Blood Father Page #6

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Where does that get us?

I took all of my stepdad's pills

when I was 12.

Girls take pills when they want

somebody to find 'em.

I tried to hang myself

when I was 10-years-old.

Well, that didn't work very well.

Do you understand

what I'm trying to tell you?

- Yeah, sure, congratulations.

- I was 10-years-old!

Yeah, I knew a 10-year-old kid.

Killed his whole family with a rock.

What the f*** does that mean?

Why don't you ever listen to me?

I'm listening, okay?

- Look, feel this, right up here.

- No.

Yes. Come on, it's important.

Feel it, come on.

Oh, my God! What is that?

Yeah, drove my bike off a cliff

on the PCH, split my head wide open.

Now, the point is, I meant to do it.

But they saved my ass anyway

and that's a steel plate in my head.

- And look at this.

- No, I don't want to.

You're a f***ing cyborg.

I opened up my wrist in prison,

then I got sepsis.

Spent two months in the prison hospital

watching game shows

and then I really wanted to kill myself.

All right, you win.

No, no, no. There's no winning or losing.

You either wanna wake up in the morning,

or you don't.

And if you can't find

a way to live with yourself,

well then, why run?

Why come to me? Why do any of this?

- I don't wanna die.

- What was that?

I don't wanna die.

That's right. You don't wanna die.

'Cause you're a 17-year-old kid

and you got a lot to live for. Okay?

You may not wanna wake up tomorrow,

but the day after

that might just be great.

Might be the best f***ing

day of your life, you know?

You don't wanna miss it, right?

[DOOR OPENS]

Great, keep doing the hair.

I'll be back in an hour or two,

I got a meeting.

I need to talk to an old friend.

If something happens to you,

how am I gonna know?

I'll give you Kirby's number, okay?

If something happens, you call Kirby...

So, if we get separated,

I'm supposed to call your sponsor?

Kid, look.

This is something I really need to do.

I promise I'll come back.

I'll be back before you're a blonde, okay?

- Okay.

- See ya.

[DOOR OPENS]

[PRISON DOOR BUZZES]

I lost my ID.

Here to see Rios.

I know.

[MACHINE BEEPS]

[VIBRATING]

[CELLPHONE RINGING]

- Dad?

- [KIRBY] Lydia?

Kirby? What happened?

[KIRBY] Is your father there?

No, he's not back yet. Did he call you?

Yeah, earlier, he did.

He told me you were in Yuma.

Listen, I'm worried about him,

I'm worried about both of you.

Is he in trouble?

I don't think it's safe

for you to be there alone.

I think you should go to a public place,

someplace crowded.

Don't trust anybody, Lydia.

Stay in a crowd. Listen to your instincts.

[DOOR BUZZING]

You missed me so much, I have to

pull strings to get you back inside?

Conjugal visit. Kiss me, no tongues.

[DOOR BUZZING]

- How are ya?

- [LAUGHS]

You are one ugly dude.

- Sh*t! You look like a public defender.

- Yeah.

- Please grow back the beard, please!

- I need your help, man.

Yeah, you need me to

teach you to tie a tie.

No, no, no. It's my little girl.

That guy I asked you about.

Did you get the message?

Nephew of Alfonso Angel-Diaz. El Padrino.

Still running the family business

from his cell in Juarez.

The kid was keeping

stash houses for him in LA.

The cartel sent him

there to get rid of him.

He was too loud, too proud,

causing problems with the family.

Well, he was causing problems

for my little girl, too.

He's not with us anymore.

So, you don't need a paternity test?

No, but I do need protection for her.

Any of his crew sets foot inside,

they won't make it across the yard.

Yeah, but there's some

professional on her tail.

Some cleaner from south of the border.

This punk accused her of stealing.

Now, I thought it was just

his guys that wanted her dead,

but it's more than that. Why would

they send this kind of firepower?

Don't you get it, bro?

Jonah was taking the money

and I'm not talking a few grand,

I'm talking millions.

And he was pinning it on her

and his other tenants.

Okay.

Thought she was an easy f***ing mark.

But you know what? He's lucky he's dead.

'Cause what they would do to him,

be a lot worse, bro.

A lot worse.

Anybody sets foot on the inside,

I'll deal with it.

You need a line to El Padrino,

I'll get it for you.

But you gotta teach

your girl some judgment.

Then you gotta teach her how to hide.

She gotta live right,

brother, clean and straight.

'Cause people like this,

they can see in the dark.

You got to teach her

how to stay in the sunlight.

[BOTH SPEAKING SPANISH]

Stay loose, bro.

Get loose.

Doing my best.

[GUNSHOTS FIRING]

- [MAN IN MOVIE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

- [CELLPHONE RINGING]

Hello.

[JONAH] Lydia?

You didn't expect it to be me?

Jonah?

How's the movie?

What movie?

You always lie like a child.

I can see you right now. I'm watching.

No, you're tracking my phone.

[JONAH] You think I'm using a f***ing app?

You have no idea what I lived through.

Underground doctors, blood transfusions.

I don't ever get to live

in the regular world anymore.

I'm sorry.

[JONAH] F*** you. We're so far past that.

But you want to see your father again?

You come talk to me face to face.

You're lying.

Turn around.

I didn't know what I was doing, Jonah.

It's like I wasn't even there.

I can't live with myself, okay?

I don't know what else I can say to you.

I was good to you, Lydia.

I put you in a nice place.

I gave you everything you needed.

I took better care of you

than anybody in your life.

And you tried to kill me.

Look, come...

[GROANS]

This is still bleeding.

Come here.

No.

I have your name on my heart

and you can't even come close to me?

Where is he?

You try to run,

and we're gonna have to kill you.

[GASPS]

Hey!

- Lydia!

- [GRUNTS]

[GROANS]

- [DIALING TONE]

- Come on, kid. Pick up.

Where are you, kid? Come on.

[GROANS]

Okay.

[KEYS BEEPING]

[GRUNTS]

Come on, Kirby, come on.

[CELLPHONE RINGING]

Kirby! What're you doing, man?

What's happening? Kirby?

Good news, old man.

Your sponsor says

you should start drinking again.

Who the f*** is this?

Talk to your friend.

Hello? Kirby?

Sorry, Johnny. I did my best.

[GUNSHOTS FIRING]

The f***? Kirby?

Kirby?

You had a snitch for a sponsor, old man.

You know who I am?

I know your daughter better than you do.

You should've taught her

to shoot straight.

So, you're not dead.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

You just killed the best f***ing friend

I ever had, motherf***er!

No, that's no friend.

You fill him with a bottle of tequila

and he can't keep a secret.

Where's Lydia? You got Lydia?

Where the f*** is Lydia?

She might be dead.

No. No, she's not.

You're a f***ing psycho,

but you know one thing.

She's the last streak of sunlight you're

ever gonna see in your whole f***ing life.

Shut the f*** up.

You know nothing about me.

Yeah, I do. I know all about you.

That's why you're gonna

stay on the f***ing phone.

Whatever you're gonna do with Lydia,

you need to do something else first.

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