A Rising Tide Page #6

But we have an investor, he

gave us enough to get it open.

This is our moment.

We open in 10 days.

- I wanna help.

- What'd you have in mind?

You know what I

do need help with?

I need to paint this place.

If you want to invest in

this, you could try that.

Yeah, that's clean.

You're jerkin' on my brown.

I mean, now I want

to get it perfect.

Oh, yeah.

Sarah's texting me, she's

texting me, come on.

- Hi.

Yeah, it's a seafood

restaurant, come check it out.

- New seafood restaurant

from the Rama family.

Opening this Saturday.

- Hi, there, new

restaurant, please stop by.

Hey, sir, new restaurant.

- If I told you right now

you'd never have to work

another day in your life, you'd

jump at the chance, right?

- Yeah, of course.

- God damn, right, 'cause

that's the American dream,

and I gave it to her.

My wife?

She doesn't have to worry

about the bills, you know why?

'Cause of me.

Now my wife thinks

"You do what you love,

"you do what you dream".

People gotta make money.

- What's the matter

with that being your dream?

- Time to go home, man.

- I could use another drink.

Ugh.

- What's up?

- Sorry my boss

wouldn't let me leave.

- I'm so sorry, Dad.

I'm sorry I didn't do

more during the storm.

I let your place get destroyed.

- It wasn't your fault, Sam.

And, I made you

feel like it was.

More sand bags?

Wouldn't have stopped

all that water.

This isn't your fault, either.

Somebody did this to you.

Do you have idea who?

- You wrecked my

son's restaurant.

- Good morning.

Sorry, I have no

idea who you are.

- You know my son, Sam.

His restaurant was

vandalized last night.

- Yeah, I'm sorry, I have

no idea how that happened.

- I think you do.

He's dating your

wife, who left you,

you're pissed, so you did this.

- You guys are dating?

- Don't change the subject.

- You know what sir, like

I said, I have no idea what

you're talking about so I think

you should leave my house.

- Oh, we're not goin' anywhere

until you make this right.

- Excuse me?

- You heard what I said.

My son busted his ass

putting that place together.

You have no right to come in

there and destroy our property.

So you're gonna apologize,

and you're gonna

pay for the damages.

Until then, we are not leaving.

- It's your property, huh?

It's your property,

did you pay for it?

- Sam, close the door.

- If you don't get

out of my house

right now, I'm gonna

call the police.

- Call 'em.

Tell them what you did.

The cops in this town

come from my neighborhood,

not yours, son.

I've been there almost 60 years.

Don't think that I don't

know them and their fathers.

Sam, the door.

Now you think you can

get away with this.

We're here to tell

you, you cannot.

- Get out of my house.

- No.

- I said get out of my house.

- That's not gonna happen!

- Dad!

Don't you touch my dad again.

What's it gonna be,

you gonna work with us,

you gonna make some

sort of arrangement?

Or are we gonna call the cops?

- Call whoever you want,

it won't change sh*t.

You think she's gonna

move in with you,

she can move in

with your parents?

You think that's

gonna make her happy?

You're living in a

dream world, buddy.

She is so out of your league.

'Cause in the real world, in

the real world she chooses me.

You just hope I leave

a big enough tip

so you can pay your rent.

- Ah!

- Sam!

- Ugh!

- Sam, Sam.

- Sarah.

- Oh, my god, Sam,

what was that?

- He trashed my place,

he destroyed it.

- I know!

I came here to...

but what the f*** Sam?

- I know, I'm sorry, I lost it.

I just, I just, I just lost

it, he said you would never...

- That is my fault what

just happened in there.

I am hurting both of you.

- This isn't good for anybody.

I need you to go.

I need to not talk to

either of you for a while.

- How long?

- I don't know.

- Hey.

- Sam, please, please.

- Disaster happens,

you can't stop it.

The damage is done.

So we've got two choices.

So, you tear it down,

or you build it back up.

Now I don't know

about the next time.

Maybe there will be a

time that we give up,

but I don't think it's today.

I think you all want

to open tomorrow.

- Of course we do.

We spent weeks getting

this place ready.

We have 'til tomorrow night.

- Then we postpone.

Give it two weeks.

- We just handed out thousands

of fliers announcing

tomorrow night.

It's been re-tweeted

like, hundreds of times.

- We do all that again.

- I can't afford to do it again.

I'm out of money at

the end of the week.

I definitely don't have

the money to fix all this.

- Then we do it now.

If you're not

gonna get more time

then you're gonna

need more people.

It's not all about money.

Each of you know people

in this business.

Each of you have

favors you can call in.

So you just tell

them what happened.

You ask for their help.

Put yourselves out there.

And just see what comes back.

Yeah.

I told you I can't

come back in today.

Yeah, I understand.

You do what you've gotta do.

- Who was that?

- My boss.

Well, former boss.

I just got fired.

So, I'm in.

You hiring?

We are the kids that

would never shut up

Live in a house but

we sleep in a truck

Living up, livin'

in a whoa, oh, oh.

We are the kids that

will never get old

- Okay, he really

trashed the kitchen, man.

We're gonna need a plumber,

and I think maybe

an electrician.

- A lot to do in 24 hours.

- Alright guys, whatever

you need order it.

If you need more guys

down here let me know.

Let's just get this done,

we've got until tomorrow.

Let's go.

- Who are those people?

- They're my guys.

I pulled them off another job.

I hope that's okay.

Come on, let's get to it.

- Man, I was right there.

I came this close to

having it perfect.

Because even if we

do get this done,

she's not gonna be here.

I don't know why that matters

so much, but, it does.

I think I'm in love with her.

- Let's take a break.

When I was about your age, I was

working in a factory

outside Philly.

I'd been married seven years.

Then I met someone.

Her name was Catherine.

And, it was effortless.

Even though she

was married, too.

I'd never loved

like that before,

or since.

Then out of the blue she broke

it off, and destroyed me.

A few months later there

was an awful storm,

and my wife didn't

come home that night.

The next morning they found her

tire tracks were going

off curve in the road,

front of the car was

wrapped around a tree.

Then a few years later I

got a letter from a lawyer.

My wife's aunt had died,

and she was the next of kin,

her or her spouse.

I worked in that

factory for 10 years,

then suddenly I didn't have

to work for another 10.

A couple of days later,

I just found myself

at Catherine's house, I

got in the car and I just,

but when I pulled up, I saw

this little girl playing

in the front yard, and it just

changed it, I just couldn't.

So I focused on the money,

in five years I doubled it.

In three years, I'd

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