Blood Beat

Any luck?

Alright, honey, I got one!

Come on.

It's a nice one, too.

Really nice deer.

I was up at the pines this morning,

it was just getting light

and I came in the woods

and I saw four or five of them right off the bat

but I couldn't get close to them.

About 20 minutes ago I was getting hungry

and I was getting tired.

What's the matter?

Honey, you've seen all kinds of dead deer before.

Honey.

I'm sorry.

Now calm down.

Have you got a bad migraine?

Calm down now, that's alright.

That's alright.

Let's go have some coffee, what'd you say?

Okay.

What time do the kids come?

In a couple of hours.

- Don't move, be quiet, I've got great news.

I'm going to tell them

that I'm going to marry their mother!

Oh no.

No no.

I told you so many times

I don't wanna get married again.

No, I won't.

Cathy, but listen.

Listen.

Don't talk to me about it anymore.

Gary, wait a minute.

Gary, listen.

We can go on like this, can't we?

We're okay, wherever we are.

We're okay.

Alright.

Ted, how are ya? - How you doing?

What's up?

- Gary! - Dolly!

You look good.

You two look great!

Nice deer.

Where'd you get him?

I got him up in the pines.

Same place you got that buck two years ago,

remember, the little one?

Oh yeah, that was a good one.

- Alright, here's Sleeping Beauty.

- This is a good friend of mine, Sarah.

This is Gary.

- Oh I'm sorry, my hands are still bloody.

Don't be afraid.

And call me Gary please.

It's food.

Where's mom?

She painting?

No, she's in the house.

Not anymore.

Mom!

My baby!

Hi

I missed you.

- I'd like you to meet Sarah, mom.

Sarah.

You're welcome here.

Sarah.

Grab one of those cookies before Dolly.

- Mom, can I go in the bedroom?

- Sure, I didn't move anything.

Save me a cookie.

Wow, look at the Christmas tree.

Come here, look at the tree!

Hey, that's a nice one.

Sarah, check out my gun.

- Are these the paintings your mom does?

Yeah.

She painted that one, that one,

not that one.

Pretty bizarre, she,

she spends hours in that room almost hypnotized.

It's pretty nice, they look good in here.

Don't worry about that.

These are just some old traditional

decorations of my mom's.

- Well tradition's very nice sometimes.

How about some music?

Sure.

When you're at school,

you don't get a chance to do any hunting.

Look at this,

this one's for me, this one's for me,

this one's for me,

and this one's for Sarah.

- Sarah? - Yeah.

- Gary, how'd you know that Sarah was coming?

I didn't know.

I knew it.

- Mama, how'd you even know Sarah was coming?

A mother knows everything.

Would you like some coffee Sarah?

Yes, please.

Here we are.

This is your little nest.

Like it?

It's the old guest room.

Nobody's stayed here in quite sometime.

Still some old stuff from an old friend of mom's.

Some psycho analyst or something like that.

Meditation he called it.

One day he just packed up and left.

Just a few lines on a piece of paper

and that was it.

But that was the last we ever heard of him.

I didn't know him that well,

he was a little strange.

Where is she now?

- Where is who? - Your mom.

Ma?

Yeah.

You said she was cool.

Come on, Ted. - She is cool.

Wanna give me a little hand here?

She is cool you know but,

I mean Dolly's so doggone stupid.

I mean she comes home,

and tells ma she's quitting school

as soon as we doggone arrive.

I mean what kind of timing is that?

Right before Christmas.

I don't know.

I just felt really weird around your mom.

Did you see the way she looked at me?

I was real scared.

Don't let that bother you.

She just likes to impress my friends.

I don't know.

Don't be scared of my mom.

What's the matter with you?

- I don't know, I just feel kinda weird.

What do you mean?

Well I feel like

she knows everything that goes inside of my head.

She reads everything in my mind,

she scrutinizes me.

Scrutinizes you.

I'm sorry.

It's stupid, I must be tired.

It's like I feel she's in the room right now.

In the room with us.

Come on Sarah,

she's downstairs in her studio, paintin okay?

I just feel it, Ted.

I don't know.

Stop it.

Ted, stop it.

What's the matter?

Just no, I can't.

I can't.

Stop.

Stop it.

What's the matter?

What's the matter Sarah? - I don't know.

I just feel some weird things.

It's like she's in the room right now with us.

Come on Sarah, she's painting.

What are you talking about?

Ted.

Come on, it's alright.

She's downstairs.

She's not up here.

- Breaker one four, breaker one four.

- Red Baron to Lone Painter.

You got the red Baron here, Lone Painter,

do you read me?

Gary, guess who's coming!

Gary, Gary, guess who's coming!

What, who?

- Red Baron's coming, he wants to go hunting.

The old mosquito killer, huh?

Yeah.

Yeah yeah, we might have time.

I don't know.

Hey, do you wanna help?

Alright.

Okay, run it in fast

before he gets here, okay?

- I'm anxious to go hunting.

Think we can go hunting tonight?

Sure we can go hunting.

You think you can hit anything?

- Yeah, I'm on the archery team.

Uncle Pete!

Nobody ready?

Where are all the deer hunters?

Are you still mad at me?