The Company You Keep Page #9

Upper peninsula.

'Becc, it's Dad.

I'm trying you again.

Um... sorry about the messages.

uh...

Listen, if you... when you get a chance,

I need to talk to you, to tell you...

this... Shepard guy, um...

uh, it's important, 'Becc.

I love you, sweetie.

Call me back, please.

I don't know why that's so hard to figure out.

- What makes you think I was ever gonna be...

For one thing, I didn't do it.

I wasn't there, Mimi.

But you should have been,

then everything would have been different.

Vince lost his cool, completely.

You wouldn't have, nobody would've gotten hurt.

Somebody didn't get hurt, somebody got killed.

A father, a husband, with a family.

You think I didn't think about that when

so many fathers with families were being killed?

And still are!

You shouldn't have gone, Mimi.

You should've said no.

We were done.

- No. You were done.

I never was, but you couldn't accept that.

- Mimi...

You fooled yourself into thinking

I was someone else.

And you're still doing it.

I am not the one fooling myself, it was over!

- It wasn't... over.

It's still not over.

Every single thing we said

then, is true today.

And every single day, it's getting worse.

- That's not the point.

Oh, it's exactly the point, Nick!

I won't give myself up

to a system I despise.

I won't give up my freedom and accept

their version of what life is supposed to be.

Mimi, how free are you? Really?

- Well, I'm not in jail.

I don't expect you to understand.

They have you.

Oh, like hell.

A system that protects the super-rich,

and the super, super, super-rich,

And fucks over everyone else, and the planet to boot.

- Mimi... Mimi, would you just stop?

Everyone who's given up and given in,

they're living at the expense of what they once believed.

It's so sad!

You understood this,

I'm sorry you've forgotten.

- I wish I had forgotten!

Because my problem is

I can't stop remembering.

So if you've built a wall so high, more power

to you, you're stronger than I am.

I'm will turn myself in...

the day the politicians and corporations

turn themselves in for all they've done.

That's the day I'll hand myself in.

Scout's f***in' honor.

Stop hiding behind your f***ing revolutionary rant.

- Oh, don't turn it on me.

You know what I see?

I see the same person.

I see it, kid.

I see it in your eyes.

You can hide from everyone else in the world,

and be somebody else, but not with me.

What are your memories, Mi?

The ones you can't run away from.

Hey!

We had a responsibility beyond the cause.

We had a baby.

We were so consumed by our principles,

that we abandoned our most

fundamental duty.

We were doing our duty, Nick.

We made a plan, that if anything ever went wrong,

- Never should have carried out that plan.

we would know exactly

what we had to do.

We both agreed.

- We were wrong.

We had no choice.

- We should have known that we were wrong.

We both accepted it,

and we both had to live with it.

It wasn't a dream...

it was a possibility,

we could have made a reality.

We could make them stop.

Yeah, we could change things,

if we could make a difference.

I still believe in that possibility.

Is that all you believe?

Can you put me through to

Ben Shepard please?

(Aw, sh*t!)

Rebecca!

What did you say to my dad?

He sounds really upset.

What do you mean?

- He left me a dozen voice messages last night,

he said it had to do with you.

What is going on?

- You're gonna have to talk to your father.

You're up.

I remember when these trees were so small,

you could see clear across the water.

I saw her.

What?

I've went to do Ann Arbor on my way...

I didn't want to.

I just...

couldn't help myself.

I sat in my car like

some kind of stalker.

Mim.

She's really something, Nicky.

Truly.

We always intended to

tell you the truth.

You always intended...?

At the time we felt...

- We hoped that nobody needed to know.

I never asked about my birth parents,

I really never needed to know.

We know. There's no way

to make this easier.

We redid your identity,

papered a legal adoption.

None of that matters to me.

Did you think I

couldn't handle it?

Sweetie, we gotta talk through this.

No one's perfect, 'Becc.

I love you

I love you too.

I can't do what you

want me to do, Nicky.

I know.

I guess I was hoping you would

become the person who could.

So it goes.

Sir, the local K-9 units are on the way.

- Roger that.

Hello?

I'm here alone!

Hello?

You?!

You expecting to see somebody else?

She here?

- Who're we talking about?

Who're we talkin' about. Mimi Lurie!

That's who you came to see, right?

Huh?

- Mimi Lurie. That's who you came to see, correct?

Why would I do that?

- She could testify that you weren't at the bank.

Almost sounds like a news story, doesn't it?

Unfortunately, I need a source.

- Really? Must be a new policy.

Is she here, Nick?

She never was.

You call 'em?

- No.

Well you got yourself a story, kid. Congratulations.

I hope you're satisfied.

I don't wanna see a guy go to jail for the

rest of his life for something he didn't do.

Is that what passes for idealism these days?

- Is Mimi gonna surrender?

No.

- No. So, where are you going?

Well, before she can not surrender,

she has to first not get caught.

I don't understand, there

was an easier way.

Usually is.

You'll learn that lesson.

You know, I met your daughter.

Your older daughter.

Then you really do have yourself a story, don't ya'?

I'm guessing you didn't just stumble into this information...

by my count, there are exactly

four people on the planet that...

knew about this...

You get let in on something like this, Ben...

you get answers, but not the ones you think.

Secrets are a dangerous thing, Ben.

We all think we want to know them,

but if you've kept one to yourself...

You come to understand that doing so means that

you may learn something about somebody else,

but you also discover something about yourself.

I hope you're ready for that.

At this point,

I have no more secrets.

You're a smart guy...

Hold on, I'm not gonna hurt you.

You know exactly what motivates me,

and has for the last thirty years.

What you're gonna have to

figure out, is what motivates you.

I hope you like the answer.

- Hold on. Nick. Nick!

When the FBI comes, they'll follow me.

They'll never know she was here.

There he is.

What's that? That's it.

Come on! Come on.

Alright... we'll take up, you guys flank around from there.

There he is!

Nicholas Sloan!

You're under arrest for the

murder of Hugh Kroessna.

Can't say I'm happy to see you.

Mimi Lurie, last remaining fugitive

from the 1980 Bank of Michigan robbery,

surrendered herself to authorities today

near Drummond Island, Michigan,

just across the water from Canada.

She confessed to her role in the robbery, which

resulted in the death of a guard.

Charges have been dropped against Nicholas Sloan,

long thought to be a co-conspirator

in the robbery.

No comment yet from Sloan, who is expected

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