Through Black Spruce

Where is she?

I'm gonna shoot you in the head, boy.

Tell me where Suzanne is

and I'll only shoot out one of your eyes.

Stop fucking around, Marius.

Maybe you would like it if I went back inside

and finished her off first, Will.

Is that what you'd like?

Five seconds.

One,

two,

three,

four...

Okay.

We're done here.

Uncle?

Can you hear me?

It's Annie.

I need you to know what happened.

It's okay.

It's like always.

Breathe in,

stop your heart.

Let go.

So do I pass?

Not bad, not bad.

Well, nothing wrong with the scope, Uncle.

For a gun from this century.

Anyone can shoot one of those.

I wanted you to use a real gun.

A moshum's gun. All right.

Just like those traps of yours

from the museum or something.

Pile of rust.

Hey, nothing wrong with my traps.

Collector's items.

They got some on sale at the store this week.

Eh, my girl, nothing wrong with my traps.

Eva's here.

Hey, guys!

Hey, Eva.

I just came to say

that somebody better get her bags packed.

Hey? Your, like, totally amazing,

best friend ever,

just won at Bingo!

I just bought us a trip to Toronto!

We leave tomorrow.

What's that look?

I can't go to Toronto.

It's my treat, dummy. It's on me!

I told your mom we could go see your lawyer.

What for?

So he can tell us how he calls the cops every week?

Tells us that on the phone.

Sometimes it's good to make a man look you in the eyes.

Thought you'd be excited.

I am, for you.

You're saying you're not going to go?

Gotta get this moose out of the truck.

Take your sister, okay?

You guys'll have a great time.

Annie.

Well, what the hell am I gonna find out?

Eva was just trying to help.

Your mother wants to go down.

When did she say that?

Last week.

As if.

She couldn't even get off the train.

I'm gonna take her.

You're not even funny, Will.

What, you think I can't figure it out?

We'll go see that lawyer.

Then we'll go shopping.

I'll take her up that CN Tower.

You can stop now.

Oh, and that new aquarium,

'cause it's right next door to the CN Tower.

Saw it on TV, they got this...

"Dangerous Lagoon" thing.

Fucking Suzanne.

Don't talk about her like that.

And maybe I can get me

another one of these.

Mmm. A baseball cap.

It says "Toronto" on it.

Joe's sister gave it to me.

Can't find this craftsmanship just anywhere.

Mmm.

You know what? I don't want her to go.

I... I... I just think it's a bad idea.

No one's forcing her to go, Lisette.

Look, someone's gotta go.

Besides, she wants to go.

What if Annie doesn't come home?

Hey, hey, come here.

It's okay.

Fuck, Will, just fucking do it.

She's blind and she's old.

She's no trouble.

You want to play with bears, you dumb fuck,

go do it someplace else!

My kid and my house are 10 minutes from here.

I'm telling you,

she's no trouble...

What the fuck, man?

I came here to have a chat

and you get all fucking Grizzly Adams on me.

So where's Suzanne?

We don't know. You don't know?

Annie fucks off to Toronto 'cause you don't know.

Eva won at Bingo, she took her on a vacation.

Why the fuck do I have to keep repeating myself?

We both want the same thing.

We find Suzanne, we find Gus.

We find Gus, we find Suzanne.

Right?

Right?

It's only a vacation, they'll be back in a week.

Okay, Will...

We'll chat when she gets back, eh?

But you keep snitchin' to the cops,

I'll fucking kill you.

I didn't.

You fuck.

Ah!

There you go, sister.

Moose stew.

Yeah.

Here we are at our hotel.

We're here in Toronto!

Aren't you so excited?

Yeah.

Big city girls, now.

Oh, look at this big room!

This is it. This is it.

We gotta send this to your mom, okay?

Hey, Mom. Hi, Mom.

I mean, hi, Lisette.

Hi, Uncle Will.

This is so cool, Annie.

Oh, my God! Yeah.

- New haircut? Yes? Like, yeah? - Yes.

You're just like Marilyn, yeah.

I ain't a nurse no more. Not tonight.

I'm Marilyn Monroe.

No scrubs here.

Okay. You go do Marilyn.

- I'm not going... - No.

Okay. But... Good try.

I...

And this is the last address

Annie had for Gus and Suzanne.

And I think that's the landlady.

Just stop that, okay.

- Stop. - Stop it.

So what did she say? Anything?

Yeah. She said she thought Gus was an asshole.

Wow! Like, breaking news.

I know, right. God.

It was just like it was back home before she left.

And I'm running around looking for Suzanne.

Annie. Ugh!

Why does she keep doing this to my mother? I know!

I know she can be a pain in the ass. I was there.

Ugh, she makes me sick.

Now let's go get that mani-pedi.

Why does she live in this neighborhood? Yeah.

It's so far from downtown if you're gonna live in Toronto.

Gotta take the subway everywhere... Suzanne, Suzanne...

Eh?

Yay, that's her sister, eh?

Yeah.

How is she?

I don't know. I haven't seen her in a while.

Yeah, us too.

Uh... A year, maybe.

Well, how was she then?

She was doing, uh, the mod... Modeling.

Gave Martha here some clothes...

Hey, you and your friend,

you should come to our feast tomorrow night.

It's under the gardener dump by the Don river.

Can't. We're leaving in the morning.

Oh, that's too bad.

We could... We could use some more girls around the fire.

We're gonna go.

We have an appointment. Annie!

Eh, hogwash.

Just tell me

what it is you're gonna do.

I'm gonna check some things out.

I thought "we" did that.

The rainy season begins...

He said they haven't seen her in, like, a year.

You told me you only brought 200 bucks with you.

How long you figure that's gonna last?

So when the money runs out I'll come home.

Annie, that's just stupid.