They start with the derelict to whom they attempt to give a hot foot, then move to Douglas, then to Kenneth – whom they physically prevent from leaving the train – and so on. Joe and Artie board at the 170th Street station and proceed to psychologically terrorize, humiliate and degrade every single adult passenger, as the train passes through the next 15 stations. Eden Avenue, frustrated and angry Arnold Robinson, and his long-suffering wife Joan, a black couple, board after attending a charitable event for inner-city youth. Felix Teflinger, who has a broken arm, board after having dinner with Carmatti's Italian-American parents.Īt the Burnside Avenue station, after leaving a cocktail party, middle-aged Muriel Purvis boards with her mousey husband, Harry, whom she resents for earning less money than many of their friends and having no ambition at 176th Street, out-of-work, recovering alcoholic Douglas McCann, boards, joined by Kenneth Otis, a homosexual man who earlier made an unsuccessful attempt at befriending McCann. Phillip Carmatti, and his Oklahoman friend Pfc.

When they enter the last car of the train, which only has one working door, its only other passenger is a sleeping derelict.Īt Bedford Park Boulevard–Lehman College, teenage virgin Alice Keenan, and her sexually aggressive date Tony Goya, board at Kingsbridge Road elderly Jewish couple Bertha and Sam Beckerman, who have been arguing about the responsibilities of the younger generation, board at Fordham Road, soldiers Pfc. After giving a hard time to a pool hall owner for closing early, they briefly harass a passing couple, then mug an old man for his eight dollars and beat him into unconsciousness.īill Wilks, his wife, Helen, and their sleeping 5-year-old daughter board a southbound 4 subway train at the Bronx's Mosholu Parkway station at 2:15 AM, after Bill refuses to take a cab to their home in Flushing, Queens, suggesting his wife is a spendthrift. On a late Sunday evening in the Bronx, punks Joe Ferrone and Artie Connors are looking for trouble.

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