"I'm looking out the window." "How many?" "Four. I see four little angels." "I see them, too." "Two boys, two girls." "Do you really, Art?" "When?" "Whenever you want to leave." "Oh, my God!" "I love you." "I love you. I love you." "Where are we going to go?" "To that special place you told me about?" "Where you'll be happy forever and nothing will ever disappoint you." "Even me." "Lie back." "Close your eyes." "And listen to the rain." "Oh, God. I'm not going to be able to sleep." "Okay." "Okay." "Dream." "Dream about your little angels." "They're taking you away." "Sleep well, my darling. I love you." "Goddamn!" "You scared the shit out of me." "Got you good?" "Come here." "lt's good to see you." "You, too." "You look good." "Well, so do you." "I'm going to make myself a cup of tea." "Do you want one?" "Sure." "So, how are you doing?" "I'm good. I'm all right." "Whatever." "Up and down." "Hey." "Where are you headed?" "North of Seattle." "Hop in. lt's been a long ride." "I could use the company." "Great." "Thanks." "I don't usually...." "I mean, I never really pick up hitchhikers." "Few people do. I've been lucky so far." "l'm Art Stoner." "Adam Terrell." "Good to know you, Adam." "So, this is it?" "Yep." "The penthouse." "When did you sell the house?" "l didn't." "The bank took it three months after you missed Dad's funeral." "Did you keep the boat?" "Oh, yeah." "The first thing that should have gone." "Yeah, right." "And I wouldn't have had a job." "And you wouldn't have had a place to come to." "Or a sponsor." "I appreciate what you're doing." "I know." "Actually, I've hitchhiked all over the world." "I wish I had the nerve for adventure." "I never have." "Worry beads." "Got them in Athens last year." "Do you worry?" "No. I've got the beads." "Here. I've got more." "Hey, thanks." "Yeah." "Mind if I smoke?" "How about an apple instead?" "The forbidden fruit?" "Yes, I suppose you could say that." "I love them." "Yeah, an apple a day." "What the hell." "So what are you going to be doing in Seattle?" "I'm going to be a counsellor at a church camp." "I need to settle down a bit before I hit the road again." "You?" "l teach." "Literature." "Ain't it teaching time right now?" "Yes, but I'm on sabbatical." "I'm going to write my first novel." "You should see this place where l'm going." "One in a million." "Really?" "Yeah." "At least for me." "Hey, Kate, how are you?" "Hey, Tom." "Good to see you." "Do you remember Mike?" "Mike, good to see you again." "Hey." "Well, I'm going to let you two get to business." "l'll come by tomorrow." "Right?" "All right." "Be good." "The judge felt that it would be more appropriate, you know, socially if my wife got sole custody of our son Alex." "I haven't seen him in two years." "No visitation rights." "Well, that ain't right." "Art?" "I'm glad we, you know, met." "Had a chance to talk." "l'm telling you that as a friend." "l feel the same way, Adam." "I'm going to take a little look-see down there." "All right." "So it's not exactly rocket science, is it?" "No." "Two rules, Mike." "That's what you keep your mind on." "Somebody has to be here at night because trouble happens at night." "The glass for the light has to be clean from the salt air." "All right." "The light breaks." "What do you do?" "Call you?" "No." "Broken light, you call the Coast Guard." "Idiot tourists run aground, you call the Coast Guard." "Kids carrying on, you call the police." "Roof starts leaking, that's when you call me." "All right." "You've got that other guy coming tomorrow." "Let him be the sergeant." "Sure." "Well, that's about it, except good luck." "Thanks." "And Mike, I know you weren't at the funeral but I'm sorry about your father." "He was a great guy and we all miss him around here." "l just wanted you to know that." "All right." "Where are you hiding?" "Come out, come out, wherever you are." "Come on!" "You had me worried there, buddy." "Who said the sea is the last free place on earth?" "That Hemingway?" "Yes." "The sea and the forest." "How many people go through life without seeing a thing as beautiful as this?" "I don't really know how to take that." "Take it any way you want, Adam." "l'm not really good at this." "l know." "I never expected to meet someone like you." "Not on the road." "No one ever does, Adam." "No one ever does." "Here's your fish heads, Gertie." "Thanks." "So, Mr. Rock Star makes it big in Chicago." "How about an autograph, Mike?" "How about I sign that and stick it right up your ass?" "Funny." "We keep looking for your records." "We can't find them." "That's maybe because they're in the polka bin." "Yeah, maybe." "Hey, you idiots want to throw down, you take it outside!" "That's enough, Mike." "That's enough!" "Goddamn it!" "Sorry, Jack." "That's right." "Sis, to the rescue!" "You two assholes, out of here!" "Do you know what shit I had to do to get you this job?" "l don't want it." "What?" "You're shoving me in a tower for six months..." "...with" "Would you rather go to jail?" "What's the difference?" "Take me fishing with you." "That's a job." "l'm sorry." "Season's almost over." "You've got water phobia." "You get sick on boats." "No. I'll go fishing with you. I've changed." "Changed?" "Yeah." "You get a break and the first thing you do is screw it up." "You take this job and you shape up or you're out of here." "I don't even want to talk about the drinking." "This wasn't" "No, no, no!" "Ma'am, excuse me." "I'm sorry to bother you but I'm looking for the Lighthouse Commission." "Tom Blanton." "Yes, ma'am." "Straight up the road about a half a mile over the hill on the right." "And the lighthouse is about five miles up the same road." "You can't miss it." "Thank you. I appreciate it." "You're welcome." "How's the fishing?" "It's good." "Hi." "Hey." "I'm Adam." "Adam Terrell." "Mike." "Good to meet you, partner." "Tom Blanton said you'd show me around." "Well, ground floor." "Bedrooms are upstairs." "Lighthouse." "How long have you been here?" "Since yesterday." "How do you like it so far?" "I see you've taken great care of the place." "It's all right." "Well, you're quite the little gung ho eager beaver, aren't you?" "Okay, son." "Some ground rules." "Obviously I'm the senior guy here, but I think we can work as partners." "Okay?" "Whatever." "Good." "Good." "Give me a couple of minutes and we'll get this place cleaned up." "Up and down the coast you've got more salmon farms than boats." "Theirs look like bodybuilders and mine look like weight-watchers." "Soon I'll be fishing what's left of the minnows the trawlers couldn't vacuum up." "So, sell the boat." "What?" "To a museum?" "Yeah, it's seen a lot of water." "Well, so have I." "I mean, I know what I want but that's probably not going to happen." "I'm down to what I don't want." "Snarky old maid of the sea." "Why?" "You'd rather be a snarky old maid on land?" "Definitely not." "The usual, Jack." "Coming up." "Hey, Tom." "Hey." "How goes the battle?" "lt's going." "Well, I met the new guy." "College professor." "We've finally got one eligible bachelor in town." "I've seen him. I gave him directions." "Do you think he'll get along with Mike?" "Two people, that lighthouse, six months." "They don't have much of a choice." "It's that or they kill each other." "Great." "Boy, that was a great steak." "Thank you." "I just coat it with salt, high heat, medium rare." "Little shallots, some wine in the pan and there it is." "Magnifico." "Nothing complicated really." "l'm just glad it wasn't fish." "You don't like fish?" "Guess." "Well, it's really just how you prepare it." "I think, if you present things in their best light people swallow almost anything." "That's my philosophy in life, anyway." "What's yours?" "Well, I don't think I have one really that I know of." "Where are you from?" "Here." "Well, I live in Chicago." "Why did you come back?" "I got kind of broke." "I was trying to get this band going on and it didn't really work out." "Did you do time?" "No." "Almost." "I was hanging with these guys and, you know, they were doing burglaries and drugs and selling shit." "When they got busted I was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong crowd." "I got a suspended sentence." "My sister vouched for me and got me this job, actually so I wouldn't have to go to jail." "Oh, man, I got to sweep up." "Can you finish these dishes?" "Yeah, all right." "Actually, I think things are looking up for you, kid." "You're in the right place at the right time with the right guy." "Yeah." "This looks mean." "Hey, hey." "That's a flare gun." "Blanton said it's for emergencies." "Like if something really bad happens." "Well, let's hope it doesn't come to that." "Yeah." "Hey." "Hello. I see you found it." "Yes, ma'am." "Good directions." "That must be it." "l'm Kate." "Mike's sister." "Small world." "l'm Adam Terrell." "l know." "ls he around?" "He's inside cleaning up." "Mike is cleaning up?" "Hi." "Hello, there." "I'm leaving tomorrow." "I thought I'd come by, say hi, give you some junk and see how you're doing." "Mike is doing just fine." "I'll go put this inside." "Listen." "Since you're heading off tomorrow, why don't you join us for supper?" "I can't. I've got a real early start." "Daybreak." "Yeah, she fishes." "Well, maybe you can help us catch something." "Hey, this is paradise." "It really is." "Yeah?" "Why?" "You don't think so?" "I don't know." "People that live in paradise never truly appreciate it." "I just go out every two weeks." "Catch a half a ton of fish." "Come back and worry about my bills." "That's my paradise." "You make it sound so eloquent." "Sometimes I just wish I did like my brother Mike." "Take off." "Don't look back." "Explore." "He took a wrong turn somewhere." "Mike's okay." "He just doesn't know where it fits in." "That makes two of us." "You know that he isn't going to eat any of this?" "He hates seafood just as much as he hates this place." "l'm sure I can talk him into it." "Want to bet?" "How much?" "$10." "You're on." "We'll see." "You don't like oysters, Mike?" "Do you want to give them a shot?" "Come on!" "Well, it looks like snot in an ashtray, but how do you eat these things?" "Like this." "Can't have oysters without beer." "You don't have to if you don't want to." "Come on." "A nice cold one." "Here's to us." "Well, you certainly have a way with him." "He's just a kid. I learned something." "A smile goes a lot further than a kick in the butt." "That smile just cost me $10." "l don't want your money." "$10!" "No way!" "Take it." "All right." "I'll buy you a cup of coffee or something." "Glass of wine." "Maybe." "When you get back." "I really appreciate what you're doing with Mike." "I think you two will get along fine." "So do I." "Hey, sis!" "Come back in one piece, all right?" "l'll try." "Well, thanks for dinner, Adam." "You're welcome." "Good night." "Good night, Kate." "Good luck fishing." "Thanks. I'll need it." "We're a hell of a team, Mike, hell of a team." "Candy from a baby." "Yo, Kate!" "Hold on." "You're up early." "Yeah." "I brought you something." "Adam, I can't" "Come on, girl." "I got this in a little shop in Savannah." "The old woman told me that it brings good luck." "It keeps away the evil spirits of the sea." "Some old Viking legend or something." "ls it true?" "No." "Sounds good, though, don't it?" "Oh, yeah." "Well, look. lf it doesn't work, you can always give it back." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "You take care." "Thanks." "You know how they've got that Four-H Club for farmers?" "And I've got my Four-F Club." "Fuck fish, fishing, fishermen." "That sounds like an opinion." "Well, it's the only one I got." "Hey, boy." "What was your daddy like?" "He was an asshole." "The best thing about him:" "He was gone a lot." "He threw me in the water when I was 3." "I know." "Kate told me." "She's the one who pulled you out." "Oh, yeah?" "Did she tell you how he beat me up?" "Right after." "He couldn't even wait until I was dry." "Whack!" "Whack, boy!" "Whack!" "I was a lot like you when I was young." "Didn't know who I was, what I wanted to do." "But you've got to pick yourself up." "It ain't about how bad things get, Mike." "It's what you learn." "You've got to stand on your own two feet, for God's sakes." "It seems like people are just stepping on mine." "It's the weak that get stepped on." "Only the strong survive." "You have to find a place where you can get control." "If you got control, they can't touch you." "Yeah, fuck them." "lt ain't about "fuck them." lt's about you." "How strong you can be." "Get up here." "I know you're afraid." "Don't be." "You know, someone once said:" ""You have nothing to fear but fear itself."" "And fear breeds failure." "Come on." "That's it." "You've got to conquer your fear." "Mike the Conqueror." "Go on and look at that water." "Get angry with it." "God's anger makes the world go round." "l thought it was love." "Ah, bullshit!" "I got you!" "Don't fight me, Mike." "Come on." "Come on." "Get this off." "Your hands." "Come on!" "Hey, how are you doing?" "Still freezing." "Five minutes in that water and you're dead." "Here this won't hurt you." "Kate goes ape-shit when I drink." "Well, Kate isn't here." "And maybe you haven't noticed but this place is a dead end." "Ain't nothing beyond here, but a whole lot of nothing." "Hell, you can see anybody coming for four or five miles." "Day or night, you can see them coming." "And I don't know about you but that makes me feel pretty secure." "Well, I thought I was going to go nuts in this place." "And you were a bit of a pain in the ass." "Well, yeah, I'll drink to that." "All right." "You know, Mike." "Life is about seeing it coming, thinking on your feet not getting ahead of yourself, you know." "Just finding the perfect moment." "Perfect moments don't exactly come naturally to me." "I was standing on that stupid rock and I nearly drowned." "Oh, well." "That happens." "We won't let your sister know about that." "We'll just keep that between us." "When is she getting back, anyway?" "Tomorrow, I think." "Yeah, right." "Tomorrow." "You know, Mike she's going to want to see the good Mike." "You know, the good Mike hiding inside of you?" "Are you up for that?" "I'll give it a shot." "Did you say, "shot"?" "I did." "You reach that little glass over here." "Well, here we go." "Down the hatch." "Get out of there!" "What's your book about?" "My book?" "Your move." "My book is about the life and hard times of Ed Kenneshaw." "People call him Ed but he likes Eddie." "More friendly." "When he was 3, his mother divorced." "Took him to South Carolina." "They were real poor." "Lived in a single room." "Bathroom down the hall." "She worked in a textile mill." "Day shift." "At nights she turned tricks." "She'd bring men to their bed." "And little Ed, he'd have to get up and go sit on the floor in the corner and watch." "Just watch." "Sometimes he'd sleep." "Have nightmares about his daddy, beating him and his mom half to death." "Sometimes the men beat her." "She'd blame him and beat him next." "He didn't have any friends." "Didn't want any." "They called him a loser." "And he'd just sit at home alone and cry." "Just cry." "His mother said he was a survivor but that didn't sound right to Eddie." "Because a survivor ain't nothing but a loser that ain't dead yet." "No." "Eddie's a winner." "And he's smart, too." "He starts watching people." "Yeah, just watching." "And the more he watches, he reckons that their lives ain't half right either." "They're unhappy." "They're lost." "They hate themselves." "But Eddie knows." "Eddie knows he's got a gift." "He's got the gift to turn people's lives around." "He makes them happy before they die." "Go to see the angels in heaven." "Of course, he doesn't tell anybody about this because they wouldn't believe him anyway." "And he doesn't want to take credit for making them happy before they die." "But that's the gift." "He'll die, too, before someone takes it away." "Well, fuck me!" "I just checkmated myself!" "Shit!" "You better clean that up now, boy." "You hear me?" "Shit." "Idiot." "My God, man." "My God." "Okay." "So, where did you go this time?" "The Lighthouse Commission." "We have to file a report every week." "So what do we say?" "Well the truth." "Everything is fine." "What have you been up to?" "Not much." "Just played some guitar." "That's my boy." "Worked on some songs." "You bet." "Hey." "You want a sandwich?" "I was going to make one." "We've got some ham and mustard." "Sure." "That would be great." "Okay." "Cool." "I'll make us some sandwiches." "There's some milk, too." "Shit." "Shit, fuck, fuck." "Hey." "Tell me something, Mike." "What?" "Tell me about your sister." "Do you like her?" "Don't you?" "Of course." "Hey, stranger." "How was it?" "Pretty good." "Better than usual." "All right!" "l guess I got lucky." "Lucky looks good on you." "So how's my favourite brother?" "Mike?" "Well, he's doing okay." "I like him, you know." "What are those for?" "I thought I might try my hand at bird watching but I don't know the first thing about it." "Well, you find them and then you watch them." "Yeah, yeah." "Well, you've got to know where to find them first." "Don't you?" "Yeah." "Want to go?" "Maybe." "Maybe." "Give me a couple of hours." "I'll swing by the lighthouse." "Hey." "Hey." "Just got back." "Yeah?" "How did it go?" "Pretty good." "Really good." "Yeah?" "Adam's good luck charm really helped out." "Really?" "So are you keeping busy?" "Well, I guess. I don't know." "There's not much to do here except when Adam's around." "What do you mean?" "He's not around much?" "Well, he's working on his book or something. I don't know." "Are you ready to go?" "Yeah, sure." "Where are you guys going?" "She's taking me bird watching." "l'll see you later." "Okay?" "Yeah." "Mike, good work on the shutters." "Looking good." "And after the shutters, you clean out the shed." "See you." "Fucking piece of shit." "Well, I told you. I kill fish." "That's what I do. I smell of it." "l kill those things all day long." "Are you sure there's nothing else?" "Nothing that means anything." "Are you sure?" "Well, very little." "A little is a lot better than nothing, girl." "How about you?" "Any deep, dark secrets I should know about?" "Yes, ma'am." "The suspense is building." "I have a son. 6 years old." "Alex." "So you're married?" "I was with his mom about five years." "Split up four years ago." "She got sole custody." "I haven't seen Alex in two years." "l'm sorry to hear about that." "lt's not like a deep, dark secret." "It's more like a wound that won't heal." "Where is your son living now?" "They moved to California." "Driving here it struck me:" "I could go north or south." "I went north." "Do you wish you hadn't?" "I thought about it." "Then I met you." "Didn't we talk about keeping this place clean?" "Man, I've got all the time in the world." "Hey, shake it off, son." "Shake it off." "Now, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but it's for your own good." "Okay?" "You sure do look pretty, Miss Kate." "How's it going with that book of yours?" "I'm working on it." "Are you going to tell me about it?" "Well, it's about this guy in his mid 40s slowly dying in his crazy little world and he can't escape it." "That's the basic story." "And there'll probably be a little 6-year-old boy in there, too." "Now, come to think of it the story could be from the point of view of the kid." "Yeah." "The young ones see things." "They remember things." "What do you think?" "I think it'll be great." "Written from the heart." "I try to be creative." "Sculpt a little, draw, make stuff." "Art?" "l guess so." "I don't usually mention it." "I'm not very good at what I do." "l'd like to see your work." "No, you wouldn't." "Yes, I would." "Really?" "I knew there was something other than a girl who goes out and kills fish." "There's another Kate." "That's the one I'd like to get to know." "Where have you been?" "The Rusty Fuck." "Where were you?" "I don't think that's any of your business." "I thought we were supposed to work on some songs." "That's true. I did say that, didn't I?" "Yeah." "What do you think?" "l don't know." "I don't know. I think she's extremely talented." "Don't you?" "Yeah." "At doing what?" "Hey, maybe you can write that on our little report." "Anyone ever tell you it's rude to go peeking through people's windows?" "You little pervert!" "Damn it, Mike!" "Come on!" "Don't be so damn stupid!" "Do you want your sister to call your parole officer?" "When are you going to learn, son?" "Come on, Mike." "Hey." "What's your problem?" "Adam just called." "You're getting into fights with him?" "l didn't do anything. lt was him." "It's always someone else's fault, isn't it, Mike?" "It's never yours." "You were at the Rusty Duck?" "l had a couple of beers." "So you were wasted?" "And you had to start a fight with Adam?" "Bullshit!" "All right!" "That guy, I'm telling you, he fucking jumped me!" "He fucked my face up!" "Thank God he didn't press charges." "He was too busy pressing something else, wasn't he?" "Nice." "No, fuck it, man. I'm out of here." "Then I'll call the police and you're going straight to jail." "This is a fucking jail!" "Look!" "You could give a fuck about me." "Just want to hang out with your new boyfriend?" "l'm out of here." "ls that what you think?" "Fine. lf you want to leave, then leave." "I just wish you were out of my fucking life for good." "Kate." "Hey." "I can't talk to you right now." "I've got to go." "She's got a temper on her, don't she?" "Good afternoon." "ls it?" "I brought you something for your boat." "I got to take her out for a test." "I just replaced the fuel pump." "Mind if I come along?" "Suit yourself." "I've been thinking, Kate." "I've been thinking, six months is beginning to seem like a short period of time." "What do you mean?" "You know." "l can't believe how great that felt." "Yeah." "The earth moved, Kate." "That's Hemingway." "I should have gone to college." "Well, why don't you?" "l don't know." "Try a semester." "Do you know you're talking to someone who almost flunked high school?" "Well, you would try harder now." "I am a teacher there. I do have some pull." "I smell summa cum laude." "And I think I smell like fish." "The Old Woman and the Sea." "That's Hemingway, too." "I wish you didn't have to go." "So do I." "But I am the watcher." "Duty calls." "I need to talk to Mike for a couple of minutes." "Okay?" "l feel" "Go." "Thanks." "Mike." "He's supposed to be here, isn't he?" "l don't know." "Maybe he went out." "For a walk or something." "We'll wait for him." "Come on." "Where are we going?" "It's a surprise." "Come on." "Sometimes Mike is gone for hours at a time." "That's funny." "He said the same thing about you." "He did?" "Why, that little rat." "Kiss me." "They say the murders started in South Carolina and sort of zigzagged across the country, pretty close to here." "He kills his victims with a knife." "One thrust, right through the ribs, straight to the heart." "Always the same." "What do you mean, "close to here"?" "They found a woman in a trailer park 300 miles from here." "Same M.O." "But a couple of days later, there's this male Caucasian about 100 miles from here on up the coast." "They had no prints, no id." "The animals got to him." "So we're waiting on the fbi for a DNA check, because the clothes at the scene match the suspect's." "So we're thinking, maybe it's the same sick bastard and now he's dead." "Jesus." "Poor women." "Yeah." "Twelve of them." "Maybe more, for all we know." "There's no sign of violence except the knife, but he did have sex with all of them." "Regular Casanova with an edge." "Can I get another one, Jack?" "Yeah." "Coming up." "'Evening, Michael." "Hi." "Anyhow, put that up somewhere and keep your eyes open just in case." "Got it." "l'll see you later, Jack." "Take care." "Thanks." "Yeah." "Kate." "Jesus, Mike." "We need to talk." "l don't want to hear about it." "No, it's important." "You don't know him." "Adam." "He's two people." "He's totally weird." "He's" "You've got a right to talk about weird." "Look, I saw his writing." "It's not even the same." "What are you talking about?" "l mean, he wrote me a note." "The writing in his book is totally different." "He says he's a writer." "Yeah." "I've never seen him write, once." "He never sleeps." "He cleans everything three times." "Makes sure he does it three times." "He stares for hours at nothing through those fucking binoculars." "You've seen those weeds." "Those stupid dead weeds that he puts all over the house." "I mean, that's bizarre." "These beads that are always, "click, click!"" "It's driving me up the wall." "I mean, all right, he smacks me." "And, then, minutes later, he's all nice again." "Hold it." "Are you jealous?" "is that it?" "That's what it is, isn't it?" ""Daddy likes you better."" "Well, he did, didn't he?" "You have no idea what I went through." "You get your shit together, and grow up!" "I know I'm a fuck-up." "Could you just take a look at this picture?" "Because...." "l mean, who is that?" "He's got the same hat, the same sweater." "Who is that guy?" "Would you just please leave me alone?" "Kate, he's really, really crazy." "And I heard the cops were looking for this serial killer." "So, now he's a serial killer." "We don't know who he is." "l know who he is." "Yeah?" "This is breaking my heart." "I brought you here because I wanted to help you turn your life around." "That's it." "I wanted to be of some help." "And now you're drinking." "You're starting fights, and disappearing for all hours of the night." "I mean, you're coming up with these stupid ideas." "is this what I can expect from you?" "is this it, Mike?" "Why don't you just go?" "Kate" "Just please go!" "Adam." "Hello." "Adam." "Adam." "Looking for this?" "What is it?" "We're looking for Mike, Kate." "He barely said a word." "I went up to clean the glass on the light." "I came back, and he was speeding down the causeway, fast." "ls his stuff still at the lighthouse?" "No." "No guitar, no bag, no nothing." "I saw him this morning." "He was acting crazy." "I asked him to leave, but I didn't think...." "l'll go back to the office and see if something turns up." "He's an adult, and there's no sign of foul play so I can't file a missing person's report for another 48 hours." "Thanks, Bill." "Thank you, sir." "I hope he's not going to do anything crazy again." "Can you go back to the lighthouse, just in case he shows up there?" "Are you okay, Kate?" "Yeah." "I'm going to check a couple of places around here." "Kate, you look like you could use a drink." "No thanks." "Jack, have you seen Mike?" "I can't find him." "No." "No such luck today." "If you do, tell him I'm sorry and I want to see him." "Sure thing." "The serial killer." "They're all looking for him." "Mike." "Why did you make me do it?" "You don't know him." "Adam." "He's two people." "The earth moved, Kate." "He says he's a writer." "I've neverseen him write." "I am a teacher there." "I do have some pull." "He smacks me." "Minutes later, he's all nice again." "These beads that are always, "click, clickI"" "So, now he's a serial killer." "I know who he is." "Want to hang out with your boyfriend?" "Are you jealous?" "Is thatit?" "That guy, I'm telling you, he fucking jumped meI" "Getyourshit together, and grow upI" "He's really, really crazy." "Ijust wish you were out of my fucking life for good." "Kate." "I don't know how to say this." "Damn it." "There ain't no right way." "Being at the lighthouse with Mike watching him, watching you." "I don't know, it made me think about my boy, growing up without a daddy." "And that ain't right." "Are you leaving?" "Yesterday, six months was a short time." "Kate." "I found this in his room." "It says, "You were right, sis." ""l'm just a useless pain in the ass." ""l'm sorry I hurt you." ""Now, maybe you and Adam can be happy together." ""lf l ever get good at something except screwing up..." ""...you'll hear from me." ""l love you, sis." ""'Bye."" "Well, maybe it's all for the best, like he said." "Can I see the note?" "It's not like he's going to go and kill himself." "That's not what it says." "What?" "Where did you get that?" "I found that on the floor." "Who is that?" "That's my best friend Art Stoner." "We teach together in the literature department." "And that's our school hat he's wearing." "And you know who the boy is?" "That's my son Alex." "Art is his godfather." "Can I have this back?" "No." "Do you love me, Kate?" "Haven't I made you happy?" "I'm trying to hold on to you as long as I can." "Kate." "I want to make this night precious." "Say you love me, Kate." "I need to hear it." "You never say it." "Say it." "I used to do this with my dad." "Sail around the bay at night." "And I'd always hear Mike crying." "Because he was alone." "And afraid." "I got so used to it, I don't even know if I cared anymore." "But you know what?" "No one ever heard me crying." "I hear you." "I love you." "Do you love me?" "Just let me hear you say it." "I loved you." "So did Mike." "I don't know what to say, Kate." "There's no body." "We'll keep looking, but he couldn't survive more than a few minutes in that water." "Hell, I don't even know how to do the paperwork on this." "Do you want me to put out that missing person's on Mike?" "No." "Leave him be." "Okay." "I'll be talking to you later." "Okay?" ""Dear Kate:" ""You always told me I should change." "Well, I have." ""You'll see." "Love, Mike."" "TITL BY ZUKY..."