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[wind whistling faintly]

[sighs]

[sighs]

- Get up.

- The alarm didn't even go off.

- Internal clock.

[alarm beeps]

- [whispers] Oh, man.

What?

- Get dressed.

- [groans]

[subdued piano music]

♪

[mellow acoustic music]

♪

- Here.

[speaks indistinctly]

- Okay.

[slow breathing]

- Guess my internal clock's on snooze.

[chuckles]

[cell phone beeps]

[crow caws]

[birdsong]

[mellow dramatic music]

♪

[faint footsteps]

[whispers] Are--are you--?

- [whispers] Hurry.

- Slowly! - You just said "hurry."

- Shh. Faster.

When he gets into the clearing, take the shot.

Safety off.

- I got it.

- Squeeze real soft.

Take it.

Shoot it.

[normal voice] - Did I hit it?

[normal voice] Didn't look like it.

Well, there's your bullet hole.

- I don't see any bullet. Where's the bullet?

You know where the bullet is? Where's the bullet?

- Inside the deer.

- How the heck did I miss that?

I think I banged my scope.

Ow. Scope must be broken.

Fucking deer.

[humming softly]

Ow!

Damn.

You want the last piece of bacon?

Doug?

Do you want the last piece of bacon?

- No!

- Damn it!

I lost my game.

Man, I'm supposed to call Sherry,

but I cannot get any reception here.

- Doug! - It's spotty.

- Huh? - There is no reception.

- That's weird. Does she know that?

- Uh-huh.

- Why would she ask me to call her, then?

- Your wife has a sick sense of humor.

- Yes, she does.

[laughs]

She screw with you growing up?

- Constantly.

- I said, did she mess with you growing up?

Huh?

Did she screw with you?

- What's up? You coming?

- I'm going to go hunt a few hundred yards that way.

- Okay.

- Cover more ground.

- All right, well, what if, uh...

what if I get something?

- I'll come to you.

- What if you get something?

- Just stay put.

You might spook something your way.

[sniffles]

- Okay.

- Try not to miss.

- Yeah, thanks.

[distant laughter and chattering]

- Right over here...

[indistinct chatter]

- Come on, it's right over here.

- Stay put.

[coughing]

[indistinct chatter continuous]

[men laugh]

[gunshots]

[sighs]

[sighs]

- Oh, shit.

- Hey!

[grunts]

[gunshots]

[gunshot]

[grunts and gasps]

[breathing heavily]

- Are there any more?

Ryan, are there more?

Goddamn it, Ryan, is that the last of them?

- Yeah!

- Are you sure?

- Are you sure? - No...

I...I don't see any more!

Oh, God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[panting]

Jesus Christ.

I just killed him.

I killed him.

Doug? Doug, what are you doing?

Where are you going? Doug, stop. Just stop a minute, Doug.

We got to figure out what to do here.

Doug, what are you doing?

We got to figure out what to do here.

Just a minute--no, Doug! Damn it!

Just a second!

Stop! Look...

we got to go to the police.

We have got to go to the police.

We've got to figure out what to do, okay?

Talk to me!

- What?

- "What"?

Did you just say "what"?

Jesus, Doug, we just fucking killed three people,

and all you can say is "what"?

Yeah, you are fucking crazy now man.

No, Doug. Doug!

No, wait, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it.

Doug, stop!

Doug, come on. Doug--

come on, Doug.

Wait. Don't--don't-- don't touch everything.

Just leave it all as it is.

Let's just go to the police. Would you stop...?

That's a lot of money.

If we take it to the police now,

Pack it up, take it over, it won't look suspicious.

But the longer we wait, the worse it looks.

Come on, Doug. Snap out of it. Please?

I can't do this by myself.

I mean, they--

somebody probably heard those shots.

Imagine if the police go out there

and find those dead bodies.

Then they see us with all this money.

I mean, we are in trouble, buddy.

[panting]

Doug!

- It's gun season.

- What?

- It's gun season.

No one's going to care about gunshots.

Plus, there ain't nobody out here anyway.

- Still, I--I think we need to tell someone.

- John Brander.

Elliot Moody.

And Cooper Greene.

And the one they killed just had these keys.

You know who they are?

- How the heck would I know who they are?

- I don't know who they are either.

I do know they're probably not-so-nice people.

They got a quarter million dollars buried in a hole.

which makes me think there's some other

not-so-nice people who will be wanting that money back.

- Then that's all the more reason

to go to the police.

- Then what?

- What do you mean, "then what?"

- Then go to the police.

Turn all this money in.

And we're heroes for killing a couple of bad guys?

What then?

You think those people are going to be happy

about losing that money?

Huh?

You think they're just going to let it go?

No.

And everybody, good and bad, is going to know

just who the hell we are.

- If we're in trouble, police won't use our names.

- We're--we're in a town of 500 people, all right?

How anonymous do you think we can be?

You know why I came out here, don't you?

Why do you think?

- Be alone.

You wanted to get away from everything, I guess.

- That's right.

Alone.

And then you show up.

And these guys.

And now you want to invite the police

and the media

and God knows who else out here?

And with my history,

you don't think they're going to dig that up?

I mean, Christ, I can just see the headlines.

- It's confidential, isn't it?

- Not military, no.

- You're right.

It's my fault.

If I wasn't here,

none of this would have happened.

If I wouldn't have missed that deer,

none of this would have happened.

We wouldn't be arguing over piles of money.

Four dead guys out there.

- No, I'm not blaming you.

I'm not blaming anybody.

Shit happens.

It's as simple as that.

This is a fucked-up situation, no matter what.

I know what you say we should do

is by all means the right thing to do.

I just don't see how it's going to make things better for us.

And you didn't miss when it mattered.

[dramatic music]

♪

[alarm blares]

- Sorry! [alarm turns off]

- Goddamn it!

- I thought it was the unlock button.

- Fuck!

- Fuck, it's not my keys.

Oh, wait, don't touch anything. Fingerprints.

Okay.

"Joseph Anderson."

What?

Doug, what is it?

Jesus. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Fuck! Fuck!

[breathing heavily]

Oh, my God.

Hey, Doug, listen...

we got to take the car...

and park it out there.

A few miles.

We leave it there,

and then we walk all the way back to the cabin.

- Then what? Just dump it on the side of the road?

- No.

We ditch it in the woods.

We ditch it off in the woods.

We can't make a fucking car disappear.

But if we leave it there...

they won't come looking back here.

- Fucking cop.

- Yeah, fucking cop.

[dramatic music]

♪

- Can you pick a station already?

- They're all fuzzy.

- Use the iPod.

- I want to hear the local stations.

- There are--there are no local stations. Zero.

[radio dial scrolling]

Seriously, Hannah, that's annoying.

- How much longer?

- Not too far.

- It's so pretty out here.

Feels like we're in the middle of nowhere.

- We are.

- I mean, literally, there's a road...

and a bunch of trees.

Talk to me! - What about?

- Anything.

- We talked for two hours.

- Yeah, you haven't said anything the last hour.

- You were asleep.

- Mm-hmm. - So, what--

what am I supposed to say when you're sleeping?

- Talk to me, or I turn on this radio.

It's over. - Okay, fine, I'll talk.

Stop.

Jesus, how old are you again?

- Eight. - I was going to say six,

because it's always nicer to tell a girl

she looks younger than she is.

- Are we there yet?

Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

- Turn the radio back on. - Okay.

[dramatic music]

♪

- Holy crap, it's cold.

- Watch your step.

- So this is it, huh?

- This is it.

- I didn't know places like this still existed.

- You're a Republican and you don't think

places like this still exist?

- I love you. - I love you too.

Let's go inside.

He's not going to know what to do with that.

- You said he drinks.

- Not that.

- Dad?

- Hold on!

[coughing]

Y'all are early.

I didn't expect you for a couple of hours.

- I called and I left a message.

- I'm not checking that damn thing.

This must be Hannah.

- Hi. It's nice to finally meet you.

- Make yourself at home.

- I got you this.

I wasn't sure what kind you liked.

- Tempranillo.

"Nillo."

- Huh? - Tempranillo.

- A wine, huh?

Huh.

Well, thank you. How's the drive?

- Uh, it was normal.

- Ice on the road?

- On the mountain, yeah.

- Well, have a seat.

I was going to clean up before you all got here.

- Oh, it's fine. I'm used to it.

- What are you, feeding the whole town?

- Got a bunch of Thanksgiving leftovers, y'all hungry.

- Oh, we had plenty of turkey last week.

I thought we could go out to eat.

- Well, how does pizza work?

- So, what's good here?

- Garlic pizza's pretty famous.

- What's on the garlic pizza? - A bunch of garlic.

- Right.

- So, Hannah, you work with Mitch down at the EPA?

- Not exactly.

I'm with a different organization.

But we often work with environmental groups.

- Who's that?

- OPEC.

- Huh.

[coughs]

- How are you, Grant?

- I'm fine, darling. How are you?

- Doing just fine. Hey, Mitch. - Hey, Jordy.

- Can we get y'all something to drink?

Beer for you, Grant? - Yes, ma'am.

- Same for me is fine. - Do you have a wine list?

- Yes. Red or white?

- Oh, let's do red.

- All right, I'll give y'all a few more minutes

- to look at the menu. - Thank you.

I take it you haven't fixed the A/C in your truck yet.

- Who the hell needs A/C in the middle of December?

- Well, it's been broke for two years.

[mutters]

And I saw that they repaved the streets.

But I thought-- you know, you said earlier

the town was short on funds,

so how did that happen?

They found some.

- Y'all ready to order?

- Yeah. Can you tell me about that garlic pizza?

Thank you.

[inhales and exhales]

- You ain't got GPS on that phone.

- Why?

- Been a long time since you've found your way back here.

- Yeah, it's been a while. Hey, Joe.

- Joe, this is Hannah.

- Nice to meet you. - Hi, how are you?

- Joe's an old friend of mine,

and he ain't getting no younger.

- Pizza tonight? - No, no, just making rounds.

You people have a nice evening.

- Good night, Joe. - Good night.

[yawns] Well...

I'm going to hit the hay.

I'll pull out the sofa bed for y'all.

- Oh, we're staying at the bed and breakfast, actually.

- Oh. - Yeah.

We figured we'd be out of your hair that way.

- You don't have to spend your money on that.

- Oh, it's easy.

That way we can all have our own space.

- All right.

- Y'all need anything else?

- No, I think we're good. Thank you.

- I'll be in the other room.

If you need anything else, just help yourself.

- Okay. Will do. Good night.

[door opens]

[door closes]

- We paid in advance for the other room, right?

- That's not the point.

Your dad wanted you to stay here.

- He's going to sleep. Who cares where we stay?

- He wants you close by.

- It's...the hotel's across the street.

- Well, then you can go stay there.

- [sighs]

- Let's go get a drink.

- No. - Are there any bars here?

- There's a bar, yeah.

- Well, then let's go to a bar.

- I don't want to. I'm tired.

Let's go to bed.

- You want the coverlet? - What is this?

- That's a coverlet. - What's a coverlet?

- It's just for decoration. Just...

- All right, we're going to sleep decorated.

- Okay.

[deep snoring behind walls]

- [sighs]

- You still want that drink? - Yup.

- Awesome. - Oh, my goodness.

There's an open stool.

- Hey, there. - Hi, Sherry.

- How have you been?

- I'm good. How have you been? - So good to see you.

- Good to see you too. - Oh, I figured

- you'd be here last week. - I had to work.

- Oh. Well, at least you made it now.

- Hi, I'm Sherry. - Hi. Hannah.

- Nice to meet you. - Me and Mitch used to date.

- Oh, okay.

[laughs]

Wow. We've known each other forever.

- Mm-hmm. - What can I get you two?

- Two Ambers, please. - Coming right up.

- How are you? How's business been?

- It's been good. Hit and miss, really.

- Yeah? - Is this your first time here?

- Yeah. I love it. It's amazing.

- Great. How's your dad been doing?

- Oh, he's good. Yeah.

- Well, we've all been praying for him.

- Cheers.

- Cheers. - Thank you.

Thank you, Sherry.

[laughing]

- Wait, so you actually thought

drinking and driving was just drinking while driving?

No alcohol?

- I used to yell at my mom for having soda in the car.

She probably thought I was crazy.

- Wow.

- Oh, my gosh.

Thank you, Sherry.

- You're welcome. Enjoy.

- Okay. - What's this?

- Try it. - Okay.

- Cheers.

[shot glasses slammed down] - Oh!

[gasps]

- Oh, my God.

- Whoa. - What is that?

- Oh, that is moonshine.

That's going to put hair on your chest.

- You want me to have hair on my chest?

[snickers]

- You sound like Sling Blade. - [laughs]

- Oh. - Oh, my goodness.

What have we here?

- I think you're trying to take advantage of me.

- Don't do that. - Great.

- Up we go.

- Stop. Stop.

Whoa. Sorry. I'm sorry.

- Oh, I don't think you did it.

What?

- Are you going to tell me what's going on with your dad?

- What do you mean?

Oh, my God. Really? Right now?

- Stop walking away and talk to me.

- What?

- If something's wrong, then I need to know.

- It doesn't affect you.

- Excuse me?

You've been avoiding coming up here for months.

You've been acting weird this entire time,

and now you're lying to me.

So either you tell me what's going on right now,

or I'm getting in the car and driving back to D.C.

- Oh, my God. Don't be ridiculous, okay?

You're drunk.

I've been sending my dad money for a while now.

- Money for what?

- And, uh...

I don't--he's just giving it to people.

He's buying shit for them. He's repaving the streets.

Um...

he won't even fix his truck.

- You're giving him money for a truck?

- Listen, I just... it's late.

- For what?

[sighs]

- Medical bills, okay?

- What medical bills?

- Bills that don't exist.

Cancer. Lung cancer.

He refuses to do anything about it,

and it's driving me absolutely fucking insane.

- Does he smoke?

Is it from the mining?

- Well, I think both. But he quit smoking.

So we don't...but...

My dad's dying.

And he won't even try to fight it.

And I don't really want to be around to watch it.

- How long have you known about this?

- I guess a little bit over a year.

- That's why you've been avoiding me meeting him?

- Hey, listen, he's going to be dead soon.

I don't see a point in you two being best friends.

- How soon?

- A couple months. Maybe less.

I didn't want to concern you with it.

Why would I concern you with it?

He was dying before we even met.

- I could have been there for you, and...

you should be spending time with him.

- If he wanted to spend more time with me,

he would try to fight it.

Right?

That's what my mom did.

If he wanted to spend time with me,

he would try to fight it. - You're being an asshole...

- I didn't even know he was sick.

The only reason I knew is because this town

can't keep their mouths shut.

He wants to up and die without telling anybody.

And if he had his way, that's what would have happened.

We wouldn't have even known about it.

- Maybe that's what he wanted.

- Well, if that's what he wants,

then that's pretty fucking selfish to me.

[dramatic music]

- Mitch. Hey, how are you? - Hi.

- I'm good, how are you? - Good. How nice to see you.

- Just a second.

Oh, it's good to see you.

- It's good to see you too. - Yeah.

- Good morning.

- Good morning. - Hi.

You don't have to get up. Thank you.

- Aren't you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning.

- Yeah. I finally got some good rest, so, yeah.

- Good, good, good.

- Did you two go out last night?

- Yeah, we went to the... - Brew Pub.

- The Brew Pub. Right. And I met Sherry,

Mitch's ex-girlfriend.

- Oh, you met Sherry.

- Hey.

- Susan glad to see you?

- Uh, yeah.

She said we could still use the room from last night.

so I told her we'd bring our stuff over after breakfast.

That bed just kills my back. I can't do it.

- You didn't mention your back hurting this morning.

- Well...

I'll be sure to notify you next time.

- Well...

We were planning on going on a hike today,

if you wanted to join.

- I got to run over to Oakland.

Got to go to the hardware store.

- What for?

- Mrs. Rapp's water heater broke.

She needs a new one.

- Can she afford a new one?

- No.

[coughs]

- Why don't you two go to the hardware store?

I was thinking of going for a run anyway.

- You wanted me to show you the waterfall, I thought.

- Yeah, I changed my mind.

I'll be sure to notify you next time.

- Hannah's a nice girl.

And she's smart too.

- Yup.

[keyboard clacking]

- All right, that comes to $261.81.

- Let's see here.

Here, use this.

No, wait...

- Here, just take this. I'm paying for it anyway.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

[exhales]

How come you'll do anything anyone asks of you around here,

but you won't do anything for me?

- What do you want me to do for you?

- Forget it.

[sighs]

Look...

I seen too many people suffer with what I've got.

And I've done almost everything I wanted to do in this life.

I'd rather...

spend two months being happy

than 10 years suffering.

I don't want to overstay my welcome.

[engine starts]

- Hi, Mrs. Rapp. - Oh, my goodness!

Come on in here.

Oh, give me a hug here.

[laughs]

Oh, I swear, you get taller every time I see you.

- How are you doing, sweetie? - I'm good, I'm good.

- Got your water heater.

- Water heater?

I told you not to bother with that.

I can take a shower at my niece's.

- I had an extra one laying around.

- Well, I hope you didn't go out and buy one.

- Just need to get that old one out

and get it hooked up for you.

- Fine. Do what you got to do.

Hey, you, come on and sit down here.

- [sighs]

- Oh, now.

Let's see.

You're in D.C. now, aren't you?

- Yes. I'm in Adams Morgan.

- You know, I can't stand most of those politicians.

We need a good fella like you there.

Most of them other fellas are just assholes.

[laughs]

- Yeah.

- How are you doing, sweetie?

- Yeah, I'm good.

- You know, you ever need anything, you can come to me.

- I know. Thank you.

- Yeah. Your father, he's a good man.

I would have thought most things would have killed him by now,

but he just keeps on going.

- Well, I don't think this time,

because he won't go to the doctor.

- Honey, he's ready to die.

That's more than I can say about most people.

- Do you think he's happy?

- Well, he seems to get through the day all right.

I just know he's better when you're here.

[object clatter]

- Goddamn it! Son of a bitch!

- I think you'd better go help your father.

- Okay.

- [grunts]

Hold that light down here.

Uh, we need the...

I'm going to need the pipe wrench.

- Mrs. Rapp looks good.

- That old woman is gonna outlive you.

- You know, we should probably talk legal stuff at some point.

- Hold the light still.

You want to talk?

- I didn't mean right now.

- Well, what's wrong with right now?

- I don't know what your will currently says,

but I'm assuming you didn't make any specific changes.

So all your assets are going to be transferred to me.

The old house, the truck.

Your tools, whatnot.

- All right.

- But I don't want anything.

- I know.

- So, who do you want to give that stuff to?

- [grunts]

The house goes to you.

There's good tenants in it right now.

- I said I don't want it.

- The truck and the tools go to...

- I don't want the house.

- Well, then sell it. - Well, it makes more sense

if you gave it to somebody that could use it.

- There's people using it right now.

- You know what I mean.

- When you're dying...

you decide who gets what.

Hold that damn light still.

- Hey.

[sighs]

- You stink.

- Mm-hmm.

[inhales deeply]

- Did you have a good time?

- How was your day?

- I went for a hike.

Went into some of the arts and crafts stores.

It's beautiful up here.

I wouldn't mind spending a little more time here.

- Mmm.

- You have to teach me how to snowboard, remember?

Are we still meeting your dad for dinner?

- Uh, let's just grab sandwiches.

I want to get to bed early and get on the road in the morning.

- So we're not staying another day then?

- I got a lot of work to do.

- Is it really so bad up here?

- I don't...there's just nothing here for me.

I don't know.

The older I get, the more I feel

I can't relate to anyone.

It's just depressing.

- I met three different people today

when I was walking through town.

And when I told them I was Mitch Reed's girlfriend,

they all asked how you were doing

and said how much they'd love to see you.

- Yeah.

- That doesn't sound like nothing.

[dramatic music]

♪

- You got everything? - Yeah, I think so.

I need to pee, though. Can I--?

- Yeah, go on up.

How much gas you got?

- Oh, I got enough to get to Virginia, at least.

- Yeah, well, it's cheaper there, I imagine.

- I tried some of that Tempranillo last night.

- And?

- It's different.

Added some whisky to it.

- Ready? - Yeah.

- Well, you two drive safe.

- It's really great meeting you.

- Come on back up. - Okay. I'll see you soon.

- All right. - I'll see how work looks.

- Yeah. All right.

[door opens and closes]

It's always good to see you.

Drive safe.

[engine starts]

[sobbing]

[whispering] Mitch.

Come here.

Hey.

- Bye.

- Come on. We got to go.

- What's your name?

- You know my name.

- I'm supposed to ask every question as if I don't know.

- Joe Miller.

- Middle name?

- Walker.

- Age?

- Stopped counting.

- Best guess.

- Sixty-three or -four, maybe?

- What's your occupation?

- Mayor.

- How long have you worked here?

- My whole life.

- I mean, in your current profession.

- Eight years.

- What's your previous occupation?

- Retired.

- That's not an occupation.

- Coal miner.

How many more questions you got there?

- Lots.

- You getting in?

[mellow acoustic music]

♪

- Is it clean?

- It'll do.

- How often do you check it?

- Whenever it needs it.

- What are you looking at?

- Just looking.

- Did you go to college?

- No.

- Did you go to high school?

- Yeah.

- What level of education do you need to perform your job?

- None.

[dramatic music]

♪

- You hang out here.

I'll be back in a minute.

[door closes]

- Hey.

[indistinct chatter]

Tom.

- Morning, Joe.

- Y'all test the water?

- Yeah.

Emailed you the report this morning.

Lab was out here just the other day.

Nothing to be concerned with.

- Which lab? - Allegheny

Same one we always use.

- They sample down by the creek?

- Well, I'm sure they did. - How sure?

- I wasn't with them every step, Joe,

but they have a protocol they follow every month,

and that issue with lead, it's not coming from here.

- Tom, you know as good as I do there ain't no such thing

as no water contamination at a coal mine.

And your tailing's piled

two miles upcreek from my watering table.

- All I can say,

our water tests show

our pile's not leeching.

That creek, more than a thousand feet from us.

So legally, not our responsibility.

- Your responsibility of your mine's causing it.

I want the problem fixed.

- I'm sure you do, but I can't fix a problem

- I didn't create. - Test the water again.

That's all I'm asking.

- Well, that's not happening. Tested it two days ago.

I can't get authorization for another water test,

just because you think there might be a problem.

- All right.

- Have a good day, Joe.

- What'd you do in there?

- Nothing important. Just had to ask someone a question.

[cell phone rings]

This is Joe.

Yeah.

Yeah, where at?

How long they been there?

All right, all right. I'll take a look.

I got to go by the office first, though.

It ain't going nowhere.

All right.

[starts engine]

Hey.

- Hey, Leah. How are you, sweetie?

- I'm good.

- Tom said he emailed over a water report?

- Put it on your desk.

Want something to drink, Leah?

- I'm good, thank you.

What's a water report?

- Huh? - What?

- You say something? - What is that?

- Report from the coal mines.

- On what?

- Water quality of their runoff.

Ground contamination and whatnot.

- You having a good time so far?

- Hey, Mary.

Get on the horn with DEP.

See if they'll rush me a water test.

- What's that?

- Department of Environmental Protection.

304...

295...

- Can I look?

- Yeah.

- Whose car is it?

- Don't know.

You got a piece of paper?

- Here.

[camera shutters click]

There. What's your email address?

- Why don't you hold on to that.

- Looks like it's been here a while.

- Yeah.

- Why do you think it's here?

- I'm not sure.

- Do people leave their cars out here much?

- No.

Once in a while.

- What are we going to do with it?

- Tow it. - How?

- Tow truck.

- What's your current annual salary?

- Six hundred bucks.

- A month?

- You said annual.

- Six hundred a year?

- About 50 a month.

- That's insane.

- Well, they just do it so they can say

they paid me something,

to tax me on it.

- Then why do it?

- I like it.

- But how do you live on that?

- I live on retirement.

- So you're basically a volunteer?

- Got to get elected before I can be unpaid,

but yeah.

- How long do you plan to do it?

- Till they stop electing me.

Ain't about making the money.

I serve as the mayor and the sheriff

and the handyman for the town,

because I do it for the town.

I do it for the people.

My family's here.

Been here quite a few years.

Job of the politician

is to serve his community because he loves his community.

At least it should be.

I'd be doing all this stuff whether I was mayor or not.

But this way,

I get to play with all these nice toys they get.

- So you can arrest people?

- Yeah.

- Do you carry a gun?

- Yeah.

- Where do you keep it?

- My pocket.

- Ever used it?

- Not yet.

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- Where are we going?

[whispers] Whose house is this?

- A friend of mine.

[knocks]

- Hey.

- Hey.

- Joe, right?

- Yeah.

So Mitch's car down there.

I didn't expect him back in town.

- Oh, yeah, he's at the dump right now.

There's a lot of trash to get rid of in here.

Come in.

- Thank you.

[door closes]

What's your name?

- Leah. - I'm Hannah.

- Nice to meet you.

- Is she your granddaughter?

- Oh. No, she's...

doing a school project.

Following me around for a day.

- Oh, yeah?

Why do you want to follow Joe around?

- I want to be a congresswoman.

- A congresswoman. Wow.

- So my mom said I should follow a politician.

- Okay. That's exciting.

Seems like a good one to follow.

- He's okay. - [laughs]

- Mitch should be back soon.

- Yeah.

Well, I got some work to do.

And...just wanted to drop by, say hi.

- Yeah.

Come in.

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- You and Grant were close?

- Yeah. Yeah, we were close.

Known him a long time.

- He seemed like a really great guy.

I mean, I didn't know him, really.

- No, he was.

He was fond of you, too.

I think he knew that Mitch would be all right.

Especially since you were around.

[scoffs]

I don't think he'd have gone otherwise.

All right, you.

Back to work.

This meeting of the town Waste Management Division

has come to order.

Y'all say "present" when your name is called.

- Gary. - Present.

- George. - Present.

- Jan. - Present.

- Joe. - Present.

- Everybody's here.

- You sure?

- Oh! Leah.

- Present. - There you go.

You gonna keep the minutes, you better keep up.

First order of business.

Landfill manager Scott Eickelburger.

- You should be wearing gloves.

[scoffs]

[cell phone rings]

- Joe here.

Yeah.

Well, that figures.

All right.

Listen, call the governor's office, huh?

304-206...

Yeah, all right.

- What'd they say?

- Can't test the water for at least another week.

Sons of bitches.

- But I thought you said the tests were fine.

- Well, I don't trust it.

- How come?

Why would they lie about something like that?

- Lots of reasons.

Mines always have some acid runoff.

That's the way it is.

It's their responsibility to maintain those

at reasonable levels,

so as not to contaminate the groundwater,

or the drinking water, at any rate.

But it ain't cheap to clean all that up.

Much cheaper to pay someone off to falsify those reports,

and then continue with business as usual.

- Do you think they're doing that?

- I don't know.

I wouldn't put it past them.

Money makes people do things they don't normally do.

As much as I like to think that people are honest...

when you're in a position of responsibility...

can't take people at their word.

Especially when that word don't feel right.

We may be a small town here.

May not matter to people outside what happens here,

but my job: make sure people are safe and happy.

At least as much as they can be.

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Here you go.

Make yourself useful.

Hold on. Hold on.

Here.

Give me the change and the receipt.

[dramatic music]

- What are we doing?

- I told your mom I'd feed you

before she picked you up.

Come on.

[narrator speaking indistinctly over TV]

- You need anything else, Leah?

- I'm good. Thank you.

- Dad? - No.

- Hey. What's up, guys?

I didn't know you'd be here.

Joe.

- Hey. - Hey.

- What's going on, honey?

- It's career day. She's following Dad

and has to write a report about their day together.

- Oh.

I bet that's got to be super interesting,

hanging out with Joe.

- Nice TV.

- Yeah, it's been a real good few months of work.

We got a new client, and he asked me to do,

on top of the website, a commercial.

It's been big money. Real good.

What--what did you do today?

Career day?

- We delivered groceries. - Yeah?

- And went to a meeting at the dump.

And picked up garbage.

- Super cool.

- And found a car out in the woods

- You found a car?

Huh. What--what kind of car?

- Black one.

Here, I took some pictures.

- Let me see.

Whoa, that is cool.

Super cool.

Oh, that's very cool.

It's crazy that somebody just left a car,

a nice one like that, out there all alone.

I bet somebody's going to come claim it, probably.

- We should know soon.

Mary's running the license plate.

- Really?

Hmm.

What else did you do?

- We fixed his truck.

- Huh?

- We fixed his truck.

- Oh. I--

I forgot. I--

I got to--I got to go.

I forgot, I got to do something.

But I'm going to be out five, ten minutes.

Anybody need anything?

No? Okay. Here you go, sweetie.

Thank you. I'll see you soon.

- Thank you.

- All right.

Hey, I want to see that report when it's finished.

- Okay. Bye, Joe.

[car door closes]

- The DEP called.

- What'd they want?

- Sending someone out to test the water tomorrow.

- Huh!

Guess the governor got on him, huh?

- Never got through to the governor.

- Well...

whatever made them change their mind,

I'll take it.

You get through to the DMV about that car?

- They had me on hold for over an hour.

I'll call them tomorrow.

Besides, been there all winter. One more day won't hurt.

- Yeah.

- Oh, Mitch stopped by.

- When was that?

- A couple hours ago.

- Anything important?

- Just to chitchat. I told him you were busy

dealing with the water and the mine and whatnot.

Get some sleep, Joe.

[door opens and closes]

[sighs]

[door closes]

- Hey, Dad.

- Hey.

Your mother see you?

- Not yet.

- Don't think she'd let you leave if she did.

[liquid pours]

- How you been?

- I'm good.

Everything okay down by the camp?

- I heard you found a car out in the woods.

- Where you hear that?

- Ryan.

- And why would Ryan run down there and tell you that?

- There's some things you need to know, Dad.

[sighs]

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