Nelson (The Rangers make last-minute preparations for the mission; Grimes is filling a canteen.)
You're not gonna need that, dude. We're not out there long enough.
(Grimes sets aside the canteen and starts to pack his NOD night vision goggles.)
You're not gonna need that, either. Might as well take dope and beer instead.
Grimes, the most important thing: if everybody else starts shooting, try and shoot in the same direction.
[...]
Blackburn, you okay?
Blackburn Excited... in-in a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.
You ever shot at anybody before?
Blackburn No, sir.
(Twombly and Nelson have linked up with Sgt. Yurek, another cut-off member of Chalk Four.)
Dude, where the **** have you been? Never mind. You brought NOD, right?
Y Yurek
No. No, I didn't bring it. You wanna know why? Because you said, "You won't need that, dude, we'll be back in a half hour."
Well, I wasn't saying it to you. Man, we are gonna need night vision!
Y Yurek
Nelson, cover this way. (Nelson seemingly ignores him; Yurek turns Nelson to face him.) What's the matter with you?
Nelson HUH?
Oh, uh, he's deaf. It's-it's my fault. We need to get out of here.
Y Yurek
We can't be far from the crash. Which way?
We thought you might know.
Spud I can feel again Mark, you know. I need to detox the system.
Oh Spud, detox the system... What does it even mean? It doesn't mean anything. It's not getting it out of your body, that is the problem, it is getting it out of your mind! You are an addict!
Spud You think I haven't heard that a 100,000 times Mark? You go 12 steps ahead of me comrade.
So be addicted. Be addicted to something else.
Spud Like running until I feel sick?
Yes! Or something else. You've got to channel it! You've got to control it! People try all sorts. Some people do boxing.
Spud Boxing?
Well, it's just an example. I don't... I don't mean you should...
Spud So what did you channel it into?
[Mark is doing loan application presentation to European Union Montary Fund]
This is the renovation and conversion of an iconic Leith building. We see it very much as being an artisanal bed-and-breakfast experience. A destination in its own right. Artworks by local artists on the walls. Locally sourced fresh food. Outreach programs to inspire children in school to think outside the box. To inspire in them a belief that... Yes, they can. There was a time when this port served thousands of ships around the globe. Now it can rise again. And we believe our business will occupy a central role, both physically and emotionally, at the heart of this new wave of regeneration in Leith.
Murphy We used to steal all this stuff. Fancy wallpaper. Sell on to the middle classes and that. Me and Mark used to steal all kinds of stuff, actually. Till we got caught. He got off. I got six months. Still, you find out what you're good at inside. Signatures... That's what I found out. Anyone's. If I seen it once, I can do it. So, when I got out, "Bye-bye, shoplifting. Hello, checkbook. Hello, check card. Up to Western Union. Signature, cash in hand. Up to Swanney's, pay off my debts, buy some skag. I was a portable **** goldmine.
Murphy Chip and PIN, debit cards, e-banking. Billionaires moving money at the touch of a button. There's no room for an honest artisan like me anymore.
Murphy Back on the pavement. Seven days a week.
I like your stories. I think you should write them down.
Murphy You think?
Yeah. Just write them the way you say them. They're funny. I would like to read them. Mark and Simon can help.
Murphy [Murphy, Simon and Mark arrive by train to the same desolate stop as in the original film] [Voiceover reading from page]
"Tommy looks well. It's terrifying. He's gonna die. Sometime between the next few weeks and the next 15 years, Tommy will be no more. Chances are that I'll be exactly the same. Difference is we know this with Tommy. Tommy cannot get out.
[Reading aloud]
He cannot afford to heat his home, put himself in a bubble, live in the warm, eat good fresh food, keep his mind stimulate with new challenges. He will only live five or 10 or 15 years before he is crushed. Tommy will not survive winter in West Granton."
...
Well, I'm trying hard, Mark, but I'm not feeling anything. We were young. Bad things happened. It's over. Can we go home now?
Two hours to the next train.
Look, we're here as an act of memorial.
Nostalgia. That's why you're here. You're a tourist in your own youth. Just 'cause you had a near-death experience, and now you're feeling all fuzzy and warm. What other moments will you be revisiting? Here's a good one. How about the time you sold Tommy his very first hit, leading him on to heroin addiction, HIV infection, and ultimately his death at the age of... What was it, 22, 23?
Twenty-three. How innocent was that?
Aye, that's mine. How's yours?
Don't know what you're talking about.
She'd be a woman by now. Maybe kids of her own. But she never got that far, did she? Never got to lead her life. Because her father, someone who should have been looking after her, protecting his own infant, was too busy filling his own veins with heroin to check that she was breathing properly. How do you keep a lid on that one?
[They take the train back and proceed to inject heroin with Murphy looking on tormented]
Well, that's that, then. Here we go.
[Simon and Mark have gone to a club and Mark goes to the washroom and is disgusted at the filthiness of a toilet, a previous film reference]
****'s sake.
...
[Franco settles himself into a booth]
All right, doll.
G Girl
Not bad yourself, daddy-o.
G Girl
I'm not wearing any knickers.
For ****'s sake. Well, tell you what... Just away for a piss. Back in a moment. We'll see what's happening, okay?
