The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story Page #4

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who used to employ MacRay's father.

You need a f***ing Venn diagram

for these people.

Mac Sr. got life for the Nashua job,

which most of you should remember.

Hijacked a bread truck

up to New Hampshire...

...one of the guards saw his face...

...so they executed both of them

with their own weapons.

Big Mac's legacy is now no A car driver

is allowed to leave the cab...

...even if there's a gun

to his partner's head.

DINO:
MacRay did eight months

for going over the counter at a BayBank...

...with a nail gun

after he washed out from pro hockey.

-Pro hockey?

DINO:
Yeah, he was a big deal for a minute.

Got drafted, went to camp,

and here's the shocker:

Started making trouble,

fighting with guys.

-Don't they pay you to fight in hockey?

-No, not the guys on your own team.

[CHUCKLING]

MacRay came home,

got into the family business.

Same song, got into OxyContin.

Hockey ship sailed with the narcotics.

Now, we are a long way away

from a grand jury here.

We'll never get 24-hour surveillance...

...unless one of these idiots converts

to Islam.

So we build the case.

All right, let's get to work.

CLAIRE:
So l've been telling all my friends

about you.

-Oh, yeah? All good, l hope.

-Yeah.

Eh.

Oh, yeah.

They say they're overcome with jealousy.

They can't believe your luck.

You moved to Charlestown,

hooked up with a rock-breaking townie.

No.

They just think it's a rebound.

A rebound from what, the robbery?

l don't know.

l feel estranged from them somehow.

What? Why do you look like that?

-My brother died on a day like this.

-When was this?

He was little. He had lymphoma.

So now on really sunny days

l always think of someone dying.

That's wrong, isn't it?

No.

l'm sure he'd be glad

you're thinking about him.

This is a good day.

l'm having a good time.

Good.

Then you'll miss me while l'm gone.

JEM:

Money, b*tch.

Pop.

What the f*** you doing here? Huh?

DOUG:
Nothing.

-Nothing? What's this?

-Who're you here with, huh?

-No one.

-Let's get out of here.

JEM:
You're telling me this is yours?

-Yeah.

-Yeah? F***ing Hawaiian pizza?

-Sit down.

-Let's hit the road.

-l gotta go.

-Sit the f*** down. Just sit down.

[MUTED SOUND]

-Hi.

-Hi.

-Hey.

-Claire.

-l'm Jem.

-Jim?

Jem. Jem. It's just Jem, yeah.

l'm friend of this loser right here.

-Nice to meet you.

-Sit down, sit down, relax. All right?

So l saw your f***ing Avalanche

parked around the corner, so....

The Avalanche?

-A truck.

-F***ing truck. His work truck right there.

-Dougy's quite the worker.

-Yeah.

Have you two known each other

a long time or...?

JEM:
Since we were 6.

We're like brothers. Right?

But he's never mentioned a word

about you.

The secrets with this one, you know, huh?

[JEM LAUGHS]

Did you say your name was Jim

or Jem?

lt's Ji - Je

Well, it's both, actually.

Teachers, when we were growing up,

used to always say:

''Hey, you can have this one.

He's a real gem.''

So l guess it kind of stuck.

Whatever. l don't know.

So, what do you do

for yourself there, Claire?

Oh, l work at a bank.

l'm a bank manager.

You're a bank manager?

Sounds fun. What bank?

Cambridge Merchants. Just over there.

Cambridge Merchants. Wait, that's the one

that just got robbed, isn't it?

lt got robbed, yeah. It did, yeah.

JEM:

l read about that. It's crazy.

So then how is it that you two met?

CLAIRE:

Um....

We met at a Laundromat.

Okay.

Love among the bleach, right?

Hey, it happens more than you think.

Hey, Claire, don't get too used

to your life of leisure here.

Dougy here, he's a real workaholic,

you know.

He's always taking his work home

with him.

Aren't you?

-All right.

DOUG:
All right, brother.

Take care of yourself, all right?

Be good.

l'll see you at home.

It was nice to meet you.

You too.

Well, l guess you haven't been telling

all your friends about me.

Who you following, Jem?

Me or her?

l told you, l made the Avalanche.

Nothing to worry about.

It's all under control.

Oh, so you're trying to get us

jammed up?

-ls that it?

-l'm trying to get you jammed up.

Tell me you got a move here, Dougy.

Because the only way l see it is you

got sprung like a goddamn bear trap...

...on some toonie p*ssy who happens

to be the one goddamn person - F***!

The one person that can give us

to the f***ing feds.

Calm down, all right?

Don't you think we need to be smart

right now?

-Smart?

-Yeah.

Let's start f***ing all the witnesses.

All right?

Yeah, l'm blowing the assistant manager.

Am l smart now? Huh?

And no, l didn't tell the other guys,

only because they'd flip the f*** out.

And l want them f***ing ready

for the next thing.

l told you, the next f***ing thing's

not ready.

Then make it ready.

l don't like the guards

on the next thing, all right?

One kid is like f***ing G.l. Joe.

He wears the vest on the outside, tucks

his pants into his f***ing combat boots.

The truck's f***ing waist-high.

We'll find another truck

with a driver...

...who's a f***ing fat kid

with his f***ing sh*t untucked...

-...who don't think he's Special Forces.

-Yeah?

All right, look, l know you're

happy in F*** City over there...

...but l waited nine years in Walpole

for you, motherf***er.

Just nine years, that's all.

l'm done waiting.

This is the last one.

We're hitting pause after this.

We get pinched,

remember whose idea this was, okay?

Be ready on Friday.

MAN [OVER SPEAKER]:

Visitors, straight ahead.

-Who you seeing?

-Stephen MacRay.

[DOOR BUllES]

LENNY:

Twelve.

-Right down there.

-Thanks, Lenny.

You all right? Every time l come up

here now it's the red pajamas.

You still getting in trouble, Dad?

Hey, you know how it is.

l can't take no sh*t.

You're getting a little old

for that bullshit, aren't you?

F***ing Southie kids.

They wanna run everything.

Listen, you put a year together of

good behavior and get your points down...

...you get classed out

over to Norfolk, Dad.

No one's gonna bother you there.

Nobody fights, you know?

They got f***ing Ben & Jerry's

ice cream and sh*t.

Well, some things you gotta deal with

yourself, you know?

All right.

l'm thinking about taking a trip.

-Going dark for a minute.

-Taking heat?

Nah, just making a change.

Yeah, don't tell me.

''Making a change.''

Either you got heat or you don't.

l heard a bread truck got dropped.

Oh, yeah? l didn't hear about it.

Okay.

MAN:

You got five minutes. Five minutes.

DOUG:

Let me ask you something.

ln case l don't see you again.

[BOTH CHUCKLE]

How come you never...?

How come you never looked for her?

Uh....

Looked for who?

For Ma.

For my mother.

How come you never looked for her?

How come you never tried to call nobody

or look for her, or ask around?

Look, when your mother left...

...you cried so hard you were throwing up.

All over the parlor.

So l told you if you looked around

you might find her.

Just to give you an activity.

l didn't think you'd carry it

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