November Criminals Page #6

for not listening to you.

Sincerely, my intention was to help.

(SIGHS)

I'm gonna head out. I

love you, Mom. I gotta go.

I love you, too.

ADDISON:
Okay.

Here we are.

Uh, 775 McKinley.

Kevin's house.

Uh...

(SIGHS)

(DOORBELL RINGS)

Hi, Mr. Broadus.

You must be Addison.

Come inside.

Would you like something to drink?

I'm okay. Thank you.

So,

you're a friend of Kevin's?

Yeah, I'd definitely say we were friends.

Enough of a friend to

go to all this trouble?

Sorry to be blunt, but the

fact is we'd like to know

why you're taking such an interest.

Do you think the police

aren't doing their job?

- But...

- Then why are you so interested?

Well, I...

I guess it just doesn't really make any

sense why anyone would want to kill Kevin.

(PAGER RINGING)

Sorry. I'm so sorry. It's

my dad. I'll turn it off.

Walter?

Come with me.

Come with me.

Walter.

My son valued his privacy.

He kept us out of here for the last year.

We had to break the locks.

Then when my wife could

finally face coming in here...

She had to find this.

Open it.

Open it!

What is this?

You want a reason?

- There's your reason.

- What is that?

- Look at me!

- I don't know what that is!

- Why do you have a pager?

- What?

- Are you a dealer?

- No.

Were you supplying my son?

- No. Absolutely not!

- Tell me!

Walter, stop!

Please.

Stop! Please!

(SIGHS)

What do you want from us, Addison?

You want to know why my son was killed?

I don't know why.

But maybe we're just going to

have to learn to live with that.

(WHIMPERS AND SIGHS)

I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry. I didn't

mean to make it worse.

It's a god-awful small affair

To the girl with the mousy hair

But her mummy is yelling "No"

And her daddy has told her to go

But her friend

is nowhere to be seen

Now she walks

through her sunken dream

To the seat with

the clearest view

And she's hooked

to the silver screen

But the film is a saddening bore

For she's lived

it ten times or more

She could spit

in the eyes of fools

As they ask her to focus on

Sailors fighting

in the dance hall

Oh, man! Look

at those cavemen go

It's the freakiest show

Take a look at the lawman

Beating up the wrong guy

Oh, man! Wonder

if he'll ever know

He's in the best-selling show

Is there life on Mars?

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

- PHOEBE:
Ni hao.

- DELEGATE:
Ni hao.

(BOTH SPEAKING IN MANDARIN)

FIONA:
Uh, Phoebe's been... Has

early acceptance into Yale next year.

Um, excuse me.

(SPEAKING IN MANDARIN)

- Hi.

- Hey.

- Hi. What's going on?

- I need to talk to you.

- Addy, this is a really bad time.

- I need to talk to you.

Sh*t. Okay, just come on.

Addy, what? What's up?

(SIGHS)

I just came back from Kevin's house.

You know he was into

drugs? Like, serious drugs?

- Wait, what?

- Yeah.

I don't know. Maybe that's what Strauss

meant by "emotional difficulties."

FIONA:
Phoebe.

Uh, hey.

I'm sorry, Mom. Just one second.

- Addy, I gotta go. I...

- Wait. I just...

Phoebe! Please.

Addy, what is it?

You know, I never told you what

happened that day with my mom.

No.

She was fine.

Nothing was wrong with her.

That morning, we were having breakfast,

and then I went to school,

and when I came back she was...

It's okay.

She was still sitting in the

same seat where I left her.

At the hospital, they told

us that she'd had an aneurysm.

(SIGHS)

Then,

last week, we see Kevin at the coffee shop.

- He gave us our coffee.

- Addison.

He gave me back my book.

It's not the same thing.

Yes. It is.

It is the same thing.

He was fine, too.

Don't you understand, Phoebe?

I couldn't do anything about her.

Addison.

I don't know. Maybe I'm trying to

solve something that can't be solved.

Addison.

(DOOR CLOSES)

(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(PAGER BEEPING)

NOEL:
Addison. Uh...

D. CASH:
Man, give

me the damn phone.

Yo, it's D.

We got something you

might want to know, man.

Meet us in an hour.

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

Hey. No alcohol for minors.

D. CASH:
No, we're good. Kid's with me.

(CHUCKLES)

(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

So, where's the girl at?

You said you got something for me?

We got something for you. It's right here.

Just little errands, man. No big deal.

Look, you do this for us,

you get a name. That simple.

Are you kidding me? I'm

not... I'm not gonna do that.

Do I look like I'm kidding, hmm?

Hmm? Okay, well, you don't want to

know nothing, man. I'm out of here.

Go back.

Hold on.

(TISKING)

Thatta boy. Yeah.

Now we talking.

You're saying if I do this for you,

you're going to tell me

who killed Kevin Broadus?

No.

But I will tell you the guy

who knows the guy who did it.

Okay. And...

Where do I have to take it?

Back to your neighborhood.

We can't go down there, man.

Not in Chevy.

Police would be on our

ass so tough. Sniff us out.

But a kid like you? (SIGHS)

Golden.

Yeah, and crispy. (CHUCKLES)

No. I'm gonna need a little more info.

I told you. I told you.

Addy's a quick learner, man.

He's a quick learner. He ain't

even got hair on his nuts.

Look at him.

NOEL:
Give him... Give him a taste.

D. CASH:
Give him a taste.

Okay. Let me tell you.

There's a guy, you know. He

comes down, hangs out sometimes.

Smack dealer from Maryland.

He's out of his mind. He's...

You know, he comes into D.C.

and he parties at the clubs.

- That's what he likes to do.

- Yeah.

And according to our friend, Kevin

was down there to buy some sh*t.

So dealer was sitting in

his big chair, you know.

He's sitting in the room with

all his homies at a table.

You know, he see Kevin. He decides

to pick on him a little bit.

Nothing too serious.

The next thing you know, Kevin

went right back at the guy,

and sh*t, man. Like he

was going back and forth.

It made the guy look bad.

Bad. Real bad.

This kid disrespected the wrong guy.

D. CASH:
Disrespected him, man.

I don't even know what Kevin said,

but he said something

because he got a big laugh.

I mean, he... He signed

his own death warrant. Sh*t.

When... When was this?

A couple of days before he got shot.

You're saying that all he did

was say the wrong thing to the wrong guy?

D. CASH:
Wrong damn thing, man.

(SIREN BLARING)

(SIGHS HEAVILY)

Oh, my God.

(DOORBELL RINGS)

(DOORBELL RINGS)

Addison?

Alex?

- Uh...

- What the hell are you doing here?

Is this 27... I think I have the...

Sh*t. Really?

ALEX'S DAD:
Alex, who is it?

Uh, okay. Okay. Um...

Just act normal like I

left my sports bag at school

and you're dropping it off as a favor.

This for you?

(SIGHS) Just give it to me for God's sake.

All right. Thank you. Bye!

(CHUCKLES) No, you're funny. Get

the hell out of here. Go. All right.

See you later!

ADDISON:
Hey, D. I did it. What's the name?

D. CASH:
What name? What

are you talking about, man?

ADDISON:
Come on, D. What's

the name? We had a deal.

D. CASH:
Don't rush me, man.

Now, the guy we told you

about, his name is Mike.

Mike Lorriner.

He was there when Kevin got

into it with that dealer.

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