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I can't keep looking over my shoulder.

No one's watched over me since I was young.

No, I can't keep looking over my shoulder.

Expecting a miracle and knowing there are none

in the world.

Goes on and on and on And the world

goes on and on

It's okay. Stay in bed.

I've got a chore for you.

I've got to get him to sleep back.

All right.

Bandage my arm?

You cut it breaking into my barn.

Listen, I'm... I'm all down to my luck.

Yeah, I can see that.

Sweetie, why don't you take Harrison over there?

Harrison! Come on.

You need any help?

You know anything about horses?

No.

Enough.

Why don't you head down to the house, tell Max to give you something to eat,

then head back up here and see me.

All right, then.

What can I do you for?

I'm supposed to see Max about something.

Okay.

You see Max?

I don't see nobody else.

Oh.

Come on in. Sit down. I'll pray you up some eggs.

Go on.

Biscuits and juice are on the table.

Not much of a talker, are ya?

All done?

Finished cleaning out this doll.

Got that fence painted like you had.

Thank you. Did a good job today.

I'd like to give you something for your work.

Something else?

Yeah, so I was thinking maybe I could stay on.

Help you out.

That depends.

On what?

On you.

I can't have any drinking around my girl.

Yes, sir.

I understand.

When's the last time you had a job?

Well, it's been a while, but I work hard, and I don't need much.

That's good, because I can't offer you much.

I can give you your meals, and there's a cot back in the stable.

Shower around back.

That sounds fine.

All right, then.

Hey, son.

What's your name?

Cotton.

What you doing?

Unloading this hay for your mom.

My brother used to do that.

He's dead.

My mama's dead, too.

I was just a baby.

I hardly don't remember.

That's a horrible thing.

I'm sorry to hear that.

down to church you're uh you're welcome to come if you like no nothing no thank

you food yourself that back stable needs cleaning and uh

latch is rusted off the cellar door we'll be back in a couple hours sir

How did you learn to handle horses like that?

I don't know. I guess I just sort of have a way with them.

Hank Johnson said that he's never seen anything like it, and he's worked with

horses his whole life.

He said he's got a stallion that they're having trouble with, and he was

wondering if you might take a look at it. Well, I don't know.

Sure would help him out.

All right, then.

I'll see what I can do.

There's some cobbler in the oven for dessert.

And do you need anything else before I go? No, no, Max. That's fine. All right.

I'm sorry I didn't have time to clean up. Mama needs a prescription from the

drugstore before it closes. They got those new hours.

No, no, no. Don't worry about it. Go.

Thanks for a fine meal. Yeah, thank you. Yeah.

Well, you know I love cooking for you. All right.

I'll see you tomorrow. All right. Good night.

Good night. Bye.

That girl is a godsend.

Yes, sir.

Max thinks Colin's cute.

Emily.

Okay.

Cute, huh?

Yes, sir.

out with it, unless you've developed a sudden fascination with laundry.

Well, I was wondering, you

want to get something to eat sometime?

It is about time.

Friday. Pick me up at 6 o 'clock. Don't be late.

Go on. I've got work to do.

Here you go, sweetie.

Thank you, Nadine.

Carl got that fish tonight?

Yes, ma 'am. He's got a lovely trout.

Oh, that sounds good.

How's your mama?

Fine. Grandmama?

Fine. Great -grandma? Oh, all good. Thank you. Good. That's good. You tell

send my best. I will.

How's your mama? Oh, well.

She's just in a poor, horrible state. Got the bursitis.

Oh, I'm sorry.

It's a trial, but she perseveres.

Colitis, bursitis, and the devil beside us.

Well, keep her in my prayers.

Thank you. That's sweet.

Nadine, this is Cotton Wells.

How are you?

Hi, Nancy.

Hi, Tommy.

How's your mama?

Fine, thank you. That's good.

Why isn't everybody looking at us?

Well, you can't blame them, because everybody wants to see the new horse

whisperer that Clay's got up on his ranch.

You are a celebrity.

Hi, Melinda.

Bobby.

Hey, NeNe.

How you doing?

Billy Johnson, you're going to get that finger stuck in there, and then what are

you going to do?

Now turn around.

You must know everybody in town.

Yeah, pretty much.

I lived here my whole life.

Never set foot out of the town until I was in high school. And only then, on

senior trip, we went to the state capitol. How was it?

Not all that much.

I used to think about leaving here.

But then...

My daddy passed away, and my mama was all alone.

But besides, I don't really know where I'd go.

And everybody I've ever known is right here.

I don't think I'd know who I was if I left.

So, what about you, Cotton Wells? Where are you from?

It's hard to say.

We moved around so much, I don't really know.

Well, I hope you stick around for a little while.

Give us a little time to figure you out.

Figure me out?

Oh, it's all right. I like a little mystery.

Just not too much.

Do you know what time it is?

I don't know. After seven.

Do you like hot dogs?

Yes. All right, let's go.

Where? Someplace with a little privacy.

Nadine, tell Carl to throw that trout back in the river.

You sure?

Yes.

You

call

this private?

Yeah.

Just like you're invisible.

See, it helps if there's something to look at, other than you.

You don't believe me?

Alright, hold this.

the best western down on the interstate.

Who wants to help me get dessert?

Me! Mm -hmm. All right, let's go then.

Spent a whole summer working down at Freeman's just to buy it.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. No, no, no. It's okay.

It's good.

It'd be a shame to just have it sit in the corner gathering dust.

Thank you.

It's a beauty.

He never got much good at it, I'm afraid.

He died in a car accident.

Wife, too.

Drunk driver just... swerved right into him. Never saw it coming.

I know.

Your little girl told me.

She did?

She never talks to me about it.

She tries to protect you.

I suppose that's true.

Well, it's just been the two of us since they died.

Well, of course, Max comes over a few days a week to help us with the house

cook our meals.

But, you know... You got any family?

Well...

Yeah. My daddy's dead, but my mama, she's still

alive.

I got a sister.

But I haven't seen her in a while.

You ever been married?

No, sir, I haven't.

It's a true blessing when you find the right person. It makes you whole.

And when it's not there anymore.

is is

That's nice.

Thank you.

It's a really beautiful guitar.

Well,

you heard her. She's the boss. Come on.

Where you been, little lady?

Just riding.

Max needs your help inside.

Okay.

Did the old man come see Cotton?

What man?

The old man with the big car.

He said he was a friend of Cotton's.

What do you want?

I don't know.

He gave me something. It's for Cotton.

You want to tell me about it?

Ain't much to tell.

It's all a long time ago.

Look, son, you may be too young to realize this, but the past has a way of

catching up to you if you don't put it to rest.

What is that thing?

That's why.

Who would give you something like me?

I guess I never told you this, but... My daddy was a preacher.

We used to travel around the circuit.

My mama.

My sister and me.

Preaching the good news.

Passing around the collection plate to make ends meet.

I see.

It was all going fine until things started to happen.

What sort of things?

Strange things.

Like the horses back there.

And others.

Like what?

The healings.

First one was a girl.

Cripple.

Came to my home for a blessing.

During the service, I don't know.

They're singing.

And the music filled me.

I just went to her.

And I laid my hands on her.

You healed her?

Well, she could walk.

From that very moment.

And my daddy, he wanted to keep it all real quiet.

My mama, though.

A miracle of faith, is what she called it. A blessed gift from God.

Of course, it wasn't bad for the collection plate either.

Pretty soon, people started showing up.

as I could until, well, until now.

Well, that's quite a tale.

It's the truth.

I swear.

Oh, I don't doubt it.

So, what are you going to do now?

Oh, yes, oh, yes, oh, yes.

There is a war on, my brothers and sisters.

And I don't... I don't mean off in some sandy, dandy nowhereville.

Oh, no.

I mean right here.

On your street.

In your home.

A war against the good Christian people of this once great nation.

What?

You don't believe me?

Well, look around.

The movie theater, the classroom, the abortion clinic.

Homosexuals perverting the holy institution of marriage.

Mr. Darwin's evolution making monkeys out of all of us.

Am I right?

You know I am.

Ah, heck, you can't even say Merry Christmas anymore because it's not

politically correct.

Well, I hate to rain on your parade, Miss Barbara Streisand, but December

is baby Jesus' birthday.

Has been for over 2 ,000 years.

Get used to it.

Hallelujah!

Uh -oh.

Look out. I just committed a hate crime.

Am I right?

But fear not, my friend.

The war is not lost. Oh, no.

Far from it. Because what they don't seem to realize is that we have a secret

weapon. The atomic bomb of the spirit.

The avenging hand of the almighty God.

Because if God is for us...

Who can be against us? Room in seat 31. The fight is on. Oh, Christian

soldier. And face to face in turn of race.

With armor gleaming and color streaming.

The right and wrong engage today.

The fight is on, so be it. We shall come to choice in bringing in the sheath.

Who's that?

Davis.

Cotton.

Is that you?

Where have you been all this time?

All over.

Well, come on. Sit down with me.

I'm fine here.

So she around?

You see the show?

I think they haven't changed much.

Crowds have dwindled a bit.

Same old mama.

Well, nothing's going to change your mama. Whee!

Woo! The spirit is alive tonight, yes sir!

Coarse and thorough like a cleansing fire. Help me out of this getup. I want

cool down while that local yokel does his monkey act.

Maggie Mae, someone's here to see you.

Mama.

Well, well, well.

The prodigal son returns.

What do you say, Davis?

Shall we kill the fatted calf?

Got your message.

Oh, I bet you did.

Took a while to track you down, too.

Working in the middle of nowhere on some horse farm.

That's right.

You got quite a way with the animals.

What do you want?

Does a mother have to want something to see her son?

You do.

You've grown better.

You ought to let that go. You don't wear it well.

What do you want?

I don't want anything, Cotton.

Quite the opposite.

For I bring great tidings.

A gift.

A gift? What kind of gift?

Well, the greatest gift of them all.

Forgiveness. For what?

For the harm you caused.

All the pain.

Took some doing.

But I worked it all out.

I made a deal with that family in Shepperton.

That boy.

The police.

All that trouble.

It's all a thing of the past.

Mama made all the bad men go away.

Is that it?

Is that it?

I don't think you understand what I'm saying.

You can come back.

You can come home. We can be a family again.

Family. If you want it.

You want it, don't you? Of course not. I didn't leave because of the trouble. I

left because of you.

So why on earth are you here?

What do you think?

Your sister.

I want to see her.

Do you honestly think I'd let you hurt her again?

I'm not going to hurt her.

Oh, such kindness.

Hey, Davis, did you realize I raised such a kind boy?

Where was all that kindness all those years ago when you left?

Maybe you could help with this. Bless you, I will handle this.

That little girl cried herself to sleep every night.

Praying for answers that never came.

Wondering where her cotton was.

Was he lonely?

Was he hurt?

Lying on a road dead somewhere?

I left to protect her.

Whatever helps you sleep at night, darling.

But you and I both know the truth.

You left for your own selfish reasons.

Selfish.

Yeah, well, all you ever cared about was that collection plate.

You ungrateful child!

Sharper than a serpent's tooth!

After all I did for you?

God gave you a gift.

A blessed, beautiful gift. And you squandered it. You threw it away.

You threw your whole life away. I won't. Yeah, yeah, yeah, run!

Run away!

That's all you're good at anyway!

You can't run from the truth, Con.

Can't hide from the light.

Hey, little lady.

Hi. What are you doing?

Nothing.

Is it true?

What truth?

That you can heal people.

When did you hear that?

I heard you and Pa talking.

Yeah.

So?

Is it?

I don't know.

Well, do you think you could have saved Josh and Mama?

The truth is...

I just don't know.

I mean, it seemed to work for a while.

And it just sort of stopped.

Max, stick close to them.

T 'was all for thee.

Jesus is pleading.

He's interceding.

Yes, pleading, pleading for thee to come.

Well, where's Con? Where's my son?

Ma 'am, there's no one here except for me and my family.

Lies and deception.

Oh, the devil in a cowboy hat.

These people need my cotton's blessed gift.

Like I said, there's nobody here except me and my family.

Cotton!

Come!

You can't hide cotton!

Well, you can't hide from the light!

Cotton! Leave them alone.

There he is.

There's my boy.

What are you doing here?

These good people need you, Cone.

Can't help them.

Oh, ye of low faith.

Come, brothers and sisters.

Come. Come and seek his blessing.

Help me.

Help me.

All right, but let's just leave a beeper. Cotton can do it.

No, Cotton can say it, and I know he can.

Come on, Cotton.

You have to help the poor thing.

No!

It's late. What are you doing up?

Can't sleep.

You coming home yet?

No.

When's he coming back?

I don't know, Donald.

It's late. You ought to get to bed.

Okay.

Emily, look, I don't have the patience for this tonight, okay? Now get. No.

What's that?

He's not coming back, is he?

Just like Josh and Mama.

Come here.

Come here.

What made you say that?

Josh and Mama went away, and they never came back.

What happened to your mama and your brother was... It was an accident.

A terrible accident.

Nothing's going to happen to Kyle.

How do you know?

Because I know.

He'll be back. You just wait and see.

Now, we ought to see about getting you to bed, okay?

Tell me about the day I was born.

It's late.

So, what did I look like? I don't remember.

Come on.

Okay, okay, but you're not going to like it.

Why not?

Because you look like a spider monkey.

Face all red, covered with hair.

Hey, don't shame me if I tell you the truth.

What did mama think?

Oh, your mama thought that you were the most beautiful thing in the world.

But your brother, he took one look at you, and he

never stopped loving you.

Everybody came over.

Everybody came over.

Everybody come over to the house.

This house is just filled with people.

Our Aunt Dorothy and her two kids were here, Caitlin and Spray, the Johnsons

from church.

Everybody in the whole town was here coming to see you and your mom.

That was a good day.

Where'd you go?

Just here and there.

Had to think.

What'd you decide?

I don't know.

Well, that's a hell of a place to be.

I can't do this again.

It's not fair.

Not to you.

The girls.

What's not fair?

You were there.

You saw. She won't stop.

It'll be just like it was before.

Son, I'm not sure what I saw.

I saw a bunch of scared people.

Desperate people willing to believe anything just to help lessen that fear.

But the dog?

Maybe the dog wasn't as hurt as we all thought.

I can't say, can you?

And even if that is true, that's just something you're going to have to learn

live with. You just can't keep running away.

This isn't your problem.

Problem?

I don't think of you as a problem.

Max, Emily, those two girls, they think the world of you. And what, they're just

going to wake up tomorrow and find you gone?

It seems like you've figured out what's worth running away from.

Maybe it's time you figured out what's worth staying for.

This is my mama and grandma and me ma and Geraldine. Well, now, sugar, you did

not tell me how handsome he is.

Oh, ma.

I wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating crackers.

You got visitors.

Cotton.

This is delicious lemonade.

What are you doing here?

This is the old man with the car.

Why don't you go out and play?

I don't want to. You won't.

Blessed are the children, eh?

What do you want?

Oh, now, Cotton.

Don't get mad at me.

Not when I brought your picture all the way out here to see you.

Hmm.

Go on, Cotton.

She's got something she's just burning to ask you.

I must say, I do feel quite parched in this heat.

Janie.

Cotton.

I know it's quite a shock.

What? What happened?

There was an accident.

I fell. Hurt my back.

Not Janie.

It's okay.

It took a while, but I'm fine now, really.

I should have come.

It's lovely here.

I love horses.

You remember?

We used to always talk about stealing a couple horses and riding away one day.

Did we?

Just keep riding and riding.

Guess you finally went and did it.

The people seem nice.

They are.

That's good.

You seem happy.

I am.

For the first time in a long time, I really am.

I'm glad.

I heard Mama came by the other day.

She told me that you took it pretty hard when I left.

I won't lie.

I was hurt.

But I'm older now. I understand why you left.

The people.

The way Mama treated you.

I never meant to hurt you.

I couldn't today. I couldn't anymore.

But I need to ask you something, Cotton.

And I know it won't be easy.

What?

I want you to come back.

What? Just for one night.

There's a revival just north of Clarkston.

She can do?

It doesn't matter. I'm asking for me.

Why? I want you to try and heal me, Cotton.

Jeannie, I... You gotta try. I know I shouldn't ask, but I am.

You know if you don't...

She'll never leave you alone.

But, Jeannie, I don't even know if I can.

Please, Cotton.

You gotta try.

For me.

Cotton. I can see you, you know.

Doesn't work unless there's a game on.

You okay?

She wants me to go back.

Oh.

I don't know if I can do it.

Then don't.

Just stay here.

Forget about all that.

Wish I could.

I've just been sitting here thinking about her.

Back then, she and I were all we had, traveling around the circuit with Mama.

If I can help her, I at least gotta try.

I know you do.

Or else she wouldn't be you.

I need to tell you something else.

Go on.

Years ago, before I left, there was a boy.

He had cancer in his blood.

His parents didn't believe in doctors, so they brought him to me.

Go on.

At first he got better, and then he just died.

I'll tell him why he died and the others didn't.

Of course, his parents were ruined.

People turned.

There was a scandal. Talk of criminal charges.

It all just came crashing down on us.

You told Clay?

Well, there's time for that.

Right now, you go and do whatever it is you need to do.

But when you're done...

Come back home.

Hallelujah.

I'm ready.

I can hear the voices speaking soft and low.

Hallelujah, I'm ready.

Hallelujah, I'm ready. Hallelujah,

I'm ready.

Hallelujah, I'm ready. Hallelujah, I'm ready. Hallelujah, I'm ready to go.

Hallelujah, I'm ready. Hallelujah,

I'm ready.

Hallelujah, I'm ready to go.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Thank you for coming out here this evening and sharing the good word.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Good book, Willie, everybody.

Yes, sir. Amen.

Amen.

Wasn't that nice?

I think it was.

You know who else I know who thinks it was nice?

You know what else I think is nice?

I think it is awful nice.

That we can be sure of the resurrection on judgment day. Because we have been

washed in the blood of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Revelation 7 .14.

Yes, sir.

You and me and baby makes three. Amen and hallelujah.

Let me hear you. Amen and hallelujah.

Better yet, let me ask you.

What do you say, boys?

Have you been to Jesus

for the cleansing power?

Are you washed in the blood of the

Lamb?

Trusting in His grace this hour?

Are you washed in the blood of

the Lamb?

Are you washed in the blood, in the so cleansing

blood?

Are they white as snow?

Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Are you washed in the blood?

In the soul -cleansing blood of the Lamb?

Done. Stop!

My brothers and sisters, tonight...

special night oh yes a very special night

a homecoming the prodigal son has returned

my son my boy my god

my brothers and sisters help me welcome him back into the life

Come step back into the land.

My mama, my mama's right.

Amen.

Spent a lot of time running.

Running from my past, my family, everything and

everybody.

But I've made another life for myself.

Simple life.

Heal my daughter.

She's sick. Please.

I can't.

I can't heal.

Maybe I could before, but I can't anymore.

We know you can do it. Help her, please.

Please, my girl is sick. Please help my wife.

look at me my hands are trembling my heart like a stone

at your feet and all alone in the darkness

of the night searching for your hand but nothing's there

how dark and long the world

Makes the pie lose its face.

Goes a little blind.

Everyone falls from grace.

Makes mistakes.

Sometimes everyone bleeds.

Everyone leaves.

Everyone breaks apart.

Stand up.

Walk.

Get healed.

Jeannie.

Jeannie, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Go, Cotton.

You're free. Go.

I can't keep looking over my shoulder.

No one's watched over me since I was young.

No, I can't keep looking over my

shoulder.

Expecting a miracle and knowing that no.

And the world goes on and on and on.

And the world goes on and on.

I can't go on and on.

Down in the darkness, in the delicate

darkness of being alone.

No, I can't keep digging down in the darkness.

You get tired, you get dirty, and you want to go home.

And the world goes on and on and

on. And the world goes on and on.

You coming in or are you just window shopping?

What are you up to?

Nothing.

Thought I'd come see you.

See me? What for?

Well... What is it?

I'm thinking of moving out.

Getting a place in town?

Really? You just moved in.

Yeah, well, I can't keep living here.

Why not? Clay doesn't seem to mind.

Because I've got to make it on my own sometimes.

Okay.

Too bad.

Why's that?

I miss seeing you every day.

Well, you don't have to.

What are you talking about?

All right, look.

I know it ain't much, but... But I was hoping you'd be my wife.

Oh.

Um... Is that a yes?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Thank you.

Where have you two been?

We thought you'd be down at the tunnel. I know what you thought. Where have you

been all afternoon?

We took a drive. Oh, that's nice. You two go out for a nice long drive and you

leave me to handle the packing up at the tunnel.

I'm sorry. I didn't notice the time.

No, no.

Everything's always in my basket.

Everything firmly placed in my lap.

Well, God helps those who help themselves, I guess.

Better because I ain't getting any help from you two. Why do I do it?

Why do I do it? To scrape together enough money to pay the band?

Try to put a roof over your heads and for what? So you two can go out

You think it's easy what I do?

It's a miracle.

I'm the miracle.

Mama! Just leave it.

What you gonna do, step on it?

Just leave it alone!

It's all right. She just needs to rest.

Why don't you go down and see if you can help the guys pack up?

Okay.

You sure?

Yeah, it's fine.

I'll stay here with her.

Hello? Cotton, someone's here to see you.

Jeannie?

What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?

What are you doing here?

We have to talk.

There's nothing to talk about.

Oh, I think there is. You know, just take a minute. Surely you have a...

a minute for the woman who brought you into this world.

I'm gonna go make some of the bed.

No, you don't have to go.

No, it's fine.

You stay here and talk.

Pretty girl.

What is it? I want you back.

Back on the circuit.

You're insane.

Am I?

Well, I still want to be.

For what? I can't heal anybody.

It worked. You healed her.

Jeannie, she can walk.

I don't believe you.

I know. I could barely believe it myself. I thought you were all washed

I thought with my own two eyes.

No, I didn't.

I couldn't. You were there.

Lies. All lies and deception.

See, at first, I thought you'd be in on it, but see now, I really

don't think you were. Oh, that sister of yours, she can put on a pretty good

show, but that is not the kind of thing that you can keep up.

Even if that were true, what makes you think I'd come back?

I've built a life for myself.

A life?

You don't belong here. You are different than these people.

That's not true.

They're my family. Oh, come on, Cotton.

I mean, really.

What are you going to do? Live out here playing Farmer Jones?

Hiding your life from under a bushel? You need to be in the line.

With people who know you. People who understand your special gifts and know

to use them. So you just come home.

Home?

I remember the sort of home you made for us.

Dragging me around the circuit like some sort of freak show.

You never loved us. You did horrible things to us.

All you ever cared about was that collection plate.

Cotton, that's all anybody ever cares about.

What, are you surprised by your mother's honesty? Well, I'm going to do you one

better. Hey, things are a little tight right now.

In fact, I really don't know what we're going to do if you don't come back.

I don't.

So your sister needs you, I need you, your real family needs you, so you just

come home.

Come on.

Get out.

Come on, God.

Maybe I wasn't the perfect mother, but I loved you.

Maybe not in the way you wanted, when you wanted, but... Oh, I sacrificed for

you. And for Jeannie.

Just go. I sacrificed for both of you, so you are just coming home. Mama, this

is my home. What do you want from me?

Nothing.

When I was a little girl, that man took something from me.

He took her.

In all the beauty and all the sunshine in all the world, it is one way.

And now, the only time that I

feel the presence of God is when you are on stage performing your miracle. That

is the only time that I feel God.

And I need a miracle in my life.

You have no idea how bad.

You have no idea.

I don't believe you.

All right.

There's no reason you're really sad.

Yeah, there's no reason at all.

Please just go.

I listen to you. Put your hands up!

You just wait. You'll see. You don't think they're going to turn away from

huh? Just like everybody else. When the wolves come snarling at the door, blood

is all that matters. And you listen to your heart because that is my blood

running through your veins.

And by God Almighty, Cotton, it is that blood that is going to bring you home

again. I swear to you.

Just like today, beautiful, sunny, then the clouds came in.

You should have seen the people run.

Rain turned pouring.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh, it's beautiful.

Look, look, look.

Isn't that lovely?

Thank you.

Looking good.

How do you feel?

Good.

You're getting quite a girl.

Yes, sir.

I know.

I know she couldn't be in safer hands.

You know, I should probably wait till after the ceremony, but I just, I can't.

That's a piece of land.

In fact, that's a piece of my land.

Right beyond the stable.

Get your stuff.

Build yourself a home.

No, we can't. No, don't say it.

It's as much for me as it is for you.

This way, at least, I know.

Where you both are.

Family should stick together.

Cotton, you got a phone call.

Who is it?

I don't know. They wouldn't say.

Maybe it's Jeannie.

I'll go see.

Yeah, we got married at church, but yeah, it's the same.

No shower there.

You're probably looking down from heaven.

Yeah, probably.

I know, just pull up your horse and we're going to get started.

Kyle, what is it?

She couldn't have.

What? Who was on the phone?

Look, it's Jeannie. I got to go. Tell Max.

Don't worry, honey. We'll be right back.

Oh, Cotton.

She drank something.

Maggie Mae put something in her food.

She didn't mean it, Cotton.

She couldn't mean something like that.

Cotton's coming home.

I knew you'd come for her.

You told me that you would come for her. You can't let anything happen to her.

Not to my baby girl, okay? So you'll heal her cotton, okay? Like Lazarus from

the grave.

You'll heal my baby.

What did you do?

Over, darling boy.

What did you do to my sister?

What did you do?

No.

No. You can save her.

He can perform miracles.

He has the gift.

No.

He just don't understand me.

God's gifts were wasted on you. And shut up in vain.

No. No.

Janie. No.

No. Megan, stop.

No, Janie.

You need some time.

Yeah, maybe a few minutes.

I'll be waiting in the car when you're ready.

Okay.

I'm busy.

But it's his first time.

Yeah, maybe later.

You sure?

Yes. It's gonna be fun.

Okay.

Maybe you can talk to him. He's thick of me.

Emily was looking forward to you being there when she rode a new coat.

You just mad at me, or is the whole world on your great list?

It just doesn't make any sense.

Why give me a gift like that, and then not let me use it?

I don't know the answer to that, son.

Nobody does.

It just all seems so pointless.

Cruel.

You know, when Beth and Josh died, nothing made any sense to me for a long

and I couldn't understand why.

Just stop believing in anything.

became pretty bitter, just kind of dropped out.

Even Emily wouldn't talk to me, which was fine by me.

But after a while, I knew that I couldn't go on

for her sake as well as mine.

Somehow I had to get past it.

How'd you do it?

Little by little, life gave me something to hold on to, to believe in.

A million different things.

Seasons came and went.

Emily started talking to me again. You showed up here, came into our lives,

built a family when there wasn't one before.

You know, I had a...

I don't put much faith in miraculous healing, holy visions or voices from the

sky.

My world is smaller than that. I tend to pay attention to the

tiny, everyday miracles.

And the world's full of them.

You just got to get out of your own way sometimes to notice.

And if it does turn out that you have a gift that can help people, well, I'm

sure you'll find a way to use it.

I'm going to watch my little girl ride that colt.

I suspect it's going to be a beautiful thing.

I look forward to missing it.

I'm a lover of the sun and I'm going to see the light.

Straight at me. Bring his head straight at me.

All right.

Okay, you're on your own. Go ahead.

Look at me.

I see you.

Did you ever?

Oh, we never did.

Keep on walking, running till I catch my aim.