Parallell
Mensch Productions
Coalition Films Relic Pictures
Mensch Productions and Parallell Cinema Presents
A Coalition Films and Relic Pictures Production
In Association with Bullet Pictures
A Film by Joseph Castelo
My name is Toby.
I'm seventeen years old.
I'm a scholarship winner
and I started and ran an international drug ring.
And I am fucked…
Three Months Earlier
Sep-84
Sage Hall.
"It was in the same town I grew up in,"
but it might as well have been in another country.
Preppies.
That's what they're called.
"They all dress the same, look the same."
Went to all the same places and schools.
Everything about them seemed so easy.
So effortless. Already done.
Because it was.
That's Ingrid. My mom.
- That's Mike. My dad.- Oh my god!
This was her day.
Ingrid's day.
- The day she got the letter. - You did it! We did it!
What’d we do?
You got into Sage Hall!
I never applied. I thought you said we didn't have the money.
It’s a scholarship!
She decided that I needed to be sent to a place
that she was sure would change everything.
Change me.
- I'm so proud of you.- And it did…
She was right.
You didn't fill out an application?
"As my mom tell it, our family was one of the richest in all of Germany"
but when they ended upon the wrong side of the Berlin wall
they lost everything.
She's never stopped wanting it back.
Before I even started at Sage - I was finished.
"Your mom got a call from the registrars office,"
they said you didn't show.
"No, I went. I just-- I couldn't really find the building"
and then by the time I got there they were closed.
Luckily they agreed to let you register tomorrow.
What?
I'm taking you there myself.
"Ingrid, why not discuss this as a family?"
This is Sage Hall.
I know.
"Toby, how do you feel about this?"
I don’t belong there.
You don't know where you belong.
Some day you'll thank me for this.
You can’t make me go.
It had happened before. Sometimes for days.
A dark room and TV.
And it only stopped when I had something to offer her.
I’m going to go back tomorrow.
I did it for her.
I did it for my dad.
Stay invisible. Stay out of sight.
- That was the plan.- …that is your charge.
We expect it from you. Expectit from yourselves.
I ask you now to intone the Sage Hall oath
then we'll imbibe our newest students to make their mark
in our sacred tome.
"Fully aware, therefore"
the import of what I am choosing today…
After taking an oath to the principles and values of Sage Hall
"every student, as tradition dictated,"
signed their name in a book.
A two hundred year old book.
Oh shit…
Look at this fucking idiot.
"Hey, are you okay?"
Yeah. Oh god…
Alright. Settle down.
"Hey, spilling ink is an ancient Chinese omen."
I’m Fidel.
Hi. I'm Toby.
Where are you from?
Colombia. Everyone here thinks I’m from Mexico.
So your family’s down there?
Well my Dad comes to America a lot. He’s the ambassador.
What’s your Dad do?
Um... he's a delivery guy.
I’m on scholarship...
"You know, it amazes me that this place,"
"with all its nepotism and inbreeding,"
can actually pad its endowment.
Come on. Let me show you around.
"This is Woodhull, it's where the jocks live."
And that’s Cleve…
boozers.
"Kennedy’s a bunch of stoners mostly,"
but they are prone to group shrooming.
And at the end is Dickinson…
"Alexandria Hayes, of the Charleston Hayeses,"
"Alex, as everyone called her."
Fidel let me know that I had no business looking at her
or even thinking I could speak with her.
"- Hey, Toby. Toby? "- Huh?
- Uh - it's Griswold.- It's over here.
But I couldn't stop thinking about her.
Being a day student wasn't easy.
I didn't live in the dorm.
We were seen as just someone who was passing through.
This is where I hang between classes?
You can always hang out in my room if you like.
Thank you.
"You’re new, right?"
"- Uh, yeah."- You wanna join me for a smoke?
Uh--
Yeah. Sure.
Good.
Hold this.
Thanks.
"I’ve got some stuff to do. Catch you later, Toby."
"Ellis William Tynes, III."
He was the forth generation of the Tynes family to attend Sage.
Later I had heard that his dad
was horseback riding buddies with Reagan.
"Thank god for the Soviets, right?"
You know four generations of my family -
they scribbled their name inside that book you trashed.
"Yeah, I’m really sorry about that."
I have to admit that he had charisma.
- You kidding?"- Hell, I wanted to be his friend."
You should have seen what happened to the last scholarship winner.
Why? What happened?
"Hey, have you seen the TV room yet?"
"So you know, we got a new TV which is nice."
VHS too. Pretty sharp.
Hey…
"Get him! Come on, get him!"
Get that motherfucker!
Get the fuck off!
Let me go!
Come here to piece of shit!
Gaines is coming!
Hey!
Hazing. If you took it personally you got more of it.
And it got worse.
Fidel taught me how to blend in.
The rules. Their mannerisms.
The preppie uniform.
Take it.
What is this?
You jerk off to this?
I study it. I used to be a wetback"here, too."
This one is good.
Shit. I got econ.
"- Oh, one more thing."- What?
You’ve got a new nickname.
Flipper.
…the idea of the free market is something that comes to us
from the mind of one man
who lived about 200 years ago and his name was Adam Smith.
Anyone? Adam Smith?
"Ah, welcome Toby."
"Uh, hey. Sorry I’m late."
"I was just telling everyone about our good friend here, Adam Smith."
Ever heard of him?
"Yeah. Wealth of Nations, the invisible hand."
What our friend Tobias is referring to…
Mr. Jennings was nice enough.
After I fell off the stage he seemed to take an interest in me.
Kind of like I was a project or something.
Flipper!
I had taken my lumps. I was adapting.
Observing. Putting the past behind me.
Until the past showed up.
"Dennis Connelly, my best friend, we grew up together."
And he had the unique personality trait
of being totally unaware of his surroundings.
Ellis.
"What's up, man?"
"- Hey, Dennis."- What the hell are you watching?
It's rugby.
And what the fuck are you wearing? You look like Pat Boone.
"Man, what are you doing here?"
"What am I doing here? I live like three blocks away, remember?"
"Oh my god, guys."
Flipper brought his boyfriend.
Look at that guy. You think they'll let him keep the tool belt?
Yeah. Apex tech guarantee.
You're such a dick sometimes.
"Hey man, you got any weed?"
No. Dry as a bone.
Fuck…
And then it happened…
Oh my god-- there's a girl.
- What?- She's got tits.
She's coming over here right now.
- What? - I will never forget
the back of her hand against my neck.
Keeping the tag on is definitely a statement.
You might start a trend.
I'm Toby.
I know.
- You do?- Yeah.
We have Econ together. You came in late last time
and made everybody look stupid?
"Oh, yeah. Right."
I’m Dennis by the way.
Nice to meet you.
So do you guys by any chance happen to have any pot?
On me? Right now?
"No, do you?"
Do you know where to get some?
Yeah. I can get it.
He’s kidding. He can't.
Fuck that. Is it just for you?
And my friends.
Forty-five.
That’s a lot.
Ellis can afford it.
"Okay, I’ll let you know."
Okay.
We didn't have any way to get weed.
But I was determined to figure out how to get it.
We drove all night and all over New Haven.
"We searched every alley, every stoop, every corner."
It wasn't looking good.
Alright… okay.
We should try those guys.
But you got to make sure that we're close enough so they can see us.
Okay.
I'm just gonna nod my head.
Nod your head - what do you mean?
I saw it in this film.
Uh--
"They're not even looking at you, man."
Just give it another second.
"Just roll down the fucking window, man."
Okay.
Yo! Air... Jordan!
The fuck you call me?
"We're just trying to buy some green, Blood."
The fuck makes you think I deal drugs?!
Uh…
GUY"- Huh, motherfucker!""- No, no, no--"
"That's not what we were thinking. We just, um--"
we're just looking to buy some marijuana
thought maybe you'd know where we can get some.
- You're such a fucking idiot… - Shut up.
Okay.
You got the money?
"Yeah. Yeah, I have some money."
Give him the money.
(PRELAP)Did he go with you? What's his name?
"Oh, Dennis. Yeah. Yeah. He came. You should have seen him."
He was doing all these signals to the dude
I guess he learned in some movie.
"He was like ""yo, we're here to buy some green, Blood""--"
Is your friend mentally challenged?
Ben and Laura were the other half of Alex and Ellis.
Laura was sweet. Quiet.
She was always kind to me.
"And Ben, her boyfriend, was a prick"
but I kind of liked him anyway.
"Even though I was the fifth wheel, it felt good."
And at the very least I was speaking and they were listening.
Even if it was mostly at my expense.
We're blood brothers...
"Stop - Toby, just stop."
"You're high as a fucking kite, man."
Open up in there!
I said open up this door.
I had my foot against the door
that our housemaster Mr. Gaines was pounding on.
MR. GAINESLet's go.
When she looked at me I didn't even think about it.
If it had ben a train coming towards her
I would have laid down in front of it.
He said he was sorry.
In here.
- You see all that?"- Yep, I see it."
"In front of the hedge, there's a lot of weeds here."
Just toss them to the side.
Jesus Christ…
What are you doing here?
I heard about your suspension.
I just wanted to come see you...
Toby! What are you doing? Who are you talking to?
"She’s selling Girl Scout cookies, you want any?"
"No, I don’t want any Girl Scout cookies! Get back to work!"
"Yeah, no we don't want any."
My loss.
I just wanted to tell you that what you did...
Thank you.
Toby!
Everything felt different the day I got back from my suspension.
The preppies wanted to get a look at me.
They were curious.
Who wouldn't be - by the time I got back to campus I'd heard the stories.
"I had blown a cloud of ganja smoke into Mr. Gaines' face,"
pushed him out of the room and told him to fuck off.
"None of it was true, but it took some of the heat off of me."
The preppies were appeased.
Hey. Can I-- can I get a minute?
"We should go. If not, Stan and Fred will get the best eppets..."
Yeah. I’ll be right there.
"Okay, Tobs."
"Take it easy, Zorro."
What's up?
"Uh - listen, I just wanted to thank you for what happened."
"I mean, look man, I would’ve stuck around with you..."
but the thing is I have already have one strike against me
and with the two-strike rule around here...
Discretion is often the better part of valor.
Are you fucking with me?
What do you mean?
"I mean, you’re a local bumpkin and all,"
but sometimes-- sometimes I get the feeling that you’re from far away.
"Hey, a bunch of are gonna meet up on the golf course after check-in."
You up for that?
"I mean, one more strike for either of us and it’s..."
Behind the green on the seventh hole.
Midnight.
Don’t be a pussy.
"""Don't be a pussy."""
The truth was…
I wasn't afraid of anything.
Except losing her.
"I don't know, my mom said she saw on the news"
"that like, if you do this once you'll get addicted."
Your mom’s a cunt.
Her mom loves you.
LAURA My mom doesn’t love anybody.
I’m guessing you haven't done this before.
"Come on, Tobs."
It’s not gonna hurt.
Isn’t that amazing?
Oh you feel good. You feel really good!
Laura's gonna get addicted!
LAURA-No I'm not!- You're gonna get addicted!
Shut up!
"Something you could do everyday, right?"
They way you talk is like--
it's like perfect.
It's exactly how I'm feeling.
BEN-Classic.- Turn that fucking thing off.
Why is it so hard to get?
Because everybody wants it.
"Yeah man, you need like-- you need real connections to get this shit."
I can probably get some more.
Yeah? From who?
Your bros in New Haven?
They wouldn’t sell you anything more
than some stepped on fucking Tide.
Those aren’t my only connections.
"Come on, man."
"I mean, you’ll never get your hands on good coke."
If anybody can get it Toby can.
"I'm the bad guy, huh?"
Pussycat! Pussycat! Pussycat!
Come’ere Pussycat!
Where are you going?
It's freezing! What!
LAURA Don't worry. He’s from Maine.
You're crazy!
With the balls of a Polar Bear!
It really makes you think. You know?
It makes me stop thinking.
Oh my god!
Hey Ben! How big are those Polar bear balls right about now?
"Come on, Flipper! Get in!"
I love you…
I know you do.
Where have you been?
- I was at school.- Doing what?!
- Homework.- You-- hold on.
You want us to believe you were doing homework? Your hair’s wet.
"You know, I'm finally making the kind of friends"
you guys want me to make and now he’s giving me a hard time.
Doing what? What were you doing?
I was studying. With some friends.
MIKE-That’s a load of Malarky. "- Were you, Tobias?"
"Yeah, I said I was alright. Now stay out of my fucking business!"
MIKE-Hey! Hey!- What?!
You don’t speak to your mother like that.
You understand?
We have every right to ask where you've been.
You just got suspended.
Look you can't-- you just can't afford this kind of trouble.
"Then again, we can’t really afford anything, right."
No money. No connections. A pretender. A poser.
That's all I was.
DENNIS (OS)- Hello?"- Dennis, hey."
DENNIS "Hey man, what's going on?"
Hey man. I need your help.
Yo.
Hey.
Oh shit - what happened?
"Next time, I’ll just hide the money first."
You alright?
Yeah. I'm okay.
Good. Here.
Thanks.
What’s this?
It's the coke.
- What?- Yeah. I stole it from them.
DENNIS-Fucking pricks!- Dennis!
Oh my god!
- Thank you so much.- Yeah.
Oh god.
Okay. Will you go in there? I need you to do something for me.
Anything.
Here. You look like a badass!
That's it?
That's it.
DENNIS-Alright.- Okay. Let's do it.
"Alright, so it’s about half an eight ball."
Each line is a hundred bucks.
Or you can do the whole thing for five hundred.
Fuck you. Fuck you and your mother.
You can get half an eight ball in this town for two hundred!
Okay. Then go get it.
You can see what my associate went through to make the purchase.
"Well you know what, I'll take the whole ball."
PREP #1I’ll take the whole thing for five fifty.
Six hundred.
We can divvy up the lines.
No. I’ll take the whole thing for seven hundred.
"Okay, wait - hold on."
Going once?
Going twice?...
Seven hundred to Ellis - if he gives me the money.
"Easy, man. I mean, we’re all-- we're all friends here."
That's okay. Yeah. just give me the cash.
It's a pleasure doing business with you.
Yeah… no problem.
"Come on, let's go."
"See you, Flip."
Get out.
PREP #1This is my room…
We gotta get more of this shit!
So what's it like in Colombia?
"Cartagena, where my family is from, is beautiful."
- Come with me.- Really?
Fidel was constantly talking about Colombia.
"Fidel, from Sage Hall, I think I told you about him,"
invited me to go to Colombia with him.
- And his family.- Colombia?
MIKE"- Pretty far away, kiddo."- It's not a safe place to travel.
So-- is it true there's a lot of cocaine down there?
"There's so much of it, some people use it as currency."
"In Tenaris, that's how it is."
We don't know his family.
Well his dad is an ambassador.
An ambassador…
A door was open.
I decided to go through it.
"How much is the ticket, Toby?"
"Oh, he offered to pay for it."
What would you say if we went down there and tried to pick up a little bit?
What?
"You know, just enough to party with."
You mean with Ellis and the guys...
…and Alex?
"Well yeah - and you too, if we can get some."
You said yourself you want to hang out with them
and they're all over that shit.
(PRELAP)Well - if his parents are okay with it.
We are too.
We needed to raise money. A lot of it.
So I started making my rounds.
(VO)- Ellis…- Count me in.
Ben. Laura.
That's my parents' donation.
Alex.
Put it to good use.
Everyone put money into the first trip.
We had almost $3000.
I did my research on Colombia.
Even stayed up late to watch a Nightline on the drug war.
"The drug cartels had huge amounts of money,"
weapons and influence.
Journalists and politicians were killed.
Kidnapping and chaos could pop off anywhere.
I knew what I was walking into but I didn't care.
Honestly - I was excited.
So are you going to help me with this?
"I mean, just tell me where I can get it."
WOMAN’S VOICE Breakfast is ready! Come!Spanishsubtitled
Fidel's house was pretty much a palace.
Servants. Bodyguards.
I'd never seen anything like it.
How much?
VENDOR"20,000 pesos."Spanishsubtitled
"Maria, that's too much."Spanishsubtitled
"No, just tell me how much it is. I want to get it. It’s a gift."
- For who?- For Alex.
"As the ambassador, Fidel's father was pretty strict about where he let us go."
There were only a few tourist spots that he thought were safe for me.
He sent a bodyguard to keep an eye on our every move.
MARIA"For 18,000 it's yours."Spanishsubtitled
"15,000 pesos."Spanishsubtitled
MARIAThis is a piece of high quality.Spanishsubtitled
FIDEL'S FATHER Never leave him alone anywhere. Understand?
"Pay attention, young man. You have a friend here."Spanishsubtitled
MARIA"I can give it to you for 18,000."Spanishsubtitled
BODYGUARD"No… for 15,000, c'mon."Spanishsubtitled
BODYGUARD"15,000. That's it."Spanishsubtitled
No. Gracias.
"El Borde, The Edge."
One of Colombia's most notorious drug Barrios.
"Una cerveza, por favor.""(A beer, please.)"Spanishnot subtitled
Thanks.
Hola.
Yo no hablo españolSpanishnot subtitled
JORGE"What do you want, gringo?"
Do you know where I can find…
cocaina?
Si or no.
JORGEI can get you whatever you want.
Okay. Half a kilo.
JORGEThree thousand.
Yeah. Okay.
JORGEYou have the money?
"Yeah. Yeah, I got the money."
JORGEShow.
Show the cocaina.
JORGE"""Show the cocaina."" Okay…"
Okay. I'll show you the cocaine.
I'll show you the cocaine right away!
JORGE"Where is it, gringo!?"
RAOULLeave him.
Get him up.
"C'mon, beat it."Spanishsubtitled
RAOULYou know you should be dead right now?
RAOULThat was smart.
But not that smart.
Why didn’t you just keep it?
Or kill me?
RAOULThat is not my business.
I am not a thief.
Now cocaina - that's my business.
And you are Americano.
I love Americans. You're full of opportunities.
And you make me laugh. Come.
RAOUL It's okay.
RAMON (PRELAP)"I don't care what you want, he's a boy!"
RAMONAnd Manuel was supposed to protect him--
"Dad, don't blame it on Manuel… he looked all over Cartagena."Spanishsubtitled
RAMON"I don't care, son."Spanishsubtitled
"Look, I'm sorry. It was my fault."
I went off on my own and then these guys just came out of nowhere.
The jumped me and took all my money
"and by the time I came back, Fidel and Manuel were already gone."
MANUEL"Please understand, the kid was so fast."Spanishsubtitled
RAMONThank God nothing happened to him.Spanishsubtitled
FIDEL (PRELAP)It was a really stupid idea.
I don't ever want to lie to my parents like that again.
Yeah...
- You left this.- Huh?
I talked her down to almost nothing.
Thanks.
AGENT Passport please.
Countries visited?
Colombia.
AGENT Purpose for your trip?
My friend has some family down there so we were just visiting them
and seeing the country.
Which was great.
AGENTDid you buy anything you are bringing back into the States?
Um... just this.
AGENTSo what did you do in Colombia?
What did I do in Colombia?
What did I do in Colombia…
AGENT (PRELAP)What did you do in Colombia?
I--
I lost my virginity...
AGENT"Musta been quite a trip, kid."
Yeah. Thanks.
Campus was empty.
Not everyone was back from the long weekend yet.
That was my favorite time at Sage. When the students were gone.
Rather than spend another weekend with her housekeeper
Alex never left.
I think she liked the solitude.
Hey.
"Look, I got you something."
What are you doing here?
- I thought you would like it. - Yeah--
That's okay. You don’t like it.
What's wrong?
I can't believe you did it…
Yeah. Of course.
An eighth of a key.
You ever seen that much?
"That’s some Midnight Express shit, man."
"Yeah, but he didn’t get caught."
"What the fuck are we waiting for, am I right?"
I'm just going to take a little bump - see what we're working with.
Let's see here…
Well?
How is it?
It's pure… there's nothing in it…
What do you mean?
"I mean they usually mix this shit with lactose, soap, baking soda-but this…"
this… this is unique…
You guys realize how many schools there are
in a twenty-mile radius from here?
"What, you're not thinking about selling this shit are you?!"
"Why not? I mean, you took your share, the rest is mine."
I can do what I want with it.
"Look, I'll buy the rest then. How about that?"
Okay. Do you have the money?
"Well look man, I can't give it to you right now"
but I just need a little bit of time.
That's what I thought.
"I'm sorry, man. Time's up you know."
Fuck!
Just a second. Just a second.
Who is it?
It's the King of Mexico.
"Yeah, tell him to come in."
Hey guys.
"Hey, Fidel."
You ready to party?
What is it?
What's it look like?
Oh god.
"Toby, where the fuck's he going?! Toby!"
Hey. Hey. What's wrong?
You made me look like an idiot!
Look I just-- I never thought you'd make it through customs.
"I thought this is what you wanted, you know."
Just hanging out with all of us.
- You can be a part of that--- I don't want any part of this!
I am Colombian. Don't you understand?
I can not be involved in dealing cocaine!
Hey - shh! Just calm down.
So now you're just some kind of drug dealer?!
Shut the fuck-- shut the fuck up!
Shut the fuck up.
My father was right. Americans just use people for what you want!
"You know, it must be easy to be so self-righteous"
when you’re as rich as a king...
"You're never going to have her, Toby."
No matter how hard you try. She's going to use you up and spit you out.
Stop - it's not your fault.
MIKE We went through this. We went through this!
Twenty-five hundred dollars - it's nothing. He could give that to you.
It would mean a lot to us--
MIKE No. No.
MIKE (OS)- Just stop.- Then ask him for a loan.
MIKE-He's my kid brother.- What do you have to be proud of?
You got me there…
One hundred and twenty-five grams.
One eighth of a key.
The deal I made with the preppies that for risking my neck in Colombia
I kept half - or sixty-two grams for myself.
The purity of the coke I had was medical grade.
Ellis was right. This shit was unique.
Raoul schooled me on how to cut my share in half with lactose
to double my money.
"I set out to make fifty dollars a gram, or six thousand dollars total."
"Word spread fast, and the orders came rolling in."
I had a kid from every team playing away games
spread the word last weekend.
That’s at least six schools.
"Hey man, I don't know why you're going through all this trouble."
"I mean, I got the money. I can just buy it all myself."
CHUCKI know a place where you can get double what Ellis would pay.
For the harder I work - the more I live.
CHUCKA bunch of whacked out writers
throw some kinkfests over in Lichtfield.
Now I deal them hash but when I told them about your coke
they said they’d pay anything.
I think the guy is like a Baron or something.
I’ve always wanted to meet royalty.
"I wanted to become like them,"
but in the process I'd become something even better.
I was their dealer.
I exerted a level of control over them that I never even imagined.
I didn't need an invite to any of their parties.
I was the party.
CHUCKThis is the kid I told you about.
MOUSTACHEChuck here tells me that you have some of the finest flake
in the Northern hemisphere.
How is that even possible?
"How about you show me the money, and I’ll show you how."
MOUSTACHE"A toothful first, perhaps?"
MOUSTACHESomeone's been abroad.
How much do you want?
MOUSTACHEI’ll take whatever you've got.
MOUSTACHECome through to the lounge.
I'll attend to your money.
Toby?
So what are you going to do?
"I like you, Toby."
You’re very smart.
And you seem like a good person.
So listen me closely.
You need to be careful.
"Very, very careful."
"Because if this thing goes wrong,"
you won't have the same out as anyone else involved.
Do you understand?
Yeah.
You and I never saw each other.
We never saw each other.
That was fine with me.
I was sure that in his mind he thought that was the end of it.
But I was determined to sell it all.
And do what little right I could with it.
Dearest Ingrid.
Please accept this with a humble request:
that you not let Mike know that I have sent this money along.
"Deepest Regards, Your Brother-in-Law, Todd Hammel."
This is the last of it.
Where are you coming from?
English Lit.
I had to recite a poem in front of the class.
- Can I hear it? - No.
"- Please, I really want to hear it."- No you don't.
- Come on.- No.
"You have it memorized right? Come on, let's do it. I'm listening."
This is your stage.
Oh god.
"""When I have fears that I may cease to be"
"Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,"
"Before high-pilèd books, in charactery,"
Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain;
"When I behold, upon the night’s starred face,"
"Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,"
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows with the magic hand of chance;
"And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,"
"That I may never look upon thee more,"
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love—then on the shore
"Of the wide world I stand alone, and think"
"From love and fame to nothingness do sink."""
That was good.
I'm serious.
A bunch of us are going to Ellis' place in the city next weekend.
They have a place on Fifth Ave.
And his parents are just cool with that?
Yeah. his parents give even less of a shit than my parents do.
"You know, if you got more coke Ellis might let you come."
Yeah. I can get more.
How?
I’ll just go back.
Think you guys can figure out a way to cover for me?
"Yeah, that's easy."
Ellis has this whole system for how to change the attendance sheets.
"Yeah, I can be back in thirty-six hours."
"You are a mad genius Hammel, you know that?"
When everybody heard that I was going back to Colombia
students crowded into the day lounge placing orders.
At one point there were so many I had to make them form a line.
Will you at least be in a tent?
"Yeah. I mean, it’s a ropes course. Not boot camp."
- Good luck.- Thank you.
- Bye! - Bye.
My mom thought I had to go on a leadership retreat.
Careful.
But the truth was I had thirty-six hours to catch a flight to Colombia
"arrange a meeting with Raoul,"
Make that buy and get back to Sage Hall by the end of the weekend…
"All the while making sure to avoid being robbed, beaten or killed."
BARTENDERIt's for you.
Hola!?
Raoul!?
I'm here to see Raoul.
RAOUL"Welcome, you came back!"Spanish /subtitled
RAOUL"Let's have some fun before we do business, yes?"
RAOUL"Here, sit down."Spanish /subtitled
PEDRO My friend.
Is this moron your contact?Spanish /subtitled
RAOULAmericans always bring opportunities.Spanish /subtitled
RAOUL"You like this place? It's like New York City, si?"
Si. Yeah.
RAOULWait till you see what I've got lined up for tomorrow night.
"Oh, well I actually have to leave tomorrow."
RAOUL-Why?- Because I have school…
PEDROThis idiot is still in school!Spanish /subtitled
PEDROYou want to do a line?
"I'll do one with you - you've done this before, right?"
With your girlfriend?
Yeah. Yeah.
RAOULAh - there is a girlfriend!
Is she blonde or brunette?
RAOUL- Uh - blonde."- Ah, rubia!"Spanishnot subtitled
RAOUL- What's rubia?- Blonde…
Yeah. Rubia!
Okay.
RAOUL"- It's good, huh?"- Yeah.
RAOULTalk to me about this girlfriend of yours.
RAOUL"- Well, she's not really my girlfriend--"- Why?!
Well we go to this school with a bunch of really rich-- she's really rich
"And I don't have a lot of money, my family doesn't have a lot of money."
RAOUL-No?- So I think
maybe I feel like maybe there's some other guys at school
that can afford a lot of stuff and support her more than I could--
I couldn't stop talking.
RAOULYou will be rich!
What do you mean?
I think I said too much…
Raoul gave me coke and didn't even count my money.
It wasn't like in the movies
where a bunch of guys sit around with guns glaring at each other.
It was a simple transaction.
Raoul made it kind of fun…
CLAYTON (PRELAP)So Ricardo’s most famous idea was his theory of advantage.
he believed that if every nation specialized in the production of goods
"it had a cost advantage in producing,"
then trade between nations would be at its most efficient.
"Now, can anyone think of any examples?"
- Sarah?- Wine from France?
Good try. But I don’t think they have a cost advantage anymore.
- Dudley?- Electronics from Japan?
Good one.
Ellis?
Cocaine from Colombia.
It's true.
"Alright everybody, settle down."
My brother Luke told me about this place a couple of years back.
Fake IDs man - and they make them good.
"Hey, Bill! - Alright, you're Charles Dobbs."
John Hellkanas.
Jessie Miller.
It's so good!
You got your hair in my face.
Oh come on. Oh come on…
Does it taste good?
It tastes delicious.
You got your hair in my face.
Hey!
Delicious. Delicious!
The finest four star rest--
"What? What are you doing, man?"
You're so goddamn comfortable!
"Yeah, of course."
Get up there.
You're so goddamn comfortable!
"And so are you, aren't you."
"- What's up, man?"- You trying to make a fucking play?!
Is that what you're trying to do? Make a fucking play?!
On what? What are you talking about?
"Fuck you, Hammel! I've been seeing this."
- I've been seeing this goddam--- What?
Stop fucking pawing on him like you're a goddamn whore!
"- Hey man, don't call her that--"- You've fucking loved me for a long time.
- Don't fucking act--- Stop - what the fuck are you talking about?
I saw you dancing and smiling--
"- Yeah, like everybody else was doing.""- That's the sort of thing you do, right?"
- Yeah?- Is that what you're fucking trying to do?
Why are you being like this?
What do you mean why am I being like this?!
"We're just having fun, man."
"Come on, yeah. We're just having a good time."
- We're having a good time…- Ellis!
- We're having fun…- Don’t make it weird.
I'm not making it weird. You know what?
Let's just all have fun - fuck each other.
- Act like a bunch of fucking animals.- What are you talking about?!
- I have no fucking respect! - What are you talking about?!
Right! Right! Yeah!
- Let's have a fucking ball!- Yes.
Let's have a fucking good time.
"- Right? We're just having fun, right?"- Yeah!
- Right?!- Yeah!
"Yeah, we're gonna have a great time!"
We're gonna have a great time!
- Great time!- Great time!
- What are you doing?- Let's have some fun!
- Ellis--- Stop!
What?
"Ellis, what the fuck is wrong with you?!"
Calm the fuck down!
Calm down!
You could have killed somebody!
"Don't you ever hit me, okay. Don't ever hit."
Don't hit me.
"Hey, hey, hey - whoa - what the fuck, man?!"
- Hey! Hey!- Stop!
- Don't fucking try--- Just calm the fuck down.
"Calm the fuck down, okay?"
Jesus Christ…
- Alright.- Fuck!
Just calm the fuck down.
"Hey man, I'm just trying to have some fun. Come on."
I-- I didn't-- I didn't mean that…
"I was just, uh…"
This was…
- I'm sorry.- I know.
- I know. - Don't be scared of me.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm-- very sorry.
For everything.
- Are you okay? - Yeah.
Are you sure?
It happens…
You're okay.
"I better go look after Ellis, okay?"
- You want me to go with you?- No!
No!
Okay…
- Just let me do one fucking line!-No. Stop!
"Come on, you've had enough."
Fuck you.
"God, you can be such a fucking prick!"
I'm so sorry…
I'm so-- I'm so sorry…
I'm such a fucking idiot. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
I realized I had nothing.
All I had was my coke and suddenly I was nothing more
"than a servant to a bunch of sad, rich orphans."
STUDENTI was wondering if you could hook me up this weekend.
I’ve got money...
"Not here, man."
- I'm not kidding.- Not here!
Fuck…
"- Hey, Toby…"- Fuck!
Shit!
I can't…
- Oh come on…"- You're not looking so hot, Toby."
I've just been fighting this cold--
I mean you look strung out.
We need to get more.
"I don't think Flipper's up for the task, you know."
Then why don't you get it?
How the fuck am I supposed to do that?
"Go to Colombia and buy it, just like Toby did."
You've been travelling to Colombia - is that where you've been getting it?
- Why? Do you want some more?- No! I want this to stop. Now!
- Yeah?- Yes!
"- Okay, ""Dad""!"- I want to know how big this is!
- How many people know?- You could go with him.
Are you insane?
Do you think I'm going to go to Colombia with Toby?
Well that'd be a bowl of fun.
Maybe I will.
"You're such a fucking hypocrite, man."
You are going to go to prison.
And you will be the only one.
Do you have any idea that your life would be completely destroyed
if you got caught?
But you're okay with toby risking his life because he's the mule.
- Right?- You got to stop!
No! Don't fucking touch me!
Don't fucking touch me!
Leave me alone.
I don't fucking care if he's a walrus.
You're not going.
Whatever you say.
Mr. Jennings didn't wait to see how big it was.
He packed up and resigned.
I wasn't his project.
I was his liability.
The school infirmary said I was having a panic attack
and called my mother - I have never been so happy to see Ingrid.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you."
- And you are?- I'm Alex.
"It's really nice to meet you, Mrs. Hammel."
Did you mention it to her yet?
Mention what?
Don’t worry we’re not getting married.
- She’s joking.- You could do a lot worse.
"That's really nice of you, Mrs. Hammel. Thank you."
You must be so proud of Toby.
He’s pretty much taken over Sage Hall…
"Yeah… we'll see you tomorrow, Alex."
Toby wants to ask if he can join me in Pal Beach for thanksgiving.
Palm Beach…
"No, I'm gonna be home-- I'm gonna be home for Thanksgiving."
My dad really wants to meet him
and the Thurmond kids are gonna be there so it's gonna be really fun.
- Thurmond?- Strom Thurmond
Senator of South Carolina. He and Daddy are really close.
Oh… Wow.
"Thank you, Alex, but I just don't feel like making any… trips…"
right now.
I got a lot of homework to do before finals.
Why don't I talk to toby's father about it.
But the expense of it probably makes it out of the question.
"Oh, don't worry. The tickets are"totally free.
Daddy has more frequent flyer miles than he knows what to do with.
Well it was really lovely to meet you.
- You too. Bye.- Bye.
What?
Sorry - Palm Beach…
Wow…
She wanted me to go.
She encouraged it.
She even used the money I had sent her to buy me a gift for the trip.
"Mom, you can't afford this."
Yes I can.
Go with your girlfriend. Enjoy yourself.
I made the call.
I combined our rooms and got us the honeymoon suite.
She was fucking with me.
Alex toyed with people.
I didn't care…
Thanks.
Play me something.
- Seriously?- Yeah.
I'm not very good.
Come on.
What’s that?
It’s a song.
Really?
(SINGING)Sometimes
Just to be with you
Would be all I need
Then I'd have everything
Everything I could ever need
Just to be with you
Would be all I need
Just to see you smile
Would make it all worthwhile…
"Alex, I--"
It's okay. I know.
Is that good?
Yeah.
That's probably the dealer.
Let it ring.
"No, I can't."
Hello?
"Yes, hi."
Uh-huh. In two hours? Okay.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm ready."
Where do they want to meet us?
Us?
Raoul wanted me to meet him
at a party he ran near his place in El Forde.
RAOULWait over there.Spanishsubtitled
RAOULWelcome.
You got my money?
Yeah - do you have the stuff?
RAOUL Same old Gringo.
But this time you brought a woman.
You didn't tell me she was so sexy.
Come. I don't walk around with three kilos.
Let's have some fun.
I think you're going to enjoy this party.
Raoul brought us to his twenty-four hour party
while he went off to get the coke.
He said it was all there for us - whatever we wanted.
Where's Raoul?
The guy who owns this place.
The guy who owns this house - where did he go?
Does anyone know? Does anyone know where Raoul is?
"Fuck, I have to find Raoul--"
Come on - come on!
"Get off - no. No, I can't--"
Raoul?
RAOUL It's an American family with a lot of money.Spanishsubtitled
PEDRO"Who are you talking about, Raoul?"Spanishsubtitled
RAOULThe blonde girl.Spanishsubtitled
PEDROThe blonde girl?Spanishsubtitled
RAOULThat's easy money to get.Spanishsubtitled
PEDROYou can't do this.
This is a ridiculous plan.
"My friend, you're not authorized."
In the last kidnapping it was your fault.
You need to understand this!Spanishsubtitled
Time to go!
Come on! Come on!
This way!
KIDNAPPERMy friend.
Have you seen an American around here?Spanishsubtitled
"Hi Calista, is Alex home?"
CALISTA "No, Mr. Ellis."
Will you be expecting her home soon?
CALISTA "No, Mr. Ellis."
ELLIS Why not? Where is she?
CALISTA No se. She said she was spending the break with a friend.
May I use your phone?
Toby...
Get rid of it.
- What?- Right before--
"Before we land, go to the bathroom and get rid of it."
Why?
I have a terrible feeling.
I don’t want any part of this…
"We don't need it, Toby."
And what about Ellis?
What about him?
Please - get rid of it.
- Please…- That's what you want?
Yes.
"Yes, hello. I'd like to speak with Dr. Fielding."
"Yes, it's Ellis Tynes."
It's important.
Okay.
Yeah…
Excuse me. I need to use the restroom.
Come on…
Okay…
- Is everything okay? - Yeah.
Thank you.
- This one?- Yeah.
Tobias Hammel?
- Yeah?- DEA.
"Come with us, please."
Can you please tell me what-- what's going on?
Just gonna take a little look through your things.
- Stay here.- What's going on?
You are under arrest for the possession of narcotics.
You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can and will be used against you...
- Toby!- …in a court of law.
"Toby, what is-- what's going on?!"
Let go of me!
Let's take him.
Toby!
Prep Student Busted For Dealing Cocaine
They’re saying he’s going to be tried as an adult.
He’s going to do anything he can to get himself out of this!
"He's gonna rat us out, Ellis. All of us."
Doesn’t matter.
How can you be so fucking casual about this?
Don't you know that if fielding finds out--
if he finds out we're in on this we're fucked!
Doesn’t matter.
Why not?
Because the Headmaster already knows.
"And how does the Headmaster already know, Ellis?"
I covered our asses.
You covered our asses?
What does that mean?
I told him what Toby was doing.
Got the DEA involved so it’s a criminal matter.
It’s on him.
You ratted Toby out?
It was you…
You fucking scumbag.
"Hey man, look,"
we’ll get off with no more than suspensions. Okay?
It's gonna be cool.
What about Alex?
What the fuck…
My parents are going to shit.
There goes fucking Yale.
"You were never Yale material, Benny."
- Laura.- Get away from me!
No! Leave me alone!
Manic cunt!
"We understand the defendant’s lack of any record,"
"and his young age, Your Honor,"
but we believe the amount of the illegal substance seized
is significant enough to withhold bail.
I was being charged with federal drug trafficking.
Word of what I had done had spread across the country.
And after 60 minutes picked up the story it was a national scandal.
"Hi, Mary - I need to speak with my mom please."
I don't care if she's in a meeting - I need you to go get her.
I--
It's really important.
"Hey, have you seen Laura?"
No one was safe now.
There was nowhere to hide.
Okay. Okay. Can I talk to my dad?
- Headmaster Fielding."- Hi, Ed Bradley from 60 minutes."
"I have a few questions for you I'd like you to answer, do you have a minute?"
He had no idea how many students and schools were involved.
The scope of it was overwhelming.
I'm not answering any questions concerning this issue.
It's under investigation. We're looking at the facts.
No.
No message…
The press was in a frenzy.
I brought the scourge of cocaine into the midst of America's
most privileged progeny.
The white kids were in danger.
But this is a major investigation.
- You have a good day.- Dr. Fielding--
Dr. Fielding--
Everybody was feeling it.
Trying to stay ahead of what was about to happen.
But not everyone could outrun it.
Laura disappeared for two days.
"Ben searched everywhere for her, but…"
…he wasn't the one who found her.
"You fuck-- you killed her, you fuck!"
Fuck you!
We're going to get you out.
This judge - he want's to teach you a lesson.
And our attorney is hopeful
that after a little time he might grant bail.
We'll have to put up the house to cover it--
Okay.
I'm sorry…
You're going to have to make a full confession.
You give him the names of everyone that's involved
and you might be able to get some years back.
"Toby, did you hear me?"
It was me…
It was all me.
"I bought it, I smuggled it in,"
I brought it to Sage and ten other schools--
"Stop it! Stop it, right this instant!"
Laura died because of me…
No.
Where's Alex?
Alex?
Who's Alex?
It's the girl. He's asking about the girl.
Her father made a deal.
If she stays in South Carolina she will not be extradited.
Do you see the difference between us and them?!
That's enough. That's enough.
The difference between us and them…
- She's okay?- Yes.
Yes.
I had understood that a long time ago.
I saw it. I had measured it in grams.
But I don't think Ingrid ever understood it.
Why didn't you dump it?
I'm sorry…
- I have to go.- Toby…
- Don't go yet--"- I'm sorry, Mom. I have to go."
No more lies.
Only medical grade truth now.
Mike and Ingrid split up.
Ingrid felt someone had to be responsible
for the monster I'd become.
Ellis and Ben got expelled with a whole bunch of people.
But Ellis' pre-ordained path to Pat wasn't altered one bit.
Ben never got over Laura and I heard he dropped out of the whole scene.
It was my fault. All of it.
When I look back at it now I have this funny feeling
of remembering it all while it was happening.
Like a dream I couldn't stop until I got to the end.
Until I got caught.
"And I know I am supposed to feel bad and tell everyone I'm sorry,"
"and I am - for everything,"
but the truth is - I miss it.
Everything. Everyone.
Even Ellis.
I miss the moment I had with her.
And that's all I'll ever have.
Because I never saw Alex again.
Directed ByJoseph Castelo
Written byAshley Rudden Joseph Castelo
"Last spring, a student at one of America's most prestigious prep schools,"
"Choate Rosemary Hall,"
was arrested by police at Kennedy airport
"as he was returning with $300,000 worth of cocaine."
"With a lot of drug youth, there were certain rooms where people would go"
to smoke or to drink
the dorms would usually be drug dorms - or not drug dorms.
Or drinking dorms and not drinking dorms.
"I assume that you, no more than I,"
wish to be identified with the newspaper language
used to indict us all.
"""Spoiled preppies. Too much privilege."
Too much cash. Adolescent pawns for criminals.
"Self-centered elites."""
"With at least twice as much money collected from even more students,"
he would once again board a plane with the cocaine hidden
but this time his luck was about to run out.
I picked up my bags and started to walk towards the check-out booth
and immediately we were stopped by someone with a badge--
What did you think when they put those cuffs on you?
I felt really destroyed.
"I felt completely at their mercy, I mean--"
five minutes before I thought I was on top of the world
and I was all set and nothing was going to get to me.
Then five minute slater I had no power.
Produced byJoseph CasteloBilly RafteryJoseph Mensch
Produced byCarlo SirtoriCharlie BuntingEric SchultzAdam Folk
Executive ProducersThomas McManusand Octavius Prince
Executive ProducersAndrew Kelleyand Marisol Page
Co-ProducerTravis Burgess
Associate ProducersWayne MagginStephen Rodriguez
Original Music bySam Bisbee
Music SupervisorsJoseph RudgeKyle McKeveny
CinematographerBrett Jutkiewicz
EditorGiacomo Ambrosini
Production Designer Sara K. White
Costume Designer Amit Gajwani
Casting DirectorsSig De Miguel and Stephen Vincent
Thomas Mann
Lucy Fry
Logan Huffman
Sam Page
Robert Gorrie
Dylan Blue
Jessica Rothe
Guillermo Arribas
Hemky Madera
With Amy Hargreaves
And Bill Sage