Dope Thief

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- - Shush up.

...but first, today's Wild Phone Number.

Six followed by pick two.

- Seven, two. - Shit.

- Pick three... -

- Get ahold of yourself. - Four. One, two.

And finally, Treasure Hunt.

Thirteen, 28, 24, 21, 16.

- - I heard ya.

You're hanging on for dear life over there, aren't you?

Thanks for playing the Pennsylvania Lottery...

- - ...benefitting Pennsylvanian

- seniors every day. - I know, old man.

Congratulations to our winners.

The day's getting away from us.

Whoever would have thunk it, Sherm?

We're the last two standing.

How you doin' today, Ma?

Don't even have a smile for me, huh?

- - DEA, hold it right there!

- Shit. - DEA!

- Down! Down! Get on the ground! Now! -

- Drop your weapons! Down! - Get on the ground!

Get on the ground!

- Get on the ground! - Hands in the air!

- You're under arrest. -

Watch his hands!

Don't move.

- You got him? - Yeah.

- - You okay over there, Ms. Bowers?

Jesus Christ. I'm fine.

But you scared the living shit out of my dog.

It's almost impossible to talk with all these creeps listening.

But you gotta still believe in your family, Ray.

Family. What family?

- Are you serious, you little shit? - Okay. I know, I kn...

You didn't give me life, but...

you saved my life.

And you saved mine.

My father's girlfriend.

God rest his soul, but you never looked up at the big picture, did you?

I needed you too.

You've never read your father's rap sheet?

No, no. Don't give me more than I can carry right now, Ma.

I wasn't his...

girlfriend.

I was his girl.

- His favorite girl. - I don't need to know all this right now.

- Grow up. Yes, you do. -

I was a kid. I needed money. I was fucking around anyway.

- Who cares? - Who cares?

Love isn't always in royal courts, Raymond.

Sometimes it grows in the mud.

No shit.

You needed me. I needed you.

I got out of the life, and we took care of each other.

If that isn't family, then what the hell is?

Okay.

You love somebody, you don't ask anything back.

This is just...

- - ...there.

But you gotta still believe in your family, Ray.

It's how we grow roots back in this earth.

Wire?

Let's get this all on the record, for freakin' posterity.

Because you taught me this feeling.

And it's all we get.

When we're dead and gone from killing each other in these stupid wars,

we gotta pray there's a record of it.

I don't care where.

Hallmark cards or freakin' Shakespeare, or your courtroom documents.

The only good in us is this feeling.

Everywhere else, we are fucking monsters.

Thirty seconds more, cop-killer.

Oh, get over yourself, will ya?

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So you stay strong. Understand?

I'm trying, Ma.

I know.

I saw your note.

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I saw those lucky numbers you wanted me to play.

No more secrets, okay?

- Nothing left to hide, Ma. -

If the plan was to rob a meth lab, you picked a very opportune moment.

You're staring down a double-homicide. You don't have the luxury of silence.

We're trying to help you.

You call the lawyer, we can't talk freely like this anymore.

When you're in front of that judge,

anything you give us now is gonna help your situation.

Now's the time to decide.

You know, I'm r-really, really gonna miss this whole,

um, help-the-police routine, but it's almost dinner time,

- so we need to wrap this up. - Driscoll won't give us anything.

Pull up Carvalho.

It's meat loaf tonight, um...

- - Put 'em side by side.

Where do you know Ray Driscoll from?

I don't remember.

- The Youth Authority? -

If you know already, why ask me?

We're just trying to have a conversation.

- Can't tell us anything about Ray? - A conversation.

When I met Ray, he had a cast, and I used to draw pictures on it.

We would play tic-tac-toe on his broken arm.

Skip ahead to the last part.

- - Here. Here, stop.

I'd like to know a little bit more

about the night of February 7th.

W-What was February 7th?

Was Ray with you that night?

Where was I on February 7th?

- You tell us. - I don't know.

I don't remember every day of my life.

- Do you remember every day of your life? - Are you familiar with a Rick Staley?

Yes, I-I know the name.

You're saying you did not see Rick Staley in February of this year?

February was a long time ago.

You can remember playing tic-tac-toe 15 years ago.

You can't remember February?

I want to talk to my lawyer.

- - Whose plan was all this?

That's all we want.

Manuel, who won that game of tic-tac-toe?

Did you win?

No one ever wins that game.

So you better get your lawyer.

Everything is fine. Except, look...

...they stole my finger.

No, Dad. That's so stupid.

Now, now, that's what happens, huh?

They take a finger for every bad thing you do, okay?

That's why you gotta be good. You hear me?

No, Dad. You're doing it.

Do you have your own room?

Yeah, I get my own room. Just like you.

Uh, now put Mom on, okay? Go get Mom.

- Mommy said-- - She doesn't want to talk.

- Mom can't talk. She said-- -

- Shut up, shut up! Shut up. - She said she can't talk right now.

Okay then put Grandma on.

- All right, go get her. Go get Grandma. - Go get her. Yeah, hurry up.

- She there? - Yeah.

Go in the other room with your sister.

Okay.

Where's Duy?

No one has seen him.

Could the lawyer get my bail down?

No.

Congratulations.

Ten million dollars.

You're worth a fortune.

Tina is leaving with the kids.

Okay.

She's a weak woman.

She knew a day like this might come.

You live this life...

you have to accept the consequences.

She has to take care of the kids.

Don't judge her for it.

Family means nothing to your generation.

I only have a minute left, Mom. Skip the shame.

Everyone is happy for the clothes and the cars

and the beautiful kitchen.

No one is willing to pay.

I'm paying.

I know.

I played both sides for a long time.

All I had to do was turn someone in once in a while.

If you have enough enemies,

it's easy.

You never need to hurt a friend.

Now you need real friends.

I'm almost out of time.

There is still such a thing as real loyalty, son.

Loyalty is just love, Mom.

No, my boy. No.

Love is a weed.

It grows anywhere and has no roots.

Loyalty is different.

Loyalty is in your blood--

Must be hard to stay on the sidelines.

But you're not isolating anymore.

You're keeping up relationships.

- Hey. Hey, Mina. - Hey!

- Oh, Mina! - Hey!

Hey, pull up... pull up a chair.

- Come on. - I can't stay.

I can't hear her. I can't ever hear her anymore.

Mina. Mina, Mina, Mina, Mina, hey.

Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini?

- - What the fuck?