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- Sheriff, is that you?

Sheriff, you in there?

- Yeah, I'll be out in a second.

Hold your horses, my Lord.

Trying to sneak up on me?

- Guilty.

It's kind of pretty.

- Yeah.

It's kind of scary.

- What's with your new friend?

- I'm not sure.

You put it in evidence though.

- Speaking of evidence,

I was by the office and I

happened to see a bill for $1,800

for a soil sample from some forensic lab.

Where did you get that soil sample from?

- Back over there.

- So you've been here before?

- What ah...

What were those results?

- Apparently it was $1,800 worth of motor oil.

- There wasn't no blood in it?

- No.

- Huh.

- I'll order.

You want the same thing?

Yeah?

- Stop rocking.

- Stop rocking, what's wrong with you?

Kelly Grace, how are you? - Hey, Shep. Good.

- It's Tuesday, so chicken fried steak.

I think she still likes you, what do you think?

You just wait and see, I guarantee you're gonna have

twice as much collard greens as me.

Man, she still is a looker though.

You remember I went to high school with her younger sister?

I didn't have a chance.

Gonna tell you what? Good genes run in that family.

Hmm.

Don't tell Heather I said that, she wouldn't like it.

- Oh.

- Oh. - Honey?

- Hey, big man,

you all right? - He's fine.

- There you go.

Let me get these for you here.

All right, here you go, buddy.

- Thanks, Ronnie. - Always.

- Darlene, I'll be back in a few.

- He's a good kid.

I can't believe she moved up north and married some loser.

I heard he even served time too, real peace of-

- Sheriff.

- Go ahead.

- Go for Shep.

- Hate to interrupt your lunch.

- We really need to get new radios, you know that?

- Bernice and Jim are at it again.

You wanna let them fight it out or go over?

- It's fine, I'll head out.

- I'll come with you.

- No, that's the last thing you need to do.

I'll have it wrapped up in five minutes.

What you need to do is go see your mama.

She keeps asking about you.

How long's it been?

- Oh, I don't know.

- Yeah, that's what I thought.

Sheriff, go see your mama.

Darlene, put it in a doggie for me.

- Oh Mama, you ain't gotta get up.

Here.

- Give your mother a hug.

Sit on down.

- All right.

Sorry, I've been busy.

- You look tired.

You seeing things again?

- Can't get it out my head.

- Maybe it's just the Lord trying to talk to you.

- Oh, I think He done said enough.

- Looks like it's getting better.

- It ain't ever gonna heal.

- Mills.

- Yes, sir.

- Dale put this on my desk today.

Can you explain what the hell this is?

That's an evidence report, sir.

It's part of an ongoing investigation.

- What were they investigating?

Shade tree mechanics?

- No.

- No, it doesn't matter.

What matters is this, $1,800.

See?

Right there, 1,800. - Yeah.

- Let me ask you something.

Who do you think this reflects on?

That's rhetorical. I'll tell you, it's me.

It all falls on me now.

And I don't know if you have a windfall of cash

in your department,

but I've been working here a long time

and we have a little thing called a budget,

and I emphasize on the little.

- Yes, sir.

- Get it together, you understand?

I know that Dale is a dick, but if you're not careful,

he's liable to have your job one of these days.

- Understood.

- My damn badge.

Buddy.

- Daddy.

- Oh, my goodness. - Daddy,

I wanna ride with you in the truck.

- You heard it.

He wants to ride with me, I'm his favorite.

- Yeah, of course you are.

It's got nothing to do with the fact

that your car has fancy lights and a siren.

- No, it doesn't. - No, no.

What is going on here?

- Sorry, sorry, sorry. - There we go.

- All right, great. - I'll see y'all at home.

- Hey, is there something on my cheek right here?

- Here, let me check.

- Buddy, something right here. - Mm-hmm.

- Hey, me too. - Hey, give your mama a kiss.

- I love you. - Say bye.

- Bye, Mama. - Bye, baby.

- All right, let's go, buddy.

Oh, you're so heavy.

Now, I gotta tell you that's pretty sharp

so be careful now, you hear?

So,

the bad guy had your granddaddy right in the cross hairs.

That's right.

Bullet comes outta the gun.

It's coming straight for you.

- Ah. - Pew.

It goes right off of him, hit the badge,

protected your granddaddy, saved his life,

and that is why your granddaddy always said

we protect the badge-

- Because the badge protects us.

Oh, I forgot to do something.

- What's that? - You're going to jail?

Pay us $50 and you'll get out.

Is everything okay, Daddy?

- Yeah, buddy.

I need you to listen to me now, okay?

- Mm-hmm.

- Daddy's gonna go help this man, all right?

- Okay.

- I need you to stay in the truck, do you understand?

- Yes, sir.

- No, I need you to say, "I understand."

- I understand.

- Okay, you stay right here, all right?

Looks like a pretty long way down there.

Yeah, it's still probably pretty cold this time of year.

Why don't you come on over here and we can talk about it?

Hey, look at me.

Look at me, it's gonna be all right.

Just gimme your hand.

Come on.

There you go, just come on over.

That's good, you're doing fine.

- Better look out.

Hutto is loaded for bear today.

- Fantastic.

- Mills, get your here ass in here.

- Thank you.

Yes, sir.

- How do you think I got that?

Not a question, I'll tell you.

Your friend,

the great sheriff of Fisher County, Ronnie Long,

came traipsing in here this morning,

gave this shovel to Diane,

and told her that it needs to be submitted into evidence.

Now I'll tell you where it's gonna be submitted

is right the hell back where it came from.

Where do you think he thinks he's got the authority

to do something like this?

- I don't know.

- Unless he thinks he's still sheriff,

which we know ain't true,

'cause he ain't been sheriff for the past damn seven months.

You're the sheriff.

And I know he's your friend and all,

but he ain't the sheriff no more,

and you've got to let him know that.

- Ma'am, I'm gonna need you to get down from there.

- Why don't you come over here and arrest me?

- Uh-huh.

You know I don't like you on that ladder.

- Well, someone's gotta get the house ready for the baby.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

- How's my son doing?

- Oh, your little girl's doing just fine.

- Oh, yeah? - Mm-hmm.

Hi. - Hi.

- By the way, I need you to give this to Ronnie,

the baby shower.

- I can just tell him in person.

- We are not savages.

You're gonna give it to him like a civilized adult.

- Yes, ma'am.

- How's he holding up?

- You know, he's Ronnie.

- Well, you make sure.

He needs some sort of normalcy.

It's been a while.

- I know.

- Okay, well I am gonna go take a shower.

- Oh, yeah? - Mm-hmm.

- You need any help?

- Yeah, yeah. - Mm.

- All of the paint brushes and the buckets,

they're all right here.

Can you take care of that and I'll be back in a minute?

- I'll be right here. - Okay.

- Take care of it all.

- Okay, big boy, take it like this.

Take your finger, put it on top, and grow.

Oh, go.

Have you done that? - Ah!

- No.

Ah.

- My mommy said... my mommy said...my mommy said

you're not a sheriff anymore.

- Oh, no, no. Sorry about that, Sheriff.

Come on, baby.

- Don't pay her no mind, Sheriff.

Can I top you off?

- Thank you, Darlene.

- 9.20.

- Just keep the change.

- So it's a scam. - No, it isn't.

- It totally is.

It's a website where for $39

they'll guess the sex of your baby

or your money back.

- That's not a scam. - Mm-hmm.

- Well, you only gotta be right half the time.

- Exactly.

- Oh, Shep is just afraid he'll be wrong.

- And I love what you've done with the baby's room.

That color is perfect.

- Aw, thank you.

We kind of figured it would cover both until we found out.

- Well, it would look better with gold and blue.

- Oh.

- And what if it's a girl?

- She can play football too.

- Just hush up and go get that fruit salad from the fridge.

- Okay, sure.

- Is this the right house?

- It's gonna be fun.

This is it.

- You invited her? - Of course I invited her.

She's my friend and I'm not gonna be rude.

- She knows he's going be here?

- Well, we can't walk on eggshells

our whole life with him.

- I understand.

I'm gonna do whatever it takes, I owe that man everything.

- I know, I know.

Just put a smile on your face.

Jenny.

- Thanks so much for having us.

- Of course, of course.

Shep, say hello.

- Hello.

- Um, this is Barry.

- So how are you holding up?

- You know, just one day at a time.

But Barry's really been helping me out with that.

- Yeah.

We've been going on two months now.

The least she could do is let me move in, right?

- Did you bring the gift in?

- It's in the car.

I'll go get it. - No, I'll get it.

- Got a beer?

- Ronnie.

- That's uh, some present you got there.

You uh, you always were good at that kind of thing.

- Where'd you get that? A gas station?

- You look nice.

- Hmm.

And look at you, not in a uniform.

There's a first time for everything.

- Yeah, yeah.

Oh, special occasion, you know?

- Yeah, I guess we never really had many of those.

You got something on your collar?

- What's that?

- Come here.

I can't.

I'll see you inside.

- See you inside.

- Help me.

- Run, baby, run.

- I'm taking lunch. You want anything?

- Yeah, bring me back some buttermilk pie, please.

- Okay. How many pieces you want?

- Just one.

If it's burnt crust, I don't want any.

- When you say one piece,

the last time I got you a piece, it was too small-

- Well, I mean one piece but, you know,

it could look like two.

- All right. - Okay.

- Morning, hi.

- Morning, Sheriff. - Oh, morning.

Hey, Grant. - Hey, Sheriff.

- Hey, would you do me a favor?

Would you pull these signs down?

I appreciate the support and all,

but you know it's a delicate situation

and just until Ronnie gets back up on his feet.

- Absolutely, we'll take care of it.

- Well, thank you. - Take care.

- Ladies.

- The usual? - Yes, ma'am.

Thank you.

- Ronnie said he wasn't eating.

- That's good for you, Shep.

Put a little bit more money back in your pocket,

seeing as how you've been buying all his meals.

I bet you about to go broke since his accident.

- You know you can tell him to shut the hell up.

- Why don't you shut the hell up, Dale.

- Sorry, Sheriff.

Hey uh, there's more where that came from, huh?

Hey, how y'all doing?

- Not hungry?

- I'm not quite myself, you know?

- Well, we sure missed you yesterday.

- Something came up.

- Everything all right?

I just wanted to thank you for the gift.

Heather loved it.

- You're welcome.

- If there's anything you need to talk about or tell me,

you know I'm right here.

You know, you've been spending a lot of time

at that farmhouse lately.

Is that something we need to pursue

or should we move on to more pressing matters?

- Hmm?

- Are you going back up there?

- I haven't been there in weeks.

- Well, I just think that-

- What? What, huh?

I just said I ain't eating. That's it.

Can we get something?

I think I will get something, actually.

Damn it.

I'll get you a refill.

- How'd that bear work out for you?

- Like a charm.

- Hi, Sheriff Long.

- Hey, big man.

- Kelly Grace. - Hey, Ronnie.

- Everything all right?

- Well, we were just about to go get ice cream

but I forgot I left my books in class

and they're closing in 10 minutes so-

- Well, can't deny a boy his ice cream.

If you want to leave him here,

you can go run back and I'll watch him for you.

- You'd do that?

- Of course.

- Okay, cool. I'll be right back, all right?

Thank you.

- Ah, it's sticky. Oh, you got it?

There you go.

Perfect.

- I miss him.

- I miss him too, buddy.

- Hey, I'm back.

What are y'all doing?

- Nothing.

Thank you for letting me sit with him a little bit.

- I appreciate it.

So we better get going.

- Bye, Sheriff Long.

- Bye, buddy.

- Thanks again.

- Just one today?

- You seen Ronnie?

- No, I haven't seen him today.

- I appreciate it.

Ms. Long.

- Hey, Shep.

- Shep.

- Honey, why don't you run back inside and grab him a glass?

- No, that's okay.

I had two coffees earlier.

- How's your wife?

- Oh, she's getting close, almost there.

- Would you like to join us?

We just been sitting out here all morning.

This is the most time I've spent with Ronnie

in quite a while.

- Yeah, I hadn't seen him around town,

just wondering where he was.

- Taking a little break.

- All right.

I guess I'll let y'all get back to it then.

I'll see you around town.

- Hmm.

- Get back to sleep, honey.

- Run, baby, run.

- Wake up, Daddy.

- No, no.

No.

Not today.

Oh, no.

- You not gonna say anything?

Why are you here?

- I seen something. - So have I.

That's you in a place you said you would not come back to.

Yet here we are.

- No, I seen something in those woods.

- I am trying so hard, Ronnie.

I'm tired of playing your games.

- I've seen a body-

- I put my whole career on the line for you.

- No, no, no, no, I said I've seen a body.

- Ronnie, you're not listening.

- No, you ain't listening to me.

I done told you it was a body.

You gotta trust me with this one please.

Just trust me.

Trust me.

Come on.

Hang on now.

It's ah...

It's this way over here.

I know I've been here before.

There's a creek and there's drag marks here.

It's one of these trees right here.

It's this,

right here.

It's one of these trees.

Here, right there.

This is it, this is it, right here.

No.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

It's right-

It was right here.

It's right here.

There was a hand here.

Ah, I swear.

There was a tarp.

She had an ID.

Right here.

- Ronnie.

- The tarp was here.

I swear.

I saw it, I swear.

- Let's go home.

Come on.

- Oh, tonight's the big night.

- Huh?

- It becomes official.

- Oh, yeah. Looking forward to it.

- Me too.

- You looking forward to taking all those stupid posters down

around town?

- Go for Shep.

- Is this the hot sheriff?

- That's the rumor.

- How you feeling?

- About as same as I look.

- That rough, huh?

Have you heard from him?

- No, not today.

And I'm telling you something is seriously wrong.

I've never seen him like this before.

- If it will make you feel any better,

we can drive by real quick on the way to the ceremony.

- Yeah, that'd be nice.

- Look, do me a favor

and put a smile on your face.

This is your big day.

- 10-4.

- Love you.

- Love you too, babe.

- Ronnie.

- Grass needs cutting.

Tell me where mower is.

- What are you doing here?

- I'll go get a mower for you.

- Come on, Ronnie.

- I'm sorry.

- Hey, you need to leave.

- Barry, come on.

- Don't make me say it twice.

- Okay,

just give him a minute. - Hi, Barry.

- He can take all the minutes he needs off our property.

- Okay, I'm just gonna walk him to his truck.

- Oh, the hell you are. - Hey!

- Get up on the porch.

- My lip's bleeding.

Can you help me up?

- Leave.

- Okay, let's do this.

The reason we're here today-

Shep, you want come up here?

- Yes, sir.

- All right, you ready, Sheriff? - Ready as I'll ever be.

- Okay, let's go.

- You are no longer Interim Sheriff,

but you are now the duly elected Sheriff of Fisher County.

Congrats, Shep.

- Daddy.

Daddy.

Daddy, are you okay?

Daddy.

Daddy!

Wake up, Daddy.

Wake up, please.

Daddy.

- Emergency services, we got an officer down.

Officer down.

- Good morning, Sunshine.

How am I supposed to address you now?

Is it Sheriff?

El Presidente?

Your Holiness?

- Yes, all of the above is fine.

Oh, no.

Ronnie?

- Radio to Shep.

Shep, you got a call.

Neighbor said Ronnie's door is wide open at his house.

His clothes thrown in the yard.

- Ronnie?

Ronnie.

Ronnie.

Ronnie? Come on, Ronnie.

Oh, man. Ronnie, come on.

Hey.

Ronnie.

Ronnie, stay with me.

Ronnie?

Ronnie?

- Hey, Shep.

You look...

You look terrible.

- Hell, Ronnie.

About killed me, man.

Come on, get off the floor.

What?

What?

Ronnie.

- Huh.

Man, I don't know how anyone drives that old thing.

- Good news, you don't have to.

I'll drive it, you follow me.

You can follow me.

- Hey, you all right?

- Yep, yep.

Just solving the world's problems.

- Sounds like something Ronnie would say,

one of his Ronnie-isms.

- You think he's rubbing off on me?

- I don't know, but he has a million of them,

and he's been right as long as I've known him.

Don't tell him I said that.

- That's between us.

- You good?

- Yeah, thank you.

- Can I get you some pie?

- What's today?

- Well it's pecan but I think it's store-bought.

- Mm, I'll pass. - Understood.

- Shep to radio.

- Radio, go ahead.

- Diane, would you mark me 10-7?

I'm going to be out of pocket for a bit.

Forward my calls to Dale.

- Copy that.

- Hello?

- Radio to Shep.

- Go for Shep.

- It's time. Your wife said it's time.

- Diane, I'm en route.

Heather.

Heather.

Oh. - We need to go.

- Okay, okay. Just breathe, you got it.

Let's go.

- The bag, you gotta get the bag.

- Baby time.

- Can I go play?

- Yes, of course.

Be careful, okay?

- Okay.

- What's the matter, baby?

Run, baby, run.

- You're not gonna run away from me again!

- Good job, good job, control.

Stay controlled, you got it.

Focus, focus.

Come on, one more push.

- Can I get you anything?

- Yes, ma'am, beer please. - Coming right up.

- One more, you got it, it's right here.

Good job, good job.

Okay, relax, relax.

You did it.

Good job, baby, good job.

- Sheriff, mind if I sit?

- Commissioner.

- Saw you from across the bar.

You look just like your daddy.

He'd be proud of you.

How's his old truck holding up?

-It's uh, it's still running.

- How are you holding up?

- Above the ground.

- Oh yeah, me too.

Barely.

- That old badge, still carry it around?

- I do.

- I remember the papers saying that it was a miracle badge,

and he always said that the real miracle was your mama.

He said not a day went by that she didn't pray for him.

Lord knows how much she prays for you, son.

Your daddy was not perfect, Ronnie,

but he was a hell of a sheriff.

And so were you.

That badge is just a piece of tin.

At the end of the day, you know what's right.

- Yes, sir.

- That's kind of the end of my sermon.

Is that my coat?

- Yeah.

Must've grabbed the wrong one.

- Shh.

Get your head down.

Be a good boy and hush.

- Everything all right?

- Well, I reckon I hit something back there.

- Yeah, it was a deer, I seen you back there.

- Looks like it got you pretty good here.

You might need a hose, I think.

I think I got something back here.

You uh, got anything in here?

Tools or-

- Oh. - Anything?

- No, sir, I don't.

- Oh, that's fine, I think I got something back here so-

- Help, let me out.

Let me out.

Help.

Help.

Help.

Help.

- Wait there.

Just wait a second.

Come here. Come here, buddy.

Come here.

I ain't gonna hurt you.

Come here.

I ain't gonna hurt you, come to me, buddy.

Come here, buddy.

I can't go out there.

- Boy, you should hand me that gun now.

It's okay.

I got it.

Why don't you stay right here, huh?

Daddy is going to be right back.

How you doing over there, Sheriff?

- Run.

- Hey, where's the man? - Who?

- The man. The man who was right there.

- Get off me, I don't know who you're talking about.

- He was there.

- I am starving.

- Oh, I'll get you something. What do you want?

- Mm, surprise me.

- Ooh, that's dangerous.

- All right.

- Oh, can I, please?

- Yeah, yeah.

- I can come with.

- No, mm-mm.

- Yeah, stay and watch the baby. - Y'all want anything?

- No, we're good.

Oh, my goodness, look at you.

- Excuse me, ma'am, do you know where the cafeteria is?

- Yes, it's down the hallway to the left.

- Thank you so much. - Hey.

- Oh hey.

Wow, look at you.

Don't you look official.

- Look at you, I hear you're a dad.

How's the baby?

- Excuse me. - Can't complain, you know.

10 fingers, 10 toes.

- Well, good.

Well, tell Heather I'll come by and see you all

when I'm done training today.

- Oh, you're training?

- Yes. Start full time next month.

- Wow, congratulations, that's amazing.

- Thanks.

- I'll tell you what,

next piece of pie at the diner's on me.

- No, thanks, no. - No? Oh.

Okay.

- But I do have another reason to celebrate.

- Yeah, what's that?

- I just put an offer in on my house

and it just got accepted.

- Wow, congrats. - Thanks.

- Wow, whereabouts?

- It's the old farmhouse out Cole River Road.

It's beautiful.

You know it's right there at the foot of the mountains.

I just really think it's gonna just be great for us.

So nice to be back, you know?

We just needed a fresh start.

Excited.

- Sheriff.

Sheriff.

Radio to Shep.

- You need to get that?

- What?

- You need to get that?

- Oh yeah, yeah.

Go for Shep.

- It's Ronnie.

- I gotta go.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, easy. Hold up, what happened?

- What happened?

Well, Ronnie here decided to attack a motel guest.

- You don't need to cuff him.

- Oh, I don't? Well, he kicked in the door

and beat the hell out of the man.

And did I mention he was armed?

- Hey, where's the man?

- He ain't here, he's long gone.

He didn't want none of this.

You can ask any of them, they saw everything.

Y'all enjoying the show?

- All right, let's wrap it up, we'll sort it out at the office.

- Now you let me know if you need a blanket

or some extra pillows.

You gonna be in here for a moment.

- Dale, I got this.

- Am I crazy?

- I can't answer that.

- Do you know what you do with crazy people?

You lock them up.

I ain't been well for a while.

- You've been through a lot.

- No.

No that's part of the job.

- Maybe, maybe not.

But I think you know you ain't sheriff no more

and you haven't been for a while.

- It's a boy?

- Yeah.

I don't know what I'd do if I lost him.

But we can't save everybody,

sometimes not even the ones we love the most.

But we try.

Lemme take you home.

- No.

I think I'm gonna sleep here for a spell.

- Can I go play. - Yes, of course.

- Be careful, okay?

- Okay.

- What's wrong, baby?

Run, baby, run.

- You're not gonna run away from me again!

- Keep running.

Run, baby, run.

Run.

Don't stop running.

Keep running, baby.

- Boy.

Boy!

- No, no, no, no.

- Get in there.

You be good now, you hear?

- Ma'am, you can't be back there.

Come on now.

- Don't you ma'am me, you know my name.

Now where's the damn key?

- Mrs. Long, get your hands off that.

Come on, get outta there.

Look, your son broke the law.

- Oh, I know.

I had my ex daughter-in-law who don't even like me call me

to tell me that you

had put Ronnie in the back of a police car.

- He assaulted somebody.

- Where? Where's the guy?

Get out of my way.

- And he had a loaded gun.

You can't-

- So let me get this straight.

My son was arrested for assaulting a man

who doesn't exist

and for carrying a legal weapon that had his name on it.

Ah, here we go.

- I'm the deputy.

- You know who else is deputized?

- Hmm? - Mustard.

And he's a damn dog.

- Ms. Long, do not open that door.

- Shoot me.

- Shep to radio.

Shep to radio.

Diane, if you can hear me, I'm out here on Coal River Road.

Everything all right?

- Oh, I guess I hit something back there.

- Yeah, it was a deer, I saw it on the way in.

- A deer. - Did it do any damage?

- It messed up my front end pretty good.

- Man.

Looks like it got your leg there too, you all right?

- Oh, yeah.

Wildlife.

- All right.

- Oh yeah, that tore it up, didn't it?

Looks like your hose is loose.

- Hose? - Yeah.

I bet I got a wrench in the car,

and we can get you back on the road in no time.

How's that sound?

- Well, that'd be ideal, sir.

- All right.

You got any tools in the trunk?

- Huh?

- You got any tools in your trunk?

- Oh, no sir, I do not.

- Okay, I'll be right back.

- Everything okay?

- What's that?

- I said is everything okay, sir?

- Raise your hands.

- Let me out.

Let me out.

Help.

- How you doing over there, Sheriff?

- Wyatt, Wyatt. Wyatt, don't run, don't run.

Wyatt?

Wyatt.

Wyatt.

Wyatt.

I'm not gonna hurt you.

It's okay, I'm not gonna hurt you.

It's okay.

- Boy.

You can hand me that gun now, boy.

It's okay, I got it.

I got it.

Don't you move a muscle.

You stay right here.

Daddy's gonna be right back.

- Wyatt.

- Won't you turn around now, boy?

- You all right?

- Get the kid.

The kid.

- Hang on, boy.

Hey, hang on.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, don't do that.

Hey, hey, come here.

It's gonna be okay.

Hey, hey, come here.

Hey, Wyatt, it's gonna be okay.

There you go.

Whoa, no, no, no, no, no, no.

- Dad, wake up.

Wake up.

- You're okay, you're okay.

Okay, okay, okay.

Okay.

- Hey, you've got one just like me.

- It'll heal, buddy.

It'll heal, okay?

All right, come on, let's get you warm.