The Good View: Weekly Boost Page #3

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Spent the summer together.

Used to pick her up in my truck,

and we'd sleep under

that stars at this lake

near my home town.

- Was she beautiful?

- Yea.

- So that's it?

Just Sarah?

- And my girl Sherry.

- Sherry?

- Yea, my girl Shereen.

- Tell me about her.

- She's different.

She's special.

I can't figure it out.

She never asks me for much.

She maintains this, distance.

I tell her I love

her all the time

'cause honestly I do, but.

- But what?

- I don't know, nothing

man, it's hard to explain.

What do you care anyway?

- All my life, I've

spent avoiding love.

I've had a few meaningful

relationships, but

when it comes to women,

friends, family, in

our line of work,

it's best to keep it lean.

Loved ones become...

Like blind spots.

I have a daughter, Jimmy.

Sierra.

She's seven.

Never loved her

mother, but, the moment

I laid eyes on my little girl,

my world flipped.

Except for Tommy,

I kept her a secret

from my entire organization.

The only reason I'm telling you,

is that she's the one

who's dying, not me.

And I need your help

to save her life.

- This whole thing's

about a little girl?

A little girl, and

a blood disease.

It's ironic really.

All the energy I expended

trying to keep her a secret,

and now, apparently,

it's the very same thing

that's brought us

to this unfortunate

and somewhat

impossible situation.

- Why should I believe you?

- You said it

yourself, look at me.

I'm as healthy as a horse.

Now I'm going to

level with you Jimmy.

Because we're running

f***ing short on time,

and we could chat

here all night.

Even if the kidney is intact,

she still has only a

70% chance of it taking.

I'm not going to

sit here and make up

some elaborate lie about how

if you help me, I

will let you go.

You f***ed me, Jimmy.

And I know you didn't mean it,

but you did it anyway.

And now you have

to pay the price.

So, this is going to go down

one of either two ways.

One, you're going

to tell me where

the kidney is, and

when I have it,

Tommy here, is going

to put a bullet

through your heart.

Or, you don't tell

me where it is,

and I have one of my

less civilized guys

go to work on you.

- What if I set

everything right?

- Jimmy, I have my reputation.

- So that's it?

- That's it.

- Although I myself am not

a violent man, Lorenzo,

I understand people like you.

So before I agree to anything,

here are my terms.

I need two things.

One,

I want 150k.

For my girl Shereen.

Put her brother through college,

take care of her for a while.

And two,

you got to let me go

for a couple hours.

I'll bring you back the

kidney, that's a promise.

But I need some time.

- You know I can't

do that Jimmy.

- Just hear me out.

Like I said, I understand

people like you.

I know that you'll find

the thing that I love most

and destroy it if I

try to skip town or

do anything stupid.

And I don't value

my life that much,

I never have.

But just so we're clear,

I'm not asking you.

I'm telling you.

I need a little time.

- Jimmy, what the f*** man?

- I need your help, I'm in deep.

- This is bad.

This is really bad.

- I know.

I got caught up in this

sh*t and it's all f***ed up.

- What sh*t?

Buy, sell organs on

the black market sh*t?

- No, it's not my thing, it's.

- Then what is your thing?

- I boost cars!

- I always knew you were

into some shady sh*t man,

but this is serious.

- I know!

- That kidney

belongs to somebody

and they're going to die

if they don't get it.

- I know.

- Then what the f***?

- I was hired to steal

this car for big money.

I didn't know it

was in the trunk,

I knew it was valuable,

I figured it was drugs.

- And?

- And during the boost

some guy shows up

and puts a gun in my

face and I stab him man,

I stab him in the neck

with a screwdriver.

- Wait, wait, wait, wait,

you stabbed a guy?

- It was self defense!

- Look, Jimmy, that's murder.

- What are you doing?

- I'm a cop man.

I know that we got a history,

but I got to take you in.

- Take me in?

I called you 'cause

I need you help!

- Put your hands on your head.

- Are you serious right now?

Friendship, loyalty, does

that mean anything to you?

We're practically family!

- I know Jimmy.

But I'm not one of

your lotus brothers

and I certainly won't be

an accessory to murder.

Now put your hands

behind your head!

- No.

Come on.

You made me do it man, I'm

not going to shoot you.

I called you 'cause

I need your help

and no one in this f***ing

town's got my back.

These guys want to kill me,

bad guys want to kill me.

So you can either help me

survive the next 24 hours,

and be part of the

solution, or not,

and then you're just

another part of the problem.

- Jimmy I'm a cop man.

This could cost me my badge.

This is my career.

- Then forget I ever called you.

- Jimmy I'm sorry man.

- F*** you Clyde.

- Jimmy wait!

- Boys!

- Shut the f*** up Roy.

Roy?

Roy?

Roy?

- The f***?

- Roy listen to me.

One of my guys got

stabbed in the neck today,

with a screwdriver,

during your pickup.

- You mean your pickup!

- Listen, our personal

stuff aside Roy,

I trusted you again

and you have f***ed me.

So you got about 30

seconds to start talking,

or I am going to make

your life miserable, huh?

- I don't know anything!

- Sledge.

You like to talk Roy,

everybody in town

knows that you like to

talk, so talk to me.

Huh?

- Hey, I don't know

what you're talking...

- goddammit I don't

get people like you!

You know what, you

just keep digging

deeper and deeper right?

You just won't look,

grab his hand.

You know what infuriates me?

Is that think you're so smart,

but you're not Roy,

and on top of that,

you're a horrible liar, so

all that ends up happening,

is you waste important

people's valuable time,

with all of your bullshit, huh?

- Wait, wait,

wait, what's he doing?

- Every time you lie to me,

I'm going to rip out

one of your f***ing

fingernails, okay?

So start talking!

- Okay I'll tell you

everything I know!

Wait, wait, wait!

Okay, I'll tell you, I'll

tell you everything I know.

Okay, word is, this

coked up kid, Austin.

He found out about the package.

He must have thought

that it was like,

a load of blow, because

that's his deal.

Hey, hey, he lives in Vernon.

- I know who Austin is Roy.

But what that doesn't

account for is how

Austin knew about the package,

unless you told him!

- I swear to god, I

didn't say a thing!

He deals to the

Armenians, and he knows

all the real border borther's!

They must have

fond out something!

I didn't say a thing.

I swear.

- That is a great story Roy.

That is a great story.

You know?

I guess a half truth is better

than no truth at all, so.

I'm going to pay you for

that info, thank you.

But you still owe me one.

I'm going to call you.

Get your money for you, okay?

- God dammit!

- Listen, I'm going to need you

to start from the beginning.

I'm all ears.

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