"♪" "[ Birds chirping ]" "Ruth." "Hey, Ruth." "Where are you going?" "Home." "Home's the other way." "Not mine." "Are you going back to your mom's?" "It's a 15-mile walk." "I know how far it is." "All right." "Well, then, I'll just walk with you." "You do whatever you want." "What I want to do is take you back to our house." "Why did you tell Freddy you were gonna strike out on your own?" "[ Chuckles softly ] I don't think I said that, but if I did, when I say, "on my own," I mean you and me." "I always mean you and me." "[ Chuckles softly ]" "Hey." "You gonna leave me?" "No, I'm not gonna leave you." "Nobody's leaving any... 'cause I will leave you first." "[ Laughs ] It's not..." "Funny." "I'm not gonna leave you." "You're not gonna leave me." "Because if you do, I'll just follow you." "I don't want to go to jail." "Not going to jail." "And that shack ain't a home." "Well, I'm working on it." "[ Sighs softly ] And I think I'm gonna have a baby." "We're gonna have a baby?" "[ Chuckles ]" "You're not mad?" "I'm not mad." "No, my mama will raise it." "[ Laughs ]" "♪ Can I steal a kiss?" "[ Mid-tempo music playing ]" "[ Laughs ] [ Singing indistinctly ]" "Stop it." "That tickles." "That's what you're supposed to do, is sing songs." "Just talk." "[ Music continues ]" "Are you tired?" "[ Train whistle blowing in distance ] [ Music continues ]" "Bluebird, bluebird. [ Laughs ]" "All right." "[ Train whistle blows in distance ]" "I'll be fine." "I'll be back in five minutes." "[ Police radio chatter ] We've got a little bit of a" "chase on our hands here..." "I tell you, walking into there, you feel like you're meeting the devil." "All cars for backup." "I repeat, all cars, all cars... any and all cars." "Shit." "All right." "Check, hon." "[ Sirens wailing ]" "[ Gunfire ]" "Ugh!" "[ Thud ]" "[ Gunfire continues ] Ugh!" "I'm hit!" "I shot someone." "I think I shot someone." "[ Sighs ]" "It's okay. [ Groans ]" "[ Breathing heavily ] Oh, my God." "Hey." "Hey." "I think I shot someone." "Oh, shit." "Give me the gun." "Give me the gun, Ruth." "[ Gun clatters ] [ Breathing heavily ]" "What are you doing?" "Listen to me." "We're gonna stand up and walk out there." "No." "Okay." "I'm gonna go first." "You come after me." "That's how it's gonna be." "No." "We can make it." "We can make it if we run." "We can't make it, Ruth." "Yeah, we can." "They're gonna shoot us." "If we stay in here, they're gonna shoot us right where we are." "No." "Please." "I'm gonna do it. [ Gunshot ]" "I'm not gonna do it." "I'm not going to jail!" "Shh." "You got to tell them I did everything." "Tell them that me and Freddy did everything." "You got a gun in your hands 'cause I put it there." "You tell them you were scared and I put it there." "I'm gonna be out in a blink, and I'm gonna come back." "All you got to do is wait for me." "I promise I'll come get you." "Just wait for me, okay?" "Just wait for me." "[ Typewriter keys clacking in distance ]" "So, I lost my boy." "And that leaves you..." "And Bob." "Only Bob don't got a choice." "I'm confused, Ruth." "I took you kids in, raised you and Bob like you were my own." "How do you go and do a thing like this?" "We were just doing what you taught us to do." "Is that a boy or a girl?" "Do you know yet?" "I don't know." "So, what do you want to do, Ruth?" "I'm gonna wait for him." "Dear Ruth..." "I dreamed about you again last night." "I guess I dream about you every night... and most days, too." "I hold your face in my mind." "I put your voice together in my head." "I think about your hair getting longer." "I think about your belly getting bigger." "I hear people talk about regret, but I haven't got any." "I don't think poorly on the things I've done." "We did what we did, and that is who we are." "They're gonna cross out this sentence before you get to read it, but I know you know what it says." "Every day, I wake up thinking today's the day I'm gonna see you, and one of these days, it will be so." "And until then, I'll keep writing you." "I'll write you every day." "And someday you'll get a letter from me, and you will look up, and it'll be me who's handing it to you." "And then we can forget about words, and I'll touch your face and I'll kiss you." "[ Breathing heavily, [ moaning ]" "[ Knock on door ] Bob muldoon, are you awake?" "Yeah." "You got a baby girl." "[ Footsteps depart ]" "And I'll take our baby girl in my arms..." "And we will ride off to somewhere... somewhere far away." "Hey." "Write to me soon, any chance you get." "Love, Bob." "[ Birds chirping ]" "Mommy." "Mommy." "Mommy." "Mommy." "Mornin'." "Mommy." "How'd you sleep?" "Good." "You hungry?" "No." "What's up?" "Come here." "[ Grunts ] Let's go back to sleep." "Mommy!" "Look what I found!" "What'd you find?" "Kitties!" "Where did these come from?" "I don't know." "How many are you?" "[ Kittens mewing ]" "You're just a tiny little thing." "Aren't you tiny?" "Where's your mama at?" "[ Mewing continues ]" "What are you crying for?" "Huh?" "Maybe he wants me." "What?" "Maybe he wants me." "Maybe he does." "But you still have two more bites." "[ Mewing continues ] "And the little horse ran and"" "ran, and foxes chased him, and he could hear them barking." "And the wolves ran after him, and he could hear them howling," ""but he knew they couldn't catch him."" "Bear." "Yeah, there's that baby bear." "Your daddy loves bears." "He used to wrestle with them." "He'd tackle them down." "He'd bop them on the nose." "[ Birds chirping ] [ Vehicle approaches ]" "[ Knock on door ] Sylvie, put your shoes on." "Okay. [ Kittens mewing ]" "Hey." "Morning, miss Guthrie." "I was hoping to catch you before work." "Is something wrong?" "I was hoping for a word." "How many cats you got?" "Four." "Yeah?" "What's this one's name?" "Willow." "[ Mewing continues ] He looks like a Jimmy to me." "[ Spoon clinking in distance ] How'd you get those cats?" "Get down." "Found them out back." "Oh, thank you." "Mama was long gone, I guess." "Well, you need someone to take a few of them off your hands?" "I can handle some kittens, at least. [ Mewing continues ]" "Like I said, uh..." "They're setting to get ready to call you down to the station, and, uh, it's gonna be all over the news later." "Thought best if you hear this from a friend." "Hear what?" "[ Crying ]" "Bob tried to escape five times already." "Did you know that?" "No, sir." "Well, maybe six times is the charm." "The boys he broke free with got caught trying to hop a train up near bartlesville, heading north." "Maybe Bob's doing likewise." "Maybe he's already long gone." "Maybe." "What do you think?" "I don't know." "Anybody asking about him... anybody at all?" "Nope." "What about those letters?" "Everyone read them before they even got sent." "They don't say anything." "You want to just bring them in anyway?" "I'll do whatever you want, but he won't come back." "He's not coming back for me if that's what you're thinking." "Ruth!" "Did she tell you anything?" "Did she tell you anything?" "No, gene." "She didn't say a damn thing." "I'm surprised." "I thought she'd like you better than me." "Let me have this one, huh?" "Well, hell, pat." "You're the one he shot." "I'm gonna let you catch the son of a bitch." "Yep." "Sorry I'm late." "She had to have a time-out." "She got in a fight with Miles." "Why did you get into a fight with those boys?" "They called me names." "You need to have a better reason than that." "Come on." "Upsy-Daisy." "Oy." "[ Insects chirping ] Evening." "Hi." "Hey, little girl." "Hi." "Don't you look pretty today?" "You got a birthday coming up, don't you?" "Well, you got your birthday list put together yet?" "You better get on that." "Get your mama to help you." "I heard the news." "Anything you want to talk about?" "Everyone thinks I got something to tell them." "I don't have a goddamn thing." "They say they traced him to" "Montana." "You think he's in Montana?" "I can make some phone calls, see what I can do about putting an end to all this." "I could put an end to all this right now all by myself." "All I'd have to do is..." "Tell the truth." "[ Thunder rumbles ]" "♪ Hey, little blue Jay, sing me a song ♪" "♪ About Santa Ana at the San Anton' ♪" "♪ Hey, blue Jay, can I steal a kiss ♪" "♪ Like they tried to steal a Cannon from Gonzales?" "♪" "♪ Bluebird, whistle Waterloo ♪ will you come to the bower" "I've shaded for you?" "♪ ♪ hey, little blue Jay, sing me a tune ♪ ♪ down way in Mexico, back in" "June ♪ [ Vehicle approaches ]" "[ Insects chirping, frogs croaking ]" "[ Water splashes ]" "[ Vehicle approaches ]" "[ Breathing heavily ]" "[ Birds chirping ]" "[ Engine idling ] Excuse me, ma'am." "Ma'am?" "Keep driving and stick to the highway." "Where are we, anyway?" "What?" "Where are we?" "What state are we in?" "Missouri." "Oh, Missouri?" "Gee." "I recognize you." "[ Train chugging ]" "[ Train whistle blows ]" "[ Chugging continues ]" "[ Mourning dove cooing ]" "[ Insects chirping ]" "[ Mid-tempo RB music playing ] Hey, how do you turn it up?" "On the side, there's a little, uh..." "[ Volume increases ] Yeah, that's it." "♪ And lonely nights, I think of people that I miss ♪" "♪ And every day, I think of others you might miss ♪" "Where you planning on going?" "A direction that hasn't been invented yet." "♪ ..." "The sound of..." "I don't know." "♪ I could never forget about you ♪ ♪ the good times and the bad so, uh... [ Ice clinking ]" "How'd you do it?" "Do what... get out?" "Yeah." "Is this how fellas are wearing their hair?" "[ Music continues ]" "Well, man, I just started walking, you know... just like I said I would." "[ Music continues ]" "[ Sighs ] And just walked out?" "Yep. [ Chuckles ]" "How's that work?" "Well, you know, the guards... they come by your cell every night..." "Sort of saying, "lights out" and rattling bars with their sticks." "And this one guard... he used to always joke and carry on with us." "And one night I said, "well, I"" "won't be seeing you much longer." "I figure I'll be out of here in about 10 days." He said, "how you gonna do it?"" "I said, "I'm gonna just walk right out the door."" "And he said they'd stop me." "And I said, "no, sir."" "I've got better things to do." And he said, "well, that's not how it works." And I said, "well, it only works that way 'cause you think it has to." "See, I've got a higher calling." "I've got a wife and a little girl who needs her daddy." And he asked me what I know about higher callings... says even if I do get out, I'm gonna have to answer to God and the devil for the things I done." "I tell him..." "Shoot." "I tell him..." "I tell him, "sir..."" "I used to be the devil." "Now I'm just a man."" "As the days tick by..." "10, 9, 8... and on the last day..." "The bars open up, and I walk right out." "News says you jumped off a work truck." "Yeah." "Well... [ Music continues ]" "[ Music stops ]" "Man, have you got anything to eat?" "I'm still a little bit hungry." "[ Sighs ]" "Well, I'll find something." "[ Sighs ]" "Have you seen Ruth lately?" "Nope." "It's been a while." "She don't live with her mama no more." "Got a new house." "A new house?" "Mm-hmm." "Skerritt's been looking after her." "He got her all set up." "Guess I should tell you got a call the other day asking about you." "Oh, yeah?" "What'd you tell 'em?" "I told them I hadn't seen you, which I hadn't." "[ Chuckles ] Didn't think I'd be seeing you so soon." "That's the truth." "[ Thunder rumbling ]" "[ Sighs ]" "[ Grunts ]" "I guess that's about... that's about what I owe you." "Where'd this come from?" "[ Bag zips ]" "All over." "Whose is it?" "[ Breathing heavily ] It's mine." "[ Bag zips ] [ Objects thudding, rustling ]" "Sounds like that wood's gone soft." "Yeah, I expect you're right." "More nails just won't hold it." "The whole gutter just comes off the house every time it rains like this." "You know, I go out there and nail it back up." "Next thing you know, it's back off." "Well, you can either do that or get more buckets." "[ Both laugh ]" "Yeah, I could do that." "That'd be easier in the short-term, for sure." "Then I'd have to haul that water out every time it rains." "I don't know." "Howdy!" "Howdy to you." "[ Mid-tempo country music playing ]" "Yeah, all this rain we've been having reminds me of that one march, it was." "We'd get 101/2 inches in a day." "Man." "Oh, my middle tank out there has gone dry, and the other two..." "say, can you tell me just what town we're in, exactly?" "This is meridian." "Okay." "See, we passed through" "Glen rose, but we didn't see a sign... didn't know if we'd gone too far, not far enough." "Well, that depends on where you're headed." "We're headed here." "You, uh, plan to hunt some deer?" "Thinking about it." "Anyway, it rained so much, it filled up them tanks, and my wife walked up there to check 'em the next day, and there was catfish lying' there." "That thing filled up, and it was spilling', and it had come out in the spill. [ Laughs ]" "Are these real?" "Come again?" "Are these real?" "You bet." "How old are they?" "Well, that pistol goes back 125 years." "You don't say." "[ Music continues ] See that scrap of paper there next to it?" "[ Sighs ]" "That there is a list..." "Of every poor son of a bitch who met his end at the barrel of it." "[ Music continues ]" "Sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me." "Yeah, probably is." "Can I help you gentlemen find something in particular?" "Nah." "Just looking around." "[ Music continues ]" "[ Vehicle door closes ] Is there any news?" "No, not today." "Uh..." "Figured you want these back." "They're just gathering dust." "You read 'em?" "No, ma'am." "Why not?" "Everyone else has." "They're not mine to read." "Can I ask you something?" "Mm, sure." "Do you mean what you said about Bob not coming back for you?" "Yeah, I did." "Well, I was thinking maybe you all'd want to get out of town until all this blows over." "You mean till he gets caught?" "Where would we go?" "Someplace safe." "Would you come?" "Someone would come with you." "I think I'll just stay here." "You know, I got to work, and sylvie's got her birthday." "We'll be just fine." "Yeah, sure." "She's gonna be 4." "Is that right?" "Yep." "Yeah." "What's she want?" "She wants a horse." "Like, a real horse?" "Yep." "Yeah?" "Where you gonna put it?" "[ Both laugh ]" "You know what?" "I know a man who... who could sell you one for... for not a bad price." "You do?" "I do." "I can't take care of no horse." "Well..." "No horse." "Maybe I could, uh... maybe I could bring her something." "Why?" "Well, I was just doing some cleaning, and..." "I-I may have a few deals just floating around that maybe, uh... maybe she'd take to, you know?" "Just..." "A few deals, huh?" "A few deals." "Dear Ruth..." "I don't know how to start this" "letter." "I have got a million things on my mind, and I need to get them out." "I know you know I am out, and I hope you know I am coming for you, just like I always said." "Just like I always said I was going to do, I am coming for you." "I wish I were standing at your side, whispering in your ear, but that's not so." "I came across the woods and mountains with no shoes on." "I traveled high and far, and now" "I am close." "I'm so close to you, I can almost reach out and touch your cheek." "[ Sighs ] [ Sighs ]" "[ Strumming chord ] [ Tuning string ]" "[ Strums chord ]" "[ Strumming chord ]" "[ Mid-tempo music playing ]" "[ Insects chirping ]" "Here you go, don." "[ Door closes ]" "You boys take it easy, now." "Well..." "Look at you, Bob." "Break out of parson and head straight back here." "Maybe not the smartest move." "Long as you don't turn me in." "Where's Miles?" "Miles is gone." "Gone?" "Gladys is gone, too." "It's just me now." "Well, who's running the show?" "No show to run... not anymore." "Didn't this belong to Freddy?" "Doubt it." "I remember playing with this." "And all those little Indians... have you got those Indians someplace?" "Anything of Freddy's is long gone." "Hmm." "What do you want, Bob?" "I was just wondering if you'd heard anything." "About what?" "About that local man who escaped from the penitentiary." "Gene dentler and a bunch of his deputies come over a few days ago for a chat." "I told them I could think of at least six sons of bitches who've got a mind to see you dead but that it'd be more fun to sit back and take bets on who gets you first." "You fucked over your share of people in your day." "Yeah, and then I got caught." "Not by them, you didn't." "Well, they might as well quit looking." "Old Bob muldoon's about to disappear." "And where's old Bob muldoon gonna disappear to?" "I'm thinking about settling down, build a little house, open a shop." "I don't know." "Get old." "Like you." "On your own?" "Oh." "So, I heard you bought Ruth a house." "I'm letting her stay in one of my old places." "It's got a big old yard where her little girl can play." "Hey, that's my little girl, too." "Man, I'll tell you [Chuckles] she's about cute enough to make you want to give up." "You did one thing right." "I'll give you that." "I do what I can to look after both of them." "Yeah." "Well, I guess I'll handle it from here." "Oh, you think so?" "Yes, sir." "Well, I'll tell you what." "You do whatever you want." "You take all your money and you get yourself as far away from here as you possibly can." "But you listen to me when I tell you..." "You leave those girls alone." "I can't do that." "Yeah, you can." "And why would I?" "Well, now, think about it," "Bob." "If you got any trouble coming your way..." "They sure as hell don't need that." "What trouble is that?" "You got out." "What more do you want?" "I want my family." "So do I. But I don't got it." "Now, this is how it works." "I will never hurt you more than" "I'm hurting you now." "I will never lay another hand to you or prick your finger or pinch your cheek." "I won't call the sheriff, and I won't tell them where you've been." "But if I hear that old Bob muldoon has been talking to Ruth Guthrie..." "You asked me about trouble." "I will make sure you got some." "[ Scoffing ] Freddy was the one who shot" "first that day." "Nobody would have gotten hurt if he hadn't done that." "Go on, Bob." "I got to unlock my door." "Get out of here before someone sees you." "Find yourself someplace safe." "[ Insects chirping ] Where are the keys?" "In the truck." "The keys?" "I'm gonna give her trouble?" "I'm gonna give her trouble?" "He thinks he can buy her a house?" "No, sir." "I don't think that's how it works." "Ruth will walk away from that house like it was on fire." "[ Tires screech ]" "Pen..." "I need a pen. [ Sighs ]" "Give me a pen." "[ Sighs ] No damn sense." "Excuse me." "Come here." "I was thinking..." "Maybe we could go on a trip..." "After your birthday." "What do you think about that... going someplace new?" "Just get in the car and drive and drive." "Be real fun." "[ Gunshots ] Hey!" "[ Boys shouting indistinctly ] Hey, hold on." "[ Shouting continues ]" "Let me see that." "Give it here." "[ Boys shouting playfully in distance ]" "[ Gunshot ]" "There you go." "Come on." "Go." "[ Chuckles ] [ Gasps ]" "[ Insects chirping ]" "What do you think about me closing' up... take you for a ride somewhere..." "Get away for a little bit?" "Hmm?" "[ Door opens, closes ]" "[ Pool balls clacking ] [ Indistinct conversations ]" "[ Sighs ] Hey, sweetie." "How you been?" "Just fine." "[ Man singing indistinctly ] Break the law or something?" "No." "I just hadn't seen you around in years, it feels like." "I stay put." "You want something to drink?" "No, sir." "Thank you." "We're looking for an old friend of yours." "I'm sure you heard the news." "Yeah." "Yeah." "A couple cops came by from Monroe's asking questions." "All right." "Have you seen him?" "Sure haven't." "Look, all right." "You mind if I take a look around?" "Billy, mind the bar?" "Hope we can make this quick." "Don't want to rile up my customers." "[ Sighs ] Haven't heard from him since last winter." "He sent me a letter." "You write him back?" "Nope." "Weren't you part of his old gang..." "Bob muldoon," "Ruth Guthrie, Freddy?" "Nope." "Got out of that racket." "Got myself this business." "[ Doorknob rattling ]" "Hell." "Left the darn key downstairs." "Well..." "Hold up." "[ Keys rattle ]" "[ Door bangs ] [ Hinges creak ]" "I'm gonna need to get back to the register before too long." "Been using it as a bookmark." "I guess I lost my place." "Ruth give it to you?" "She mailed it." "Asked me, uh... asked me to send it on to Bob." "You never did." "Like I said, I'm bad with correspondence." "How long ago?" "How old's the little girl?" "3, going on 4." "About that long, then." "Okay." "Uh, mind if I hang on to this?" "By all means." "I'm sure you'll call us if you hear anything." "Sure bet." "[ Chuckles ] Look at this." "This is the first thing you ever wore, the day you were born." "You were so tiny." "Look how small it is." "I brought you home, and you slept and slept for hours." "You were such a good little girl." "I'll bring this with us just because..." "We might need it someday." ""And the little horse picked up"" "his shoes and ran until he was out of the dark woods." "He came to the river where the fish had been." "The fish was gone now, and there was no one there to stop him from crossing." "He crossed the river and climbed" ""the hill, and before too long, he could see home."" "What's wrong, sweet girl?" "Why are you so quiet?" "Everything's gonna be fine." "You just wait and see, okay?" "[ Smooches ]" "Have you heard from Bob?" "[ Sighs ]" "Why don't you come in?" "No." "I know Bob's been around." "Will you see to it that he gets this?" "What is it?" "You can read it if you want." "I figure you will anyway." "If you see him..." "Can you tell him..." "Just... just give it to him." "Dear Bob..." "I hope you never get this." "I want you to come through that door, take us away just like you always said." "But you can't." "You can't come here... not right now." "And I can't go with you." "If you come here, they'll catch you." "If we go with you, they'll find us." "It can't end like that." "I can't let it end like that, not for us..." "And not for sylvie." "I can't let that happen." "So, we're gonna go." "If you come looking for us here, we'll be gone." "I'll go somewhere where no one knows who we are, or we can wait for the time to be right and the world to forget about us." "I don't know how to explain this any better, but I know you know what I'm talking about." "We've waited so long." "We've just got to wait a little longer." "Come find us." "I know you will." "I hope you will." "We'll find each other." "I love you so much." "I do." "It's time to wake up, baby girl." "[ Smooches ] Sweet pea..." "Good morning." "Happy Birthday." "[ Bird chirping ] [ Imitates bird chirping ]" "[ Wings flapping ]" "You seen him?" "We stopped by his girl's place." "Hartigan said to tell you something if we ran into you." "What's that?" "[ Chuckles ]" "Shit, I forgot." "Oh." "Let me tell you something." "You take that and do what you will." "And if you don't find him..." "That don't give you cause to come back here." "You understand?" "Don't think I'm washing my hands of all this." "And if you set foot in this town again..." "If you even think about bringing those girls into this..." "I'll kill you." "And that'll be that." "Dude." "[ Mid-tempo banjo music playing ]" "Warren Miller." "Who makes up the names?" "They ain't made up." "They're real folks." "I mean, they're dead, but..." "They're real." "Oh, really?" "Mm-hmm." "So I'm told." "Ruth and sylvie, too?" "Yep." "Nobody's gonna be asking after us?" "Not anymore." "[ Blows ] Good job." "You make a wish?" "What did you wish for?" "I'm not telling." "All right." "You keep your little secret, huh?" "[ Insects chirping ]" "How do I look?" "You look like you." "Then that'll do." "The way I see it, I didn't waste my time." "You remember old Joe cranston?" "Yep." "Remember that time he and I went up to St. Louis?" "Mm-hmm." "He spent about three hours getting prettied up before we got in the car to go up there." "I said, "Joe, what are you"" "doing?" He said, "well, in case anything happens to me, I want to make sure my mama can recognize me."" "So he put on this coat he had when he was 12 years old, and he tried to button it up, and he was a big old boy, and it ripped right out the back." "And he kept that thing on all the way up to St. Louis and back down to Texas." "He looked like a damn raggedy Ann." "And when we got back, I said, "Joe, you know your mama would have recognized you if something happened to you."" "He said, "yeah, 'cause I had my coat on."" "I mean, he didn't get it." "You see, people... they don't know things the way that they think they know them." "[ Music continues ]" "Sylvie... she's gonna know me." "She'll know me without looking at me." "And Ruth... by God, she'll feel me coming down the street." "I mean, we always just been..." "You know, just two parts of the same." "I mean, we would fight, and we'd fight like two kids with a ball." "And she'd rip through the house like she was on fire, and I'd just want to hold her." "[ Chuckles ] I'd just want to hold her." "But she'd be yelling and flapping around so quick, it was like a hummingbird." "I'd say, "Ruth..."" "You can scream at me till your voice is gone..." "But it doesn't make much difference..." "Because when you're all done screaming..." ""It's just gonna be you and me sitting here in a room."" "And she said, "that's right." "It's always just gonna be the"" ""two of us." [ Music continues ]" "Look how pretty that is." "You like that?" "Happy Birthday. [ Smooches ]" "Well, there's, uh, one last..." "Surprise, I suppose." "You know how to open these?" "[ Latches click ]" "All right." "Let's open her up." "Yeah." "Okay." "So, this was mine when I was about your size." "Let's see how it looks on you." "Say hi to Ruth for me?" "I'll tell her." "I guess I hope I never see you again." "[ Engine turns over ]" "[ Music continues ] ♪ ..." "My love to the day" "♪ my precious little goodbye ♪ stay [ indistinct conversations ] [ Glasses clinking ]" "[ Liquid pouring ] ♪ well, I hollered up into the night ♪ ♪ and I hollered up into the day ♪ ♪ and from that big black hole come running down ♪ ♪ back every word that I would" "say ♪ ♪ forever mine has gone away" "♪ away [ Rhythmic clapping ]" "[ Music continues ]" "[ Engine revving ] [ Engine revving," "[ tires screech ]" "[ Tires screech ] [ Metal tings ]" "[ Engine revs ] [ Music continues ]" "[ Music stops ]" "How's a dog sound?" "Ruff, ruff." "Ruff, ruff?" "Try that." "[ Strums chord ] Ruff, ruff, and then go back to cat. [ Strums chord ]" "Try that." "♪ and some will travel 'cross the land, looking for their love ♪" "One more time. [ Strums chord ]" "♪ Others gaze upon the sea and search the sky above ♪" "♪ But count me not among them ♪ as I was before" "♪ now I go wandering ♪ wandering no more" "♪ I shall go wandering no more, my lord ♪" "♪ I shall go wandering no more you are all the treasure ♪" "♪ That I've been searching for ♪ I shall go wandering no more" "♪ I shall go wandering no more why don't you hang on to this?" "Maybe in a week or so, I'll check back in with you, and maybe you'll play me a song." "How's that?" "No." "No?" "I'm going on a trip tomorrow." "A trip?" "Is that right?" "Mm-hmm." "She's great." "You all right?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "[ Engine turns over ]" "What are you doing here?" "Well, I didn't mean to wear out my welcome." "No." "I just want to know." "Just happy to be here." "[ Sighs ] You're planning on leaving?" "Yes, I am." "All right." "You know where you're headed?" "No, I don't know yet... just away from here." "Well, if you need any help..." "I don't need anything." "I appreciate the invitation, and I bid you good night." "Good night." "[ Sighs ] [ Bell clanging in distance ]" "[ Train whistle blows in distance ]" "Ruth. [ Sighs ]" "I want to tell you something." "This has been, uh, weighing on me for some time." "Uh..." "When I was in the hospital," "I wasn't, uh..." "I wasn't sitting there making plans or anything." "You know, I got nothing against Bob." "And what happened..." "I mean, that's the risk." "That's... that's part of my job." "And beyond that, I don't hold it against him to be who he was or do what he was doing, and I still don't." "I'm glad to be alive." "I'm glad to know you." "And if you weren't who you were and had never been with him and somehow we had still come together right here, right now, I wouldn't feel any different." "Do you understand?" "You remember that day?" "I remember getting shot." "I remember feeling like I'm getting punched in the shoulder, seeing the big old Texas sky." "I remember that, but, uh..." "Did you see me?" "No, ma'am." "Did you hear what I said after?" "I read your statement." "It wasn't all true, you know." "I wasn't just a little girl who got dragged in over her head." "I knew what I was doing." "Well..." "I think that, uh..." "A lot of things were said that might not have been true." "But you did what you did." "So did he." "And whatever it is you've done, when I see you with your daughter..." "All I see is good." "Maybe I'm just fooling you." "Are you?" "[ Footsteps stomping [ rhythmically ]" "[ Rhythmic clapping ]" "[ Gun cocks ] [ Gunshot ]" "[ Gun cocks ] [ Gunshot ]" "[ Gun cocks ] [ Gunshots ]" "[ Bullets ricocheting ] [ Drum beating rhythmically, clapping continues ] [ Gunshots, ricocheting [ continue ]" "[ Child shouting ]" "[ Man screams ]" "Ugh!" "[ Gunshots ]" "Ugh!" "[ Gunshots ]" "[ Grunting ] [ Gunshot ]" "[ Gun cocks ] Wait." "Wait, God damn it!" "[ Gunshot ] [ Clapping and beating [ continue ]" "[ Breathing heavily ]" "[ Screams ] [ Gunshot ]" "[ Whoops ] [ Screams ]" "[ Gunshot ] [ Clapping and beating [ continue ]" "[ Engine turns over ] [ Gunshot ]" "Ugh!" "[ Gunshot ]" "Ugh!" "Ugh!" "[ Gun cocks ] [ Gunshots ]" "[ Clapping and beating continue ]" "Ugh. [ Gunshot ]" "[ Breathing heavily ] God damn it." "You shot me." "Why'd you shoot me?" "I've never even seen you." "No, sir." "[ Grunts ] What's this about... money?" "You... it's about you." "You and the girl." "Everything you tried to do." "[ Grunting ]" "You gonna shoot me?" "[ Grunting ]" "[ Breathing heavily ] [ Grunting continues ]" "[ Truck door closes ] [ Grunting continues ]" "[ Gunshots ]" "[ Gunshots continue ] I don't want you to think I owe you anything." "No, you don't." "The only person I owe anything to is Bob." "That's not so." "I've been storing things up all this time..." "Sitting awake at night, thinking of all the things I want to say to him." "Except now I have so many things, I don't know how I'd ever start." "All I had was sylvie and I." "I didn't know how to write about her." "How do you write about something like that?" "I remember the day she was born." "I was so scared, and I tried to keep her from coming, but she came anyway." "And when they put her in my arms..." "[ Engine sputtering ] Ugh!" "We just stared at one another, and I thought I would die from all that love." "And I tried to write to him about it so he'd know what it was like, but... but I just couldn't find the words to do it right." "So, I just stopped... stopped writing to him." "I figured that I'd just tell him all at once when I saw him." "He'd walk through the door, and I'd know exactly what to say to him, and things would be the way they used to be." "That's why I've been saving every little thing." "And I haven't slept in four years..." "And I'm tired." "I'm just so goddamn tired." "Then rest." "Will you wait with me while I do?" "[ Bird chirping ]" "[ Music blaring on radio ]" "Are you all right?" "Okay?" "Hey, what are you... what are you doing?" "Drive, man." "Drive." "Please, just take the keys." "Step on the gas, man!" "Step on the gas!" "[ Tires screech ]" "[ Engine revving ] All right." "And just stick to the highway." "When you get to highway 6, you turn right." "I-I'm just trying to go see my family, okay?" "I'm just trying to get home." "I ain't gonna put up a fight." "I'll do whatever you want." "I just want to make sure I get home to them." "I just want you to drive." "[ Mid-tempo country music [ playing ] What's your family?" "What?" "What family have you got?" "You have a wife and kids?" "No." "No, I'm going to see my parents." "Your parents?" "Mom and dad?" "Yeah." "[ Groans ] What's your name?" "Will." "Will's your name?" "Yeah." "Will, do you have anything to drink?" "No." "You don't?" "Unh-unh." "Shoot." "I could go for some water." "[ Music continues ] You need to... you need to go to a hospital or something?" "No, man." "Just stay on the highway." "Turn at highway number 6." "Yes, sir. [ Breathing heavily ]" "[ Music continues ] Well, I guess you can tell I got shot." "Yep." "[ Breathing heavily ] These men came looking for me." "They wanted to put me under." "Somebody sent them, and they came from somewhere, and they got me." "They got me pretty good." "They didn't get me good enough." "[ Breathing heavily ] [ Music continues ]" "See..." "Ohh." "Tell your daddy who you gave a ride to today." "Okay." "Who?" "What?" "Who are you?" "[ Breathing heavily ]" "[ Birds chirping ]" "[ Gunshot ] [ Gun cocks ]" "[ Gunshot ] Hey!" "Drop it!" "[ Gunshot ]" "[ Exhales sharply ] [ Breathing shallowly ]" "It's all right. [ Sighs ]" "You remember... [ Sighs ]" "Remember the first run you ever did for me?" "Huh?" "Heh." "You and Freddy." "The very first one." "Nah, I never did nothing for you, sir." "You both thought you were so tough." "[ Sirens wailing in distance ] You were little boys." "Ohh. [ Wailing continues ]" "[ Sighs ]" "I want to go home." "I was on the line with Morgan" "10 minutes ago... told him how it happened." "No, no, no." "You get 'em back on the phone 'till they come down here." "I don't know who did what to who." "Did you get an I.D. Yet?" "No." "I mean, yeah, but he was just some son of a bitch up near burleson." "Who knows?" "Skerritt went out like a sucker, huh?" "I'm gonna take Ruth on home." "No, I got Teddy doing that." "Yeah, I'm gonna take her." "Wait here." "[ Whispers indistinctly ]" "[ Sighs ]" "It's okay." "It's okay." "It's okay." "[ Breathing heavily ]" "I'm gonna call an ambulance." "[ Sighs ] I've been waiting for you." "[ Singing indistinctly ] [ Laughs ]" "Stop it." "That tickles." "I thought that's what we're supposed to do... sing to 'em." "Just talk." "Well..." "Let me tell you about something." "I'm gonna tell you about the future." "In the future, I'm a very old man." "And I'm standing in the door." "We're in a house." "It's our house, somewhere far away from here, where everything is green and the sun is almost set." "And where we're standing, the way I see it, we're waving to somebody." "And maybe that somebody is you, come to see us after a long time gone." "If it is you..." "We are very happy to see you." "Hey, sweetie." "[ Moans ] [ Exhales sharply ]" "[ Speaks indistinctly ] [ Sniffles ]" "[ Whispering indistinctly ]" "Tell me more about that house." "I'm not talking to you." "[ Chuckles ]" "It's big..." "Maybe a farm." "It's old." "It's older than us." "At the same time, though, I feel like maybe I built it." "There's no telling." "There's just no telling." "[ Slow music plays ]" "[ Tempo increases ]" "[ Music continues ]" "[ Music fades ] [ Mid-tempo acoustic-guitar" "[ music plays ] ♪ left your home at 23" "♪ suitcase full of gin ♪ thought you had the perfect getaway ♪ ♪ stole yourself across the hills ♪ ♪ you stole, you stole again" "♪ now the lights don't shine 'cause you're away ♪" "♪ You stuffed that suitcase full with dirty $100 bills ♪" "♪ Leaving for another holiday" "♪ found yourself surrounded by the city's finest clowns ♪" "♪ Now the lights don't shine while you're away ♪" "♪ Must have been a memory put you out to sea ♪" "♪ You were never one for big displays ♪" "♪ Well, the devil seems to think these complications suit you well ♪ ♪ 'cause the lights don't shine while you're away ♪ [ Guitar solo ]" "♪ Starin' at that picture in your mama's dining room ♪" "♪ Taken just before your birthday ♪" "♪ She keeps asking if I know when you'll be coming home ♪" "♪ 'Cause the lights don't shine while you're away ♪"