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The red -headed stranger.

That fucker's got some nerve, Lee Ray Vaughan. Harassing a family in grief.

Just what is your interest in all this?

There's something I gotta tell you. I dumped something in the river. Yes, I

your help cleaning it up.

Can we meet?

I didn't sign up for putting widows out in the street. My wife found out.

She's not letting me keep my special friend on the property. Donald, he won't

see me anymore. He was trying to take this house away from me. I came to him

peace to sort this Indian Head Hills issue, but he would not listen.

Indian Head Hills. I don't think they've been fighting a lot about that

recently. If I wasn't really about land, and telling Dale wasn't my fault.

Telling Dale what?

Perlick and his daughter, Donald.

Dad, are you okay? You stink.

Oh, yeah, I'm good. What's going on?

He's dead.

Who's dead?

Alan. The guy that came by the store, the red -headed stranger.

Dead?

Someone shot him this morning.

How do you know?

I saw it on the news.

You watch the news?

Yeah. That's cool.

They lie sometimes, you know? Okay, but this is real. I mean, it's big news,

right? Wait, wait. What time is it?

Dad, it's the guy that killed Dale Washburn, right? Yeah, among others.

Dad.

Hey, but wait.

Shouldn't you be in school?

Yeah, I was, but then I left. Dad, this is way more important than school.

If anybody asks you why you cut class, you just give them this.

Here you go.

Tell them it's a therapist and they won't ask any questions.

Dad. Why won't you let me work with you? Because it's too dangerous.

You didn't say that when I saved the letters from getting burned.

That was incredible.

No, it was. All right, my heart.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

It swelled with pride. I love that. But you're a kid.

Look, I remember once.

When I was about exactly your age, I was sitting in the car waiting for my mom

to come back from getting groceries and I just sat there and I wish so hard if I

could just close my eyes and that when I opened them, I would be 30 years old.

And you know what?

Francis, do you understand?

Yes, I understand.

Just hang out with your friends, you know? Have some fun.

I love you!

Earlier this morning, ex -convict Alan Murphy was shot and killed on North

Peoria in what police are describing as an execution -style killing.

What exactly is wellness?

It's going to be healing for you. I really think you like it.

Yeah.

Sorry.

Excuse me.

Thank you. Namaste.

Fucking Lucy and this guy with diamonds wanted to put this on the community

board. White lady's doing sweat lodges and shit.

Lame.

Women's self -care retreat?

Fuck.

Where is he?

Your apartment.

Wendell!

Indeed I did.

It was treacherous.

You know I can't use the bookstore toilet. I feel more comfortable in a

that's what you can call this. What are you doing here, huh? What, did you lose

your copy of The Idiot? What did you do to my store? It looks like a fucking

Starbucks down there. It's my store.

It used to be my store. No, it was our store. Then I bought you out. Now it's

my... I know. I should have burned it down and collected the insurance like I

said. Oh, but we didn't have any insurance. Put that down. Let me guess.

Scratched. Warped. Typical. I got it that way. All right. This is cute. You

it on Amazon. That's not for you. Just hurry up, man. I got important shit to

do. Oh, my gosh. It's like you read one Oklahoma history book and you made a

junior high collage. I got to get back to work. Okay. Okay. Don't touch me. All

right. Please.

Can we? No, it's cool. Why don't we just discuss all the disorganization of my

store? There's nothing.

Would you stop with that?

It is blasphemously what you have done to this place. Thanks for coming, you

guys. Appreciate it. I mean, look, you have the Odyssey next to As I Lay Dying.

Yeah, As I Lay Dying is an Odyssey of sorts. Getting Mama home and getting

to Mama is not quite the same thing. And you got Shakespeare next to Shepard,

cute but wrong. Got Pinter next to Harry Potter. I can't help him.

Deidre, stop. You can't be helped.

What are you doing here?

You forgot.

I didn't forget.

Yeah, you forgot. No, I didn't forget. I don't forget, all right? It's just,

this tradition... It's got to be by annual. It's got to be some other day.

No, it's just, it's today.

I can do it tomorrow.

Tomorrow's fine, but it's not Hayden's birthday tomorrow.

I made a promise to a friend.

We made a pact, okay?

A pact for our friend.

Once a year.

Some might call it sacred.

Sacred. You call what we've done the last three years sacred.

I am not paranoid.

You do, mother... Yes,

I would call it sacred.

Okay.

I have thought after last year that I was never going to see you again.

And besides, okay, I'm busy.

Come on, you could take the day off. Deidre practically runs the place. I run

this place, okay? Not very well by the looks of it. You're in the red, aren't

you? No, but we're actually doing it really great, thank you for asking. No,

living in high cotton up in the condemned attic. Did I write? I'm a

you even read the Washburn piece?

In the zine?

It's the Heartland Press, and it's a long -form magazine. Oh, yeah, I read

And it is long.

You went way too easy on that family, man. What did they pay you? It's

practically a puff piece. A puff piece. Yeah. And the brother goes and offs

himself. No. Neil Washburn did not commit suicide. And that article has

a target.

Yeah. Oh, you're living in some bad crime novel now, huh? Listen, asshole.

investigation has got me into some serious shit. Is that so? Yeah.

Do tell.

Come on.

All right.

Donald Washbrook had his brother murdered, okay?

And the guy I think did it was found dead this morning. Donald is trying to

clean up loose ends, all right? It's all about some land deal. And if I don't

put the details together soon, some more people are going to be found dead.

Land deals.

Death.

Clichés. Clichés earn their status as clichés by their overwhelming truth. Do

not quote David Foster Wallace to me, my brother.

Not me.

Where's this land?

I don't know. You don't know? I don't know. Come on, it's land.

What is it, like, not North America or something? No, it's in Oklahoma,

Osage County. I think Sky it took, but I looked it up. Indian Head Hills, and

there's nothing.

So you Googled it? Yeah, I Googled it. Ha ha, amateur.

Well, oh, oh, what would you do? You're so good at everything. What the hell did

you do to your foot?

Well, I had to put it in someone's ass, didn't I?

Oh.

Bet I can find this land in...

Two hours. Oh, you could find it in two hours, sure. Sherlock Holmes here.

Everybody, welcome. Thank you. He's always been jealous of my skill set. I'm

jealous of anything you do.

You are.

That's funny.

That's funny. Tell you what, make a bet, Deidre. Yeah. We'll make a bet here.

We're not making a bet. I'd find it. Two hours. Lee buys me lunch. He's not

going to find it. Two hours. Why are you writing that down? Oh. Lee buys you

lunch. I'm going to be hungry.

Got it. Thank you, Deidre.

You're welcome.

Marty. Sorry I'm late.

Not at all.

Charmed.

Thank you.

Oh, yeah.

Shall we?

Jesus! You could have called first.

This was fired recently.

Mm -hmm.

Yeah, I was moving it and it went off.

Oh.

Did you have fun last night?

Because I saw Lee Raybone leave here this morning.

Sure looks like the two of you had quite a party.

This filthy hippie, this guy who's trying to destroy our family

to make his own name.

Well, you let that maniac into this house, and then you fucked him in that

Donald, this is my house and my bed, and I can fuck whoever I want to.

What did you tell him?

Nothing.

Don't you fuck!

Don't lie to me!

Don't!

No!

I didn't tell him anything.

I didn't.

Why the fuck would you do that?

I didn't leave.

cared anymore i was lonely you were lonely

yeah you wiped me out and then you send your little minion to kick me out of my

own house that has nothing to do with fucking lee raybon well i got your

attention didn't i

Oh, come on.

Tell me where we're going. All right, would you please?

Where are we going?

We said we had to spend the day together.

We don't have to talk. But I need to know where I'm driving.

You got to, obviously.

I told you, I've already done that. There's no point in going there if we

know exactly where we're going. It's a big place. I know what I'm doing.

Oh, my God, get me out of that. Would you please?

God damn.

So what makes you so sure that this land has to do with this Washburn guy's

death? Let's just say I have a source.

Let me guess, you Googled it. No, I didn't Google it, okay? It's a human

Someone close to the family?

What?

Eddie Joe Washburn.

It's a widow.

What?

Yeah, it is.

She does karaoke at a bar. I went there.

We talked. She told me.

You fucked her.

What? Oh, my God, you fucked her.

No, look.

Holy shit. You haven't changed. You know what this means? What? It means you're

basically part of the Oklahoma Illuminati now. No. Yeah.

Not to mention a big piece of shit for fucking the dead guy's widow.

Come on, no, it wasn't like that. It wasn't part of the investigation. I

trying to, okay? She's a dime, by the way. And, you know, one thing led to

another. Highly unethical. Oh, says the guy who was basically a pimp for a

while. I wasn't a pimp.

That was just like a weird roommate situation.

Oh, hey, take this exit. What?

Why? I'm going downtown.

Courthouse, dummy.

This is all you have? For the last time. That's all I got. If you told me what

you were looking for, I could... I told you what I was looking for. I'm looking

for a pizza lane on an atlas much older than this one. I'm being extremely

specific, okay? What?

I apologize for my friend. He's been living up in Tulsa for too long. He's

forgot his manners.

Wait.

How are you?

I'm fine.

Yeah? Good.

What is your name?

Sandy. Sandy. Right there.

Sandy, has anyone ever told you you have the biggest, most beautiful eyes?

I have never heard that. No. Excuse me, Willie Nelson, you cannot vape or smoke

in here. Lee. This isn't a club. Lee, I swear to God. Your friend is rude.

Are you married?

Divorced.

I don't know what the single scene is like.

But I think if you came up to Tulsa, you'd really clean house.

With this waistline and these thighs?

I don't think so, honey.

Only a dog wants a bone, Miss Sandy.

Okay.

You're very sweet.

This is fun. It's easy.

It is. You and me.

Now, what my rude accomplice was trying to get at earlier is, do you possibly

have an atlas made before 1950?

Well, now that, I might just have right back here. Hold on.

I will be right here, Sandy, waiting for you.

Boy, you are fooling me. I cannot believe she bought that bullshit.

What are you doing?

Wait.

Get these, get these. What? I'm on probation.

Keep him down. Keep him down.

I thought you were recovering.

I am in recovery. Look at my foot. It's in pain, man. Okay. Come on.

You see that? Yeah. Now, I know how to talk to country folks. Oh, you know how

to talk? That's why I... I know how to talk to everybody. Okay.

I know... You've lost your patience.

My patience? I've lost my fucking patience with you.

All right. Well, here you go.

Now, here. Y 'all use this before you touch it. Okay.

Your act right over there. Code's on the panel.

Thank you, Sandy.

You're welcome, darling.

Thank you, Sandy. I'm sorry about leaving.

Feels

nice,

doesn't it?

Really does.

World War II German service weapon. Still shoots.

That's amazing.

Smooth action.

That's a piece of history you got right there.

It's a real deal. Go ahead, finish it off.

Yeah, sir.

I'm a little nervous about this.

Speech, the 46.

Don't worry about it.

They all know who you are. I've got them primed.

I don't give speeches.

You do if millions of dollars are at stake.

It helps.

I do want you to put us fine to point on tribal sovereignty and their special

privileges.

They got too much power.

Did you see the paper today?

I didn't.

Alan, the guy that worked with me, he made the front page. They found him shot

in this pickup truck off Peoria.

Wow.

I didn't know that.

These ex -cons.

No, no. He was doing good.

He was reformed. Going to meetings.

You just never know.

Yeah.

The people we work with, right?

Right.

All you can do is look out for yourself.

Yeah. That's what I've learned.

Hey, darling.

Hey.

Put it on there right there, Tad.

Take you out to lunch, don't take you home.

Well, there's all of us, though. That's kind of like a meal. Deal one, I pay if

you find, and you ain't found jack shit.

Okay, my friend.

You take this pile, and I will take this pile.

Get a drink.

I'll have a Dr.

Pepper with a shot of Amaretto. Thank you.

Indian in it is.

There she is.

Well, a lot of nothing out here.

Seems in keeping with your investigation.

Look at this.

What's that?

White elk LLC.

Hot damn.

Elk. Stupid name.

There's no elk in Oklahoma.

Yes, there are elk in Oklahoma.

Yeah, behind high fences. It's basically farm animals. What do you know about

animals anyway? Why don't you stick to what you know, like banging widows?

Very funny. All right, okay. You know animals.

You don't know animals. You never left North Tulsa. Huh?

You don't know shit about animals. Were you in 4 -H? As a matter of fact, I was

in 4 -H. I had a pig.

Prize pig.

Fucking papers and everything. Bullshit.

Yeah? Oh, God. I think I got his shit again. Those olives.

Disgusting.

You know what?

You turned into one of those people we never wanted to be.

Okay.

One of those people who doesn't fucking like anything.

You know?

You're never satisfied.

That's you now.

And you are one of those guys that thinks they can change the world.

Yeah.

Write something.

Ooh. Write something. It's going to change everything.

But it won't. You know what it will do?

It'll get Francis hurt.

Yeah. All your bullshit, you know? It's only going to hurt the ones that love

you.

Just like it did Jesus.

You were supposed to go by there, man. And maybe if you did, he wouldn't have

wound up O .D .ed right there on the garage floor.

I told you, we weren't supposed to leave him alone. But you did it anyway, and

you're gonna hurt Francis the same selfish way.

Goddamn you!

Get off me!

Get off me!

Is that your piss? Get out!

You fucking dick. I'm gonna fucking kill you.

What's going on?

What? We cannot be seen.

What's going on?

Oh, shit. Fucking machine guns.

Do you believe me? I believe that good shit follows you wherever you go. Yeah.

I can't get enough of this place.

It's cute.

Oh, see, it's not just the best buy in town, but the spectacular service.

You better watch yourself. This one's a flirt.

Well, stay close so I don't have to wave you down.

Sorry. So, how did you like the movie?

Um, I usually don't watch old movies about boxers.

But, um, but, uh, I surprised myself. I liked it. Well, I would have gave in.

Quit boxing and ran off with the girl.

But if you're a fighter, that's what you were put here to do.

That is a better movie.

All right.

That is a better movie.

I'm sorry.

Every time I silence this damn thing, I think it's the last time.

The people you work for?

The man I work for.

But, look, we don't have to talk about that now. No, no, no, no. Come on.

When and now?

I want to hear.

Really.

Okay.

Donald and I, well, we were friends once.

Mm -hmm.

Two people with a fondness for one another, shouting back and forth across

great divide.

But lately, though, that canyon's only gotten wider and wider.

As a younger man.

I thought I'd be a writer.

Now I'm just chasing rich people down a rabbit hole.

You're very good with words.

You think so?

Mm -hmm.

I do.

Okay, so this white man that you're shouting to, I assume he's white, right?

How do you know that?

Well, it's something in the way that you said his name.

Donald. Donald.

Donald. Okay, so Donald, all right.

So wait, here's my question.

What is happening with this Donald as he's on the other side of this canyon?

Something else altogether. I don't know what.

You don't know or you don't want to know?

It's beautiful. It is, isn't it?

I would want to live here myself, but first I've got to get myself one of

and then I've got to get myself one of these.

Truly, I think this is the perfect place to raise a family. I know you're still

going to look at a few more houses, but I have a really good feeling about this

one. We both love it.

Vicky! Chicky Vicky!

Oh, my God.

I've got to talk to you. I couldn't find you anywhere.

What?

Lee, you cannot just show up. People call. I called. I tried you. Didn't I

Also, Wendell, someone told me that you were, like, dead.

No, I'm not dead. No, he's not dead.

Is your brother dead?

Okay, we're all caught up now. What happened to your foot?

Skateboarding. Okay, kickflip. Listen, Vicki, Vicki, Vicki, I need your help.

Why do you need my help? You need my help. Okay. I think the Washbergs have a

new LLC called White Elk.

Please, you guys, I'm serious.

It's a stupid name. No, okay, are you listening?

I think there's a silent broker. I need you to find out if it's on the market

and who's buying.

Illuminati.

Illuminati.

You too.

I'm serious. Hey, Vicky.

Vicky, please.

Oh, my God, what makes you think that I would know anything about that?

Because you are connected.

You know a guy who knows a guy.

Maybe I know somebody who might know something or be connected or whatever.

I'm going to need you to wear a wire. What kind of wire?

Like an underwear?

I'll just call him. You're being serious.

I'll call him. You're just going to call him right now? Yeah, I'll just call him

right now. He'll answer. He always answers.

Oh, hi, honey.

Yeah, I'm wearing like this little leopard thing. I have a business

Can I get a sales schedule for White Elk LLC?

Oh, my God. I'm at work. I have always liked her.

No, no. Just look it up. She's single.

It's none of your business, buddy.

They're selling it for how much? Whether she's single or not has nothing to do

with you. I'm trying to listen to her, all right? Don't even try to listen to

her. Oh, you're with her.

No, I'm not with her. I'm her friend. I'm not setting her up for it. It does

concern you at all. It concerns me. I don't need your help. You don't need my

help. I don't need your help. So, who'd you call? I know lots of people.

It's called networking.

I know. What did they say?

White Elk is selling the land to a company, One Well.

One well. Don't really know much about it other than they are burning through

cash. And here's the crazy part.

They are selling the land at way over market.

They're overpaying. Yeah, like four times the value it's worth.

And there's no other bids.

That sounds like a great way to launder a bribe to a future governor.

Oklahoma is one.

And I think...

should remain one.

Our state should not split us into a thousand bits, serve special interests,

make different sets of rules for different people.

And it's not far -fetched to say that's just exactly what these Indian tribes

want done.

And it's not about race.

Hell, a lot of us can trace our heritage back to the Indians, so you know it's

not about race.

It's about governing our state.

These Indian tribes, they're like foreign governments set up right

here under our nose, beholden to no man and no laws except those of

their own making.

And then they wield those laws to reap profits, unfair

advantage.

I would like to...

recognize the fellow who's with us here today, our future governor, Donald

Washburn. And with the 46 behind him, Donald is going to blow into the

governor's mansion and he's going to guard our interests.

He said he had two bulls instead of one.

Oh,

shit.

Good work, Frank.

I'm proud of you.

A trip, that means the world. Thanks for the opportunity.

Well, you just keep showing up.

After the election, there's going to be a lot of development. I'm talking the

whole state.

A lot of that could be yours.

I'm ready.

I know. I know. Well, excuse me just a second. Okay.

Donald. Frank.

I hate to talk business, but you're going to be a hard man to reach.

Yeah, well, this campaign has been relentless.

Yeah. We're all busy, Donald.

What's the holdup?

My buyer's asking, and he's impatient.

No holdup. No holdup. Then why the fuck aren't you closed?

Frank.

This is not a place to make a scene. I know I know no no you don't have to

about what else I just I don't need you on my ass right now Yeah,

we'll talk

Nothing's coming up on one well.

Nothing at all. Another investigation brought to you by Googling. Give me a

break. All right, listen.

Donald.

Washburn is being bought off, right? His brother finds that, does not approve.

So? Donald killed Dale. Oh, you're fragile.

Brother's vengeance.

All right, look, I don't want a Latin lesson right now. No, you don't. No, I

don't. What I need is... Hey, where are those two Indian fuckers who took...

Johnny? Sean? What the fuck?

is going on. You said you were a friend of Blackie. I did. I did say that. You

know where they are, don't you? No, I only went over there. I was trying to

figure out. I knew you were full of shit. You lied to me. Wait, hold on.

to figure out what? Let me tell you. You lied to me. My name's Lee Raybon. Lee

Raybon? What kind of shit is that? Listen, I work here at... You lied to

Bond. Listen, you fucking skinhead. You are so lucky. My foot is fucked up.

Come on. Come on.

Back the fuck up.

Fucking go, man.

Back, motherfucker.

The fuck are you doing? You cannot fire a gun in the air.

Bullets come down. You know, they hit people. Accidents happen.

I'm security, right?

Yeah. Yeah, you are. And that was good. That was good. It's just not a loading.

Okay. You know, I get a raise, right? No, you don't get a raise. Good job.

It's Wendell. Wendell! Wendell!

Where the hell am I wailing?

Maybe you want to grab a drink?

No.

Huh. Damn.

Okay. Don't get me wrong.

I think you're cute.

Very, in fact.

But, um, you know, for a private investigator, you can be a little

Tell me how you really feel.

Maybe some other time, but without Donald.

Okay, you got a book?

Oh, yeah. All right.

What book did we do last year?

Confederacy of Denses. Oh, yeah.

Oh, hey.

How about Brainerd?

Okay. Yeah, that's better.

Prophetic, even.

Yeah.

After all these years.

Oh, we're still in that faces.

Trying to be more like you.

Hard to do.

All right.

Okay, all right, I got it.

This is the earliest I've woken up in 72 days.

I'm a mess.

I'm a mess.

I've put Francis in danger.

And I'm going to lose the bookstore.

I, too, am a mess.

I'm not bad at a lot of things.

You are an excellent talker.

You don't seem to like anything anymore.

Not even me.

You have a mouth I do not trust.

Why do you still want to do this? I don't know.

It means I'm still alive, I guess.

Chasing what Jesus was, I don't... My North Star.

But at the same time, his death is a hellhound on my trail.

I fucking hate you.

I also love you.

I do not want you to die.

It's scary to be your friend.

You are the hellhound on my trail.

You know what the fucked up thing is?

Together, we make one hell of a person.

Just one, huh?

Yeah.

We're too fucked up to be whole.

Hey, Betty Jo. What's up? You know, booty call.

Is there someplace we can talk?

Yes, sure.

Thanks for meeting me.

What's going on?

Miss me?

Donald knows about us.

Oh, fuck.

He broke into my house this morning to yell at me about it.

Did he threaten you?

It's the side of him I've never really ever seen.

Did he hit you?

No, but... But what?

He took Dale's gun with him.

Lee, I'm scared.

I am just a sitting duck in that house right now. Well, trust me, you've got to

disappear. I didn't go where? Somewhere, anywhere, family, friends.

You know where Donald couldn't find me.

You all hungry?

No, I'm good. Just the usual.

All right.

Sonia at a women's health care retreat.

He won't find you there.

You're fucking joking.

Would you pass the message to Pearl and tell her where I'll be?

She's blocking my number.

In case anything happens.

Nothing's going to happen to you.

Hey. Listen, you know... Maybe we hang out sometime?

Like normal people?

See a movie or something?

Did you bring Frances?

Yeah.

She's the best part about you, man.

Yeah.

Stay greasy.

I will.

Get killed.

Hey, my name's Lee. I'm a friend of your mom.

She just wanted to sit in here and talk. I'm a friend of your mom. She went on a

retreat. Hey, bookworm!

Hey!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

What the fuck? Somebody take out your phone!

Let's go.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Go where?

Go where? Running still and out. No, no, no.

No?

I don't know.

What the fuck is this?

Well, well, it's fucking worse.

Oh, he set those targets for us. What?

What's that? It ain't fun.

Ha, you got that one in big.

Relax, yeah.

You ready?

You've been rough