"I, uh..." "I ain't never heard" "Of no hitchhiking doctor before." "You call that reading?" "You don't even have time to look at the pictures." "Photographic memory." "So, uh, where you headed?" "Home." "Russell?" "October, this is iris." "She's gonna be living with us from now on." "assess the situation." "Assess the situation." "Make an accurate diagnosis." "Think, think, think, think." "Page 100." "Sucking chest wound may require deep coverage." "Deep coverage will not close the wound." "A pressure bandage." "Compression." "Okay." "It's gonna be okay, buddy." "Shh, shh, shh, shh." "It's okay, buddy." "You're okay." "trauma--traumatic pneumothorax." "Coyotes been getting in the trash." "I figured cairo would stay clear." "focus." "Focus." "Focus." "Focus." "Feel for broken bones." "Listen, listen." "His lungs are flooding with fluid." "what now?" "You can't save him." "hollow tube." "Need a hollow tube." "In an emergency situation," "Air-tight material..." "May require intubation." "Gonna have to put him down." "it is then inserted into the chest wall." "Shh." "they cannot be left alone." "If I can just" "It's a shame." "He was a good dog." "Are you okay?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "You sure don't sound like it." "Just my asthma." "Let's go ahead and get that dog buried." "It's gonna get hot before too long," "And we got a hiking trip to go on." "October?" "You know, I know we didn't get off to a good start here," "But I'm glad you came, really glad you came." "Yeah." "You know, I tried to call you over the last year," "And I keep getting that answering machine." "I was real surprised when you picked up." "You know, I got four generations on that badge." "I was always hoping that maybe, uh," "That it'd be yours someday." "What do you say you let me drive for a bit, old man?" "You don't know how to drive a stick shift, do you?" "No." "So tell me, fucked a girl yet?" "Oh, god." "What?" "What?" "No, I haven't." "No?" "No." "Well, the point is driving's just like fucking." "It's all about control." "Why don't you put it in first," "Give it some gas, and ease off on the clutch." "There you go." "Now let it out slowly." "What the hell was that?" "Didn't I tell you to let it out slow" "And give it some gas?" "All right" "No, I let it out slow." "I did exactly what you told me." "That's not making love." "You got to do a little foreplay here." "Just be easy with it." "Give it a little gas, ease off the clutch." "Easy." "Slowly, slowly." "Go, easy, go." "There you go, you're getting it." "You're getting it." "And off come the panties!" "All right." "Oh, yeah." "Oh, yeah, baby!" "We're moving." "We're moving." "Whoo!" "What the hell just happened?" "Now put it into second." "Second?" "Push that clutch in." "And pop that cherry clutch." "Yes!" "Oh, god, now we're moving." "Go into third." "How do I go into third?" "Pull it down." "Pull it down toward your crotch." "Pull it, that's it." "That's it." "She's getting hot!" "Ow!" "Oh, yes." "Oh, baby!" "Oh baby!" "Faster, faster." "Hit me, hit me." "You got it." "Oh, October!" "Oh, my god!" "Oh, October, October, October!" "November, December!" "Oh, god!" "Oh!" "Oh, ohh!" "I think I'm gonna" "I think I'm gonna--ah!" "I'm coming!" "I'm coming!" "Oh, whoa-bo!" "Whoa!" "Oh, shit!" "Oh." "Don't pee on my rifle." "You know what I think we'll do?" "We'll head down there." "Go upriver, and then go over the mountain that way." "Hit the road on the other side" "And come back down, circle around." "With any luck, we'll be back before dark." "You know how to shoot that thing?" "That's just another one of them things" "I never got around to teaching you, isn't it?" "Hand it here." "Sorry, that's my canteen." "That's 150 proof," "Burn the hair off your tongue." "It tastes like ass." "Tastes like what?" "Ass." "come on." "Come on, old man." "Come on." "So are we gonna talk about what happened," "Or are we just going to keep pretending" "Like there's nothing's wrong?" "Is that really what you want to do?" "Is that what you come up here for?" "Not me." "What's done is done." "We're alive, ain't we?" "You have a responsibility to protect the things you love." "What if you can't, October?" "You can!" "You always can!" "Just so long as you don't go and fuck it up!" "Come here you." "Don't fucking touch me." "I'll buttstroke you so quick," "You won't even know what happened." "You're gonna buttstroke me, huh?" "That's right." "it's about time you moved on." "I have moved on with my life!" "You have, huh?" "I have moved on with my life!" "I fucking have moved on with my life!" "Then why don't you get rid of that?" "Get rid of what?" "That millstone hanging around your neck." "If you've moved on, it shouldn't be any problem." "Just bring it over here and drop it off a cliff." "You know what?" "What?" "Fuck you." "All right?" "I don't need this shit from you." "That's it, run." "Run." "Go on, run." "Go ahead." "That's fine!" "You know, the only reason you can move on" "Is because you never even cared in the first place." "Do what you do best." "Run!" "Ho!" "Russell!" "Russell!" "are you okay?" "Open your eyes, come on, try to focus on me." "Concentrate on my voice." "He's a shit-faced drunk." "Please, come on." "You always can!" "I need to go for help." "You have a responsibility" "To protect the things you love." "Uh..." "See what you want to see." "Hey." "You're an asshole." "Yup." "Figures, don't it?" "Think you're gonna have to build us a shelter." "Do you know our badge was on that gun?" "I know." "You keep going on about it." "Be one damn shame to lose it, wouldn't it?" "I'll go look for it in the morning." "Come on, it's important." "Okay, I understand!" "I said I'll go look for it in the morning." "Why don't you go now?" "Russell, it's raining, it's nighttime." "I'm not going to be able to see anything anyways." "I saw something up there." "I saw something that scared" "The bejesus out of me on that bluff." "That's why I fell." "Go on now." "Get up, you lazy son of a bitch." "Where is it?" "I couldn't." "Where is it?" "I couldn't find it!" "Hey." "Hi." "Hey, do you guys need a ride?" "Yeah, no, that-- no." "I think you should get in the truck, iris." "What?" "Get lost." "Yeah, okay." "Well, I'll see you around." "What the hell are you doing?" "Get off of me!" "What are you doing?" "I said get off!" "Why are you cutting yourself?" "It's none of your fucking business!" "Get off of me!" "God damn you." "Go!" "Get off of me!" "Get off of me!" "Goddamn." "What the hell?" "What the hell?" "What the hell?" "What the hell?" "I'll take care of it, don't worry." "You know what she tells me?" "You keep popping up everywhere she goes?" "I keep popping up?" "Yeah." "You keep popping up." "So you're the invisible man." "You son of a bitch." "come on." "Aah!" "Russell." "Aaah!" "Aaah!" "What was it?" "What was it?" "I'm bleeding out." "No, you're not gonna bleed out." "You're gonna be all right, okay?" "I'm gonna get you out of here." "I'm gonna get you out of here." "You're gonna be just fine, okay?" "Hang in there." "I'm gonna get you out of here." "Aah!" "Come on." "Don't worry." "You're gonna be okay." "You're gonna be okay, come on." "Come on, come on." "We gotta get the hell out of here, man." "Come on." "Come on." "Oh." "Come on, stay with me!" "Stay here with me!" "It's not gonna let us leave." "What does it want?" "immediate action." "Do not race to the injured person." "Survive..." "We're trapped." "Build a fire between you and the predator." "bones set..." "Spears..." "Oh, god." "So, what do we do now?" "When the coast is clear, I'll go get the gun." "Hey, October, I need some water." "Can you get me some water?" "Yeah." "Here, sit up." "Sit up." "Oh, man." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Oh, that's good." "Mmm." "Where the hell have you been for so long?" "What do you mean?" "I don't know." "I was talking to ed," "And he said you lost your job." "Ed's an asshole." "Yeah, well, where you been?" "You know, I just wonder where you been." "Nobody in town's seen you." "Everybody knows it." "I'm sheriff." "I know everything." "I've been all over." "All over where?" "All over texas?" "Want to list all the places I've been to?" "I've been all over the country, all right?" "I never stayed in any one place for too long." "You could have got a hold of me." "I would have helped you." "You didn't have to run away like that." "I wasn't running!" "You didn't have to run away like that." "Tell me something, where'd you learn how to do this?" "You'd be amazed what you can learn on the road." "Yeah?" "Is that what you want to be?" "You want to be a doctor?" "Everything you've done is very impressive." "I think you'd make one hell of a doctor." "Good night, russell." "You know, I know I haven't been the best father." "I know that." "But there hasn't been a day goes by" "That I haven't wondered" "What it would have been like had I been," "With everything that's happened." "Hell, I get off work," "And I go home to an empty house." "Sit down to eat at a table set for four," "And I am alone." "Then I clean up, grab a beer," "Go sit in the old rocking chair," "And watch tv." "You know I haven't paid that bill in over a year?" "All I get's white noise." "It's like ants fighting." "I sit there every night," "Watching ants fight until I fall asleep." "And in the morning," "I get up and do it all over again." "And that's all there is." "I got nothing left but white noise." "It's okay." "I won't tell." "I don't know what you're talking about." "A day at the river, I saw you and your brother." "Oh, it's okay." "I'm not gonna tell." "I mean, you were beautiful." "You were so beautiful." "I think you should go." "You're asking me to go?" "I want you to leave, michael." "I should leave?" "It's just I'd--I'd really like" "To get back to my work, okay?" "Okay." "Will you give me a hug?" "I can't give you a hug, michael." "Why?" "!" "I can't see it!" "Aah!" "Aaah!" "See what you want to see." "No, no, no, no." "Everything fades." "Everything." "Are you gonna be okay by yourself, old man?" "Just come back with that rifle." "Easy on the gunpowder." "You can fill the rest with dirt and bark." "We're gonna have to kill it, you know." "Looks like you might earn that badge after all." "That's a lot of gunpowder." "If it comes too close, drop it in the fire." "Hey." "Hey, October." "Be careful." "Dad!" "No!" "No!" "Dad!" "Ah!" "Hey!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "Are you okay?" "Russell, russell, come on now!" "Damn him!" "Hey, hey, hey, hey!" "Come on, look at me!" "Are you okay?" "Russell?" "I saw-- I saw--I saw" "I saw that thing." "Oh, god." "Oh!" "Here." "There-- there you are." "There you are." "There you go." "There." "Well, god damn." "You're soaking wet." "Here you go." "Here, it's all right." "Look." "Oh, you got it." "You got it." "I got it." "Aw, it's busted." "Shit." "Whole trigger mechanism is busted to shit." "If we didn't have bad luck, we'd have no luck at all." "Would we?" "When I got back from the river," "You were-- you were screaming." "What did you see?" "Huh?" "I was screaming?" "You were screaming like a little girl." "Shit." "I--I just saw things that..." "Things that I never wanted to see again." "I..." "This is all my fault." "What's your fault?" "This, this whole thing, all of it's my fault." "You got to stop blaming yourself" "For things that aren't your fault." "You hear me?" "You got to stop." "Hey." "Hey, hey." "Hey." "Hey." "Hey..." "I don't care what it is that made you" "Want to come up here with me," "But I just gotta say to you," "I'm glad you did." "After seeing all the things you can do," "I know you're gonna be all right." "We're gonna be all right." "We're gonna be all right." "We are so screwed." "We are." "We're gonna be all" "Oh... gangrene." "Urgent." "Make assessment." "Urgent." "Urgent." "Urgent." "Treatment is usually surgical." "Debridement." "Surgical debridement." "Urgent." "Urgent." "Amputation." "Amputation." "October?" "What are you doing?" "What's going on here?" "What's this?" "whatever you do, don't listen to him." "Don't listen to him." "Think..." "Think of something else." "Cut me down, we'll talk about it." "Think of anything, think of..." "Music." "Cut me down." "Hey." "Yeah, rock music." "Classical." "That's it." "Cut me down." "Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait." "Please, please, please." "I'm sorry, russell." "I have to do this." "No, no!" "No, no!" "No!" "Stop, stop, stop, stop." "Listen to me." "Listen to me." "Look at me." "Look at me." "Don't." "This is gonna ruin my life, man." "I'll f-- I'll kill you!" "If I don't do this, you are going to die." "I don't care." "No, don't." "No, don't." "Don't, don't don't don't!" "I'm sorry." "No!" "No!" "I'm sorry." "Let's do it quick." "Aah!" "No!" "Oh!" "Oh, you!" "Aaah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Ow!" "Aaah!" "It doesn't hurt." "Okay, okay." "I don't hurt." "It doesn't." "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "how to build a trap." "How to build a trap." "Traps and snares, crush, choke, hang." "Entangle the prey." "Entangle the prey." "Make the trap or snare then flush out your prey." "Flush out your prey." "Make the trap and flush put your prey," "By compelling the animal..." "And it can't get out." "It can't get out." "It can't get out." "Craft a funnel-shaped barrier." "Barrier." "Funnel-shaped barrier." "Remember to set the trigger." "Set the trigger." "To set the trigger." "That's 150 proof, burn the hair off your tongue." "Uh..." "You got a plan?" "Ha." "It's been a long time" "Since I sat at a table with anyone." "Pretty good." "Leave it out a few more minutes." "Now's as a good a time as any to quit." "You know, October, you want to keep it up on your shoulder," "Like that." "Like that." "'cause when you fire, it'll kick on you," "Pull it right out of your hands." "And don't jerk on the trigger." "Just squeeze it like you're holding a baby's hand." "And then you got food for your family." "Yeah." "Oh, god," "I missed you." "Really missed you." "And I miss iris." "God, I loved her dearly." "I really loved her." "You know, your mother" "Used to keep my balls in a box." "She let me visit them once in a while." "We made a kind of deal" "That we both could live with." "I was the gas, and she was the brake." "When she passed, I lost it." "I just went over the hedge." "All them grief bombs going off in my stomach." "I--I started drinking, and..." "You know, I'm feeling weak as a kitten." "I don't think I'm gonna make it." "No, don't." "Don't start talking like that." "No, no, please, please listen to me." "If I don't make it, you know," "Then I'd like you to carry my body back down by the river" "And put me in it, 'cause a predator would rather scavenge than hunt." "It might give you a chance to get out of here." "Okay?" "Will you do that for me?" "Will you do that for me?" "Psst." "Psst!" "Come on, please, just light." "Just fucking light." "fuck!" "Now!" "Now!" "Light." "Now!" "Now!" "Aah!" "Choose." "No way." "Choose!" "No, no!" "Michael!" "Choose!" "No, no." "No, no!" "Please don't shoot my son!" "No!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Hey." "dad." "Choose!" "Aah!" "you see what you want to see." "I love you, son." "To be a man," "You've got to kill the boy inside you."