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My name is Thomas Vail, or at least it was.

I'm a photographer.

I had it all.

A wife, a house, friends, a career.

And in one moment, it was all taken away.

All because of a single photograph.

I have it.

They want it. And they will do anything to get the negative.

I'm keeping this diary as proof that these events are real.

I know they are.

They have to be.

I look at my life as I would a puzzle, only there aren't a lot of pieces.

Just the things that I still carry from the past, and that doesn't leave much.

So, what can I do for you?

Well, I'm looking for a Humvee. It's a military... Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it,

got it.

It'll come cheap. Well, actually, I'm looking for...

Not particular, Humvee. This is a license plate number.

Hey, your man comes prepared, huh?

You think he can find it?

Hey, that's what it says in the window. I might have to back my way into the DMV

computer. Damn, it won't be the first time.

Let's see what we got here.

I can't guarantee it's still there, but the last line I got, is it a vehicle

with a plate you're looking for was last re -registered in Tipton, Georgia?

That was two months ago. Who owns it?

Well, I got a DBA here.

Hey, come here, come here.

Ned's Friendly Pre -Owned Classics.

Used car lot.

I can try to track it down for you. Might take a few days.

No, thanks.

How much do I owe you? Oh, hey, 20 bucks.

Wow.

How you doing?

I'm looking for Ned's used car lot.

Just wondering if I was in the right place.

You must have just got off the 519.

Is this the whole town of Tipton?

You looking for something special?

Yeah, a used car lot, Ned.

Take it right here at the intersection.

Go a half mile up the road on the left.

Thanks.

Ain't nobody there now, though.

It's after 5 o 'clock.

Besides, Ned probably, uh...

Closed a little early tonight on account of the show.

Little blind boy.

I've seen him once before.

Kid starts talking in voices and telling you all sorts of nevermind.

Something to see.

What time does Ned open up in the morning?

That depends on how much he had to drink the night before.

Between 8 and 10 is usually right.

Great.

Look, is there a place around here where I can get a room with a shower?

Well, I got a couple rooms in the back.

You can take your pick for a fiver.

Okay, I'll take it.

I'll get your key.

There ain't no Motel 6, you know. For $5, you gotta make your own bed and

your own bathroom.

Every once in a while, I allow myself the deception that I'm just a guy

traveling across the country taking in the local color.

How much?

Five to gulp, 25 to talk.

Ten years ago,

Ten years ago, lightning flashed through the sky

like daggers from heaven.

A pregnant woman had to drive herself to the hospital

when the Lord decided that this was a journey she would

not complete.

When the doctors took the baby from her lifeless body, they proclaimed it a

miracle that he survived.

The child will be blind, the doctor said.

He will never see.

But the doctors were wrong.

But while that boy could not

See like you are.

He possesses an inner side.

He sees.

He sees the past.

He sees the present.

And ladies and gentlemen, he sees the future.

I present to you kind people of Georgia.

My son, Derek Bartholomew Williams.

Derek is ready for his first question.

Hi, Derek, honey.

Derek, you simply must tell me where I put my dearly departed grandmama's

diamond ring.

It's a three -carat, flawless teardrop surrounded by more than 23 Brazilian

emeralds.

Anyway, I know I put it in my daddy's top -dressed drawer, but for the life of

me, I can't find it.

Do you think you could help me, boy?

Damn it, Allison.

What are the rules of the game here? Who put you up to this? Allison? Who's

Allison? Boy, please calm down.

The woman says she don't know nobody named Allison.

The photographs.

They're so real, Thomas.

So unforgiving.

Thomas? And?

Damn it, they're lying. All of them. They're all lying. And they're in it

together.

It's okay. It's okay.

It's normal.

I'm sorry, folks.

Sometimes the power of the inside is too much for a young boy.

We'll come back tomorrow night and make it up to you. Please.

Please, boy.

Tom?

Tom, is that you?

Yeah, it's me, Mom.

My son is dead.

But I have no son.

Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.

Easy,

easy, easy.

Come on.

You'll be all right, son. Just lay down and get some rest.

You're just tired, so I'll be back later.

Why can't you stay with me?

I'll be along.

I just got to get someone to ride home.

Now, get to bed.

You said we were going to Aunt Mamie's. We are.

Just as soon as this tour is over.

Ponds full of fish.

And it's a stupid man that don't go fishing.

Now, come on.

Just get in and get to bed.

Night, Dad.

Can't stay here, you know.

They want to hurt you.

What did you see?

Derek, what scared you so much?

Death.

It's all around you.

You see anything now?

I see an eagle.

An eagle?

Where is this eagle, Derek?

Where do I find it?

You should leave this place, mister.

Now.

It's bad for you.

Bad for all of us.

I gotta get a bed now.

My daddy's gonna be back soon.

So, it's you, Butte.

People ain't gonna mess with you short in this hill, baby.

Oh,

I hope you don't mind.

With some folks, it's coffee.

With me, it's these.

Keeps the wife at a distance.

Can't be all bad.

So, where'd you find this one?

Oh, I got the paperwork if that's what you mean.

Now, she's a real deal, though. U .S. military walks the walk. Well, if you

don't mind, I'd like to check it out for myself, you know, maybe to have some

maintenance records, let me know where it's been, what it needs.

Got it in an army post up in Tanner.

Pick up a lot of this stuff.

Instead of breaking them down and selling them for parts, sell them to me.

So where's Tanner?

What? It's up the highway, about 30 miles, just past where Gator World used

be.

Okay, great. Well, thanks a lot, Ned.

I'll let you know. Well, now listen, don't let the grass grow under your

son. This baby ain't going to sit here too long.

All right.

Thanks a lot.

Anybody here?

Looking for something?

Well, yeah, there's nobody here. What's your business here? Hey, I'm just...

I'm trying to get some information on a Humvee that you sold to a dealer down in

Tipton. What about it?

Well, I'm thinking of buying it, and I thought I could get a little maintenance

history on it before I laid out the cash and found out I had a dog on my hands.

Talk to Corners. He runs the motor pool.

Well, thank you.

You're welcome.

I open the door, I let her go.

Yeah,

I was such a fool.

Looking for someone named Corner.

Hey, Derek?

Derek?

Hey, you okay?

Everything all right?

My daddy says people's lives are full of questions.

Sometimes those questions can eat a hole in them so big, they're willing to do

almost anything to get answers.

That's why they come to me.

You got one growing in you, don't you?

Where's your dad?

He'll be back soon. He had to drive some lady home.

Her car broke down.

You had anything to eat?

When my daddy comes back, he'll make me breakfast.

It's one o 'clock in the afternoon.

I was just going to go and have a bite to eat.

Do you feel like coming along?

I don't know.

My daddy might get worried.

It's okay. We'll leave him a note.

Sound okay?

Oh, I guess you like hamburgers.

They're okay.

My Aunt Mimi makes me jambalaya.

That's my favorite.

Anything they give you, they take away.

Absolute zero general, Jack. The bottom line.

It's okay.

It's all right. Everything's going to be okay.

Why do they want to hurt you?

I don't know. I don't even know who they are.

They're always in the dark. I look for them, but I can't see them.

I know. I know.

You know,

maybe we should just go back.

No.

Let me see the negative.

Maybe it'll help.

It's okay.

You can give them to me. I'm blind.

Soldiers. Airplanes.

When we were in the jungle, there were no planes.

But I hear them, like drums, far away somewhere.

What about an eagle?

You see an eagle?

You gotta keep a step ahead of the game, pal.

Always in front of him.

Is that him?

Derek, is that the eagle?

What you need is contingencies. I got contingencies.

I know where he lives.

Derek,

what else do you think?

There are no other people where he is.

A lot of trees.

Watch out!

What is it? What is it, Derek?

An alligator.

She'd have been dead by now.

She don't seem to be. I guess somebody screwed up.

I guess so.

Go ahead.

So you know who I am?

Probably nobody.

If I know how they play the game... And who are they, Harry?

What the hell do I look like, 411?

Want information, pal?

Turn on the radio.

Listen to the news. Read newspaper now and then.

They're a little hard to miss.

Who is Harry?

It's the military, huh?

Some kind of government agency.

Boy, you really are out of your league, aren't you?

You don't have a clue.

But you got guts.

Restovers?

That's where I'm ahead of you. That's where I'm ahead of all of them.

That's aluminum foil.

Not the cheap crap.

The heavy -duty stuff.

They keep them out of your place. They can't get into your space.

Did you ever wonder how they always knew what you were thinking, where you were

going?

Never thought about that, did you?

Gotta keep one step ahead of them, pal.

Always in front of them.

What you need is contingencies.

What you need is contingencies. I got contingencies. I got contingencies.

You're in my photograph.

What happened in the jungle, Harry?

I don't know what you're talking about. I said, what happened in the jungle?

There's nothing out there, Harry.

Don't worry, I didn't go through nothing.

Is there some kind of problem?

No problem.

Room's reserved.

Okay.

Hey.

Key.

Where the hell's my boy?

I don't know. I haven't seen him since yesterday afternoon.

Why? What's going on? He disappeared. That's what's going on.

Yeah, I mean, he was fit to be tied about something.

He kept talking about soldiers and airplanes.

And he kept talking about a guy named Tom.

And he said that Tom had to stay away from the cannon. What cannon? Where?

He just said there was death there.

Listen, could someone around here have given him a ride someplace?

Sure, hell, it must have been about 15 of us working here.

I know the place he's talking about.

If he was here, nobody saw him.

Well, thanks, Major.

Sorry I couldn't be of any more help.

I hope you find him.

Thanks.

Pull up.

He's here.

You think they're hiding him?

Well, I don't know. Maybe Deward was telling the truth.

But either way, I think we ought to have an unescorted look around.

I'm telling you, Doug, this is sheriff's business.

There's something going on around here.

You might just want to put down that ham sandwich and get your butt out here.

Tom? Yeah.

Yeah, it's me.

We have to leave this place, Tom. Right now. Okay, I think I'll tell you what.

Why don't we both leave together, okay?

Okay. All right?

Yeah.

You okay, boy?

I'm fine.

Get out of here.

There's a parade coming through the main gate.

And they're not carrying tubas.

We can circle around through the woods here.

Platoon, to the hut!

Howdy, Major.

Howdy!

We weren't expecting you, sir.

That's why I'm here, Major.

Everything looks to be in order. The operation's running very well, sir.

That reminds me.

Sir. Do we have any word on Vail yet?

Not yet, sir, but we've got a dozen men on him. Good.

Find him.

Yes, sir.

We've got one hour and we're out of here.

Local yahoos have already called in the law.

At 1 ,300 hours, sir.

Good.

Dismissed.

Sergeant.

Make sure someone cleans up that mess.

Yes, sir.

Get out of here.

Get up.

They're behind you.

Bert, Bert, stop, stop. Pull over.

They're blocking the main exit side of town.

Just turn around, man. We gotta find another way out of here.

Just pull over and let me out. There's no reason for you and Derek to be

involved in this.

No. The man is right, son.

It's his fault, not ours.

No. Well, Tom is my friend.

Derek, I am your friend, and that's why I have to go. I can help you, Tom.

There's no place to go, Derek.

These are very bad people. It's a very small town.

You gotta keep a step ahead of the game, pal.

Always in front of them.

What you need is contingencies. I got contingencies.

We have to go there.

Where?

Hairy corners.

Derek, I don't... I don't understand what they look for us here.

Contingencies.

They're here.

Go! We only got a half hour to find this guy!

Sir!

It don't feel right.

Looks like whatever happened here happened fast.

Nobody's here, right?

Not a living soul.

Ain't got any idea what happened here.

Airplanes.

Soldiers and airplanes.

We can take care of this.

You go on now.

Yes, sir.

My guess is you've been through trouble enough.

You ain't seen the end of it.

Bye, Derek.