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What the hell?

Hey.

You know which side of the boat are you on?

You got a name, boy?

Guess... something must have cut your tangles.

Either set or you've got something

to hide.

I can't tell.

You hear me plain enough.

Walter Henderson.

Now I want to ask you one last question.

You see this here card?

Is this you?

Or a relative of yours?

Well, I'm going to call up this number and see if they can tell me who you are.

I ain't got pets enough to be...

Putting up mutes.

Operator.

I need a line out, please.

Los Angeles, Coney Park.

Uh,

what?

Well, can you tell me the exact location of your hospital down there?

Where the hell is that?

Oh, okay, all right.

Yeah, okay,

I'll be there. I'll get there as fast as I can.

Just will you tell them that I'm coming, okay?

Okay.

Steve, I think you will have to change that.

This section right here? Yeah, because it's incomplete.

Anne, honey?

Okay.

I just got the strangest phone call.

Who's from?

From some hospital in South Texas.

A place called Terlingua.

They say they found Travis.

Oh, no.

What are you going to do?

Well, I'll go down and get him.

Oh, why?

Well, what am I going to do? I can't leave him down there.

What about Hunter?

What am I supposed to tell him?

Well, just tell him I had to go on a business trip.

I mean about Travis.

Well, I guess you better tell him the truth.

10 to Van Horn, 90.

The Alpine, 118 south.

Terlingua.

You must be the brother of the mute.

Mute? Yeah.

He couldn't squeeze a dime a day out of him.

Must be in a kind of jam, huh?

I don't know. I haven't seen him in over four years.

Is that right?

Well, a lot can happen to a man in four years, I guess.

All kinds of trouble.

Expensive trouble.

What do you mean?

Well, down here, a man gets himself into a fix sometimes.

And it costs a little to get him out.

You understand what I mean?

I don't understand you. I wish you'd get to the point, because I'd like to see my

brother.

All right, sir.

But first I would like to ask you something.

Did your brother...

Ever get himself into a car wreck?

Car wreck, no.

Not that I know of.

Then he must be mixing with some hard company.

I'd like to see my brother now, if you don't mind.

He disappeared.

You mean he's not here?

After I came all this way?

He's been gone since early this morning.

We have his possessions.

Nevertheless, they eat them.

We'd be glad to turn them over to you soon as you take care of our little

reward.

Don't you recognize me? It's Walt!

It's your brother, Walt.

What the hell happened to you anyway? You look like 40 miles of rough road.

Come on, let's get in the car.

Here, Trav, here's your stuff.

Got that back at that clinic back there.

Sure picked a hell of a spot to land in. I don't blame you for running out of it.

Look, Trav, we've got quite a bit of traveling to do here. You're not going

to clam up the whole way, are you?

You're going to get kind of lonely.

Trav, would you mind telling me where you disappeared to for the last four

years?

Have you seen Jane or talked to her?

Jan and I, we sort of gave up on you.

We thought you were dead, boy.

That's pretty... Okay.

Well, gee, Trev, maybe you want to get cleaned up, you know, take a shower or

something.

I think I'll go back into town and get you some new clothes. You could use a

new set of clothes, couldn't you?

What size shoes you wear?

Let's see.

Probably one size bigger, huh?

So where'd you find that beard?

It's pretty snazzy.

Okay, I'll zip into town and zip right back.

I won't be going long.

You'll be okay, won't you, Trapp?

Yeah, I'll be right back.

Thank you.

You mind telling me where you're headed, Trav?

What's out there?

There's nothing out there.

Don't you trust me or something, huh?

I'm just trying to help you, Trav. That's all.

Come on, it's all right.

Thank you.

Then it feels good to be in new clothes, huh?

Hi, Hunter?

It's Daddy.

I thought you'd be in bed already.

Guess who I'm visiting here in Texas?

Your father.

Do you remember your father?

Not at all?

He was?

Well, guess what?

I'm going to bring him home to visit.

Travis, do you remember your little boy, Hunter?

Well, he's with us.

He's been living with the enemy ever since he disappeared.

We didn't know what else to do, so we just kept him.

One day, he was just standing at the door.

All he could tell us was that... Someone brought him there in a car.

He didn't know what had happened to you or Jane.

So we tried everything we could think of to find you or Jane.

Tried to locate her. She'd vanished too.

We didn't know what else to do.

Travis, I don't know what kind of trouble you got into.

I don't know what happened.

Damn it.

I'm your brother.

You can talk to me.

I'm tired of doing all the talking.

Fill it with unleaded, please.

You know, I'm getting a little sick of this silence routine.

You can talk.

I can be silent, too, you know.

I just assumed that both of us keep our mouths shut for the whole rest of the

trip. What?

Paris. Paris?

Paris?

Did you ever go to Paris?

No.

Could we go there now?

It's a little out of the way.

No, I've never even been to Europe.

Ann keeps wanting to go there because, well, she's from France, you remember.

But we never seem to find the time because my company keeps me kind of

busy.

Let's go, Trav.

What's the matter?

Where are we going?

We're going to fly to L.A.

You're not afraid of flying, are you?

We're leaving the ground.

Yeah.

Why?

Because it's too far to drive.

It would take an extra two days. I can't afford to time travel.

Why?

It's just easier to fly, Trav.

It's faster.

Come on.

Sorry.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, okay?

Okay. Bye now. Bye now.

This is getting a little ridiculous, Travis.

Are you going to leave me?

No, I'm not going to leave you.

It's all right if you leave me.

I don't know, honey, no. He just panicked or something.

Well, it won't do any good to try another plane. It wasn't a plane.

He'll just get off again.

Well, we're just gonna have to drive it. That's all. Message for Joyce Stockwell.

Yeah, it'll take a good two days. Joyce Stockwell.

Austin will arrive at any minute. I don't understand why you have to have

the very same car you had before.

They're all alike.

All the cars we have here are Briggs, Olds, Chevys, or whatever.

I'm not even sure I can locate the same car you had before. I know, I know.

My brother left something in the car. We're hoping we can search the car and

find it.

I lost the founding department for you, if that's the case, sir. No, we have to

have the very same car.

Well, I can't do that. There's no way I can trace that car for you. Well, why

not? You got the license number right on your form there. Well, yes, sir. Well,

just give us the license number. We'll find it.

But I can't allow you on the lot, sir.

Why not? We're already on it. I just have to ask you to come back to the

office with me.

Travis?

get the very same car but i can rent your mild that just like the one you had

before sir we need the same car walt how are we going to go in another car

give us a number will you please come on pretty please

all right that number is 667 djp remember that

667 djp it's got a bump on the hood yes it does

Dad, what you got in your hand?

A picture.

A picture of what?

A picture of Paris.

Paris, really?

Yes, a picture of a piece of Paris.

Where'd you get a picture of Paris?

Can I see it?

Yes.

This is it?

This is Paris?

Looks just like Texas to me.

It is.

Paris, Texas?

It's right here on the map. Is this really a place called Paris, Texas?

It's right here.

Well, how come you got a picture of a vacant lot in Paris, Texas?

It's mine.

I know that, but how come you got it?

I purchased it in the mail a long time ago.

You bought a picture of a vacant lot in the mail?

No. I bought the land.

Oh, you bought that lot?

Yes. Oh, let me see it again.

There's nothing on it.

Empty.

Well, why in hell would you want to buy a vacant lot in Paris, Texas, for

Christ's sake?

I

forgot.

Do you remember what Mama's very first name was?

Mary.

No, I know. I mean, before she found Daddy.

Her maiden name?

Yeah.

You don't remember her maiden name?

No.

Sikine.

Chiquita.

Spanish.

Her father was.

Yeah.

I don't believe it.

You finally decided to eat.

Eating and talking.

Before you know it, you'll be back in the land of the living, Trav.

You want me to drive?

Think you remember how?

My body remembers.

You can sleep while I drive.

Okay.

Think maybe you're ready to tell me what the hell happened to you over the last

four years

Where are we, Travis?

What happened?

Why'd we get off the highway?

Jesus Christ.

I can't even sleep for five minutes without some crisis.

Why'd you turn off?

I don't know where I turned off.

Didn't have a name.

That's great.

That's just dandy.

Here we are in the middle of the Mojave Desert in a place that doesn't have a

name.

I need to talk a little bit about Hunter.

How old is he now?

He's eight and... January.

He's seven then.

Yeah.

Let's see, what I want to talk about is, uh, well, he's, he's like part

of the family now.

Ann and me are like his parents now.

Ann's your wife.

Yeah, you remember her, don't you?

No. Does he think that you're his father?

Well...

Ann told him you were coming.

Well, who does he think I am?

I told him you're his father.

But see, you've been gone a long time, Tramp.

How long have I been gone, do you know?

Four years.

Is four years a long time?

Well, it is for a little boy.

It's half his life.

Half a boy's life.

I remember now.

What?

Why I bought that land.

Why? Well, Mama once told me that that's where she and Daddy

first made love.

Oh, in Paris, Texas?

Yeah. She told you that?

Yeah.

So... I figured that that's where I began.

I mean, me. Travis Clay Henderson.

They named me that.

I started out there.

Paris, Texas, huh?

Yeah.

So you think maybe you were conceived there?

Yeah. You could be right, Travis.

Daddy always had a joke about it.

What was the joke?

He would introduce Mama as the girl he met in Paris.

Then he'd wait before he said Texas till everybody thought that he

meant...

He would wait before he said Texas till everybody thought, after everybody

thought he was talking about Paris, France.

He always laughed real hard about it.

So you live in Los Angeles, huh?

Yeah, well, we live in the suburbs, but I got my business in town.

Yeah, what's your business?

I make billboard signs for advertising.

Oh, yeah?

You're the one that makes those. I love those.

Some of them are beautiful.

I'm not the only one in the world that makes them, Trav.

This way.

Nice, huh?

Just been in here three months.

I really like it, but I took a beating on the financing, I tell you.

Like everybody else nowadays, I guess.

Hi, baby.

Everything okay here?

Oh, sure.

We just missed you a lot.

I missed you, too.

Come on in.

Travis.

My God.

We were beginning to wonder if we'd ever see you again.

It's been so long.

Did you have a good trip?

Yeah, it was fine.

Hunter?

And this is Travis.

I bet it was really hot coming across the Mojave Desert.

Yes.

Too bad you had to drive.

What happened?

Well, Travis just didn't feel like flying.

Oh, I don't blame you. I can't stand airplanes anymore.

Especially since we live in this house.

All we hear is planes day in and day out.

I like them.

You used to fly, didn't you, Travis?

No.

Oh, I thought... I remember Jane telling me once that you flew to Dallas

together. Or somewhere.

Um... Maybe I'm mistaken.

in the bed since we started for here, I swear to God.

I don't think that's even necessary.

Where has he been sleeping, then?

Well, he doesn't sleep.

He has to sleep somewhere.

Okay.

I don't think he's even going to use it.

He's got to get tired sometime.

Oh, there is a towel for you, Travis, and some underwear and socks from Walt.

Good night.

Thank you.

Okay.

Get some shut-eye.

Okay.

Sweet dreams. Alright.

I don't know.

You polish them.

That's very nice of you, Travis.

Would you like to come in and have some breakfast?

Aren't you hungry?

We're going to have strawberry waffles.

Do you like them?

Do you want some?

Well... There is hot coffee on the stove if you want some.

Decided to rough it, huh?

Yeah.

What'd you do, spit Chinese?

I can get you a job at the airport doing that.

Hey, you want to trade these new boots for those old boots?

Yeah, you can wear them.

Thank you.

Travis?

I have to rush off to get Hunter to school on time.

We will be back this afternoon.

Walt's office number is on the dining room table.

See you later.

Okay. Bye.

I was just thinking maybe I could meet Hunter after school and we could walk

home together if he wants to.

Oh, that sounds like a great idea, Travis.

Walk home? I don't want to walk home, Mom.

Why? Everybody walks, everybody drives.

Come on, Hunter.

It's not up to you to walk home once in your life.

No, no, no, I don't want to. I don't want to walk, Mom. I don't want to walk.

Travis, I insist.

He'll wait for you out in front.

you to get there it's not far and get in the car until we're late as it is

I'm really sorry about this, Travis.

It's not easy for a man.

Ann, it's okay. He's in here.

What are you doing?

Driving.

Where to?

Just driving.

You're not hiding out in there, are you?

No.

Hunter, Travis is your real dad. You know that, don't you?

Dad, when are they going to make spaceships like they make cars?

Hunter, I'm asking you a question.

Can you answer it?

What?

Travis went to meet you at school, and he wanted to walk you home.

Nobody walks.

That's not the point.

Travis is your real dad, and he wants to talk to you.

Why?

What about?

Okay, come on. Let's go ahead.

Hey, Trav, do you remember the time that Ann and me came down to visit you about

five years ago?

No.

You and Jane were down in Texas, right there on the coast.

Hunter was about three.

Don't you remember that?

No.

I remember we went fishing.

Yeah.

I took some Super 8 on that trip.

And I put it all together. I thought maybe you might like to see some of it.

What is it?

Movies. You know, Super 8.

Oh. What?

Maybe Travis doesn't want.

What?

Well, maybe he'd like to wait a while before he looks at it.

Oh, it's up to him.

I just thought maybe you'd like to see some of it.

Movies?

Sure. Great.

There's some great stuff in it. Some great shots of Hunter in it.

I've already seen it.

Well, you have to see it again.

Come on, help me set up the projector.

Okay.

It's me driving.

I know, you're gonna be good.

Good night,

Dad.

Do you think he still loves her?

How would I know that, Hunter?

I think he does.

How can you tell?

Well, the way he looked at her.

You mean when he saw her in the movie?

Yeah, but that's not her.

What do you mean?

That's only her in a movie.

A long time ago.

In a galaxy far, far away.

What are you looking for?

I'm looking for the father.

Your father?

No, no, just a father.

Any father.

What does a father look like?

There are many different kinds of fathers, Senor Travis.

Well, I just need one.

You think you're going to find him in there?

I don't know where else to look.

Oh, I see. You want to look like a father.

Yeah.

Well, now, tell me.

Do you want to be a rich father?

No.

A poor one? No.

In between.

No, no. There is no in between.

You either have to be a rich father or a poor one.

Rich.

Bueno, un momento.

¿Qué tal, eh?

Está bueno.

Okay, one thing you must remember.

To be a rich father, Señor Travis, you must look to the sky and never at the

ground, eh?

Here.

A little higher.

Eso.

Ahora camine.

No.

It's the... You must walk stiff, Señor Travis.

Bittleness, you know.

Dignity. You got it.

You know him?

Yeah, he's my father's brother.

No.

They're both brothers.

No, they're both... They're both fathers.

No. I forget it.

But both whose fathers?

My father.

How do you have two fathers? Just lucky, I guess.

Well, bye.

Bye.

My dad's suit.

I mean, what?

It's okay if you call him dad.

Yeah, I borrowed it from him. He said it was okay.

What are those pictures?

That's my dad.

And your grandfather.

What was his name?

Travis.

Same as yours.

Mm-hmm.

Where is he now?

He died a couple of years after this picture in that car.

Oh, he's dead?

Mm-hmm.

But can you feel that he's dead?

What do you mean?

You know when he was walking around and talking, right?

Yeah. So can you feel that he's gone?

Yeah, sometimes.

I know he's dead.

I never felt like you were dead.

I could always feel you walking around and talking someplace.

Yeah. I feel Mom, too.

You do?

Don't you?

Yeah.

That's me when I was in the Navy.

You were a general?

No, that's fine.

It's when I was in the band, the high school band.

Here's you. I like this picture. Look at that.

That is really wild.

It's weird when there's water in between and then it turns into nothing.

Then it goes... Yeah, that's a great picture.

And this is my mom.

I don't know.

It just seems like everything has changed between us so fast, ever since

Travis came.

What's changed?

I'm just afraid.

Afraid of Travis?

No.

Then what?

Of what will happen to us if we lose Hunter.

We're not going to lose Hunter.

Then why do you keep pushing them together?

It's almost as if you wanted him to leave.

Who?

Hunter.

You know what I'm talking about.

You keep promoting this father-son business between them. It's not

business.

Travis is his father and Hunter is his son.

Hi Anne. Hi Travis.

You don't sleep much, do you?

Travis, there is something I have to tell you.

I was not going to, because somehow it makes things easier that nobody knows.

I never even told Walt a hunter.

Well, what is it?

After Hunter came to live with us, Jane used to call, asking

about him.

She made me promise not to tell anyone she was calling.

Did she ask about me?

Yes, in the beginning.

Where did she call from?

Places in Texas.

What places?

Let me finish Travis After what happened

between you and Jane She decided hunter should be with us

She said she couldn't be a mother to him anymore

She stopped being a mother to him a long time before that.

Travis, I don't want to feel I'm hiding something.

She was young.

She wanted something, and I just couldn't figure out what it was.

I just didn't realize how much rage I had.

A little more than a year ago, she

stopped calling.

I haven't heard from her since then.

Nothing?

Not a word.

But on the last call, she asked me to open a bank account for Hunter.

A bank account?

All I know about Jane now is she goes to this bank on the fifth

of each month and wires money for Hunter.

Jay, fill us into money.

Sometimes $100, sometimes $50, or $5, for Hunter's future.

I had the bank trace the wire.

It comes from a bank in Houston.

What bank?

I wrote it down, if you want it.

What's the data today?

The first of November.

I think we should get it.

You're right.

What?

I meant the other thing.

in the valley all the way to Arizona.

None of that area will be called a safety zone.

There will be no safety zone.

I can guarantee you the safety zone will be eliminated, eradicated.

You will all be extradited to the land of no return.

It's a navigation to nowhere.

And if you think that's going to be fun.

You've got another thing coming.

I made me a slime bucket.

But believe me, I know what the hell I'm talking about.

I'm not crying.

Thought you were afraid of heights.

No, I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of falling.

Oh, yeah? Well, just don't look down.

Too bad things don't look the same on the ground.

What do you mean?

Things are clearer up here.

Might clear things up.

Yeah, I had a talk with Ann last night.

Yeah, she's pretty upset.

Yeah, I know.

I'm gonna leave.

What? I'm leaving.

I didn't tell you this in order to make you leave. I'm not trying to get rid of

you, Travis.

I know that.

Well, what good is that gonna do?

I mean, that's not gonna solve anything.

I know that. I'm gonna find Jane.

How are you gonna do that?

It's been four years. She completely disappeared.

I tried to find her. I tried everything. I couldn't find her. Yeah, well, I

haven't tried yet.

I can find her. What makes you so sure? I just know.

Can we go down now?

No.

God damn it.

You tell me what happened, Travis.

I'm sick of this fucking mystery.

I've been treating you like a spoiled kid ever since I picked you up in the

desert. Now you tell me what happened with you and Jane.

Shit.

I know it's none of my business.

I'm going to need to take...

Money, credit cards.

All right, I'm sure you can have them. You know, you'll get it back.

I'll forget that.

I want to find it, Walt.

Others?

This is not bad stuff.

I don't put it in lunch every day.

Lavash key re.

Sticky.

Lavash what?

Re. Re.

Re. Re.

I like it.

Dad? Yeah?

Where'd you go all that time?

Mexico. How come?

I didn't know where else to go.

Where'd mom go?

I don't know.

But right now she's somewhere in Houston.

That's where the space center is.

That's what I want to talk to you about.

I gotta go away now.

Why?

Because I'm going to find her. What about me? Just find me.

Can I come with?

What about Walden Ann?

Maybe we'd never come back here?

Sure, but... I don't know when.

I want to come with.

I want to find her too.

When do we go?

Right now.

Then come on, let's go.

First we gotta stop and get supplies for the trip.

We've got to buy jackets, t-shirts, toothbrushes, stuff like that. Maybe

even walkie-talkies.

Walkies? Of course.

Get the gate.

You know what?

What?

This whole galaxy.

The whole universe.

Used to be compressed into a tiny spot this big.

And you know what happened?

What? It went and blew up. All the spark, everything went flying all over

the place and formed space.

It was just gas. It was floating around.

The earth was.

Yeah, the earth was really gas.

And the sun formed and it was so hot that the earth... just formed into one

hard big ball of ocean, nothing but ocean.

So there were sea animals that under the water, and the

hot lava hit the water and formed a rock to make land.

We're going to make a collect call.

You dial the operator.

I know.

Good.

Call Walt and Ann.

Why?

Because, so they don't worry about you, so they know where you are.

What are we going to say?

Just tell them the truth.

Tell them that you're with me and that we're going to Texas.

They're going to flip out.

No, but you can handle it.

Okay? Why can't you do it?

I can't do it.

Why?

Because it has to be you.

Oh, Jake.

You want to get heat around me?

Hello? Hunter,

where are you? You know what time it is? I've been calling everywhere looking for

you.

Yeah, yeah, Hunter, just listen to me now. Where are you exactly?

San Bernardino.

San Bernardino.

Hunter, what do you mean you're in San Bernardino? Let me talk to him. Wait a

minute. Let me talk to him.

All right, all right.

Hunter, are you all right?

Yeah.

What are you doing?

With Travis?

Where are you going?

Tell me where you are, Hunter.

Just tell me where you are.

What's the name of it?

Oh my God.

Hunter, you tell Travis to turn around and come back here right now.

Do you understand me?

Let me talk to him.

Bye, Mom. Gotta go now.

Hunter.

Hunter!

Did they flip out?

Yeah, she did.

You're not sorry you came, are you? No.

Well, you can go back to them anytime you want.

You just tell me, okay?

I don't want to go back.

I know, but just in case you change your mind.

I'm so used to calling her mom.

Ann.

She sounded so sad.

What do you think mom will look like now?

I don't know.

Do you remember her?

Not really. Only from that little movie we saw.

You look happy then.

I put a baby down, traveled at the speed of light for an hour.

If he traveled at the speed of light, he would come back in an hour.

He would be an hour older, but the little baby would be a very old man.

Well, how long would it take him to get to Houston?

Uh, if they were to travel.

I'd say about three seconds.

Over. I didn't get that last part.

It would take them three seconds to get from California to Houston on light

speed.

This is Houston?

Yep.

How are we going to find her in a big city like this?

I know where she'll be. Where?

A bank. She's going to deposit some money at a certain bank today.

This is a bank?

What kind of bank is this?

Looks like a drive-in.

I've never seen a bank like that.

Me neither.

There'll be so many cars, we'll never find her.

Oh, yeah, we will.

Come on.

We'll split up and cover more ground, okay?

Yeah, we could use the walkie-talkies.

Hey, now you're going.

I'll let you out here.

Okay.

Can you hear me?

I told you these weren't toys. Over.

10-4. Over and out.

He's just leaving the bed.

Where did she go?

You sure it's her?

Come on, come on, come on.

Hunter,

did you really get a good look at her or what?

It must have been her. I knew it was her.

God, I hope we haven't lost her.

Yeah, that'd be the joke. Go faster.

There's 10,000 cars here, Hunter. How are we going to find out which one is

it? Go faster, Dad. Go faster.

What color? The car was red, right?

Yeah. A little red Chevy.

Do you see anything? Yeah, I don't know what it looks like, Hunter. You'll have

to help me. Look. Can you see it? No, not yet.

Which lane?

The right one. All right. All right. Settle down. I see it.

Okay.

Is that her? Look. See if it's her. Can you tell?

I can't tell.

Wait a minute. There's two red cars now.

Which one is it?

I'm sure this is the one, though.

Yeah.

I hope you're right, honey. We're following the wrong car. We're going to

have to wait a whole other month.

I'll be eight then.

You'll be what?

I'll be eight then.

Let's get closer. We could wave.

No, no, no. We don't want to get too close. We might scare her.

She'll have a wreck or something.

Okay?

Okay.

Well,

I wonder where she's going.

Maybe to work. What do you think?

Yeah, could be.

Looks like a girl's trying to me.

Could it be hers?

Could be.

Get in the truck, and I'll tell you my plan.

Okay.

Roll the windows up, lock the doors, and if anybody talks to you, tell them your

daddy's inside, and he'll be right back.

Okay? Okay.

You okay?

Yep.

Okay, new bit, new bit. You guys are going to love this.

The girls here spend so much time with the guy that most of them live alone.

But it's tough living alone in a city like this. A lot of violent things

happen here.

Stuff like rape, like murder, especially from the police force.

Tupperware parties, violent things.

But we can live alone.

I need some kind of protection in the home. And for a girl, you can live with

a guy or you can live with a dog.

That's a tough decision. Let me tell you.

Nurse Pibbs, you're needed in boat seven. Nurse Pibbs, boat seven.

It hates to take a bath.

It throws up on the carpet.

It chews on your underwear.

Dogs, when they're in here, they keep their nose, keep their tail.

Lots of people out there.

It's like a dog act to me. Yeah, right.

Here's some rock and roll. Hey, how's it going?

Sir?

Sir,

you're in the wrong place.

It's too early. All the girls are downstairs.

Please get a ride, because I'm getting crazy.

There wasn't a girl.

Mother Dana.

Call for you. Who's 19?

Mother Dina. Who's 19?

Right and left.

Yeah, I want to see a blonde girl with kind of short, straight hair, about 25

years old.

Okay.

She's coming down. Stay on the line.

Hello, honey.

You know, the 23, I've worked 23 of the 24 business plays.

I don't know.

Cool if I make 24.

Yeah. We can have a new point then.

Good idea.

How about water polo?

Fun. Well,

I don't know. Well, I'll tell you what.

Why don't you just tell Nurse Bibbs where the pain is? Maybe I can find a

cure. Why don't you look at me?

I am looking at you.

Yeah, but I'm over here. Can't you see me?

Listen, sweetheart, if I could see you, I wouldn't be working here.

Well, what do you see?

See what you see.

Nurse Bibbs.

Nurse Bibbs and a rubber horse.

Oh.

Oh, I see.

Thank you Nurse Bibbs.

Thank you.

Well, I see your light's still on, so I guess you must be out there.

Hmm?

It's okay if you don't want to talk, you know. I don't want to talk either

sometimes.

I just like to stay silent.

Do you mind if I sit down?

Do you mind if I sit down?

No.

Thanks.

My legs get a little tired from standing all the time.

Is this your first visit here?

Yes.

Well,

this whole thing must seem kind of strange to you, huh?

You realize that I can't see you even though you can see me well that takes a

little getting used to I'm

looking at your face now

If there's anything you want to talk about, I'll just listen, alright?

I'm a real good listener.

Is there something... I don't know, is there something I can do for you?

Do you mind if I take off my sweater?

I'll just take off my sweater.

No, no, no, don't.

Please, please leave it on.

I'm sorry.

I just don't know exactly what it is you want.

Is there something you want to tell me?

No.

You can tell me and I can keep a secret.

Is that all you do is just...

Well, yeah.

Yeah, mostly.

And listen.

What else do you do?

Why are you laughing?

What else do you do?

Nothing, really.

Oh well, we're not allowed to see the customers out here.

Yeah, where do you see them then? Do you go home with them?

No sir, we don't.

We're not allowed to have any outside relationships with the customers.

Yeah, but you can only see him if you want to, can't you? I mean, you can go

home with him if you want to. All these places say that. I mean, how much extra

money do you make? How much money do you make on the side?

I'm sorry.

Sir, I think you'll maybe want to talk to one of the other girls. I'll see if I

can find one for you.

No, no, no, no!

Please, please.

Please don't go.

I just don't think I'm the one you want to talk to.

Alright.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

That's okay.

You know what?

How hard it is to talk to strangers sometimes.

Just relax.

Relax and tell me what's on your mind.

I'll listen.

To you.

I don't mind listening.

I do it all the time.

She was there, wasn't she?

What's that?

You wake up a lot.

I bought that land when we were all together with your mom.

Where? Paris.

Texas. Where's that?

It's close to the Red River.

You like it?

You mean we live on dirt?

that stuff.

It stinks.

Wait a minute. Where are you going?

To the truck.

I have another one.

This is not a place to bring a fancy woman.

Would you say? If you had a fancy woman, would you bring her in a place like

this?

What's a fancy woman?

My mother.

Not your mother.

But my mother.

Was not a fancy woman.

She was...

She

never wanted to be a fancy woman. She never even pretended to be a fancy

woman.

Then what was she?

She was just plain.

Just plain good.

She was very good.

But my daddy... See, my daddy, he

had this idea.

He had this idea in his head that was kind of a sickness.

What idea?

He had this idea about her and he looked at

her but he didn't see her.

He saw this idea

and he told people that

she was from Paris.

It's a big joke.

He started telling everybody all the time. Finally, it wasn't a joke anymore.

He started believing it.

And he actually believed it.

She... Oh, God.

She would get so embarrassed.

She...

She was so... She was so shy

Let's go.

Love, Dad.

Hunter, it's me.

I was afraid I'd never be able to say the right words to you in person.

So...

I'm trying to do it like this.

When I first saw you, this time, at Waltz,

I was hoping for all kinds of things.

I was hoping to show you that I was your father.

You showed me I was.

But the biggest thing I hoped for...

Fill up what happened

facing this

Can I tell you something?

Sure. Anything you like.

It's kind of long.

I knew these people.

What people?

These two people.

They were in love with each other.

The girl was very young, about 17 or 18, I guess.

And the guy was quite a bit older.

He was kind of raggedy and wild.

And she was very beautiful, you know?

Yeah.

And together they turned everything into a kind of an adventure.

And she liked that.

Just an ordinary trip down to the grocery store was full of adventure.

And they were always laughing at stupid things.

He liked to make her laugh.

And... They didn't much care for anything else.

Because all they wanted to do was be with each other.

They were always together.

Sounds like they were very happy.

Yes, they were. They were real happy.

And he...

He loved her more than he ever felt possible.

He couldn't stand being away from her during the day when he went to work.

So he'd quit.

Just to be home with her.

Then he'd get another job when the money ran out.

And then he quit again.

But pretty soon she started to worry.

About what?

Money, I guess.

Not having enough.

Not knowing when the next check was coming in.

Yeah, I know that feeling.

So he started to get kind of torn inside.

Well, he knew I had to work to support her but he couldn't stand being away

from her either And the more he was away from her

the crazier he got Except now he got really crazy

He started imagining all kinds of things

He started thinking that she was seeing other men on the sly.

He'd come home from work and accuse her of spending the day with somebody else.

He'd yell at her and break things in the trailer.

Excuse me, sir, but were you to visit me the other day?

I don't mean to pry.

No.

Oh.

I thought I recognized your voice for a minute.

No.

It wasn't me.

Please go home.

Anyway, he started to drink real bad.

And he'd stay out late to test her.

What do you mean, test her?

To see if she'd get jealous.

He wanted her to get jealous, but

she didn't.

She just worried about him.

But that got him even madder.

What? Because he thought if she never got jealous of him that she didn't

really care about him.

Jealousy was a sign of her love for him.

And then one night, one night she told him that she was pregnant.

She was about three or four months pregnant.

And he didn't even know.

And then suddenly everything changed.

He stopped drinking and got a steady job.

He was convinced that she loved him now because he was carrying his child and he

was going to dedicate himself to making a home for her.

But a funny thing started to happen.

What?

He didn't even notice it at first.

She started to change.

From the day the baby was born, she began to get irritated with everything

around her.

She got mad at everything.

Even the babies seemed to be an injustice to her.

He kept trying to make everything all right for her, buy her things, take her

out to dinner once a week.

But nothing seemed to satisfy her.

For two years, he struggled to pull them back together like they were when they

first met.

But finally, he knew that it was never going to work out.

So he hit the bottle again, but this time it got mean.

This time when he came home late at night, she wasn't worried about him or

jealous.

She was just enraged.

She accused him of holding her captive by making her have a baby.

She told him that she dreamed about escaping.

That was all she dreamed about, escape.

She saw herself at night running naked down a highway, running across fields,

running down riverbeds, always running.

And always, just when she was about to get away, he'd be there.

He would stop her somehow.

He would just appear and stop her.

And when she told him these dreams, he believed them.

He knew she had to be stopped or she'd leave him forever.

So he tied a cowbell to her ankle so he could hear at night if she tried to get

out of bed.

But she learned how to muffle the bell by stuffing a sock into it and inching

her way out of the bed and into the night.

He caught her one night when the sock fell out and he heard her trying to run

to the highway.

He caught her.

dragged her back to the trailer and tied her to the stove with his belt.

He just left her there and went back to bed and lay there listening to her

scream.

Then he listened to his son scream.

He was surprised at himself because he didn't feel anything anymore.

All he wanted to do was sleep.

and for the first time he wished he were far away

lost in a deep vast country

where nobody knew him somewhere without language or streets

and he dreamed about this place without knowing its name and when he woke

up he was on fire

There were blue flames burning the sheets of his bed.

He ran through the flames toward the only two people he loved.

But they were gone.

His arms were burning, and he threw himself outside and rolled on the wet

ground.

Then he ran.

He never looked back at the fire.

He just ran.

He ran until the sun came up and he couldn't run any further.

And when the sun went down, he ran again.

For five days he ran like this until every sign of man

had disappeared.

If you turn the light off in there, will you be able to see me?

I don't know.

I never tried.

Yeah.

Do you want to see him?

Yeah.

I wanted to see him so bad that I didn't even dare imagine him anymore.

Anne kept sending me pictures of him.

Until I asked her to stop.

I couldn't stand the pain of seeing him grow up and missing him.

I didn't have what I knew he needed.

I didn't want to use him to fill all my emptiness.

Well, he needs you now, Jane.

And he wants to see you.

He does?

Where? Downtown.

In a hotel.

The Meridian.

Room 1520.

1520.

You're not going, are you?

I can't see you Jane.

Don't go yet.

I used to make up long speeches to you after you left.

I used to talk to you all the time, even though I was alone.

I walked around for months talking to you.

Now I don't know what to say.

It was easier when I just imagined you.

I even imagined you talking back to me.

We'd have long conversations.

The two of us.

It was almost like you were there.

I could hear you.

I could see you, smell you.

I could hear your voice.

Sometimes your voice would wake me up.

It would wake me up in the middle of the night, just like you were there in the

room with me.

Then... It slowly faded.

I couldn't picture you anymore.

I tried to talk out loud to you like I used to, but there was nothing there.

I couldn't hear you.

Then... I just gave up.

Everything stopped.

You... just disappeared.

Now I'm working here.

I hear your voice all the time.

Every man has your voice.

Travis. What?

I'll be there.

But...

Meridian

Hotel.

Okay. What?

Bye.

Thank you.