Smoke

:24:03

Do you mind if I sit down?

:24:12

He's been living with me and his
uncle Henry since he was a baby.

:24:15

And we don't live in Manhattan.

:24:17

We live in Boerum Hill. In the projects.

:24:22

He doesn't go to the Trinity School?

:24:24

He goes to John Jay
High School in Brooklyn.

:24:30

And his parents?

:24:33

His mother's dead, and he hasn't
seen his father in twelve years.

:24:41

I shouldn't have let him go.

:24:44

Could anything happened lately?

:24:46

Anything unusual or unexpected?

:24:50

Well, one thing I suppose, but I don't
think it has anything to do with this.

:24:54

A friend of mine called
about two weeks ago

:24:56

and said she'd spotted Thomas's father working
at some gas station outside of Peekskill.

:25:02

And you told your nephew about it?

:25:04

I figured he had a right to know.

:25:07

And?

:25:09

And nothing. Thomas looked at
me straight in the eye and said,

:25:12

I don't have a father. As far as I'm
concerned, that son-of- a-bitch is dead.