Paranoid Park Page #3

Paul and Alex Tremain.

Did he just call my name?

Yeah.

Dude, all the skater kids

are getting called to the office, man.

OK, this is Detective Lu.

Hello... hello... Hey, Lu Lu.

Guys.

What are those cuffs for?

Handcuffs... handcuffs.

Hey... show him some respect, please.

Show me respect.

Respect my...

All right... Thank you, uh... Miss Adams.

Damn!

Check... What you looking at? Huh?

Anyway...

Like she said my name

is Detective Richard Lu.

You can, call me Rich.

Or Lu Lu.

And, so you know, my...

partner and I are here

to investigate a murder

that occurred downtown...

near a skateboard park.

So the police department

wants us to get in touch

and make some contacts with the...

skateboard community.

And hopefully you can help us solve a...

a case that we have here.

So anyway... what I wanna do is uh...

talk to you guys and get to know ya.

Let's go ahead

and just go around the room...

I want to get to know you, too.

I want you to introduce yourselves.

Start here.

- I'm Paul Thrief.

- Paul.

Jeremy.

Eric.

- Christian.

- Christian.

- Cal.

- Cal.

Alex.

- Jared.

- Jared.

Jeremy.

Brian.

OK. Raise your hands...

if you've ever been,

to the Eastside Skateboard Park.

You know everybody's

gonna raise their hand...

But it's called Paranoid Park,

nobody calls it...

Paranoid. OK, so you all have.

OK, good, that's what I was hoping for.

Now of those who rose your hands,

who was there, at any time,

during the weekend of

September sixteenth, or seventeenth?

OK, um... Jared.

Yeah. Yeah, we uh...

Alex and I went there like...

that week... during the day, though.

During the week.

Do you remember what day that was?

Uh, I don't know. Tuesday maybe?

OK.

We actually planned to go there

that weekend but we didn't.

You didn't. So what did you do, then?

I went down to Oregon State.

OK, Corvalis. All right.

So... you went to OSU,

so you went to Paranoid Park?

No.

You did not. OK, where did you go?

I... I didn't want to go the park

by myself so... I didn't.

Yeah, no one wants to go

the Paranoid by themself, man.

That place is scary.

- I always go there.

- Yeah, true.

They only mess if you make

a mess with them. I always go there.

Man, whatever. I'm just

saying it has like a reputation.

OK, all right. I understand that.

Let's... let's get started here...

Hey, what exactly

are you accusing us of?

Well, I'm not accusing you of anything,

nothing at all.

I mean... this is not about suspects.

In fact, just so we're clear,

nobody here in this room is a suspect.

In fact if you were a suspect,

we'd be treating you a little

differently than we are today, OK?

What it is, is that I'm trying to learn,

and get some background from you guys

about your skateboard... community.

It's not like a community.

It's not like we know each other.

Well, I understand that.

In fact... let me flip this around,

let me give you some background here.

What we have,

is a... possible murder situation.

Will you hand that out for me?

Take a look at these pictures

and you can understand why we're here.

Aw, dude! Let me see.

Oh sh... sh*t...

Gentlemen, that's the real deal there.

It's like part of his clothes is

on the bar...

Now the deceased there was found on

the railroad tracks just outside of

the central train yard...

over by downtown.

Now the train that was involved

in this thing here you're looking at...

just before it got to that yard it,

went by...

the Eastside Skateboard Park.

- Eastside...

- So?

Eastside!?

It's called Paranoid Park here, man.

Well... exactly.

And... and you know what?

We think it's possible,

if this is a murder... situation,

that somebody from... Paranoid Park...

was involved with this.

So you think a skateboarder did it?

Check out that.

I had tried to put this part out

of my mind.

But Lu's picture

brought it all back.

This was my chance to take a moment,

to think for a second,

to figure out the best thing to do.

Woo!

Pretty cool, huh?

Next time you ride a train get

on in the same spot.

It's safer there.

If you lose your grip and you swing off,

you'll just hit the side

and bounce back in.

If you're riding here and you fall off,

you're gonna go right under there.

Woo! You like this man,

you diggin' it?

Oh quick, man, hide! Hide hide hide.

Hide, man, hide hide!

He was trying to kill us.

He had a lead bat.

Why... why can't

you just understand that...

God... you know...

Call the police.

It's OK, Alex,

you're not gonna get in trouble.

Call home...

Call someone.

- It was self-defense.

I thought about my skateboard...

People defend themselves all the time.

But never mind that...

I had to tell someone.

Maybe that was the thing...

It's OK, Alex.

You're not gonna get in trouble.

It's OK.

Get a lawyer first...

then call the police.

That's what sports people did...

Just calm down, Alex.

- ... Didn't it?

My brain could have debates

all night long.

My body didn't care.

My body wanted only one thing,

to get the hell out of there.

Oh my god!

Oh my god!

I was so screwed.

What was I going to do?

I shouldn't waste time.

I needed to talk to someone.

I needed to take an action

and get this weight off me.

My dad, that was the person to talk to.

I knew where he was,

at my Uncle Tommy's.

I could already feel the relief

of telling him.

Say name and city, please.

Yeah, Tremain in Gearhart,

please.

Press one to be connected

at no additional fee.

Happy Citizenship Day.

Hey, honey.

What are you doing home so early?

We didn't go the Expo, Jared got sick.

What did he get sick with?

Not sure.

Honey?

Hey, honey?

What?

Uh, Uncle Tommy called earlier.

He said he got a call at the beach,

on his caller ID.

He did?

Yeah, he said the call was

from the Fitch's, and...

he asked me if I e...

knew anyone of that name

and I told him that's

where you were staying.

Oh.

Did you call Uncle Tommy's?

Yeah, maybe by accident.

Well he said the call was

at 4:
35 in the morning.

That's weird.

Were you still awake then?

N... no... But... then again,

I was trying to call Ryan...

but... I could have been half asleep or,

even sleepwalking. Hm.

Oh.

Yeah.

So I have no clue.

OK.

I'm going to the mall

to check out some snowboards...

since I didn't go to the Expo.

Oh, OK. Well that's all right with me.

Uh, hey, where's your skateboard?

Oh, I left it at Jared's.

OK.

Morning, how are you doing?

Good.

What can I get you?

Uh, I'll just get a glass of water,

is that cool?

Yeah. I'll leave this here

if you change your mind.

Thanks. All right.

Hey. What are you doing here

so early?

Nothing.

Really? Looks like you're...

reading the news.

Yeah I'm just reading the newspaper.

Oh. Anything in there about the war?

Nope.

Just checkin' out the sports.

In the Metro? Yeah...

In the Metro? Yeah...

Hey, Rachel.

Hey, Alex.

So uh... so that's why you came,

just to read the newspaper?

I was just bored so I came to the mall.

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