Nine Dead Page #4

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or something? Fine.

Me and you, Father,

against her and Mandarin Duck.

I can't reveal

what was said to me.

There's nothing I can do.

My relationship with God

goes beyond my life and yours.

This is bullshit, Father.

You better start talking

right now, or so help me,

I will goddamn crack that head

of yours.

You'll do what?

I'm facing death already.

I have no fear of death

when it comes to upholding

the Lord's law.

My loyalty will not

be questioned.

My devotion does not exist

only when the situation deems

convenient.

People are dead because

of you.

You don't know that

to be true.

The hell I don't, cocksucker!

Leon laid there dying,

but at least he had the balls

to speak his mind,

even though it went against

his own f***ed-up judgment.

And now you're going to have

all of us die

because you're gonna keep quiet

behind some collar

and dusty oath?

Sully, would you turn in

your brother

for a lighter sentence?

My brother's dead.

So then your father.

Would you give up your father

to save your own skin?

I would never cross my father.

So then you can understand

my situation.

No, I can't!

It's like waking up from one

nightmare into another.

Shut the hell up, Eddie.

If Father Francis

has made up his mind,

we're just gonna have to

get out of here

without him.

What?

You're defending the cocksucker?

No.

But I got a wife to get home to,

and we're wasting time arguing.

To hell with Francis, okay?

If he's not gonna talk,

we're never gonna figure out

why he's here.

So if we want to live,

we're gonna have to escape.

Okay, we're gonna have

to take him down.

And we have to face the fact

that we may have to kill him.

On, I ain't got no problem

with that.

Okay, hold on.

What do we know?

We know Greeley robbed

Chan's liquor store.

And we know Kelley prosecuted him.

Okay, well, that's 2 out of 9, Eddie.

Maybe there's more to it.

Maybe it goes beyond

those people

who are directly responsible

for him going to jail.

Maybe he's thinking

in bigger terms.

Yeah, maybe we're not

all connected in this.

Maybe he's going after everybody

that's ever done

anything wrong to this guy.

We need to come clean.

Completely clean

about everything, right now,

all of us.

All right.

You want a story?

this old man came in

and slapped me around

in front of my crew.

Some crazy bastard

who owed me money

came in and tried to punk me

in front of my people.

I went back to his pawn shop

that night.

Yeah, I went back,

and I firebombed it.

Boom!

The problem...

the problem...

I didn't know he lived upstairs

in an apartment

with his grandkids.

That's why I deserve to die.

It was my first year

on the force,

I was working

the valley division,

and my partner got into it

with this speed freak.

It was bad.

The kid was all tweaked out,

and my partner was having

a really rough day.

The kid took a swing

at my partner,

and that was it.

He beat the hell

out of this kid.

I really wanted to stop it,

but he looked up at me.

He looked at me, and he asked me

if I wanted to join in.

You joined in?

Yeah, I didn't want

to hurt my reputation.

You know, I mean,

it was my first year out on the street.

I mean, you know what I mean, Kelley.

So you beat the kid.

Yeah, but God damn it,

I'm not proud of it.

Well, did you go

to Internal Affairs?

No.

I stuck around

for 2 more years

and got transferred

out of there.

So why would your old partner

pull you down here

if you never turned him in

or told anyone?

It wasn't my partner.

I was thinking maybe the kid

finally tracked us down

not for beating him up.

For blinding him.

That's awful.

What was the kid's name?

Alfie Martinez.

And I don't know if that's

the reason why I'm down here,

but that's what haunts me

every day of my life,

that I didn't stand up.

I didn't have the courage

to do anything,

to stand up to my superiors.

So if your old partner

is still alive,

wouldn't it make sense that

he'd be in here with us?

Yeah, that's just a dead end,

another dead end.

I'm telling you,

we're wasting time.

We've got to find our own way

out of here like Leon did.

Yeah, that worked out

real well for him.

Yeah, sing it, sister!

Hallelujah!

Right, cocksucker?

Shut the hell up, Sully!

We got to think of something.

I just thought of something.

I don't know if this

is anything,

but since we're confessing

our sins,

and there is a priest here--

All right, just spit it out,

Eddie.

When I was in college,

we had some girls--

strippers over for a party.

We were all drinking,

and I spent some time

with one of them.

We both got really drunk, and--

And you banged her.

Yeah, but she said

it was rape.

And here all this time

we thought you were so perfect.

It turns out you're just another

a**hole frat boy.

They dropped the charges

due to lack of evidence.

Mom and dad must have been

so proud.

I'm just trying to help.

I mean, something might click.

Isn't that the whole point?

No, you're getting us further

away from the point

I was trying to make.

Guys, look,

this is about the robbery.

We're missing something.

I know we are.

No, there's nothing else with

the robbery; I promise you.

What was that, Francis?

You know we're going down

the wrong road, don't you?

Yeah, 20 years of poker tells

me that's a "yes."

What do you know, Father?

Forget about the robbery!

Okay, it doesn't matter what he knows.

Shut up, Kelley!

You were about to beat

that kid to death,

and now you won't help me

kill the guy

who's ready to execute us all?

What the hell is wrong with you?

What's wrong with all of you?

Hey, I'm with you, Kelley.

But this cocksucker here

is about ready to crack,

and I'm pretty damned interested

to hear what he has to say.

I know you want to tell us,

Father.

Come on.

You ready to break that oath, Father?

This isn't easy, okay?

Just say it.

It's the right thing to do.

What if I said

that I knew for a fact

that Wade Greeley did not

rob Chan's store?

Bullshit.

Chan was the eyewitness.

Greeley didn't have an alibi,

and I had the evidence,

concrete evidence.

Did Greeley say he was innocent?

Of course he said he was innocent.

Everybody's innocent.

Nobody wants to be convicted

once they're caught.

What do you know about it,

Father?

No, I'm telling you.

Greeley was guilty.

Son of a b*tch.

What?

One of us confessed to the crime

in Father Francis' confessional.

I bet that's it.

Is that it?

Is it, Father?

Whatever Father Francis knows,

he knows from the confessional.

Otherwise, he would tell us.

Has anyone ever been

to confession

in the San Fernando Valley?

Yeah, right.

No.

Christian!

It has to be Christian.

You all saw the father's face

when I couldn't remember

the Hail Mary.

I reminded him of Christian.

He forgot

the same prayer earlier.

Remember?

What could Christian have told

Father Francis?

That he robbed

the liquor store.

You've known this whole time?

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