Near Long Island Expressway, you hear a noise in the basement and discover two youths have sneaked in: 15-year-old Howie Blitzer, a good-looling but troubled boy who admires and emulates his friend, Gary Terrio, also 15, a streetwise and mischievous male hustler. They're holding your prized pair of antique ornamental Russian pistols. Howie says, "Oh, shxt!"