Obsession

-Hey. -Sonny.

I saw you with him earlier.

And you were all over him.

What do you want me to do?

He's still my husband.

Yeah, but not for long.

-What do you mean? -You know what I mean,

because we're gonna get rid of him.

We're not good people, are we?

I'll show you how good we are.

[woman on P.A. making announcement]

[woman on P.A. making announcement]

So, uh, you want a job, Mr. Jordan?

Yes, sir. I saw your help wanted ad

for a mechanic and I called.

I talked to your guy, uh, Pete,

and he said he was gonna hold the position for me.

-When was that? -Two days ago.

Oh, well, I'm sorry, Mr. Jordan, but you're too late.

Wait, sir, listen,

I came a very long way to be here

because Pete promised me a job.

Well, Pete doesn't handle the hiring, I do.

That position's already been taken.

I'll, uh... I'll hang on to your application,

keep it on file in case anything comes up.

Service call, line three.

Thanks.

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Son of a bitch!

Come on, now!

Come on. Come on!

-You all right, man? Huh? -He sure was tryin'.

-Yeah. -I only got $60 on me.

That bastard tried to stick me for $60.

It's a good thing you came along, man.

Thank you. Thank you.

Hey, you're bleeding, man.

-What? -Yeah.

-Oh. -And there.

And you're sure you've never seen

-the assailant before, Mr. Good? -No.

If I ever do see him again, he better run,

'cause I'll put my foot so deep up his ass,

I'll have to untie my shoe to get it out.

And what about you, sir, Mr., uh, Jordan?

No. I never saw him before, either.

It's brave of you to step in like you did.

Sure was. I owe you, son.

It just seemed like the thing to do at the time.

Well, I'll put this out on the wire

-in case anyone spots him. -Well, thank you.

And don't forget about that scar on his face,

right along here. Just like that.

Yes, sir.

All right, sir. These are for pain.

Thank you.

Mr. Good, you were real lucky, but I still recommend

you go to the hospital, let them look at your arm.

I ain't going to no hospital for this little scratch.

George!

There she is. There's my Russian beauty.

-You're hurt. -No.

I'm fine, baby. I'm fine.

Look, see here? Just a scratch. Just a scratch.

Did they find the man who attacked you?

No. No. Not yet. Not yet.

Sonny. Sonny. Sonny, stay right there.

Larissa, this here is Sonny Jordan.

He's the one that helped me with that son of a bitch that tried to rob me.

Sonny, this is my wife, Larissa.

Nice to meet you. Thank you for helping my husband, Mr. Jordan.

I just happened to be there, Mrs. Good.

Mr. Good, some forms to fill out.

I can do that for him.

-She's somethin', ain't she? -Yes, sir.

So what are you up to, Sonny?

Nothing special.

I've been trying to look for a job.

What kind of a job?

Right now, I'll take just about anything.

Huh. I'll tell you what,

why don't you ride along with Larissa and me

back to our place

and we can talk about that and get you a good meal

under your belt while we're at it?

That's the least I could do, son. Right, Larissa?

Right.

Is this all you have, Mr. Jordan?

This is it.

Please, call me Sonny.

Okay, Sonny.

Truck's right there. Let's go.

- - Boy, gotta tell you, that was excellent.

-Thank you. - You're welcome.

-Now, Sonny? -Yeah.

I want you to look me in the eye.

-Thank you. -And I want you to tell me,

are you really as good a mechanic as you say you are?

George, I can fix anything on wheels.

Anything.

And here I am with my mechanic quitting last week

and this arm needin' to heal up.

It's providence.

So why don't you just stay on, help me out,

and make yourself a little money, too?

Really?

I got a room right over the shop with a bed,

running water, john, shower downstairs.

I even got a TV you could use.

Hell, I got everything a man could want right here.

Yeah, I see that.

I just don't like strangers in the house.

Darlin', I owe him.

And besides, I can't work with my arm like it is.

You don't know anything about him, George, except that he's homeless.

There were times that I had empty pockets, and so did you.

I just wanna give the man a chance.

All right then.

Good. Now, I want you to come over here

and kiss me where it hurts.

- - Oh.

He might hear us.

He's not gonna hear us.

- This is it. - Huh.

Now, I warn you, the tools are old,

but they still do the job.

Back then, they used to make them to last forever.

Yeah.

Not like that computer shit over here I had to buy.

Used to be didn't need no computer to fix an engine.

Man could tell what was wrong by the sound of it.

-Is this you? - Yeah.

Yeah. That was ages ago.

Used to work on race cars.

-Good times, man. -Very cool, man. Very cool.

Good times.

So, where should I get started?

Well, I got a brake job on a John Deere

coming in around nine.

What do you got under there?

Oh, that's just something I work on

when I got nothin' better to do.

-Ain't had the time lately. -Whoa, nice.

Needs a new carburetor, but I can't find one.

What are you gonna do with it when you're finished?

-You gonna sell it? -No.

I'm gonna give it to Larissa for a present.

Huh.

Twenty percent off, just for you, Ronny.

-Here we go. -Thank you, Mrs. Good.

You know I'll be back.

-You have a good day. -Thank you. You, too.

-Say hi to Rose. -You betcha, I will.

Boy knows his way around machinery.

-Does he? -He does.

Watched him real close. Even knows that computer shit.

- -Good hands.

Larissa, have you seen my keys?

Mr. Jordan.

Yes, Mrs. Good?

There is something I have to say to you.

-Okay. -If you want to stay here,

you have to stop doing what you've been doing.

What I've been doing?

You have to stop looking at me the way you do.

And how have I been looking at you?

You know how.

Why'd you marry that old man? Hmm?

Woman who, uh, looks like you.

Don't talk about my husband that way.

He likes you. I thought you liked him, too.

I do. I do.

But I like you better.

Should I call him and tell him how you talk to me when he's not around?

How about I call him, tell him face to face, man to man?

Hmm? And you know what he'd probably do, right?

He'd probably, uh, send me down the road.

But is that what you really want?

Do you want me to be sent down the road?

-I thought you needed this job. -I've had lots of jobs.

Lots of women, too, I bet.

Well, just stop it.

You know what? It just occurred to me.

Huh. It seems to me that in order for me

to be looking at you the way you say I look at you,

well, you'd have to be looking at me, too, right?

So I went looking for go-karts, you know,

thinking, you know, that I was gonna find something