The Equalizer

Associate to builder services. Associate to builder services.

- Right? - Yeah, and we'll cut it over here.

Thought you finished this job.

The owner wants the driveway wider now.

- When they pay... - They say. Thank you.

- They make the newer guys take tests. - Like firemen.

Yo, Pops, bet you didn't have to push dollies at your old job.

Guilty as charged.

How you doing, Jenny?

Better now.

- Hi, Mr. McCall. - Ralphie.

- What you got there? - Tuna.

- Bread? - Whole-grain, gluten-free.

- Okay. Condiments? - Sprouts, avocado and Vegenaise mayo.

Okay.

A bone in the tuna.

What? Potatoes are a vegetable. I like crunchy things.

Carrots are crunchy. Dried seaweed.

I'm a human, not a rabbit.

To make security guard, you gotta lose weight.

Now, you asked me to help you, but if you don't apply yourself...

- Yeah. - Hey.

Progress, not perfection.

- No more chips. - No more chips.

Who needs flavour? Right?

- All right, see you later, J. - Have a good one, Billy.

Fuck you.

- Thank you. - You're welcome.

He catch that fish yet?

Just hooked it.

It's about damn time.

Well, it's a big fish. Don't know if he can hang on, though.

Oh, no.

Tooth and nail right now.

Yeah, well, maybe he's just too old.

Thought you were gonna give up refined sugar.

- I am. - When?

- Any day now. - Yeah?

Bad for your vocal cords.

Body, mind, spirit, remember?

I bought a little machine for making demos.

Yeah? I bet you're good.

What makes you say that?

Intuition.

All right, well, I'll see you later, Jake.

Okay. See you later, honey.

You let me know what happens with that fish.

- Okay. - All right, I'll see you.

Hey!

You'll owe me $100. Watch.

Hey, yo, Pops. We betting on what you did before you got here.

- Like, for a living. - I'm saying insurance, claims.

No. He was a stock dude, man, on Wall Street.

- I was a Pip. - Yo, you were a pimp?

No, not a pimp. A Pip. P-l-P. Pip.

- The fuck is a Pip? - Why you curse so much?

You know, like Gladys Knight and the Pips. Like this:

Check this out!

- Oh, come on! - Stop it.

- Yeah. Break it. - Don't do that right now. Don't do that.

- Oh, the spin? - What?

- Wait a minute. - You're gonna blow the whistle?

Come on. I'm gonna look it up right now. Man, I'm looking this up.

- Yo, so which one were you? - The one on the right.

- Hey, do it again! - Yo, that's not him right there.

Man, that's him with an Afro.

- He's bald. - So he had a wig on.

- That's gone, yo. - That's him.

Damn, girl! Bring it over here now!

Hey, Jake. What a fucking night.

Yeah, it's tough out there, honey.

Here you go, kid.

Thanks.

He ever catch it?

- The fish. - Oh, yeah. Yes. Yeah, he did.

It's a happy ending.

Well, not exactly.

Old man tied the fish to the side of the boat, had to row back to shore...

...the fish bled in the water...

...sharks came...

...and ate the whole fish till there was nothing left.

- That's just kind of a waste, isn't it? - Depends upon how you look at it.

The old man met his adversary when he thought that part of his life was over.

And he saw himself in the fish.

Came to...

Came to respect it the more it fought.

Why didn't he just let the fish go?

The old man's gotta be the old man. Fish gotta be the fish.

Gotta be who you are in this world, right?

No matter what.

You've got a client.

I don't want to.

What?

Can't you get someone else?

He wants you.

But this customer is a pig.

He's waiting outside.

- How much? - Don't worry about it.

- Go make your living. - Thanks, Jake.

Hey, honey! How you doing? You ready to have a good time?

Come on. Pull, pull, pull.

Pull, pull, pull!

Come on, come on.

Eight, seven, six, five...

...four, four, four.

Come on, now. Come on.

- I can't. - You can't?

What if that were me?

You gonna leave me to die of smoke inhalation? I'm a buck-90.

How will you pull me out of a fire if you can't pull a tyre 20 yards?

I'm not strong enough.

Don't doubt yourself, son. Doubt kills. Get up. Come on. Get up. Get up.

Giddyup, giddyup, giddyup!

On your mark, get set...

...pull.

Come on. Who's gonna make security guard?

I am!

- Who's gonna make security guard? - I am!

Who's gonna make security guard?

- There you go. - I am!

I like it. Let's do it again.

Loaded with poison, just like you like it.

Is it your birthday?

No, it was some guy at work. I didn't want to waste it.

Happy birthday, Some Guy at Work.

How old are you?

How old are you?

Doesn't really matter.

I'm sorry. I'm breaking protocol, right?

No, no. Listen, hey, come on, sit down.

Sit. Sit.

Sit.

Okay.

- Come on, sit down. - All right.

Sure I'm not interrupting anything?

Yeah.

So?

I don't know.

You know, I just kind of felt like a quiet voice.

Before it all goes crazy.

Okay.

I'm Teri.

Bob.

- It's good. - You know, you don't look like a Bob.

Oh, yeah? Thank you.

You look like a Robert.

Robert reads books like this...

...and Bob watches TV.

My real name's Alina.

What happened to your face?

Something stupid.

Look, it's not professional. Just tell me what you think, okay?

Alina the singer.

You and I know what I really am.

I think you can be anything you wanna be.

Maybe in your world, Robert.

- Doesn't happen that way in mine. - Change your world.

There's no ring.

- On your wedding finger, there's no ring. - No.

No Mrs. Robert at home?

No.

Was there ever?

Once.

Did you break her heart?

She broke mine.

You know, I see a lot of widowed guys.

Something in your eyes.

You know, it's not sad.

It's just kind of...

...lost, you know?

You always read books?

My wife did. She...

She was working through the 100 Books Everybody Should Read.

She made it to 97, so I figured...

...I'd give it a shot.

And one day we'd have something to talk about when we get together.

- Wow, a hundred books. - Yeah.

Holy moly.

- How many have you read, Robert? - Ninety-one.

Sorry, this damn thing.

Ninety-one books, though.

- You're almost done. - Almost.

- What are you gonna do after that? - Singing lessons.

Then I'm gonna open a donut factory.

I am. What? Why you laughing?

- You know, I love being up at this hour. - Yeah?

Yeah. You know, everything's so dark.

It makes everything seem possible again.

Yeah, me, I can't sleep at night.

Yeah, well, I get to hear your stories.

What's your new one about?

Oh, it's about a guy who thinks he's a knight in shining arm our.

The only thing is, he lives in a world where knights don't exist anymore.

Kind of sounds like my world.

I'm just up the block.

I'm gonna grab a cab or something.

Thank you for the quiet voice, Robert.

You are very welcome, Alina.

Yeah.

- Catch you around, all right? - Good night.