Abdullah
was the king of
Azula.
Abdullah was the king of
Amazulu.
He lived in a Harem down in
Bola.
Abdullah
took a trip to Honolulu
that he,
I had a pretty girl named Louis.
He was so entranced, by the way, she danced. He forgot his wives and Bulla
hawked his crime, bought her gown, gave up his throne for Lula
and
Dola picks a hot guitar for Lula.
Ah, swings out in a torrid
Hulahula.
You,
hey,
get your hands up.
Marches.
Yeah,
I
thought I told you guys to check the bathroom. We did,
we did it.
How'd you miss this little bag of douche
then?
Maybe he showed up after we checked.
Oh, is that what you think? Yeah. Yeah, I think so too.
I see. They're still enforcing that maximum IQ requirement for patrolmen.
I'm Detective Quinn.
Who are you? What the hell's going on here?
There's a guy with his brains blown out in there. What do you know about it?
Funny? I just asked you the same question.
How do you like my car?
What? I don't, it smells like a dumpster with a dead cat in it.
What's your name again?
Lewis
Lewis.
What are you doing? Hiding in the bathroom?
I wasn't hiding in the bathroom. I just climbed in and your boys just jumped on me
in
from the roof,
from the roof. What are you doing? Climbing into a record store at the break of dawn?
I live here. The boss lets me crash in the back. Boss.
You work here,
you know, a little investigating might. Do you some good detective?
Why are you wearing a Travis Trip T shirt?
What's that have to do with anything? Just to answer the question?
Is that supposed to be? Irony or hipster irony? No way, man. Are you kidding me?
I love Travis Tree. He's the most underrated country singer in America.
Haven't you ever heard long haired country boy?
Don't you ever ever question Travis Trt?
You climbed in from the roof, huh?
Where have you been all night long?
I was at a friend's place
at a friend's right.
Check out this guy's alibi
guys don't
drench your hawk was.
Oh God. Excuse me? Miss,
you recognize this guy?
Yeah. Unfortunately for me,
I
was she with you last night?
Was
he asked me? What time
I kicked him out about nine?
What's going on here, babe? Nothing. Nothing.
Is there anything else you need? I
don't think so.
Who's this guy?
He's just somebody who's been vandalizing the last night.
What you talking about last night? Nothing.
Jeez. Super
coughing. You lighten up.
So,
check out
all right. Talk with forensics.
See if there's anything else they need from us and, uh, we'll wrap this up. All right.
All right. Can I go now,
do you know anyone who might have wanted to kill your boss?
No,
you seem to be taking this really well. Taking what? Don Johnson?
The death of the nice man who gave you a job and a place to live.
Look. He said that I checked out. So let me go.
Look, you don't have to worry, Lewis, you're not a suspect.
There is no suspect here
in the five minutes you were gone. I closed this case.
This is a suicide. Wait, what do I have to paint you a picture?
The man put bullets in the gun, put the gun to his head, pulled the trigger, brain
blood.
That doesn't make any sense. Marcus
Abe,
wait, wait,
he's a suicide. He's a suicide.
Who is this?
His wife, don't you mean widow,
widow?
Melissa. It's Melinda.
Uh,
whatever. Look, your husband's dead.
Oh,
Jesus, someone help this poor widow up. Please
do
it,
bro. I swear.
When
are you? All right,
Marcus.
So
would someone get these handcuffs off of me?
Oh,
what is this?
What does it
stop that? Who's watching the door?
Who
or what?
He's
a regular?
Let him go. He's harmless.
I
thought, why did this happen? What happened? Why?
Calm down?
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
If they close the store, I'll kill myself,
I've been
saving
for
months and this is all gonna be, we're
not
closing down
but
who's
gonna run
it?
Who's gonna run it? They
can
figure all this stuff out.
All right,
you can deal with all this right now. Can't you?
The store?
Are you sure
you handle it?
Look, we've had enough suicides and enough manga Lods for one day.
I gotta wrap up this investigation. Everybody out. All right. Just everybody.
You
out.
All
right.
Hey, hey, hold on, detective.
Did you forget I live here. What about all my stuff you living here is not my problem.
I have to wrap up this investigation. You can deal with that later. All right,
you gotta be kidding me.
What about the handcuffs?
Tell me
anything else? Yeah. Let me get a pack of cigarettes.
Uh Which guy? I don't know, man. Surprise me.
2289. 2289. How much were the cigarettes? Nine bucks? Just a booze. Jesus.
There ain't no dreams come alive. Lord. I know it's true. Weigh it down and
who is this girl
for me?
For
us to?
Mhm
Yeah.
At
night he was awake.
You've been gone.
Thanks Bryn.
Why
you?
Oh.
Mhm
Marcus.
This is for you.
Yeah,
this you,
hey,
go rape me property,
public intoxication
and
watery.
What?
Hello?
No boy, I ain't gonna wear my life. No.
Hey, hey. Oh, hey, sorry. Listen. Ok. I know this. Is crazy. All right.
There's a bum, he handcuffed me. Ok, he's a psychopath. I don't know what I did.
I didn't do anything. All right
state.
Mm.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what do you want? What do you want?
What the,
hm.
So, what did they pick you up for?
I already told you, man. I didn't get picked up.
You're the really good, or the really bad cops? Oh, you're a cop killer?
Mhm.
00,
nice guys.
Pretty last. Yeah. Let's see. What do you got?
Oh my God.
Yeah. Dope,
dope.
We don't think we help criminals for free.
I'm broke. You ain't got no money.
I got some. We'll take whatever you got.
Oh, man.
Freeze. What?
Jesus, man.
What you follow me here?
Are you trying to break into this store?
No.
What are you gonna handcuff me again or something?
Huh?
Handcuff me like you did this afternoon when you attacked me and handcuffed me.
I don't know anything about this afternoon.
How screwed up are you that you don't even recognize me? I recognize you.
You're the one sitting in the back of that
squad car after the scene of the murder murder?
No, you mean Marcus?
My name's not Mar
I Murphy.
What
clock ticks louder night, son.
All right. Whatever I'm going in now.
Oh,
well, don't be tamper with the outing now. Shut up.
I've had enough of the 50, already today. Ok. I'm going in.
I never could trust a man who can't stand to take a leak.
Now this is the blue
that was a white man. Had to believe
cause nothing to worry about.
Now you later on at night
you roll from one side of the bed to the other all night long,
you can't sleep. What's the matter the blues has got? You?
You get up and sit on the side of your bed in the morning,
You may have a sister and a brother,
mother and father around but you don't want no talk out of what's the matter?
The blues got you.
Where you go and put your feet under the table and look down in your plate.
Got everything you want to eat.
When you shake your head, you get up, you say, Lord, I can't eat and I can't sleep.
What's the matter? The Blues got? You wanna talk to you hear what you got to tell them?
Good man.
You know,
you
Louis.
No wonder
what are you doing here?
What?
I'm sleeping
in the store.
Why aren't you home?
I,
you live in the store?
Yeah. Marcus was letting me crash here until I got on my feet.
Oh,
well,
how long have you been staying here?
I don't know. Six months. Six,
why didn't you tell me Lewis?
Why didn't Marcus tell me?
I figured that he did.
Apparently there's a
lot of things that Marcus wasn't telling me.
But what are you doing here?
I came looking for a record
memorial service. What? That's the day.
Well, what are you gonna play?
I don't know, Louis.
Well, just pick something out that he liked.
Well, that's the thing.
I know this is gonna sound a little weird but
I don't know what he liked
and he was my husband but
I don't know. We never talked about music.
Not really.
That's all we, that we, uh, that's all that we talked about.
Oh, do you want me to pick something?
Yeah. Ok.
Yeah. Ok. Yeah, I got it. I got, hold on
one second.
That's Waller.
That'll work.
Hey, Louis,
I don't want you stay here anymore.
Ok. I understand.
Where are you gonna stay,
come, stay with me then?
Yes,
you can.
It's
easy.
No.
Hey, how's it going guys?
He, is
that Marcus the 10?
Yeah. 10.
Why don't you go up there and see what's up
and see if you made the schedule for next week.
We will still have to wait. I mean,
do we go up there? So,
I can't, I mean, did you flee?
Not
pals?
I need a little help from other friends. So, if you don't,
I hope your mom taught you to share. Follow me.
Yes.
Uh,
well, um,
you know, Marcus Marcus was like family to me, I guess, uh,
you know, we used to argue a lot about music but,
you know, I guess we didn't really like a ton of the same stuff, but
I felt like he was the only honest person in my life and uh
he was a really cool guy
and, uh,
and he knew records like nobody's business.
But
anyway, um
this is a song that we both like
by
remove.
They
need to
stop
Mind Me
Out
p
they don't, they
don't
for shining in June.
Thanks.
Hey,
you want to sell those?
Yeah, I wanna see what I can get. Cool, man. Set them up here,
stolen from my grandma.
So I
buy some meth. That's cool, man.
You should check out this Cheech and
Chong. It's pretty rare.
Oh really? Yeah, man. It's worth a lot of. Thank
you. I'll take a look at it.
All right, if you expect me to believe that I get some Rolexes to sell you on the back.
But thanks. Anyway.
Nah.
Mhm.
Good morning Louis. Oh, good morning sunshine. How are you?
Good.
You know why I feel good today?
No.
Well, let me tell you,
I'm about as hungover as I've ever been. Does that surprise me?
And I get a phone call from the police this morning
telling me to come down here and open the shithole back up
and you know what happens when I finally managed to
get myself out of bed and out the front door.
Hm.
My car doesn't start
the son of a bitch.
So I have to take a bus down here.
Wait a bus, you on the bus
I'm surprised they didn't eat you alive.
I
know that's awesome. But still I feel good
and I feel good because today's the last day that I
will ever have to see your ugly face here again.
Why is that? Are you moving to Alaska?
No, Lewis, you're fired.
Nice. Try April.
Stop touching the records and get out of the store.
Should I come back? No, man. No, no. Hey, what reason do you have to fire me? Huh?
I
don't like the way you smell.
Wait, the way I smell. That's not a very good reason.
That's not a very good reason to fire somebody. Is it?
You really think that's the only reason Louis. This is bullshit. April.
I've worked here for over two years working. All you do is talk records.
That's good customer service.
When was the last time you cleaned?
Oh
my God. It doesn't do any good. And plus, I mean, it's a record store.
It looks better when it's dirty.
I wouldn't walk into a clean record store and buy a record. No way, Jose.
Fine.
Would you buy this
Alan Parsons? I robot. Of course, I would.
It's a masterpiece. Are you kidding me? A masterpiece?
Well, Lewis, we already have 12 copies of them out.
They're out there in the goddamn bins.
You know, the last time we actually sold one of those. Do
you
a week ago? No, eight months. Lewis
eight,
someone will buy him. April. OK. No. Lewis, no one's gonna buy him.
You don't know what to buy. You don't know what to sell.
All you do is just sit up here, you flap your jaw,
you play your records and you do Jack shit.
Marcus dies and you fire me.
Yeah.
He had a hard on for losers and I don't come on, April. What did I do?
Should have been gone about 10 seconds ago.
Yeah.
So you're not gonna buy the Parsons?
Sorry, man, we got enough Parsons.
Hey, dude, if I still worked here, I'd buy that in a second.
Get out of my store.
What about this? Cheech and Chong? I was talking about earlier.
No.
Rats.
Ah,
ah,
Louis.
Oh my God. I'm sorry.
You scare the hell out of me.
Oh, it's ok. It's just Elton John.
Hey, yay, yay.
Yeah. Why don't you just finish me off? Melinda.
Hm.
Is something wrong?
Um,
um, I got fired, fired.
People must be on the rag or something.
I just came in today and she fired me.
Does she even have the right? No,
but
I don't know,
Marcus took care of that stuff
but just
give her a couple of days and
I'll talk to her
blast. That record store is all I have.
I feel like just
piece by piece. It's getting ripped out of my hands.
Yeah.
Then you come home to have your head chopped off.
Yeah. I know I should, like, put myself out of my misery.
Oh,
I'm sorry. I, I wasn't thinking
it's ok. Lewis.
No,
it's hard to describe how I feel
and how I feel
doesn't feel like morning,
I guess. I just don't believe he's gone.
I can't wrap my head around the fact that he took his own life
just like that.
He was my husband.
I laid in bed next to him
every night.
Louis. We used to talk
every single night.
He never said anything.
I don't buy it either.
Wait, you don't.
Marcus is one of the happiest guys. I know. I mean, it just doesn't make any sense.
Linda, this is gonna sound crazy
but
I'm gonna try and figure this out. I mean
weird shit has been happening
all the, just a ton lately and
I feel like I'm the only one noticing
it. It doesn't sound crazy. Louis,
it
doesn't, no
something's going on here and I really wanna know what it is.
I do too.
Yeah.
And
OK,
I'm still,
hey J
do you uh
think you can climb out of here before I call the cops on your ass?
What are you doing here? Don't you have a bed now? A
couch? Whatever still do I need to put a goddamn padlock on the roof.
I'm looking for something. OK?
What your toothbrush, something about cliff.
Cliff
hot wheels.
Yeah.
Damn Lewis. I didn't know he was your type.
I think he may have something to do with Marcus getting killed.
Is everything a damn joke to you. Lewis God, you're sick.
I should call the funny farm, not the cops.
Do
you really think you would do that?
There is no thinking Lewis Marcus shot himself right where you're standing?
You think Marcus came in here in the middle of the night,
pulled out a gun and shot himself?
Sure, April. He didn't have the greatest life.
But who works in a record store and does, huh?
Look at Melinda now she's alone.
Do you have any idea how she feels right now? I have to live with her.
So I see it every day.
You think he made that decision for her?
You knew Marcus? He was a man's man. He would never do that.
Melinda can't accept it and neither can I,
all the cops. I don't care
what makes you think Cliff has anything to do with it anyway.
A hunch.
Well, what are you looking for?
Anything? I don't know squat about the guy.
They were friends,
right?
They listen to jazz.
I hate jazz.
Well, they play chess sometimes
chess.
Chess,
chess. He loved chess.
No, Lewis. He was obsessed with it.
Where did they play at cliff places? No. Where, I don't know, a coffee, a
coffee shop, I guess.
What's this?
You think it's still open?
It's worth a try.
Ok.
You take
your time
or when she started loving, she sure can do her stuff
on
when
she
thanks for coming in right before we close.
So what now Marlowe?
Stay here.
I'm diving in,
got a brand new movie. All
one that she calls her
a
brand
new.
Hey,
you wanna,
you wanna play a game? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, sure. I had a
seat.
Hey, thanks.
Sure.
Who,
who,
who?
Huh? What? Oh, the coffee.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah,
here we go.
All right. I'm sorry about
that.
Ok.
Ready.
How'd
you
do?
Well,
you do. The white
was first?
Oh, I knew that.
No, II, I actually, I spent some time in Africa and
in Africa. Black goes first. So,
yeah, it's
sorry, I'm,
I, it's coming back, it's coming back to me
first time here actually.
Ok.
I'm gonna,
that's he long and tall and
sweet
as she,
it's not too long and tall.
We had a check in.
Wow.
Uh, excuse me?
Is that an African horse too?
Um,
here it can
see
that.
Oh,
yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
There we
go.
Sorry about that.
Mhm.
Check
my,
what?
Four movies?
I think you're right.
Well,
anyway, are you a regular here
as opposed to being an irregular?
Do you know a guy named Cliff?
Well, do you want to play another game?
No,
I write for chess Quarterly. I'm,
I'm doing a piece about, uh,
local chess joints.
Oh,
yeah, actually, uh, Cliff. He told me to come down here. He, uh,
said he'd give me an interview and,
oh, I, I guess you forgot.
Well, maybe he did
say, do you know when he actually comes down here to play,
you say you writing a piece for Chess Quarterly?
You can't tell a bishop
on your big toe.
You're right.
No, you're right. I'm awful
kid.
I've seen awful.
He heard something more.
I know. I know.
But you know what? That's why they hired me.
Yeah,
they said, uh,
they said you don't play chess well, Lewis.
But damn, you can write a really, really good sentence.
You ever read the magazine?
It's terrible.
It's, it's like sandpaper on your tongue.
They figured, hey,
it'd be worth it to get someone together that knows how to use words,
words. Yeah,
it doesn't make much sense to me.
Well,
Stephen Crane who wrote the Red Badge of Courage.
He had never fought a day in his life.
Really?
That's right. Is that right? Yeah.
And he's, uh, he's the, he's the best, it was the best war novel he's ever written
ever been written, I should say.
Uh Oh,
yeah.
Yeah.
So, uh, Cliff comes in here in the morning. Never stays past 10. Ami missed him.
Editors are gonna kick my ass.
You wouldn't know where I could find him, would you?
Why don't you stop by here tomorrow morning?
I can, I actually have to fly out on an airplane tonight.
Well, Cliff spends his nights at the Q and Brook.
You said the Q and brew the cue and brew. It's a pool
hole.
Cliff plays pool much better than he plays chess.
Great,
thanks. Yeah.
Uh, next time around, would you teach me the African method?
Yeah. Definitely. Sure. Oh, look. All right.
Hold on. Take care.
No
wonder what the African method is.
If I'm home last night, I'm feeling sad and blue. My baby done gone.
I didn't know what to do. She's dirty, mistreated. Don't, you know,
she's dirty, mistreated. Don't, you know,
she's a dirty mistreated. You don't need no man. No good.
Well, I work hard for her every day. She talked my mother in far
away. She's a dirty mistreated. Don't, you know,
Oregon,
he's right over there,
don't you be
I
that
then why are you
doing?
I,
what are you having?
I'll uh,
I'll take your cheapest beer and a soda water for the kid. I can handle that.
Thank you.
I think he bought it.
Who?
The guy at the coffee house, the chess player?
And what did he buy? Lou
and
the reporter stick?
I nailed it.
Yeah.
You're a bona fide bogey.
Do you think he noticed this come in?
How the hell did you convince me to come down here?
God, I've always had the weirdest feeling about it.
I mean, I should be at home relaxing.
It's bad enough that I'm nearly 30 working in a record store, but I
waste my free time driving you around buying
you drinks and spying on old men in wheelchairs
spying.
That's it.
Never mind, Louis.
It's too good of a word for you.
Creeping suits. You better. Let me ask you a question. No.
Do you remember the Christmas party?
Sure, I do.
I can handle my liquor and you can't.
Marcus was talking about the video store ran in Dallas. Remember
he said that the CIA came in one day and was asking him to do tests. He told them no.
Remember he said he wonders if they're still watching him sometimes
Lewis.
Are you serious?
Get a life.
You don't remember? He said it was weird how cliff was never around.
And then one day he was around all the time.
Always wanting to come into the store, always wanting to talk to him about jazz.
So what?
And besides Marcus was on oxycontin at the party.
I'm not saying it's true. I'm just saying that he said it. All right.
One start.
You made me break my ciggy.
What
I said, you made me break my ciggy.
I'm out of here, Louis.
You can walk home.
Damn it.
I
can't believe you would have sucker him into this kind of shit,
great amount.
This is so retarded as to be at home.
Why are you giving up so early?
I never should have let you sucker me into this kind of shit. Lewis,
you know what? The next time you started breaking
you kids were dating?
Get off.
I guess times of grievance, bring people closer together, something like that.
I've been meaning to ask you, April, how are things at the store?
You know, same old shit.
I've been meaning to drop by but
things just won't be the same.
No, they won't be the same, will they?
No, they never are.
How about you pal?
How are you holding up?
Just looking for work?
Being nosy
looking for work. I fired him.
Jesus. You are off to a rocky start.
Well,
it's been nice chatting with you kids but
I'm afraid I have to be going. My chariot of weights
tooties.
You think he was waiting for us or could probably hear you?
Well, we should follow him.
Get in the car.
Yeah.
Well, there it is.
Get up constant.
Well, there it is
that
Doug
he didn't see us.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
All right. Go.
Oh yeah,
we lose you.
How come? How goes Vanessa?
Well, I don't see him
up there. There he is.
Well, we got a lot out of that.
He was waiting for us at the bus stop. No, Lewis. He was waiting for the bus.
How do you get up there so fast?
Come on, ladies, I'll take it home
then I can walk.
It's four miles.
I don't mind
what you say. I'm not good enough to drive.
Listen, a walk will do me good. Ok, I need some time to think.
Yeah.
Think about your poor shitty life.
Drive safe.
Good morning.
Oh,
ba.
Oh,
jeez.
Love
mate.
Something like that.
Tell you what's next
toast?
No, you don't have to.
No
time.
Oh, thanks. I guess
I like having you around Louis.
Bye.
Excuse me.
Excuse me? Hey, Bud.
Yeah, I'm looking for a guy. Have you seen him? He's, uh,
uh, I don't know. He's, he's tall. He's got a scruffy face, dirty clothes.
Have you seen him?
Oh.
No,
Murphy.
Hey, I've been looking for you.
Hey, I've been asking around kids. Shut up. Get in the car
when?
00,
ok. I gotta want some. No, I'm all right.
Look. We, uh, we followed Cliff back to his apartment last night.
Who
cliff? The guy in the wheelchair.
What about him?
I fold him back to his place.
What did you find Ed Sullivan? A few pairs of toenail clipper.
It's
kid.
Someone's coming out, get
down,
get
down.
Yeah.
Ah,
he hasn't come out all day.
Who
come out, come out, come out. You nasty asshole.
Screw. Now
I got Calvary.
Kill
me. Kill
me.
Taking notes. What are you doing
on a
steak?
Steak? A
steak?
Just open the place.
The coffee shop.
No. Why? Why?
No. Cream?
Cream,
half and half
cow's milk. Damn it.
They don't serve it.
So,
so what the hell's wrong with cream?
The guy that owns the place says try the soy milk. I tried the soy milk.
I didn't like it. He says go somewhere else
Nazi asshole.
Well, if he's an asshole, why don't you just go somewhere else?
Can't? Why not?
Because when corruption begins
it always grows.
Ok.
Yeah.
Luis
Cliff's here. Cliff's out the store.
How long can you keep him there?
I don't know.
Ok. Ok. Try as long as you can. Ok.
All right. Bye.
Can you drive me to Cliff, please?
Who's Claire? Come on, man. We were just talking about him. Just, you got a car?
I know where it is. Just drive me there.
This was in my car.
Whose is it?
I'm not sure.
What are you doing in it?
What you expect me to keep watch all day long? And this guy, he
look, you already hotwired the car. Ok? Can you just drive me there?
That would be stealing
phone
word
that
I found some treasures out there today?
Ok. You never know what you're going to find when you're out there.
I once found the soundtrack for the Cane mu
You know the picture starring Humphrey Bogart.
No.
Well, it's a classic
at any rate. I bought it for a half dollar and sold it on ebay for $4000
$4000.
Uh, it's uh the, the, the
screen fixed it.
I
haven't seen your lover boy around today.
He's out buying me tampons. Anything else about my personal life? You wanna know
Cliff here?
What does it look like?
Scruffy?
Wearing a baseball cap?
There's probably just some dumb kid snooping around
police. No, I wouldn't call the police. I don't think there's quite a need for that.
Just sort of keep an eye on him for me.
I hope your flow isn't too heavy because it looks
as though your lover boys made a pit stop.
Ok.
So,
oh, man,
that was intense.
Who invited you?
Ah,
can I have a sip,
please?
Oh, my
God.
You're ridiculous, man.
Hey, can I have a couple of bucks?
What for?
I'm kind of hungry.
A
tough luck. Come on. Call it Severance Bay.
Don't touch me.
You know, I didn't really find anything.
No shit.
Well, I mean, what did he say to you?
Who
cliff? Did he say anything important? Did he say anything about the case? God
don't remind me of that conversation.
Why? What did he say?
Um
What's so funny? And what did he say?
He, you called it a case?
So,
so,
so Louis, you're making it something important when it's nothing.
Just give it up.
God,
how am I supposed to know anything yet? I'm trying April. What are you doing?
You're sitting on a curb like a stupid broad,
drinking out of a flask in front of public.
All you're doing is making a creepy guy in a wheelchair,
even creepier and you're making us lose a customer out of it.
He knows you were there, Louis. He knows we're up to something
because he's up to something too.
I've
just had enough of your shit, man.
April. Look, things are adding up. Ok?
Take that.
This is definitely something.
Tell me my fo
what can I do?
My hands are freezing
and my nose is blue.
I'm dying of cold.
But then you never can tell
because when the Russians come,
they make it hotter than hell. I got a touch of pneumonia.
I got a terrible cold. If I sneeze once more,
it's bound to carry me all.
When the Russians come,
they always take us by storm
and there's nothing like running. If you want to get warm.
I want to go back to what's left of Berlin.
Sick of a war that I ain't gonna win.
Have seen the,
which came the pan
off
ac
I want to go back to Berlin.
Now, listen, my f,
I'm dead on my feet.
I've got no place for sleeping.
I've got nothing to do.
Oh,
hold
on one second now,
Murphy. Murphy, it's me, Lewis. Lewis.
You do what you saw in the car that you stole this afternoon?
You borrowed, you borrowed you, ah, some flower seeds. Nazi assholes. Come on.
Come on, please.
Lewis.
Yeah. Yeah.
Oh my God.
She thought you were gonna rip my head off, man.
Oh,
what is this? You sleep in a hammock
ants on the ground?
Well, I'm, I'm sorry, I woke you. You know, I
just a nap.
I was about to get up.
Hey, hey, you got you got a couple of bucks I can borrow.
What do you need it for? I need a burger or something. I haven't eaten all day.
You hungry?
I just said, so
come with me, kid.
I don't get it. Where are we going?
Get some grub.
Who, who are those guys?
Reagans?
What are they doing?
Shut up.
Did you whistle?
What whistle
can you whistle?
Maybe
whistle too
mos yelling over there
whistle to
ask for light.
I don't smoke cigarettes.
It doesn't matter. I don't, I don't, I don't have any cigarettes.
Shut up.
Uh,
whistle,
uh evening guys.
Um,
do you have a light? Get out of here.
I just need a light. That's all.
No,
you little bastards forget this is my territory.
We can have it. We want free my ass.
Hey, look,
Mac, we gotta get out of here.
Ok?
You know,
one night I followed those cockroaches back to their hideout.
Why did you do that?
Dumb question?
Sorry.
Look, you always go back to the source, see what you're after and how you gonna get it.
You know, they, they live right down the block, this red brick building,
20 of them cockroaches infected in the neighborhood,
fixing up their bikes and their record players and
calling each other. Bob
Saget.
Bob Saget.
It must be someone they know.
I don't know what those bumps do.
Where are you going?
Dumb question,
April.
Yeah.
Oh,
golly.
Oh,
wait.
Oh,
golly.
Where's the,
oh,
where's that record clip?
Where's the record clip?
Oh,
golly. Where
I got it. I
got
it. I got it. I
got it.
Get it, get
it.
The one on my body
on the line.
Shake the shimmy like I'm shaking mine.
You shake a shimmy. Shake it fast
if you can't shake a shimmy shimmy.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
A dirty Mire
Rob. That
Cheetah
slip it in
there.
Any cousin? Let your mama do the Lord. The Lord.
Y'all know your mama out across the field.
Oh, no,
April. No way. Hold on one sec. One second.
Oh.
Get up,
get up. Oh my God. When did you add peeping
Toms? Your list of bad habits.
You got a pretty good arm.
You owe me a book.
Oh man, you didn't sound too bad on the harp in there either.
How long have you been playing? Shut up. Like I said, you owe me a book.
Get up with
one second. No, no, no.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, look, I came to tell you something.
Look a little bit. Harland broke into the store.
Well, I mean, he didn't break and he had keys. Just listen.
I went into the record store. I was in the office. I was looking for something. Ok.
He came in, he had a key.
He was looking for something. He stole something from between the bins.
It was something hidden. I think it was a record
cliff. Was looking in between the bins earlier today. Speak of the devil.
I hustled my ass here following him in the car and guess where he went
ho to Cliffs right outside of his favorite bar.
Did you see what record it was? I don't know.
How did Harlan get a key? I don't know. Ok. What do you know enough?
Ok, enough for what?
Enough to know something weird is going on when a crazy dwarf walks into the record
store in the middle of the night steals a record and gives it to suspect.
Number one.
Uh
April my eye really hurts. Where's that bag of ice? You said you'd get
just a minute. I'm changing
my God. You're such a baby
here. Why don't you have some whiskey? Sure. OK.
Lewis,
what is all that blue shit on your?
So what,
what is this? 00, it must have just rubbed off.
Well, what is it?
Uh It's um just notes.
What does it mean?
Honestly, I have no idea.
What is this? Toenails?
Calvary.
It's just some crazy shit that a bum told, you know, Calvary is a mental institution,
right?
You mean like a loony bin?
Where is it? Do you know where it is?
Yeah, I think it's nearby.
What do you wanna go?
OK.
Yeah.
Hold on.
We should take this.
What the hell is that?
All right? We're in.
Are you sure you wanna do this?
Are you?
Yeah.
Why do you think they shut this place down.
I wonder what happened to
me
when they did it?
Great.
Ok.
That, that
way.
What is that?
Ed Solomon?
What?
Oh,
I think this came from cliff to
cliff.
What makes you think that a
hunch, a hunch
Lewis based off Ed Sullivan pictures?
I mean, it doesn't make any sense. We gotta get
out of here.
God,
that was intense. Yeah.
Let's get out of here.
Should we go this way? Not this way. Ok.
Inspecting the property.
Uh No, no, no, no, no, we were just uh
we were just uh
not doing anything wrong. I'm gonna have to see some credentials,
credentials. Uh Did you bring iodine in shit?
What?
Only two types of things on Babylon Boulevard at this time of night?
The scale that makes things move
and the things that are moving.
What are you trying to say? We're scared of you or something?
Not to me, honey.
That's Babylon Boulevard out there.
You should have stayed inside
live safe
cavalry.
Salvation.
They're on Babylon Boulevard. They're all losing.
You don't know how to win
and how easy it is to lose.
Babylon Boulevard
stole from a Steely Dan
song.
Ok.
But don't you think I still owe my words.
They come from the heart,
you know.
Yeah.
Take a poem.
I've seen one of these before.
Well, if you ain't a fan of my work,
no surprise here. I've been passing my words all over town. Since they set me free,
they set you free Calvary. You mean the mental institution?
The cry
was mine and the God isn't eating my friend.
Did you, uh,
did you break out
even had his g
they set us all free into Babylon?
Ok.
Le
let's go.
Hey,
donation from my work.
Sorry, man. I don't believe in charity.
Lewis.
Where do you want me to drop you off?
Lewis.
I got one more idea.
How do you know it's here, Louis.
We stopped doing the mailing list like four years ago. It's all, it's all email now.
Harlan Baldwin
while we dance.
All right. I think that's a stroke.
Shut the lights off, shut the lights off.
Listen, you don't have to come in if you don't want to.
I have no idea what's gonna happen
if you want to wait in the car. I understand.
Please
state croquet champion for three years in a row.
What?
It's ok. It's ok. Come on. Come on.
Ah,
well, what are you waiting for?
Whisper?
Are you scared? No, I just don't want doggie doors. Why? Because usually there's a
dog that goes with
so much for chivalry.
April. My bottom is stuck.
Yeah, that's because you got a fat ass.
I like this place already.
Ok.
So
on light switch,
of course.
Oh no, it's all.
Come
on.
Come
on.
No, no, no. Don't hurt them. Don't hurt him.
Poker.
April poker
don't hurt it. Don't hurt me. Who's a fat man Harlan.
He's my diabetic father.
Don't hurt him. What did you take out of the record store earlier tonight?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Poke him.
What did you take?
Just one record? What's cliff want with it? Who?
No, don't hurt. II, I don't know. I don't know what he wants. Why is it so special? Why?
That one? I don't know. He collects or something.
No, don't hurt him. Please
tell me about the record,
right?
Marcus kept it hidden and he told Cliff about it.
Cliff wanted it ever since and he paid me to get it and that's all I know.
How did you get
in the
door is open.
You lying.
I had a key. I had a key.
Do you wait,
what do you make keys? Harlan?
What are you a dumb ass? Isn't it obvious?
My father taught me how
you can put,
look, do you want to keep hurting your father?
No, no, no. Don't hurt him. Please don't hurt. We need you to make us a key right now.
OK. OK. OK. Don't hurt him.
What are you here?
Just music?
Do you think he's home?
Well, if the house is a rock
with each of us?
OK.
Not at
all.
You
hear that?
He's in the shower
with his chest. We're gonna move fast.
How long is it gonna be?
Capture?
I
You what?
Right on
they
do you recognize
who?
Yeah.
J
Will you break.
Oh, no,
you,
you
right on.
Did you let the car ride
on?
What now? Save speed,
don't you think we could just explain it to him?
We'll tell him it was a mistake.
We'll explain to him that we thought he was the one that killed Marcus.
And we were, we were so wrong. We are so sorry that we walked in arm.
Stupid.
No, they don't.
Go ahead and try it.
Are you crazy, April?
No.
Ok.
Good night, Eddie.
No,
it was great.
We'll just wait until he falls asleep and then we'll speak
great.
Hey, how long have you been playing?
What?
Harp?
Oh.
since I was five,
Jesus Christ.
What, who cares?
Did you ever think about playing professionally?
No, why not?
I don't know.
What do you, did your parents tell you? You weren't good enough?
Yeah.
That's exactly it. Lewis. And they used to beat me every night before bed.
No, dummy. They grew up normal like everyone else.
Why don't you do that instead of running the record store?
I couldn't do that.
Why? You hate it there?
I don't hate all of it.
Well, I mean, you never thought about it or want to do it even once.
Sure. I did. I just,
I never tried.
That's weird.
What's so weird about that?
Well,
I don't know. I just figured that
if you don't like doing something, you know, then you don't do it.
So, wouldn't it be the opposite. If you like doing it.
I put, he's asleep now
we're gonna be here all night long.
If you try anything with this, I will to
know. Could be a,
what is
that
I
got?
Let's go, hold up, hold up, Abraham. Let's get out of here. What if he's watching us?
He'll knock his ass out. See he's dead asleep.
April. Save it.
April. He is dead.
What?
Oh my God.
I think there's something in his mouth. Always don't touch it.
What is it called?
Lewis? We have got to get out of here right now. Come on.
What are you doing?
What does it look like? I'm doing, I'm opening up the store
for god's sakes. April. Listen, I was spooked too. Ok.
But don't go on pretending like you weren't.
But um,
it's a cheesy detective. Oh, shit. Our fingerprints were all over that place.
April. Shit.
Act natural.
Hi.
How are you?
Welcome.
It's the hipster Brangelina.
Here you go.
It's not loaded or anything.
Forensics finished with it last week.
I've just been on a hell of a bend in the last few days.
That sucks.
Hook up in my own filth this morning.
That really sucks.
The hell is wrong with you two.
Nothing, nothing, man. We're just,
she's not a morning person.
Oh,
get some coffee or snort, some coke,
whatever hipster losers do to wake up these days.
Asshole.
Have a good day, sir.
That's all.
Oh, holy crap. That was close.
I want you to leave Lewis.
What
I said, I want you to leave and never come back.
April.
It's over Lewis and I mean, it, this time,
what about the record? Yeah. And what about the record?
It's just a stupid blues song. Anyway,
Cliff killed himself. Lewis. Do you get that?
The only lead we had in this stupid shenanigan is gone?
Did you hear what you just said? You said lead? That means you're into it now?
April. None of this makes sense. I know. But
why would cliff kill himself?
He goes fake. The guy fakes going around in a wheelchair for God knows how long.
And then one night after playing a record that
he stole from our store in the hidden bin,
he takes a shower, clips his toenails for the final time and then puts a bag on,
over his head.
Yeah. No way. Jose, I don't believe it. What does this have to do with Marcus? Anyway,
April. That's what we have to figure out something's going on here. You know,
we're just,
I feel like we're just scratching the surface. Louis,
you're so immature.
These are just troubled people and you're trying to make them fit.
There's a reason why it doesn't make sense.
God can't you see that
it's over.
Excuse me.
What to do.
Phone?
What
went to the
you
back tree,
find
somewhere
to do?
Oh
Ruby.
Wow.
Yeah.
Damn it. Whoever the hell you are. Get in the goddamn house.
Look,
I
got
easy buddy.
Whoa, whoa whoa whoa. Come on. Come on
right there. Right here. Right here. You got it. You got it. You're good.
Here you go.
Cool,
nice, cool. All right
here here. Hey,
there.
Does he look familiar, huh?
Take a look at him. Come on, come on.
Um
I don't have any memory left, man. I blew it all up. Come on, man. Do you recognize him?
Come on. You stole something from the store. He and 5 million other people.
This guy, there's something about him.
Lewis. What does it matter? Ruth? Come on. It's important.
She's bleeding.
That's it. He's bleeding. Yeah, I saw that too.
What?
Yes,
you all right.
Yeah,
that
pineapple.
Pineapple.
Oh,
he likes pineapple. No. What's that have to do with him? Why does he like pineapple?
I don't get, I don't get it.
No, no.
Ok. Then what was so funny?
I,
what route? This is the kid that Mars chased out of the store.
What? Remember he? No,
I chased him in the street kid.
Oh my God. That's right. He punched his face in.
That's right. That's right. Don't come back ho
sucker.
Right.
It's
Yeah. Wow, man, you're right. Ok.
Are you coming
back to the bed
in a minute?
Initiates a call. This attitude.
Ok. Who the hell was that?
What,
Stevie?
Wait, wait, wait, wait, you're not. No, no, you're not. You're not. Uh,
okay.
Yes,
you should pay more attention.
Total mind blowing.
No, actually I've been trying to pay more attention. Try harder.
What's that?
All right. How do I look in this?
I do.
No root. Not like that. I mean, do you recognize me?
OK.
No, you're fine. It's cool.
All right,
you can take this too.
Yeah. All right.
Hey, do you need this?
Don't come back,
cocksucker
spirit.
What have I told you?
This? Sound a bit,
boy.
Hey, assel, I told you not to come back.
That's not even loaded
Tish.
Yeah.
Big red building. Big red building. Ok. All right.
Yeah.
Uh
I was watching TV the other day and Bob Saget
was on
Cool, man. What do you want?
Uh I'm here to buy a bike.
A
Vixie.
What
a Vixie.
Yeah. Yeah. A fixie. Yeah. Yeah. No, I just didn't hear what you said.
Uh I don't really hear that good out of my right ear.
Hi.
Hey, cool music.
Best Collection in Town
Spinal.
No, man.
He sets making a comeback.
Pick something.
Oh,
No, you know, I don't really like any of these. Do you have anything else?
Hey, Max,
this kid doesn't like any of our bikes.
You want to have you with the selection?
I'm not impressed.
Hey, don't I know you from somewhere.
I don't think so. I'm from Albuquerque. What's the camera for?
This is a Polaroid man. This is extinct.
All right.
I got some bikes to show you in the back room.
Bikes are through here, man.
Oh, ok, cool. Check out.
Hey, what kids, dude, there ain't no bikes in there.
I know there are no bikes in there. I know you're not from Albuquerque.
Hey, back up, back up.
All right. Be quiet. All right. Don't call for any of your friends. I'll stand
that
thing. Yeah,
you just try killing me with that. You won't make it out the door.
I
never thought of that.
All right. Listen, I'm just gonna take your picture real quick.
I'll take my picture. Get out of the cops. For what? Steal? Trash up for murder me.
Marcus. Ring a bell. No,
the guy who owned the record store down the street. I got a damn good feeling.
You had something to do with him dying
because he beats your ass. Beat me pretty good guy's a fricking
ass. Yeah. Seems like a pretty good reason to me. Bucko.
Yeah,
I'd have pissed down his store and burnt to the ground. That's my style.
I'm no murderer. All right. Listen, I don't give a rat's ass. All right.
I just drew my last chance. Crazy like your friend, man,
my friend. What are you talking about? You know, crazy sheriff.
You were doves are diving with my other night,
Murphy. Yeah. What about
him? He's just locked up in that asylum. Everyone knows that
guy's clinically insane.
You got locked up.
I mean it was,
hey, you think I'm retarded. Don't be even looking at it,
I think
retarded.
Hey,
try it again. See what happens. Big guy.
Yours
are crazy, crazy like this here. Talk about the sheriff's more.
What are you talking about?
You know, he goes around handcuffing people, stealing my food.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Are you sure you're not talking about cliff, the guy in the wheelchair. No, no.
This guy's got a big beard.
It's true.
A G
00 God.
Five.
The
guy.
So
I,
oh no,
you probably give me
too.
Yeah.
Get out of here y'all punk.
Yeah.
You, ok, ma'am.
Ah,
Lewis.
What are you doing? That bitch ass hair?
You OK, kid.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm all right. I'm all right. Freaking.
Come on, let's get out of here.
So, hey,
why'd you go in that hellhole anyway?
I thought one of those guys had something to do with my case.
Freakin.
I'll feed them Kool aid and hang them all until they turn purple.
Crazy
cliff's dead
cliff. The wheelchair guy.
That rotten toe clubber.
Did you know him?
I know.
Yeah. I mean, like,
did you used to know him? What are you talking about, kid?
Like before? Did you know him? Well, hey, I don't run with scum.
Hey, uh, can I take a picture?
Four?
Um You know, I don't know. It's just like
it'll be fun. Look, I'll just do it real quick just for fun.
I said no, calm down.
Don't,
don't worry about it.
I didn't catch that bus.
Hey,
where are you going?
I,
you give up on poetry.
This Little Rider's Black, my friend.
Where's your girl? You freak her out already?
I don't think she's got a heart to break.
Do you know this guy?
Take that camera
and I, hi,
hey,
it doesn't belong to me. Who is he
and around with things that you don't know,
it's still too much. You might end up with a lot and alone.
Kill me, man. Who is he?
Oh, they brought you dressed in blue when they let you out?
You didn't look ad a like you used to.
You were in there with him, weren't you?
Oh, Stanley, you sure came out on the wrong side, didn't you?
Stanley? His name is Murphy
man. Causes so lots of things on Babylon Boulevard flesh and bone.
That's all they say.
You can't tell me nothing about him. Is that what you're saying?
He was a natural brand of that one. Strong and tough.
The world was just too much.
Would you quit talking like that? I don't get it. All right.
He said yelling the night til he
yelled so much. I think he forgot her name,
her name. Whose name who
you sure don't want to buy porch.
What is it? I thought you had writer's block
here. I'll trade you this,
write me a receipt.
Take that
I think you need it.
Keep that hat because you're a damn site without it.
Yes.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
Ok.
Rhino
Linda,
sister. Right
on.
Well, I'm going to ride
on.
I've seen you for days
one.
Who is he?
When,
who belongs in the other half of this picture?
My first husband.
Where did you get that?
I took it about an hour ago.
You mean he's out
damn tune is stuck in my head.
I can't stop thinking about it.
Call,
call the cops.
I don't,
I am a cop, Lewis.
You've got nothing to worry about.
Hi, honey.
What are you doing here, Murphy?
Don't question.
What's the matter?
Did you forget about me? Melinda?
I know I need a shave and all but
hell, it hasn't been that long.
Why did they let you out?
I'm cured, honey.
Just like everybody else.
You killed Cliff, didn't you?
Someone left the door unlocked.
Anybody could have done it.
Did you kill Marcus too,
Marcus?
God,
you did it again.
People these days, Melinda,
they just can't carry on
when the going gets tough. Well, guess what
they get going again? Melinda. What are you talking about?
That? That's why he was sent away.
Damn it. They never convicted me. He was weak and you know it,
he was capable, capable of what?
Oh Melinda,
how I've been waiting for this moment?
I knew I'd see you again.
Murphy.
Why'd you kill him, man?
Well, one of them was banging my wife and the other one was
a dirty, filthy son of a bitch who left toenail clippings everywhere.
Now
get out of my way. Me and the missus. We got some catching up to do
and I'm not gonna let you do a goddamn it.
Hey
Murphy,
stop
what? We're not through yet.
Damn it, kid,
you're starting to ruin this thing for me.
I fucked her.
What? Yeah.
Yeah, I fucked her.
Come on, Melinda, tell him we fucked, I fucked her. Murphy.
Is this true Melinda?
Yes,
I fucked him.
Yeah. Come on. Come on, big guy. You gotta do me first.
Yeah.
Oh shit.
Stomach.
That was stupid.
Uh
mhm.
Mhm.
Yeah.
Oh
ah
ah ah ah
April. Melinda.
Stop. I'll shoot, what are you waiting for?
But there's no bullets in the gun. No bullets,
the
window.
No. Oh Scott.
Oh
oh,
not bad kid.
You know what I
mean?
Done?
Oh
00,
ok. So wait a minute. Where did you come from?
Well,
I,
I saw Harlan's truck following you when you,
when you left the store.
So I,
I guess I figured you were in trouble.
Oh, you were looking for me?
Don't flatter yourself.
Hey, watch for B
tonight. Go next time.
Shut up Lewis.
So I guess you figured it all out, huh?
I feel like it figured me out.
You guys. OK?
No,
thanks to all game.
It's a Woogie on the boogie. It's a boogie, walkie doggie. It's a bag.
Thanks for
all of you,
you
forgive me
in your feet.