Worth: The Testimony of Johnny St. James (2012) - full transcript
Johnny St. James was a young seminary student who lost his wife to a drunk driver. With his reason for living gone, John lost his faith and turned to alcohol. Ten years later, John is finally ready to get his life back on track. With his best friend Hickey ('Eric Roberts') in tow John attends his first AA meeting. He soon finds that his road to recovery tested when he runs into the man who ran down his wife.
(church bell tolls)
(birds chirp)
(gentle piano music)
- So do you want me to
go in there with you?
- No.
No, I told you I'd do this.
- All right.
So, I had this dream last night.
Crazy stuff.
You remember Mo?
- Yes.
- The first bartender
at Whiskey Pete's,
back before we was
working together?
- I just said yes.
- Well, she was
running a Taco Hut.
- A Taco Hut?
- Yeah, man.
Well, you know,
she was managing it
and me and you,
we was working it.
- Working it?
- Me and you.
It was crazy busy and we ran out
of ground beef of all things.
- I don't think Taco Hut
even uses ground beef.
- It's tacos, tacos have beef.
- No, I think their ground beef
is made out of like
soybeans or something.
- Nobody makes
tacos with soybeans.
- They do, they do.
But they just don't
want anyone to know it
because then no
one would want it.
- Whatever, not the point, dude.
The point is we ran out of this
ground beef-like substance.
Everyone's panicking,
they're flipping out.
Nobody knew what
to do and you say,
calm down, don't freak out.
Then, you go to
the grocery store
and you come back with
all this ground beef,
and a grill and Mo
starts to grill it.
- Grilling at the restaurant?
- I didn't say it made
sense in the dream.
I just said I dreamed
it, but anyway.
It just keeps getting
busier and busier
and I'm getting all
super anxious, right?
- Right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Hickey] Everyone's
flipping out,
the customers, employees,
reaching a fever pitch.
(distorted speech)
- Right, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah I get it
Hickey, Hickey,
what's the point?
- The point?
The point is you got the beef.
- That's great.
And here I was fearing that
there was no real point.
- Ah, have faith, partner.
- We're all out, man.
- What I meant was, even when
things were at their worst,
you kept calm,
you kept grounded,
you kept us from
flying off the rails.
(phone rings)
Yeah?
Where's it at?
Hey, man, you got a pen?
- Yeah, glove box.
- Hold on.
You got something
to, here, I got this.
Hold on.
Okay, yeah, go.
Mm-hm, mm-hm, mm-hm.
Hold on.
(pen scratches)
Is that 5193?
5193, okay, we can be
there in two hours.
Mm-hm.
So, you still have this.
(church bell tolls)
(slow dramatic music)
- I didn't even know
that was in there.
- Maybe.
- No.
Have it, it's yours.
- Why'd you keep it?
- I didn't.
Throw it away.
- What for?
- Because it's worthless.
That's what's for.
- Hey!
Was that really necessary?
It's time, man.
- Yeah, yeah.
Long time coming.
- All right, are you
sure you don't want me
to come in there with you?
- No, no, I'm gonna
do this alone.
- I'll be right
here if you need me.
- All right.
Don't worry, I got this.
(dog barks)
(birds chirps)
(engaging dramatic music)
Hello?
Hello?
(engaging dramatic music)
- [Earl] You must
be the new guy?
- Not exactly what I expected.
- Would that be me or the place?
- Either one.
- This church has been
here for 88 years.
It's as beautiful as
the day it was made.
As for me, only God can
take credit for that.
- So how's this gonna go down?
- Well, the hardest part was
walking through that door,
so just make yourself at home.
- How many others are there?
- I like to keep
the group small.
You know, more
personal, intimate.
- How long you been
doing these meetings?
- Wow, you ask a
lot of questions.
Are you a cop or something?
- Yeah, you're under arrest.
(both laugh)
- You've got a sense of humor.
That's a good thing
to have around here.
Look, I got to go grab some
stuff before the others show up,
so I'll be right back.
- Need a hand?
- No, no, I'm fine.
It's good to see you here.
I'm really glad you came.
- Long time coming.
- Yeah.
(slow dramatic music)
- Are you the first one here?
- Look a little
nervous there, guy.
- You startled me, that's all.
- You startle easy.
- Yeah.
Who are you?
- I'm no one.
- No, he's Isaac
and I'm Natalie--
- Hey!
- What?
- Oh, you got a good one.
- [Isaac] What was that?
- I said you got
a good girl there.
- [Isaac] Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.
I can tell, I got an
eye for these things.
- Why don't you keep your
eye on your own business.
- I meant no disrespect.
- None taken.
- All right, okay, tough
guys, relax, leave him alone.
Hey, are you with me?
- Yeah, of course, baby.
- All right, good,
'cause I need you.
- What's wrong?
- Nothing.
- You know him?
- Oh, no, no.
- You sure about that?
- Yes, I'm sure.
- You don't sound very sure.
- Look at you all
jealous, cute and all.
- No, it's just
you know how I get
in places I'm not comfortable.
I just get--
- Jealous?
- You know how I get.
I'm still just...
This place, I just
still don't know.
- Listen, I know but
I'm nervous enough
without your baggage, okay, so.
- Natalie.
- Hey, Earl.
- Hi.
- [Isaac] I'm Isaac.
- It's nice to meet you.
- All right, well,
we're gonna sit.
- Sure.
We're gonna start soon.
- [Johnny] Not a very
punctual group, huh?
- Can I ask you something?
- Where does that lead?
- You checking your exit?
- Where?
- Down.
It's a basement for storage.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- Hi, I brought coffee.
- Hey, everyone.
There's not enough
for everybody.
So unfortunately, you're
gonna have to share.
Half a cup for each of you.
- Great, just in time.
Thank you.
- 'Cause everyone knows
that Chad loves to share.
- I'm just gonna give
it a few more minutes
and then we'll start.
(upbeat country music)
(phone rings)
* On that crazy track
- Yeah, boss?
Yeah, I told ya, he's
got that dentist thing.
He should be out anytime now.
Yeah, after that,
we'll be there.
Yeah.
(phone beeps)
* I've been round this country
* Looking for my
(muffled lyrics)
* Now sometimes I find her
* But danged if I
can't beat her *
(muffled lyrics)
- Every time.
- Perfect.
(slow dramatic music)
- Crazy day.
I said crazy day.
- Yeah, I suppose.
- It's crazy out there.
Crazy people, crazy things.
I was walking here;
I like to walk;
and this old guy was
about a block back.
He was screaming.
Now, I just suppose he was
crazy and yelling at himself,
so I keep walking and I get
about another block down,
take a left and a
few seconds later,
I hear him yelling again.
This time, he's right
across the street from me
and he's yelling and he's
shaking his fists at me.
At this point, it's pretty
obvious he's talking to me.
We're the only two
people on the street.
I get about another
block down, take a left,
and as soon as
the street curves,
I start running,
running so fast.
I mean, picture me running
in these high heels.
So, anyway, I duck
into a coffee shop
and I grab a latte.
I was gonna grab one anyway
and a few minutes later,
there he is, walking by.
He's looking through the window.
He doesn't see
me, but I see him,
so I waited for about 15 minutes
so I wouldn't run into him
and that's why I'm late.
I'm just happy to be in here
with some not so psycho people.
Oh, wow, really?
I forgot my latte.
- (scoffs) Awful!
- So what's your story?
- Hmm?
- What's your story?
Why are you here?
- Free coffee.
- Could've just said you
had a girlfriend, jerk.
- You sure you wanna do this?
- Mm-hmm, I'm fine.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Sweet.
(church bell tolls)
- Okay, we all know
why we're here.
The only thing left to do,
as my ex-wife once said,
is to get to it.
We're all here for
the same purpose.
We're all here to
help each other
to achieve that purpose.
Now, for the sake of the
newcomers in the room,
there's no judgment here.
This is a place for
healing and forgiveness.
All right, so why don't we pray.
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change,
the courage to change
the things I can,
and the wisdom to
know the difference.
Amen.
This is a first
meeting for some,
so, Cherice, would you
mind going over the steps
and telling us what
they mean to you?
- Really?
- Why not?
- Okay, yeah, sure.
We've admitted that we are
powerless against alcohol
and that our lives have
become unmanageable.
I think that one's
pretty obvious.
Step two, we must believe
that there's a power greater
than ourselves that can
restore us to sanity.
For me, it's God.
I have to believe that he's
with me in this battle.
We must make the
decision to turn our will
and our lives over
to the care of God.
- You're using
the word we a lot.
Why don't you tell us what
these words mean to you.
- Right, sorry, me.
I must make a
searching and fearless
moral inventory of myself.
This is hard.
Me, I must admit to
God and to myself
and to others the exact
nature of my wrongs.
With God, it was easy.
But it's hard for me to
come to these meetings
and talk about my mistakes.
I must make a list of all
the people that I've harmed
and I must be willing to
make amends with them.
I suppose my list
is longer than most,
but shorter than some.
(hands tap)
When I have a
spiritual awakening
as a result of these steps,
I will try to carry
this message to others
and I will practice these
principles in all of my affairs.
- Somebody's been
studying their book.
That was pretty much verbatim.
- So?
- Nothing.
I was just saying.
- All right, ladies, come on.
Remember, there's no
judgment here, okay?
We're just here to listen.
Good.
My name is Earl and
I'm an alcoholic.
- [Group] Hi, Earl.
- I've been sober
now for 10 years.
10 years ago, I made
a terrible choice,
a choice that changed the course
of my life and the
lives of others.
And like every other
addict eventually does,
I self-destructed, and just
like many other addicts,
my downward spiral
didn't just affect me.
(engaging dramatic music)
We cannot change the
mistakes of our lives.
We can't correct them.
But if we allow God into
our lives, we can experience
the forgiveness that
we need and move on.
That same desire that drives
us to drink and abuse drugs
is the exact desire
for wholeness.
And that desire can be filled
through a relationship with God.
That's what I'm doing here.
I'm hoping that by
sharing my story
and by listening
to all of yours,
I can continue on the
path that I've started.
You see, had I not hit rock
bottom, I never would've
found the courage to look
up and ask God for help,
ask God for his hand
and his forgiveness.
And you know something?
He did forgive me and then
he sent me on the right way.
I mean, there I was rotting away
for three long years
in a jail cell.
Turns out, my new
cellmate's name was Warden.
No, obviously, the irony of
that name didn't escape me.
Warden, he was
serving his 30th year
of a three life-term sentence.
He said that when he
was on the outside,
he owned a business, all right?
And he shared it
with his teenage son.
Now, the plan was that his
son, when he turned 18,
he was gonna take over the
business with him, 50/50.
And then as he got older,
he would take over
the business entirely.
Well, his kid had other plans.
Turns out, his son fell in love
with the joys of the theater
and he wanted to become an
actor, so he packed up his bags.
He moved cross country to
pursue his life's dream
living in La La Land.
Well, I told Warden, I said,
well, that's too bad, right?
He just looked at me and
he simply said, maybe.
Okay, maybe.
Then he tells me that
he couldn't handle
the business himself, right?
So he had to hire a
partner to work with him.
Well, it turns out
that this partner
happened to be a conman.
He took him for everything
he had before he skipped town
along with Warden's wife.
So, obviously, I
put this together.
I said, well, so what happened?
Did you kill him?
Is that why you're here?
And he says to me, yes and I
just thought this is terrible.
I said that to him.
He just looked at me
again and he said, maybe.
I mean, at this point, I had
it with the maybes, all right?
I even got upset with him.
I said, what are
you talking about?
What do you mean maybe?
There are no maybes about this.
This is a horrible series
of events in your life!
And he says to me, look,
my son went to Los Angeles
struggling to be an
actor for 10 long years.
Audition after audition,
it never worked for him.
His career didn't take off.
He worked as a waiter working
himself through night school.
At night school, he earned a
diploma in computer science.
He met a beautiful
woman, he fell in love,
and then he started his
own computer company.
He never told me
what the name was,
but he said I would
definitely recognize it.
Years go by, his son
has kids of his own.
His kids grow up, a few of
those have kids of their own.
Now, what Warden was
trying to say to me,
this is what he said, he
said, every rotten thing
that ever happened to
me bore good fruit.
All right.
Now, I said to him, Warden,
that doesn't make sense.
I mean, that's all well and good
for your son, but look at you.
Look at your life.
You're rotting away in here.
You're watching your whole life
disappear before your very eyes.
And he says, no, no!
I was rotting away out there.
In here, I discovered my faith.
I was never really free
until I came in here.
He was never really free
until he came to prison.
And, then, it hit me. bam,
like that, neither was I.
But I sure as hell wanted to be.
Then, all of a sudden,
everything that
I'd been hearing,
everything that was
being shovel at me
in those mandatory AA meetings
started to make sense to me.
And it wasn't very long
before I was on my knees
looking up and begging
God to help me as well.
Well, that's my story.
That's what's brought me
here to all you fine folks.
(group applauds)
All right, who
wants to share next?
- Yeah, yeah, we're
on our way shortly.
Well, I don't know
what to tell you, boss.
Maybe he's got a
lot of cavities.
No, no, no, I did not
mean any disrespect.
Can you send Freddie and Marvin?
Maybe.
- God's will, God's will.
Everybody always wants
to implement God's will.
What is God's will?
- What do you mean?
- I mean, at the end of the day,
whether you have you have
the nice house and the car
and, you know, your
own corporation, kids,
all the fancy
stuff, it looks good
from the outside perspective,
but does that means
it's really God's will?
- I won Miss Littleton
when I was 17.
Great, right?
(church bell tolls)
Well, it turns out not so much.
It was doing my duties
supporting the win
that I discovered
whiskey, pills, and coke.
And here I am.
- That's right, here you are.
Everything that happened to you
has led you to this
time and place.
Maybe this is exactly
where you need to be.
(country music plays)
It's a matter of
putting your faith,
your trust in a higher power.
Trusting that God
has a purpose for you
and those around you.
Now, if you wanna
narrow that down
to a practical
perspective, that's fine.
Be my guest.
All I'm saying is
that if you choose
to look at things positively,
you will start to
see positive results.
The choice is yours.
Do you choose to live
in a world of chaos
or a world that is benevolent
and full of meaning?
For me, I choose faith.
- So it's that simple then?
- No, it isn't that
simple actually.
- I wasn't talking to you.
- My name is Chad,
I'm an alcoholic.
- Hi, Chad.
- I've been sober
for three years now.
You know, for me,
I love alcohol.
It's what I do best, drinking.
It's my second nature, like
breathing for most people.
And I drank so much,
at a certain point
three years ago,
I walked into my doctor
and my doctor told me,
basically, you're about to lose
the one and only
liver that you have.
So, like any good alcoholic
with this new information,
I found my way to
the closest bar
and I ordered my favorite drink.
And right as that drink
was about to touch my lips,
I saw this man.
He said a few words to
me that changed my life.
I put that drink down.
I've been here ever since.
He's a good man.
I thank him.
- What a life?
Saved your life, huh?
What a life, what a life.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- Nah, nothing, nothing.
You know what?
Let's hear more about
the almighty Earl.
- What's your problem?
- My problem is that you
guys are all sitting around
putting your faith in
this man and his God.
- Hey, Earl, where'd
you find this guy?
- You know you're not
supposed to be here drunk?
- Babe!
- I'm just talking
about the truth.
Isn't that what we're
here for, the truth?
Didn't you read the
sign on the door?
- Okay, Johnny, this is
not how we do things here.
- You know, you probably
aren't gonna like the truth,
but I'll tell it to you.
You wanna hear the truth?
- Go ahead.
- You wanna hear the truth?
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna give you the truth.
May I approach the
bench, your honor?
Thank you.
Okay, the truth is that I've
been sober for three years.
I don't like it.
I don't enjoy it.
You think I enjoy
coming to these rooms,
listening to these
steps, working a program,
having a sponsor, all this crap?
No, I don't enjoy it, okay?
What I enjoyed was I
enjoyed being drunk.
I like drinking.
I love alcohol
and I loved drugs.
I liked being the guy that
was stupid and irresponsible.
That was what I liked.
I enjoyed causing a
scene, being a mess,
but those days are
over for me, okay?
I can't do that anymore.
I had to grow up.
And so, I'm just
here to tell you
that it's not a joke, man.
Okay, we're not here because
we're having a good time.
You think I enjoy this?
You think I wanna do this?
No, I wanna be that guy!
I wanna be the
life of the party!
To live in a fantasy world,
to be reckless and careless
and not do anything for
anybody except for myself.
Being selfish, that's
what it's about, man!
That's fun!
I don't wanna be sitting
in some stupid AA meeting.
You think I wanna be
this reliable, steady guy
that shows up everywhere
he's suppose to,
that keeps commitments?
This isn't fun.
I don't go out.
I don't have a social life.
I don't do anything.
I sit alone, home, and bored.
That's what I do.
My life sucks.
But at the end of the day, man,
I'm here because I got to
save my life, all right?
This is life and death.
It's serious business.
So maybe you can grow up
and try and figure that out
because this is as good
as it's ever gonna get,
so appreciate it and
now you got the truth.
- Sit down, Chad!
- Leave him alone, Violeta.
- Oh!
Oh, you're a little defensive.
Is that your squeeze up there?
Is that your fella?
Huh?
- Johnny?
- [Johnny] No?
- A little respect, please?
- You guys aren't
having your own little
(lips smacking)
meetings on the side?
- No.
- You wanna back off, man?
- [Isaac] What is your deal?
- I wanna know what's your deal?
What's your deal?
How come you're not
sharing with the group?
What, are you hiding something?
Huh, are you hiding
something, darling?
- Dude, leave her alone!
How long are you gonna
let this go on for?
- You aren't exactly making
it comfortable for everyone.
- What, what do you mean?
What am I doing?
I'm just telling the truth here.
Isn't that what we're
supposed to be doing?
I'm just telling the truth.
What?
What's going on, hun?
What are you afraid of?
What are you afraid of?
- Okay, Johnny!
Look, I know it can be
overwhelming your first time.
- Oh, yes, yes, yes.
No, no, no, I know the first
time can be overwhelming.
- [Earl] That's enough.
- Is it?
Is that enough?
Because you know what?
I feel like I'm just
getting warmed up.
- All right, man, that's it!
- Chad!
Whoa! Whoa!
(men grunt and gun thuds)
- Why did you do that?
- Is he dead?
I'm out of here.
- No, shut up and sit down.
No one's going anywhere.
Hey, don't you move!
All right.
All right, you up, grab him.
Up, grab him.
- Is it me or do crazy
people follow me everywhere?
(hands tap nervously)
(Hickey heavily sighs and moans)
- [Isaac] He's unconscious.
I don't think he's
going anywhere.
- [Johnny] All right,
back to your seats.
- Sit down, Earl.
Sit down, Earl.
Sit down, Earl!
All right.
Okay.
(church bell tolls)
Okay.
- I can't take this anymore.
- Sit down!
Sit down!
Sit down!
- Fine!
- Johnny!
Whoa, wait a minute, pal!
- [Johnny] Back
outta hear, Hickey.
- What's going on here, partner?
- Just back out!
- What are you doing?
- You don't wanna get
wrapped up in this.
- Wrapped up in what?
I thought I was bringing
you here to get better.
- Just go, Hick!
- Come on, man.
You know I can't do that.
- Yes, you can.
And take me with you.
- [Both] Shut up and sit down!
- Johnny?
- You know who that is?
That guy?
If you knew who that was,
then you would know
that I'm not done here.
- Johnny, put the gun down.
- Not gonna happen.
Just back out.
- I know what you're
going through.
- (scoffs) You don't,
you don't know anything.
Don't move!
- Listen to him.
Don't move, I'm gonna
get you outta here.
Johnny, you can't do this, pal.
- None of that, come on.
Come on!
- [Hickey] Johnny!
- You know you're not that fast.
Keep your hands up.
- I can't be here.
- Sit, just sit!
Sit down!
Now, no, no, don't!
Don't, don't!
- I just wanted to
come to this meeting--
- Don't, sit down, don't!
Okay, this conversation is over.
All right, just go.
Just back out, okay?
I don't wanna hurt anyone else.
- I know that
you're hurt, Johnny.
I'm your partner, talk to me.
- Just leave!
Leave, Hickey!
Just back out, okay?
I'm doing what I
came here to do.
I never judged you.
- What?
- When you came from
your little vacation.
- I paid my debt.
- When you came back.
- [Hickey] I became a cop!
- Right!
You weren't always a cop!
- No, I wasn't.
- [Johnny] And I
never judged you.
- I know.
You had faith in me even
when I didn't deserve it.
You believed in me and that's
why I believed in myself.
That's why I became a cop.
But I'm not the same man
I used to be, brother.
- Well, neither am I.
Do not interrupt
me again, brother.
- [Hickey] What
are you gonna do?
- I am gonna do what
I came here to do.
I told you that already.
You had your chance to leave!
Just back out, Hickey!
Back out!
- Johnny.
You're not gonna shoot me.
- Yeah?
(gun clicks)
- Okay, Johnny, we
can work this out.
I'm on your side.
Tell me what you need.
Tell me what you
wanna see happen.
I'll give it to you.
- (laughs) Oh, no.
Wait, no, no, don't tell me.
You're gonna play negotiator
with me right now?
- Johnny, I'm your friend.
I wanna help you.
Now, tell me what you need.
I'll deliver.
- What I need is right here.
Just go.
- [Hickey] Johnny.
- Just go, Hickey, go.
- Okay, Johnny.
- OKay.
Okay, who wants to share?
- Hey, boss, we got a
situation here, yeah.
(Chad moans and struggles)
- We should share.
Who wants to share?
Come on, it's an
AA meeting, right?
Share, we should work the steps.
It works if you work it, right?
Works if you work it.
No one, no one wants to...
Okay, I'll just--
- No, step one, we've
admitted we're powerless
against alcohol and that our
lives have become unmanageable.
- That's very good.
Very good.
Our lives have become,
our lives have
become unmanageable.
Okay, step two?
Step two?
No one?
It's like pulling teeth.
All right, if I have
to do this every time.
Step two!
- We believe that a greater
power than ourselves
can restore us to sanity.
- [Johnny] Say it again!
- We believe that a power
greater than ourselves
can restore us to sanity.
- [Johnny] I can't
hear you, say it again!
- We believe that a power
greater than ourselves
can restore us to sanity!
- Sanity?
Sanity?
A power greater than ourselves.
Well, today, that would be me.
- I think he missed
the sanity part.
- Shh.
- Who'd of thunk it?
A greater power.
Tell you what.
Here's how it's gonna go.
I'm gonna share.
I'm gonna go ahead and share
and then someone
else can share later.
- And what if we
have nothing to say?
- [Johnny] What?
- What if we have
nothing to say?
- Oh, everyone's got
something to say, sweetheart.
Everyone's got something to say.
Everyone's got skeletons
locked deep in their closet.
Don't they, Earl?
My name is Johnny St.
James and I'm an alcoholic.
Oh, come on, people!
I'm Johnny, I'm an alcoholic.
- [Group] Hi, Johnny.
- Thank you.
Play by the rules here.
Let's see.
I drank this morning, so
I guess I got zero days.
I got zero days sober.
But that might
change, who knows.
Anything can happen.
Up until 10 years ago, I
was never much of a drinker.
You know, I'd have
wine with dinner
and champagne at a
wedding, that kinda thing.
But no, I take that back
because I like beer.
I really like beer.
I used to brew my own beer.
It was fun.
But I was more into
the chemistry of it.
You know, the science.
My wife used to say
that I was crazy
and that's why she loved me.
(gentle music)
She loved me.
Ah, but then, 10 years ago,
well, that all changed.
So I started drinking
heavy, you know?
Hard stuff every day, all day.
Yeah, I was really going for it,
but I was able to
maintain, you know?
I was able to really
get up every day
and do what I had to do.
I even started a new career.
I started a noble
career as a cop.
- So you really are a cop?
- Yeah.
But I don't think you're
supposed to be asking questions.
You're not supposed to
ask questions, right?
I thought, you know what?
(foot stomps)
That's fine, it's fine.
We're kind of off
book here anyway.
Ah, man, now I lost
my train of thought.
Someone else has to go.
You wanna share, honey?
Who wants to share?
Someone else has to share now.
It's someone else's turn.
Okay, I think I'd
like to hear from
leather jacket over here.
- I'll share--
- Shut up!
What's your name?
- [Isaac] No--
- Shut up.
- I've got something.
- Shut up!
I wanna hear from
leather jacket.
- I have something I'd like to--
- Shut up!
- [Natalie] Just stop.
- What's your name.
- My name is Isaac
and I'm an alcoholic.
- Oh, my, wow!
You, you have got moxie, man.
- [Isaac] I have got--
- Go ahead, do it again,
start it from the top.
What's your name, no, do
the whole thing again.
What, my name is,
come on, do the thing.
- My name is Isaac.
- Hi, Isaac!
Okay, go.
- I guess I hit rock bottom
a few months ago and I--
- You're gonna lead
with rock bottom?
I'm sorry, go on.
- I've continued to work.
I'm a graphic designer.
I do freelance work.
- I'm sorry.
Okay, I'm sorry, go on.
Go on.
- I just got into web design.
- Boring!
- [Isaac] Excuse me?
- Buddy, you are boring
me to tears here, man.
- [Isaac] What is
it that you want?
- Well, I want you
to tell me the truth.
- I'm sorry, I'm trying to
tell you how I got here.
- You're a graphic.
- Graphic designer, yeah.
And alcohol is
something I go to.
- When's the last
time you had a drink?
- I've been coming to meetings.
- When's the last
time you had a drink?
- Six months ago.
- That's the truth?
How much do you weigh?
- 175 pounds.
- You weigh what?
- Yeah.
- What was your drink?
Or what was your favorite?
What was it?
- [Isaac] Whiskey.
- Whiskey?
- Yeah.
- What'd you like?
You like bourbon, you like
scotch, you like the Irish?
What'd you like?
- [Isaac] Bourbon.
- Bourbon?
Bourbon, the sweetest
of the browns.
- [Isaac] But I'm sober now.
- Sober now.
- [Isaac] Yes.
- Okay.
Feeling good?
- [Isaac] Yes.
- Life's better?
- [Isaac] Yeah, I think so.
- Yeah, and you're getting
right with God, are you?
- God?
- Yeah.
You believe in God?
- Yeah, I guess.
- You guess so?
You guess?
- I mean, yes.
- He guesses so.
- [Isaac] Yes.
- You guess so?
- [Isaac] Yes, I believe it.
- Well, let me hear you say it.
- I believe in God.
- [Johnny] Say it again.
- I believe in God.
- [Johnny] You got to mean it!
- [Isaac] I believe in God!
- [Johnny] You got
to mean it, man!
- I believe in God!
- I'm not buying it, man.
- [Isaac] I believe in God.
- No, you don't, man.
I don't think you do at all.
I don't think anything
you've told me is true.
- [Isaac] I'm telling
you the truth.
- Are you an alcoholic?
- [Isaac] I am sober now.
But, yes, I am an alcoholic.
- You're not an alcoholic.
- [Isaac] I am an alcoholic.
- You're not an alcoholic.
- You're leading him.
That's not how this works.
- Hey, hey, hey!
New rules today!
The rules are the guy with
the gun makes the rules.
You got a gun?
No, shut up, cupcake!
- What is it that you want?
What do you want me to say?
What do you wanna know?
- I'm a cop, I can
sniff this out.
I know when you're
lying to me, man!
Just give me some truth.
- About?
- Give me some truth!
- I'm telling you the truth!
I'm telling --
- Johnny, that's enough, man!
- Well, look who
found his voice.
- All right, look, we
both know why you're here.
So stop, just stop this.
- No, no, no, no.
It's not your turn.
It's not your turn.
Not yet.
(sinister music)
- Johnny, all right.
All right, Johnny, okay!
- It's not your turn, Earl.
- [Earl] All right, Johnny--
- It's not your turn, Earl.
- Okay, all right!
Okay, all right!
Sit down, stop!
(phone rings)
Yeah?
- Hey, man, we can
still spin this.
I mean, nobody's
dead yet, right?
- Not yet.
- This isn't you, Johnny.
- Isn't it?
- No, you're the good
one, the grounded one.
I'm the screw-up, not you.
I mean, I wasn't good at nothing
except breaking heads
and taking names,
so I became a cop.
But, you, I mean, you were a man
of God on your way to seminary.
What happened to
you was horrible
and I know you think
it changed you,
but it didn't.
You're still a good man.
- Well, I know
different, Hickey.
- What made you
wanna go to seminary?
- I wanted to help
people find the way.
- And when you couldn't do
that anymore, what happened?
- (sighs) I became a cop.
- To help people, right?
- No, no, you know what?
No, I see what you're doing.
But, no, no, okay?
- Well, then why'd
you become a cop?
- You know what, Hickey?
This has become tiresome.
(phone beeps)
- I don't like this.
(tense music)
- Who's next?
What about you?
- I'm really worried about Chad.
- Chad, are why you
worried about Chad?
- I'm worried about Chad.
(sirens blaring)
- Took 'em long enough.
(police radio chatter)
- [Violeta] Now would be a
good time to let us leave.
- Not quite yet.
- [Officer] Let's go!
(dramatic music)
- All right,
everyone remain calm.
- [Natalie] What's going on?
- Cops cut the power.
Well, guess we should
just get down to business.
(gun clicks)
- Johnny!
(gun shot fires)
- [Police officers] Go, go!
You guys, follow me!
Go, go, go!
Open the door!
Hold the perimeter!
- Don't move.
- [Officer] Stop, stop!
Hold the perimeter.
Nobody fire.
- Don't you move.
- I just wanna go.
- Sit down.
- Johnny.
- Sit down.
- Sit down or so help me,
I will shoot you right now!
I'm gonna get real
dramatic here.
- [Violeta] I just wanna leave.
- I'm gonna count to three.
One...
Two--
- [Cherice] Violeta, sit down!
Right now!
Please.
- I'm sorry.
(phone rings)
- Yeah.
- Time's running out partner.
How long do you think it will be
before SWAT makes their move?
- [Johnny] I'm sorry.
- Don't be sorry, just come out.
(sirens blare)
(muffled radio chatter)
- Oh, God help us.
(intense suspenseful music)
- Anybody else wanna coffee?
- I could use one.
(sirens blare)
(harrowing piano music)
Thank you.
- Better taste it first.
Right?
It's pretty bad.
I used to work in
a coffee house.
- [Natalie] Oh yeah?
- That's where I met Gilly.
- Is that your wife?
- I was a barista and
an assistant manager.
It was kind of a crappy job.
You don't make a lot of money
and there's no benefits.
But what was cool was there
was entertainment every night.
So you got to see
comics, open mics, music.
I was working a night shift
in June, late afternoon,
early evening, the sun
was kinda coming down
and I see this image in
the door, a silhouette
and she's walking
toward me and I thought
she was just the most
beautiful thing I'd ever seen.
She gave me a little
smile and then
she kept on going by
over to the stage.
It turns out she was
gonna play that night.
She was in a jazz quartet.
And I remember
watching her play piano
and I said that's it, I'm done.
Game over, this is
the girl for me.
She was a really
good piano player.
(melancholic piano music)
- I bet she was.
- Oh, everything's
gonna be okay.
- Yeah.
- You should
probably go sit down.
- All right.
(phone rings)
- Okay, where were we?
(phone rings)
(ominous music)
- [Violeta] How does this end?
- You ready to share?
- [Violeta] No.
- I'll go.
- Violeta, why don't you go.
- No, no, no hey Earl,
I'm running this meeting.
Have at it Natalie.
- Hi, I'm Natalie.
- Hi Natalie.
- Alcoholism took my
whole family from me.
Didn't happen gradual, like
how it does for most people.
One day my dad was here and
then the next he was gone.
My mom stayed strong
but she eventually
just went right down
the road with him.
(dramatic music)
And I thought they were weak.
And so I hated 'em for it.
- But you pretty much
followed their footsteps?
- Yeah, something like that.
- I'm hungry and I need to pee.
- It sucks to be you.
- You're gonna have
to let us go sometime
or it's gonna get
real funky up in here.
- You know after that little
rabbit stunt you pulled
you'll be lucky if you ever see
a bathroom again, all right?
- You know what, I'm sick of you
and I haven't had a
drink in three years
and I really want
a drink right now!
- That's interesting,
that's interesting.
There's a little
truth right there.
There's a little
truth right there.
Three years without a drink.
Three years without a
drink working with Earl
and now you want one,
now you wanna relapse.
It's funny, Earl always
says it's so easy.
- No one said it was easy.
Sobriety, it's not an end.
- So what is the end?
- That's for God to decide.
- No, no--
- No, Johnny!
- It's not your turn.
It's not your turn.
It's not time yet.
What are you doing here Earl?
You're here to
help people right?
- No.
- No?
If you're not trying to help
people then what are you doing?
- Helping people
is also a means.
- So what is the end?
- Bringing people
to the same love
and forgiveness that
was offered to me.
- Nah, there's no
forgiveness for you.
- That's not true.
- No, there isn't.
There's no forgiveness;
there's no redemption for you.
Not after what you did.
You don't deserve it.
- You're right, you're right.
You're absolutely right
I don't deserve it
and there isn't a
day that goes by
where I don't remember
that if I only had
the guts I'd be dead right now.
- You tried to kill yourself?
- Well that would
have been a start.
- But then I remember
that the person
I was died when I asked
God for forgiveness.
God--
- God what?
God what?
Forgave you of your sins?
That is so, that
is so infuriating.
It's so ridiculous.
That's so impossible that you
could be, you could be evil.
You could kill, you could rape,
you could do all these evil
things, and then one day
you just say oh God, my bad
and that's it, you're forgiven?
- It's not quite that simple.
- What, you can wake up one
day and you can just smell
the stink of the piece
of filth you really are
and then you just
say hey God, forgive.
John 3:16 and then
all of a sudden, poof,
you're a good person without
ever having to earn it.
- That's why Jesus
died on the cross.
He died for our sins.
- You, you are not good.
- I never said I was good
Johnny, just forgiven.
- Not forgiven by me, man.
- Look, why don't you
let these people go?
- No, they, they
have to be here.
- This is not about them.
- No, this is about you.
Anybody else no why he's here?
- For the same reason that
brought everybody here.
- No, no, no, no,
no, not exactly.
- So then why are you here?
- Why am I here?
- [Natalie] Yeah.
- I don't know, why am I here?
Earl, you wanna tell
'em why I'm here?
I didn't think so.
10 years ago my entire
reason for existence left me.
When I was a kid, I was
a good kid, faithful kid.
I used to go to church, I
used to go to Sunday school,
Bible studies, all that
thing, I had faith for a kid
and then when I'm five
years old my dog dies,
but I keep my faith, I
think it's God's way.
Later on my mom died.
My mom was great,
but I keep my faith.
I know it's God's way.
A few years later my dad
dies and that was bad.
It was ugly and it
rattles my faith
but I'm trying to hold
on and then I meet Gilly.
Then I meet sweet Gilly.
And any ounce of
question or doubt
about my faith has disappeared.
She was God's glorious
creation personified.
I had it.
I struck gold.
(emotional music)
Gilly, well I had been
playing with the idea,
you're gonna like
this, I'd been playing
with the idea of seminary.
When my dad died I kinda put
it all on the back burner.
The day after I met
Gilly, I applied.
Everything was just
falling into place.
(dramatic music)
Anyone guess what happened next?
Anybody wanna guess
what happened next?
- I did.
I was working in
advertising and I was good.
I had just landed a big
account, the biggest.
So, we celebrated, hard.
I made the decision to drive
home and I was really drunk.
I hit and killed
this man's wife.
His pregnant wife.
(melancholic piano music)
- So you know we've all
lost somebody Johnny.
You know you're
not alone in that.
- I suppose.
- [Natalie] So you can't lose
faith, it's not worth it.
- You wanna know what
my faith was worth
when I was trying to deal
with the loss of my wife?
When I was trying to deal
with the loss of my family?
I prayed, I came to God, I
prayed some more, I came to God.
I said there's gotta be
some reason for this right?
God's will, master
plan, there's gotta
be some cause to all this right?
This too shall pass.
And you know what comfort
and ease it brought me?
You know what patience
and clarity it brought me?
None.
You know what brought me
patience and comfort, booze.
A lot of booze.
- I get it Johnny, I understand
and I'm so sorry for you
but how is any of
this gonna help that?
This is not gonna
end your grief John.
- My grief will never stop.
I learned that 10 years ago.
This here, this is justice.
This is comeuppance.
We make our own.
You know what Earl?
I'm on to you, you're a fraud.
You don't believe
in your redemption.
I can smell you a mile away.
I know your doubt, your remorse.
I can see it in your eyes.
- Any remorse I feel
doesn't take away
from my faith in
the love of God.
It's the same faith you have.
- My faith is long gone.
- I don't believe that.
- Believe it.
- Would it help at all if
I was to say I'm sorry?
- What?
I thought that's what
this whole thing was--
- To you.
Would it help if I was to
say I was sorry to you?
- I sincerely doubt it
but I wanna hear you try.
- I am truly sorry Johnny.
I know I can never give you
back what I took from you.
I can never make up to
you for what I've done,
but I have spent
every waking minute
of my life since
trying to make sure
that others don't go
down that same path.
Love is real,
forgiveness is real.
The power to change is real.
Miracles, Johnny,
miracles are real.
I have affected so many lives
though the course of this work.
You're right I don't
deserve forgiveness.
You're absolutely right.
But the Lord has given it to me.
And I, I have worked
every day since as my way
of saying thank you to him
for what he has given me.
- Nice, but you've also earned
a gun to your head, man.
You took away my wife.
You took away my family.
That's all I wanted, man.
It's not that much to ask.
I just wanted a family.
I deserved that didn't I?
They deserved it didn't they?
They didn't get a chance.
I just wanted a family.
- I was raped.
- It's not her turn.
- [Violeta] Let her speak.
I'm certain she's
earned that much.
- Fine.
- I was 11 when it started.
It was my father.
I ran away when I was 16.
I hated him.
I hated myself.
I ruined my life.
I turned to, to drugs
and alcohol and sex
and anything that I
could find that would
reconnect me to the
wholeness I once felt
from my relationship with God.
But then one day I
realized it was all in vain
because nothing,
nothing can ever fill
that hole in your life
left by the absence of God.
So, in order to begin
to turn my life around
I had to accept God
and I had to forgive.
Forgiveness is God's way.
(sirens blare)
- What's going on?
- Oh, that's the SWAT team.
- [Natalie] Oh God help us
(Johnny sings off key)
(phone rings)
- Okay.
- You're not gonna answer that?
- Hostage negotiation
is like a first date.
You don't wanna seem to eager.
Yo.
- They wanna talk to you.
Yeah, well I don't
wanna talk to them.
- Well you know they're
gonna want something here.
- All right Hick,
just listen to me.
I just need a little
more time okay?
- What for?
- I'll tell you
what, get me a bus,
a short yellow school bus,
a municipal driver, and no cops.
- What are you talking about?
- Just get me the bus
Hick and call back.
- Give me the phone,
let me to talk to him.
- Sorry Captain, he hung up.
(radio chatter)
- That's our call,
we're going in.
- No one's going
in, he's my partner.
- [Captain] Let
them do their job.
- You're not going in
without me, simple.
- Look, I get it,
he's your partner
but nobody's died here today,
and I'm not gonna
start with you.
Jones, Buderek,
you're on me, lets go.
- Okay kids, they're coming in.
- Come on, come on,
you gotta let us go.
This isn't gonna end well.
I know you don't
wanna hurt anybody.
I know it; I see
it in your eyes.
You're just hurt.
- Natalie, just sit,
sit down please.
Oh man, okay, okay.
(suspenseful music)
Hick, I'm gonna send
you three hostages okay?
- [Hickey] I want them all.
- Well you're not gonna
get them all Hick.
You're gonna get three unless
you get me some goodwill.
- [Hickey] It's
still what it is.
- Yeah well, this is gonna
be over real soon anyway.
Call me back.
- [SWAT Officer] Move 'em
out, move 'em out boys.
Let's go.
- You said three, who's staying?
- I don't know, that's, I
suppose it's up to you guys.
Who wants to stay here
with me and the big kahuna?
- I'm staying.
- What are you doing?
- I'm staying.
Cherise put your hand down.
- Baby, don't do this,
let one of them stay.
- Hey, if you're
staying I'm staying.
- No, you're not.
- [Isaac] All right
then you're gonna
have to shoot me 'cause
I'm not leaving my girl.
- I'm going to
have to shoot you?
- [Isaac] I'm not leaving her.
- Isaac, what is wrong with you?
All day long, with
that audacity.
Don't you realize when
a guy is on the edge?
Why didn't I shoot
you earlier, buddy?
Why didn't I just
shoot you earlier?
Look at this, wow, whoa!
You gonna listen to me now?
If you love your girl
you'll listen to me.
You've getting on my
last nerve every...
- [Isaac] This is not
gonna end well for you man.
- No, it's not gonna
end well for me at all.
I knew that 10 years ago, this
wasn't gonna end well for me.
Okay, kids, I guess
this is the last call.
Last call, that's funny.
Last call, you can
keep on praying but
you can't do it here.
It's been fun.
It's been enlightening
but it's time to go.
So long girl, you get
on with your bad self.
- [Police] Come out, come out!
Let me see your hands!
Move, move, move.
- Are you sure?
- Just go, just
go, be smart, go.
Just go, go, go,
go, go with God.
- Let me see your hands.
Let me see your hands.
- Come on, come on.
(suspenseful music)
- All right, hey lover boy.
Oh my God, chop, chop, man.
Go Isaac, go, go, go, go.
Quick, quick,
quick like a bunny.
Go Isaac.
Goodbye Isaac.
Don't worry I'll take care
of your friend, so long.
Drive safe.
All right Natalie, come on up.
(police order and yell)
(suspenseful music)
- It's gonna be okay.
- Okay, and then
there were three.
It looks like we're going down.
- No, Johnny, I'm
not going anywhere.
This is between you and me.
Let Natalie go.
- I don't have time to
argue with you Earl.
Just go, go.
Turn around and go.
- [Natalie] I can't see
anything it's too dark in here.
(punches thud)
- Whoa, buddy boy,
that wasn't smart.
- Are you okay?
- That was a pretty
good punch, man.
Help him up.
Grab that candle there.
All right, go, go, go,
go, chop chop, chop chop.
(door shuts)
Okay.
(dramatic music)
- Earl, are you okay?
- I wish you would call me Dad.
- I don't think we're
quite there yet.
- Dad?
- Yeah.
- So you knew who I was then?
- I saw you in court.
My mother wanted us
to see first hand
the pain that he caused.
I was with him in
the police station
when he got word that
your wife had died.
I watched the life drain
right out of his eyes.
I watched my father die
right before my eyes.
The man that was left
behind wasn't my father.
The man that was left tore what
was left of my family apart.
I haven't even been able to be
in the same room
with him for years.
- So, what are you
doing here now then?
- I'm doing the same thing
that you're doing here.
- So, where's your gun?
- We're both here to find out
who this man really is now.
- I came here to kill who
this man really is now.
- No you didn't.
- If you came here to kill him
you would've done it already.
You came here to
find out the truth.
- The truth, the truth
is he killed my family.
- [Natalie] But none of this
is gonna bring them back.
- [Johnny] I know that.
- So what is this then?
Revenge?
- Yeah, it's revenge, if
that's what you wanna call it.
This is revenge.
- [Natalie] Listen, just because
my father was still alive
it doesn't mean I
didn't lose him.
All right, I know loss.
I know the pain of
losing someone you love.
It hurts, there's
probably no greater pain
on this Earth but you
gotta make a choice
and I chose to live, to be a
good person despite it all.
You really think your wife
would want this for you?
- You don't know
anything about my wife!
- I know that you
loved her, all right?
You wouldn't be
here if you didn't
and I also know that
you're a man of God.
Listen, I had so much hate
for this man for so long
until I realized it wasn't hate.
Everything I did to avoid
him, to hurt him back,
everything was
because I love him.
He's my father and I love
him and now you wanna
take him away from me just
when I'm getting him back.
You wanna take him away
from me like he took
your family away from you,
who does that help Johnny?
He'll be dead, sure, but
he'll be dead with God.
How does that help you?
(dramatic music)
- What, what?
- I never thought I'd
see those eyes again.
- Those are the same
eyes that he's had
in his head since he got out.
- That's because
Jesus is in my heart.
- And God forgives, right?
- Yes, yes he does.
- God forgives, well I don't.
- [Natalie] No.
- He killed my wife.
He destroyed your family.
He took my faith.
He does not deserve forgiveness.
- I know but what if we
give it to him anyway.
Because that's what faith is.
- Just step down, step aside.
- [Natalie] No I won't
- Step aside!
- Johnny look at me, John.
It's not too late for you.
You can come back.
- What?
- You can let God
back into your life.
- Shut up!
- [Earl] Just ask
for forgiveness, he
will forgive you.
- No, stop it, stop it!
- Just ask.
- It's too late,
it's too late for me.
- No, no, no, as long as you're
still breathing
it's not too late.
- Dad, I forgive you.
- What, no, no.
No, no, this is not how this
was supposed to go down.
- And what were you
hoping to accomplish here?
- He needs to know that
forgiveness is not an option.
Not an option for you!
Not here on Earth,
not in Heaven.
- That's not true.
- What and you know that?
- [Earl} Yes.
- You know that?
- [Earl] I believe
that with all my heart.
- You have no proof.
- Yes I do, of course I do.
I see evidence of
it every single day.
Lives restored,
brought back, risen
from the ashes of their own
self-destructive actions.
Johnny we all witness
that everyday.
That's what my faith
is grounded in.
- Johnny, if he can do
it you can do it too.
- No, no, no, it's too
late, it's too late for me.
It's too late for me,
the only the thing
that I have coming is Hell.
There's no forgiveness for me.
- Yes, yes there is.
I forgive you and if you
can't find it in yourself
to forgive me ask God and
he will do it for you.
You have to know this
isn't the right way.
You have to know that.
I mean in a universe
of an eye for an eye
we'd all be walking
around blind.
Is that the kind of world
that you wanna live in?
Well you don't have to.
Choose forgiveness.
Choose love.
Look, it's a free
gift for everyone.
All you have to do is ask
and you know something,
you're absolutely right,
we don't deserve it
but he gives it to us anyway.
(dramatic music)
- You, you killed my wife.
You killed my baby.
You killed my angel.
- Yes, yes I did.
But we can't make right
everything in this world Johnny.
The starvation, the
pain, ignorance, evil,
it took me coming face to
face with my own madness,
my own brokenness, to
realize that there was no way
on God's green Earth
that I could ever
repair that with my own hands.
I could live with
my own emptiness
in my soul for so long.
If you can't find the power
to forgive me within yourself
trust me, ask God and he
will do it through you.
- It's just talk.
All you do is just talk!
- Think of it.
If God doesn't forgive us,
where does that leave us?
We'd all be eternally guilty
with no hope for redemption.
Yet because he does forgive
us we get to experience love,
the true meaning of love
in its greatest form.
- And we don't deserve it.
We don't deserve it!
- You're right, you're
absolutely right.
We don't deserve it.
But haven't you ever been given
something that
you don't deserve?
And how did that make you feel?
Knowing that someone
gave it to you freely?
Just as the son of man came not
to be ministered
onto but to minister
and lived his life
as a ransom for many.
- That's Matthew 20:28.
- That's right.
Without God's grace,
without his forgiveness
we would all lose everything.
I was exactly in that position.
I had done something so
tragic, so unspeakably wrong
that I was lost, there was
nothing else I could do.
All I could hope
for was his mercy.
And I begged for it.
I got down on my
knees and I begged
for that which I knew
I did not deserve.
But that's what
grace is, Johnny,
God giving us that which we
do not deserve, his mercy.
- But God, God commended
onto us his love
and that for we are
sinners Jesus died for us.
- [Earl] Yeah, Romans 5:8
- Romans, something
like that right?
- Yeah.
Forgiveness that releases
us from the bondage
of our hatred, our anger.
It also releases the one
in bondage to their sin
and their guilt
from their deeds.
(Johnny sighs deeply)
- I just don't know.
- Johnny, if God loves us enough
to forgive us, why can't we?
Why can't we say
with Jesus Christ,
father forgive them for
they know not what they do?
And then we can live
free from the bondage
of an unforgiving spirit.
If our friends betrayed us
or our family let us down.
I mean the only answer to the
problem is just to forgive.
(Johnny sobs and mumbles)
- Ask, just ask.
- I've done so many,
so many bad things.
- [Earl] Just ask.
God will forgive you Johnny.
All you have to do is ask.
(intense dramatic music)
- Is that you, I'm
sorry, I'm sorry.
I have sinned.
I have, I did it.
Oh God!
Forgive me, forgive
me God, forgive me.
God forgive me, I'm
sorry, I'm sorry.
- So am I.
(dramatic music)
- [Earl] Pray with
me, pray with me
- Okay, okay, okay.
- God.
- God.
- [Earl and Johnny]
Grant us the serenity
to accept the things
we cannot change,
the courage to accept
the things we can,
and the wisdom to know
the difference, amen.
(Police yell and order)
- I'm sorry, I said I'm sorry.
- [Earl] It's okay.
- I'm sorry.
(Police yell and order)
- What's your name?
- Earl, Earl Winston.
- Okay somebody's
gonna be with you soon.
(radio chatter)
(dramatic music)
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
- The medics are on
their way, you okay?
- Yeah, we're fine.
- What happened here?
- What was supposed to.
- Okay.
Johnny's not a bad guy
just a little lost.
- Well I think he might
be finding his way back.
- I'm glad you're alive.
- Me too.
- Sorry you had to go
through all that though.
- Maybe.
(dramatic music)
(deep engaging jazz music)
(birds chirp)
(gentle piano music)
- So do you want me to
go in there with you?
- No.
No, I told you I'd do this.
- All right.
So, I had this dream last night.
Crazy stuff.
You remember Mo?
- Yes.
- The first bartender
at Whiskey Pete's,
back before we was
working together?
- I just said yes.
- Well, she was
running a Taco Hut.
- A Taco Hut?
- Yeah, man.
Well, you know,
she was managing it
and me and you,
we was working it.
- Working it?
- Me and you.
It was crazy busy and we ran out
of ground beef of all things.
- I don't think Taco Hut
even uses ground beef.
- It's tacos, tacos have beef.
- No, I think their ground beef
is made out of like
soybeans or something.
- Nobody makes
tacos with soybeans.
- They do, they do.
But they just don't
want anyone to know it
because then no
one would want it.
- Whatever, not the point, dude.
The point is we ran out of this
ground beef-like substance.
Everyone's panicking,
they're flipping out.
Nobody knew what
to do and you say,
calm down, don't freak out.
Then, you go to
the grocery store
and you come back with
all this ground beef,
and a grill and Mo
starts to grill it.
- Grilling at the restaurant?
- I didn't say it made
sense in the dream.
I just said I dreamed
it, but anyway.
It just keeps getting
busier and busier
and I'm getting all
super anxious, right?
- Right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Hickey] Everyone's
flipping out,
the customers, employees,
reaching a fever pitch.
(distorted speech)
- Right, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah I get it
Hickey, Hickey,
what's the point?
- The point?
The point is you got the beef.
- That's great.
And here I was fearing that
there was no real point.
- Ah, have faith, partner.
- We're all out, man.
- What I meant was, even when
things were at their worst,
you kept calm,
you kept grounded,
you kept us from
flying off the rails.
(phone rings)
Yeah?
Where's it at?
Hey, man, you got a pen?
- Yeah, glove box.
- Hold on.
You got something
to, here, I got this.
Hold on.
Okay, yeah, go.
Mm-hm, mm-hm, mm-hm.
Hold on.
(pen scratches)
Is that 5193?
5193, okay, we can be
there in two hours.
Mm-hm.
So, you still have this.
(church bell tolls)
(slow dramatic music)
- I didn't even know
that was in there.
- Maybe.
- No.
Have it, it's yours.
- Why'd you keep it?
- I didn't.
Throw it away.
- What for?
- Because it's worthless.
That's what's for.
- Hey!
Was that really necessary?
It's time, man.
- Yeah, yeah.
Long time coming.
- All right, are you
sure you don't want me
to come in there with you?
- No, no, I'm gonna
do this alone.
- I'll be right
here if you need me.
- All right.
Don't worry, I got this.
(dog barks)
(birds chirps)
(engaging dramatic music)
Hello?
Hello?
(engaging dramatic music)
- [Earl] You must
be the new guy?
- Not exactly what I expected.
- Would that be me or the place?
- Either one.
- This church has been
here for 88 years.
It's as beautiful as
the day it was made.
As for me, only God can
take credit for that.
- So how's this gonna go down?
- Well, the hardest part was
walking through that door,
so just make yourself at home.
- How many others are there?
- I like to keep
the group small.
You know, more
personal, intimate.
- How long you been
doing these meetings?
- Wow, you ask a
lot of questions.
Are you a cop or something?
- Yeah, you're under arrest.
(both laugh)
- You've got a sense of humor.
That's a good thing
to have around here.
Look, I got to go grab some
stuff before the others show up,
so I'll be right back.
- Need a hand?
- No, no, I'm fine.
It's good to see you here.
I'm really glad you came.
- Long time coming.
- Yeah.
(slow dramatic music)
- Are you the first one here?
- Look a little
nervous there, guy.
- You startled me, that's all.
- You startle easy.
- Yeah.
Who are you?
- I'm no one.
- No, he's Isaac
and I'm Natalie--
- Hey!
- What?
- Oh, you got a good one.
- [Isaac] What was that?
- I said you got
a good girl there.
- [Isaac] Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.
I can tell, I got an
eye for these things.
- Why don't you keep your
eye on your own business.
- I meant no disrespect.
- None taken.
- All right, okay, tough
guys, relax, leave him alone.
Hey, are you with me?
- Yeah, of course, baby.
- All right, good,
'cause I need you.
- What's wrong?
- Nothing.
- You know him?
- Oh, no, no.
- You sure about that?
- Yes, I'm sure.
- You don't sound very sure.
- Look at you all
jealous, cute and all.
- No, it's just
you know how I get
in places I'm not comfortable.
I just get--
- Jealous?
- You know how I get.
I'm still just...
This place, I just
still don't know.
- Listen, I know but
I'm nervous enough
without your baggage, okay, so.
- Natalie.
- Hey, Earl.
- Hi.
- [Isaac] I'm Isaac.
- It's nice to meet you.
- All right, well,
we're gonna sit.
- Sure.
We're gonna start soon.
- [Johnny] Not a very
punctual group, huh?
- Can I ask you something?
- Where does that lead?
- You checking your exit?
- Where?
- Down.
It's a basement for storage.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- Hi, I brought coffee.
- Hey, everyone.
There's not enough
for everybody.
So unfortunately, you're
gonna have to share.
Half a cup for each of you.
- Great, just in time.
Thank you.
- 'Cause everyone knows
that Chad loves to share.
- I'm just gonna give
it a few more minutes
and then we'll start.
(upbeat country music)
(phone rings)
* On that crazy track
- Yeah, boss?
Yeah, I told ya, he's
got that dentist thing.
He should be out anytime now.
Yeah, after that,
we'll be there.
Yeah.
(phone beeps)
* I've been round this country
* Looking for my
(muffled lyrics)
* Now sometimes I find her
* But danged if I
can't beat her *
(muffled lyrics)
- Every time.
- Perfect.
(slow dramatic music)
- Crazy day.
I said crazy day.
- Yeah, I suppose.
- It's crazy out there.
Crazy people, crazy things.
I was walking here;
I like to walk;
and this old guy was
about a block back.
He was screaming.
Now, I just suppose he was
crazy and yelling at himself,
so I keep walking and I get
about another block down,
take a left and a
few seconds later,
I hear him yelling again.
This time, he's right
across the street from me
and he's yelling and he's
shaking his fists at me.
At this point, it's pretty
obvious he's talking to me.
We're the only two
people on the street.
I get about another
block down, take a left,
and as soon as
the street curves,
I start running,
running so fast.
I mean, picture me running
in these high heels.
So, anyway, I duck
into a coffee shop
and I grab a latte.
I was gonna grab one anyway
and a few minutes later,
there he is, walking by.
He's looking through the window.
He doesn't see
me, but I see him,
so I waited for about 15 minutes
so I wouldn't run into him
and that's why I'm late.
I'm just happy to be in here
with some not so psycho people.
Oh, wow, really?
I forgot my latte.
- (scoffs) Awful!
- So what's your story?
- Hmm?
- What's your story?
Why are you here?
- Free coffee.
- Could've just said you
had a girlfriend, jerk.
- You sure you wanna do this?
- Mm-hmm, I'm fine.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Sweet.
(church bell tolls)
- Okay, we all know
why we're here.
The only thing left to do,
as my ex-wife once said,
is to get to it.
We're all here for
the same purpose.
We're all here to
help each other
to achieve that purpose.
Now, for the sake of the
newcomers in the room,
there's no judgment here.
This is a place for
healing and forgiveness.
All right, so why don't we pray.
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change,
the courage to change
the things I can,
and the wisdom to
know the difference.
Amen.
This is a first
meeting for some,
so, Cherice, would you
mind going over the steps
and telling us what
they mean to you?
- Really?
- Why not?
- Okay, yeah, sure.
We've admitted that we are
powerless against alcohol
and that our lives have
become unmanageable.
I think that one's
pretty obvious.
Step two, we must believe
that there's a power greater
than ourselves that can
restore us to sanity.
For me, it's God.
I have to believe that he's
with me in this battle.
We must make the
decision to turn our will
and our lives over
to the care of God.
- You're using
the word we a lot.
Why don't you tell us what
these words mean to you.
- Right, sorry, me.
I must make a
searching and fearless
moral inventory of myself.
This is hard.
Me, I must admit to
God and to myself
and to others the exact
nature of my wrongs.
With God, it was easy.
But it's hard for me to
come to these meetings
and talk about my mistakes.
I must make a list of all
the people that I've harmed
and I must be willing to
make amends with them.
I suppose my list
is longer than most,
but shorter than some.
(hands tap)
When I have a
spiritual awakening
as a result of these steps,
I will try to carry
this message to others
and I will practice these
principles in all of my affairs.
- Somebody's been
studying their book.
That was pretty much verbatim.
- So?
- Nothing.
I was just saying.
- All right, ladies, come on.
Remember, there's no
judgment here, okay?
We're just here to listen.
Good.
My name is Earl and
I'm an alcoholic.
- [Group] Hi, Earl.
- I've been sober
now for 10 years.
10 years ago, I made
a terrible choice,
a choice that changed the course
of my life and the
lives of others.
And like every other
addict eventually does,
I self-destructed, and just
like many other addicts,
my downward spiral
didn't just affect me.
(engaging dramatic music)
We cannot change the
mistakes of our lives.
We can't correct them.
But if we allow God into
our lives, we can experience
the forgiveness that
we need and move on.
That same desire that drives
us to drink and abuse drugs
is the exact desire
for wholeness.
And that desire can be filled
through a relationship with God.
That's what I'm doing here.
I'm hoping that by
sharing my story
and by listening
to all of yours,
I can continue on the
path that I've started.
You see, had I not hit rock
bottom, I never would've
found the courage to look
up and ask God for help,
ask God for his hand
and his forgiveness.
And you know something?
He did forgive me and then
he sent me on the right way.
I mean, there I was rotting away
for three long years
in a jail cell.
Turns out, my new
cellmate's name was Warden.
No, obviously, the irony of
that name didn't escape me.
Warden, he was
serving his 30th year
of a three life-term sentence.
He said that when he
was on the outside,
he owned a business, all right?
And he shared it
with his teenage son.
Now, the plan was that his
son, when he turned 18,
he was gonna take over the
business with him, 50/50.
And then as he got older,
he would take over
the business entirely.
Well, his kid had other plans.
Turns out, his son fell in love
with the joys of the theater
and he wanted to become an
actor, so he packed up his bags.
He moved cross country to
pursue his life's dream
living in La La Land.
Well, I told Warden, I said,
well, that's too bad, right?
He just looked at me and
he simply said, maybe.
Okay, maybe.
Then he tells me that
he couldn't handle
the business himself, right?
So he had to hire a
partner to work with him.
Well, it turns out
that this partner
happened to be a conman.
He took him for everything
he had before he skipped town
along with Warden's wife.
So, obviously, I
put this together.
I said, well, so what happened?
Did you kill him?
Is that why you're here?
And he says to me, yes and I
just thought this is terrible.
I said that to him.
He just looked at me
again and he said, maybe.
I mean, at this point, I had
it with the maybes, all right?
I even got upset with him.
I said, what are
you talking about?
What do you mean maybe?
There are no maybes about this.
This is a horrible series
of events in your life!
And he says to me, look,
my son went to Los Angeles
struggling to be an
actor for 10 long years.
Audition after audition,
it never worked for him.
His career didn't take off.
He worked as a waiter working
himself through night school.
At night school, he earned a
diploma in computer science.
He met a beautiful
woman, he fell in love,
and then he started his
own computer company.
He never told me
what the name was,
but he said I would
definitely recognize it.
Years go by, his son
has kids of his own.
His kids grow up, a few of
those have kids of their own.
Now, what Warden was
trying to say to me,
this is what he said, he
said, every rotten thing
that ever happened to
me bore good fruit.
All right.
Now, I said to him, Warden,
that doesn't make sense.
I mean, that's all well and good
for your son, but look at you.
Look at your life.
You're rotting away in here.
You're watching your whole life
disappear before your very eyes.
And he says, no, no!
I was rotting away out there.
In here, I discovered my faith.
I was never really free
until I came in here.
He was never really free
until he came to prison.
And, then, it hit me. bam,
like that, neither was I.
But I sure as hell wanted to be.
Then, all of a sudden,
everything that
I'd been hearing,
everything that was
being shovel at me
in those mandatory AA meetings
started to make sense to me.
And it wasn't very long
before I was on my knees
looking up and begging
God to help me as well.
Well, that's my story.
That's what's brought me
here to all you fine folks.
(group applauds)
All right, who
wants to share next?
- Yeah, yeah, we're
on our way shortly.
Well, I don't know
what to tell you, boss.
Maybe he's got a
lot of cavities.
No, no, no, I did not
mean any disrespect.
Can you send Freddie and Marvin?
Maybe.
- God's will, God's will.
Everybody always wants
to implement God's will.
What is God's will?
- What do you mean?
- I mean, at the end of the day,
whether you have you have
the nice house and the car
and, you know, your
own corporation, kids,
all the fancy
stuff, it looks good
from the outside perspective,
but does that means
it's really God's will?
- I won Miss Littleton
when I was 17.
Great, right?
(church bell tolls)
Well, it turns out not so much.
It was doing my duties
supporting the win
that I discovered
whiskey, pills, and coke.
And here I am.
- That's right, here you are.
Everything that happened to you
has led you to this
time and place.
Maybe this is exactly
where you need to be.
(country music plays)
It's a matter of
putting your faith,
your trust in a higher power.
Trusting that God
has a purpose for you
and those around you.
Now, if you wanna
narrow that down
to a practical
perspective, that's fine.
Be my guest.
All I'm saying is
that if you choose
to look at things positively,
you will start to
see positive results.
The choice is yours.
Do you choose to live
in a world of chaos
or a world that is benevolent
and full of meaning?
For me, I choose faith.
- So it's that simple then?
- No, it isn't that
simple actually.
- I wasn't talking to you.
- My name is Chad,
I'm an alcoholic.
- Hi, Chad.
- I've been sober
for three years now.
You know, for me,
I love alcohol.
It's what I do best, drinking.
It's my second nature, like
breathing for most people.
And I drank so much,
at a certain point
three years ago,
I walked into my doctor
and my doctor told me,
basically, you're about to lose
the one and only
liver that you have.
So, like any good alcoholic
with this new information,
I found my way to
the closest bar
and I ordered my favorite drink.
And right as that drink
was about to touch my lips,
I saw this man.
He said a few words to
me that changed my life.
I put that drink down.
I've been here ever since.
He's a good man.
I thank him.
- What a life?
Saved your life, huh?
What a life, what a life.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- Nah, nothing, nothing.
You know what?
Let's hear more about
the almighty Earl.
- What's your problem?
- My problem is that you
guys are all sitting around
putting your faith in
this man and his God.
- Hey, Earl, where'd
you find this guy?
- You know you're not
supposed to be here drunk?
- Babe!
- I'm just talking
about the truth.
Isn't that what we're
here for, the truth?
Didn't you read the
sign on the door?
- Okay, Johnny, this is
not how we do things here.
- You know, you probably
aren't gonna like the truth,
but I'll tell it to you.
You wanna hear the truth?
- Go ahead.
- You wanna hear the truth?
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna give you the truth.
May I approach the
bench, your honor?
Thank you.
Okay, the truth is that I've
been sober for three years.
I don't like it.
I don't enjoy it.
You think I enjoy
coming to these rooms,
listening to these
steps, working a program,
having a sponsor, all this crap?
No, I don't enjoy it, okay?
What I enjoyed was I
enjoyed being drunk.
I like drinking.
I love alcohol
and I loved drugs.
I liked being the guy that
was stupid and irresponsible.
That was what I liked.
I enjoyed causing a
scene, being a mess,
but those days are
over for me, okay?
I can't do that anymore.
I had to grow up.
And so, I'm just
here to tell you
that it's not a joke, man.
Okay, we're not here because
we're having a good time.
You think I enjoy this?
You think I wanna do this?
No, I wanna be that guy!
I wanna be the
life of the party!
To live in a fantasy world,
to be reckless and careless
and not do anything for
anybody except for myself.
Being selfish, that's
what it's about, man!
That's fun!
I don't wanna be sitting
in some stupid AA meeting.
You think I wanna be
this reliable, steady guy
that shows up everywhere
he's suppose to,
that keeps commitments?
This isn't fun.
I don't go out.
I don't have a social life.
I don't do anything.
I sit alone, home, and bored.
That's what I do.
My life sucks.
But at the end of the day, man,
I'm here because I got to
save my life, all right?
This is life and death.
It's serious business.
So maybe you can grow up
and try and figure that out
because this is as good
as it's ever gonna get,
so appreciate it and
now you got the truth.
- Sit down, Chad!
- Leave him alone, Violeta.
- Oh!
Oh, you're a little defensive.
Is that your squeeze up there?
Is that your fella?
Huh?
- Johnny?
- [Johnny] No?
- A little respect, please?
- You guys aren't
having your own little
(lips smacking)
meetings on the side?
- No.
- You wanna back off, man?
- [Isaac] What is your deal?
- I wanna know what's your deal?
What's your deal?
How come you're not
sharing with the group?
What, are you hiding something?
Huh, are you hiding
something, darling?
- Dude, leave her alone!
How long are you gonna
let this go on for?
- You aren't exactly making
it comfortable for everyone.
- What, what do you mean?
What am I doing?
I'm just telling the truth here.
Isn't that what we're
supposed to be doing?
I'm just telling the truth.
What?
What's going on, hun?
What are you afraid of?
What are you afraid of?
- Okay, Johnny!
Look, I know it can be
overwhelming your first time.
- Oh, yes, yes, yes.
No, no, no, I know the first
time can be overwhelming.
- [Earl] That's enough.
- Is it?
Is that enough?
Because you know what?
I feel like I'm just
getting warmed up.
- All right, man, that's it!
- Chad!
Whoa! Whoa!
(men grunt and gun thuds)
- Why did you do that?
- Is he dead?
I'm out of here.
- No, shut up and sit down.
No one's going anywhere.
Hey, don't you move!
All right.
All right, you up, grab him.
Up, grab him.
- Is it me or do crazy
people follow me everywhere?
(hands tap nervously)
(Hickey heavily sighs and moans)
- [Isaac] He's unconscious.
I don't think he's
going anywhere.
- [Johnny] All right,
back to your seats.
- Sit down, Earl.
Sit down, Earl.
Sit down, Earl!
All right.
Okay.
(church bell tolls)
Okay.
- I can't take this anymore.
- Sit down!
Sit down!
Sit down!
- Fine!
- Johnny!
Whoa, wait a minute, pal!
- [Johnny] Back
outta hear, Hickey.
- What's going on here, partner?
- Just back out!
- What are you doing?
- You don't wanna get
wrapped up in this.
- Wrapped up in what?
I thought I was bringing
you here to get better.
- Just go, Hick!
- Come on, man.
You know I can't do that.
- Yes, you can.
And take me with you.
- [Both] Shut up and sit down!
- Johnny?
- You know who that is?
That guy?
If you knew who that was,
then you would know
that I'm not done here.
- Johnny, put the gun down.
- Not gonna happen.
Just back out.
- I know what you're
going through.
- (scoffs) You don't,
you don't know anything.
Don't move!
- Listen to him.
Don't move, I'm gonna
get you outta here.
Johnny, you can't do this, pal.
- None of that, come on.
Come on!
- [Hickey] Johnny!
- You know you're not that fast.
Keep your hands up.
- I can't be here.
- Sit, just sit!
Sit down!
Now, no, no, don't!
Don't, don't!
- I just wanted to
come to this meeting--
- Don't, sit down, don't!
Okay, this conversation is over.
All right, just go.
Just back out, okay?
I don't wanna hurt anyone else.
- I know that
you're hurt, Johnny.
I'm your partner, talk to me.
- Just leave!
Leave, Hickey!
Just back out, okay?
I'm doing what I
came here to do.
I never judged you.
- What?
- When you came from
your little vacation.
- I paid my debt.
- When you came back.
- [Hickey] I became a cop!
- Right!
You weren't always a cop!
- No, I wasn't.
- [Johnny] And I
never judged you.
- I know.
You had faith in me even
when I didn't deserve it.
You believed in me and that's
why I believed in myself.
That's why I became a cop.
But I'm not the same man
I used to be, brother.
- Well, neither am I.
Do not interrupt
me again, brother.
- [Hickey] What
are you gonna do?
- I am gonna do what
I came here to do.
I told you that already.
You had your chance to leave!
Just back out, Hickey!
Back out!
- Johnny.
You're not gonna shoot me.
- Yeah?
(gun clicks)
- Okay, Johnny, we
can work this out.
I'm on your side.
Tell me what you need.
Tell me what you
wanna see happen.
I'll give it to you.
- (laughs) Oh, no.
Wait, no, no, don't tell me.
You're gonna play negotiator
with me right now?
- Johnny, I'm your friend.
I wanna help you.
Now, tell me what you need.
I'll deliver.
- What I need is right here.
Just go.
- [Hickey] Johnny.
- Just go, Hickey, go.
- Okay, Johnny.
- OKay.
Okay, who wants to share?
- Hey, boss, we got a
situation here, yeah.
(Chad moans and struggles)
- We should share.
Who wants to share?
Come on, it's an
AA meeting, right?
Share, we should work the steps.
It works if you work it, right?
Works if you work it.
No one, no one wants to...
Okay, I'll just--
- No, step one, we've
admitted we're powerless
against alcohol and that our
lives have become unmanageable.
- That's very good.
Very good.
Our lives have become,
our lives have
become unmanageable.
Okay, step two?
Step two?
No one?
It's like pulling teeth.
All right, if I have
to do this every time.
Step two!
- We believe that a greater
power than ourselves
can restore us to sanity.
- [Johnny] Say it again!
- We believe that a power
greater than ourselves
can restore us to sanity.
- [Johnny] I can't
hear you, say it again!
- We believe that a power
greater than ourselves
can restore us to sanity!
- Sanity?
Sanity?
A power greater than ourselves.
Well, today, that would be me.
- I think he missed
the sanity part.
- Shh.
- Who'd of thunk it?
A greater power.
Tell you what.
Here's how it's gonna go.
I'm gonna share.
I'm gonna go ahead and share
and then someone
else can share later.
- And what if we
have nothing to say?
- [Johnny] What?
- What if we have
nothing to say?
- Oh, everyone's got
something to say, sweetheart.
Everyone's got something to say.
Everyone's got skeletons
locked deep in their closet.
Don't they, Earl?
My name is Johnny St.
James and I'm an alcoholic.
Oh, come on, people!
I'm Johnny, I'm an alcoholic.
- [Group] Hi, Johnny.
- Thank you.
Play by the rules here.
Let's see.
I drank this morning, so
I guess I got zero days.
I got zero days sober.
But that might
change, who knows.
Anything can happen.
Up until 10 years ago, I
was never much of a drinker.
You know, I'd have
wine with dinner
and champagne at a
wedding, that kinda thing.
But no, I take that back
because I like beer.
I really like beer.
I used to brew my own beer.
It was fun.
But I was more into
the chemistry of it.
You know, the science.
My wife used to say
that I was crazy
and that's why she loved me.
(gentle music)
She loved me.
Ah, but then, 10 years ago,
well, that all changed.
So I started drinking
heavy, you know?
Hard stuff every day, all day.
Yeah, I was really going for it,
but I was able to
maintain, you know?
I was able to really
get up every day
and do what I had to do.
I even started a new career.
I started a noble
career as a cop.
- So you really are a cop?
- Yeah.
But I don't think you're
supposed to be asking questions.
You're not supposed to
ask questions, right?
I thought, you know what?
(foot stomps)
That's fine, it's fine.
We're kind of off
book here anyway.
Ah, man, now I lost
my train of thought.
Someone else has to go.
You wanna share, honey?
Who wants to share?
Someone else has to share now.
It's someone else's turn.
Okay, I think I'd
like to hear from
leather jacket over here.
- I'll share--
- Shut up!
What's your name?
- [Isaac] No--
- Shut up.
- I've got something.
- Shut up!
I wanna hear from
leather jacket.
- I have something I'd like to--
- Shut up!
- [Natalie] Just stop.
- What's your name.
- My name is Isaac
and I'm an alcoholic.
- Oh, my, wow!
You, you have got moxie, man.
- [Isaac] I have got--
- Go ahead, do it again,
start it from the top.
What's your name, no, do
the whole thing again.
What, my name is,
come on, do the thing.
- My name is Isaac.
- Hi, Isaac!
Okay, go.
- I guess I hit rock bottom
a few months ago and I--
- You're gonna lead
with rock bottom?
I'm sorry, go on.
- I've continued to work.
I'm a graphic designer.
I do freelance work.
- I'm sorry.
Okay, I'm sorry, go on.
Go on.
- I just got into web design.
- Boring!
- [Isaac] Excuse me?
- Buddy, you are boring
me to tears here, man.
- [Isaac] What is
it that you want?
- Well, I want you
to tell me the truth.
- I'm sorry, I'm trying to
tell you how I got here.
- You're a graphic.
- Graphic designer, yeah.
And alcohol is
something I go to.
- When's the last
time you had a drink?
- I've been coming to meetings.
- When's the last
time you had a drink?
- Six months ago.
- That's the truth?
How much do you weigh?
- 175 pounds.
- You weigh what?
- Yeah.
- What was your drink?
Or what was your favorite?
What was it?
- [Isaac] Whiskey.
- Whiskey?
- Yeah.
- What'd you like?
You like bourbon, you like
scotch, you like the Irish?
What'd you like?
- [Isaac] Bourbon.
- Bourbon?
Bourbon, the sweetest
of the browns.
- [Isaac] But I'm sober now.
- Sober now.
- [Isaac] Yes.
- Okay.
Feeling good?
- [Isaac] Yes.
- Life's better?
- [Isaac] Yeah, I think so.
- Yeah, and you're getting
right with God, are you?
- God?
- Yeah.
You believe in God?
- Yeah, I guess.
- You guess so?
You guess?
- I mean, yes.
- He guesses so.
- [Isaac] Yes.
- You guess so?
- [Isaac] Yes, I believe it.
- Well, let me hear you say it.
- I believe in God.
- [Johnny] Say it again.
- I believe in God.
- [Johnny] You got to mean it!
- [Isaac] I believe in God!
- [Johnny] You got
to mean it, man!
- I believe in God!
- I'm not buying it, man.
- [Isaac] I believe in God.
- No, you don't, man.
I don't think you do at all.
I don't think anything
you've told me is true.
- [Isaac] I'm telling
you the truth.
- Are you an alcoholic?
- [Isaac] I am sober now.
But, yes, I am an alcoholic.
- You're not an alcoholic.
- [Isaac] I am an alcoholic.
- You're not an alcoholic.
- You're leading him.
That's not how this works.
- Hey, hey, hey!
New rules today!
The rules are the guy with
the gun makes the rules.
You got a gun?
No, shut up, cupcake!
- What is it that you want?
What do you want me to say?
What do you wanna know?
- I'm a cop, I can
sniff this out.
I know when you're
lying to me, man!
Just give me some truth.
- About?
- Give me some truth!
- I'm telling you the truth!
I'm telling --
- Johnny, that's enough, man!
- Well, look who
found his voice.
- All right, look, we
both know why you're here.
So stop, just stop this.
- No, no, no, no.
It's not your turn.
It's not your turn.
Not yet.
(sinister music)
- Johnny, all right.
All right, Johnny, okay!
- It's not your turn, Earl.
- [Earl] All right, Johnny--
- It's not your turn, Earl.
- Okay, all right!
Okay, all right!
Sit down, stop!
(phone rings)
Yeah?
- Hey, man, we can
still spin this.
I mean, nobody's
dead yet, right?
- Not yet.
- This isn't you, Johnny.
- Isn't it?
- No, you're the good
one, the grounded one.
I'm the screw-up, not you.
I mean, I wasn't good at nothing
except breaking heads
and taking names,
so I became a cop.
But, you, I mean, you were a man
of God on your way to seminary.
What happened to
you was horrible
and I know you think
it changed you,
but it didn't.
You're still a good man.
- Well, I know
different, Hickey.
- What made you
wanna go to seminary?
- I wanted to help
people find the way.
- And when you couldn't do
that anymore, what happened?
- (sighs) I became a cop.
- To help people, right?
- No, no, you know what?
No, I see what you're doing.
But, no, no, okay?
- Well, then why'd
you become a cop?
- You know what, Hickey?
This has become tiresome.
(phone beeps)
- I don't like this.
(tense music)
- Who's next?
What about you?
- I'm really worried about Chad.
- Chad, are why you
worried about Chad?
- I'm worried about Chad.
(sirens blaring)
- Took 'em long enough.
(police radio chatter)
- [Violeta] Now would be a
good time to let us leave.
- Not quite yet.
- [Officer] Let's go!
(dramatic music)
- All right,
everyone remain calm.
- [Natalie] What's going on?
- Cops cut the power.
Well, guess we should
just get down to business.
(gun clicks)
- Johnny!
(gun shot fires)
- [Police officers] Go, go!
You guys, follow me!
Go, go, go!
Open the door!
Hold the perimeter!
- Don't move.
- [Officer] Stop, stop!
Hold the perimeter.
Nobody fire.
- Don't you move.
- I just wanna go.
- Sit down.
- Johnny.
- Sit down.
- Sit down or so help me,
I will shoot you right now!
I'm gonna get real
dramatic here.
- [Violeta] I just wanna leave.
- I'm gonna count to three.
One...
Two--
- [Cherice] Violeta, sit down!
Right now!
Please.
- I'm sorry.
(phone rings)
- Yeah.
- Time's running out partner.
How long do you think it will be
before SWAT makes their move?
- [Johnny] I'm sorry.
- Don't be sorry, just come out.
(sirens blare)
(muffled radio chatter)
- Oh, God help us.
(intense suspenseful music)
- Anybody else wanna coffee?
- I could use one.
(sirens blare)
(harrowing piano music)
Thank you.
- Better taste it first.
Right?
It's pretty bad.
I used to work in
a coffee house.
- [Natalie] Oh yeah?
- That's where I met Gilly.
- Is that your wife?
- I was a barista and
an assistant manager.
It was kind of a crappy job.
You don't make a lot of money
and there's no benefits.
But what was cool was there
was entertainment every night.
So you got to see
comics, open mics, music.
I was working a night shift
in June, late afternoon,
early evening, the sun
was kinda coming down
and I see this image in
the door, a silhouette
and she's walking
toward me and I thought
she was just the most
beautiful thing I'd ever seen.
She gave me a little
smile and then
she kept on going by
over to the stage.
It turns out she was
gonna play that night.
She was in a jazz quartet.
And I remember
watching her play piano
and I said that's it, I'm done.
Game over, this is
the girl for me.
She was a really
good piano player.
(melancholic piano music)
- I bet she was.
- Oh, everything's
gonna be okay.
- Yeah.
- You should
probably go sit down.
- All right.
(phone rings)
- Okay, where were we?
(phone rings)
(ominous music)
- [Violeta] How does this end?
- You ready to share?
- [Violeta] No.
- I'll go.
- Violeta, why don't you go.
- No, no, no hey Earl,
I'm running this meeting.
Have at it Natalie.
- Hi, I'm Natalie.
- Hi Natalie.
- Alcoholism took my
whole family from me.
Didn't happen gradual, like
how it does for most people.
One day my dad was here and
then the next he was gone.
My mom stayed strong
but she eventually
just went right down
the road with him.
(dramatic music)
And I thought they were weak.
And so I hated 'em for it.
- But you pretty much
followed their footsteps?
- Yeah, something like that.
- I'm hungry and I need to pee.
- It sucks to be you.
- You're gonna have
to let us go sometime
or it's gonna get
real funky up in here.
- You know after that little
rabbit stunt you pulled
you'll be lucky if you ever see
a bathroom again, all right?
- You know what, I'm sick of you
and I haven't had a
drink in three years
and I really want
a drink right now!
- That's interesting,
that's interesting.
There's a little
truth right there.
There's a little
truth right there.
Three years without a drink.
Three years without a
drink working with Earl
and now you want one,
now you wanna relapse.
It's funny, Earl always
says it's so easy.
- No one said it was easy.
Sobriety, it's not an end.
- So what is the end?
- That's for God to decide.
- No, no--
- No, Johnny!
- It's not your turn.
It's not your turn.
It's not time yet.
What are you doing here Earl?
You're here to
help people right?
- No.
- No?
If you're not trying to help
people then what are you doing?
- Helping people
is also a means.
- So what is the end?
- Bringing people
to the same love
and forgiveness that
was offered to me.
- Nah, there's no
forgiveness for you.
- That's not true.
- No, there isn't.
There's no forgiveness;
there's no redemption for you.
Not after what you did.
You don't deserve it.
- You're right, you're right.
You're absolutely right
I don't deserve it
and there isn't a
day that goes by
where I don't remember
that if I only had
the guts I'd be dead right now.
- You tried to kill yourself?
- Well that would
have been a start.
- But then I remember
that the person
I was died when I asked
God for forgiveness.
God--
- God what?
God what?
Forgave you of your sins?
That is so, that
is so infuriating.
It's so ridiculous.
That's so impossible that you
could be, you could be evil.
You could kill, you could rape,
you could do all these evil
things, and then one day
you just say oh God, my bad
and that's it, you're forgiven?
- It's not quite that simple.
- What, you can wake up one
day and you can just smell
the stink of the piece
of filth you really are
and then you just
say hey God, forgive.
John 3:16 and then
all of a sudden, poof,
you're a good person without
ever having to earn it.
- That's why Jesus
died on the cross.
He died for our sins.
- You, you are not good.
- I never said I was good
Johnny, just forgiven.
- Not forgiven by me, man.
- Look, why don't you
let these people go?
- No, they, they
have to be here.
- This is not about them.
- No, this is about you.
Anybody else no why he's here?
- For the same reason that
brought everybody here.
- No, no, no, no,
no, not exactly.
- So then why are you here?
- Why am I here?
- [Natalie] Yeah.
- I don't know, why am I here?
Earl, you wanna tell
'em why I'm here?
I didn't think so.
10 years ago my entire
reason for existence left me.
When I was a kid, I was
a good kid, faithful kid.
I used to go to church, I
used to go to Sunday school,
Bible studies, all that
thing, I had faith for a kid
and then when I'm five
years old my dog dies,
but I keep my faith, I
think it's God's way.
Later on my mom died.
My mom was great,
but I keep my faith.
I know it's God's way.
A few years later my dad
dies and that was bad.
It was ugly and it
rattles my faith
but I'm trying to hold
on and then I meet Gilly.
Then I meet sweet Gilly.
And any ounce of
question or doubt
about my faith has disappeared.
She was God's glorious
creation personified.
I had it.
I struck gold.
(emotional music)
Gilly, well I had been
playing with the idea,
you're gonna like
this, I'd been playing
with the idea of seminary.
When my dad died I kinda put
it all on the back burner.
The day after I met
Gilly, I applied.
Everything was just
falling into place.
(dramatic music)
Anyone guess what happened next?
Anybody wanna guess
what happened next?
- I did.
I was working in
advertising and I was good.
I had just landed a big
account, the biggest.
So, we celebrated, hard.
I made the decision to drive
home and I was really drunk.
I hit and killed
this man's wife.
His pregnant wife.
(melancholic piano music)
- So you know we've all
lost somebody Johnny.
You know you're
not alone in that.
- I suppose.
- [Natalie] So you can't lose
faith, it's not worth it.
- You wanna know what
my faith was worth
when I was trying to deal
with the loss of my wife?
When I was trying to deal
with the loss of my family?
I prayed, I came to God, I
prayed some more, I came to God.
I said there's gotta be
some reason for this right?
God's will, master
plan, there's gotta
be some cause to all this right?
This too shall pass.
And you know what comfort
and ease it brought me?
You know what patience
and clarity it brought me?
None.
You know what brought me
patience and comfort, booze.
A lot of booze.
- I get it Johnny, I understand
and I'm so sorry for you
but how is any of
this gonna help that?
This is not gonna
end your grief John.
- My grief will never stop.
I learned that 10 years ago.
This here, this is justice.
This is comeuppance.
We make our own.
You know what Earl?
I'm on to you, you're a fraud.
You don't believe
in your redemption.
I can smell you a mile away.
I know your doubt, your remorse.
I can see it in your eyes.
- Any remorse I feel
doesn't take away
from my faith in
the love of God.
It's the same faith you have.
- My faith is long gone.
- I don't believe that.
- Believe it.
- Would it help at all if
I was to say I'm sorry?
- What?
I thought that's what
this whole thing was--
- To you.
Would it help if I was to
say I was sorry to you?
- I sincerely doubt it
but I wanna hear you try.
- I am truly sorry Johnny.
I know I can never give you
back what I took from you.
I can never make up to
you for what I've done,
but I have spent
every waking minute
of my life since
trying to make sure
that others don't go
down that same path.
Love is real,
forgiveness is real.
The power to change is real.
Miracles, Johnny,
miracles are real.
I have affected so many lives
though the course of this work.
You're right I don't
deserve forgiveness.
You're absolutely right.
But the Lord has given it to me.
And I, I have worked
every day since as my way
of saying thank you to him
for what he has given me.
- Nice, but you've also earned
a gun to your head, man.
You took away my wife.
You took away my family.
That's all I wanted, man.
It's not that much to ask.
I just wanted a family.
I deserved that didn't I?
They deserved it didn't they?
They didn't get a chance.
I just wanted a family.
- I was raped.
- It's not her turn.
- [Violeta] Let her speak.
I'm certain she's
earned that much.
- Fine.
- I was 11 when it started.
It was my father.
I ran away when I was 16.
I hated him.
I hated myself.
I ruined my life.
I turned to, to drugs
and alcohol and sex
and anything that I
could find that would
reconnect me to the
wholeness I once felt
from my relationship with God.
But then one day I
realized it was all in vain
because nothing,
nothing can ever fill
that hole in your life
left by the absence of God.
So, in order to begin
to turn my life around
I had to accept God
and I had to forgive.
Forgiveness is God's way.
(sirens blare)
- What's going on?
- Oh, that's the SWAT team.
- [Natalie] Oh God help us
(Johnny sings off key)
(phone rings)
- Okay.
- You're not gonna answer that?
- Hostage negotiation
is like a first date.
You don't wanna seem to eager.
Yo.
- They wanna talk to you.
Yeah, well I don't
wanna talk to them.
- Well you know they're
gonna want something here.
- All right Hick,
just listen to me.
I just need a little
more time okay?
- What for?
- I'll tell you
what, get me a bus,
a short yellow school bus,
a municipal driver, and no cops.
- What are you talking about?
- Just get me the bus
Hick and call back.
- Give me the phone,
let me to talk to him.
- Sorry Captain, he hung up.
(radio chatter)
- That's our call,
we're going in.
- No one's going
in, he's my partner.
- [Captain] Let
them do their job.
- You're not going in
without me, simple.
- Look, I get it,
he's your partner
but nobody's died here today,
and I'm not gonna
start with you.
Jones, Buderek,
you're on me, lets go.
- Okay kids, they're coming in.
- Come on, come on,
you gotta let us go.
This isn't gonna end well.
I know you don't
wanna hurt anybody.
I know it; I see
it in your eyes.
You're just hurt.
- Natalie, just sit,
sit down please.
Oh man, okay, okay.
(suspenseful music)
Hick, I'm gonna send
you three hostages okay?
- [Hickey] I want them all.
- Well you're not gonna
get them all Hick.
You're gonna get three unless
you get me some goodwill.
- [Hickey] It's
still what it is.
- Yeah well, this is gonna
be over real soon anyway.
Call me back.
- [SWAT Officer] Move 'em
out, move 'em out boys.
Let's go.
- You said three, who's staying?
- I don't know, that's, I
suppose it's up to you guys.
Who wants to stay here
with me and the big kahuna?
- I'm staying.
- What are you doing?
- I'm staying.
Cherise put your hand down.
- Baby, don't do this,
let one of them stay.
- Hey, if you're
staying I'm staying.
- No, you're not.
- [Isaac] All right
then you're gonna
have to shoot me 'cause
I'm not leaving my girl.
- I'm going to
have to shoot you?
- [Isaac] I'm not leaving her.
- Isaac, what is wrong with you?
All day long, with
that audacity.
Don't you realize when
a guy is on the edge?
Why didn't I shoot
you earlier, buddy?
Why didn't I just
shoot you earlier?
Look at this, wow, whoa!
You gonna listen to me now?
If you love your girl
you'll listen to me.
You've getting on my
last nerve every...
- [Isaac] This is not
gonna end well for you man.
- No, it's not gonna
end well for me at all.
I knew that 10 years ago, this
wasn't gonna end well for me.
Okay, kids, I guess
this is the last call.
Last call, that's funny.
Last call, you can
keep on praying but
you can't do it here.
It's been fun.
It's been enlightening
but it's time to go.
So long girl, you get
on with your bad self.
- [Police] Come out, come out!
Let me see your hands!
Move, move, move.
- Are you sure?
- Just go, just
go, be smart, go.
Just go, go, go,
go, go with God.
- Let me see your hands.
Let me see your hands.
- Come on, come on.
(suspenseful music)
- All right, hey lover boy.
Oh my God, chop, chop, man.
Go Isaac, go, go, go, go.
Quick, quick,
quick like a bunny.
Go Isaac.
Goodbye Isaac.
Don't worry I'll take care
of your friend, so long.
Drive safe.
All right Natalie, come on up.
(police order and yell)
(suspenseful music)
- It's gonna be okay.
- Okay, and then
there were three.
It looks like we're going down.
- No, Johnny, I'm
not going anywhere.
This is between you and me.
Let Natalie go.
- I don't have time to
argue with you Earl.
Just go, go.
Turn around and go.
- [Natalie] I can't see
anything it's too dark in here.
(punches thud)
- Whoa, buddy boy,
that wasn't smart.
- Are you okay?
- That was a pretty
good punch, man.
Help him up.
Grab that candle there.
All right, go, go, go,
go, chop chop, chop chop.
(door shuts)
Okay.
(dramatic music)
- Earl, are you okay?
- I wish you would call me Dad.
- I don't think we're
quite there yet.
- Dad?
- Yeah.
- So you knew who I was then?
- I saw you in court.
My mother wanted us
to see first hand
the pain that he caused.
I was with him in
the police station
when he got word that
your wife had died.
I watched the life drain
right out of his eyes.
I watched my father die
right before my eyes.
The man that was left
behind wasn't my father.
The man that was left tore what
was left of my family apart.
I haven't even been able to be
in the same room
with him for years.
- So, what are you
doing here now then?
- I'm doing the same thing
that you're doing here.
- So, where's your gun?
- We're both here to find out
who this man really is now.
- I came here to kill who
this man really is now.
- No you didn't.
- If you came here to kill him
you would've done it already.
You came here to
find out the truth.
- The truth, the truth
is he killed my family.
- [Natalie] But none of this
is gonna bring them back.
- [Johnny] I know that.
- So what is this then?
Revenge?
- Yeah, it's revenge, if
that's what you wanna call it.
This is revenge.
- [Natalie] Listen, just because
my father was still alive
it doesn't mean I
didn't lose him.
All right, I know loss.
I know the pain of
losing someone you love.
It hurts, there's
probably no greater pain
on this Earth but you
gotta make a choice
and I chose to live, to be a
good person despite it all.
You really think your wife
would want this for you?
- You don't know
anything about my wife!
- I know that you
loved her, all right?
You wouldn't be
here if you didn't
and I also know that
you're a man of God.
Listen, I had so much hate
for this man for so long
until I realized it wasn't hate.
Everything I did to avoid
him, to hurt him back,
everything was
because I love him.
He's my father and I love
him and now you wanna
take him away from me just
when I'm getting him back.
You wanna take him away
from me like he took
your family away from you,
who does that help Johnny?
He'll be dead, sure, but
he'll be dead with God.
How does that help you?
(dramatic music)
- What, what?
- I never thought I'd
see those eyes again.
- Those are the same
eyes that he's had
in his head since he got out.
- That's because
Jesus is in my heart.
- And God forgives, right?
- Yes, yes he does.
- God forgives, well I don't.
- [Natalie] No.
- He killed my wife.
He destroyed your family.
He took my faith.
He does not deserve forgiveness.
- I know but what if we
give it to him anyway.
Because that's what faith is.
- Just step down, step aside.
- [Natalie] No I won't
- Step aside!
- Johnny look at me, John.
It's not too late for you.
You can come back.
- What?
- You can let God
back into your life.
- Shut up!
- [Earl] Just ask
for forgiveness, he
will forgive you.
- No, stop it, stop it!
- Just ask.
- It's too late,
it's too late for me.
- No, no, no, as long as you're
still breathing
it's not too late.
- Dad, I forgive you.
- What, no, no.
No, no, this is not how this
was supposed to go down.
- And what were you
hoping to accomplish here?
- He needs to know that
forgiveness is not an option.
Not an option for you!
Not here on Earth,
not in Heaven.
- That's not true.
- What and you know that?
- [Earl} Yes.
- You know that?
- [Earl] I believe
that with all my heart.
- You have no proof.
- Yes I do, of course I do.
I see evidence of
it every single day.
Lives restored,
brought back, risen
from the ashes of their own
self-destructive actions.
Johnny we all witness
that everyday.
That's what my faith
is grounded in.
- Johnny, if he can do
it you can do it too.
- No, no, no, it's too
late, it's too late for me.
It's too late for me,
the only the thing
that I have coming is Hell.
There's no forgiveness for me.
- Yes, yes there is.
I forgive you and if you
can't find it in yourself
to forgive me ask God and
he will do it for you.
You have to know this
isn't the right way.
You have to know that.
I mean in a universe
of an eye for an eye
we'd all be walking
around blind.
Is that the kind of world
that you wanna live in?
Well you don't have to.
Choose forgiveness.
Choose love.
Look, it's a free
gift for everyone.
All you have to do is ask
and you know something,
you're absolutely right,
we don't deserve it
but he gives it to us anyway.
(dramatic music)
- You, you killed my wife.
You killed my baby.
You killed my angel.
- Yes, yes I did.
But we can't make right
everything in this world Johnny.
The starvation, the
pain, ignorance, evil,
it took me coming face to
face with my own madness,
my own brokenness, to
realize that there was no way
on God's green Earth
that I could ever
repair that with my own hands.
I could live with
my own emptiness
in my soul for so long.
If you can't find the power
to forgive me within yourself
trust me, ask God and he
will do it through you.
- It's just talk.
All you do is just talk!
- Think of it.
If God doesn't forgive us,
where does that leave us?
We'd all be eternally guilty
with no hope for redemption.
Yet because he does forgive
us we get to experience love,
the true meaning of love
in its greatest form.
- And we don't deserve it.
We don't deserve it!
- You're right, you're
absolutely right.
We don't deserve it.
But haven't you ever been given
something that
you don't deserve?
And how did that make you feel?
Knowing that someone
gave it to you freely?
Just as the son of man came not
to be ministered
onto but to minister
and lived his life
as a ransom for many.
- That's Matthew 20:28.
- That's right.
Without God's grace,
without his forgiveness
we would all lose everything.
I was exactly in that position.
I had done something so
tragic, so unspeakably wrong
that I was lost, there was
nothing else I could do.
All I could hope
for was his mercy.
And I begged for it.
I got down on my
knees and I begged
for that which I knew
I did not deserve.
But that's what
grace is, Johnny,
God giving us that which we
do not deserve, his mercy.
- But God, God commended
onto us his love
and that for we are
sinners Jesus died for us.
- [Earl] Yeah, Romans 5:8
- Romans, something
like that right?
- Yeah.
Forgiveness that releases
us from the bondage
of our hatred, our anger.
It also releases the one
in bondage to their sin
and their guilt
from their deeds.
(Johnny sighs deeply)
- I just don't know.
- Johnny, if God loves us enough
to forgive us, why can't we?
Why can't we say
with Jesus Christ,
father forgive them for
they know not what they do?
And then we can live
free from the bondage
of an unforgiving spirit.
If our friends betrayed us
or our family let us down.
I mean the only answer to the
problem is just to forgive.
(Johnny sobs and mumbles)
- Ask, just ask.
- I've done so many,
so many bad things.
- [Earl] Just ask.
God will forgive you Johnny.
All you have to do is ask.
(intense dramatic music)
- Is that you, I'm
sorry, I'm sorry.
I have sinned.
I have, I did it.
Oh God!
Forgive me, forgive
me God, forgive me.
God forgive me, I'm
sorry, I'm sorry.
- So am I.
(dramatic music)
- [Earl] Pray with
me, pray with me
- Okay, okay, okay.
- God.
- God.
- [Earl and Johnny]
Grant us the serenity
to accept the things
we cannot change,
the courage to accept
the things we can,
and the wisdom to know
the difference, amen.
(Police yell and order)
- I'm sorry, I said I'm sorry.
- [Earl] It's okay.
- I'm sorry.
(Police yell and order)
- What's your name?
- Earl, Earl Winston.
- Okay somebody's
gonna be with you soon.
(radio chatter)
(dramatic music)
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
- The medics are on
their way, you okay?
- Yeah, we're fine.
- What happened here?
- What was supposed to.
- Okay.
Johnny's not a bad guy
just a little lost.
- Well I think he might
be finding his way back.
- I'm glad you're alive.
- Me too.
- Sorry you had to go
through all that though.
- Maybe.
(dramatic music)
(deep engaging jazz music)