(crashing)
Junior: Listen, I'll bring home a little extra
For the roof.
Let me use the trains to run numbers for you.
I can bring 'em in by the thousands.
Any man working on my team gets a piece of the action.
Hey clarence, we too late for the draw?
Come on, man.
I've got my numbers and everything.
Junior: Miss queenie's already beat your ass
For going behind her back and there you is.
Look, I'm just trying to be somebody, junior.
Marlene: Why should our people
Walk miles to a city hospital
That shuts the door in their face?
We need our own clinics.
And my answer is no.
Popsy: Corrine is gone
And the show must go on.
Lucy: With me on the job,
You get the whole song and dance.
♪ the song that I sing is part of an echo ♪
Henry! (henry grunts)
Zeke: Ah, mr. Randolph, please.
You've been fighting for workers longer than anyone.
I don't even know where to start.
A token of support on behalf of the welfare committee.
You mean on behalf of the railroad?
We have a rat reporting to edwards.
(dramatic drum music)
(rhythmic blues music)
♪ I've been low, I've been high
♪ I've been told all my lies
♪ I've got nothing left to pay
♪ I've got nothing left to say
♪ I'm a black man in a white world ♪
♪ I'm a black man in a white ♪
♪ I'm in love, but I'm still sad
♪ I found peace, but I'm not glad
♪ all my nights and all my days
♪ I've been tryin' to run away
♪ oh, I'm a black man in a white world ♪
♪ feel like I've been here before ♪
I'm proud of you, old man.
♪ I feel that knocking
♪ on my door
♪ I feel like I've been here before
♪ I feel that knocking on my door
♪ and I've lost everything I had ♪
(train rumbling) (door creaks open)
(muffled whispering)
(sultry blues music)
Your son try the piano yet?
He's working up to it.
Took me longer to choose a piano than a husband.
You married?
I'm a lot of things I'll never be again.
Here's your cut, junior.
Ah, what you think?
Shines so bright you can see your reflection.
Go on now, take a look.
We gon' fix that janky-ass part in your hair.
(chuckles) ow.
You should get a pair.
I can have a jeweller here within the hour.
Money's made to be spent, junior.
People start seeing what you have,
They start wonderin' where you got it.
Very true.
Well.
Well...
It's taken two weeks,
But you now have the distinct honour
Of being the only man to beat me.
Yeah, maybe you met your match.
Maybe.
Let's go again.
(door knocking)
You're early.
Zeke: Well, my watch said one thing,
But my stomach was saying another.
Smells like I made the right choice.
Where junior?
I left him sleeping.
He's been running himself ragged
These last few weeks.
Hmm.
Well, let me make myself useful then.
(soft music)
Hey teddy,
Wanna come on
And give your uncle zeke a hand?
You remember the order, right?
Atta boy.
Teddy always remember,
Every task is a chance to show your excellence.
There you go.
(soft music)
♪
Zeke: Properties for rent?
You moving out?
It's for my clinic plan.
Oh yeah.
Okay, miss marlene.
Finally gettin' it off the ground.
I'm taking it to new york
To the u.N.I.A convention,
Gonna show it to the man himself.
Maybe garvey's got gumption
For an old idea.
Well good ideas never go bad.
Junior (in patois): The man come here
Wid his two long hands, eh?
Yes sir! - Mm.
One to eat marlene's famous fish soup
And the other
Well, the other to smack you upside your head!
(both laughing)
Think you're fast, huh? -Come here, come here.
You heathens.
(all arguing)
Come on, now.
Marlene: Have a seat.
Junior: Later, later, man, ready.
Well ya better have your
Granny's yams in there
Or I'm goin' back to bed.
Lucky for you I made extra.
Junior: Oh, you made me extra.
Marlene: I set a little food aside for mrs. Watson
To give teddy while we're in new york.
Oh!
You are going to see
The "supreme negro jackass"?
Marlene: I believe the headline read
"supreme negro jamaican jackass".
(in patois) nobody vex me now.
And I'll have you know,
Glenford's covering for me,
Popsy loaned me his car,
And I booked a hotel exclusively for negroes.
We're gonna have a good time.
Ready for that?
Mmmhmm. - Mmm.
All right, now let's bless this food so we can eat.
(upbeat music)
Marlene: Dear heavenly father,
Bless this food
And bless these three fine young gentlemen
Who are about to receive it.
Junior: Two fine gentlemen.
Must be talking about me and my son.
(laughing)
♪ no need to worry ♪
Junior: Watch out.
I got two for you.
What's up?
Number two become number one!
(table smashing)
Ya bus' (chuckling).
Zeke: You messed up the whole table,
I ain't even know what happened.
What's the matter, you still looking for the rat?
You'd be smart to pay it some mind.
Hey junior, someone in the community is talking,
But I have a plan.
I set up a meeting at the stardust tonight.
Told all the porters when and where.
Nobody's foolish enough to walk through that door,
Knowing what'd happen to them if the company found out.
Mm-hmm.
You're right.
Unless they working for the company.
♪ no need to hurry ♪
Right.
You got a devious mind, zeke.
♪ take it easy, take it easy ♪
You sure you don't wanna work with me?
You sure you don't wanna join the movement?
I'm good.
Me too.
♪ for the road is rough ♪
Junior: Stubborn.
(all laughing)
Junior: Come on, man.
(junior laughs)
Zeke: You can't have a good play right there?
♪ take your time, take it easy ♪
♪ take your time ♪
♪ no need to hurry ♪
If you tell me it's your birthday,
I think I might cry.
Hmm, no.
I can't believe nobody showed up.
But guess it's time to pack it in.
To give popsy back his room.
You ever think maybe you should pack it in for good?
What you mean?
Lucy: I mean, look at lance.
Railroad fired him for no rhyme or reason.
Look at what happened to the church garden.
And here you are,
Giving 'em a reason to punish you.
Well, that's exactly why I'm doing this,
To stop things like what happened to lance and to henry.
(solemn piano music)
I know what henry meant to you,
But risking everything you got ain't gonna bring him back.
Well I gotta try.
Lucy: These people have the kind of power you can't fight.
I've seen it up close.
William edwards doesn't care about his own son,
You think you can make him give a shit about the porters?
You need to put this down, zeke.
Before someone gets hurt.
(tense music)
This strike is nothing but a plot
Led by a bunch of foreigners and communists!
(door knocking)
Well, if you want to give into their demands,
That's your business.
But I didn't make my money suckin' on a silver spoon,
And I'll be damned or dead
Before I let anyone take it away!
What?
Mail delivery.
Anything to send out?
Edwards: I have an important shipment
That needs to be escorted over the border.
What is it?
Well, that's none of your concern.
I just need you to ensure
That no one sees the contents of this boxcar.
Not the staff,
Nor the customs inspectors.
How am I supposed to do that?
This railroad was built on imagination,
Innovation, and audacity.
Channel that.
Be creative.
Well I'm nothing if not creative.
You're nothing if not an edwards.
Remember that.
And act accordingly.
(dramatic music) (train chugging)
(horn blaring)
(people chattering)
Train announcer: Ladies and gentlemen,
We are now boarding at belleville station.
The last stop will be montreal.
You might want to head off.
The train is about to leave. Thank you very much.
The train don't leave for another ten minutes.
He'll make it.
Junior: I meant what I said the other day.
There's always a spot for you in the numbers game.
(chuckles) I already got edwards and his spies
Breathing down my neck,
You think I want miss queenie angling for what's left?
Things are different now.
Me and queenie are partners.
Partners?
(tense music)
Glenford: Zeke!
What happened?
Picked up the drop from clarence,
Some guy jumped me on the way back.
Who?
I never seen him before.
He get my money?
Did he get my money?
Yeah man.
Okay, get him on the train.
Get him on the train.
(tense music)
Junior: I gotta head into town to the pick-up spot.
(otis groans)
Junior: I'll catch the next train back to montreal.
I gotta find out what happened before word gets out.
Cover my car?
Ain't you forgetting something?
Shit. Marlene.
I'll square things with marlene later-
Well wait. Hey, hey.
You think you should be heading down there alone?
I mean, look at what the hell they did to otis's face.
That is nothing compared to what'll happen
If I don't get queenie her money.
(tense dramatic music)
Eaking)
(clarence softly sings)
Hey, what you doing around these parts?
I thought the train left at eleven.
I thought it was time to check in,
See how business was doin'.
Clarence: Hmm? Ah, pbshtt,
Well, numbers is bringing in new customers,
Which is good for you, good for me.
Right.
Any problems?
Nope.
Junior: (laughs) that's funny,
My runner says different.
He got jumped after the pick-up.
You seen anybody hanging around?
Hmmm.
Did the drop this week same as I did last week,
And the week before that.
All right. (door creaks open)
Everything all right here, pop?
Yeah, yeah, son.
Everything is fine.
Ah, just finish loading up
All that feed over there for me, okay?
(suspenseful music)
Hold on.
So I need your opinion on something, I-
It's my anniversary coming up and-
I don't know too much about-
(samson cries out)
Leave!
Samson: What the hell?
Please, please, please! Come on.
Junior: Which hand your boy could do without, clarence?
No, no, no, no, no, no!
You were-you were fine,
You were fine taking from my boy
And now you're worried about yours?
It's all- - which fucking hand?!
Clarence: It's all gone, man!
Come on, junior.
Listen, I lost everything to the spanish flu, man.
I had to go see this loan man by the name of bolton.
I ain't asking you for your sob stories!
I'm asking for my fucking money!
It's gone!
He took it all!
He said-he said he's "changing the terms of our agreement".
He said- -you lying to me?
No! - You fucking lying to me?
You want me to break your fucking boy's hand?
Oh come on, junior, man.
Ain't a white man out here that don't think
That they got a right to everything that we got.
You-you know that, man.
You know that!
Come on now.
All right.
Come on, man. That's my son.
Okay. All right.
Come on, get up. I'm sorry.
You're good, man.
You all right?
You good?
(smashing) (clarence groans)
Pop! Pop!
(clarence groans) (tense dramatic music)
Put your hand in my pocket again
You'll draw back a fucking nub!
Samson: Pop!
(tense dramatic music)
Samson: Pop, are you all right?
(tense dramatic music)
♪ despise me
♪ if I should take a notion
♪ to jump into the ocean ♪
Bernice: Where'd you get that?
I-I got a big tip and treated myself.
Don't you lie to me, lucy-mae.
You think I don't see you sneaking in and out
All hours of the night?
Whoring yourself off for what, some fancy dress?
It's not like that.
Bernice: Madame nadeau's dinner is tonight.
She needs us to serve the guests.
But I can't.
You know I'm performing at stardust.
You need to stop believing in some fantasy
That you can be something you aren't
And accept what you are.
What I am is a star.
And after tonight, everyone's gonna know it.
(bernice sucks teeth)
Bernice: I'm not playing with you, lucinda.
Show up tonight or don't come back at all.
(bright piano music)
♪ hey ♪
(bell dinging) (voices clamouring)
(steam whooshing)
(train whistle blows)
(bright piano swing music)
♪ patty cake, patty cake, baker man
♪ mix your music in a rhythm pan
♪ give it all the heat you can
♪ serve it right away
♪ patty cake, patty cake, baker man
♪ what you've got is really in demand
♪ dish it all with the expert hands
♪ start the band to play
♪ get that oven pipin' hot
♪ like you always do
♪ stir up all the pep you've got
♪ make some swingeroo, yes, yes, yes
♪ patty cake, patty cake, baker man
♪ mix your music with a rhythm pan
♪ give it all the heat you can
♪ serve it right away, yeah ♪
♪ give it, man give it, man ♪
♪ in the band, at your hand ♪
(car horn beeping)
Woman: Hey marlene.
Where is he?
You know he'd make it if he could.
Is he in trouble?
One thing I know about junior massey,
He always finds a way out of whatever he get himself into.
(soft piano music)
Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
One.
(feet softly tapping) (soft piano music)
♪
Lucy: Stop!
Sandra, switch with monique.
Um, I don't know who you think you are,
But this isn't how things are done.
It is when I'm headlining.
So why don't you take your new place?
In the back.
Don't forget to tell popsy to turn up the stage lights,
Now that it's a little darker up front.
(monique snickers)
Which one of you heifers thinks you deserve my spot?
You?
Lucky to be five feet tall if you take off those high heels.
Or you?
Pretending to be twenty when you're damn near forty?
Or you?
Couldn't find the beat with a light, a map, or a compass.
I earned my spot.
So step in line,
Or step aside.
Come on, sandra.
(upbeat drum music)
From the top!
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
(upbeat rhythmic drumming)
(marlene laughs)
Marlene: Please.
How are you going to talk about a black man
Who wants to do good for black people?
Aw, come on.
All I'm saying, is the ship sank.
I mean, how many negroes ended up in the water
Because of that man? Come on.
All anyone wants to talk about are garvey's ships to africa.
What about everything else?
What about it?
Black enterprise. -Ha!
Black pride.
Randolph says garvey will do anything for a dollar,
And then that dollar ends up in his pocket, marlene.
Come on!
He is a black man
Who wants to do right by his people,
Not just have them holding their hands out to the white man.
So that's what you think I'm doing?
All I meant was that is why I'm taking my clinic to him.
We can barely go to the white hospitals.
Certainly can't get a job at one.
We have to take care of ourselves.
That's all I'm tryin' to do too, marlene.
(train chugging)
Woman: Take care!
(background chatter)
Train announcer: The train to montreal making all stops leaving in 15 minutes.
Fifteen minutes.
Hey, I thought you were on the last run in?
(sighs) I had some business.
You jumpin' on?
Junior: Isn't that edwards boy?
Yeah, don't know what he's doin',
But he does it at every stop.
Gets off, walks to that car, stands there.
What's inside?
Winchester: Who knows?
Maybe he's working the train for extra money.
Had a run in with him at stardust a couple of weeks ago.
That boy might be the worst gambler I ever seen.
(playful music)
Is that right?
Hmm.
(playful music)
Junior: Ah, come on, don't get sore, winn.
Sometimes the wrong card comes up for the right man, huh?
And I'm the right man always!
Give me that.
I'm sorry, sir.
Sir, I'll get this cleaned up straight away.
Excuse me, sir.
Didn't realize my father allowed gambling on his trains.
Ah, it's just a friendly game, sir.
I'd appreciate if this goes no further.
All right, I'll make you a-
A deal then, huh?
We're still about an hour and a half outside of montreal.
Why don't we play a "friendly little game",
As you say.
No sir, I have guests to tend to.
It's a good thing my father owns the trains then, huh?
Be that as a may, if I apologize I-
Take the deal, my friend.
Trust me,
You won't like the alternative.
Don't worry,
I'll leave you with enough money to go home with.
That's mighty kind of you, sir.
(train chugging) playful music)
(background chatter)
Okay.
(background chatter)
(energetic music)
♪
♪ I dreamt I grew wings of velvet
♪ I took off flying, like a bat out of hell
♪ but when I woke from this vision
♪ I was once more a woman jailed
♪ I bathe in the stormy weather
♪ to men's delight, I swoon and sin
♪ but the river is rising and it's fixin' to pull me in
(sultry blues music)
♪ if every note of the birdsong
♪ broke every bar in the cage
♪ flocks of my people would fly off
♪ up and away
♪ when vipers coil around her throat
♪ the nightingale still serenades the crowd
♪ who am I but a songbird
♪ who am I but a lost girl, found
♪ I wish I was a songbird
♪ who am I but a lost girl, found ♪
(audience applauds)
(exuberant swing music)
♪
Patron: This back to africa stuff is different.
Say, whatever happened to the other act?
The one with the-
The cream coloured girl?
(exuberant swing music)
♪
Dammit!
Thought I had you that time.
(junior chuckles)
All right, let's play again.
Not to pour salt in the wound, sir,
But your money clip is looking a little light.
(suspenseful music)
Play for this.
Winner takes all.
That's-
That's worth more than all I got.
Four times as much, at least.
I think the stakes are fair.
(train chugs)
Oh shit, I missed a stop.
Sir, I gotta be getting back to work.
Don't worry.
It's in both of our best interests
That no one gets wind of this little game.
Now, winner takes all, it's settled.
Deal.
Yes sir.
(light music)
Junior: Hey.
(light music)
Eh eh.
That must've cost ya a pretty penny.
Not money buy this here.
Yeah?
Hey, if it taste it, me brotha.
Well, pour me another one, I maybe taste that one.
(popsy laughs)
They say a man who drinks like that
Is trying to forget.
Marlene ain't gonna be best pleased when I get home,
Seein' as I was supposed to take her to new york.
Yeah, well you know that wife of yours,
Her thunder is worse than her lighting.
(both laugh)
Yeah and besides,
It's not like she didn't get a chance to go, right?
What you mean?
Talkin' about zeke.
Come by to get the car, said you got tied up.
Just figured you sent him.
(junior chuckles)
Come on, pour me another drink, man.
Popsy: Pour me another drink!
Pour me another drink he said.
Pour me another drink, man.
(both laugh)
(engine rumbling)
Edwards: Any problems?
Not a one.
You kept your eyes on it at every stop?
As instructed.
They'll take it from here.
Good work, son.
(soft piano music)
♪
♪ no one knows me like the piano
♪ in my mother's home ♪
(lucy softly sobs)
Hush now.
♪ I have something
♪ some people call it soul
(lucy softly sobs)
♪ a new drive top the sky, oh you'll arrive
♪ when I was three years old ♪
(soft piano music) (lucy softly sobs)
♪
Garvey: Fellow citizens of africa,
I greet you in the name of
The united negro improvement association.
(applause and cheers)
Garvey: We, of the united negro improvement association,
Are raising the cry for africa for the africans,
Those at home and those abroad.
(applause and cheers)
We seek to emancipate the negro everywhere,
Industrially,
Educationally,
Politically
And religiously.
On going back to our respective homes
We go with determination to lay down, if needs be,
The last drop of our blood for the defence of africa
And the emancipation of our race.
(cheers and applause)
An insult was hurled at the civilized negroes of the world
When they took upon themselves the right
To parcel out a proportion
Of 608,000 square miles of our own land!
For we have never gave it up.
We have never sold it.
It was still ours.
(audience cheering)
Garvey: And we are the more aggrieved
Because of the lynch rope,
Because of the segregation,
Because of the jim crowism that is used,
Practiced and exercised here in this country
And in other parts of the world
By the white nations of the earth,
Wherever negroes happen accidentally
Or otherwise to find themselves.
If there's no safety for the negroes in this white world,
I cannot see what right they have to parcel out the homeland,
The country of the negroes.
(applause and cheers)
The world ought to understand that the negro
Has come to life,
Possessed with a new conscience,
A new soul.
I warn the world that the day will come
When the races of the world will marshal themselves
In great conflict for the survival of the fittest.
(applause and cheers)
Marlene: Brother garvey!
Greetings, sister?
Massey. Marlene massey.
I am part of the u.N.I.A chapter in montreal.
Ah.
Had a chance to visit montreal about two years ago.
Wonderful city.
You're doing fine work there.
Keep it up.
Actually, that's why I came.
I believe that we could do more.
I have a plan for a clinic.
Black owned, black run,
Serving the black community in montreal.
I like the sound of it already.
I found some properties for rent,
And I believe in a few years we could be profitable.
(soft music)
Garvey: Those are highly endorsed by mr. Powell.
He'll be speaking shortly,
As one of the leaders of the movement.
You believe in eugenics?
I endorse in the race purity ideas mr. Powell purports,
The strength of one's bloodline
Is the strength of one's race.
And we are,
As you know,
The original race.
What about the part
That sanctions the sterilization of women
Or getting rid of "feeble-minded" individuals?
Sister, have you never pricked your soul
On a thorn you found reading scripture?
Love someone whose ways were unloving?
You may not agree with all he stands for sister,
But one does not discard the baby with the bathwater.
I thank you for coming, sister massey.
And I'll be sure to speak to your chapter head
About the clinic.
Excuse me-
Garvey: Nice to see you and thank you for coming.
(soft dramatic music)
♪
(door knocking)
Zeke: Mr. Randolph?
I don't know if you remember me.
The porter with a plan?
Zeke: Yes sir.
Zeke garrett.
This isn't a great time.
Zeke: Oh, right.
I understand.
(tense music)
I'll wait.
(tense music)
♪
Zeke: Mr. Randolph, I-I've been followed,
Room broken into,
Community garden got destroyed,
And someone is talkin' to the company,
Telling them my every move.
Randolph: Hmm.
Please.
You've got a snitch.
And in my experience, snitches get paid.
So you need to find out who the company is paying.
How do you suppose I do that?
You know what they say about house slaves
And field slaves?
Folks think the house slave is the, uh, uncle tom
And the field slave is the threat.
But they have it all wrong.
Well, how do you figure?
The house slave was the one making their food,
Fixing their drinks,
Making their beds at night.
Well it sounds like a porter.
Don't underestimate the threat you can be on the inside.
There's value to being close to the enemy.
Ears to the door, hmm?
Collecting information.
So I should get close to edwards?
Build his trust.
And when you have enough, you get out
And blow the whole thing up.
(soft dramatic music)
(background chatter) (soft dramatic music)
♪
How you doin', lucy-mae?
Just getting ready to fade back into the shadows
Of the back row.
You know, back when I told people
That I was gonna open this joint,
They thought that I was crazy.
Couldn't imagine that a black man could do much around here
Except, you know, work in the mines,
On the trains.
What's that gotta do with me?
Just because people weren't understanding
What you were bringin',
Don't mean it wasn't good.
So you're saying I can keep headlining?
I want you to be my stage director.
Hmm?
Come up with the routines.
Let's give these folks a, a taste for the future.
But slowly.
A taste for the future?
Well that's a new way of puttin' it.
All you're really sayin' is stay in the back row.
This crowd don't deal in coal.
Jigaboo, tar baby,
Ink stain, eight-rock.
I've heard it all before.
I'm only gonna say this once,
So listen up.
You got something that none of these other girls got.
Girl, that is vision.
So I'm gonna leave it up to you to decide
What you wanna do with it.
(engine rumbling)
Marlene: Every page is full of nonsense,
Like restrictive immigration and selective breeding.
Zeke: Yeah, well, he ain't alone in his thinkin'.
I mean, you could hardly find a copy of that book anywhere.
Marlene: They call them "socially inadequate persons".
You should see the list:
The wayward,
Deaf, deformed, dependent.
And they always blame the "deficiency" on the mother.
Well you know nothin' like that
Will ever happen to teddy, right?
Not as long as I'm breathing.
(zeke softly chuckles)
I have half of mind to go home and build that clinic myself.
(softly laughs) go on, marlene.
Marlene: I'm serious, zeke!
I am through asking for permission.
I'm gonna get my clinic one way or another.
Paperwork.
On the first page is a list of all my kin,
Ah, dates of birth.
And how do I know you didn't make this all up?
Well, why would I do that?
Looks to me this nigger's
Trying to smuggle in his prostitute in his fancy car.
I'm a porter with the cross continental railroad, sir.
And the company gave us this card
When we crossin' the border.
Said you're a porter, huh?
That's right.
I'll take a shine before you go.
(tense music)
But I'm off duty, sir, and I don't got my kit.
Oh, spit shine'll do just fine.
Or maybe you'd rather I take your lady aside
And conduct a thorough inspection
To make sure she's not bringing in any impurities.
(tense music)
♪
Harrison: See?
I just did half your work.
Hurry up.
(tense dramatic music)
♪
(engine revving)
(tense dramatic music)
♪
Marlene: Zeke, slow down.
Zeke.
(tires squealing)
Zeke, stop!
(horn honking)
Marlene: What are you doing?
(horn honking)
(tense dramatic music)
Zeke!
You're scaring me, zeke!
(tense dramatic music)
♪
(door slams)
(zeke screams)
(zeke pants)
(cicada hums) (wind rustles)
(voices clamouring)
Zeke.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Hey marlene?
Junior didn't ask me to take you.
What?
(soft music)
I know, I-I-I'm sorry.
I just know how much it meant to you and I just-
I just couldn't stand to see your dreams slip away.
Thank you.
(soft music)
♪
(lift humming)
The watch and the money should more than cover this week.
Something happen I should know about?
Nothing that's gonna happen again.
I don't see any blood on your hands.
Which leads me to believe
Whatever problem you encountered,
You failed to solve.
In this business-
(tense dramatic music)
Queenie: The only way you can be sure
You won't encounter the same problem twice.
(tense dramatic music)
(blade slicing) (bobby gasping)
(bobby gurgling)
(tense dramatic music swells)
(bobby gurgling)
(suspenseful music)
♪
This is what bobby did with his second chance.
Same hustle, different drug.
The last man who stole from me
Got picked out of the river piece by piece.
Believe me, porter, this was a kindness.
(ominous music)
If you leave a man breathing,
You leave him with another chance to betray you.
So you know what you have to do, right?
(tense dramatic music)
Hmm.
Sticks, clean this bitch up.
(tense dramatic music)
♪
(train chugging)
(clock ticking)
Mr. Edwards.
Mr. Garrett?
Earlier today I had some trouble crossing the border.
The customs agent, well, the way he spoke to me.
Didn't you have your card?
See, well, that's just it.
As soon as I showed it to him,
All of a sudden I was able to get right through.
And it made me realize how valued
Being a porter on your railway really is.
And I just wanted to apologize
For ever taking that for granted, sir.
Good to see you've come to your senses, mr. Garrett.
I think we could work together to make things better, sir.
Sir, I would appreciate if you would consider
Appointing me to the welfare committee.
The welfare committee?
Yes, sir.
If it's all right with you,
I would like to be the head man between your office
And the committee, sir.
Not even on the committee yet and asking for a promotion.
I know the work and the men better than anyone.
And no one knows the railway like you, sir.
Surely, the best change can come if we work together.
From the inside.
(soft piano music)
♪
I'm sorry.
Does that sorry come with an explanation?
(soft piano music)
Listen, I'll make it up to you, mar.
Marlene: Doesn't matter.
It's done.
(fist pummeling) (clarence groaning)
(clarence groans)
Come on, please junior.
Please.
Come on, junior, please.
Come on, man!
(clarence groans)
(solemn piano music)
♪
(gurgling) please, no.
(gurgling) no, junior.
(gurgling) please.
Please.
(clarence sputtering)
(gurgling) please, junior!
(clarence sputtering)
(junior yells)
I'm sorry, junior.
Junior, no!
No!
(smashing) (clarence screaming)
(shovel clattering) (clarence crying)
Clarence: I'm sorry.
(gurgling) I'm sorry.
(solemn piano music)
♪
(rhythmic dramatic music)
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