[theme music]
[lightning crashes]
[wings flutter]
[lightning crashes]
[music continues]
[lightning crashes]
[indistinct yelling]
[dramatic music]
[buzzer buzzes]
[doors thudding]
[locks clank]
[keys clink]
[Karen] 'So you know when you get back home tonight'
you're staying with Mrs. Clausen, right?
Yes, ma.
And you'll be a good boy for her?
Yes, ma.
And... she will put you
on the bus in the morning, and I will be here
after you get home from school tomorrow.
- Yes, ma. - Alright.
Off you go then.
- I love you. - I know.
Is dad coming home this time?
No, sweetheart, not this time, but soon.
Why can't I go with you?
Because it's nowhere for you to go.
But I want to see him.
Soon. Real soon.
Off you go.
Go learn something.
[train horn blares in distance]
[dog barking in distance]
[dramatic music]
[car approaches]
[brakes squeak]
[parking brake clicks]
[keys clink]
[buzzer buzzes]
[exhales deeply]
[lock clanks]
[gates squeak]
[indistinct yelling]
[indistinct announcement on PA]
[indistinct chatter]
So how long you got now, Willie?
Six weeks.
Best keep your nose clean then.
A box of Kleenex a day, officer.
[locks clank]
[music continues]
[keys clinking]
How long do you think you'll be out this time?
[gate squeaks]
[indistinct chatter]
Hey.
[sighs] You alright?
Yeah.
- You wanna.. - Sit down?
Sure.
[buzzer buzzes]
[Willie] Almost seems like real life sometimes.
[indistinct chatter]
You got the families living here
it might even get more popular than it is.
Hmm.
Barney's gone.
- Gone? Gone where? - I don't know.
He just packed up and left.
You and him have a problem?
No. No problem.
No problem. Willie, it was fine.
I mean..
You know Barney, he's... easy to get along with.
He made friends with a-a man who worked there.
Old guy called McFarland.
Not Cappy McFarland.
I don't know what his first name was. Who is he?
Mm, Cappy's an ex-con.
Barney shouldn't have been hanging.
So they were hanging out a lot together.
They ate lunch together sometimes.
One day, I came home and they were sitting there
in the kitchen.
Were they planning something?
[Karen] 'I don't know.'
'Barney never said anything'
and then about..
...a week later, he just up and left.
He just left? He didn't say anything to you?
[Karen] 'Well, he called me once.'
He said there was something he had to do.
When he was done..
...he'd be in touch.
- A-an-and Cappy? - He had cancer or something.
'I heard he died.'
How long ago was this?
Uh, about a month.
Just after my last visit.
I kept thinking Barney'd come back, you know?
[boy #1] '...try that one.'
Jackson kind of misses him.
[female #1] 'Nice try.'
How 'bout you? You kinda miss him?
Yeah.
I kinda miss him, Willie.
It was nice having somebody... around.
- 'Helped with Jackson a lot.' - Yeah. I know.
It was your idea, Barney come live with us.
Yeah. I know.
[Karen] 'And he was grateful.'
He always said you looked after him in here.
Maybe he..
Maybe he didn't want to involve you in something, you know..
...illegal.
Barney's a damn fool.
Yeah. Well, just so long as you're not one.
'You get out this time. That's it.'
'You know that, Willie.'
I won't do another stretch.
I won't let Jackson do another stretch.
'You get out this time, you stay out.'
That's the deal.
That's why I've hung in.
Yeah. You're my wife.
If you can call it that.
Eighteen months out of the last ten years?
That's no wife.
It sure ain't no life.
[people screaming]
[male #1 on PA] 'The park is now closed.'
'Thank you for coming. Remember, drive safely.'
[siren wailing in distance]
- Hi, Karen. - Hiya, Thelma.
Hey, you been visitin' today?
- Yeah. - How's Willie?
Oh, he's hangin' in.
He's out soon, ain't he?
Six weeks, God willing.
Guess that's why you had to get rid of that young fella
'who used to work here.'
What was his name?
'Barney. Right?'
'He was a hunk.'
How'd you find a lodger like that?
Uh..
He was Willie's cellmate.
What do you know!
If I thought I'd get a cellmate who looked like that
I'd rob a bank in a minute.
[dramatic music]
[chuckles]
[gate squeaks]
[brakes squeak]
[indistinct chatter]
[parking brake clicks]
[keys clink]
Home sweet home.
[door opens]
- Welcome back, Willie. - 'Heh, thanks.'
Dad!
[Karen] 'Thanks, Mrs. Clausen.'
[Clausen] You're welcome. Bye, Willie.
You're looking good.
Thanks.
Do you want to come inside?
Yeah. Come on.
I drew some pictures for you.
[Willie] Oh, that's great.
[Willie and Karen panting]
[both sigh]
[both panting]
[Willie sighs]
[Karen] Ugh.
[Willie sighs] 'Where you goin'?'
Just gonna, uh..
Check in on Jackson.
See if he slept through it.
[sighs]
[grunts]
[train horn blaring in distance]
[Karen clears throat]
[dog barking in distance]
[sighs]
Felt like you got a load off your mind.
A load of something. Don't know about my mind.
[crickets chirping]
So..
So how did you manage inside?
What kind of question is that?
Okay.
- Never mind.. - No. No.
[gulps]
You, you brought it up.
'Why would you ask me something like that?'
Seven years is a long time.
Tell me about it.
[scoffs]
[crickets chirping]
[water splashing]
We're gonna get out of this dump.
'I'll get through my parole, we'll move out west.'
Barney and I used to talk about it.
Start..
...um, something legit.
Well..
...looks like Barney decided not to wait.
I asked around the joint where he was.
Cappy had a score planned
but... he got too sick to do it.
So I think he was trying to get Barney involved.
How's that?
I mean, Cappy's dead. That's what I heard.
Well, let's hope Barney didn't get past the talk.
Hey.
What are the chances you can get me a job at the park?
Uh, if it doesn't close down first.
They don't have anything against hiring ex-cons.
What they don't like is paying a living wage.
[inhales]
[sighs]
Yeah, well..
...two non-living wages are better than one.
[sighs]
[inhales deeply]
[sighs] Yeah.
Yeah, that's the truth.
[Karen sighs]
[whispers] We're gonna make it.
You see if we don't.
[door opens]
[door closes]
Who'd that be?
I don't know.
[sighs]
[groaning]
Barney..
Karen, towels.
[Barney panting] Hey, Willie. Glad to see you made it out.
[Willie] Hurry.
Let me see this. Let me see this.
- Wait. - Yeah. Nice.
- Yeah. No, I'm fine. - Barney, let me look at it.
Willie, Willie. I'm fine. I've got to talk to you.
[Willie] 'What?'
[panting] Hey, Karen.
[whimpering] Hi, Barney.
Go see if Jackson woke up.
Go on. It's alright.
What?
- Ahh.. - Huh?
Cappy McFarland come to see me.
- You remember Cappy? - Yeah.
Alright.
He put this proposition to me.
I thought we was going clean.
Barney, what happened to that, Barney?
Look, Willie, Willie.
This was a biggie, Willie.
A biggie. We're talking three and a half mil split four ways.
[panting] Beats serving cokes at the park.
Alright. Just let me look at this.
[Barney groaning]
- 'Oh.' - Oh! Oh, God.
We gotta call 911.
Oh, no, no, no. No, no. No, cops. Willie.
[panting] I'm not going back in.
Willie, he's hurt bad.
[dramatic music]
[groans]
Uh, uh.. Let me get another towel.
I thought Cappy was a goner.
Yeah. Yeah, he's a goner.
He just got the team together and drove.
Who else?
Um.. Okay.
A guy called Keenan.
Rich son of a bitch.
And an another guy by the name of Sarge.
- Hm. - Gulf war vet.
He's a bad mother.
And Jagger.
Jagger. He's even worse.
Three and a half mil.
New bills. Numbered.
Have to be held. You-you can't spend.
What happened to it?
[groans] Cappy hid it.
[scoffs] Why Cappy?
Oh.. Why, he was on his way out, you know.
'His last job. He, uh..'
He went to bury it before they buried him.
He didn't tell nobody where he made this map.
[panting] Four quarters. Alright?
Each piece had a letter on it with a-with a name.
Uh, Buttercup..
..Camellia..
...Anemone... Rosebud.
[breathing heavily]
[panting]
Hey, babe.
[Karen] 'Uh..
Uh.. Oh..
You want something for the pain?
'Let me see if I can find something for the pain.'
- 'Alright?' - Yeah, yeah.
- Uh, hold onto that. - Okay.
[Barney panting]
She's the best, Willie.
[exhales] Yeah.
So, how'd this happen?
She just took pity on me, Willie.
That's all it was.
[sighs]
Who shot you, Barney?
Keenan.
Keenan. He calls me up.
Says he's got a proposition.
Said he'd, uh, he'd buy my quarter.
For cash.
Cash I could spend.
How much?
A hundred thousand.
Against three quarters of a million.
- That's a pretty big markdown. - Yeah.
But, Willie..
...Karen deserves it, you know?
[panting] She deserves it, Willie, like you always said, you know.
So, you went to this Keenan's?
[groans] Yeah. I went to his place. Um..
It's a big place up on Ridge Road.
8-1-1.
[panting] He asked me if I got it with me.
My quarter.
[chuckles]
[panting] I was stupid.
I said yeah..
...and he, uh..
...he plugs me.
He plugged me, Willie, just like that, you know?
It was like a little pop gun or else I'd be dead already.
[door opens]
[glass clinking]
Man, she's the best, Willie.
'I owe you, Willie.'
'Lookin' out for me..'
'...in the pen.'
'Owe Karen looking out for me.'
I'm giving you mine, Willie.
- What? - I'm giving you mine.
You and Karen.
Alright?
You go see him.
Take what's mine and yours and Karen's.
[sobs]
Hear me, Willie?
Yeah, I hear you.
Willie, can you hear me?
Yeah. I'm right here, buddy. I'm right here.
- Hm.. - 'I'm right here, buddy.'
It's all right.
No hard feelings about me and Karen. Okay?
[sobs]
No... hard, hard feelings.
- Willie. - Okay.
Okay.
Barney?
Oh! Ah!
[gasps]
- Is he.. - Uh..
Yeah.
[sobs]
[Karen sniffles]
What was he saying? I heard him say my name.
He was just rambling.
Oh.
[sighs]
What are you doing?
What is that?
It's a part of a lottery ticket.
[sniffles] Alright. We-we should call the police.
Karen.
I don't want to go back, either.
But you had nothing to do with this.
It's not how they'll see it.
This is about money..
...from a robbery, isn't it?
It's what you mean about a lottery ticket?
You think these people are gonna share it with you?
It's not theirs to share.
These people are dangerous.
Willie.
They killed Barney.
And you don't think I should do anything about that?
What can you do?
[Jackson] 'Mom?'
[door opens]
[dog barking in distance]
[panting]
[crickets chirping]
[brakes squeak]
[parking brake clicks]
[car door closes]
[footsteps]
[breathing sharply]
[gate clinking softly]
[dramatic music]
[grunts]
[panting]
[inaudible]
[panting]
[door squeaks softly]
[panting]
[male #2] 'I told you he tried to hold me up. He had a gun.'
'Said he'd shoot me if I didn't give him my quarter.'
'I keep a gun in my safe.'
When he made me open it up, I got the drop on him.
Yeah. Well, it surprised the hell out of me, too.
No. He ran off.
[scoffs]
I was too shocked.
I don't know where he went. That's why I'm calling you.
'I called Jagger, too.'
'But he wasn't there, so I left him a message.'
'He's out there somewhere is all I know'
'and we've got to find him.'
Yeah, sure, I'm scared. I never shot anybody before.
No, I'm not going anywhere.
[phone beeps]
[liquor splashing]
Put your hands on the counter and leave them there.
Who are you?
Just think of me as the fifth quarter.
Y-you're a f-friend of Barney's.
He just tried to kill me.
- Not the way Barney tells it. - He's lying.
He came around. Tried to sell me his quarter of the map.
When I refused, he pulled a gun
tried to make me hand mine over.
And you got the drop on him, right?
Who were you on the phone to? Jagger or Sarge?
He told you about... everything?
He told me what he could before he died.
[clock ticking]
[Willie] Hands. Leave 'em where I can see 'em.
He's dead?
Them gut shots'll do it every time.
'So where's the gun you shot him with?'
- It was self-defense. - Alright.
Where's the self-defense weapon you shot him with?
[clock ticking]
Thought you kept it in the safe.
I didn't put it back.
'Alright. The way we do this..'
You open the drawer, you don't put your hand in.
You step away.
All this is real slow.
Got it? Let's go.
[Willie] 'Now, that's fine.'
[breathing heavily]
'Enough!'
Turn around.
[clock ticking]
[breathing heavily]
[sniffs]
It's a lady's gun, Keenan.
[chuckles] You ain't got a lady there?
You don't want to mess with these people.
I wouldn't be messing with anyone
if you hadn't shot Barney.
I told you it was self-defense.
Listen, Barney just died on me
in my house, on my couch.
And he told me you tried to screw him out of his share.
I don't think he would have told me that
with his last breath if it wasn't true.
So you can cut this self-defense crap.
Let's just get your quarter of the map
and we'll call it quits.
Yeah, and what if I refuse to give it to you?
[gunshot]
[screaming]
Now think about what one of those feels like
in the gut and tell me
you won't give me what I'm asking. Hey.
- Hey, what are you doing? - Ah, uh..
Hey, easy. Hey! Stop!
Alright. Keep going.
[panting]
[locker beeps]
- There you go. Put it on the.. - Ahh..
That's right. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
[table clatters]
[groaning]
[Keenan panting]
Easy. Let me see those hands.
[groans]
[panting]
[doorbell buzzes]
Who is that?
[groans] I don't know.
Well, find out.
[doorbell buzzes]
Who is it?
[male #3] It's me.
[laughing]
What? Who is it?
It's Sarge.
[doorbell buzzes]
[laughing]
Buzz him in.
[laughing]
Buzz him in!
[laughing]
[beep]
Now, get behind the bar and stay there
until he's in the room.
[laughing]
[Willie] You try to warn him and I'll kill you.
You hear me?
[Keenan laughing]
[groaning]
Shut up!
[Keenan laughing]
Keep your hands where I can see 'em.
[panting]
[door opens]
[door closes]
[breathing heavily]
Say, man, Barney's car is still parked outside.
Now, he's got to be around here somewhere..
Keep them in the air, Sarge.
Save me from shooting you.
[Keenan whimpering]
And who the hell are you?
The way we play this is the guy with the gun
gets to ask the questions.
[Keenan whimpering]
Open your jacket, use your left hand, one button at a time.
[Sarge] Quit that whimpering, Keenan.
[whimpering]
Unh!
[panting] It's a pretty big gun.
So now you got two guns.
Still haven't told me who the hell you are.
I'm a friend of Barney Mars.
- The late Barney Mars. - I told you, Sarge. He came...
Shut up about that bullshit, Keenan.
Didn't believe you the first time.
So I guess you know the kind of scumbag you're dealing with.
Yeah. But you're the scumbag I don't know.
[Keenan groaning]
[whimpering]
So Barney's dead
and you want his piece of the map.
I already got Barney's piece..
...and his.
[groans]
[gunshot]
Don't make me do it, Sarge.
[Keenan groaning]
You haven't told me where your piece of the map is yet.
You're a pretty tough mother..
For white trash.
[Keenan groaning]
Shut up!
[Keenan groaning]
[intense music]
Go check on him.
'Keep those hands in the air.'
Well? Is he dead?
Getting there.
I think I'm gonna get a second opinion.
Move away.
[panting]
Look.
You've got his piece of the map
and you've got Barney's.
Ain't that enough?
That's more than I started with.
The way I see it, you and this other guy, Jagger
you won't let me take half.
You won't even let me take Barney's quarter.
So that means I'm gonna have to take it all.
That's greedy.
What makes the world go round.
And what if I don't give up my piece of the map?
Then I'll shoot out your kneecaps
make you get down on them
and clean up the blood.
You're Willie Gansen.
Barney's bunk buddy from stir. Hmm.
You know what's funny?
It didn't stop him from pokin' your wife.
I got a real good look at her once.
Not bad for a hoochie mama.
[gunshot]
[dog barking in distance]
[Keenan groaning]
I don't have it on me.
Well, then we best go get it.
[dog howling in distance]
[crickets chirping]
[Karen] 'Uh, where you going?'
[Jackson] 'Just going to get my crunchies.'
[Karen] 'No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.'
'It's the middle of the night.'
Come on. No. Go to sleep.
[Jackson] 'Mom.'
[gasps]
Listen carefully.
I let you go..
...you scream..
you'll be gargling blood.
[breathing heavily]
And then I do the boy.
[Karen whimpers]
Understood?
[intense music]
[breathing heavily]
Now, tell me..
...and don't hold anything back..
[Karen breathing heavily]
...'cause I will feel a lie
starting before it even comes out of your mouth.
[breathing heavily]
Tell me about Barney.
[Willie] Now we got Rosebud.
I'd say this is shaping up to be an island, Sarge.
How you supposed to know which one?
'Huh?'
Cappy said when the four quarters
come together
we'd figure it out.
There's an awful lot of islands in Maine.
Cappy didn't head off to Polynesia, did he?
No.
Not the shape he was in.
'It's around here someplace.'
Yo-ho-ho on a dead man's chest, right?
[coughing]
[cocks gun]
[groans] Jagger.
[gunshot]
[Sarge] How come you're such a hard ass all of a sudden, Willie?
I mean, Barney told me you two
were gonna go straight when you got out.
Yeah, well, it's not everyday you get out of the pen
and find three and a half million bucks
bleeding to death on your couch
telling you he was screwing your old lady
but no hard feelings.
Kind of changes your perspective on things.
Unh!
[intense music]
[door creaks]
[wind whistling]
You got anyone else here?
Huh? Up against the wall.
Middle of the room.
That's fine.
Alright. Where is it?
- Make me an offer, Willie. - I'll let you live.
How about that?
How about I don't believe you?
[gunshot] Aaah! Agh!
I told you I'd shoot off your kneecap.
[groans] Alright! Alright!
[groaning]
It's over there!
- Where? - Ugh! Inside the vase!
[gunshot]
That wasn't so hard now was it, Camellia?
[gunshot]
You're out of your depth, Willie.
- Ugh! - 'Way out.'
[door creaks]
[grunting]
[Sarge] Hell, man.
Get yourself shot sneaking up like that.
[grunts]
[gun cocks]
[light switch clicks]
You know who this is, Willie.
[grunts softly]
'Anemone.'
- Ugh.. - 'It's just you and me now.'
[gunshots]
Ugh.
[wind whistling]
'Had a word with your old lady.'
[footsteps approaching]
'We had a real good understanding, me and her.'
[gunshots]
[grunts]
'She told me what I wanted to know'
'and I didn't cut her throat.'
'Cross my heart and hope to die.'
[gun cocks]
[groaning softly]
You can feel a lie starting in the heart.
- Ugh. - 'Did you know that, Willie?'
[cocks gun]
'Yeah.'
[wind whistling]
[gunshot]
[gunshots]
[creaking]
She told me..
you dumped Barney Buttercup
'then went to see Rosebud.'
'I didn't see you there, so I figured'
'either Sarge got you or you got Sarge.'
'Either way..'
[groans]
'...it's all coming back here.'
Now I could say why don't we split this, Willie.
- Ahh.. - Two ways.
'But you wouldn't need to have your hand on my heart'
'to know I was bullshitting you.'
'So why don't we just get up on our hind legs'
'count to ten'
'last man standing takes all.'
[cocks gun]
'One..'
..two
three..
'...four..'
'..five, six'
seven, eight, nine..
[gunshot]
[intense music]
[grunting]
[Willie panting]
[grunts]
[upbeat music]
[grunting]
[tires screeching]
[parking brake clicks]
Ugh! Karen!
- Karen! - 'Willie?'
- Ugh! - Unh!
- Are you okay? - Oh, my God.
- You're shot. - Did he hurt you?
No. He just scared me real bad.
- Where's Jackson? - I took him to Mrs. Clausen's.
- Ugh. - Oh, God. Come on. Come on.
- Let me, uh.. Come here. - Ugh.
- Come here. - Ah.
[Karen] Gotta get this seen to, Willie.
And the bullet's still in there.
[Willie groans]
Ex-cons with bullets in them got a lot of explaining to do.
Yeah, well, ex-cons with bullets in them die.
Listen, we have to figure out where this island is.
Alright? It's got to be somewhere close.
Eastern seaboard at least.
Cappy had to get there with the money
and he was on his last legs
from the sound of things.
Now, wait. It might not be the ocean?
I-I-it could be an island on a lake somewhere.
There's lots of them.
- Right. - Listen.
[train horn blaring in distance]
- This thing with Barney and me. - I don't wanna hear..
I don't, I don't wanna hear about that.
Listen to me, Willie.
We just gave each other a little comfort.
[dramatic music]
In seven years, that was the one and only.
And it wouldn't have happened if you hadn't had sent him here.
And it wouldn't have happened even then if..
...if it wasn't that Barney really liked you.
Well, there's a theory.
He told me about you and him.
About how you looked out for him.
How it went down between you.
And I understood, Willie.
I did and I..
...I didn't think bad of you..
...or of him. That's all I'm askin'.
Just..
...don't think bad of Barney or..
...or of me.
[mumbles]
[dog barking in distance]
[tires rustling]
Oh. Hold on a minute.
[brakes squeaks]
Oh. It's the cops, Willie.
Alright.
Hide this.
Look, if they can't connect us to the robbery, we're okay.
And there's no reason they should.
I was in the can when it went down.
[indistinct shouting in distance]
- Mm.. - Hey.
You sure it's safe in there?
Yeah. Till you get out.
[knock on door]
Alright. Listen to me. You know nothing.
I went out last night. You got no idea where.
I came back this morning shot.
[indistinct shouting]
Alright. Alright! Alright! I'm comin'! I'm comin'!
[indistinct shouting]
[indistinct radio chatter]
Willie?
How you doing?
Detective.
[indistinct chatter]
Hi, ma.
Hey, babe.
[sighs] I'm hungry.
What would you like?
Honey crunch.
- Wet or dry? - Dry.
Okay. Have a seat.
[sighs] Where's dad?
Dad's had to go away for a little bit.
They, um..
[indistinct shouting]
They made a mistake.
About when he's supposed to get out.
[cereals clatter in bowl]
Does that mean he won't be coming back for another while?
[Karen] Mm, yeah.
Yeah, but just, just for a little while this time.
What are they?
It's, um..
...a word game I've been playing.
- Uh, like a crossword puzzle? - Yeah.
Kind of.
[dramatic music]
"Buccaneers of the Caribbean Adventure Ride?"
[breathing heavily]
B-C-A-R.
Buttercup. Camellia.
- Anemone. Rosebud. - What you saying?
Jackson, don't talk with your mouth full.
Uh.. I want you to go over to Mrs. Clausen's for a bit.
But I haven't finished my cereal.
Well, then, uh, take it with you.
Just tell her I-I need her to look after you
for a little bit, okay?
- Alright. - Alright, babe.
[Karen panting]
[Karen sighs]
[sighs]
[breathing heavily]
[maniac laughter]
[panting]
[sighs]
[gate clanks]
[detective] So that's your story, Willie?
Barney's banging your old lady while you're in the can.
You have it out with him.
He shoots you
you grab the gun off him, plug him
and then get rid of his body.
That it?
'Course you'd have to produce the body.
Don't get cute. Doesn't become you.
Our dogs sniffed out Barney the dead guy
not 200 feet from your trailer.
[dramatic music]
- Self-defense. - Hmph.
Justifiable homicide. Involuntary manslaughter.
- Somewhere in there. - Whatever.
Looks like it's bye-bye, Willie.
Must be a record for recidivism, though.
How long you been out, 24 hours?
Seems like a lot longer.
[instrumental music]