1 00:00:00,981 --> 00:00:03,528 [dramatic music] 2 00:00:03,528 --> 00:00:05,533 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:05,533 --> 00:00:07,912 ANNIE: We're searchers, you and me. 4 00:00:07,912 --> 00:00:11,252 My dad, your grandpa‐‐ that good old guy‐‐ 5 00:00:11,252 --> 00:00:13,757 they don't make men like that, little love, not anymore. 6 00:00:13,757 --> 00:00:16,136 ‐ Annie Wilkes from Bakersfield, California. 7 00:00:16,136 --> 00:00:17,932 ‐ He would say to me, "Annie..." 8 00:00:17,932 --> 00:00:19,268 [shouting] 9 00:00:19,268 --> 00:00:21,063 "There are two kinds of people that made America. 10 00:00:21,063 --> 00:00:22,900 Searchers and settlers." 11 00:00:22,900 --> 00:00:24,821 He settled for nothing, that one. 12 00:00:24,821 --> 00:00:28,327 Now, my ma, she was a settler. 13 00:00:28,327 --> 00:00:30,624 You set her down anywhere and she would make a home. 14 00:00:30,624 --> 00:00:32,043 She would make it perfect. 15 00:00:32,043 --> 00:00:34,214 And me, well, 16 00:00:34,214 --> 00:00:37,555 I'm kind of a funny ol' oogy mess of both, 17 00:00:37,555 --> 00:00:39,892 all mixed up sometimes. 18 00:00:39,892 --> 00:00:42,690 I'm a searcher who just wants to settle‐‐ 19 00:00:42,690 --> 00:00:44,527 wants it bad. 20 00:00:44,527 --> 00:00:46,823 Can't seem to find that Laughing Place 21 00:00:46,823 --> 00:00:48,367 that'll live up to you. 22 00:00:48,367 --> 00:00:50,623 [soft dramatic music] 23 00:00:50,623 --> 00:00:52,793 [thunder booms] [panting] 24 00:00:52,793 --> 00:00:55,632 ‐ Did you do something, Mom? 25 00:00:55,632 --> 00:00:56,968 [dramatic musical sting] 26 00:00:56,968 --> 00:00:58,805 ‐ [haggard breathing] 27 00:01:01,018 --> 00:01:03,230 [bell rings] 28 00:01:03,230 --> 00:01:06,236 [children chattering, laughing] 29 00:01:07,615 --> 00:01:10,411 [soft eerie music] 30 00:01:10,411 --> 00:01:11,427 ♪ ♪ 31 00:01:13,167 --> 00:01:17,425 DIEGO: "No matter how lonely, everyone has a... 32 00:01:17,425 --> 00:01:19,262 Lagging"? 33 00:01:19,262 --> 00:01:21,475 TEACHER: Keep going. 34 00:01:21,475 --> 00:01:24,607 DIEGO: "Brad Rabbit told Brad Fox, 35 00:01:24,607 --> 00:01:29,449 everyone has a laughing place." 36 00:01:29,449 --> 00:01:31,078 TEACHER: Very good, Diego. 37 00:01:31,078 --> 00:01:32,998 Annie? 38 00:01:32,998 --> 00:01:35,420 ♪ ♪ 39 00:01:37,006 --> 00:01:38,467 STUDENT: Is she even reading? 40 00:01:38,467 --> 00:01:40,138 [giggles] 41 00:01:41,473 --> 00:01:44,856 [kids whispering, giggling] 42 00:01:44,856 --> 00:01:48,195 ‐ "Brad Rabbit knew it was better to be friends 43 00:01:48,195 --> 00:01:51,661 "than to fight, so he took..." 44 00:01:51,661 --> 00:01:54,082 STUDENT: Is she reading the right thing? [giggles] 45 00:01:54,082 --> 00:01:58,800 ‐ "Bad Fox and Big Bear to the Laughing Place, 46 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,513 where they lived there as animal friends forever. 47 00:02:01,513 --> 00:02:03,476 ‐ That's not what it says. 48 00:02:03,476 --> 00:02:07,108 [laughter] 49 00:02:08,653 --> 00:02:10,657 TEACHER: That's enough. 50 00:02:10,657 --> 00:02:12,953 [bell rings] STUDENT: She can't read. 51 00:02:12,953 --> 00:02:18,005 ♪ ♪ 52 00:02:18,005 --> 00:02:20,092 [bus exhaust hisses] 53 00:02:20,092 --> 00:02:23,140 [engine rumbling] 54 00:02:23,140 --> 00:02:26,146 [indistinct chatter] 55 00:02:26,146 --> 00:02:30,697 ♪ ♪ 56 00:02:30,697 --> 00:02:33,703 [tense music] 57 00:02:33,703 --> 00:02:35,498 ♪ ♪ 58 00:02:35,498 --> 00:02:37,252 STUDENT: She's so weird. 59 00:02:37,252 --> 00:02:38,839 ‐ Hey, A‐tard. 60 00:02:38,839 --> 00:02:41,970 Animal friends forever. STUDENT: [laughs] 61 00:02:41,970 --> 00:02:44,976 ‐ Bet you can't even read this. 62 00:02:44,976 --> 00:02:47,773 ‐ "Ouch, my face." 63 00:02:49,861 --> 00:02:53,033 ‐ What are you tarding about, tard? 64 00:02:53,033 --> 00:02:56,666 [all screaming] 65 00:02:56,666 --> 00:03:00,632 [unhinged violin music] 66 00:03:00,632 --> 00:03:04,389 COUNSELOR: It's clear to me that we need further screening for her sake. 67 00:03:04,389 --> 00:03:07,228 CRYSILDA: No, my Annie is not the problem here‐‐ your cockadoodie school is. 68 00:03:07,228 --> 00:03:10,234 CARL: You're not sending my girl to a pen for mental midgets‐‐ 69 00:03:10,234 --> 00:03:12,280 COUNSELOR: This is her third incident. 70 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,328 We're talking about... 71 00:03:15,328 --> 00:03:16,956 pathological behavior. 72 00:03:16,956 --> 00:03:19,587 CARL: Can I‐‐can I just say‐‐ ‐ Jiminy, Carl, can you not? 73 00:03:19,587 --> 00:03:22,342 ‐ The hell's this? Brad Rabbit? 74 00:03:22,342 --> 00:03:24,220 ‐ Carl, language. ‐ You mean Br'er Rabbit? 75 00:03:24,220 --> 00:03:25,599 This is supposed to be the Uncle Remus stories? 76 00:03:25,599 --> 00:03:29,022 ‐ Yes, that is a more contemporary edition. 77 00:03:29,022 --> 00:03:32,153 ‐ "Politically correct," I think, is the term you're rooting around for there. 78 00:03:32,153 --> 00:03:36,119 Okay, you are feeding her this‐‐this touchy‐feely propaganda. 79 00:03:36,119 --> 00:03:38,082 ‐ Carl, Christmas. ‐ And she's‐‐she's bored. 80 00:03:38,082 --> 00:03:40,169 ‐ I really wish that you'd let Annie wait outside while we finish this discussion. 81 00:03:40,169 --> 00:03:43,217 ‐ She's not leaving my sight in this booby‐hatch you're running. 82 00:03:43,217 --> 00:03:44,720 My Annie's pure, 83 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,018 and this place is an open sewer. 84 00:03:48,018 --> 00:03:49,522 COUNSELOR: Mr. and Mrs. Wilkes, 85 00:03:49,522 --> 00:03:52,695 have you considered speaking to a psychiatrist about Annie? 86 00:03:52,695 --> 00:03:55,074 Because there are many helpful new medications‐‐ 87 00:03:55,074 --> 00:03:57,203 ‐ All of you people, you... [stammers] 88 00:03:57,203 --> 00:03:59,082 You're foisting chemicals onto children! 89 00:03:59,082 --> 00:04:00,669 CRYSILDA: We're taking it from here. 90 00:04:00,669 --> 00:04:03,090 We are gonna be responsible for her entire education! 91 00:04:03,090 --> 00:04:04,593 Can you handle that? 92 00:04:04,593 --> 00:04:06,054 CARL: We're not gonna know until we try! 93 00:04:06,054 --> 00:04:08,225 CRYSILDA: I am not willing to make the discovery that... 94 00:04:08,225 --> 00:04:10,020 ‐ I'm gonna do it, Crysilda, and it's gonna work. 95 00:04:10,020 --> 00:04:12,442 You'll see, you just have to sit back and watch. 96 00:04:12,442 --> 00:04:14,112 CRYSILDA: [scoffs] 97 00:04:16,491 --> 00:04:18,454 CARL: Come on, girl. Let's go inside. 98 00:04:18,454 --> 00:04:19,540 [car door slams] 99 00:04:19,540 --> 00:04:26,554 ♪ ♪ 100 00:04:29,392 --> 00:04:31,063 Now. 101 00:04:40,540 --> 00:04:43,797 [gentle music] 102 00:04:43,797 --> 00:04:45,550 Not bad, right? 103 00:04:47,428 --> 00:04:51,311 Up here, we're gonna make you a real school‐‐ 104 00:04:51,311 --> 00:04:53,398 a school of us. 105 00:04:53,398 --> 00:04:56,154 ANNIE: Is there something wrong with me, Daddy? 106 00:04:56,154 --> 00:04:58,701 ‐ What? No. 107 00:04:58,701 --> 00:05:02,291 ‐ Is that why I can't be in a regular school? 108 00:05:02,291 --> 00:05:03,920 CARL: Annie‐‐ 109 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:05,715 ANNIE: The kids are so mean, and the teachers‐‐ 110 00:05:05,715 --> 00:05:08,095 they just don't look at me right. 111 00:05:08,095 --> 00:05:10,015 ‐ Annie‐bear, listen to me, okay? 112 00:05:10,015 --> 00:05:12,813 Do you know the real story of the Laughing Place? 113 00:05:12,813 --> 00:05:15,569 I'm not talking about the hippidy‐dippidy kumbaya... 114 00:05:15,569 --> 00:05:17,656 [babbles] Okay? 115 00:05:17,656 --> 00:05:19,159 I'm talking about the real story. 116 00:05:19,159 --> 00:05:22,248 Br'er Fox isn't friends with Br'er Rabbit. 117 00:05:22,248 --> 00:05:25,797 Br'er Fox wants to eat Br'er Rabbit, 118 00:05:25,797 --> 00:05:28,636 and that is the real world, Annie‐bear‐‐ 119 00:05:28,636 --> 00:05:30,055 killing and eating... 120 00:05:30,055 --> 00:05:32,476 [goofy babbling] Running and hiding. 121 00:05:32,476 --> 00:05:33,980 But do you know 122 00:05:33,980 --> 00:05:36,777 what smart old Br'er Rabbit figured out? 123 00:05:36,777 --> 00:05:39,115 Your Laughing Place 124 00:05:39,115 --> 00:05:41,494 is anywhere you say it is. 125 00:05:41,494 --> 00:05:43,457 ANNIE: It is? CARL: Well, of course it is. 126 00:05:43,457 --> 00:05:44,793 And you know what else? 127 00:05:44,793 --> 00:05:47,215 We're gonna have you reading in no time. 128 00:05:47,215 --> 00:05:49,344 ‐ How, Daddy? 129 00:05:49,344 --> 00:05:51,097 CARL: I'ma tell you a story. 130 00:05:51,097 --> 00:05:53,477 ‐ [gasps] I love Daddy's stories. 131 00:05:53,477 --> 00:05:56,233 CARL: I got a new story to tell, Annie‐bear, 132 00:05:56,233 --> 00:05:58,153 and it's‐‐it's so big 133 00:05:58,153 --> 00:06:00,157 that you're gonna have to help me. 134 00:06:00,157 --> 00:06:02,453 "Down the gullet of the dead gorge, 135 00:06:02,453 --> 00:06:04,082 "past the Palace Wagon, 136 00:06:04,082 --> 00:06:06,461 "oxen thin and foaming, 137 00:06:06,461 --> 00:06:08,883 "stumbling in ruts, over bones, 138 00:06:08,883 --> 00:06:12,306 "as Prester Jack, gun cradled, 139 00:06:12,306 --> 00:06:16,314 scanned cliff tops for savages." 140 00:06:16,314 --> 00:06:18,987 ‐ This is your new story? 141 00:06:18,987 --> 00:06:20,782 [mellow, brooding music] 142 00:06:20,782 --> 00:06:22,118 ‐ It is indeed. 143 00:06:22,118 --> 00:06:24,122 They say that, uh, 144 00:06:24,122 --> 00:06:26,836 Bach's daughters worked the organ bellows 145 00:06:26,836 --> 00:06:29,424 while he composed. 146 00:06:29,424 --> 00:06:32,806 Well, that is what we're gonna try. 147 00:06:32,806 --> 00:06:34,852 You see, 148 00:06:34,852 --> 00:06:38,191 I have to have the typewriter to make my magic‐‐ 149 00:06:38,191 --> 00:06:40,362 I‐‐I love those deep keys‐‐ 150 00:06:40,362 --> 00:06:42,993 but the modern publishing world, 151 00:06:42,993 --> 00:06:46,291 they need everything... 152 00:06:46,291 --> 00:06:48,963 on computer. 153 00:06:48,963 --> 00:06:52,511 CRYSILDA: Carl? 154 00:06:52,511 --> 00:06:56,352 ‐ You are gonna type this 155 00:06:56,352 --> 00:06:58,816 into the keyboard. 156 00:06:58,816 --> 00:07:01,362 Every page, word by word. 157 00:07:01,362 --> 00:07:04,035 ‐ Oh, Daddy, I don't know if I can. 158 00:07:04,035 --> 00:07:05,663 CARL: We're just gonna set this right here. 159 00:07:05,663 --> 00:07:07,333 ‐ Okay. CARL: What's this first letter here? 160 00:07:07,333 --> 00:07:10,715 ANNIE: I don't want to get it wrong, not a single word. 161 00:07:10,715 --> 00:07:13,303 ‐ Oh, Annie‐bear. 162 00:07:13,303 --> 00:07:14,640 Warmer, warmer. 163 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:16,769 Warmer, warmer, warmer, hot, hot, hot. 164 00:07:16,769 --> 00:07:18,271 Boom! 165 00:07:18,271 --> 00:07:19,608 You're already getting the hang of it. 166 00:07:19,608 --> 00:07:21,737 You're gonna be a writer yourself in no time. 167 00:07:21,737 --> 00:07:23,991 CRYSILDA: Carl! ‐ I'm coming, damn it! 168 00:07:27,833 --> 00:07:29,293 Go ahead and take her for a dance 169 00:07:29,293 --> 00:07:31,214 and I'll be back with more pages soon enough, sweetheart. 170 00:07:31,214 --> 00:07:33,218 ‐ More pages for who, Daddy? 171 00:07:37,686 --> 00:07:39,815 ‐ My number one fan. ANNIE: [laughs] 172 00:07:39,815 --> 00:07:41,234 ‐ [chuckles] 173 00:07:41,234 --> 00:07:44,240 [ominous music] 174 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:51,254 ♪ ♪ 175 00:08:13,256 --> 00:08:16,262 [distant train horn honking] 176 00:08:37,639 --> 00:08:39,977 JOY: "Prester Jack, gun cradled, 177 00:08:39,977 --> 00:08:42,273 "scanned cliff tops for savages. 178 00:08:42,273 --> 00:08:44,903 "He knew they were waiting for night, craving it. 179 00:08:44,903 --> 00:08:46,447 "A new moon would bring her in 180 00:08:46,447 --> 00:08:48,953 "if their promise held. 181 00:08:48,953 --> 00:08:51,040 "It was a promise made at noon 182 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,963 "over water on the Kiplinger Ford. 183 00:08:53,963 --> 00:08:56,259 Annabel kept her word." 184 00:08:56,259 --> 00:08:58,388 Um... 185 00:08:58,388 --> 00:09:02,021 "Prester Jack kept his. 186 00:09:02,021 --> 00:09:04,735 "And every night, 187 00:09:04,735 --> 00:09:07,657 "they met," uh, 188 00:09:07,657 --> 00:09:11,289 "Be‐‐behind the pale‐less..." 189 00:09:11,289 --> 00:09:12,542 ‐ Palace. ANNIE: Uh, palace. 190 00:09:12,542 --> 00:09:15,505 ‐ Palace, sweetheart. ANNIE: "Wagon." 191 00:09:15,505 --> 00:09:19,096 Um, "Stepped out of their buff... 192 00:09:19,096 --> 00:09:21,392 "buffet‐‐buffalo robes, 193 00:09:21,392 --> 00:09:24,023 "stepped out of their lives. 194 00:09:24,023 --> 00:09:27,947 And the western moon pain‐‐" 195 00:09:27,947 --> 00:09:31,371 [stammering] Pain? 196 00:09:31,371 --> 00:09:32,916 Paint? ‐ Let me see‐‐ 197 00:09:32,916 --> 00:09:35,797 ANNIE: No, no, I got it. Pain‐‐painted! 198 00:09:35,797 --> 00:09:39,930 "Painted their bodies white." 199 00:09:39,930 --> 00:09:42,059 ‐ Do you like it? 200 00:09:42,059 --> 00:09:45,525 ‐ Daddy, I love it. [laughs] 201 00:09:45,525 --> 00:09:47,486 ‐ [sighs] 202 00:09:47,486 --> 00:09:49,700 I love hearing my story in your voice, Annie‐bear. 203 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:51,704 It just, uh‐‐it makes it real. 204 00:09:51,704 --> 00:09:55,586 So, um, you really like this version? 205 00:09:55,586 --> 00:09:57,047 Because I made some pretty big changes. 206 00:09:57,047 --> 00:10:00,303 ‐ Oh, I know, I‐‐I think it's beautiful. 207 00:10:00,303 --> 00:10:02,015 [lighter flicks] 208 00:10:02,015 --> 00:10:04,730 Especially Annabel. 209 00:10:04,730 --> 00:10:07,777 I hope she leaves McCall for Prester Jack. 210 00:10:07,777 --> 00:10:08,863 ‐ Oh, yeah? 211 00:10:08,863 --> 00:10:11,242 ANNIE: Well, you know, McCall is awful. 212 00:10:11,242 --> 00:10:13,037 He cheats. I‐‐I want to hate him. 213 00:10:13,037 --> 00:10:14,708 He's better to hate. 214 00:10:14,708 --> 00:10:17,504 ‐ [stammering] You know, the thing is, he's complicated, McCall. 215 00:10:17,504 --> 00:10:18,758 That's what makes him interesting. 216 00:10:18,758 --> 00:10:21,262 ‐ Well, bad doesn't make you interesting. 217 00:10:21,262 --> 00:10:25,103 Mama always says, "It just makes you bad." 218 00:10:25,103 --> 00:10:27,316 ‐ [sighs] Well, 219 00:10:27,316 --> 00:10:30,489 we're not all one thing, Annie‐bear. 220 00:10:30,489 --> 00:10:32,786 We're all good. We're all bad. 221 00:10:32,786 --> 00:10:36,543 ‐ No, I say you make McCall worse than he is now 222 00:10:36,543 --> 00:10:37,962 so then we know who to root for. 223 00:10:37,962 --> 00:10:39,633 ‐ You should help your mom. 224 00:10:39,633 --> 00:10:43,264 ‐ Oh, I‐‐I can get that, Mom. 225 00:10:43,264 --> 00:10:45,352 CRYSILDA: Thank you, little love. 226 00:10:49,986 --> 00:10:52,074 There's a couple more bags in the car. 227 00:10:52,074 --> 00:10:54,495 ‐ Okey‐doke. 228 00:10:54,495 --> 00:10:55,706 CRYSILDA: [sighs] 229 00:11:00,967 --> 00:11:02,846 [sighs] 230 00:11:02,846 --> 00:11:04,515 [grumbles] 231 00:11:09,066 --> 00:11:11,028 [sighs] 232 00:11:15,370 --> 00:11:17,040 Ugh. 233 00:11:18,919 --> 00:11:21,257 No more smoking in the house. 234 00:11:21,257 --> 00:11:24,305 ‐ I know. 235 00:11:24,305 --> 00:11:25,641 [cup clatters] 236 00:11:27,436 --> 00:11:29,733 CRYSILDA: She gonna be ready for the GED? 237 00:11:29,733 --> 00:11:31,402 ‐ Girl thinks like a chess master. 238 00:11:31,402 --> 00:11:32,822 She's always three moves ahead. 239 00:11:32,822 --> 00:11:34,784 ‐ Ain't her math I'm worried about. 240 00:11:34,784 --> 00:11:36,329 ANNIE: Mama? 241 00:11:36,329 --> 00:11:39,335 Did we go back to alphabetical order for the pantry? 242 00:11:41,422 --> 00:11:43,677 ‐ Why don't you read for me, Annie? 243 00:11:44,846 --> 00:11:48,353 ‐ You know what? So why don't you take these pages? 244 00:11:48,353 --> 00:11:49,606 Go type them into the computer‐‐ 245 00:11:49,606 --> 00:11:51,860 ‐ Nope, no, no, I want to hear them. 246 00:12:02,590 --> 00:12:04,636 ‐ Um... 247 00:12:04,636 --> 00:12:06,807 "When..." [sniffs] 248 00:12:06,807 --> 00:12:09,269 [stammers] 249 00:12:09,269 --> 00:12:11,107 Um, Mc... 250 00:12:11,107 --> 00:12:14,614 "When he... 251 00:12:14,614 --> 00:12:16,743 "When Mc... 252 00:12:16,743 --> 00:12:18,539 "When he," uh‐‐ 253 00:12:18,539 --> 00:12:21,460 "When he sure‐‐when he's..." 254 00:12:21,460 --> 00:12:22,922 [sighs] 255 00:12:22,922 --> 00:12:25,594 Sorry. "When he super... 256 00:12:25,594 --> 00:12:29,978 [stammers] "Seized them from the... 257 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:33,777 Act, he..." 258 00:12:33,777 --> 00:12:36,490 CARL: You make her nervous. She's fine with me. 259 00:12:36,490 --> 00:12:38,704 CRYSILDA: She is not getting any better. 260 00:12:38,704 --> 00:12:41,793 ‐ I'm with her every goddamn day... 261 00:12:41,793 --> 00:12:43,797 ‐ Okay, you watch your mouth. 262 00:12:43,797 --> 00:12:47,471 ‐ And I can tell you that she is getting better. 263 00:12:47,471 --> 00:12:51,270 ‐ You are here every day because you don't have a job. 264 00:12:51,270 --> 00:12:52,857 ‐ I work. 265 00:12:52,857 --> 00:12:55,821 ‐ You pack garlic in boxes at night. 266 00:12:55,821 --> 00:12:57,074 That's not working. 267 00:12:57,074 --> 00:12:58,786 ‐ I write better in the morning. 268 00:12:58,786 --> 00:13:01,541 ‐ Oh, okay, of course. It's all about you. 269 00:13:01,541 --> 00:13:04,589 I have a real job. I run this house. 270 00:13:04,589 --> 00:13:07,678 I clean your filth, and for what? 271 00:13:07,678 --> 00:13:09,974 So you can read our daughter dirty bits 272 00:13:09,974 --> 00:13:11,227 or make her read them to you? 273 00:13:11,227 --> 00:13:13,356 ‐ They're not dirty. It's historical fiction! 274 00:13:13,356 --> 00:13:16,863 ‐ It is twaddle, is what it is! ‐ "Twaddle." 275 00:13:16,863 --> 00:13:18,449 CRYSILDA: You had ten years, Carl. 276 00:13:18,449 --> 00:13:21,122 Ten! It is not happening! 277 00:13:21,122 --> 00:13:22,708 CARL: Don't you tell me what I'm not! 278 00:13:22,708 --> 00:13:24,378 ‐ You couldn't finish school, Carl! 279 00:13:24,378 --> 00:13:26,340 Expect me to believe you're gonna finish a book? 280 00:13:26,340 --> 00:13:29,138 Ugh! 281 00:13:29,138 --> 00:13:32,728 [computer whirring softly] 282 00:13:32,728 --> 00:13:34,566 [keyboard clacking] 283 00:13:36,193 --> 00:13:37,947 [soft dramatic music] 284 00:13:37,947 --> 00:13:40,995 CARL: Gotta get just the right angle or you'll be on the banker. 285 00:13:43,207 --> 00:13:44,752 ANNIE: [grunts] 286 00:13:44,752 --> 00:13:48,467 ‐ Oh, dude. [laughing] 287 00:13:48,467 --> 00:13:51,348 Oh, my daughter's killing me! 288 00:13:51,348 --> 00:13:53,227 Oh! 289 00:13:53,227 --> 00:13:55,608 ANNIE: [muffled speech] 290 00:13:55,608 --> 00:13:56,985 CARL: No, I'm winning. ANNIE: Oh, okay. 291 00:13:56,985 --> 00:13:58,614 [laughs] What? 292 00:13:58,614 --> 00:14:01,620 [indistinct chatter] 293 00:14:03,164 --> 00:14:06,128 ‐ Listen, I'm gonna be staying with you from now on. 294 00:14:06,128 --> 00:14:08,884 [dental tool clacks] [sighs] 295 00:14:08,884 --> 00:14:12,140 I'm only taking weekend shifts at Dr. Nixon's, 296 00:14:12,140 --> 00:14:16,106 and your dad is getting his old job back at the bank. 297 00:14:16,106 --> 00:14:20,031 ‐ But Daddy teaches me fine. ‐ He does not teach you at all. 298 00:14:20,031 --> 00:14:21,576 It's always recess with you two. 299 00:14:21,576 --> 00:14:24,582 Open. [sighs] 300 00:14:24,582 --> 00:14:26,460 [tool clacking] 301 00:14:26,460 --> 00:14:30,510 What I want for you is more... 302 00:14:30,510 --> 00:14:33,642 Than this filthy place. 303 00:14:33,642 --> 00:14:36,606 You are much better than this. 304 00:14:36,606 --> 00:14:39,486 ‐ I am? 305 00:14:39,486 --> 00:14:42,785 ‐ Oh, honey, of course you are. 306 00:14:42,785 --> 00:14:46,166 Don't let anybody mix you up about it. 307 00:14:46,166 --> 00:14:49,841 [sighs] Forget Daddy's silly book. 308 00:14:49,841 --> 00:14:51,427 [pop music playing over radio] 309 00:14:51,427 --> 00:14:53,514 Focus on that GED. 310 00:14:53,514 --> 00:14:57,147 You get it, and you get out of this place. 311 00:14:57,147 --> 00:14:59,610 You wanna end up like your mom? [laughs] 312 00:14:59,610 --> 00:15:03,075 Wearing these jammies? ‐ Mom, I like your uniform. 313 00:15:05,998 --> 00:15:08,127 CRYSILDA: [sighs] 314 00:15:08,127 --> 00:15:10,339 Get the white coat. 315 00:15:10,339 --> 00:15:13,680 That's the uniform folks salute. 316 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,351 Girls who wear these, we just clean. 317 00:15:16,351 --> 00:15:18,147 [chuckles] 318 00:15:18,147 --> 00:15:20,861 Nothing on Earth dirtier than the human mouth, Annie. 319 00:15:20,861 --> 00:15:24,284 You clean and clean... [foreboding music] 320 00:15:24,284 --> 00:15:26,915 and it just gets dirty again. 321 00:15:26,915 --> 00:15:29,044 ‐ [grunts softly] Ow! 322 00:15:32,968 --> 00:15:36,935 ‐ Your dad has been letting you eat candy again, hasn't he? 323 00:15:36,935 --> 00:15:40,859 ‐ Only when we finish a chapter. 324 00:15:40,859 --> 00:15:44,407 ‐ Watch those molars. 325 00:15:44,407 --> 00:15:47,540 The rot creeps from the back. 326 00:15:47,540 --> 00:15:51,589 ♪ ♪ 327 00:15:51,589 --> 00:15:54,554 [crickets chirping] 328 00:16:04,322 --> 00:16:06,034 [knocking on door] 329 00:16:06,034 --> 00:16:09,499 ‐ Come in. 330 00:16:09,499 --> 00:16:11,003 ‐ I have to go somewhere. 331 00:16:11,003 --> 00:16:13,633 ‐ Yeah, o‐okay. Uh, I'll be fine. 332 00:16:13,633 --> 00:16:15,052 ‐ Yeah. 333 00:16:15,052 --> 00:16:22,066 ♪ ♪ 334 00:16:28,705 --> 00:16:30,291 ABDI: Hey, how are we doing? 335 00:16:30,291 --> 00:16:33,715 ‐ Well. Thanks for coming down. Let me show you this. 336 00:16:33,715 --> 00:16:35,552 ABDI: Will it be ready for tomorrow? 337 00:16:35,552 --> 00:16:37,472 ABDI'S GUY: Yeah, yeah. 338 00:16:37,472 --> 00:16:40,478 [sinister music] 339 00:16:40,478 --> 00:16:42,357 ♪ ♪ 340 00:16:42,357 --> 00:16:45,321 ANNIE: [breathing heavily] 341 00:16:55,341 --> 00:16:57,011 JOY: I told Abdi five minutes, 342 00:16:57,011 --> 00:16:59,266 and we're done when I say we're done. 343 00:16:59,266 --> 00:17:02,272 [insects chirping] 344 00:17:04,568 --> 00:17:07,616 ‐ First, 345 00:17:07,616 --> 00:17:09,537 I would never hurt you. 346 00:17:12,458 --> 00:17:16,133 What happened at the lodge... 347 00:17:16,133 --> 00:17:19,014 I hit a bad patch. 348 00:17:19,014 --> 00:17:22,186 But I'm through it now, 349 00:17:22,186 --> 00:17:24,942 and I'll be even better when we leave this place. 350 00:17:24,942 --> 00:17:27,071 JOY: You‐‐you need to talk to someone. 351 00:17:27,071 --> 00:17:29,242 ‐ If I put my head 352 00:17:29,242 --> 00:17:32,750 in the hands of those doctors, 353 00:17:32,750 --> 00:17:36,883 that means I put you in their hands too. 354 00:17:36,883 --> 00:17:39,095 And I have seen enough of that world 355 00:17:39,095 --> 00:17:41,934 to know that they cannot be trusted, Joy. 356 00:17:41,934 --> 00:17:44,230 JOY: You checked yourself in when we were in Missouri 357 00:17:44,230 --> 00:17:46,151 and you got better. 358 00:17:46,151 --> 00:17:48,155 ‐ I'm‐‐ 359 00:17:48,155 --> 00:17:50,076 I am your mother. 360 00:17:50,076 --> 00:17:52,330 Now, I don't need to prove anything. 361 00:17:54,292 --> 00:17:55,754 ‐ What's his name? 362 00:17:55,754 --> 00:17:57,507 ‐ Who? 363 00:17:57,507 --> 00:17:59,469 ‐ Dad. 364 00:18:01,641 --> 00:18:04,187 ‐ The less you know, the safer you are. 365 00:18:06,066 --> 00:18:08,988 ‐ I don't believe that anymore. ‐ He's a bad man. 366 00:18:08,988 --> 00:18:11,869 JOY: [laughs softly] That's not enough. 367 00:18:11,869 --> 00:18:14,290 ‐ It's not a nice story, Joy. 368 00:18:14,290 --> 00:18:16,629 JOY: Tell me anyways. I‐‐I'm a grown‐up. 369 00:18:16,629 --> 00:18:19,259 ‐ No, you're not. JOY: Tell me. 370 00:18:22,348 --> 00:18:26,231 We're‐‐we're done. Get out or‐‐or I'll scream. 371 00:18:30,615 --> 00:18:33,245 ‐ Little love... 372 00:18:33,245 --> 00:18:35,876 [door opens] 373 00:18:35,876 --> 00:18:39,257 ABDI: You okay in there? ‐ It's fine. She's leaving. 374 00:18:39,257 --> 00:18:41,971 [uneasy violin music] 375 00:18:41,971 --> 00:18:43,933 ABDI: Get out. 376 00:18:43,933 --> 00:18:46,939 Let's go. 377 00:18:46,939 --> 00:18:48,484 Come on. 378 00:18:50,572 --> 00:18:52,200 [door slams] 379 00:18:53,912 --> 00:18:57,126 ANNIE: [stammering] "'There are two kinds... 380 00:18:57,126 --> 00:19:00,759 "'of people... 381 00:19:00,759 --> 00:19:05,142 "'in this world, Annabel,' 382 00:19:05,142 --> 00:19:08,357 "Prester Jack said. 383 00:19:08,357 --> 00:19:12,406 'There are soldiers and settlers.'" 384 00:19:13,743 --> 00:19:15,580 ‐ Hello. 385 00:19:15,580 --> 00:19:18,586 [approaching footsteps] 386 00:19:21,341 --> 00:19:23,512 I'm Rita. 387 00:19:25,140 --> 00:19:27,646 ‐ Annie, can you say hello? 388 00:19:27,646 --> 00:19:29,859 Annie, we talked about this. 389 00:19:29,859 --> 00:19:33,407 Your dad is not a professional‐‐at anything... 390 00:19:33,407 --> 00:19:35,286 BOTH: [laugh] 391 00:19:37,541 --> 00:19:40,296 Fact is, little love, you need some special help 392 00:19:40,296 --> 00:19:44,053 before this big GED next year, and Rita is it. 393 00:19:44,053 --> 00:19:45,974 ‐ Maybe Annie and I could have a moment, 394 00:19:45,974 --> 00:19:47,769 get to know each other. 395 00:19:47,769 --> 00:19:49,607 ‐ Oh. 396 00:19:49,607 --> 00:19:51,026 Well, uh‐‐ 397 00:19:51,026 --> 00:19:52,821 ‐ Cool, thanks. 398 00:19:54,700 --> 00:19:56,746 ‐ Cool. [laughs awkwardly] 399 00:19:59,042 --> 00:20:02,048 [retreating footsteps] 400 00:20:05,639 --> 00:20:09,020 RITA: So, what do you like to read? 401 00:20:09,020 --> 00:20:11,358 ‐ My dad's book, mostly. 402 00:20:11,358 --> 00:20:13,905 ‐ Is this it? 403 00:20:13,905 --> 00:20:16,744 ‐ You can't just start in the middle. 404 00:20:16,744 --> 00:20:18,372 It's a really big story. 405 00:20:20,961 --> 00:20:23,090 ‐ Your mom says you help him tell it. 406 00:20:23,090 --> 00:20:26,221 ‐ Um, no, I‐‐not really. 407 00:20:26,221 --> 00:20:28,392 Um, I mean, 408 00:20:28,392 --> 00:20:32,108 sometimes he loses his place and forgets where he left off, 409 00:20:32,108 --> 00:20:34,905 so I just make sure that things match up. 410 00:20:34,905 --> 00:20:38,370 I'm not very good at reading, but I can understand stories. 411 00:20:40,583 --> 00:20:43,005 ‐ [clicks tongue] 412 00:20:43,005 --> 00:20:45,677 Are you a fan of this one? 413 00:20:47,054 --> 00:20:49,434 ‐ That's a kid's book. RITA: Not really. 414 00:20:49,434 --> 00:20:51,354 Not the real story. 415 00:20:54,778 --> 00:20:57,951 This isn't like the cartoon. 416 00:20:57,951 --> 00:20:59,830 In the original, they burn his feet off, 417 00:20:59,830 --> 00:21:01,667 and that's just the beginning. 418 00:21:01,667 --> 00:21:04,130 ‐ 'Cause he lies? ‐ That's right. 419 00:21:05,507 --> 00:21:08,388 ‐ So the lying part's the same, but there's just consequences. 420 00:21:08,388 --> 00:21:11,771 I always tell my dad with his stories there has to be consequences 421 00:21:11,771 --> 00:21:13,941 or else it's just a bunch of stuff happening, 422 00:21:13,941 --> 00:21:16,488 and that's not a real story, I don't think. 423 00:21:16,488 --> 00:21:20,705 ‐ Well, maybe there's more than one writer in this family. 424 00:21:20,705 --> 00:21:21,916 ‐ [laughs softly] 425 00:21:21,916 --> 00:21:24,880 ‐ Pro... "Prah"... 426 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:26,675 ANNIE: Prah... RITA: Prah... 427 00:21:26,675 --> 00:21:28,638 It's not working! 428 00:21:28,638 --> 00:21:31,644 ‐ Slow it down and sound it out. 429 00:21:31,644 --> 00:21:33,480 [nostalgic piano music] 430 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:35,067 ‐ "Boys." 431 00:21:35,067 --> 00:21:38,115 Um, "boys all"... 432 00:21:38,115 --> 00:21:40,912 [stammering] 433 00:21:40,912 --> 00:21:43,166 ‐ Just take a breath. [exhales] 434 00:21:43,166 --> 00:21:45,337 Breathe in. [inhales] 435 00:21:45,337 --> 00:21:48,009 Breathe out. [exhales] 436 00:21:48,009 --> 00:21:51,266 ♪ ♪ 437 00:21:51,266 --> 00:21:54,815 You feel okay? 438 00:21:54,815 --> 00:21:56,234 Mm‐kay, let's try it again. 439 00:21:56,234 --> 00:21:57,988 ‐ This is where my daddy writes his book. 440 00:21:57,988 --> 00:22:00,827 ‐ Oh, that's so nice. 441 00:22:00,827 --> 00:22:02,914 ‐ This is pretty much where he works. 442 00:22:02,914 --> 00:22:05,712 RITA: Do you, um‐‐ do you have your book? 443 00:22:05,712 --> 00:22:08,175 ‐ "Pinocchio said to himself with great content, 444 00:22:08,175 --> 00:22:11,431 "'How ridiculous I was 445 00:22:11,431 --> 00:22:13,435 "as a...'" [stammering] 446 00:22:13,435 --> 00:22:15,565 "'Marionette, 447 00:22:15,565 --> 00:22:19,322 "'and how happy I am 448 00:22:19,322 --> 00:22:22,203 now that I've become a real boy.'" 449 00:22:22,203 --> 00:22:28,465 ♪ ♪ 450 00:22:28,465 --> 00:22:31,722 So he just turns into a real boy? 451 00:22:33,935 --> 00:22:37,901 ‐ Yes, it's his redemption. 452 00:22:37,901 --> 00:22:40,531 Do you remember that word? ‐ Yeah, I‐‐I know the word. 453 00:22:40,531 --> 00:22:44,665 Um, but what's it doing at the end of this story? 454 00:22:44,665 --> 00:22:48,046 ‐ I‐‐I don't understand. ‐ Well, Pinocchio's a liar, 455 00:22:48,046 --> 00:22:50,760 so why should he get a happy ending? 456 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:52,847 Just because he gave a fairy some coins? 457 00:22:52,847 --> 00:22:56,020 That's not how it works. ‐ Well, how should it work? 458 00:22:56,020 --> 00:22:58,024 ‐ Well, they should have killed him. 459 00:23:02,909 --> 00:23:06,207 [door slams] ‐ Funny thing is, is they did. 460 00:23:06,207 --> 00:23:09,255 In Collodi's first draft, that was the ending. 461 00:23:09,255 --> 00:23:11,509 ‐ Well, there you go. Now, why the heck did he change it? 462 00:23:11,509 --> 00:23:13,346 RITA: 'Cause his editor thought it was too dark. 463 00:23:13,346 --> 00:23:15,058 He thought it would scare kids. 464 00:23:15,058 --> 00:23:16,770 ‐ Well, sure, they should be scared! 465 00:23:16,770 --> 00:23:19,651 In this world, you're either good or you're bad, and‐‐ 466 00:23:19,651 --> 00:23:21,279 and if you're bad, you pay. 467 00:23:21,279 --> 00:23:24,452 ‐ Annie, did your mom tell you that? 468 00:23:24,452 --> 00:23:27,499 ‐ I'm sorry, I was‐‐ could we have a conversation? 469 00:23:27,499 --> 00:23:29,128 Could we have a quick, uh, word? 470 00:23:29,128 --> 00:23:32,092 ‐ Sure. Uh, why don't you go take a break? 471 00:23:32,092 --> 00:23:34,556 ‐ [sighs] 472 00:23:43,114 --> 00:23:44,993 You know... RITA: Mr. Wilkes, before you start‐‐ 473 00:23:44,993 --> 00:23:46,245 ‐ I'm‐‐I'm not a professional, 474 00:23:46,245 --> 00:23:48,333 but you've got her reading toddlers' books. 475 00:23:48,333 --> 00:23:49,711 I don't know how that's supposed to help her. 476 00:23:49,711 --> 00:23:52,007 ‐ Annie is intelligent... ‐ Yes, she is, I know that. 477 00:23:52,007 --> 00:23:55,013 ‐ She's probably skipped a few developmental steps early on, and that's‐‐ 478 00:23:55,013 --> 00:23:56,725 ‐ Let me, um‐‐ let me tell you something 479 00:23:56,725 --> 00:23:58,478 about how my daughter's brain works‐‐ 480 00:23:58,478 --> 00:24:02,695 ‐ Mr. Wilkes, I'm gonna ask you not to interrupt me. 481 00:24:02,695 --> 00:24:04,950 You posed a question and I'm trying to answer you, 482 00:24:04,950 --> 00:24:07,747 but you have to let me, okay? 483 00:24:07,747 --> 00:24:09,584 Okay. 484 00:24:11,964 --> 00:24:14,845 Your daughter is smart. Very smart. 485 00:24:14,845 --> 00:24:19,353 She can't grow as a reader just reading you. 486 00:24:19,353 --> 00:24:21,315 You're her father. 487 00:24:21,315 --> 00:24:23,445 You loom large. 488 00:24:23,445 --> 00:24:26,535 All this, this has promise. 489 00:24:26,535 --> 00:24:29,875 Uh, "settlers and searchers." 490 00:24:29,875 --> 00:24:33,256 That's beautiful. 491 00:24:33,256 --> 00:24:36,930 But it's your story, not hers. 492 00:24:36,930 --> 00:24:38,893 [soft dramatic music] 493 00:24:38,893 --> 00:24:42,775 You have to let her write her own. 494 00:24:42,775 --> 00:24:45,907 ‐ [clears throat] You‐‐you like that? 495 00:24:45,907 --> 00:24:49,873 ♪ ♪ 496 00:24:49,873 --> 00:24:51,793 ‐ I'm sorry, uh‐‐ 497 00:24:51,793 --> 00:24:53,547 well, yes, I‐‐I do. 498 00:24:53,547 --> 00:24:55,635 It's very good. CARL: [laughs softly] 499 00:24:55,635 --> 00:24:57,304 Uh, thank you. 500 00:24:57,304 --> 00:25:00,435 I've been a writer, uh, since a very young age. 501 00:25:00,435 --> 00:25:03,149 RITA: Oh, I‐‐I know. Annie told me all about you. 502 00:25:03,149 --> 00:25:06,865 ‐ Uh, lots of‐‐ lots of other things that I've written too. 503 00:25:06,865 --> 00:25:09,704 ‐ I bet. CARL: I have some earlier drafts. 504 00:25:09,704 --> 00:25:12,334 I‐‐I love to hear her read it, which is why I‐‐ 505 00:25:12,334 --> 00:25:15,800 why I continue to feed her those pages one at a time. 506 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,511 ANNIE: Even‐‐ ‐ Evidence. 507 00:25:17,511 --> 00:25:19,014 ‐ Evidence. ‐ Evidence. 508 00:25:19,014 --> 00:25:23,481 ‐ Now this one's a tricky one because it looks like "bus." 509 00:25:23,481 --> 00:25:24,776 Some... ANNIE: Some... 510 00:25:24,776 --> 00:25:26,780 ‐ Ah... ANNIE: Some, uh‐‐ 511 00:25:26,780 --> 00:25:28,576 BOTH: Ah... 512 00:25:28,576 --> 00:25:30,495 ‐ Sum‐ma... 513 00:25:30,495 --> 00:25:33,251 [laughter] 514 00:25:33,251 --> 00:25:35,590 ‐ Remember with the "I." [indistinct chatter] 515 00:25:35,590 --> 00:25:37,467 [both trilling lips] Okay, shake it out. 516 00:25:37,467 --> 00:25:39,806 [both babbling] 517 00:25:39,806 --> 00:25:41,977 Just let it all go. [laughs] 518 00:25:41,977 --> 00:25:44,983 ‐ Okay. But that's an E. 519 00:25:44,983 --> 00:25:46,737 ‐ Around your neck. 520 00:25:46,737 --> 00:25:49,199 [grunts] ‐ Like this one? 521 00:25:49,199 --> 00:25:52,164 RITA: Mm‐hmm, yeah. 522 00:25:52,164 --> 00:25:54,251 BOTH: [laugh] 523 00:25:54,251 --> 00:25:57,299 [rousing music] 524 00:25:57,299 --> 00:26:04,313 ♪ ♪ 525 00:26:04,313 --> 00:26:05,733 ‐ And out. 526 00:26:05,733 --> 00:26:08,029 ‐ [exhales] 527 00:26:08,029 --> 00:26:15,043 ♪ ♪ 528 00:26:16,838 --> 00:26:18,299 "Shameless." 529 00:26:18,299 --> 00:26:20,470 Marionette! [muttering] 530 00:26:29,739 --> 00:26:36,753 ♪ ♪ 531 00:26:39,425 --> 00:26:42,139 [indistinct chatter] 532 00:26:42,139 --> 00:26:43,767 CHILD: Come on, hurry up. 533 00:26:43,767 --> 00:26:45,437 [overlapping chatter] CHILD: So good. 534 00:26:45,437 --> 00:26:47,315 CHILD: Trick or treat. 535 00:26:48,527 --> 00:26:51,365 ‐ "Opposition. Opposition. 536 00:26:51,365 --> 00:26:53,119 "Oppositional. 537 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,333 Inter‐‐interpretation." 538 00:26:56,333 --> 00:27:00,091 Did you ever hear why Mom and Dad took me out of regular school? 539 00:27:04,433 --> 00:27:06,270 ‐ That was a long time ago. 540 00:27:06,270 --> 00:27:10,738 ‐ Well, they‐‐they didn't let me go back, so... 541 00:27:10,738 --> 00:27:14,913 I guess that means I didn't get better. 542 00:27:14,913 --> 00:27:18,169 ‐ Annie, none of that matters now. 543 00:27:18,169 --> 00:27:21,509 The only thing that matters is that in less than a month, 544 00:27:21,509 --> 00:27:23,847 you're gonna pass this test. 545 00:27:25,643 --> 00:27:27,312 ‐ Well, then who will you teach? 546 00:27:35,203 --> 00:27:37,207 ‐ This little one, I guess. 547 00:27:44,722 --> 00:27:46,308 ANNIE: [exhales] 548 00:27:52,613 --> 00:27:55,201 Oh, I can't wait to meet her. 549 00:27:59,334 --> 00:28:01,380 Where's her daddy? 550 00:28:04,011 --> 00:28:06,600 ‐ It's, um... 551 00:28:08,519 --> 00:28:10,273 It's complicated. 552 00:28:12,945 --> 00:28:15,743 He's complicated. 553 00:28:15,743 --> 00:28:17,705 ‐ No, it isn't. 554 00:28:17,705 --> 00:28:20,168 He's either a good man or he isn't. 555 00:28:21,588 --> 00:28:24,301 ‐ Annie, nothing is that simple. 556 00:28:24,301 --> 00:28:26,430 ‐ Well, you're good. 557 00:28:28,184 --> 00:28:30,229 And that's simple. 558 00:28:37,118 --> 00:28:39,414 [book pages rustling] 559 00:28:39,414 --> 00:28:43,214 Look what I learned. 560 00:28:43,214 --> 00:28:46,303 Are they, uh... [mumbles indistinctly] 561 00:28:46,303 --> 00:28:49,101 Mom? 562 00:28:49,101 --> 00:28:50,353 Are you... ‐ Yeah? 563 00:28:50,353 --> 00:28:52,399 ANNIE: Are‐‐are you okay? 564 00:28:52,399 --> 00:28:55,279 [music playing softly over radio] 565 00:28:55,279 --> 00:28:57,993 ‐ You poor thing. 566 00:28:57,993 --> 00:28:59,872 ‐ You don't think I'll pass? 567 00:28:59,872 --> 00:29:02,252 ‐ Oh, you'll pass. 568 00:29:02,252 --> 00:29:06,093 You'll pass and pass and that'll be enough. 569 00:29:06,093 --> 00:29:08,640 Mm. ‐ What's wrong? 570 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,522 ‐ Just getting by. 571 00:29:12,522 --> 00:29:14,569 ‐ "Yeah, that'll be enough," they'll say. 572 00:29:14,569 --> 00:29:17,157 ‐ Who‐‐who will say? 573 00:29:17,157 --> 00:29:19,494 ‐ Dirty birds 574 00:29:19,494 --> 00:29:21,666 who want you close and low to the ground 575 00:29:21,666 --> 00:29:23,419 so they can snatch what they want 576 00:29:23,419 --> 00:29:25,549 whenever they want it, 577 00:29:25,549 --> 00:29:29,181 just like your father did to me when I was barely a woman. 578 00:29:29,181 --> 00:29:32,187 [tense music] 579 00:29:32,187 --> 00:29:33,815 [clicks tongue] 580 00:29:33,815 --> 00:29:36,821 [tense music fades, music on radio continues] 581 00:29:36,821 --> 00:29:43,042 ♪ ♪ 582 00:29:43,042 --> 00:29:45,171 [bottle slides, clunks] 583 00:29:45,171 --> 00:29:50,389 ♪ ♪ 584 00:29:50,389 --> 00:29:53,395 ANNIE: "After the last dirt was dropped on the coffin, 585 00:29:53,395 --> 00:29:55,358 Prester Jack threw the shovel in after it." 586 00:29:55,358 --> 00:29:57,445 CARL: Rita's taught you so well. 587 00:29:57,445 --> 00:30:00,159 ANNIE: "And then he took Annabel's hand 588 00:30:00,159 --> 00:30:02,121 "and they walked away from the grave 589 00:30:02,121 --> 00:30:04,459 "and towards the sun 590 00:30:04,459 --> 00:30:07,298 and a horizon they'd hoped they'd never find." 591 00:30:07,298 --> 00:30:09,177 ‐ Do you like it? 592 00:30:11,014 --> 00:30:13,728 ‐ [laughs] I love it. 593 00:30:13,728 --> 00:30:16,651 CARL: [sighs] ‐ [laughs] 594 00:30:16,651 --> 00:30:19,615 ‐ Do you know I got a publisher interested? 595 00:30:19,615 --> 00:30:21,159 ‐ Daddy! 596 00:30:21,159 --> 00:30:23,080 ‐ Well, I‐‐I mean, the fella hasn't formally read it yet, 597 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,042 but I met him in the bank the other day 598 00:30:25,042 --> 00:30:27,673 and said I'd be finished soon and he‐‐he can't wait. 599 00:30:27,673 --> 00:30:29,969 ‐ He'll love it. CARL: [chuckles] 600 00:30:31,598 --> 00:30:34,394 ‐ You found it. ‐ What? 601 00:30:34,394 --> 00:30:37,275 ‐ Your Laughing Place. 602 00:30:37,275 --> 00:30:39,446 ‐ [laughs softly] 603 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,416 Well, you know, that, um... 604 00:30:47,671 --> 00:30:50,677 That's the thing of it, Annie‐bear. 605 00:30:50,677 --> 00:30:54,309 There's, um‐‐there's something that I need to talk to you about. 606 00:30:57,566 --> 00:30:59,946 I'm gonna be moving out. 607 00:31:03,620 --> 00:31:05,749 ‐ Um, 608 00:31:05,749 --> 00:31:08,713 for how long? 609 00:31:08,713 --> 00:31:11,259 ‐ A while. 610 00:31:11,259 --> 00:31:13,472 I need‐‐ 611 00:31:13,472 --> 00:31:18,357 I need to figure out my place in this world. 612 00:31:20,444 --> 00:31:22,073 ‐ [sniffles] Like Prester Jack? 613 00:31:22,073 --> 00:31:25,037 ‐ [laughs softly] 614 00:31:25,037 --> 00:31:26,456 Well, actually, maybe‐‐ 615 00:31:26,456 --> 00:31:29,087 maybe a little bit more like Annabel. 616 00:31:29,087 --> 00:31:31,091 You know, she, um‐‐ 617 00:31:31,091 --> 00:31:33,429 in the end, Jack is a settler... 618 00:31:33,429 --> 00:31:34,640 ‐ [sniffles] 619 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,311 ‐ But Annabel, she'll never stop looking, 620 00:31:37,311 --> 00:31:41,028 and that‐‐and that‐‐ that's me, darling. 621 00:31:41,028 --> 00:31:42,781 ‐ Well, what are you looking for? 622 00:31:47,290 --> 00:31:49,837 [weeping softly] 623 00:31:49,837 --> 00:31:51,048 ‐ I‐‐I don't know. 624 00:31:51,048 --> 00:31:52,634 That's‐‐that's part of the looking, 625 00:31:52,634 --> 00:31:55,347 is not knowing what you're looking for. 626 00:31:57,143 --> 00:31:59,774 ‐ Please don't go, Daddy. 627 00:31:59,774 --> 00:32:01,193 ‐ I have to, sweetheart. ANNIE: Daddy, please. 628 00:32:01,193 --> 00:32:02,905 ‐ Sweetheart, I gotta go. ANNIE: [sobs] Please. 629 00:32:02,905 --> 00:32:05,367 ‐ There's some stuff I gotta take care of, and it's grown‐up stuff. 630 00:32:05,367 --> 00:32:06,746 ‐ It's because of me, isn't it? 631 00:32:06,746 --> 00:32:09,292 ‐ No, no, no, no, no, no. 632 00:32:09,292 --> 00:32:11,004 Don't you ever say that. 633 00:32:11,004 --> 00:32:12,423 No. ‐ [sniffles] 634 00:32:12,423 --> 00:32:15,054 CARL: This is just stuff between me and your mom. 635 00:32:15,054 --> 00:32:17,851 Now, you listen to me. 636 00:32:17,851 --> 00:32:21,859 Next year, we're gonna drive to your school together 637 00:32:21,859 --> 00:32:24,949 and‐‐and I'm gonna go on my book tour 638 00:32:24,949 --> 00:32:27,495 and everything is gonna be perfect. 639 00:32:27,495 --> 00:32:30,752 ‐ It will? 640 00:32:30,752 --> 00:32:33,090 ‐ You remember this, Annie‐bear. 641 00:32:33,090 --> 00:32:35,427 No matter what, 642 00:32:35,427 --> 00:32:39,352 I will always be your number one fan. 643 00:32:39,352 --> 00:32:42,943 [somber music] 644 00:32:42,943 --> 00:32:45,949 BOTH: [sobbing] 645 00:32:45,949 --> 00:32:51,669 ♪ ♪ 646 00:32:51,669 --> 00:32:54,090 [mellow music playing over radio] 647 00:32:54,090 --> 00:32:56,637 [billiards rattling] 648 00:32:56,637 --> 00:32:59,643 [indistinct chatter] 649 00:32:59,643 --> 00:33:06,657 ♪ ♪ 650 00:33:20,017 --> 00:33:22,063 ‐ What'll it be? 651 00:33:22,063 --> 00:33:24,860 ‐ Vodka. 652 00:33:24,860 --> 00:33:27,281 Mama's drink. 653 00:33:27,281 --> 00:33:29,285 HEATHER: Rocks? 654 00:33:29,285 --> 00:33:31,081 ‐ Yes. 655 00:33:31,081 --> 00:33:33,586 [ice clinking] 656 00:33:33,586 --> 00:33:34,755 [ice clatters] 657 00:33:34,755 --> 00:33:37,928 ‐ [sighs heavily] 658 00:33:37,928 --> 00:33:44,942 ♪ ♪ 659 00:33:55,588 --> 00:33:58,594 [song continues over radio] 660 00:33:58,594 --> 00:34:05,608 ♪ ♪ 661 00:34:10,451 --> 00:34:13,457 [engine rumbling faintly] 662 00:34:17,883 --> 00:34:20,889 [birds chirping] 663 00:34:22,141 --> 00:34:23,895 Mom! 664 00:34:25,774 --> 00:34:27,443 Mom! 665 00:34:27,443 --> 00:34:29,238 Mom, I passed. [panting] 666 00:34:29,238 --> 00:34:31,493 I passed. 667 00:34:31,493 --> 00:34:33,288 ‐ Good for you. 668 00:34:33,288 --> 00:34:37,046 ‐ I have to call‐‐ I have to call Dad. 669 00:34:37,046 --> 00:34:39,092 [keypad dialing] 670 00:34:39,092 --> 00:34:42,098 [line trilling] 671 00:34:43,183 --> 00:34:44,686 CARL: Hello? ANNIE: Hi. 672 00:34:44,686 --> 00:34:47,149 Hi, it's me. L‐listen, I passed the GED. 673 00:34:47,149 --> 00:34:49,195 [laughs] Can you believe it? 674 00:34:49,195 --> 00:34:50,698 I just‐‐ CARL: I'm so proud of you! 675 00:34:50,698 --> 00:34:52,619 Tell me everything. I miss you. 676 00:34:52,619 --> 00:34:54,122 ANNIE: [laughs] I miss you too. 677 00:34:54,122 --> 00:34:56,669 I can't wait to see you. 678 00:34:56,669 --> 00:34:58,296 How's the book? 679 00:34:58,296 --> 00:35:00,552 ‐ Just where he wants you. 680 00:35:00,552 --> 00:35:03,140 ANNIE: I know... [unintelligible chatter] 681 00:35:08,024 --> 00:35:11,030 [ominous music] 682 00:35:11,030 --> 00:35:16,249 ♪ ♪ 683 00:35:16,249 --> 00:35:18,755 Wasn't the tour so cool? 684 00:35:18,755 --> 00:35:21,217 Look, I‐‐I know SPCC is just a start, Mama, 685 00:35:21,217 --> 00:35:23,931 but‐‐but, I mean, for a community college, 686 00:35:23,931 --> 00:35:26,729 they even have creative writing classes. 687 00:35:26,729 --> 00:35:28,816 Can you imagine? 688 00:35:28,816 --> 00:35:31,822 ‐ Why don't you want to go further? 689 00:35:31,822 --> 00:35:34,536 ‐ "Further"? ‐ Away. 690 00:35:37,626 --> 00:35:40,422 ‐ That's where Daddy went to school, 691 00:35:40,422 --> 00:35:43,805 and he said he'd come visit me all the time in my dorm. 692 00:35:46,894 --> 00:35:49,190 ‐ It's no place for a good woman, 693 00:35:49,190 --> 00:35:51,821 this dirty world. [chuckles] 694 00:35:53,198 --> 00:35:56,539 ‐ Okay, well, then we'll just have to clean it up, okay? 695 00:35:59,085 --> 00:36:02,634 ‐ I'm on your side, Annie. ‐ I know. 696 00:36:02,634 --> 00:36:07,017 ‐ I'm the only one who's ever really been on your side. 697 00:36:07,017 --> 00:36:09,565 There are things you don't know, Annie. 698 00:36:11,150 --> 00:36:13,614 I just... 699 00:36:13,614 --> 00:36:16,620 [water rushing] 700 00:36:19,585 --> 00:36:22,591 [soft sinister music] 701 00:36:22,591 --> 00:36:29,605 ♪ ♪ 702 00:36:48,141 --> 00:36:50,479 I see it now. 703 00:36:50,479 --> 00:36:51,899 ‐ What? 704 00:36:51,899 --> 00:36:54,571 ♪ ♪ 705 00:36:54,571 --> 00:36:57,159 ‐ How to make it right. 706 00:36:57,159 --> 00:36:58,663 How to get away clean. 707 00:36:58,663 --> 00:37:00,875 ‐ Get away? CRYSILDA: 'Cause, Annie... 708 00:37:00,875 --> 00:37:04,006 ♪ ♪ 709 00:37:04,006 --> 00:37:06,469 Once the rot takes root, 710 00:37:06,469 --> 00:37:10,687 it's always there whether you see it or not. 711 00:37:10,687 --> 00:37:16,030 ♪ ♪ 712 00:37:16,030 --> 00:37:19,036 [music builds] 713 00:37:19,036 --> 00:37:26,050 ♪ ♪ 714 00:37:26,050 --> 00:37:29,056 [music winds down] 715 00:37:33,816 --> 00:37:35,737 [engine turns over] 716 00:37:35,737 --> 00:37:37,114 [dramatic musical sting] 717 00:37:37,114 --> 00:37:40,120 [feverish music] 718 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:44,755 ♪ ♪ 719 00:37:44,755 --> 00:37:46,257 [tires squeal] 720 00:37:46,257 --> 00:37:49,013 ‐ Mom! [screams] 721 00:37:49,013 --> 00:37:53,396 ♪ ♪ 722 00:37:58,364 --> 00:38:01,370 [bird calls] 723 00:38:02,999 --> 00:38:06,005 ‐ [gasping, coughing] 724 00:38:12,059 --> 00:38:15,065 [tense music] 725 00:38:15,065 --> 00:38:22,037 ♪ ♪ 726 00:38:31,598 --> 00:38:35,731 CARL: I'm so sorry that I left you here. 727 00:38:35,731 --> 00:38:40,323 I never should have gone anywhere with your mother... 728 00:38:40,323 --> 00:38:42,494 like she was. 729 00:38:46,460 --> 00:38:50,051 But I'm home now‐‐to stay. 730 00:38:50,051 --> 00:38:52,682 [soft dramatic musical sting] 731 00:38:52,682 --> 00:38:55,688 [foreboding music] 732 00:38:55,688 --> 00:39:02,660 ♪ ♪ 733 00:39:24,203 --> 00:39:26,374 [glass thuds] 734 00:39:26,374 --> 00:39:31,802 ♪ ♪ 735 00:39:31,802 --> 00:39:34,808 [somber music] 736 00:39:34,808 --> 00:39:38,941 ♪ ♪ 737 00:39:38,941 --> 00:39:41,613 CARL: Annie‐bear? 738 00:39:41,613 --> 00:39:44,744 [sighs softly] It's been three months. 739 00:39:44,744 --> 00:39:47,165 ♪ ♪ 740 00:39:47,165 --> 00:39:50,255 We could fill out these college applications together. 741 00:39:50,255 --> 00:39:55,265 ♪ ♪ 742 00:39:55,265 --> 00:39:58,271 [fireworks whistling, crackling] 743 00:40:08,458 --> 00:40:11,213 [fireworks continue crackling] 744 00:40:11,213 --> 00:40:12,675 ["Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail ] 745 00:40:12,675 --> 00:40:17,267 SINGER: ♪ Somewhere out there ♪ 746 00:40:17,267 --> 00:40:22,945 ♪ Beneath the pale moonlight ♪ 747 00:40:24,031 --> 00:40:29,751 ♪ Someone's thinking of me ♪ 748 00:40:29,751 --> 00:40:35,679 ♪ And loving me tonight ♪ 749 00:40:37,015 --> 00:40:43,069 ♪ Somewhere out there ♪ 750 00:40:43,069 --> 00:40:47,327 ♪ Someone's saying a prayer ♪ 751 00:40:57,180 --> 00:40:59,727 CARL: [clicking tongue] 752 00:40:59,727 --> 00:41:02,399 ‐ Is someone coming? 753 00:41:02,399 --> 00:41:05,573 CARL: Two someones, actually. 754 00:41:05,573 --> 00:41:07,367 [car door slams] 755 00:41:15,759 --> 00:41:17,805 ANNIE: [laughs softly] 756 00:41:17,805 --> 00:41:19,934 Rita. 757 00:41:19,934 --> 00:41:22,105 ‐ Annie, hi, hi. 758 00:41:22,105 --> 00:41:23,775 Hi. 759 00:41:23,775 --> 00:41:25,613 ANNIE: You had your baby. RITA: Hi, yeah! 760 00:41:25,613 --> 00:41:27,157 CARL: Hey, hey. 761 00:41:27,157 --> 00:41:30,246 RITA: Yeah, this‐‐ this is, uh, Evangeline. 762 00:41:30,246 --> 00:41:32,919 ANNIE: Oh, she's beautiful. CARL: Yeah. 763 00:41:32,919 --> 00:41:34,839 Isn't she, Annie? RITA: [laughs] 764 00:41:34,839 --> 00:41:36,551 ANNIE: Can I hold her? 765 00:41:36,551 --> 00:41:38,680 RITA: Uh... 766 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:40,768 Let's get her inside. CARL: Yeah, hurry up. 767 00:41:40,768 --> 00:41:42,605 Bring you guys inside. RITA: Whee! [laughs] 768 00:41:42,605 --> 00:41:44,734 I want to hear about the GED 769 00:41:44,734 --> 00:41:47,364 and how you nervous you were before you took it. 770 00:41:47,364 --> 00:41:49,577 ‐ I was really nervous... RITA: I bet. 771 00:41:49,577 --> 00:41:52,290 ANNIE: But I just remembered what you told me, and I‐‐ 772 00:41:52,290 --> 00:41:54,294 and I got a 4 out of 4. 773 00:41:56,173 --> 00:41:58,511 ‐ That's really great, Annie. 774 00:42:00,515 --> 00:42:03,187 ‐ It's really good to see you, Rita. 775 00:42:07,697 --> 00:42:09,408 ‐ Yes, it is. 776 00:42:09,408 --> 00:42:13,124 Due to Rita, a lot of great changes. 777 00:42:13,124 --> 00:42:16,631 You know, um... 778 00:42:16,631 --> 00:42:19,637 Annie, uh...I‐‐ 779 00:42:19,637 --> 00:42:22,517 ‐ Carl, I don't want to. CARL: [clears throat] 780 00:42:25,023 --> 00:42:26,651 Because there, uh‐‐ there was something that‐‐ 781 00:42:26,651 --> 00:42:30,283 that we wanted to, uh‐‐ to talk to you about. 782 00:42:30,283 --> 00:42:32,872 Well, sweetheart‐‐ sweetheart, um, 783 00:42:32,872 --> 00:42:36,503 Rita and I have gotten to know each other better 784 00:42:36,503 --> 00:42:38,550 this last year. 785 00:42:38,550 --> 00:42:40,804 ‐ But you already knew each other. 786 00:42:40,804 --> 00:42:43,184 CARL: Yes, uh, but... 787 00:42:44,687 --> 00:42:47,818 We've been spending a lot of time together. 788 00:42:47,818 --> 00:42:50,824 [foreboding music] 789 00:42:50,824 --> 00:42:57,838 ♪ ♪ 790 00:42:59,216 --> 00:43:02,263 ‐ Oh. 791 00:43:02,263 --> 00:43:05,436 So‐‐so you're... 792 00:43:05,436 --> 00:43:07,148 [Evangeline cooing] 793 00:43:07,148 --> 00:43:09,946 ‐ Annie, I know this is a lot to take in right‐‐ 794 00:43:09,946 --> 00:43:13,077 ‐ You're her daddy too? 795 00:43:13,077 --> 00:43:15,958 Evangeline. 796 00:43:15,958 --> 00:43:19,716 And the river was only six months ago. 797 00:43:19,716 --> 00:43:22,220 ♪ ♪ 798 00:43:22,220 --> 00:43:24,976 Reading was my problem. 799 00:43:24,976 --> 00:43:26,688 [Evangeline coos] 800 00:43:26,688 --> 00:43:29,276 Not math. 801 00:43:29,276 --> 00:43:30,946 ‐ Of course it's not, sweet‐‐ 802 00:43:30,946 --> 00:43:33,075 BOTH: [repeating] Annie, Annie, Annie! 803 00:43:33,075 --> 00:43:36,081 ANNIE: How could you? ‐ Put the knife down! 804 00:43:36,081 --> 00:43:38,169 [Evangeline crying] 805 00:43:40,716 --> 00:43:43,722 [crying continues] 806 00:43:45,308 --> 00:43:47,270 [door slams] 807 00:43:47,270 --> 00:43:49,734 ‐ I‐‐she'll be fine. 808 00:43:49,734 --> 00:43:52,447 [stammering] It's just the surprise of it all. 809 00:43:52,447 --> 00:43:56,121 ♪ ♪ 810 00:43:56,121 --> 00:43:59,169 [indistinct chatter] 811 00:43:59,169 --> 00:44:00,589 RITA: All right, okay. CARL: So... 812 00:44:00,589 --> 00:44:02,509 ‐ Yeah, so I think this box and the one in the trunk. 813 00:44:02,509 --> 00:44:03,720 CARL: All right. 814 00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:04,847 RITA: If you put it in the front room... 815 00:44:04,847 --> 00:44:05,933 CARL: Okay. RITA: You'll be good. 816 00:44:05,933 --> 00:44:07,603 ‐ Yep, this is all gonna fit 817 00:44:07,603 --> 00:44:09,231 once we get Annie's stuff into the attic. 818 00:44:09,231 --> 00:44:11,235 ‐ Thank you, honey. 819 00:44:11,235 --> 00:44:14,241 [churning, ominous music] 820 00:44:14,241 --> 00:44:19,627 ♪ ♪ 821 00:44:19,627 --> 00:44:21,840 [Evangeline cooing] Yeah. 822 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:27,183 ♪ ♪ 823 00:44:27,183 --> 00:44:29,856 What about over here? 824 00:44:29,856 --> 00:44:36,619 ♪ ♪ 825 00:44:44,342 --> 00:44:47,348 ‐ [laughing] 826 00:44:47,348 --> 00:44:49,937 ♪ ♪ 827 00:44:49,937 --> 00:44:52,943 [typewriter keys clacking] 828 00:44:52,943 --> 00:44:55,949 [clacking continues] 829 00:45:11,814 --> 00:45:13,568 ‐ Mm. 830 00:45:13,568 --> 00:45:15,154 [typewriter dings] [keys clacking] 831 00:45:15,154 --> 00:45:17,826 ‐ You know, maybe you should consider medication again. 832 00:45:17,826 --> 00:45:21,083 ‐ No. She doesn't need that. [scoffs] 833 00:45:21,083 --> 00:45:23,504 Do you think I would be almost done with my novel 834 00:45:23,504 --> 00:45:25,884 if I was still taking lithium? 835 00:45:27,596 --> 00:45:29,516 ‐ Carl. CARL: I just‐‐ 836 00:45:29,516 --> 00:45:33,232 just feel like Annie doesn't need that garbage in her system 837 00:45:33,232 --> 00:45:35,654 clouding the real her. 838 00:45:35,654 --> 00:45:39,244 ♪ ♪ 839 00:45:39,244 --> 00:45:42,125 [rattle rattling] 840 00:45:42,125 --> 00:45:45,172 ANNIE: Could I hold her? [Evangeline cooing] 841 00:45:45,172 --> 00:45:47,260 ‐ [coughs] 842 00:45:49,431 --> 00:45:50,976 ‐ Hey, hi. 843 00:45:50,976 --> 00:45:53,230 Yeah. 844 00:45:53,230 --> 00:45:56,194 [rattle continues rattling] 845 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:06,214 ♪ ♪ 846 00:46:11,099 --> 00:46:14,105 [rattling continues] 847 00:46:14,105 --> 00:46:16,527 [grunts] 848 00:46:16,527 --> 00:46:20,159 [cries] 849 00:46:20,159 --> 00:46:23,625 ‐ It's okay. [shushing] 850 00:46:23,625 --> 00:46:26,171 [crying continues] 851 00:46:26,171 --> 00:46:28,676 [continues shushing] 852 00:46:28,676 --> 00:46:31,974 It's okay. It's okay. 853 00:46:31,974 --> 00:46:33,645 It's okay. 854 00:46:33,645 --> 00:46:36,651 [muffled soft moaning] 855 00:46:36,651 --> 00:46:39,615 [rhythmic banging] 856 00:46:41,661 --> 00:46:44,667 [moaning and banging continues] 857 00:46:47,965 --> 00:46:50,971 [waves crashing] 858 00:47:15,812 --> 00:47:18,818 [foreboding music] 859 00:47:18,818 --> 00:47:21,949 ♪ ♪ 860 00:47:21,949 --> 00:47:24,955 [Evangeline crying] [crying echoing] 861 00:47:24,955 --> 00:47:31,969 ♪ ♪ 862 00:47:32,971 --> 00:47:36,228 ‐ Annie? [crying continues] 863 00:47:39,359 --> 00:47:42,323 Hi. Hi. 864 00:47:42,323 --> 00:47:45,454 [shushing] 865 00:47:45,454 --> 00:47:48,711 [fractured, dark music] 866 00:47:48,711 --> 00:47:51,550 It's okay. It's okay. 867 00:47:51,550 --> 00:47:55,432 ♪ ♪ 868 00:48:00,484 --> 00:48:03,448 [typewriter keys clacking] 869 00:48:09,878 --> 00:48:12,884 [tense music] 870 00:48:12,884 --> 00:48:16,182 ♪ ♪ 871 00:48:16,182 --> 00:48:17,769 CARL: It's done. 872 00:48:21,234 --> 00:48:22,946 It's done! 873 00:48:22,946 --> 00:48:26,202 Rita, I finished! 874 00:48:26,202 --> 00:48:28,498 ♪ ♪ 875 00:48:28,498 --> 00:48:32,006 Ah, 12 fucking years. 876 00:48:32,006 --> 00:48:35,012 ♪ ♪ 877 00:48:35,012 --> 00:48:37,475 There you go! [indistinct chatter] 878 00:48:37,475 --> 00:48:40,230 Well, editors are always on the lookout for some published authors. 879 00:48:40,230 --> 00:48:41,776 [indistinct chatter] 880 00:48:41,776 --> 00:48:43,529 Take one, take two, take three. 881 00:48:43,529 --> 00:48:45,992 I printed 500... RITA: Annie. 882 00:48:45,992 --> 00:48:49,374 ‐ Hey, did you want anything? Did you need anything? 883 00:48:49,374 --> 00:48:50,417 [mellow music playing over radio] 884 00:48:50,417 --> 00:48:52,046 GUEST: Thank you. CARL: Yeah. 885 00:48:52,046 --> 00:48:53,841 GUEST: Thank you, my friend. Very excited about it. 886 00:48:53,841 --> 00:48:55,344 CARL: Leave it in a public place. 887 00:48:55,344 --> 00:48:57,139 To make a quick toast... 888 00:48:57,139 --> 00:48:59,352 RITA: Oh, my God. CARL: To Rita! 889 00:48:59,352 --> 00:49:00,855 ALL: To Rita! 890 00:49:00,855 --> 00:49:03,026 ‐ Thank you guys so much for being here. 891 00:49:03,026 --> 00:49:05,990 RITA: Oh, well, thank you. Thank you. 892 00:49:05,990 --> 00:49:08,996 [insects chirping] 893 00:49:24,611 --> 00:49:28,619 ANNIE: "For Rita K. Green, my Laughing Place." 894 00:49:28,619 --> 00:49:31,625 [fractured, unhinged music] 895 00:49:31,625 --> 00:49:36,509 ♪ ♪ 896 00:49:38,472 --> 00:49:45,110 ♪ ♪ 897 00:49:45,110 --> 00:49:46,112 [book rips] 898 00:49:47,949 --> 00:49:51,164 [muffled thuds, clunking] 899 00:49:52,751 --> 00:49:54,546 ANNIE: [muffled] "Rita K. Green..." 900 00:49:54,546 --> 00:49:58,136 CARL: Annie‐bear? What's going on? 901 00:49:58,136 --> 00:50:00,349 Annie? ANNIE: "My Laughing Place." 902 00:50:00,349 --> 00:50:02,144 CARL: 4:00 in the morning, what are you... 903 00:50:02,144 --> 00:50:03,898 [sniffs] What's going on? 904 00:50:03,898 --> 00:50:07,029 ANNIE: [breathing raggedly] [grunts] 905 00:50:07,029 --> 00:50:09,200 You dedicated it to her? 906 00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:12,206 ♪ ♪ 907 00:50:12,206 --> 00:50:15,880 ‐ Listen, Annie‐bear‐‐ ‐ Rita is your Laughing Place? 908 00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:18,803 ‐ [sighs] 909 00:50:18,803 --> 00:50:21,140 Well, see, you... [sighs] 910 00:50:21,140 --> 00:50:22,852 ♪ ♪ 911 00:50:22,852 --> 00:50:25,190 You can have more than one. 912 00:50:25,190 --> 00:50:27,612 ‐ [breathing raggedly] 913 00:50:27,612 --> 00:50:30,618 ♪ ♪ 914 00:50:30,618 --> 00:50:32,246 ‐ Come here. 915 00:50:32,246 --> 00:50:33,624 ANNIE: [shrieks] 916 00:50:33,624 --> 00:50:35,377 ‐ [grunting, yelps] 917 00:50:35,377 --> 00:50:37,214 [wood splintering, cracking] 918 00:50:37,214 --> 00:50:39,928 ‐ Dad! ‐ [grunts] 919 00:50:39,928 --> 00:50:42,767 ‐ Dad? CARL: [whimpering] 920 00:50:42,767 --> 00:50:44,688 ‐ [breathing raggedly] 921 00:50:44,688 --> 00:50:47,652 [hyperventilating] CARL: [grunting] 922 00:50:47,652 --> 00:50:51,994 [soft dramatic music] 923 00:50:51,994 --> 00:50:55,000 [gagging] 924 00:50:55,000 --> 00:51:00,218 ♪ ♪ 925 00:51:00,218 --> 00:51:03,224 [gasping, gurgling] 926 00:51:06,064 --> 00:51:08,360 ANNIE: [gasps] [whimpering] 927 00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,364 CARL: [groaning] 928 00:51:12,368 --> 00:51:14,455 It's okay, it's okay. ANNIE: No! 929 00:51:14,455 --> 00:51:16,835 CARL: This will be fine. [groans] 930 00:51:16,835 --> 00:51:18,881 It's good. Just fine, sweetheart. 931 00:51:18,881 --> 00:51:20,968 It's okay, it's okay. 932 00:51:20,968 --> 00:51:23,431 It's gonna be fine. ‐ [whimpering] 933 00:51:23,431 --> 00:51:25,978 CARL: It'll be fine, Annie. 934 00:51:27,691 --> 00:51:30,655 ANNIE: No. CARL: It's okay, it's okay. 935 00:51:30,655 --> 00:51:32,282 [stammers, grunts] 936 00:51:32,282 --> 00:51:34,913 [screams] ‐ [sobbing] 937 00:51:36,792 --> 00:51:39,798 [dark music] 938 00:51:39,798 --> 00:51:46,812 ♪ ♪ 939 00:51:48,774 --> 00:51:51,780 [grunts] [flesh crunching, squelching] 940 00:51:51,780 --> 00:51:55,663 ♪ ♪ 941 00:51:55,663 --> 00:51:58,126 [whimpers] 942 00:52:03,386 --> 00:52:06,392 [Evangeline crying distantly] 943 00:52:11,570 --> 00:52:13,114 [footsteps approaching] 944 00:52:13,114 --> 00:52:15,536 ‐ [gasps] Oh, my God! 945 00:52:15,536 --> 00:52:17,624 Annie! ‐ [gasping] 946 00:52:17,624 --> 00:52:20,295 RITA: What did you do? [sobs] 947 00:52:20,295 --> 00:52:22,424 ‐ I thought you were good. 948 00:52:22,424 --> 00:52:24,930 [Evangeline continues crying] 949 00:52:24,930 --> 00:52:26,850 [snarls] ‐ [shrieks] 950 00:52:26,850 --> 00:52:29,856 [dramatic music] 951 00:52:29,856 --> 00:52:30,900 ♪ ♪ 952 00:52:30,900 --> 00:52:32,695 ‐ No, not my baby! 953 00:52:32,695 --> 00:52:35,535 No! [screaming] 954 00:52:35,535 --> 00:52:37,204 [grunts] 955 00:52:39,543 --> 00:52:42,549 [crying continues] 956 00:52:42,549 --> 00:52:46,389 ♪ ♪ 957 00:52:46,389 --> 00:52:48,017 [bone crunches] 958 00:52:48,017 --> 00:52:49,980 ‐ "The end." 959 00:53:05,260 --> 00:53:12,274 ♪ ♪ 960 00:53:19,330 --> 00:53:21,459 [twig snaps, echoes] 961 00:53:24,298 --> 00:53:28,014 [Evangeline crying] 962 00:53:30,226 --> 00:53:31,563 [twig snaps] 963 00:53:31,563 --> 00:53:38,368 ♪ ♪ 964 00:53:38,368 --> 00:53:39,579 [twig snaps] 965 00:53:45,340 --> 00:53:48,346 [leaves rustling] [waves lapping] 966 00:53:48,346 --> 00:53:55,360 ♪ ♪ 967 00:54:13,605 --> 00:54:16,611 [crying continues] 968 00:54:16,611 --> 00:54:23,584 ♪ ♪ 969 00:54:24,627 --> 00:54:27,382 ‐ [hyperventilating] 970 00:54:27,382 --> 00:54:30,388 [dark, triumphant music] 971 00:54:30,388 --> 00:54:37,402 ♪ ♪ 972 00:54:45,335 --> 00:54:47,673 [Evangeline cooing] 973 00:54:47,673 --> 00:54:52,224 ♪ ♪ 974 00:54:52,224 --> 00:54:55,230 [Evangeline fussing, crying] 975 00:54:55,230 --> 00:55:02,202 ♪ ♪ 976 00:55:13,432 --> 00:55:20,446 ♪ ♪ 977 00:55:24,454 --> 00:55:27,712 I'm on your side. 978 00:55:27,712 --> 00:55:29,966 You poor thing. 979 00:55:29,966 --> 00:55:32,137 [crying continues] 980 00:55:32,137 --> 00:55:35,143 [breathing shakily] 981 00:55:35,143 --> 00:55:38,316 ♪ ♪ 982 00:55:38,316 --> 00:55:40,696 But there's a way. 983 00:55:40,696 --> 00:55:44,621 ♪ ♪ 984 00:55:44,621 --> 00:55:47,334 A way for us to both get away clean. 985 00:55:47,334 --> 00:55:50,340 [dark, churning music] 986 00:55:50,340 --> 00:55:57,354 ♪ ♪ 987 00:56:02,405 --> 00:56:04,117 [Evangeline giggles] 988 00:56:07,123 --> 00:56:09,712 [Evangeline laughing] 989 00:56:12,635 --> 00:56:14,764 [laughs softly] 990 00:56:17,185 --> 00:56:20,191 BOTH: [laughing] 991 00:56:20,191 --> 00:56:21,778 [gentle piano version of "You Are My Sunshine"] 992 00:56:21,778 --> 00:56:23,865 You're laughing. 993 00:56:23,865 --> 00:56:26,705 [weepy laughter] [Evangeline cooing, laughing] 994 00:56:26,705 --> 00:56:31,171 SINGER: ♪ You make me happy ♪ 995 00:56:31,171 --> 00:56:35,973 ♪ When skies are gray ♪ 996 00:56:35,973 --> 00:56:40,314 ♪ You'll never know, dear ♪ 997 00:56:40,314 --> 00:56:45,784 ♪ How much I love you ♪ 998 00:56:45,784 --> 00:56:48,999 ♪ Please don't take ♪ 999 00:56:48,999 --> 00:56:53,800 ♪ My sunshine away ♪ 1000 00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,804 ♪ ♪ 1001 00:56:55,804 --> 00:57:00,814 ♪ The other night, dear ♪ 1002 00:57:00,814 --> 00:57:02,777 ‐ Want another? 1003 00:57:02,777 --> 00:57:05,114 SINGER: ♪ As I lay sleeping ♪ 1004 00:57:05,114 --> 00:57:09,206 ♪ I dreamed I held you ♪ 1005 00:57:09,206 --> 00:57:13,840 ♪ In my arms ♪ 1006 00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:18,307 ♪ When I awoke, dear ♪ 1007 00:57:18,307 --> 00:57:24,277 ♪ I was mistaken ♪ 1008 00:57:24,277 --> 00:57:27,200 ♪ Please don't take ♪ 1009 00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:30,624 ♪ My sunshine ♪ 1010 00:57:30,624 --> 00:57:32,043 ♪ Awa‐‐ ♪ 1011 00:57:32,043 --> 00:57:34,089 ‐ [coughs, heaves] 1012 00:57:34,089 --> 00:57:36,426 [grunting] 1013 00:57:36,426 --> 00:57:39,432 [churning, ominous music] 1014 00:57:39,432 --> 00:57:46,405 ♪ ♪ 1015 00:57:49,912 --> 00:57:53,085 [soft tense music] 1016 00:57:53,085 --> 00:57:55,799 RITA: Hello? 1017 00:57:55,799 --> 00:57:59,347 ‐ I‐is this Rita? 1018 00:57:59,347 --> 00:58:01,895 RITA: Uh, you can just take me off your list, I‐‐ 1019 00:58:01,895 --> 00:58:04,650 ‐ U‐uh, do you know about a book 1020 00:58:04,650 --> 00:58:07,865 called The Ravening Angel ? 1021 00:58:07,865 --> 00:58:13,543 ♪ ♪ 1022 00:58:13,543 --> 00:58:14,962 ‐ Who is this?