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Morning, sir.
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It's a hard life if you can't read.
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Pardon?
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Sir, Mr. Wiley Starke has...
Well, he's passed away, sir.
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His funeral is tomorrow,
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and I thought that you might
want to know since...
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What got him?
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Just got old, sir.
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Yeah, well.
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Yeah.
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Well...
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I always thought you'd go first.
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Hey.
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Don't look so disappointed, huh?
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Buddy?
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What can I do for you, sir?
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That's all right. Come on in.
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Have a seat.
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What's on your mind, sir?
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About time for me to get low.
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- To get what?
- Down to business.
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I need a funeral.
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For whom?
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Me.
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For you? You want to buy a funeral for you?
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Am I not talking right?
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I'm sorry, sir. Are you sick?
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- Everybody dies.
- All right.
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I see.

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Well, sir, the church can help you
get your affairs in order,
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and arrange a service for you.
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Well, what would you say?
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About what?
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Me.
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A eulogy.
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I don't know. What do you want me to say?
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Say what you'd say right now to my face.
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Well, Mr. Bush,
I don't know much about you.
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I've heard stories, but...
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What stories?
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Just stories, you know.
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People talking.
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What kind of stories? I mean, say one.
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Well, sir, my mother used to say

that gossip is the devil's radio.
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What matters is that
when you come to the end of your life,
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that you're ready for the next one.
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Now, have you made peace with God, sir?
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I paid.
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Well, Mr. Bush, you can't buy forgiveness.
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It's free, but you do have to ask for it.
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I heard the most awful things about him
when I was a kid.
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Y'all come on in.
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Hey, hey. That's that old man Bush. It is.
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Hey.
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We know about you, old man.
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You stay out of this diner, you hear me?
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There's women and children in there,
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and we don't want you around them.

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Hey!
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Look at me when I'm talking to you, old man.
I know you hear me.
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You hear me?
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You come around here again,
there'll be trouble.
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Oh, shit. Whoa!
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Carl!
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Carl, honey!
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I know. It's all right.
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- Frank? There was a fight.
- Let me guess.
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- Carl?
- Well, yeah,
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but it was with that old man Bush.
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Old man?
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- Is there a body?
- No.
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He was the one that was doing the beating.

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I ain't never seen nothing like it
before in my life.
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Social event of the year, and I missed it.
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You read the paper today?
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People are dying in bunches.
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Everywhere but here.
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What are the odds of a funeral home
going broke
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when you have a business
that everybody on Earth needs?
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If you can't make that work,
it's got to be you, right?
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And, yet, I don't know.
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What do you do when people won't die?
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- Well, I guess...
- One thing about Chicago,
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people know how to die.
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They drown, get run over, shot.
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Whatever it takes.
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Well, we get it done around here.
It's just we're not in a hurry about it.
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It's them or us.
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I might know of someone
who's looking for a funeral.
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How much did he have?
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It was all wadded up.
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Hermit money. That's good.
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There it is.
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There's his sign.
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What are you doing?
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You've been wanting a shot at sales.
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As of right now, you're on commission.
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Remember, foot in the door, establish trust
and drop the hammer.
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I'd rather you go, too.
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No doubt.
But if you don't do this by yourself,
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you'll never know if you're any good.
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And you'll never be good
if you don't know that you are.
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Hello?
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Wanna see inside my house, do you?
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What does it look like?
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Katie.
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I see you at the church
with your wife and baby?
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Yes, sir.
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What the hell you doing here?
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I heard...
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I heard you were after a funeral, sir.
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- A funeral?
- Yes, sir.
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I work at Quinn Funeral Home, sir.
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I thought I could help you.

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You like rabbit?
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It's how you put things together, see.
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Now, some things go,
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and some things never will.
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And the Indians said
that everything spoke to them.
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That's how they made medicines,
and knew what to eat.
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I mean, things talked to them,
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clear as we talk. You believe that?
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- I don't know, sir.
- Yeah?
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Well, you don't listen,
you don't hear nothing.
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All right. Be ready here directly.
Got forks here. Here you go.
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Did you make this furniture, sir?
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I've never seen anything like it.
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- Can't tell what's holding it up.
- Yeah, well...
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Magic.
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- Yeah. Yeah.
- All right.
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Well, sir,
if you do want to plan for your funeral,
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which I hope will be a long,
long time away from now,
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but we'd treat you with respect,
and offer you
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a real good service for...
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What'd everybody say about
what happened in town?
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That crazy son of a bitch tried to kill a man
for no reason, is that it?
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There's two sides to every story.
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People say that,
but they don't believe it, no, sir.
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They think what they think,
and they don't wanna know anything else.
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I also think that people are so scared about
what they don't know that

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they make things up to feel better about it.
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Like life after dying, you know.
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Heaven.
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Well, I hope that part's true, don't you?
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I don't think we know the actual truth
about anything.
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I know I don't.
I'm just guessing most of the time.
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Lord, this is good.
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You boys been coming out here
to throw rocks at my window
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for what, 25, 30 years?
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- No, I...
- Know lots of stories about me?
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Well, yes, sir.
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Tell one.
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I'd rather not.
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I'd rather you did. All right?

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Well, when I was a kid, I heard
you killed some fellas in a fist fight.
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Is that all?
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What's your name again?
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Buddy Robinson, sir.
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Well, if I need you,
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I know who you are.
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Yes, ma'am. I do respect your wishes.
But, you see, state law requires...
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No, ma'am.
We can't bury him beneath the house.
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All right. Well, just for argument's sake,
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how would you get the casket
under the house?
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No casket.
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Well, but you have to have a container
of some kind, ma'am, for
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decency and for sanitation.
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Yes, ma'am,
but there's lots of things that are natural
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that aren't decent.
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Would you like to come in, sir?
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He did what?
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- Good God.
- Leave it.
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No, ma'am.
I didn't know that about your husband.
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Well, yeah, now I understand
why you want him under the house.
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But, still... Hello?
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Frank Quinn. This is Mr. Bush.
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Come on in. Pleasure.
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Coffee?
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It's a pleasure.
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She'll call back.
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Are you
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from anywhere?
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Little bit of everywhere, yeah.
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Get him a chair, Buddy.
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Here you go, sir.
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What can we do for you, sir?
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I'm after a funeral.
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Boy, are you in luck. Follow me, please.
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Solid pecan.
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Steel handles.
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Forget the box. What else?
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Whatever you want.
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- Flowers.
- No, no.
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Burial plot.
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- Got it.
- A service.
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- Party.
- A what?

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A party.
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What kind of party?
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A funeral party.
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We can do that.
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And I wannabe there.
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You will be, I guarantee it.
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I wannabe there now.
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You want to be at your funeral party alive?
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Yes, sir.
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But you can't have a funeral if you're not,
you know, deceased.
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Hold on, now. It's a detail. We can look at it.
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Pretty big detail.
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You want to have a funeral party
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while you're alive, so you can go.
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Yes or no?
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Yes!
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Buddy, get some paper.
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We need to make a list of
who Mr. Bush wants to invite.
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Well, sit down there.
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I want everybody to come
who's got a story to tell about me.
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All right, say again?
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Probably covers about four counties.
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Then I want four counties worth of people
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at the party.
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Well, sir, the thing is,
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how do you invite people...
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How do you get people to come
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tell stories about you,
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that I'm guessing might get them,

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you know, shot?
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- Now, sir.
- You know what? Don't worry about it.
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You go on ahead. Don't worry about it.
We'll come up with something.
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- Couple of ideas just came to me.
- Like what?
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Felix?
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Felix, say hello to me.
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Hey, Mattie.
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How does she know him?
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I heard you moved off.
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- I've been back awhile.
- Yeah, well...
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How are you?
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You look like you always did.
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Do you see the size of that thing?
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What?

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What do you mean, what?
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That goddamn ball of money.
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If he wants a party with pink balloons
on his ears, we're going to give it to him.
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But we can't throw him a party if he's...
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I sold 26 of the ugliest cars ever made
one December in Chicago,
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with the wind blowing so hard up my ass,
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I was farting snowflakes in July.
So, don't tell me we can't do this.
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- But we can't...
- That is going to be the last "but"
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I ever hear from you. You're a salesman now.
Sell.
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A thousand years ago, he was
the most interesting man I'd ever met.
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Get out of here.
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He was.
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Are you serious?
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And I don't just mean the way he looked.

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- Well, I hope not.
- Listen.
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He was beautiful.
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Most people are laid out nice and simple,
you know.
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You always know what they're thinking.
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And he was like this big old cave
that just went deeper and deeper and...
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There's still nobody like him.
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You hungry? Let me help you with that.
261
00:27:40,462 --> 00:27:41,464
Hey.
262
00:27:42,799 --> 00:27:46,804
It's okay. It's okay. Hey, are you hungry?
263
00:27:47,270 --> 00:27:49,674
I might have a little hissy fit
coming on soon, too.
264
00:27:50,808 --> 00:27:51,809
Is that right?
265
00:27:51,876 --> 00:27:53,611
Feeling a little weepy.
266
00:27:55,279 --> 00:27:56,447
You boys.
267
00:27:57,816 --> 00:28:00,152

I can maybe do something

really good for us, Katie.
268
00:28:01,420 --> 00:28:03,989
- You already have.
- Money-wise, I mean.
269
00:28:05,457 --> 00:28:07,159
About Mr. Bush?
270
00:28:07,693 --> 00:28:09,562
Yeah. I get half of what we make off of him.
271
00:28:10,762 --> 00:28:12,298
So why aren't you happy about it?
272
00:28:13,899 --> 00:28:15,201
I didn't know I wasn't.
273
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,175
I guess I was for a minute.
274
00:28:23,510 --> 00:28:27,748
But the whole thing about making a carnival
out of someone's death,
275
00:28:28,149 --> 00:28:30,184
I just don't know if it's right.
276
00:28:31,052 --> 00:28:32,586
Well, is it what he wants?
277
00:28:32,686 --> 00:28:34,055
He says it is.
278
00:28:34,322 --> 00:28:37,759
Then you are not responsible
for what other people do, Buddy.
279
00:28:37,859 --> 00:28:38,860
Just you.
280
00:29:00,350 --> 00:29:01,419
We have a plan.
281
00:29:01,719 --> 00:29:03,253

All we need is a little bit of your time.

282
00:29:12,831 --> 00:29:13,965
It moves, don't it?
283
00:29:14,065 --> 00:29:15,734
This is nothing.
284
00:29:17,568 --> 00:29:19,772
Fancy car, for the dead.
285
00:29:20,607 --> 00:29:22,608
I didn't buy it for them.
286
00:29:24,077 --> 00:29:27,747
I was thinking about your funeral party
before I went to sleep last night.
287
00:29:28,580 --> 00:29:30,784
I think I understand it a little now.
288
00:29:32,419 --> 00:29:36,656
When I was a kid,
my folks died in a bad car wreck.
289
00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:41,228
And the people at the funeral home, well...
290
00:29:41,996 --> 00:29:45,266
They did the impossible,
as far as I was concerned.
291
00:29:45,901 --> 00:29:49,171
I don't know what I would've done
without them.
292
00:29:49,271 --> 00:29:52,974
I remember wishing that
my mother and daddy was there
293
00:29:53,075 --> 00:29:54,577
so they could see how beautiful
they had made it.
294
00:30:24,042 --> 00:30:26,277
- Where'd he go?
- I don't know.

295
00:30:35,822 --> 00:30:36,856
Don't leave me naked here.
296
00:30:36,956 --> 00:30:38,558
I wish you wouldn't do that yet.
297
00:30:39,493 --> 00:30:41,228
Mr. Bush, you can cut all the hairs you want
298
00:30:41,328 --> 00:30:43,497
after we've taken your picture. I'll pay for it.
299
00:30:43,598 --> 00:30:44,798
Well, why you want my picture made?
300
00:30:44,865 --> 00:30:47,868
We're going to run an ad in some papers
about your party.
301
00:30:47,968 --> 00:30:49,002
Hang some posters up of you.
302
00:30:49,069 --> 00:30:50,638
And you want me to look like this.
303
00:30:50,671 --> 00:30:51,705
- Yes.
- Why?
304
00:30:51,805 --> 00:30:52,940
Why?
305
00:30:53,641 --> 00:30:56,844
Well, it's how people recognize you, sir.
306
00:30:57,011 --> 00:30:59,213
And you want as many people
to come as possible,
307
00:30:59,514 --> 00:31:01,283
- so...
- So?
308
00:31:01,483 --> 00:31:04,653
A crazy old nutter draws more.

309
00:31:05,955 --> 00:31:06,955
Don't you think?
310
00:31:08,290 --> 00:31:10,292
You ever say what you mean?
311
00:31:44,463 --> 00:31:45,698
Take it.
312
00:31:47,401 --> 00:31:48,868
Do you want him to smile?
313
00:31:48,968 --> 00:31:50,571
That is his smile.
314
00:31:54,974 --> 00:31:57,177
Well, all right.
315
00:31:57,244 --> 00:32:02,083
Now, Mr. Bush, on the count of three.
One, two...
316
00:32:12,828 --> 00:32:15,397
Damn. You look pretty good.
317
00:32:19,835 --> 00:32:21,071
He pays.
318
00:32:28,912 --> 00:32:31,581
- Well, what do you think?
- I wouldn't know you, sir.
319
00:32:31,682 --> 00:32:33,750
Well, maybe the devil won't, either.
320
00:32:34,585 --> 00:32:35,753
This just might work out.
321
00:32:36,386 --> 00:32:38,956
Wait, now where are the shoes?
322
00:32:39,056 --> 00:32:42,493
Normally, people don't wear shoes
in a casket.

323
00:32:48,232 --> 00:32:49,801
What are you, about 1 0-D?
324
00:32:49,902 --> 00:32:52,905
A suit coat and trousers,
that's going to be $13.19.
325
00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:55,440
And the shoes another $6.50.
326
00:32:55,540 --> 00:32:57,744
It'll be $19.69 total.
327
00:32:59,244 --> 00:33:02,582
- How are you fixed for underwear?
- I don't wear none.
328
00:33:05,286 --> 00:33:06,786
One question too many.
329
00:33:13,093 --> 00:33:17,265
Well, I don't mean to be nosy,
but how do you know Mattie?
330
00:33:21,136 --> 00:33:22,637
We had a go.
331
00:33:36,819 --> 00:33:37,820
Call.
332
00:33:38,922 --> 00:33:40,856
A funeral party?
What the hell's a funeral party, Frank?
333
00:33:40,958 --> 00:33:41,959
You're giving him a party?
334
00:33:42,025 --> 00:33:44,561
If he wants to come to his own funeral,
what am I going to say?
335
00:33:44,661 --> 00:33:48,632
I wish my ex-wife would come to my funeral
so I could tell her to kiss my ass.
336
00:33:48,699 --> 00:33:50,068

What makes you think she'd show up?

337
00:33:50,168 --> 00:33:51,835
That big wad of money of his you're after.
338
00:33:52,503 --> 00:33:53,671
Felix has money?
339
00:33:53,771 --> 00:33:56,307
Yeah, he came to me looking for a funeral.
340
00:33:56,774 --> 00:33:58,677
Had a big, old greasy ball of money.
341
00:33:59,010 --> 00:34:00,913
Talked like he thought he could
buy his way to heaven with it.
342
00:34:01,013 --> 00:34:02,081
Is he sick, Gus?
343
00:34:02,348 --> 00:34:04,083
Sick? He ain't sick.
344
00:34:04,416 --> 00:34:06,585
Ain't nobody going to go to a funeral
for that old son of a bitch.
345
00:34:06,685 --> 00:34:08,220
- Language.
- They might.
346
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:12,392
He's invited everyone to come
that has a story to tell about him.
347
00:34:12,993 --> 00:34:15,195
You could tell about him
kicking your ass, Carl.
348
00:34:16,529 --> 00:34:17,565
Keep it up, Frank.
349
00:34:18,531 --> 00:34:19,632
You all say what you want to,
350

00:34:19,867 --> 00:34:22,102

but if somebody hadn't been there
the other day, he'd have killed me,
351
00:34:22,168 --> 00:34:24,038
and I guarantee
it wouldn't have been the first time, either.
352
00:34:24,538 --> 00:34:25,506
So y'all go on.
353
00:34:25,539 --> 00:34:28,210
Have your little party
for the devil and his money.
354
00:34:30,678 --> 00:34:32,680
I'm going to dance on his grave some day.
355
00:34:42,558 --> 00:34:44,292
You kind of hate to admit it
when it comes to Carl,
356
00:34:44,393 --> 00:34:46,262
but he's got a point.
357
00:34:46,629 --> 00:34:48,264
And you don't know what Bush is doing.
358
00:34:48,431 --> 00:34:50,199
What if he just wants to get everybody
in one place
359
00:34:50,267 --> 00:34:51,634
so he can turn his shotgun on them?
360
00:34:51,834 --> 00:34:52,902
He wouldn't do that.
361
00:34:52,969 --> 00:34:54,438
I looked in his eyes.
362
00:34:54,838 --> 00:34:57,274
Now, the truth is,
nobody knows what he's capable of.
363
00:34:57,374 --> 00:34:58,810
Maybe even he doesn't know.

364
00:35:06,384 --> 00:35:10,955
You still there?
365
00:35:12,792 --> 00:35:14,225
You better be.
366
00:35:19,899 --> 00:35:24,271
I want you close to me, hear me?
I want you close to me.
367
00:35:30,410 --> 00:35:31,478
Night, Miss Mattie.
368
00:35:31,578 --> 00:35:33,246
- Good night, Gus.
- Night, Frank.
369
00:35:40,922 --> 00:35:42,256
I'll walk you home.
370
00:35:42,323 --> 00:35:44,592
- No, thank you.
- You sure?
371
00:35:45,026 --> 00:35:46,161
Yeah.
372
00:35:47,429 --> 00:35:48,931
You're never going to play anymore,
373
00:35:48,997 --> 00:35:51,467
- are you?
- It's not that. I just...
374
00:35:55,938 --> 00:35:58,108
You came because you don't know
what to do with yourself.
375
00:36:00,643 --> 00:36:04,180
I slept on the same side of the bed
my whole life.
376
00:36:05,850 --> 00:36:07,852
Right after my wife left,
377

00:36:08,452 --> 00:36:10,386

I switched sides, just like that.
378
00:36:12,323 --> 00:36:14,625
And I've never been able to go back.
379
00:36:40,820 --> 00:36:42,189
For heaven's sakes.
380
00:37:05,047 --> 00:37:08,717
Friends, we have a special
treat for you today on WCGM.
381
00:37:08,819 --> 00:37:11,855
Our guest is going to tune us
into the event that everyone's talking about.
382
00:37:12,189 --> 00:37:15,525
And here he is, Mr. Felix Bush,
the mysterious hermit from Caleb County.
383
00:37:15,625 --> 00:37:17,528
How are you today, sir?
384
00:37:18,361 --> 00:37:19,529
I am.
385
00:37:21,232 --> 00:37:24,535
Now, sir, exactly, how did you come up
with the idea of throwing a funeral party
386
00:37:24,635 --> 00:37:26,103
before you die?
387
00:37:27,371 --> 00:37:28,607
I dreamed it.
388
00:37:28,707 --> 00:37:29,740
Really?
389
00:37:30,708 --> 00:37:34,513
I have to say, sir, you don't look
quite like you do on the posters.
390
00:37:34,580 --> 00:37:36,048
I got pruned.

391
00:37:37,049 --> 00:37:38,617
Well, you're a bit of a local legend, sir.
392
00:37:38,717 --> 00:37:42,555
I was a little nervous about our interview.
I've heard some pretty wild stories.
393
00:37:43,523 --> 00:37:44,858
Like what?
394
00:37:45,358 --> 00:37:47,927
Well, just from what I understand,
395
00:37:48,027 --> 00:37:50,731
you want everyone that has a story
to come out and tell it, is that right?
396
00:37:50,831 --> 00:37:53,234
- Well, you come and tell yours.
- Thank you, sir.
397
00:37:54,335 --> 00:37:57,771
Now, how long you been living
out there by yourself?
398
00:37:57,872 --> 00:37:58,873
Forty-some years.
399
00:37:59,506 --> 00:38:01,509
Forty years with nobody to talk to.
400
00:38:02,143 --> 00:38:04,346
The first 38 are the hardest.
401
00:38:06,081 --> 00:38:07,282
Now, why would you do that, Mr. Bush,
402
00:38:07,382 --> 00:38:09,217
shut yourself off like that?
403
00:38:10,585 --> 00:38:11,586
Why?
404
00:38:15,858 --> 00:38:18,060
You come to the funeral,
maybe you'll find out.

405
00:38:19,228 --> 00:38:21,465
We'll find out the answer to the mystery
February 16th.
406
00:38:21,565 --> 00:38:22,598
One more thing, boy.
407
00:38:24,735 --> 00:38:25,868
There's going to be a drawing.
408
00:38:26,436 --> 00:38:27,904
What kind of drawing, sir?
409
00:38:28,005 --> 00:38:30,040
You buy a ticket for $5.
410
00:38:30,774 --> 00:38:33,877
The day of the funeral, we draw names.
Then when I die,
411
00:38:34,211 --> 00:38:36,247
the winner gets my place.
412
00:38:37,414 --> 00:38:41,419
Three-hundred acres of timber
that hasn't been touched in 40 years.
413
00:38:42,420 --> 00:38:44,255
Send it to the Quinn Funeral Home.
414
00:38:45,089 --> 00:38:46,425
For $5?
415
00:38:47,059 --> 00:38:48,928
You heard him say it.
If you want a chance to win
416
00:38:49,028 --> 00:38:52,131
three-hundred acres of virgin timber
worth thousands and thousands of dollars,
417
00:38:52,231 --> 00:38:54,434
please send your name
and address along with $5
418

00:38:54,501 --> 00:38:56,936

to Mr. Frank Quinn at Quinn Funeral Home.
419
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:01,441
I'll take a ticket.
420
00:39:01,508 --> 00:39:03,243
You're betting on a man dying.
421
00:39:03,610 --> 00:39:04,577
I didn't mean it like that.
422
00:39:04,644 --> 00:39:08,249
- I was just saying since he...
- No, no, it's his idea.
423
00:39:08,482 --> 00:39:10,117
That's what you want, right?
424
00:39:11,919 --> 00:39:15,289
Buy a ticket, son. Tell a story.
425
00:39:38,314 --> 00:39:41,452
Save some for me now. Don't eat it all.
All right.
426
00:39:45,322 --> 00:39:49,126
Who's this?
427
00:39:49,193 --> 00:39:50,328
Felix?
428
00:39:52,997 --> 00:39:54,032
Mattie?
429
00:39:56,735 --> 00:39:58,037
Look at you.
430
00:39:59,337 --> 00:40:01,674
I wondered if you were still under that beard.
431
00:40:01,741 --> 00:40:04,643
Well, I wouldn't know where else to go.
432
00:40:07,346 --> 00:40:09,216
I heard you on the radio.

433
00:40:09,349 --> 00:40:10,716
Yes, ma'am.
434
00:40:11,685 --> 00:40:14,054
You've gotten downright chatty.
435
00:40:14,454 --> 00:40:16,223
Yeah, reckon so.
436
00:40:18,725 --> 00:40:21,496
Well, this is it. This is my barn.
437
00:40:22,229 --> 00:40:24,699
Yeah. This here's my mule, Gracie.
438
00:40:26,067 --> 00:40:27,835
Say hello?
439
00:40:28,202 --> 00:40:29,737
Well, would you like to feed her?
440
00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:33,708
Go ahead. She'll love you for it.
441
00:40:33,876 --> 00:40:35,544
There. Come on, Gracie. Come.
442
00:40:36,378 --> 00:40:39,181
This here's Mattie. Yeah.
443
00:40:39,616 --> 00:40:41,383
Give her some more.
444
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:46,623
Yeah.
445
00:40:48,058 --> 00:40:53,062
Would you like to see the rest of my place?
446
00:40:55,765 --> 00:40:57,068
Do you want me to?
447
00:40:58,402 --> 00:41:00,070
Yes, ma'am, I do. Yeah.

448
00:41:02,541 --> 00:41:06,578
Yeah. You always know
where you stand with a dog.
449
00:41:06,745 --> 00:41:09,916
Keeper of Charlie and Maude. Yeah.
450
00:41:12,919 --> 00:41:16,923
I wanna lay here with them someday,
if they'll have me.
451
00:41:18,558 --> 00:41:19,559
Yeah.
452
00:41:21,462 --> 00:41:23,329
Well, it really is beautiful.
453
00:41:23,429 --> 00:41:25,665
It probably looked like this everywhere
a hundred years ago.
454
00:41:25,765 --> 00:41:28,969
Well, you leave things alone,
they know what to do.
455
00:41:30,104 --> 00:41:31,738
- Like you?
- No, ma'am.
456
00:41:31,805 --> 00:41:33,607
I don't know what to do
about anything much.
457
00:41:34,408 --> 00:41:36,678
Well, you've been alone a long time.
458
00:41:36,777 --> 00:41:40,615
Well, I guess some people are more suited
to it than others, I reckon.
459
00:41:40,982 --> 00:41:43,419
Funny, I never thought it would suit you.
460
00:41:43,486 --> 00:41:46,188
No one to talk to. No one to be with.

461
00:41:46,288 --> 00:41:49,825
- How you sleeping these days, girl?
- How am I what?
462
00:41:50,259 --> 00:41:51,260
Yeah.
463
00:41:52,094 --> 00:41:54,197
You sleep good?
464
00:41:54,297 --> 00:41:57,134
No, not lately. How did you know?
465
00:41:57,234 --> 00:42:00,537
Well, looky here. Yeah.
466
00:42:01,505 --> 00:42:04,141
Yeah. This is Valerian.
467
00:42:04,975 --> 00:42:08,179
It'll help you nod off
when the nights get long.
468
00:42:12,083 --> 00:42:14,318
Now, you wanna go on aways?
469
00:42:15,319 --> 00:42:17,489
- Yes.
- Okay. Yeah.
470
00:42:19,324 --> 00:42:22,361
Would you stay for supper?
471
00:42:24,496 --> 00:42:26,165
I don't wannabe any trouble.
472
00:42:26,265 --> 00:42:30,336
Well, a supper guest every 30, 40 years
is not much trouble, girl.
473
00:42:31,538 --> 00:42:33,139
All right, then.
474
00:42:34,941 --> 00:42:37,043
Well, you better stay close.

475
00:42:37,877 --> 00:42:42,683
Because some big old wildcat
has been eating my chickens.
476
00:42:44,186 --> 00:42:45,920
Or maybe it was me.
477
00:42:48,656 --> 00:42:50,725
Now, you take that root, and you mash it...
478
00:42:55,063 --> 00:42:56,431
Here we go.
479
00:43:00,135 --> 00:43:01,404
Go on in.
480
00:43:02,872 --> 00:43:05,408
- Give me your coat there.
- Thank you.
481
00:43:06,343 --> 00:43:09,846
It's a little cold here.
482
00:43:19,623 --> 00:43:20,692
Would you care for tea?
483
00:43:20,758 --> 00:43:21,892
Oh, I'd love some, thank you.
484
00:43:22,492 --> 00:43:23,561
Okay.
485
00:43:28,233 --> 00:43:32,738
This is a beautiful table.
You were always good with your hands.
486
00:43:35,641 --> 00:43:36,942
Thank you.
487
00:43:40,380 --> 00:43:41,780
Miss Mattie.
488
00:43:59,533 --> 00:44:02,371
- You still play the piano?
- I teach a few girls.

489
00:44:03,038 --> 00:44:05,641
I got a good feeling when you played.
490
00:44:06,074 --> 00:44:07,909
Remember that time you was playing,
491
00:44:07,976 --> 00:44:10,380
and the lamp burned out,
and you went right on in the dark?
492
00:44:11,613 --> 00:44:14,150
I hear that song sometimes at night.
493
00:44:18,755 --> 00:44:19,822
I do.
494
00:44:20,590 --> 00:44:22,492
Sure is quiet out here.
495
00:44:23,593 --> 00:44:25,262
I said, it sure is...
496
00:44:29,700 --> 00:44:32,102
I tried to write you a few times, but
497
00:44:33,537 --> 00:44:35,006
I didn't know what to say.
498
00:44:35,407 --> 00:44:37,942
- Well, I heard you married.
- Yeah.
499
00:44:38,410 --> 00:44:40,979
To a doctor. A good man.
500
00:44:41,780 --> 00:44:44,183
We lived in St. Louis for a while.
501
00:44:45,784 --> 00:44:51,792
He died about a year ago.
So I came back here because...
502
00:44:54,828 --> 00:44:56,762
I've no idea why.
503

00:44:57,397 --> 00:45:00,434

The list of people who are gone is getting
longer and longer, and it seems like
504
00:45:00,967 --> 00:45:04,304
all I'm doing is just waiting
for my name to be called.
505
00:45:04,805 --> 00:45:07,474
You have a tender heart.
You always did, you know.
506
00:45:08,976 --> 00:45:10,811
You can't wait for anything, Mattie.
507
00:45:11,312 --> 00:45:13,047
Close your eyes, hold your breath,
508
00:45:14,249 --> 00:45:17,886
stay in one spot your whole life,
but you're still moving.
509
00:45:18,653 --> 00:45:22,658
Like the world is, you know,
moving under you. There's no waiting.
510
00:45:27,864 --> 00:45:30,700
And there's no getting over some things,
is there?
511
00:45:33,002 --> 00:45:34,471
Reckon not, Little Bit.
512
00:45:34,537 --> 00:45:35,906
Little Bit.
513
00:45:36,607 --> 00:45:39,343
Oh, my God. I haven't been called that...
514
00:46:23,892 --> 00:46:24,893
Jesus, kid.
515
00:46:24,959 --> 00:46:26,194
Yeah, but it's not our money.
516
00:46:26,261 --> 00:46:30,031
Well, yeah, I know,

but some of it's going to be.

517
00:46:30,098 --> 00:46:32,134
I mean, we're putting this thing on.
518
00:46:34,403 --> 00:46:36,907
Well, he should be here.
I'm going to go get him.
519
00:46:52,923 --> 00:46:55,593
I'm not exactly sure
how much your land is worth.
520
00:46:55,693 --> 00:46:58,930
It looks to me like you could get
10 times that, more.
521
00:46:59,264 --> 00:47:03,935
I mean, it's yours to do with what you want,
but it makes me a little nervous.
522
00:47:04,435 --> 00:47:07,271
I never thought I'd see enough money
to make me nervous.
523
00:47:08,774 --> 00:47:10,943
We should probably talk about
the price of everything.
524
00:47:12,277 --> 00:47:13,580
The clothes, the ads,
525
00:47:14,113 --> 00:47:15,480
our price for everything.
526
00:47:16,115 --> 00:47:18,318
We'll be fair about that.
I'm not worried about it.
527
00:47:18,451 --> 00:47:20,119
Well, what do you think, boy?
528
00:47:25,925 --> 00:47:27,661
Well, money makes people do funny things.
529
00:47:29,129 --> 00:47:30,431
I'd probably put it in the bank, sir.

530
00:47:30,498 --> 00:47:32,032
This bank, here,
531
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,705
you can't trust. That's all I'm going to say.
532
00:47:37,973 --> 00:47:39,140
Can I trust you?
533
00:47:42,143 --> 00:47:43,813
Every name and every dollar is on this table.
534
00:47:43,913 --> 00:47:45,780
That's not what I asked.
535
00:47:47,116 --> 00:47:48,885
I've done a hell of a job for you.
536
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:51,822
I don't see why...
537
00:47:51,922 --> 00:47:53,022
- Mr. Bush, I didn't mean to imply.
- Hush.
538
00:47:53,122 --> 00:47:54,658
I've sold horses, cars.
539
00:47:54,758 --> 00:47:56,225
I mean, I've sold watches that were
540
00:47:56,325 --> 00:47:58,161
pinned to the inside of my coat.
I'm not ashamed of it.
541
00:47:58,529 --> 00:48:00,364
I don't rob banks. Don't cheat at cards.
542
00:48:00,464 --> 00:48:02,499
I sleep all right, nights I sleep.
543
00:48:02,834 --> 00:48:05,402
Take out for the expenses you already have,
and give me the receipts.

544
00:48:05,502 --> 00:48:07,371
When the bills come in for things,
you give them to me.
545
00:48:08,038 --> 00:48:09,073
I'll pay them.
546
00:48:09,173 --> 00:48:10,408
You put this money in a box.
547
00:48:10,508 --> 00:48:12,544
The boy and I will take it someplace
in the morning.
548
00:48:12,644 --> 00:48:14,812
Whatever new comes in... Listen to me.
549
00:48:14,879 --> 00:48:16,916
Whatever new comes in,
you keep it in the bottom of one of them
550
00:48:17,016 --> 00:48:19,385
ugly caskets in there until I come get it.
551
00:48:19,985 --> 00:48:21,754
When the party's over, you name a fair price
552
00:48:21,854 --> 00:48:23,522
for what you've done, and we'll settle up.
553
00:48:25,191 --> 00:48:26,225
A fair price.
554
00:48:42,710 --> 00:48:46,514
Is it just me, or is he extremely articulate
when he wants to be?
555
00:48:46,714 --> 00:48:48,549
I don't know who's selling
who to what anymore.
556
00:48:50,652 --> 00:48:52,520
It's not clear, is it?
557
00:48:56,224 --> 00:48:57,693
Here you go.

558
00:48:59,928 --> 00:49:01,764
- Where to, sir?
- North.
559
00:49:03,433 --> 00:49:06,537
- How far?
- Till I say, son.
560
00:49:11,674 --> 00:49:13,544
Step on it. Step on it.
561
00:49:35,101 --> 00:49:36,402
Mr. Quinn.
562
00:49:56,256 --> 00:49:57,825
How much further?
563
00:49:59,060 --> 00:49:59,994
What?
564
00:50:00,094 --> 00:50:02,164
How much further you want to go?
565
00:50:48,314 --> 00:50:50,883
- Don't say nothing.
- To who?
566
00:50:51,751 --> 00:50:53,886
You can say "hi." That's it.
567
00:50:55,489 --> 00:51:08,570
Hi.
568
00:51:09,504 --> 00:51:10,672
Hello.
569
00:51:18,180 --> 00:51:20,416
You sure you're in the right place?
570
00:51:20,516 --> 00:51:22,585
Not expecting a funeral.
571
00:51:22,685 --> 00:51:23,819
Hi.

572
00:51:29,559 --> 00:51:30,559
Hey,
573
00:51:30,961 --> 00:51:32,362
Charlie.
574
00:51:41,072 --> 00:51:42,106
Felix?
575
00:52:01,728 --> 00:52:03,530
Yeah. Yeah.
576
00:52:04,898 --> 00:52:06,566
Still standing.
577
00:52:06,867 --> 00:52:08,034
Yeah.
578
00:52:12,071 --> 00:52:14,575
- Reverend Charlie Jackson.
- Hi.
579
00:52:15,576 --> 00:52:18,380
That's Buddy Robinson. He don't talk much.
580
00:52:18,446 --> 00:52:20,080
Well, somebody better talk.
581
00:52:20,448 --> 00:52:23,485
A ghost pulls into the driveway in a hearse,
582
00:52:23,585 --> 00:52:25,754
you expect a little bit of a story.
583
00:52:28,590 --> 00:52:29,592
Well...
584
00:52:32,228 --> 00:52:34,931
You know, my hearing's not what it was.
585
00:52:35,431 --> 00:52:38,968
Sounded like you said you want me
to preach at your funeral party,
586
00:52:39,502 --> 00:52:41,437

with you sitting there.

587
00:52:42,605 --> 00:52:43,941
Yes, sir.
588
00:52:45,876 --> 00:52:49,079
I've talked to God a lot about you
over the years.
589
00:52:49,413 --> 00:52:51,816
He said he broke the mold
when he made you.
590
00:52:51,916 --> 00:52:56,120
Said you're sure entertaining to watch
but way too much trouble.
591
00:53:02,595 --> 00:53:05,598
What would you want me to say
at this funeral?
592
00:53:06,665 --> 00:53:09,201
Say anything you wanna say, Charlie.
593
00:53:13,306 --> 00:53:15,341
Could you give us a minute?
594
00:53:15,441 --> 00:53:16,643
No, sit still.
595
00:53:16,743 --> 00:53:18,545
What's the matter?
You scared to be alone with me?
596
00:53:18,646 --> 00:53:21,348
- No, he can hear what's said.
- All right.
597
00:53:22,383 --> 00:53:24,485
After you left here,
did you do the right thing?
598
00:53:27,154 --> 00:53:30,491
I felt that I did the right thing, yes.
599
00:53:32,628 --> 00:53:35,864
You confessed? Asked forgiveness?

600
00:53:39,668 --> 00:53:41,803
Did you tell her, Felix?
601
00:53:47,377 --> 00:53:50,380
- You've come a long way for nothing, then.
- You self-righteous no...
602
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,583
- Don't you dare.
- No, hey. You listen to me now.
603
00:53:53,683 --> 00:53:56,419
I built my own jail and put myself in it.
604
00:53:56,519 --> 00:53:59,356
And I stayed in it for 40 goddamn years.
605
00:54:00,391 --> 00:54:01,692
No wife.
606
00:54:02,426 --> 00:54:04,862
No kids, no friends, no nothing.
607
00:54:05,496 --> 00:54:07,198
No grandchildren.
608
00:54:12,537 --> 00:54:16,007
I wouldn't even know how to hold a baby.
You hear me?
609
00:54:17,810 --> 00:54:19,044
Forty years.
610
00:54:20,146 --> 00:54:22,048
Now, that's not enough?
611
00:54:23,849 --> 00:54:25,519
You know it's not.
612
00:54:28,322 --> 00:54:31,358
Well, why don't you come
to say that then, Charlie?
613
00:54:31,425 --> 00:54:34,695
Hell, tell it all if you wanna. I don't care.

614
00:54:35,329 --> 00:54:38,565
But just come and say something.
615
00:54:40,935 --> 00:54:42,570
Not on your life.
616
00:55:04,260 --> 00:55:06,563
How much do you know about him?
617
00:55:08,465 --> 00:55:11,634
Almost nothing.
I just work at the funeral home.
618
00:55:14,939 --> 00:55:17,575
Do you know that he built this church?
619
00:55:19,877 --> 00:55:20,912
No.
620
00:55:22,580 --> 00:55:26,252
How could a man like that
build something like this?
621
00:55:27,786 --> 00:55:30,889
I mean,
I knew he was a good carpenter, but...
622
00:55:32,759 --> 00:55:34,627
- But this is...
- Magic?
623
00:55:36,295 --> 00:55:38,431
Maybe it's the best of him.
624
00:55:39,665 --> 00:55:41,101
Maybe...
625
00:55:42,502 --> 00:55:45,471
Maybe he put his soul into it, I don't know.
626
00:55:46,974 --> 00:55:49,243
What y'all were talking about.
627
00:55:50,778 --> 00:55:52,313
What did he do?

628
00:55:53,614 --> 00:55:55,150
Who was he supposed to tell?
629
00:55:56,284 --> 00:55:58,686
Between him and God, I guess.
630
00:56:00,955 --> 00:56:04,526
I will say that he showed up here half dead.
631
00:56:06,228 --> 00:56:08,164
Can I ask you something?
632
00:56:08,998 --> 00:56:10,534
Do you have to?
633
00:56:12,902 --> 00:56:15,137
Yeah. What are we doing?
634
00:56:16,540 --> 00:56:18,375
Ever since the day
you came to the funeral home,
635
00:56:18,475 --> 00:56:22,313
I don't think anything has happened
that you didn't want to happen.
636
00:56:22,413 --> 00:56:24,715
I just don't know where it's going.
637
00:56:24,816 --> 00:56:27,050
There's a whole lot of things
you don't know,
638
00:56:27,318 --> 00:56:30,721
like what a dog dreams.
639
00:56:31,489 --> 00:56:34,525
You can make up a story about him
chasing rabbits.
640
00:56:34,625 --> 00:56:38,230
But you don't know
if there's rabbits in there or not.
641
00:56:38,330 --> 00:56:40,732

And he can't tell you now, can he?

642
00:56:43,135 --> 00:56:45,971
People don't say what they mean, either,
so you don't know anymore about them
643
00:56:46,038 --> 00:56:48,341
than you do about that dog's dream.
644
00:56:50,176 --> 00:56:54,147
That day you left my house,
I saw you stop and look back.
645
00:56:54,214 --> 00:56:57,350
You wanna know
what could make somebody like me.
646
00:56:57,885 --> 00:57:01,255
Well, here you are, son. Here you are.
647
00:57:20,209 --> 00:57:22,745
I better stop and tell Frank we're back.
648
00:57:22,845 --> 00:57:26,350
He's probably thrown
two or three hissy fits by now.
649
00:57:26,416 --> 00:57:29,786
You can stay in the house with me tonight.
I can take you back in the morning.
650
00:57:29,887 --> 00:57:33,190
Well, I haven't stayed with nobody
in a long while.
651
00:57:33,725 --> 00:57:35,459
- Well, it's fine if you want to.
- Yeah.
652
00:57:36,394 --> 00:57:39,464
Wait. Stop. Let me out. Stop the car.
653
00:57:39,564 --> 00:57:41,232
- What?
- Stop it. Let me out.
654
00:57:42,433 --> 00:57:43,801

Let me out!
655
00:57:46,371 --> 00:57:48,107
Put the money in a casket.
656
00:57:48,207 --> 00:57:50,876
You can't walk. It's too far.
You might as well get back in.
657
00:57:50,943 --> 00:57:55,548
- I'm gonna follow you the whole way.
- Get the hell out of here, boy. Go on!
658
00:58:20,943 --> 00:58:25,581
They keep talking about forgiveness,
ask Jesus for forgiveness.
659
00:58:28,784 --> 00:58:30,852
I never did nothing to him.
660
00:58:57,616 --> 00:58:58,817
Frank, I'm back here.
661
00:59:04,623 --> 00:59:06,025
Frank?
662
00:59:46,335 --> 00:59:48,371
Frank. In here.
663
01:00:01,052 --> 01:00:02,687
Here, follow it.
664
01:00:06,658 --> 01:00:07,925
I'm okay.
665
01:00:09,394 --> 01:00:11,430
I was putting the money in,
666
01:00:12,331 --> 01:00:14,634
and I heard some glass breaking.
667
01:00:15,901 --> 01:00:18,571
I locked up the casket and then, boom.
668
01:00:23,343 --> 01:00:24,811
You did good.

669
01:00:26,346 --> 01:00:28,114
It didn't feel good.
670
01:00:49,337 --> 01:00:51,207
Please, Ma'am. Please.
671
01:01:26,945 --> 01:01:28,080
Thank you.
672
01:01:31,817 --> 01:01:33,286
What are you doing here?
673
01:01:35,755 --> 01:01:36,923
Can I sit down?
674
01:01:38,291 --> 01:01:39,659
Yes, Ma'am.
675
01:01:45,766 --> 01:01:46,901
Now.
676
01:01:53,541 --> 01:01:57,245
You wanna know why
I have your sister's picture on my wall.
677
01:01:57,813 --> 01:01:59,147
I'm not stupid, Felix.
678
01:02:01,049 --> 01:02:02,652
I take that back.
679
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:05,621
How long was it going on?
680
01:02:06,456 --> 01:02:08,191
She was already married when I met you.
681
01:02:08,291 --> 01:02:10,961
Were you just making up to me
to get to her?
682
01:02:14,731 --> 01:02:17,134
If you're not gonna talk, leave.
683

01:02:21,138 --> 01:02:23,340

Can you help who you love?
684
01:02:24,742 --> 01:02:28,279
I've had 40 years to think about it.
I still don't know.
685
01:02:29,681 --> 01:02:33,853
Now, I'd like to tell you how it was.
Now, if you don't want me to, I'll go.
686
01:02:34,053 --> 01:02:35,888
- Don't lie to me, Felix.
- No, Ma'am.
687
01:02:45,865 --> 01:02:48,301
When did you take up with her?
688
01:02:51,771 --> 01:02:53,406
I came to see you.
689
01:02:54,341 --> 01:02:58,212
And she was there, hanging clothes
on the line with your mama.
690
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:00,715
She turned around.
691
01:03:01,148 --> 01:03:06,588
I promise you, I did not know
that I had a heart until right then.
692
01:03:10,692 --> 01:03:12,728
You was a fine, fine girl.
693
01:03:12,828 --> 01:03:15,398
I didn't know why you wanted
anything to do with me.
694
01:03:15,498 --> 01:03:19,568
But I was gonna keep coming
to see you till my luck run out.
695
01:03:19,668 --> 01:03:20,937
And then...
696
01:03:21,037 --> 01:03:22,705

- She was married.

- Yeah.
697
01:03:22,806 --> 01:03:25,509
And she wasn't just my sister.
She was my best friend.
698
01:03:25,576 --> 01:03:27,844
We told each other everything.
699
01:03:28,879 --> 01:03:29,914
I can't...
700
01:03:35,886 --> 01:03:37,722
How long did it go on?
701
01:03:42,827 --> 01:03:44,062
How long?
702
01:03:48,901 --> 01:03:50,636
It's still going on.
703
01:04:02,749 --> 01:04:05,452
Did you have anything to do with her death?
704
01:04:06,219 --> 01:04:07,455
Her what?
705
01:04:12,259 --> 01:04:13,561
Tell me.
706
01:04:18,701 --> 01:04:19,934
Felix.
707
01:04:22,137 --> 01:04:24,840
Felix, get out of my house.
708
01:04:27,943 --> 01:04:29,111
Now!
709
01:04:32,182 --> 01:04:33,783
You go to hell.
710
01:04:37,454 --> 01:04:39,956
Felix. Felix.

711
01:04:42,792 --> 01:04:44,295
Take a breath.
712
01:04:50,801 --> 01:04:52,804
You need to see a doctor.
713
01:05:44,728 --> 01:05:45,728
Whoa.
714
01:05:45,828 --> 01:05:47,330
What the hell?
715
01:05:52,870 --> 01:05:56,040
- What? They get it?
- Buddy sealed it in a casket.
716
01:05:56,973 --> 01:05:59,077
- Took a crack on the head though.
- Is he all right?
717
01:05:59,177 --> 01:06:00,445
- Yeah.
- You sure.
718
01:06:00,545 --> 01:06:03,281
I was an army medic. He'll be fine.
719
01:06:03,381 --> 01:06:07,753
But you ought to take those clothes back
and get something in your size.
720
01:06:08,719 --> 01:06:10,556
They get the whiskey?
721
01:06:23,003 --> 01:06:24,471
Well, I've been thinking.
722
01:06:24,571 --> 01:06:27,040
What if we had the party at your place?
723
01:06:29,243 --> 01:06:31,746
You know, people will wanna see
the land they're getting.
724
01:06:31,846 --> 01:06:34,149
I don't know. Don't know.

725
01:06:34,249 --> 01:06:35,783
Well, it's something to think about.
726
01:06:35,883 --> 01:06:38,385
- Yeah, well. Don't know.
- We could...
727
01:06:39,921 --> 01:06:42,089
Don't know that I'm doing it.
728
01:06:44,092 --> 01:06:45,328
What?
729
01:06:46,294 --> 01:06:48,498
I'm thinking of calling it off.
730
01:06:48,598 --> 01:06:50,165
No. You can't.
731
01:06:50,265 --> 01:06:51,501
I can do any damn thing I want.
732
01:06:51,601 --> 01:06:53,669
- No. No.
- I say no, you don't say no.
733
01:06:53,770 --> 01:06:55,738
Now, goddamn, you send that money back,
all right?
734
01:06:55,805 --> 01:06:57,006
- You're killing me.
- Oh, yeah?
735
01:06:57,106 --> 01:06:59,610
I bought things. I've hired people.
736
01:07:00,644 --> 01:07:02,012
Promised money.
737
01:07:02,112 --> 01:07:04,782
Everybody in town is hoping to get...
738
01:07:05,482 --> 01:07:07,185
You know, this thing going. It's big.

739
01:07:07,285 --> 01:07:10,622
I care about this town
as much as they care about me.
740
01:07:11,756 --> 01:07:14,192
It's what you said you wanted.
741
01:07:14,292 --> 01:07:18,798
And I busted my ass for you.
So now, why don't you want it anymore?
742
01:07:22,635 --> 01:07:27,373
It was the end-of-the-line, tell-it-all,
get-out-of-jail party.
743
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:31,110
But I guess I haven't got the goddamn guts
to speak for myself.
744
01:07:31,177 --> 01:07:34,414
And I can't find nobody else
to talk for me, so...
745
01:07:35,115 --> 01:07:37,317
Hell with it. The hell with me.
746
01:07:38,652 --> 01:07:40,454
Step back. Thank you.
747
01:08:02,779 --> 01:08:04,280
Can't you see?
748
01:08:05,180 --> 01:08:06,516
I see that you're mad.
749
01:08:06,649 --> 01:08:08,818
I'm not mad. I'm concerned.
750
01:08:12,322 --> 01:08:13,824
No, you're mad.
751
01:08:16,226 --> 01:08:20,531
If I could get my hands on whoever
did that to you, you could see mad.
752

01:08:22,767 --> 01:08:23,968

Buddy, you up?
753
01:08:25,103 --> 01:08:26,171
Yeah.
754
01:08:26,771 --> 01:08:27,806
Trouble.
755
01:08:27,872 --> 01:08:29,507
What's the matter?
756
01:08:30,242 --> 01:08:32,143
Bush is pulling out.
757
01:08:32,177 --> 01:08:33,679
- What?
- What happened yesterday?
758
01:08:33,779 --> 01:08:36,415
Well, I told you.
We went to Illinois to see a preacher.
759
01:08:36,515 --> 01:08:37,550
Yeah, but what happened?
760
01:08:37,683 --> 01:08:40,686
Well, he wanted the preacher
to come to the funeral. And he said no.
761
01:08:40,786 --> 01:08:43,055
Son of a bitch. That's gotta be it.
762
01:08:46,025 --> 01:08:48,095
Sorry. Sorry.
763
01:08:49,029 --> 01:08:51,865
- All right, where's the preacher?
- It won't do you any good.
764
01:08:51,965 --> 01:08:53,201
Why not?
765
01:08:53,667 --> 01:08:57,838
Well, he knows something about Bush,
and it's something bad, I think.

766
01:08:57,905 --> 01:09:00,541
Well, if Bush wants him,
by God, Bush is gonna get him.
767
01:09:00,642 --> 01:09:03,077
You want eggs, Frank, or will the skillet do?
768
01:09:03,679 --> 01:09:04,712
What?
769
01:09:04,812 --> 01:09:06,047
My husband has his head bashed in,
770
01:09:06,415 --> 01:09:07,783
and all you care about is this party.
771
01:09:07,850 --> 01:09:09,885
That's not how it is, Katie.
772
01:09:09,985 --> 01:09:11,854
It's not like that. This is for all of us.
773
01:09:12,221 --> 01:09:14,223
You're like family to me.
774
01:09:14,691 --> 01:09:16,792
Well, this isn't how family acts.
775
01:09:22,565 --> 01:09:23,900
I'm sorry.
776
01:09:26,003 --> 01:09:27,537
I haven't had any practice.
777
01:09:40,218 --> 01:09:42,754
Stay out of her way today, partner.
778
01:10:14,055 --> 01:10:16,691
That's good. Do it one more time, honey.
779
01:10:28,938 --> 01:10:29,940
Reverend Jackson?
780
01:10:31,340 --> 01:10:33,744
Frank Quinn. Quinn Funeral Home.

781
01:10:33,844 --> 01:10:36,813
I was gonna play some dominos
this afternoon.
782
01:10:37,314 --> 01:10:40,283
But something told me to stay home.
783
01:10:41,352 --> 01:10:42,853
I should have played dominos.
784
01:10:45,156 --> 01:10:47,492
- Is he out there?
- Bush? No, sir.
785
01:10:48,826 --> 01:10:50,128
You sure?
786
01:10:50,895 --> 01:10:52,064
Pretty sure.
787
01:10:52,164 --> 01:10:54,032
Did you check the back?
788
01:11:04,943 --> 01:11:06,713
You told Bush
you wouldn't come to the funeral?
789
01:11:06,846 --> 01:11:10,083
If he got that, why are you here?
790
01:11:10,150 --> 01:11:12,685
First off, Bush doesn't know that I'm here.
791
01:11:12,852 --> 01:11:15,322
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
792
01:11:15,823 --> 01:11:18,058
He has a way of making people do
what he wants.
793
01:11:20,961 --> 01:11:23,531
Is he really a hermit?
794
01:11:34,243 --> 01:11:38,014
He came to see me after he'd been here.

Wants to cancel the party.

795
01:11:38,047 --> 01:11:39,082
I don't care.
796
01:11:39,215 --> 01:11:42,685
He said he wanted an end-of-the-line,
tell-it-all, get-out-of-jail funeral.
797
01:11:42,819 --> 01:11:45,956
But that he didn't have the guts
to open his mouth.
798
01:11:46,055 --> 01:11:48,926
And he couldn't get anybody to talk for him.
799
01:11:49,693 --> 01:11:53,364
At first, he wanted anybody with a story
about him to come.
800
01:11:53,398 --> 01:11:56,701
But he didn't wanna hear
their bullshit stories.
801
01:11:56,768 --> 01:11:58,303
Pardon my language.
802
01:11:58,403 --> 01:11:59,537
He wants to tell one.
803
01:11:59,604 --> 01:12:00,973
About time.
804
01:12:01,072 --> 01:12:05,443
Whatever he did has been locked up
in him for 40 years. He can't get it out.
805
01:12:06,044 --> 01:12:08,613
I think he told you,
and he wants you to tell it for him.
806
01:12:08,746 --> 01:12:09,748
Because he won't.
807
01:12:09,915 --> 01:12:10,916
Or can't.

808
01:12:11,584 --> 01:12:12,952
Or won't.
809
01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:16,055
Or can't.
810
01:12:17,557 --> 01:12:19,825
At least he wants to get the truth out.
811
01:12:20,627 --> 01:12:21,761
Give him that.
812
01:12:22,762 --> 01:12:24,664
I'll think about it.
813
01:12:26,634 --> 01:12:29,337
- Is there a boarding house near here?
- I said I'd think.
814
01:12:29,437 --> 01:12:32,440
But if you're not coming, I'm not going back.
815
01:12:33,374 --> 01:12:36,310
I made promises I can't keep
to people I care about.
816
01:12:37,946 --> 01:12:40,816
This falls apart,
nobody's gonna blame Bush.
817
01:12:43,318 --> 01:12:45,455
Bank will take my business.
818
01:12:47,656 --> 01:12:51,895
If I'm gonna have to start over again,
it might as well be from here.
819
01:13:56,332 --> 01:13:57,499
What are you doing, sir?
820
01:13:59,468 --> 01:14:02,037
Getting me a suntan.
821
01:14:08,378 --> 01:14:09,479
You stuck?

822
01:14:09,713 --> 01:14:12,416
You have no goddamn idea
how right you are, boy.
823
01:14:16,020 --> 01:14:17,188
I'll sit here a minute.
824
01:14:17,521 --> 01:14:18,756
How's your head?
825
01:14:21,826 --> 01:14:23,928
- It's all right.
- Yeah?
826
01:14:24,028 --> 01:14:25,897
Well, we're a pair, ain't we?
827
01:14:29,601 --> 01:14:31,536
You know who hurt you?
828
01:14:31,603 --> 01:14:32,871
No, sir.
829
01:14:33,238 --> 01:14:34,874
Sons of bitches.
830
01:14:40,046 --> 01:14:41,281
You sick?
831
01:14:42,582 --> 01:14:44,283
Just going through the motions.
832
01:14:45,052 --> 01:14:48,455
- What does that mean?
- There's alive and there's dead.
833
01:14:49,056 --> 01:14:51,892
And there's a worse place in between them
834
01:14:53,028 --> 01:14:55,029
that I hope you never know nothing about.
835
01:14:59,801 --> 01:15:02,737
Listen, Frank went somewhere,
836

01:15:03,906 --> 01:15:05,740

and the money's gone.
837
01:15:11,247 --> 01:15:12,915
You figure he took off with it?
838
01:15:13,115 --> 01:15:15,085
I don't wanna think that.
839
01:15:16,119 --> 01:15:18,322
But the money's not in the casket.
840
01:15:18,422 --> 01:15:20,757
He said he was gonna call,
and I ain't heard from him.
841
01:15:26,130 --> 01:15:28,766
Well, what do you wanna do?
842
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:38,776
I wanna make you a funeral,
if you still want one.
843
01:15:47,986 --> 01:15:50,155
Well, do it if you want to.
844
01:15:54,627 --> 01:15:57,331
I guess, for everyone like me,
845
01:15:58,398 --> 01:16:00,434
there's one like you, son.
846
01:16:02,803 --> 01:16:04,605
I 'bout forgot that.
847
01:16:41,679 --> 01:16:43,581
I'm glad you decided to come, sir.
848
01:16:44,215 --> 01:16:46,718
Free will is not all it's cracked up to be.
849
01:16:47,018 --> 01:16:49,822
Did you take the money out of the casket?
850
01:16:51,122 --> 01:16:52,091
Yeah.

851
01:16:52,458 --> 01:16:54,425
Well, why didn't you tell me?
852
01:16:55,895 --> 01:16:57,229
I forgot.
853
01:16:58,998 --> 01:17:00,400
You forgot?
854
01:17:02,701 --> 01:17:03,870
Well, where is it?
855
01:17:03,937 --> 01:17:06,339
It's in the hearse under the floorboards.
856
01:17:09,075 --> 01:17:11,746
What? Nobody steals a hearse.
857
01:17:13,547 --> 01:17:16,583
Now, all we gotta do
is get the preacher over to Bush and...
858
01:17:16,683 --> 01:17:20,421
Yeah, I forgot to tell you,
Bush already said he'd do it.
859
01:17:22,056 --> 01:17:23,891
Where can I catch a train?
860
01:17:23,991 --> 01:17:25,627
You can't leave. You just got here.
861
01:17:25,727 --> 01:17:27,362
Watch and learn.
862
01:17:29,064 --> 01:17:30,532
You might need two canes.
863
01:17:30,599 --> 01:17:32,067
Where's the train station?
864
01:17:32,167 --> 01:17:34,270
Sure you wouldn't rather have a drink first?
865

01:17:34,370 --> 01:17:35,971

I am out of here.
866
01:18:04,704 --> 01:18:06,404
Expecting a crowd?
867
01:18:48,818 --> 01:18:52,822
You asked for it,
you old ornery son of a bitch. Yeah.
868
01:18:53,623 --> 01:18:56,159
But what are you gonna do now?
869
01:19:56,692 --> 01:19:58,361
Pretty nice jail.
870
01:20:00,096 --> 01:20:02,064
Why'd you change your mind, Charlie?
871
01:20:07,337 --> 01:20:08,673
Thank you.
872
01:20:10,507 --> 01:20:11,576
How do you wanna do this?
873
01:20:11,676 --> 01:20:13,010
I don't.
874
01:20:14,645 --> 01:20:16,546
I'm gonna try and tell it, Charlie. I really am.
875
01:20:16,647 --> 01:20:18,716
But if I can't get it done, would you do it?
876
01:20:19,350 --> 01:20:21,119
I want it said, so...
877
01:20:21,753 --> 01:20:23,188
Please, sir.
878
01:20:29,695 --> 01:20:31,364
Tell them the box is in the barn.
879
01:21:20,084 --> 01:21:22,119
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

880
01:21:22,219 --> 01:21:24,922
I'm Frank Quinn of Quinn Funeral Home.
881
01:21:25,656 --> 01:21:27,325
Welcome
882
01:21:27,425 --> 01:21:29,360
to the live funeral party
883
01:21:30,662 --> 01:21:31,963
of Mr. Felix Bush.
884
01:21:35,500 --> 01:21:39,270
I've done a lot of things in my life,
but I've never done this.
885
01:21:39,337 --> 01:21:41,640
I bet none of you have, either.
886
01:21:42,308 --> 01:21:43,642
I bet no one has.
887
01:21:44,477 --> 01:21:48,815
The person that made all this happen for us
doesn't like the spotlight.
888
01:21:49,449 --> 01:21:51,318
But Mr. Buddy Robinson
889
01:21:51,985 --> 01:21:54,055
is the heart of Quinn Funeral Home,
890
01:21:54,855 --> 01:21:56,189
and I'm proud to know him.
891
01:21:58,792 --> 01:22:00,862
Many of you have heard stories
about Mr. Bush.
892
01:22:02,964 --> 01:22:06,200
But today, I'm told that we're going to hear
another kind of story.
893
01:22:10,304 --> 01:22:11,306
His.

894
01:22:59,058 --> 01:23:00,126
Yeah.
895
01:23:06,266 --> 01:23:08,035
I'm Reverend Charlie Jackson.
896
01:23:11,405 --> 01:23:13,040
We like to imagine that
897
01:23:13,774 --> 01:23:15,243
good and bad,
898
01:23:16,311 --> 01:23:18,446
right and wrong
899
01:23:19,915 --> 01:23:21,583
are miles apart.
900
01:23:22,016 --> 01:23:23,619
But the truth is,
901
01:23:24,285 --> 01:23:28,290
very often, they're all tangled up
with each other.
902
01:23:29,124 --> 01:23:30,759
Some 40 years ago,
903
01:23:31,494 --> 01:23:33,964
Felix dropped into my life.
904
01:23:36,900 --> 01:23:39,903
And then he dropped out.
905
01:23:41,037 --> 01:23:42,406
In Between,
906
01:23:44,074 --> 01:23:46,910
he built the most beautiful
907
01:23:48,713 --> 01:23:52,383
sanctuary that I have ever seen.
908
01:23:59,625 --> 01:24:02,227
A lot of wonderful things happened

in that church.
909
01:24:04,096 --> 01:24:07,166
That's it, Charlie. Thank you, Charlie.
Thank you very much.
910
01:24:07,267 --> 01:24:10,136
You're a good man, Charlie. Thank you.
911
01:24:10,603 --> 01:24:11,671
Yeah.
912
01:24:19,546 --> 01:24:24,618
I had to go clear to Illinois to find somebody
who had anything good to say about me.
913
01:24:24,718 --> 01:24:26,588
Hell of a thing. Yeah.
914
01:24:31,792 --> 01:24:32,794
So.
915
01:24:40,636 --> 01:24:41,804
Now...
916
01:24:43,139 --> 01:24:47,710
I'm not a smart man or a wise one.
I don't know what kind of man I am.
917
01:24:47,810 --> 01:24:50,980
I was always restless.
Thought I'd see the world.
918
01:24:52,482 --> 01:24:55,285
But I didn't go nowhere on purpose because
919
01:24:56,119 --> 01:24:58,488
I did something I was ashamed of.
920
01:25:00,325 --> 01:25:02,493
Something I could never fix.
921
01:25:03,394 --> 01:25:05,663
Y'all probably think you know
what you'd do, or what you wouldn't,
922

01:25:05,763 --> 01:25:08,834

and I wish you good luck with that.
I really do.
923
01:25:09,867 --> 01:25:12,338
When I told Charlie what I'd done,
924
01:25:13,472 --> 01:25:16,842
he told me to confess to God and the law...
925
01:25:16,942 --> 01:25:20,313
You know, somebody else,
so I could get forgiveness.
926
01:25:21,413 --> 01:25:24,184
But I didn't want forgiveness. No.
927
01:25:26,152 --> 01:25:28,588
I needed to hold on to what I did,
928
01:25:28,688 --> 01:25:31,192
to be sick from it every day of my life.
929
01:25:31,258 --> 01:25:34,528
So that I never told nobody else, you see.
930
01:25:36,330 --> 01:25:37,531
Nobody.
931
01:25:56,352 --> 01:26:00,356
I fell in love with a married lady,
and somehow, she fell in love with me.
932
01:26:05,396 --> 01:26:08,098
The only time that I have been in love.
933
01:26:10,334 --> 01:26:13,771
We made a plan to run off
and start a new life, a family.
934
01:26:14,371 --> 01:26:15,740
But somehow,
935
01:26:16,708 --> 01:26:19,577
she didn't show up when we said we'd meet.
936

01:26:20,379 --> 01:26:21,913

And I got a funny feeling.
937
01:26:29,021 --> 01:26:32,258
Her husband answered the door.
He had blood on him.
938
01:26:33,559 --> 01:26:36,462
I hit him pretty hard and knocked him down.
939
01:26:37,264 --> 01:26:41,635
I can't remember going upstairs.
I remember there was a hammer on the steps
940
01:26:41,735 --> 01:26:44,371
that was covered with blood and hair.
941
01:26:45,873 --> 01:26:49,477
And I found her in the Bedroom,
crawling across the floor.
942
01:26:50,078 --> 01:26:52,580
Before I could get to her and help her up,
943
01:26:53,682 --> 01:26:56,485
a kerosene lamp hit the wall and exploded.
944
01:26:57,553 --> 01:26:59,655
And then her husBand,
he jumped on my back.
945
01:26:59,788 --> 01:27:03,292
Boy, I had him. Boy, I had... I had him.
946
01:27:09,099 --> 01:27:11,768
But it's funny what happens, sometimes,
when things go wrong.
947
01:27:11,868 --> 01:27:13,903
It's like the clock stops.
948
01:27:15,473 --> 01:27:18,609
And you have all the time in the world
to think.
949
01:27:20,244 --> 01:27:24,416
I could see that her husband set

the downstairs on fire before he came up,

950
01:27:24,482 --> 01:27:25,916
you see.
951
01:27:25,983 --> 01:27:30,188
And as I was slamming his head
into the wall, trying to get shed of him,
952
01:27:30,288 --> 01:27:32,624
it came to me clear as anything,
953
01:27:35,094 --> 01:27:38,297
that this was all my fault.
954
01:27:40,466 --> 01:27:41,834
If I'd just
955
01:27:43,536 --> 01:27:45,304
never spoke to her.
956
01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:50,143
And as I was thinking about that,
I could see the lamp that he threw,
957
01:27:50,244 --> 01:27:54,382
it set the room we were in on fire, too.
And then I realized that...
958
01:27:55,682 --> 01:27:57,485
That I was on fire.
959
01:28:03,458 --> 01:28:04,993
Tried to put myself out. I couldn't.
960
01:28:05,093 --> 01:28:09,198
I dropped him, I turned around,
and I was so confused.
961
01:28:10,165 --> 01:28:13,168
And I looked down,
and I saw her lying on the floor,
962
01:28:13,334 --> 01:28:15,571
and I called out her name.
963

01:28:15,671 --> 01:28:17,806

You know her name, Mattie.
964
01:28:18,173 --> 01:28:21,677
Mary Lee.
Sometimes I called her Mary Lou for fun.
965
01:28:24,513 --> 01:28:27,418
And then I called out her name again and...
966
01:28:33,057 --> 01:28:34,525
I could see
967
01:28:43,068 --> 01:28:44,736
that my only love,
968
01:28:45,537 --> 01:28:47,105
and your sister,
969
01:28:48,340 --> 01:28:49,709
was on fire.
970
01:28:50,876 --> 01:28:51,877
And...
971
01:28:53,846 --> 01:28:58,351
I'm so ashamed.
972
01:29:02,722 --> 01:29:06,427
I reached down, and I tried to help her up.
973
01:29:08,062 --> 01:29:10,064
And the next thing I knew,
974
01:29:11,933 --> 01:29:14,468
I was flying, you see.
975
01:29:15,937 --> 01:29:17,038
Yeah.
976
01:29:18,907 --> 01:29:20,376
I was flying.
977
01:29:24,180 --> 01:29:26,816
I don't know how I got out the window.

978
01:29:26,916 --> 01:29:30,920
No matter how many times I play it
in my mind, I can't rememberjumping.
979
01:29:31,020 --> 01:29:35,092
I thought I killed him.
But maybe he pushed me. I don't know, see.
980
01:29:37,094 --> 01:29:38,829
But I swear to you,
981
01:29:42,132 --> 01:29:44,001
if I left her in there,
982
01:29:45,303 --> 01:29:48,106
everything I know about myself is a lie.
983
01:29:49,607 --> 01:29:51,309
But that don't matter.
984
01:29:51,609 --> 01:29:53,278
That don't matter.
985
01:29:56,415 --> 01:29:59,852
I didn't get her out, Little Bit, I didn't.
I'm sorry.
986
01:30:04,791 --> 01:30:06,091
And that's my story.
987
01:30:08,828 --> 01:30:12,299
I would like forgiveness now, if possible.
988
01:30:13,833 --> 01:30:15,135
And then,
989
01:30:17,004 --> 01:30:19,807
I don't mind dying for real next time.
990
01:30:23,344 --> 01:30:25,212
But please forgive me.
991
01:32:09,093 --> 01:32:10,394
I wonder
992

01:32:17,736 --> 01:32:19,905

if her hair would be white.
993
01:32:22,741 --> 01:32:25,912
I wonder. Yeah.
994
01:33:30,949 --> 01:33:34,353
My funeral, and everybody's in there but me.
995
01:34:14,664 --> 01:34:18,901
Well, Felix, I guess this one's for real.
996
01:34:20,037 --> 01:34:23,407
Now, I didn't see them
put you in that box, actually.
997
01:34:23,707 --> 01:34:24,840
So...
998
01:34:29,479 --> 01:34:31,349
So wherever you are...
999
01:34:33,418 --> 01:34:35,887
Probably giving someone a hard time,
1000
01:34:36,721 --> 01:34:40,725
or something wonderful
1001
01:34:41,426 --> 01:34:44,563
or priceless. Just to confuse them.
1002
01:34:46,332 --> 01:34:47,633
I wish you
1003
01:34:49,401 --> 01:34:50,570
peace
1004
01:34:51,071 --> 01:34:54,574
from the burdens of your mind and heart.
1005
01:34:56,743 --> 01:34:58,579
I wish it for us all.