"Ruth." "Hey, Ruth." "Where are you going?" " Home." "Well, home is the other way." "Not mine." "Oh, you going back to your mom's?" "Well, it's a 15-mile walk." "I know how far it is." "All right, well, then I'll just walk with you." "You do whatever you want." "What I want to do is take you back to our house." "Why'd you tell Freddy you were gonna strike out on your own?" "I don't think I said that, but if I did, when I say "on my own,"" "I mean you and me." "I always mean you and me." "Hey." "You gonna leave me?" "No, I'm not gonna leave you." "Nobody's leaving." "'Cause I will leave you first." "It's not..." "Funny." "I'm not gonna leave you." "And you're not gonna leave me." "Because if you do, I'll just follow you." "I don't want to go to jail." "You're not--not goin' to jail." "And that shack ain't a home." "Well, I'm working on it." "And I think I'm gonna have a baby." "We're gonna have a baby?" "You're not mad?" "I'm not mad." "No, my mama will raise it fine." "Can I steal a kiss?" "Stop it." "That tickles." "That's what you're supposed to do is sing 'em songs." "Just talk." "Are you tired?" "Bluebird, bluebird." "All right." "I'll be fine." "I'll be back in five minutes." "Basque County, this is Tandy over in Fort Worth." "We've got a little bit of a chase on our hands here." "I tell you, walking into there, you feel like you're meeting the devil." "One guy told me once, he..." "All cars for back up." "I repeat: all cars." "All cars." "Any and all cars." " Shit." "All right." "Check, hon." "I shot someone." "I think I shot someone." "Hey." "It's okay." "Hey." "Hey." "Hey." "I think I shot someone." "Oh, shit." "Give me the gun." "Give me the gun, Ruth." "What are you doing?" "Listen to me." "We're gonna stand up and walk out there." " No." " Okay." "I'm gonna go first." "You come after me." "That's how it's gonna be." " No." "We can make it." "We can make it if we run." "We can't make it, Ruth." "Yeah, we can." "They're gonna shoot us." "If we stay in here, they're gonna shoot us right where we are." "No, please." "I'm not gonna do it!" "I'm not gonna do it." "I'm not gonna out like that." " Shh!" "You got to tell 'em I did everything." "Tell 'em that me and Freddy did everything, that you had a gun in your hands 'cause I put it there." "You tell 'em you were scared, and I put it there." "I'm gonna be out in a blink, and I'm gonna come back." "All you have to do is wait for me." "I promise I'll come get you." "Just wait for me, okay?" "Just wait for me." "So I lost my boy." "That leaves you... and Bob." "Only Bob don't got a choice." "I'm confused, Ruth." "I took you kids in, raised you and Bob like you were my own." "How do you go and do a thing like this?" "We were just doin' what you taught us to do." "That a boy or a girl?" "You know yet?" "I don't know." "So what do you want to do, Ruth?" "I'm gonna wait for him." "Dear Ruth," "I dreamed about you again last night." "I guess I dream about you every night and most days too." "I hold your face in my mind." "I put your voice together in my head." "I think about your hair getting longer." "I think about your belly getting bigger." "I hear people talk about regret', but I haven't got any." "I don't think poorly on the things that I've done." "We did what we did, and that is who we are." "They're gonna cross out this sentence before you get to read it, but I know you know what it says." "Every day, I wake up thinking today's the day" "I'm gonna see you." "And one of those days, it will be so." "And until then, I'll keep writing you." "I'll write you every day." "And someday you'll get a letter from me." "And you will look up, and it'll be me who's handing it to you." "And then we can forget about words, and I'll touch your face, and I'll kiss you." "Bob Muldoon, you awake?" "Yeah." "You got a baby girl." "And I'll take our baby girl in my arms." "And we will ride off to somewhere, somewhere far away." "Hey." "Write to me soon, any chance you get." "Love, Bob." "Mommy." "Mommy." "Morning." "Good morning." "How'd you sleep?" "Good." "You hungry?" "No." "Come here." "Let's go back to sleep." "Mommy!" "Look what I found!" "What'd you find?" "Kitties!" "Where did you come from?" "How many are there?" "You're just a tiny little thing." "Aren't you tiny?" "Where's your mama at?" "What are you crying for?" "Huh?" "Maybe he wants me." "What?" "Maybe he wants me." "Maybe he does." "But you still have two more bites." ""And the little horse ran and ran." ""And the foxes chased him," ""and he could hear them barking'." ""And the wolves ran after him," ""and he could hear them howling'." "But he knew they couldn't catch him."" "Bear!" "Yeah, there's that baby bear." "Your daddy loves bears." "He used to wrestle with them." "He'd tackle them down." "He'd bop them on the nose." "Sylvie, put your shoes on." "Okay." " Hey." " Morning, Ms. Guthrie." "I was hoping to catch you before work." "Is something wrong?" "I was hoping for a word." "How many cats you got?" "Four." "Four?" "What's this one's name?" "Willow." "He looks like a Jimmy to me." "Whole bunch of cats." "Get down from there." "Found them out back." "Oh, thank you." "Mama's long gone, I guess." "Well, you need someone to take a few of them off your hands?" "I can handle some kittens at least." "Like I said, they're setting getting ready to call you down to the station." "And, uh." "It's gonna be all over the news later." "I thought best you hear this from a friend." "Hear what?" "Bob tried to escape five times already." "Did you know that?" "No, sir." "Well, maybe six times is the charm." "The boys he broke free with got caught trying to hop a train up near Bartlesville heading north." "Maybe Bob's doing likewise." "Maybe he's already long gone." "Maybe." "What do you think?" "I don't know." "Anybody asking about him?" "Anybody at all?" "Nope." "What about those letters?" "Everyone read them before they even got sent." "They don't say anything." "You want to just bring them in anyway?" "I'll do whatever you want, but he won't come back." "He's not coming back for me, if that's what you're thinking." "Ruth!" "She tell you anything?" "She tell you anything?" "No, Gene, she didn't say a damn thing." "I'm surprised." "I thought she'd like you better than me." "Let me have this one, huh?" "Well, hell, Pat, you're the one he shot." "I'll let you catch the son of a bitch." "Sorry I'm late." "She had to have a time-out." "She got in a fight with Miles." "Why did you get into a fight with those boys?" "Because they called me names." "You need to have a better reason than that." "Come on." "Upsy-daisy." "Evening." "Hi." "Hey, little girl." "Hi." "Don't you look pretty today?" "You got a birthday coming up, don't you?" "Well, you got your birthday list put together yet?" "Well, you better get on that." "Get your mama to help you." "I heard the news." "Anything you want to talk about?" "Everyone thinks I got something to tell them." "But I don't have a goddamn thing." "They say they traced him to Montana." "You think he's in Montana?" "I can make some phone calls... see what I can do about putting an end to all this." "I could put an end to all this right now all by myself." "All I'd have to do is... tell the truth." "Hey, little blue jay, sing me a song" "'Bout Santa Ana at the San Anton'" "Hey, blue jay, can I steal a kiss?" "Like they tried to steal a cannon from Gonzales?" "Bluebird, whistle waterloo" "Will you come to the bower I've shaded for you?" "Hey, little blue jay, sing me a tune" "Down way in Mexico back in June" "Excuse me, ma'am?" "Ma'am?" "Keep driving, and stick to the highway." "Where are we, anyway?" "What?" "Where are we?" "What state are we in?" "Missouri." "Missouri?" "I recognize you." "Hey, how do you turn it up?" "On the side, there's a little..." "Yeah, that's it." "And all these nights" "I think of people" "That I been through" "And every day I think of others" "You, my dear" "Where you planning on going?" "In a direction that hasn't been invented yet." "Fair enough." "I could never forget about you" "The good times" "And the bad" "So, uh." "How'd you do it?" "Do what, get out?" "Yeah." "Is this how fellas are wearing their hair?" "Oh, man, I just started walking, you know?" "Just like I said I would." "You just walked out?" "Yup." "How's that work?" "Well, you know, the guards, they come by your cell every night, sort of saying, "Lights out,"" "and rattling the bars with their sticks." "This one guard, he used to always joke and carry on with us." "And one night, I said," ""Well, I won't be seeing you much longer." "I figure I'll be out of here in about ten days."" "And he said, "How you gonna do it?"" "I said, "I'm gonna just walk right out the door."" "And he said they'd stop me." "And I said, "No, sir, I've got better things to do."" "And he said, 'Well, that's not how it works."" "I said." "'Well, it only works that way 'cause you think it has to." ""You see, I've got a higher calling." ""I've got a wife and a little girl who needs her daddy."" "Then he asked me what I know about higher callings." "Says even if I do get out," "I'm gonna have to answer to God and the devil for the things I've done." "I tell him..." "Shoot" "I tell him..." "I tell him, "Sir," ""I used to be the devil, and now I'm just a man."" "So the days tick by- ten, nine, eight- and on the last day... the bars open up, and I walk right out." "The news says you jumped off a work truck." "Yeah." "Well..." "Man, have you got anything to eat?" "I'm still a little bit hungry." "Well, I'll find something." "Have you seen Ruth lately?" "Nope." "It's been a while." "She don't live with her mom no more." "Got a new house." "A new house?" "Mmhmm." "Skerrit's been looking after her." "Got her all set up." "Guess I should tell you." "Got a call the other day asking about you." "Oh, yeah?" "What'd you tell them?" "I told them I hadn't seen you, which I hadn't." "Didn't think I'd be seeing you so soon." "That's the truth." "I guess that's what, uh just about what I owe you." "Where'd this come from?" "All over." "Whose is it?" "It's mine." "Sounds like that wood's gone soft." "Yeah, I expect you're right." "More nails just won't hold it." "The whole gutters just come off the house every time it rains like this." "I go out there and nail it back up." "Next thing you know, they're back off." "You can either do that or get more buckets." "Yeah, I could do that." "That would be easier in the short term for sure." "I have to haul that water out every time it rains." "I don't know." "Howdy!" "Howdy to you." "Yeah, all this rain we've been having reminds me of that one March, it was, we had 10 1/2 inches in a day." "My middle tank out there had gone dry, and the other two..." "Say, can you tell me just what town we're in exactly?" "This is Meridian." "Okay." "See, we passed through Glen Rose, but we didn't see a sign, didn't know if we'd gone too far or not far enough." "Well, that depends on where you're headed." "We're headed here." "You plan to hunt some deer?" "Thinking about it." "Anyway, it rained so much, it filled up them tanks." "My wife went up there to check 'em the next day, and there was catfish lying' there." "The tank filled up, and it was spilling', and they had come out in the spill." "These real?" "Come again?" "Are these real?" "You bet." "How old are they?" "Well, that pistol goes back 125 years." "You don't say." "See that scrap of paper there next to it?" "That there is a list... of every poor son of a bitch who met his end at the barrel of it." "Sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me." "Yeah, probably is." "Can I help you gentlemen find something in particular?" "Nah." "Just looking around." "Is there any news?" "No, not today." "Figured you'd want these back." "They were just gathering dust." "You read them?" "No, ma'am." "Why not?" "Everyone else has." "They're not mine to read." "Can I ask you something?" "Well, sure." "Did you mean what you said about Bob not coming back for you?" "Yeah, I did." "Well, I was thinking maybe y'all would want to get out of town until all this blows over." "You mean till he gets caught?" "Where would we go?" "Just someplace safe." "Would you come?" "Someone would come with you." "I think I'll just stay here." "You know, I got to work, and Sylvie's got her birthday." "We'll be just fine." "Yeah, sure." "She's gonna be four." "Is that right?" " Yup." " Yeah." "What's she want?" "She wants a horse." "Like, a real horse?" " Yup." " Yeah." "Where you gonna put it?" "Okay, well, I know a man who could sell you one for not a bad price." "You do?" "I do." "I can't take care of no horse." "Well, no horse." "Maybe I could, uh maybe I could bring her something." "Why?" "Well, I was just doing some cleaning, and I may have a few deals just floating around that maybe, uh- maybe she'd take to." "You know?" "Just"" "A few deals, huh?" "A few deals." "Dear Ruth..." "I don't know how to start this letter, but I've got a million things on my mind, and I need to get them out." "I know you know I am out, and I hope you know I am coming for you, just like I always said." "Just like I always said that I was going to do," "I am coming for you." "I wish I were standing at your side whispering in your ear, but that's not so." "I came across the woods and mountains with no shoes on." "I traveled high and far, and now I am close." "I'm so close to you," "I can almost reach out and touch your cheek." "Here you go, Don." "You boys take it easy now." "Well, look at you, Bob." "Break out of prison and head straight back here." "Maybe not the smartest move." "Long as you don't turn me in." "Where's Miles?" "Miles is gone." "Gone?" "Gladys is gone too." "It's just me now." "Well, who's running the show?" "No show to run, not anymore." "Didn't this belong to Freddy?" "Doubt it." "I remember playing with this and all those little Indians." "Have you got those Indians someplace?" "Anything of Freddy's is long gone." "What do you want, Bob?" "I was just wondering if you'd heard anything." "About what?" "About that local man who escaped from the penitentiary." "Gene Dentler and a bunch of his deputies come over a few days ago for a chat." "I told them I could think of at least six sons of bitches who've got a mind to see you dead but that it'd be more fun to sit back and take bets on who gets you first." "You fucked over your share of people in your day." "Yeah, and then I got caught." "Not by them, you didn't." "Well, they might as well quit looking." "Old Bob Muldoon is about to disappear." "And where's old Bob Muldoon gonna disappear to?" "I'm thinking about settling down." "Build a little house, open a shop." "I don't know." "Get old, like you." "On your own?" "Oh, so I heard you bought Ruth a house." "I'm letting her stay in one of my old places." "It's got a big old yard where her little girl can play." "Hey, that's my little girl too." "Yeah, I'll tell you, she's about cute enough to make you want to give up." "You did one thing right." "I'll give you that." "I do what I can to look after both of them." "Yeah, well, I guess I'll handle it from here." "Oh, you think so?" "Yes, sir." "Well, I'll tell you what." "You do whatever you want." "You take all your money, and you get yourself as far away from here as you possibly can." "But you listen to me when I tell you, you leave those girls alone." "I can't do that." "Yeah, you can." "And why would I?" "Well, now, think about it, Bob." "If you got any trouble coming your way, they sure as hell don't need that." "What trouble is that?" "You got out." "What more do you want?" "I want my family." "So do I, but I don't got it." "Now, this is how it works." "I will never hurt you more than I'm hurting you now." "I will never lay another hand to you or prick your finger or pinch your cheek." "I won't call the sheriff, and I won't tell them where you've been." "But if I hear that ole Bob Muldoon has been talking to Ruth Guthrie..." "You asked me about trouble." "I will make sure you got some." "Freddy was the one who shot first that day." "Nobody would have gotten hurt if he hadn't done that." "Go on, Bob." "I got to unlock my door." "Get out of here before someone sees you." "Go find yourself someplace safe." "Where are the keys?" "The keys?" " In the truck." "I'm gonna give her trouble?" "I'm gonna give her trouble?" "He thinks he can buy her a house?" "No, sir." "I don't think that's how it works." "Ruth will walk away from that house like it was on fire." "I need a pen." "Give me a pen." "Excuse me." "Come here." "I was thinking... maybe we could go on a trip... after your birthday." "What do you think about that, going someplace new?" "We could just get in the car and drive and drive." "It'd be real fun." "Hey!" "Hey, hold on." "Let me see that." "Give it here." "There you go." "Come on." "Let's go." "What do you think about me closing' up, take you for a ride somewhere, get away for a little bit?" "Hmm?" "Hey, Sweetie, how you been?" "Just fine." "I break parole or something?" "No." "I just haven't seen you around in years, feels like." "I stay put." "You want something to drink?" "No, sir." "Thank you." "We're looking for an old friend of yours." "I'm sure you heard the news." "Yeah, yeah." "Couple cops came by from Monroe's asking questions." "All right, well, have you seen him?" "I sure haven't." "All right." "Mind if I take a look around?" "Billy, can you mind the bar?" "Hope we can make this quick." "Don't want to rile up my customers." "I haven't heard from him since last winter." "He sent me a letter." "You write him back?" "Nope." "Weren't you part of his old gang" "Bob Muldoon, Ruth Guthrie, Freddy?" "Nope, got out of that racket." "Got myself this business." "Hell." "Left the darn key downstairs." "Yup." "Hold up." "I'm gonna need to get back to the register before too long." "Been using it as a bookmark." "Guess I lost my place." "Ruth give it to you?" "She mailed it." "Asked me to... asked me to send it on to Bob." "You never did." "Like I said, I'm bad with correspondence." "How long ago?" "How old is the little girl?" "Three, going on four." "About how long, then." "Hey." "You mind if I hang on to this?" "By all means." "I'm sure you'll call us if you hear anything." "Sure bet." "Look at this." "This is the first thing you ever wore." "Day you were born." "You were so tiny." "Look how small it is." "I brought you home, and you just slept and slept for hours." "You were such a good little girl." "We'll bring this with us, just because." "We might need it someday." ""And the little horse picked up his shoes" ""and ran until he was out of the dark woods." ""He came to the river where the fish had been," ""but the fish was gone now," ""and there was no one there to stop him from crossing." ""He crossed the river and climbed the hill." "And before too long, he could see home."" "What's wrong, sweet girl?" "Why are you so quiet?" "Everything's gonna be fine." "You just wait and see, okay?" "Have you heard from Bob?" "Why don't you come in?" "No." "I know Bob's been around." "Can you see to it that he gets this?" "What is it?" "You can read it if you want." "I figure you will anyway." "If you see him... can you tell him..." "Well, just give it to him." "Dear Bob..." "I hope you never get this." "I want you to come through that door, take us away, just like you always said." "But you can't." "You can't come here, not right now, and I can't go with you." "If you come here, they'll catch you." "If we go with you, they'll find us." "It can't end like that." "I can't let it end like that, not for us and not for Sylvie." "I can't let that happen." "So we're gonna go." "If you come looking for us here, we'll be gone." "We'll go somewhere where no one knows who we are, where we can wait for the time to be right and the world to forget about us." "I don't know how to explain this any better, but I know you know what I'm talking about." "We've waited so long." "We've just got to wait a little longer." "Come find us." "I know you will." "I hope you will." "We'll find each other." "I love you so much." "I do." "It's time to wake up, baby girl." "Sweet pea." "Good morning." "Happy birthday." "You seen him?" "We stopped by his girl's place." "Hartigan said to tell you something if we ran into you." "What's that?" "Shit." "I forgot." "Huh." "Let me tell you something." "You take that and do what you will." "But if you don't find him, that don't give you cause to come back here." "You understand?" "Don't think I'm washing my hands of all this." "If you set foot in this town again, if you even think about bringing those girls into this," "I'll kill you." "And that'll be that." "Warren Miller?" "Who makes up the name?" "It ain't made up." "Real folks." "I mean, they're dead, but they're real." "Really?" "Mm-hmm." "So I'm told." "Ruth and Sylvie too?" "Yup." "Nobody's gonna be asking after us?" "Not anymore." "Good job." "You make a wish?" "What'd you wish for?" "I'm not telling." "All right, you keep your little secret, huh?" "How do I look?" "You look like you." "That'll do." "The way I see it, I didn't waste my time." "You remember old Joe Cranston?" "Yup." "Remember that time he and I went up to St. Louis?" "Mm-hmm." "He spent about three hours getting prettied up before we got in the car to go up there." "I said, "Joe, what are you doing?"" "He said, 'Well, in case anything happens to me," "I want to make sure my mama can recognize me."" "So he put on this coat he had when he was 12 years old and tried to button it up, and he was a big old boy, and it ripped right out the back." "And he kept that that thing on all the way up to St. Louis and back down to Texas." "He looked like a damn Raggedy Ann." "And when we got back, I said, "Joe," ""you know, your mama would have recognized you if something happened to you."" "He said, "Yeah, 'cause I had my coat on."" "I mean, he didn't get it." "You see, people, they don't know things the way that they think that they know them." "But Sylvie, she's gonna know me." "She's gonna know me without looking at me." "And Ruth, by God, she'll feel me coming down the street." "I mean, we always just been, you know, just two parts of the same." "I mean, we would fight- we'd fight like two kids with a ball." "And she would rip through the house like she was on fire, and I'd just want to hold her, you know?" "I'd just want to hold her, but she'd be yelling and flapping around so quick, it was like a hummingbird." "And I'd say, "Ruth," ""you can scream at me till your voice is gone," ""but it doesn't make much difference." ""Because when you're all done screaming, it's just gonna be you and me sitting here in a room."" "And she said, "That's right." "It's always just gonna be the two of us."" "Look how pretty that is." "You like that?" "Happy birthday, angel." "Well, here's, uh, one last surprise, I suppose." "You know how to open these?" "Nice." "Let's open her up." "Yeah." "Okay." "So this was mine when I was about your size." "Let's see how it looks on you." "Say hi to Ruth for me?" "I'll tell her." "I guess I hope I never see you again." "Then to my love into the deep" "My precious love could not stay" "Well, I hollered up into the night" "And I hollered up into the day" "And from that big black hole" "Come running down" "Back every word that I would say" "Forever my love far away" "How does a dog sound?" "Ruff, ruff." "Ruff, ruff?" "Try that." "Ruff, ruff." "We'll go back to cat." "Try that." "Some will travel cross the land" "Looking for their love" "One more time?" "Others gaze upon the sea" "And search the sky above" "But count me not among them" "As I was before" "Now I go wandering" "Wandering no more" "I shall go wandering no more, my Lord" "I shall go wandering no more" "You are all the treasure" "That I've been searching for" "I shall go wandering no more" "Why don't you hang on to this?" "Maybe in a week or so, I'll check back in with you, and maybe you'll play me a song." "How's that?" " No." " No?" "We're going on a trip tomorrow." "A trip?" "That right?" " Yup." "She's great." "You all right?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "What are you doing here?" "Well, I didn't mean to wear out my welcome." "No." "I just want to know." "Just happy to be here." "You're planning on leaving?" "Yes, I am." "All right." "You know where you're headed?" "No, I don't know yet." "Just away from here." "All right." "Well, if you need any help" "I don't need anything." "Well, I appreciate the invitation, and I bid you a good night." "Good night." "Ruth?" "I want to tell you something." "This has been weighing on me for some time." "When I was in the hospital," "I wasn't, um..." "I wasn't sitting there making plans or anything." "You know, I got nothing against Bob." "And what happened," "I mean, that's the risk." "That's part of my job." "And beyond that," "I don't hold it against him to be who he was or do what he was doing." "I still don't." "I'm glad to be alive." "I'm glad to know you." "And if you weren't who you were and had never been with him and somehow we had still come together right here right now," "I wouldn't feel any different." "Do you understand?" "Do you remember that day?" "I remember getting shot." "I remember feeling like I got punched in the shoulder, seeing the big ole Texas sky." "I remember that." "But, uh..." "Did you see me?" "No, ma'am." "Did you hear what I said after?" "I read your statement." "It wasn't all true, you know." "I wasn't just some little girl who got dragged in over her head." "I knew what I was doing." "Well," "I think that, uh, a lot of things were said that might not have been true." "But you did what you did." "So did he." "And whatever it is you've done, when I see you with your daughter, all I see is good." "Maybe I'm just fooling you." "Are you?" "Wait." "Wait, god damn it!" "You shot me." "Why'd you shoot me?" "I've never even seen you." "No, sir." "What is this about, the money?" "It's about you, you and the girl." "Everything you tried to do." "You gonna shoot me?" "I don't want you to think I owe you anything." "No, you don't." "Only person I owe anything to is Bob." "That's not so." "I've been storing things up all this time... sitting awake at night thinking of all the things I want to say to him." "Except now I have so many things," "I don't know how I'd ever start." "All I had was Sylvie and I." "I didn't know how to write about her." "How do you write about something like that?" "I remember the day she was born." "I was so scared." "I tried to keep her from coming, but she came anyway." "When they put her in my arms, we just stared at one another." "And I thought I would die from all that love." "And I tried to write to him about it so he'd know what it was like, but I just couldn't find the words to do it right." "So I just stopped, stopped writing to him." "I figured that" "I'd just tell him all at once when I saw him." "He'd walk through the door, and I'd know exactly what to say to him." "And things would be the way they used to be." "So I've been saving every little thing." "And I haven't slept in four years, and I'm tired." "I'm just so goddamn tired." "Then rest." "Will you wait with me while I do?" "You all right?" "You Okay?" "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "Just drive, man." "Just drive." "Please, just take the keys, man." "Step on the gas, man." "Step on the gas!" "All right, now, just stick to the highway." "When you get to Highway 6, you turn right." "I'm just trying to go see my family, okay?" "I'm just trying to get home." "I ain't gonna put up a fight." "I'll do whatever you want." "I just want to make sure I get home to them." "I just want you to drive." "What's your family?" "What?" "What family have you got?" "You got a wife and kids?" "No." "No, I'm going to see my parents." "Parents?" "Mom and dad?" "Yeah." "What's your name?" "Will." "Will's your name?" "Yeah." "Will, do you have anything to drink?" "No." "You don't?" "Mm-mm." "Shoot." "I could go for some water." "You need to- you need to go to a hospital or something?" "No, man." "Just stay on the highway." "Turn at Highway Number 6." "Yes, sir." "Well, I guess you could tell I got shot." "Yup." "These men came looking for me." "They wanted to put me under." "Somebody sent them, and they came from somewhere, and they got me." "Boy, they got me pretty good." "They didn't get me good enough." "Shoot" "Tell your daddy who you gave a ride to today." "Yeah." "Who?" "What?" "Who are you?" "Hey!" "Drop it!" "It's all right." "You remember... remember the first run you ever did for me?" "Huh?" "You and Freddy." "Very first run." "No, I never did nothing for you, sir." "You both thought you were so tough." "You were little boys." "I want to go home." "I was on the line with Morgan ten minutes ago, told him how it happened." "No, no, no, you get 'em back on the phone till they come down here." "I don't know who did what to who." "You get an ID yet?" "No." "I mean, yeah." "But he was just some son of a bitch up near Burleson." "Who knows?" "Skerritt went out like a sucker, huh?" "I'm gonna take Ruth on home." "No, I got Teddy doing that." "Yeah, I'm gonna take her." "Wait here." "It's okay." "It's okay." "I'm gonna call an ambulance." "I've been waiting for you." "Okay, stop." "Stop it." "That tickles." "I thought that's what we were supposed to do." "Sing to 'em." "Just talk." "Well... let me tell you about something." "I'm going to tell you about the future." "In the future, I'm a very old man." "And I'm standing in a door." "We're in a house." "It's our house, somewhere far away from here, where everything is green and the sun is almost set." "And where we're standing, the way I see it, we're waving to somebody." "And maybe that somebody is you, come to see us after a long time gone." "If it is you." "We are very happy to see you." "Hey, sweetie." "Don't try to move." "Shh." "It's okay." "He's just- Your dad will find some rest." "Tell me more about that house." "I'm not talking to you." "It's big, maybe a farm." "It's old." "It's older than us." "At the same time, though, I feel like maybe I built it." "There's no telling." "There's just no telling." "Left your home at 23" "Suitcase full of gin" "Thought you had the perfect getaway" "Stole yourself across the hills" "You stole and stole again" "Now the lights don't shine 'cause you're away" "Stuff that suitcase full" "With dirty $100 bills" "Leavin' for another holiday" "Found yourself surrounded" "By the city's finest clowns" "Now the lights don't shine while you're away" "Must have been a memory" "Put you out to sea" "You were never one for big displays" "Well, the devil seems to think" "These complications suit you well" "'Cause the lights don't shine while you're away" "Starin' at that picture" "In your mama's dining room" "Taken just before your birthday" "She keeps askin' if I know" "When you'll be comin' home" "'Cause the lights don't shine while you're away"