The Trigger Effect Page #4

- It is if you sell it for food.

I'm sorry. I interrupted something here.

I'm gonna go back...

- Of course not. We're just...

- You did.

We were talkin'.

I think your wife thinks...

Wait a minute. Are you actually

going to stand here in my kitchen...

and tell me

what my wife is thinking?

- Who the f*** do you think...

- Boys.

If you can't play nice, we're not

gonna have any more of these sleepovers.

I'm gonna go, uh, outside

and have a smoke, all right?

Matt, I'm sorry if...

Don't.

Good night.

Good night.

Sh*t.

- Matt?

- Hmm?

- There's someone in the house.

- What?

- Where's the gun?

- It's in the living room.

- No, it's not. Where the f*** is the gun?

- What's going on?

- Annie, where's the gun?

- I threw it in the pool. Why?

- Why?

- There's someone is the house.

Somebody broke

into the house?

I got a bat underneath the...

Oh, my God.

Stay here.

- Ready for this?

- Yeah.

He's just a little guy.

I'm gonna go around.

- You go this way. He's got our money.

- Joe?

- Leave the stuff!

- Turn the f***in' alarm off!

- I said leave the stuff!

- Leave it!

- Turn it off!

- Get outta here!

- Joe, does he have a gun?

- I don't know.

God!

Hey...

Don't get too close to him!

Joe! Look out!

Use your knife! Use your knife!

- You okay? You all right?

- Yeah.

Matt? What happened?

- L... I stabbed him.

- You stabbed him?

- I think he's still alive.

- No, I think I killed him.

You all okay?

Huh? How about you?

Get a towel or blanket.

Something to stop the bleeding.

He's a little guy.

Yeah. That's some

wicked switchblade, huh?

- You knew he only had a knife?

- Yeah.

Why?

Hey. Hey, why?

- What'd he mean by that?

- Is he dead?

- Yeah.

- We don't know that.

We're gonna have a big problem if you

don't have your head screwed on straight.

Save it.

That's not important right now!

The guy's dead, okay?

- Oh, my God.

- Take Sarah inside.

- Oh, my God.

- Please, take her inside.

It's... It's Richard.

Who?

The guy who works for Mr. Alvarez,

the guys fixing our kitchen.

Matthew, it's...

it's Richard.

That's your watch.

Please take her inside.

- You hear that?

- What was it?

- A shot, wasn't it?

- A shot?

It sounded

like it was up here.

It was definitely a gunshot.

It sounded like it was

right outside my window.

- You okay?

- Yeah.

- He... He tried to stab me.

- I saw it. I saw it.

I think it's that

fellow Matthew's place.

I had to protect myself,

right?

Matt? What happened?

Uh, somebody

broke into our house.

And, uh, Steph

came out with a rifle...

- And, he, uh...

- Yeah, and this guy was waving this gun around.

He was about ready to shoot

one of these guys here.

Like Matt said, I come out of my house

with my hunting rifle...

and I shoot him... first.

There was nothing else I could do.

He was about to take

a shot at you, wasn't he?

- Uh...

- Well, wasn't he? You gotta tell them.

The guy was aiming a gun

at you. You got nothing to worry about.

Aw, Jesus Christ.

I'm glad you guys are here.

The guy is dead.

- It is what it is.

- I come out of my house, he's got his hands in the air.

- He had this gun.

Hold on. Stop right there.

We heard a gunshot.

Who fired it? You?

- What I'm trying to say is...

- Calm down. Tell me what happened.

I come out of my house,

and I had a rifle.

This guy's got his hands in the air,

and I fired once...

just to take the gun

away from him.

- And he stabbed him.

- He probably saved my life.

Yeah. Maybe.

Where were you, sir?

- Uh, I was standing over

by the edge of the driveway.

Is that how you saw it?

Uh, I didn't hear

what he said...

- I was telling him how the guy...

- Just a second, sir!

You guys stay here.

Come here.

Huh? Oh.

S- T-R-A-S...

Under the circumstances,

we can save you a lot of time...

and return what he took

from you right now.

- What's gonna happen?

- There will be an investigation.

Don't worry about your neighbor.

He'll stand up fine.

The guy was breaking into houses. You

all saw him with a gun and the blackout.

- They'll consider that.

- Yeah.

Is it bad out there?

Out where?

"It'll take an hour,

and the lights will be on. "

Who are they trying to kid?

- That what the cop said?

- That's what the cop said.

Upstairs. Go on!

He said there was a chance.

They don't know any more about when

the power's going on than we do.

Solar storm.

How gullible do they think we are?

It doesn't matter what happened. What

are we going to do to protect ourselves?

We should have gated the street

when we had a chance.

Gates.

We wouldn't have this problem.

I don't understand you people.

I don't wanna live

behind bars.

The important thing

is that we stick together.

Fifteen hundred lousy bucks...

Does anybody have

any information? Not a rumor.

Not something they heard from a friend

of a friend, but hard information?

Nobody?

We could, um...

We could park a couple of cars...

um, at the end of the block,

seal it off.

That's a good idea.

How about that Lincoln

of yours?

- My Lincoln?

- Yeah. Why not?

I don't want to run down there

and move it all the time.

- Leave the keys in it.

- You insane?

What are they

talking about?

I'll tell you what I want to talk about.

I want to talk about Raji's...

generator.

- Hey!

- You got a generator?

- Well, yeah, but...

- Why didn't you tell us?

- Why should I?

- That's the kind of thing we should know about.

What if some of us

have some emergency?

I have limited gasoline.

Everybody can use their own gas, Raji.

It's a very

small generator.

- Blah, blah, blah.

- "Blah, blah, blah," what?

I don't know how they do

things where you come from...

- Miami.

- What?

I come from Miami, okay?

What are you saying, Raji? If one of us

has an accident, we can't use it?

- I didn't say that.

- Some of us have kids.

- We have kids.

- How many?

- Two!

- Well, we have three.

- So what?

- I'm just saying.

- The important thing is we stick together.

- Good night.

Right, Raji.

Stick together.

But not with your generator

and not with his car.

Who the hell is he?

Matt?

Hey, Matt.

Matt, come here.

I wanna tell you somethin'.

Come on.

Take her in.

So what'd you tell

the cop?

Doesn't really matter,

does it?

Kind of matters to me,

don't you think?

I lied...

through my teeth.

Thanks, man.

They'll pull the registration

on the gun.

They'll trace it to you.

- There was no registration on that one.

- What?

I won it in a card game.

You won it in a card...

Congratulations.

Hey... Whoa, whoa.

Easy, easy. Come on.

- I just want to ask you something.

- What?

Where do we stand,

you and me?

I mean, do we have

a problem now?

Okay, I see.

I see how we're

gonna play this.

Okay.

I'm right across the street,

you know.

What about

your parents' place in Colorado?

- How do we know the power's not out there too?

- We don't.

- It's gotta be better than here.

- It's really far.

- It's not that far. We've driven it before.

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