End of the Line

Good morning.

- - Man: I raise my hand...

Who else has raised his or her hand?

[ train chugging, whistle blowing ]

[ muted dialogue continues ]

[ crossing signal dinging ]

[ man grunting, calling out ]

Get up, man! You're a fool.

Hey, hey! What happened?

You pretty near bought the farm, you drunken old son of a bitch!

Ha! The hell I did. Ha ha ha!

You lay around on them railroad tracks

and you'll have no legs, by golly!

Well, at least I would have a matched set!

Ha ha ha!

Hey, Haney. Whatcha say?

Hot enough for you?

Yo, Haney. How you doin'?

Hey, Leo. You're not going to eat?

I'm practicing.

Here.

Give me this. I'll catch a few.

I just about got my nut for today.

Well, don't throw your arm out.

All right, right down the pike.

Rose made me damned deviled egg sandwiches again.

Tell her you didn't like 'em?

She's kind of sensitive. You know that.

Ha ha. Well, we're just talking

about a sandwich here, for Christ's sake.

Tell her you don't like 'em. Tell her to make you what you want.

You been married to her a year. You ought to be able to get away with that.

I'm thinking about making my own--

peanut butter and jelly.

They're good for you, easy to make.

You better rub some of that on your elbow.

It'll keep you loose.

Chester, you think you got enough chicken there?

Want to play cards tonight?

Yes, sir.

Jeannie taking them salmon patties out of the freezer just like clockwork.

She sure knows how to cook 'em, don't she?

Makes 'em taste just like fish.

Now, boys,

don't any of you take last night's game as a bad sign.

Your luck's gonna turn around real soon.

Who we got tonight, Alvin?

We got the Dodgers by three.

Right, the house has the Dodgers, fellas.

But St. Louis has got a good pitcher on the mound.

Damn, I think I'd bet on him myself.

How come we don't have St. Louis, Alvin?

Well, that's 'cause we want to give everybody a chance

to win their money back.

Aw, that sure is a Christian attitude.

Won't you help us, Haney?

You'd better get that away from me, Alvin.

Ho ho!

Okay, boys, come on! Who wants St. Louis?

- They're looking good! - You don't think much of your money,

do you, Leo?

They got that Dominican kid going tonight.

Well, hell, that ought to interest you, Gonzalez.

Yes, sir!

Hell, Gonzalez is from Mexico.

He ain't no Dominican.

Leo, I remember when all you done in here

was eat your goddamn lunch!

- How about St. Louis? - Better get out of my way, son!

My man!

- Alvin: Come on, fellas! - Okay, Spoon, what're we talking here?

Haney, you ain't going to let 'em get to you, are you?

Piss on him!

I hate that dirty lowlife son of a butt, Leo.

I don't want him around me. He upsets my bowels.

Yeah, I know what you mean.

Rose's bowels was upset all last night.

Had the Hershey squirts.

Well, tell her to eat plenty of Bran Flakes.

Maybe a little jack cheese.

There you go.

Leo: I don't mean to meddle with your business.

I never seen you drink three bottles of beer before,

long as I known you.

You ain't been listening to all this B.S. we've heard

about the Southland turning into an air freight company, are you?

They can't shut this line down.

Hell, I got payments to make on the trailer and everything.

What little bit Rose does, that ain't enough

to contribute nothin' towards something like that.

They're not gonna shut it down, Leo.

They can't.

- Wanna go bird hunting this weekend? - I can't do it, partner.

I'm gonna take my grandchild fishing.

I bought some new lures last Saturday--

big old purple worms about like that.

Ain't had a chance to try 'em yet, of course.

It was too hot to fish up till now,

but it could be a nice trip.

- You might want to go? - If you're askin'.

Children: Grandpa! Grandpa!

Grandpa! Grandpa!

Get out of the car!

Haney: Hey, what's going on here?

- - Hold it, hold it.

- What's going on here? - All: Grandpa! Grandpa!

- Where are you taking me? -

Grandpa, look at him go! Look at him, Grandpa!

Well, here, looky here! There you go.

- Girl: Knock him off! Knock him off! - What's this?

Look out! What'd you do that for?

Hey, he can ride!

Grandpa, why don't you get on it?!

- Not me, sir. I don't-- - All: Yeah!

- No, no, no, no! - Yeah, yeah!

- No, no, no, how about you? - Man: Hey, Daddy.

How about a beer?

So the big rodeo came to town, huh?

Up in Little Rock. I got you and Mama tickets for Saturday.

Honey, you want some cheese?

I'll take some prunes if you got 'em.

I went to the store. Billy?

Prunes are fine.

There you go, sir.

Well now, big shot,

what are you gonna enter?

Daddy, this is what they call a permanent cast.

I can't rodeo.

So then why do you keep going?

All my friends rodeo. I love it.

I see.

Well, it's a good thing I didn't only do what I love, isn't it?

People around here might have starved right to death.

Don't you think it's time you came down to the yard

and see if you can't get on?

I heard in the papers where Southland's going air freight.

[ radio playing rock music ]

Where you been?

I had to buy gas.

Well, let's go inside.

I can't.

Man on TV: It's got a good dance beat.

And there's no drum machines or anything like that.

It's really us playing the music.

I know that's the kind of thing people want to hear.

So let me put this song on for you.

Leo: Mmm! Yes, ma'am!

I've been dreaming about salmon patties all day long.

You make 'em the best, baby. You really do.

Thank you, thank you.

- - Jeannie?

Bring the roll of paper towels in here to your grandma.

And shug, would you turn down that music?

That rock junk just rattles my brains.

Jean: Turn it off, honey.

- Oh, it's so good. - Thank you. Thank you, darlin'.

- Come here, baby. - Here, Rose.

- Thank you. - You're welcome.

I better shuffle these cards up.

Don't want to get grease everywhere.

You boys have a lot of catching up to do.

Haney: Sure, we do. Your partner's keeping score,

and she's not adding it up right.

You see, you girls don't have that many points.

- - Well, let me look at it.

You're cheating again, ain't ya?

Hell, Haney, she's cheating.

She's good at it too!

- I'm not cheating! - Of course not.

If you don't like the way I'm adding it up,

just do it your damn self.

Well now, let's don't get offensive about it.

Where you been?

I had to work late.

Jeannie, get your stuff.

And you, sir, what are you doing here?

Me and Charlotte are gonna get married again.

Is that a fact?

Well, I do hope you two have grown up a little bit this time.

Uh, well,

we were thinking about moving to Tulsa.

Everett knows a guy who works on the oil rigs.

They get paid a lot more than railroad.

Don't be dumb, son. Them oil rigs come and go.

I said we were thinking, that's all.

Charlotte: Look, I got you, um...