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Mr. Valdes? I'm locking up.

I'll put the laundry in your car.

Hey! Anybody?

Move.

Move!

You gonna do the laundry now?

You don't have to do the laundry for me.

How'd you find me?

Well, I saw the old Chevy laying tits-up out there in the dump.

I figured you either died in a car crash

or you settled in for a while.

It wouldn't make much difference to you, would it?

What's that?

If I died in some car crash.

I knew I should've had 'em burn that damn thing.

Or bury it in wood.

You'd have gone right past here

if it hadn't been for that car, right?

I'd have found you one way or the other.

Eddie.

You want me to take those sheets for you?

I can do the laundry, you know.

I've been doing my own laundry for months now.

I'm real good at it.

You just plunk the old quarters in and let it rip.

Come on, honey, let me do your laundry.

You wanna do my laundry? - Hey! Whoa, whoa!

Son of a bitch! - Hey! Whoa!

Do you do her laundry?

You want an aspirin or something, huh?

You got a headache?

You want some water?

May, come on.

Honey?

You want me to make you some hot tea or something?

You want some tea? I'll make you some tea like I used to, okay?

With lemon?

You want some Ovaltine? May...

May, you gotta let go of me now, okay?

Honey.

You want me to go, huh?

What do you want, then?

You smell.

Your fingers smell.

-Horses. -Pussy.

Oh, come on, May!

They do. They smell like metal.

I am not gonna start this shit.

Rich pussy.

Very clean pussy.

I came to see if you were all right.

I don't need you.

Oh, okay. Good. Great.

Eddie! - Hey!

What the hell are you doing in that truck?

Eddie, don't go! - Hey! Get out of here!

God damn! What kinda dump is this?

You live here?

What am I gonna do? What am I supposed to do now?

What?

Oh, shit.

You're gonna erase me.

What are you talking about?

You're gonna erase me. - Watch out!

You're gonna erase me or you're gonna have me erased.

Why would I want... Are you crazy?

'Cause I'm in the way. - Come on, May.

Don't talk like that. - I am.

May, I am trying to take care of you, all right?

Sure you are.

Get back. Come on, back.

You're just guilty.

You're gutless and you're guilty.

Oh, that's real cute. That's great. I'm gutless.

What are you doing with these horses?

I'm unloading them. What the hell's it look like?

Haven't been out of this rig in 200 miles.

Even my horses have to suffer because of you.

I'm gonna kill her. - Who?

Who?

Don't talk like that, will you?

I am.

I'm gonna kill her and then I'm gonna kill you.

You're scaring me to death.

Back up. Get back.

-Get back. -Two very sharp knives.

Two separate knives. One for you and one for her.

So the blood don't mix.

Do you know what I'm gonna do to her first?

Oh, yeah. I see.

I'm gonna torture her first.

Do you hear me? - Uh-huh.

I'm gonna torture her first!

Oh, great.

But not you. I'm just gonna let you have it.

Thanks. -That's right.

Probably, in the midst of a kiss.

Right after you think everything's been healed up.

Like right at the moment when you think you've buffaloed me again.

That's right when you die.

You know how many miles I went out of my way

to come here and see you? Have you got any idea--

-Nobody asked you to come here! -2,482!

Where you been, Katmandu or something?

2,482 miles!

So what?

I missed you, you know.

I did.

More than anything I ever missed in my whole life.

I kept thinking about you the whole time I was driving.

I kept seeing you.

Sometimes just a part of you.

Yeah? Like which part?

Your neck. -My neck?

Yeah. -You missed my neck?

Yeah. Well, I missed all of you, but...

your neck kept coming up for some reason.

-I kept crying about your neck. -You were crying?

Yeah. -Crying?

Yeah.

Was this before or after your little fling with the countess?

There wasn't any fling with any countess.

You're a liar! -I took her to dinner once.

-You're a liar. -Okay, twice.

You were bumping on a regular basis.

Don't stand there and give me this shit.

I'm taking you back, May.

What, you think you're taking me back to that idiot trailer?

No.

No, I'm moving. I got a piece of ground up in Wyoming now.

Wyoming? - Yeah.

I'm not going to Wyoming.

What's up there? Marlboro Man or something? God.

-Well, you can't stay here. -Why not?

Why not? I'm a regular citizen now.

And I got me a job.

You got a job?

That's right. Why? You think I'm helpless or something?

That's what you think, right?

Yeah, it is.

No, I just... It's been a long time since you had a job.

Well, I'm a cook.

A cook? You can't even flip an egg, can you?

I'm not talking to you any more. I mean it!

May! Goddammit!

Quit doing this, will you?

I got it all worked out now.

I've been thinking about this for weeks.

I'm gonna build a little pipe corral for the horses.

We can have us a big vegetable garden and some chickens maybe.

I hate chickens.

I hate horses and I hate all that other shit too.

You have me confused with somebody else, don't you?

Yeah. Hmm.

Unbelievable!

I'm not letting go of you this time, May.

You never had me to begin with, Eddie.

You keep coming up

with this lame country dream life

in the country with vegetables and chickens and stuff.

I hate all that stuff.

It makes me puke to even think about it.

What do you think it's like sitting in a tin trailer

with the wind ripping through

waiting for the butane to arrive?

Then hiking down the Laundromat.

You think that's thrilling for me or what?

What?

Get outta here, Eddie.

Turn off this goddamn thing.

Don't touch me. Now get outta here. Dammit.

Couldn't you just stay put?

I told you I was coming back to get you.

I bought you all them magazines.

I thought you liked that.

-Those French kinds. -Oh, God.

Yeah. I did. You're right.

I especially liked the one with the countess on the cover.

That was real cute.

I liked that one a lot.

All right.

All right what?

Where are you going?

I'm gonna sleep in the truck.

You're gonna spend the night?

I'll be gone in the morning. Don't worry about it.

No. Wait.

r Why'? r

r Why'? r

r Why'? r

r Why'? r

You can take it.

You're a stunt man, right?

You got any tequila?

You already drank my tequila!

Come on, I want to show you something.

Come on over here. I'm going to show you--

I'm in the middle of something here.

I'm trying to talk to somebody.

Show you something actual.

Look at that.

Remember that?

Where did you get this?

Take a look at that picture over there.

You know who that is?

I'm not sure.

It's Barbara Mandrell.

That's who that is. Barbara Mandrell.

You heard of her?

Yeah, sure.

Would you believe me if I told you

I was married to her?

No. - Uh-huh.

You see, that's the difference right there.

I'm actually married to Barbara Mandrell in my mind.

Can you understand that?

-Yeah, sure. -Oh, good.

I'm glad we have an understanding.

I swear to God I didn't hate you even more.

It just grows. Just grows and grows.

But I mean to see you no more. See you no more.

Just to see a picture of you. No, not just you.

I've seen a picture of you and her. That bitch.

I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time.

I don't remember how much I'd like to hate you.

I hate you even more. That's right.

I hate you even more and all it does is just grow.

If I see you in the morning...

See a picture of you...

Of you and that bitch. You and her.

I don't care.

Just a made-up old picture.

It just invades my head.

It invades my head all the time.

Bet you love that, don't you?

To invade my head.

This picture stings me more than seeing you with her.

It stings me more.

And it cuts me. Always cuts me.

Cuts me up.

Cuts me. I don't think I'll ever get rid of him.

And he kinda just comes...

Uninvited, like.

Right when I don't expect it. Like a little torture.

Like a little torture.

I blame you more. I do.

I blame you more for this torture

than I actually do for what you did.

If you love her, I could kill you.

If I really wanted to, I could.

I don't care that much about you to kill you.

You forgot your sweater.

You better go.

It's better that you go right now.

May, I wish you'd make up your mind.

I got somebody coming here to get me.

Here?

Yeah, here. Where you think they're gonna go?

Who you been seeing? - Don't you come near me!

Don't you even think about it.

You got any glasses?

They're in the bathroom.

What they doing in the bathroom?

'Cause I keep everything in the bathroom.

It's safer.

Where are the damn glasses?

They're in the medicine cabinet.

What are they doing in the medicine cabinet?

'Cause there are no germs in the medicine cabinet.

Oh, germs. Germs.

Germs. - That's right.

Do you want some of this?

No. I'm on the wagon.

Good. It's about time.

I have returned.

Wait a minute. I'm not that kind of a guy.

Oh, you know you are.

Not on the first date.

What are you gonna do with that?

Clean it.

Eddie, this is a very friendly person coming here.

He's not malicious in any way.

Did you hear what I said?

About what?

About the man who's coming here.

What man?

First off, it can't be very serious.

Oh, really? And why is that?

'Cause you call him a man.

What am I supposed to call him?

A guy or something.

If you called him a guy, I'd be worried about it.

But since you call him a man, you give yourself away.

You're in a dumb situation with this guy by calling him a man.

You put yourself below him.

What the hell do you know about it?

Anybody who don't kill himself

by falling off horses and riding steers

is a twerp in your book, isn't that right?

Yeah, that is right.

What are you supposed to call yourself?

You supposed to call yourself a guy

or call yourself a man?

Well, if you ain't a cowboy, you ain't shit.

Why's everything such a big contest with you, Eddie?

He's not competing with you. He doesn't know you exist.

Well, you can introduce me.

You can't keep messing me around like this, Eddie.

You have no right to be jealous of me.

Not after all the bullshit I've been through with you. You know that!

We got a pact. You remember that?

We haven't got anything, Eddie.

We ain't got anything between us anymore.

Is that right? Then-- - That's right!

How come you're so excited?

I'm not excited!

Yeah, you are.

You're beside yourself. - No, I'm not!

You're driving me crazy, that's why.

You know we're connected, May.

We'll always be connected.

That was decided a long time ago.

Nothing was decided, Eddie. You screwed it up.

You know what happened.

You promised me that was finished, Eddie!

You promised you'd never bring that up again.

A promise can't stop that, May. It happened.

Nothing happened, Eddie!

Innocent to the last drop.

Nothing happened!

You're a traitor.

Eddie, nothing ever happened!

Eddie!

Eddie!

Baby?

You know something, honey?

There is one thing I'll never forget.

I'll never forget this as long as I live.

I don't even know why I remember it exactly.

But you, me and your mother

were driving through southern Utah once, I think it was,

in that old Plymouth we had.

You remember that Plym? It had a white plastic hood ornament on it.

A replica of the Mayflower, I think it was.

Well, it was some kind of ship.

Anyway, we'd been driving all night

and you were sound asleep in the back seat

and your momma was sound asleep in the front.

Then, all of a sudden, you woke up crying.

Just busting a gut over something. I don't know what it was.

A nightmare or something.

Woke your momma right up.

She climbed over the seat there in the back with you

trying to get you settled down.

But you just kept wailing away.

You wouldn't shut up for hell nor high water.

So I stopped the Plymouth by the side of the road,

middle of nowhere.

I can't even remember where it was exactly.

Pitch-black.

And I picked you up out of the back seat there

and carried you out into this field.

Thought the cold air might quiet you down a little bit.

But you just kept howling.

And, all of a sudden...

I saw something move out there.

Something bigger than both of us put together.

And it started to move toward us, kind of slow.

And then it started to get joined up

by some other things just like it.

Same shape and everything.

But these things started to kind of move in on us.

I looked back at the car

to see if your mother was all right.

And just then these things started to moo.

They all started mooing away.

The cows?

Sure enough, there we were

standing smack in the middle of a goddamned herd of cattle.

You never heard a baby pipe down so fast.

You just never made a peep after that

the whole rest of the trip.

You got any gin in there?

Asshole.

Oh, that cow got away? Come on, boy.

Decided to jump off the wagon, huh?

Hmm.

What are you doing?

Just a little practice.

Gotta stay in practice these clays.

There's kids out there roping cattle in six seconds dead.

They got it down to a science. Six, there's no chance.

I thought you were leaving.

Didn't you say you were leaving?

Yeah, I was gonna.

But then I got about ten miles down the road there

and it suddenly occurred to me

there probably isn't any man coming here at all.

Probably isn't any guy or any man or anybody.

You just made all that up.

And Why would I do that, Eddie?

Just to get even.

So that's how it is.

Gonna get real mean and sloppy, just like old times.

Well... - Like old times.

I haven't dropped the range in quite a while, you know, honey.

I really haven't. I've been real good.

I figure I owe it to myself once a once.

Have you balled him yet?

Hmm?

I'm just curious.

You don't have to tell me. I already know it.

I hope this man comes over here.

I really hope he does.

I wanna see him walk through that door.

What are you gonna do?

I'm gonna nail his ass to the floor.

Directly.

I'm not sticking around for this, Eddie.

Wait. Come on, take it easy.

Honey! I'll back off, okay? I'll be real nice.

I'll be just like a little old pussycat, okay?

You can introduce me to him as your brother, okay?

-Okay? Maybe not your brother. -Maybe not.

Your cousin, okay? I just wanna meet him.

No! Why do you want to meet him?

He's just a friend.

Just to see where you stand these days.

You can tell a lot about a person

by the company they keep.

No. Look, I'm just gonna go in the office.

-Come on. -I'm going to the office.

I'll try and forget the whole thing.

Good. Okay. Great.

Uh-oh.

Great.

Why don't you run out there

and throw yourself into his arms or something?

-What are you gonna do? -Put my hooks on.

I wanna look good for this man, give him the right impression.

I'm your cousin, after all.

Eddie, I swear to God, if you hurt him--

I'm not gonna hurt him.

He's just an ordinary date.

I'm gonna turn him into a fig.

Just this once, Eddie, do me a favor. Come on.

Just one time. Just this once, Eddie.

Anything you want, honey. Anything you want.

What are you doing?

May?

May, what are you doing? May?

May?

It's not him.

It's not, uh? - No, it's not.

Oh, too bad.

Who is it, then?

Somebody else.

It's a big, huge, extra-long black Mercedes Benz.

This is a motel, isn't it?

Rich people have to sleep too.

This ain't a black Mercedes Benz type of motel, Eddie.

Somebody's just standing out there in front of that car.

Just standing there looking at me.

What are they doing?

I don't think it's a they, Eddie. I think it's a she.

May, get away from the door. Come on!

You wouldn't happen to know anybody

with a black Mercedes Benz, would you, Eddie?

Stay down, okay?

Who the hell is that?

How should I know? Just stay down, okay?

It's okay.

I don't know who she is. Just stay down.

You don't know her? That's the kind of car a countess drives.

Stay down! -

You okay? Stay down. - I'm down!

How crazy is she? - Pretty crazy.

-Just stay down. -Have you balled her yet?

She's blown the goddamn windshield out of my truck!

She what?

She blew the windshield out of my goddamn truck!

You should've thought of this!

Where are you going? Wait a second.

-Keep those lights off. -Don't you tell me what to do!

She's gonna come back. We gotta get outta here.

-We gotta get your stuff-- -Stop it!

Don't you dare pick me up!

Put me down!

I came here to get you. What's the matter with you?

I came all this way to get you.

Do you think I'd do that for anybody else?

Put me down! - Listen to me!

The amazing thing is, neither one of you look a bit familiar to me.

Can't figure that one out.

I don't recognize myself in either one of you. Never have.

Now get your stuff. We're getting outta here.

No, I'm not leaving, but you're leaving for sure!

You broke my bed.

I am not leaving without you, May.

If you're staying here, I'm staying here.

You'll never get rid of me.

I'll track you down, no matter where you go.

I know exactly how your mind works.

I've been right every time.

Every single time.

You gotta give this up, Eddie.

I don't know what's in your head any more, I really don't.

Now you desperately need me?

Now you can't live without me?

Why should I believe you now?

'Cause it's true?

'Cause it was supposed to be true every other time.

Every other time before this, and it's true again.

You've been jerking me off for 15 years.

For 15 years I've been a yo-yo to you.

You know what? I never been split either.

I never thought one way or another about it.

I either loved you or I didn't love you.

You know what, Eddie?

Now I just plain don't love you.

You understand?

You hear me, Eddie? You understand?

I don't love you,

I don't need you and I don't want you.

You get it? - Get in the bathroom.

I'm not getting in the bathroom!

I'm not gonna hide in my own house!

I'm gonna go out

and I'm gonna tear her damn head off!

May-- - I'm gonna whack her ass.

That's right! Come on in here

with your damn gun. Bring all your weapons.

Stop!

No!

Oh, no. It's all right.

It's all right. We were just having an argument. It's okay.

It's okay. It's just a little argument, that's all.

Oh, God.

I heard you screaming when I drove up

and then all the lights went out.

I thought someone was trying to...

No, they weren't.

I better turn my truck lights off.

The battery will run down.

Yeah, you better.

It sure looked like you were getting, you know...

No, I wasn't.

That's him? -I'm gonna kill you.

Oh, Martin, this is...

This is my cousin.

Eddie. -

-I'm sorry. -She's lying.

Oh, no. You wanna come on in

and have a drink. I bet you need one after this.

Yes, sure.

I'm gonna have to get you a... Wash you a glass, okay?

Yeah. - Okay?

Okay

She keeps the glasses in the bathroom. Isn't that weird?

I was starting to think you weren't gonna come.

I'm sorry.

I had to water the football field down at the high school.

Forgot all about it. - You did?

-Forgot all about what? -I forgot about the watering.

I was halfway here when I remembered.

There you go.

I thought you forgot about her.

Oh, no.

How far was halfway?

Excuse me?

How far was it when you were halfway here?

I don't know. I guess a couple of miles or so.

A couple of miles? A couple of lousy, stinking miles?

You wanna know how many miles I came?

You wanna know?

-Huh? -Agh! I'm so sorry.

It's okay. We've been drinking a little bit.

She's in deep shit.

I'm gonna kill you.

What's the matter, May?

What? Nothing.

How come you had all the lights off?

Oh, yeah, we were gonna go out.

But you--

I mean, we were gonna go out and we were gonna come back.

No, no, no!

That's not what we were gonna do.

That's not what we were gonna do, Marty. No.

We were actually having a big argument about you.

About me? - Uh-huh.

We were in the middle of a big argument about you.

It got so heated up, we had to turn the lights off.

-He's just joking. -What was it about?

It was about whether or not you're actually a man or not.

Whether you're a man or just a guy.

See, she says

that you're a man. Did you know that?

Did you know that's what she calls you? A man.

No, I didn't know that.

Martin, I didn't call you a man. Just don't worry about it.

It's okay. I don't mind it.

Didn't we say we were going to the movies?

Yeah, sure. That's what I thought.

We drink on up and we go, okay?

I'll be back.

She's not mad or anything, is she?

I didn't mean to make her mad.

Huh.

What are you gonna go see, Marty?

I can't decide.

What do you mean you can't decide?

You're supposed to have all that worked out ahead of time, aren't you?

Yeah, but I'm not sure what she likes.

What difference does that make?

You're taking her out to movies, right?

Yeah.

You pick the movie. The guy is supposed to pick the movie.

The guy always picks the movie.

Yeah, but I don't wanna take her

to something she doesn't wanna see.

How do you know what she wants to see?

I don't. That's the reason I can't decide.

Uh-huh.

What if I take her to something she's seen before?

No, you missed the whole point, Marty.

The reason you're taking her out to the movies

isn't to see something that she hasn't seen before.

No? - No.

The reason you're taking her out to the movies

is you just wanna be with her, right?

You just wanna... be close to her, right?

Yeah, I guess. - Yeah.

You could take her just about anywhere.

After a while, you probably won't even have to take her out at all.

You can hang around here, save yourself a lot of money.

Yeah.

Oops. -What'|| we do here?

Well, you could...

You could... tell each other stories.

Stories? - Yeah.

-I don't know any stories. -Well, make 'em up.

That'd be lying, wouldn't it?

No. Only when you believe it's true.

If you already know it's a lie, then it's not lying.

You want a hand up off the floor? - No.

I like it down here. There's less tension.

You notice when you're standing up there's a lot more tension?

Yeah, I noticed it.

A lot of times when I'm working I'm down on my hands and knees.

What line of work do you follow, Martin?

Yard work, mostly.

Oh. You mean lawns and stuff?

Yeah, maintenance.

You do lawns on your hands and knees?

Well, edging. Trimming around the edges.

Oh, yeah?

Weeding around the sprinkler heads, stuff like that.

| get you

Yeah, I always noticed how much more relaxed I get

when I'm down on my hands and knees, close to the ground.

You can get down on your hands and knees right now

if you want to, Martin. I don't mind.

No, I'll stand, thanks. - Suit yourself.

You're just gonna get more and more tense.

Huh?

So you're May's cousin, huh?

Yeah. See that right there?

That's the result of tension, asking me that.

What?

Asking me if I'm her cousin. You know I'm not her cousin.

How would I know that?

Do I look like her cousin?

Well, she said that you were.

She's lying-

What are you, then?

You're really getting tense.

Maybe I just better go on.

No, wait. Martin, don't go.

Don't go, Marty.

It is blue and lonely out there in the black night.

I'll tell you what.

Let's go over to the bar and have us a little drink.

What do you say? Okay?

She gonna be okay?

Yeah. She's always okay.

She's just taking her time just to torture you.

How will she know where we went?

She knows. She's got a sixth sense.

Come on, Marty. Come on. There we go.

There we go. There we go.

What exactly is the matter with May anyway?

She's in a state of shock.

Shock? How come?

Well...

We haven't seen each other in a long time.

Me and her, we go back quite a way. High school.

Oh, really?

I didn't know that.

Yeah. A lot of miles.

So you're not really cousins, then?

Well, not really, no.

-You're her husband? -No.

No.

She's my sister.

Your sister? - Mmm-hmm.

Hmm. So you knew each other even before high school?

No. I never even knew I had a sister until it was too late.

How do you mean?

By the time I found out, we'd already...

you know, fooled around.

You fooled around? - Yeah. Mm-hm.

That's illegal, isn't it?

-Only if you get caught. -Hey. Who is this guy?

Is that true? She's really your sister?

Half. Only half.

-Which half? -The top half.

In horses, we call that the top side.

And the mare is what?

The mare is distaff.

Ain't that the bottom half? Distaff.

It's funny I should remember that.

You fooled around in high school together?

Yeah, sure. Everybody fooled around in high school.

-Didn't you, Marty? -No, I never did.

-Maybe you should have. -Not with my sister, anyway.

I wouldn't recommend that.

How could that happen? I mean...

Well, see...

Our daddy fell in love twice.

That's basically how it happened.

Once with my mom and once with her mom.

It was the same love,

it just got split in two, that's all.

How come you didn't know each other until high school?

He lived two separate lives.

Two completely separate lives.

He'd live with me and my mom for a while

and then he'd go and live with her and her mom.

Don't be too hard on me, boy.

It's happened to the best of us.

You never knew what was going on?

No.

Never knew. Neither did my mother.

-She knew. -She never knew.

She must have suspected something was going on.

Well...

if she did, she never let on to me about it.

Maybe she was afraid of finding out.

Or maybe she just...

loved him. I don't know.

He'd disappear.

Months at a time he'd disappear.

She never once asked where he went.

She was always glad to see him, though.

I remember,

me and her, we used to go running out of the house

to meet him as soon as we saw him

coming up in the old Studebaker driving across the fields.

It was a Willis.

I never owned a goddamn Studebaker.

It was a Willis Knight.

How did you finally find out

that she was your sister?

This went on for years, see.

Honey.

He kept disappearing and then reappearing.

And then, one clay, it stopped.

He just stayed home for a while.

He stayed in the house. He never went outside.

He just sat in his chair, staring.

Then he started going on these walks.

He'd go on these long walks

and he'd walk all clay and he'd walk all night.

Ellie!

He'd just disappear in the dark.

I remember watching him from my bedroom window.

He'd just disappear in the dark

with his overcoat on.

Where was he going?

Just walking.

I was making a decision.

And one night...

I asked him if I could go with him.

And he took me.

We walked straight out across the fields together.

I remember it was just ploughed

and our feet sank down in the powder.

The dirt came up over the tops of my shoes

and weighed me down.

I wanted to stop and empty my shoes out but he wouldn't stop.

He kept walking straight ahead.

I was afraid of losing him in the dark,

so I just kept up as best I could.

And we were completely silent the whole time.

We never said a word to each other.

We could barely see a foot in front of us

and these white owls kept swooping down out of nowhere,

hunting for jack rabbits,

diving right past our heads and disappearing.

We just kept walking silent like that for miles

until we got to town.

I remember seeing the old man through the glass door

of the liquor store as he paid for the bottle.

Three what? 3.12? - No, 3.33.

Three, thirty-three.

Have a good evening.

Then he came outside

with the bottle wrapped in a brown paper sack.

Wait a minute, what are you doing? Attacking me or something?

He opened the bottle up and offered it to me.

Before he even took a drink, he offered it to me first.

I took it and drank it and handed it back to him.

We just kept passing it back and forth like that

till we drank the whole thing dry.

Finally we reached this little white house

with a red awning on the far side of town.

We walked right up to the front porch

and he rang the bell.

I remember getting real nervous

because I wasn't expecting to visit anybody.

And then this woman comes to the door.

This real pretty woman with red hair.

And she throws herself into his arms

I'm not that kind of a guy.

And he starts crying.

He just breaks down right there in front of me.

I'll show you what kind of guy you are.

She's kissing him all on the face.

He's just crying like a little baby.

And then...

through the doorway behind them both, I see this girl.

She just appears.

She's just standing there staring at me.

And I'm staring back at her.

Can't take our eyes off each other.

It was like...

we knew each other from somewhere

but we couldn't place where.

But the second we saw each other, that very second...

we knew we'd never stop being in love.

Boy, you're incredible.

You're just unbelievable.

Martin comes all the way over here,

doesn't know you from Adam.

You start telling him a story like that.

Are you crazy?

Are you?

None of it's true, Martin.

He's had this weird, sick idea for years.

It's totally made up.

I don't know where he got it from. He's a bit nuts.

I don't know where he got it from,

but he's completely nuts.

She's a little embarrassed about the whole thing.

You can't blame her, really.

-Hand me a glass, please. -You heard that, huh?

Oh, yeah, I heard it.

I heard it, every word of it,

and I followed it very carefully.

He's told me the same story a thousand times

and it always changes. Always.

I never, ever repeat myself.

You do nothing but repeat yourself.

That's all you do. You go around in one big circle.

Round and round.

Did you think it was a story, Martin?

Did you think I made that whole thing up?

At the time you were telling it, it seemed real.

But now you're doubting it because she says it's a lie?

She suggests it's a lie

and, all of a sudden, you change your mind?

You go from true to false like that in a second? Huh?

Come on. Let's go to the movies.

Nobody is going to the movies.

There's not a movie in a hundred miles

that can match the story I'm gonna tell.

I'm gonna finish this story, okay?

Eddie--

You want to hear the rest of the story, don't you, Marty?

Sure, yeah.

Okay, good.

I'm dying to hear it myself.

Yeah.

You think this is gonna change something?

No.

Then what's the point?

It's absolutely pointless.

Why put everybody through this?

Martin don't wanna hear this bullshit and neither do I.

I know you don't wanna hear it.

Don't try and pass it off on me, Eddie.

You got it turned around.

You got it all turned around.

You don't even know which end is up any more.

I don't need either of you.

I don't need any of it.

'Cause I know the whole rest of the story.

I know exactly how it happened.

Without adding any little tricks onto it, Eddie.

-What does she know? -She's lying.

Want me to finish it for you, Eddie? Huh?

Want me to finish the story for you, Eddie?

See, my mother...

May?

My momma, the pretty red-haired lady.

She was. She was...

She was desperately in love with the old man.

Wasn't she, Eddie? You could see it in her eyes.

She was so obsessed with him

that she couldn't stand to be without him.

Even for a second.

So she kept hunting for him from town to town.

And following little clues he'd leave behind,

like a postcard, a motel matchbook.

He didn't ever leave anything simple behind.

Like a telephone number

or an address.

Because, you see, my mom was his little secret.

She hounded him.

Hounded him for years and years.

And he just kept trying to keep her at a distance.

'Cause, see, the closer these two separate lives,

these two separate kids,

these two separate women got together,

the more nervous he got.

And the more filled with terror

that these two lives would find out about each other

and his little secret would devour him whole,

just take him by the throat.

She finally caught up with him.

She just dulled him down.

I remember that clay when we got to that town

and she kept saying...

She was on fire, she was crazy. She kept saying

"This is it.

This is the place, May. This is the place."

And her whole body was trembling like this

as we were walking through the streets looking for this house.

I remember she was holding my hand so tight,

I thought she was gonna crush all the bones in my fingers.

She was so terrified.

She was so terrified she was gonna run into him by accident.

Because she knew she was trespassing.

She knew she was crossing into the forbidden zone.

But she couldn't help herself.

So we walked all clay in that stupid hick town.

All day.

Going up and down every street in all these neighborhoods,

looking in on every dumb family,

peering through all these open windows.

I remember it was exactly supper time

'cause everybody was sitting around the table

and they were having fried chicken.

That's how close we were to the window.

We could see what they were eating.

We could hear the voices

but we couldn't make out what they were saying.

But Eddie and his momma were talking

and the old man, he just sat there.

He didn't say nothing.

Did he, Eddie?

He just sat there in silence, eating his fried chicken.

Is she ever off the wall with this one.

You gotta do something about this.

The funny thing was, almost as soon as we found him,

he disappeared.

She wasn't with him but a couple of weeks.

He just vanished.

Nobody ever saw him after that, ever.

And Momma, she just turned herself inside out.

I couldn't understand it

'cause she grieved like somebody had died or something.

I just couldn't understand that.

'Cause I was feeling just the opposite.

See, I...

I was in love.

I remember I'd come home from school after being with Eddie,

and I was filled with this joy that...

And there she'd be.

She'd be standing in the kitchen

just staring at the sink.

And her eyes looked like a funeral.

I didn't know what to say to her.

I didn't even feel sorry for her.

'Cause all I could think of was him.

And all he could think about was me.

Isn't that right, Eddie?

We couldn't take a breath without thinking of each other.

We couldn't eat, couldn't sleep unless we were together.

Eddie's mom didn't know what was wrong with him.

But my momma...

My momma knew exactly.

Right down to her bones.

She went to Eddie and she begged him not to see me.

She went to Eddie's mom and begged her.

But Eddie's mother...

Eddie's mother blew her brains out, didn't she, Eddie?

She blew her brains right out.

Now, wait a second. Just a goddamn second here.

This story doesn't hold water.

You ain't gonna let her off the hook

with that one, are you?

That's the dumbest version I ever heard in my whole life.

She never blew her brains out. Nobody ever told me that.

Where in the hell did that come from?

Well?

Well, stand up.

Get on your feet now, goddammit!

I wanna hear the male side of this thing!

You're gonna represent me now.

You're gonna speak on my behalf.

There's nobody to speak for me now.

Get up.

Well, tell her, then.

Tell her what really happened.

It was your shotgun.

Same one we used to duck-hunt with.

Browning.

She'd never fired a gun in her whole life.

That was her first time.

Nobody ever told me that.

I was left completely in the dark on that one.

You were gone.

I was gone but somebody could have found me.

They could have hunted me down. I wasn't impossible to find.

You were gone.

Gone? I know I was gone, God damn you!

I was gone!

But I wasn't disconnected.

There was nothing cut off in me. Don't you forget that.

Everything went on just the same as it did before I left.

Nothing changed.

But your mother...

Your mother wouldn't give it up, would she?

She drew me to her.

She went out of her way to draw me in.

She was a force.

I told her I'd never come across for her.

I told her that from the very beginning.

But she kept opening up to me.

She kept...

See, she...

She kept opening up her heart to me, see.

You know, how could I turn her down

when she loved me like that?

How could I turn away from her?

We were completely whole.

What are you doing?

Speak to her! Bring her round to our side.

Make her see this thing in a clear light!

Stay away from her, now.

What the hell are you doing? Keep away from her!

You two can't come together.

You gotta hold up my end of this deal.

I got nobody now.

You can't betray me now.

You're my son.

I ain't staying. I ain't.

May?

"Hey, May! -

The whole place is burning down, May.

Wait a minute, May. May?

Do you need some help or anything?

I got a truck. I can drive you anywhere you wanna go.

Where are you going?

May?

You're not going with him, are you?

He's gone.

May?

May!