minnie's right." "What's keeping us there?" "You're right, Sadie." "I know just the place." "It's got cotton candy clouds and jelly bean hills." "Oh, and you get there on a unicorn that pukes rainbows." "Um..." "Excuse me?" "Hi." "Sorry, my boss says you can't..." "He says you have to stop and you need to go." "Well... (LAUGHS)" "Well, uh... (STUTTERS)" "Wait, no, then..." "Shouldn't he..." "Shouldn't your boss come and talk to us himself?" "I'm just doing my job." "Oh." "Wait." "Wait, give me your hand." "It's all right." "(EXHALES) Oh." "(EXHALES) Oh." "Your boss has a small soul." "(SNICKERS)" "And a big mouth." "And his idea of heaven is bringing you down." "He could hear." "The door's open." "Free yourself." "Release yourself from that monster." "When you came out here, you were under a black cloud." "It's gone now." "You feel that?" "Mmm-hmm." "I'm Emma." "Patty." "(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)" "Patty." "Patricia." "Patricia Krenwinkel." "(MONITOR BEEPING)" "(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT ON PA)" "Hello, Hal." "(GRUNTS)" "Doctors say you'll never walk again." "Or use your arms." "(GRUNTING)" "HAL:" "You..." "All right." "(GRUNTS)" "Now that you've got that off your chest..." "I have to think there's some cosmic justice at work here." "The greatest gift God gave was that brain of yours, and that voice, that beautiful, resonant voice of yours." "Made to soothe the judges and coax juries, but that...of yours." "If God made that brain, we know who made your..." "The same one who made yours." "Maybe so." "(BREATHES HEAVILY)" "Maybe so." "But you're there." "And I'm here." "And, Hal, the police aren't coming." "Not now, not ever." "You think I can't sit here and scream loud enough until they do?" "Sure, you can." "Sure, you can." "That's only gonna confuse things." "They have your statement about what happened." "That you were taken at gunpoint by three hippie radicals." "Three anti-war, anti-Nixon hippie radicals who wanted to make an example of you." "So, they took you up to Mulholland to kill you." "But you fought them off." "Three of them." "All by yourself." "Amazing." "But one of them shot you before you could escape." "(GRUNTS)" "Such a tragedy." "No." "No." "They've even got a quote from Dick." ""I'm relieved my friend Hal Banyin" ""is going to make a full recovery." ""This terrible incident should be a wake-up call that the radical left" ""are nothing more than hoodlum terrorists."" "You don't want to call our next president a liar, do you?" "(GASPING)" "(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)" "(TV PLAYING)" "My God, that girl fights sleep like it's the devil himself." "(KRISTIN SIGHS)" "(KRISTIN GRUNTS)" "Any good news?" "Laugh-Inison  in a few minutes." "About as good as it gets these days." "Remember, I'm volunteering tomorrow at the breakfast program again." "BRIAN:" "Uh-huh." "Then I've got class." "You good to watch Bernadette?" "We're gonna lose this war." "We're gonna lose." "Maybe that's a good thing." "What?" "Maybe we need to stop thinking we're the whole world's answer to everything." "I want our daughter to grow up in a country that can learn that." "Maybe even live it." "Well, I don't want our daughter growing up in a country that loses wars." "How is that gonna be for her?" "I grew up in a country that won wars." "Never felt that great to me." "ROY:" "How's your boy, Shafe?" "Not my boy, is how." "(ROY CHUCKLES)" "He is one lucky nine-life cat." "Why is that?" "You let me know the next time you see him." "Okay." "Unless you're gonna kill him." "You got a problem with that?" "Come on, he's harmless." "(CHUCKLES) He sent you to spy on me." "Are you still spying?" "What do you think?" "I think you let me kill him, I'd have my answer." "Please don't do that." "He owes me 100 bucks." "(CHUCKLES)" "(MUSIC PLAYING)" "(BREATHES HEAVILY)" "That's like..." "Oh, my God." "Child, you opened up like a flower." "(LAUGHING)" "Want to make you feel the way..." "The way you made me feel." "(CHUCKLES)" "Damn jungle bunny music." "Got a little transistor?" "(CHUCKLES)" "Maybe we could try to find the Beatles, and I could..." "It's dinnertime." "You gotta cook for everybody." "(CHUCKLES)" "Charlie, I really don't think" "I'm that good a cook." "You want that?" "Dinner can't be late." "Ralph hates when it's late." "One more thing." "You don't touch Ralph's food." "Not a thing." "My girls don't eat no colored boy's food." "So, Lucille's fully in the wind." "Pussycat's shuttered." "No one's home." "No forwarding, but also, no lock on her mailbox." "Go on." "I maybe got a look at all her unopened mail." "Maybe some of it gets opened, and I find these." "That's a postal felony." "I feel so dirty." "She's got three kids." "One apparently had some surgery as a baby." "He's nine now, in a wheelchair." "So, I'm thinking..." "Same thing I am." "Hey, give that back, seriously!" "Who wants a grilled cheese?" "SAM:" "I do." "Love the grilled cheese." "I'm thinking you know Guapo and all his men are dead." "And that's why you're here at your sister's." "Mrs. Gladner, I can't imagine how scared you are." "Especially for your kids." "I'm a father." "I understand." "I do." "I think Roy Kovic had Guapo killed." "But I also think there was someone else." "Someone in the military?" "Maybe?" "I want to make a deal." "As soon as you tell me everything." "I want protection." "Again, tell me everything." "Mrs. Gladner, I have nothing to go to the DA with, nothing to justify the cost and manpower of protective custody." "Lucille said his name is Welles, doesn't have a first name." "Roy called him "Captain" on a few phone calls she overheard." "He's the supplier." "Shipping heroin from Vietnam in the caskets of dead soldiers." "What kind of godless traitor opens up the casket of a dead hero?" "That fits what I found in Roy's wallet." "Times, "CW" or "W."" "Mmm-hmm." "He's, uh, meeting him tonight." "CHARMAIN:" "Must be why I got stood up." "Sorry." "I'll live." "Maybe longer." "He drew a map, huh?" "Yeah, it's a coast road." "Not sure where." "And then an exit here, "CP Pen."" ""CP Pen?"" "BRIAN:" "San Diego." "Camp Pendleton." "So, if this Captain Welles is bringing in hundreds of pounds of dope," "U.S. Army and U.S. government know about it." "Who do we arrest and how do we do that exactly?" "(EXHALES)" "That's a good question." "I hate good questions." "(CLATTERING)" "MEG:" "Sam." "Oh." "That come from Canoga Sheriff's?" "MEG:" "Mmm-hmm." "Oh." "How's it work?" "Actually, I don't care." "Do not care." "Jane Doe here's not your girl." "No, but Caucasian, late teens." "Same body type, hair color." "Suffocated." "Abrasions on both wrists and mouth." "Killer with a type." "Yeah." "Me." "Where's Charlie?" "Uh, he's probably off doing his music." "Really like those songs you played, demo you guys did?" "He should get a record deal." "He's been trying." "PATTY:" "He should talk to my friend's boyfriend." "I don't know if she's his girlfriend exactly." "Dennis is kind of like Charlie." "Free." "Dennis who?" "Dennis Wilson." "The Beach Boys?" "Wait, you know Dennis Wilson?" "You should go with me next time I go with Margie." "It's a crazy scene." "A party that literally never stops." "There must be 50 people there all the time." "Dennis hates being alone." "Wow." "RALPH:" "I hear there's soup." "PATTY:" "Yep." "Here you go." "What's your name, little princess?" "Emma." "How about I come up to your room later on tonight?" "Daddy read you a little bedtime story." "Charlie wouldn't like that." "Nobody cares about what Charlie would like." "(SNIFFS)" "Mmm." "Can we go tonight?" "(MUSIC PLAYING)" "(INDISTINCT TALKING)" "(DENNIS CHUCKLES)" "Hey, Dennis." "Remember me?" "Patty?" "Yeah, yeah, sure." "How are you?" "This is my friend Emma." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Hey." "PATTY:" "Hey." "You going?" "Yeah." "Well, you coming back?" "I don't know." "Are we?" "DENNIS:" "Yeah, you are." "I'm a wreck." "I'm never a wreck." "(CHUCKLES)" "Well, thanks for this." "We had a lot of fun." "Yeah." "Charlie's gonna love it here." "REPORTER:" "Calling it possibly thegreatestmilitaryblunder ofthewarsofar,  thePentagonhasissued astatement." "TheCommunists launcheda waveof attacks inthelatenighthours ofthe30thofJanuary" "inthefirstand secondcorps -(KNOCK ON DOOR) tacticalzones ofSouthVietnam." "Oh." "You're not dressed." "Mmm, maybe you should be the detective." "We're going to see Walt?" "Saturday." "It is Saturday." "Is it?" "GRACE:" "Hello, Opal." "GRACE:" "You sure I can't get you anything?" "So, you live here now?" "Well, no, not really." "Well, I heard that you married some lawyer." "Diamond like that sure didn't come from Sam." "It's complicated." "OPAL:" "You're stepping out on your husband to ball mine." "How's that complicated?" "I'm just surprised it didn't happen sooner." "He never got over you." "I mean, why would he?" "Prettiest girl at the country club." "It was like you and him are out of a movie." "And now you're back together." "And all of this." "It's yours." "Okay." "Let's go." "Congratulations." "Congratulations." "(SIGHS) -(DOOR CLOSES)" "They dropped the charges for treason." "Honey, it's over." "What?" "They could give me life just for deserting." "By not charging me with treason, they don't have to put anything" "I stole into evidence." "Well, why wouldn't they want to put that in evidence?" "These were illegal incursions, Opal." "War crimes." "Look, as soon as the  Times publishes what you gave them..." "Dad, Salazar's had the documents a month." "And now with Tet, the Pentagon is in full damage control." "They're never gonna run the story." "SAM:" "Salazar quit?" "And you're not running the story?" "No." "We killed the story, so, he quit." "Do you know where he is?" "The  Times isn't the only paper." "The Pentagon will sue, prosecute, and jail anyone who runs this story." "So, you're telling me that because it's true, because it's backed up by actual facts that my son risked his life handing you, because every charge he's making against the United States Army is true," "that you're burying the story." "Look, for what it's worth, I hate this." "A lot of us do, but no one can afford to publish this story." "Not right now." "(SIGHS) I'm sorry, Detective." "EMMA:" "You would loveDennis,Charlie." "And he'd love you." "Let's go meet him." "I mean, I swear it's like you have the same soul." "Oh, and the house (INHALES AND EXHALES DEEPLY) is just unbelievable." "Princess." "Princess." "Me and you, we gonna make some time?" "You okay there, Ralph?" "You don't look too good." "(CHUCKLES)" "You look a little, uh..." "Do you people ever get pale?" "(LAUGHS)" "Shut up, Charlie." "CHARLIE:" "Whatever you say, man." "Whatever you say." "EBBIE:" "Ralph!" "Hey, man, Ralph!" "I think Zeke is..." "He won't wake up, man!" "I can't wake him!" "Ralph, come on, man." "Let's get you upstairs." "There must be some Alka-Seltzer around here someplace." "(SCRAPING)" "Sam, at the risk of sounding like the generation we hate, you gotta talk." "Grace, I would kill a man for cutting you off in traffic, but don't ask me for that." "Talk." "It's what I can't." "I mean, can't you just read my mind?" "You always could." "Yes." "I see it." "One word, over and over." "One little four-letter word." "Does it begin with an "F"?" "(CHUCKLES) It does not." "Walt." "SAM:" "You were right about the  LA Times." "You were right about everything." "It's doing me wonders." "Hmm." "(CHUCKLES)" "I've got one move." "It's a drug case." "It's big." "Keeps getting bigger." "Multiple homicides." "The chief suspect is a U.S. Army captain who's been smuggling heroin from Vietnam in the caskets of dead soldiers." "What does that have to do with me?" "You're in here because you have evidence that the Army is lying to the American people." "What if I bust a murderous, dope-smuggling, decorated Army captain who's been lying to the Army?" "They'd bury it." "Deeper than me." "Yes, and maybe they will." "Or maybe I hold on to that officer, and maybe the government gets the message that they should cut a deal with you or else the arresting officer, your father, will hold a big, nasty press conference." "(SOFTLY) Dad, these people..." "You don't want to do this." "No, I don't." "But this is where we find ourselves right now." "Okay, in the meantime, just be quiet, keep a low profile, "Yes, sir." "No, sir." Say very little." "Okay." "I love you." "I love you, too." "(CHUCKLES) Oh, Ralph." "Look at you." "You should call the doctor, man." "(GASPS)" "RALPH:" "Charlie." "Charlie!" "(BREATHING HEAVILY)" "We're supposed to be a family, Charlie!" "We had plans, Charlie!" "CHARLIE:" "Yeah, well, plans change, Ralph." "You looking for these?" "There you go." "Go on, now." "Time's a-wasting." "Hey, Ralph." "You like that home cooking?" "Good, wasn't it?" "See, the key is..." "See, every time, the key is fresh ingredients." "CHARLIE:" "I told you, Ralph." "Thewatershapesthe rock." "(BREATHES HEAVILY)" "You're the rock, and I'm the water!" "And I done shaped you good." "Go ahead and lay down, Ralph." "All your boys are waiting for you." "Up there, in the green pastures of the Lord." "Hoo." "Charlie, what did I do to all those people?" "We have to tell someone." "CHARLIE:" "Who you gonna tell?" "Your folks?" "Think they'll be understanding, huh?" "What about the police?" "(CHUCKLES)" "Come on, child." "What are you gonna say?" "You killed all those people?" "No." "They killed themselves." "They died of greed and violence." "We're your family." "And we protect family." "(PATTY WHIMPERS)" "Oh, my God, Charlie." "No, no, no." "Our family doesn't have God." "Or Christ, or angels, or devils." "No." "We're all there is." "We are the eternal and the divine, right?" "Patty." "Charlie." "Charlie." "Patty, God is here." "Christishere." "Rightnow, I'myourJesus,baby." "(PATTY CRIES OUT)" "SHARON:" "Don't hurt my baby!" "Please!" "Please!" "Don't hurt my baby." "SADIE:" "I said, shut up." "Don't talk." "Don't talk, both of you." "(SHARON SOBS)" "Shut up!" "Shut up!" "Don't move, don't move!" "SHARON:" "My baby, please!" "Hey." "Hey, I need help, hey!" "SHARON: (SOBS) Please!" "Hold this." "SHARON:" "Please." "My baby, please." "Please, my baby, please."