American Heist

Come on, come on, come on.

Francis Kelly!

Here you go. That's everything.

Yeah, that's my brother.

Hey, Frankie.

Frankie, see ya in a couple months.

Yeah, I'll pay your mom a visit in the meantime.

- I'm a free motherfucker. - Here he is.

What up, baby?

- What up, Frankie? - What up, Sugar?

I'm a free motherfucker! Oh, shit. You got my hat.

Yeah, Frankie's back, baby. Frankie's back.

- Frankie's back. My man. - What up!

Come on, Frankie.

Come on, boy. You good. Watch your head, hm.

Oh, shit. Oh, Ray, man.

This is your place, bro? Oh, man.

Yo, dude, this fucking girl tonight, bro, this fucking pussy was like--

- Bro, what-- - Where's his brother?

Can somebody get that?

James, grab the phone!

Lewis's Auto.

Yeah, I'm James Kelly.

Yeah, well, I thought it was your mandate or whatever...

to support small business with loans.

Yeah, no, I understand.

Nah, man, I don't have a degree.

And I don't really see how that matters much.

Yeah. Yeah, all right.

All right, all right. Thanks for your time, man.

Asshole.

Fuck.

Hey, Joe! I got this one.

Emily.

James Kelly.

I thought you moved away after Katrina.

I did, but soon as I could get work, I came back.

Oh, yeah? What do you do?

I am a dispatcher for the NOPD.

Really?

- What, so you're like a cop or something? - No, I'm not a cop.

I'm a glorified operator.

That's cool.

You kind of disappeared.

Yeah, yeah. No, I know. I went traveling.

I was traveling abroad for a little bit, you know.

Really? 'Cause I thought maybe you got abducted by aliens...

or started working for the CIA or, I don't know, went to prison.

Actually, yes. I used to be a secret agent for the CIA.

But on very top secret missions.

But that was a long time ago and I don't want to talk about it anymore.

Come here for a second.

- You live nearby? - Not far.

- Got a garage at your place? - Sure.

Look, this...

this shop, it's, you know, too high priced.

If you want, I could just fix your car at your place...

and you don't gotta pay me for my time.

I'll pass along new parts at cost and I'll save you a couple bucks.

That is very sweet of you.

Least I could do.

So this guy goes to prison

and they lock him down in a cell.

Two-man room.

He looks in and he sees there's a big 350-pound black guy...

just sitting there mean-muggin' him.

Black guy says, "Say, man

you wanna be the mama or you wanna be the daddy?"

The guy says, "Excuse me?"

He said, "Did I stu-- stu-stutter, motherfucker?"

I say, 'You wanna to be the mama or you wanna the daddy?“

Guy says, "Well, I'll be the daddy."

He said, "Fine. You the daddy."

Come over here and suck on mama's dick.

Come on, Jim. Come on, man. It's been 10 years.

You can do better than that, no?

You got some fucking balls showing up here, man.

What's the matter, Jimmy? I came to see you.

You didn't come to see me.

Whatever happened to me and you against the world, huh.

- You want to know what happened, Frankie? - Yeah, what happened?

- You want to know what happened? - Yeah, what happened?

Yeah. I'll tell you what happened.

You fucking turned the world against me.

You still crying about that?

That's life, buddy. Shit ain't fair.

Fuck!

Hey, all right, all right, all right!

Don't act crazy, come on. I'm sorry, man. I'm sorry!

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Ah, shit, Jimmy.

Shit, Frankie.

Let's go get a drink, huh?

Come on, let's go grab a drink.

I can't tonight.

Tomorrow.

- You're prompt. - I like to keep my appointments.

Not what I recall.

What happened to your eye?

- Oh, it was just a-- - You know what? I--

All good, it's not my business.

So, I'm guessing you have tools?

Yeah, yeah. In my car. You got the keys?

Yeah.

It's very sweet of you to do this. Really.

I think I owe you.

It's a long time ago, James.

I'll be inside if you need me.

All right.

How's it going out there?

It looks like someone put sugar in your gas tank.

- You're kidding. - No.

Probably just some bored kids. You park in bad neighborhoods?

I won't ever again. Can you fix it?

Yeah, yeah, sure. It's fixable, it's just--

It was gummed up pretty bad, so I'm gonna have to replace the fuel filter...

but we got a bunch of those kicking around the shop...

and clean out your gas tank, which will take me a bit of time.

But the worst part is you're gonna need a new carburetor, so...

I'm gonna go back and order one of those tonight.

Guess I'll see you tomorrow then.

Guess so.

All right, I'm gonna go lock up. You have yourself a good night.

Okay, you, too.

Mr. Kelly, I'm afraid there's been a misunderstanding.

This is not the type of loan that's attractive to us right now.

Well, if you could just take a look at what I got here.

You know, you might find it a little interesting.

I've done the research and, look, the area needs another auto shop.

All right? This is my location right here.

There's like 10,000 cars that go around this circle.

It's a prime spot. It makes perfect sense.

Here, look. This is it right here, and it's just sitting there empty.

I'm not looking for that much cash.

Just enough to cover the rent for 7, 8 months

and then I'll start turning a profit.

And my business plan, it's good, all right?

You just gotta take a look at it, but I promise you--

Frankly, Mr. Kelly

we don't make small business loans anymore.

All right.

Well, what the hell do you guys do?

You know what? Never mind, all right! I'm sorry.

It's just your Johnny-on-the-spot with those overdraft fees.

Yo!

I can't believe this place is still in business, man. Come here.

Yo, let me get another Jamison's. Two.

Two, for me and my brother.

My brother, huh? How you been, Jimmy?

It's James now, all right? People don't call me Jimmy no more.

Okay, James.

You all grown up now.

Look, I know you're upset.

You got a right to be.

It's just, I figured all this time, you know?

Yeah? What did you figure, Frankie?

What did you figure, man? You'd come back and what?

I went to jail, Frankie.

Bro, you got off easy with 16 months. I did 10 years.

Every day I was in there

every fucking day, Jimmy, I thought about you, man.

I'm sorry, man. I want to make amends.

- It's not so easy, Frankie. - I know, I know.

I know.

Jimmy, I'm so proud of you, bro, really.

I'm proud of you. You're a fucking good-looking kid.

I mean, I don't know who Mom fucked, but you lucked out.

You know how much I bragged about you, man.

Every fucking cat in D block knew about you blowing up these al-Oaeda niggas, man.

Everybody, dude. You know what kind of street cred I got...

for having a brother who knows how to blow shit up? Come on.

- The world forgets fast, Frankie. - So we'll make 'em remember.

I got a solution.

You got a solution. Frankie, I've changed, all right?

- Jimmy, I've changed. - Yeah, you've changed.

Yeah, I've done a lot of soul searching. Really, I'm like--

I'm like" I'm like Buddha and shit.

Believe me, I've had time to think. Okay?

A lot of suckers in there, man. That ain't us.

Okay? I'm gonna make things right. We just got a bad hand.

Yeah, you think so?

Jimmy...

I know two guys, right? They're good guys.

They looked out for me in the joint. They really did.

Yeah, what about 'em?

We all want the same things.

To overcome the obstacles.

Frankie, I'm not doing nothing shady.

You call real estate shady?

- Real estate? - Yeah.

What, you get yourself a fucking real estate license when you were in the pen?

I ain't trying to be a fucking agent, bro.

I ain't a fucking agent. I'm a boss, you know what I'm saying?

A boss. Legit. Calling the shots, cashing the checks.

- What, hollering, what. - In that cheap suit?

Fuck you, bro. Fuck you, man.

Yeah, well, fuck you, bro.