The Last Shift

Subtitles by explosiveskull 𝕄_𝕀_𝕊𝔽𝕠𝕣𝔼𝕧𝕖𝕣

Hey, there you go.

How was the game?

0-8. Tackleberry here even got booted in the fourth.

Crap. I was rooting for you.

We can't all be big winners like Stan The Man here.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

You better watch it or I'll tell your mom you pulled in here smelling like hooch.

Yeah. Yeah. I didn't get this smart by being stupid.

Oh, then how did you?

Good Lord's work, I guess.

- Sure wasn't from no books. - Yeah.

Hey, keep to the back roads. Hey.

- Head on a swivel, huh? - All right.

- Thanks for the wise words. Yeah. - You should be a guidance counselor.

Stanley, I know you're there. I can hear you breathing.

What you got, Stanley?

Okay, I got 592 dol... No.

Oh, jeez, 529 dollars and 34 cents.

Oh, shit.

Well, you want me to do a recount?

No, no, no, I got a shift to turn over and a poker game to go to.

Ain't no way I'm recounting the drawer over a damn 34 cents?

Are you sure? Because I'll start from scratch.

There's no problem.

You know Monday's my last shift?

Yeah. Thirty-eight years to the day.

Yeah, 38, that's right. That's what they said the word on the street is.

It's Tuesday morning technically, you know, according to payroll.

Then it's hasta la vista, baby.

That's The Terminator. It's from...

That's T2 actually.

I don't know what we going to do without you, Stanley.

Guess we'll have to shut the whole joint down, huh?

I doubt that.

Did you find a replacement for the graveyard shift yet?

Yeah. That's what I'm working on.

Oh, whoever you get, I just hope they're up to snuff.

You know, it's like my mom always used to say:

"Some people turn up their sleeves, and some just don't turn up at all."

Screw Shazz.

She's jealous because you're finally getting out of this shithole.

Albion is not a shithole.

If you ask 10 average Americans

to describe Albion, Michigan, in two words,

"shit" and "hole" will be at the top of their list.

I mean, why would anybody ever come to Albion?

Well, a lot of people go to the cider mill.

Hey, could you take me to pick up some of those moving boxes later?

I don't wanna rummage through my sister's garage.

- You live there. - Still feels intrusive.

I can't afford to be buying a bunch of empty boxes just for moving.

I'm short of cash as it is.

Buying empty boxes does feel kind of stupid.

I should be studying for my DMV exam.

You still worried about that test?

I told you, only retards and ex-cons fail that thing.

What do you know about this replacement of yours?

Nothing, except his name's Jevon.

Jevon?

- The fuck kind of name is that? - Heck if I know.

I just hope he's not some fricking deadbeat.

I'm mostly a homebody anyway.

Jevon Williams.

Is that how you typically sit for an entrance interview?

My bad. Didn't realize this was an interview.

I'm asking questions. You're answering them, aren't you?

Now, it says here you just got out of county.

Have you made a plan for gainful employment?

I applied for a few jobs around town,

but I've quit or been fired from most of them.

So kind of puts me in a tough spot.

But I did get a call back from Oscar's Chicken N' Fish.

It's a regional chain. I wouldn't exactly call it gainful.

I'm assigning you Officer Kelly, who just transferred from Corrections.

Hi there. It's nice to meet you. You can just call me Evelyn.

She'll meet you here tomorrow at 2

to go over the conditions of your probation in more detail.

Okay.

So I get it now. So is it like...? It's like "good cop, bad cop"?

- Oak and the willow? - Mr. Williams,

full-time employment and enrollment in school or vocational training.

These are your basic requirements.

Fail to meet these and your probation will be in violation.

What does that mean?

That means that you'll go back to jail for the remainder of your sentence.

So 10 months.

Defacing a city monument's a serious offense.

Not to mention, you called the officer a "house Negro,"

resisting arrest and the little stunt you pulled on the escalator.

- It was the most direct route, bro. - That's enough.

You can go.

Damn, boy. You all right, baby lungs?

Hey, chronic isn't exactly easy to get in county, bro.

Yeah, all right.

What's that saying?

You can never go home again.

You ain't gotta go home, but you sure as hell can't crash on my couch, homo.

You should embroider that on a throw pillow.

All right, so that's gonna put Dylan and his beautiful bride up $500 in points.

- No welcome home party? - There's my sugar plum!

Oh, baby.

- Where the hell you been? - I told you, I had some stuff to do.

My baby, always scheming up something.

Didn't they feed you nothing in there? You're thin as a string bean.

What's up, Uncle Charles?

What ever happened to "three hots and a cot"?

How was the Old Jackson County Country Club?

I don't wanna hear nothing about that in here. No way.

You wanna say hi to Papa? Say hi to Papa.

- Hey, big guy. - Come on.

Where you going? I just got here.

- What's up? - Have you been smoking?

- No, I told you, I'm done with that. - Then why are your eyes so red?

I don't know. Seasonal allergies?

Did you read the article I sent you on marijuana and memory loss?

No. Must have forgot.

I hate to jog your memory, but Carter's rash is coming back.

What'd the doctor say?

Sydney slept through the appointment. Tell him.

I took a nap between shifts because I was working a double.

Selling that phony eye cream to them old white ladies?

It's not just eye cream. It's a daily, organic skin care program.

And it's temporary.

Can you run Carter by the clinic later?

I thought you needed to use the car. Don't you start work tonight?

I'll call them and tell them I'm running late.

Sounds like Foot Locker all over again.

What did I tell you about smoking around Carter?

He's way over there. Besides, they're lights.

Come on, you can drop me off on the way.

- Okay, I need to do my hair first. - To go to the doctor?

I'm not leaving the house, looking like this.

Hello!

Yo, open the door!

The dining room's closed! Drive-through only after 10!

- No, I'm training. Open the door! - We're closed! Drive-through only!

I'm Jevon. I'm training.

Yo!

Oscar's Chicken N' Fish. This is Stanley. How may I help you?

Yo, it's Jevon, man. I'm supposed to be starting tonight.

Oh, hey, how's it going?

I'm getting eaten alive out here, man. Open the damn door!

Oh, crap. Oh, okay, hang on. Be right there.

Come on, what'd you think, I was gonna rob the joint?

Don't answer that.

I'm Jevon.

I'm Stanley.

Well, come on. We'll get started on your paperwork.

You run this show by yourself?

Pretty much.

Fernando does prep till around midnight or so,

and then it's a one-man show till 6.

Who's Fernando?

Well, he does prep.

Had to leave early for laser tag.

So...

You got any fast-food experience?

Just eating it.

How about on register?

Nah, man, but I mean, I could count.

So are you a people person?

I thought I already had the job. Shazz asked me if I could start right away.

So I mean, what, are you like the unofficial mayor of this place?

I'm the night manager.

What's Shazz, then?

She's the head manager.

What's the difference?

Just the time of day we work. We're pretty much like equals.

She's not your boss?

Well, we got kind of...

Sort of a co-type of thing.

- It sounds like a simple hierarchy to me. - Okay.

This is the employee handbook.

It's got all the rules in it. It's got...

It's got cooking temperatures. It's got closing procedures.

- I like to refer to this as our bible. - As your bible.

You come up with that by yourself?

Oh, yeah. Sort of.

That's clever.

Okay, now this form here.

This states that you read the handbook.

You got a pen?

You're supposed to read the handbook first.

You're supposed to read the handbook first.

So you get three unexcused absences before you're suspended without pay.

What if the bus is running late?

I've been taking the bus for 38 years, and I've only been late once.

And that's because the bus driver had a stroke and crashed into a Jiffy Lube.

And I had to work the entire shift with a sprained wrist.

Just a regular Willis Reed, huh?

There's a lot more goes into this job than what's in the handbook.

There's an art to the third shift. You gotta do a little bit of everything.

You gotta cook and clean and prep and serve

and improvise.

Once I had to make my own pickles.

And once we hosted a birthday party and we ran out of ketchup.

- What'd you do? - I did what I had to.

It wasn't pretty.

This is where the magic happens.