college.
It's run by the Sisters of St. Anne.
Where is that?
In Tarrytown.
-Where's that?
-In the country.
I don't like the country.
The crickets make me nervous.
How often do you get in here?
I haven't been here since last Christmas.
We were going to have
a Thanksgiving party.
That's nice.
What do you do up there? Just study?
I want to be a teacher.
Teacher? That's very good.
Personally, I admire brains.
My brother Charley is a very brainy guy.
He had a couple of years of college.
It isn't just brains. It's how you use them.
Yeah, I get your thought.
You know, I've seen you
a lot of times before.
Do you remember parochial school
out on Puluski Street?
Seven, eight years ago?
-Your hair, you had your hair...
-Braids.
Looked like a hunk of rope.
You had wires on your teeth and glasses.
Everything.
You was really a mess.
I can get home all right now, thanks.
Don't get sore.
I was just kidding you a little bit.
I just mean to tell you that you're,
you grew up very nice.
Thanks.
You don't remember me, do you?
I remembered you
the first moment I saw you.
By the nose, huh?
Some people just got faces that
stick in your mind.
I remember you were in trouble
all the time.
Now you got me.
The way those sisters used to whack me,
I don't know what.
They thought they was going to beat
an education into me, but I foxed them.
Maybe they just didn't know how
to handle you.
How would you have done it?
With a little more patience and kindness.
That's what makes people
mean and difficult.
People don't care enough about them.
Are you kidding me?
I'd better get you home.
There's too many guys around here
with only one thing on their mind.
Am I going to see you again?
What for?
I don't know.
I really don't know.
Come on.
You're all packed. Here's your bus ticket
and you're on your way back to St. Anne's.
I'm not ready to go back yet, Pop.
Edie, for years your mom and me
put quarters in the cookie jar...
...to keep you up there with the sisters...
...and keep you from things like
I've just seen outside the window.
A daughter of mine walking arm in arm
with Terry Malloy.
-Do you know who Terry Malloy is?
-Who is he, Pop?
He's the kid brother of Charley the Gent...
...who is Johnny Friendly's right hand
and a butcher in a camel hair coat.
Are you trying to tell me Terry is, too?
He tries to act tough...
...but there's a look in his eye.
Yeah, a look in his eye.
Hold your hats, brothers, here we go again.
You think he's one of them cases
you're always dragging into the house...
...and feeling sorry for...
...like that litter of kittens you brought in.
The only one you wanted to keep
had six toes and was cockeyed to boot.
Look at him. The little bum.
He said he wants to see me again.
See this arm?
Two inches longer than the other.
That's from years of working and sweating,
lifting and swinging a hook.
Every time I heist a box or a coffee bag,
I says to myself...
...that is for Edie so she can be
a teacher or something decent.
I promised your mom, Edie.
Don't let her down.
I don't want you to think
I'm not grateful for everything you've done.
For giving me the education
and keeping me away from all this.
But I've seen things
that I know are so wrong.
How can I go back to school and keep
my mind on things that are just in books...
...that aren't people living?
I'm going to stay.
I'm going to keep on trying
to find out who is guilty for Joey.
Hi.
What are you doing up there on the roof?
Just looking.
Take a look at the champion flock
of the neighbourhood.
Fly pretty nice, huh?
Golden Warriors?
Yeah. I founded the Golden Warriors.
Might say that I was
the original Golden Warrior.
This bum here is my shadow.
He thinks I'm a tough man
because I boxed pro a lot.
Joey used to raise pigeons.
Joey used to raise pigeons.
Yeah, he had a few birds.
I've been taking care of them.
I wouldn't have thought
you'd be so interested in