Mystic River Page #4

I was no good for six months...

...but my kids were

all grown up. I had that luxury.

You, you got domestic responsibilities.

Domestic responsibilities?

Yeah, you gotta take care of my daughter

and those girls. That's your first priority.

Oh, you figured that might

have slipped my mind?

It just needed to be said, that's all.

You'll come through because you're a man.

Like I said to Annabeth,

your wedding day.

I said, 'You got yourself

a real old-school man there.'

Like they put her in a bag.

- What?

That's what Katie looked like

when I saw her in the morgue.

Like they put her in a bag

and then they beat the bag with pipes.

Well...

- Janey died in her sleep, all due respect.

She went to sleep,

she never woke up. Peaceful.

You don't need to talk about Janey.

- My daughter was murdered.

They put a gun to her. As we stand here,

she's on an autopsy slab...

...getting cut open by scalpels

and chest spreaders...

...and you're talking to me

about domestic f***ing responsibility?

Good to see you, Theo.

Eve, just tell them what they want to know.

Who was she dating?

- We already told the Savages.

The Savage brothers?

- They were here yesterday.

Good, now try us out.

Who was she dating?

No one special.

You guys were having

a goodbye dinner, right?

What?

- She was leaving town, wasn't she?

Going to Las Vegas?

- How do you know?

She closed her bank account,

she had hotel phone numbers.

She wanted out of this dump.

She wanted to start a new life.

Well, a 19-year-old girl

doesn't go to Las Vegas alone.

So who was she going with?

Come on, girls.

Who was she going with?

Brendan.

Excuse me?

Brendan.

- Brendan Harris?

Brendan Harris, yeah.

You got an address?

Hey, Dave.

Hey, Jimmy.

Sorry, I came out for a smoke.

Go ahead, sit down. Sit down.

I haven't had a chance to talk to you all day.

How you doing?

How you doing?

What happened to your hand?

This?

I was helping a buddy move a couch.

I slammed it in the doorjamb.

Ways you can manage

to hurt yourself, right?

It's good to see you.

Yeah?

How are our girls holding up?

They're doing okay, I guess.

That Celeste, she's a godsend.

You thank her for me, will you?

It's nice, isn't it? Just to sit out here.

Yeah.

I couldn't stand looking through the fridge

to find room for all that food...

...we're gonna throw away

in the next few days.

Lot of waste, huh?

- Yeah.

I just can't let anything get f***ed up

in these next few days.

Because it's all anybody

will remember about her.

One thing you could say about Katie,

even when she was little...

...that girl was neat.

When I got out of the joint...

...you know, after Marita died...

...I remember, I was more afraid

of my little daughter...

...than I ever was of being in prison.

I loved her...

...most...

...because when we were sitting in that

kitchen that night...

...it was like we were the last two people

on Earth. You know, forgotten.

Unwanted.

And it's really starting to piss me off, Dave,

because I can't cry for her.

My own little daughter,

and I can't even cry for her.

Jimmy.

You're crying now.

Yeah, damn.

I just want to hug her one more time.

She was 19 f***ing years old.

Do you want me to leave you alone?

No, just stay here for a minute,

if that's cool.

Yeah, sure. Jimmy, it's cool.

When was the last time

you saw Katie Markum?

You don't think I'd hurt her do you?

- She isn't hurt. She's dead.

I didn't kill her.

- Again, when's the last time you saw her?

About 8...

Saturday night, about 8:00.

About like 8, Brendan, or at 8?

It was about 8.

We had a couple slices at Hi-Fi,

and she had to go meet Eve and Diane.

Yeah. Why doesn't Jimmy Markum

like you?

I don't know.

But he told Katie he never wanted her

to see me or any other Harris.

What? That thief thinks he's better

than our family?

He's not a thief.

- He's a thief. A scumbag burglar.

Daughter probably had the same bad gene.

You count yourself lucky, Bren.

So Katie had some brochures for Vegas.

We heard she was going there with you.

We were gonna leave Sunday.

We were gonna get married

when we got there.

Well, that was the plan, right?

You were gonna leave me?

Without a word?

Ma, I was gonna tell you.

- Just like your father, huh?

That's my brother, Ray,

and his friend John.

Hey, boys.

- Hey.

He don't speak.

Father couldn't shut up, but his son's

a mute. Oh, yeah, life's f***ing fair.

They're here about Katie. Why don't you

go watch TV or something.

So where were you between 12:30

and 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, Brendan?

I was asleep.

Can you confirm that, Mrs. Harris?

I can confirm that he closed his door

at 10:
00.

He came down for breakfast at 9.

I can't confirm that he didn't open

his window and go down the fire escape.

Okay, we're gonna ask you to take...

a polygraph. You think

you'd be up for that?

I loved her so much.

I'm never gonna feel that again.

It doesn't happen twice.

Doesn't happen once most times.

Celeste.

Sorry, Jimmy. You surprised me.

- What are you still doing here?

I don't know.

I don't know, I just...

Did Annabeth get to sleep?

Yeah, I convinced her to take a pill.

Could I get one of those?

- Yeah.

One for the road and then home.

Jimmy, I can stay over if you want.

Sit up with Annabeth.

You've done enough.

To you and Dave for being here for this.

Okay, Jimmy. I'll be back.

I'll be by first thing tomorrow.

See you first thing.

Good night.

Good night.

- Yeah, good night.

Hello?

Christ. Lauren, say something.

'Okay. Hey, Sean, how was your day?'

Oh, me? I'm tired of wishing things

made sense.

I'm tired of caring about

some dead girl, and...

there's just gonna be another one after her.

Sending killers to jail

is sending them where...

they've been heading all their lives.

The dead are still dead.

Jesus, I...

...can't do this tonight.

I just...

I can't do it.

Bye, baby.

Because...

...sometimes the man wasn't a man at all.

He was the boy.

The boy who escaped from wolves.

An animal of the dusk.

Invisible.

Silent.

Living in a world...

...the others never saw.

World of fireflies.

Unseen except as a flare

in the corner of your eye.

Vanished by the time

you turn your head toward it.

I just gotta get my head right.

Catch a nice, long sleep.

And the boy will go back to his forest.

Back to his fireflies.

Is he asleep?

How's Jimmy and everybody?

Okay.

It's weird.

Took something like this for me and him

to become friends again.

Dave? Dave.

There's still nothing in the paper.

About what?

About what?

I don't know, honey. Maybe I didn't

hurt him as bad as I thought.

He's a mugger. He's not going

to the hospital.

Yeah.

Right.

Anyhow, it doesn't matter, does it?

I mean, Katie Markum is dead.

That seems more important right now.

I know in my soul I contributed

to your death.

But I don't know how.

Brendan Harris aced his polygraph.

Good. I didn't like him for it,

nor want him for it.

Yeah. Poor f***ing kid.

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