John from Cincinnati (2007): Season 1, Episode 5 - His Visit: Day Four - full transcript

John From Cincinnati Season 1 Episode 5
His Visit: Day four

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You know, I'd want to tell you some
things if you'd want to listen.

Stop. Shut up. Whatever you
want, you're not getting it.

Wherever you are,
fucking stay there

and leave us alone!

Oh, come on, Cissy, don't.

Come on!

Is she here?
Is she here?

What's going on?

- 14 years late.
- Who just peeled out of here?



Shaun, get dressed. You're
going to work with me today.

I'm supposed
to surf with Sammy.

Come on!
get dressed.

Just do what your
grandmother says, Shaun.

You want to tell me
what the hell is happening?

What's happening...

Is the b-side
bombshell

has decided she could make
more off of Shaun than in porn.

- That was tina on the phone?
- Yeah,

and in the guinea-red
mustang outside.

If she thinks she is
getting him away from me...

She's taken one
too many money shots.

Put those shoes on, Shaun.
we're getting out of here.

- I want to have some cereal.
- Come on!



Let's go.

See, John,
that freaks me out...

You standing there, just staring.

Do you listen to me
when I'm in there?

I listen to you.

Work here, Cass.

Here, in my hotel room

that I have
no money to pay for?

I will happily work, John,

if you explain
to me what you mean.

- Work here.
- Here...

In my work area?
With your towels on my barrier?

Huh? How's this, John?

You like this look?

Fuckin' towelheads are gonna
get themselves eradicated.

I'm broke, John. Okay?

I am not averse to work,
I believe in it.

I believe
in paying my debts.

I'll be paying on my student loans
when I'm on social security.

Also, like everyone else,
I have issues around money.

It's probably a holdover
from my childhood

when my pop, he'd leave for
work and then three days later

we'd get a call asking
to wire him bus fare home...

From las vegas.

In summary, John,

I am no longer able
to trade on my sex

and I need to make some money.

You need your camera, Cass.

It's safe. It's in the trunk of my car.

Unless linc's had it
repossessed.

Listen to me. Listen
to me. Listen to me!

Do not confuse...

My admitting a mistake...
like a gentleman...

With a check made out to you

to subsequently go berserk.

Yes. I got along
with the hawaiian, Zippy.

26 years in law enforcement,

I am able to coexist
with shitheels.

The subject you raise now

concerns a different kettle of fish.

And for all we know, he may
be a fish, this John.

"I've got
my fisheye on you. "

So this isn't an evenhanded
back and forth.

This is me on the receiving end of you

delivering unalterable instructions.

Then we can save time
and argumentation.

Excuse me
while I take a piss.

If you have
an objection,

I'm sure you can
convey it silently

once I get my stream going...

...And thereby
shut that down too!

Jesus Christ!

This'll pass
in a heartbeat.

You don't want to go
bandying that shit about.

What do you mean?

Just ask the girl...
Marie...

On bandying about my...

Sleep talk.

- Sleep talk?
- Yeah.

She's got five or six resting
places on the big island.

Dig her up and ask.

The other night, I heard you
talking in your sleep, right?

"Is two days off a crime?
Do I never get to fuckin' relax?"

When are you gonna take
the pictures of your wrist?

You know, I'm hesitant.

You know? Physicians,
they... They toss it off.

"Get yourself an x-ray,"
like "next light go left,"

'cause they never hit no bumps
on life's highway, right, boss?

Fellas like us, information
ball gets rolling,

next thing you know
we're dead in an avalanche...

Wants, warrants,
failures to appear.

Just remember what I said...

That other thing.

Believe me, it's recorded...

In here.

"You want to wind up
like Marie?

Five pieces. "

I'm not pulling out this time.

It ends today, Ernie...

In this place.

I can give you a soda
or a clamato, Joe,

but I can't serve you
liquor at all,

not as long as you're
holding that gun.

Why would you want
to make my story

the punch line of your practical joke?
Why, ernie?

I didn't, Joe.

He knew I was behind
with my boot off

squeezing puss out of where that
punji stick went through my foot.

- Who did?
- This guy you put out there

to make me think
he was wounded so bad

and pretend
I brought him back.

I never repeated your
story to anyone, Joe.

I don't believe
you ever told us.

You...

I told you.

I don't believe so.

Go fuck yourself!

- Shit for brains!
- Would you take that outside?

This isn't funny?

Ass licker!

Yeah well, make it funny
over at the no name.

Fuckin' idiot!

I always cared more about
my feet than I should have.

An infantry man's feet are
as important as his weapon.

I couldn't help...

Charlie c or...

Pencilhead,

slowdump.

None of 'em.

I'll bet my daughter's eyes
you did everything you could.

Oh god, forgive me.

You want me to hold that?

I'm not gonna use it.

I guess...

However him I found knew,

you didn't tell him.

No.

I should've told you.

- Where is fucking Kal?
- I don't know.

Jesus Christ!

All right. You stay in the store.

You keep the doors locked.

- Who was it outside the house?
- You do not open the door for anybody.

Reporters?

Just don't open the goddamned
door unless it's Kal.

What if they try to get in?

Did you hear
what I said, Shaun?

Do you understand me?

I'm never gonna get
to surf anymore.

Well, that should be
the worst of our problems.

Have I ever hit you?

If I hit you, you'll know it.

He stopped
to check the time.

Gangbangers
messed up his briefcase.

Do you like your new
clothes from the gift shop?

I like my new clothes.

Do you think they
bought themselves?

Oh, fuck.

So, did you get your end
near the lady, my brother?

I got my end near
the lady, my brother.

I boned her
and broke her jaw.

Damn, I'll have to
give her a combat bonus.

Does she work for you?

Are you working?

Linc's gonna have to give
you a combat bonus, Cass.

Oh, yeah?

Well, linc can
take his combat bonus

and shove it up his ass.

Kal!

Get to the shop!

I'm sorry about yesterday!

Me and butchie
went looking for John.

Shut up and get
down there

and keep
an eye on Shaun!

- where should I pick him up?
- he's there now!

Lock the door behind you!

Don't let anybody in!

That porno slut who made Shaun

with my scumbag son

and left him on my doorstep

for me to raise

is back in I.B.!

Don't let anybody in!

She might have
hired a lawyer

to serve papers!

I'm going home so that
if she comes back.

I will be there to put
a bullet in her heart!

- I'll see you later.
- unbelievable.

Fucking tina, that loser bitch.

Hey, butchie,
the less you say now,

the less you have
to take back.

You work here a lot?

Every 15 years.

I'll tell you
something fucked up.

It'll cost you an extra $500.

I'm having a little trouble breathing.

Having pain in my chest.

Have you got
heart problems?

Not that I know about.

Fuck.

I put frat boy
into my truck...

He took my hand
to his belly...

And said I could help.

And if I wasn't wasted,

or it wasn't a joke...

I did.

He took my hand
to his belly...

And he healed.

What do you think
about that?

What happened?

- he only hit the papers yesterday.

There was no way she was
keeping track of him before that

till there was
something in it for her.

So she does not know we have
a shop... The porn queen...

So that is
where I left him.

With Kal?

I got her out of the
trailer to go to the shop

to keep Shaun company.

Now let that bitch
come back here.

Do not smoke
in here, Cissy.

Jesus Christ!

- I levitated.
- What?

Listen, it wasn't a hallucination
like we...

Like we thought
when we talked before...

Me being up in the air.

So what about the fascinating
infected-sinus theory?

Cissy, the levitation
was witnessed.

And what did
the witness say, Mitch,

"whatever"?

- Forget it.
- Thanks for the okay on that.

Let's see how long it takes me.

There. Done.

You know, if...
if you'd let me finish,

I was gonna suggest that maybe
there's some connection...

You're a jerk.

Instead of floating,
I wish you could fly

500 miles an hour
into a fucking brick wall!

You know what?
not in here.

Give me fucking cigarettes!

That whore...
is coming for Shaun!

That doesn't give you
the right to poison me.

Get out then. Get the fuck
out or I will poison you.

Okay, go smoke in the house.

You'll see me walking down the driveway.

You get out.

Cissy, I'm just
gonna be a minute.

I'm gonna pray for you.

Jeez, I wonder
who's smoking reefer.

Shaun, are you trying to
get the place shut down?

Who's gonna catch me?

Gram said don't let anyone in.

Can we get out of here?

Go to black's or something?

I can hide in the back of the
car until we get out of town.

No, not right now.

Why?

I'm no good at putting
shit into words, shaunie.

Sometimes it takes sticking around
to give things a chance to work out.

We're gonna open for business.

And you're gonna hang here
and not give me any grief.

Better?

Yeah. Yeah,
a little better, but...

Oh, fuck me...

Feel how wet my forehead is.

What are you doing?

I'm wetting a washcloth.

How do you feel?

Better, definitely better.

Breaks my heart, but...

Gonna have
to pass on the sex.

We don't give refunds.

You want me
to leave you a midol?

No, I'm good.

What's your name?

Tina blake.

Really?

I'm supposed to believe
you didn't know?

Honest to god...

I never let myself
watch porn,

otherwise I'd never
do anything else.

I feel like I'm meeting babe ruth.

Did he fuck a lot
of people at once?

I'm linc stark.

I feel like
I'm meeting babe ruth.

Yeah, just to let you know,

wherever you're being
useless at the moment,

that piece of trash your son
came out of is back in I.B.

I hope you're fuckin' happy.

Did he rag on me
all the time?

Turn me
into a dartboard?

I never heard him
say your name.

'Cause he loved me
so much.

Knowing butchie...

That probably would be why.

- Bullshit.
- Bullshit?

10 people in a room,
butchie talks to nine of 'em.

Who does he want to meet?

When we were knowing each
other, he would less ignore you

than knock you
into the wall by accident

four or five times.

Did you want
to call him Shaun?

We'd come off tour
and butchie would go

to mitch and Cissy's house
threatening to burn

that place down because
they wouldn't call him that.

And those first couple of years,
he didn't care about anything.

I mean, I think that's why he started
going aerial... he just didn't.

And when he saw they were taking
points away, of course...

he just made it his fucking thing.

I thought "Shaun"
sounded like the waves

when they were going back out.

And you come back to see
how your boy grew up.

Being that his dad and I
don't talk anymore,

it's probably best you don't tell
butchie we saw each other.

I don't know yet
if butchie's talking to me.

Anything else
I can do to help?

Focus.

What do you want?

Not bad, how have you been?

Oh, you wanna play nice?

You left our baby
on my parents' doorstep.

We didn't have a doorstep,
remember, butchie?

He was two hours old!

Or a bed or food
in the refrigerator,

and of course
no one knew where you were.

I had...
passport problems.

- I want to see Shaun.
- Yeah.

He's in all the papers and you
remember you're his mother?

I never forgot I was his mother.

Turn off the fuckin' faucet, Tina.
Give me a fuckin' break.

So you know what I do?

Everybody...

at the same time while every
dipshit on the internet

whips his skippy watchin'.

And you're president of
the I.B. Morality brigade?

Yeah, I know what you do.

I'd like to stop.

I'd like to be his mom.

Ain't gonna happen, Tina.

Cissy's a pretty good hater.

I suppose you putting a good
word in is out of the question?

Me coming out against you would
probably improve your chances.

I don't know what I'm doing.

Well, I never
let that slow me up.

I don't know what I
thought was gonna happen.

Tell her I'm gonna see him...

Once, anyway.

Tell her not to stop me.

Or what, you're gonna
set yourself on fire?

All right, okay.

You know my mom.

I'll suggest it.

Thank you.

Get back up!

John... John, don't do that.

Look, a new eco-warrior.

Is shaunie still
in lockdown?

Who wants to know?

- She wants to meet her son.
- Her son?

And you come to me?

She's quitting...

the business.

It's "the business" now?

Smilin' at the camera while
six guys come in your face?

Look, you can supervise
or have her sign something,

but just one visit
and she's gone.

It's not your fucking business.

It's not your business. And
if it were your business,

tell me what good could possibly
come out of letting him meet her?

Hey, I am the president for life

of the tina-blake-can-
go-fuck-herself club, okay?

I think she might do something stupid.

'Cause everything up
to now's been high math.

No, I mean
she might off herself.

That gives her a right to my grandson?

Because she's thinking
about killing herself?

Who doesn't think about
killing herself?

Who doesn't think about it
every day of her fuckin' life?

Just drop it.

I thought you were an idiot
before you started shooting dope,

but you were a 12-year-old genius
compared to the stupid fuck you are now.

As much acid as I took, I was never
as stupid as you.

I'm outta here.

Tell her she comes
anywhere near Shaun,

she won't have to kill
herself, I'll do it for her!

Well, there's another day
of sensational business.

Is it my mom
gram's all pissed about?

I won't say you told.

Will you give me a break?

Was it her this morning
outside the house?

I'm not saying
it wasn't, all right?

You keep that to yourself and
don't ask me anything else.

Why'd my mom come back?

Was it to see me?

Probably see you...

Probably see your dad.

Come on, get in.

I'll stick around and give
things a chance to work out.

Tell your cunt mother

if it's 'cause I'm no good,
that's one thing.

But if it's 'cause
I left shaunie at the door,

I didn't leave him
'cause I didn't care.

I stopped an hour before
and I didn't leave him

'cause when I rang the bell and waited
across the street, nobody answered.

And I came back and got him
and sat with him in the cab.

And when she came home,
I came and rang again.

And I didn't walk back to the
cab till I saw she'd got him.

I waited across the street.

I waited till she came out and
picked him up in his blanket.

- Okay, Tina.
- You tell her I cared about him.

If shaunie'd been with me, I'd
have had to stay high to fuck.

I'd have been used up
in six months,

I'd have been tricking for
nickels outside the bus station.

he'd have wound up dead
or in an orphanage.

Ask her who I was supposed
to leave him with.

Was I supposed to mail him
to your dumpster in cabo?

- Sorry.
- You tell her that's fucked

if it's 'cause
she thinks I didn't care.

All the problems you had with her,

as a big a ballbuster
as you talk about her being,

I knew with her he'd have
someone paying attention to him.

Yeah, mom was never
shy with the attention.

Problem was just getting
her out of your fuckin' face.

Would you tell him
he grew up handsome?

I was proud
he won his event.

Come on, tell him yourself.

What a day.

What a great day, huh, John?

Got to meet
some hare krishnas,

hang out with
some eco-warriors.

You got to dance in your
first little drum circle.

Work here, Cass.

So what I'm thinking
in terms of getting

this wonderful work seen
by as many eyes as we can,

is you know, maybe...

Maybe I should get back
in touch with linc stark.

I mean, if I had
to eat a little crow

and go back to work
on some other project,

to access, you know,
linc's experience

and the structure
of his organization,

it'd be for the sake of
this great work we're doing.

You know what I mean?

I know what you mean.

Or, as an alternative, John,

you could take
your hand off my cheek

and go up in the air like I saw
Mitch Yost do in this very room.

I know that there's
something going on.

And I don't doubt that you're
in the middle of it, John.

But the thing...

You know
what the thing is,

is that I am still a girl...

From hibbing, minnesota.

I still grew up hungry,

and I still want to have a say

what part I play
in the christmas pageant.

Show me that I have a little pull.

Go up in the air for Cass-Kal.

The camera's up in the air.

Get your hands off me.

It's in the camera?

It's in the camera.

Work here, Cass.

Okay.

Here we go.

Abracadabra.

Transforming my work area...

Into your sleep area.

I'm gonna find it
in the camera tomorrow.

Look, John,
a leap of faith, huh?

Abracadabra.

Let's hang out all night
and steal their morning paper.

You saved their life, Tina...

Giving her Shaunie.

Man, things were
so fucked up back then.

Dad was hurt.

They weren't that long
back from the islands.

I know a lot of shit went
down over there, I think.

Maybe stepping out
on each other.

A lot of acid.

Even after you were done
stealing from their stash?

That was a nature project for school.

It was coming apart at the seams
for my mom, what I'm trying to say.

Sure wasn't
doing you any good.

The second she'd lay eyes on
you, she'd start screaming.

Well, maybe it's because
she laid eyes on you.

It wasn't a burden
you put on her.

You know, getting shaunie
to hold was a gift.

She held on real tight
a long fuckin' time.

Get inside.

Tonight is the wrong night

to be creeping around.

She's outside.

What?

Like every other thing
you can't hide him from.

Now let's go ask real nice
if you can go peek

on how good he turned out.

How do you know
she's out there?

She's with butchie. I saw them.

They send you in here?

I saw them, Cissy. I went around
back so they wouldn't see me.

To tell me to let
her in? And him?

So they can fuck up shaunie
like everything else?

Oh my god.
Oh my god.

Shoot me then. Take that gun and
shoot me if you want her to see him.

You sit down, Cissy.
you sit down at that table.

Light yourself a cigarette.

She only wants to look at him, mom...

Then she'll go.

He's sleeping.

Do not wake him up.

Thank you.

Hey, where are you
going with my gun?

Out of your fuckin' house.

What do you see?

The stars.

Clouds

Of course lower down.

Partial moon.

Plane going
who knows where.

A bloodbath.

Destination bloodbath,

plane going who knows where. All aboard!

Prepare for war, my brother.

Prepare for war! all aboard!

Plane going who knows where!
All aboard!

I'm giving hawaii to moana.

He's gonna think
I mean to kill him.

Come try to kill me.

- He don't look dope sick.
- Ain't dope sick. He ain't using,

what I overheard
under the half-pipe.

Think maybe he's
coppin' somewheres else?

I put it out there...
no harm, no foul.

You've got a special
history with him...

We just want to be notified.

Fuck you.

We know each other.

I was wondering what
you wanted to drink.

A cosmopolitan.

Did you get to see Shaun?

Any casualties?

How do you feel?

Like now I've gotta leave town.

It's nighttime, for Christ's sake.

It's bad luck
to leave town at night.

- For the drink.
- I pay.

I pay.

- You speak spanish?
- No.

I... Am mucho hombre

and we'll do our drinking
in the room.

Thanks.

Keep me in the game.