[high pitched chimes]
[light, old fashioned music]
♪ Even if hard
♪ You love someone
♪ When that someone don't love you ♪
♪ I'm so destructive I broke anew ♪
♪ I've got those down hearted blues ♪
♪ Once I was crazy 'bout a man ♪
♪ He mistreated me all the time ♪
♪ The next man I get has got to promise me ♪
♪ To be mine
♪ All mine,
♪ Trouble, trouble,
♪ I've had it all, my dear,
♪ Trouble, trouble,
♪ I've had to all, my dear,
♪ You'll see less trouble
♪ Once you follow me to my grave, ♪
[Cell door locks clanking]
[footsteps approaching]
- My name is James A, Johnston
and I am the Warden of this institution,
When you break the laws of society,
they send you to prison,
When you break the laws of prison, they send you here,
Now this is a fortress over a mile from dry land
surrounded by freezing water and home to this
country's most dangerous criminals,
And it is meant to be hard because we are not primarily
seeking to rehabilitate, we are seeking to punish,
So, let's get something straight,
Your life is no longer defined by the outside world,
Your reputation as a criminal and as a human
being counts for nothing in here,
Here, you are just a spoke on my wheel,
Now, it's my hand that turns this wheel,
You do your time quietly and peacefully
my wheel keeps spinning round and round,
And happily we can move forward,
You do anything to slow my wheel down, or bring it
to a halt and I will rain down so much fire and brimstone
on you it will make the good lord himself jealous,
Week in the hole, that'll seem like a summer vacation,
And for those of you who haven't bothered to listen
because perhaps you're harboring some hopes of escape,
I suggest you listen to this,
This prison has the highest level
of security on God's green earth,
No one has ever escaped from here,
And as long as I've got breath in my body gentlemen,,,
,,,no one ever will,
Welcome to Alcatraz, [footsteps departing]
[siren, dramatic music]
[gunshot]
[music continues]
[gunshot]
[music continues]
[Music ends]
- [Joe] Backs against the wall,
Backs against the wall!
- [Sam] You heard him,
Backs to the fucking wall,
- [Joe] Backs against the wall,
- [Sam] You heard him, against the wall!
- [Joe] Backs to the wall,
- [Sam] Don't move a fuckin' muscle,
- [Bern] Why no keys?
[men yelling] - Backs against the wall!
-Where's the fucking key?
Guess the shoes on the other foot now, huh?
Bern, find their keys!
- Fuckin' tease me everyday,
- [Sam] Where's the fuckin' keys!
[keys jingling]
-What's wrong, Miller?
You worried we might wanna have some fun with you?
Or you worried you might enjoy it?
- You sick bastard,
[man chuckling] - Fuck it,
- Lageson,
You think you're one real bad motherfucker, don't ya, huh?
- I don't take orders from convicts,
[hollering sarcastically]
- Hear that, boys?
He doesn't take orders from convicts, huh?
Mister upstanding guard of the
United States Of Incarceration,
Let me tell you somethin', Lageson,
I've been to the puppet show
and now I hold the strings,
We're standing here ready to play a little game
and you don't know what I'm capable of
so let's dispense with the pregame
and go straight to the fourth quarter,
On your fuckin' knees,
On your fuckin' knees, boy,
Down!
I'm gonna count to three, Lageson, then it's goodnight,
- You can't kill me, Joe,
You need me,
- I got these two other little bulls for that,
Goodnight, Lageson,
One,
Two,
- Okay, Joe,
Okay, you,,,you win,
- Where are the fuckin' keys, Lageson?
Come on!
- They're on my belt,
- Bern,
Take them, [keys jingling]
Find the one we need,
Pull anymore shit like that and I will
fuckin' send you to kingdom come, you hear me, Lageson?
[keys jingling]
[breathing hard] - Come on, Bern!
- Joe, I can't find it,
-What the fuck you mean, you can't find it?
-I didn't touch any of these three,
- Have you tried them all?
All right, which of you assholes
has got the key to the yard?
- Not all of us have the keys to every door,
Just the sections we're assigned,
- So which of you assholes has got the key to the yard!
- Have you got the key motherfucker?
- I don't have that key,
- Come on!
Lageson?
- All the keys I've got are on the ring, Joe,
You've got all the keys,
- Try em' all again, Bern,
- I've tried them, Joe,
- Well try them all again, Bern!
Come on!
If he can't find that key,
I'm gonna tear you inside out lookin' for it,
[slow, mysterious piano music]
[keys quietly jingling]
[banging]
[slow piano music, whistling]
[banging, slow piano music]
[splatting]
[chair sliding across floor]
[distant chatting]
- Hey, you're the new guy, right?
- There's lots of new guys,
[chuckling] - Yeah, yeah,
I'm Nags,
[distant talking]
Man of few words, huh?
What's your name?
- [Clarence] Clarence,
- Well, you know what Clarence?
I'm a man who knows how to get things,
- Oh yeah?
What kind of things?
- Whatever you want,
- I'm good, thanks,
- If you don't have any money, that's okay,
There's other ways we can get things around here,
- Oh yeah?
[giggles] - Yeah,
[thudding, crowd shouting]
[keys jingling, distant shouting]
[punching, crowd hollering]
- All right, stop, [crowd hollering]
[latch clanking]
[clicking, door squeaking]
- On your feet, boy,
[seagulls squawking]
- Hey, sis, - Hey,
Doin' okay?
- Yeah, yeah,
As well as to be expected,
Where's Mom and Dad?
- You gettin' enough to eat in here?
- Yeah, yeah, I guess,
I can't say a thing much of the food, though,
Where's Mom and Dad?
- I'm here, that's what matters,
- Alice,
Where's Mom and Dad?
- They're not coming,
- Why?
- They uh,
they say you brought shame on the family,
- Well, so that's it?
They just gonna cut me loose?
- I'll still come visit you,
- Aren't they supposed to be Christians?
What about all that forgiveness stuff?
- I pray every night that they'll
find it in their hearts to forgive,
- Find it in their hearts?
I'm their son, Alice,
They shouldn't have to find anything,
Don't they love me?
- In their own way, They're just upset,
- Oh, they're upset?
Look where I am,
That's the thing with Mom and Dad,
they only care about themselves, selfish pricks,
- [Alice] Come on, Clarence,
- No, fuck them!
- Clarence, please,
- Look, let's,,,
let's just forget this whole thing, shall we?
- What do you mean?
- Don't come and see me again,
I'm on my own in here anyway,
- No, Clarence, please!
[slow, sad piano music]
[seagulls chirping, slow piano music]
- Hey, kid,
I saw what you did to Nags in the Mess Hall,
[scoffs]
You got balls kid, I'll give you that,
You see that guy over there?
- Yeah,
- He's a good friend of mine,
Joe Christopher,
Ever heard of him?
- No,
- Used to run a connect group on the outside,
Christa Calla gang,
Two bank jobs up and down the West Coast,
Ended up in Chicago,
Wanna come meet him?
It's okay, nothin' to worry about,
Joe's a straight up guy and I told
him what you did and eh,
he'd like to help you out,
[seagulls chirping]
- That's it, fuck,
I'm gonna take him fuckin' down,
- Joe, this is the kid I was telling you about,
What's your name, kid?
- Clarence Carns,
- Clarence, Joe Chris,
- How you doin'?
- Could be better, I guess,
- [Bern] This is Marvin,
And Sam,
- Hey,
- Good to meet you,
- Come here, Clarence,
Business to discuss,
That a,
buchiach you tuned up,
Nags Richmond,
He's gonna be out of hospital tomorrow,
Word around the campfire is you got a target on your back,
- Yeah, no shit, that's why I hit him,
- Yeah, well when he gets out he's
not gonna be lookin' for a plaything or
askin' you out for a candlelit dinner,
That piece of shit wants you dead,
Problem is, he's a connected guy,
[seagulls chirping]
Now, when Nags comes after you,
you could get the better of him,
Hell, you could even kill him,
But then they'd kill you,
Unless I take care of it,
You want me to take care of it?
- You don't think I can handle it myself?
[chuckling]
Fuckin' balls on this kid,
- I told you,
- No, you can't,
- So if you help me out with this,
what do you want in return?
- Smart kid,
All right, nothing in life is for free,
- So what's the price?
- Your loyalty,
It's important to have friends, especially in here,
[seagulls chirping]
[dark music, distant chatting]
[slashing, grunting, men hollering]
- Get out of here, kid,
[men hollering, gasping]
Come on, hurry the fuck up,
[banging, men hollering]
[broom sweeping, distant talking]
- [Bergen] What are you looking at up there?
- Thought I saw your wife changin',
- You wanna talk about family?
How's that useless junkie son of yours doing?
Oh that's right, he's not doing so good,
Got his head blown off stickin'
up a liquor store for drug money,
- You fuckin' piece of shit, [banging]
- Go on, give me an excuse,
- Come on, Phil,
We got better things to do,
- You missed a spot,
- Shoulda seen the kid's face when Nags hit the deck,
He goddamn shit a brick,
- So what are you in here for anyway?
- Yeah,
Buddy of mine, he held up this gas station
in Oklahoma and my friend, he was real nervous,
He held the gun on a guy while
I was cleaning out the register,
All of a sudden, I heard this bang,
When I turned around,
clerk was lying on the floor in a pool of his own blood,
My buddy took off, let me carry the can,
Still ain't found that son of a bitch,
- Don't sound like enough to end up in here,
What else you do?
- Me and couple guys busted out Leavenworth,
- Guess you didn't get very far,
- Seven days on the run before they captured us,
- Not bad,
Six years back me and Ernie Crout busted
out of McNeil by stowin' away in a garbage truck,
Got picked up after three days,
- Well I guess we've all got our hard luck stories,
- What's yours?
- Robbed a bank in New Haven, Kentucky,
Did some time in Atlanta for that,
I didn't like it much,
I busted out,
- Yeah, old gramps here didn't even get a mile
from the place, did you Bern?
[chuckling] - Fuck you, Joe,
[Joe laughing]
- You made a real good impression with
Joe and the guys,
He's thinks you're a real straight shooter,
- Yeah well I guess I got you to think for that,
- Listen, son,
What I'm gonna tell ya, goes no further,
You understand?
- Yeah,
- Okay then,
We bustin' out,
- Who?
- Me, Joe, Sam and Marvin,
- Yeah, but no ones ever escaped from this place, right?
- Well, some have tried,
No one succeeded,
First time for everything,
[seagulls chirping]
- So where do I fit in in all this?
- [Mumbles] We could do with a guy like you on the team,
And he ain't gonna shoot your shorts when he comes down,
[birds chirping]
How long they give you anyways?
- 99 years,
Eligible for parol after 30,
- Seems the right risk to take then, huh?
[birds chirping]
[distant talking]
[light piano music]
- Take a seat, Clarence,
I don't know if you know or not but
you're the youngest prisoner
we've ever had here at Alcatraz,
- Yes, sir,
- Now you should also we aware that
that's nothing to be proud of,
- Of course, sir,
- Most of the prisoners we have here
will never taste freedom again,
They will die within these walls
or within the walls of another prison,
You, however, have the chance to be particularly unique,
Given your age and with an exemplary record
of good behavior, parole is still possible in your future,
So, with that in mind,
do you really think it's in your best interest to
keep company with a murderer and his associates?
- A man needs friends to survive
in a place like this, Warden,
- Rather naive of you to consider
a group of incurable reprobates friends,
But make no mistake, Clarence,
these criminals' loyalty is based
entirely upon personal gain,
The moment you cease to be useful,
they will cast you aside without another thought,
[light piano music]
- With all do respect, Warden,
why the sudden interest in my well being?
You made it very clear we're here
to be punished, not rehabilitated,
- Yes, normally that is true,
But as I said, your case is unique,
You see, Clarence, obedience to authority
is a biblical principal,
As it says in Romans 13:2,
"Whosoever resist the authorities,
resists what God has appointed,
And those who do so will bring judgment upon themself,"
Now, by the grace of God, I have been given the
task of punishing the prisoners of Alcatraz,
Still, like most human beings,
I like to keep a sliver of hope
that some of them can be reformed,
Unfortunately, hope to lead a civil life died
for most of these men many years ago,
The question you need to ask yourself, Clarence,
is what direction do you wanna take?
[string music continues]
My hope is you will choose a better life,
And within these pages, you can find a new direction
that will lead you to that life,
By absorbing the wisdom within these pages,
you can find salvation and repentance,
But that is your choice, Clarence,
I suggest you begin with John, 24 to 26,
That is all,
- Yes, sir,
- So for the second time, the pharisees
summoned the man who had been blind and said,
"Speak the truth before God, we know
this man is a sinner,"
"Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know,"
The man replied,
"All I know is this, once I was blind and now I can see,"
[distant chatting and whistling]
- [Berns] You see what he's trying to do to you?
- [Clarence] What?
- Turn you into a snitch,
- Look, I'm not a rat,
- Glad to hear that,
- Let me tell you a couple of things, Clarence,
Everything the guys on the top
do is designed to keep the little guy down,
And Warden is at the top,
He sees us as the little guys,
He's trying to plant those seeds
of fear and paranoia,
Make us turn against each other,
- Bern?
Can you give me and Clarence a couple of minutes?
[seagulls chirping]
- Come here, kid,
So Bern tells me he told you about the thing,
- He mentioned it, yeah,
- Well if you want in, I gotta make sure
you're a standup guy,
I can't have a kid breaking his pants
and slowing us down,
- Look, that won't happen,
- That's good to hear but seeing is believing, my friend,
You know what I'm saying?
- So what do you want me to do?
- There's a guy in cell block A, Micky Dallesandro,
He owes me some money,
- You want me to collect?
- No, that ship has sailed,
Final notice time,
- Final notice?
- Yeah,
- How would I, uh, how would I do it?
- Sam will take care of the weapon,
- Well why doesn't Sam just take care of the whole thing?
- Look, kid,
In my line of work, if you wanna
be part of the crew, you gotta make your bones,
If you do this little job for me,
then I can relax knowing you have the
stones for the bigger job,
[birds chirping]
- So when do you want it done?
- Sam will get the weapon to you tomorrow,
Point the guy out,
Then it's up to you,
Let me give you a piece of advice,
Do it quietly,
watch the guy,
pick your moment,
In and out quickly before anyone
knows what the fuck happened,
You make a song and dance of this,
you won't see daylight for years,
You know what i'm sayin'?
- Okay,
- Good,
Bones and some stones, kid,
Bones and stones,
[slow piano music, distant voices echo]
[distant voices, light sweeping]
- What's this?
- Pass it onto the kid, he's fitting Dallesandro for suit,
- Says who?
- Joe gave the order, Clarence agreed,
- Why the fuck ain't you doin' it?
- Kid's gotta make his bones, Bern,
You know how it is,
[light sweeping]
- Go on, that's enough,
- Can I have a word?
- What is it?
- You told the kid to put the button on Dallesandro?
- You got a problem with that?
- Sam or Marvin couldn't do it?
- You don't think the kids got stones for it?
- Not sayin' that, he's just so young,
- You brought him into this, Bern,
If he's old enough to do the other thing,
he's old enough to do this,
- He hasn't done this before,
- What?
- I don't know, what if it doesn't go his way?
- Don't you think you're taking
the same risk by making him part of the other thing?
- It's not the same, it's different,
He could get out, start living his
life again without wasting 30 fuckin' years,
- Why you pushin' this?
- I just don't think he should do it,
He's the least experienced,
Give me the job and I'll take care of it, no problem,
- Look, Bern, I offered the job
to the kid, he accepted it so let's just drop it, okay?
- But Joe-- [tray crashing]
- You disobey an order of mine again,
and I will slit your fuckin' throat,
Fuck, [cup clanging on ground]
Yeah, yeah,
[sighs] [birds chirping]
- I'm supposed to give you something,
Something from Sam,
- Right,
- This sittin' well with you?
- It is what it is,
- Would you be honest with me about it?
- What do you want me to say?
- Okay then,
I'm gonna level with you,
Never told anyone this before,
- What?
- I killed a few people in my time,
Business related, Nothing personal,
Not that that's any excuse,
Thing is, every time I pulled the trigger
it's like a flame inside of me flickered,
You burn out once,
It took me years to get that re-lit again,
- Look, I know this ain't gonna be easy
but this is the life,
- It doesn't have to be your life, kid,
This plan, if it works, we'll get out of here,
Go somewhere, start afresh,
Forget about this miserable fucking
place and everything in it,
It's a lot harder to do that with a stain on your soul,
That's what it feels like, you know?
Some guys can put a button on a guy and feel nothing,
But this,,,
it stays with you you,
You don't know which one you gonna be until you do it,
I feel like,
I feel like everywhere I go,
I carry those ghosts with me,
You don't wanna be haunted like I am, trust me,
- If I don't do this for Joe,
what becomes then of me?
Overnight my chances of survival
in this place fuckin' plummet,
[seagulls chirping]
[distant voices echo]
[sighing]
[door squeaking]
[dark music, urine trickling]
[loud grunting]
- Go, now,
- But-- - Just go,
- Joe asked you to do this, not me,
You understand?
Go!
[light footsteps, distant voices]
[door squeaking]
- How's it goin', Bern?
- Not bad,
[seagulls chirping]
Taking a bit of laundry, man,
Weird habit,
- Yeah,
You know the rumor mill of this
place is an interesting thing,
Most of the time I don't pay attention to it but
sometimes it brews up something that just catches your ear,
- Yeah?
Like what?
- A friend with the laundry,
Word around the campfire is the kid didn't close the deal,
- I heard he couldn't do it,
- You know, you're becoming a very
strange man in your old age, Bern,
- What do you mean?
- You don't know what I'm talkin' about?
- I'm sorry,
No,
[laughing]
- All right, Bern,
Let's get our head in the game, shall we?
Big day tomorrow,
[dramatic, old fashioned music]
- [Old timey narrator] Alcatraz, "The Rock",
the mighty escape-proof jail in San Francisco Bay,
dreaded by every American law breaker,
It is dusk and within the prison, a mutiny
of hardened life-term killers has become war to the death,
Armed with weapons from the prisoner armory,
the prisoners boast they will shoot their way out,
Nobody has yet escaped from Alcatraz,,,alive,
- I tried each one at least three times,
They won't work,
- All right, get in here, on your knees!
On your fuckin' knees!
[heavy breathing]
- [Lageson] Joe?
You need to call this thing off,
Listen to me, even if you did have the keys to the yard,
chances are you'd get gunned down
the moment you stepped outside,
- Fuck that, Joe, We come to far to go back,
- [Lageson] That ain't true, no ones died yet,
- [Sam] Don't buy that horseshit, Joe,
- Don't listen to him Joe, come on,
you can change all this,
No one has to die today,
- Fuck him, Joe,
If we can't get out, let's burn
this motherfucker to the ground,
Take as many bulls with us as we can,
- Starkly, boys, you start killing people now,
and it will be a gas chamber for all of you,
[heavy breathing] Joe, listen to me,
We can get the Warden down here right now,
- All right, shut the fuck up, all of you!
I need to think!
I can't think with you prairie dogs
hollering in my fucking ear!
[breathing heavy]
Fuck!
- How many guards do they have hostage?
- Three,
Lageson, Miller, and Weinhold,
- Okay,
Well considering the strategic disadvantage
because of the hostage situation,
I don't think we have sufficient custodial
strength to move in again,
- But sir, we have to rescue those men,
For all we know, they could be dead already,
- Precisely,
There are too many variables to consider right now,
[sighs] - So what are we gonna do?
Sit here and twiddle our thumbs while
those bastards run riot?
- Bergen,
We have never allowed a prisoner to escape from this jail,
Do you really think I'm gonna allow
these prisoners to change that reputation?
- No, sir,
- So, as it says in Romans 13:4,
"But if you do wrong, be afraid,
for he does not bare the sword in vain,
For he is a servant of the Lord
and avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer,"
- So, what's our next move, sir?
- Call General Stillwell,
It's time to bring in the military,
- This is your final chance,
All of you,
Where is the key?
- I told you, we didn't have it in the first place,
- Lageson?
- God's truth, Joe,
All the keys I had were on that belt,
[laughing]
- Shoot this pieces of shit,
- Whoa, let's not make any rash moves here,
he could still be useful to us,
- Shoot him, Clarence,
Shoot him dead,
- What?
- Put one between his eyes, right here, now!
Come on, Clarence!
[dark music]
Come on, Clarence, huh?
That's it, that's it,
[dark music]
Come on, Clarence,
Do it,
[quiet clicking] - Clarence, don't do it,
- What are you, the fuckin' boss now?
- None of this my fuckin' idea,
- Yeah, it was your idea, this totally--
[dark, dangerous music, men grunting]
Let the kid fight it out,
Come on!
Come on, Clarence,
- Wanna go, kid?
Yeah! [grunting]
[punching]
[punching, grunting]
[man grunting]
Choke him,
Choke that motherfucker,
[grunting]
Come on, Clarence!
Yeah!
Come on, come on, that's my boy,
Yeah! [men grunting]
[punching]
[punching, grunting]
Yeah!
[grunting]
[punching]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
[sighing, gasping]
That's my fucking boy,
Put him out of his misery,
[dark music]
Yeah,
Put him out of his misery or I'll put you out of yours,
- Joe! - Shut the fuck up, Bern,
This got nothin' to do with you,
Now do it, kid,
[dark music]
[gunshot]
That's my boy,
Congratulations,
- Well that's just great,
Now what?
- Now what?
Marv?
[gunshot, man gasping]
- No!
What the fuck?
- Sam,
- No, no,
No, Joe,
It's all right, Weinhold,
- Joe, you don't have to do this,
- It's all right, it's all right,
I'm gonna let you go, It's all right,
It's all right, Come on,
[dark music]
Come on, yeah, come on,
I'm sorry, shush,
Shush, shush, that's it,
That's my boy,
That's it, it's okay, it's okay,
It's all right, yeah, it's all right,
[gunshot, whimpering]
[chuckling]
- Why the long faces?
Motherfuckers deserved it,
You think they'd a showed us any
mercy if roles were reversed?
Fuck no,
Nice one, Joe,
- There are five prisoners that we
know of involved in the disturbance,
Now, their leader appears to be Joesph Christopher,
Christopher's background--
- Let me stop you right there, Warden,
I don't need to know where these men came from,
I only need to know where they're going,
And that's straight to hell,
The eyes of a nation are upon us,
The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people
everywhere march with us in this moment,
I haven't come here to issue an order to hold our position,
I'm not holding a goddamn thing,
Except the enemy,,,by the balls,
Our ultimate goal here is to regain
control of this institution and
send a big clear message
that you fuck with Alcatraz,
Alcatraz will fuck with you,
[dark impending music]
- You know, there's something I can't get out of my head,
- Oh yeah?
What's that?
- I've always been proud of my ability to spot a liar,
[scoffs]
My mother, may she rest in peace,
would say, "Takes one to know one,"
and I know my instinct has never betrayed me,
Weinhold and Miller said they didn't
have the keys, they we're telling the truth,
They never had the keys,
The real kicker is, Lageson,
That motherfucker was convinced
those keys we're on his belt,
- So what are you sayin', Joe?
We got a traitor in our midst,
[dark music]
- Oh come on, you're just being paranoid,
- Am I, Bern?
- [Bern] Yeah,
- Well someone's fucked me over
and I ain't never been fucked over,
And I'm gonna figure out who the fuck it is,
[dark music]
[quiet shuffling]
- Miller?
Miller?
[quiet shuffling, gasping]
[dark music]
[quietly grunting]
[shushing]
[Whispering] Be quiet,
Be quiet,
Be quiet, You have to be quiet,
[quiet shuffling]
[panting]
You keep the pressure on that, you keep it tight,
[quiet shuffling, dark music]
[panting]
Okay, okay, okay,
- You two will advance on the west side
exterior of cell block B, there's a window position there,
I want you to drop two grenades in,
You two, same process, but the west side
exterior in cell block A,
Two more grenades in that section,
Now, they'll have a choice,
When they see those grenades come in,
they can either remain there and
be blown to kingdom come or they can
run back into the corridor that leads to cell block C,
You two will be positioned in cell block C,
Soon as those sons of bitches enter,
I want you to fill them so full of holes,
they'll whistle as they fall,
Bergen, I want you to take up a snipers
position here in the Warden's office,
That window has a commanding view of the whole yard,
And if by some miracle those bastards make it that far,
shoot, And shoot to kill,
- Got it,
- Okay, let's go!
- You know, they say it's the quiet ones you gotta watch,
What do you say, Marv?
You havin' yourself a little silent rebellion over here?
- I don't know nothin' about that key, Joe,
I wanna get out of here, same as you,
- Gonna shine a spotlight on me now, Joe?
- Just givin' you a day in court, Sam,
I think you deserve that,
So what do you gotta say about this here?
- I'm not a fucking traitor,
- [Joe] So we agree there is one?
- Look, I don't know about that, Joe,
You want my two cents?
I thought we all came along on this thing
'cause we wanted the fuck out of this place,
Makes no sense to hide a key and grind this shit to a halt,
Why would anyone do that?
- Well hell, Sam, I don't know,
Maybe someone's not happy with the current leadership!
Someone's disgruntled, perhaps,
Somebody wants to stay here and
make a play for the leadership!
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven,
- You think I wanna be the leader, Joe?
- Well, if you do, Sam, you remember this,
heavy lies the head that wears the crown,
- How many people have I clipped on your say-so, Joe?
Shit, I'd take my own mother out if you gave me the nod,
And you're gonna stand there and question my loyalty?
I wasn't disgruntled before but
I fucking am now you crazy fuck!
- All right, Sam,
[patting]
All right, Sam,
Take it easy,
[loud shuffling, dark music]
[grunting, panting]
[dark music, door knob rattling]
So, what do you gotta say about this, Bern?
- Not a lot, Joe,
- We haven't been seeing eye to eye recently, have we?
- Planning this shit ain't been easy,
it's a lot of tensions flying around,
- You wanna get out of here, Bern?
- Of course I fucking do, this whole things my idea,
- True,
But maybe you got cold feet,
Maybe your eyes are bigger than your balls,
Maybe an institutionalized old
fuck like you realized that life on
the outside was pretty fucking daunting,
- You know, Joe, if you're on a mission
to piss off every member of your crew,
well you fuckin' succeeded,
- You're a clever man, Bern,
You've given me a lot of words,
but you haven't given me the right answer,
- No, Joe, I didn't take the fucking key,
Happy now?
Jesus,
- What do you gotta say, kid?
You've been the source of some of the shit
between me and Bern recently,
- Look, Joe, that was never my intention,
- It ain't your fault,
Old Bern here has a good heart,
Took you under his wing, took care of you,
Real nice of him, don't you think?
- Yeah, - Yeah,
He's a real standup guy,
But here's the thing, He's been in a criminal
life for decades and he's never
risen above your standard foot soldier,
Why do you think that is?
- I don't know, Joe, maybe he didn't want it,
- Oh, I think he did,
The reason why he'd never been
a contender for the top seat is,
his judgment is fuckin' suspect,
[screams]
- What am I supposed to do?
Just stand there while you talk about
me like I'm not even here?
- Back against the wall, Bern,
Get back!
[quiet clicking, dark impending music]
- [General] Received, over,
Await my command, [scratching radio noise]
[dark impending music]
- Let's get down to brass tacks, kid,
I've known these guys for years,
When you do real time with someone,
you really get to know them,
You've only been here a month or two,
And I'm just wondering if you can
let a broken down old fuck like
that get in your ear, who else could get in there?
- I don't know what you're talking about, Joe,
- Your meetin' you had with the Warden,
- First thing I fucking did was
come and tell you guys about it,
- That don't mean nothin'!
Could be just covering your tracks,
- Covering my tracks on what?
- Being the Warden's snitch,
- What the fuck?
- Well somethin' don't smell right!
Somethin' don't fuckin' smell right!
The way we fuckin' planned this
we had a ten minute gap before that siren went off!
When we grabbed those guns,
that armed response was right there!
- What you think I'm the fuckin' rat, Joe?
- Well it makes fuckin' sense, don't it?
What'd the Warden tell ya, huh?
Put skids on the operation, you get a reduced sentence?
- You lost your goddamn mind,
- Yeah!
That's the old way down for you,
You know what, I shoulda smashed
your fucking ears the moment this shit started,
You fucking rat!
What the fuck?
- You're making a big fucking mistake, Joe,
- Whoa, come on, guys,
- Bern, how many fucking years have we known each other?
It doesn't have to be this way, man,
- Well, you shoulda though of that
before you pulled a gun on the kid,
[dark music, heavy breathing]
- Come on, Bern, the kid's a fuckin' rat,
He's a fuckin' rat, Bern!
- You're wrong, Joe,
The kid may be many things but he ain't no rat,
- [Joe] Kids a fuckin' rat, he's 'bout to go
down with the dirt now,
- Shoot him, I'll put a bullet in the back of your skull,
- And I'll put a bullet in the back of yours,
Put the gun down Bernie and back the fuck off,
- [Bern] Fuck you,
- Back the fuck off, Bern!
This kid's gonna get a bullet in the head,
- You back off! - You first, Bernie,
[dark, impending music]
- Grenades go in on the count of three,
One,
[quiet clicking]
- Back the fuck off, Bern!
This kid's 'bout to go down!
- Back the fuck off, - Fuck you,
- Two,
[dark, impending music]
[clicking]
Three,
[guns firing]
[explosion]
[crashing, dark music]
[groaning]
- Bernie? [groaning]
Bernie?
Oh come on, Bernie,
Bernie? [sighing]
[panting] Bernie?
- Bar's closing, kid,
Last orders,
- No, no, no, no, no,
Come on, Bernie, Hang in there, man,
Hang in there,
- What about you?
Go on, get outta here,
- It's over, Bernie,
It's fuckin' over,
[panting]
- Not quite,
The key to the yard,
Go, Take it,
Get out of here,
You still waitin'?
- You had it this whole time?
- Yeah,
- Why?
- I'm tired,
Leave me in peace,
There's things we regret in this life,
Chances you didn't take,
[sad, slow music]
[shuffling]
[dark upbeat music]
[lock clicking]
[dark, intense music]
- [General] Is that one of the convicts?
- That's Clarence,
- Take him down,
- No!
- Sir?
- I said take him down, Bergen,
- No, this is my prison, General,
I am still giving the orders around here,
[dark, impending music]
- I have a clean shot, - Take it!
- [Warden] Don't!
- Take it! - No, I said no!
- I need some fucking clarification here,
- Take it!
- Don't you dare take that shot, Bergen,
[dark, upbeat music]
[cell door banging]
-[Narratoe] The spoon proves mightier than the bars
at supposedly escape-proof Alcatraz Prison,
Three bank robbers serving long terms
scratched their ways through grills covering
an air vent, climbed the drainage pipe
and disappeared from the forbidding rock
in San Francisco Bay,
It appears to be the first successful escape
in the history of the maximum security prison,
And the flight is attributed by
Warden Olin Blackwell to the deteriorating
condition of the prison,
Crumbling concrete and eroding metals
with five million need for repairs,
[dramatic, old fashioned music]
The men the walls couldn't hold
are Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin,
Authorities believe that Morris,
who has a superior IQ, masterminded the escape,
Ironically, the wanted posters
offer only the nominal award of 50 dollars each
for information leading to the arrest of the prisoners,
They painstakingly fashioned dummies
of plaster with hair of paint brush bristles
to stand in for them during cell check,
While they covered an escape hole
with a cardboard grill,
All of this was within easy visual range
of the guards in the gun galleries,
They climbed drain pipes to the top of the cell block
and then slid down fence to the ground,
Again, all of this within sight of guards,
The escape triggered the greatest man hunt
in San Francisco's history as agents
of the FBI, Coast Guardsman, Highway Patrol,
Sheriff Deputies and local Police join in the search,
Whatever their fate, the three convicts
have apparently accomplished a feat that
many have tried with no success,
[birds chirping, distant footsteps]
[knocking]
[birds chirping, door squeaking]
- When did you get out?
- This morning,
- So,
What do you want?
- Just to talk for five minutes,
[birds chirping]
- Okay,
- Thanks,
Haven't seen this photo of us in years,
- I always liked that one,
That's the last picture of us
together before you went to prison,
You know, I tried to visit you so many times
in those first few years of your sentence,
They told me you refused visitors,
- Yeah, I was a foolish kid back then,
Full of anger and confusion,
- I figured you wanted to cut off
all contact so I just stopped trying,
- I understand,
- Why are you here?
- I was hoping that maybe one day
I could earn your forgiveness,
- You know what Mom and Dad would
have said about forgiveness?
- Only God forgives,
- Yeah,
I'm guessin' you need somethin' a little closer to home,
- You know, Alice, I,,,
I have so many regrets,
I never should have cut myself off from you,
Family always meant the world to me,
So when Mom and Dad hurt me,
I spent years resenting everyone for it,
I couldn't deal with my feelings,
I was just a stupid young punk
who was scared and desperate,
I see the truth now,
You were all that I cared about most in this world,
And I lost you,
And now I know it was all for nothin',
You have to know that I had
a whole different future planned,
- Wasn't easy growing up with our parents,
We all make mistakes, especially when we're young,
I want you to know, I don't hold anything against you,
I never did,
You've always been my brother and you always will be,
- I just wanna be in your life again,
Be a brother to you, finally,
- I'd like that,
[sighing]
[epic music]
- [Clarence] So for the second time, the pharisees
summoned the man who had been blind and said,
"Speak the truth before God,
We know this man is a sinner,"
"Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know,"
The man replied,
"All I know is this,
once I was blind and now I can see,"
[dramatic music]