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[dramatic energetic music]

[dramatic scary music]

[lightning crackling] [tense music]

[thunder cracking]

[bluesy rock music]

♪ Put one foot in front of ♪ the other is all I know ♪

♪ Before you know it you'll ♪ be falling down the road ♪

♪ And over at the crossroad ♪ you stole the sign ♪

♪ So all you do is walk ♪ through in a straight line ♪

♪ They bypassed the route I used to take ♪

[hammer thudding]

♪ You can't escape the ♪ time you now mourn ♪

♪ So I find myself on ♪ the highway on my own ♪

♪ The median's my pathway and my home ♪

♪ Listen, listen ♪

♪ My son, my son ♪

♪ I won't tell you twice ♪

♪ What I can't tell you once ♪

[bluesy rock music]

- I only talk to you

because Cynthia made me promise to do it every day.

Full disclosure, I don't even know if you're listening.

But if you are, you can take me whenever you want.

I'm ready.

Amen.

[insects chirping]

[clock ticking]

[loud knocking]

[insects chirping]

- Back up! Back up, back up!

Please!

- Easy, easy. [Nick panting]

Please, back up, please.

Are you alone?

Is anyone else here?

- [Billy] No.

- Are you alone?

- Just me.

- You got any guns?

- Right there.

[tense music]

- No! Oh no, no.

Back up, go, back up!

Back up [panting].

Back up.

Sit down.

On the ground.

I want you to sit down.

Sit down.

All the way, sit down. [eerie music]

[dramatic drumming music]

No, no, down, down.

Down, down [panting].

- Don't appreciate you bleeding on my couch.

- You got any bandages?

- Yeah.

- Go get 'em.

- Okay.

[tense drumming music]

[Nick grunting]

[tense rhythmic music]

- Sit down.

- You're a lucky man.

That bullet went all the way through front to back.

[Nick panting]

[Nick groaning]

[Nick panting]

You got yourself a deep graze.

Who shot you?

- None of your business.

- But you know what is my business?

When the hell you're gonna get outta my house.

- When I wanna go, then I'll leave.

Until then, sit there and shut up.

Jesus.

[Nick panting]

[eerie music] [footsteps thudding]

[loud knocking]

Who is that?

Hey, wake up!

Who is that?

- How the hell would I know?

[Nick panting]

- Oh, shit.

It's cops.

- They ain't here for me.

- You say anything about me and I'll shoot you.

- [Billy] And they'll shoot you.

[eerie somber music]

[loud knocking]

- Sheriff's Department. - He's coming.

- I'm comin'.

[Billy grunting and panting]

[loud knocking]

- Come on.

- [Deputy] Open up.

We see your truck out front. Come on.

- [Billy] [panting] I'm comin'.

- Let's go.

[tense music]

- Morning, sir.

- How can I help, Deputy?

- Got a call from the neighbor up the street.

Said they mighta seen someone in the woods.

Figured we come visit, check if other folks out here

have seen anything.

- What'd they do?

- Oh, we believe it's in connection

with a warehouse robbery in town yesterday.

Young white male, late 20s, early 30s.

Guard tagged him on the way out

so he might be looking for a place to shack up.

Seen anything?

Sir?

[dramatic tense music]

- No... not that I can recall.

But if I see someone, I'll shoot him for you.

- Well, we'd prefer that you call us first.

Appreciate your time.

Have a good one.

[car door thudding]

[engine revving]

[tense music]

- You call 'em?

- With what?

You broke my phone.

- Don't play games with me.

- No, I didn't call 'em.

They're just doing their job.

- Well, they better not come back [panting].

- You robbed a warehouse, huh?

Hey, that's pretty stupid.

- Shut up!

Sit down.

Sit down.

- Can I sit in a chair at least?

[Billy grunts]

[Nick grunts and pants]

You'd better sit down before you fall down.

[clock ticking]

[Nick panting]

[gentle music] [birds chirping]

[geese honking]

[Nick groans]

[gentle music]

[tense music]

[Nick mumbling]

- I'll come back. I'll find you.

[somber music]

My father...he's my father.

I'll find him. I'll find him.

[suspenseful music]

[gentle music]

[light guitar music]

[insects chirping]

[Billy sighs]

[birds chirping] [rain pattering]

[gentle music] [tense drumming music]

- It's important that I talk to him.

[fast tense music]

[gun firing]

[Nick pants]

[Nick grunting] [clock ticking]

[gentle music]

I'm gonna go stay with a buddy of mine for a bit.

To make a little bit of money.

- How long?

- Week or so. [tense music]

[Nick panting]

[gentle music]

[rifle firing]

[Nick grunting and panting]

- No.

No.

[geese honking] [door clattering]

[rifle firing] What are you doing?

[geese honking]

- Scaring away the geese.

- [Nick] Put it down!

- You need to relax.

- Now!

- Look, if I was gonna do something,

I woulda done it already.

- I swear I'll shoot you. [tense music]

You hear me?

- You got a bullet in there?

[suspenseful music]

[rifle clicking]

[rifle clicking]

- You won't do it.

- I'm an old man living alone in the woods.

You don't know me.

You ever shot anybody, huh?

My generation grew up going to war.

I'm talking man-to-man wars.

Not the drone video game wars.

- So are you gonna shoot me, huh?

Bury me in the woods?

- If I was gonna shoot you,

I wouldn't have wasted a fresh bandage on you.

- What'd you do with my gun?

- I put it away

so you wouldn't do something stupid when you woke up.

- You don't make the decisions, okay?

I'm in charge.

- Yeah, sure you are.

- Where's my gun?

- In the drawer.

[clock ticking]

So this is your idea of being in charge, huh?

[Nick's stomach growling]

What the hell was that?

- You got any food?

- Yeah.

- Make me a sandwich.

- You gotta be kidding.

[Nick groans]

You know, I got some work to do

that don't involve watching you sleep

or making you sandwiches.

- Another.

[Billy panting]

- Hey, what are you doing?

- Making a spillway.

- What's that?

- It's so when the pond gets too full,

there's someplace for the water to go

otherwise the land gets flooded.

- [Nick] Does that happen a lot?

- No.

- Then what's the point?

- You see, rain's good.

Comes along, cleans things off.

Water your plants, water your crops.

Can't do without water.

[frog croaking]

But if you ain't ready

and there's too much of it,

it'll drown your plants

and it'll wash your house clean away.

- Is this like a metaphor?

Right, you know,

like the house is your life, right?

And the water- - It's about being ready.

'Cause if you ain't ready,

it'll turn your life upside down.

[panting and grunting]

[insects chirping]

I'm sleeping in my own bed tonight.

I'm too old to be sleeping on the floor.

You can sleep there or you can sleep in the spare room.

It's up to you. Suit yourself.

- I hear you opening a window and I'll shoot you.

[clock ticking]

- Whatever.

Stop bleeding on my couch.

[gentle music]

- We both know why I'm here.

My wife wants me to come.

She thinks I need to work through some stuff.

- The Lord has his own timing.

[tense somber music]

He works in-

- Mysterious ways?

Yeah.

You say that a lot.

[tense suspenseful music]

[insects chirping]

- We've run down a few leads but nothing yet.

- Isn't the first 72 hours the most important?

- That's more with missing persons.

Usually what we find with these types of robberies

is someone gets desperate,

starts spending money in ways and places they shouldn't.

- Well, we've had to lay off a good number of people

this past month, but they're all in there.

[people chattering]

- [Deputy] We'll go knock on some doors.

[Nick yawns]

- I don't know how the hell you're gonna hear a window open

when I'm banging pots and pans five feet away from you

and you sleep right through it.

Here's your breakfast.

I got work to do.

- [Nick] How long you lived out here?

- Long time.

- Did you build the house?

- Parts of it.

- You don't like small talk do you?

[tools clattering]

- [Billy] Nope.

- I'm just trying to make conversation.

- Well then let's make conversation.

How's this all turning out for you, son?

- Trying to make the best of the situation.

- You mean the situation you created

coming into my house and pointing a gun at me?

- Hey, you pointed a gun at me too.

- Your daddy did a bang up job with you.

- What'd you say?

- I said, your daddy did a bang up job with you.

- You better watch it, old man.

Be careful where you're walking.

[birds chirping]

- That a sensitive subject for you?

Hand me that shovel, will ya?

- Get it yourself.

[birds chirping]

[slow tense music]

[Billy sighs]

[gentle music]

[frogs croaking]

- You left your plate out there.

I lived here 46 years.

- It's a long time.

- Longer than you've been alive.

- Why are you out here alone?

- [Billy] Don't like people I guess.

- Well, I can't imagine they like you much more.

- I can't imagine that they do.

[frogs croaking]

Why'd you steal that money?

Now, I answered a few of your questions.

I'm probably pretty rusty

but I think that's how conversations go, right?

- I don't know.

I needed it.

- Mm-hm.

- I'm figuring it out.

- Well, while you're figuring it out,

wash your plate, put it up in the cupboard.

I'm going to bed.

- [Jean] It's gonna be fine.

- [Nick] How can you say that?

You don't know.

[tense music] - Been praying for us.

- Who are you even talking to when you pray?

And how do you know he

or whatever is even listening? [tense chaotic music]

- Excuse me? - I lost my job.

- What, today?

- [Nick] I've been trying to figure it out.

No one in town is hiring.

- You don't keep things from me, Nick!

- What were you gonna do about it, Jean?

Pray? Come on.

- Same team! Grow up!

Grow up! [voice echoing]

[clock ticking] [gentle music]

[Nick groans]

[door thuds] [gun firing]

Been praying for us.

[suspenseful music]

- [Goon] You're starting to piss us off, Billy.

- The feeling is mutual.

Your friends really necessary?

- [chuckles] You know, that's a nice flower pot.

[goon laughing]

- Oh, mm.

[goon laughing]

- Everything okay, old man?

- Well, who's this?

- Nobody.

Go inside.

Now, it's time for you boys to leave. Right now.

- Well, we wanna know who your new friend is.

What's your name?

- I said go inside.

- I don't listen to you.

[suspenseful music]

- [chuckles] You get yourself a little house boy, Billy?

[goons laughing]

- All right, I'm outta here. - Time to go.

- We're not looking for no trouble.

- You stay here and you'll find it.

- All right. We'll see you soon, Billy.

- Don't hold your breath.

- [Goon] Let's go [laughing].

Woo! Ow!

Billy!

[car revving] [hard rock music]

- What was that about?

- Nothin'.

[birds chirping]

You're wearing my pants.

[shovel clanging]

- [Nick] Looked like something.

- Their boss wants to buy my land.

- [Nick] Why?

- Build a parking lot.

- Man, you live in the middle of nowhere.

For real, what's so special about this place

that somebody would send some hired goons to threaten you?

- You call that threatening?

- [Nick] What do you call it?

- I call it a pain in my ass.

- Okay.

Well, who's gonna be a pain in your ass

for a pond and a dinky little house?

- My house ain't dinky.

- [chuckles] You can be a real crotchety old man, you know.

- And you know something, you are another pain in my ass.

- [chuckles] Okay.

[Nick sniffs]

Hey, what's for breakfast?

[gentle music]

- You know, this ain't no kind of resort hotel.

You know that?

- Clearly no, but I'm hungry.

- You ate all my food.

- I don't know.

- Now, I can go into town, pick up some groceries.

- No, no, no, I don't like that idea.

- Why not? You don't trust me, do ya?

- I don't trust anybody.

Hey, you got fish in there?

Hm.

So your name's Billy?

That guy from this morning called you Billy.

- Yeah.

- My name is- - Don't.

- What?

- I don't wanna know.

When you're gone, those cops gonna come back here

and ask me more questions about you

and I can just tell them you were some stupid kid

who come in here and pointed a gun at my face

and made me feed him.

- You fish a lot?

- When I want some peace and quiet.

- [Nick] I always thought it was boring.

- That's 'cause no one ever taught you how to appreciate it.

- How'd you learn to appreciate

standing and waiting for something that might not happen?

- My father.

Every Saturday morning in the summer

we'd get up 6 am, head to our fishing spot.

- 6 am?

- My favorite thing to do every week.

[frog croaking]

- Y'all just sat there all day?

- I remember when I was 13,

he give me a sip of his beer.

Made me promise not to tell my mother.

[Nick laughing]

- [Nick] Oh gosh.

- What?

- You're so old, man.

I can't imagine you as a kid.

- A long time ago.

- When I was a kid, I made me this makeshift rod

out of this long branch I whittled down.

- How'd that work out for ya?

- Awful.

I mean it was a long stick

with fishing line tied to the end of it.

[Nick chuckles]

I used one of my mom's old makeup carriers as a tackle box.

I put old hooks and worms I'd dug up in there.

I spent hours untangling fishing line

that people got caught in trees and cut loose.

I'd walk to the lake every weekend.

It was like, I don't know, two, three miles away.

- Three miles?

That sounds like a lotta effort for a kid

who don't like to fish.

- I didn't.

Not once did I use that rod.

[somber music]

My mom had mentioned in passing one time

that my father used to like to fish.

So I would go down there every weekend

looking for a man who I thought might be my dad.

[frog croaking]

Like he forgot where he lived or something.

I could bring him home.

I was just a stupid kid with a bunch of dead worms

and rusty hooks in an old makeup carrier.

I didn't know any better.

Hey, hey, I think I got a bite.

Yeah, yeah, I got a bite.

Look.

- [Billy] Yes, you do.

[Nick chuckles]

[leaves rustling]

[insects chirping]

- I'll admit it, this is pretty good.

Could use a little tartar sauce though.

How'd you learn to cook?

Your dad teach you that too?

- No, that was my wife.

- How'd you meet her?

- Working in the same plant.

I was a manager. She working on the assembly line.

- That's cool.

Where is she?

- She left, long time ago.

- Why?

- Because I wasn't good at conversation.

Now, eat your fish and shut up.

- You think they're still looking for me?

- How much money did you take?

- About eight or 10 grand, give or take.

- And what you gonna do with all that money?

You gonna go down to Vegas and bet it all away.

Is that what you

planned to do. - No.

And none of your business.

- You're gonna have to answer for it. It's that simple.

- They don't know it was me.

What would you do?

[dog barking]

[suspenseful music]

- Dammit.

Stay here.

Stay here!

[door thuds]

[insects chirping]

- All right, old man...

- [arguing in the distance].

- Yeah, and I came back on my own.

[arguing in the distance]

[goon speaks faintly] [door thuds]

[engine revving]

- What was that about?

Was that the same guy from earlier?

- Storm's coming. We better go inside.

- [owls woos]

[thunder cracking]

[thunder cracking]

- You got any candles?

[rain pattering]

Man, it's coming down hard.

I haven't seen rain like this in a while.

Good thing you got that spillway.

- It ain't done yet. [thunder cracking]

- Oh.

Hey, what did that guy want?

- His name's Bennett.

[thunder cracking]

He said it was a courtesy visit.

- For what?

- He said his boss is running out of patience

and he wanted to give me one last opportunity

to take the easy way.

Guess they're gonna be coming more often.

- What do they want this place for?

[thunder cracking] And don't tell me

a parking lot.

- They don't want the house. They want the land.

- To do what with it?

- Oil.

[thunder rumbling and cracking]

- Probably pay a lot of money.

- Money I don't need.

- I seen some news stuff on them.

Those oil companies are some bad dudes.

You're not worried about taking the hard way?

- I'm too old to worry about that.

[thunder cracking]

- Geez.

I can feel my ribcage rattle [chuckles].

- I used to tell my wife

that the thunder

was the devil beating his wife.

She didn't like that joke. [thunder cracking]

And she would say that the lightning was God

punishing the devil for beating his wife.

[Nick chuckles]

- That's pretty good. [chuckles] It's funny.

[thunder rumbling]

- I'm going to bed.

Blow out the candles.

Don't burn my house down.

- Hey.

[thunder cracking]

Tomorrow we'll go into town to the store, together.

[door thuds]

[Nick sighs]

[thunder cracking]

[gentle guitar music]

♪ Well, they told me ♪

♪ That you were gone ♪

♪ To stay ♪

♪ So I tried ♪

♪ Not to think of it that way ♪

♪ Yeah, I fought it ♪

[thunder cracking]

♪ And I bought it ♪

♪ And I fell ♪

♪ On my face ♪

♪ But I come up ♪

♪ With just one thing to say ♪

♪ It'll happen again ♪

[thunder cracking]

♪ You'll find a new love, my friend ♪

♪ And feel that way again to stay ♪

♪ But I've learned ♪

♪ Not to think of it ♪

♪ That way ♪

[tense chaotic music]

Leave the keys in here.

- Okay.

- Hey.

If I feel like you're taking too long

or you're up to something, I'm leavin'.

- That a promise?

- I'm watching.

[tense chaotic music]

[Nick sniffs]

[tense music]

[gentle music]

[phone ringing]

- [Jean] Hey, you've reached Nick and Jean.

We can't come to the phone right now.

Leave a message.

[message machine beeps] [tense music]

[message machine beeps]

[loud knocking]

[tense guitar music]

- [Deputy Han] Afternoon, ma'am.

I'm Deputy Han.

[suspenseful music]

[gentle music]

- [Answering Machine] You have one message.

- [Nick] I love you so much, Jean.

I know I owe you a bunch of I'm sorrys.

I'm doing something right now

because I wanna make sure

I'm the best I can be for you,

for our family.

And uh... I'm glad you pray for us.

I hope you never stop.

[machine beeps]

- [Answering Machine] End of messages.

- Father, I need you.

I think Nick is in trouble.

I pray you watch over him.

Give him what he's looking for.

Protect him.

Please bring him home to me.

- [Nick] I shut the door when we left.

[tense chaotic music]

- Put that thing down.

- We don't know what's in there.

[metal rattling]

I told you somebody was in there.

[metal rattling]

- Shh.

- [Nick] What the heck is that?

- My the neighbor's dog.

It's a Pugle. Part Pug, part Beagle.

Grab the groceries.

- [Nick] Was this that guy, Bennett?

[glass clanking]

- That'd be a good guess.

- Have they done this before?

- No.

This must be part of the hard way.

As if I don't have enough pains in my ass already.

[birds chirping]

[loud rattling]

[sighs] Gimme a hand with this chair, will ya?

- Yeah.

[Billy panting]

Is this a Silver Star?

- [Billy] Yeah. Vietnam 1965.

- It's a pretty big deal, right?

- Yep.

[clock ticking]

[somber music]

[Billy sighs]

[geese honking]

[insects chirping]

[Nick sighs]

[somber music] [clock ticking]

- Hands up.

There you go...spoon.

[gentle music]

- This tastes like baby food.

- Yeah, why do you think I'd give you that [clears throat]?

- Are you for sure?

- [laughing] Yes.

[both laughing]

[thunder rumbling]

[gentle music]

[birds and insects chirping]

[shovel thudding]

[Billy panting and grunting]

[both groaning]

[frogs croaking]

[Billy panting]

[Nick grunting] [shovel thudding]

- [Nick] What's that for?

- Water pump's clogged up.

Gotta go clear it out.

- Okay, so what's that for?

You gonna shoot your water pump?

- It's a hike back up in the woods.

Been some wild boar back there lately.

- Okay. I'll come. [tense music]

- [Billy] I don't need you to come.

- [Nick] I'm coming anyway.

- You don't need that.

- You got a gun.

You said there was wild boar.

- Then go in the house and get the rifle.

A pistol's no use in the woods.

Wanna look like you belong back there anyway.

- Okay. Whatever.

[tense music]

- [Billy] Every day I go walking in the woods,

if I see a skipping stone, I pick it up,

bring it back, toss it on this pile.

- [Nick] It's a lot of stones.

- It's a lotta walking.

Clears my head.

My dad used to tell me

that the ripples on the water

were a representation of our life.

- Now, this is a metaphor, right?

- Yeah. [gentle music]

[frogs croaking]

Every time that stone hits the water,

it affects the area around it.

- Is that the people in our lives?

- Can be.

And at the center of each circle

is a choice we make.

- I took the bullets out of my gun

when I robbed the warehouse.

That guard wasn't supposed to be there.

Nobody was supposed to be there.

- But they were.

- I wasn't gonna hurt anybody.

- All I'm saying is you gotta think about your decision,

the affect it has on others,

and on yourself.

The consequences.

Let's go have a beer.

[somber music]

- [Nick] Right to the bottom.

[insects and birds chirping]

- [Billy] It's nights like tonight that make me realize

why I never got rid of this place.

You got a cool breeze, you got crickets chirping.

And nobody to bug me.

- [chuckles] If you didn't have me to bug you,

your old ass would still be trying to move that rock

out there from this morning.

- I would have figured it out. I always do.

- Since I got here the only people that have come by

are cops looking for me and hired thugs

trying to take your land.

[chuckles] You don't have any real friends?

[birds trilling]

You ever get scared [owl hooting]

of being alone?

- I ain't scared of much and being alone ain't one of 'em.

- No, not being out here alone,

but, like, in life.

You ever talk to your wife?

- I told you she left a long time ago.

- That doesn't mean you don't talk to her.

Is that her Bible in there?

When we were cleaning up yesterday,

there was this old dusty Bible.

Had Cynthia written inside the cover.

It's a beautiful name.

- Yes, it is.

- Why'd she leave her Bible behind?

- She wanted me to read it.

- Do you?

- Not for a long time.

- Do you miss her?

- She died couple of years ago.

- But do you miss her?

- Every day.

- I'm married.

- What the hell are you still doing here?

- Trying to figure it out.

- She know what you did? What you're doing?

- No, no, no. It was just me.

- You've been here almost a week now.

Have you talked to her?

You gotta talk to her, son.

She's your partner.

- Who are you to tell me that?

You and your wife split.

- Exactly.

- I don't know what to tell her.

- The only thing you can. [tense music]

The truth.

- I don't wanna lose her.

- Might not be your choice anymore.

You remember them ripples on the pond, son.

- Speaking from experience again?

- What I know all too well.

- I found this letter in the Bible, yesterday when we-

- Don't go snooping [tense chaotic music]

in my house.

- I wasn't- - Don't go snooping

in my house.

- Okay.

[door slams]

- [Pastor] It's important to pursue a relationship

with your Heavenly Father.

- [Nick] See, I had an earthly father who was never around.

And from what I've gathered this Heavenly Father

doesn't seem to be around much either.

- Do you wanna talk about your father?

- Nothing to talk about.

- I think you're gonna be a great dad.

- We're not ready for this, Jean.

- It's important that I talk to him.

- If you wanna find your daddy,

you'll find the money. [suspenseful music]

[insects chirping]

[Billy grunting]

- Hey.

Hey, Billy.

- What?

- I'm sorry for going through your stuff.

[frog croaking]

I didn't mean anything by it.

- That's fine. Move that rock.

- I saw we got some tartar sauce.

- What's that?

- I saw we got some tartar sauce from the store.

- Yeah?

- Maybe we can catch some fish.

Cook 'em up for dinner.

- You know, you catch 'em, all right?

I got some work I gotta do inside.

- Okay.

Hey, that canoe, does it work?

I mean, it's got like duct tape and stuff on it.

I'm not trying to sink.

- Wear a life jacket.

[low tense music]

[gentle music]

[bird cawing]

[frog croaking]

[insects chirping]

[plates clattering]

- Hey, um, I wanted to pay you

for all your food I've been eating

and for staying here.

- I don't want that money.

- Let me do this.

I know it hasn't been ideal.

- Ideal?

I don't want it 'cause it's not yours.

You stole it.

- I'm just trying to do something nice.

- You gotta wake up from your fairy tale, son.

You're probably gonna spend that,

those bills will get tracked.

- Look, I'm not gonna get tracked.

They're not marked.

- How do you know?

Wake up!

Shh.

- Hey, don't talk to me like that.

- You messed up!

You gotta own that.

That's part of what being a man is.

You gotta learn.

- You got to be kidding me, right?

Don't try to lecture me

like I'm the only one who messed up here.

I read your letter.

[clock ticking]

- That wasn't for you- - You!

No, you, you, you!

You wanna talk about being a man?

You wanna talk about consequences?

You had a kid and you weren't there.

- I didn't have a choice.

- Bullshit!

You didn't have a choice. Bullshit!

You had a choice.

My father had a choice.

And he chose I wasn't important to him.

- It can be complicated sometimes.

- Yeah, it can be complicated?

Tell a six-year-old boy that.

Tell a 10-year-old boy how complicated it is.

Tell me, tell me how complicated it is.

See, you had a father to teach you to fish,

to build spillways, to fix water pumps-

- Now, you listen to me, son.

- No, no, no, no!

Do not, do not call me son.

I would never wanna be your son.

[clock ticking]

You would just leave me behind.

[insects chirping]

- I think you've healed up enough.

I want you gone in the morning.

- I'll go now.

[door creaking]

[bag zipping]

[keys thudding]

I know I messed up.

Okay?

See, my wife,

she's pregnant.

I got no job.

We got no savings.

And yet my greatest fear is ending up like my own father.

- You're not thinking straight.

You're scared, that simple.

That's normal.

But you gotta calm down.

- No, no, no, no! - You gotta take this apart

piece by piece. - No!

No.

You enjoy yourself while you rot alone out here.

[door slams]

[clock ticking]

[truck engine revving] [loud rock music]

[insects chirping]

[rifle firing]

[suspenseful music]

[ominous music]

- Getting tired of seeing you on my land.

- What, are you Clint Eastwood now?

You gonna shoot us?

Would sure make things a whole lot easier.

You'd go to jail.

- Simple self defense.

- [chuckles] Well, you know better than that

and Mr. McLeod wouldn't allow it.

[chuckles] He may know a judge or two.

Say, where's your little house boy at, hm?

- He's gone.

- Oh, that's too bad.

[whistles] Come on, boys!

I'm gonna burn your house down now, Billy.

[rifle clacking]

- You try it and I'll kill you.

- [laughing] No you won't.

You and I both know that.

And you know that we're not going away.

Now, this is your last chance, you-

[grunting]

Oh no, mm. [tense music]

Hoo.

Oh, wow, yeah.

I'm glad you did that.

[grunts]

Light it up!

[gun firing] [tense music]

There he is.

- I told you you'd find some trouble around here.

- Oh yeah?

[goon grunting]

- Oh, I'm gonna beat you like your daddy should have.

[both men grunting]

- Don't move.

[insects chirping]

Don't.

- He deserves this. [suspenseful music]

- Think about it!

[gun firing]

[eerie piercing music]

[sirens blaring]

[gun firing]

[woman vocalizing]

[somber music]

[gun firing]

[gavel thuds]

[baby babbling]

- Is that hat?

Is that your hat?

[door thuds]

[tense music]

[gun firing]

[tense piercing music]

[woman vocalizing]

[tense music]

- [Nick] My greatest fear is ending up like my own father.

[Nick panting]

- [Billy] Don't!

- He deserves this! [tense music]

- [Billy] Think about it!

- Gimme your wallet.

[goon grunting]

Gimme your wallets. [tense music]

Now!

Get him, get him.

Get outta here.

[goon grunting]

Come back and your IDs go to the cops.

[truck engine revving]

- I need a beer [panting].

So why'd you come back?

- You needed help.

- Your dad messed up leaving you behind.

Just like I did.

- You ever wonder if your kid would show up here?

- Every day.

I think about what he'd say

and what I'd say to him.

That's why I wrote that letter.

I ain't too good with words.

- That's why you won't give the place up.

- My wife loved this place.

We talked about raising our kids here.

Then we found we couldn't have kids.

She had some health issues.

Child I had was with another woman.

- [Nick] That's why she left?

- No, she wouldn't have never left my side.

She even offered to raise the kid,

if that's what I wanted.

But Paulette, the child's mother,

she wouldn't have none of that.

I went back to the hospital

to see them

the day after my son was born.

They were gone.

Never saw Paulette again.

Never even knew my son's name.

I wasn't the same after that.

I was angry, I was bitter.

I wasn't the man my wife married, that's for sure.

Wasn't even the man I wanted to be.

I was unbearable.

- And you pushed your wife away.

- Yeah. Can't blame her.

Didn't give her much of a choice.

Didn't try to stop her either.

[breathes deeply]

- That Bible verse

that's underlined in Cynthia's Bible...

- Psalm 18:6.

"In my distress I reached out to the Lord

I, I asked for his help.

He heard me in his sanctuary.

My cry reached his ear."

She loved that.

But I reached a point

where I just felt like I didn't deserve to be heard anymore.

So just stopped opening that book.

[owl hooting]

[Nick sniffles]

- I hired a private investigator to find my dad.

I just have to pay him.

That's really what the money is for.

I just...

I just figured if I could find him,

face to face, man to man,

I could ask him.

Why didn't he choose me?

- Now...

I'm not saying

that meeting your father is not important.

But it's not what defines you.

- I don't wanna be like him.

- [Billy] You wanna be there for your child?

- Billy, I almost killed that man.

- But you didn't.

- All I could think was I would never see my child.

- Then you do everything in your power

to be there.

Cause sometimes

just being there,

just being there is enough.

- Yeah.

Yeah.

- What's your name?

[gentle music]

- I thought you didn't wanna know.

- Time changes everything.

- I thought I was just a stupid kid who made you feed him.

- Yeah, but if them cops come back here

and they start asking me questions about you,

I'm not gonna be ashamed now to tell 'em who you are.

And I'm sorry that I called you stupid

'cause you ain't stupid.

[chair creaking]

- Nick.

My name is Nick.

- Okay, Nick.

You stay here as long as you like.

But gonna come a day

when you have to answer for your past.

And I would recommend

that you not wait until you're an old guy like me to do it.

[Billy sniffles]

Deal?

[bottles clinking]

[birds chirping]

[door creaking]

[clock ticking]

[ominous music]

[door slams]

[Nick panting]

- Billy!

Billy!

Billy, Billy, wake up!

[panting] Billy!

Wake up, wake up!

[Billy gasping]

- Glad you're here.

- I'm not ready for you to go.

You taught me how to appreciate fishing.

- [chuckles] Yes, I did.

You're a good man.

Look at me.

I'd be proud to call you my own son.

[Billy crying]

- I uh, I brought Cynthia's Bible.

- That's yours.

You read it.

- Okay.

- And my Cynthia, she woulda liked you.

She woulda been looking out that window

[gulps] at you

fishing on the pond.

[both chuckling]

Yeah.

You read some now.

- Okay.

- Look in my drawer in the desk at the house.

- For what?

- [panting] Read.

- "The Lord is my shepherd,

I have everything I need.

He makes me lie down in the green pastures.

He leads me beside the still waters.

He restores my soul.

He leads me in the right path for his name's sake.

Even when I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil,

for you are with me.

[somber music]

You prepare a banquet..."

It's okay.

[sniffling] It's okay.

[insects chirping]

[gentle music]

[Nick chuckling]

[birds and insects chirping]

[tense music]

[lively upbeat music]

[water splashing]

[bird trilling]

Well, you crotchety old man,

the spillway got finished.

Your house ain't gonna float away.

[tense music]

- Hey, is this Billy Ford's place?

- Who's asking?

- My name is Jim.

My wife, she saw this

in the newspaper yesterday.

[birds chirping]

We live in Jamestown.

We drove over this morning,

looked him up in the town hall records.

- Yeah, Billy lived here.

- My mom gave me that

long time ago.

It's of my biological father.

When my wife saw that picture

in the obituary, she said it was me in the eyes.

[bird trilling]

I've been looking for my real father for a long time.

I never got to know him.

I don't know. Just thought it might be him.

Are you his son?

- No.

No, just a good friend.

- I just wanted to see where, maybe, he...

The only thing my mom ever told me about him

was he was awarded a Silver Star in Vietnam.

I knew it was a long shot, man.

Thanks for your time. I didn't mean to bother you.

- [Nick] Wait.

What was your mom's name?

- Paulette.

- Your wife was right.

You got his eyes.

I think there's something he'd want you to have.

This is for you.

It looks like you have a beautiful family.

- Thank you.

- Billy would have been proud.

Hey, Billy lived most of his life out here.

46 years.

Built part of the house himself.

And there's some rods on the porch

if you wanna take your boy fishing.

Billy'd like that.

All the money you're missing is in there.

- So why bring it back?

- I need to be able to look my kid in the eye

and tell them what's right.

And I can't do that if I don't accept

the consequences myself.

I understand you have to call the police.

I'll wait.

- When my first son was born,

kept thinking about all the ways I'd screw it up.

And I did sometimes.

But...

There were people willing to forgive me.

I'll never forget that.

[dial tone humming]

Get out.

Go on, get out.

[gentle music]

Go on.

[gentle music]

- [Billy] To the son I never knew.

When you were born I thought you

were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.

I'm sorry I wasn't there to protect you

and to watch over you.

That is my deepest regret.

But I have loved you from afar.

And I hope you've grown up to be a fair man.

To treat others with respect.

To love those close to you.

To forgive those who need it.

And to always do what's right...

- I'm sorry.

- [Billy] Even when it's the hardest thing to do.

- Hey.

It's a boy.

- Yeah?

- Mm-hm. Yeah.

- [Billy] Most importantly and no matter what,

I would be proud to call you...

[Nick and Jean chuckling] - Let's go.

- [Billy] My son.

- [Nick] So I met this old man...

[gentle music]

[bluesy rock music]

♪ Put one foot in front of the other ♪

♪ Is all I know ♪

♪ Before you know it ♪

♪ You'll be falling down the road ♪

♪ And over at the crossroad ♪

♪ You stole the sign ♪

♪ So all you do is walk ♪ through in a straight line ♪

♪ Listen, listen ♪

♪ My son, my son ♪

♪ I won't tell you twice ♪

♪ What I can't tell you once ♪

♪ They bypassed the route ♪ that I used to take ♪

♪ You can't escape the time you now make ♪

♪ So I find myself on the ♪ highway and on my own ♪

♪ The median's my pathway and my home ♪

♪ Listen, listen ♪

♪ My son, my son ♪

♪ I won't tell you twice ♪

♪ What I can't tell you once ♪

[blues rock music]