The Wild One Page #4

Dorothy.

I guess you're right.

Kathy, go see if you can find your dad.

Tell him I need him right away.

You better go home and stay there.

Come on!

Come on, Bleeker!

Now, wait a minute!

- Hi, Johnny. Where have you been?

- What do you want?

Talk to me, Johnny.

Sing me a song.

- Buy me a beer.

- You've got a beer.

I want to know how you've been, Johnny.

I'm singing tonight, Johnny.

I'm really singing.

I'm on the Christmas tree.

- You got a date?

- Yeah, I got a date.

Johnny.

Remember the night--? The first time

I went out scrambling with the Rebels.

Remember?

That was the first time I ever saw you.

I haven't seen you since.

We really got ourselves

hung on the Christmas tree, didn't we?

Boy, was I green. Was I really green.

I thought I was really living it up. I had

me a guy and we were really gonna go.

But we had a lot of yaks anyway,

didn't we, Johnny?

Well, say it.

Can't you say something?

Please, Johnny.

I won't get on your back.

I wouldn't do that.

But we had a lot of yaks anyway,

didn't we?

What do you want me to do,

send you some flowers?

Where's that girl?

Where's that Kathy?

The bar's closed, counter's closed,

everything is closed.

- Hey, Johnny, can't you stop this?

- Where's that Kathy? I'm looking for her.

- I don't know. If you can stop this--

- I don't stop nothing, man.

- They're wrecking my place.

- You're doing all right, man.

Oh, no. Please.

- You all right?

- Let's get to work on these boys.

- Anybody bring a gun for me?

- Here.

- Wait a minute.

- Wait till somebody gets killed?

I don't go all the way with Charlie either.

But we've got to protect ourselves.

But two wrongs

never made anything right.

- When you start using guns...

- I'm gonna use it, one end or the other.

Anybody who wants to

stay and talk some more...

...can have an ice cream social with Bill.

Anybody don't, can come with me.

If you find him, bring him to the back

of the store. We'll meet there.

We'll do what we can. Let's get hold

of this Johnny before the others do.

Hey, Crazy, man, go, go, go!

That Mildred gives

the craziest permanents.

- Marina, honey, let's dance.

- I've been tapped.

Hey, baby!

Go, go, go!

Come on, Leroy.

Come on, Johnny, go!

Hey, guys, look. New talent.

Hey, fellas.

- Well...

- That's a good one.

Let's get her!

Please don't do this.

Please don't. It's too expensive. Please.

Mildred, honey, where you been?

Let's dance, sweetie.

- Hey! The chick!

- Johnny's girl! Let's get her!

Get on.

Get up.

I'm sorry, I can't fight back.

I'm too tired. It would be better,

wouldn't it? Then you could hit me.

You think you're too good for me.

Nobody is too good for me.

Anybody who thinks

they're too good for me...

...I make sure

I knock them over sometime.

I can slap you around to show you

how good you are...

...and tomorrow I'm someplace else

and I don't even know you or nothing.

Do you want to?

I wouldn't waste my time on a square like

you. What I wanna knock myself out for?

- I'll take you back and dump you. Come.

- Johnny.

Quit that.

It's crazy, isn't it?

You're afraid of me.

I don't know why,

but I'm not afraid of you now.

You're afraid of me.

I'm afraid of you? Are you cracked?

Come on, get on.

I wanted to touch you.

I wanted to try, anyway.

Try what?

I don't know.

I wanted to make it the way

I always thought it would be sometime...

...with somebody.

The way I always thought it might be.

You're still fighting, aren't you?

You're always fighting.

Why do you hate everybody?

I've never ridden on a motorcycle

before. It's fast. It scared me.

But I forgot everything.

It felt good. Is that what you do?

I'm gonna leave.

That's what you want me to do, isn't it?

You know what I used to think about?

I used to think about it a lot

after my mother died.

That somebody would come here

and stop at Uncle Frank's place...

...and buy a cup of coffee or something...

...and he'd like me right away

and he'd take me with him.

Johnny, you were going to give me that

statue. Will you give it to me now?

Why?

I don't know.

I just wondered if you still wanted

to give it to me, that's all.

It's crazy.

Where did you want this guy

to take you?

This guy that had a cup of coffee.

I don't know.

Wherever he was going, I guess.

I'm shaky.

I wish I was going someplace.

I wish you were going someplace.

We could go together.

Johnny, Johnny.

Hey.

Hey. Quit it.

What's the matter, Kathy?

I was only trying to--

- Chino, how did you get out of the can?

- Johnny, I love you.

Let's you and me have a beer, and I'll

beat the living Christmas out of you.

Come on, get everybody together.

- We're gonna get out of here.

- Storm the Bastille!

There he comes!

That's him!

That's him. He's the one who...

Dad, they've got Johnny.

They're taking him...

You've just been sitting here?

Aren't you gonna do anything?

There isn't anything to do, Kathy.

We have to help him. They took him

in a car, Mr. Thomas and some men.

He wasn't doing anything.

He was trying to stop it.

He was going to leave.

- How are things at Frank's?

- Fight started. I don't know.

I came to look for you.

- Uncle Frank is very upset.

- Well, he got what he wanted.

- Business before pleasure.

- Listen, they've gone crazy. Everybody.

They've got Johnny. You've gotta

help him. They're going to beat him up.

I tried to talk to him.

- Don't you even care?

- What can I do?

Nothing, I guess.

But if you don't do something,

you're worse than any of them.

They brought it on themselves. I

saw it coming, but what could I do?

Charlie Thomas is a bully.

He was a bully in the third grade.

What am I supposed to do,

shoot somebody?

- Charlie, let me talk to the boy.

- Bill, stay out of this. Get out of our way.

- My old man used to hit harder than that.

- Shut up.

Hold on, there.

Get away from that boy. Get back.

This has got nothing to do with you.

We've got a little job to do.

- This is my job.

- You won't have it long.

We're doing something that should've

been taken care of before this:

Pounding a little respect for law

and authority into this guy's thick skull.

That's not the way to do it.

You got a better way?

You've had a lot of time to try it.

Harry, look, you're too soft-hearted.

This is no time for kindness.

- It's as good a time as any.

- We're doing this our way.

We're gonna make good and sure he

doesn't try anything like this soon again.

I don't know what he's tried or hasn't

tried. This boy's in my custody.

If he's done anything to deserve

punishment, he'll get it...

...but in the right way, not from you.

Now, now, Harry. Take it easy.

After all, we're all old friends.

- Let's be calm and talk it over. Come on.

- Yeah, let's talk this over, Harry.

Hey!

There he comes. That's him!

What's all that? What's all the noise?

What's going on?

- Get him up.

- We'll really fix him for this.

- I'm gonna break your neck.

- Finally killed a man, huh?

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