Original subtitles

[whooshing]

[whirring]

[roaring]

[birds chirping]

[music playing]

JUMPER: When I was boy, there was a pond.

Oh, it was a spooky thing.

All around it was mountains of kudzu and cane breaks.

I tell you, now, finding it the first time,

that was a hard thing to do.

Ever finding it again, now, that was a miracle.

So that's why we call this place this place-- this magic place--

we call it Lost River.

And-- and there were folks in town what did not believe

it exists.

But ever so often, some--

some young sweetheart or wandering children

would stumble onto it, you know.

And it never needed to be told, without a sign, without a map,

they know.

[chuckling]

Oh, I can hear them still, yeah.

"Mon Dieu, oh, mon Dieu, we done found Lost River.

Now, I remember the day I seen it.

I come through that cane break right at sundown.

Well, I was lost, me.

And when I caught sight of that place, I grabbed my heart--

swear to God, put my hand on my chest

to grab hold of my very heart.

I thought I died.

There was-- there was something like--

like mist coming off that water, and all highways

of gold and yellow sunshine come streaking through that gray old

spooky Spanish moss.

And when it hit that mist, oh, gold everywhere.

It's in the air and the water, and turned me gold.

And then-- and then under that water,

I see a great giant old black catfish,

big, big, big, like a submarine, moving silent and confident

just like God.

And there just weren't no such thing as time.

So me, I just had to.

I took off my clothes, I had to dive into that.

I hit that cold gold and--

choo-- scared the hell out of God.

Oh, and I knew it, see.

I was aware of it right at that moment.

That place, it reach up, it grabbed me right by my soul.

And I tell you the truth, it got me still.

I close my eyes, and I'm still there right now.

I hit that water, I swam in pure sunlight, and turned old,

but got caught young forever.

[music playing]

After I left that night, me, like everybody else,

could never find that place again.

I'll never know how I got there, I never knew how to get back.

Yo, but that night, when I got home, I got my daddy.

I said Daddy, Daddy, I done found Lost River.

And he smiled.

And he knew, knew by the look on my face,

didn't need to explain, wasn't exaggerating.

You know, peoples could tell, peoples could always tell

when somebody really found it.

[chuckling]

My daddy, my daddy nod his head, and he said,

hmm, yes sir, yeah, I was about your age when I found it too.

Oh, I guess it was three or four years later,

Daddy took me and all six brothers down

with him to the civic center.

Well, the times, they go against him then,

and he was looking mighty hard for a job.

You see, down there in that--

how they call that-- bottom of the civic center,

they got the home of the Army Corps of Engineers.

Oh man, I'm telling you they got a map the like of which

you never saw before again.

It covered the wall down there. 'Twas big, yeah, big

as a fat girl's appetite, it had detail, and color, and contour.

Where there were hills.

It had hills.

Where there were valleys, it had valleys.

Run your fingers over this map was to be there, to go there,

to take a trip.

So right away, me and my bucktoothed brother Scooter

began a-looking, tracing, by [inaudible] and all around.

When all of a sudden, a supervisor with a potbelly

and a gold tooth come up and say, "What

you looking for, children?"

And me, I look him hard in the eye, I say,

"We hunting up Lost River."

Oh, that gold tooth flash right away.

"Ain't no such place."

And I say, "Damn if that's so."

And he say, "Look here, boy, this here

is the official government US Army

Corps of Engineers geo-topographical map,

and it is right.

This whole area flood control program depend

on that map being accurate.

I know that map, and there ain't no Lost River."

And I say, "I swum in it."

He said, "No, no you swum in Red River."

I say, "No, no, I swum in Red River,

and I swum in Lost River, and I know the difference."

[animal calling]

Oh, the room got quiet then.

And that supervisor, he puff himself up,

he curl his lips so that damn gold tooth shine.

And he say real condescending, "You stupid coon ass boy,

I know what I'm talking about.

You're wrong."

So me, I go get Daddy, and I say, "Daddy, tell him."

And that supervisor turned quick on Daddy

like a snapping turtle.

And Daddy looked down at the floor.

And I said, "Daddy, Daddy, tell him.

He's wrong."

And my daddy look up real slow at me

and say, "My son, oh boy, he's the expert."

Mm.

Well, that was the day that I learned,

I learned about experts and now they know better

than you about some things.

But some things you know best.

And most likely, the secret, most precious, most beautiful

things in your heart and in your life just ain't on any map.

But you've been there.

You know they're real, they're true, whether you can prove it

or not.

So don't ever let anybody talk you out

or what you know to be true.

You see, I have learned.

I have learned that an expert is a person who rarely gets wet.

So anything you yourself done swum in, believe.

[music playing]

[moaning]

[laughing]

[creaking]

[moaning]

Come on.

Oh.

Come on.

Oh.

Oh.

[bell ringing]

Where that sumbitch preacher at?

Jumper.

Don't you Jumper me.

I done paid that limp dick holy prick 50 whole dollars.

He don't even bother to show up.

Holy cow.

He'll be here.

Oh, he'll be here, he'll be here.

Sons-in-law ain't that easy to come by--

even that one.

[fly buzzing]

[grunting]

Oh Jesus!

Oh!

Oh.

Oh Lord!

Oh!

Ah.

Oh.

[moaning]

[crying]

Almighty God, I'm so sorry.

I'm just a sinner, please forgive me.

Come on, preacher baby, get dressed.

You're gonna be late.

[music playing]

[dogs barking]

[bell ringing]

Jesus God, my worthless life.

I done gone and got myself umpteen million dollar debt

putting on this wedding, just so that butt-faced preacher be

here, make it all right on God when the hard-on in yonder

take my baby tonight.

What happened?

Butt-faced preacher don't show up.

I should have give in two year ago, let Moby Dick have her.

[muttering]

Why'd the pervert cross the road?

Because he was stuck in the chicken.

[laughing]

I can't do this.

Splendid, you can do this.

No, not tonight, not in that bed with Dolan.

I'm going to die.

You won't die.

Oh, but does it hurt?

Not as much as--

Not as much as what?

As much has not having it.

Talbot you and Balford don't do it?

[muttering]

You mad, you got no issues.

You got him, have you?

How do you keep him off?

He don't want on.

Oh, aye-yai-yai.

Talbot, we've been best friends my whole life,

and this whole ass entire six months,

you didn't see fit to not once tell me about what

you ain't been doing?

I'm going to fix it tonight.

Fix it tonight?

Talbot, what you gonna do tonight?

Showtime.

Get out the way, goddamn it.

Asshole.

Girls, haul ass, please, I am paying for this by the minute.

Go.

Splendid, come on, sweet angel.

Daddy, I'm going to die.

You ain't the one that's going to die.

I have to go to the bathroom.

You should have thought of that before.

[panting]

Ow.

Here we go.

[shouting]

[whooping]

[crickets]

Balford?

Balford?

Oh no.

Oh no.

Oh no.

[panting]

Balford!

Balford!

Balford!

Balford!

[muttering]

[shouting]

Balford!

[music playing]

[dogs barking]

[car horn]

[bell ringing]

[music playing]

[fireworks exploding]

[singing in french]

[screaming]

Help Me, Daddy!

[cheering]

Oh, me.

[shouting]

[screaming]

No!

Get away from me!

Get away from me.

Get back away from me.

[cheering]

[grunting]

[screaming]

What the hell's going on up there?

[screaming]

[thunder]

[music playing]

[clicking]

[crickets]

Ah.

Ah.

I want the truth now.

You really like that kind of music?

What the hell is it you like about that kind of music?

It's got no beat, no melody.

What is it?

It leads you around corners.

What?

What does that mean, it leads you around corners?

Well, if you can't hear it, I can't explain it to you.

Why not?

Because you're so--

So what?

I can't think of the word for it.

Oh.

You can't think of the word for it, well.

I've been watching you listening to that kind of stuff

for five years now, and I want to know what's going on.

How come you like music that's got no tune?

Because it's so beautiful.

It's got no beat.

What do you want me to say?

I want you to knock off the double talk

and give me some answers.

Now, don't you do that, goddammit.

Don't you smile at me like you know something I don't.

I'm as smart as you.

Stop smiling.

All right.

Got this attitude like your personal friends with God.

That's what they call grandiosity.

You didn't think I knew words like that, did you?

Grandiose.

That's what you are.

You know what it means?

It means deep down, you feel worthless and stupid,

and you cover it up by acting grand and superior,

like you know more than anybody else.

Well, you don't, so just stop acting like it.

All right.

I don't have to keep classical records on that thing.

No.

BEAR: You're the only person in town who listens to it.

Every month, the record supply man

says I'm flat out of my mind, losing

money catering to the highbrow taste of the town drunk.

Yes?

Yes, yes.

You know that, don't you?

That's what you are, the town drunk.

[bell ringing]

Yes, I know that.

I'm sorry I said that, Howler, please forgive me.

What'd I do?

You should not do that, Howler.

Give in like that.

I just insulted the hell out of you.

It just rolls off your back, doesn't cost you nothing.

And stop smiling like I said something stupid.

I know what I'm talking about, and I'm right.

Of course you're right, Bear.

I know I'm right, goddammit.

But pretty soon I won't know what I'm talking about.

Having a conversation with you is like wandering out

into that swamp.

And I've been caught in this goop too many times.

And this is it, I'm cutting the trail.

I'm laying a track, you understand?

You're going to stay on that track, you got it?

Got it.

Tonight, I'm going to get some answers out of you.

[music playing]

[singing in french]

[screaming]

Dolan, go away!

[chuckling]

Splendid, open the door, now.

Never.

Splendid, open the--

Ow.

--goddamn door.

No.

DOLAN: Splendid, open that goddamn door!

What the hell is going on in here?

Nothing.

Dolan, go away.

Go away.

Oh, for crying out loud.

Young lady, you hear me? [cross-talk]

You open that door right now, this second.

Open that door.

Daddy, no.

Now, don't you Daddy no me.

I can handle it.

Yes sir, I see how you handle it.

Splendid, open the door.

Girl, goddamn it, open that door 'fore I put my shoulder to it

and bust it down.

Oh, you start busting on this door,

and I'm going to start screaming.

Start screaming.

[screaming]

[grunting]

Splendid!

[screaming]

Get her now, Dolan!

DOLAN: I'll never be able to show my face in daylight

again when them big old baboons downstairs at the party

hear all this coming down.

Now, open the goddamn door!

Well, I don't care about all those big old baboons.

[grunting]

Daddy, you start busting on this door,

and I'm going to jump out the window--

Open the door!

[screaming]

Dolan, get off of me!

[muttering]

Girl.

Baby, baby, baby, come here now.

Daddy, keep him off of me.

I don't want on you!

Good.

JUMPER: Now, sugar, sweetie, come to your daddy.

[crying]

Come on now, honey baby.

Come here to me.

Daddy.

MAN: That's right.

Daddy.

That's all.

Daddy, Daddy, my aching ass.

Hush now.

Now, what's going on, angel, baby.

What all this is?

It's spoiled rottenness, that's all it is.

Ain't nothing else, Jumper.

Now, pipe down, here.

Daddy, I can't do this.

Not with your daddy in the room, you can't.

Not with the door locked, and me on the other side, you can't.

I'm glad you figured that out.

Now, stop.

No, no, no.

I'm scared.

Of what, child, what the hell you scared of, Splendid.

- Daddy, make him get out. - Fine.

Get out.

I'll just jump out the window then.

Yeah, I wish you would.

Hey, now, hold on here.

Honey baby, he is your husband.

Don't need a husband, Daddy.

Just you and me, we'll live together like always.

I'm going to be right here.

Well, then what I need a husband for?

Splendid, now, you love Dolan.

No I don't.

Yes you do.

I don't.

Yes you do.

No, I-- I think I'm going to be sick.

Uh oh. You going to upchuck?

Mm.

Ooh, baby, wait, wait, hang on, hang on.

All right, get over here to the window now.

Go on.

Oh man.

Heads up.

[vomiting]

[groaning]

All right.

[bump]

Oop, oop, oop, come on now.

Hop up there, hop up.

Oh my God, that is gross.

Clean up, sweet angel.

What did I do to deserve this?

You better now?

You all done?

You scared yourself so bad you tossed your cookies, huh?

- Yes sir. - Well.

- Yes sir. - All that's done now, huh?

Yeah.

All right.

Get on with the wedding night.

Oh.

No.

Ow.

Oh me.

[honking]

Now, there's a question I've been meaning

to ask you for a long time.

How come you quit acting?

What?

How come you quit the theater?

I'm not going to talk about that.

Yes, you are.

How come?

'Cause I'm going to make you, that's how come.

How come you quit the theater?

Why?

What difference can it possibly make to you?

Fine, you're starting to squirm, good.

And why is that good?

Starting to cost you something.

You're going to pay your way again, Howler.

And why is it your job to see that I pay my way again?

Stay on the track, Howler.

How come you quit acting?

I wasn't any good.

Not true.

Everybody in town says you were some kind of genius.

This is not the way to get me to stop drinking.

I'm trying to bring you back to life.

Why don't you try something else?

What happened to you back there in London?

I fell on my face.

All right, you fell on your face.

How come?

Because I'm not a whore.

- Now, don't start that stuff. - It's the truth.

It's not truth, it's junk.

I don't think you'd know the truth if you heard it.

Answer the question.

I've forgotten what the question was.

How come you fell on your face back there in London?

- I don't know. - Yes you do.

- Look, I need a drink. - No, you don't.

- Well, you're wrong about that. - Answer the question.

Because I'm not a whore.

Don't start that stuff.

Oh, get off my back, will you?

I'm gonna stick on you like stink on shit.

That I can believe.

Now, don't run away from me.

Run away from you?

Howler!

Well, all right, I'll tell you!

I stood up on the stage that first night, I

stood up on that stage, and nothing came out of my mouth.

How come?

You know, in the theater, you know why they call it a part?

They don't call it a job.

Because you reach down inside yourself

and pull out a part of you.

You don't have any idea what I'm talking about, do you?

No.

I was an actor.

I wasn't a robot, I wasn't a jukebox.

Don't start talking crazy.

Crazy, put your money down, buy

a ticket, put a quarter into the machine,

watch the actor tear his heart out.

I didn't read lines, I put my blood into those words.

I cut up my childhood and cooked it.

I will not sell that for the price of a ticket.

I'm not a whore.

[crackling]

[yelling]

No.

Boy, you're just a spoiled brat, you.

He's pulling my leg off.

JUMPER: You keep this up, he may pull your head off.

Do you blame me?

Baby, let go of the bed, really,

come out from under there.

Like hell, I will.

Ow, you hurt my knuckle.

Well, let go. SPLENDID: He's hurting my leg.

Then get your ass out from under the bed, Splendid,

come on, now.

Oh, Daddy going at my hand.

Well, let go.

Fuck you!

JUMPER: What you said to me?

I say fuck you.

Come here, girl, goddamn it, I'm your Daddy.

Never on your life.

I don't care if the devil with a long red tail come up in here.

[screaming]

You don't talk that filth, that trash to me.

You think you scared now?

I am going to give you something to be scared about.

Oh no, daddy.

Oh.

Got you, you little witch.

[moaning]

Damn it.

Dolan, let go your end.

No, you let go your end, Jumper.

Both ends belong to me.

[crying]

Ow.

Get out of here, you old coonass.

You just try it.

You raise your hand to me, you're going

to draw back a bloody stump.

Fine.

Bye.

Bye bye.

- Where are you going? - I'm going back downstairs.

No, you ain't.

DOLAN: Yes, I am.

Lord have mercy, y'all about to give me a heart attack.

I got to lie down here a minute.

I don't give a rat's ass about your heart attack.

I'm going back downstairs, I'm going to find that balding

preacher, and I'm going to tell him it's off, the wedding over.

And tell him, I can't get my father-in-law

out of the room, or my wife out from under the goddamn bed.

It's plain to me that I've done made one big ass mistake,

and I want out.

Then I'm going to find me a great, big, fat, dumb, ugly

girl with two big giant titties, a two-handed butt,

and no brains at all, and I'm going

to hump her until the bird catches the worm, yeah.

I'm gonna see if I can't bump another 10 points off her IQ.

And some time tomorrow morning, I'm

going to roll off the top of her,

then I'm going to thank God that I'm not waking

up a member of this family.

Boy, shut up and sit down.

Says who?

Say me.

Dolan?

What?

Are you really going to get yourself another woman?

Hell no. Don't

Be too quick sure.

Boy, you better hush up.

And you, get out from under that bed.

- All right, all right. - Come on now.

Ow, ow, don't hit me. Ow.

[thunder]

HOWLER: I pay my bill.

BEAR: You haven't paid a bill in six months.

HOWLER: Oh, that's up, bring that up again.

BEAR: All that talk about being a whore.

HOWLER: I am not a whore.

I am.

BEAR: Thais, goddamn it, where the hell you been?

You're late.

Oh, don't mind me.

How was your night?

Long, hot, and sticky.

My feet are killing me.

Your feet?

Knock it off, Howler.

Long night, huh?

I'm thinking about changing professions.

I recommend it enthusiastically.

I'm going to recommend your butt out of here.

Make any money?

About $400.

No fooling?

Yeah, no fooling.

Jesus.

[laughing]

Jesus.

Thais, tell me something.

When you see any of those creeps in the daytime, on the street,

say, do that like they know you?

No.

Except preacher.

You had preacher?

Well, you didn't know that?

No, I didn't know that.

I wish I didn't know now.

Well, he's the only one who acts

like he knows me in daylight.

Is that so?

Poor man.

He just stands there so full of guilt. And he takes my hand,

he prays for me, he blesses me.

And like clockwork, that night, he shows up at my door.

[laughing]

Merciful Jesus, the collection money going to pay for whores.

That's not funny.

Yes it is.

Now, you shut up about this, you hear?

He's a nice guy, and I don't want this all over town.

You know, I just about did not get him to that damn wedding

today.

You had preacher before a wedding?

Well, you did not hear that.

Oh, yes I did.

Preacher was whore humping, then Bible thumping.

[laughing]

Shut up.

Don't laugh at him.

That's sacrilegious.

Oh, bull, Bear.

When you finish with Preacher, do you take up a collection,

or--

No.

Well, how does he pay you, then?

He don't.

What?

Preacher is one of my charity cases.

How many charity cases have you got?

Two.

Thais.

Oh.

Oh.

Ha.

Can I be a charity case?

No.

Oh, please.

Please, please?

No.

[heartbeat]

[music playing]

JUMPER: Goddamn it, it is too hot for all this foolishness.

Now, what all this about?

All them people.

That's bullshit.

Oh, baby, they're your wedding party.

SPLENDID: Yeah, but they'll hear us.

Oh, sweet angel, they cannot hear you

way up here in this bedroom.

But they know what we're in here doing.

We ain't doing it.

I know that.

What you think?

You think they're out there listening up here to you?

Yeah.

Oh man, they got their own good party.

Oh, boy, I can hear them now.

Hey, Dolan, we all heard you couldn't get your wife out

from under the bed.

JUMPER: Watch your pride, boy.

Jumper, tonight I got precious little to be proud about.

Oh, I appreciate that.

Oh and I appreciate the way you've been acting.

Then why don't you just stop then?

- Well, maybe I will. - I wish you would.

Dolan! - Stop it now, I mean it.

No, Splendid.

Splendid, now, stop it.

Hey, hey, no, no, no.

Splendid, stop that.

I can't believe this.

Hey, hey, hey, that's it.

Let go.

Let go, both of you.

Ow, shit.

Back.

Don't you want to be a grown woman?

I am a grown woman.

A grown woman sleeps on top of the bed.

JUMPER: Baby, aren't you gonna take a man?

No.

Fine.

Why?

Honey, this your husband.

I don't care if he's Huey Long.

[shouting]

Don't you denigrate Huey Long that way.

Your husband, he love you.

Don't matter. JUMPER: It don't matter.

Tell her, boy. - Tell her what?

- You love her. - Why?

'Cause I say.

I love you.

Oh.

Mean it.

I just married her two hours ago, what you think?

Better.

Love hiccup, you hear that?

I don't care what I hear.

Well, what?

What is it, sweet sugar?

Daddy, I'm scared.

I'm really scared.

I'm scared, scared, scared, scared, scared,

scared, scared, scared--

Let go of my pant leg, let go of me now.

Scared, scared, scared, scared.

What is the matter.

What you scared about?

You too, Daddy.

Great God, over my whole life long, you say, girl, keep

the boys out of your britches.

You say they want one thing only, poontang.

Put your fanny down.

Poontang, poontang, poontang, poontang, poontang, poontang.

Since I was a little girl, you say,

girl, keep your feet on the floor, and your knees together.

Damn right, I did.

She was a young girl.

Yeah, I bet you tried to teach me to sleep in the cradle

with my legs crossed.

I never done that.

If you could have, you'd have had

my braid my pubic hair shut.

I told you about talking that filth.

Daddy, you did everything else.

For 20 years, you had me hanging onto my pecan like a lifeboat.

You let go now.

I had me scared to death some boy would catch me off guard,

and then you'd hate me forever.

So I didn't.

I didn't do it, daddy.

She's telling the truth.

I'm speaking from experience.

Daddy, I made it to my wedding night.

Every boy in Bayou La Teche took a shot at me

one time or another. - I know that.

I sat right down that window with the shotgun watching.

And them three Le Pew boys, I'm here to tell you,

they got as close as one human being can get.

Now, there's no need for the details, OK?

But Daddy, I done made it.

You done good, sugar cane.

Yeah, I held out.

All right now, let go.

I can't just stay shut up like an oyster for 20 years,

and then just jump on top of the bed

and spread my legs like a toll bridge.

Don't talk that way.

I'm not a garage door.

JUMPER: What you plan on doing?

Waiting.

You done waited 20 years.

Daddy, help me.

How, baby?

Baby, baby, it ain't no good to put this off.

You're just going to make it more worser.

Now, it's time.

Come here, baby.

I'm going to take real good care of you now.

I want to be a charity case.

No.

How come?

'Cause you're past help.

No, he ain't.

No, he ain't past help.

What, are you going to save him?

I'm working on it. [laughing]

Yeah, sit down.

Get up off your knees, sit down.

Bear.

The day you save this man, I will

bend over and kiss your butt in front of the post office.

And just how do you know all about it?

Honey, there is one thing us whores know all about.

What's that?

Never mind.

Goddamn it.

Don't you smile at me and say never mind, like I'm

too stupid to understand.

That's not what I meant.

That's what you meant.

No it isn't.

Yes it is.

All right, goddamn it.

I'm tired to hell of this.

How come all the losers in the world got a secret smile?

Calm down.

I don't want to calm down!

Every night I've got to put up with you two acting

like I'm not at the end of my rope,

I don't know nothing about life.

Secret nods and winks, smiles like I'm missing the boat.

One time when I was a little boy,

Huey Long there walked right in this bar,

he sit down right here.

My daddy looked him straight in the eye, and said, Huey,

you don't look too good.

He said, well, I'm worried about my children, just like that.

And that's what a good man is.

He looks you right in the eye, and tell you what's

on his mind, and in his heart.

No big deal.

He wouldn't look at me with that smile

and shake his head like there's no way of flathead

like me is going to understand.

You two, it's like your own whole highway,

you got your own pipeline.

Well, I've got something to tell you,

you don't have to be on your butt

to understand a few things.

Now, get the hell out of my bar.

Bear, wait. Now just wait.

I've waited long enough.

Wait, wait, listen, listen.

Now, look at me.

I don't want to look at you.

Look at me.

I don't want to look at you.

Look at me.

Now, what was it got you so upset?

That I wouldn't tell you the one thing all whores know about?

Failure.

That's all.

[music playing]

[laughing]

Woo!

Get on her, Dolan!

You get her yet, Dolan?

You're a lucky damn dog.

Jump on it, Dolan.

Come here to your Papa, Dolan.

Shut up.

Shut up.

MAN: Faster, Dolan, Faster.

Faster, Dolan, Faster.

Faster, Dolan, Faster.

Faster, Dolan, Faster.

We'll see about this.

[still chanting]

Shut up, Jumper.

You're not sticking your head out this door.

I'll never live it down if they know you're in here.

They're just horsing around.

They're just cutting up, they don't mean nothing by it.

Faster, Dolan, Faster.

Goddamn it, shut up and let me concentrate.

Don't concentrate, penetrate.

Get the hell out of here boy, come

out there and bust some heads.

Now goddamn it, I'm getting it good.

Get her one for me, Dolan.

She owes me one.

All right.

All right, this next one's for you, Pie Boy.

[grunting]

Oh.

[grunting]

[screaming]

God damn it.

I've had enough.

Baby, I'm not fucking around.

Daddy, help me.

You just shut your mouth, you.

Cool down, now, boy.

Shut up, Jumper.

I've had enough of this bullshit.

This is my goddamn wedding night.

And you, you've been dicking me around long enough.

Daddy.

Damn it, Dolan, this ain't the way.

Shut the fuck up, Jumper.

Dolan, you've gone crazy.

Yep.

Daddy.

Get off of her, boy.

Get the fuck off me, you old coonass!

You hit my daddy.

What the hell's he even doing in here tonight anyway, huh?

Answer me that.

Dolan, you're crazy, out of your mind.

You shut up.

Stop fucking talking.

You've been talking and putting me off two years,

stalling and prick teasing.

I wasn't prick teasing.

Shut up.

Two years I've been waiting out for the wedding, and now

this shit.

I've had it.

And you're going to get it.

You're going to get what you've been needed all along.

[unbuckling belt]

Dolan, are you going to rape me in front of my own daddy?

This ain't rape, goddamn it.

This is your fucking wedding I'm your fucking husband!

[bonk]

That'll teach you to whomp on me.

What'd you do that for?

You calm down, boy, else I'll cream your cob.

Daddy, you bust my husband again,

I'm going to clean your cloud.

You ain't going to do no such thing, missy.

Sit your ass down.

All right, son, now let me see your head.

Let me see, son.

Let me see, boy, let go.

All right, hold still now.

Oh, you got yourself a goose egg.

You'll be all right.

your goddamn head hotter than his goddamn dick.

Tell me about it.

You don't know nothing about my dick.

I know it's hard all the time.

Whose fault is that?

Now, don't you two start this up again.

Oh, it's my fault you want to bone day and night.

Well, you could give me a little relief once in a while.

Relief?

I'm the one needs relief.

You've been poking me with that thing two years straight.

I can't get no sleep.

In the car, in the school, in the church,

that thing never goes down.

Some women in the world do it like that.

Oh, fine, go and poke fun one of them with it.

Maybe I might.

Now, don't you be too hard on this boy, here.

Girl, the day's going to come you wish

he could get it up like this.

You gonna get old as me, look back on this day,

and wonder where it all went.

- I doubt it. - You doubt it.

Now, but believe me what I'm saying,

you going to want it back.

There ain't nothing wrong with him, it's natural.

Oh Daddy, he ain't natural.

JUMPER: I was the same way when I was his age.

No, you were never as bad as Dolan.

I was as bad as Dolan when I was his age.

All right.

JUMPER: Now today at my age, I'd pay $100,000 to have

that boy's dick for one night.

You understand that?

No, I don't.

Well, you will one day, believe me what I say.

Now, goddamn it, Dolan, you got to ease up a little,

you hear me?

Yes, sir.

Son, you ain't drilling for oil with that thing, you know?

Yes, sir.

[gunshots]

[glass breaking]

What the hell?

[gunshot]

[clicking]

Talbot!

Go to hell, Bear!

[gunshot]

I know she's in there!

I know she's in there!

Don't lie to me!

Leave me alone, Bear.

Talbot!

Are you happy?

No.

Was it worth the money?

Never is.

Talbot, what the hell is this, shooting at us?

What the hell you even doing out so late?

If you're looking for trash, you

got to go out late at night.

Talbot.

Some people do better not to show their faces in daylight.

You want to dig them up, you got to go out at night.

Talbot, what the hell is going on?

Where's your husband Balford?

I imagine by now, he's home in bed.

It's the second bed he's been in tonight.

Thais, is that truth.

Oh, Thais, honey.

They've been married six months.

You bitch!

Talbot, stop before somebody gets hurt.

Somebody's been hurt.

But you don't care about that, do you, trash?

You don't care who gets hurt, long as you get paid.

Talbot, get your butt home now!

What, Bear?

Am I disturbing a paying customer?

Not bothering me.

[laughing]

You're bothering me.

You shot up my bar.

I'll pay too.

Go on, serve me up something, I'll pay.

That's what tonight is all about, right?

Who pays cash?

Come on, trash.

How much did my husband pay you?

Don't you turn your head away from me.

Look at me.

How much did my husband--

$100.

$100?

He paid you $100?

He can't even make rent.

I feel sick.

Uh oh.

You going to upchuck?

[groaning]

Oh, please don't do that.

If you do it, I'll want to do it.

You all right?

Yeah.

You sure?

Yeah.

[crying]

Oh good.

Are you feeling better now?

I must be flat out of my head, Bear.

I got no idea why I came here tonight.

When did your husband stop making love to you?

Did he tell you that?

Honey, he didn't tell me.

Don't call me honey.

How'd you know?

Oh, Jesus Christ, does the whole town know?

Nobody else knows.

Nobody knows.

How'd you know?

Honey, in my line of work, you can't

help but learn a few things, much as you'd like not to.

[bird calling]

[singing in french]

It's hard thing for man and woman

to come together, that's just all there is to it.

It's the cutting edge of creation, man and woman

coming together.

It's going to be hard, now, there's

going to be some friction.

But damn it, you just got to put up with the heat.

All there is to it.

It's like being on the bayou out there.

And we growed up our whole life on Bayou La Teche,

so you've seen it for yourself.

You've seen the carp, and the mud turtle,

and the catfish and water moccasins

all eating up on each other, seen it day in day out.

Catfish eat the crawfish, alligator eat the nutria,

us eat them all.

Now, how we call that?

Death, that's the hunger of death everywhere, all the time,

eating up on everything.

Tonight you two is the hunger of life,

and I'm gonna tell you right now, life every bit

as hungry as death.

Splendid, right there in your hot belly,

and in that boy's big old hard dick, the hunger of life.

Just as strong, just as mean that old alligator yonder

in the swamp, pulling down a deer, snap his legs in two,

and eat him up.

Now, you think this going to eat you up, huh?

Yes, sir.

No, ma'am.

It's life.

Now, Splendid, I know you love Dolan.

You told him so.

Do I, Daddy?

Oh, for crying out loud, girl, can you look him in the eyes

hours and hours?

He look at you, and you look at him,

and, oh, well, there just ain't nothing else.

You feel like, oh, maybe them eyes the bayou,

and you floating in it on a hot Sunday.

You feel that way?

Yes, sir, I guess.

Well, you can't look at somebody

you ain't in love with in the eye that way.

No, you're not in love, got to have to turn your head away.

And I told you something else some more,

the best way to know that you fall out of love is,

can you watch him eat?

What?

You done had it with somebody, you done falled out of love,

mm, mm, don't set at the table with that person,

don't try to watch him eat.

It going to make you sick.

Every bite he take, you gonna say, oh, no, look at that pig.

Yeah, him get a little milk on his mustache,

a little food on his chin, it going

to make you want to jump up from that table

and run out the house screaming.

Now, that's the truth.

But when you're in love with the boy,

then you're going to love to watch him eat.

And it don't matter what a mess he make,

no, milk dripping down his chin, he let out a big ole

nasty burp, it don't matter.

Now, you gonna say, oh, don't he cute

look just like a little baby.

Girl, when you're in love with a man,

you just gonna want to see him happy, that's all.

Well, I love to feed you, baby.

That's right.

I love to watch you eat.

Splendid in love with Dolan.

And my daddy.

Yes, ma'am.

Now, you look here.

You take off them clothes, you lie down on that bed,

love him back good.

I sneak on down to the party now.

Oh, no, no.

Goddamn it.

No, no, no.

I give up, Jumper, I've had it.

No, you don't had it.

No, no, no.

Jesus.

No, no, no.

What in the hell's the matter with you?

I told you a million billion times, daddy, I'm scared.

[yelling]

You're going home.

I can't go home!

Oh, Lord.

Howler, would you drive her to her Daddy's house?

Do what?

Sober up, and drive her to her Daddy's house.

Oh, what the hell.

Where does he live?

Church.

Church?

Her Daddy is Preacher.

You don't know him?

No, I fear I don't know him personally.

Why does my husband pay money to sleep with you?

'Cause it's me, right?

I'm doing something wrong?

I'm not woman enough to please my man.

Talbot, you aren't to go into all that here.

If I'm desperate enough to seek marriage

counseling from the town whore, I sure

God am past caring who hears.

Is that it?

Am I doing something wrong?

What are you smiling at?

Thais, don't you do that?

What'd I tell you about that smile?

I'm gonna wipe that smile off your face.

How many times did I tell you about that smile?

What am I doing wrong?

I don't know.

Yes you do.

And you, shut up.

Honey.

Don't call me honey.

Anything I say is just going to make you feel worse.

I could not feel any worse.

Girl, come out from behind that bed drape, now.

No, sir.

[inaudible].

There ain't but so much of this a man going to take.

Amen.

He has done put up with more than any man ought to have put

up with on his wedding night.

Oh you bust my heart open.

I'm going to bust your head open, you lip me again,

you heard that? - I heard that.

- You better say yes sir to me. - Yes sir.

Now, you take off your clothes,

you get your ass down here in this bed, right this minute.

No, I will not, I cannot, I will not--

Daddy, what you doing? You gonna whoop me?

You gonna whoop me? Don't whoop me?

No.

Oh.

Ah.

Put the belt down, Daddy.

You can't whoop your daughter on her wedding night?

- Watch me. - No.

You want me to go to a cottonwood tree

and pick a switch?

No.

Then get your butt down here.

Daddy, why are you whooping me?

Because I have been patient, this boy has been patient,

and you ain't being nothing but hardheaded.

I'm not being hardheaded.

What you being?

Scared.

Scared of what?

This is-- this--

th--

What?

This is how Mama died.

No.

Oh, my sweet precious baby, that's what you think?

[crying]

No, sweet baby.

What all this is?

Baby, now come let me explain it.

No, child, that ain't what happened.

- What ain't what happened. - She mama.

She mama what?

She died.

No.

Listen to me now, child, listen to me explain it.

You didn't do it.

Damn it, girl, you didn't do it.

It was God his own self done that.

You told me your mama died when you was a baby.

She mama died giving birth to my baby.

I killed Mama.

No, sweetie.

- I killed Mama. - No.

I killed Mama.

No, baby.

I killed Mama.

I killed Mama.

I killed Mama.

Kill me too.

All right.

No, child, it ain't going to kill you.

It'll kill me.

No, sweet angel.

I don't need that, Daddy.

If I do this, you're going to hate me too.

And then I'm going to lose you as well.

Splendid, you ain't never going to lose me.

Never?

Never ever.

Oh, sweet angel, oh, child.

No matter where you go, no matter what you do,

your daddy going to love you.

You hear that?

Yeah.

Yes, my sweet angel, you take that to the bank.

[kissing]

Now, look at me, now.

Can you tell Daddy?

Can you tell me what you need for you can

go ahead and be a grown woman?

I need my Mama.

I need my Mama.

Your mama give you her blessing,

and tell you it all right to go ahead and be a grown woman.

I'm a crazy old fool.

I understand, baby, I understand.

Girl, I'm not your mother.

Thank God.

Talbot.

I don't need a mother now.

What am I doing wrong?

I don't know.

I tried everything.

I read all those dirty books.

I spent a week's salary on this damn black underwear.

Balford just laughs at me.

Oh, Talbot.

Why won't my husband make love to me?

Yes, darling, listen.

Why don't you take my place, mm?

What do I do, go to a sex therapist?

No.

Act like a scorcher, go buy trashy clothes,

and be a sugar baby?

No.

Talk dirty?

No.

Are you really supposed to blow on it?

Oh.

[laughing]

I do not know what the point of all this is.

No.

You stay on the track.

There's that track again.

It may be the same train.

Shut up.

What do you do that I don't?

You aren't any better looking than me,

and I'm younger than you are.

Whatever it is, if you can do it, I can do it.

Fine.

Fine.

I'll pay you.

I'll pay you to teach me how to please my husband.

Oh, come on, Talbot, stop it.

Don't worry about my pride, Bear.

I've taking it on the chin, turned the other cheek,

cried my eyes out.

I don't have any face left to lose.

Don't worry about my pride.

What do you do that I don't.

It's not what I do.

It's what I am.

A whore?

You noticed.

I'm not a whore, I'm his wife.

Well, maybe that's the problem.

Oh, it's a problem that I have morals, values,

self-res-- that I used to have self-respect,

that's the problem?

Morals don't count that much in bed.

Obviously, not to you.

Talbot, you asked for her advice, now shut up and listen.

I did not ask for advice.

What then?

I don't want to be analyzed.

What do you want?

Answers.

It is the same train.

[chuckling]

What is your problem?

What?

Oh, uh, this.

This.

THAIS: Oh, honey, you best stop looking for answers,

and start creating a little mystery.

What does that MEAN, create mystery?

THAIS: Stop acting like a preacher's daughter in bed.

What does that mean?

Try leading him around a few corners.

Oh, absolutely!

Absolutely what?

Nothing.

What are you smiling at?

Uh oh.

Nothing, honey.

No, don't call her honey.

You shut up.

I know some God awful thing has gone wrong with my marriage.

If you know what it is, then you tell me.

I don't know.

Then wipe that shit grin off your face.

I am a preacher's daughter.

What am I supposed to act like in bed, a whore?

I would.

You are.

That's why I don't act like one in bed.

What do you act like?

A loving wife.

That's what I am.

I believe you.

OK.

DOLAN: What?

All right, then.

You need your mama, that's what we've got to do.

What?

DOLAN: Jumper, she mama and dead.

You ain't got to tell me that, boy.

Splendid, come here, now.

I want you to sit here in this straight back chair,

and put your mama in the rocking chair.

Did which?

Girl, come on, you're going to have to cooperate with me.

I'm never going to get downstairs to that party.

Sit down there now.

Go and pretend, that's all, baby.

But imagine you can see your mama, alive and beautiful

like she was, sitting right there in the rocking chair.

Jumper, what the hell are you doing?

What is this shit?

Hush up now.

You know what she look like?

Oh, I seen pictures at Mamaw's.

That's right.

So you see your mama sitting in that rocking chair,

looking back at you.

Tell me again what she looked like?

All right.

She was-- oh, she was a tiny little bitty girl.

Smaller than Mamaw?

Mm, mm, near about.

Oh, and she had that red and white hair.

How they call that again?

Strawberry blonde?

That's it.

And, oh, them great big old brown eyes.

Yeah, I saw them in the picture.

Heh heh.

Look like a Palomino eyes, huh?

Mama looked like a Palomino?

Mm, that horse with wings, what his name is?

What horse with wings?

Pegasus.

That's it.

Your mama looked just like that beautiful angel horse.

Pegasus.

Yeah.

Now, you look at that chair.

You tell me when you see her.

Am I going to see something that ain't there?

I love her too much, baby.

Too much for what?

Too much for her to be gone all the way.

Daddy, I can't do this.

You can do it.

No, no, no.

What's the matter?

What are you scared of, baby?

Daddy, will mama like me?

Splendid, what make you think your mama wouldn't like you?

Cause I killed her.

No, girl, oh, sweetie, your mama loved you.

Daddy, loved me, she never even saw me.

But she carried you for nine months.

Sweetie, girl, she used to sat right there

in that rocking chair, and she would rock, and rock,

and pat her big old belly.

And she'd look up to me in the eye,

and she'd say, oh, Jumper, how I love this baby.

Is that true, Daddy?

That is true for sure.

Mama loved me?

Now, Splendid, you knew that.

Yeah.

Yeah, I did know that.

Somewhere, girl, down deep inside,

you could remember being that tiny baby in the womb,

and you felt all that love that you mama gave to you.

Oh.

She never did see your face, no ma'am.

But she loved you, girl, she loved you all the same.

You, well, you never did see your mama,

but you loved her all your life, now ain't that right?

That's right.

Well, tell her honey.

Go on and tell her.

I love--

I love you, Mama.

Ooh.

Hey, Jumper, what kind of voodoo you conjuring up here,

huh?

Tell your mama how you grow up,

and you feel like the world is a good place,

because Mama loved you, and Mama wanted you here in the world.

Thank you, Mama.

Ah.

The hell you doing?

Baby, there's nothing there.

Shut up, baby.

It's all right.

What do you want to thank Mama for?

I want to thank--

I want to thank you--

thank you, Mama for--

thank you, Mama, for birthing me.

Well, all right, I reckon that's what she done.

Yeah, and thank you Mama for giving me

Daddy, and taking care of him.

I took care of him too.

I want you to know that.

- You sure did. - Yes.

Now, you haul off and told mama what

you wish she could have seen.

I wish you could have seen me grow up, Mama.

That's right.

Yeah, I grew up good.

Sure did.

And people say that I remind them of you,

and I always take that as a compliment.

Exactly what it was.

Yeah, and-- and, oh, Mama, I wish

you could have seen my wedding.

Oh, now we're talking.

Mama, I made it.

[squealing]

Yeah, it was beautiful.

And my husband Dolan, You'd like him too.

Leave me out of this, OK?

I saved myself my whole life, my whole life.

And now, Mama, he wants me so bad he's about to explode.

I held out my whole life, I saved myself for just one man,

gave myself to him body and soul.

Now he don't want me.

No matter what I do, no matter how hard I try.

But you, you don't love him.

You sell yourself to any man for money.

And my husband will lie, cheat, steal, bounce out of bed

and break the door down just to spend an hour with you

in a filthy motel, and pays cash for the privilege.

Why?

Please, one of you tell me why.

I'm so stupid.

You know my daddy, don't you?

No.

Don't lie to me.

Say it out loud.

I know your daddy.

You were with him today.

That's right.

That's where he was.

[crying]

My husband and my daddy in one day.

Oh God, I feel like I've been raped.

I can't breathe.

I can't breathe.

Did you know?

Did you know it was my husband and my daddy?

Oh God, my heart, my heart.

Did you know?

Yes.

Did you care?

No.

Oh that's what a whore is, isn't it?

Someone who just doesn't care.

Best actresses in the world.

How could you do that to me?

You sure God are one spoiled brat.

Me?

You.

Why the hell should I care about you?

Because I'm a human being.

What am I, huh?

When your husband and your daddy crawled on top of me tonight,

I don't recall them asking me what I wanted, how I felt.

How much you think your husband cared about my feelings, huh?

All that sweating and screaming.

Shut up!

Fighting about the price, howling about how

his hour wasn't up yet.

Bellyaching how his half-assed wife leaves him cold.

He said that?

Yes, he said that.

His eyes bugged out like a frog.

He wants me, he needs me.

Lay down, shut up, roll over.

I don't remember your daddy or your husband

or you asking me what I wanted.

Stop it, Thais.

I've been laying underneath your sweating,

stinking husband half the night, paying for your sins.

I don't want to hear anymore of your troubles.

[thunder]

My whole life has been a lie.

Oh, well.

Most lives are.

No, no, goddamn it.

That's not true.

Your life has not been a lie.

You've been lied to.

There is a difference.

Damn little.

Where am I going to go?

I can't go home to my husband.

I can't go home to my daddy.

Go to a hotel.

That's how it starts.

Thais, I think you've said enough.

Mama, there was 100 people at the wedding.

Preacher was late, and Daddy liked to pitch a fit.

Daddy really kicked him in the butt.

And, oh, Mama, I made my own wedding cake,

but I think I threw up on it.

Oh, and I found Daddy's love letters to you,

and I read every one of them.

That's why I feel like I know you so well,

because we both think alike. And that time when I was in--

Sweet baby.

What?

Let's tell Mama about how old you are now.

I'm about the same age as you were when you died.

That's right.

I never thought of that.

Tell Mama how you feel about her dying.

Mama, I'm sorry you had to die so young.

That's right.

And what?

And I wish you could have lived your whole life.

Well, why she didn't do that, Splendid?

Because she died giving birth to me.

Mm-hm.

Now, you tell Mama that.

Mama, I--

I know you died for me.

No, no.

I know you died because of me.

That's right.

And what?

And it wasn't worth it.

Oh no, sweet angel, you don't know that's true.

No, you don't know that.

Ask mama was you worth it.

Daddy.

Now, Splendid, come on.

Look at the chair.

Look at the chair, and then you'll find out.

Mama, are you mad at me?

No, got to be honest about it.

Mama, was I worth dying for?

Oh, my sweet baby.

You need to hear it OK for you to be alive, don't you?

Come on now, we ask again.

You can do it.

I got you, sweetie.

It's all right, all right.

Come on now.

Get it out now.

Go on ask her.

Come on, Splendid.

[crying]

I got you.

Come on, honey.

No.

Go ahead.

No.

Mama, was I worth dying--

Mama-- Mama, was I worth--

Mama, was I worth dying for?

You did it.

You got it up.

Yes.

It's going to be all right, you hear me?

I want you to turn around there now, and be your mama.

I want you to sit in that rocking chair,

and take your mama's place.

Jumper, this is showing disrespect for the dead.

Baby, don't sit on your mama!

Oh man.

Boy, all these years I've been hearing them stories

about that inbreeding in your family,

I've tried not to believe them.

You better shut up 'fore I can't help

myself what I'm gonna believe

Don't-- don't embarrass me about my family.

Go on over there and sit down.

I'm sorry.

[footsteps]

I got to know this one last thing.

Tonight-- tonight, did my husband say he loved you?

I don't remember.

You don't remember?

Jesus God, you really don't care at all, do you?

I've been waiting for my husband to say that to me for six

months, and you don't remember?

[sighing]

What difference does it make what he said?

Men say a lot of things.

I've been listening to my daddy's sermons,

reading love letters, believing in Champagne promises

all my life.

[chuckling]

Oh, baby.

Oh baby.

It's not $100, but you earned it.

Talbot, where are you going?

Fuck you.

Fuck me?

What'd I do?

Talbot!

It's fixing to rain.

Talbot, where are you going?

You going home?

THAIS: She may go home, but she better not go to bed.

How come?

Her husband will jump her before her head

hits the pillow.

Why's that?

Look at her.

BEAR: She looks older.

That ain't age.

Now you'll be your Mama.

I don't know how.

Oh, yes, you do.

All right, all right, now close them eyes.

That's right.

OK, come on, close them.

Sit up here, now, sit up.

That's right, that's OK, sweetie.

All right.

What I want you to do is just feel that part of your mama

that's still alive in you, that's all.

[bell ringing]

All right.

Now, I want you to look yonder at that straight back chair,

and see Splendid.

Oh, Splendid.

Splendid young and beautiful and alive on her wedding night.

All right.

Now, Sarah, Sarah, did you hear all them things

that your daughter told you?

Yeah, I heard them.

Well, Sarah, tell your daughter

how you feel about her.

She's proud.

No, no, don't tell me.

Tell Splendid.

I'm proud of you, Splendid.

Proud of what?

I'm proud--

I'm proud of you being alive.

Why?

'Cause I'm not.

Right.

Oh, Mama's mighty proud that a baby

make it to her wedding night.

[chuckling]

All right, now, you be Mama and tell her so.

Tell her what?

Say, baby, I wish I could have seen your wedding.

Baby, I wish I could have seen your wedding.

Oh, she would have loved it.

Would she, Daddy?

[chuckling]

How could she help it?

All right, come on now, sit up here, be your mama some more.

Now, Sarah, tell your daughter what you feel guilty about.

Oh no, Daddy, that wasn't her fault, Daddy.

That wasn't her fault. - Splendid.

Daddy.

We're going to let mama talk now.

Come on, sit up there, be Mama.

Be Mama now.

Mama's turn to get it off her chest too.

What's your guilt, Sarah?

I-- I'm sorry I died.

And?

I'm sorry I left you without a Mama.

That's right.

I'm sorry I left you.

All right now, Sarah, tell her, tell her

you tried not to leave.

Did she, Daddy?

I didn't know that.

What happened?

All right.

All right, I'll tell you about the night your mama died.

I sat right there, right there in that operation room

when she had that trouble, and I hold her hand

and pray, you know.

Last thing-- last thing I ever heard your mama say, she,

she reach up her hands to God, and she said, please, please

don't take me away from this sweet baby.

Did Mama really say that?

Yes, ma'am.

Now come on, you got to be your mama.

Tell Splendid that, now.

Say Splendid.

Splendid.

I try.

I tried to stay alive for you.

I tried to stay alive for you.

But what?

But I couldn't keep my heart beating.

And what, you couldn't keep that little bitty heart

beating.

I didn't know that.

God knows, I'm sorry, I'm a crazy old fool.

Should have told you that long time ago.

I thought you knew, I thought you

knew your mama wouldn't have left you if she could help it.

All right, come on, now.

Got to be your mama some more.

All right, now.

Sarah, Sarah, Splendid done asked you something else.

All right, honey baby, tell your daughter.

Tell your daughter, was she worth dying for?

Yes.

Well, tell her why.

'Cause-- 'cause as long as you're alive,

a part of me is too.

That's right.

Yeah.

Sarah, you know, Splendid, she all grown up now.

Look yonder, took a husband, and soon she and Dolan

have their own babies.

But before she do that, she'd like to have your blessing,

so you give that to her.

Yeah.

All right, well, you tell her that.

Tell her what?

Say Splendid.

Splendid.

[chuckling]

Live for both of us.

Live for both of us.

Live your life.

Live your life.

And you haul off and live the life that

slipped through my fingers.

And live the life that slipped through my fingers.

C'est bon.

Jumper.

JUMPER: Oh.

One last thing, Sarah.

Your baby mighty afraid the same thing

going to happen to her what happened

to you, so she afraid to get in that bed with her husband.

No.

What you mean, no?

That's your daddy afraid of sex, not you and me.

That's probably true.

So tell your daughter she won't die.

No, you won't die, honey, you won't die.

Hallelujah.

Tell her why.

Because it wasn't you, or loving

your daddy that killed me.

What was it?

It was my heart.

Why your daughter safe?

Because she got her Daddy's heart.

You bet your life.

Well, guess we better tell your daughter bye now.

No.

I don't want her to go yet.

You got to let a little girl grow up

now, it's all there is to it.

Oh my Lord.

Oh, Splendid, that might as well be

your mama sitting right there.

I don't know what to say.

Adieu, douce ange.

Goodbye, sweet angel.

Je t'aime.

I love you.

Et elle est toujours.

And I always will.

That's right, sweet angel.

Always and forever.

Thank you, Daddy, thank you.

You got what you need now.

All right, all right.

Come on, now, come on, go on.

Time for you to go on over there with that boy--

that man.

Your husband what love you so much, you love him back good.

Dolan, I love you.

I want you all the time babe.

[music playing]

[crickets]

[thunder]

[yelling]

[thunder]

[grunting]

[moaning]

[thunder]

[rain]

All right.

All right.

I may have been born at night, but I wasn't born last night.

[laughing]

Look out now, 'cause I think I'm fixing

to understand something here.

Going to hear it once more.

I'm going to play it myself.

[coin clinking]

Now.

[whirring]

You explain it to me, so I can understand.

[music playing]

Ho!

[laughing]

Now, I'm listening to this music, and it's got no melody.

You tell me that's pretty, right?

Oh, very, very.

Why?

Goddammit, don't you go smiling again.

Huh.

It's got no beat, no--

no rhythm, no melody, nothing.

You like it?

Well, stay on track, man.

Do you like it?

Oh.

[chuckling]

I hate to admit it--

absolutely.

Why?

Uh.

Uh.

Uh, I can't put my finger on why.

No, that won't do at all, Bear.

I need an answer.

I don't know why.

Never will.

Oh.

Taking us around corners, huh?

[laughing]

Here we go again.

Look out, here comes another one.

[laughing]

JUMPER: So anything that you yourself done swum in, believe.

[music playing]

[singing in french]

[roaring]