- You got it this time, all right?
You ain't gonna do me like that today.
Not today, Betsy. Not today, Betsy.
- God I just, I just love you, God,
and I thank you from the bottom of my heart
for this food today.
I pray for Ma, I pray for Pa.
I pray for Mary and Eli, too.
Amen.
- Saw the damndest thing this morning.
Can't shake it.
It's difficult because the sheer magical nature of it.
But uh,
I was up early on account of my leg and uh,
went ahead on downstairs and out the window,
just as the sun broke on the horizon,
I see,
I see this little man.
And by little, I mean no bigger than a half a foot or so.
And he's wearing this green suit
and he's got these funny shoes that curled up at the tips.
And then this little man, he just up and start dancing.
He's dancing in place.
A jig, a jig is what you'd call it.
He's just jigging away, faster and faster
and then he just up and stops.
- Then what happened?
- Well, he squats down all low.
He drops his drawers.
His face squench up.
And then it happened.
- Pa, what happened?
- He shat out a rainbow out his little ass.
He shat it out all bright and beautiful,
pulled up his drawers and run off.
Ain't that something?
- You know, listen Pa, you know that ain't happen.
Leprechauns don't exist.
- Yeah well, you think God exists
and you're ignorant enough to believe that.
I suppose ignorant was a poor choosing of my words.
It's a bad judgment, that's all.
You come with me tomorrow.
Would you like that?
You can drive.
- Ah.
- We've resurfaced most of the main roads,
even put in that new filling station.
I'm sure you've seen that.
- Biggest one I ever saw.
- Biggest one he ever saw.
- Well, you being an assemblyman here in town and all,
we're gonna be perfectly candid here.
Now, your town is all but dead.
Now the only thing keeping it together
is our company's interests.
See, it all goes hand in hand with our plans
to harvest oil from the shale.
Let's just cut to the chase here, Mr. Gentry.
Any help we can get in acquiring those outlying properties,
Well, we'd see that as a real asset.
- We're prepared to offer generous commissions.
- Well.
This is Willow Road, that's the Graham property.
That'll be a tough sell.
- Most have a price.
- We have drafted some offer letters
for all the parties involved.
I'm sure you will find that the offers for compensation
are much more than market value.
- That place has a bad history.
- Is that right?
- Mm-hm.
Anybody left around here can tell you about it.
Something awful come about.
- Cat's left that bag, Mr. Gentry.
- Well,
sometime back, we're talking decades now,
the wife, her name was Miriam,
people around here called her Mim.
Real big in the church.
Always made sure her twins and the youngest boy, Tommy,
were present and dressed proper.
Real saint of a woman.
God tested being married to a man like Josiah Graham.
This particular Sunday, Mim was nowhere to be found.
Wasn't like her.
Tommy, he was especially close to his mother,
he kept looking at the church door,
trying to catch some sight of her.
Never seen a boy so lost.
He run out mid sermon.
Figured he'd gone to fetch her.
Found her hanging from that old oak tree,
swinging dead from the neck.
Left to right.
People say that, that property,
I mean town folk.
They swear it's haunted.
The ghost walks that farm at night.
Some say it's her.
Oh it's just town folk talk, really.
- That's some story.
- Seeing as how you guys need a friendly face
to help in acquiring that Graham property,
figure any commissions gonna have to be very generous.
- You got money, boy?
- I got that $10 that Mary sent.
- 10 whole dollars?
Well I can't figure if that makes you or Mary rich, then.
- It's for my birthday.
- For your birthday.
- Eli, he didn't, he didn't send nothing.
- If Eli had anything to send,
he'd probably whore it or gamble it away.
First step that boy took was a mud pile of trouble.
Get that outta your head, boy.
- Tanner's my friend.
- You ain't got no friends.
Don't you see him no more.
You know what that woman say?
Mrs. Tate.
She say I should keep that retard of mine
locked up in the basement.
She say she gonna sick that dog of theirs loose on you,
you ever try to see that boy again.
She think you the village idiot.
Good for nothing simp.
That's what she think, all right.
- She can see anything she want.
- Witch of a woman.
- Hmm.
- Pst.
- Tanner.
Tanner, Tanner.
Come on, we gotta go.
You wanna get the magazine?
- Come here, boy!
Hey!
I got the leprechaun jiggy going!
Hey boy, look!
I'm a leprechaun!
Ah yeah! Happen every same damn time.
Come on, Pa...
No, you better not fall, Pa. No.
Oh God, Pa! No, you can't fuckin' do that now.
- Here you go.
- Pa.
Pa, you,
Pa, you gonna spill this.
Hold on.
Pa, you gonna spill that.
Let me get that for ya.
There you go.
Get you ready for bed now.
Come on, you gotta wake up.
Pa, you gotta wake up.
Pa, wake up.
- I wanna ask you something.
What is it you watching for
outside your window come nightfall?
- Oh, Pa it's,
Pa, I ain't lookin' at nothin'.
- Ah, don't you lie to me.
- You ever see her, Pa?
- See who?
- Ma.
- She ain't out there.
- Pa, I swear, people been talking out there.
- She ain't out there.
- Pa, people say it.
That's what they been saying. - She ain't out there.
- But they were, that they.
You can say what you want to say to me.
- It's important you awake.
It's important you understand what I need to tell you.
Son,
whatever bad you got inside you, come from me.
And everything good, it come from your mother.
- I done nothing wrong, Pa.
- I know you think that and I know this is hard for you,
but what's important is, is we've been shown the way.
We've been given a way to wash away our sins
and make peace with God.
- You don't believe in God, Pa.
So.
- Last night something happened.
Something you been trying to tell me all this time.
Something I've denied for years.
God,
God watches us.
And your mother,
your mother's in the hellfire.
She killed herself, so she wasn't there for you.
So she burns.
She suffers.
And we gonna burn, too.
- You lying to me.
- I am a liar, and I've been a fool, but not no more.
Last night, your mother,
she come to me and she stood at the foot of my bed
and she told me that you've been right all along.
She walk out there at night.
- Why I never seen her?
I never seen her, Pa.
- Well she seen you.
She sees you watching from that window.
And she wanna come to you, too.
She said she want to come to you.
She to say, you ain't ready yet.
She say that we gotta right our ways,
and she gonna send somebody to guide us.
But they gonna come to me, and me only.
And she say, if we right our ways,
and we right a great wrong, that we could save her.
We can save your mother, boy.
She say she love you.
She say she loves you the best.
Lord, we are grateful for a whole mess of things.
We're especially grateful
for the chance to right our wrongs.
We,
please get this strength to Eli and Mary
and we'll pray for them, too.
Lord forgive us, amen.
- Amen.
- Mama.
Mom, is that you?
Pa, did you, did you see her?
- I did.
She weren't alone.
Whatever she was with, it spoke without saying a word.
- Oh yeah?
- I knew what it say,
it's like this voice come up inside me.
It say, your mother,
she can't keep hidden from these demons.
And that, and that we got chores we gotta do.
First and foremost of which,
we gotta spit shine this house, top to bottom.
Take pride in ourselves, where we lay our heads.
That sit right?
- And Ma, she say anything for me?
- She ain't do no talking, but that angel,
if that what it were, say he got a chore special for you.
Say we need to take care of things around here first,
and then you do what need be done then.
- Okay, Pa.
- Ain't that somethin'?
- Yeah, boy!
I'm noticed it!
- Leave it be.
- No morning tea?
- Not no more.
- Okay.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not to temptation.
Pa, where you at?
Pa?
God damn it, I know exactly what to tell you, Pa.
Pa?
You God damn.
Pa, ain't gonna believe what I seen out there, Pa.
I just done fixed Betsy.
She up and running.
Pa, them Eli's, he left them here.
- Yet they under your bed.
Well, you only human.
Eli human, too.
Come on in here.
Sit down, come on.
Ain't no shame in looking.
God made women.
He gave man sight.
Pick one of them up.
Go on.
Flip it open.
Yeah, find yourself a pretty one there.
Oh yeah, she's a beauty.
Look at her.
You like them bumps and curves?
What is God's hand?
Temptation's the work of the devil,
but resolve,
that's God's hand.
This bringing you back.
Bringing you back to when Eli,
he took you out there in the shed and,
he showed you what's what.
- That was long time ago, Pa.
- Yeah, well that's 'cause you show resolve.
Yeah, ain't nothing wrong with looking at whores, no sir.
You look at whores all you want.
As long as you got resolve.
But a man only has to ride a bicycle one time
and he know how to do it twice.
Go on there and take it out.
- No Pa.
- Come on now.
- I don't want you to touch me there.
- Pull it out!
Pull it out.
- Pa, please.
- You pull it out. - Pa, please.
- Pull it out now.
Pull it out.
You know you can, you pull it out.
- Please, I'm begging you, Pa.
- Pull it out, boy.
You take it out.
You get over here and you take it out.
You take it out now.
It's not time for you to be no sissy boy.
You take it out now.
You show me you're a man.
Show me how you do it.
Show me how you ride that bicycle.
And I want you to go real slow,
and you let me see how it's done,
and you make me proud.
Yeah, that's right, that's right.
Yeah, look at them dirty pillows.
Oh yeah.
All right, now slow down, slow down.
Don't go too fast.
Take it easy.
Take it easy, I want to see how you do it.
All right now, you finish up and get it done.
God is watching you right now and you a sinner in his eyes.
You got to atone and you're going to have to atone,
and we're gonna walk down that path together,
for your mother.
Your mama love you.
And you finish up, boy.
You finish up, get it done!
- The light that appeared with your mother,
say there's something else needs to be doing.
Says I need to wait till dark to tell ya.
- It's dark now.
- No man or woman judges.
God's got something he wants done, boy.
- I liked that song.
You could've just unplugged it.
- You got that thing you said you got?
- Careful with that, it ain't been cut yet.
That'll drop an elephant as is.
Kind of makes you a prostitute, doesn't it?
- There are worse things to be.
- Do you even remember my name, lover?
- Yeah, it's Jenny.
- It ain't.
- Shit.
You a couple weeks early!
- Well, I like to stay sociable.
Breakfast of champions.
- Hooch ain't why you're here.
- Get up.
Turn around.
Put 'em together like you're praying.
- All right, easy now.
Come on.
God damn.
- Nine year old girl went missing last week.
Little ways outside of Austin.
- Well this ain't a little ways outside Austin.
- It's close enough.
You're on my list.
You know anything about a nine year old girl gone missing?
- The only thing I know
is you're gonna make me late for work.
- Life ain't hard enough for you?
Words out that you're gambling again and you're in deep.
Drinking, whoring.
How many violations you think I need to put you back inside?
The answer is none.
I get one crooked hair up my ass and you are done.
- You know, I got some Prep H inside the trailer,
you can help yourself.
- You're funny.
Don't worry about being late for work.
I had a talk with your boss, man.
He was all sorts of unaware about you being a nonce.
That's what I called it.
He didn't know what it was.
So I explained to him,
that's what they call child fuckers in prison.
- That girl was 16, she's boozing up in a bar.
She told me otherwise.
You wouldn't know it by looking at her.
All that, that was five years ago.
I did my time for that.
Come on, you know that.
- Only thing I know is a crossed line
is awfully hard to step back over.
- You best go toss it.
- Oh yes, sir, I'll do that.
You move an inch off your throne, I'll shoot you dead.
Nonce.
- Hey.
Here to see Boone.
- Logan ain't seeing you, Eli.
- I don't need Logan, I want to talk to Boone.
- Well, you know this.
You want to see Boone, you gotta go through Logan.
Let me check.
Hey Logan, Eli's here to see Boone.
Tell him to fuck himself, Billy?
- He says go fuck yourself, Eli.
- Hey, I got, I got money.
- He says, he's got money.
- Yeah, he always says he's got money.
Tell him to fuck himself, Billy.
- He seems resound, Eli.
- Know what man, I'm fucking, fuck you.
I'm not doing this shit.
Hey, you fucking dope.
- Shit.
- Put it away.
You boys done blowing each other?
- Eli wants to see you.
- No shit.
Come on then, hey, come on.
- God damn it, man.
Can't make a bloody Mary to save your life.
- You're the only one that drinks them.
- Have a seat, Eli.
I apologize Sheriff, where were we?
Oh, he's no bother.
Eli, I'm gonna give the Sheriff here
an envelope full of money.
There's a little bit extra in there, Sheriff,
on account of your anniversary.
Sheriff's been married 40 years.
God bless.
Sheriff, always a pleasure.
- Eli, is it?
- You owe me money, of the substantial variety.
Four hundred and eighty dollars?
You're in for a mess more than that.
- Forgot, you know, I got something else.
That ain't even been cut yet.
That's worth two grand, at least.
- You just toss smack on my desk?
Did you just toss smack on my desk?
Do I have to ask the fucking question again?
- All right.
- I'm gonna have you killed, Eli.
Dead and buried.
And there won't be a soul in the world who'll give a shit.
- I'll work it off.
I'll work off the debt.
I'll tend bar.
I'll even clean the shitters, you know, I'll do--
- You want me to put you on the payroll?
Well you might as well start
by hitting me in the dick with a hammer.
'Cause that'd be about as appealing to me.
- I'll get it.
I'll get you the money.
- Forgetting immediate unpleasantries committed,
you getting me my money
is the general nature of the conversation
we're about to have.
You ever hear of Romani.
Gypsies.
From Germany, Romania, wherever, over there.
Most come after the second World War.
Jews got the bum wrap, sure,
but Hitler's boys, they killed communists and radicals.
Gimps, retards and queers.
Generally anyone they disagreed with, or couldn't trust.
Gypsies being part of that congregation.
You know why Nazis pulled Jew teeth?
'Cause Jew teeth had gold fillings,
and them Nazis took their share.
Little here, a little there.
Bunch of gold adds up over the years.
Them Gypsies comes through these parts each year,
with a carnival.
They pitch their tents and then move on.
And this part of the story
is the part you best pay attention to,
'cause it's a fact, Jack.
A week back, a man sat downstairs,
got himself drunk at my bar.
Kept going on about them Gypsies.
Said he was one of those Romani.
Told that tale about Jew gold,
and how this clan, these carnies,
were sitting on 10 bars of it.
Said for the right price,
he might know where they stash it.
They pitch their carnival tents
on a lot I got down by the rail yard, just outside Odessa.
You're goin' with Logan and Billy
to see if that gold story's true.
- You gotta be shittin' me.
- I got all sorts of friends
collecting all sorts of envelopes.
Clear your markers.
Have that record of yours wiped clean.
New start for you.
Or I kill you right here and now.
- Gypsies, huh?
- Go figure.
Three of you,
going over to Odessa, coming back with Jew gold.
You fuck it up,
those two gonna take another initiative.
- They say if a dog howls for no reason,
there's trouble coming.
Gypsy lore.
Lightening without rain, these are omens.
- That's just heat lightening.
- Yeah?
Well,
I find it best to be educated, so let's see.
They navigate by moonlight.
If it's obscured, they stay put.
They never get married if a shoe falls out of a tree,
and crows are bad luck.
They put a curse on everything.
- How would a shoe fall from a tree?
- Well, it must have happened at some point
if they're deciding something like marriage on it.
- Whoop-de fucking do, are we gonna do this shit or what?
What are we waiting for?
- All right, tenderfoot.
Now remember, we go in, we have a few drinks,
then Logan and I will close out the tab.
Now this is their last night, so they're gonna be partying.
As soon as they're good and sauced up,
Logan and I will go after the gold,
you keep them distracted.
- You know where it's at?
- Well that's none of your business, Eli.
You ain't gotta do shit but sit, drink,
and entertain the pretty girls.
That's all we need from you.
Can you do that?
- I thought it was the beer.
Howdy. - Hey.
- We're looking for Marco.
- Boone's guys.
- That's right.
- Come on in.
Welcome, gentlemen.
Eh, a little fiesta before we leave town tomorrow.
- Yeah, this is great.
- You guys want beer?
Beer? - Please.
- Towne, beer for everyone, please, come on.
- So you're Marco.
- I am, yes.
- So you're having a little party?
- Oh yeah.
- Take a seat.
- Is that your sister?
- No no no no.
Dude, watch out.
- Here we go, come on, Towne.
There we go.
Everybody get a beer. - Thank you.
- Follow me in the back, gentlemen.
- Whoa Eli!
- You're cute. - Eli, I'll be back.
Got my eye on you.
- Can I help you with something?
- What are you doing here?
- Doing some business.
- Just doing some business.
That's it.
- Yeah.
- Good.
That's good.
- What's your fucking problem, huh?
- Roy Roy, Marco wants to see you.
Now!
Sorry about that, he's kind of a bad drunk.
Here, please.
- I already got one.
Thank you.
- I'm Gina.
- Hey.
Where'd you learn to dance like that?
- It's very traditional in my culture.
Taught very young.
- I never seen it before.
- Maybe you'll have to try.
I could teach.
- I don't think I could ever learn to do that,
hand, you know, whatever that was, the leg shaking stuff.
- I'd love to see you do this.
So what are you doing here?
- Just finishing up some business.
With uh, whatever, boss man is in there.
- Did you get a chance to take part in the festivities?
- No.
- Shame, we leave tomorrow.
- Maybe I'll catch you on the next one.
- All right.
Ever seen a medium before?
- What?
- Fortune teller.
- Oh no, no.
I, I don't have much fortune.
I don't think.
- Well this one's special.
- I'm not a talker, you know?
That's, that's what it is.
- It's good to know, I like that.
- What are we doing here?
- What's your name, handsome?
- What are we doing here?
- I don't know yet.
But I don't know one shouldn't pass up a reading
if she's willing.
And that this is our last night.
And I don't know anything about you.
- James.
- Mr. James.
I'll be right back.
- What am I doing here?
- Have a seat.
- Are you serious?
- Give her your hand.
Says you're easy on the eyes.
You're impatient.
You've come through quick hardship.
You keep secrets.
A burden.
- My hands are scarred from work.
Skin's leather from the sun and everybody keeps secrets.
Should've pulled out that crystal ball.
At least it would've looked the part.
- She says you're going to die.
- Everybody dies.
- Some sooner than others.
- You not save her.
- Drink.
Straight down.
- This is a real show, stranger.
- You are why she burns.
- Why who burns?
- Mother.
- What the fuck she just say?
- She said your mother.
- That tea.
- You run from something unspeakable.
It's not finished with you.
- You came to settle the debt?
- Can't move.
- You've come for our gold.
- Raven tea packs a punch, don't it?
- What the fuck happening, man?
What'd you put in that shit?
- Your boss sold you out, brotha.
Dead and buried.
Those were his words.
- Can you watch her?
I'm gonna go help them start closing up.
- Ah.
This is worth a lot more than money.
Goes way back with us.
But you, you didn't do it for gold.
It was different for you.
- Oh, don't pretend to know me.
You're a low rent homicidal Gypsy cult.
You kidnap kids and you murder people.
So just save me all the hooey bullshit
just fucking do what you're gonna do to me.
But little girl you took, the police been looking for her.
You should let her go.
- Gina can't have any kids.
Mama Luna says you got a beng on you.
That's the devil.
She says you've seen him, too.
- Well then I guess you're just doing me a favor.
- It's nothing personal.
Here, stay awake.
It's gonna be a long night clearing out of here.
And get rid of this fat fuck.
- Man you're too God damn big, huh?
You like to party, big boy?
Oh. Hold on, I'm just, I got something for ya here.
It's the best snort in all of Texas, right there.
Be a real shame to waste it, I guess.
It's all yours.
Just make it quick with me and we're square.
- Ooh!
- Fuck.
Shit.
- We'll get her a couple of moonpies or something. Yes?
- No, no.
- Come on.
Let's go.
Hey, hey hey hey.
Come on.
I need you to stay close to me, all right?
Stay close to me.
- Hey!
Hey!
Oh my God, you took the girl!
No, no!
- Come on, run.
- They took the girl. -Run, run.
- He took the girl Marco!
- Get in.
Get in!
Shit, oh shit.
Stay down, stay down!
- Come on!
- No, no!
- Ahhh.
Hey, you okay?
Are you okay?
Talk to me.
Oh, oh shit.
You don't talk much, or what?
- Just so we're clear, I got nothing to do with her.
- I left a real mess back there.
- The Sheriff will clean it up.
Hell, they might even throw him a parade.
Returning this little one.
Might even throw one for you.
- I can't exactly show up with a little girl, now can I?
- You could have just left her.
Run off.
- I got no way of pawning that much gold
without someone noticing.
Not with what's on me.
And you, you said you would clean my record.
- You earned it.
We'll get you a fresh start.
What, she got a name?
- How the fuck would I know?
- We give them out on Tuesdays for wet T-shirt night.
- You don't seem to busted up about Billy and Logan, huh?
You know them Gypsies,
yeah they ain't done with you.
- Enjoy your new life, Eli.
- Just clear my God damn record,
and we can forget about this shit.
- Oh it sure is pretty,
the way it shimmers in the light.
It's like a.
- Hey, hey, hey, don't, don't touch that.
Come on.
Come on, let's go.
Come on.
- Come on.
When you run, boy, you run far from here.
- There are concerns.
They aren't just my concerns.
You've been through the application process
with our agency before.
- Uh yeah, several years ago.
- Well, two other agencies as well.
May I ask why tubal ligation?
- Um, I had the procedure almost 20 years ago.
I um,
I was, I was young.
- But sterilization is an extreme measure.
- Yes.
I uh,
I made the, I made the decision
before I knew I was meant to be a mother.
- You filed for separation.
There was accusations of infidelity.
- Uh yeah, that was um,
that was six years ago.
We, you know when you,
when you're having difficulties you,
you know, you see things that aren't there.
We worked through it, though.
- Mrs. Milner,
would you be consenting to a third party counsel?
- Counsel?
- For a psychiatric exam.
- Little bit more.
- Mary!
I thought you went grocery shopping?
They're coming in a few hours.
- You got me going.
- Cut him off, no more wine for this guy.
Oh wow, that is really, really good.
- This is really good.
- Mary, you cooked that to perfection.
- Oh, thank you.
- Well, he know, believe me.
He'll tell you how to cook it.
- Oh really? - No.
You know, I thought I wanted to do that for a little while.
- Be a teacher? - Not for everybody.
- Be a teacher? - Mm-hm.
- Oh. - Mm-hm.
- I don't think I could do middle school.
- Oh. - Uh-uh.
That's too, that's rough.
- Both of your kids are off at school?
- Oh, it's killing her. - It's not, really.
- It really is.
I, I don't care how old they get,
I'm always gonna need that mama fix.
- Oh, 'cause they're her babies.
Well, speaking of which,
what's going on with your thing?
Is there any updates?
Ross and Mary are trying to adopt.
- Oh.
- Well, we're in,
we're just in the process of that.
- Well that's wonderful. - Thank you, yeah, thanks.
- Dan, we can talk about that fishing trip that we planned.
- What's wonderful about it?
- I miss it so much. - A big football field.
- I, I just meant you'd make lovely parents, yeah.
- But you don't know me.
- Hey Mar, let's not, we don't need that.
- I don't think she meant anything by it.
- No, it's fine.
- You know, I, this is my fault.
I shouldn't have said anything.
- No no no no.
It's, I promise it's not your fault.
It's not a big deal, at all, it's not.
- No.
But I just, I'm.
I'm sorry,
I just really want to know what's so wonderful about it.
- Hey, we can just kind of, not now, okay.
- But this is the first time she's met us.
- It is the first time she's met us.
- It's the first time she's been to our home.
- That's right.
- I just,
how do you know what kind of parents we would make?
- I'm sorry,
I think maybe you just misunderstood what she was.
- It's, it's fine.
I was just trying to be polite.
- Mm-hm.
- But you're right, Mary.
I don't know a thing about you.
- And that's why we're here.
So let's, I'm gonna serve us some more wine.
How bout that?
Great. - Smooth cabernet.
- Even though we've topped that off.
Okay, who, you're good.
Can I get you some more?
- Cheers.
- We have sugar coming, which is my favorite part of the meal.
- Yes, yes. - Desert. Desert
- Did you stop taking these?
- Counting my pills now?
Yeah.
- I mean I thought,
I thought we were working on this together?
I mean after the shit you pulled tonight
I don't know what's going on.
- That's not working together.
Counting my pills, that's not fucking working together.
- You asked me if I ever get mad.
I'm always mad.
I'm always mad, but I can't say anything
'cause I'm so fucking terrified you're gonna kill yourself.
- Whoa, kill myself?
- I had some crazy fucking idea
that a baby was give you a,
give us like a fresh start,
but if you can't stay on track,
how the fuck you expect me to?
It's like you're punishing me.
All this shit, you know what this tells me?
You're not in this with me.
Do you know how embarrassing that was for me tonight?
Do you know what you fucking said out there?
- I was just being honest.
- You got this fucking narrative in your head.
No one's against you, at all.
- You're right.
Baby, I'm not trying to punish you.
You deserve,
you deserve so much better.
And you always have.
But please don't ever assume
that you know what a child will mean to me.
Hi. - Hey.
I'm sorry.
- No it's, it's fine.
It's not your fault.
- Don't you ever get mad?
Don't you ever get mad?
Baby, come on.
Mary, oh no no.
No no no no no.
It's a dream.
Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary.
Wake up, wake up, wake up.
It's all right, it's all right.
It's okay, it's okay, you're okay.
You're okay, okay, okay.
What happened, babe?
What was it, sweetheart?
- I don't know, fuck.
- It's all right, it's all right, it's all right.
It's okay.
- Mary, I'd like to ask you something.
What is it you need?
- Um,
I uh.
- Okay, let me put it this way.
What purpose would a child serve you?
- Ma'am, there is um,
there's a hollow inside me.
I uh, I can't ever fill it.
Not, not even with a child.
It um, it burrows, deep inside me.
But uh,
there's something else.
There's something beautiful and loving,
and it is there for a reason.
It is,
it's there so I can give it to somebody else.
I need to give it.
If I don't then,
then only the hollow exists.
I um,
I want a child because I need to give love.
What the fuck?
No, no no no no no no.
Ross?
- Yeah?
- See you. - Okay.
- Yeah, good to see you.
- You get my calls?
He just showed up.
I mean, we gotta talk about this but I gotta go.
All right, I'll catch you later, all right, Eli?
- All right, take care.
- Yeah.
- You have no right showing up like this.
- Well now, he didn't seem to feel the same way.
- I told you I didn't want to talk about it.
- Good, all you gotta do is listen.
- Eli.
- Hear me out, and I won't bother you about it no more.
- You look rode hard and put away wet.
- Yet you get prettier every day.
God, Mary, it don't matter where I lay my head.
I left a heap of trouble back in Texas.
Skipped my parole.
It's a matter of time before it catches up to me.
This letter.
- I know what it says.
- Okay, well then, then you know what they're offering.
That kind of money,
well that could, that could really get me outta things.
That could get me a new start.
Look, this oil company, right,
that just, outta nowhere they wanna buy the farm.
This, this is a lottery ticket.
We just, we need all of us to sign off on it to sell.
- Anything come from there is no good.
- We all had it bad.
- Yeah, some of us worse than others.
- All you gotta do is sign.
That's it, it don't have to go no further than that.
I'll take care of the rest.
Hey, you remember that game
we used to play when we were kids?
How I'd ask Mary, may I?
You'd have to do it no matter what?
I'm asking again.
I need this, Mary.
I need it.
- I want to go back.
I'll go.
- No, you don't, I'm not asking you to do that.
- No, I want to see it through.
I want to know it's gone for good.
You get Tommy to sign yet?
- Hell Tom, Tommy won't talk to me.
You know that, I, it's been a long time.
- Do you blame him?
- Not at all.
If he'd give me the time of day I'd tell him that.
But you, you're in contact with him, now and again, right?
- God.
What would anyone want with that farm?
- If you go, you need to convince Tommy
it's time to let the place go.
- Eli, what about Pa?
- Don't worry, I'll deal with our father.
You okay?
You just gonna stay in there or what?
- Tommy.
Look at you.
Oh, God.
You're so much bigger than I remember.
- Yeah, I've always been big, Mary.
I just ain't seen you in so long.
- I'm sorry.
- Hey Tommy.
Tommy, I'm sorry.
Hey, Tommy.
- Yeah.
- Hey, you got any hootch in there?
- Oh yeah.
You know I got some hootch.
- Let's go get some.
- Come on.
Oh, I've been, I wear the.
I like your jacket, Mary, it matches mine.
- Yeah, we do.
- Kinda, you know?
Come on in.
I figured you two would be here earlier.
- How'd you figure that?
How'd you know we were coming?
- I got a letter from the oil company.
Y'all staying the night?
- Oh. - Is that a joke?
- Oh, you know, like old times.
I been fixing it up.
Making the house real special.
I'm gonna go finish getting ready.
Well come on in.
- Thank you.
- Make yourself at home.
- Thank you.
- They here.
- So they are.
- Eli look like he been through a hard spell.
Mary looks as pretty as ever.
- Pretty as ever.
Steady, boy.
- Ah, thank you, Jesus.
- That's a familiar sight.
- Best get to it, then.
- We should leave it all.
- They start digging,
they might hit something we can't have them finding.
- Eli--
- That sink hole is still down by the creek.
It's a salvage dump.
They're gonna fill it soon enough and,
ain't nobody gonna look at what's in it.
- 20 minutes.
Eli, I sat in the car for 20 minutes before I could go in.
- You went in, right?
That's all that matters.
God, what are we doing here?
- You see, son?
God don't lie.
Your mother, she saw it.
Saw what they were all these years.
Drove her mad.
Couldn't turn it off.
They the reason she burn.
- Been fixing the place up.
- Yeah, you already said that.
- Yeah? - Mm-hm.
- I ain't gotten to all that mail yet.
It just.
- Come sit with me, Tommy.
- Okay.
- Yeah, okay.
How you doin'?
Really?
- Oh, you know, getting along.
- You uh,
you seem glad to see Eli.
- I'm glad to see you both.
- Well, he was afraid you wouldn't be.
He says he's been trying
to get a hold of you for a while now.
- Oh yeah? - Mm-hm.
I saw that.
- Yeah.
That's a lady bug.
Well I say the past is the past, you know?
All that matters is we here now.
- The letter, Tommy.
There's some men from an oil company.
I guess they want to buy the farm.
Will you give me a second?
- Be my guest.
Take your time.
- Is everything okay?
Ross?
- Hey, how soon can you come home?
- Why, what is it?
- They made a decision, baby.
Mary, you're gonna be a mother.
Mary?
Oh my God.
Ah, I can't believe it. Ah...
Hey Mary, you still there?
Mary?
- Best get to it, then.
- Well, I guess we're gonna have ourselves
a little sit down, huh?
- You guessed right.
- Is there something you wanna tell us?
- Tell it, boy.
Tell him what your mama say.
- Ma,
she's in the hellfire.
- Hellfire?
You figure ma's in hell, is that it?
- I figure we all gonna be, unless we change our way.
You need to live pure, righteous.
- I doubt I'm ever gonna be saved, Tommy.
Sure as shit ain't gonna be pure.
What the fuck do you about being righteous, huh?
This here's a restraining order.
Your ex-wife's attorney.
- That,
that ain't real.
- Oh that ain't real?
What about out back?
Yeah, you know what I'm talkin' about.
Is that real?
- Your ex-wife, Tommy.
Her name's Catherine.
She left you a year ago.
She remarried a man named Tate.
He's your boy's stepfather.
- He's my best friend.
- He's your son.
- That's who he is.
- All these letters.
All these letter right here,
they're telling you to keep away from them.
Says you hadn't been doing it.
Is that why you moved back here? To the farm?
How long you been here, hm?
What the hell's goin' on with you?
- The two of you.
Ma, she saw it.
She killed herself 'cause of it.
You know you two had that baby.
- Oh shit.
Tommy, you, you don't you know, do you?
- What do you mean?
- That baby came from Pa.
- Liars!
Liars! Drowning in their unholy semen of their incest!
- Stop no.
Okay.
- Oh my God.
- Okay, that ain't true.
- Who the fuck you talking to, Tommy?
- Huh? - Boy, you know the truth.
- You tell him what I saw.
- Pa.
- Oh my God.
Oh my God.
- Oh the lord!
You sin together.
You still sin together.
You were at that motel before you come home.
- What, are you watching us, Tommy?
- And you sinned again.
- I'm shacking up at that motel
'cause I got nothing to go back to.
And Mary, she came and met me.
She followed me up the rest of the way
so we could do this together.
- How dare you.
- Just admit it.
He'll forgive you.
Pa'll forgave you, I forgive you.
Ma would forgive you.
- Tommy listen, okay.
Pa has been dead and buried for 23 years now.
- You're not listening.
- Tommy, that grave's been dug up.
- He's trying to save us.
- Save us?
You know how you got your ear like that?
Pa found you playing with his pipe
and wanted to teach you what happens
when you play with his things.
So he heated up an iron
and he stuck it on the side of your head.
You were four years old when that happened.
Me, he liked to use a strap.
Said it wasn't a lesson unless it bled.
He taught me lots of lessons.
And Mary,
well, well that was something different, wasn't it?
The old man had nothing better to do
than to mark his boys and to fuck his own daughter.
When Mary got pregnant,
that's when Ma killed herself.
That's when the three of us did it.
23 years later,
and I'm still trying to get rid of the past.
- You gonna ask for forgiveness.
- You need help.
- 23 years later,
you're still crazy as shit, Tommy boy.
And if Pa is speaking to you,
he ain't trying to save us.
That old bastard just wants revenge.
You need to sign these fucking papers
so we can get rid of this place once and for all.
You got it?
- You need help.
- You two killed that baby.
Took a long time finding it.
We all together now.
- Why would he do this?
Why would he do this?
Don't, Tommy!
Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, don't, don't.
- That was his favorite tune.
- Thomas
Don't hate me.