A Good Thing (2023)

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Take that off. You look ridiculous.

Somebody took my money.

It's good to see you, too.

I had two of these in my apartment.

One with clothes, one with money.

I went back tonight and the money's gone.

I think Kevin took it.

Where you been?

What?

Where have you been?

I've been where you've been, right?

Wherever should have

been for the last week.

Hiding.

Hiding?

Yeah, hiding.

Remember Dave?

The guard?

Yeah, Kev's plan did have some holes.

Some?

And that b*stard stole my money.

What money are you talking about?

My the police are looking for me, I

need to get the f*ck out of here money.

Oh, you mean the

police are looking for us,

we got to get the f*ck

out of here money, right?

Yeah, whatever.

We need to go to talk to him. Now.

So, let me get this straight.

Kevin gives us bad information on a job.

Dave... well, you know.

Your priority is to find Kevin and

talk to him about your missing money?

We need to talk to him anyway, right?

We can't talk to him.

You don't know where he is?

You check with that girl he's always with?

What's her name...

We can't talk to him...

because I already did.

Jesus.

When?

How?

Bill?

Like I said, we already talked.

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You were careful right?

You got rid of the body?

Sure did.

No finger prints, I.D., no cameras.

We have to be careful.

We?

We weren't around, remember?

We were hiding.

This Wild Bill sh*t is gonna get us caught.

Me and you have a script.

You think it up, I make it happen.

When you don't do your

part, I have to improvise.

You've been texting me

all day to meet you here.

What is it?

The job did go to sh*t,

but we got what they needed.

They paid us?

Yeah, it's in the car.

Good. Let's go get it and split it

up so I can get the hell out of here.

Get the hell out of here and go where?

I just need that money.

What?

You remember that lady

who served food at Riverdale.

The one you were crazy about?

Ms. Jackie?

Ms. Jackie?

Yeah. Ms. Jackie. I saw her.

You did?

How was she doing?

Good I guess.

How did she look?

Like sh*t.

Riverdale House.

Man, I hated it that place.

Hey, man, you had some

good things happen there.

You had some bad things happen there.

We met there remember?

Which category would that fall under?

f*ck you.

You came there after your mom died.

None of your family would take you in.

Yeah, so they shipped me off.

Right to the foster care home.

That wasn't a home,

that was gladiator camp.

Hey, you remember Big Tony?

Do I remember Big Tony?

m*therf*cker, do you remember Big Tony?

He kicked your a*s, daily.

You told me to fight him in the cafeteria.

You said you would help me.

Yeah, and you didn't want to.

Hell no, he was huge.

But, you did it.

And that beating we gave him

sent a message to everybody.

Yeah, it did.

Who would have ever

imagine it would be us here?

What happened?

Pulling off the big jobs.

We are never going back to the bottom.

Where did you get that?

I grabbed this out of my apartment.

I don't know the last time I

wore it. I found it in the pocket.

Whatever, man. Toss that sh*t.

You wanna know something?

You plan on k*lling me?

What?

You remember Mo from Crown Heights?

Yeah.

Well, whenever someone would

say you wanna know something,

he would say the person hearing it probably

wouldn't live long enough to repeat it.

You want to know something or not?

Alright, lemme hear it.

I can't remember what

my mother looked like.

She's just a blur.

Yeah It's been a while, I guess.

I read this book that said your

mind will do that sometimes,

you know, block stuff out.

Why would it block out your mother?

We used to go to this park.

I remember it had all these yellow

flowers, and butterflies were everywhere.

One time, we saw this butterfly

come out of its shell, or cocoon...

Yeah, whatever you call it.

She said, we were witnessing a miracle.

Sounds magical.

She said the caterpillar did a good

thing becoming what it was supposed to be.

She said, God gave it wings as a reward.

That is total bullshit.

I only had one picture of me and

my mom, but I lost it a while back.

Look, man, I don't want to sound.

What's the word?

Insensitive, but who gives a f*ck?

What?

Who gives a f*ck?

And f*ck that. f*ck them, too.

f*ck who?

f*ck them. All of them.

Everybody in our past.

Anyone in the way of our future.

f*ck them.

We've been taking care of each

other since we was twelve years old.

They left us. They're not here.

Who gives a f*ck? Why are

you even thinking about them?

My mom didn't leave me, she died.

What's the difference?

She ain't here, right?

You need to get focused, man.

Focused?

Focused on what?

On this, m*therf*cker, this.

We are winning.

That's what this is?

This is winning?

Dave is dead, and you shot a security

guard who just happened to be a cop.

How was I supposed to

know that, he wasn't in uniform.

Oh yeah, let's not forget,

you didn't even have a

m*therf*cking mask on when you did it.

We are winning.

You done?

I don't know about you, but I'm

over all this winning that we're doing.

This is a speed bump. An ant hill.

Kevin's been handled...

Do you hear yourself?

Loud and f*cking clear.

Do you hear yourself?

Dave...

Here we f*cking go, man.

Dave knew the risks. We all did.

Dave died right in front of me.

And after all he did, what did he have?

No property, no kids, no nothing.

He didn't even have a girlfriend he could

trust with his gym locker combination.

Dave had us.

Not going out like that, man.

What, you got another option I

don't know about or something?

You got like a master's degree

or high school diploma maybe?

Because as far as I know,

this is it. This is what we do.

Been doing no one better.

I just need my money, Bill.

See, this has been your whole

problem since we were friends, man.

You always thinking about yourself.

Who else am I supposed to look out for?

Go get your money, man.

You should get out of here, too.

I need to get. Not here to you.

I'll be around.

I'm just, you know, laying low.

I would lay low too, but I

have a small problem to fix.

As long as it's not my problem.

Well...

A girl was in the office Saturday night.

Nobody was there but us.

She was hiding.

Did she see us?

Maybe, maybe not.

After the guard was shot...

After the cop was shot, she

ran out one of the side exits.

What exit. Kevin said

all the doors were locked.

She must have used something

to break through the glass.

She ran down the street camera.

From what I hear the cops

are already looking for her.

I had my mask on, right?

At some point you did.

At some point you didn't.

But hey, if she didn't go to the cops

by now, she probably won't, right?

What if the cops find her?

A lot riding on a bunch of ifs, huh?

Do you have any idea where she is?

You hungry?

Do you have a plan?

It's not my department, remember?

Alright, talk to her.

It's probably not her.

And let her go.

And if it is her?

Then take her I.D. Tell her

we know where she lives.

The usual stuff.

That ain't the usual stuff.

I gotta go, I gotta go.

m*therf*cker!

I told him not to f*ck with

Kevin in the first place...

All he has to do is talk to her,

take her I.D., that's it.

Simple. Easy.

He can handle that.

He can ask a simple f*cking question

and just leave it at that.

f*ck.

f*ck.

f*ck.

What are you going to do?

What you told me to do, boss.

Just talk.

We saw you sitting by yourself. Figured

we should be polite and keep you company.

Hey, don't be rude.

Say hello.

Hello.

I saw you eating.

I usually get the steak and

eggs, or something like that.

I don't like the food here so much.

Me either.

That's probably because by the

time I taste it, it's usually cold.

Why is it cold?

I like to play with my

food before I eat it.

Bad habit, I guess.

Pardon me.

Where are my manners?

My name is... Seymour?

My name is Gloria.

She said hello.

Pardon me. Are you ok?

Yeah, I cut it... On a wine glass at home.

You must've been in a

real rush to open that bottle.

You said you don't like the food here.

I don't.

Then why come?

I know Seymour's name, what's yours?

MC.

Your mother named you letters?

What my mother named me

is none of your damn business.

Don't mind him.

He's been in a mood all night.

When I first met him,

it took him about six months

before he told me what his name was.

Y'all come here often?

I haven't seen you here before.

Yeah?...Where have you seen us?

Everyone looks so familiar nowadays.

Who can say.

Works for me.

I'm out of here Bill.

Bill is a nice name.

You should use it more often.

The Bible.

A classic.

What are you reading about?

The truth.

Oh, that's heavy.

The truth will set you free.

It also cut like a two edge sword.

That's a lot of power?

You believe in telling the truth?

I don't know what I believe in anymore.

Sounds like she's conflicted.

I never read it.

You should.

I read it to my son every night.

How old is your son?

Doesn't matter.

He's three.

That Bible talk about

anything else? Let's go man.

It talks about a lot.

Love, judgment, forgiveness and revenge.

No wonder you're conflicted.

Where'd you get that from?

What?

Where'd you get that clip?

Do you understand what's going on here?

Look at me.

You need to tell me

you never saw us before.

You understand that?

And then what?

Me and my son live happily ever after?

Exactly.

We go away.

You never see us again.

You're not like him.

Do you know that?

Lady, you have no idea what I'm like.

We good?

f*cking Fantastic.

Where were we?

I need to use the bathroom.

Sure.

We'll be right here when you get back.

She doesn't know who we are.

We don't even know if it's her. It's her.

And when the cops find her,

she is gonna talk, guaranteed.

She has a three year old son.

And I like Applejacks.

What does it have to do with anything?

Exactly.

I'm not k*lling a woman with a kid.

Then don't.

You lose something?

f*ck! f*ck!

I worked too hard to see everything

taken away by some Bible thumping rat.

You listening to me?

You need to get your head on straight.

Let's say she was there.

That doesn't mean she knows who we are.

That's what we came

in here to find out, right?

Did she see us or not?

The cops just found Kevin.

It's only a matter of time before

they make the connection to us.

We don't have time to be fooling

around with this Mickey Mouse bullshit.

Do you know me from somewhere?

Answer the question.

I've never seen you before tonight.

That's for the tip.

I remember you, though.

What did you say?

I said I remember you.

Let me be clear.

We never met.

You just told him that.

I said I've never seen him before.

I don't know what you think you

remember, but you remember the wrong.

Got it?

I don't know you, you crazy b*tch.

When I was growing up it

was just me and my dad.

We don't have time for stories.

We never had much, but that old

man loved me with everything in him.

Gloria listen to me...

I remember we would

squat from house to house.

Tell him we never met.

Laying where we could

until we couldn't. Tell him!

And I remember this one house

and stayed for what felt like a year.

It was really only three months.

But we were really getting it together

there and feeling like people again.

We don't give a f*ck.

Say we never met.

Then one night I woke up.

Things were falling and crashing.

I saw my father fighting two men.

They were breaking into our home.

The fight was fierce.

Hey!

Let her finish!

He was yelling for me to

run away, but I couldn't.

I couldn't move forward to help either.

I just stood there... and watched.

They stabbed him over and over.

His blood was everywhere.

I can still hear his scream.

After a while, that

scream turned into a voice.

Voice? It was always there.

Talking, judging.

Saying the same thing to me over and over.

What thing?

You left me to die.

And I would hear it.

It wasn't your fault.

But I could have done something, anything.

My dad would have done anything for me.

And I just didn't even try to help him.

I was too scared.

Gloria, listen to me, okay?

Please tell Bill we never met.

After that, I started

drinking and using drugs.

I was using anything I could to escape.

I could never get the sound

of that scream out of my head.

And that's when I took a

walk across Kings Highway.

I walked into the middle of

the road and just stood there.

At first the cars were pretty far away so

the sound of that voice, sound of the

car's engines were just about the same.

Kings Highway?

After a while, barely hear the voice.

When it was almost completely

gone, something hit me.

When I woke up, I thought I was dead.

My eyes were blurry.

My ears were ringing.

And I looked over and I saw

this guy laying next to me.

People dragged us out the street.

His clothes are ripped and he was bleeding.

I remember seeing his arms

waving and his mouth moving.

I knew he was fighting people off.

That's when I slipped

my haircut into his pocket.

When he saw the lights

from the sirens, he took off.

I never got a chance to say thank you.

I never even knew its name.

That was you.

I remember some things,

but not exactly like that.

There was traffic,

I didn't want to wait, so I ran

across the street without looking.

I guess you were ahead

of me and you stopped.

I didn't have time to

avoid you and we collided.

That's what I remember.

Well, when I went to the hospital,

I found out I was pregnant. So,

it seems like you saved two lives that day.

Even if it was just by accident.

What an amazing act of kindness.

You should add this to your

acts of kindness resume.

I was just trying to beat traffic.

What's your son's name?

His name is King.

See. Glad we got that cleared up.

That's where she knows me from. That's all.

You still drinking, using that stuff?

No.

I went back to school and got a job.

I'm glad you're okay.

Are you?

Am I what? Are you okay?

Because, I've been watching you for

a while and you haven't looked okay.

She's fine.

To be honest, my boyfriend...

Boyfriend?

Man troubles.

What did he do? He left you?

I guess you could say that.

He was a lot like my dad.

Loving more than anything.

Not enough to not leave you.

He was going to marry me.

I don't give a sh*t about

any of that. Are you okay?

Are you not? Of course she's okay.

You're good, right?

I didn't want a big wedding.

I just wanted to buy a house for

King and my soon to be husband.

Nah, this b*tch isn't okay.

And if she's not okay,

we're not okay. Gloria!

There was rent in my tuition.

I didn't know how to save for a house.

Couldn't get married, didn't

know how to house, right?

I insisted that we get second jobs.

I was going to give King the life I lost.

The one that was stolen from me.

If this is about money, here, take this.

If that's not enough, I'll

get you more. No problem.

That work for you, Gloria?

I took an office job on

the weekends. Easy work.

No ones usually even there.

Hello.

Hey, you picked King up yet?

Oh you're close.

Look at me.

Think about King.

We can all go our own

way if you just say it.

You going your own way?

All I had left to do was put my shoes on.

Two men came rushing in.

Only God knows what they were looking for.

Here it is, MC.

I hid under a desk.

I figured they would just leave

when they got what they wanted.

Then, a security guard showed up.

They took one look at him and shot at him.

Over and over.

I remember sitting there thinking,

they didn't even ask that guard anything.

They didn't ask him if he

had a family, or dreams.

He just shot him.

f*ck. Dave.

Dave.

Stick.

No, no, no.

Dave. Come on.

Let's go. Let's go.

We can't just leave bro.

Let's get the f*ck out of here.

We ain't got time. Let's go.

When they left, I held the guard's

head and watched his eyes close.

Shut up, shut up. Shut up.

Maybe, that guard thought he was

just going to stand in front of that door,

and get in someone's way.

But what he was really doing was standing

in the way of another guy's future.

And I tell you this Gloria, f*ck anybody

standing away of anybody's future.

Maybe, he was just working second job.

Wrong place, right time, I guess.

Gloria, we can fix this.

Shut up MC.

You can't fix dead.

Shut up.

If you say anything else, it will

only put you and King in harm's way.

We're already in harm's way.

Can I tell you a secret?

No.

Why don't I tell you a secret?

Because I've been sitting here

for the past week trying

to figure out what to do.

Go to the police or try

to move on with my life.

And like an answered prayer, you

walk in and sit right in front of me.

So which one did you land on?

Revenge or forgiveness?

It wasn't forgiveness.

I'm going to do this b*tch right here.

Gloria, he is going to k*ll you...

What are you going to do?

We are all going to

walk out of here safely.

Not all of us.

Why not?

I've been hearing that voice again.

I think I finally figured

out how to make it stop.

Give me the g*n. I can do what you want.

She walks away from this, look around,

the cops are already in the way for sure.

Taking care of her is

the first step in fixing this.

Let's just leave, man.

What's wrong MC, you

got a soft spot for her?

She reminds you of someone?

Hey, Gloria.

Your son's gonna be in foster care any

day now, so you might want to know this.

When he gets there, he's

gotta be strong from day one,

not like MC was.

MC would curl up on his bunk and look

at his little picture of his

mommy and cry like a little b*tch.

f*ck you. You know what the

other kids called him a b*tch.

You know why I did that Gloria?

While he was out knitting one day,

or whatever the f*ck he was doing,

I took that little picture, I

wiped my a*s with it, set it on fire.

You know why I did that Gloria?

Because, I'm always looking out for us.

If you don't know me by now,

you will never ever know me.

And now, Gloria, like always,

I have to take care of us again.

Oh, don't look at me like that.

Your mommy left you with weakness in you.

I squeezed it out.

Now just when we are about

to be somebody in this world,

you want to run off and have a good cry.

I told you I was going to lay low, man.

I told you I was going to Queens...

f*ck it.

MC is all about MC, right?

That's not true.

Hey, Gloria?

You think you know MC, huh?

Well, so do I.

Let's play a little game and

see who really knows him best.

MC is got himself a one

way ticket out of Dodge.

You wanna leave? Okay go.

Flight leaves in a couple hours.

Still got some time.

Not much though.

Dead cop, dead Kevin.

Not long before the cops

come knocking on our doors.

That's what you said, remember?

How about this?

You leave right now, you

can take your money and mine.

I'll be here anyway.

Don't leave me here.

f*ck her. You don't know her.

You don't owe her anything.

Arizona's waiting.

A whole new life.

I told you to say you didn't know us.

Just say you were okay.

I told you that.

Wait.

Hey MC...

A little piece of advice.

Wherever you go, there you are.

You're standing in my way, MC.

I'm gonna count to three and

then I'm gonna unload this clip,

on whoever's in front of me.

You're going to sh**t me, Bill.

I don't think I have to.

One.

Put the g*n down.

sh**t him. He is going to k*ll us.

She ain't lying, MC.

Two.

You don't even know her. This isn't right.

When does the other fact

into anything that was done.

Move now. I won't move.

You're in my way, MC.

I know, Bill.

Three.

No, no, no.

Get up. Get up.

Marcus... Carter.

Marcus Carter.

Go...

Thank you.

Thank you again, Marcus Carter.

Marcus...

I was sure you were gonna move.

I can see her.

I can see her.

I started out helping others

we started out sisters, brothers

all of my time was taken

all of my taxes paid in

I am not my brother's keeper

staring at the old grim Reaper

Waving down his blade at me

Telling me I won't succeed

There goes the devil

telling me to lie again

which is I'm around me

says it's all right to pretend

that you can get more than you give

and he wears a raincoat

that celebrities if autograph

because they're working for him

on his secret special

staff he gets a couple more

send to him every weekend

And dear God, I hate to say I'm sorry

But I just wanted you to love me

Even though I still love money

and dear God I hate to turn the table

But I just hate waiting tables

in my mid twenties I need more money

I dig of the devil

creeping in my life's design

said where does it get you

being such a damn nice guy