"though." "Come back here." "yeah." "you get the blanket." " Okay." "AJ!" "kid." "huh?" "come on." "Come on!" "You go back and get the blanket so mom doesn't kill me." "Yeah." "Did you see my wife?" "sorry." "Nancy!" "Nancy!" "Nancy!" "Nancy!" "Nancy!" "isn't it?" "More secluded than I thought." "It was sunny 10 minutes ago." "Hey." "I love it." "This is exactly what I've been looking for." "I'm sorry to show up like this." " I tried to call you." " The reception here is very bad." "I'm sure it's just my phone." "Is it okay if I show Mr. and Mrs. Owen around?" "Hey." "Nice to meet you." " Nice to meet you." " Paul." "Hey." "I'm afraid." "that's okay." "It's probably better if you're not here." "especially the kitchen." "I'll take care of it." "I'll tell them you had guests." "really messy guests." " Don't worry." " All right." "can we meet for a late lunch this afternoon?" "just to talk about the house and some other stuff." "Brent's two o'clock?" "good." " Good." " All right." " See you then." "Okay." " Cool." "hope you like what you see." "I'll show you inside." "police have confirmed that a young woman has been murdered in Jefferson county." "This is the fourth young woman in three years." "the rockies lost another close one as the mets came to town and annihilated them." "pat." "Paul." "000 a year to house one convict?" "read it in the paper." "School teachers make less." "Bring your list?" "a few additions." "There you go." " You gonna square up?" " Uh." "Wednesday." "Is that all right with you?" " Go hunting today?" " Just got back." " Get lucky?" " Yeah." "I got a goose." "Nice one." "Marty?" "what's going on?" "Did you get my messages?" "I've been clogging up your voicemail." "man." "did you get the script?" "Yeah." "I sent it back already with my comments." "You sent it back?" "I thought we were rolling out with it." "You didn't incorporate any of their notes." "they'd never read anything of yours ever again." "You understand that Paul?" "show that you're functional." "I am." "you're not." "right?" "you know?" "but I thought you had bills to pay." "just pull yourself together." "I gotta go." "Bye." "Marty." "Marty?" "Fucker." "What the fuck is going on with this guy?" "Come on!" "Jesus Christ." "man?" "!" "46..." "Colorado is the fourth victim" " of the roadside killer." " Okay." "what's up?" "I'll be there." " Wanna sit at the counter?" " Ah... over here." "All right." " Mr. Lopez." " Laura." "I'm sorry I'm late." "it's okay." " All right." "the Owens aren't interested." "Oh." " You still wanna buy me lunch?" " Of course." "It's my way of keeping you motivated." "I can only stay a few minutes." "I had to commit to another appointment." " Oh." " If you'd been here just five minutes earlier..." " Not even a cup of coffee?" " Already had one." " Just coffee." " Judy." "Thank you." "I have to admit I'm a bit in awe." "I've never known a writer before." "don't be." "I don't know any either." "Why do you say that?" "I haven't written in a long time." "can't get it started." "How long?" "more." "It's embarrassing." "let's talk about real estate and selling my house instead." "what is the next step?" "I'm not sure." "Wait." "I'm not supposed to say that." "you're just being honest." "I haven't been doing this very long." "Can you tell?" "you're my first." "what?" "that's okay." "it's not okay." "I'm sure I can get another appointment in a couple weeks." " How long can you hold out?" " Couple of weeks." "So do you think it's gonna take a long time? there's hardly anybody in town." "in the summer is better." "with the tourists and... right?" "What?" "hey." "Listen." "Listen." "Something happened on my way over here." "It was just a bad driver." "Just forget it. being close to Denver... it's not that close to Denver." "it's a two-hour drive just to hit the suburbs." "Have dinner with me." "no." "actually." "But I like Paul better." "Listen... three times now?" "it's bad news." "I can't tonight." "But how about Saturday?" " Great." " Okay." "Eight o'clock?" " Yeah." " Yeah." " Good." " Okay." "Paul." " Bye." " Judy." " Yeah?" "Coming." "That was a real smart move back there." "I shouldn't have done that." " yeah." "I used to meet a friend of mine in places like this until an asshole like you ran him off the road!" " Hey!" " What?" "fuck off!" "I..." "I'm sorry." "just drop it now." " I won't just drop it!" "that's it!" "Should we call someone?" "don't worry." " It's over." "" " Thank you." "I don't know how to thank you." "I..." "I'm sorry." " It happens." " Give me that." "really." "He was an idiot." "Jesus." "man." "Really sorry." "No worries." "Thank you." "Where are you going?" "Just drop me wherever suits you." "I'm Paul." "Jack." "You hunt?" "yeah." " What do you do?" " I'm a writer." " Really?" " Yeah." "long time ago." "Must be hard work." "can I ask you a question?" " Sure." "what did you say to that guy?" "the man was terrified." "I told him I liked my lunch quiet." "Hm." "So you gonna tell me where you're going?" "Just enjoying the road." "You like living like that?" "Nothing better." "How do you get by?" "I do what I have to do." "Then I move on." "Nothing you miss?" "hot shower." "huh?" "pretty bad." "Took out power and telephone lines." "Power only just came back." "I..." "I don't wanna drop you on the road with this weather coming out there." "man." "They always get it wrong. and I got a guest room." "have a hot shower." "okay?" "it's the least I can do." "I would be in the hospital without you back there." "Appreciate it." "Here we are." "You like it?" "I like it." "Good." "You must have sold a lot of books." "let me help you." "Take that bag." "Nice kill." "I can be a good shot if I do say so myself." "Uh... it is messed up." "You gotta be careful." "There..." "All right." "maid's day off." "You have a maid?" "Uh... no." "Not anymore." "Probably working for my ex." "Is that a joke?" "Let me show you to your room." "fuck." "Hang on." "watch your step." "My wife made me put these safety bolts on all windows." "you know." " Of what?" " I don't know." "Isolation?" "All right." "Here we are." "and it has a shower." "Sheets and towels in the closet." "Paul." "make yourself comfortable." "Uh-huh." "You have cleaned up." "You hungry?" " Good morning." " Good morning." "it is." " Makes you feel alive." " Could just pinch yourself." "Thanks for breakfast." "I noticed that this door has to be completely reframed. but I'm gonna be able to fix that before I leave this afternoon." "no." "You don't have to fix anything." "I want to." " I'm moving." "I need to sell this place." "Why would you give all this up?" "Because I can't afford to stay." "can't sell any of my work." "there's nothing left for me here." "Not without my wife." "I can help you." "it's not that much work." "three days." " Jack." "I can't pay you." " Come on." " Don't worry about it." "deal?" "Your wife? before she left me." "right?" "no." "I like it like this." "Thank you." "You write these?" "Mm." "El ultimo hombre." "thelastman." "Hm." "Right." "Phone is still not working." "No Internet." "fuck it." " Yeah." " You don't need 'em." "Yeah." "I thought a writer would actually appreciate being cut off from the world." "You know?" "The seclusion." "no distractions." "the irony is that we are always looking for a distraction." "writers thrive on it." "This stew is excellent." "Thank you." "So... tomorrow I'm gonna start working the shed." "Needs a new coat of paint." "And there's some tiles on your roof that need fixing." "Jack." "didn't I?" "Right. don't you writers make a good living?" "that depends on the writer." "What kind of writer are you?" "when I was 25. and critics really liked me. this American literary agent some of my books to the screen." "I signed with him. entirely." "And they gave it to somebody else to write." "So they kicked you out of your own movie?" "I guess." "it can." "It can. and the only thing left of my book was the title." "Yep. and it all went away." "Even the woman." "We're all free men." "We choose what we want." "You did this to yourself." "all I choose was this place." "I needed isolation to write and th..." "that was my sacrifice!" "All writing is sacrifice. characters in a movie." "Nothing seems real." "Nothing is like how life really is." "I don't disagree." "Maybe it's just 'cause I travel a lot." "I watch what's going on around me." "I watch people." "I'm not a recluse." "Must be it." "You know..." "I'd really like to read one of your scripts." "If that wouldn't be a problem." "Okay." "I'll... this is the last one I wrote." "My hail Mary pass to get something sold." "Nobody wants it." "My agent says it's crap." "Under the clock." "Yeah." "I think I've heard this title before." "then." "Hah!" "Yeah." "I'll tell you what." "I'll give you the opinion of the common man." "right?" "It counts for more than my agent's." "man." "Good afternoon." "How was your nap?" "Not good." "Not good." " Delias kristianiae." "  Huh?" "from Indonesia." "Very rare." "Very hard to catch." "really." " Ironic?" "I had it done in prison." "You looking for these?" "I had to unlock it." "You gonna work today? and I have to sell this house." "Hard to work when you got to worry about money." "You know you have to do yourself a favor." "Eh?" "And what is that?" "You know..." "You have to stop drinking." "you gotta stop it cold." "Ai-yi-yi-yi." " You could be a great writer." " Oh. and it's because of your drinking." "I think you just need a good idea to jumpstart your career." "I got an idea." "really." "I know it'd be like god taking advice from a lowly priest." "yes." "All right." "Okay." "You tell our story." " What story?" " Our story." "it goes like this. gets himself a beautiful house in a remote area." "uh... short-lived." "he drinks." "He's become an alcoholic." "And he lives like a recluse to hide his decline." "this writer goes into a diner." "He's got a..." "A date with a pretty girl." "But today is not gonna be his lucky day." "He gets into it with some pissed off truck driver who frightens off the girl and then gets into a fight with the writer." "this writer's gonna get his ass kicked." "helps him out. he pulls over and gives the guy a lift." "The writer and the stranger start talking and the writer offers the stranger some work 'cause he feels sorry for him." "he's kinda concerned 'cause he doesn't know who this guy is." "he could be anybody. the writer's already beginning to regret his offer... no." "It's not like this." "Paul." "It's just a story." "Yeah." "it's a good start." "Go on." "man." "You write it." "But you gotta be committed." "yeah." "When do you think you'll be done?" "Who said you could read the script?" "Why not?" "Because I'm still working on it." "You can't read this." "you know?" "That's not the problem." "it's too easy." " Too easy?" " Mm-hmm." " It's exactly what happened." " Really?" "Are you sure about that?" "He's just some guy standing at the counter of a diner." "But what do we really know about him?" "What do we know? maybe he was partnered up with the truck driver who barged in." "Jack and the truck driver. you start a fight with him. and he'll be eternally grateful. buddy." "Now he's mine." "Then Jack takes off down the road. so what does he do? so he offers him work... that would be very interesting." "right?" " Yeah." " Maybe the truck driver towards the end." "I have a better ending in mind." "isn't it?" "That's where your script fails." "That was the only way to show you. she's about to have her throat slit." "What the fuck?" "And you have her pleading with him. that would be realistic." "I just wanted to show you some real." "Sorry for the scare." "Jack!" "Jack!" "What's up?" "Did you hear that scream?" " Scream?" " Just now." " You didn't hear it?" " No." "It was a woman's scream." "I heard it from inside." "You didn't hear it?" "You mean that?" " Hm?" " Nah." "Mm." "You expecting somebody?" "It's the grocery store." "I got a standing order." "They deliver every week." "not too far." "What are you doing?" "He's a fucking delivery man." "Put it down!" "Mr. Lopez." "not today." "yeah." "pat mentioned" " you may have a check for him." " I can't pay you today." "and I told pat that." "he also said a postdated check would be fine." "I don't have that for you today." "I'm sorry." "I don't really wanna get in trouble my first day." "a long time." "all right?" "Just leave it there... good." "bye." "bye." "Paul." "Where are you going?" "We had an agreement." "Now you're breaking it." "Jack!" "not anymore." "you listen to me!" "just because someone was at the door!" " Come on!" " I'm a little paranoid." "Paul?" "Wherever the fuck I want to." "eh?" "right?" "I imagined that?" "!" "Paul." "and I'm a prisoner in my own house?" "!" "Hey!" "Paul." "don't make me hurt you." "Do not!" "hurt you." "Don't make me hurt you." "I don't know what you're talking about with that woman screaming." "you bet strangers make me nervous if you'd just got out of prison." "aren't they?" "Doesn't matter." "I ain't never going back." "Paul." "Got a lot of work to do tomorrow." "Shit. right?" "Paul?" "We had an agreement." "What do you want me to say?" "I was going to drink." "Alone." "Paul." "Come on." "Come with me." "Come on!" "Grab your bag." "Take the booze out of the bag." "Paul." "I'm here to help you." "I want you to smash it against that wall over there." "Smash it." "Come on." "Get back to work." "fuck me... fuck me." " Laura." " I've been calling you for days." "maybe you don't want me to be but you asked me out." "yeah." "What happened to your face?" "Get in your car and leave right now." " Why?" " There is no time." " What's going on?" " There is someone else here." " Who?" " Give me the keys." "Trust me." "Get in." "What's going on?" "!" "I'm sorry." "what is going on?" "You have to tell me." "Where are you going?" "I'll explain later!" "Out!" "Out!" "Do what he says." "Do what he says." "take the keys out!" "just calm down!" "Get out!" "Move!" "go!" "please." "and start pushing the car into the pond." "help him!" "Move!" "Move!" "Faster!" "Faster!" "Now move." "Get up to the house." "I'll get it." "Marion?" " She's the babysitter." " Ah." "let me..." " Please." "You see how disorientated people get when their future is uncertain?" "They always tend to imagine the worst." "Paul." "You always imagine the worst." " What's the sheriff doing here?" " No idea." "Come on." "Come on." "right?" "Right." "Paul." " Hey." " Hey." "Deputy carcano." "How can I help you?" "they'll get rusty." "Yeah." "I'll get around to it." "it's been busy." "we're looking for this woman." "I was wondering if by any chance you've seen her?" "Michelle Emerson?" "I'm sorry." "I haven't." "she works for the post office." "She was due to deliver a package earlier today from Los Angeles." " Here?" " Yeah." "hold on." "yeah. - that's for sure." " Huh." "Do you have a mailbox elsewhere on the property?" "Perhaps she left it there." "no." "yeah." "huh?" " If you see something..." " Right." "You know where to find me." "Carcano!" " Get down!" "alright!" "come here." "that window!" "move!" " Shit." "" " What?" "!" "bolt it!" " Shit!" " Stay right there!" "Who's shooting?" "!" "He shot the cop?" "Paul!" " Paul!" "You're finally starting to show some fucking imagination!" "just in case the cops come back." "too!" " He's gonna kill us." " He's gonna kill us." "Come on!" "Come here." "Jesus Christ." "He just killed a cop." "He just killed a fucking cop!" "please!" "Stop it!" "all right?" "Psst." "How old is your kid?" "Two." "Two." "I can't think about that right now." "listen." "We're going to get out of here." "hold on." "You hear that?" "What?" "there is a railroad two miles from here." "A train goes by every half an hour." " He's on the roof." " What's he doing?" "What's he doing?" "we gotta go." "go." "You have to run as fast as you can. all right?" "go." "come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "The train is over this hill!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come on." "ow!" " Hey." "you can." "almost there." "Paul?" "!" "Get back to the fucking house!" "Laura." "You okay?" "where is he?" "I think." "Why is he here?" "Oh." "I picked him up on my way back here." "Come downstairs." "I'm not going down there." "Not there." "There." "Paul." "You forgot all about our agreement." " Our agreement?" " Uh-huh." "You're completely out of your mind." "right? and you're talking about the agreement?" "!" "You have been here three days. then a gun to my head. is baffling to me." "Paul?" "I gave you your chance until you had that brilliant idea to open the door." "It's your fault the sheriff's dead." "no." "I didn't kill anybody." "You did!" "You did!" "This is fucking insane!" "Wh... why are you still sitting here? and you are definitely going back to prison." "Jack?" "You know... none of that happens unless I say so." "And if I do decide to let them in and kill me... you get to write the story." "You have to let her go." "Hey..." "What the fuck is her name?" " Laura." " Thank you." "Laura! not just one in the movies? dead." "I'm not interested." "You're a sick person." " You make your life... let her go!" "Paul." "Shoot!" "stop!" " Ow!" "Jack!" "Jack!" "Come on!" "Where is she?" "What did you do to her?" "What did you... fucker." "Which actor should play me?" "A fucking maniac." "you'd have killed me without a second thought." "Hm." "I like that." "Why are there scalpels in your bag?" "The trinkets?" "The journal?" "Jack?" "It means you have no manners." "Going through a guest's belongings." "Nothing worse than betrayal." "Paul." "You're not capable of it." "You finally found some imagination." "Jack?" "Where is your knife?" "Throw it over there." "It's okay." "Nobody knows she's here." "it'll be like nothing ever happened." "Come on." "We got some work to do." " Let's put an end to this..." " Stay right there!" "This is gonna end the way I want." "Paul." "We clean this shit up before the cops come here" " and find out what we did." " We didn't do anything." "You did!" "Alone!" "And I need the police to find that out." "I do." "I can recognize a sign from Providence when I come across one because I have received so few." "come over here." "get on the ground." "Jack." "but I am." "And you know why?" "Because you have been sent by god. stolen away and butchered somewhere in the dark of the woods." "But chance has made me the one to stop you." " I didn't kill these women." " You don't have to convince me." "You know why I have never been caught? I recognize it instantly." "A woman alone in her car waiting for her boyfriend to get out of work." "He's late." "She rolls down her window to have a cigarette." "Her hand hangs outside." "Adjusts the rear-view mirror and... and it feels so clear." "Or a housewife out in the woods apart from her family just long enough." "Just long enough for me to know this very moment." "But... you have to be... able to embrace it." "The drifter on the side of the road." "Don't let him walk away." "Pick him up." "Dress him for the part." "I have to say you really made me earn this." "Wow." "Yeah." "You think you know more than me about reality?" "right?" "I'm gonna show you reality." "You build it." "Now stand up." "Stand up!" "Jack." "This is how the story ends." " Go to zone two." "" " Yeah." "Cover your ears." "right away." "I'm good." "go get him." "I'll take care of it." "I'll tell them you had guests." "Where's the k-9 unit?" "Over here?" "too!" "He's on the roof." "we gotta go." "Did you check the prints?" "boss." " Good job." "Thanks." "Hey." "How you holding up?" " Good." " You good?" "Yeah." "I'm proud of you." "You hung right in there." "but he's my guy." "clear out." "Here." "Make the most of it." "It's gonna be your last for a while." "We've been tracking you down for three years." "Never found a crime scene until it was too late." "And even then... you left us nothing." "Until now." "Paul." "No more secrets." "Perhaps you'll remember this." "Know why I have never been caught?" "I recognize it instantly." "A woman alone in her car waiting for her boyfriend to get out work." "I hate myself for not catching you before you got to Nancy barrows." "I'll carry that to my grave." "Four victims." "one." "Renee." "Tell me where you buried her." "How can I?" "I haven't seen her... since she left me." "buddy." "Tell me where you buried your wife." "The jury will see it as a gesture of goodwill." "It'll help you when you come to sentencing." "Give Renee's family some closure." "don't you think? whoever you are." "Okay." "We're gonna convict you of every murder you've ever done." "You're going to convict me?" "Mm." "With what?" "Everything you have in that bag is tainted." "Planted." "You're... so in need of a scapegoat that it's pathetic." "You come into my house with a bag of evidence." "and trying to hang it on me?" "The tape?" "Do you think that's my confession?" "I was thinking my screenplay aloud." "So what?" "It was dialogue for a character." "if you wanna call it that. when you held a knife to my throat? why harass me for my wife's body?" "You had me at gunpoint!" "I was a hostage in my own house!" "Where did you think you're going with this harebrained scam?" "!" "Are you guys completely insane?" "!" "Paul?" "Okay." "I didn't do it." "deputy carcano." "Dive team says there's nothing in the pond." "Nothing from k-9 unit." "Fuck." "Have them keep looking." "doesn't look good." "Got physical evidence that he's gonna say you planted." "and I don't know and that creates plausible deniability." "His word against mine?" "Jack." "you've worked too hard on this one for it to not go our way. we're fucked." "Fuck." " Jack." " Yeah." "The boss is gonna book him." "They want you inside." "All right." "Look at this photograph." "my god." " Yeah." "huh? outside of your rustic retreat." "But something's missing." "Paul. would I find your wife?" "Jack." "no question." "just you and me?" "guys." "Let's go." "I'm all ears." "You have no idea... the pain I'm holding inside." "Just don't!" "Listen to me." "Hear me out." "This is an idea for a..." "For a deal." "Full confession." "I'll give you every detail everything." "I have a great memory." "I wrap up your case neatly with a bright bow." "But no needle." "but no needle." "I deserve to live with this pain." "You had your chance with me." "listen to me!" "You owe this to me." "It was up to me to pick you up on the road." "it was always my story." "Was it real enough for you?" "It seems like it was." "I gave you all of this!" "But you owe me my ending." "I like my ending better."