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Jack That's when you had all of them f***in' keys and the cops were

asking you where you got them. Whatever happened to that Burlington

Northern key?

Rat My mom's got all my keys.

Tiny and Kim talk on Pike Street.

Kim My mom, before they went on vacation about four o'clock Friday, she

wakes me up and she goes 'We're leaving now.' And I go 'yeah, yeah.'

It's four o'clock in the morning. And she goes, 'I know that you're a

prostitute and I know what you've been doing and I know that you've got

money.' And I jumped up and said, 'Did you look in my purse?' And she

goes, 'No.' And I go 'Mom, I am not. just leave.' And she goes 'Fine.

Thanks alot. All week long I'm going to remember this. All week I'm

going to be thinking about how much you love me.' I don't care. She

doesn't care about me. She never did. She doesn't. Oh well.

Tiny My mom cares about me a lot.

Kim Where is she? Where does she live?

Tiny She went to Eastern Washington, I think, for the weekend.

Kim That isn't even my real mom. I was adopted. I don't even know who

my real parents are. I don't know if they're dead or alive. I'm going

to find out though. When I'm eighteen I'm going through the courts to

find out. I don't know. Sometimes it seems like a waste of time. If

they didn't care enough to keep me, why should I care enough to find

out who they are?

Tiny Well, they could be rich right now. You know what I'm saying,

really rich. Or they could be bums.

Tiny on the street looking for a date.

Tiny (voice over)

My real dad I've never known. He could be the guy that's really rich,

driving a Mercedes. Or he could be one of these bums on the street. I

don't know. I really want to meet him. He could be one of these dates

rolling around. I could have dated him for all I know.

Dewayne and Rat talk in an alley off Pike Street.

Rat And your mom is where?

Dewayne I don't know, San Diego somewhere. And my dad's in jail.

Rat That sucks.

Dewayne Life's a b*tch, ain't it?

Rat Are you originally from Seattle?

Dewayne Nope. Port Orchard. Well, Washington, yeah. Been in New York

once. I hitchhiked there--was there for an hour and left.

Rat What jail's your dad in?

Dewayne King County, going up to Walla Walla State Penitentiary for

burglary and attempted arson. So where you been living, before you

lived in that ... wherever you live at?

Rat In that hotel?

Dewayne Yeah. Is it seriously deserted? How long you been living there?

Rat Sh*t, since a month after I got to Seattle.

Dewayne Where're you from originally?

Rat California.

Dewayne What part?

Rat Sacramento.

Dewayne I went through there one time. It was bunk.

Rat I don't like Sacramento. I lived right on the outside of

Sacramento.

Dewayne I went through there and some f*ggot was tryin' to pick me up,

but I robbed him of $150.

Rat Take his car too?

Dewayne Hell no. I hitchhike. I love hitchhikin'. Not in Seattle

though, 'cause the only ones that'll pick you up are hippies, stoners

or fine girls. I like the fine girls to pick me up. (They laugh.)

On Pike Street, Kim and Tiny talk.

Kim I just started doing this stuff. I never even thought of 'hoing

'til I got down here. You know Tracy? She used to live with me when she

was a home girl, because her parents kicked her out. And she

disappeared. She went downtown with Lorna. You know Lorna? And then

Lorna came back and said that Tracy's a 'ho now. And then I got really

worried about her. I said, 'I can't let her do that stuff.' 'Cause I

always heard bad things like white slavery, that she's gonna get beat

up and everything. That's what scared me. So I thought, I gotta come

down and get her out of there, whether I gotta kidnap her or what. Then

I come down here and I see her and she says, 'It's great, man.' So I'm

just sittin' there going 'What? I heard that you don't like it down

here, that you're getting beat up and raped and everything.' She said,

'I'm making so much money and it's so easy, the money comes so easy.

It's great. You gotta do it.' And I sat there and I go, 'How much money

do you make?' and she started naming off and I go, 'Wow! I think I'd

better.'

Kim at a pay telephone on Pike Street.

Kim Hi, Sam. This is Kimberly again. So have you decided? Do you want a

date tonight?

Pimps on Pike Street; fragments of a conversation.

Patrice Juan always be lettin' those broads wear his coats and sh*t.

That b*tch ain't gonna listen to him for long. She only break $30 wops.

A Pimp Floyd hit me so goddamn hard, when I woke up, man, it was dark.

I had to ask people around me what had happened.

Patrice What're you talking about? I don't do nothin' for free. I'm a

pimp. I'm goin' out to those high schools and get me some fresh ones.

In a parking lot near Pike Street, Kim talks to Tiny, Erica, and Kevin

about choosing a pimp.

Kim He said, 'If anybody comes to beat you up and I come and save you,

that means you gotta work for me.' I hope he doesn't get somebody to

come beat me up.

Kevin No, he isn't. I'll tell you the truth and this is the honest

truth. With me, you'll be safer, happier and richer.

Erica He'll kill you, OK? He'll ass-f*** you, f*** you in the ear or

anything. I'm serious, don't mess with Patrice.

Kevin I don't know about all that, but I know you're making a serious

mistake.

Tiny Did Patrice try to do anything with you last night?

Kim No.

Erica He shoots up. He's a drug fiend.

Tiny Well, what do you want to do? Who do you want to be with?

Kim I don't know. I'm confused. I don't know who's the right person. I

just don't know.

Tiny He raped me last year, when I first came downtown ...

Erica He raped me too. And he took my money. Up in that hotel, he came

and said he was gonna rob this dude ...

Tiny He took a f***ing coat-hanger and heated it up on the gas heater

and said he was gonna beat me if I didn't take off my clothes. I said,

'I ain't takin' off my clothes.'

Erica We're scaring her.

Tiny We don't mean to scare you. We're just telling you the truth. You

get beat up and some of these girls end up gettin' killed.

Tiny and Erica leave. Kim and Kevin continue to talk.

Kevin People get killed down here, they go to jail down here.

Everything happens down here and none of it's good.

Kim I haven't seen nobody get killed.

Kevin I saw a guy get the sh*t kicked out of him by three n*ggers over

in front of T.J.'s just this morning and get hauled off in the

ambulance. He got the sh*t kicked out of him because he pulled a big

ole steak knife out on 'em. You missed that one, dear, but that was

just this morning.

Kim So who cares. I don't really care. Whatever happens, happens.

Late afternoon on Pike Street, Chrissie taunts Lillie.

Chrissie I should pass the word around. You're a snitch.

Lillie Chris, just leave me alone.

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