The Company You Keep Page #8

Who's calling?

- Nick Sloan.

Nick Sloan? God, I just saw you on TV.

- Unless you wanna see yourself there too, we'd better hurry.

I need to get to Mimi Lurie.

Where are you?

- 845-555-8249.

Okay, I'll see if we still got the juice.

Hang tight, brother.

You wanna hear somethin' funny?

I've been Jim Grant longer than I've been me.

That's nice.

Come on, Jed, we're just talking here.

We don't need to talk.

I think we do, you're angry.

- You're damn right I am.

Jesus. Thirty years on, still holding a grudge, huh?

No...

it was the lack of respect.

You guys put everybody in danger.

We didn't kill anybody, we didn't hurt anyone.

We were a peace movement,

for christ's sake!

People make mistakes, Jed.

Then you turn yourself in and

atone for what you've done,

and then you keep up the struggle

in any small way you can.

You like what you're doing now?

Yeah.

Yeah! I like what I try to do...

I like my students.

Seems like it's mutual.

Yeah... I can still pack the hall when I...

..talk about SDS.

March on Washington,

trying to change the world,

they're drawn to it, I can tell.

They just don't know

what to do with it.

I don't know why they would,

it's ancient history to them.

So they listen and clap,

and then they update their Facebook

statuses and they forget all about it.

We've turned into our parents, Jed.

- Yeah,

now we're just a story told to children.

Well, I'm glad someone's still telling it.

- Yeah.

- You the guy that needs a plumber?

I am. Line clean?

- Thirty seconds to be safe.

Mimi?

- Was here, yeah.

Here?

- Big Sur.

Was?

- Left yesterday.

Say where going?

- North.

By boat?

- Woulda' made more sense, but she was headin' inland.

Got it.

- Good luck!

She gone?

Yeah...

but I know where she's headed.

Hey? Thanks for everything.

You really want to thank me, Nick,

you'll never contact me again.

Everything we have on the reporter,

he's been in Michigan for two days.

Background on people he's contacted

and places he's visited.

Stay on him.

- Of course, sir. Travel safe.

Can I see some ID, please?

Alright, thank you Mr. Haywood.

Have a good day.

I'm looking for real estate records and plat maps?

Lurie family, Linder-Lurie Lumber,

and Linder Holdings... going back 50 years.

Those three.

Agent Cornelius, welcome back...

Right this way.

So, where are the Linder Woods?

- I have no idea.

What about Drummond Island?

- It's up here, right across the water from Canada.

And this white part, this is private property, right?

- Beats me.

I mean, it's not part of that... that conservancy,

or that preserve, or whatever that is?

No... it doesn't look like it.

I don't see any sales, or state seizure reports.

But if this is privatly owned, somebody's

still paying taxes on this, right?

I don't know.

Can I have copies of all this?

- Sure.

I'm standing outside the Ann Arbor courthouse

where Sharon Solarz entered a plea of "not guilty."

Judge Panomino remanded her without bail...

Mr. Osbourne, can I speak to you?

- Not now.

Not talking to me is a very

dangerous decision for you right now.

Not here, I'll call you.

- Look, if I don't hear from you soon, this is...

You will.

Don't bother cleaning up,

we won't be here that long.

You came.

You look older.

You look the same.

- Yeah, right.

Mi, we gotta talk.

- So, talk.

Come on, Mimi, is this the way

you're gonna play it?

Like we don't know each other?

Like I'm just some adversary?

Aren't you?

- Don't...

Okay, so why am I here?

Why did you smoke me out?

"Smoke you out"?

- You went to Donal.

I had to.

- Well, I got the message, I'm here.

Nick, I can't help you,

that's why I'm here.

I came to tell you.

I figured I owed you that.

Hmm.

I have a daughter.

- I know.

She's almost twelve.

That's her.

What's her name?

- Isabel.

Your middle name, yeah.

Didn't you love your wife?

More than you can imagine.

- Oh, I can imagine...

Look, I know this child. She's probably never gonna

get over what's happened to her already,

and she's got a whole life ahead of her.

So, I'm asking you just to...

- You're asking me

to give myself up, so I can

clear you, for the sake of the child.

I see... everything to protect

the new little family.

F*** your principles, f*** anything

else you used to stand for?

Well, the struggle doesn't end

just because you got tired of it.

I didn't get tired of it,

I grew up.

We promised each other we weren't going to do that.

- Yeah, but it happened.

I left the movement for the same

reason I joined it

because I didn't want to see good people's

lives thrown away for nothing.

You've waited a long time

to tell me that, haven't you?

And you've been a long time

coming home from the bank.

You were close to Mimi Lurie's family.

I wouldn't say close,

my dad knew her dad.

You went to the same school, same church,

you went on fishing trips together.

There's something you're not telling me.

What are you driving at, Shepard?

We know that Nick Sloan is looking

for something or someone to clear him.

I know that's your assumption.

- Could that be Mimi Lurie?

I'm off the record.

Think it out. First he'd have to find

her, and convince her to testify.

Second, she'd have to surrender.

But it's a participants testimony.

- That's the point.

If Mimi comes out of hiding, and surrenders herself

to testify that Nick Sloan wasn't at the bank,

it's what lawyers call a declaration against interest.

Destroys her own possibility of a defense.

It would clear him.

Why? Why would she do that? Why would she

give herself up to a jail sentence to save him?

I mean, what is her motivation?

You really she's gonna do that?

Don't matter what we think.

He obviously believes he can convince her.

- Why now?

Why not do this back then?

How long have you known about this?

I'm obviously not the only person in this conversation

who knows about her ties to a piece of

property just on the other side of Canada.

Mr. Osborne, what's the actual charge

against a law enforcement officer who

fails to follow credible evidence about

the whereabouts of a known fugitive?

I think there'd be a variety, actually.

You have information,

why aren't you coming forward?

Well, you have information too.

So what are you gonna do?

I'm a journalist.

I'm gonna do what I always do.

And this information's gonna be on

every computer screen in the next 20 minutes,

and I'm gonna find out everything

you're hiding from me,

and I'm gonna expose it in a very big and very real way.

You're about to do a lot of damage

to a lot of people.

You've no idea how much.

I think they have it coming.

- On that, you could not be more wrong.

Innocent people are about to get

swept up in this storm you're unleashing.

Trust me.

- Trust you...?

Tell me something, Mr Osborne.

Are you one of those innocent people?

- No, I am not.

But my daughter is.

How so?

I got somethin' I need to do,

but on my own terms.

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