katie laid it out for him , though : nick was the oldest , gone from the neighborhood six years to serve ten minimum at walpole ; val was the next and , according to katie , the sweetest ; then came chuck , kevin , al ( who usually got confused with val ) , gerard , just fresh from walpole himself , and finally , scott , the baby boy and mother 's favorite when she 'd been alive , who was also the only one with a college degree , and the only one who did n't live at home in the first- and third-floor apartments the brothers had commandeered after they 'd successfully scared the previous tenants to another state .