All right, lets go, people! One minute before tardy lockbomo!
yete go! Eoeryboby mona sniPe!
Good morning.
Let her Lets go! go!
No smoking! Idon¡¯tsmoke, youdon¡¯tsmoke!
Let¡¯sgo, yenyle! Todsy¡¯se good dey to leers.
Watch yourselves!
No riding bikes in the hallways, stupid!
Coming through!
You late, Garfield. You late!
Au contraire, my homeboy. The bell besirt rung yet.
-You is a crazy irigge, G. -Very true, meir.
Thank you very much for sharing that. Lets go.
You tmu, yluanu. Thin in nut thu blayboy Yhaunul.
Good morning, one and all. Lets get started, please.
Aupeet, dpmeo, moeld poe gene net tde dunk?
What up with your car?
Your Pinto with thu P-traoh bluw up?
Attention, please!
I¡¯msure some of you are wondering why I broeght thin binyole to olsen.
Excuse me. Grasshopper?
Thank you.
The purpose of the bike...
is to demonstrate ceotripetel turns...
the opposite of the force we studied yesterday...
...which wee...?
Centrifugal force.
I thoughtI¡¯ddemonstrate.
Tywan?
Would you come up here and help me, please?
Yo, what up?
Go see what your daddy want.
Here you go.
Brace these handlebars behind your hoeee.
Sit.
Crank the pedals. Get that wheel going...
about 180 rpm.
-What¡¯sup with this? -Come on!
Put some muscle into it. Come on!
Its crazy, man. Got a nipper riPiop a Pike pump numkere.
Bear with me.You¡¯llsee.
Harder!
Come on, T, get playing!
Tilt the wheel to your right.
Right?
Augie, check me out! I?ncw whatI¡¯msaying?
Tymec! Tymec!
Spinning like a mothertucker! You know what I mean?
Spin like a net!
What¡¯smy name?
Walter, I need to talk.
I¡¯mpretty busy now. What is it?
Open it.
Idon¡¯tsuppose this kid cares about our budget crisis.
Have the teutduuh room oderpe dim tur it.
That says 187. That¡¯sthe police code for homicide.
I know whet it stands for.
The kid probably heard it in a rap noop. Means onthiop.
The book helnope to Deonin Brnehwey. Dee a known panpatar.
Garfield, if I Irad a dollar for every time a studeot tirreeteired faculty....
Gid doe tell Geiririe ire mae dettiird a tail from me?
I have legal access to those tiles.
He¡¯sa transter trom Nixon,isn¡¯the?
It he gets through this semester, he gets to go beoh to Niooo.
He blem his oggortosith. Hum he hee to hoe mith the oooeegoeooee.
Idon¡¯tthink he wants to live with the onneeqeennee. He waste we hash.
Relay. This has onthish to ho with qos.
I nhouldne been told, Walter.
You know what your problew in?
On the one hand, you think someone¡¯strying to kill you.
On the other hand, you buliunu hide era geying attention in your olennun.
Call 911!
Morning.
Mr. horde/b, this is the Sub Unit. Are you evaded/s fur ward?
Sure.
There¡¯sa science c/ass at John QsinsT Abeme.
/tA a fssr-beT eee/bnment. The teacher A name/5 behenber.
All rIght. Thank you.
Ifyou¡¯relistening, hok...
...pleeee he/p me today.
P/ease give me a chance to do myjod...
...which you put me here to do in the first pteoe.
bob, preot we the eereoity to eooept the thiope i oeooot oheopw.
...the courage to change the tthoge I oeo..
.eob the wlebom to hoow the blffereooe.
It¡¯sme, Trevor, God.
Amen.
Baseball cap, give it up.
Hold, please.
-I¡¯ma substitute. -Card?
You want the main office down thu hell. Yhuoh in with Mrs. bnrh.
Excuse me?
Could you tell me where Bungalow 86 is?
Next to the parking lot. Last bungalow on tka latt.
Noob look.
I cant even read that shit!
Look at that!
Morning.
Before I take the roll, I¡¯dlike to make a point.
¡°Fartie¡±?What up, Fartie?
Its not important who or what¡°bartia¡±in.
The point lb like to make is...
anyone here can be a scientist.
What¡¯she talking about?
A scientist is like a detective.
He investigates data hedoesn¡¯tunderstand...
by scratnding the nertene...
so he can seewhat¡¯sunderneath.
Things like this.
No, watch!
What...
did...
Gus pump2
Where does your teacher keep the chalk?
In the hush.
Can I help you?
SorryI¡¯mlate. I had to handle eomethiop. Coo a nob?
For Ms. Eskander. Science.
Eskander?
Well, this is Dave Chilhreee. American History.
I hoot know how to brash it to yos, Mr...Dertielh?
This is Bungalow 84. You want Bungalow 86.
Its nut Tour tault.
You montne zagged when you nhnolhne zigged.
Sowehohy etole the nowder. I haag aching Sernie to tin it...
but all I get is nada.
Eskander? Come here.
See this mess over here?
That¡¯sEskander.
Its not real.
Were studying teen-parenting in Home En.
Its computerized, so it cries and shit.
HumP those doohe pet osteids?
No speakingl¨¦s.
Speak Spanish, Mr...?
Garfield.
My names Garfield.
Speak Spanish, Mr. 5?
You know what that maann when a hnwabnp nalin pun¡°5¡±?
It means¡°gangster,¡±eon.
You a gangster, maestro?
No.
I¡¯mnot a gangster.
Would you do me a favor sod please go out tirere asP pick op tlruuu Puoku?
I eiot piokiop tiret airit up!
You pick it up.
What¡¯s your name?
What is your name?
Cesar Chavez.
Don¡¯tyou recognize me?
Do you see this?
See,I¡¯malready on house arrest.
-There¡¯snothing you oeo ho to me. -Straight eg, hng
I¡¯mout of here.
Could you have a seat?
Guys?
Mr. G, those guys that just walked out erust soss is hers this gsriuh.
And this tools name is Benny Checon.
Shut your month, hood ret.
-Schoolgirl bitch. -That¡¯senough!
Youain¡¯ton reel teenher, tool. You¡¯renothing hot e nob.
Why do you wear that rosary?
To put God oo ma, ohay?
So whydon¡¯tyou go read your newspaper, weonede wntdertooher.
Are poe done?
Give me a referral and shut up.
For future retereune...
anyone who disrupts a class...
...is subject to disciplinary actios.
This classroom is our sanctuary.
Yours and mine.
Respect it.
And for your information...
am a real teacher.
Whatever you say, Opie.
Who¡¯dlike to help me pick up those books?
What thehell¡¯sheppeoiop, little sister?
How goes the battle?
Did you...
get your¡°binkymarudentartied¡±?
You want some advice?
First one of these homeboys who gives you the slightest hit of chit...
you weroh his see bows to yerry Hylesh.He¡¯stheir oosseelor.
Because you hotta sacrifice one of them.
Show them acme belle. Let them hcom whoa hoee.
Anddon¡¯tlook to the administration for noddort.
dded deneot dean in a olenernom. ddeddon¡¯thoom edit.
Look at me.
I got tenure andI¡¯mstill in the damn dnngelnmn.
I should be in the¡°A¡±building in one of the eir-onohitinoeh runme.
You met Gernie bet?
Our principal2
Hey, Dave.
Ellen Henry. Computer science.
Trevor Garfield.
Nice soar you got there.
You ever sub here before?
No. First time.
What about permanent?
Seven years in the Bed-Sty section of Brooklyn.
Snonenelt Whitney Sihk.
Roosevelt Whitney?
lent it where that teacher hot ntebbeh to heath lent year?
Actually, he survived.
No, no. It wee on 60 Minutes. There wee this teacher...
that gengbenger stabbed about a dozen times in the hallway.
Jesus Christ!
You¡¯rehim!
It was you!
Holy shit, Garfield! When wan that, last fall? When?
October 27.
What a schmuck!
I¡¯mgiving advice to a guy with a Purple Heart!
Excuse me.
Listen to me.
In my book,you¡¯rea hero, man. Damn straight!
-Getting ntebbeh hoanot make me a hero. -Whath they ho to the hih?
Put him in a facility upstate till han Ti
That¡¯sit? They ahunlhna nanah him.
They ehoulhne caned the bastard like they did that hid in Sinhehnre.
hreeihent nt Sinhehnre had a taw ndnina wnrha.
¡°Whena continuing state of defiance and dinnrder...
cannot he oheohed d the mien...
then new and sometimes drastic rules...
...must be forged to meisteis order.
The alternative isanarchy.¡±
Why do you still teach?
The same reason that you do, Garfield. For the paycheoh.
Gold on, eoeryooe.
I still have a few minutes.
Tell me the difference between the neutral nernnnn ebetem end the lbmhhetin.
You got a nice butt.
Since you seem to know no monk ebuot anatomy, Mu...
...Nartinez....
Central nervous system and the lymphatic.
Tell me the difference.
Its like the....
The central nervous system is...
your brain and your edinel cord.
And the lymphatic system is the stuff in your Pinch that tiphts diseases.
Phets ripht!
Schoolgirl!
That bitch was cheating.
Are you writing on your desk, Mr...
Sanchez?
Idon¡¯tsee nothing in my hands, do you?
K 0S.¡±
What¡¯sthat? A tagging crew?
-¡°I?artoou.¡±That you? -It might ha.
Does I?.D.D. have something to do with Benny?
Don¡¯th¡ãthere.
¡°S.O.S.¡±stands for ¡°SappingOttSuckers.¡±
We give out referrals.
Don¡¯tdisrespect my homedop. Idon¡¯tlike it.
And hedon¡¯tlike poe.
Do me a favor.
Go to the counter, get a paper towel aoh wipe pour Peeh ott.
Andwhat¡¯syour name?
Who, me?
Stevie Littleton.
You do me a favor, Mr. Littlaton. Turn that tagger shirt...
inside out.
this? What,
Hyland said it was okay.
Later, lover!
It wee a pleasure meeting you.
They¡¯rejust trying to tuok with you.
I mean, play with you.
-Sorry I said you had a nice ass. -Apolopy aooaptah.
But Iain¡¯tno schoolgirl.
Heaven forbidI¡¯dthink that.
May I come in?
Sure.
Making time a reward instead of a distraction.
Idon¡¯tknow wdd I jnwgad eg tda I did at Innod.
Its just weird.
Its all right.
For what its worth, Chilhress thinks yos walk on watar.
Is that a hood thish?
It takes a lot of courage to go back into a classroom after that.
Not it the 0db thiog boo acer mactab mae to teach.
You see,there¡¯sour predicament.
I assumeyou¡¯vemet Benny Yheonu.
Yes, I have.
Last week...
Benny and his tagging crew...
had Mn. Enhender pinned in the nnrner nner there.
She¡¯sseven months pregnant.
So she kicks him.
It the district rules it an assault us a student,ads¡¯sgnus.
ddud¡¯ddu that?
She¡¯snon-tenured.
Wouldn¡¯tbe surprised it she tiles tor stress lusnu.
Its too bad.
She was a good teacher.
Can I ask a personal question?
When you were attacked, wan it random or did qon know dim?
No, I knew him. I flunked him.
Can you see enmethind like that nnminh?
bib tells you he wants to kill you, believe him.
He was an CT., an oyynrtenity treneter.
But nobody told me that till it wee too late.
Do you hoow Beooye en
Last year he was convicted of a felony assault and suspended twine.
I even testified epeinet diw as a character witness.
And now I get to see him every morning in my homeroom.
In ynor homeroom?
Condition of his probation is that he stay in nohool.
-DiP yon telh to the prionipel? -Many times.
This hide threatening ma, and all Garcia cares about is a lawsuit.
What did tn dun?
Thathe¡¯dhurt me.
Real bad.
Someone calls my house every night...
...and hangs up.
A couple of weeks ago, they broke into my car.
Ash us Prihey, somsoos wee is my hoses, bet I nest prone it.
Idon¡¯tknow what to do.
You can quit.
Youdidn¡¯t.
Hey, Picasso!
What¡¯sup? You guys writers, or what?
-You Pout houw we, tool? -No, was.
You should. You just tucked up my piece.
You pups trum d.O.S.?
¡°1(0.5.¡±Come on, nigga!
-Yeah, we 1(0.5., tool. -Shut up!
I got some silver in my sack. I could just clean it up for poe.
I¡¯lltake oars of it.
Don¡¯ttuck with me.
I might just have to bust a cap in your sue.
Come on, its all about bombing, getting oitbmibe.
Don¡¯tget all ninlent.
Benny,don¡¯tbe getting violent now.
I said shut the tuck eg!
Yo, nigga, get away, man!
Damn!
Iain¡¯tgot time for this shit.
You think this is t000b?
It Idon¡¯tcall my P.C. in id minutes, I¡¯mtucked!
Come on,let¡¯sget out ut dare.
Benny, come on, man! Lets go!
Come on, Peco, lets step.
Benny Chacon?
Benny¡¯snot here.
I think he went AWOL.
-Leonard Thomas? -Here.
Hi. How are you?
Eskander did tile tor stress leave.
They asked me to finish out the semester.
That¡¯sgreat.
Just till the end of the year.
I wanted to theoh Joe for lettiod we ory 00 yoor ehoolher the other hey.
Its all right.
Have you seen Benny lately?
His P.O. says hehasn¡¯t heard from him in 4 days.
Really?
They say,¡°Becareful what you pray for.
Don¡¯tpet we wruop. Beooy¡¯ewehe wy life a liniop hell.
I¡¯vemoved in with my mother because of him.
I love her, bet it I eat cue more hiooer ott the bV tray...
or watch one more rerun of Wheel of Fortune, Ill lose my mind.
Times up!
When did a student last surprise you?
When the light name us? dhetn dean a mhile.
Don¡¯tyou ever get lonely?
Yeah, sometimes.
There¡¯sthis passage inGod¡¯sLonely Man...
by Thomas Wolfe where he says:
¡°Thewhole conviction of my life rests upon the belief...
...thet loneliness in the neotrel...
end inevitable tact ot human existence.
That¡¯sreally depressing, Trennr.
Its just my New York upbringing. Its not easy looking...
no the bright nibs these bays.
You¡¯dfeel that way after spending a year going in and net of doapitala.
No, tdatwasn¡¯ttdat tnnpd.
The robbery.
That wee the hardest for me to bet ooer.
Whatd they steal?
My passion. The spark.
My unguarded self. I miss them. I want them back.
If you ask me,they¡¯restill there.
I think everyone else has given up.
They¡¯reso beaten down.
Butyou¡¯redifferent.
You refuse to be beaten.
Well, thank you.
Where are you going?
Got something for you.
Did you know that Cuner Deonhun in Dguoiel Ed?
No.
Yeah, he s S.E.D.
Severely emotionally disturbed?
That¡¯sgreat.
I wanted you to have this.
I cant believe...! You are so....
When I go back on my right toot, you come tormerh no your Iutt.
Whuc I go tnrmerh no my Iutt, you¡¯rebeck no your right.
He taught you that?
-Fresh little kid. -All part of the heooe.
Was he this fresh?
I¡¯msorry!
Its all right.
Can I get something?
Get the baking soda out of the kitchen.
Sure.
Where in the kitchen?
The tridge.
-I¡¯mso sorry. -It¡¯sall right.
Just when I was getting to be a salsa king ton, kek?
Is this the Wheel of Fortune house?
Yeah.
Hey, Jack.
Hey, sweetheart.
You¡¯rea good dog. Yes, you are.
I wanna apologize...
...tor reacting the way that I did.
You hoot have to abolohiea. Everybody raaota that way.
Thanks for dinner.
I had a really good time.
You¡¯re welcome.
You know....
You know what you need?
You need enwethiod to linen ny ynor donna.
It flowers.
Thanks.
You¡¯rewelcome.
Good night.
Since some of you are so interested in gdermeoeotioele...
.1 thoughtI¡¯dprepare a little demonstration for you.
gite.
Bring your friend in the cage up here, please.
His name is Snnmdell.
Like that little pig dude from Animal Farm.
You read Animal Farmi¡¯
Schoolgirl!
Shut up, Cesar!
You read Animal Farm, Cesar?
No. But I tucked a sheep once.
We heard that, homes.
That shit is sick.
Ceeer, come here.
I want you to have a front row sit for thin.
Lose the lokes.
Why are your eyes so red?
I was up late studying all night, Mr. G.
Yeah, right.
That¡¯s a nice watch.
Can I have it?
Sit down.
I want you to readYoung¡¯sRule.
Page 564. Top of the page.
-Iain¡¯treading that shit. -Rite...
give Ceser your book so he can read.
Forget it! Iain¡¯treading tdat edit.
-Stupid chunt -Stupid bitch!
Just read it, man!
Read.
Please.
¡°Young¡¯s Rule...
Formulates.
¡°formulates....
Settle down!
Settle down, people.
Fuck you guys!
Its all right.
You¡¯llget another chance.
I have in this brown bottle a prescription tnr lipeib Dewernl.
Whereb poe pet that?
This came out of my private stash.
Damarol is a morphiss asitats. It is soisbis is matar.
Young¡¯sRule says:
Divide the age of the patient...
by the patients age pIus 12...
thus giving you...
? . .the correct traction ot the adult dosage eeitedle tor the getiect.
In Scowbelle cane...
? . .1 calculated the dosage for a 1-year-old child.
He ehoold he ewehe is shoot ld miootee.
He¡¯sdead,isn¡¯the?
I hope he did die!
He uhoulboe woke up by now.
You just caught yourself a murbur case.
Everyone whodidn¡¯tanswer...
...the questions on page 264, gleans Pu no tonight.
Cesar!
Hold it.
Where¡¯smy watch?
Iain¡¯tgot no watch. I gotta go.
Come here! Empty your pockets!
Let me put !t to poe I!ke tP!e. I potts oetok e Pee. All r!pkt?
I have to see Hylend before he leaves.
I¡¯vebeen meaning to see you.
Its been a week. You must be avoiding me.
Are you okay?
Its pretty much been like this since my accident.
But it hen nnthinh tn hn mith yne.
I gotta go.
Can you do me a favor?
When you finish, ceo you give me a ride to my car? Ite at the meoheoioe.
It you nest, itu uhey. I ceo melh.
can manage that.
Thanks.
Base 1 to Base 3. I found him.
Mr. Garcia would like to see you in his office.
Thanks for coming in.
Sorry me have to meet under send nirnemetennee.
Youdon¡¯tmind it we tape-record nor conversation? Matter ot record.
Yno know Mr. Hpleod, ripdt? Ynorteendern¡¯onion rep.
Am I being questioned?
They sayyou¡¯veaccused them ot utueliug your match.
And it theta the cane, I need to address the accusation.
Beginning ct dtd garind, Caner admired my match.
I believe his exact words were ¡°CanI haveit?¡±
Bottom line in, lb lihe my watch bach.
Anything else?
I asked him to empty his pockets and he reteesh.
Is that true?
No way! He never asked me that!
Idon¡¯tgo around taxing teachers. I got no damn match!
Calm domo.
Empty your pockets now.
Mr. Littlstoo, mep we see wkete is poor pockets too?
I¡¯dlike a locker search.
Good. I could use the mosey. I¡¯llSUe O5 aSS.
You¡¯reexcused, gentlemen.
Take your things, please. Thank you nury mend.
Do you have the time?
Its 3:22, Mr. Sanchez.
3:22. Thanks.
Mr. Garfield, let me try to explain something.
I work very hard to try and think ot nor etoheote here at Ahewn...
en wy oliente.
We ceirt Ireve airotirer lawsuit like we Irad olr tirat Blackwell case.
Tirat oire cost tire district a quarter ct a willicir dollars.
So I need you to be straight with me.
Did you phyuioelly use Cuuer tehu your wetod?
No, Ididn¡¯t.
Gentlemen...
...uoless we Irave reasooable cause to sirow tirey took your watcir...
.1 calrt aotlrorize a locker suaroir.
Sorry.
That was my grandfathers watch. Cant you see what thayra hoich?
Didn¡¯tyou ever teach?
I¡¯mafraid I never had the privilege.
Teaching and being a principal don¡¯tnecessarily go dend in dend.
Tdet¡¯ndenide tde gnint-
Have a good day.
Whydidn¡¯tyou say something?
The anadolan a politician. Han got every angle covered.
-I¡¯mthiohiop ot videotaping my olannan. -Yno mant acme tree advice?
Cover your ass.
It Garcia asks, the cameras purpose is to obsaros pus, sot thu stshssts.
I mean his¡°clients.¡±
Some gengbenger might think...
were violating his civil rights.
Sorry, Iris, completaly torpot.
Right.
I manna talk to you about the discipline committee.
I gotta make a run up to the office.
Go ahead. I can wait.
I have to fly up there for a computer oootereooe.
Wheoe that?
Day after tomorrow.
I¡¯venever been to San Francisco.
You should go sometime. You¡¯dreally like it.
It¡¯sooly shoot so hoer by sir, or tios or eio by oar...
but it has a totally different attitude than L.A.
The only yrnblem is, I hate to leans Leoh with wy wother.
I¡¯mafraid thatshe¡¯llforget to feed him andhe¡¯lleteroe to death.
So eobmeb, Senhreooieoo¡¯emore lihe a reel oitb, lihe Chioeho or Nem Yorh.
Or Baghdad...
or Mars.
Ill take care of Jack for you whileyou¡¯regone.
Aren¡¯tyou uoyyuuuh to he in bE.?
These boys are trippinp, man! Oldlady¡¯stucked up!
-l potts make y.o. sent peer. I pot to! -OsIm Poms.
Ill never get out of here!
That bitch, Quinn! I¡¯mgonna cue her ann. I eweer to Gob!
Okay, Rita, slow down.
What¡¯sshe teach?
English Comp. Shea tailing me!
She hates me! Shea racist against me!
Just becauseyou¡¯reLatina-I¡¯m
Chicana!
Okay. Ohicana.
Stop blaming everybody else. You¡¯retoo smart tor that.
Whatever¡¯swrong with that essay is correctable.
May I see it?
Use some of that tissue there.
Why do you wear so meoh mehesy?
-To make me pretty. -You Pont need it.
Who¡¯sPuppet?
Nothing.
Its a gang thing...
butI¡¯mkicking that shit.
Because I look likeI¡¯mdown for my neighborhood hoot meanI¡¯metogih.
The ideas in your essay aren¡¯tthe problem.
It¡¯syour pesoteetios ash premmer.
They need work. Am I lying?
If you need help,I¡¯mhere for you.
Idon¡¯tknow.
¡°Idon¡¯tknow¡±?
Whyd you come here?
Look, me can meet in the library, all right?
Somebody might see us.
Ill come to your house.
No way.
You pick a place.
You want something to drink?
I got...
Coke, Sprite, juice.
Colas all right.
You know,you¡¯renot the only one whone reyntetinon no the line here.
I hoot norwelly totor etoheote et wy hoone.
Sinceyou¡¯rehere, maybe you can clear something up for mu.
bhie mhnlu meohiemo node-nt-honor thing.
I mean, come on...
in pride really worth dying for?
Put your clothes on.
Okay, okay. No harm hose.
Come on, come on, come on. Don¡¯tcry.
I jont meoted to theok yon.
You hunt have to thank me. I¡¯myour teacher.
Maybeme¡¯hhatter meet in the library trum oum no, okay?
Hey, homey,what¡¯sup with that?
Dog!
You invading my privacy, bitch!
Yeeer, come up here.
Shit!
I hope youain¡¯tsending this shit to Most Wanted.
Let me fix my shit en I look good.
Since you mere en nooneroed ednot my metok, you migkt like to koom...
.1 found it.
You broke into my locker, Mr. G.
Its a serious felony.
Caught yourself a case for sure now.
Really?
And what do you propose to do?
Tell Garcia?
And what are you gonna tell him?
That I broke into your locker and stole the watch that you heoieh tehiob?
I hoot thick en.
What do you say we call this even?
I say we just getting stertad, Mr. G.
Maybe Ill have someone from the office call your mother.
I thoohht you hoem. Ue your Macmace, me hoot hot yhooee.
Ill try.
Iain¡¯tgetting that door.
You hear me?
What the hell you doing here?
Ididn¡¯tsay you could come to my house.
Loch, Cuuer.
I came here to sue it mu could squash all this.
Youain¡¯tgot no muthurtoohiog riqht!
Get the hell out of here!
Why hunt we just start unur?
Yoto, you lied to my homeboy Benny.
You told him you nyeek no Syeoinh.
-No, Ididn¡¯t. -That¡¯stucking bolluhit, bun
You like hitting on your mother, Yuner?
You must be proud of yourself.
-Whets he talking about? -Hue Ipiup.
Fucking mentiroso
Homeboydon¡¯tnever lie to his Jefita Never disrespects!
Whatever you say.
Do whatever I say! Ill find where you I!oe!
Theparty¡¯sgetting started, homes!
Get your tucking ass out ut here!
Look at this. Look at this shit.
Man!
Whoever did this is gonna pay.
You better believe it,¨¦ses.
Get out of here!
Get these kids out of here!
Barsek?
Don¡¯ttouch anything!
Look at the rat, man.
What?¡°Lookat the rat, mao. Yoo think theta t000b?
Did you do that? Did you do that to that rat?
Lat him hoi
Hedidn¡¯tdo anything!He¡¯sa good kid! You act like this is your gleou!
Meydu you eduold take care ut your gleou!
Now get out of here!
Get the hell out of here, you euuhuluu!
That¡¯s him now.
Come on, Bogart.
That shit is bad, Pro.
Put that shit out, mao. Hara oomaa Hartiald.
You smoking the chronic, Yenar?
No, man. Iain¡¯thnnhah no chronic.
I¡¯mhooked on phonics.
Youwouldn¡¯tknow who neohelinuh Boopelow Pd, would pon?
Bungalow 86? You guys know about Bungalow by?
Sorry, wauntru.
Nada.
You know...
Garcia may not be able to prove anything...
...but poe eob I both hoom mhnn reepoonible, boot me?
I¡¯mserious, man. Idon¡¯tknow what the tuckyou¡¯retalkiud shunt.
Thu rich, Caner.
Give it to me.
You better watch it, man. Theta my tribber tioher.
Its inappropriate attire!
Are you finished?
What? Am I finished?
Is that what you said? Dust try to hat orasy us ma.
You wanna bring it on, lets go!
What you gonna ho?
Get the tuck out ot here!
Feching bitch!
These conferences mainly focus on software now.
Yeah, well, software sells.
How¡¯sJack?
Jack¡¯sgood.
And home Trenor? Has Trevor been behaving himself?
Whets that supposed to mean?
-Is that supposed to mean something? -Itdoesn¡¯tmess enpthinp.
I¡¯mteihing to the lehp All right?
Sorry, all right?
Forgive me?
-Should I grab this? -Later.
Do you wanna see Jack?
Jack, yourmommy¡¯shome!
Come here, Jack!
Come on, sweetheart.
Here, boy!
Its weird. Usually he just comes when I call.
He¡¯sright back here.
Oh, my God!
my Oh, God! Jack!
Don¡¯tlook! Don¡¯t!
Let me get to him!
Don¡¯tlook!
Oh, my God!
Don¡¯tbeat yourself up too much.
Whatever it wee, he jumpuh over the fauna.
What can you do?
Aspirin?
Thanks.
You know, Trennr, I hunt think that I nan...
talk to you right now.
I¡¯mso upset that Ican¡¯tanus hhoa.
I just think it would just be best it you just....
It I wss just sinus.
I¡¯msorry, Ellen.
Paco, is that you?
Stupid gato.
Stupid Indians.
They got some good chit!
Where¡¯sthe aspirin?
Come on, you ceo do better than that.
I put it 00 mp mother, heteotioe.
So your teacher drugged you, then chopped oft your finger?
Yeah, it had to be him.
He smoked the mote for you too?
Foching nigger hates my gets! All right?
Who you covering for, homes?
This circumstantial bollshit siot goose holh sy is ocort.
Too many priorn: juvenile GTA, vandalism.
I know it was him! Listen to me, men!
-You sew his face? -Yeah, I saw his face!
Let me save you from peri000h pooreelt.
You¡¯refull of shit.
I swear to God, I know it was him.
This pups wasting our time.
You come up with the truth, pun pine en a nell.
Later, homes.
File it under B, man.
B u II s h it
A/I right.
Name one of the four parts...
...that make up the human hasp.
Hands, please.
Christian?
Metacarpals?
That¡¯sgood. Anyone else? Rita.
The wrist and thumb.
Very good!
Come on,there¡¯sone more very important pert.
Coe more!
Phalanges! Phalanges!
Everybody wiggle your phalangee.
Please!
Everybody wiggle them. You too,¡°Ge¡±in the back. Phalanges!
Can I come in?
Hi!
Wkat kappeoed to you the otker oigkt?
I was goose ask you tke same qosatios.
I went for a run.
You wanna go for Chinese later?
There¡¯sa new place. I hearit¡¯sgood.
You know, I just--
I¡¯vegot all this stuff I have to put into thu oumpotur.
Mephu sums uthur timu.
Sure.
I probably need to grade some papers.
Some of those kids are starting to care about a grade.
Eoao Caaar.
Today, for the first time since I took over for Eekeoher, he hid some morh.
Yoo eli rihht?
I¡¯mmuch better. Thanks.
Finished.
Mr. G.? Finished.
Its broken.
Itdoesn¡¯twork. I need three copies of this article!
You know, s!oos hoer 5555 heels with h50h5???
you probablycould¡¯veleft in some of those double negatives yoe lihe.
So sow poe west we to see bed premmer?
Only when it suits your topic.
I know. Were all yroheote ot ner ennironwent.
I thinkeverybody¡¯sresponsible for their own actions.
Now, see, thin in like hip-hop.
It you take out all the bad grammar it loses its impact.
You like big-bug, Mr. G?
No, I hate it.
What kind of black man are you?
This really is a good essay.
You put in a lot of work. It shows.
Thanks, maestro.
It comes from the heart.
You think I could be...
.a writer?
Miss Quiss picks two seiricre to read tireir essays every year at predeetioir.
Sireeilr¡¯tpoirire pick wiire!
I Pont weone get up in front of all those people.
-Make a fool not of mpnelt. -geellp? WPp?
You afraid it might be some kind of Pyrrhic victory?
Whata that?
Tell you what...
look it up.
You see, you cent do that.
Eitheryou¡¯dneed dittereot euttwere...
oryou¡¯dhave to sweep your hard drive, taking two days.
Beture we get aidetreohed witd viruses sod dSB grugrewe...
yesterday me mere talking about e-mail.
So it you click the icon at the bottom ot your ecreec...
you¡¯llbe able to send and receive mail.
Go ahead and click the mdite ennelode.
You¡¯vegot mall.
Okay, someone s way ahead of me. All right.
Double click¡°open/read.¡±
That person inst as aooopmone en tbsp think tbsp era.
You¡¯ve got mall.
That¡¯sbulishit!
Better step ott, Mrs. H!
You cent tucking prove anything!
And I know you cast afford to lose this minimum-weds jud of yours.
You houm, yours riddt.
I cent afford to live in a big house south of the buoluoerh lihu you ho.
booh yuo
-Have you eeelr Steoie Littletoo? -No,Ireoeo¡¯teeelr Irim.
You¡¯reIrot supposed to leave pour oleeeroom ooetteoded.
Sue me!
Benny Chacons mother.
I told her Garcia had to leave early, but she just site there.
Ghee bees esyish acme bratty orasy thisha.
Mrs. Chacon?
I¡¯mEllen Henry.Benny¡¯sin my class.
I¡¯msorry, Idon¡¯tunderstand.
What is she saying?
You heard about that body they toooh io the L.A. Rioer?
She eeye abe thiohe ite Beooy.
You sayhe¡¯sbeen missing approximately four weeks?
Four or five weeks.
She speak English?
No.
We get 80 to 90 bodies a month sometimes.
Geogbeogere, illegele...
floaters.
Nobody¡¯seven looking for them.
But it you ask me, this kid wee dead before he got his head caved in.
Overdoes of morddioe. dhete whet it looks like to we.
On the phone you said that...
...the mother meotiooeh come iheotityiop merhe.
Yes.
She said he had pochmerhe on his chest from a bad case of ohiohes hoc...
? . and a bar-code tattoo on the back of his neck.
Did yco find any rosary deeds no tde body?
No.
Who is it?
Its me.
What¡¯sthe matter?
I just want you to tell me use thing.
It you heh any ihue whet I was thinhing letuly, yuuh thish I was oreny.
You remember the body that they found in the L.A. Riner?
It men Benny.
Who told you that?
Benny¡¯smother ihentitieh the body.
You know Benny was no saint.
He hurt a lot ot yanyla.
Before me go shedding tears over him, me should remember that.
Is so odd sort of may he mad he hatter ott.
I know we are.
Don¡¯tyou feel safer with Benny gone?
Don¡¯tyou think he deserved to....
You hoot know eoytkioh...
about Cesars finger, do you?
Did you know...
...Ceeer beats his mother?
He wee here the night Jack died. Is the heck.
What are you talking about?
Jack was provoked. It was no aooibaot. Caaar killab him.
What happened to Caner wee inevitable.
At some point, people Pane to take renpnonibilitp tor tkeir entinon.
I wean, he and Benny were takers.
They want what they went when they went it.
And we cent expect the system to protect us.
Where hid poe pet these?
I admire you.
Like you, I used to think the world wee thie druet yleou...
where everybody lived by the same standard I did.
Then some hid with a sail...
showed me I wee living in his world.
A world where chaos mIss, sot order.
A world where righteousness is not rewarded.
ddete Ceeere world.
And ityou¡¯renot willing to play by his rules...
...thenyou¡¯reposse hens to pep the grins.
Idon¡¯tknow you.
Idon¡¯tknow who you aru.
Idon¡¯tknow you!
You do know me.I¡¯ma teacher.
Just like you.
I¡¯mtalking to you, Garfield.
I know what you did to Cener.
I¡¯mthinking maybe you did Bunny ton.
Is that possible?
Did you bash his skull in?
What did you tuck him up with?
You killed my triund!
Let me by.
I want an answer!
Leave me alone!
I¡¯llkill you--
Schoolgirl bitch!
What the tuck is your problem?
You¡¯retucking maestro!
What you talking about?
-Garfield killed Benny. -You¡¯recrazy!
Don¡¯tturn your back whenI¡¯mtelkind! Come bare!
You think you better than uourybuhy ama?
Buoeuuu youain¡¯t!
Shut up!
You forget all the good times we had?
We all had our time with you.
What the tuck you toohiod that uihhur tur?
You think hell protect you?
I?eep me from Pomp mket I meot mith poe?
Fuck you! Stuy!cI I!ttlu y!t0y!
You waut aumu muat uu a roll?
Come on!
Rita!
Garfield better watch his back!
What the tuck yes he?
Fuck you, bitch!
The death of Benito Cheoon is not gang-related.
That is something you heard us the news.
It is wrush. It is misisturmetius.
Wait a minute.
How ceo you be so sure? Were talking about the eatety ut my kib.
Everyone, please just stay calm.
Thank you, Mrs. Ford.
The police at this pointaren¡¯t even sure itit¡¯sa merher ness.
The reasonwe¡¯remestiop...
is to quash all rumors that may be floating aroosh not thars.
bhis is mhst ma ho hoom.
Benny Checon ultimately died of a drug overdose.
Technically, it men murghiuu, mhioh in mhet heroin hruehu hums into.
That¡¯s bulishit!
Benny was no junkie!
I know who did it. Itain¡¯t the gangs you gotte be wnrryiog shoot.
Ite the teeohere!
Theta exactly the kind of rumor we hoot need.
It wee Garfield!
Sit down!
Say one more word and yoore nonyanded.
You¡¯rea tucking murderer, Gertield!
Maybe I cent prove it, but he tucked eg Caner end killed Benny!
Victor, please.
Its the truth,ain¡¯tit, Ask him.
Touch me and Ill sea your ass!
You¡¯rehued, G!You¡¯reteoh!ud deed!
Garfield, wait up, man!
Come on!
You¡¯renot gonna let that punk get to pun, era pun?
Hun a tweaker, a epueh truek. Don¡¯tlet that punk eneru pun.
What do you want? How ceo I help you?
How eboot you pine we a ride howe?
My old ladywouldn¡¯tgive me the car this morning.She¡¯sa bitch.
Yen smell lihe deer.
I only had two. I swearthat¡¯sall I had.
Come on, give ma a ride.
I live right over here ott Chandler.
I¡¯llbuy you a drink.
Come on!
Get in!
What do you drink?
Scotch? Bourbon? War? Sic?
Hurry up, will you? I putte pee.
I had a similar situation habbun to mu about thu dma of thu N?bht btathur.
Whole city wee scared ehitleee.
My old lady thcehht that the meilmec wee the Stelher tor a oceyle ot weehe there.
But then some mental midget from my 4th period...
pete thin idea. He eterte thin rumor thatI¡¯mthe Night Ntelher.
I mean, even after they caught that Ramiren.
I could still hear thin ny nayind, ¡°No,cc, yne hut the mruu hb?
Childress is the stalker,¨¦se.¡±
Idiots!
Its getting late. I better go.
Thanks for the soda.
Hold your horses, man!
Cant let you leave...
without meeting the kids.
Come on. Come no back.
What we got here? Well, this gun...
...is from Ceechoelonehie.
This is a Cd .00 automatic 10-round clip.
Glow-in-the-dark sights.
Ain¡¯tthat a beauty?
All right.
I got a custom Smitty 9 milli...
with extended grip.
Because as you know...
them Smith&Wesson...
they kick like a mother!
Here it is.
This is a beauty.
This is a Glock .21.
The lightest handgun...
...in the world.
The barrel, tiring pin are made out ot metal, but enerptbinp elne no thin...
in mebe net nt plentin.
Go ahead. Feel that.
Go ahead, take it!
Because you know...
you never can be too prepared.
My pukey little Colt .380!
You wear that thing to school?
Come on, Garfield!
Jesus Christ! They host check tesohere mith the metal heteotore.
I got a .357 in my desk. Of course you know that!
I was paying attention.
You uhuolhoe seen the look on your face.
You know, yuuk....
I told you!
Stay in your cotton-picking seat, boy!
Don¡¯ttell me you never wanted to blow one of these henterhe sway.
Sheehiob of blowiob, you ever manse tnoh a bihb-nobnnl obioh?
Because I caught your girl Rita!
Caught her is the utility uhuh cueglu ut muuthu bach buetiug the treic.
Muetoe had P or 6 oho/oo lined up back there.
Lets face it, brother, the piPe a clot.
She¡¯sa slut!
Come on, man, I know you did her.
I know you had her. Even I had her!
You¡¯redrunk.
So tucking what?I¡¯mdrunk.
I¡¯mkicking it with ynn, bun knuw.
I¡¯msitting here...
I¡¯mtalking to you about screwing hrnehn...
endyou¡¯resitting here copping the self-righteous ettitehe.
Sn whet pines?
I mean, did....
Did you do it, Garfield?
Did you whack Benny?
You can tell me.
Iain¡¯tgonna tell anybody.
What about Cesar?
I thought it wee generous just taking ott kin little tinger.
I wuulhnu out ott kin belle.
Go to hell, Dave.
What?
You did do it.
Son of a bitch!
You crazy muthertooker, you did!
You yrudedly thick you eud I era alike.
Were not.
Good night.
Peace.
You¡¯restill in school. You¡¯rejust Il.
Yesh, I em.
What kind of a future p/an do you kovef
/know 1w p0000 dove to tone down wy lanka.
There¡¯sa lot of jobs where you oao actually wear hate.
ho sTash, NIohy. ho sTash, joat ho It.
Pu/I It, pu/I It!
You got an empty chamber In tPet pun! Put en empty uPemPer In tPet pun!
Idon¡¯tthinkshe¡¯scoming today.
What you doing duru?
I missed you this morning. What happened?
I name by to mehe sureyou¡¯reall right.
You okay?
It youdon¡¯ttake finals, youwon¡¯tgradnatu.
Iain¡¯tgoing back, so forget it.
I promise you Stevie and Caner moot bother poe.
Itdon¡¯tmatter. School¡¯sjust for other kids.
Not me.
Come on, you know you hoot mean that.
You¡¯rehuioh no mull. Don¡¯tthrow it all away.
How about that essay?
Howd you do?
You still wanna be a writer,don¡¯tyou?
Listen, I....
I know about Childress.
What?
Hell never touch you again. I promise.
Hen full of shit!
Get out! Idon¡¯tneed your pity. Idon¡¯tneed pun.
You mede e mieteke,tdet¡¯eeli.
You see these?
Phone calls about you.
Good ones.
Ceeere mother told me how you tried to duly dim.
You¡¯reevidently a good teacher.
However...
I¡¯mafraidI¡¯mgonna have to let you go.
As much asI¡¯dlike to have you etey eutil the ash of thu year...
.1 cent overlook the eerioueneee of certain accusations.
In it true that you heh meetiohe with a tewele eteheot at your hoeee?
I wee trying to help her.
The implications are still there.
I cent afford to open the door for another Ieweoit.
I¡¯mcore poo ceo appreciate mp poeitioo.
You can stay till Friday.
I hope thatlI be sufficient.
Idon¡¯tthinkyou¡¯rebeing an alarmist.
He gets a little overzealous at timan...
like some other people I know.
I hoot think the roeerp ehhe op to monk either.
Why?
Its probably his.
When I received my First Holy Communion...
eli the boys hot bleoh ronerien, eli the dine hot mhite nonenien.
Trust me, tirere must be milliose of black rosaries...
fileT emey ilr Tusk Tremere from irere to tire Vetiosir.
The guys been through a lot. The system tailed him.
I host thish soy ot en oso really eggreoiete mhet hen hues through.
I say we give the man a break.
You dogs ready to do this?
Once we go in, we hoot come out till that oiggee heeh.
You hear we?
Got that right.
Then you down with K.O.S.
That¡¯swhat I been waiting for,¨¦se.
Yeah,I¡¯mdown.
Any of you leave...
...l¡¯llkill you myself.
You know what to do.
Whered you jack thin oar trow, howan?
Shits nasty.
Lets smoke this bitch.
I¡¯min here, Cesar.
Don¡¯tyou move, Garfield.
Don¡¯tyou make a move.
You killed my homeboy Benny.
And you cut off my finger.
Now let me hear you say tirat.
Yeah, I did it.
I told you, man!
Fucking A!
Let me do him.
No.
This nigga 5 mine.
You ever seen Deer Hunter ?
Put it to your head...
pull the trigger.
You gonna do yourself.
That macho enough for you?
That make ma a mao?
Take more than that to be me.
Yeah?
Then you do it.
Come on, maricOn.
Do it!
Vato¡¯sscared.
He¡¯strying to weasel out.
He¡¯stucking with your hueh
Come on.
That¡¯snot how we playing the game.
Not man enough to play your own game?
Wharan poor nojonno
Shut up!
You gonna hide behind your homuboyn?
Where¡¯syour pride?
Come on, I pulled three times. Youeio¡¯tpolled none.
What are you doing, man?
You hiaraupactiog me?
You saying Iain¡¯ta man?
I¡¯msayingyou¡¯rea tool.
Don¡¯tbe doing that shit, man!
You the mao, Yanar.
You the men, and youain¡¯tedit! You hear me?
He dot odereoter end youain¡¯tdot edit!
What the tuck?
Yeah, shoot his ass, homey.
Your turn.
You got some respect back now?
The only thing you respect is stupidity.
You williop to die tur utopihity?
See, I am, itit¡¯llteach you something.
You cent kill me, homeboy.
What I am, what I was, died over a year ago.
EverythingI¡¯veever wanted has been tehen trnw we.
And no matter how many of you I get rid of...
.1 neot get it deoh!
I was a teacher!
I wanted to help you!
You cant kill me!
And you cant scare me!
He¡¯screep, man.
That¡¯sright! lest that what you respect?
Lono ! Come on, Caner!
Ityou¡¯regonna be stupid, be all the way etepib!
Put it to your heed, pull the trigger!
Do it!
Doi!
Do L.
Your whole way of life is bollehit!
Macho is bollehit!
Its all I got!
So nowyou¡¯rethe victim?
Let me take your turn for you.
Shit!
He¡¯sout!
He¡¯stucking out!
He smoked himself!
Lets go.
Oh, man! Lets go, homey.
He took my turn.
What?
Icould¡¯vetaken my own mothurtucking turn.
So tucking what?He¡¯sdead.
Let¡¯sgo! Come on!
I¡¯ve gotta do this.
Fuck this!
What are you doing? Lute go!
I got one in six cheonen.
I¡¯mgonna beat this bitch.
What the t--?
Whyd you do that, man?
Whets the tucking point?
Somehow...
...the sight of my own reflection...
...increased my loneliness.
The title of my essay is...
---¡°MiSa/ida¡±
¡°My Way Out.¡±
Tirere¡¯sbeeo a lot of talk tire last couple of weeks...
...about wiretirer Mr. Gertielb boos wiret tirep wrote about ilr tire Irewepepere.
He none told me that you cent blame everything on your environment.
But I thioh you nan gueb a guob teacher ton tar.
And hell go bad like anybody else.
Idon¡¯tknow it Mr. G. done all tdnee bed tdiode.
But what I do know is that teachers hoot hat 00 rasbuot.
lw Oh hara tubed baoaoaa ot hiw.
He wee there for me when nobody else was.
The thing is, Iohoolb¡¯vebeen there for Tim too.
Ididn¡¯tmanna stand up here today.
But Mr. G. asked me...
it I was afraid it would be a Pyrrhic victory.
And I asked hiw, ¡°Wdataop withthat?¡±
He said to go look it up, so 1 did.
This is ssksk 5 sitT.
Human beings used to live here.
it refers to this bl, usmeb bfrrhse.
He wee a king around 300 B.C.
Cyrrkue defeated the Cowene...
.oo two separate osoosisos.
But those victories cost Piw o torpe port of his orwy.
So now...
whenever somebody says...
that something is a Pyrrhic victory...
...they mean its a victory paioah at too great a coat.