The Juvie Three

Roxanne finishes her shift at the hospital and reflects on her motives for helping Gecko and his friends, wondering if she’s wrong to judge them when she’s known nothing but privilege. Roxanne goes to see Healy and offers him some hot chocolate and company in the kitchen.

Gecko, Terence, and Arjay have commandeered a laundry delivery truck and take off for the hospital, but they become stuck in a traffic jam. They wait in increasing panic, but finally the traffic lets up and they rush to the hospital. A night watchman patrols outside, but he quickly disappears, and Terence picks the lock on the gate. The boys drive in and wait for Roxanne and Healy.

At Roxanne’s house, her parents have called Roxanne’s friend and learned that their daughter isn’t where she said she’d be. Roxanne’s father calls Mike Delancey, who takes out Gecko’s file. He muses that Gecko had a lucky break and was foolish to be throwing it away over a girl. In Gecko’s file is a photo of Healy; Mike recognizes him as an amnesiac man who had recently been transferred to a psychiatric hospital—the one Mike helped Roxanne move her volunteer position to.

At the appointed time, Roxanne ushers Healy out the kitchen door and into the laundry truck. An alarm sounds from the hospital. The van drives away, and a cop car follows close behind. Gecko does his best to evade it, finally disappearing underneath a bridge. They catch their breaths in the darkness before realizing they’ve driven onto a railroad and a train is bearing down on them.

Gecko safely pulls the van out of harm’s way and they drive along the train tracks before finding a way back up to the main road. They head back toward home, uncertain of what to do next. As they drive, the boys try to trigger Healy’s memory, telling him about his life and his time in the halfway house, to no effect. Gecko and Arjay try to convince Roxanne to go home, but she insists on staying. They arrive at the apartment to find that the front lock has been broken open.

Once inside, the group is attacked by DeAndre and his friends, who have been lying in wait. DeAndre holds a knife to Terence’s throat and tells the others that they’ll leave peacefully if they don’t interfere. Gecko sees the broken bowling trophy and throws it at DeAndre, who drops his knife. Terence takes off toward the bedroom and the window leading to the fire escape. Healy kicks the knife away, noticing the bowling trophy with his name on it as he does. Everybody makes their way to the fire escape.

As Healy climbs out the window onto the fire escape, he hears the sound of his shoes hitting the metal and remembers the same sound from the last time he was there, just before his fall. He looks around at his surroundings and realizes he’s been there before. All of his memories come rushing back.

Terence, DeAndre, Gecko, and Arjay are brawling on the stars; DeAndre is trying to push Terence over the edge. Gecko and Arjay try to help but are restrained by DeAndre’s friends. Suddenly, the police, including Mike, show up below. DeAndre’s friends take off but are closed in by police cars.