There's a world out there you know nothing about.
Boone's thinking about this as he leaves Tammy's apartment, gets back in the BMW, and starts to drive. It's getting dark and the streetlights are coming on; the ocean is going slate gray and headed toward black.
What were you trying to say, Tammy? Boone thinks.
Okay, back it up again.
Tammy has a picture of a girl named Luce in her apartment. Teddy goes into the reed beds by the strawberry fields and, protected by a bunch of armed mojados, comes out a little while later with the same girl. He takes her to a motel room, feeds her drugs, and is about to rape her, when you bust in. You put Teddy into the wall.
The girl runs, Danny's muscle comes in. They grab Teddy and he leads them right to where he's stored Tammy at Shrink's. You get there first. They try to shoot her, but it doesn't work. You get her back to your place, tell her about Angela, and…
She's not surprised.
Tammy knew already.
She didn't send Angela to the Crest Motel to switch places; she went with her. She was in the motel the night Angela was murdered. Was it a jealousy thing? Did Tammy set Angela up? Did she kill her herself? Tammy's a big, strong girl; she could have pitched Angela off that balcony.
That would be crazy, because when she left the motel, she went to Angela's place. She took a shower; she lay down. Made coffee she didn't drink, toast she didn't eat. Then she called Teddy, who hid her out at Shrink's. You put some heat on him and he ran, not to Tammy but to…
The strawberry fields, looking for the girl.
And Teddy knew right where to look for her because he'd been there before. He drove right to the strawberry fields, and when I tried to follow him, I got the shit beat out of me by a trio of very angry mojados kicking and punching me and calling me a Pendejo, lambioso…
Bastard, ass-licker…
… picaflor.
Child molester.
So they were used to guys coming to the reeds to look for little girls. That's what they thought I was doing there, so that must be a place where pedophiles go. And the guy with the shotgun, the kid with the machete, the old man, they were fed up with it. They saw a chance to do something about it and they did it, except…
It was okay for Teddy to go to the strawberry fields to find a little girl, but not me. They let him through, but they stopped me, so
… You're a moron, Daniels, he tells himself. The mojados weren't selling the kid; they were protecting her. But they let Teddy take her to the motel room.
He pulls onto Crystal Pier, gets out of the car, and goes into his place. Walks into the bedroom, goes to the desk, and opens the drawer.
Rain Sweeny looks up at him.
She has a silver chain with a cross around her neck.
“Talk to me,” Boone says. “Please, honey, talk to me.”
There's a world out there you know nothing about…
… If you'd seen what I've seen.
Boone sets the picture of Rain down and gets the pistol from his night-stand. Sticks it in the waistband of his jeans and heads back out.
He's going to make this right, but he has one place to stop first.
Make that right, too.