"# When they poured across the border #" "# I was cautioned to surrender #" "# This I could not do #" "Five minutes." "# I took my gun and vanished #" "# I have changed my name so often #" "# I've lost my wife and children #" "# But I have many friends #" "# And some of them are with me #" "# An old woman gave us shelter #" "# Kept us hidden in the garret #" "# Then the soldiers came #" "# She died without a whisper #" "# There were three of us this morning #" "# I'm the only one this evening #" "# But I must go on #" "# The frontiers are my prison #" "End bell." "Where's Frank?" "Alarm!" "Drop." "Drop." "Drop." "Gate!" "You made yourself a friend." "Best have order." "And we're off!" "There's a handicap!" "This one's missing a leg!" "I'm good for two on red." "Too late, Frank." "Runners are on the track." "Then give them back." "Sorry, Frank." "You owe the bank." "Transfer?" "I'm out, Frank." "Just like that?" "All right." "Where's Hedge?" "You not see him?" "He's out the door." "Is he?" "You're next, Lenny." "If they were soft on him, things look good for you." "I mean, it's not likely they're going to split up such a formidable partnership, now, is it?" "Drake!" "Get your fucking hands off me!" "Hedges!" "Hedges!" "Catwalk!" "Single file at all times." "Boo!" "Hello, brother." "Come on, let's get 'em, let's get 'em." "You been smoking, Tony?" "Let me have one of 'em." "Come on, you have all of them." "Someone's been feeding you." "No." "Course not." "You sure?" "Let me have one of them pussies." "Let me have one of them pussies." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Let me have one." "Let me have one." "Pussies!" "Nice!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Pussies!" "Pussies!" "Pussies!" "Pussies!" "Yeah, you gorgeous." "You, that's right." "Have a good look, yeah?" "Next time I see you, you'll be against the fucking wall, mate." "Against the fucking wall, yeah?" "Pussies!" "Pussies!" "Pussies!" "Pussies!" "Pussies!" "Pussies!" "This is your cell." "This is your bunk." "This is your cell mate." "James Lacey." "Lockdown." "Lockdown." "Perry." "Mail." "Stare at something else." "Lights out." "You thinking about me, pussy?" "Yeah, I know you are." "Prisoner 24484, Brodie, absent from cell." "Prisoner 27103, Lacey, absent from cell." "Prisoner 23410, Perry, absent from cell." "Prisoner 26423, Drake, absent from cell." "Prisoner 26135, Batista, absent from cell." "You come at the wrong time." "Chapel's closed." "Perry." "Aye, it's been a wee while." "I'll be right outside." "This is very hard." "But I just have to see her." "It's feeding time, Batista." "Book." "Book." "Magazine." "Give me a card." "Come on, I want a card, Batista." "Just give me one." "Just give it to me." "Go beg your brother." "Do you good to wait a while." "He's getting cocky, Rizz." "He's laughing at me." "Come on, you know he does it." "You know he does, you know he fucking does it." "Get out." "You heard me, Tony." "Now, get out." "Batista." "Come with me." "Your choice." "Tony said I was..." " Tony..." " Shh, shh, shh." "Checkmate." "That's the first time in 11 years." "Another game, Frank?" "Lacey?" "Have a wander." "I'm not really in the mood." "Have a wander." "Five minutes." "What?" "The air vents in the laundry." "Would they connect to a sewer?" "Come again?" "The back of the dryers." "Would they connect to the sewer system?" "Frank, what's going on?" "My first letter in 14 years... telling me our little girl's a junkie." "Her heart's stopped twice." "She's... she's not..." "I mean, is she..." "No." "Until it happens again." "I got to see her." "I got to make things right." "Frank." "I want out, Brodie." "Not in a month." "Not six." "Now." "The air vents in the laundry, do they connect?" "Frank, now, you're not thinking straight." "Does it connect?" "I'm not asking again." "Yeah." "But the air vent, it'll be capped." "You won't get through solid steel." "Lenny Drake can." "Lenny Drake?" "He's walking in a few." "His parole's been revoked." "Hedges grassed on him for early release." "Well, suppose you got by the dryer cap?" "I mean, the vent'll only take you as far as the perimeter." "As soon as you surface, you'll be picked up." "That's why I'll go deeper." "No, I'm not going back down there." "I'm telling you, you don't have to." "Jesus, Frank, now, you know why I'm in this dump." "Would you listen?" "I want you to tell me, not take me." " I can't tell you." " Fuck." "I can't even draw you a map." "Is your mind made up?" "Frank?" "Without me, you'll be lost in minutes." "Stare at something else." "I'm not in the mood for a chat today." "I can understand that." "Cunt snitched me out." "Well, I tell you, nobody was more surprised than I was." "He walks early, and I get nailed for Gomez?" "So I murdered a guard?" "But Hedges, fucker was holding him down." "When I walk out that door..." "Suppose I could get you out the door, Lenny." "Don't fuck with me, Perry." "I told you, I'm not in the mood." "What would you prefer to smack?" "That bit of leather, or your number two?" "Smack?" "I had something more brutal in mind." "You walk through walls, Lenny, and that's useful." "Is it?" "Say we talk, and you're not interested." "Well, it goes without saying, we never talked." "Yeah, it goes without saying." "Frank." "Domino." "Three players." "All right." "Barriers?" "One." "Two." "Three." "Locks?" "Bolt and key." "No chance." "I'm a thief, not a magician." "There is another way." "How?" "Shower drain." "Directly above." "It's the same problem above." "And more barriers." "Only one:" "chapel wall." "It'll take all night." "Ever considered confessing?" "Back of the confessional." "Panel's loose." "And the chapel door?" "What about tools?" "The Lord... provides." "Domino." "First hammer on tile, the screws will come running." "Alarms would be louder." " Who sets them off?" " We do." "When they cotton onto us missing." "It's an obstacle course as it is." "If they're onto us from the off..." "We'll be over the drains when the alarm goes." "By the time they leave the Spur, we'll be in the laundry." "How long have we got before they're in the laundry?" "Five minutes, tops." "It's enough." "All right." "Next piece." "The dryer." " Locks?" " Older than me." "Yeah, but what about the cap on the vent?" "You don't worry about that." "I'll sort my end." "Yeah, yeah, I do worry." "Have you got something that cuts through steel?" "I got whatever it takes." "Lights out." "Lights out." "Five minutes of your time, Two Ton?" "I think I may have found you a challenger." "Domino." "From the minute we're inside, you breathe." "You don't talk." "That far underground, banter echoes." "Ignore your thinking." "It'll only be playing tricks." "Things are different down there." "The laundry vent will take us to here, top of a sump." "Then we go deep." "There's a drainage tunnel." "Now, we're going to need to get through that." "After that... as far as the river." "What river?" "We're south, remember?" "I can't swim." "No." "We go under it." "There's a reservoir, under the embankment." "It connects to the rail network." "Once we're on the tracks, all roads lead to Rome." "Charing Cross." "That's where we surface." "Why so far north?" "There's got to be stations closer." "Plenty of exits." "Easy to disappear if we hit rush hour." "No, before rush hour." "The track goes live at 5:00." "630 volts." "If we're not on the platform by then, we're tap dancing." "How do you know all this?" "How's he know all this?" "Because I shoveled shit down there for 12 years." "Oh, busman's holiday for you then." "Okay, how much time?" "End bell rings at 9:00." "That gives us eight hours end to end." "When do we go?" "How much do you need?" "Three days." "That's good for me." "Then Friday we go." "Oh, one more thing." "Just make sure you don't get murdered tonight." "There you go." "Proof that David and Goliath is cock and bullshit." "Wouldn't be too sure." "You drop something?" "Didn't see you there." "No, you didn't." "Fancy yourself, do you, Frank?" "What?" "You got permission?" "You don't." "Fuck." "Fuck." "That's not gonna make Rizza happy." "Trouble is, I open my mouth, he's likely to piss in yours." "I could sort something, yeah?" "Avoid any trouble." "What?" "Don't run, Frank." "Don't run." "I can run faster." "Rizza gets wind of this, he's gonna to make sure you don't go anywhere unless you sort me out." "Yeah, that's right." "You off your nut?" "First bell tomorrow, Frank." "In your cell, Frank, yeah?" "First bell." "Drop it!" "Don't you do this!" "I will not let you fuck this up!" "Fish and chips drowned in vinegar." "How about that?" "You got to be looking forward to that." "Huh?" "Park bench, first day of summer, nice large portion of fresh battered cod, wrapped in newspaper, watching beautiful girls jog by." "You know what I mean?" "No." "You all right?" "What?" "Tony." " Fuck." " What?" "How the fuck did he find out?" "What's he want?" "Half a key." "Half a fucking key?" "What's that, a bit a grand's worth?" "We got options." "Yeah, I suggest the option that murders him." "And have Rizza on our backs?" "Not a chance." "Tony's untouchable." "Not Tony," "Batista." "We get rid, then pocket his stash." "What do we do then?" "We look under his mattress?" "Check in his pockets?" "The fella's got an operation going on." "Do you not think he's smarter than that?" "Prick's not made of fucking kryptonite." "Nobody's getting their hands bloodied for Tony." "Nobody." "Are you calling it?" "No." "So?" "What if a ticket out is worth something to Batista?" "Shh!" "Half a key?" "And you want me to give it to you?" "No." "It's a trade." "Who else is going?" "Brodie." "And Lenny Drake." "Lenny Drake." "Half a key of kat cleans me out for a month." "Tony knows that." "So Tony's got a taste for it." "He think you'll kill me for it or steal it." "Which puts me in a coffin, or worse if I don't deliver for Rizza." "Besides, if Tony knows, then Tony knows." "He's the devil on your back now." "But if you want to trade, I'll give you a trade." "Kat's a dangerous drug but deadly when poisoned." "You got it?" "If it looks, smells, and tastes like kat..." "Who will know?" "No one touches Tony." " Rizza would..." " Rizza?" "Who's gonna tell Rizza?" "Junkies die every day." "All right." "That's a trade." "Shit!" "Brodie, wait!" "Brodie..." "Lights out." "Smoke?" "That was the last time I saw her." "She'll be 21 tomorrow." "# He took a knife # # and he cut her down #" "# And in her bosom # # these lines he found #" "# Oh, what a foolish girl # # was I # # to hang myself # # for a butcher's boy #" "# Go dig my grave # # both wide and deep #" "# Put a marble stone # # at my head and feet #" "# And on my grave #" "# I died for love #" "This is cozy." "You should wrap a blanket around him, Frank." "He looks cold." "Give us a minute." "No." "No, he stays." "I like his company." "Got something for me, have you, Frank?" "What's Sikes doing here?" "Call it peace of mind." "How do I know you'll keep your mouth shut?" "You're lucky you're still fucking standing." "I need a guarantee." "You need what?" "It's a trade." "I want a guarantee you'll keep your mouth shut, or else there's no deal." "You don't make rules." "Hmm?" "Yeah." "Have a burn." "Rizza!" "Rizza!" "Stan?" "It's okay, kid." "It's okay." "It's okay." "It's okay." "Open the door!" "Do it, Perry, now!" "Frank." "Frank?" "I see something." "What?" "Look." "What the...?" "What, he came out of nowhere?" "What, you couldn't do a thing?" "Well, he's a walking corpse now." " We all are." " Why?" "The kid did the job for us." "Soon as he finds Sikes, Rizza will get wind of the plan." "Rizza's upwind." "The only thing he knows is Tony took a fall." "And Lacey?" "What happens to him now?" "He won't be in the hole for long." "Rizza will make sure of that." "We leave him to Rizza?" "Which weighs more, Frank?" "A ton of bricks... or a ton of feathers?" "He's a dead man with or without us, Frank." "So we leave tomorrow, as planned." "Where are you going?" "It's been a while since my last confession." "Leave it." "Leave it." "4:00 a.m." "Let's move." "We got one hour before the tracks go live." "Shh!" "Listen." "They've found us." "Let's move!" "There's no air!" "I can't breathe!" "Keep moving!" "Hello, Frank." "Hello, Rizza." "I was sorry about your brother." "Why's that?" "Did you kill him?" "Well, I had no reason." "Oh, there's always reasons." "He was a junkie." "He was a cunt." "No one liked him." "Don't smoke, Frank." "Don't like smoke around me." "You got family, Frank?" "Yeah." "Any young?" "Oh, she's a gorgeous one." "Do you love her?" "Family's important." "About the only important thing." "So I'll only ask once." "I won't ask again." "He was taunting the lad." "He had a thing for him." "Tony was over by the doorway, making moves on him." "Sikes... pulled him from the doorway." "I heard them arguing, fighting." "After a minute, the whole Spur was quiet." "You don't have much." "Yet you just subtracted from what's left." "Rizza." "You lie to me one more time..." "They're bringing your boy out tonight." "I want him in my cell before closing time." "You bring him." "You got one thing going for you, Frank." "You're too old to die young." "You all right?" "No." "He's all right." "You stay with us, Frank." "You ready?" "Gate!" "Perry." "Batista." "Mitra." "Parkhurst." "Visiting room." "Wait, Frank." "Let's move." "Any minute, the tracks will be live." "Frank!" "Frank!" "Let's move, now!" "Help me!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Move!" "Move!" "Sit down." "Where are you from, lad?" "London." "Old Street." "Old Street?" "I can't remember my street." "Rizza's waiting for you, in his cell." "Wants me to take you there." "Go to the chapel, lad, before the end bell... and make your confession." "Give this to Brodie." "I don't understand." "Yes, you do." "Why me, Frank?" "You remind me of someone." "# When they poured across the border #" "# I was cautioned to surrender #" "# This I could not do #" "Five minutes." "# I took my gun and vanished #" "# I have changed my name so often #" "# I've lost my wife and children #" "# But I have many friends #" "# And some of them are with me #" "# An old woman gave us shelter #" "# Kept us hidden in the garret #" "# Then the soldiers came #" "# She died without a whisper #" "# There were three of us this morning #" "# I'm the only one this evening #" "# But I must go on #" "# The frontiers are my prison #" "# Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing #" "# Through the graves the wind is blowing #" "# Freedom soon will come #" "# Then we'll come from the shadows #" "Where is he?" "You know, I must have read this book about a dozen times." "If I had my time again, if I could start over like re-reading this book, there'd be someone I'd sit down and talk to." "I'd talk some sense into him, tell him how things really are." "But I can't." "That man's long gone, and I'm all that's left." "End bell." "Where is he?" "But do you know something?" "I'm free now... like my little girl." "Free?" "You've got an imagination." "Imagination's what protects us." "It's what keeps us alive." "You're still living, but less and less." "Inside, you own this place." "You run things." "You're the king." "But look around you, what do you see?" "It's all pretend." "It's all made up." "You own nothing, nothing except cells, bars, and a rusty metal staircase." "You'll never live, because outside, you don't exist." "No one will remember you, no one." "You behave yourself." "Behaving myself is what's kept me living this long." "You tell me where he is." "Lacey?" "Oh, he'll be all right." "He's gone, Rizza." "What did you say?" "Gone." "Where's Frank?" "The lad's free." "Don't you walk away from me." "It's like you said..." "I'm too old." "Alarm!" "Frank?" "Frank!" "Brodie..." "Frank." "Frank." "Frank!" "There's no air!" "I can't breathe." "Breathe!" "You stay with us, Frank." "Stay with us!" "Come on, Frank." "Come on." "Zoe." "Zoe." "Zoe." "We're free." "# And #" "# In the end #" "# We lie awake #" "# And we dream of making our escape #" "# And #" "# In the end #" "# We lie awake #" "# And we dream of making our escape #"