"Thanks, Walt." "Thanks for everything." "Morning and an Oldsmobile, coming down the road" "Stars still shinin' in the west" "Something I should tell you But it's nothin' that I know" "Baby give yourself a rest" "Out of danger" "Take your time" "I'm no stranger but I cannot read your mind" "I've been untrue to promises made in moments of love" "To someone like you" "And others like you" "Yeah, I've been untrue to promises made in moments of love" "To someone like you" "And others like you" "I hope you don't mind Walter's music." "It's sad thinking of him alone here all those years, no girlfriend." "No one to slow dance with." "His wife was the one true love..." "And then she died." "Don't make me cry." "You lucky boy Copper." "You take good care of Birch." "Walter died happier knowing his dog was with you." "Aren't you going to try on your sandals?" "Of course!" "I can't believe you fuckin' made these." "I've never worn anything made just for me." "Move in with me." "Work on the Hudson." "It's got sturgeon, eels." "Toxic waste to clean up." "No." "I'm going tomorrow." "It's Idaho or bust." "My folks are in Florida and..." "Other than you, I think New York's over for me." "At least for a while." "Will you write me?" "No." "Not unless it's e-mail." "You're gonna change your mind when you get my letters." "Each one will be a work of art." "When I stop loving you" "When I stop loving you, a train won't need a track" "When I stop caring for you to go where we come back" "To know that you love me Is just the way I want it to be" "And one and one won't be two" "When I stop loving you" "It's so fucking hot I had to tuck a bunch of Kleenex between my legs to sop up the sweat." "Stop, please..." "My poached eggs are just meeting up with last night's margaritas." "Pardon." "Pardon." "Hey, you never called me back about house-sitting." "I was dying to do it." "Kyle decided to bring Marianne with us." "Hi Luella, you skank, what's up?" "On my way to have brunch, with Ginger." "Who?" "Your boss's new assistant, darling." "I'll play corporate spy and find out when she's hiring you back." "Didn't you hear, the economy's getting better." "I hope so or else there'll be an uprising of junior fashion editors sporting Hermes Uzis and Balenciaga AK-47s." "I'll get the dirt and call you tonight." "And you better invite me up some weekend." "If Marianne gets out of the house she'll die, plain and simple." "She'd die if Luella was house-sitting." "We just have to be careful." "You know how devastated she is when we go out of town." "It's like you have to infantilize everything." "Turn people, animals, fucking handbags into cute little Easter baskets wrapped up for some rich bitch bobble-headed girl." "It's bullshit." "Thanks." "It's good to finally know that every ounce of my being is worthless." "Ninety-five percent of you is loving, and amazing." "Five percent of you, your coating, is like some" "Hello Kitty up-fuck." "Up-fuck?" "What are you talking about?" "Nothing." "I'm just a pretentious dick." "You'll love the pond." "Anything in there that'll bite my toes?" "Just me." "I hope that means you have sex on the brain." "It's been weeks, you know." "Thank God." "Can we have picnics, too?" "Anything you want, just as long as you help me clean the house out." "Ten years ago my Dad was a big-time hoarder." "Imagine it now." "Frankly, I'm glad I never had to meet your dad." "I wish I could say the same." "That's pitiful." "Anyway, I told you to patch things up with him before it was too late." "Don't even go there." "Imagine how I feel?" "Like a son who's lost his father." "It's normal to feel bad." "Be cool with me, okay?" "I'm walking into my past here." "It's heavy." "It's stressful." "Here goes nothing." "This is it." "Hey!" "You can't go in there." "Hi." "I'm Walter's son." "Who are you?" "Andy?" "I can't believe it." "Birch?" "Um..." "Wow." "I'm real sorry." "Thanks." "I guess you didn't expect to see me here." "No." "This is a pretty big surprise." "Kyle." "Birch." "We were friends as kids." "Oh really." "We had some time off." "So it seemed..." "He tried to contact you." "Did he?" "I'm sorry, what's your name again?" "Birch." "Welcome." "Do you live here?" "Yeah." "There's no reception here." "Your sandals are to die for." "Oh yeah?" "I made them." "Kyle works in fashion." "Oh." "So, when did you two first meet?" "We were kids together." "Birch spent summers with his grandparents down the road." "You never told me about a Birch." "So, when did you and my dad become friends?" "When I started working for him five years ago." "Doing what?" "Everything." "What's that mean?" "Carpentry." "Tarring roofs." "Working leather." "Everything he tried to interest me in." "He straightened me out." "He was a great man." "I guess you'd know better than me." "All I know is he helped me." "I find that hard to imagine." "I haven't talked to the man in a decade." "Some old lady calls me and says he's been dead for weeks." "We drive up, and find that you've been hanging with him for five years." "Yeah." "That's about right." "Andrew wants to clean the place up." "We might use it on the weekends, or rent it out." "So..." "This is not how I pictured your room." "I sold everything so I could move to the city." "That's all that's left." "So this is your house, right?" "Of course." "It was just my dad and me." "I'm his only living relative." "Maybe your dad left it to him." "I wouldn't be surprised." "Birch is hot In a Little House on the Prairie sort of way." "He used to be heavy metal." "Supper's ready in twenty minutes." "Um... okay." "Thanks." "Supper?" "This trout is incredible." "Did you catch it?" "Yeah." "And I got the greens down by the stream." "They're good, huh?" "My dad used to take us fishing." "By the waterfall." "I still go there." "Damnit." "It keeps dropping me." "Try the trout." "Not to be rude, but I don't eat seafood." "You eat sushi all the time." "Eat what you're comfortable with." "This cheese is yummy." "I made it." "You make cheese?" "Out of what?" "Dairy products, Kyle, milk." "I know that, but from what animal?" "Beaver." "Beaver milk?" "Mostly, with a little coyote milk for that sharp bite." "He's yanking your chain." "When my grandparents died, Walt told me if I ever needed work to come see him." "But I wanted to roam." "I drove around, living in my truck." "What did you do for money?" "Sold off my grandparents' stuff at flea markets." "Oh." "I went all over." "Vermont, Kentucky." "But then I couldn't take it anymore." "Eating every meal at Quick Marts." "People out there are crazy... dangerous." "Drifters and Grifters Express I call it." "So I came back here, and haven't left since." "So..." "You took care of him when he got sick?" "Yeah." "You want to tell me what happened?" "I didn't know you were interested." "Well I am." "Okay..." "Well, we were doing a job for the Presbyterian church." "Making pews." "The day we loaded the last pew onto their flatbed truck," "Walt looked funny." "Like he'd lost twenty pounds overnight, and his skin was yellow." "He said his belly hurt." "A week later he died in bed." "Those are his last drawings." "They were on the bed with him when he died." "Oh my God" "My grandma used to play this all the time!" "You mind turning that off while we talk." "He wanted to contact you... but he said you hated him." "Look, man, I feel really strange about all of this." "Andrew said he was a hoarder, but this place is pretty tidy." "No..." "That entire wall, from the floor to the ceiling, was newspapers." "It was a disaster in here." "It took us four months to clean." "I found reminders of you everywhere." "Really?" "School papers." "A Christmas list from 1991." "Aw, that's so cute." "The hoarding was part of his depression." "Your dad was a sad man." "Sad about what?" "Doesn't it take feelings, sensitivity to be sad?" "Man, you're bitter." "No, I'm a happy person, and that's because he's out of my life." "He lost the wife that he loved more than anything." "Then he drove his son away." "It wrecked him... for a while." "Then he got on with his life." "Is that when you skipped in?" "I was in bad shape, too." "We helped each other out." "Life got better." "That's interesting..." "So you became the dutiful surrogate son?" "I told Andrew to patch things up with his dad." "Why didn't you even call me, invite me to the funeral?" "I didn't know how to get a hold of you." "Have you heard of Google?" "I'm listed on the NYU grad student home page." "I don't do electric mail." "Helen found you somehow." "But you didn't even try." "You know, Andy, you were a lot nicer when we were kids." "What happened?" "Kitty Wells?" "Montana Slim?" "Who are these people?" "Look who's here, buddy, it's Andrew." "Can you believe it?" "How's it going up there, flying around with the hawks and eagles." "By the way, the paint on the gravestone is temporary." "I can't find a chisel." "But when I do, I'll get to work." "Isn't burying a body in your yard illegal?" "I mean, won't the health department get mad?" "We did what people've done for thousands of years." "When that old lady called" " Helen." "She said she didn't know what he had, but probably cancer." "Yeah, we think it was pancreatic." "You think?" "What did the doctors say?" "Your dad hated doctors." "No he didn't." "He changed a lot since you left home." "I haven't forgotten what an asshole he was when we were kids..." "How he treated you." "But he really did transform." "Transformed into a doctor-hater?" "So you just let him die?" "We prayed for him to get better." "What the fuck?" "Let me guess, you administered the chemo." "No." "Look." "He called up an old girlfriend." "A Christian Science practitioner." "This is getting crazy." "Helen moved in and became his nurse." "Spiritual nurse." "No drugs." "No chemo." "So you're telling me my atheist father became a Christian?" "A Christian Scientist." "And no, he didn't become one." "He just really liked to pray." "My dad never prayed a day in his life." "There's a lot you don't know." "Obviously." "He loved music." "Had a great voice." "There was always a record playing." "Cowboy singers like Gene Autry during the day." "At night it was Billie Holiday and Julie London." "Helen and I - we made him comfortable." "We'd make him laugh." "And Copper slept with him." "It did a lot more good than radiation." "I don't know this man you're talking about." "It was something else being with him." "He took the disease head on." "His strength, it changed my life." "Wolf went up to Canada, leaving half his life" "Left behind two women, each one half a wife" "Federal men were after him, wanted him to blame" "Someone from outside the law, had betrayed his name" "He woke up in the morning, the light was fine and gray" "Knew that he was running, but he did not know which way" "He had a sum of money, belonged to other men" "Some time he'd return it, if he passed there again" "Kyle!" "Hi Luella?" "Oh my God, where have you been?" "I'm nowhere, absolutely nowhere." "I've been calling all day." "The reception here is terrible." "There's no internet either." "How bizarre." "Have you talked to Hedy?" "Yes, honey, and she's such an evil bitch." "I don't think she's going to hire you back." "But this magazine fucking sucks without me." "I know." "And it'll probably fold without you." "But" " I'm going to call her in a few days." "I don't know if that's such a good idea." "Marianne!" "Marianne!" "Here baby." "Marianne!" "Come on sweetie." "Where are you, little girl?" "Your stupid dog has chased her so far away she'll never find her way back!" "This is your fault." "I told you not to bring her." "I knew this would happen." "You opened the door and let her out!" "Can you even comprehend how terrified she must be?" "You are both fucking hopeless." "Go back to the house, close the doors." "Stay there." "I'll find the damn rabbit." "So?" "You need to clean that up." "Right now." "I'm sorry, he's really upset." "He loves that rabbit." "I'm sure he does." "Like I love Copper." "But it was dumb to bring him here." "To bring me here?" "!" "He means Marianne." "I like to keep things peaceful in my house." "Actually, it's my house now." "He buried your dad." "Right out there." "What went on between them?" "Something weird." "You don't think... could Birch have done something to my dad?" "Like murder?" "Not that." "Well, I don't know." "I mean, the guy thinks he's a cowboy, or Paul Revere, or whatever." "I think he's crazy." "Marianne, my poor baby." "Birch makes it sound like they were this happy, well-adjusted father and son who fish and build church pews together." "And make gorgeous sandals." "You think he's lying?" "My dad was mean- not fun, not supportive." "Maybe they got in a fight." "Birch killed him in self-defense." "Or maybe he's a sociopath?" "He killed my dad for the house, the workshop, social security, his pension." "Maybe something else was going on." "Once, when we were kids, Birch shot a woodpecker with a BB gun." "Killed it." "So." "That's what red-necks do." "I don't think Birch murdered your dad." "He used to kick me, call me lard ass, called me a girl." "Once when I was asleep, he came in here, picked up the mattress, and dumped me on the floor." "Very Joan Crawford." "Be serious." "You be serious." "Open your eyes." "Your Big Papa and Birch were a couple." "That's disgusting." "The man punched me in the face when I came out." "Do you actually think a man like that would get into some dad-and-lad roleplaying kink thing?" "Oh-son-fuck-me-hard." "Oh-dad-that-feels-so-good." "Maybe they just kept each other company." "Companions." "Kiss me, dammit." "Oh god!" "Oh god!" "Fuck Yeah!" "The will he left is not official." "Technically, I could easily take this house." "Yeah." "But why?" "Aren't you in grad school in the city?" "Yes." "But we could make a nice income renting this place out." "Then I'll rent it." "I'm not comfortable with that." "I mean, do you even have an income?" "May!" "Darling!" "Did you see those lights again last night?" "I lucked out on the watermelon this year." "So how are the bees this year?" "They're good, actually." "What eyes you have." "My word, aren't you a tense one." "Tense?" "No." "You seem angry to me." "Excuse me?" "I'm the chillest guy in the Catskills." "How do you know Birch?" "I'm a customer." "He built my puppet theater." "Do you see that impeccable workmanship there?" "It's pretty friggin' bitchin'." "And he practically gave it to me for free." "'Cause you use it to help people." "You do kids' parties?" "Only this one." "No, I'm a licensed art therapist, certified up the wazoo." "Courts call me:" "Hey May, get over to the orphanage or the juvie hall, or shelter for battered women." "You know, "trauma puppets."" "Does it work?" "Good question." "You said that girl, the self-mutilator, is in complete remission." "That's right." "You should be like..." "I dunno, a story on NPR." "I have Chinese ones, and little dreadlock kids, and don't forget the obese." "I have everyone under the rainbow represented at home in my puppet closet." "Save me one of those venison burgers!" "Part one." "The Conflict." "Son, I saw you having sex with a boy." "That's wrong." "It's disgusting." "I'm embarrassed for our family." "You have a moral weakness." "Dad, it's true, I'm gay, but it's not wrong." "I'm a good person." "Mom would understand if she were still alive." "I raised a fairy!" "My only son is a pansy fruitcake." "My wife would disown you." "Go fuck yourself, dad." "Part Two." "The Resolution." "What the fuck?" "You have a stranger reenact the worst event in my life with puppets?" "It's just a funky kind of therapy." "It works." "I'm trying to help you." "Help me?" "You're the weirdo." "You're the one who did something to my dad." "Give it up!" "You're jealous 'cause I had a relationship with him, and you didn't." "Get over it." "Get back to your important life in the city." "Fucker." "Ow." "Monday I put this place up for sale." "And you're outta here." "Oh my God." "I've never gotten that reaction before." "I know you're out here." "You like being dead?" "See me punch your new son out?" "Remember what you used to say?" "There goes my little girl." "Peace on your journey, light on your path" "Pleasure in the moments when your life is coming fast" "Lost in emotion I might have forgotten" "To fill in all the spaces between starting' and stoppin'" "But you know, the things I didn't say" "Stay home, okay?" "Watch over Kyle." "The way it is today" "As soon as you think of something to say" "Everything changes and the room fades away" "Oh man." "Hey Harvey." "You've really outdone yourself with this batch." "Oh, fuck you." "Come to punch me out?" "Fine." "Let's do it." "I had a hunch you'd be here." "You think I have a sentimental attachment to these rocks 'cause we used to camp here five-hundred years ago?" "I guess I know you better than I thought." "That puppet show was really sick and twisted." "Seemed like a good idea." "But I guess not." "What's with the survivalist drag?" "Drag?" "Pretending to be some pioneer from the time of Lincoln." "I'm not pretending anything." "I just live the way I like." "If you're a tea-bagger, just tell me now." "I'd really like to know." "I'm surprised you don't have a poster of Sarah Palin over your bed." "You've got me all wrong, Andy." "Don't call me that." "My name is Andrew." "Do you even know who Sarah Palin is?" "You do know what the internet is, right?" "I've seen it, but..." "I don't need it." "And yeah, I am familiar with that fishwife." "Fishwife?" "Saw that word somewhere recently." "Henry James says fishwife a lot." "You've read James?" "I've only read What Maisie Knew." "Crazy families interest me." "Not surprising." "Must be nice to concentrate the way people used to." "My brain's addled." "I can't focus." "But you're getting a doctorate." "I take Adderall." "What's that?" "It's a type of speed they prescribe for attention deficit disorder." "That makes a lot of sense." "It does in my world." "What is that shit?" "This?" "Harvey's Wonder Tonic." "Left me, left me, left me all alone" "Then you call me cryin' on the phone" "Left me, left me, left me on my own" "Don't you know you turn my heart to stone" "Don't be a milksop." "Come in." "Hey now, go down, whose turn is it this time?" "Hey now, go 'round, won't you be my sunshine" "Well I don't know where you are going and I don't care where you've been" "We've shared this moment in the sunlight, and maybe we will meet again" "I've called you my friend, and I've called you my lover" "And though our time might soon be over" "Why are you still wearing those?" "Well hey now, go down, whose turn is it this time?" "If I don't get my job back I'm screwed." "But why can't you get something else?" "I screwed up, and if the magazine won't have me back, no one in the fashion world will trust me again." "Screwed up?" "Oh!" "I love cha-cha." "More liked fucked-up." "At a shoot." "I stole some clothes from a designer." "Like twenty-thousand dollars worth." "Oops." "Exactly." "Have you ever heard that phrase, Think Outside the Box?" "Of course." "It's called a tired cliché." "But it's a true cliché." "Look, as a therapist I'm also trained to give career advice, and what you've got to do is the unexpected." "Clothes, magazines, it's what I live for." "Don't be a slave." "Start your own magazine." "That sounds great and all." "But it's the principle of the thing." "I gave the clothes back." "I took a Xanax that day and I don't know what came over me." "What kind of childhood did you have, Kyle?" "Childhood is off limits." "It was terrible." "But I've wrapped that part of my life up in a steel wool, May, and I put it down the garbage disposal." "My word." "So, what exactly happened?" "Nothing happened." "I don't follow." "That was probably Luella telling me that Hedy-that's my boss-will be calling tomorrow to give me my job back." "Because she needs me." "I have a lot of talent, May." "I believe you." "I'm shit-faced." "I'm getting sober." "I gotta get that puppet theater back home." "Where's Andrew?" "I'm really worried." "I want him here now!" "May, May!" "Cock-a-doodle-do." "Oh my God." "May, it's time to get up." "Where am I?" "At Andrew's house" " Birch's." "I went out looking for them, but I got scared." "Don't worry about those two." "It's not like they're prepared to camp." "They could die out there." "Birch?" "Impossible." "That kid takes to the woods like, like, I dunno, trees, dirt, and newts." "We don't even know if they're together." "Have some more wine." "It's Independence Day in the Catskill Mountains." "Maybe that might work for you." "But this situation is potentially life or death." "Around here it's fine and normal to pass time in the woods." "Birch'll look out for your boyfriend." ""YOU ARE SUCH A MAIDEN FAIR ALL IN YOUR ROBES OF RED WILL YOU" "TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS AND HAVE ME IN YOUR BED?"" ""AWAY, AWAY YOU COAL BLACKSMITH WHAT YOU DO SAY IS WRONG DOST" "THOU THINK A LASS LIKE ME CAN BE HAD FOR JUST A SONG?"" "AND HE SAID, "BIDE, LADY BIDE." "YOUR LUST FOR ME DON'T HIDE." "THIS LUSTY SMITH WILL BE YOUR LOVE AND POUND AWAY YOUR PRIDE."" "In this old tale we have a man named August Orizaba who carried" "ten pounds of gold bullion in his pockets." "His clothes sagged funny as he walked down the street." "This was in Tahiti in the year 1849." "August walked into a saloon where he met Herman Melville." "They ate fish and drank all night as hula girls tried to catch their attention." "But the two men were fascinated by each other." "When they were good and drunk, August took out some gold and paid the tab." "They walked outside into a beautiful jungle." "August tried to kiss Herman Melville, but Melville was" "hesitant and said good-night." "You don't respect who I am or what I do." "Shut up, Kyle." "You're so needy." "You think I'm superficial." "You say it all the time, Andrew." "Ninety-five percent of you is loving and amazing." "The other five percent, your coating, is like some" "Hello Kitty up-fuck." "That's right, I'm a cartoon up-fuck." "And speaking of fucking, why do I practically have to bribe you to stick your dick in me?" "!" "I used to hate it when you'd go back to the Adirondacks at the end of summer." "The rest of the year I'd miss you." "In bed at night, falling asleep, I used to imagine you and me having adventures together." "Really?" "That must sound strange to you." "Not at all." "Sorry about that." "Does it hurt?" "Nah." "Oh my God." "Oh my God." "God-fucking-dammit!" "Marianne!" "Come back." "Copper!" "Marianne!" "Copper!" "Marianne!" "Come back!" "Whoa hey." "What happened?" "Why you so upset?" "Hey, Hey!" "We just lost track of time." "We crashed in the woods." "Tell me why you're so freaked out." "They're both gone." "I don't know if they're alive, or where they are." "Oh God." "This is the worst thing that's ever happened to me." "Copper will be back." "I can't say the same for the rabbit." "Marianne!" "He's asleep." "I gave him an Ambien." "Incredible." "I almost brought Copper into the woods with me, but told him to stay here, to keep Kyle safe." "I'm really sorry." "That dog is my last connection to Walter." "What about me?" "I'm actually blood related to the guy." "Kyle's convinced that you killed my dad." "Why would I do that?" "I dunno." "So you can live here." "I lived here before your dad got sick." "I didn't kill him." "I loved the guy." "Kyle also thinks he thinks you and my dad were lovers." "What do you think?" "I wish we could've just stayed in the forest." "You can." "I mean with you." "I learned that I've loved you since we were kids." "You've got a boyfriend." "Look, Birch, I know we had sex and all," "But are you even gay?" "I don't think so." "You don't know?" "I'm not sure." "Either way, I don't really care if I am or if I'm not." "That makes no sense." "How do you identify?" "As a man." "I've got a dick." "I've got a brain." "A heart." "What are you talking about?" "You were gay last night." "Let's put it this way, I'm gay for you." "Otherwise, I really don't think in those terms." "It doesn't even cross my mind to think that way." "Do you think of men when you jerk off?" "Sure." "Do you think about women?" "Oh yeah." "Then you're bisexual." "Okay." "All right." "You've got a boyfriend, Andy." "And he needs you." "Hedy!" "Hi!" "I finally got you!" "Oh..." "Yeah." "No problem." "Yeah." "Thanks." "You hit really him hard." "Watch." "I don't need to see that." "This is the worst hangover of my life." "Oh God." "At this point I'm so fucked that murdering Hedy is actually the best thing I could do." "I agree." "Very wise career move." "It hurts, Andrew, it hurts bad when people don't like you." "I'm in pain, okay." "The worst ever." "Please try to pull yourself together." "You spent the night with that hick- least you could do is be nice to me." "Unemployment can make anyone lose it." "You still care about me, don't you?" "You know this is just how I get sometimes." "I know." "But we should face the facts and know that Marianne is probably dead." "Please." "We should go back to the city." "You're not cut out for living up here." "What am I going to do?" "You've got to get out there." "You're going to make your way." "You're super creative." "Do something unexpected." "That's what May said." "You gotta think outside the magazine box." "May said that too." "You could be a buyer for a store." "You could design." "You have options." "Exactly." "Look at Birch." "He wants a table, he builds it." "He wants sandals, he makes them." "You need a job in fashion." "Make it happen." "Sounds like you two Boy Scouts had a great bonding experience." "Yeah..." "Ha!" "I knew it." "Knew what?" "You guys did it." "Oh please." "I can hear it in your voice, Andrew." "You've fallen for his Farmer John act." "You seduced him." "Admit it." "I can see it in your eyes." "Yeah." "Well?" "Well what?" "Want me to cry?" "I cried over you last night, but you were not here." "I'm really sorry." "I have my career to worry about." "I still love you." "You know that." "Did you say that to him too as you sang cowboy songs under the stars?" "It just happened." "You're still my guy." "COPPER!" "Here boy!" "Kyle!" "Come eat!" "I made a decision." "I'm going back to the city." "Alone." "Oh?" "I'll take your car." "Um..." "Fine." "I'll come back on the bus in a couple weeks." "What are you gonna to do in the city?" "Something... unexpected." "Are you gonna be okay?" "Yeah." "Probably." "I don't know." "I'll come back with you." "Really?" "No." "I want you to stay." "I need to figure myself out." "Birch, how much do you want for your sandals?" "Nothing." "They're yours." "Thanks..." "Have you ever thought of selling them?" "Professionally?" "Now and then I sell them down at the flea market." "Forty bucks a pair." "Are you kidding me?" "Forty dollars?" "It's not like there's a high demand." "Are you insane?" "These things are incredible." "People will love them." "Forty dollars?" "He's right." "You could sell them for at least two hundred." "No way!" "I've got the most fucking genius idea ever!" "I'm going to start a website called, "Leather."" "And I'm going to see if I can sell your custom-made sandals on the internet." "How does that sound to you?" "Let's talk when you make your first sale." "I'm serious, Birch." "I know." "Sure, I'll help you out." "Promise?" "Are you afraid?" "A little." "Good." "Why good?" "A little fear will keep this special." "I'm so glad you're here." "I am too." "Leave that world behind... for a while." "What the...?" "Copper!" "Get back in here!" "Party's up here." "Hey Boy." "Oh I missed you boy." "C'mere." "Oh, I missed you boy."