

Or Terence starts reverting to his old ways. They will go to school, do their community service, attend therapy, and act like model citizens until Healy's memory returns and he can resume his place with them.īut life keeps getting in the way.like when Gecko finds romance. Afraid of being sent back to Juvie, the guys hatch a crazy scheme to continue on as if the group leader never left. But when Healy awakes, he has no memory of them or the halfway house. Terrified of the consequences, they drop him off at a hospital and run away. Things are going well, until one night Healy is accidentally knocked unconscious while trying to break up a scuffle among the boys. A former juvenile delinquent himself, Healy is running an experimental halfway house in New York City where he wants to make a difference in the lives of kids like Gecko, Terence, and Arjay. Terence Florian ran with the worst gang in Chicago.Īll three boys are serving time in juvenile detention centers until they get a second chance at life in the form of Douglas Healy. Which is easier said than done, since Terence seems bent on getting himself in trouble at any opportunity. Vaughn, or it’s back to the slammer for them all. The three of them have to stay in school, out of trouble, and on the good side of hard-assed caseworker Ms. So when do-gooder Douglas Healy shows up with a plan to put Gecko in a halfway house with two other young offenders, he jumps at the chance, even if it does mean he has to share a New York City apartment with Healy, 15-year-old killer Arjay Moran, and Terence Florian, who is always checking out the angles.

But that doesn’t keep him out of juvenile detention - the worst place he’s ever been.

He was just the driver of the getaway car. Graham “Gecko” Fosse wasn’t actually doing the robbery. and he’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that he doesn't! Gecko doesn’t want to go back to juvenile detention.
