25th Hour Page #8

- Hey.

- Hey.

Can I ask you a favour?

Keep an eye on Monty tonight?

Just try to stick with him.

What's the matter?

He's just acting really strange.

He's going to prison soon.

How do you want him to act?

I want him to act scared.

He is scared, Naturelle.

Believe me, he's scared.

I just don't want him

to hurt himself.

So will you watch him for me?

I don't think he wants me here.

Why?

Why wouldn't he want you here?

You see the way

he looks at me lately?

It's like he doesn't trust me.

What reason does he have

not to trust you?

I'm going to go uptown, Francis.

So when you see him, just...

Cool. I got it.

- Are you alright?

- How could he do this?

Just throw it all away?

I'm his oldest friend.

What did I do to stop it?

What did I say? Nothing.

Not a word.

When he started selling weed

to the kids at Coventry,

I didn't say sh*t.

Everybody's talking about buying

from Monty, the whole school.

I knew they were gonna nail him.

I knew it.

I didn't say a word.

F***ing last ten years,

I've watched him get deeper

with these friends, these fucks

you wouldn't want petting Doyle.

Did I say, "Careful, Monty.

You better cool out, man"?

I didn't say sh*t.

I just sat there

and watched him ruin his life.

And you did, too. We both did.

- We all did.

- Monty never listens.

You know how stubborn he is.

I told him to quit a hundred times.

Did you? Before or after

you moved into his apartment?

- Not tonight! Don't start.

- Who paid for that?

I need a drink.

JD, shot.

Before or after he gave you

that platinum necklace?

Wanna watch your mouth?

What paid for the Cartier

diamond earrings? This silver dress?

Paid in full by the addictions

of others. That's what I'm saying.

You two fly down to San Juan.

First class, all the way.

What do you think paid

for Puerto Rico?

Listen! You'd never been

to PR in your life before Monty.

You told him to quit?

The hell you did.

You knew the deal

the minute you met him. Come on.

You never had a job in your life.

You live off the fat of the land.

You never said a goddamn word.

Who are you to get all righteous

with me?

Did you disown him?

His best friend said nothing

but it's my fault? I'm the evil one?

I never took his money. Never once.

How long you been saving this?

I came to talk to my friend Francis.

A minute ago you were my friend.

Are you drunk?

Tell me you don't know

what you're saying.

I'm Irish. I can't get drunk.

I know exactly what I'm saying.

In seven years, I'll be at the prison

gate. You'll be married to money.

What is wrong with you?

You want me to be the bad guy? Fine.

I'm the bad guy. Are you happy now?

Francis...

All I'm saying...

...is you knew where he hid the money.

You knew where he hid the drugs,

didn't you?

What the hell are you saying?

What the hell are you saying?

You know what I'm saying.

I told Monty when he first met you,

but he wouldn't listen to me.

I told him Naturelle Riviera,

she ain't nothing

but a Spic skank skeezer.

- Nat...

- Move.

- Been looking all over for you.

- Another one?

- Here you go.

- Is she alright?

Can we get out of here?

No. We gotta wait for Monty.

I kissed her.

You what?

My student. I... I kissed her.

Who you trying to be? R Kelly?

I kissed my 17-year-old student.

Jake. Have a drink. Shut the f*** up.

Excuse me. Could I have a water?

- F*** that. Hit him. Hit him.

- OK.

I don't wanna drink any more, Frank.

Give him the whiskey. Shut up. Drink.

- Montgomery. How's the party?

- Nice. Thanks for setting it up.

The first time I went to prison,

I was 14 years old.

Skinny little boy. Very afraid.

By the time I came out,

I had a beard.

I was a grown man.

I went back to my home town.

I found my mother.

I kissed her and she screamed.

She didn't recognise me.

I have been

in three different prisons.

Three different countries.

And you know what I learned?

I learned

prison is a bad place to be.

Seven years is a long time.

Some men will do anything

to avoid seven years in prison.

Your father... is a hard-working man.

Where's his bar?

In Staten Island?

He drives in from Bay Ridge

in a 1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer.

- Should I tell you how many miles...

- Khorosho.

Your father.

I like your father.

A hard-working man.

He's had bad luck.

Everyone in the neighbourhood

loved your mother. Tak?

Yeah. Everyone said

she was a beautiful woman.

I want to help your father.

I could use a man like that.

A hard-working man.

A man I could trust.

I could take care of your father.

You understand?

You don't have to do this.

I never said anything to anyone.

Leave my father out of it.

- I asked you a question.

- I know exactly what you mean.

I have a good job for your father.

It will help him

with the money he owes.

No, thank you.

Good weapon.

Accurate.

And reliable. No jams.

Have you ever fired a gun?

At someone, I mean.

- No.

- It's toy for you.

Not toy. Prop.

A prop for you, like an actor.

Am I wrong?

With a gun,

you feel more... dangerous.

I wouldn't know. It's not mine.

I didn't say anything.

I never said anything, Nikolai.

I swear to God.

They came after me to get to you.

I know that, you know that.

They tried.

I never said anything.

I believe you, Montgomery.

This is my advice to you.

When you get there,

figure it out, who is who.

Find a man nobody's protecting.

A man without friends.

And beat him until his eyes bleed.

Let them think you are a little crazy

but respectful, too.

Respectful of the right men.

You're a good-looking boy.

It won't be easy for you.

But remember, I was 14

when I first went. Va vyzhil.

I tattooed "survive" on my hand

the night before

I went away to prison.

And I did.

We do what we have to do to survive.

- Monty, please. Monty!

- Now we have this other problem.

Who knew you kept the stuff

inside the sofa?

Your girlfriend and Kostya.

Nobody else.

Get him up. Kostya ratted you out.

He made a call and stole

seven years from your life.

They put the clamps on him.

Instead of being a man about it,

doing his time, he sold you out.

It's not true.

- You know how to use it?

- Yeah, I know.

Good. He does not deserve to live.

He betrayed you. He betrayed me.

He stole from you.

He stole seven years.

- End him.

- No, no, no. No. Don't do this.

Shut up! Shut up. Don't talk.

You motherf***er.

Why'd you do it? Why?

You let me think it was her.

- Why tell me it was her?

- Don't...

- Why say it was her?

- Kill this cockroach.

- Why?

- Monty, no.

Why? Why?

- Why tell me it was her?

- Do it!

I have no choice.

I have no choice, Monty.

- Please.

- Why? Why? Why?

I have no choice.

I have no choice.

You told me to trust this man,

I trusted him.

Now I'm gone seven.

Clean up your own f***ing mess.

- Careful.

- You do what you want with him.

When I walk out this door, I'm done.

I'm out and my father's out.

- You are being foolish.

- You gonna let me go or not?

Remember what I told you.

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