"*" ""Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability." "One quarter of them turn reasonable and become your enemies." "One quarter are afraid to stop and speak." "And one quarter are killed and you die with them." "The blessed final quarter keep you alive."" "Sinclair Lewis said that a long time before the new millennium, a long time before everything changed." "Escaped positive!" "Raise your right hand and repeat after me." "I do solemnly swear..." " I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will to the best of my ability and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States so help me, God." "...so help me, God." "Congratulations." "My fellow citizens, four years ago when I stood before you on this hallowed steps, we faced together the awesome task of healing the sick and weary soul of our great nation." "Don't think a day has passed since then that I haven't prayed in thanks for the unity we have found in that battle." "Together, we have won back our country from the talkers and the promise-makers." "Together we have put the darkness..." "Is there a problem?" "...of the late '90s behind us," "The curfews, the econ" "Didn't I tell you to keep it off the streets?" "Did ya?" "Together, we have seen the dark..." "There's kids around here, man!" "You gotta think about that." "Clean this up." "...important to tell us." "What sin and what sinners we have yet to cast out of our midst." "We must ask for His help in returning to the great moral principles this country was built on, to the wellspring of our freedoms and our traditions..." "I think I got it, Blue." "...must ask him..." "Got what?" "Shh." "...understanding of why He has stricken us with this mortal plague." "You are such a drama queen, it's unbelievable." "You don't know anything." "Laurie, how?" "You know that dance we went to?" "The guy with the red hair." "...more than anything, I am proud..." "Hi." "...decency that is growing today among our youth." "And all you fine young men out there in the Home Guard," "I just want to say thanks." "Yeah!" "Yes!" "Could someone please give me a break?" "Hey, Buckets, you want to shut your sister up for a minute?" "Blue." "Bucky." "It's your night for dinner." "In honor of the inauguration, all work information centers will be closing one half hour early." "I'm going to get tested, Blue." "I'm gonna go to that Operation Helping Hand place right now." "What's the hurry?" "It's two weeks to quarterlies." "Less." "Hello?" "Think I could sleep one minute till I found out?" "Excuse me, could we get some help?" "What?" "What?" "Find out what?" "That you've got a terminal case of hypochondria?" "These sores I keep getting in my mouth are not hypochondria, and neither is the way I'm always tired all the time." "Hey, there's my bus." "I'll send you a postcard from quarantine." "Laurie." "I can't believe you would take such a chance." "I had to, Blue." "There was a connection between us." "Well, did you call him, find out if he was sick?" "Oh, man, Laurie." "All right, all right, so I didn't get his name." "He's just this guy, you know?" "Anyway, who knows if it was even him?" "I" " I could have got breathed on on the streets." "Anyway, you're not always so careful, are you?" "It kind of hasn't been much of an issue lately, has it?" "You mean it gets better?" "God." "It's no big deal, all right?" "We're gonna get through this." "Hi." ""You're safer at home." "Don't take the test."" "Just get rid of it." "Name, address, certificate number." "After you've been called into the examination room, you will be requested to remain there until the results of the test have been determined." "Blue?" "Come on." "I would die if you weren't here with me, Blue." "I would really just die." "You'll be all right." "Nothing like a little good news, is there?" "You'll be receiving a registered copy of your certificate in the next day or so." "Bye bye." "Doctor?" "Doctor, I'm sorry to bother you again, but I've been waiting for my grandson for over..." "Can I have that magazine?" "Mrs. Chaney, I'm sorry, but you'll know something as soon as we do, I promise." "Thank you." "Please, Doctor!" "Can't you tell me where" "Keep that thing out of sight." "Mrs. Chaney." "Where's Tommy?" "If you could please step up to my office" "I'm not stepping nowhere until I see my boy." "I'm afraid that's not possible right now, Mrs. Chaney." "He's sick." "He's sick!" "He's dying." "Mrs. Chaney, please, please calm down." "Please, please, your grandson will be receiving the best care he possibly can." "It's a question of public safety." "Tommy!" "This is a medical facility." "I cannot allow you to create a disturbance." "We're gonna get out of here right now before they come back." "We can't just go." "They have my name." "Shit." "Um, I figured as long as I was here, I might as well get it done too." "Name, address, certificate-- Yeah, I remember." "Okay." "What are you doing with that?" "Security!" "Security!" "*" "Hey, watch it." "Carter, what's your 20?" "Move it." "They're heading west." "Hey!" "Come on, this way!" "Come on!" "Come on." "Come on, get in!" "What the hell is this?" "There's cops after them, Torch." "They were running out of the center." "You're a good man, Willie, a lot better than you should be." "Now clear them out of here." "Come on, Torch." "They're gonna get nailed." "We gotta hide" "Come on, get back." "What are they gonna do to us?" "Shut up." "There's a staircase up here." "Officers, officers, wait, please!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot!" "There were two girls with guns!" "They went that way, right that way!" "Hey, did they rob a bank or something?" "Come on, come on." "I can't believe that worked." "Wait, wait." "You never saw this place." "You never met me." "You hear me?" "This never happened." "Okay." "I saw that." "You're telling me you ain't scared you'd get it?" "I'm telling you she was behind the fence." "Yeah?" "And her guts were spilling out and her blood was flying around." "Somebody's got to clean up the trash." "Too bad you missed it, Bucky." "You got to do more night patrols with us, man." "Anyway, enough about that." "I want you to follow up on that chink over there at the Laundromat." "That guy shows up late for his quarterlies one more time," "I'm gonna put him on report." "Yeah." "Now Payne, still keeping an eye on that bureau character?" "Kinda." "You know, my guess is he's clean." "He hasn't been around that weird bookstore much." "Yeah, I don't buy it." "Stay on him for a while." "You got it." "Bucky, you're up." "Now did Rockland or did Rockland not start that strike bullshit down at the impound place?" "Well, it's hard to tell anything about him." "Mostly he keeps to himself, except for this guy from the grocery he goes to the movies with." "Just the two of them?" "Yeah, at least since I've been on this." "Doesn't surprise me a bit." "Guy's got "faggot" written all over him." "Don't you think that's something police should get into?" "Department of Health." "They're much faster." "Blue." "Why don't you hang out?" "Why don't you stick around a little?" "You know what you are, Hunter?" "A walking advertisement for not fucking." "Government ought to put you on a poster." "We have a good time, we have a good time." "All right, first of all, say hello over here..." "Mom?" "Why do you have to be like that?" "Makes me sick just listening to you guys." "Mom?" "Mom?" "If you've got a problem, talk to the chef." "Mom, you're home from work now." "Do you want to wash up or you want to keep sleeping?" "Sleep." "Not just you guys, it's everything." "What does that mean?" "Just everything, the way everything is." "What?" "You liked it better when we were kids?" "Everybody taking drugs?" "People killing each other?" "Nobody having any respect for anything?" "You know, I hate it when you talk like that." "You sound like you're trying to get an A from teacher." "She just graduated..." "If I do any more dancing, the Vice President is going to have to clear his schedule." "The President seemed to be working on breaking a record held by John F. Kennedy, who..." "If anything's going to save us from earning less than Mom, and sharing the same room till we die, it's this." "Unless you think they're going to be giving out jobs for Christmas." "In case you're wondering, that three-carat Cabochon ruby on the First Lady's necklace is on loan..." ""Monkey Shines" will be back after this message from Operation Helping Hand, making your hard choices a little easier." "And they all come with a five-year guarantee." "I can get you a great deal on some very nice land in Florida." "What are you so worried about?" "I got protection." "Don't be fooled." "The only way to play it safe is not to play at all." "In response to the unprecedented massing of troops on the 16th Parallel, the President took time out of tonight's revelry to warn that the United States will not hesitate to use any means at its disposal to ensure the security and the freedom of its allies in the region." "Pentagon sources report that all forces..." "*" "What am I doing?" "Hey." "Hey, could you help me?" "What's the problem, ma'am?" " You're the problem." "What are you doing?" "Just lending a helping hand." "I told you about coming back here." "Who else knows?" "Knows what?" "What's happening here?" "I wish I knew." "Simon, move it." "Get all the shop set up." "Lennie, drive." "What are you doing?" "Keeping you right where I can see you." "I'm not saying you're out of trouble yet." "At least you're with the good guys now." "Welcome to the quarantine express." "All right, anybody here tattooed yet?" "'Cause if you are, we cannot help you." "No." "Okay, pull out, Lennie." "Willie, we're moving." "45 minutes, they would have had you in quarantine." "You're safe now." "But forget about going home, 'cause that's the first place they're gonna look." "Right now we've just got to get you out of here." "And then what?" "Not my department." "We have safe houses." "They're not the Hilton Hotel, but they're better than where you were headed." "Careful not to breathe too deep around these guys." "Can't you get it that way?" "Don't you read the government reports?" "The plague's a mystery." "Nobody knows for sure." "Isn't that what they're saying?" "The only way you can get this disease is straight into your blood stream, one way or another." "I'm cold." "So cold." " Can I at least call my grandma?" "I want her to know I'm all right." "No phone calls." "We'll get a message to her when it's safe." "There's cops behind you!" "A block away." "Lennie, move it!" "You took the wrong fuckin' road, Lennie!" "The weapons are on the other side." "Well, what was he supposed to do?" "We'll never get across that." "Please tell me this isn't happening." "Don't even think about going back down there." "The cop's still sniffing around." "Back up the van." "Put one hand right in front of the other" " That's right." "You're doing great." "Ha." "I didn't know you had a date tonight." "You wait over there, over there." "Here you go." "Okay." "All right, one hand in front of the other." "These cops keep hanging around." "I don't get it, man." "You lost that other guy, I know you did." "Right across there." "Lennie, pull out!" "Don't move." "Come on, man." "Come on, move it." "Come on." "Get back." "Don't be crazy." "Come on." "We got trouble, man." "There's a cop coming down Fredonia." "He's headed straight for us, Torch." "They must have some kind of tracking thing in the van." "Don't listen to him." "Walk when I walk." "Okay?" "Okay." "Oh my God!" "Oh my God." "Just get up very slowly." "No, I" " I can't move." "Guess you'd rather stick around and wait for the bomb to go off." "What bomb?" "What did you think I was doing back there?" "Setting my alarm clock?" "Don't look down!" "Look at me." "It's gon-- it's gonna break The ladder's gonna break." "What's your name?" "What?" "I asked you what your name was." "It's Blue." "Don't look down." "Look at me." "Look in my eyes, Blue." "Don't look down, look in my eyes." "Just get up very slowly." "You can trust me or you can die." "That's it, that's it." "Okay." "It's gonna be okay, Blue." "You ain't got nothing to worry about." "Look at me." "I'm telling you, when I go, it ain't going to be from falling off no fuckin' ladder." "I warned you guys." "Aah!" "Aah!" "Give me your hand." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Give me your hand." "Come on!" "Shit!" "Shit!" "Hands up now!" "Call for back-up." "Wipe out?" "We have the authority for this?" "We ain't gettin' in trouble?" "What we need to know is that we got orders." "Yes!" "Okay, okay, easy with this guy." "Okay, I got it!" "Do you do this every night?" "What are you doing?" "You better wear a blindfold till we get where we're going." "I'm not putting this disgusting thing on my face." "There are doctors where we're going, food, beds." "You don't put that on, they don't get there." "How many milligrams?" "Help me get this guy in the chair, okay?" "Where are we?" "Someplace they don't know about." "Yet." "Okay, bring him over here." "Lay him down real careful." "Okay." "Now you just hang in there." "We'll make you as comfortable as you can be." "You'll let my son know I'm all right?" "Absolutely." "You just hold real still." "You okay?" "You'd think it would get a little easier." "...stuff we smuggle in from New York." "Lennie, take her home, man." "Where am I taking you?" "14 West 90th Street." "Yeah, Hunter?" "She clocked in at 6:03." "I don't want to hear about it." "Me either." "I want to hear about this." "I don't get it." "Did Laurie get tested or didn't she?" "Why are you going through my things?" "Where did you get this from?" "Step the presses." "I'm only going to be a half hour late for work today." "Did you have a good run?" "Mom's really impressed that you've taken up early-morning jogging." "Oh, yeah, yeah." "It was great, you know?" "Really gets the blood going." "I don't have blood anymore, I just have coffee." "You should eat something, Mom." "Thanks." "What's going on, Blue?" "Bucky, you know the stuff they keep telling us about the quarantine?" "How great it's supposed to be?" "All clean and happy and wonderful?" "Yeah." "It's all lies." "They lock these people up, they don't give them medicine." "Where are you getting this?" "They won't let their families visit them." "The quarantine has to be total." "It's too much of a risk." "Why can't they talk to anybody on the telephone?" "You tell me that." "You tell me where you were last night." "Listen to this." "You have to hear this." "Authorities attribute the hijacking of the ambulance to an unnamed group intent on causing panic in the city." "While no suspects have been arrested, intelligent sources confirm that the terrorists plan to use the contaminated blood of the victims as a weapon in future operations." "You know, I never thought I'd hear myself saying this, but I'm beginning to think the only choice they have is to kill these people, like they did when it was drugs." "I just don't know what else they can do." "...applauded by lawmakers in the state capital." "The Department of Public Health asks any citizen with information regarding the activities of this group to contact any member of your local Home Guard or call Operation Helping Hand." "On the international scene..." "I know you like her." "Otherwise you wouldn't bother to be so mean to her." "I remember you used to try that shit with my mom when you were going out with her." "At least in those days, we used to have a little privacy." "Fine." "I'll turn myself in to the state." "You meet any hot social workers, you get their number." "Go downstairs." "Torch?" "Yeah?" "Was my mom a good cook?" "Yeah, Willie, she was a good cook." "And she could grow stuff too, couldn't she?" "Radishes and stuff." "I remember I used to help her water." "Think we could start growing stuff again, Torch?" "Torch?" "She's not gonna get any more dead" "You watch your mouth!" "Look." "She was my mom." "I can talk about it if I want to." "She's not going to get any more dead if you sleep where it's clean or eat regular food like a person or be nice to some girl you like." "She's as dead as she's gonna get." "I'm hope you flunk your English test." "Too late." "It was yesterday." "And I aced it." "Laurie, it was unbelievable." "The way these people have been treated." "When they get to quarantine, they put these tattoos on them, these big "P"s for "positive"" "so they can track them down with radar." "Do you swear to me that when all of this is over, you will forget this entire thing ever existed?" "I mean it, Blue." "This is it." "Right up that ramp." "Come on." "We fix cars here, ma'am." "You want a doctor, find a hospital." "They know me." "I was here last night." "I know what's behind that curtain." "If you'll excuse me," "I have a lot of work to do." "Please, my friend needs somebody to give her the test." "We don't want to go back to Helping Hand." "Boss!" "I think maybe we should just go." "No!" "Hey!" "Beds and medicine, hospital stuff." "What is this?" "We just crossed the Continental Divide of weirdness." "Listen, you want to take the test?" "Be under the Fourth Street Bridge in an hour." "Just the two of you." "Anybody else shows up, this doesn't happen." "No." "No." "Come on." "No!" "Come on." "So who's this person that it's such a big emergency?" "Nobody." "Just somebody I met in the park." "All right now, you just hold real steady." "Are you sure this is sanitary out here?" "You mean without any magazines in the waiting room?" "In the Helping Hand clinic where I work, we got all the white tile you could ever want." "And I wouldn't go there to get my nose blown." "You work for them?" "Not every double agent wears a trench coat." "Somebody's coming." "Not to worry." "Just our friendly mobile testing unit." "Instant results round the clock." "I don't know if I'm ready for instant." "Hi." "Uh, the keys are in the cab, Anna." "Equipment's running a little hot." "Should be okay, though." "What's his problem?" "Who cares?" "Torch?" "Hey, Torch?" "What is your problem?" "Hey, I ain't got no problem except for you yelling at me." "I don't get this." "What we went through last night and then..." "Wait a minute." "Did I get you pregnant and leave you by the roadside somewhere?" "I don't remember this." "I am not talking about marriage here." "I am talking about saying hello." "Hello." "I'm okay!" "Blue, I'm okay." "She said it's just allergies or something!" "Oh!" "Come on, let's get out of here." "My mom's on night shift." "We've got some major celebrating to do." "Thank you guys so much!" "Thank you, really." "God, does it feel good to say "I told you so."" "Blue!" "Blue!" "What?" "Look, just because he's messed up doesn't mean we don't need all the help we can get." "Is there any way somebody could get a hold of you ever?" "What do you mean?" "In case Mr. Hero needs someone to impress?" "Blue." "Ha." "You take care of yourself, okay?" "Blue, aren't you going to show up to your own party?" "You want a beer or something?" "Fuck." "Hey, what are you doing in here?" "People are starting to wonder." "What's that thing on your head?" "I guess you think everything in the world is just wonderful now." "Fine." "Maybe it's all true." "Maybe all this terrible stuff is actually happening, but, Blue, you're crazy if you think that there is one thing that you or I or anybody else can do about it." "I guess I don't see it that way." "Just don't do anything stupid, okay?" "Please?" "Really." "Hey, you guys!" "You gotta hear this!" "...mobilization of forces have been on alert since yesterday's unprovoked attack." "We have acted decisively and we have acted justly." "We have acted because we cannot, we must not allow tyranny to cast its evil shadow." "We have acted because as long as one man is not free, no man is free." "Hey, Blue." "We could use an extra hand tonight." "What?" "The regular girl call in sick?" "Look, I'm sorry." "What do you want me to do?" "You want me to eat dirt?" "I'll eat dirt." "That would be nice." "Chicken." "*" "Laurie?" "Where's Blue?" "I don't know." "Hey." "Oh hi, man." "Use 'em, okay?" "But bleach the needles, everything." "Got anybody I could use this with?" "Not my department." "Where in the hell have you been, man?" "Hey, Willie." "Hey, Blue." "There you are." "Hi." "Hey." "Listen, Laurie, I need some help." "And I don't know who else to turn to." "Help with what?" "Is Blue having some sort of problem?" "Why would you think she was having a problem?" "Well, she seems so down these days, you know?" "And that's too bad." "'Cause there's so much to be up about." "You know, things are really starting to come together." "She's fine." "She's perfectly happy." "Hey, Laurie, help out this" "If Blue is having some sort of problem, and the cops get wind of it, you're going to wish real hard that you would let someone who was Blue's friend get her out of it before it was too late." "Blue's fine." "Okay." "Can you believe that somebody would name their kid Drizella?" "Criminal." "It was after some aunt of my dad's." "My mom turned it to Drew pretty fast." "Bucky couldn't even say that." "All he could say was Blue." "I guess it kind of stuck." "Hey, it's your turn." "What's this for?" "For your face." "Oh, yeah." "That's right." "I got mine from Willie's mom." "She hated her own name, Ellen." "She said it sounded like someone who won prizes for their handwriting." "I kind of liked it, but I said, "Okay, we should make up names for each other."" "Only you had to take the name you got given, period." "No going back." "We wrote our names on the inside of matchbook covers, right?" "We switched, counted to three, and looked." "I don't know where she came up with it, but she put down Torch." "I put down Ellen." "Nearly killed each other on the spot." "What was your name before?" "Can't say." "It was another part of the deal." "Who was Willie's father?" "She got pregnant on the job." "She said meeting me got her out of the trade, but the truth is, Willie pretty much talked her out of it before I even came along." "What happened to her?" "It's all right." "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to." "Um, it was in the beginning." "When they first started taking people away." "The whole world was sticking its fucking head in the sand." "Oh, but not her." "No, no." "She had this crazy idea that sick people were supposed to get taken care of." "She started making trouble, driving people up the wall." "They wanted her bad." "When they raided this place we were staying, she was the only one they took." "The troublemaker." "Then one morning, Willie wakes up and she's just not there anymore." "The way I heard it, she came up positive, they broke out the champagne." "It meant this time they had her for good." "No paperwork." "Of course, they were very interested in what she could tell them about her secret terrorist network." "And the doctors who were present knew how to be effective in their interrogation because what the-- what the blood test also showed was that the subject was somewhere between three and five months pregnant." "The patients in the quarantine tried to take care of her." "But after a beating like that..." "Was it your baby?" "*" "I should toss Willie's bag." "Do you feel anything with that on?" "No." "Did you know she was sick before she got caught?" "They call it denial." "So-- sorry." "Have you ever taken the test?" "Everybody's got these fucking calendars in their head." "So you find out you got five years." "So what do you do?" "Start "X"-ing off the days in your datebook, take the necessary precautions and you go from there." "All that stuff that they say about nothing being safe" "Hey, Torch, you get anything for breakfast?" "Where is my shirt?" "Hey, you ever heard of knocking, man?" "I'm starving, man." "Uh, well, pick up a doughnut on the way to the bus." "He's a growing boy." "You can't give him doughnuts for breakfast." "I get him the jelly kind." "It's got fruit inside." "You didn't actually say that." "Well, don't wake me till Christmas." "Oh, no, no, you got to get home before your brother gets up." "Nah, he can go to hell." "That's a very bad attitude." "You got a cover to keep now." "I do?" "Please, no bright-eyed idealism before I get my coffee, all right?" "'Morning, guys." "Do you need a toothbrush, Blue?" "Don't worry, it's brand new." "Yeah, thanks." "Torch?" "Come on, man." "*" "* Out of the rain" "* Under the shelter" "* I've been so long where" "* The sun don't shine" "* Standing at the crossroads" "* Could a way be the way" "* But now I found you" "* Storm's behind" "* Out of the rain" "* Out of the rain..." "Be strong, little brother." "Ho ho ho!" "* Over the wall" "* Out in the open" "* Back on the right tracks" "* I'm feeling no pain" "* You took a sparrow" "* Let it fly with the eagles" "* I see a long way" "* I feel love again" "* Out of the rain" "* Out of the rain" "* Rain" "See, it's not so bad." "Nice and slow." "Thank you." "It's okay." "Okay." "Mom." "Mom." "Take it easy." "I'll be right back." "Where are you, Mom?" "Mom." "Ma." "Ma." "I'm right here." "I guess you couldn't get Dad to come, huh?" "No, no, he's here." "He's right over there." "He's coming." "Hey." "It's Russell." "Russell." "Hey, Dad." "You don't still hate me, huh?" "No, I don't hate you, Russ." "I love you, Russell." "You too, Dad." "So why haven't I heard any hot details yet?" "Because there haven't been any." "Every night with this guy for a month and I'm supposed to believe that?" "That's right." "Well, I don't." "Laurie, when have I ever lied to you?" "Fifth grade, Scott Berkowitz." "You promised me that you would never ever mention that again as long as you lived." "How could you do it, Blue?" "He smelled like pastrami farts." "Actually, it was more like corned beef when you got up close." "Stop." "What are you looking at my watch for?" "Just wanted to see what time it was." "Well, what's your hurry?" "We haven't had a normal conversation in a million years." "I mean, come on." "Why can't you put up posters a half an hour later?" "We're not exactly putting up posters today." "Then what are you doing?" "You don't want to know." "Don't tell me what I don't want." "If I got caught or something, you would be better off not knowing." "Just tell me." "I miss talking to you, Blue." "I miss telling each other everything." "We found out that there's this Helping Hand clinic in New Jersey that's closing tonight and they're shipping everybody that they're holding to quarantine." "And you're going to rescue them on the way?" "Yeah, we're going to get them into safe houses." "These people you're rescuing them from, they don't have guns?" "Blue?" "We have guns too, Laurie." "Blue, don't go, okay?" "Really, don't go." "Just don't do it." "It's 70 people." "They're going to lock them up and starve them." "I just don't think" " You know, if this guy really loved you, he wouldn't want you to be in all this danger all the time." "It's not about him." "It's just," "I don't know, you get put on this planet and what do you do with that?" "So what are you saying?" "You telling me that I'm fucked up because I want to have a normal life?" "I'm not saying that." "You know it." "No, I don't." "I don't know anything." "I have no intentions of getting killed." "Nobody ever does." "Well, I gotta go." "So go." "I'll call you tomorrow morning." "You're gonna be late." "Go on." "Truck's coming in a little early, Torch." "You'd better hurry up." "No escort?" "Not that I can see." "And I can see all the way to Canada." "You got enough people down there for this?" "We got everybody we know out here, Willie." "Now you stay low." "Hold it!" "Go, go!" "Nobody move!" "Do not move!" "Now if you'll kindly drop your weapons and put your hands in the air." "Now!" "Put it in the truck." "Do it." "Come on!" "Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go!" "Yeah!" "We did it!" "Fuckin' did it!" "Hey, by the truck!" "Come on." "Where are you, man?" "I can't see you." "Oh, shit." "What is it?" "My walkie." "Check under the bridge." "Cancel that about Pearl Street." "It's starting to look like a cop convention down there." "If you holed up somewhere..." "Shut up." "...just sit tight." "It's a kid." "It's not a kid, man." "That's a sniper." "Torch, where are you?" "Come on, Torch, answer me." "I can't see you." "What's going on down there?" "There he is, Captain!" "I got a clear shot at his ass!" "No!" "Torch!" "Willie!" "No!" "No!" "Willie!" "No!" "Willie!" "No, Willie!" "No!" "No!" "Willie!" "Get down to the station." "Come here!" "Now you know why we had to come out here today." "But it's cool, man." "People make mistakes." "It's your job to keep an eye on her now, make sure she learned her lesson." "I can count on you for that, can't I?" "Get in the car." "How could they have found out?" "Somebody told them." "Yeah, somebody who knew exactly what was coming down today." "What are you saying?" "I'm saying somebody fucked us!" "Are you accusing me?" "Who else?" "!" "She's been with Helping Hand" "Shut up!" "Shut up!" "Could you just shut up?" "Come on, we've got to get out of here before they come back." "Safest way is under the highway." "Let's go." "Come on!" "Aah!" "I'll make you a deal." "You give me the whereabouts of just one kidnapped positive, and we can all get some sleep." "Does that hurt?" "One name, one address." "Santa Claus." "The North Pole." "Aah!" "Safe houses, addresses, phone numbers." "Ah!" "Hey!" "What?" "He won't be much use to you if he's dead." "Okay." "I'd kind of hold off on that for a minute if I were you." "We just got the blood work in on this one and, um, in a word, positive." "Dead man." "Fucking bastard!" "Fuck!" "Looks like some clear skies ahead of us." "Enemy casualties are reported, high and heavy fighting..." "You're not Egan." "What happened to Egan?" "What do you think happened to Egan?" "Welcome to Tri-State Regional Quarantine." "...terrorists out of the city." "Channel Six young hero of the mass arrest." "It's not just us who make these things happen, you see." "It's also the fine regular people out there who know what's wrong when they see it and they're not afraid to speak up about it." "You know?" "'Cause I don't care what kind of lineup you got." "You ain't gonna win no football games if you ain't got the crowd out there..." "*" "Blue?" "Are you sure he has it?" "You think Anna would have said so if she wasn't sure?" "Oh, God, Blue." "You didn't sleep with him ever, did you?" "Willie's dead." "What?" "Hunter shot him." "He's dead?" "Yeah, we just buried him today." "He swore he wouldn't do" "What?" "Who swore?" "What are you talking about?" "Laurie?" "What?" "What?" "Why are you looking at me like that?" "What did you do?" "You told him?" "You told Hunter?" "I was so scared, Blue." "I didn't want you to die or wreck your life." "Listen." "They promised me they weren't going to hurt anybody." "No!" "They swore!" "Come back here!" "Blue!" "Blue, I need to talk to you!" "Talk to me!" "Shit." "Stop doing this." "Right now is when we should be very careful with how we use our energies." "Energies?" "Hey, Blue." "*" "Blue?" "Wait a minute." "We have to decide about stuff." "What stuff?" "Everything." "Planning stuff." "Getting everybody back on track." "I can't believe you're just going to let it all go to pieces." "It's okay, it's okay." "It's me." "How did you find me?" "I followed you the other night." "Go away." "I swear to you" "I did not have anything to do with the raid." "Fine." "You were just following orders and God forgives you." "Now would you go away?" "I found you a way to see him, the guy you were with." "What?" "I don't know what else I can do." "I can't get him out." "I can't stop what's happening." "Nobody can get into quarantine." "Yeah?" "It's all just money and connections, like everything else." "But you've got to meet the driver in half an hour or forget it." "Mon" " What money?" "Guess who just got elected treasurer of your local Home Guard?" "Jesus, Bucky." "After Hunter kills you, what do I do for a brother?" "If you hate me for the rest of my life, what do I do for a sister?" "Don't let anybody get a close look at that thing." "When I get inside, where will I find him?" "Usually they take new arrivals to the Helms Wing." "Okay." "I make my delivery, take care of my business, back where I drop you off at 6:00, 6:05." "Now you hear that clock bell ringing, you get down there." "You don't show up..." "She doesn't show up, what?" "They find out that the tattoo is fake, they shoot her on the spot." "Jesus." "Do you have a watch?" "Yeah." "Better synchronize." "What time do you have?" "2:47." "Now the drop-off's going to be around the corner on White Street about 6:30." "Come on, set your watch." "I will when I get in there." "You don't have a watch." "Don't be crazy." "Bye, Bucky." "Tell Mom I love her." "Blue, don't do this!" "*" "All right, you're clear." "How you doin' tonight, man?" "How do you think I'm doing?" "Get that radiator fixed?" "Yeah, I got it fixed." "Take you a long time?" "Yeah, it took me a while." "Past curfew, babe." "Get inside." "Okay." "This one's still warm." "It's going to be the end of our marriage if you go on this way." "I've had about enough." "Don't you realize that?" "You had enough?" "!" "Other people drink." "Not the way you do." "Why?" "I don't know." "You've got everything in the world that you want." "I wish you could see yourself." "You're like a crazy..." "Friend of yours?" "Help me." "Help me." "Hi." "Did they hurt you?" "They didn't get me." "I snuck in." "You snuck in?" "You crazy fuck!" "You got a way to get out?" "Yeah." "My ride's at 6:00 at receiving." "What are you trying to say?" "In there." "Go in there." "You shouldn't have come here." "They'll shoot you." "No, no, don't talk." "Don't say anything." "Don't touch the blood." "What did they do to you?" "Did they get Willie?" "Torch." "His body-- Did they get his body?" "No." "Come on, sit on the bed." "Come with me." "All right, put your hands up." "What?" "I want to get this shirt off you." "It's filthy." "Come on." "Ah!" "Lie back." "Lie back." "Oh, that feels good, Blue." "Feels too good." "There's no such thing." "What are you doing?" "You've got to get out-- No, no." "They don't scare me." "No, no, what are you doing?" "Look, I can stay as long as I want." "It's counterfeit, black-market special." "You know how fast that thing is gonna peel off?" "Boy, would they love this." "A negative dropping in on her boyfriend." "Would they make an example or what?" "Not if she wasn't negative anymore." "You came here to off yourself?" "I came here to be with you." "No." "Come on." "You've got your whole life to live." "Don't tell me what I got." "Blue?" "We never got to go to the movies." "We never got to go out for breakfast." "Check-up time." "Get to the door or I'm coming in." "Hit the light." "Get out of sight." "Get to the door." "Back off." "Back-- back off." "Okay." "You know what to do." "Come on, lift the arms." "All the way, all the way." "All right, pants." "Shorts too." "Come on, turn around." "What's that?" "It's a mole." "We've been through this." "Crack a smile." "All right, you're clean." "What's that?" "It's a hooker." "I got a hooker up here." "You get Chinese food up here too?" "You know how it is." "Oh, yeah?" "Get her out here." "Come on!" "Hey, come out here." "Hey, bitch!" "I'm coming out." "I just hurt my leg." "You okay?" "Yeah." "What do you care?" "Never seen you before." "She's just here a couple hours ago." "Working fast, huh?" "Show me your label." "Come on, come on." "Move out of the way, huh?" "Can't see it good." "You see it now?" "Very nice." "I see it, all right." "Show me her tits." "What?" "Hey, I gotta be here, I might as well kill two birds, eh?" "Now show me her tits." "I'll show you." "No, no, I want him to do it." "Show me her tits." "Come on." "Rub 'em." "Mister, please." "Don't "mister" me." "She's here after curfew." "She ain't even on my list." "You two ain't got any symptoms yet." "Hardly ever get that." "Now rub her tits." "Come on." "No, not there, not there-- Her tits." "Come on, rub 'em, rub 'em." "Show me her-- show me her bush." "Your legs." "I want to see it." "Hey, you making friends down there?" "No, sir, I'll be right out." "See you two tomorrow." "You got it?" "That's it, you're out of here." "I want you to go down this ladder and I want you to cut through by emergency down there." "That'll take you right to receiving." "Come on." "I'm not going." "What, you want to go through that shit again?" "I want to stay here with you and finish what I started." "Yeah?" "Yeah?" "You want me to fuck you?" "Is that what you want?" "Don't." "Ah!" "Is that what you want?" "Stop." "You want me to fuck you?" "!" "Shut up!" "I'll fuck you and in every drop of me there'll be a trillion little poison cockroaches walking around inside you for a year, five years or more." "Pretty soon, you'll be checking yourself out 20 times a day" "You're hurting me, Torch." "You put your dress back on and you go back." "What?" "What-- what do I do?" "You live." "Whatever that means, you live." "I can't just live, not without" "What?" "Not without love?" "Come on, Torch." "We'd live as good as we can for as long as we can." "And we can grow old together, even if it doesn't take so long." "*" "We could fix up the place, we could-- we could see if we could get some paint somewhere." "We're gonna have to be careful in how we make it look because in 100 years, they're gonna be bringing people through here on guided tours." "Behind the velvet rope over there, some-- some lady with blue hair is gonna be giving a lecture on how" "Torch, the father of the resistance, lived in this humble room." "Died in this humble room." "Not alone." "It's almost time." "You gotta go." "All right." "I'm going as long as you tell me one thing." "Tell me that you don't want me here." "No, no, for real." "And you tell me that you want to be alone when you're going blind and your head is swelling up with sores." "Tell me that you want me to be alone when I know what's happening to you." "I'm outside picking Pepsi cans out of the trash." "I can't kiss your forehead or bring you a glass of water or help you go to the bathroom when you can't get out of bed." "Tell me that's what you want, I'm out the window." "Say it!" "All right, you tell me this." "You tell me how I'm supposed to sit here and watch you lose 80 pounds and spit up mucous till you die from what I did to you." "No." "Oh, no." "As messed up as this place may be, it's still a hospital." "And that means pharmaceuticals." "So?" "So if it gets too bad, we could just go to sleep." "A light dinner." "Four grams of Seconal-- two each." "Just go to sleep?" "Yeah." "It's morning." "So-- so right now, I'd be" "I'd be" "Right about now I'd be yelling at Willie to get up for school." "On a Saturday?" "What are you" "Saturday?" "Yeah." "Somebody's supposed to meet the guy from the printer's under the bridge to pick up the new deaf-mute cards." "We came out of this." "No one to do anything with them anymore." "There's you." "No." "You got two minutes, Blue." "I'm not going." "Security!" "No!" "I got a negative in here!" "Come on, Blue." "You better hurry!" "You just missed her." "She went down the hall." "You know, she would have been back by now." "No, there might be traffic." "The bridge might be closed." "Yeah, and pigs might fly." "You ask me, this whole thing's a trap." "What are we trusting this guy for anyway?" "Because he's her brother." "Come on, Sam." "Blue." "Is Torch okay?" "He's okay." "Where are they keeping him?" "They didn't hurt him?" "Did they tattoo him yet?" "Look, can we do the press conference later?" "Right now, we've got a lot to figure out, like who's going to go meet that guy from the printer's up the bridge." "If you need me to do it-- We need you to do it." "Just go be an upstanding member of the Home Guard, starting with getting to roll call on time." "They can go to hell." "Bad attitude." "You've got a cover to keep." "We both do." "Well, I can handle the cards." "Okay." "I think we owe him $20 more." "Do me a favor, don't talk the guy's ear off." "Just get the cards and come back." "* Many rivers to cross..." "* But I can't seem to find" "* My way over" "* Wandering I am lost" "* As I travel along" "* The white cliffs of Dover" "* Many rivers to cross" "* And it's only my will" "* That keeps me alive" "* I've been licked, washed up for years *" "* And I merely survive" "* Because of my pride" "* And this loneliness won't leave me alone *" "* It's such a drag to be on your own *" "* My woman left me and she didn't say why *" "* Well, I guess I'll have to cry *" "* Many rivers to cross * Rivers to cross" "* But just where to begin" "* I'm playing for time" "* There have been times I find myself *" "* Rivers to cross" "* Thinking of committing" "* Some dreadful crime" "* Yes, I've got many rivers to cross *" "* Rivers to cross" "* But I can't seem to find" "* My way over" "* Wandering, I am lost * Rivers to cross" "* As I travel along" "* The white cliffs of Dover" "* Yes, I've got many rivers to cross *" "* Rivers to cross" "* And I merely survive" "* Because of my will..."