The Crossing Guard Page #3

I've done a lot of things

for you, you know.

A lot of things.

And I think it's cheap of you that you

won't hear me out on things. I really do.

- Mary's just upset.

- Excuse me, but I am not upset.

If you think I'm gonna keep score on who's

done what to who, you're very f***ing wrong!

And if you think that's cheap,

then f*** you!

I don't know if you're serious about

killing this man or not, but I do know this.

It has nothing to do

with our daughter.

Our little girl is gone, Freddy,

and she's not coming back...

no matter what you do!

You've never even been to the cemetery,

Freddy. You've never even been to Emily's grave.

Why?

Because I didn't go to

your little party? Your funeral?

I went on my own time,

Mary... in private.

- Oh, really?

- Yes.

Then you're a braver man

than I thought.

What's the inscription

on the stone, Freddy?

What color is it?

Is it on a hill?

Is it under a tree?

Does it lay flat or does it

stick up out of the ground?

That's what I thought.

Roger, man to man,

when you two read

in the newspaper...

that John Booth

has been shot dead,

I want you to look into her face and

tell me if you don't see pride and relief.

Pride and relief,

Mary.

So, listen to me.

I'm comin' out of the bathroom,

right?

And these two Orientals,

they're arguin', they're hollerin'.

They're screamin'

at one another, and all in Japanese.

So, I told 'em.

I said, "Hey, you're in

America now. Speak Spanish. "

- Geez, you f***ing guys.

Have a miserable evening.

What was he doin' in the mens' room?

Hey, Freddy. Freddy.

What?

Hey, Freddy, you with us?

I think we hypnotized him.

Freddy!

- Yeah?

- He's on the rag.

Did any of you guys ever have

a sound build up in your head...

over a period of days?

Like a vacuum cleaner?

That the last time

you had an original thought,

you got cocky

and rode on it?

- Rode what?

- Rode on the thought.

Enjoyed it...

'til you started hearin' that

vacuum cleaner in your brain.

- But you don't mean tonight.

- No. He means some other night.

Take my advice, Freddy.

Get yourself a "youngie" and go

on one of them Laguna weekends.

I gotta take off.

I'll see you guys later.

Freddy, where you goin'?

It's only 11:
00.

Oh, man.

Commitments.

He's gonna go turn off the f***in'

vacuum cleaner!

Pride and relief, Mary.

Goddamn it!

Goddamn it!

F***in'-

F***in' clip is empty.

This f***in' gun ain't got

no f***in' clip. You cock.

All right

I get a cigarette?

All right.

You know-

Would you mind closin' the door?

I don't want to wake my parents.

Might f***in' wake

his f***in' parents.

When the thing happened,

I wanted to be dead.

But there wasn't-

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