Thieves

Martin and Sally move into their unfurnished Upper East Side apartment, five weeks after leaving Orchard Street. The cramped space highlights the rut they've fallen into and the distance growing between them. Sally's restlessness with their life begins to surface.

Sally proposes that the juvenile delinquent Carlton live with them again. Martin resists, reminding her that Carlton previously stole from him. Their disagreement reveals the widening gap in their values.

Sally expresses a desire to have a child, prompting a tense moment as Martin tells her to go to sleep. The interruption underscores their fading idealism and the shifting power in their relationship. The couple's future feels uncertain.

A week later, Sally, now pregnant, initiates divorce proceedings and leaves to stay with a friend while considering abortion. The action throws their relationship into crisis and forces Sally to face her options alone. She begins seeking support elsewhere.

Sally phones Gordon, a park acquaintance, who invites her to his apartment. Gordon reveals he is married with children and won't divorce. They decide to be friends to avoid complicating their lives.

Martin sleeps with his neighbor Nancy, signaling renewed infidelity in their marriage. The affair deepens Sally's sense of betrayal and makes reconciliation more complex. It adds another layer to the couple's instability.

Carlton sneaks into the apartment with stolen goods after stealing keys from the building's doorman Devlin. He offers the loot in exchange for a passing grade, prompting Sally to offer adoption if he reforms. The tension centers on Carlton's leverage over their fragile marriage.

Sally discovers Martin's affair when she sees Nancy wearing his sweatshirt. The revelation confirms her fears and shatters the trust between them. It complicates decisions about staying together.

Martin returns to the Orchard Street apartment and finds Sally had sent their valuable antique furniture away. The current tenant has sold the furniture for only forty dollars, underscoring how their past is slipping away. The loss deepens their sense of disconnection.

Drinking wine and recalling their first date, Martin breaks into the closed Loew's theater. A man named Perez informs him that the theater is now a church, a stark symbol of how their past has changed. The moment foreshadows the mounting consequences of their choices.

Two police officers arrive to arrest Martin for breaking and entering, but he pulls a gun and flees the scene. The escape heightens the stakes and paints their life as increasingly dangerous. It underscores the fragility of their recently regained closeness.

Sally visits her father Joe and asks him to accompany her to the abortion procedure, but he wants no part of it. The moment exposes the limits of parental support and the distance between generations. It also frames time and obligation within their family.

During the conversation, Joe reveals that Sally was enrolled in school a year early and is actually 32, not 33. He had planned to give her an extra year from his will, but decides this is the day she needs it most. The revelation reframes her sense of aging and family legacy.

Sally returns to the apartment to find her suitcase stolen and Devlin dead. She convinces two neighbors to move his body to a lobby couch while she phones the police. The sequence marks a dangerous peak in their entanglements with crime.

Martin returns and urges Sally to reconsider their separation. He fires his gun into the air three times and asks them not to break up until they decide who is at fault. They kiss and choose to run off hand-in-hand as police sirens approach.