![]() A mini mart employee asks Jimmy what he has against Brendan, who seems like a nice kid. Brendan is surprised not to find Katie working there, and he asks for her, but Jimmy curtly dismisses him in spite of his friendly nature. A classmate of his older daughter, Brendan Harris, (Tom Guiry), comes into the mini mart on Sunday morning with his younger brother, a deaf mute. They kiss amorously and promise to meet each other later. She runs back out to her car, and Brendan surprises her by rising up from the floor of the back seat where he was hiding. Katie enters the mart to tell her dad that she is going out with her friends for the evening and won't be home until late. This especially goes for the eleven year old, who will be experiencing her first communion at church tomorrow. Annabeth has to remind him not to dote so much on Katie as the younger girls need their father's love and attention as well. The nineteen year old, Katie (Emmy Rossum), remains his favorite, perhaps because she is older, but also maybe because she is all that he has left of his first wife. The older daughter is now nineteen while the younger girls are eleven and eight in age. He is once again married, this time to Annabeth (Laura Linney), a devoted wife who has born him two more daughters after the one that was left after her mother died. Now he skirts the edges of the law with numerous black tattoos covering his body to remind everyone of his past as a prison inmate. The ratting was not the only thing that made him an angry man though, as his first wife died while he was in prison and he was not able to be there to comfort her. Someone had ratted on him sixteen years before and he ended up spending two years in prison. Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn) runs a small mini mart on the corner that may or may not be a front for some illegal smuggling activity, untaxed cigarettes, perhaps. They have not been close since the sad events of that horrible day. All three boys are now grown men as it is now some 25 years later. Nothing happens for four long days until Boyle, who had been kept locked in the basement of a deserted house, finally escapes his captors and flees for home. The parents of the kids, many of whom have had prior brushes with the law, realize that this is not orthodox police procedure and a search party for David is quickly organized. Meanwhile, the other man in the front seat of the car, a quiet man with a large cross prominently displayed on one of his rings suggesting that he might be a member of the clergy, turns around and looks at David Boyle with predatory delight and eager anticipation. Boyle is thrown in the back of the car and their last view of each other is of him gazing poignantly out of the rear window of that sedan. ![]() The man decides to make an example of one of the boys, so he grabs David Boyle and tells him that he is going to bring him downtown to the police station and then call his mother. This gives him a presumed air of authority, and he starts badgering the kids about their "destruction of municipal property." Silent and even a little surly at first, the three kids are soon cowering in fear. Dave Boyle is just starting to write his name down when a car door opens across the street and a large man steps out with handcuffs and what looks like a badge strapped to his belt. Wandering around without much purpose, they spy a drying section of concrete and they all decide to write their names in the still wet cement so that their names will be preserved "forever." Jimmy Markum and Sean Devine finish their names first. ![]() As is so often the case with street games like this, the gutter drain finally sucks up the last of their hockey balls and they are suddenly left with nothing to do. Three young boys, all the best of friends, are playing stick hockey on a side street in a gritty area of Boston near the port facilities on the Mystic River.
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