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[Theme music]

[Wind blowing]

[Creepy music playing]

[MUSIC PLAYING "FISHING FOR YOU LOVE"]

[Bird chirping]

What's that?

Well, son, that's a tape recorder.

When this goes around, like that, there's

Music on the tape, and the music plays,

And that's what you hear.

I can make it go really fast.

[Warped audio]

Like that.

[Music playing]

[Whooshing noise]

[Crickets chirping furiously]

[Splash]

[Music playing]

[MUSIC RED ECHOES, "THINGS AREN'T WHAT THEY SEEM"]

Jesus, I can't hear myself think.

This is going to cost us both another beer.

Sorry, Finner, not to be negative or anything,

But I really can't deal with sexist music.

Anyway, Red Elbows?

You guys, we got... We got a classic here.

It's like Beethoven and Mussolini,

And... aw, you guys are so ignorant.

- Yep. - OK.

Go ahead.

Tell me who it is.

Red Echoes Live, "Things Aren't What They Seem."

This boy never misses.

Oh, listen to this.

Listen to this.

It builds into a great scream.

Right in here.

ANN: Yeah, great scream.

FINNER: Well, he screams in here somewhere.

Just wait.

Just listen.

This like, hippie music makes me feel like I'm

Like, full of chowder, man.

Like, how long do I have to suffer, huh?

Get off.

[Eerie music]

[Birds chirping]

Oh, gross.

What the hell is this supposed to be?

Say, we're looking for the campground.

Oh, that's around the lake a piece there.

It' about four miles now, ya.

Well, can't you people put some signs up?

I mean, that's what tax money is all about.

Why don't you put up some good signs, for crying out loud.

I want a diet soda.

Ruthie.

Oh, I can draw a map for you folks.

It's no trouble at all, no.

Gross.

You nit.

It's a cicada.

I, uh, do urology done in Old Park, Illinois?

Put that down this instant.

Leave it for the loons.

Do you sell bait here?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I sell bait here.

You betcha.

I could use some minnows.

What's this old thing?

Hey, quit messing around there, will you?

Put it down.

Woah, that's my stud finder.

Yeah, say you got a wall there, and you got nails in it,

And you want to find them, you, uh, just...

Well, you just put it up there.

IRVING: Jeepers.

See?

And then you've got your location of the stud.

Eh, Irv, Will you put it down, huh?

How much do they cost?

Ah, take it.

It's free.

Merry Christmas.

I don't seem to need it anyway.

I always seem to know where the nails are.

Gee, thanks, Mr. Leudke.

Do you got change for $100?

Ah.

Here, the minnows are on me.

Welcome to the North Woods.

No charge for you, folks.

I want a soda.

Well, you can't get one here.

You're just going to have to wait, young lady.

It's like I always say, fishing's OK.

Remember, the lake's not a playground.

We all have to treat the water with respect.

Got ya.

Will do.

[Birds chirping]

[Car starting]

ANN: Oh, my god.

I can't believe that.

MAN: Muskie Heaven.

Damn.

Where's my pole?

Muskie Heaven.

[Music playing]

[Chattering, laughing]

[Hammering]

Oh, hello, there.

Come on up.

You want to take on a Muskie maniac?

That's me, Denny Dobyns.

You've seen a fishing pole before, I'm sure.

But I bet you've never seen an expert catch like this.

Ah.

Like that.

Ah, it's a big one.

[Grunting]

You want to take me on, Sunshine?

[Chuckling]

You get those off your tricycle, Honey?

Is that where those tassels came from?

[Chuckling]

[Splash]

[Cheering]

Hey, hey.

You can't use that pole.

No, tassels, uh-uh, Sunshine.

Cheating's one thing I won't tolerate.

You'd better remember that.

[Inaudible] Muskie Madness fishing contest 10 AM,

Saturday.

Congratulations.

Nice cast.

The contest doesn't start until tomorrow,

But it's not every day somebody beats Denn.

You can have this and this.

Thanks, Bev D. A guy might never take it off.

Nice pole.

I like it.

Are these your friends?

Yeah, yeah.

They are.

Um, they're up from down south a little ways.

Illinois.

Hi, you guys.

I'm Bev.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm the contest hostess.

$25 for standing in the sun all day.

Not bad.

It beats working.

I like your hair.

It's great.

I've been in the car all day.

[Radio stopping]

MAN: Hey, man.

What do you think you're doing?

Turn off the goddamn headache machine.

Nobody around here can stand to hear that kind of crap.

Hey, man, just don't rip me off.

That's all.

Come on.

It's all right.

They're just trying to have some fun.

Jeez.

What a spat.

ANNOUNCER (ON RADIO): OK.

We're going into the bonus round.

And remember players, for each correct answer, you get $2.

Get ready now.

Name five things you would expect to find in the military.

Careful, now Dolores?

DOLORES (ON RADIO): Oh, my.

White linen?

[Laughing]

ANNOUNCER (ON RADIO): Huh?

MAN: Drugs.

M16s, you morons.

M16s, M32s, the Thompson 45 submachine gun,

Browning 30 automatic, All-Purpose Canvas 10,

Mess kit, Bazooka.

For God's sake, you dumb fuckwads.

Napalm, choppers, Agent Orange.

ANNOUNCER (ON RADIO): I can accept the first two

For that, not the last one.

Dolores, can you give me another?

MAN: Not bad, though, Peter, if I might say so myself.

MAN: You can say so.

MAN: Let's have a big round of applause

For Peter's nice place.

[Fart noises]

[Laughing]

WOMAN: I would like to know who that gentleman is in the chair.

[Clattering]

Here, guys.

Oh, right.

Like, I'm really sure I'm going to get out

And get shot by some madman.

Oh, he won't hurt us.

This is one hell of a nice facility

You got here, van Clease.

Hey, check out the bike.

My dad had one of these bitches.

Shut up.

Like, I'm sure this is just a walk in these shoes.

God, I knew this place would make me twitch.

Too many traumatic memories.

OK, people.

Oh, christ.

Here we go.

Yeah, baby.

Now, we're talking. "Things Aren't What They Seem,"

By the Red Echoes, 1972 Live.

Now we are talking.

[Laughing]

Hi, I'm Finner.

Dig it, man.

Evelyn Duerst on this end.

These your friends?

Hey, don't ever listen to this show they got out of Superior.

Hell, a baby could go on and answer

Smarter than some of these morons

From Illinois and Winnebago.

I was in the army.

They trained me for electronics, satellite circuits.

Gave me this big hype job about making

A fortune in civilian life?

Well, try making a living up here on anything but a TV set.

More guys out of work around here than West Virginia.

And most of us vets, crazy half-assed

War vets, with big problems.

I mean, we're all like time bombs waiting to go off.

Boom.

Go on, Peter.

Uh, this is my house.

You're on van Clease property.

Don't try to push me around, or I'll torch the place.

[Clattering]

Jeepers, what's that racket.

Rodney, what are you doing?

You crazy?

WAYNE: Hell, yes, he's crazy.

All of you are crazy.

What are you doing here?

Guess who, Pop?

The van Clease kid.

Rodney, you can't go around messing

With other people's wood.

They got rules up here.

Peter van Clease.

Good thing your granddad's dead, fellow.

Look, I apologize for my friend.

Your granddadd would sick with anyone that acted like you.

Hey, my grandad wouldn't exactly

Be happy with way you let things get out of hand around here.

Can't you get at him to do something about this mess?

He's crazy.

Whole world's gone crazy.

Hey, you're really working for me, you know,

And I'd appreciate it...

I ain't working for you no more.

No real van Clease left worth working for.

Resigning.

Sorry.

Great first impression, guys.

Yeah, we've got to set some rules about what's

Cool up here, all right?

Friendly neighborhood.

Right, I like it.

Hey, this is great.

I think it's gonna do you guys.

I like this.

I'm staying.

Just 'til summer's over, huh?

Glenn Miller, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong?

Peter's granddad had an absolutely

Incredible record collection.

Who's this Vicki Lee?

"Fishing For Your Love."

[MUSIC PLAYING "FISHING FOR YOUR LOVE"]

Oh, sick.

They hang dead fish on the wall here?

It's taxidermy.

Stuffed shit?

FINNER: Take it easy, Kiersten.

It's just a hobby.

Like your hair.

[Wind blowing]

[Cicadas chirping furiously]

[Chattering]

I hate this.

It smells like somebody's old, smelly feet.

Smells like you.

I hate it when you eat with your mouth open.

I hate it when you talk with your mouth open.

Hey, can it, kids.

Now eat that fish, Ruthie.

There were so many loons today.

Where did they all come from?

[Imitating loon]

I wish we could see "On Golden Pond" again.

I don't know what the world's going

To do without Peter Fonda.

Henry Fonda, Mom.

You got the wrong one.

Well, whatever.

The loon is a wonderful creature.

[Imitating loon]

DAD: I've been watching the loon all day long.

I like your hair.

(MOCKING) I like your hair.

MAN: Mini concert, man.

KIERSTEN: What is that stuff?

You paid for Elvis Costello?

God, is that old.

My parents listen to Elvis Costello.

It's not Elvis Costello.

It's The Dead Dentist.

My parents listen to music.

Yeah, they have it pumped into the house, you know.

It's like a musical 1984, big brother, you know?

Shut up, they do not.

I've been to you house before.

And now for a nature note on the owl.

The owl, a nocturnal creature, is best known for his wisdom

And eating up small rodents.

They live by themselves in the woods.

Hey, Finner, don't hurt anybody.

God, isn't Finner a little weird?

He needs to learn to communicate,

Or somebody he's really going to freak

Out and do something negative.

Don't worry about Finner.

He just needs a girlfriend.

Bad.

You guys want another beer?

Katharine Hepburn never put up with what I have to,

Not even with Spencer Tracy.

Peter Fonda wouldn't treat me the way you do, Roger.

IRVING: Henry Fonda, Mom.

And it's right here.

And it says I'll be a son of a bitch

While he's having his heart attack.

Yeah, well, uh, you know what you can do about that?

You can go right on up to your sisters.

I came up here to catch fish.

To catch fish.

Well, I just will go on up to Helen's I'm

Going to call a cab right now.

A cab could be a long distance phone call, Ma.

The nearest taxi's in Green Bay.

Now you did it, Pops.

She's PO'd.

Ah, she's just baiting me.

Come on, eat your fish, you two.

[Crickets]

[Loons calling]

[Imitating loons]

[Loons calling]

[Imitating loons]

[Cicadas chirping]

[Chattering]

[Cicadas]

[Blowing whistle]

[Loon calling]

[Blowing whistle]

[Cicadas]

Oh.

[Chattering, laughing]

[Cicadas]

[Splash]

[Clattering]

Oh, sweetheart, I hate to do it to you,

But I just can't help myself.

Oh.

Come here.

Uh, let me feel that beautiful white belly.

You're gonna be my meal ticket, sweetheart.

Denny's little sweetheart.

Isn't this pretty?

Huh?

Isn't that pretty?

Guess what?

You weigh three more pounds than your sisters.

That's why Denny wants you to wear this for him,

So when the time comes, Denny will know where to find you.

Oh.

Tell you apart from the rest of your sisters.

And nobody will know a thing.

Nobody will know you spent your whole life in can,

Growing that beautiful body.

And you won't feel a thing.

Just a little knock on the head.

Then we put you on the scale, and watch those bastards drool.

[Snickering]

Now, you stay put.

[Driving]

God damn son of a bitch.

The cheatin' bastard.

We'll see who drools.

[Snickering]

[Splashing]

[Laughing maniacally]

Son of a bitch.

[Chortling]

[Playing piano]

Listen, I got to go back to the restaurant in the morning

And look around.

Wanna come with me?

Sure, I'll go.

Look, I do understand what you're going through.

But the basic problem here is that you're feeling guilty.

I mean, you want to do something for your grandfather,

But you can't.

Come on, Ann.

It's not that complicated.

It's just that my granddad was the kind

Of guy that inspired loyalty.

Christ, Old Man Duerst, I told you

The story about him and Duerst.

Durest loved the guy.

I loved him too.

I guess that's why I'm getting so worked up.

Well, that's positive.

It doesn't feel positive.

Well, it's not positive to obsess

To the point of hallucination.

Peter, I'm trying to be supportive.

But if you believe you actually saw something,

Then you wouldn't be afraid to tell somebody.

I did see something.

ANN: Then why don't you tell somebody?

Why don't you tell that sheriff we met this morning?

What's the point?

You're losing it.

The point is you believe you saw something,

But you won't do anything about it.

So you might as well not believe it in the first place,

Just like you believed you're a musician,

But you won't do anything about it.

You won't make any music.

What I'm saying is that you're afraid to make noise.

You're a...

Goddamn it, Ann.

But I'm basically right, aren't I?

[Hits piano keys]

[Birds chirping]

Last beer of the night.

No way, man.

It's the first beer of the day.

Hey, Finner, show me that alligator again.

Damn.

God damn, Stan.

Kiss my ass.

Well, she's dead now.

I guess I can take that tag off without losing an arm.

Wonder what it's there for.

Hey, get with it, Finner.

This is the '80s, man.

Everybody's doing it, wearing cool shit.

Even fish, man.

FINNER: Hey, Bev D.

RODNEY: Are you crazy, man?

We can't go chasing after Beverly now.

This is the best time of the day.

[Motor revving]

[Laughing]

Hey, you guys.

Wow.

Way to go.

You're Tom Finnigan, right?

Uh-huh.

And what you catch her on?

My earring.

BEV D.: Rodney, right?

I like that.

You should be proud of yourself.

Looks like almost 40 pounds.

Probably win the contest.

Yeah, Jesus, that'd be sweet.

Hey, old fishing buddy, what are you going

To do with that $5,000, huh?

I don't figure.

I'll figure out something.

BEV D.: Oh, I know what I'd do with it.

So, aren't you guys hungry?

Want to have breakfast at my house?

So, it's not like I neglect him, although he

Has a different opinion.

Don't you, Dickie?

You want to come in?

FINNER: So when you leave the little guy alone out there,

Aren't you scared he's going to get

Eaten by a bear or something?

Well, he might.

I make sure he doesn't have any sweets before.

Bears can pick up the scent.

The thing is is Mama's gotta be happy too.

Sometimes, it's the only chance that I

Get to work out, especially since beer for brains left.

So is anyone gonna die if I like, go check out the disk

Selection over here?

Of course, nobody's going to die.

I like that.

So how often do you get a chance to run?

Not enough.

We should go sometime.

Do about a half dozen miles.

Yeah.

Yeah that would... yeah, we should definitely do that.

Great.

Hey, Finn fuck... I mean Finner, you believe this, man.

Red Echoes.

"Things Aren't What They Seem," recorded live in Buddakan.

[Birds chirping]

[MUSIC PLAYING "THINGS AREN'T WHAT THEY SEEM"]

[Crying]

That's my husband's record.

You know, he's hot already.

I'm going to take him for a swim to quiet him down.

No, Mommy.

No.

Shut the door, OK, you guys?

Thank for coming.

[Water flowing]

[Beeping]

[Birds chirping]

30.

31.

[Giggling]

37.

33.

34.

[Cicadas]

[Grunting]

[Cicadas]

[Dickie screaming]

[Screaming]

[Thud]

There you are.

God, I've been looking all over for you.

Hey, I was wondering if I could borrow some fishing gear.

You know, just some junk for a couple of days?

Why don't you rip off van Clease's gear,

Or Leroy Leudke's.

I wasn't ripping anything off.

Really, Mr. Duerst.

There's nothing that weird about me.

Just think of me as a normal guy in a costume.

Like a cloud.

God, you wouldn't have believed it.

This morning, me and my buddy, Finner, we

Caught about a 40-pound muskie.

Yeah.

At least 40 pounds.

God, you know, this is the life up here.

I really feel like I fit in up here.

You come up from the city.

The acid rain is killing our lakes.

It will kill us too.

OK, man.

That's crystal cool.

Shit, Leroy Leudke?

I think I'll go over to Leudke's.

[Chopping]

Wow, Mr. Leudke, you've got even more stuff

Here than Mr. Duerst, man.

I bet you guys used to be spuds, huh?

Buddies, you know?

Ah, yeah, we was friends long time ago.

RODNEY: Suddenly got hosed, eh?

You guys had a fight, you know?

LEUKDE: Oh, no, no.

It wasn't like that.

Oh, he's a fine fellow, that Wayne Duerst.

But well, he just don't have much to say

To me since I caught that big fish back in 1955.

I suppose they have a gun here to shoot the musket

Or anchor in the boat, heh?

Hoohoo.

Well, no, don't keep no guns around here.

No, no guns.

Besides, they ain't safe in a boat.

Yeah, we had an incident around here a few years back

Where one shoot another.

Landed a big muskie there.

I was alone.

It was Duerst from over there, and van Clease

From up there at the place.

Yeah, them two had a lucky bullet they used time and time

Again to land a big muskie.

Van Clease, he'd dig it right out of that muskie's head

And put it right back in the pistol.

Yeah, must have been 30, 40 trophy fish

They took with that lucky slug.

Little copper slug it was.

That was a big mistake on Wayne's part there,

But the bullet went right into the spine.

And van Clease, he wouldn't let them operate.

Ah, he forgave Wayne good enough,

But uh, no, he wouldn't let them operate.

He said they're going to have to grind him up

To get that bullet out of him.

Yeah, that bullet, it went right into his spine there.

Van Clease, he was a tough old bird, yeah.

Decent story, man.

You know, you could make an excellent movie

With a story like that, man.

[Winding]

[Cicadas]

So what do you think about when you meditate?

Nothing.

Everything.

I'm sure I can never think about just nothing.

I mean, how boring.

Oh, sick.

That weird guy, Evelyn, he thinks

I don't know he's watching me.

Open your eyes, Ann, so you can see him.

Ugh, god, what a way to get your rocks off.

It kills me.

[Winding]

There is like, nothing happening on this lake.

So what are you meditating about?

Why Peter's being so anti-social?

I mean, I thought he hated fishing.

Fishing is rude.

I mean, you have to get your hands in all that

Snotty crap and scales.

Number one, Kiersten, Peter is troubled by something very,

Very private and very, very traumatic.

Number two, he is reacting in a completely normal way

By refusing to be normal and socialize.

Number three, casting is a symbol

Of Peter's trying to fathom the very deep waters of his trauma.

[Sighing]

I thought he was trying to catch a fish.

[Boat engine]

God damn you.

[Laughing]

Aw, I lost you.

Damn.

[Birds chirping]

[Panting]

Oh, lord.

I can't.

Come on.

[Cicadas]

[Turns on radio]

[Cicadas]

[Cicadas intensifying]

[Screaming]

[Screaming]

[Sirens]

Hey, Kiersten, that siren makes a perfect fourth.

That's what you call the distance

Between those two tones.

Like these two notes... (SINGING) here comes the bride.

What can I say?

A perfect fourth.

You go a half step higher, you've

Got something that used to be called the devil's tritone.

[Humming] In Bach's time, that was

Thought to drive people crazy.

Strange, huh?

God, Peter, you have the most amazing ears.

I mean, like, maybe I can do that somebody.

I mean, when I get back into music and all.

Kiersten, when were you ever in music?

[Scoffs]

Somebody found her drifting My divers can't locate a body.

It may be nothing.

A body?

Damn, what happened?

Where's Rodney?

Wasn't he with you guys?

- He must have gone back out. - You Peter van Clease?

Yeah.

What time you figure your buddy went out?

Sometime in the middle of the morning.

Must have been while we were running.

There's some kind of blood in here.

Did you run a test on it yet?

You're going to run a test, right?

Yes, we took a blood sample.

Now, stay out of the boat.

Bev, I'm a little shorthanded right now.

You want to run this up to dispatch?

Tell Mike to send it up to the lab.

Hey, what about these?

I asked you not to go in the boat.

There's a blood and bullets, and

My friend has just been killed, and you're filling out a form?

I understand why you're worried, Peter,

But we don't know that anyone's been killed.

We need a body. OK.

What kind of bullets are these?

223, M16 rifle.

OK. OK.

I know who killed Rodney.

So who done it?

Evelyn Duerst with his M16.

I doubt it.

I can prove it.

Look, I'm a little busy with your boat right now.

Forget my boat.

I saw Evelyn with his M16 yesterday,

And he's always talking about blowing somebody away.

I think you should do something about it.

All right.

Let's make this quick.

[Sirens]

I'll take care of this.

You're under arrest, Evelyn.

The sheriff's here.

Throw out the M16.

Here's your M16.

[Car starting]

Left.

Hey.

Go straight, Dad.

Left, left.

Go right, Dad.

Got it.

Hey.

Stop, you crazy bastard.

Ah, stuff it, Mr. Green Jeans.

Right.

Just go straight down 77, about a mile and a half.

Take a right on Peninsula Road.

Get you right there. OK.

Thanks a lot. You're welcome.

Have a good time.

PETER: Hey, sheriff, I'd like to apologize.

And I'd also like to talk about this murder.

Look, Peter, before you start, let me

Tell you where I'm coming from.

This is the biggest event in town this year.

I'm not going to go around upsetting

People with talk about murder. But look it-

I've got four deputies to cover a county the size of Delaware.

There's 30,000 people in town this weekend

For the Muskie Festival.

The mayor wants foot patrols in the city.

What I got to be telling myself right now is,

There hasn't been a murder up here in 17 years.

Yeah, my grandfather's, damn it.

And nobody raised a finger about that either,

Except to fill out some forms.

No, no.

It was a couple of fishermen from Illinois

That got ripped up out on the lake.

Your grandfather's case is in the books as a disappearance.

Peter, another time of year, and I'd

Make this a full investigation.

Yeah, right.

But you're too busy filling out your forms, right?

Come on, you guys. Let's get out of here.

He's to busy filling out his forms to worry

About Rodney getting killed.

[Crying]

It's not healthy to baby a distressed person...

[Sobbing] I guess I can't take a hint, Ann.

I guess you don't want me to come.

[Birds chirping]

[Cicadas]

[Inaudible]

I liked him.

I liked him a lot.

[Devil's tritone]

Everyone said this was going to be so much fun.

[Devil's tritone]

[Cicadas]

[Devil's tritone]

I can't believe this is happening to me.

I mean, it's not fair.

I mean, fine, its not like anyone

Understands me or gives a shit what I think.

[Splash]

[Cicadas]

[Radio playing]

[Cicadas]

[Devil's tritone]

[Screaming]

[Crying out] God damn it.

[Clattering]

Finally got that bitch.

OK.

We have a new leader, Wayne Duerst, 46 and 1/2 pounds.

Ha ha.

[Applause]

46 and 1/2 pounds.

I've been after that hog for years.

She beats me.

Sorry, kid.

Hate to compete with a friend of the van Clease family,

But I've been after that hog for three years.

[Laughing]

[Laughing]

Where's the coach?

Eve's got him.

He actually volunteered to babysit him.

[Panting]

Sit up time.

Hold my ankles.

One.

BOTH: Two.

Three.

Oh, I like that.

[Birds chirping]

[Loons]

I hope you understand.

It's just, I have some stuff to do.

Yeah, it's all right.

So you gonna be around later or not?

Maybe.

Why?

Where are you going?

You gonna go back out fishing?

Yeah.

Muskie Madness.

I'm gonna beat old Duerst if it kills me.

So, uh, if you're gonna be around later,

I could come back.

You know, I really like you, Finner.

Maybe about midnight.

Sure.

God, what happened to Kiersten?

You miss her?

Cicada, whatever, are giving me a headache.

I mean, what's weird is how they stop, and then they start.

And then they just shut up, and you never know if they're

Going to start up again.

Drives you crazy.

Maybe I'd better call the sheriff.

Shit, it's not hooked up.

Fuckin' A, the phone's out.

Vibrations, man.

The god damn military's got the whole North Woods strung up

Like a D battery, man.

Sending out weird vibrations, messing with phones,

And people's brains, man.

You ever put a pitch fork in the ground and wiggle it,

Warms come up.

Vibrations, right?

Look at this gut on me.

We're talking extremely low frequency

Radiation sucking the Agent Orange out of the cells.

I'm not square dancing with you people.

Look at me. We're talking...

WAYNE: You're wrong.

Ha ha.

None of us got a thing to do with where you're from.

More than one guy around here is starting a war.

He's got something wrong with him

That you didn't even know about.

He just don't complain about it.

Why don't you tell me about old man van Clease now?

Go ahead.

Tell me your tough guy story again.

You piss me off.

You know that?

And don't sneak up on me.

[Stomping]

You know, I uh, gave up a job the other day

That meant an awful lot to me.

You'd never known a man you could shoot in the back,

Give you a job for your troubles.

We were fishing, see, just like everyday.

And this muskie we got rared up.

Somehow, it got out of control.

We tried to kill it.

I couldn't hold it steady.

Shot your granddaddy.

He had his back to me, see.

It got him hit.

Little copper slug.

But he wouldn't let them take it out.

I said I'd pay for the doctors.

But instead, he give me a job.

Never yapped about it.

Just gave me a job.

Great story.

Something he'll never forget.

Well, it's a hell of a lot to live up to.

What's he want me to do?

He doesn't know.

I don't either.

Yeah, I floated over here by myself.

It was really fun.

LEUDKE: Well, that's a good thing.

How come you don't have many lights in here?

Oh, I like it pretty quiet.

Lights don't make any noise.

Ya, they do.

A little.

Yeah, go ahead and look all you want.

I got that in Korea.

Yeah, Harry Truman sent me there in 1951.

Ha.

You catching anything in there?

No.

No way.

Hey, it's 10 o'clock.

Ain't it time for a little muskie

Like you to be home in bed?

Nah.

My dad don't care.

He's out fishing.

Yeah, but like I say, let me give

You a ride back in the boat.

Yeah, I'd better.

Lot of things can happen out there on that lake.

This is great.

This is just great.

[Engine spitting]

God.

[Grunting]

94 horse powers, and not one of them can swim.

$10,000 weekend.

[Engine revving]

Grrreat.

[Maniacal laughter]

[Bev laughing]

BEV: [inaudible].

[Laughing]

What do you want?

I like that a lot.

[Laughing]

I like that.

[Scoffs]

OK.

I've been thinking about the jealousy stuff.

Uh-oh.

No, it's fine.

I mean, I think I understand where I'm coming from better.

Well, how Kiersten acts with you scares me, is all.

Is all?

No, not really.

I just want us to stay together.

Can't you respond to that?

I am responding.

It's just that sometimes, I feel cornered.

I don't know about music school.

You just assume I'd be good at music.

And you will be.

You are already.

[Sighs] I don't know about us either.

I can't really explain this, but it's

Like the harder you push me, the less I

Feel like making a... I can't even say the word... commitment.

And I guess, well, I love you.

[Frog horn]

Shut the fuck up, you stupid bastard,

Or I'll shut you up myself.

[Chimes]

[Frog horn]

[Screaming]

[Winding]

[Splash]

Mosquito madness, baby.

You need a man around to fix those screens.

How come I can't stay?

Evelyn, just go.

Go!

[Crying]

Finner.

What about Finner?

How come everybody's getting nailed on the water

Like my granddad got nailed.

How could that be, when nobody even knows how it happened,

Like the Sheriff says?

Except me, right?

And crazy-ass Finner.

Peter, how could Finner have killed your granddad?

He was just a kid.

I'm not saying he killed anybody.

But don't you tell me all the time that Finner's

Manic depressive, or whatever?

Just asking.

Look at the evidence.

Look, I told you I feel like a total asshole.

I'm sure he's over at Bev's house.

Look, why don't we just pop in on him

Like it's no big deal, OK?

OK.

[Record playing]

[Cicadas]

[Cicadas intensifying]

[Splashing]

[Cicadas]

[Panting]

[Screaming]

[Screaming]

[Laughing]

60 pounds.

[Shouting]

They're trying to cheat me.

It's bogus.

This muskie's bogus.

It has metal inside of it.

[Chattering]

It's a bar.

MAN: A metal bar?

[Crowd jeering]

They're setting me up.

I'm an honest man.

The Duersts, and Leudke, and all the rest of them,

They're just jealous, that's all.

They're trying to take my prize away from me.

Come on, Denny.

If's there's any metal in there, I don't know about it.

I didn't put it in there. OK.

That's... that's it for the excitement.

All right?

Just go on home, OK?

Thank you very much.

[Chattering]

Look, we found your dad's boat, but we can't find him.

You kids seen your dad?

It OK.

Where's your mom?

Mom's up at Aunt Helen's.

Ruthie's been looking all over the place for Dad.

Can I come around and [inaudible], sir?

I think something's gone wrong around here.

I think something's very fishy.

OK, OK.

You kids take it easy.

This ain't no square dance, people.

I can guarantee that up front.

This is a combat zone.

Evelyn, what's this?

You recognize this?

ANN: I found this in the bushes back there.

It's Finner's.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

You found I what?

I will now proceed to blow the motherfucker away.

I will blow that mother away.

Peter, you can't leave me here with him.

You got a problem with me woman?

You think I'm crazy?

Then shut your face.

[Cicadas]

Who cares?

Who the fuck cares what I do?

[Boat engine]

FINNER: (SINGING) The muskie, he swim in the bottom of the lake,

Man.

The lake full of muskie, and the water around here, man.

They swim up to your boat, and they steal all your beers,

You got to have a muskie, or you'll... [hums uncertainly]

[Radio playing]

[Cicadas intensifying]

[Pounding]

[Grunting]

[Screaming]

[Grunting]

[Cicadas]

Ah!

[Thud]

[Cicadas]

[Grunting]

[Grunting]

[Finner screaming]

[Panting]

[Squishing]

[Grunting]

Ugh.

Ah.

[Sawing]

Ah.

Ah.

[Crying]

Your woman's been drinking.

Pressure's getting to her.

I seen it happen in the military.

Walking wounded.

Pressures getting to your buddy Finner, too.

We've got to put a stop to that dude fast.

Blow that motherfucker right out of the water.

[Engine]

Walking wounded, man.

Finner, help me.

Please, help me.

(CRYING) I was out swimming [inaudible], and this big toy

Fish, it had a [inaudible].

It was trying to catch me.

It was just trying to kill me.

And then I just kept swimming.

I didn't know what to do.

I just kept swimming.

Who tried to kill you? Finner?

Did you see Finner?

No, and I kept swimming, and I got to shore, and it got dark,

And I didn't know where I was.

And then I found this boat, and it had Finner's stuff in it.

There's blood everywhere.

And I didn't know what to do, and then I

Kept driving this boat around.

I didn't know where I was.

God, Peter, you have to call the police.

Listen to me, Kiersten.

Please, help, please.

Can you make it up to the house OK?

I want to look through Finner's stuff first.

Finner.

You poor bastard.

[Creepy music]

[Dog barking]

[Dog barking]

[Grunting]

[Bell]

[Engine]

[Cicadas]

The cicadas.

Evelyn, the cicadas.

I remember hearing the cicadas, just like this.

[Plays note]

And then the singer hit that high B flat.

[Plays b flat]

Man, what are you talking about?

This.

It's the devil's tritone.

The diablo's musica.

Classical music outlawed it for centuries

Because it made people crazy.

So did Bev, and Kiersten, and Finner, and Rodney all

Have in common?

Finner's music.

Finner's damn music.

(SINGING) Make me want to scream.

Then you add the cicadas down here.

Man, that is the stupidest shit I've ever heard.

This ain't no Japanese monster movie.

Evelyn, the cicadas are loud.

They've got incredible resonance.

Listen to them make the air vibrate.

Some combination of frequencies must set up off the killer.

Shit, I could have told you that.

Some dudes get shortwave on their braces and hip pins.

Over in 'Nam, you could hear stuff in the air

That wasn't normal, man.

Hell, I knew this dude in Cleveland with a steal pelvis.

Got a hard on every time the train went by.

You know what?

You just maybe right.

Damn right, I'm right.

Frequencies.

Vibrations.

Damn right, college boy.

RUTHIE: I think they're in here.

You fooled me.

You know something about people disappearing.

That's it, man.

Listen, you little people want to know

What happened to your folks?

It's the devil's trilogy, man, messing with some guy's head

And making him freak out.

The devil's trilogy, man.

But Evelyn, but messing with who's head?

It doesn't bother me.

It doesn't bother you.

Don't ask me.

I ain't no Houdini.

What about all your theories with brain waves, and

Vibrations, and all that stuff?

And vets with weird experimental stuff in their bodies?

What vets you talking about?

It's Leudke.

Something weird about his head.

It's got metal inside of it.

PETER: You know that for sure?

I've got the stud finer reading.

Also, he's got a war helmet with the top blown out of it.

What trouble you people got with Leudke?

Murder.

Five murders.

Your granddad would slap you in the snap box talking like that.

PETER: Including his murder.

WAYNE: Ah, you're flapping your gills again.

You got to have evidence to talk like that.

You're all fishing in waters you know nothing about.

You're all full of crap.

He's got metal in his head.

That's standard.

They slap a metal plate in some guy's head

And say, have a nice life, sucker.

I got research on that.

An eye beam lobotomy, standard procedure

Out of the Korean War.

Metal plates, craniectomy.

Some guys pick up vibrations, and it makes them freak out.

Call the sheriff.

Forget the sheriff.

He wants bodies.

Hasn't been a murder up here in 17 years.

Nah, the sheriff won't touch Leudke.

Then we have to.

Lock and load.

[Water flowing]

[Blowing whistle]

PETER: Shut up, Evelyn.

[Music "fishing for your love"]

[Cicadas]

Shit.

Look at this.

Bev's wedding ring.

Oh, god.

There's your friends, man.

The sheriff won't buy it.

No bodies.

Ugh.

Christ.

[Music playing]

[Cicadas]

[Grunting]

[Screaming]

[Screaming]

[Whimpers]

Come on.

Come on.

[Grunting]

Come on.

Come on, come on, come on.

[Grunting]

Hurry.

[Cicadas intensifying]

[Screaming]

[Clattering]

Shit, it's Leudke.

I heard your ass, man.

Ann?

Ann?

[Radio playing]

Slow down, man. What's happening?

Leudke.

The bastard's got Ann.

Let me go.

I'm going down there and blowing him away.

Let me go, damn it.

He's got Ann.

Knock it off, or I'll mess you up good.

You're not thinking straight.

If we storm Leudke, he's mad and kill your woman flat out.

OK.

Damn it, let me go.

We got to use proper tactics.

Got to smoke him out.

He's got a hostage.

What's all the racket?

Leroy Leudke ain't killed nobody.

Nothing wrong with Leroy.

Like hell there ain't.

Man goes crazy.

Kills people out on the lake.

Grinds them up.

Feeds them to his minnows.

We seen everything.

He's the one who killed your old buddy van Clease.

He killed my Bev.

The man's picking up vibrations in his head.

Ah, that's just your mouth again, Evelyn.

Bull shit, old man.

Talk about the walking wounded.

That's all I hear about.

Talk about van Clease and the lucky goddamn bullet

For 20 years.

Time you did some talking about Leudke.

What are you trying to hide?

Dude got a plate in his head or not?

Yes, Leroy's got a plate in his head from Korea.

But you ain't got any evidence for nothing.

Bullshit again, old man.

Here's the ring you helped me get for Bev.

Found it in the man's bake tank.

Don't prove nothing.

Could have come in off the lake.

I got the lucky bullet.

Where'd you get this?

At Leudke's.

He cut the slug.

He cut it out of him.

Jeez.

We used to go out for muskies together.

He's been topping me out with the big for 30 years.

We catch him with bait.

What kind of bait?

Bait.

Turn yourself into bait, and it's simple to lure him out.

Somebody's got to take a hell of a chance, but it'll work.

All you do is get Eve here out on the lake with your music

And wait for the cicadas.

And when Leudke comes after him, you and I got for the girl.

Aw, hell pop.

That won't work.

You could sit out there all night.

Ah, you know it will work, Evelyn.

It's a question of guts.

You.

You want to hang to your grandfather, your lady friend?

But what if the sound sets off Leudke inside the bait shop?

He'll kill Ann. Forget it.

It won't work.

Do you have a better idea, or are you just talking too?

I'll go after them myself.

All right.

All right.

You've got your bait.

[Crickets]

[Cicadas]

[Inaudible] on the road.

[Cicadas]

It was an accident, wasn't it, Leroy?

Can I call you Leroy?

I mean, it was an accident, killing all those people.

I know you didn't really mean to do it, or anything.

But well, hey, look, Leroy, accidents are normal.

[Cicadas]

WAYNE (VOICEOVER): It's a question of guts, a question

Of guts, a question of guts.

Why not ask yourself if you're really

In touch with your feeling about all this.

I mean, your mean, your real feelings about killing me.

Do you really feel you have to kill,

Or is it just some sort of a smokescreen

For a bigger emotional problem?

Because Leroy, you may not want to admit this to yourself,

Since it is pretty heavy, but I don't think

You really want to kill me.

[Cicadas]

[Plays radio briefly]

We can talk about it if you'd like.

Uh, you don't have to be afraid of being honest with yourself.

And another thing is, I'd be more than glad to give you

The space to work things out.

But... hey, woah, Leroy, if you feel comfortable killing me,

That's fine.

I'm an adult. I can live with it.

Mm-mm.

Leroy?

[Cicadas]

ANN (VOICEOVER): What I'm saying is,

You're afraid to make noise, make

Noise, make noise, make noise.

[Birds chirping]

That's it, Pop.

He didn't do it.

Leudke's going out fishing.

The dude's woman is history.

God damn disgrace.

I'll go after him myself.

[Engine]

Good morning.

God damn it.

You son of a bitch.

I'll kill you.

[Birds chirping]

[Boat motor]

Well, there you be, folks.

What more can I say?

The amazing Leroy Leudke does it again.

Right in under the time limit with a 50-pound fish

To take first place.

Leroy, Leroy Leudke, tell us how you do it?

It's him.

It's him.

He's doing it.

God damn it, give me my gun.

Wayne, I'm going to have to arrest

You if you don't ease up. You always got next year.

Now, take it easy.

It's still a friendly contest.

Nothing friendly about murder.

[Crying]

Sorry about that little bit of muskie madness, folks.

Let's have a big round of applause for the new champion,

Leroy Leudke.

[Applause]

It's Leudke.

He killed van Clease.

He killed Beverly.

Some of those kids bastards up there drawing tears.

I don't know whether to believe you, Wayne, or not.

Really, I don't.

Leudke's a hero around here.

He's a friend of mine too.

But he's a rival, though Wayne, too, isn't he?

See?

Ah, nobody's really dead around, Wayne, are they?

Come on.

Go home and stay there.

I have got to get things under control.

Do me a favor, Wayne.

I'll be out later.

[Crowd chattering]

Last night was a goddamn disgrace.

Want things done right around here,

You got to do them yourself.

Your grandfather did.

Fight for what you love.

That's exactly what I'm doing.

Teach me to cast this thing as good as my grandfather.

I'm going after Leudke.

There are better ways to do that, son.

Your granddad was no fool.

Wasn't no big talker neither.

You just going to talk, or teach me to cast?

WAYNE: You can't beat Leudke at his own game, Son.

Now, you take my piece here, and do what you

Should have done last night.

You want things perfect, don't you?

You want the perfect revenge on the man.

You want to take him, like he took the rest.

You want to take him with a treble hook at night.

Don't you?

Don't you van Clease?

Not yet.

Don't call me van Clease yet.

I've gotta fight for it.

[Dramatic trumpet music]

[Crickets]

[Cicadas]

OK.

I'll make some noise.

[Radio playing]

[Cicadas]

[Screaming]

[Screaming]

[Grunting]

[Winding]

[Grunting]

[Screaming]

Ahh.

[Grunting]

[Screaming]

[Winding]

[Sharpening]

[Cicadas]

[Clattering]

[Leudke grunting]

[Playing radio]

[Screaming]

[Banging]

[Leudke grunting]

[Siren]

[Thud]

[Sirens]

Aaaah.

[Car engine]

MAN (ON RADIO): 1002.

Edwards three.

Calling on one.

WOMAN (ON RADIO): 74.

MAN (ON RADIO): 1374

[Muffled radio voices]

I could use your help, Wayne.

You know these woods better than anybody.

He can't last long bleeding like he is.

Not better than he does, I don't know these woods.

Will you help me Wayne?

Best I can.

[Dramatic music]

[Cicadas]

[Cicadas]

[Leudke screaming]

[Theme music]