The Samaritan

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I'm sorry.

If you keep on doing

what you've always done,

you'll keep on being

what you've always been,

I used lo share a cell

with a guy

who had those words

tattooed across his chest

in Japanese characters.

After ten years,

the guy gets out.

A week later,

he gels himself killed

for being what he'd always been.

Those words

are still on his skin,

buried in a box somewhere.

Nothing changes

unless you make it change.

He?

In case you need me,

call this number.

They'll know where I am.

Take care.

Daddy!

Hi!

Don't leave town.

Don't associate with anyone

with a record.

You so much as jaywalk,

you're back in.

All right, we're done here.

You just let me know

when you find a job,

and I'll file the papers.

Cool.

Your parole officer can be

your pal or a son of a b*tch.

It's your decision. You got me?

Yeah.

J' tell you,

I thought I had it made j'

Rodney around?

No, man.

Rodney's dead.

How about selma?

No. She... she split out west.

I bought the place...

Sh*t, six years ago now.

You wouldn't happen to keep

a bottle of bowman's

under the bar for luck,

would you'?

So you did know Rodney'

guess old habits die hard'

how you take it'?

Neat.

' Yeah, before I knew it,

I was a teenager.

Yeah, when...

When I took over, guys would

come in from time to time,

saying Rodney owed 'em money

for this and that,

pulling some sh*t.

Hasn't happened

in a couple centuries, though.

It's supposed to catch

thieves, not ghosts.

If you've come for the money,

you're...

It's all gone now.

I had to pay off a lot of cops

to stay out of prison.

That's a thousand years ago.

Yeah, I figured.

You still in touch

with any of the old crowd?

Mike?

He's dead. Died in prison'

Matt'?

- Dead too...

- How about sal?

Don'! Tell me he's dead.

- He's not dead.

- Good.

He's in a coma, up at grace.

Pretty high mortality rate

in the old business.

Gretchen'?

What happened to your hand?

Past caught up with me.

Nobody gets to make

a fresh start.

You know that.

My kids

will be coming home soon.

They don't know anything

about the old days,

I'm glad to see you,

but I don't want you

coming around here, foley.

Even.

Who the hell are you?

I'm disappointed.

You don't see it'?

The chin?

Jawline?

I know I've got his eyes.

Yeah, I see it.

You're Eddie's kid, right'?

That's right Ethan,

that's a good memory.

Been a long time.

More than 20 years.

My mistake.

A man does that kind

of hard time,

you don't want to get

the numbers wrong.

I can't blame you

for being suspicious.

I mean, here I am,

sitting in the dark,

waiting for you,

what do you want from me, Ethan?

I just...

I just want to buy you a drink.

I got a 35% stake in this place.

Easy money.

Kind of owe it

to you and my dad.

My mom told me your big plan

was to cash out and open a club.

We wanted to open a bar,

not whatever this is!

Here, let me show you.

Grab a drink.

Talk about the old days,

maybe talk about the new days.

Hey!

Xaviers here, and he wants

to see you and me in the back,

okay.

Come here. Listen.

Take him to my seat.

Everything is on the house.

I'll be right back.

You're alone.

Doesn't seem right.

I'm waiting for someone.

I've been waiting

for someone too.

I just found him.

Thanks, but no thanks.

Ethan told me to stop by'

said he had someone

who'd like to meet me.

Hey! I see you two have met.

You get rid of her'?

Ease up.

Wound that tight,

you'll give yourself a stroke.

I'm not interested

in whatever it is

you're selling.

Yeah?

Well, you can go f*** yourself,

because I'm definitely

not gonna.

You still owe me that gram.

That was something.

I'm leaving.

Look, foley, I'll take you home,

but could you just give me

one minute?

Just hang back a second.

This is what we like to see,

empty bottles

means business is good.

A veuve, dom, cristal..

Very nice, but...

What have we here?

The '96 billecart-salmon.

It's a shame to open this'

Really, it needs

another 10 or 15 years.

But if you're some

hedge fund shithead

trying to pry into the pants

of some poor, unfortunate girl,

well, you need to do

what you need to do.

I had the '59 a few weeks ago.

It was absolutely spectacular.

The minerality weaves

the elements together like silk.

I love champagne,

I drink a lot of it because

I have a lot to celebrate.

Life is good

when my people do their jobs.

This happened on your watch,

Ethan.

It won't happen again.

Xavier, I'm the one that

caught the stupid motherf***er.

And that's why, one day,

if you're a good boy,

I'll let you try the-the '59.

Our colleague here

won't have that opportunity,

so you thought, what,

that I wouldn't notice?

$250.000!

And I wouldn't notice?

Gonna be kind of tough

to get the money back now.

You'll find a way.

Have a safe flight.

Deal with it.

Foley. Foley.

Just... Give me a

minute, please.

I got out of prison yesterday.

Yesterday!

I know.

I know, and I'm sorry for that,

but just listen to me.

I thought that we would go out,

you know'?

Have a drink.

I guess I was just trying to

show you that I'm like my dad.

But the truth is,

I never really knew the guy,

you know, my mom, she was...

What do you want from me, Ethan?

I want to know

why you killed my father.

Still a lot of money

to be made down there.

Just how much do you know

about me and your dad?

Only what my mom told me,

that you were best

friends, partners.

She tell you what we did?

Our work'?

. No.

But I figured it out.

It's everything I could find.

Every article, every picture.

Why would you keep all this?

How else

could I get to know him?

You were grifters,

best in the city, according

to a lot of the old-timers.

Ethan, you need to let this go.

Your dad's been dead

a long time.

No, I need to know.

Foley, put yourself in my shoes.

We were on the grift...

A long con with a volatile mark

but with a high yield

if it played.

And it played.

Till your dad got greedy

and tried to squeeze the mark

loo hard,

I never figured out why.

He was in debt.

He was way over his

head, cards, horses.

Took my mom years

to get out from under it.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Mark was a heavy hitter.

Didn't take well

to being ripped off.

Kill your dad, or I

could die with him.

I'm sorry.

I spent a long time

in a very small room

thinking about

the choices I made that night.

I was young,

younger than you are now,

but I made a choice.

I never broke frame,

and I was punished for it.

What was his name?

The mark'

what's it matter?

He was the mark.

Your dad put us both

in a corner,

and there was only one way out.

Well, if somebody

did that to me,

I'd kill him too.

I'm just saying...

I understand.

You understand?

Yeah, I do,

and I think we can help

each other.

Look at me, Ethan.

25 years of my life are gone.

Now, if you're as smart

as you think you are,

you should go in this room,

rip that sh*t down

off that wall,

and throw it away!

This isn't the kind of thing

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