No Telling

- Are you all right? - Yeah, yeah.

What was that?

- It was nothing... A deer. - Did we hit it?

- You okay? - Yeah, yeah, I was dreaming.

- Are we here? - Welcome to the country.

Ta-da!

Wow!

Oh...

We could start a whole brood in a place like this.

- One at a time, doc. - Mmm.

- Where do you want this one? - Uh, that's for the lab.

Hey...

Here.

Wow! You fixed it?

Yeah, it was just the shutter spring.

God, I'd given up on this old thing.

Thanks, doc.

Hey, when did you get a Polaroid?

Hey, that's lab property, Lil.

Oh-ho...

Oh, my God.

- Does the timer work? - I don't know.

Okay, we've got three seconds to smile, quick!

Today with seasonal temperatures we should

reach our normal high of 82 by this afternoon.

Clear skies tonight, low near 70,

increasing cloudiness tomorrow...

All right, 10, 11, 11, what am I gonna get, 12, 12,

what am I gonna get, 12, what am I gonna get, 12,

Sold out, 11 dollars.

Number 717.

Okay, and here we have a box of shoes...

I've got six, you want to go seven.

Seven dollars, what am I gonna get?

Seven!

Sold out, six dollar bills to the gentleman over there

in the red shirt.

All right, and now we got a box of nails and an old hammer...

All right, and we have box 821,

and what are we gonna get for, this one, how much?

10 dollar bill. Buying it all...

What do you get for not much? Another 821 box,

and a nice old set of forceps in there, mole traps,

some steel traps down in there.

Hey! You got some syringes.

And here's some other syringes and stuff: Veterinary tools.

And there's a real goody there.

All right, what am I gonna get, box and contents?

Five dollar, you want to go six dollar,

You want to go seven dollar, you want to go seven.

You want to bet eight, eight, you want to bet eight?

All right, now eight dollar...

15 now, I want to get 17 and a half...

Sold, 20 dollar bill back there, number 54.

You snooze, you lose, lady. Gotta get in there.

- Hey, you owe me 20 bucks. - Oh, so you're the one.

You gotta forgive ol' Walter.

When a stranger bids high he gets kind of nervous.

You could be a dealer.

He doesn't like an atmosphere of greed at his auctions.

I promise you, I'm not a dealer.

Well, exactly who are you, then?

I'm Lillian Gaines, soon-to-be famous painter,

and this is my husband Geoffrey, the brilliant scientist.

Alex Vine.

Well, I owe you $20, Alex Vine.

No, that's okay, I'll write it off.

I'll write it off, thanks.

K H?

Geoff Gaines.

It's not that bad, there's some great stuff here!

Maybe I should become a dealer.

Hey, remember we're on a tight budget this summer.

- Oh, look, isn't this great? - Just what we need.

- Hey, honey, check this out. - Mm-hmm?

Fire this up and have some breakfast.

Oh, here's something for you, Einstein, catch!

Oh! Oh, God... I'm sorry.

- Alex Vine, right? - Lillian Gaines.

Nice to see you again.

Getting to know some of the locals?

Yeah, I've never seen a dead cow before.

Yeah, that's one of Chuck Boyd's cows.

Your neighbor.

His daughter, Frances, always chooses favorites.

She puts these little bells around their neck so they won't get lost.

Oh, here, you should give this back to her.

No, you can keep it.

Seems sort of eerie lying like that all alone out here.

Yeah, you see, the pesticides Boyd's been using on his crops.

Have gotten into the ground water under here.

It's raised the nitrate level in some of this vegetation.

It shouldn't have been out here, right?

She must have slipped out of the pen.

Boyd's got his whole herd fenced in at the farm,

losing money paying for feed.

Is he going out of business?

He's trying to go organic but it takes time for the chemicals

to flush out and besides the problems in this field could

be from the next farm over, Cartwrighfs farm.

Yeah, well, there's always the problem of the neighbors.

No matter where you live.

I had this idea for a painting. I'm going to use these shots.

Do you know where I can get them developed fast?

Philip, my assistant, can get them done at the university pretty fast.

Here, is the roll finished?

Ahh, there are a few left.

Oh, God, please.

Simon, they can pull the money out of R&D.

Or Bernard's cat studies,

he's been doing sleep experiments for seven years.

I don't think he remembers what he's trying to figure out.

Look, when I break this we'll get the patent, all right?

Maybe the Nobel.

Well, tell Fex Pharmaceutical that they'll get their Pentagon

contract and they're gonna look

like real philanthropists in the press.

I ran into Alex Vine today.

Alex Vine?

Alex Vine, the guy from the auction.

I met him out in the fields today.

He's doing something with the farmers out here.

Right.

You know, I got really inspired today,

just walking around with the camera.

I took some shots of this dead cow.

Yeah? Where?

Right out in the fields, our own backyard.

It was very surreal.

What do you call this piece, Lil?

Um...

Conversation Piece? For when we have people over?

Yeah, you're gonna scare everybody away with this stuff

hanging in your dining room.

I think it's really provocative.

I don't think people around here really want to be provoked.

They seem pretty wary of outsiders.

They seem wary of Carson Road Farm, that's what it is.

Yeah, they probably just stick to themselves, mostly.

Geoffrey...

Alex Vine seems very friendly.

Yeah, well, he's not from around here.

He's swooping in to do some research.

"“The Great American Corn Project" or something.

Anyway, I don't know what kind of time

I'm going be having to entertain.

I know, you've got a schedule to keep.

- Been out to your studio yet? - Nope.

I have to get the key from you.

Well, come on, let's go have a look.

Oh, it's going to be little hard to judge the light.

Come on.

Look, all my stuffs ready to go.

Here.

You know, Mom would love this.

I mean, she'd never let up about grandkids

if we had a place like this.

Yeah, they could stay in the barn. We'd never have to see 'em.

Yeah, we could put Mom out there too.

Look, if I have any luck in the lab this summer,

we will have a place like this sometime.

And my mother can read about what you do in Time magazine.

Your mother doesn't read Time magazine.

- Well, okay, People magazine. - How about The Enquirer?

Don't be mean!

Then maybe you can tell your mother what I really do.

Oh, no, it's easier to let her think what

she wants to think.

Oh, God...

No lights.

SPOOKY...

Whoa, whoa!

Wait, wait, wait...

Carson Road Farm?

So your husband's in the military, then?

Oh, no. I mean...

He's a researcher and we...

Well, he's just using their facility.

Oh, there's no need to explain.

I mean, what your husband does exactly is not important.

It's just important to have one.

How's that for an old-fashioned idea?

Well...

Well, listen, your concern about infertility,

Is that something that you've discussed with

your doctor in the city?

Yeah, um, we've been trying, my husband and I,

and I've been off the pill for the last eight months,

and I've just read some things...

Mm-hmm. Well, you know, when you stop taking an oral

contraceptive it takes the body several months to re-adjust.

But at your age I wouldn't worry about it.

I understand, I...

I think I'm just a little anxious.

Interesting decor, Mrs. Gaines.

I'm glad you like it.

Those items were very pricey.

- You know what this is for? - Um... elephant junkies?

Get cows pregnant.

How romantic.