The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story Page #3

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backdoored, that's all.

-We're fine. All right?

-All right. We're fine.

-Okay.

-We're fine.

MAN:
They obviously know

how to work the box.

But l like the way they zapped the BP to the D-5 station.

How does one learn how to do that?

Get a job at Vericom.

-Okay.

-Thank you.

All right, let's subpoena work logs,

employee records.

Start with everybody

who lives in the town.

Got it.

CLAIRE:

l lied to the FBl.

DOUG:

What?

CLAIRE:

When the guy attacked David...

...l could see the back of his neck

and he had a tattoo.

Of what?

lt was one of those

Fighting Irish tattoos.

l'm afraid if l report it

they'll make me testify.

What do you think l should do?

Tell the FBl.

lf the guy's got a record,

and l'm sure he does...

...they'll have his tattoos on file.

They'll ring him up the next day.

Robbery, weapons. He'll get 30 years.

Course, they'll worry someone's

gonna come looking for the witness.

The FBl will probably want to put you in

WITSEC, you know, Witness Security.

You know, they'll probably put you

somewhere, like, you know, in Cleveland...

...or Arizona, you know,

somewhere safe.

Or...

...you could wait.

You have a card.

There's nothing says you gotta play it

right away.

You're the one who's vulnerable

in this situation right now.

The FBl are just people

like anyone else.

They wanna find the bad guy so they

can go home and nuke their supper.

You have to look out

for yourself, Claire.

Quite an expert.

Not really.

Just watch a lot of TV.

l watch a lot of CSl.

So l'm a really big expert

on all this. l know.

And Miami CSl and New York CSl.

All of them, l watch.

You'll be well-prepared.

And Bones.

Do we know each other well enough for

me to say that this truck is a little much?

lt's my work truck.

lf you have problems with your Prius

l can throw it in the back.

How did you know l had a Prius?

Took a guess.

l mean, it just seemed like a toonie car.

-Why, do you really have a Prius?

-Yeah.

-Really?

-l had a Prius.

-lt got vandalized, of course.

-What happened?

Doesn't matter. Now l'm forced to walk

a mile through the projects.

-There were these guys and they started....

-What?

l'm not sure if it was the same guys

who trashed my car, but

They started getting, you know

It started with yelling when l walked by...

...and then it got

really aggressive and....

What were they doing?

Once glass bottles

started getting thrown...

...l started coming to terms with not being

cool enough to walk through the projects.

They threw bottles at you?

l'm fine. l just have to, you know,

go the long way.

That's all. It doesn't matter.

No. You just have to live with it,

l guess.

You remember what they look like?

l need your help.

l can't tell you what it is...

...you can never ask me about it later,

and we're gonna hurt some people.

Whose car are we gonna take?

Townie credit card.

[RHAPHAEL TARPLEY'S ''GET PAID''

PLAVING IN DISTANCE]

[C*CKS GUN]

[KNOCKING]

ALEX:
Who is it?

DOUG:
Open up.

MAN:

What the?

[GRUNTING]

DOUG:
Oh, sh*t, that hurts, huh?

Is that your throwing hand?

lf you're still here in a week,

we're coming back.

Let's go, we're done.

JEM:

Hey.

-What'd you do?

-l don't know what you're talking about.

JEM:
That's my brother.

What'd you do to him?

ALEX:

l don't know what you're talking about.

JEM:
You don't know? How about now?

ALEX:
No.

Hey, chill, chill, chill, man. Chill.

Chill, man.

JEM:

Don't tell me to chill.

DOUG:
Enough. Let's go.

JEM:
What'd you do?

-l don't know what you're talking about.

JEM:
No?

[GUNSHOTS, THEN ALEX YELLS]

There goes college soccer.

Hey, look at me.

See my face?

Go tell the cops, all right?

But just remember, l seen yours too.

ALEX:

F***.

l can't be up there

killing people, man.

Hey, you brought me.

FRAWLEY:

Desmond Elden?

Yeah, works for Vericom.

Never seen the inside of a jail cell.

Most of these guys got no-show jobs.

Take down a truck...

...foreman goes, ''Yeah, guy was here

yesterday.'' He shows us a forged timecard.

Can't play them games at Vericom

because it's a public company.

You don't show up,

it's a recorded sick day.

And Dezzy here,

he's got some interesting sick days.

BankBoston, Cummins Armored,

Arlington Brinks, Cambridge Merchants.

Jesus Christ.

CLAIRE:
So do your parents

still live in Charlestown?

DOUG:
No, my father finally

made it out to the suburbs.

CLAIRE:

What about your mother?

l couldn't tell you.

She left when l was 6.

What happened?

She left.

Okay.

[SIGHS]

This sound woke me up.

At first l didn't know what it was.

Sounded like an animal

that got trapped.

l never heard a man cry before.

l came downstairs in my underwear.

l see my father in the kitchen.

First thing l remember was the ashtray.

Must have been a hundred cigarettes

in there.

Ash like a little mountain.

He stopped crying...

...was just sitting there watching TV

on a little black-and-white.

No sound.

l think he just didn't know

what else to do.

He looked at me standing there

in the doorway in my Underoos.

He said, ''Your mother left.

She's not coming back.''

Just like that.

Smoking cigarettes and eating

a TV dinner at 6 in the morning.

We lost our dog the year before...

...and l wanted to make these posters...

...in case my mother was lost...

...someone could call us...

...like the guy who found our dog.

To this day my father will tell you he helped

me make them posters, but he didn't.

Sat in the kitchen, drank a case of beer

while l went out on School Street...

...asking people

if they'd seen my mother.

Her name was Doris.

My grandmother had a place

that's a restaurant in Tangerine, Florida.

So l used to imagine

maybe that's where she went.

Then l came to terms with the fact

that doesn't really matter, you know?

Wherever she went,

she had a good reason to leave here.

She didn't wanna be

my mother anymore...

...and she wasn't coming back.

And now you know a little bit

about my family...

...but l'm still not showing you

my apartment.

How bad can it be?

[SLAINE & STATIK SELEKTAH'S ''RUN IT''

PLAVING OVER SPEAKERS]

Oh, yeah.

[CHATTERING]

DINO:

Desmond Elden.

Systems tech at Vericom,

Albert Magloan. Only in Boston

is a guy named Albert Magloan.

FRAWLEY:
Mr. Magloan never met a car

he couldn't boost.

The kind of talented individual...

...that can start your Cherokee for you

while you're still looking for your keys.

DINO:
James Coughlin. Father was killed

in prison, mother died of HIV.

Shot 8rendan Leahey by the cemetery

behind Mishawum when he was 18.

Pled it out. When the judge asked him why

he did it, he said, ''l didn't like the kid.''

Served nine years for manslaughter.

FRAWLEY:
These guys plan and execute

with sophistication and discipline.

And that is not our boy Coughlin.

We think the architect is this guy,

Coughlin's best friend, Doug MacRay.

Lives in the same house,

dated Coughlin's sister...

...who most likely mules for the Florist,

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