Next of Kin Page #2

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you ever hear of a hillbilly cop?

I did what I had to do.

It was clean. Am I right, Frank? Clean?

Bottom line is,

did we get what we wanted here?

I'm supposed to meet Northside's

lawyers at 3 to discuss our proposal.

That's good. That's real good.

- Relax, Frank. Quit worrying.

- I'm paid to worry.

Not the first time

you've made me anxious.

You do your job and I'll do mine.

Go home, Frank. Get some sleep.

Good night, Frank.

You shot him in cold blood, Joey.

Did Lawrence tell you that?

PappaJohn,

you gave me two instructions:

Teach him the business...

...and take care of him.

Joey.

Thanks.

Jessie.

You best wait here, hon.

They ain't real quick with strangers.

- I'm your wife.

- No, I ain't talking about you, honey.

I'm talking about me.

- Okay?

- Okay.

- Grandpa.

- Truman.

Briar.

Goddamn it, you're still brothers,

ain't you?

Truman.

- Truman.

- Cousin Hollis. Snake.

- Uncle Pierce.

- Truman.

Cousin Selkirk.

- Uncle De Witt.

- Truman.

Get the fella that killed him?

No, sir, not yet. They're working on it.

Is that your wife?

Her name's Jessie.

I wanna thank you

for being good to Gerald.

His letters, they all said

you made him feel at home.

How'd you and Truman meet?

At a church.

Truman in church?

Actually, he was investigating a robbery.

Truman says you play the fiddle.

I teach violin.

Yeah, you know where it is.

- Would you?

- Now?

Why, sure. While we're waiting.

Sure.

Wait, can I have that?

Come on in.

- What you looking at? Lt ain't changed.

- Gotten dirtier.

- Got another one of those?

- Refrigerator.

- You get good reception on that dish?

- Only when the TV ain't busted.

- Nice trophy. It ain't season yet, is it?

- Bow season.

Got it about two weeks ago.

Kind of hoping Gerald and me was...

So where's the coal truck?

- Bank took it when the mine shut down.

- When was this?

About the same time Gerald went north.

It kind of makes sense, don't it?

- Briar, he never told me.

- That's because I told him not to.

He wanted me to go, Chicago. Sh*t.

Not me, brother. I been there

and you can have it.

I wouldn't wanna leave

these accommodations either.

At least it's my place.

I still own the land it sits on.

I can open the door in the middle of

the night and take a piss on it if I want.

Don't worry about paying for the funeral.

I'll take care of it.

Is that what you come down here to talk

to me about, paying for his funeral?

No, it ain't.

Goddamn it, Briar, you act like

it don't bother me about Gerald.

Don't you think I ask myself 100 times

a day what I could have done to stop it?

You tell me what I could have done.

It ain't what you could've done,

it's what's gotta be done!

Briar.

Rosie. Rosie.

- So how are you handling all this?

- Better.

You can do better than that.

Try again.

You're doing pretty good.

My daddy said you used to be good

with a bow and arrow...

...before you went off to the city

and forgot everything.

"Forgot everything"?

I've seen this man shoot a hummingbird

out of the sky at 75 yards.

You ever heard of William Tell? This man

makes William Tell look like a beginner.

- Show us.

- Yeah, show us.

- Sure.

- Come on.

- Why, thank you, darling.

- You're welcome, darling.

You know paybacks are a b*tch,

don't you?

Can I borrow this?

Good luck.

I just wanna say good luck.

Oh, my God.

Now your turn.

Lock your arrow.

Now put three fing... Yeah, good.

Put that into first... Yeah, yeah.

Now put that finger up. Keep that finger

down. Let your breath out as you let go.

All right, congratulations.

You just got a 10-point buck.

No, sir. I just killed the man

that shot Uncle Gerald.

Wait up.

It's yours this time, Briar.

And if any mischief follows,

then I shall give...

...an eye for an eye, a tooth

for a tooth, a hand for a hand...

The Chicago police will catch

Gerald's killer...

...but we gotta give them time.

- We know about cities, Truman.

We all either lived in one

or got kin there.

And we knows about

your police there too.

Ask anybody here if your big-city cops

ever cared about us, living or dead.

I'll grant you we ain't perfect,

but we are gonna find Gerald's killer.

And as soon as we make a case,

he is going up for murder one.

Damn it, man! He was our brother.

A life for a life.

- Amen.

- Amen.

Amen.

- Hi.

- Hey.

What case are you working on?

These are some of the boys

that might have killed Gerald.

Why did Tony let you have them?

Homicide's running out of leads.

And they haven't been able to find

David Jenkins, Gerald's friend.

These guys may be the reason.

Did they ask for your help?

No.

Jessie.

If Briar kills one of these men,

they'll kill him.

I've already lost one brother.

I can't lose my other.

No, no. I don't give a f***

about the dock situation.

As long as lsabella's happy,

everybody's happy.

Hey, Leo, I owe you a fin.

You know that, don't you? Excuse me.

What the hell's that?

Closed-circuit TV for security.

Lawrence is putting it in.

- Lawrence, huh?

- Yup.

- Tell them not to put one in my office.

- Okay.

Hey. Hey.

I ordered a leather sofa.

- You Lawrence lsabella?

- Man, just put it down here. Easy.

No, his office is down there.

This is my office. See?

- What the f*** is this?

- That's good. Right under the painting.

Lawrence, what are you doing?

This is my office.

Come on, Joey, I need the one

by the stairs. I'm here all day.

It's okay. I cleared it with Dad.

Besides, you're never here, so it's...

Hey.

Can I help you?

I need some ID.

All right, go ahead.

This isn't my office.

No f***ing way.

It wasn't for me, he wouldn't

be getting to play businessman.

Hey, who are you?

My name's Truman Gates.

I'd like to talk to somebody...

...about that driver who was killed.

He was my brother.

- Now who are you?

- Who am I?

Yeah.

This is Mr. Rosselini.

I'm Lawrence lsabella.

We now operate the business.

Wait. Isabella?

- No, you ain't kin to Johnny lsabella?

- Yeah, he's my father.

No kidding. Well, I'll be danged.

Can we help you?

Yeah, I think maybe you can.

And I'm sure all your employee records

are up-to-date.

I take it the police haven't been able

to locate this David Jenkins.

If you ask me, nobody's looked

in the right place yet.

Maybe he took a vacation.

- I appreciate your help, Mr. Isabella.

- Yeah.

Did you find

what you were looking for?

I don't know yet. We'll see, won't we?

Think he figured out

where Jenkins is?

Well, if he did,

I just gave you a way to find out.

- Lawrence, you handled that real well.

- Thanks.

We might just make a good team.

Tell Leo to get the car.

Yeah, we make a great team, Joey.

- He's taking us to the projects.

- No sh*t. Shut up and keep with him.

Hey, kid, you see a white guy come

through here a couple of seconds ago?

One fifty-two.

One fifty-two? Okay.

Hey, there ain't no 152.

Hey, look at our f***ing car!

- My car!

- Come on, come on.

Sure sounds like a fun place.

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