-
- Vince!
- Hey, man.
-
- This is great!
- Yeah!
-
This is great, man!
-
How are you?!
-
- I can't complain.
- Yeah. Cool, cool.
-
Totally, it is.
I'm very psyched.
-
You should be, Johnny.
This is a great thing.
-
- Thanks, man.
- It's great to be alive!
-
Totally.
-
Shit.
-
Clear!
-
- What's up, man?
- Nothing much.
-
- You're not dressed.
- Lay off.
-
It's not that I don't like it...
-
- What?
- Nothing.
-
- So?
- So nothing.
-
- Okay.
- Okay.
-
Excellent.
-
I swear to God, man,
you get stranger every year.
-
You look good, John.
-
Where's Leah?
-
She didn't make the trip.
-
Why not?
-
We broke up.
-
Shut up.
-
- I'm serious.
- Shut up!
-
- Man, I'm serious.
- You broke up?
-
- We broke up.
- Why?
-
Complicated.
-
Why?
-
She didn't like the way I dress.
-
- Come on. Don't joke, man.
- Actually I'm not.
-
Tell me what happened.
-
I get stranger every year.
-
- Come on, Vince!
- What, man?!
-
She thinks I am a dick!
-
She sends her apologies
for not coming.
-
She says she's sure
it's gonna go, you know, fine.
-
I don't believe it.
-
She does.
-
- Why did you break up?
- Hey, hey, I don't know!
-
- Sorry, man.
- Yeah, man. Me too.
-
Well... what, is it permanent?
-
Permanent as
a dead horse, amigo.
-
Vince.
-
Come on, what did you do?
-
Why did you say that?
-
- Because I know you.
- What, you think I'm a dick?
-
No... but
I do know that occasionally...
-
you have a tendency
to act in a phallic fashion.
-
- I'm not like that anymore.
- You're not a dick?
-
- No.
- You're not a dick anymore?
-
- You see what I mean?
- Hey, I'm just asking what happened.
-
Well, a lot of things.
-
Like?
-
Like, I don't know. Like she says
I'm reckless. All right?
-
- What, in general?
- Yeah.
-
Okay, you weren't
specifically reckless recently?
-
Not particularly
specifically. No.
-
- Be honest, Vince.
- I am.
-
- Did you fuck around?
- No!
-
- Vince!
- I didn't.
-
So what happened?
-
She thinks I have
violent tendencies.
-
- Boy.
- John, I never touched her.
-
I never said you did.
-
Yeah, well, she thinks I have
"unresolved issues, which occasionally
-
manifest themselves
in potentially violent ways."
-
What?
-
I think it's fair to say
she has a point.
-
Yeah, well, no one's saying
she doesn't have a point.
-
- So?
- So what, she's got to break up?
-
She's probably scared.
-
God. Of what?
I never threatened her.
-
You sometimes present
a threatening appearance.
-
Dude, we've been going together
for three years!
-
So what?
-
So, I mean you'd think
she'd be used to it by now.
-
That's a tricky one, Vin.
-
Jesus! What's tricky?
-
I'm just saying, it's tricky.
-
Women these days have
no reason to hang around...
-
potentially violent guys.
-
It's not an attractive
quality to them anymore.
-
Too many other guys out there
with resolved violent tendencies.
-
- So I'm out of fashion.
- Look, don't be a fool.
-
Well, don't be
a politically correct fuck.
-
Hey, I'm not.
I'm telling you, you're an idiot
-
if you think chicks
are gonna put up with your bullshit.
-
What bullshit?
-
- Like playing rough.
- I didn't play rough with her.
-
- Vince.
- What?
-
- I love you.
- Great.
-
- But come on...
- What?
-
- You don't not play rough.
- I totally do not play rough!
-
Fuck!
-
Okay, man. Look, I'm just sorry
you broke up. All right?
-
I'm sorry for you both.
-
Don't be sorry for that bitch.
-
Fine, Vince. I'm just
sorry for you. Okay?
-
Next subject.
-
Well...
-
she says if I get my act together,
keep going to the meetings...
-
stop being a dick...
-
then she might consider
talking to me again.
-
Good. That's great, man.
-
Should we get some dinner?
-
I got to wait for a call.
-
From whom?
-
None of your business.
-
- From Leah?
- No.
-
Okay.
-
Hey, you ready
for your big day tomorrow?
-
- You're mad.
- I'm not mad.
-
Hey, buddy,
you're allowed to be.
-
I'm not mad.
Don't be a fag, okay?
-
I'll find somebody else.
-
That's true.
-
Who appreciates my dark side.
-
Yeah, you know, but the thing is,
if you could maybe find a way
-
to learn something
from all this, then
-
you wouldn't have
as large a dark side.
-
Learn what?
-
Learn to deal with some
of your violent tendencies.
-
Yeah? How?
-
By acknowledging
them. Right?
-
By making some type of...
-
truce with yourself,
where you're not in constant battle
-
to prove your integrity
or self-worth,
-
you know, whatever it is
you think nobody gets about you.
-
I don't think there's
anything to get about me.
-
Vince, your idea of manhood
is putting on Eddie Cochrane
-
and screwing
your girl. Okay?
-
Hey, I'm a simple man.
-
Well, it's not like that anymore.
Women want other things.
-
Yeah, well, what do they want?
-
I don't know, guys who don't put
their fists through windows,
-
who don't throw
phones across the room...
-
who don't stalk their girlfriends
across 16 states.
-
All right, all right. All right.
-
Where they got you staying?
-
They got me
over in town, at the Radisson.
-
Nice.
-
Yeah, it's nice.
-
Lansing Film Festival!
-
Yeah...
-
that and Cannes.
-
Hey, still it's a good gig.
-
It's a good cheap thrill.
-
Why you got to dump on it?
It's a good gig.
-
I got big expectations.
-
I spent two years
of my life on this film.
-
I want it to be...
you know, at a theater near you.
-
Yeah, well it is.
It's playing right over...
-
Yeah, but you had
to come all the way
-
to the middle of fucking
Michigan to be there.
-
For one screening.
-
All you need is
one of those guys from...
-
whatever, right, Disney,
to be there tomorrow.
-
They see it, they like it, boom!
-
Next thing you know,
you're directing Free Willy IV.
-
- Hey.
- Hey.
-
- Hey!
- Hey!
-
Dude, come on.
I'm starving.
-
Yeah. What time is it?
-
It's quarter of.
-
You want a beer?
-
Aren't you supposed
to be getting your act together?
-
I'll wait till I get back.
-
This is, this is good.
-
Okay, Vince! Right here.
-
This is what
she's talking about.
-
Right here.
-
John...
-
if I wanted to
hang out with my mom...
-
Well put.
-
And besides, what Leah
don't know won't hurt her.
-
What do you got going on
in that bag, Vince?
-
Beer.
-
How much?
-
A lot.
-
Jesus, man.
-
I don't know why I said
you had violent tendencies.
-
Why?
-
The warm beer,
the boxers, the Motor Palace.
-
Who needs Betty Ford?
-
We can't all be
at the Radisson, can we?
-
- You wanna come stay with me?
- No.
-
I thought you'd be with Leah,
that's why I didn't offer earlier.
-
It's not a problem.
-
It's not a problem.
They gave me a double.
-
11th floor,
overlooking the park.
-
Still, you probably
want to get laid.
-
That's true.
-
It's your big weekend, man.
Chicks are gonna flock to you.
-
You're right.
-
No. I'll be fine here.
-
Cool.
-
Should I twist your arm?
-
Little bit more.
-
- Prick!
- Putz.
-
- Suck ass!
- Schmuck!
-
I appreciate you coming
all the way out here, man.
-
Seriously.
-
We've come a long way.
-
Since?
-
I don't know. High school.
-
You think?
-
Some of us.
-
Dude, I'm totally
giving you shit.
-
- No, but you're right.
- No, man. I'm not!
-
Let's face it, you are.
-
I'm right only in that I think
you can do better than you are.
-
Why?
-
Because I believe in you.
-
If I didn't,
we wouldn't still be friends.
-
And I probably
couldn't say that to you.
-
Why not?
-
Because it sounds
totally pretentious.
-
- You're right.
- But the thing is, I mean it.
-
No, look, I'm sorry,
-
but it's like this
whole thing with Leah.
-
If it is permanent,
-
then you should view
it as an opportunity to...
-
change.
-
Change what?
-
I don't know.
Find a new job...
-
- I like my job.
- What is your job?
-
- Volunteer firefighter.
- Right.
-
How do you make your money?
-
- Lay off, John.
- I'm just saying...
-
What?
-
It's just a little immature.
-
Well, you try doing it.
-
- That's not the point.
- Besides...
-
the majority of my clients
happen to be, like, over 50.
-
Okay? So, if that's not mature,
then I am baffled as to what is.
-
Okay. Private dope
delivery to ex-hippies
-
does not
a mature man make, Vince.
-
It's no different
than standing on the corner
-
and selling to teenagers.
-
Why are you lecturing me?
-
- Hey, I'm not lecturing anybody.
- You are.
-
- I'm just pointing a few things out.
- Such as?
-
Such as, yes,
I think you can do better.
-
Better than what?
-
Better than...
-
Better than pissing
your life away.
-
Vince, look,
you're smart, right?
-
So why are you
still dealing drugs?
-
Because I am smart.
All right?
-
If I were dumb
I would've gotten caught.
-
Besides, I am a firefighter.
-
- You deal to the fire chief.
- He needs me.
-
That's not the point.
-
Why is what you do better?
-
Why is what I do better?
-
Yeah.
Why is what you do better?
-
Okay.
-
What I'm trying
to do is better because...
-
it's an attempt
at figuring things out.
-
I would like to eventually
become good enough at it
-
to the point
where I can contribute...
-
All right, fuck you.
-
Seriously,
where I can contribute to
-
a larger debate about
why this country's so fucked up.
-
Like for example,
-
why is it that a
50-whatever-year-old fire chief
-
feels the need to get
stoned every night?
-
Right? What is it
about life in America
-
that's driving that urge in him?
-
He likes it?
-
Fine, but then there's
something slightly wrong
-
with the fact that someone
with that type of responsibility
-
is constantly high.
-
I'm serious. Maybe there's
something worth exploring there.
-
His firehouse happens to have
the best record in the city.
-
If my house was on fire,
-
I wouldn't want his high ass
anywhere near it.
-
Listen, man,
you are so up yourself.
-
If the guy has a good record,
it's because he's lucky.
-
- That's it.
- Says who?
-
It's obvious, man.
He's living this big,
-
luck-driven lie.
-
- Get real, are you high?
- No. I'm serious.
-
You're making movies about guys
who rob Popeye's Fried Chicken.
-
Hey! Hey, I am telling a story...
-
which aims to resonate the notion
of where our society's headed
-
if we're not careful.
If it sounds a little pompous,
-
it's only because I haven't
fully honed my skills yet.
-
It doesn't sound pompous.
-
It sounds...
-
like you're talking
out of your ass.
-
Why?
-
Because you have no idea
where society is headed, okay?
-
You are just like
everybody else, all right?
-
You're just following
the latest trend which you hope
-
will get you laid until that trend
switches to something else,
-
at which point you'll drop the old one
and start making movies about,
-
you know, whatever...
-
Turtles getting caught
in fishing nets.
-
You don't like my work?
-
I like it, like I like
a shot of whiskey
-
first thing in the morning.
-
It's good for about 10 minutes
and then I want my coffee.
-
Wow.
-
What?
Now you're all sensitive?
-
Did I say something
to piss you off?
-
Or is it that
you're just a dick?
-
Well, both.
-
Well at least you're
finally admitting it.
-
Unlike...
-
some of us.
-
What? That I'm a dick?
-
Yeah.
-
- When?
- I was speaking figuratively.
-
When was I figuratively a dick?
-
High school.
-
What?
-
I was too shy to be
a dick in high school.
-
Hey, buddy, give
yourself a little credit.
-
I think you held your own.
-
That's because everyone's
a dick in high school.
-
It's the white male
football-playing prerogative.
-
The trick is to evolve into
something else once you're out.
-
John, you're wearing $200 shoes.
-
Okay, first of all,
that's not true.
-
What? $150?
-
I'm less shy than
I was in high school.
-
Great, so now
you're an overt dick.
-
No, I'm a thoughtful person
who happens to like nice shoes.
-
And is,
occasionally full of shit.
-
Is there something I'm not doing
that you want me to do?
-
I don't want you to do anything.
-
No? Because it seems like
I'm being asked to do something
-
by a 28-year-old pot dealer
-
who doesn't have the guts to progress
with the rest of society.
-
Which would be fine if
it was a legitimate rebellion,
-
instead of just some lonely guy
hanging out in a motel room
-
wearing boxer shorts acting
like a potentially violent dick.
-
You want to get high?
-
No.
-
Come on, John, let's get high.
-
- I'm not getting high.
- Why?
-
Only potentially violent
dicks get high?
-
- No.
- So, let's get high.
-
- I'm not getting high.
- Well, I am.
-
Fine.
-
What do you got going
on in that bag, Vince?
-
- Pot.
- How much?
-
A lot.
-
P for party.
-
A for all night long.
-
R for reefer.
-
T for turn me on.
-
Y for why not?
-
P-A-R-T-Y. Party, party.
-
Let's get high.
-
Jesus...
-
You know who's out here?
-
- Where?
- Here. Lansing.
-
Who?
-
Amy.
-
Amy Randall?
-
Yeah.
-
Tracy told me that
a couple of years ago.
-
When I found out
that you got this thing,
-
I looked her up on the Net...
-
and she's out here.
-
She's like an assistant
district attorney or something.
-
Did you call her?
-
I thought about it.
-
You should, man.
Especially now that Leah's...
-
- Out of the picture?
- Yeah.
-
I wonder if she's...
-
Still hot?
-
- Yeah.
- Not a very appropriate thing to say.
-
Yeah. Okay,
you know what?
-
Here's the thing
about being appropriate.
-
It's better to try to do that
-
than to be a complete asshole.
-
The choice to respect people
is actually a good one,
-
despite people like you,
-
who insist on calling
fat people "fat" to their faces.
-
What if they are fat?
-
If they are fat,
they probably realize it
-
without you
having to remind them.
-
You know, it basically just...
-
comes down to having
a couple of manners.
-
Is that what it is?
-
Yep.
-
Then why did you ask if
she was still hot, Miss Manners?
-
Because she is.
She was.
-
That's... no, no,
that's not a bad word.
-
If the word is essentially
a compliment,
-
saying it isn't bad manners.
-
Human beings like
to be called attractive.
-
I'm not labelling Amy Randall
anything she doesn't know.
-
- I'm sure she's smart too.
- Well,
-
then I think
we should call her up.
-
And if we find out
she weighs 320 pounds,
-
I think that
we should say to her, "Gee,
-
we're really glad we dated you
in high school instead of now,
-
because back then,
-
you were really hot.
And now...
-
I'm sure
you realize about now."
-
- You know what, Vince?
- What?
-
Why don't you just
shut up for awhile?
-
Well, I see. So, I made a point,
so I should shut up.
-
No, it's that you like
being rude for the sake of it.
-
Either that or you do it to prove
nobody can make you be nice.
-
Either way, it gets tiresome.
-
And you and I don't see
each other often enough
-
to make worthwhile
this little competition
-
for who's more
"authentic," okay?
-
It's not about that
anymore, we're just...
-
We should accept the fact that
we're different from each other,
-
and let the friendship
go from there.
-
Accept the fact we're
different from each other?
-
- Yeah.
- Would you like to make me?
-
- Make you what?
- Accept that fact.
-
No.
-
- Why not?
- Because it's stupid.
-
- No, it's not.
- Yes, it is.
-
No, it's not.
-
How else will I know
you're different?
-
- You'll just have to trust me.
- No.
-
Prove it.
-
Or else what?
-
Or else, I'll kick your ass.
-
Well, I guess this means
you are potentially violent.
-
Only when it comes to you, John.
-
You know, it's funny
how you get this way
-
- whenever we talk about Amy Randall.
- No, I don't.
-
I don't even think
you realize it.
-
- Fuck off, John.
- Okay, you know what?
-
- I'm out of here.
- Fuck off.
-
- Thanks for coming.
- Fuck off!
-
Vince!
-
- Fuck you, John.
- Look...
-
I'm sorry you still feel bad
about Amy Randall,
-
and every time you get stoned
and drunk around me,
-
- this comes up.
- Fuck you.
-
It was over 10 years ago.
-
I've explained this to you
a million times...
-
That I thought it was okay
for me to be with her
-
because you had broken up,
and that I now have a...
-
better understanding as to
the fragility of human emotions.
-
And thus,
if the situation arose again,
-
I would not let
what happened happen.
-
But these things do happen,
especially in high school.
-
And I'm sorry that
I hurt your feelings.
-
That's not what
I'm talking about.
-
What are you talking about?
-
What happened.
-
- So am I.
- So...
-
what happened?
-
We slept together.
-
How?
-
- What do you mean, how?
- How did you sleep together?
-
Okay,
-
so now this is
about that? Is it?
-
I don't know.
You tell me.
-
We slept together.
-
Yeah, how?
-
Vince...
-
- you know how.
- No, I don't.
-
I mean, I have an idea...
-
but I don't actually know,
because...
-
we've never talked about it.
-
We laughed about it.
We thought it was kind of funny,
-
but you never exactly
told me what happened.
-
Okay...
-
- So what do you want to know?
- I want to know what happened.
-
We slept together.
-
How?
-
What do you mean, how?
-
How?
-
You're gonna have
to be more specific.
-
In what fashion...
-
- did you sleep with her?
- Jesus...
-
We had sex.
-
- And...
- And that was it.
-
Was it good sex?
-
I've had better since.
-
Was it fun?
-
It was all right.
-
Was it on the rough side?
-
It's hard to say...
We were both drunk.
-
Did you rape her?
-
Did I rape her?
-
No.
-
Kind of?
-
No.
-
Was it kind of like a date rape?
-
Was it kind of like a date rape?
-
Yeah. Did you kind of force her
to have sex with you?
-
No, man.
-
John?
-
I'm not sure
what you want me to say.
-
I want you to tell me
what happened, all right?
-
You're a filmmaker, okay?
Lay out the scene for me.
-
Show me the dailies.
-
You know what? Can we talk
about this when you're not high?
-
Maybe the only reason I'm high
is so that you would get high,
-
and for once tell me the truth,
instead of changing the subject.
-
Okay.
-
It was a little rough,
-
which is something
that doesn't make me proud.
-
- Okay?
- Did you talk to her after that?
-
- No.
- No? Why not?
-
I wouldn't know
what to tell her.
-
I'm a completely
different person.
-
- Well, maybe she is too.
- Maybe.
-
- Maybe she's fat.
- That's really not funny.
-
I didn't say it was.
-
- Does anybody know what happened?
- I didn't tell anyone.
-
Why not?
Maybe you should.
-
Wait...
-
Look, I don't actually
consider it a crime.
-
It was not a good thing.
-
It was morally
somewhat questionable...
-
and yeah, yeah,
I wish it hadn't happened.
-
But it's nothing where I need
to turn myself in to the police
-
- 10 years later.
- Nobody's talking about the police.
-
- What are you talking about?
- I don't know...
-
Her.
-
I think she already knows.
-
Maybe you should apologize.
-
Jesus!
-
You think I should
apologize to her?
-
Yeah, why not?
-
Look, it wasn't even date rape.
-
It was something that got
a little out of hand.
-
I thought you weren't sure
what date rape was.
-
- I'm sorry, okay?
- Don't apologize to me.
-
I'm not.
-
I'm... what
I'm trying to say...
-
is that 10 years ago,
-
I did something...
wrong.
-
And that when I think about it now,
the person who did that
-
seems like
a complete stranger to me.
-
This dumb,
drunk high school senior
-
who thought she was being prudish...
and needed some coercion.
-
It was bad. I regret it.
-
But it was a far cry from rape. And
I don't think she'd call it that either.
-
What do you think she'd call it?
-
- I have no idea.
- What if she called it rape?
-
Listen to me.
-
I highly, highly doubt
that she even remembers it.
-
You remember it.
-
Yeah, I remember it because
it was a pivotal thing for me.
-
- Your first rape?
- Don't be an asshole.
-
Look, just tell me
why it was pivotal for you.
-
I don't know. It was one
of the first times in my life
-
that I looked
at myself objectively
-
and made a conscious decision
-
to try to avoid becoming
a certain type of person.
-
For her it may have been nothing
important one way or the other.
-
For me, it constituted
something more significant.
-
Or so you'd like to think.
-
Why are you suddenly
so high and mighty?
-
I'm not high and mighty.
-
I'm too high
to be high and mighty.
-
Besides, I'm just a lowly,
drug-dealing,
-
boxer-wearing scum
of the earth, right?
-
- You said it.
- No, actually you did.
-
- I didn't mean it like that.
- How did you mean it?
-
That you should change
your life a little.
-
- This coming from a rapist.
- You're an idiot.
-
I'm sorry. This coming
from a low-budget film maker
-
who makes movies about,
"Where society is possibly headed
-
if he could just forget about
the date rape he didn't kind of do."
-
You're seriously disturbed.
-
No, actually,
I am high and mighty.
-
I was wrong before.
-
Look, what do you
want me to say?
-
- I'm sorry.
- Stop apologizing to me.
-
I'm not!
I'm apologizing in general.
-
It's something
I wish hadn't happened.
-
I don't think
I'm an evil person.
-
No one's saying you're evil.
-
It sure as hell feels like it.
-
Do you think you're evil?
-
No.
-
So then, you're not evil.
I'm the evil one.
-
You're the morally conscious
movie-maker.
-
Whatever.
-
Whatever.
-
- All right, can we stop now?
- Totally.
-
Thank you.
-
Jesus.
-
I just think
you should call her.
-
- I am not going to call her.
- Why not? You should.
-
Just stop, okay?
-
To call her now would be
to trivialize the entire thing.
-
I mean, what do I say?
"Hey, how's it going?
-
How's your life?
By the way,
-
sorry about
the date rape 10 years ago."
-
So you did date rape her?
-
No, I didn't.
-
What did you do?
-
I coerced her
to have sex with me.
-
How?
-
Verbally.
-
You verbally coerced her?
-
Yeah, by applying
-
excessive linguistic pressure,
-
I persuaded her
to have sex with me.
-
And then, things got rough?
-
No, things got rough
in that, after a while,
-
they became
aggressively playful.
-
They did?
-
We did.
-
Meaning what?
-
Meaning that I probably thought
I was still being playful,
-
but others might interpret
my actions as being...
-
- rough.
- I.e., rape.
-
No. Rough.
-
Look, John...
-
only you two know what happened.
-
So only you two can
interpret your actions.
-
So why don't you just
tell me the facts
-
- and interpret them later?
- I am telling you,
-
I argued her into it.
-
You're fucking lying.
-
- What is your problem?
- I just don't know
-
how you can sit there
with your oldest friend...
-
- and continually tell lies.
- Okay, Vince,
-
what makes you think I'm lying?
-
Because only you
would come up with
-
"excessive
linguistic pressure."
-
Okay? That's not
a normal expression.
-
That is a sign of "excessive
bullshit," all right?
-
If you had really done only that,
you'd be more specific.
-
You'd said you told her
if she didn't put out,
-
you'd tell everybody she had VD,
-
or smelled bad, or had a penis,
-
or any of the normal
things that guys say.
-
But instead, you come up
with your typical crap,
-
which sounds...
mature, all right,
-
but contains nothing.
-
And it's bullshit,
-
because the reason why
you are where you are today...
-
is because you always insist
on getting things your way.
-
That is what you're good at.
-
So why don't you own up
and admit what you did?
-
Vince, fuck off.
-
Fine, I'll call her.
-
- Don't do that.
- Why not?
-
Because I would like you not to.
-
- Why not?
- Vince. Vince!
-
You've already made your point.
-
- What's my point?
- Your point is that...
-
nobody's perfect, including me,
-
so it offends you when I tell you
how you should live your life.
-
That's not my point.
-
- It should be.
- Well, it's not.
-
- Why not?
- 'Cause I haven't got to my point yet.
-
All right.
-
So get to it.
-
Maybe I don't have one.
-
Then I'm gonna leave.
-
- Wrong.
- Right.
-
Admit it.
-
- Admit what?!
- Admit what you did to Amy.
-
- What makes you think I did something?
- Because I know.
-
- How?
- Cause she told me.
-
- Told you what?
- What you did.
-
- What did she say?
- What?
-
- What did she say?
- Nothing.
-
It was obvious, so
just tell me what you did
-
- and I'll let you go.
- Would you stop being a dick?
-
- Tell me what you did.
- Why do you care?
-
- 'Cause I want to hear it.
- What would that change?
-
- I don't know.
- So why does it matter?
-
We know I did something wrong.
-
- So tell me what you did.
- I pinned her arms back
-
and stuck my dick in, okay?
-
For Christ's fucking sakes,
shit happens!
-
I already said I'm sorry.
-
Thank you.
-
- What did you just do?
- Taped our conversation.
-
Why?
-
Wanted to make sure
I heard you right.
-
So tell me what you did!
-
I pinned her arms back and
stuck my dick in, okay?
-
For Christ's fucking sakes,
shit happens!...
-
you're right.
-
You know? You are
a completely different person.
-
I can't believe
you just did that.
-
Beer?
-
You're mad?
-
- How could you do something like that?
- Like what?
-
- I'm not messing around, Vince!
- No, what?
-
It offends you?
-
It offends me fucking immensely.
-
Why?
-
I... I'm...
-
All I'm doing is suggest
you call up and apologize
-
for the actions of
a drunk high school senior.
-
You know that you just ended
our friendship.
-
Come on, man. It's a cheap
little tape recorder.
-
- It's K-Mart.
- Why did you do that?
-
- I'm trying to make a point.
- Which is what?
-
- There's something wrong here.
- What? Where? With you and I?
-
And everyone else.
-
So, okay, what is it?
-
Do you think everyone
should call up
-
and apologize for things
they've done wrong in their lives?
-
I don't know. Yeah.
-
You honestly think
that would help?
-
You don't think it'd just
end up being a bunch of...
-
hypocrites wandering around,
raping people,
-
and then apologizing later?
-
- You got a better idea?
- Yeah. Not do it next time.
-
- That's it?
- Yeah.
-
- You don't think she'd want that?
- Want what?
-
The tape.
-
Why would she want that?
-
To know that you admitted it.
-
- Vince.
- What?
-
Look... I doubt
she remembers it happening.
-
Well, then she might
want to be reminded.
-
Why?
-
Because if you pinned my arms back
and fucked me without permission...
-
I'd want to be reminded.
-
Don't talk like that.
-
That's what you said, right?
That's what's on the tape.
-
- This is ridiculous!
- Why?
-
Because my apologizing now
won't make any difference to her.
-
She's probably dealt with
the whole issue and moved on.
-
All right.
Maybe she has.
-
But if you're such a different guy
than you were 10 years ago,
-
technically you shouldn't
mind apologizing
-
for something that
the real you didn't even do.
-
Now, on the other hand,
-
if you still are the kind of guy
who would do something like that,
-
then I understand
you don't want to apologize.
-
You wouldn't want to come across
like a hypocrite.
-
Give me the tape, Vince.
-
No way.
-
- Why not?
- Because,
-
as you imply to me
on a daily fucking basis
-
whenever we spend
the day together,
-
I wouldn't have
the guts to tell her
-
all the interesting
tidbits of information
-
that this tape
herewith contains.
-
It'll be much easier
to simply hand it to her.
-
If I even have
the guts to do that.
-
You know something?
-
I don't really think I'm hungry.
-
I think I'm gonna skip dinner.
-
You won't give her that tape.
-
It's hard to say.
-
Will you stop being
a dick, Vince?!
-
I'm sorry, did you want
to do that line?
-
- What will you do with the tape?
- Here's what I was thinking.
-
I was thinking about
adapting it into a movie.
-
Maybe you could
help me with this,
-
and maybe I could have
the world premiere
-
at next year's Lansing Festival.
-
Dude, I'm totally psyched!
-
Listen, really
you should get going.
-
I'll just tell her you said hi.
-
- What are you talking about?
- I don't know. Shit.
-
- She'll be calling at any minute.
- Why?
-
She said
she'd call at 8:00.
-
Wait a minute.
-
I thought you said
you didn't call her.
-
I said I thought
about calling her.
-
And then, you see,
I actually did,
-
and it's cool.
We're hooking up for dinner.
-
Really, you should get going.
-
I probably won't go through
with this whole thing.
-
Unless she sees
the tape sitting there
-
and we're talking
-
and she keeps pestering me
about what's on it.
-
Hello?
-
Hey, Amy. How are you?
-
You still up
for some chow? Cool.
-
Hey, did I tell you
why I was out here?
-
Yeah, right, the film festival.
-
But the reason for that is...
-
You remember John Salter, right?
-
Yeah, yeah.
-
Well, he actually made a movie
-
that's being shown
as part of the festival.
-
Yeah, and I'm out here for that.
-
He's out here too.
He's over at the Radisson.
-
11th floor,
overlooking the park. Yeah.
-
Yeah, I don't know
how you want to work this
-
because I'm over here
at the Motor Palace on Saginaw.
-
Yeah.
-
Exactly.
-
Cool. Cool.
-
Well,
-
you know, the thing is
I don't have wheels, so...
-
Really?
-
Well, that would be great.
-
'Cause if you want
to just come here
-
and then we'll just
take it from there.
-
And you know where it is?
-
Wow.
-
Well, terrific. Then
I'll see you in a few, right?
-
Yeah, it's room 19.
-
19, right.
-
Yeah, yeah, me too.
-
All right.
-
Okay. Bye-bye.
-
Dude, do you think
I could borrow a few bucks?
-
Vince...
-
why are you doing this?
-
Well...
-
at first,
-
it was a moral crusade,
-
but now...
-
I don't know, except for
that you don't want me to.
-
And that's worth more
than our entire friendship?
-
John, come on.
-
I highly doubt if I weren't
one of your oldest friends,
-
I would even possess the power
to make you think twice
-
about something like this.
-
That's assuming
you are thinking twice.
-
There are better ways to go
about making someone do that.
-
How? Convincing him with
a really good argument?
-
Applying excessive
linguistic pressure?
-
I'm not a very moral guy, John.
-
Much less a...
-
highly articulate
poet-filmmaker, all right?
-
I can barely pay my rent,
much less
-
convince somebody like you
to stop being an asshole.
-
No one's asking you
to be articulate, Vince.
-
You pick what is potentially
the most important weekend of my life
-
to bring up something I haven't
thought about in 10 years!
-
Yeah. I guess so.
-
So, are you staying?
-
Give me the tape, Vince.
-
No.
-
- Just give me the tape.
- Why?
-
Because
it doesn't belong to you.
-
I bought it...
-
at K-Mart.
-
What's on it
doesn't belong to you.
-
Bullshit, all right?
-
I had to be like Aldrich fucking
Ames to make this tape.
-
This is the most
planned out thing
-
I've done
in my whole life. No.
-
It's mine, Vince.
-
I'm going to give it to you,
you're gonna destroy it.
-
No, I'm not.
-
What will you do with it?
Put it in your closet
-
and not think about it
for another 10 years?
-
You know, where did you get
this whole self-righteous thing?
-
It's not like you
to have a spine.
-
What can I say?
-
I...
-
am a fireman.
-
I'm not leaving
until you give it up.
-
Fine, stay as long as you want.
Just don't touch my coke.
-
Tell me something.
-
Have you ever done anything
you regretted?
-
Yeah.
-
You have.
That you never apologized for?
-
So...
-
why are you doing this?
-
It must be...
-
that I have guilt, all right,
-
for all the things
I never apologized for...
-
and that I'm taking it
out on you.
-
Okay, so then it's irrational.
-
Yeah, I agree.
-
So give me the tape.
-
No fucking way.
-
You know something? I wasn't going
to give her the tape at all,
-
except now, with the way
that you're acting,
-
it's like I have no choice.
-
Listen, you should
really get going.
-
She called me from her cell.
She's a couple of minutes away.
-
Okay, that's it.
-
Give me the tape, Vince.
-
- No.
- Vince!
-
- What?
- Give me the tape.
-
Feel free to leave at anytime.
-
Stop being a dick, Vince.
-
I won't take get
in your way this time.
-
- Vincent!
- Vincent!
-
Get off me!
-
Hey, Amy.
-
- Hi, Vincent.
- Wow! You look good.
-
You too.
-
It's nothing.
-
Hey, you'll never guess
who stopped by.
-
Hey, John?
-
Yeah.
-
Look who's here.
-
Hey.
-
- John.
- Hey, Amy.
-
Sorry.
-
I'm so sorry.
Are you all right? Excuse me.
-
- Quite the reunion.
- Yeah.
-
He just swung by to say hi.
-
I haven't seen you in...
-
- Since high school, probably.
- Yeah. Yeah.
-
- I saw you at Tracy's.
- That's right.
-
What was that,
about like five years ago?
-
Yeah.
-
I couldn't make it that time.
-
That's right.
You were in grad school, right?
-
Yeah, USC.
-
For film?
-
Obviously.
-
I mean, the Lansing Film Festival.
That's great.
-
Right, that's why I'm here.
-
- Vincent told me.
- Right.
-
Yeah.
-
Wow!
-
- Great to see you.
- You too, you too.
-
Umm...
-
I think I'm going to wait
outside for you.
-
Why?
-
It's just that, umm...
I didn't lock my car so...
-
No, what is it?
Is it the black one right there?
-
- Yeah.
- It'll be fine.
-
Just sit and let's hang out,
just for a second.
-
Come on.
-
Sit down.
Let's hang for a minute.
-
Okay.
-
So.
-
Yeah.
-
- It's good to see you, Amy.
- You too.
-
What are you doing here,
in Lansing, Michigan?
-
I guess I like it.
-
It's kind of mellow.
-
Totally.
-
You know, I went to school
in Ann Arbor.
-
That's right, that's right.
-
- So I decided to stay on.
- I admire that.
-
Vince told me...
what kind of law is it?
-
I'm an assistant
district attorney.
-
- Right. That's cool.
- I like it a lot.
-
Yeah?
-
Yeah.
-
Definitely.
It's a pretty good job.
-
So, you like, what?
-
You basically
prosecute criminals?
-
Yeah.
-
Somebody's got to do it.
-
Yeah.
-
So, Vincent...
what are you up to?
-
- Me?
- Yeah.
-
Not much.
-
I couldn't believe you just called me
out of the blue this morning.
-
Yeah?
-
No, no, I actually love it
when people do that.
-
- Really?
- Yeah, no, no.
-
I don't have the courage
to do that kind of thing,
-
and it just...
-
I just figured,
what the hell? You know?
-
But you could've easily
not done it.
-
Not done what?
-
Well, not called.
Most people don't.
-
- That's true.
- It is true.
-
Like... John.
-
I didn't know
you lived out here.
-
And if you had?
-
I'm probably one of those people
who don't have the courage.
-
You think?
-
It's hard to say.
-
It is.
I mean, it is hard.
-
Half the time
it's not even worth it.
-
People change.
-
They end up having nothing
to say to each other,
-
even if they were
best friends the year before.
-
I'm glad you're not fat.
-
- Is that right?
- Yeah.
-
You should've seen me
in college.
-
Really?
A big girl?
-
Quite.
-
Well, me too.
-
Probably for different reasons.
-
Unh.
-
- You didn't answer my question.
- Which one?
-
What are you doing these days?
-
Well...
I live in California.
-
Where?
-
Oakland.
-
Nice.
-
Yeah, yeah.
-
I'm a...
a firefighter.
-
Are you serious?
-
Yeah, I'm totally serious.
-
- That's really cool.
- Yeah.
-
- It keeps me busy.
- I'm sure.
-
A lot of fires in Oakland?
-
Average.
-
I should get going.
-
Wait, I thought we were going
to have dinner.
-
No, I never said that.
-
Okay, but why don't you?
-
I can't, I gotta get
some sleep for tomorrow.
-
No you don't.
-
Yeah, actually I do.
-
Dude, they are showing
your movie!
-
It's not like you're running
a marathon.
-
I know, but...
-
Plus it's not showing
till 2:00 in the afternoon.
-
Vince, I've got some meetings
in the morning.
-
God, you haven't changed a bit,
have you?
-
Me?
-
I remember you doing the same
thing when we were dating.
-
What do you mean?
-
Putting pressure on people
to follow whatever schedule
-
you've already made up
in your mind.
-
That's not true.
-
Yeah, it is, but it's nice.
-
No, it's like you...
-
it's like he stays up the night
before thinking for hours
-
how the next day's gonna go
-
and how he just wants
people to partake
-
in his vision.
-
- That's not true.
- Okay.
-
- John can do whatever he wants.
- I know.
-
I'm suggesting he join us
for dinner.
-
- Why?
- Because I'm sentimental.
-
I like it when old friends
get together.
-
Is that so wrong?
It makes me feel...
-
you know, warm.
-
Well maybe John
doesn't feel like it.
-
Yeah, well,
I know that he doesn't,
-
because he doesn't have
the courage.
-
It's like you said,
he lets things go.
-
I didn't mean him specifically.
-
Well, you should have.
He always does that.
-
Does what?
-
Lets things go.
-
Buddy, come on.
-
If you saw your mom
walking down the street,
-
you would cross
to the other side.
-
I think maybe next time, save
the drugs for after dinner.
-
- Are you high, Vincent?
- I'm just...
-
You know... a bit.
-
Have you been smoking pot
since high school?
-
Hey, same as drinking.
-
Yeah, but you still drink?
-
Okay...
your point?
-
I'm just saying you should
be more careful.
-
- Is it "Lecture Vince Night"?
- Who's lecturing you?
-
You are just
a little bit. He was.
-
I'm waiting for the Motor Palace guy
to come in here next.
-
It's only because
I care about you.
-
You haven't seen me
in five years.
-
You were my first boyfriend.
-
It's inevitable.
You could turn into...
-
you know, a dirty old bum
and I'd still care.
-
Really?
-
Of course. It's just
one of those things.
-
Do you want to get married?
-
- I can't right now.
- Why not?
-
I have a boyfriend.
-
- Who is he?
- He's the District Attorney.
-
God, that is so typical.
-
- Typical. Why?
- It just is.
-
Well, if it doesn't work out,
I'll give you a call in Oakland.
-
Yeah right.
-
So I should really get going.
-
Why don't you
give him a lecture?
-
- On what?
- I don't know.
-
Taking better care of himself.
-
He looks like
he's doing okay to me.
-
It was good to see you
again, Amy.
-
You too.
-
- Vincent!
- What?
-
No, no, he can't get
out of here just like that.
-
- I'll see you tomorrow.
- Bullshit.
-
- What?
- I have to go.
-
No. Listen, Amy...
-
It was really good
of you to say that.
-
You know, because
I always thought that...
-
that John was your first love.
-
I realize you guys didn't date
much in high school, but...
-
I assumed even though
I didn't know then,
-
that when you guys got together
at the end of senior year,
-
I always assumed
that was like some kind of...
-
you know, long-awaited love affair
that was bound to happen.
-
Am I characterizing
it correctly?
-
I don't think anyone would call it
a long-awaited love affair.
-
What would you call it?
-
I'd call it us getting together
at the end of senior year.
-
Maybe I was
just jealous. You know?
-
Because...
-
I mean, you know...
-
I always wanted to be
your first... boyfriend.
-
You were.
-
Yeah, I know, but...
-
You know what I mean.
-
I know I shouldn't care
about things like that, but...
-
- like I said, I'm sentimental.
- That's not sentimental.
-
- What is it?
- It's stupid.
-
You know something?
-
I agree with you.
All right, it is.
-
But I didn't know that
back then. Back then...
-
you not wanting to have sex
with me was like...
-
getting disinvited to Christmas
dinner with my grandparents,
-
which is something that
I'm very sentimental about.
-
You shouldn't have
taken it personally.
-
I know, but...
-
I did.
-
Especially when you guys ended up
getting together. Literally.
-
But I guess I blew it
out of proportion.
-
What are you talking about?
-
I'm talking about you and John
getting together
-
at the end of senior year.
That hurt my feelings at the time.
-
But according to John,
-
it was less of a love affair
that was bound to happen
-
and more like two kids
getting giddy before graduation,
-
in which case, I really
shouldn't hold a grudge.
-
Is that what it was?
-
I would say
it was more of a crush
-
that never amounted to much.
-
For you or for him?
-
For me.
-
It doesn't seem like
Amy wants to talk about this.
-
Why not?
-
I mean, come on.
-
We're all mature adults.
-
Why can't we talk
about a high school crush
-
- that happened 10 years ago?
- Fine, then
-
I'm going to let you two
have this discussion without me.
-
Before you go, I'm just
curious as to why...
-
nothing came
of Amy's crush for you.
-
Amy?
-
- Why nothing ever came of it?
- Yeah, I mean,
-
why didn't it develop
into something more serious?
-
It was not like you and I
got together afterwards.
-
I don't even remember you
dating anyone after that.
-
At least not from our school.
-
Well, I guess
it just didn't work out.
-
There's no specific
reason for that?
-
I'm sure there was.
-
But...
-
No but.
I'm sure there was.
-
All right... John,
-
- why are you so anxious to leave?
- Look...
-
this is a little
uncomfortable for me.
-
Okay, it's a little
uncomfortable, so...
-
- I'd rather leave.
- Fine. I'm here, all right?
-
What?
-
Does anyone have anything
they'd like to say to me?
-
Amy?
-
No, thanks.
-
- Vince?
- Yeah!
-
I mean, listen.
It's your call, John.
-
I can't speak for you.
-
It was good
to see you again, Amy.
-
That is so fucking typical!
-
I got to go.
-
- Hey, John...
- What?
-
Can I have that back?
-
Goodbye, Amy.
-
Oakland must be
a pretty safe place.
-
Why?
-
There obviously aren't enough
fires to keep you busy.
-
What do you mean?
-
Can you tell me
what that was about?
-
I wanted to...
-
find out what happened
between you two.
-
When?
-
That night.
-
I wanted him
to apologize to you.
-
Why?
-
So that you could hear it.
-
He admitted it to me.
-
What did you do?
-
I got him to admit it.
-
It's on the tape.
-
Admit what?
-
What he did.
-
He did do it...
-
didn't he?
-
What?
-
That night.
-
Am I wrong?
-
He raped you.
-
Why would that be
any of your business?
-
- You're missing my point.
- Even if he had,
-
the last thing
I'd want would be...
-
a taped confession.
-
Why not?
-
Because I'm not
the one who needs it.
-
What are you talking about?
-
I'm not the one who needs it.
-
All right, all right,
-
- who needs it?
- I'll see you later.
-
Where are you going?
-
- Home.
- Why?
-
You don't understand.
-
I'm trying to do
the right thing.
-
For whom?
-
For you.
-
Is that really what you mean?
-
- Yes, it is.
- Because I don't think it is.
-
- I thought you'd appreciate it.
- Well, I don't.
-
Why not?
-
Because he didn't rape me.
-
What?
-
He didn't.
-
So the only person you're trying
to make feel better...
-
is yourself.
-
Christ.
-
- Hey.
- Hey.
-
What are you doing?
-
- I came back.
- Why?
-
- Because I felt like it.
- Yeah...
-
Can you give us a couple
minutes in private?
-
- Are you kidding me?
- I'm serious.
-
You want me to leave you
alone with her?
-
Yeah.
-
- No.
- You can wait outside the door.
-
No fucking way!
-
- Why not?
- 'Cause of the whole...
-
- No!
- I just need two minutes.
-
- Why?
- I want to tell her something.
-
- What?
- It's none of your business.
-
- Yeah, it is.
- Why?
-
- I'm the one who brought it up.
- It's all right.
-
- Yeah, no, it's not.
- Yes, it is.
-
Well, I don't care, all right?
I'm not leaving.
-
- I wanted to apologize.
- For what?
-
- Vince.
- What?
-
Shut up!
-
I wanted to apologize.
-
For what it's worth...
-
I'm...
-
I'm sorry.
-
I'm really...
-
honestly...
-
truly sorry.
-
What for?
-
For what happened between us
in high school.
-
What happened between us?
-
I'm talking about what happened
at the end of senior year,
-
which Vince was trying to get me
to talk about before.
-
- Hey!
- Before when?
-
Five minutes ago.
-
About when you and I got
together in high school?
-
Right.
-
Right.
-
Tell me again what happened.
-
Do you know...
-
which day I'm talking about?
-
The end of senior year.
-
At Rebecca's party?
-
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
-
Hey...
-
what are you guys doing?
-
No, I just...
-
I'm curious.
-
I don't want there to be
a communication gap here.
-
I'm not sure
what I'm supposed to say.
-
Look, I think you think
you did something to me.
-
- Yes.
- What do you think you did?
-
Why?
-
Why?
-
Because this is
very interesting to me.
-
Do you not think
that something happened?
-
Of course something happened.
-
But are you saying you don't
remember what it was?
-
Come on, John!
-
There's some things
one doesn't forget.
-
I agree.
-
I'm just wondering how...
-
you would describe it,
that's all.
-
Probably the same way as you.
-
You think?
-
Look, the whole reason
this thing started
-
is because Vince
taped this conversation.
-
- I didn't realize...
- It's fine. I'm just saying,
-
that's why I'm here.
-
So, you're here because
Vincent taped you?
-
Yes.
-
Why?
-
- Why?
- Why?
-
Because it made me think.
-
Which is why I came back.
-
Good.
-
So tell me again what happened?
-
I think...
-
I think I raped you.
-
My God!
-
No, you didn't rape me.
-
Yes, I did.
-
No, you didn't.
-
Are you trying
to make fun of this?
-
No.
-
Amy, I know what happened.
-
- Apparently not.
- Yes, I do.
-
Says who?
-
- Me!
- Why?
-
Because I just admitted it.
-
On what, on the tape?
-
- Yeah.
- What's on it?
-
It's me confessing what I did.
-
- What did you do?
- I just told you.
-
- That doesn't prove you did it.
- Why not?
-
If no one's accusing you
of anything,
-
there's no reason to confess.
-
I... I... I...
-
I'm having trouble realizing
what you're doing.
-
I'm not doing anything.
-
This is not
an easy thing for me.
-
You sure about that?
-
- John?
- What?
-
You sure you know
what you're saying?
-
I'm saying what
you wanted me to say.
-
All right, but...
-
Are you sure you got
the right girl?
-
- Jesus!
- She said nothing happened.
-
- She's lying!
- No, I'm not!
-
- Amy!
- What?!
-
- You... you're mocking this!
- Why would I do that?
-
I have no idea.
-
But if you are,
I have better things to do!
-
I just think we have differing
perceptions of what happened.
-
I really don't see
how that could be.
-
Why? Because you decided
you did something?
-
I did do something.
-
Well, I say you didn't.
-
- So then what happened?
- When?
-
Then.
-
We had sex.
-
- Amy.
- What?
-
I'm trying to be honest.
-
Why now?
-
Because I haven't
seen you in 10 years.
-
But why now?
-
Because...
-
when Vince played back
the tape for me,
-
it hit me what I had done.
-
And if he hadn't
played back the tape?
-
Yeah?
-
Would you be saying this?
-
Probably not.
-
Or is it just that I'm here?
-
- What do you mean?
- If I lived in Alaska,
-
would you have sought me out?
-
- I don't really know.
- You should look into that.
-
Fine.
-
Maybe you were
jealous of Vincent.
-
Does that make me
sound conceited?
-
- A bit.
- Why?
-
I loved you.
-
I did.
-
I was totally in love
with you that night.
-
Did you love me?
-
No.
-
Then why were you with me?
-
I'm not sure.
-
Maybe it's the same reason
you came back to apologize.
-
- Which is what?
- You like pissing Vincent off.
-
Why would it piss him off
if it's what he wanted?
-
Because he's confused.
-
Exactly.
-
It's never too late to one-up
your best friend by telling him
-
that you raped the love
of his life in high school.
-
Especially if you can do it
in front of her.
-
- That's very good.
- You think I'm like that?
-
I don't know.
-
I have a poor record
of judging you accurately.
-
Maybe you came back
to get the last word.
-
You didn't like what you'd said,
-
so you came back and phrased it
a little more eloquently.
-
The reason I came back
is to apologize!
-
Which I can assure you
is not at all disingenuous.
-
I honestly am sorry.
-
Why? Because you had
your hand over my mouth?
-
Yes.
-
John, I let everybody do that.
-
Can you please
just tell me the truth?
-
I am.
-
Where are you going?
-
- I should leave.
- Why?
-
Because no matter what I say,
-
- there's nowhere for this to go.
- No,
-
you just want the last word.
And you know what?
-
- It's not yours to have.
- Would you guys figure out
-
what the fuck
you're talking about?
-
Vince, I don't know.
-
She's in denial.
-
- Amy?
- What?
-
Whatever gave you the idea
that something happened?
-
- At Rebecca's?
- Yeah!
-
I just...
-
I thought that later, that's
what you were trying to tell me.
-
Why?
-
Because why else would you
be sleeping with John
-
when you were supposed
to be dating me?
-
You and I had already broken up.
-
Yeah, but we hadn't even
slept together.
-
- So why would you be with him?
- It's none of your business.
-
Okay, fine,
but it's partly why...
-
- I thought something happened.
- You mean,
-
if I wasn't sleeping with you,
-
why would I be sleeping
with someone else?
-
Yeah.
-
I guess.
-
I thought something like that.
-
I'm going to go.
Vince,
-
maybe I'll see you
tomorrow. Amy,
-
I'm truly sorry.
-
I'm sorry you're not in a place
where you can hear that.
-
- I hope you have a good life.
- Why did you just say that?
-
- Say what?
- I'm not in a place
-
where I can hear that.
-
Because you don't seem
to realize I'm serious.
-
I don't know how else
to put this.
-
And if it really were
no big deal for you,
-
it was for me.
-
And I want you to know
that I'm sorry it happened.
-
Well, you should be.
-
I hope you die for it
and go to hell.
-
And if there's no hell, I hope you
suffer on your way to death.
-
My hope is that your last
living sensation
-
be that of a steel rod
being shoved
-
repeatedly up your insides,
-
so that it batters your heart
and punctures your stomach.
-
Is that along the lines
of what you wanted?
-
?
-
I don't know what
you want me to say to you.
-
Nothing.
-
So was I right?
-
Yes.
-
This is Amy Randall
from the DA's office.
-
Could you please
dispatch a squad car
-
over to the Motor Palace
on Saginaw, room 19?
-
There appears to be
a significant amount
-
of illegal
substance in the room.
-
It appears to be cocaine.
-
Yes.
-
Yes. Could you also
please run a check
-
on one of
the two gentlemen here?
-
Mr. John Salter.
-
S, as in Sally, A-L-T-E-R.
-
Possible history
of sexual misconduct,
-
including a verified first
degree CSC 10 years prior.
-
Yeah.
-
Nope.
-
Yes.
-
Thank you.
-
You two can make a run
for it if you'd like.
-
Did you really just do that?
-
The average response time
in Lansing is four minutes.
-
One of the top departments
in the country.
-
Why does this
have to be like this?
-
Because if you're
truly repentant,
-
then you should be willing
to pay the price.
-
Why can't you just accept
the fact that I'm sorry?
-
It does me no good.
-
- Is that my fault?
- No.
-
It's just the way it is.
-
But I'm the one who has to run out
of here like a criminal?
-
- That's up to you.
- Because I'm not going to.
-
Is that because you think
-
the statute of limitations
has run out?
-
I have no idea.
-
There is none for
a sexual misconduct felony.
-
Just to let you know.
-
All right, listen.
-
I don't feel like getting busted
for a couple of lines.
-
Then I'll see you later.
-
Just do me a favor
and leave that tape behind.
-
So I can give it to Officer
Friendly when he gets here.
-
You want me
to give you the tape?
-
Yeah.
-
You don't need his permission.
-
I feel like I do.
-
You didn't need
his permission to make it,
-
so why do you need it now?
-
Protocol?
-
Fine.
-
Well, I guess I'll just
have to stay here
-
- and tell them myself.
- Jesus!
-
Dude, it might be in
your best interest to come with me.
-
I'm staying.
-
Why?
-
If this is the only way
she knows how to deal with this,
-
- then this is what should happen.
- What about me?
-
What about you?
-
I didn't really do
anything wrong!
-
You're in possession of
an illegal substance.
-
I was just trying
to blow off a little steam.
-
You should have
blown it off with beer.
-
I did!
-
I was just trying
to blow it off a little extra.
-
You'd better go.
They're on their way.
-
Come with me.
-
No.
-
Don't be an idiot, all right?
-
They will arrest you.
-
All right,
is this really what you want?
-
John's a big boy.
-
He can make his own decisions.
-
All right, fine, fuck it.
-
- Hey, I'm out of here.
- Thanks, Vince.
-
What?
-
Thanks.
-
- For what?
- For all your honesty.
-
Okay, what does that mean?
-
Nothing.
-
I'll see you later.
-
No! Fuck!
-
Fuck! God!
-
Shit.
-
Did you really call the police?
-
No.
-
Jesus Christ!
-
Sorry.
-
Why did you do that?!
-
I felt like it.
-
You are so fucked up!!
-
God!
-
What did you expect?
-
Fine,
-
but do you have any idea
how much those cost?
-
There'll be other drugs.
-
I know.
-
But I...
-
I really liked those ones.
-
Good luck tomorrow.
-
Thank you.
-
You're welcome.
-
Goodbye, Vincent.
-
Goodbye, Amy.
-
It was good to see...