""10-16..." "Gangbangers" on the beach." "Get me backup." " You were lucky." " Yeah, right, so were you." "Shut up and sit there." "I've talked to the county about an alternative." "What kind of alternative?" "The water program." "Get your butts out of here now!" "And you tell them cops, they want to come take him, they'll never make it through my front yard." "Two, three, four, five... come on." "Where you guys going..." "surfing?" "I got some baby oil for you." "Come here, honey." "I got nice hands." "How you doing?" "I like this umbrella." "My mom's going to love it." "Hey, homes, nice radio." "Hey..." "Hey, get down, homes." "Homes, this is for you." "Hey, how about a cold beer, Flaco?" "I think I'm a little thirsty tonight." "Hey, hey, hey, is this your beer, homes?" "I appreciate it, homes." "Hey, Flaco, watch out." ""Balas" again, man." "Let's have some fun." "Hey, "chavalita. "" "Move out of the way, "mija. "" ""Orale," Memo." "What's up?" "My beach, Flaco." "Don't see no signs." "10-16." "Gangbangers on the beach." "Get me backup." "We're going to have to cut those signs down." "Get him!" "Get him, man!" "Hey, let him go!" "You okay?" "Oh, Cort." "Miss me, old buddy?" "I thought you went to South America." "I heard you needed me;" "here I am." "Hey, let me go, man." "Let's go." "Come on." "Move!" "This, too?" "Anything that can be used as a weapon." "I don't want what's going on at the beach out there happening in here." "What's this?" "Ballet?" "Shauni, your name's on this." "Eddie is going with me tonight." " Does he know about this?" " Hey!" "Mitch, they need you upstairs, right now." "Be careful with these guys." "Listen, clean up this place." "I got gangbangers." "Come on, come on!" "Hey!" "Hey, hey!" "Get in there!" "Cort." "Hey, little lady." "I thought you were in Africa." "South America." "I thought Kuwait." "Well, I get around." "Hey, you got a problem?" "Come on, homes." "Get off me." "Hey!" "Come on." "Any lip, and you'll be talking out of your armpits." "Yo, you!" "Tough guy, come here come here!" "How's your first aid these days?" "I haven't lost one yet." "See you at the safe..." "Don't touch me, man!" "They said that you were hurt." "No, I am fine." "I'm fine." "Why don't you just take care of the kid." "I'm no kid, "ese. "" "Yeah, right." "You're barker the wonder dog." "Up yours, "payaso. "" "You think you're bad, huh?" "That dude hit you on land, you'd be dead, "ese. "" "You were lucky." "Yeah right, you were the one who was lucky." "Shut up and sit there." "Eddie, come on." "No, no... ow!" "I am fine." "Everything okay in here?" "Yeah." "Yeah, man, everything's just fine." "Hey, hey, hey, settle down or you'll be here all day!" "Come on!" "Oh, this is great." "I got budget cuts, pollutants, gang fights..." "Hey, Mitch." "Cort!" "I know, I know, you probably thought I was in..." "Toad Suck Ferry, Arkansas." "Obviously, you had something to do with this." "No way, Jose." "This is all Garner." "Hey, what can I do?" "I book 'em." "I put 'em through the system." "Most of them will be out tomorrow." "A few of 'em will do some time... come out twice as bad." "Eddie, what do you say?" "Should we book them?" "I don't know." "Uh, he's okay." "Eddie, can I take a look at your head, please?" "Yeah, sure." "You, get over here." "I'll, uh, get the wagons down here." "Wait a minute, Gar." "Look." "They're just kids, man." "See what can happen when a guy gets hit over the head?" "Can I talk to you about this in my office?" "Can you stay here and do something right?" "Hey." "Why is it that every time you ask to see me in private," "I get the feeling I should have never left Philly?" "Sit down for a second, will you?" "I may have just stuck my neck out in a real big way." "Yeah?" "Yours or ours?" "I've been thinking... instead of running these kids through the court process, where they're gonna end up on the streets or..." "Or dead." "I've talked to the county about an alternative." "What kind of alternative?" "The water program." ""My" water program?" "Well, last I heard, it was the county's water program." "What do you say, champ?" "Feel like being lured out for a little fun?" "Get my old bike out of storage for you, have some food, hit the fights." "Fights?" "Yeah." "Boom-Boom" Benitez vs. Harry "The Horse" Callahan." "Oh, man... you know how long it's been since I've been to the fights?" "When?" "First bout's 7:00 sharp." "Get a move on, Eddie." "Tonight, Eddie is going to the ballet with me." "The what?" "Well, um..." "well, come on." "Since Cort's in town..." "You're not ducking out on me." "Oh, hey, if the ballet's so important..." "Oh, come on." "You understand, right?" "Oh, yeah, I understand." "When in doubt, bail out." "I mean, that is your motto, isn't it, Mr. John D. Cort?" "No, my motto is" ""when the going gets tough, the tough get going. "" "Actually, she'll miss me like crazy when I'm gone." "Caffeine... where is it?" "Hey, what a left Boom-Boom's got, huh?" "Yeah." "The man's a weapon." "So what's next?" "Re-up..." "start saving lives." " Morning, guys." " Fellas." "Then, in ten days, when you're current?" "Well, it's a big world out there." "Yeah, well, I just hope I get to see some of it one day." "Just start one day soon." "Mitch got the go-ahead to put those kids in the water program." "Aren't I lucky?" "Hey, you're living proof these programs do some good." "That's me, the token bad boy." "So why is he the one having all the fun?" "'Cause you got Shauni." "When I'm not in the doghouse." "She still loves you." "You guys will kiss and make up and I'll still be king of the one-night stands." "What are you afraid of, Cort?" "What's going to catch you if you stop running?" "I don't know, Garner." "I don't want to find out." "Morning." "Yeah." "Whoa, you look like..." "Yeah, I know..." "like something the cat dragged in." "Mitch, Garner told me the news." "What, you're not thrilled?" "Thrilled or not, it doesn't matter." "Look, there's something missing here." " Yeah?" " Yeah." "I'm going to need more manpower." "Sorry." "Everybody's already assigned." "Except for Cort." "Nice guy, Kramer." "Oh, what is that supposed to mean?" "Where did you sleep last night?" "How do you know I wasn't at my place?" "Because I was." "I got nervous." "I called you until 3:00 in the morning, so I went over to your houseboat, and I fell asleep there, but you didn't." "About Cort, you can have him." "Excuse me." "And you can keep him for all I care because every time he comes into town, you end up in trouble." "Watch out, "vato. "" "Hey, when you bring your business where I do my business, makes it hard to do business." "Well, I bet your guns make you feel like big "pandilleros," huh?" "Hey, you know, you got a big mouth, "ese. "" "You better check it 'fore you wreck it." "Why don't you split?" "What if I don't feel like it?" "It don't matter." "We're out of here." "You better book, punk." "You owe me, cowboy." "I think you're forgetting that this is better than jail." "This will make us even." "All right, all right." "One shot for the history books here." "Say cheese." "You guys are beautiful." "That's what she said." "That's what she said?" "I bet." "Come on, come on." "Look who's here." "Oh, man." "All right." "Now, let's move on down the dock." "What we try to do here is introduce kids who otherwise might not get to the beach to the activities, the fun and all the different things..." "Hey, homes, what's up?" "All right." "Knock it off." "What's the matter with you, man?" "What are you waiting for?" "Move, move!" "Hey, hey!" "Move, move..." "Hey, hey, hey." "Mike, I don't think, this approach is working, all right?" "Not yet, maybe." "Get on!" "What are you guys, deaf?" "No, they're not deaf." "They're wimps." "Yeah, lots of attitude, but no "ganas," huh?" "You know, maybe we ought to forget this boat ride and send them to beauty school." "Hey, hey." "All right, let's move." "Easy." "Easy." "Come on." "Easy, easy." " Easy." "Come on." " Hey, hold it." "You're forgetting something, man." "Come on." "Easy." "Everybody on." "Welcome to the water program, boys." "Okay, move a little bit to your left." "Great." "Okay, look this way." "Great." "Great." "Okay, a little bit to the right." "Okay, and look towards me." "Beautiful." "Great." "Okay, you look great." "All right, here we go." "Come on." "Bathrooms are straight ahead." "I don't think he's going to make it." "Good time, huh?" "You know, there's no crime in admitting, you're having a good time every once in a while." "Hey, look, man, maybe, uh..." "Maybe, sometime, I could help out, huh?" "No one helps Memo but Memo, "ese. "" "I think you're wrong." "A guy can get hurt talking like that." "Right now, you're the one that's getting hurt." "Memo!" "Get your stuff." "You're out of here." "I don't think so." "Hey, nobody cares what you think." "Hey, man, it's this program or it's jail." "Yeah, well, jail's not so bad." "I've done my time." "So have I." "I guarantee you, he's gonna learn a lot better things here than he ever will in there." "Better for what?" "Not better for my world." "Maybe he wants to stay." "Do you want to stay?" "No, man." "Well, Mike, call Garner." "Hey, guys, come on, let's go, huh?" "We got a lot of things to do yet, unless you guys want to be put away, too." "Anything would be better than going back on that boat." "Check out the blond chick." "Do we really have to go down there?" "I thought you said we'd be out of here by 3:00." "John D. Cort?" "Guilty as charged." "Hey." "Hey." "Mm, I heard you were in Africa." "Well, I was." "What do you say we get together tonight and talk about big game?" "Mmm." "I like it." "Hi." "Um..." "I know it's late..." "Eddie, cool it." "Okay." "Look, I didn't come here to get on you about staying out late." "I just wanted to make sure you got home safe." "And, um, how do you know" "I wasn't going to be out all night with Cort?" "Because Cort called me." "He's been calling me every half hour." "Why were you the one to take those kids home alone?" "I've been out looking for Memo." "I know he had a good time on the "scarab. "" "He won't admit it." "He wants to be a part of this program, Shauni." "He's having a great time, but for some reason, he won't open up." "You mean, like you at the Y pool in Philly?" "Yeah, like me at the Y pool in Philly." "And then there was that guy." "Denny Curren." "I hated that guy." "He was so hard on me." "Greatest man I've ever known." "Anything I am today, I am because of him." "Well, now it's your turn, Eddie." "Don't let this kid get away from you." "You've got to make this work for him." "You got to make it work for you." "Que paso, vatos?" "I suppose you still haven't seen Memo." "Man, are you crazy?" "I told you four hours ago that I ain't seen him, and I sure as hell didn't see him in my bed." "So how do we find him?" "We don't." "We do." "You are crazy, huh?" "No one messes with Memo's "padre. "" "He sits on you, you real dead, homes." "Yeah?" "We'll see." "I got dibs on the cowboy's watch, eh?" "If the old man's here, buy me some time." "I'm busy." "Hey, uh, we just want to talk." "You know what?" "Get off my property, man." "Get off my property." "Or what?" "You're gonna call the law?" "Hey, in this barrio, I "am" the law." "What are you doing here, man?" "Hey, come on." "Trying to give you some other options." "I don't need options, "ese. "" "I got everything I need." "Well, you have a father." "That's one up on me." "I hope I'm buying you enough time." "I don't know." "When I think about it, when push came to shove the only thing ever holding me back were my own fears." "Now, come on!" "Come on." "Cort, it's all right, man." "Come on, come on, that's enough." "All right." "The man says you're afraid." "What, of him?" "No." "Afraid of what Memo might learn out there." "What?" "How to be a cute little surfer, huh?" "How to get a nice tan?" "Well, you see any waves around here?" "No man, there were no waves where I grew up either." "I didn't even see the ocean till I was 19." "All anyone ever offered me was a 10-by-20 pool with chipped tile, stinking of chlorine." "But you know what?" "It was another life, man." "It was another life other than the one that I thought I was stuck in." "Yeah, so Memo gets out there, huh, gets a taste of something." "What happens when he wants more, "ese?"" "He gets doors slammed in his face, yeah, because of who he is, because of where he's from." "It doesn't have to be that way." "Don't tell me." "I know..." "and I know where he belongs." "Around here, Memo's big time, "ese. "" "He gets "respecto," you understand?" "Everybody knows who he is, homes." "So what?" "So what, in time, he has tattoos all over his arms, knife scars on his chest or, worse yet, he ends up dead." "Is that what you want, "ese?"" "Go inside, Memo." "You know what?" "You guys get your butts out of here." "Get out of here now!" "And you tell them cops, they want to come take him, they'll never make it through my front yard." "Well, that was interesting." "You ever get so mad, you want to put your fist through a wall?" "Actually, I feel like I just did." "Hey, listen." "You were great." "No, man, "you" were great." "If it had been me you were recruiting in there," "I would have joined up." "What are we waiting for?" "There's this whole new world at the beach, right?" "Hey, come on, now." "Go change in the locker room." "Let's go." "Come on." "Hey, you looking fine." "You can say that again." "Come on, come on." "Hustle up." "Surf's up." ""Dio!" These things made for humans?" "Hey, nobody said that good, clean fun was going to be easy." "Come on." "Here we go." "Here." "Why don't you use this?" "It will help." "Hey, hey, that's my watch." "Run, run!" "Hey, hey, hey!" "Hey!" "Eddie, grab him!" "He's got our money!" "What... what the hell is wrong with you?" "What, are you stupid?" "I was getting some spending money." "I ain't talking about the money, man." "I'm talking about you spitting on me." "Oh, you're so tough, aren't you, huh?" "Too tough for me, too tough for my water program." "You think you're as tough as your old man, but you ain't tough enough to stand up to him, are you?" "Would you be?" "No." "No." "You're right." "Here, man, take it." "Take the money." "It's mine." "Tell your old man you stole it." "He's all I got, man." "No." "No, he's not, man." "That's what I'm trying to tell you." "There's other people, there's other ways, man." "Hell, I found one." "I'm not saying mine's the way, but take a chance, man." "Try to find one for yourself." "How?" "Let me help you." "Oh, come on, man." "You've been beaten up by..." "by boogie boards, bashed by waves." "Holding out your hand shouldn't be too hard for a tough guy like you." "Come on, man, let me help." "Come on." "What's that?" "Hey." "It's a course catalog for September." "Oh, my God." "Oh, Cort comes into town, and you get creamed." "At least you're here to take care of me." "Oh..." "Mmm." "Maybe I ought to have John D. Cort stick around." "As if he would." "Hey, I don't know." "He might surprise us." "After all, he's been a big hero this week." "He's always been your big hero." "Now, that's not fair." "Come on, I'm not going to turn into a John D. Cort and run out on you." "He envies me." "You know why?" "Because I have you." "Mmm." "It's true." "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "Where do you think you're going?" "I am going to get you an ice pack." "Well." "Fine." "Hey, "cuidado por eso!"" "Homes... homes..." "Watch out!" "How's it going out there?" "I mean, besides the fact that Eddie looks like an eggplant." "Considering all they've been through?" "Great." "Watch it!" "Get away from me with that." "We're smashing, homes." "You could call this their farewell voyage." "Whoo!" "Oh!" "Memo!" "Come on!" "I want you!" " I want you now!" " Listen." "What's wrong with you?" "Come on." "Don't, you're embarrassing me." "You snuck out me." "Let's go home." "Not here, man." "Don't talk back to me!" "Come on, dad!" "I'm trying to talk to you." "Come home with me right now!" "No!" "Hey, he's not coming up." "He's got to, man!" "He can't swim." "Hey, he can't swim, man." "Oh, man, he's sinking like..." "Where is he?" "I don't know, man." "Is he all right?" "All right, ready?" "One, two, three, four, five." "Come on, Pop." "I'll take over now." "Let him be." "Let him be." "...four, five." "Come on, Pop." "One, two, three, four, five." "One, two, three, four, five." "One, two, three, four, five." "One, two, three, four, five." "Come on, Dad." "One, two, three, four..." "Pop..." "Mi hijo, mi hijo." ""Adios," man." "Later." "Thanks a lot." "See you." " Take care, homes." " Yeah." "Well, I'd say it's working." "But is it enough?" "Well, let me ask you:" "Is anything ever enough?" "Maybe." "I..." "I don't know." "I just wish that we could keep a guy like Memo around here for more than a week at a time." "I'd be happy if it was for a month." "Well, you know, maybe he, um..." "maybe he ought to come with me." "Yeah." "Right." "To the Caribbean?" "To sail the South Seas?" "I'm serious." "I'm almost settling down." "Ah, let me guess." "The operative word here is "almost," right?" "You ever hear of outward bound?" "Yeah, yeah." "Isn't that where you take kids to the mountains and they learn about survival?" "And about themselves." "I'm going to be running it up near Idyllwild." "It's for kids like Memo..." "and for me." "I don't know, though..." "a year in one place..." "I might get a little twitchy." "I don't know, Cort." "I think there might be some hope for you yet." "Thank you." "Hey, what do you say we jump on the bikes and head downtown." ""Assassin" Argiro versus..." ""Slugger" Sanchez?" "You got it." "Tempting... very tempting... but I don't think so." "I think I want to spend the evening with my favorite slugger." "Well, I don't blame you." "Hey... hey, I almost forgot." "Let me see here..." "Hmm." "Those are for you." "Thanks."