Shining Girls

Go! Go! Keep moving!

Go! Go! Keep moving!

Mask on, boys, mask on!

Mask on!

- Where you going? Where you going? - No, I'm going back.

- Hey. Let me help you. Mask. - No, I've gotta go back.

Mask! Mask!

Okay.

My name's Leo. I'll be right behind you.

Keep forward. Keep forward. Go! Go! Go!

I'll be right behind you.

Mask on! Mask!

Mask on!

…mask.

Where's your mask?

I've been shot. Take me back. Take me back!

Stop. Stop it, please!

Bonne nuit!

Took me a minute to find you.

Yeah, I... I left Teenie's as soon as I could.

When did you get back?

Little while ago.

What have you been doing? Just dancing?

Yeah. I was traveling a bit.

I was dancing with a troupe. We did the Orpheum Circuit.

Oh, wow.

And you? How was it?

It's... It's not like how they write in the papers.

- They never actually talk to any soldiers. - I do.

I hear they just hand out medals on the ride home.

How many did you get?

I just got the ride.

It sounded... sounded bad over there.

I wrote you.

When I stopped by Teenie's, they said that they...

They sent my letters on.

I never got any.

So tonight, what did you think my dance was about?

I didn't know it had to be about anything.

It was the story of Josephine, the first wife of Napoleon.

She's lighting a fire to Osiris.

She's begging him for a child.

I don't know if anybody got that from what I saw.

Yeah.

How long you been doing this?

This is my third run, but I might book the Balaban.

- Really? - I've got the numbers just about.

Kind of a small crowd, no?

That's how they like it. They pay more.

I brought you something back.

What makes you think I want it?

Well, you can speak French now, but I still know you.

It's Parisian.

What happened here?

It caught on my pocketknife. I sewed it though.

Paris?

When did you get such good taste?

It's fine, but just look.

We shouldn't be out here. Harper, I don't do this anymore.

Come on. Just look. You'll know this.

What are they made out of?

Silk?

Nah, rayon.

- No, she's too rich for that. - No, look. They're running thin.

She wears that pair to church.

A woman doesn't put on silk to get on her knees.

How do you know her?

You remember Sister Flora from Saint Michael's?

Yeah. The one who used to try to baptize us in the lake?

Yeah, yeah. She's... She's at Saint Adalbert's now.

I bumped into her.

She runs a veteran's dinner on Wednesdays in the basements.

That's where she's headed tonight.

So, she fed you and you followed her home?

That's how you taught me to do it.

We were kids. I thought you would've come up

with something else by now.

She's out. She's out. Come on. Let's go.

What? Harper, no.

I don't need to rob little old ladies anymore.

Fine. I'll just give the silk stockings to someone else.

What?

Come on.

Oh, my God.

What else you got back there, huh?

What about this one?

Why do they always leave the little heads on those things anyway?

It's fashion.

Didn't all the girls wear things like this in Paris?

How should I know? Huh?

- Well, you have eyes, don't you? - You know what?

I didn't have time to look, so…

Harp, you always look.

You'd hide under a cattle box and spy on me.

No, I wasn't spying on you.

Yes. You were peeping like a little rat.

Is that what you... Is that what you think I was doing?

- Then what were you doing? - I was looking out for you.

What?

What's that?

I don't know.

It's coming from over there.

- In here? - No, here, here.

- Is that... - Harper.

Hang on. Hang on.

Hang on. Hang on.

- That's it. - That it?

Yeah.

What? Let me see that.

- What is that? - Wait.

It's different now.

How'd it do that?

- Shit. Let's go. - Yeah.

- Harper. Someone's coming. - I'll be right there.

Harper, what are you doing? Let's go.

Right there.

Where'd you get this?

Where did you get the watch from?

I know you. Saint Adalbert's.

You never pray before the meal.

No, you don't know me.

You get out! Get out! Get out!

- Get out! Get out! - Stop! Stop!

I just wanna know about the watch.

I just wanna know about the watch.

- I have money. I have money. - Is it from Europe?

- Huh? Is that where you got it from? - I don't know.

No, you do know 'cause you hid it good.

You know what it is. You know what it's worth.

Tell me. Where'd you get it?

You could never know. You're a small man.

And you're a fucking bitch.

You think I don't know who you are?

That's your husband's picture on your dresser.

And you light that same candle for him every night.

Yeah.

Been watching you.

Now, you can't lie to me.

So…

where'd you get the watch?

What happened up there?

Nothing.

Just ducked under the bed.

Why did you stay behind?

Well, to make sure she didn't spot you.

You got the Balaban coming up. I didn't want her to ruin that, you know?

What?

We used to do this all the time.

Yeah, when there was no one at home. She could've called the police.

She didn't see me. Look what I got you.

Look. Here. Give me your wrist. I mean, look at that, huh.

It's made for you.

I'll go and give it back to her, if that's what you want.

I don't need it. It's hers.

Well, she didn't do anything to deserve it.

You know, she puts on cheap stockings

to come down to church and give me her charity.

It's a hustle for God's grace, and she's gotten way more of that than us.

You know? We need to take what we're owed.

Look.

6:00 a.m. in Paris.

Pony up, boys. Pony up.

All bets down. Bets down. All bets down. Here we go.

Bets down. All bets down. And watch her spin.

Watch her spin, watch her spin.

And-and-and-and-and-and…

Look at that. Who wants to go again? Huh?

- Bets down. Bets down. - No, no.

That's three out of four for you. No fucking way that happens.

I don't like losers anyway.

Who wants to spin? Huh?

Harp! You wanna lay down some change here?

You're gonna take the wrong man's nickel someday.

What's wrong with you, huh?

They hiring today?

Just signed up a few loaders for Marshall Field's.

Might pull some of us in for the anchor watch.

- Oh, God. - What?

- Nah. - No?

I'll come back tomorrow.

Hey, where you goin'?

I don't know. Back to the Hopkins, I guess.

How'd it go with your new girl?

She's not new.

She lend you some money?

No. Why?

You're usually the last one left, not the first one leaving.

Hey, hey, hey. What do you have?

Nothing, nothing. Nothing. It's nothing.

There's a spot I heard about.

It's... I might go see what's there.

Where?

It's in Lake View.

Let's run back to the Hopkins first, grab our kits.

What do we need the kits for?

Come on. Let's go.

Legion. Support your local Legion.

Legion. Support your local Legion.

Legion, ma'am? Support your local Legion?

No, thank you. So, yeah.