Mike: (pours a drink) "So who do you want to invite?"
Jason: "Ahhh......Renaldo."
Mike: "Besides Renaldo."
Jason: "Hmmmm. I'll-I'll think about that."
Mike: "You know, this is an excellent idea. I mean I am really in favor of rituals, because when all is said and done, you......." (pauses) "Who the hell am I kidding? I went to my own wedding. I went to Michael's first communion. Everything else I skipped. But this is good, and its right."
Jason (sighs) "Yeah. Well, Mike, I've never been to a Christening. I've only ever been to funerals." (Jason hangs his head and sits down on the coffee table. He's talking in a sad voice) "And today I thought about funerals." (pauses) "Joseph's and Pete's."
Mike: (goes and sits down on the couch) "Listen. Hey." (Jason has his face buried in his hands) "The baby's okay." (Jason looks up) "And you are doing what you promised to do for him......By the way, did the cops ever show up at the docks?"
Jason: "If they did, there was nothing to be found by then."
Mike: "Well, you're going to get a reputation like Batman or the Green Hornet or.....you know possible massacre, but you escape without a scratch. That's the kinda of thing that sends Catholic grandmothers right to church to light candles."
Jason: "The kid needs godparents."
Mike: "You're okay. You've got til Friday."
Jason: "Did you have godparents?"
Mike: "Oh, I must have, but I was a rotten kid, so they probably changed their names and went into the Witness Protection Program."
Jason: "Still you know how it works."
Mike: "I don't think there's any special trick to it."
Jason: "You busy Friday afternoon?"
Pause
Mike: "I don't have to be."
Pause
Jason: "Want to be one of them?"
Pause
Mike: "Me be the godfather?"
Jason: (nods his head) "Only if you want."
Mike: (holding back tears) "I can do that."
Jason: "Cool." (Jason smiles) "Hey. The kid's got a godfather." (Jason and Mike stand up)
Mike: "And I got a god son." (Mike and Jason smile) "Well it probably is totally inapproriate to drink to something like that, but my son bought a church an organ. So I'm going to drink to it anyway." (Mike raises his glass and turns away from Jason and is overcome with emotion)
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