The Hammer & the Butterfly Page #6

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Yeah, it's good times.

Yeah.

Good, good, good!

Way to go. All right.

Atta boy, Victor!

All right.

Why do men need

to punch each other in the face?

'Cause they deduct points

if we punch each other in the balls.

Oh, I see.

You got it?

Oh!

No, no, I got it. I got it.

Let's review.

Smart, good looking, non-smoker.

Shouldn't you be married by now?

I am married.

To my work.

Was that to me?

Any chance you two

will get a divorce?

No, not for you.

I'd like to start seeing your work.

I've always been attracted to your job.

Does your job ever talk about me?

I could stare at this forever.

Me, too.

Are you hungry?

Yeah.

Let's go.

My ass is asleep.

No offense, but I think

you should fire your gardener.

I mean, this is like

the surface of the moon out here.

I've been offered a job.

In real estate law.

Great.

That's fantastic.

You know what,

I didn't want to say anything,

but get out of that

public defender's office.

What do you need with

the crackheads and the pedophiles.

It's in Seattle.

So you're just gonna turn

your back on your clients.

I'm flying up tomorrow

to meet with the partners.

I'm weighing my options a little bit.

You know what

the annual rainfall is in Seattle?

A lot.

Yes, it real...

It's underwater

like nine months out of the year.

You'd essentially be moving

into an aquarium.

You wanna live in that castle

with the bubbles coming

out of the chimney?

It's a lot more money.

What about the tar pits?

Your beloved tar pits.

You think they have tar pits in Seattle?

No, they don't have big holes

filled with tar.

That's... That's us, baby.

That's L.A.

Look, I'm not a 24-year old idealist

fresh out of law school

anymore, you know?

I mean, it's a really good firm.

Well, I guess you should check it out.

I'm probably not the guy

to be giving out career advice.

Was that the grill?

Hey, Jerry, man, wait up.

Hey, uh, I just wanted

to thank you again

for helping me back there at the van.

You did me a solid.

Yeah. You know what that ticket's

gonna do to my rates?

I mean, if I had car insurance?

Hey, Jerry, man, hold up.

I got something else to tell you.

What's going on?

Coach Bell's not being

straight up with you.

What do you mean?

Sparring partner?

And a damn good one, too.

You know how much better

Robert's gotten working with you?

I didn't sign up to be

someone's sparring partner.

Hey, you ate a lot of leather in Phoenix.

We're moving up in class now.

You could really get hurt.

I knocked out Darius Reece in Phoenix.

Hey, who are we kidding?

That was a fluke.

You had the key to his roller skates.

Look, the point is

I gotta choose my date for the prom,

and it's Robert.

I can't take you both.

- Where we working?

- Where are we working?

Get in the truck,

I'll tell you en route.

Covert ops, baby.

When you talk to Mike?

I talked to Mike yesterday.

He said it's cool.

Come on, she gets back

tomorrow night.

We're up against the clock, buddy.

- Let's go.

- We'll never finish.

We'll never finish

with that attitude.

Now, come on.

You bring the 16-penny nails?

You didn't tell to me nothing.

You can't think of anything

on your own?

What are you building?

Storage shed.

What are you siding it with?

T-111.

T-111.

You gotta be careful with that T-111.

You wanna get the margins right, you know.

They have a T&G joint.

Wanna get it just right.

If by T&G you mean

tongue and groove, you're wrong.

The T-111 has a shiplap seam.

I'm pretty sure it's T&G.

I've worked with it a lot.

No. No. It's shiplap.

Well, let's talk foundation bolting.

What are you holding the bottom plate

down to the slab with.

Redheads.

Oh, you're going with wedge anchors.

Yeah, I'd go with J bolts.

I'd put 'em in when the slab was wet.

That way, I wouldn't have

to bust out the roto hammer.

Well, if I was going with a footing,

I'd use the J bolts,

but we have a 4-inch slab, so...

Cut corners, people get hurt.

It's a tool shed.

It's not an underground

parking structure.

Okay. We're in earthquake country.

I don't know if you heard.

So what you building your man?

Uh, a deck.

Oh, that's sweet.

A deck, right?

No, I'm not building it.

You're not building it?

I'm building a deck, but not...

- I'm not building a deck for him.

- No.

I'm building a deck for my lady.

- Oh, for your lady.

- Yeah.

What you screwing it off with, deckers?

No, using 16-penny

galvanized common heads.

Oh, you get

a hell of a lot more grab

with a core-stripped

bugle head zinc drywall screw.

I hit.690 in the Van Nuys

Unlimited Arc League.

All-American, Arizona state.

- Ozzie.

- Yeah?

Let's get those uh...

Let's get those drywall screws.

And let's go.

March now.

and we're on deck.

She lands in 34 minutes.

Amor.

Hey, don't tell anyone about this part.

# You are so #

# Beautiful #

# You are #

# I want you to know #

# I won't let it go #

# I won't let it sleep #

# Any day of the week #

# I should not talk #

# But I would like to say #

# I want you to know #

# I want you to stay #

# Here, please #

You're a piece of work, Ferro.

Oh, Jesus Christ.

Hey, happy to see me?

Hey, Mike, listen,

you owed me and Ozzie

two and a half days pay.

That should've more than covered

the price of that windshield.

Yeah, yeah, but I get to work today,

and I see that some a**holes

helped themselves

to a big old pile of wood.

Wasn't me.

Hold him still.

Now, you tell me

where you stashed it,

or I'm slamming this door

on the count of three.

Mike, don't show off.

- One...

- Come on, Mike.

- Two...

- Seriously, Mike. Come on.

Excuse me.

Problem?

You're still dropping your right a little

when you throw your left.

You don't need Bell.

Jerry, you can go on your own.

Trainers don't qualify

for the Olympics, boxers do.

I don't know.

Maybe he's right.

I think he's right.

So that's it.

You gotta worry about

yourself now, man.

Bell reigns you in.

You gotta let your hands go.

Come on, Jerry, man.

Don't change the subject.

I'm just saying,

you got a lot of ability.

You gotta think

about your pro career.

I actually think you're relieved

you don't have to go.

Could I just...

Do you have taquitos?

No, no tequila. Only sodas.

No, taquitos.

- Eh?

- Taquitos.

Taquito?

Look, if you said spaghetti,

I wouldn't be confused.

Taquito.

And then he hit me with two lefts

and a huge right,

and then I realized

how do I know the guy beating

the crap out of me

is actually gay?

'Cause no one else

would be stupid enough

to pretend they were gay

to enter a boxing tournament.

Or would they?

What better way for a homophobe

to legally gay bash?

Jeff, do you think you're

a victim of a hate crime?

Possibly.

Hey.

Hey.

That is the nicest thing

anyone's ever done for me.

By far.

Well, you deserve it.

I should've told you

I rent that place.

Well, I got a break

on the lumber, so...

How's the training coming?

Uh, I'm not...

I mean, I'm not gonna go.

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