Stone Page #6

and smilin' at people.

I'm gonna pop off.

I'm gonna lose my temper, and--

and say sh*t and do sh*t

that I'm gonna regret, whatever.

I just-- I just--

I am who I am, you know?

And that's okay.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Jack:

No. No, I'm afraid l don't.

Stone:
Well, I told you

I couldn't explain it really.

~ Madylyn:
Are you okay?

- Yeah. My back.

- I'm gonna go sleep in the other room.

- Oh.

Male radio host:

You can take great comfort in that,

but that can be a false comfort.

Sometimes in the twilight

of a civilization,

there can be a great

cultural flowering,

but in reality, there are cracks

in the foundation of that society

and that society is doomed.

If you really want to know,

I think it's some kind of

play-acting or something.

It's all bullshit?

No. No. Look, Stoney's just...

You know.

I mean, he's screwed up.

He's got weird ideas about things.

Sometimes really weird.

But, I mean,

he's always been that way.

Jack:
Talkin' to him,

he almost seemed like...

Like what?

Something-- really,

I don't know. Different.

( chuckles)

No.

Look, he-'s just trying

to impress you, you know,

trying to do whatever

it takes to get out.

Can you blame him?

- No, it's okay.

- What?

Hey, sit down.

Come on. Come on, sit down.

Sit down.

Look, he admires you a lot,

you know.

He told me

he learned a lot talking to you.

Can you be straight?

Straight as you.

Is this all just a-- I mean,

just-just-just

tell me what's going on.

I don't do anything

I don't want to do.

I like you.

I like you, Jack.

I would never f*** you

if I didn't want to.

Well, thanks.

God, you're beautiful, you know.

You're beautiful.

Thank you.

I'm not gonna

come over here anymore.

- You're not?

- No.

Okay.

Maybe I should just take

some antidepressants

or something, I don't know.

- Yes you will.

- What?

It's okay though.

I don't mind when they say,

"Oh no, no more,"

'cause then I just sit back and wait.

( chuckles)

But you'll call,

won't you, or drop by?

Like maybe late again

some night, won't you?

Oh God.

Look, I don't care if you deny it.

It's funny to me.

St-stop this now.

I think about you so much, Jack.

All day long I'm thinking about you.

I think about you at work.

Don't say that.

You're sexy, Jack,

and you know if you let Stone out,

we can still befriends too.

He won't know.

He won't even care.

Look, I do what I do

because I'm on my own, okay?

And I got to make my own way,

so don't you want to help us?

- Don't you want to help me?

- Don't talk like that.

I can't.

it's not that simple.

You can't leave, can you?

It's sweet.

What the hell am I doing?

God damn it.

Oh, come on, Jack.

He's a good man at heart.

You really believe that?

Yeah, I do.

No different than you and me.

Do you go to church?

Hell no.

There's no such thing as God.

( dialing )

They called again.

They need the Creeson report.

I just sent it!

You don't have to yell.

I'm on the intercom.

You got your RGC recommendation.

Vocational counseling,

psych therapy,

GED, NA, NA program.

So the board needs to decide

if it's safe to let you back

into the world,

that you're not a danger

to yourself or others.

Rehabilitated, right?

Yeah.

You know, in my book it says

that chronic neck pain comes

from bein' hanged in another life.

Well, it's my back.

it's not my neck.

Well, I'm just makin' conversation.

Look, if you're

not interested in the details

of your hearing, we're done here.

- Done?

- We're done.

~ 1-low do you mean we're done?

- My report's already sent. We're done.

Basically they want to hear that you

take responsibility for your actions.

See, the thing about that,

I don't know.

About what?

It's funny, you know, 'cause you're

always askin' me about that night--

how it made me feel.

You know, when my cousin

come out of the house

and got me

and we went back inside...

It was trippy, man,

because like two minutes before,

YOU know, my poppy,

he was-- he was alive.

There was color in his face.

There was light in his eyes.

And then I go inside there and...

And then I see them

Iyin' there all over everywhere.

There was this buzzing

in my ears, you know,

and I thought it was

just the sh*t that we was on,

but it kept growin'

and it started scarin'

the sh*t out of me.

Teach was bouncin' off the walls,

yellin' at me,

"We got to do something,

You gotta help me.

We gotta handle this."

But all I could hear

in my head was this sound.

And then,

I don't know how I knew,

but I just knew that

there needed to be a fire.

I went to the garage.

I got the can of gasoline

and I got the match

and I lit it.

You ever seen a fire

take control?

It's somethin', man.

it's alive.

And [watched it

take them up

and start to change them.

And the only thought

that came in my head

was "This is awesome."

Awesome?

Stone:
Yeah.

It was

truly awesome.

Um, the thing is that

I know I'm supposed to take

responsibility for my action,

I know that I'm supposed

to feel guilty about it,

but I never did.

And I never knew why.

But now I think

I can understand

that it was just

part of what was

supposed to happen

in my life's journey,

you know?

That was your decision--

you did that.

No, I'm not sayin' I didn't.

I'm saying that we're all

God's co-workers,

and we don't even know it.

Your crime

has nothin' to do with God.

Why not?

God is everything.

You know,

look at earthquakes and floods,

and-and tornadoes,

and all the bad sh*t that happens--

why don't you think that

we're a part of all of that too?

What we do, you know,

the sh*t that we carry with us

from one life to the next,

maybe there's a plan

that includes all of us--

you and me and my grandparents,

and we just don't know it.

How can we know?

Enough of this sh*t.

You know-- you know--

you and Lucetta,

- she said that you were--

- Lucetta?

~ Your wife

- What, you call her Lucetta?

- She said--

- Don't.

- What?

- Don't listen to her.

What do you mean?

Don't listen to what

she's tellin' you, man.

Well, she believes in you.

Look, it's a game to her, man.

It's a game. She--

I told you in the beginning,

she's an alien.

She's a-- she's like a freak.

That's not a nice thing to say.

No, listen, I'm tellin' it

to you straight, okay,

she's just workin' on you.

She's workin' on you.

She's f***in' you over, man.

She's an animal.

You know, you're f***in' nuts,

you know that?

You're f***in' nuts.

You got a beautiful wife

who cares about you, and--

Beautiful?

You think she's beautiful?

Okay, you're a con.

I've known that from the f***in' start.

I don't believe you for one

f***in' second. Never did, never did.

So you've both been

conning me? Okay, I know.

I've been around the block a few times.

I ought to know better.

~ I'm Sick and f***in' tired of it.

- What'd I say, man?

(Jack stammers)

You expect me to eat this new sh*t

you've been handing out?

Write a nice little note about

your goddamn f***ing epiphany?

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