Proud Mary Page #5

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You're acting crazy. Stop it.

You know how much I love you.

Well, if you love me...

...Benny, let me go.

Please let me go.

No.

You ungrateful b*tch.

Debt?

You don't owe me a debt.

I own you.

And you're not going anywhere.

You're gonna stay in the family

and work for me.

And you will train Danny

to work for the family...

...just like I trained you.

If you leave...

...we will find you and the boy.

So you see?

You're not going anywhere.

Now...

...look at me...

...and tell me that you understand.

Mary...

...I need you to look at me...

...and tell me you understand.

I understand.

[CRIES SOFTLY]

[MEN GRUNT]

[TIRES SQUEALING]

Of course.

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[]

- Where is he?

MAN:
Upstairs in his office.

- Cops know yet?

- No, not yet.

Shut this place down. No calls in or out.

- Nobody talks to nobody.

- You got it, Tom.

[]

- Give me a second.

MAN:
Everybody out.

- Tom.

- Not now.

Sorry, boss, but I think

you're gonna wanna hear this.

Jerome.

Get in here.

Tell him what you saw.

- A kid.

- What kid?

JEROME:

One of Uncle's boys.

I was outside,

unloading the last of the containers...

...and I seen this kid come

into the warehouse.

He talked to Rick and Maurice.

Maurice made a call

and let him come upstairs.

And?

About 10 minutes later,

all of a sudden I see this kid...

...come running down

like the place was on fire.

You sure?

Yeah.

Pulled a gun on me once.

And he was alone?

Yeah, as far as I could tell.

Yeah, okay.

Hey.

So it's true what Benny said?

About my father.

Danny...

...there's not a moment...

...of my life that I don't regret that hit

on your father.

Mom left that son of a b*tch

when I was 7.

The only thing

she forgot to take was me.

She forgot to take me.

But he said you're only

taking care of me out of guilt.

No, that's not true.

All right, maybe it was at first.

But it's not now.

You lied to me.

I mean, you don't care about me.

- I do.

- No, you don't.

Danny, I do. I care about you, okay?

That's why I found you.

How?

How'd you find me?

A photo from your house...

...from that day.

I saw you too.

[SNIFFLING]

So I asked around...

...and eventually, I found out

you were one of Uncle's boys.

So I started watching you.

I didn't know

how I was gonna approach you, so...

...that day, when I saw you in the...

In the alley, hurt...

I can understand if you hate me, Danny.

I can understand if you want me dead.

But they're gonna come after you.

[PHONE BUZZING]

They're gonna come after you.

You gotta let me fix this, okay?

We gotta go. Come on.

[]

All right. Stay in the car.

If you see anyone,

hit the horn three times.

- Got it?

- I got it.

Be back.

[PHONE BUZZING]

[CAR ALARM BLARING]

Sh*t!

- Where you going?

- Hey! Get your hands off me.

- Calm. Calm down.

- Mary!

[PHONE BUZZES]

MAN:

I got the kid.

Says she's expecting us.

I'm sure she is.

Bring him here. We got what she wants.

Let her come get him.

What I'm having a hard time believing...

...is you walked in here...

...and killed him alone.

[]

Look at me!

I didn't kill your old man.

- You a**hole.

TOM:
Yeah.

I was afraid of that.

Take him upstairs.

Make sure he stays there.

MAN:

Let's go, kid.

DANNY:
She's still coming for me.

MAN:
Come on.

- She's still coming for me.

MAN:
Move. Shut up.

[PHONE BUZZES]

Damn.

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[]

Tom, that b*tch is acting

like she done lost her goddamn mind.

I want every man we got

at every entrance to this place.

I left a good job in the city

Let's go! Let's go!

And I never lost

One minute of sleepin'

Worryin' 'bout the way

Things might have been

- Big wheel, keep on turnin'

- Turnin'

- Proud Mary, keep on burnin'

- Burnin'

Rollin', rollin'

Rollin' on the river

Said we rollin', rollin'

Rollin' on the river

All right

Oh, I cleaned

A lot of plates in Memphis

And I pumped a lot of 'tane

Down in New Orleans

But I never saw

The good side of the city

Till I hitched a ride

On a riverboat queen

- Big wheel, keep on turnin'

- Turnin'

- Proud Mary, keep on burnin'

- Burnin'

Rollin', rollin'

Rollin' on the river

I tell you, we rollin', rollin'

Rollin' on the river

All right

Yeah

[GUNSHOTS]

If you come down to the river

I bet you gonna find

Some people who live

And you don't have to worry

If you got no money

People on the river

Are happy to give

- Big wheel, keep on turnin'

- Turnin'

- Proud Mary, keep on burnin'

- Burnin'

And we rollin', said we rollin'

And we rollin' on the river

- Tell me one more time

- Rollin'

- Yeah, all right

- Rollin'

- Rollin' on the river

- Ooh, yeah

Yeah, all right

Yeah

[BOTH GRUNTING]

Oh, I cleaned

A lot of plates in Memphis

And I pumped a lot of 'tane

Down in New Orleans

But I never saw

The good side of the city

Till I hitched a ride

On a riverboat queen

- Big wheel, keep on turnin'

- Turnin'

- Proud Mary, keep on burnin'

- Burnin'

And we rollin', we rollin'

We rollin' on the river

I tell you, we rollin', rollin'

Rollin' on the river

[GRUNTS]

All right, yeah

- Rollin'

- Yeah

- Rollin' on the river

- All right, now

Rollin', rollin'

Rollin' on the river

[GUNSHOTS]

Yeah, all right

[PANTING]

TOM:

Mary.

You really f***ed up.

[MUFFLED GASP]

[]

[MOUTHING]

Where is he?

You okay?

TOM:

You killed Uncle.

I asked myself, "Why would you

do something so stupid?"

Tom, I'm leaving out of here,

and I'm taking the kid.

TOM:

I can't let that happen.

MARY:

Come on, Tom.

He didn't do anything.

Let him go.

We can settle this without hurting the kid.

Danny.

I want you to get up

and run out of here...

- Not without you.

- Don't do it, kid. Stay where you are.

I said, get up and go.

- Go!

- Sit down!

- I'll do it. I swear, I will.

- No, you won't, Tom.

You and I both know you can't.

Listen to me.

I need you to hear me.

I'm only gonna say this once.

I'm walking out of here,

I'm gonna find Danny...

...and I'm leaving.

I'm never coming back.

So if you wanna stop me,

you gonna have to kill me.

If it weren't for this family...

...your family, Mary...

...the old man taking you

off the streets...

...you'd be a guttersnipe

servicing cabbies for smack.

News flash, Mary: you ain't

the mothering type.

You're pathetic.

Don't turn your back on me.

Do not walk away from me.

I will drop you, Mary!

[]

News flash, a**hole:

I am the mothering type.

[]

Danny?

Danny?

Danny!

Danny!

Danny!

Danny...

[CRYING]

[]

- What the hell happened to the door?

- I did that saving your ass.

- Well, you took your damn sweet time.

- Hey, your mouth.

Workin' for the man

Every night and day

So where we going?

Anywhere you want to, kid.

How about someplace warm and nice?

Now, I like that.

Let's do it. Heh.

Buckle up.

You buckle up.

- You ain't even got a damn door.

- Hey, your mouth.

I'm gonna buckle up your lips.

Let's get out of here.

And we're rollin'

Rollin', yeah

Rollin' on the river

The river

I left a good job in the city

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