분야
hwpMarker.
Jamal!
Jamal, are you awake?
I know you can hear me.
Im writing all this down.
I have that thing with your teacher...
...then Im working late. So youll have to
take care of yourself for dinner, okay?
- Okay?
- Okay.
I thought you wanted to get up by 7:30.
Hear the chains sing?
Check that up, man.
Hold on. What up, J? Where you been?
Asleep, yo.
I was up late
wondering how Id save your ass out here.
What are you saving?
J, break him up, man.
You cant give him that.
- You cant give him that.
- Im awake now.
You got something for me?
Souffl, baby!
You got nothing for me.
A lot of good thats doing.
Hes bringing something for the Window.
- You ever seen him?
- The Window?
No, but he see us, man.
Come on, man.
Whats wrong with yall?
Dont you want to play ball?
Wake up.
In ...
...Poe wrote his most famous piece,
The Raven.
A poem he wrote while he was strung out
on coke and obsessed with death.
The Raven is like the football team.
Theyre obsessed with death,
always get their ass kicked.
Baltimore Ravens: only pro football team
named after a classic poem.
Anyone read it?
"Once upon a midnight dreary
"while I pondered weak and weary"
Jamal, how about it?
I never read it.
Okay, I need those essays by next Tuesday.
My dad saw the Window, man.
About years ago.
Standing there like a ghost,
like the ones in our science books.
Just like that, man.
- He was white?
- Aint milk white?
What ghost isnt white?
Im just playing, man.
I heard he killed someone.
Thats why he stays inside.
Listen, you got to kill an army
to have to hide here.
Yall play too much. Remember Shurrita?
The one who lived below the Window?
She calls me up
this one night buggin, dog.
Saying how she heard a tapping sound
coming from the Windows place.
Tap...
While she was on the phone,
she started screaming.
Cause now the tapping has made its way
downstairs somehow.
Tap...
And now it was on the other side
of her door.
She could tell he was tapping
with some kind of knife.
And then the phone disconnected.
That was the last time we seen Shurrita.
Shurrita who lived across the street?
That girl is a crack ho.
No, she was nice.
All I know is the Windows bad news.
Rules was...
...if you went outside, you stayed away
from the Windows place.
We need to stay away from your lying ass.
You believe me, right?
You full of shit, dog.
Damn.
Let me guess. Youd go up in there, right?
Its an old man looking out a window.
Youd go up there, right?
- He wont go.
- Let them know, J.
- He wont go.
- This niggas scared.
Yo, I got the next call.
- So?
- So...
...I dare you to go up there, right?
Right?
Whatever, man. Ill go up there. Yeah.
- Hes going.
- Big shot.
Bring it on.
Thats my dog.
D, I believe you, dog.
Shut up. Go to class or something.
Here, man. Sit over here.
- Stop playing with me.
- This is my birthday.
Go over there.
- Fine. I wont sit near you.
- Take your apple, too.
- Miss Joyce?
- Yeah.
- Good to see you.
- You, too. Come, sit down.
We got Jamals test scores back.
- Test scores?
- Assessment tests.
All of the kids are required to take them.
He didnt tell you, did he?
Mrs. Wallace,
Jamal maintains a C average...
...which means he does enough to get by
and just enough not to stand out.
What makes Jamals case unusual
are his test results.
Oh, my God.
I see him reading these books all the time.
Books I never read.
Some Ive never even heard of.
And hes always writing in his notebooks.
Ever since his father left.
But thats what I see.
All he ever talks about is basketball.
Basketball is where he gets his acceptance.
The kids here dont care about
what he can write.
Lets go! Between the yellow lines!
Yo, T.
- How are you, Fly?
- Maintaining.
You looking for tickets, little bro?
Dead tonight. Sorry about that.
Come on. We know you got tickets.
I got four words for you:
Boss Tunn Red Sox.
The Yanks and Sox tickets
have been sold out for a month.
Okay, Mr. Fly? By the way...
...go tell Camry boy there
to back up his cheap-ass bumper...
...on that Mercedes over there.
Go handle that. Lets go, Fly!
What the hell, Jamal? Mom called.
- Told me about that test. Whats up?
- Nothing.
What do you mean, "nothing"?
This getting in the way
of your plans or something?
It was your plan first, T.
Yeah, I know. A little college ball...
...then start signing checks for everyone,
solve their problems.
Look at me, though.
Hold a minute.
Hold onto these.
I guess this makes it our plan now.
One thing.
Dont tell nobody about them test scores.
Dont worry. Im your brother, dog.
Whatever we discuss stays between us.
Love you, dog. All right?
Just remember one thing.
Mom will know when the game ends,
so you take your ass straight home.
Dont get into no trouble, man. Be careful.
Stay safe. Love, dog.
- Okay, T. Good lookin.
- Be careful, man.
It stinks in here.
J, see that window?
He keeps that one cracked sometimes.
The lights been out for two hours.
You sure he asleep?
That Methuselahs a thousand years old.
Thats all he ever do.
Yo, J, for the reals, I dont know
