ADAM: My friend Sully, John Sutherland.
I was hoping you could print something in your paper--
a notice or anything.
I mean, the police don't seem that interested in finding him.
What's your name again?
Adam.
Yes, Adam.
I'm well aware.
[SIGHING]
What happened to your hand?
Do you know what it feels like to have hot needles
hammered into your nail beds?
It feels like an injection of flame and incineration
of every nerve in your body shooting
inward from your fingertips.
I was abducted last night.
Someone drugged me, tied me up, tortured me,
held a blade to my heart.
I was held captive for hours.
I don't know who did this to me.
But I am certain that our boys in blue
know that a killer is preying on and butchering
gay men in lower Manhattan.
For God knows what reason, I was spared.
I was saved by better angels when
I was sure no one would come.
I survived.
Who will be next?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
You think there will be more?
GINO: I'm tracking a 30% increase
in violence against gay men in the last two years--
17 beatings and bashings in the last three weeks
in the village alone.
And guess where there's no use in going, the NY-- fucking--
PD.
They hate us.
The police hate us.
The city hates us.
And I know people in City Hall and in the NYPD are gay men.
And some of them I know really well.
If I hadn't been spared, would they
have even looked into my death, risked outing themselves
by demanding answers?
Or would they just have gone on with their lives?
Whatever that gay guy got mixed up in
must have gotten him killed.
But I woke up.
I am alive.
And I will do whatever I can.
I will sit in front of this pathetic, shitty typewriter.
And I will tell the six dozen like-minded homos who read
this that they are after us.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
At least that's something.
[RINGING]
Your friend isn't coming home, Adam.
He's probably dead.
And you're going to have to have a long think about what
you want to do about that.
What if people had a number to call, someone
on the other end of the line who just listen,
writes it all down? - I'm sorry.
You want to start a hotline?
No, no, just a way to gather, I guess--
get tips and report on what's really happening,
make a record of it all, give them
a phone number to dial so that they can say what they've seen.
We record it.
We share it.
We?
I'm angry too.
I've been angry.
I just, I didn't know what to do with it.
I want to start a fire.
You'll be putting a target on your back.
I already have one.
I don't know.
I just-- I--
I didn't think this was going to be a job interview.
Neither did I.
[MUSIC - BLONDIE, "CALL ME"]
BLONDIE: (SINGING) Color me your color, baby.
Color me your car.
Color me your color, darling, I know who you are.
Come up off your color chart.
I know where you're coming from.
Call me--
BACKUP SINGERS: Call me.
BLONDIE: --on the line, call me, call me any, any time.
Call me.
BACKUP SINGERS: Call me.
BLONDIE: I'll arrive.
You can call me any day or night.
Call me.
BACKUP SINGERS: Call me.
BLONDIE: Call me for your lover's lover's alibi.
Call me.
[INAUDIBLE].
[MUSIC PLAYING]