Calvin calls his brother out, asking him why he told him to go check out the Powwow in the first place-did he know what was coming for him in that parking lot? And, if so, why did he want him to get robbed? To keep him around?Ĭharles and Carlos take Calvin to a house party. They have come to collect the money Calvin owes-he had gotten robbed in the parking lot-but he doesn’t have it yet. Carlos gets home from and work and has dinner with Maggie and Sonny, but they are interrupted by the arrival of their brother, Charles, and his friend, Carlos. Maggie has bipolar disorder, like their mother, but unlike her, Maggie is medicated and has her life together. It feels more like home than home did, ever since their dad left them.

He likes living with her and her daughter, Sonny. He reaches it, ready to destroy it, but the drone escapes, over the edge of the coliseum and out of sight.Ĭalvin is living at his sister Maggie’s house. He runs toward it, getting closer and angrier. He yells at it to stop, watching it through his binoculars. Doing his job at the stadium, Bill sees a drone flying around. When he got out, in 1989, he got hired by Oakland Athletics, where he works now. He got sentenced to five years in San Quentin jail for stabbing someone outside a bar, completely drunk. He returned from Vietnam, doing so many drugs that the only thing he can remember now from that time is watching sports games. In 1971, he was dishonorably discharged from Vietnam for going AWOL. Bill thinks the incident is both funny and sad.īill hasn’t always had his life so together.

He thinks about the day Edwin got kicked off the bus for an incident with a vet, who chased him all the way to work from his wheelchair. She convinces him, saying that Edwin can’t handle riding the bus home and that it’s important that he feels comfortable going to work so that, eventually, he can move out. It is indeed Karen, calling to ask him to pick up Edwin after work. Bill is pessimistic about the way things are going since most kids these days are just like Edwin. Bill thinks Edwin is a big thirty-year-old baby, tech-savvy but unprepared for the real world. He imagines that Karen is calling about some matter related to her son, Edwin. Bill’s reveries are interrupted by a phone call from Karen, his girlfriend. He takes pride in his work, even though he knows he was only given this particular job out of respect for how long he’s been working at the stadium. He is part of the maintenance crew after games. Bill moves through the bleachers, picking up trash.

There there tommy orange