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This is a far cry from Philadelphia, I'll tell you that. I mean, I have never

seen so much empty land before in my life.

I keep looking for cement.

Two months before we get back to California.

I hope Jeff holds up.

You miss David?

Yeah.

And Steve, and Charlie, and Duncan.

Duncan?

I never met a Duncan.

Me neither. But I sure like that name.

I give up. Duncan.

You ever think about having children, Kathy?

Sure.

But the thought scares me.

You know, it could lead to marriage.

You are so bad!

Wouldn't you know it.

Well, I've never changed a tire before. Have you?

No.

But I don't think you could do it from the inside of a car.

Here,

hold this while I get the stair out.

Hey, here comes the truck. Maybe we can get some help.

to pay you for it. Well, I ain't no lottery, ma 'am. I can use the extra

Oh, you got it.

Where y 'all headed?

Oh, anywhere and everywhere.

We're just spending the summer driving around till school starts in September.

Oh, y 'all college girls, huh?

Mm -hmm, UCLA.

By the way, do you know where the nearest scout station is?

In town, yonder. About two more miles down the road.

That man ain't always showing up like a bad cold.

What?

Hi. Hello, Sheriff. Good afternoon, ladies.

Excuse me, ladies. Oh.

What do you think you're doing, George?

I ain't doing nothing wrong, Sheriff. I'm just doing a favor and changing this

year's flat tire. But, George, you're no mechanic.

Somebody might think you're trying to do the boys in town out of their rightful

business. No, sir, I wouldn't want to do a thing like that. Well, I guess you

would, man. You're doing it.

You just can't seem to stay out of trouble.

Can you, boy?

Hey, wait a minute.

He was nice enough to stop.

And I asked him to help.

You asked him?

Mm -hmm.

Does that make it more acceptable?

We're girls together, huh?

That's right. We're a match set.

California plates, UCLA.

It's you people get away with murder in Los Angeles.

What do you mean, you people?

Ma 'am, it's all fixed and ready to go.

Thanks very much, George.

We really appreciate it. Put your money away.

George don't want to be paid for doing a favor.

Do you, George?

No, sir.

Good.

Take off now.

But I promised to pay him.

You have no right to do that.

Thank you, George.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Miss?

Yes?

Are you girls going to stay in town for a while?

No longer than we have to.

Look

at

that.

My hands are still shaking. I'm so angry.

It's his story anyway.

I don't know, and I don't think I want to find out either.

Hey, we're supposed to be having a good time, remember?

Yeah. You're right.

Okay, okay. I've got a cheerful song that I'll sing. Oh, no.

It's a beautiful morning.

Oh,

great.

flat tire well let me tell you look at it well how long will it take to fix

half hour maybe kathy while we're waiting why don't we go over there and

something to eat okay here you go all right uh will you fill it up and um

the oil and water too please thank you

thank

you thank you anything else i'd like to have a nice tea please Could I have one,

too, please?

Thank you. Thank you.

Uh -oh.

What?

Bad cold just blew in.

I've got a cold drink. Sure. Right.

Can I get you something else? No, I don't want to spoil my dinner.

Well, well, if ain't the match set.

I'm afraid we got off on the wrong foot back there.

Why don't we start all over again?

Start what?

Well, that depends on what you girls are looking for.

If it's good time, you don't have to look any further.

Quite a man, huh?

Never had no complaints.

Right, Susie?

Do you like to dance?

Sure. Good. I got a wonderful idea for you.

Why don't you go twist on this?

Let's finish up and get out of here.

And fast before he comes back.

Fish a flat tire and $7 .50 for the gas and your two quarts low on oil. So it

should be eight and a half.

Okay. Hey, it won't start.

Oh, now what?

Open the hood.

Try it again.

Nothing. It's your fuel pump. It's busted.

What does that mean?

Well, it means you got a problem, miss. See, I ain't got a fuel pump installed.

I'll have to send it over to the next town for one.

Oh, terrific.

How long is that going to take?

Well, I'll have to fetch it myself, and I'm loaded down with work here.

Tomorrow morning will be about the best I can do.

Tomorrow? You mean we have to spend the night in this town?

Sorry, best I can do.

Somebody's got to attend the station.

Well, what do you think, Kath?

We haven't much of a choice, have we?

Okay.

Go ahead with it.

Okay. I'll call her right now.

With all the rotten luck.

Maybe it isn't luck.

Do you know a fuel pump when you see one?

You think he's trying to rip us off?

I don't know what I think at this point.

Come on, it'll be dark soon.

We'll camp out in those woods we cast on the way in.

Okey -dokey.

Here's yours.

Whoops!

And will you hold my sleeping bag?

Yeah. Thanks. Hold on a minute.

Hey, miss.

Hey, they got one.

Great. We'll see you in the morning, then. All right, I'll need your car

Yeah, it's in the ignition.

Got to go, Mom. Just call and say hello.

Kathy, would you please just go to sleep? I will.

It's not that I don't like Jeff.

I do.

I really do.

It's just that he's getting so serious all of a sudden. You know what I mean?

Mm -hmm.

Are you listening to me?

Mm -hmm.

Mm -hmm.

I mean, Di, he didn't even want me to go on this trip.

But... I decided to see America first.

And that was it.

Do you think I was wrong?

I think that when you die, they're going to have to beat your mouth to death

with a stick.

Thanks. You're a lot of help.

All right. Get all this junk packed up.

Why?

Because you're under arrest for trespassing.

That's why.

But you don't have to arrest us.

If we're trespassing, we'll go someplace else.

Look, if you're sore about what happened at the restaurant, then... I'm not

going to tell you again.

Now pack up. Let's go.

Diane?

Yes, Kathy.

I wish I could see you.

You didn't have to separate us. There's no one else in here.

He's trying to teach us a lesson.

Paying us back for our big mouths.

Yeah.

Yeah, he just wants to give us a bad time before he lets us go.

I mean...

You can't hold us here.

Not for trespassing.

So you like to dance, huh?

Diane?

Come on, Sheriff.

He was only joking.

You can get out of here.

What's he doing?

Listen, girl.

You do what I want you to do.

Thank you, doctor.

What do you got?

These four so far.

He won't get away with it.

We'll tell the judge about it. I don't know, Kathy.

What do you mean you don't know?

Tiny's crazy.

That's what scares me.

Catherine Phillips, Diane Emery.

Trespassing.

Didn't you see the signs?

No, sir. If we had, we wouldn't have camped there.

You should be more careful.

Farmers have been known to shoot people for trespassing around here.

I just didn't know, that's all.

I'm going to fine you $50.

That might remind you to exercise more caution in the future.

Your Honor?

Yes? I've got something I'd like to see.

Come up.

This is a courtroom, not a meeting hall.

You still have an unpaid bill at the gas station.

$231 .42.

That's impossible.

Gas, oil, new tire.

What new tire?

It says here he tried to fix your old one, but it was too far gone.

New fuel pump, new sparks, air filter, labor,

overnight parking. Isn't that accurate?

No, sir, it certainly is not.

I see.

Well, you can stay, of course, and contest this bill if you wish to

complaint. I wish to.

That man raped me.

into my cell last night and forced me to...

Your Honor, may I approach the bench, please?

Yes, Sheriff, I think you better.

What she said is true, Your Honor. I was there.

According to the sheriff, that's not what happened at all.

He says you encouraged him to come into your cell, that you offered yourselves

to him if he dropped the other charge.

What other charge?

Prostitution.

That's not true.

Of course not.

He's making it up.

How can we proposition him? We weren't even in the same cell together.

You weren't?

Then how did you witness the rape, Miss Phillips?

I mean, I didn't see it.

But I heard it.

I heard what was going on in that cell.

30 days in the Batum County Prison Farm for Women.

We can make a phone call. We get a phone call. Okay, you two, let's go. We're

entitled to a phone call. Move it.

We're entitled to a phone call. Move it.

Let's go.

Come on, you first.

Let's go.

or a sex maniac.

One of these days you're gonna make more trouble than I can get you out of.

You know what? You're getting all riled up for 30 days or so on the farm and

they'll be happy enough to leave town without making a sound.

Besides, they had it coming, cousin.

Don't cousin me, you jackass.

Anything you say, cousin?

I heard the judge give you 30 days.

I wouldn't count on that.

What do you mean?

This is harvest time.

They need all the help they can get, baby, for as long as they can get it.

Jim, I'm gonna have to talk to you later. I got a new batch of prisoners

in.

All right, you take care.

Let's move it along.

Okay, you two.

Let's go. You two up the front.

Let's go.

That's a prisoner, superintendent.

I'll see him here, Greg.

Okay, stop. Thank you, superintendent.

I don't think parole did you too much good, did it, Sarah?

You really fouled up this time.

I think you must like it here.

Yes, sir.

Low your eyes, girl.

It's against the rules for you to be looking at any man around here.

That Emory?

Yeah.

Which one's Phyllis? I am.

You two gals got quite a rapport here.

Not true.

None of it.

Mm -hmm.

All right, now... Life here

can be simple, or it can be very hard.

Depends on y 'all.

It's a prison farm.

Y 'all here to work it.

Now, this Miss Greer...

She runs my women's compound, and she has my complete backing.

Y 'all got any gripes, y 'all take them to her.

Greer, you get them settled in now.

Okay, let's move it. I never got my phone call.

You never what?

I said I never got my phone call.

Greer, you go on with the rest of them. Delcy, you stay here with this.

Let's move it.

Come on, let's go back to the van.

Come on.

Love it.

Now, what's this about a phone call?

It's the law, isn't it?

I'm entitled to one. You should have thought about that on the outside.

Well, I did, but no one had given me a chance.

This whole thing is one big lie that the sheriff dreamed up to get even with us.

Oh, is that a fact? Yes.

And you know the gas station attendant, he's been on it, too.

Oh, he in on the conspiracy, too?

Yes.

Phillips, I gonna tell you what.

I don't care how you got here.

You here for 30 days minimum.

Now, you got any complaints, you gonna have to put them in your prayers because

it's too late to make a phone call.

And as long as you're on this farm, there's no mail privileges.

That's it.

Elsa, you get her squared away.

Permission to take her through the garden, sir? Go on.

Come on, move it.

Move it!

You keep your mouth shut and you won't get any more trouble.

You change into that. I'll pick up your street clothes later.

Whatever money you have, you can keep, I know.

Because you're going to need it.

I'll be back to get you all at dinner time.

Go to sleep. Quiet.

For your own good, darling.

It's me, it's Dulce.

Inside.

Come on.

Now remember, Princess can't talk to 13 without permission.

Please, take the bed next to mine.

Nobody's using it. They said so.

Please?

Sure.

My name's Emmeline.

Mine's Kathy.

How old are you?

Fifteen. My aunt had me put in here for always running away from home.

Now I think I'd rather be with her, mean as she is.

What did you do?

I'm still trying to figure that out.

Where did the other girls go?

The ones we came with.

They're in their own place.

This here's for whites.

Oh, God.

It's only fitting.

who's coming back in.

I guess in the way you lucky say, you could be sitting on death row right now.

Oh, not for killing a black woman.

Ain't nobody sitting on death row for killing no black woman.

Uh -oh, it's Alice and she's got her strap.

Some whitey's gonna get it.

Where did you work today, girl?

In the sweet potato field, ma 'am.

How many bushels do you think you dug?

Two bushel baskets, ma 'am.

How many do you think you ate?

You're lying, God damn it. One or ten, it don't make any difference.

Please, ma 'am. I won't do it again.

After this, you won't, you dumb bitch.

You two, hold her.

You better stop squirming or you're going to end up looking like a stuffed

Prison guards, are they?

Guards? There ain't no guards here.

They're trustees.

You mean they're prisoners?

That's right.

The trustees that run this place.

Shit. You have to pay guards.

This way they get them for free.

Look at that food.

Fried chicken.

Most of them are living better here than they were on the outside.

That ain't the same food we get to eat. That's for the trustees.

How long do we have to wait out here?

Till the white girls get through.

The white girls?

Well, maybe I'll get to see Kathy.

If I was you, I'd forget I had a white friend. She sure gonna forget you soon

enough. Oh, no, Sarah.

Not Kathy.

They laid a strap on her one time, she gonna forget your name.

And the strap is the least of it.

What do you mean?

I mean, the strap ain't nothing, baby. People die in here.

God, wouldn't a potato go nuts right about now?

Well, I'd sell for a couple of dollars to have my laundry done.

This dress ain't been washed in six months.

You got folks coming on Sunday?

Beaver's Day.

No.

No one knows I'm here.

What is this?

Some kind of bean soup.

I mean, they grow food here. How can they serve the sloth? Yeah, well, they

pigs, too.

But you ain't never gonna see a ham steak or a piece of pork.

Greer says we're here to work, not eat up the profits.

Those profits ain't none of our business.

You got any money?

Little.

You see that skinny little blonde over there behind the counter? Her name's

Teague.

She's in charge of the food.

Slip her a dollar tomorrow.

She'll give you a potato.

And she's going to eat that.

Well, look, they're just going to pour it back to the blacks coming in.

Okay.

Oh, dear God, I was hoping I'd see you, Kathy. This place is a hellhole.

You're telling me.

Diane, watch out for Alice. She's crazy.

I think maybe they're all crazy here.

Well, what about the phone call? Did he let you make it? No.

Diane, we can't even write letters.

Dear God, Diane, nobody's going to know we're here.

Okay, let's move it.

Got anything to go?

That it?

No wonder it stinks in here.

Come on, Smitty, let's go.

Now, you all get your asses into bed, quick.

You better get yourself some sleep, baby.

It don't do no good to brood about it.

What are you doing? Nothing. I ain't doing nothing.

Hell, you're not. You stay out.

Who started this?

She started it. What?

Okay, Phillips.

Now, we got one girl injured here, and that means more work for the rest of

And I'm going to make sure that you get 60 more days to do it again.

Now, get back to work.

Maybe that weren't Phillips' fault.

Who cares?

Somebody's got to take the rap of this. It may as well be her.

You call that clean?

Yes, ma 'am.

in town.

They don't do nothing but pick it up and bring it out here.

We do the laundry and the town gets clean. I guess somebody makes a lot of

from it, but it sure ain't us.

Aren't there any black trustees?

Black trustees?

Girl, who gonna give a nigga a gun to carry?

Yeah. Did you really kill somebody?

Just some dumb old nigger woman like myself, no real loss to nobody.

But why?

Ain't no why to it.

We both got paroled to the same farm.

She got her hands on some whiskey and got crazy drunk and come at me with a

pitchfork.

And I took it away from her and she ran right into it when she come at me the

next time.

Well, I self -defense.

Well, that's whatever they want to call it, baby.

So they brought you back here, huh?

I ain't never really been gone.

When I came up for parole, there's this member on the board who's got a farm of

his own. He runs it just like this.

And I ran into all my friends I thought was long gone on parole.

So what was really happening was...

that this board member was getting himself a lot of free labor, and we were

still serving our time.

How can he get away with that?

Well, who was going to stop him? Ain't nobody in here going to do nothing.

Well, then somebody on the outside.

I mean, if the people in town realize what was going on... Get to work, child,

or you're going to be here forever, too.

Yes.

I want to talk to you a little bit later. Don't you go away.

How you doing, Judd?

Harry, good job, boy. Beautiful afternoon.

You got enough to drink?

Oh, don't ask such questions, Harry.

I'll see you all later.

Good to see you, man. Glad you all could come. Hello. How you doing, Mary Beth?

Fine, thank you.

You always do invite.

Well, we never miss one of your parties.

Best looking help in town.

Well, you know, like I always say, thanks more than meant you to make a

You know what I mean?

Excuse me a minute.

We'll see you later, Mary Beth.

Harry.

We're going to be sacked in the lies in a couple of days.

Yeah.

I'm going to need those girls down in my warehouse.

Yeah. You just let me know when, Mr. Miller. They're going to be there. I

appreciate that. All right.

Thank you, Harry. You have a good time.

Excuse me, Doc.

Nice to be off the farm for a day.

In, young lady.

Yes, sir.

Thank you, sir.

You all right?

Catch up with you later.

Excuse me, sir.

Can you help me?

I mean, I haven't been able to call my father, and I'm entitled to... I'm

There's nothing I can do, young lady.

Hey, girl.

Bring that tray over here.

Well, you look mighty cute in that little getup.

How's your girlfriend?

You shouldn't have let that girl come here, Harry.

You know, I just livened up the party a little bit, Jack.

Well, I'm going home.

My, doesn't everything look delicious?

You're the mayor's wife, aren't you?

Yes, I am.

I know I should... You all enjoying yourselves, ladies?

Oh, very much, Harry.

That's good. Excuse me just a minute.

Just a minute. You.

Come with me.

Jim? You tried one of these?

No, I haven't. Never had a taste like this.

That's all.

That is good.

Mm -hmm.

Which reminds me, Harry.

I was very pleased with the shipment you sent over to the captain.

Well, nothing too good for the governor's aide.

Especially since he can recommend a greater allowance for the salaries of

guard.

Here's to you, Jim, boy.

Phillips, fill up that train and get out of here.

Pennsylvania. The area code is 215. Come on, Phillips.

Gotta move on. You're keeping everybody waiting. I'm hurrying, Miss Dulce.

You know, Superintendent didn't just pick you for this party.

I recommended you.

I thought you might appreciate a chance to get out of the fields for one day.

I do.

Thanks, Miss Dolce.

Thank you, Miss Dolce. Yes, Miss Dolce. You little fool, you've been sneaking

out that phone.

Please, please, Dolce.

Miss Dolce.

Let me tell you something, Phillips.

The last person who got caught using that telephone, Greer broke her knuckles

with a nutcracker.

Oh, my God. What the fuck's going on here?

Nothing.

She was just mouthing off his own.

Phillips, pick up that tray and get out of here.

Yes, Miss Smith.

That's how we operate here.

Now, if you don't want to listen, well, there's not much choice but to find ways

to be sure that you do listen in the future.

Make your back feel better.

Does that make your back feel better?

I'll get somebody else to do it for you, okay?

Where are you going?

You okay?

Yeah, I'm all right.

I just want to take a walk.

You stay here, okay?

Stay here.

You just can't leave her alone, can you?

I heard. What happened?

Be okay.

I can't take it anymore.

We've got to get out of here.

I know, Kathy.

I know.

That's all I've been thinking about, too.

I think I might just have a way. Kathy.

Somebody might have seen her coming.

Go on and take her out and keep on going. But we've got to talk. Not now,

Go on.

I want you to wait for me.

Hey.

Hey, you.

What were you doing in the laundry?

Just looking for a dress that I lost.

Yeah, well, you get back to your quarters, you black bitch.

Yes, Miss Alice.

Oh, Lordy.

Please.

They're going to count heads when they get to the gates. Better stay down.

Let's consult.

19. All right.

You want to play it like that, huh?

Okay, everybody off the bus. Let's move. Come on, move your asses. Come on. Get

going. Move.

Stop it.

Come on.

Get going. My name is Diane Emery. My parents are Jack and Helen Emery. Come

You forget what she said, you understand?

You forget all about her.

Or your own girls will pay for it.

Remember that.

That stupid nigga bitch.

He's been in that hole for a week now.

Come on now, y 'all move those tomatoes in.

Get that laundry inside.

Come on, load a little size for that gal.

All right,

Phyllis.

All right, Phyllis, let's get the laundry into the cafe.

Do you remember me?

I was here just a few weeks ago.

Sure.

With that black girl.

What'd you do on the prison farm?

Just put him in the back.

The sheriff arranged it.

Maybe a pistol.

Oh, I've got a better name for him than that.

Yeah, I bet you do.

You want smoke?

No.

But there is something you could do if you would.

Yeah? Like what?

Well, they would... Yeah.

They wouldn't let us make any phone calls or even write letters.

And I've got to let my father know where I am.

He doesn't know you're at the farm?

No. Nobody knows.

I should call him.

Oh, jeez.

I don't know.

Oh, please.

Oh, please, just call him. Call him, collect him, and tell him where I am.

It's his number.

Hey, what's taking so long, huh?

Oh, just the sandwiches, Miss Dolce.

Haven't you all got our lunch ready yet?

Yeah, here.

Come on, move it, Phillips.

Will she be all right?

Yeah.

Tell her we've got a chance.

Somebody on the outside, she's going to call my father.

Hey, you over there! Phillips!

Quit talking to that nigger and get back to your barracks!

Magnificent Magnolia has just picked up 180 -pound Delta Comfort and throwed her

down into a body slam.

Boy, I tell you, that Delta...

Yes,

sir.

Who's that?

Oh, yes, sir.

Oh, yes, sir.

Yes, sir. I'll send her right over.

Thank you, sir.

He wants to see that new kid.

Hey,

wake up.

Come on, wake up.

Yeah, put this around your shoulders. The superintendent wants to see you.

Me? Is it about my aunt?

Sounds like it.

She's here? She's come for me?

Probably so.

Phillips.

The waitress.

And all the people in this town know what goes on here.

They don't want it any different.

Now.

You keep this up, and you're going to be in here long enough to be a trustee.

Ain't he in his office?

It's nighttime, girl. He's out at the pool.

Sir?

Here she is.

That's all Smitty

How

you doing

I I thought my aunt was here, you know here now

It's too late.

But I could arrange for her to be here, if that's what you want.

Please, sir.

Yeah?

I'd like to go back to the barracks.

You get my meaning?

No, sir.

Am I?

I think you do know my meaning, am I?

You don't understand, sir.

I ain't never done nothing.

Please, may I go back?

Yeah, ain't that better?

I mean, it's a hot night.

Come on over here and sit down.

What?

I can get your auntie in a moment.

My auntie's never gotten out of here, she knew.

Tell me if I ever messed around.

I wish you wouldn't do that.

I'm just gonna try to make things easier for you around here.

You know what?

A lot easier.

Hey, from the bean field alone, it's two ways out.

Don't you pay no attention to her, baby.

There ain't no sense to this at all.

It ain't no use.

You remember what happened to you last month.

Sarah, please.

I have to know.

Oh, baby.

Don't you know it ain't just getting out?

That's the least of it.

It's staying out.

Where you gonna go?

Ain't no white man gonna help you.

And ain't no black man can.

So where you gonna go?

Sarah's right.

Getting out ain't the problem.

It's having no plan, no place to go.

There ain't a soul in this town who wouldn't turn you in.

You got to get out of this town before you's out of this prison.

Okay.

Now how do I get to work in the bean field?

You gonna be there in a couple of weeks.

The bean field is the super's own private property.

Everybody works it. The blacks and the whites.

It don't make sense, baby, trying it again.

What doesn't make sense, Sarah, is your thinking that they have a right to do

this to you.

What about your rights?

Oh, honey, you're talking foolish.

It's the way.

It has always been the way.

There are people outside, groups of decent people that care, that have to be

told about this place.

People that could help to get things changed.

You've got a head full of dreams.

They're not dreams, Sarah.

If I could get out, then I could help.

I could help you, Sarah.

Honey, I'm fast helping.

But God bless your heart for wanting to try.

What are they doing?

They're burying somebody.

I think I'm burying Roseanne out there last year.

They told us she was pardoned.

But they killed her.

Beat her more than they meant.

And she died.

Our concern is just some poor white girl.

How do you know?

I was scrubbing floors in the infirmary today, and I seen her.

Superintendent sent for her last night.

You mean he killed her?

No.

She cut her own wrist.

She's not the only one buried up there, Kathy.

Sarah told me there's more.

Lord knows how many.

Oh, my God.

Got to get out of here.

I don't know what our chances will be, but we've got to try it.

You know what'll happen to us if we get caught?

Yes.

If.

But we've got a good chance, because I saw my... It's still at the gas station.

Are you sure? I'm positive.

But so what?

We haven't got any keys.

Yes, we have.

I keep an extra set under the front bumper.

Oh, God, Gab.

Then all we have to do is get to the car.

Have you got any money left?

Get down on your belly and crawl out.

Now sit down until you get to the woods and wait for me there.

When? Well, not for a few hours yet.

The closer it is to getting dark, the better our chances are.

Come on, girl.

Hotter than hell out there today.

Shut that door, too.

Where you want this, ma 'am?

Barely if I know you, Nancy Lee.

Nancy Bell, ma 'am. Well, at least I got the Nancy car right.

You hungry,

girl?

Yes, ma 'am.

You get enough to eat?

No, ma 'am.

You, uh, partial to fried chicken?

Yes, ma 'am, I sure am.

I lose my appetite in this weather.

Go ahead.

Help yourself to a piece of it.

Just can't think of anything in this weather unless it's sex.

What the hell?

There's one thing that's never too hot for me.

Right, Nancy Bell?

Whatever you say, ma 'am.

My name's Alice.

Nancy Bell.

You can call me that whenever that goddamn...

You come here, girl.

Right here, not a mile away from me.

I didn't keep you out of the fields today just so you could eat my lunch.

You get a favor.

You got to do a favor.

You understand?

Ma 'am, my name is Alice. I told you that.

Don't you understand a word I said?

Yes, Miss Alice, I heard. I understand.

Then you do something, you little bitch!

Listen.

Worst things can happen to you, girl.

Worst things than you ever dreamed can happen to you in a place like this.

Please, ma 'am, you're hurting me.

any pain when you're dead, Nancy Belle.

You grab my meaning?

What do I have to do?

Well, right now you can start by taking off that dirty old dress.

Make yourself a bit more comfortable.

In this weather, the less on.

Don't go, baby.

Don't do it.

Goodbye, Sarah.

I won't forget you.

I'm not likely to forget you either, then, the girl. Not never.

i think she got a pain oh yeah i still got some water man oh

ma 'am all right go ahead

You're back early. Ain't time to go in yet, is it?

Nah, I just thought I'd give you a hand. Just to take a break as well.

Oh, I won't. I'm crying in this room.

Phillip?

Phillip?

Where's Phillips?

I asked you, where's Phillips?

Gone. I think Emily's gone.

Shit.

If we keep the farm behind us, we're bound to hit the main road sooner or

Let's go.

Who are they?

Your latest finds, Phillips and Emory.

Well, what do you know?

I am on my way, sir.

I'm sure of it.

Do you think they know we're gone yet?

They can't be far from us now.

You want to stay out here?

Okay, we're going back.

Let them pick him up in town.

Hi, Nancy Lee. I'll pick you up in a little while. Okay.

You weren't thinking of using this car that way?

Sure was. I got a date.

You better make other arrangements, Ernie. I want this car to stay put.

Ernie, Frank, that means I got to take out my truck.

I can't ask Miss Nancy Lee, the beauty parlor, to ride in that dirty old truck.

That's exactly what you'll have to do. I want to keep my eye on this baby

tonight. Let me have the keys.

You ruined my whole night. I want you to know that. That's the way the ball

bounces, Ernie.

Robert Phillips, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

I brought you your suitcase.

I hear your father's come to get you out in the morning.

That's good for you.

Dulcie.

What's happened to Diane?

Didn't I tell you?

She got away free.

Man's an idiot, for God's sake. What are we gonna do now?

Take it easy, Bill. We're gonna handle it. We're gonna handle it.

Good morning.

Hey, Jim, boy. How are you? Fine, Harry. You all right? Judge, you remember the

governor's aide, Jim Cooper? Yeah, of course. Nice to see you, sir. Didn't you

have some coffee? No coffee, thank you. Why don't we sit down and get on with

this?

Well,

how are we all gonna get out of this one? I'll tell you what.

That ain't the first thing we're gonna do.

We're going to send Sheriff off on a long, I mean a month -long vacation,

because I don't think that we can risk his being around to answer questions, if

you know what I mean.

What about the car?

It's been taken care of, Judge.

And the Phillips girl?

She's going to be ready when her father gets here this morning.

I'm telling you all, there's no problems. I mean, we're going to handle

we handle the others.

and your daddy that the court has decided to reconsider your case.

After all, it's your first offense.

I want more than that, Mr. Diener.

I want those charges dropped, or I might just make a big enough stink to set

this whole country on your back.

Now, you want some good advice, Mr. Phillips, y 'all don't make threats.

You just be grateful for the leniency of the court. You take your daughter home

while you got the chance.

What do you say, Kathy?

Where's Diane?

What's happened to her?

Diane Emery escaped last night in your car, I might add.

She's out of our jurisdiction by now. She's probably out of the state by now.

Something's happened, Diane.

I know it.

Now, you want some more advice, Mr. Phillips?

Your daughter is a very mixed -up young lady.

And I just believe that I would get her some psychiatric help if I were you. I

don't worry about my daughter, Mr. Diener.

You'd better worry about what's happened to Diane Emery.

Come on, honey, let's get out of here.

They say Diane escaped.

I don't believe that, Sarah.

I don't believe it.

If you don't get away from that fence, I'm gonna skin you raw!

I'm out now.

You don't have to worry anymore.

I can help all of you.

You got two seconds to get away from that fence, nigga.

Raise that strap to me white trash and I will tear your ugly heart out

Last night, I seen a barrier out there.

She's not the only one that's out there.

There's more of them out there. God only knows how many more of them are out

there.

That poor little baby.

She kept telling me that things were changing.

People out there, decent people, people who cared.

They had full of dreams.

And they killed her for that.

Full of babies.

Laying out there with the rest of them.