D Darrel
[Pony comes home after a late night out]
Where the hell have you been?! Do you know what time it is?! It's 2:00 in the morning, kiddo.
S Sodapop
Hey, Pony, where've ya been?
Ponyboy I fell asleep in the lot.
Ponyboy I was talkin' to Johnny and I fell asleep in the lot. I didn't mean to.
D Darrel
Yeah? Hey. And I can't even call the cops, because you two would be thrown in a boys' home so fast, it would make your head spin.
S Sodapop
C'mon, Pony, let's go to bed now.
Ponyboy Look, I said I didn't mean to!
D Darrel
"I didn't mean to. I forgot." That's all I ever HEAR from you!
S Sodapop
Come on, Darry--
D Darrel
You shut up! I'm sick and tired of you sticking up for him! You hear me?!
Ponyboy Don't you yell at him!
D Darrel
[Darrel shoves Ponyboy across the room, onto the floor. Ponyboy staggers to his feet, then runs out the door]
Ponyboy, I-I didn't mean to!
D Darrel
Listen, with your brains and grades, you could get a scholarship, and we could put you through college, ain't that right, Soda? But you're livin' in a vacuum, Pony, and you're gonna have to cut it out. You just don't stop living because you lose somebody. I thought you knew that. And anytime you don't like the way I'm running things around here, you can just get out, ALL RIGHT?
Ponyboy You'd like that, wouldn't you?! You'd like me to just get the hell out! Well it's not that easy, is it, Soda?
S Sodapop
Goddamn, you guys! Leave me out of it!
Ponyboy [First lines; in the present day, Ponyboy begins to write an essay, and we fade to the flashback] [voicecover]
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman, and a ride home.
[At the drive-inn, Dallas, Ponyboy and Johnny sit behind two girls, both Socs, Cherry and Marcia]
Some cute redhead, huh? [leans forward and into Cherry's ear] Are you a reeaal red? [she giggles slightly, but keeps her eyes on the movie] Are you real? How can I find out if this is your real red hair? If this is the same red hair that you have on your...your... [motioning to her skirt, then quickly to her face] ...these eyebrows. [sits back and laughs]
C Cherry
[gives him an incredulous glare]
Get your feet off my chair and shut your trap.
Who's gonna make me, huh? [rolls his eyes] Who, your boyfriend?
C Cherry
You'd better leave us alone, or I'll call the cops.
[sarcastically, in mock fright]
Oh, my, my! You've got me scared to death. What am I gonna do now, Pony? This girl's making me shake.
C Cherry
Can't you just leave us alone? Be nice and leave us alone?
[grins]
I'm never nice. [sitting up next to her again] Can I interest you in a Coca-Cola, or a...
C Cherry
[interrupts]
Get lost, hood!
Wow, I'm sorry, I didn't know you had this problem with...yelling in my face. [stands up] Alright, I'll go. I know when I'm not wanted. Here, I thought this might cool you off. [hands Cherry a coke and sits right next to her]
C Cherry
[takes the straw out of her coke and throws it in Dally's face]
Maybe that'll cool YOU off, Greaser...when you learn to talk and act decent, then maybe I'll cool off too.
[wipes some of the coke off his face and goes in for Cherry]
Firey, huh? Just the way I like them!
C Cherry
[tries to push Dallas off]
GET OFF OF ME!
[stands up]
Look, leave her alone, Dal!
[looks up]
What'd you say?
[a little bit frightened]
Come on Dal, you heard me.
What'd you say? What'd you say, you little shit? What'd you say to me?
Wiseass! [seconds later, he gets up and leaves]
Ponyboy [to Johnny]
Now you blew it.
C Cherry
[to Johnny]
Thank you...he had me scared to death!
You sure didn't show it. Ain't nobody ever talk to Dal like that!
C Cherry
From what I saw, you do.
[After Johnny killed Bob, Ponyboy woke up to see Johnny with his blood-stained switchblade when Bob, Randy and the other Socs tried to drown him in a fountain] [trembles in fear]
I-I...I killed him...I killed that boy... [turns to Ponyboy] I killed him...
Ponyboy [turns to see Bob's corpse]
Johnny, I think I'm gonna be sick.
Go ahead, man. I ain't - I ain't gonna look at you. I ain't gonna look at you. [Ponyboy pukes off the side of the merry-go-round and sits on it to recover; walks by Bob's body and over to Ponyboy to aid him] Pony, you alright?
Ponyboy You really did kill him, huh, Johnny?
Yeah. I had to. They-They were drowning you. They-They might've killed you. They were gonna beat me up. [buries his switchblade into the ground]
Ponyboy What happened to the other guys?
Huh? They-They all ran. They all ran off when I stabbed him. They all ran.
