As the police interrogate her, the secret unfolds about Ray, Jimmy, and herself. A mysterious woman, Doris Knight, appears in town looking for her private detective. Figuring out where Ray is going, Jimmy wants to stop him, and a fight is started for which Ray is obviously ready, and has been expecting it all along.Ī few days after that Jimmy is nowhere to be seen, with everyone except Traci assuming that he has left the town. On his way he is stopped by Ray who takes advantage of the absence of Kate and the boys and tells Jimmy that he needs to know who he really is and why he keeps on calling Jimmy "Little Boy Blue". He leaves her house and goes back to his place. She listens to his shocking story about Ray's abusive behavior, and is startled when Jimmy says that he cannot leave his own sons with such a Vietnam- traumatised monster. Kate manages to calm him down, but, Jimmy is still too frustrated, and the next morning he goes to Traci's place to talk to her and to say his final goodbye. Ray enters the warehouse and upon seeing Kate in Jimmy's arms, he generates' a ruckus, and insists that Kate and he should tell Jimmy the truth. Kate explains that she cannot imagine what she can do in such a frightening place, unbeknownst to her.
Jimmy starts becoming suspicious about his father being a murderer, and one night when Kate visits him in the warehouse he asks her to take the boys and leave Ray for good. He kills someone who appears to be a private detective. When a stranger appears in his bar and wants to befriend Ray, the latter gets suspicious, and attempts to knock down the man. In the course of the events, it becomes clear that Ray harbors a secret he cannot share with anyone.
The movie ends with their probable re- engagement. Traci can understand that, but she cannot give up her own future, and so they eventually break up. He explains that if he is not there Ray will take all his rage onto his little brothers, which he finds not tenable. He cannot leave his brothers with his father.
Ray goes even so far as to call Jimmy "Little Boy Blue", and to shout that 'he knows' Jimmy likes it.Īs it turns out, during Jimmy's conversation with his girlfriend, Traci Connor, he rejects a full scholarship for college.
At his insistence, Kate and Jimmy were having a shocking and strong sexual relationship. Ray and Kate seem to be a normal couple running their bar, raising their two sons, but as they return home from work Ray turns violent and abusive. Living in the backwoods of Texas is the dysfunctional and apparently incestuous family: a psychotic war veteran father, Ray West, a compliant wife, Kate, and a 19-year-old son, Jimmy, who is relegated to a warehouse outside the family home. ( April 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.