:09:02
could only come
from King Benny.
:09:03
The underground word,
the only one that mattered,
:09:06
had spread through the streets
with the speed of a bullet.
:09:12
King Benny's sleepers
were making their play.
:09:16
Sleepers was a street name
:09:18
for anyone who spent time
in a juvenile facility.
:09:29
Hey!
:09:30
You going to pay for that,
you little prick?
:09:32
I need your help, Fat Man.
I need a big favour.
:09:35
Be outside.
:09:36
King Benny been to see you?
:09:38
Oh, my goodness.
:09:39
What a fucking thing
we put together, huh?
:09:41
You have a drunk lawyer
on one side,
:09:44
a kid lawyer on the other,
:09:46
fucking paperboy
making like Dick Tracy.
:09:49
There are four sets of eyeballs
that saw the whole thing.
:09:52
You know?
:09:54
Meanwhile, the two on trial
killed more people than cancer.
:09:56
Fucking General Custer
has a better shot at a walk.
:09:58
There's no connection
with the guard and us.
:10:00
The cops think it's
a drug-related homicide.
:10:02
It's just, we need you
to pull a few strings, Fat Man.
:10:04
You know,
you get caught on this,
:10:06
you're looking straight
at serious.
:10:08
I'm talking real jail,
the big house.
:10:17
They're not good boys anymore.
:10:19
They're killers now.
:10:21
Cold as stone.
:10:23
I know.
:10:25
I know what they were
and I know what they are,
:10:27
and it's not about that.
:10:29
It's not worth it, throwing
away a life just to get even.
:10:34
You and the lawyer
have a chance to get out,
:10:36
to get out the right way.
:10:38
There's no choice, not for us.
:10:44
On occasion,
I'd have dinner with Carol.
:10:44
On occasion,
I'd have dinner with Carol.
:10:45
She still lived
in the neighbourhood
:10:47
and was a social worker
in the South Bronx,
:10:49
her concern for us undiminished
by the passing years.
:10:52
Whenever we went out as a group,
:10:54
Carol would walk between Michael
and John, grasping their arms,
:10:59
in step between
the lawyer and the killer.