Fortunate Son

Previously on Fortunate Son...

- Where are you taking me? - You're in hell.

This guy is on the take. He's got the church bugged.

That's how he knew about the boat launch.

Who the hell is this Lang guy? What does he want?

When your confession is made public,

the weight of what you have done will weigh so heavily upon you

that you will hang yourself right here in this cell.

- Gonna let you say goodbye to your old man. - No!

He's a traitor and I never want to see him again.

Your son is a hero.

What am I gonna say about work, then?

You'll think of something.

You're sure the security guard

at the draft board office is off shift.

Yes.

- You ready for this? - Yeah.

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Travis?

Oh, man...

I'm sorry, man.

Where have you been, man?

I saw the takedown and the trees.

I saw the lights.

In Nam, when we walked into an ambush,

we had maybe two seconds before it started,

and I just kinda froze, like I was back there.

- You're using again. - Yeah.

That's okay.

Come here. You're safe now.

These people!

It's like they got halfway through packing

and just walked out. "Oops!

Too much trouble, we're out of here".

So I come in for the walkthrough,

and oh my goodness!

Anyway, I thought: "I have no idea where Santa Marta is".

El Salvador.

You know, I'm not really sure where that is either.

But if there are kids

who need clothes and toys,

then I am happy to help.

It will be very appreciated. Thank you.

Pam Teller.

- Fast Sales Realty. - Hi. Hi.

- You're doing God's work here, Mrs... ? - Uh, Howard.

- Ruby Howard. - When does this mission ship

- leave anyway? - Thursday, we hope.

Well, God bless you folks.

One of these days I'm gonna show up on a Sunday.

That is, if I'm not sitting in open house. Oh, what's that?

That's my card.

Just in case you're ever in the market.

You never know, right? Everybody needs a house sooner or later.

- Hey. - Hey.

I found Travis.

He's a bit of a wreck.

You said you didn't want me in the house if I was using.

I fell off the wagon, so I stayed away.

Where were you?

In the bush, the first night.

After that, I broke into a sailboat at the marina.

We were looking for you.

I didn't want to be found.

You know, I can't explain what happens.

I just shut down when it all floods back like that.

I get... I don't know, paralysed.

I just can't be around people.

- Hello? -

- Yes. -

I think you have the wrong number. You need to call the church.

[He asked for you. Said his name is Calvin.]

Hey, Ellen!

Ellen, wait, please!

I don't need to know where you've been, if that's what you're thinking.

I could really care less. But what you did to my professor? Not okay.

I was handling it myself.

You deserved better.

I filed a formal complaint.

But Triskin reinstated my original mark.

After your visit... surprise, surprise. So now,

the whole thing gets swept back under the carpet.

You earned that mark. Now you've got it.

But the matter's how I got it.

You can't just bully people back

or nothing ever changes.

You're too complicated for me, Travis.

I don't want complicated.

I figured it out.

We do the same thing, except at a bank.

More money, the faster we get to Cuba.

No, no, a bank is not the same thing, okay?

- It has alarms, it has... - Okay, yeah, I know.

There's a panic button under the till.

- But what if they don't push the button? - Why wouldn't they?

Well, what if they know the person?

No, no!

Destiny, you don't know my sister, alright?

- She's gonna push the button. - Yeah, but not right away,

which can buy us a couple minutes, which could be the difference

- between getting one till and two. - Look, hey,

I'm not gonna rob a bank with you. That's crazy.

Well, maybe you don't want to go to Cuba.

- Maybe you're changing your mind. - No!

Look, Ralph, I'm doing this.

- You can stay behind if you want to. - I'm not changing my mind.

I just don't wanna rob my sister's bank, okay?

Ralph...

Revolution is a lifetime commitment.

And if you don't have the stomach for it, that's okay.

Maybe you should just stay behind with your family. I'm serious.

- Maybe we split up right here... - Wait, no, no, no. I don't want that.

I'm going back to do this.

And then I'm going to Cuba.

Hey.

Wait! Hey, wait!

Yes!

He's just figured out his enveloppe is missing.

The envelope is gone. I put it in my desk,

- and now it's gone. -

Nobody looks in my desk. I keep it locked.

[You want me to replace the money you lost?]

[No. I mean... I just thought that you should know]

[in case somebody broke into my office and took it.]

[Maybe it was you. Maybe you wanted your money back.]

Lang, you better be playing me straight here,

because I am a very valuable asset and...

Dammit!

Goddamn!

What a knob.

Yep.

Hi!

- Hey. - So, Travis is back.

He's got some story about being all messed up from Nam.

You believe him?

I'm not sure, but...

I don't know, I look in his eyes and...

I don't see it. I don't see a kid who would betray us,

so... Maybe I should just tell him he can't stay at the house anymore.

No, no. If he's informing on us,

we don't want him to know we're onto him,

- so it's better to keep him close. - Okay.

- Okay. - Um, there's something else.

I got a call.

Calvin is on the run and he's coming here.

He used the pipeline to get across

and needs us to help him disappear.

What, you want me to help him?

Ted, he was your friend too.

- Mm-hmm. - And he needs us.

We can't afford to have him caught.

- Did you ask him to come here? - No.

No. He's on the run.

It's genuine.

Okay.

I know this doesn't hold up in court yet,

but I will take this to internal affairs.

We've got the cash, we've got the transcripts

from the illegal bug in the church,

and we've got the wiretap.

Which is also illegal, by the way. It's not enough.

If Kelly's on the take, who's paying him?

Lang. We don't know what he looks like,

who he works for, or where to find him.

We need Lang. We need proof

that an American agent is paying off Kelly

to influence Canadian law enforcement

on Vietnam draft evaders and deserters.

I don't wanna go in until we get Lang.

If I get fired over this, Laura's gonna kill me.

Okay. We play our final card.

We flush him out and hope he leads us to Lang.

Yeah.

It's time.

Are you eating baby food?

What? It's just sweet potato.

It's good! You want some?

Ruby!

Come on.

Come on.

Uh, get in the back. You always knew how to make an entrance.

- What went on in Chicago? - They got inside somehow.

FBI or Daley's undercover cops, I don't know.

This kid shows up one day,

starts running errands for us.

After a while, nobody can remember whose little brother he is.

Time goes on, and suddenly shit is going wrong.

Cops are at the rally points before we get there,

stuff is disappearing,

guys are blaming each other, there's fights and jealousy...

Everyone is armed to the teeth.

And that kid is there, watching us the whole time.

A few of us were going over to Detroit,

so we gathered up at Mike's to get an early start

in the morning, and the kid's there too.

But around 11,

he says he's going out to pick up some smokes.

Next thing we know,

the cops come squealing up

and there's bullets