20 Ft Below: The Darkness Descending

What the hell is going on?

What are you thinking about?

Where am I?

Answer me!

Answer. Answer.

Answer me.

What are you thinking about?

Are you thinking about that big, beautiful

office of yours...

where you traded so many lives?

Are you thinking about the next big deal?

Moving all those numbers from column A to column B?

The next big meeting... is that what you're thinking about?

Answer me.

What are you thinking about?

You want some money? Huh? That it?

That what you want? Because if that's what you want, I got it, all right?

That's not a problem, we can work that out.

I can get you... as much as you want.

Money? Your answer to everything?

Your money has no power here.

Look, you don't want to do this, all right?

You are making a huge mistake.

We can figure this out, all right?

We could talk.

No, we can't.

Then what do you want from me?

Just tell me what you want!

Ssh, ssh, ssh.

You're missing it.

What are you thinking about right now?

When you know you're going to die.

Does she have her wings?

Yes, yes, I'll meet you at the theater.

Yes, I'm going to make it, okay? I promise. I promise.

Please... I have a family.

Yes, there is your family.

The family that you sacrifice on the alter of money.

Wouldn't you do anything right now to see them, to kiss your daughter?

To hold her hand and watch her drift off to sleep?

Yeah... I'd do anything.

Do they know you love them? Did you tell them?

Maya, listen, the train's coming, I gotta go.

Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

Well, if you can hear me, I love you.

Do you feel it? Do you?

The love, the appreciation?

This is the appreciation for life.

You can only feel it when you face death.

That's my gift to you.

All I can say... is please.

Please.

You're letting me go?

I'm letting you fight.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God.

I am God.

Everyone has a story, and this city is full of stories.

But the best ones aren't out in the open.

They're hidden deep.

You know there's beauty everywhere. That's what I think.

I mean, sometimes you have to look for it.

All right, sometimes you have to look pretty damn hard...

but it's always there.

Have a nice day.

We look past people so often, turn our heads.

So, what happens if we stop, just for a second?

You take the left tunnel to the right to the left tunnel.

The Old East Station, the Old East Station...

that's... don't forget the Old East Station.

Isn't it dangerous?

You can't have freedom without a little danger.

You can't have art without a lot of freedom.

Yeah, it can get pretty rough sometimes.

Things that people do to each other, my god.

It's... it's insane.

They're gonna burn you, they gonna burn you.

Sure, if...

We have desolate tunnels...

but it's mostly just crazies...

who pass out and end up track pizza.

There's no bogey man.

Those tattoos are amazing. Do they mean something?

They mean everything.

You would show me around?

I'll show you around, yeah, I'll show you...

I'll show you everywhere.

Wherever you want to go, you know, it's real easy to get lost down here.

I mean, you do what you can, right?

I do whatever I can to help.

I gotta find a line, you know?

You find some... some balance maybe, right?

Jake.

We got a problem.

It's not my problem, not anymore.

It's everyone's problem.

He put up a hell of a fight.

It's Jason Wells.

Yes, the Jason Wells.

Oh, shit.

Exactly.

What the hell was Jason Wells doing in the tunnels?

He wasn't.

They snatched him from the platform, at rush hour.

He had the mark.

Angel?

You tell me.

We're doing a sweep. That's not gonna do anything.

You're just gonna lock up the same old squatters from the shallows.

They're not doing this.

You're not gonna go deep enough.

They're people.

Not the ones who did this.

We could use your help.

Nobody knows those tunnels like you do. You've gone deeper than anybody.

You could help us, help us to get this right.

Let's get these guys.

Come on, man.

Get back in the game.

How long has it been now? What's it been?

Huh? Has it been a year?

You wouldn't want Christine...

I gotta do things that I might not want to do, a lot of times.

I don't want to do 'em, but I have to... things that...

Things that you would never ever in a million years, ever consider doing, right?

But there's a lot of trash down there.

Sometimes you gotta clean it up.

You gotta clean up that trash.

The hole in the bottom of the sea, there's a handle...

They said I could sing it as fast as nobody could sing it.

Status.

Well, it's very difficult to get a place to live or a job or anything like that...

when you're suspected or accused of anything.

You know, dock people look at you a certain way...

and they treat you how they wanna...

Don't matter if you did anything or not, it doesn't matter.

That's why I come down here, I got my place set up.

The room is like super cheap...

and it's warm in the winter, it's cool in the summer.

I don't know, I got lots of friends down here.

People like the Skeeter down here.

What about drugs?

You got some drugs? I'm just kidding, I don't do drugs anymore.

I used to be really into that stuff. I used to be really big on the crack.

But it don't do me anymore.

It's like you get up in the morning, or whatever time of day it is.

You're casing a hit, you're looking for the next hit.

You're looking for the person that gets you the hit.

You're just chasing the vial is all you're doing, is chasing the vial.

Chase the vial. Chasin' the vial.

Wash your hands, Skeeter. Wash your hands.

Wash your hands, Skeeter. Wash your hands, Skeeter.

So I wash my hands.

Hey, hey, Big Jake, what's going on, Big Jake?

What's going on, man? Praying... mantis, fucking mantis.

You wanna come down and play chess?

Friend of yours?

No, that's Big Jake, he used to be the law around here. The law?

The law, top of the pig, the fuzz, the five-o, the law, whatever you want to call him.

I don't care what you call him.

That is a cop?

That was a cop. You're not listening to me! That was a cop!

He's not a cop anymore.

If you're gonna survive down here, you have to listen to me.

Are you listening to me now?

I'm not mad at you, don't worry about it. I'm not mad at you.

But you have to listen to me sometimes, because...

It's for your own good.

It's not too bad.

Hey there, stranger.

Oh... you're gonna bust me, copper?

Uh, not today.

You look good.

Yeah.

What can I say? Art, it's my life.

Screw the cops, no offense.

None taken.

Another sweep? What for?

To move people from Grand Central to Penn Station?

Not this time.

There was a murder in the tunnels.

Jason Wells.

Oh, I see, someone with a name.

There were three beatings here last month.

Jackie Five is still in the hospital...

kids, playing catch and wreck.

Batter up.

Where were the idiot cops then?

Well, they're coming back in force now.

It's gonna be bad.

Better make sure Central gets locked up.

Oy, put this in your little diaries.

Someone want to play? Oh, yeah.

Here we go, a real, live crack ho in our presence here.

How much for an hour, there, cutie?

Get her, Matt. Get her, get her!

Ow!

Hey!

Jake!

What are you doing?