1 00:00:08,149 --> 00:00:14,847 (RADIO STATIC) (INDISTINCT CHATTER ON RADIO) 2 00:00:21,526 --> 00:00:23,658 MALE ANCHOR: (OVER RADIO) Good morning. It's 52 degrees 3 00:00:23,693 --> 00:00:26,023 at nine o'clock this Tuesday, June 23rd, 4 00:00:26,258 --> 00:00:27,629 and here is our top story. 5 00:00:29,094 --> 00:00:31,028 Tragedy in Knoxville. 6 00:00:31,597 --> 00:00:34,933 Two days ago, Sunday morning, June 21st, 7 00:00:35,302 --> 00:00:36,704 a lone gunman entered 8 00:00:36,739 --> 00:00:38,838 the Knoxville Baptist University campus 9 00:00:39,106 --> 00:00:40,246 with rifle in hand. 10 00:00:40,781 --> 00:00:42,875 There, he climbed the clock tower 11 00:00:42,910 --> 00:00:45,449 and began firing into the crowds below. 12 00:00:46,051 --> 00:00:49,552 Thirteen are reported dead, with 26 critically injured. 13 00:00:50,221 --> 00:00:52,126 President Reagan and the First Lady arrived 14 00:00:52,161 --> 00:00:53,688 in Knoxville this afternoon 15 00:00:53,723 --> 00:00:56,625 to console the grieving families of the fallen. 16 00:00:57,327 --> 00:00:59,496 Police have yet to release the identity of the shooter, 17 00:00:59,965 --> 00:01:01,597 but an anonymous source is reporting 18 00:01:01,632 --> 00:01:03,401 that the suspect in custody is 19 00:01:04,096 --> 00:01:05,667 a 17 year-old boy. 20 00:01:06,603 --> 00:01:08,769 We continue our coverage on the Knoxville killings 21 00:01:08,804 --> 00:01:10,276 with our very own Frank Hutchinson, 22 00:01:10,311 --> 00:01:11,772 who is live on the scene. 23 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:46,180 (KEYS JINGLE) 24 00:01:49,944 --> 00:01:54,419 (CAR DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES) (BIRD CHIRPING) 25 00:02:06,466 --> 00:02:11,062 (PAPER RUSTLES) 26 00:02:12,307 --> 00:02:15,374 (TELEPHONE DIAL TONE PLAYING) (COIN CLANKING) 27 00:02:15,909 --> 00:02:19,444 (TELEPHONE BUTTONS CLANKING) 28 00:02:20,007 --> 00:02:24,515 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 29 00:02:24,817 --> 00:02:26,319 (TELEPHONE SLAMS) (COIN CLANKING) 30 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:33,590 (SIGHS) 31 00:02:33,625 --> 00:02:38,023 (COINS CLANK) 32 00:02:38,825 --> 00:02:41,499 (COIN CLANKS) (TELEPHONE DIAL TONE PLAYING) 33 00:02:41,534 --> 00:02:43,699 (TELEPHONE BUTTONS CLANK) 34 00:02:43,734 --> 00:02:49,342 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 35 00:02:50,807 --> 00:02:52,939 (TELEPHONE BEEPS) (COINS CLINK) 36 00:02:52,974 --> 00:02:56,041 Uh, this is a message for William DuKent. 37 00:02:57,649 --> 00:02:59,143 Mr. DuKent. Um... 38 00:03:01,884 --> 00:03:03,224 This is Bruce Cogburn. 39 00:03:04,458 --> 00:03:05,886 I'm calling in response to the letters 40 00:03:05,921 --> 00:03:07,019 I've received from you. 41 00:03:08,187 --> 00:03:09,923 I'm not sure how you... you found me. 42 00:03:10,859 --> 00:03:14,400 Perhaps you... you got my PO box from an old agent or summit. 43 00:03:15,931 --> 00:03:18,338 If so, that information was never meant to be shared. 44 00:03:19,074 --> 00:03:23,475 Nevertheless, it seems from your letters, Mr. DuKent, 45 00:03:23,510 --> 00:03:24,740 you know quite a bit about me. 46 00:03:25,710 --> 00:03:26,940 So I can only assume 47 00:03:27,475 --> 00:03:29,514 you're aware of my sentiment when it comes to 48 00:03:29,549 --> 00:03:30,680 discussing my work. 49 00:03:30,982 --> 00:03:32,715 I don't do interviews. Never have. 50 00:03:33,751 --> 00:03:34,816 And I never will. 51 00:03:39,889 --> 00:03:40,987 Anyway, I... 52 00:03:41,923 --> 00:03:43,495 I want to wish you all the best with your book. 53 00:03:44,894 --> 00:03:47,598 The blank page can be a terrifying prospect at times, 54 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:49,127 so good luck. (TELEPHONE SLAMS) 55 00:03:51,967 --> 00:03:56,068 (INSECTS CHIRPING) 56 00:03:56,103 --> 00:03:57,608 (LIGHTER CLICKS) 57 00:04:06,014 --> 00:04:12,117 (TRUCK ENGINE REVS) 58 00:04:29,708 --> 00:04:34,480 (JEEP ENGINE REVS) 59 00:04:37,815 --> 00:04:41,355 (NEWTON'S CRADLE CLICKING) 60 00:06:33,392 --> 00:06:35,931 (KEY CLICKING) (PO BOX CREAKING) 61 00:06:41,433 --> 00:06:42,575 (PO BOX SLAMS) 62 00:06:43,611 --> 00:06:45,006 (CAR HONKING) 63 00:07:01,827 --> 00:07:04,795 (TELEPHONE RINGING, BEEPING) 64 00:07:04,830 --> 00:07:06,093 Mr. DuKent, 65 00:07:06,128 --> 00:07:07,963 this is Bruce Cogburn calling you again. 66 00:07:08,498 --> 00:07:09,998 Every time I make one of these calls, 67 00:07:10,033 --> 00:07:12,165 I have to travel 14 miles to the nearest phone booth. 68 00:07:12,433 --> 00:07:14,838 Now, I feel I've been nothing but courteous 69 00:07:14,873 --> 00:07:15,905 when it comes to your book 70 00:07:16,274 --> 00:07:17,511 and how I have no interest in helping you with it. 71 00:07:18,013 --> 00:07:19,843 But it seems I'm not making myself clear. 72 00:07:20,111 --> 00:07:21,339 So, piss off. 73 00:07:21,674 --> 00:07:24,408 Your letters are unsolicited and constitute harassment, 74 00:07:24,443 --> 00:07:25,981 so please, stop sending them. 75 00:07:26,016 --> 00:07:28,148 In the meantime, I'm going to get rid of my PO box 76 00:07:28,183 --> 00:07:29,380 so you can save yourself the bother. 77 00:07:31,351 --> 00:07:32,449 And one more thing. 78 00:07:33,318 --> 00:07:36,662 You keep asking me, why I never wrote a second book. 79 00:07:37,423 --> 00:07:40,666 21st June. 1981. Knoxville. 80 00:07:41,295 --> 00:07:42,360 But you know that. 81 00:07:43,869 --> 00:07:50,577 (INSECTS CHIRPING) (BIRD CHIRPING) 82 00:08:00,083 --> 00:08:03,623 (PHOENIX SHRIEKS) (PANTS) 83 00:08:14,999 --> 00:08:18,836 (PANTS) 84 00:08:25,537 --> 00:08:27,207 (LIGHTER CLICKS) 85 00:08:31,785 --> 00:08:32,883 (LIGHTER CLICKS) 86 00:08:38,022 --> 00:08:44,488 (LETTERS RUSTLE, SLAM) 87 00:08:44,523 --> 00:08:46,391 (GLASS CLATTERING) 88 00:08:50,265 --> 00:08:55,972 (CABINET CLANKS) 89 00:08:57,437 --> 00:08:59,371 (CABINET CLANKS) 90 00:09:02,112 --> 00:09:03,342 (CABINET CLANKS) 91 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:08,545 (GLASS CLANKS) 92 00:09:12,793 --> 00:09:14,694 (CABINET CLANKING) BRUCE: Fuck. 93 00:09:16,390 --> 00:09:18,632 (CABINET CLANKS) 94 00:09:23,870 --> 00:09:26,134 (PANTS) 95 00:09:42,889 --> 00:09:44,383 (DOOR CREAKING) 96 00:09:46,893 --> 00:09:48,629 (DOOR CREAKS, SHUTS) 97 00:10:00,808 --> 00:10:02,566 (insect chirping intensifies) 98 00:10:10,147 --> 00:10:14,721 (CAR ENGINE REVS) 99 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:52,451 (TELEPHONE BEEPING) 100 00:10:53,685 --> 00:10:54,827 BRUCE: (OVER RECORDING) A few days ago, 101 00:10:55,062 --> 00:10:56,653 I received a package on my doorstep. 102 00:10:58,063 --> 00:10:59,623 It was a box of ink ribbons 103 00:10:59,658 --> 00:11:01,196 for a very specific typewriter. 104 00:11:02,133 --> 00:11:03,836 The one I used when I wrote my book. 105 00:11:04,238 --> 00:11:06,036 I should tell you that some of the things 106 00:11:06,071 --> 00:11:07,466 that have been said about me are true. 107 00:11:07,501 --> 00:11:09,171 (GUNSHOT) (GLASS SHATTERS) 108 00:11:09,907 --> 00:11:11,371 BRUCE: (OVER RECORDING) For instance, if I find anyone 109 00:11:11,406 --> 00:11:12,878 trespassing on my land... 110 00:11:12,913 --> 00:11:14,176 (GUNSHOT) (GLASS SHATTERS) 111 00:11:14,511 --> 00:11:16,013 BRUCE: (OVER RECORDING) that person will be shot on sight. 112 00:11:17,016 --> 00:11:19,709 That's not a threat. That's just a fact. 113 00:11:19,744 --> 00:11:20,853 (GUNSHOT) (GLASS SHATTERS) 114 00:11:21,422 --> 00:11:24,054 So, stay away from me and my home 115 00:11:24,389 --> 00:11:26,925 and do not test the sincerity of my resolve. 116 00:11:28,192 --> 00:11:29,224 God bless America. 117 00:11:37,267 --> 00:11:39,971 (GUITAR PLAYING) 118 00:11:40,006 --> 00:11:41,302 STORE OWNER: Hello. How are you? 119 00:11:42,204 --> 00:11:44,745 I'll take two of those small bottles as well, thanks. 120 00:11:46,309 --> 00:11:47,407 Yeah. 121 00:11:51,545 --> 00:11:54,117 (HARMONICA MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO) 122 00:12:00,752 --> 00:12:02,686 (RADIO FREQUENCY STATIC) 123 00:12:07,902 --> 00:12:11,497 GERMAN FEMALE: (OVER RADIO) Zwei, funf, sechs, 124 00:12:12,071 --> 00:12:15,908 sechs, zwei, neun. 125 00:12:18,473 --> 00:12:23,278 Eins, eins, funf, eins. 126 00:12:23,647 --> 00:12:28,547 (RADIO FREQUENCY STATIC) (HARMONICA MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO) 127 00:13:00,482 --> 00:13:06,420 (CAR REVS) 128 00:13:32,514 --> 00:13:36,351 (CAR REVS) (MEN CHEER) 129 00:13:37,090 --> 00:13:39,992 (CAR SCREECHING) 130 00:13:40,728 --> 00:13:43,754 (HARMONICA MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO) (PANTS) 131 00:13:51,137 --> 00:13:56,877 (DOGS BARKING) 132 00:14:23,697 --> 00:14:24,762 Saul. 133 00:14:26,568 --> 00:14:28,040 According to the Hebrew Bible, 134 00:14:28,275 --> 00:14:29,734 Saul was the first king of Israel. 135 00:14:30,770 --> 00:14:31,912 I bet you didn't know that. 136 00:14:37,744 --> 00:14:40,250 And then during the battle with the Philistines, 137 00:14:40,285 --> 00:14:42,483 King Saul threw himself on his own sword 138 00:14:42,518 --> 00:14:43,517 to avoid being captured. 139 00:14:49,129 --> 00:14:50,656 Hell of a way to go, if you ask me. 140 00:15:00,239 --> 00:15:03,372 (BIRDS CHIRPING) 141 00:15:06,575 --> 00:15:07,772 (SAUL BARKING) 142 00:15:09,842 --> 00:15:11,017 (SAUL WHINING) 143 00:15:13,054 --> 00:15:15,021 (SAUL BARKING) 144 00:15:19,522 --> 00:15:23,227 (CAR REVVING) (SAUL BARKING) 145 00:15:34,273 --> 00:15:35,569 (CAR HORN BEEPS) 146 00:15:36,968 --> 00:15:40,409 (SAUL GROWLS, BARKS) 147 00:15:42,941 --> 00:15:44,644 Saul. Saul! 148 00:15:50,916 --> 00:15:51,948 (CAR DOOR OPENS) 149 00:15:55,459 --> 00:15:56,755 (CAR DOOR SHUTS) 150 00:15:57,725 --> 00:15:58,823 Are you Bruce Cogburn? 151 00:16:01,102 --> 00:16:03,201 Maybe. Who's that letter from? 152 00:16:05,172 --> 00:16:07,205 Uh... William DuKent. 153 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:10,637 (SIGHS) 154 00:16:13,246 --> 00:16:14,311 What if I don't want it? 155 00:16:16,381 --> 00:16:20,548 You could stop by the office, fill out a few forms? 156 00:16:21,217 --> 00:16:22,649 But I don't have any on me, so... 157 00:16:22,684 --> 00:16:23,683 Will you put it in that barrel? 158 00:16:27,260 --> 00:16:28,325 You can put them all in there. 159 00:16:30,230 --> 00:16:31,262 All of them? 160 00:16:31,858 --> 00:16:32,857 There'll be more. 161 00:16:36,599 --> 00:16:38,665 (CAR DOOR OPENING, SHUTTING) 162 00:16:38,967 --> 00:16:41,173 JERRY: Bruce? Is that you? Jerry? 163 00:16:41,208 --> 00:16:44,000 JERRY: (LAUGHING) How long has it been? 164 00:16:44,035 --> 00:16:45,309 Listen, who have you been talking to? 165 00:16:45,611 --> 00:16:46,937 JERRY: (SCOFFING) Sorry? 166 00:16:47,339 --> 00:16:48,642 Who else knows where I live? 167 00:16:48,910 --> 00:16:50,842 JERRY: (SPLUTTERS) What are you talking about? 168 00:16:50,877 --> 00:16:52,514 Your accountant, your secretary. 169 00:16:52,983 --> 00:16:54,714 JERRY: Bruce, I'm the only one 170 00:16:54,749 --> 00:16:56,947 who knows anything about you, okay? 171 00:16:57,249 --> 00:16:58,520 Like we agreed. 172 00:17:00,227 --> 00:17:01,292 Is everything all right? 173 00:17:01,855 --> 00:17:02,920 Yeah. 174 00:17:04,055 --> 00:17:06,231 Bloody dandy. JERRY: Okay, good. 175 00:17:06,533 --> 00:17:07,727 Now, I know what you're going to say, 176 00:17:07,762 --> 00:17:09,135 but just hear me out. 177 00:17:09,971 --> 00:17:11,962 The publishers want to do a re-release. 178 00:17:12,531 --> 00:17:14,305 A special anniversary edition. 179 00:17:14,774 --> 00:17:16,868 And they're wondering if you would write a foreword. 180 00:17:17,136 --> 00:17:18,441 Just a few words. 181 00:17:18,810 --> 00:17:21,378 Enough to remind the world that you still exist. 182 00:17:21,713 --> 00:17:23,941 How many words? For the book. How many do you need? 183 00:17:24,476 --> 00:17:25,910 JERRY: Enough to fill a few pages. 184 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:28,814 I'll think about it. (TELEPHONE SLAMS) 185 00:17:36,494 --> 00:17:39,297 (CAR ENGINE REVVING) 186 00:17:52,477 --> 00:17:53,971 (CAR HORN BLARING) (CAR REVS) 187 00:17:59,814 --> 00:18:01,121 (SIGHS) 188 00:18:11,826 --> 00:18:17,203 (CAR REVVING) 189 00:18:18,668 --> 00:18:21,504 (CAR HORN BLARING) (SIGHS) 190 00:18:50,733 --> 00:18:53,129 (STAMPING) 191 00:19:08,619 --> 00:19:11,686 (TELEPHONE BEEPS) 192 00:19:12,221 --> 00:19:13,259 BRUCE: (RECORDING) You might be 193 00:19:14,161 --> 00:19:16,460 the most persistent fucking person 194 00:19:16,495 --> 00:19:17,824 I've never even met. 195 00:19:20,092 --> 00:19:22,301 Ninety handwritten letters 196 00:19:23,337 --> 00:19:26,129 in this day and age is no small task. 197 00:19:27,033 --> 00:19:29,374 However, it has to stop. 198 00:19:30,542 --> 00:19:32,036 BRUCE: I was someone important once. 199 00:19:32,471 --> 00:19:34,874 But that seems to tell a lot of people 200 00:19:35,142 --> 00:19:36,876 that I am supposed to represent 201 00:19:36,911 --> 00:19:38,548 whatever their particular fantasy 202 00:19:38,583 --> 00:19:40,044 of a hero is supposed to be. 203 00:19:40,379 --> 00:19:41,650 But, Mr. DuKent? 204 00:19:45,524 --> 00:19:46,853 My opinions... 205 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:50,989 are my own. Okay? 206 00:19:51,024 --> 00:19:54,399 So, I suggest you go out into the world... 207 00:19:57,228 --> 00:20:03,067 and you discover for yourself and you trust your own senses 208 00:20:03,369 --> 00:20:06,378 'cause I'm not here to be someone's fucking inspiration. 209 00:20:08,448 --> 00:20:09,876 Someone's fucking muse. 210 00:20:09,911 --> 00:20:11,042 (TELEPHONE BEEPING) 211 00:20:13,750 --> 00:20:15,178 (TELEPHONE BEEPING) 212 00:20:17,017 --> 00:20:18,082 Fuck. 213 00:20:19,789 --> 00:20:21,426 (COIN CLANKS) 214 00:20:21,461 --> 00:20:25,727 (BUTTONS CLICKING) 215 00:20:26,262 --> 00:20:27,795 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 216 00:20:30,096 --> 00:20:31,700 (TELEPHONE BEEPING) 217 00:20:31,735 --> 00:20:33,438 What do you suppose... 218 00:20:34,738 --> 00:20:35,836 might be the... 219 00:20:38,544 --> 00:20:41,578 the outstanding characteristic of humanity? 220 00:20:42,009 --> 00:20:44,042 A, language? 221 00:20:44,649 --> 00:20:46,715 B, tool-making? 222 00:20:47,245 --> 00:20:49,586 Or C, obedience? 223 00:20:51,084 --> 00:20:53,722 'Cause I think it might be obedience. 224 00:20:53,757 --> 00:20:56,252 We're a fucking social animal, don't you agree? 225 00:20:56,287 --> 00:20:58,122 We've evolved to get on with each other. 226 00:20:58,157 --> 00:21:00,333 To agree with each other, for the most part. 227 00:21:00,368 --> 00:21:02,962 However, we're the only fucking creature 228 00:21:02,997 --> 00:21:04,634 who displays arrogance 229 00:21:04,669 --> 00:21:07,769 when it comes to our obedience. 230 00:21:08,004 --> 00:21:09,639 Don't you agree? Don't you agree? 231 00:21:09,674 --> 00:21:11,905 (COIN CLANKS) (TELEPHONE BEEPING) 232 00:21:11,940 --> 00:21:14,743 Here's one for you. To agree with the flat-Earthers. 233 00:21:14,778 --> 00:21:16,107 The Flat Earth Society. 234 00:21:16,342 --> 00:21:20,485 Straight off the top of my head. Evidence might point to the fact 235 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:21,981 of a spherical Earth. 236 00:21:22,016 --> 00:21:24,489 But.... but, that doesn't fucking mean 237 00:21:24,524 --> 00:21:26,216 the Earth is round. Right? 238 00:21:26,484 --> 00:21:28,922 I mean if you think about it, most people 239 00:21:28,957 --> 00:21:32,827 have only ever seen the Earth round in a photograph. 240 00:21:32,862 --> 00:21:34,730 Okay? You, me, 241 00:21:34,765 --> 00:21:38,833 experiences our Earth every day as flat. 242 00:21:38,868 --> 00:21:39,966 Flat. Flat. 243 00:21:40,535 --> 00:21:42,265 Well, actually it's a bit hilly. 244 00:21:43,034 --> 00:21:45,774 So, maybe I need to stand for the Hilly Earth Society. 245 00:21:48,482 --> 00:21:50,306 I don't think those flat-Earthers 246 00:21:50,341 --> 00:21:52,550 have taken it far enough if you ask me. 247 00:21:52,585 --> 00:21:59,348 (CHUCKLES) Clearly it's flat and round and hilly 248 00:21:59,383 --> 00:22:01,152 and all the other shapes as well. 249 00:22:09,998 --> 00:22:11,635 (COIN CLANKS) (TELEPHONE BEEPING) 250 00:22:11,670 --> 00:22:12,867 This is Bruce Cogburn 251 00:22:12,902 --> 00:22:14,836 calling again about the last call. 252 00:22:15,641 --> 00:22:17,201 You need to stop writing... 253 00:22:17,436 --> 00:22:19,379 You need to stop writing to me, okay? 254 00:22:22,406 --> 00:22:23,713 (BRUCE THUDDING) 255 00:22:27,345 --> 00:22:31,424 (TELEPHONE BEEPING) 256 00:22:37,355 --> 00:22:38,464 (CAR DOOR OPENS) 257 00:22:41,634 --> 00:22:47,198 (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING) 258 00:22:47,904 --> 00:22:49,035 (SIGHS) 259 00:22:51,402 --> 00:22:52,445 LAURA: Morning. 260 00:22:54,713 --> 00:22:55,712 (SIGHS) 261 00:22:55,947 --> 00:22:58,209 ("DRINKING AGAIN" BY HALEY MCCALLUM PLAYING) 262 00:22:59,685 --> 00:23:04,457 ♪ My old friend, he don't Think or feel a thing ♪ 263 00:23:05,126 --> 00:23:07,955 ♪ He asks me To wear his ring... ♪ 264 00:23:08,891 --> 00:23:11,156 There's a few meetings in town I could point you towards, 265 00:23:11,191 --> 00:23:12,663 Mr. Cogburn, if you're interested. 266 00:23:16,702 --> 00:23:17,800 No? Okay. 267 00:23:19,364 --> 00:23:20,440 Okay. 268 00:23:26,943 --> 00:23:29,174 I don't have to bring you home, you do realize that? 269 00:23:29,209 --> 00:23:31,176 We can just as easy go down to the station 270 00:23:31,211 --> 00:23:32,309 and straighten this out. 271 00:23:33,246 --> 00:23:34,278 What would I be charged with? 272 00:23:34,313 --> 00:23:35,411 Public intoxication. 273 00:23:36,282 --> 00:23:37,556 I was in the telephone box. 274 00:23:37,591 --> 00:23:38,920 On public property you were. 275 00:23:42,827 --> 00:23:45,795 I've heard your name somewhere before, Mr. Cogburn. 276 00:23:47,733 --> 00:23:48,831 Are you famous? 277 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,296 You're that writer of The Infernal Machine. 278 00:23:52,731 --> 00:23:55,332 'Cause I remember in high school them pulling it off the shelves 279 00:23:55,634 --> 00:23:56,773 'cause of Knoxville. 280 00:23:57,609 --> 00:24:00,678 That's you, huh? Cogburn. (LAURA TAPS STEERING WHEEL) 281 00:24:00,713 --> 00:24:04,110 In my car. In my car. (CHUCKLES) 282 00:24:05,146 --> 00:24:06,178 That's cool. 283 00:24:08,479 --> 00:24:09,588 That's cool. 284 00:24:12,087 --> 00:24:13,526 Didn't Manson blame all his murders 285 00:24:13,561 --> 00:24:14,791 on the Rolling Stones? 286 00:24:14,826 --> 00:24:16,320 The Beatles. LAURA: What? 287 00:24:17,289 --> 00:24:19,158 It wasn't the Rolling Stones. It was the Beatles. 288 00:24:19,193 --> 00:24:20,929 LAURA: Right, right. "Helter Skelter." 289 00:24:20,964 --> 00:24:24,460 Fucking nutjob. That guy's a fucking nutjob. 290 00:24:24,762 --> 00:24:26,132 Crazy's always looking for an excuse 291 00:24:26,167 --> 00:24:27,331 to be crazy I guess, you know? 292 00:24:27,666 --> 00:24:31,940 If it's like a... a song, a talking dog, you know? 293 00:24:32,437 --> 00:24:33,513 A book. 294 00:24:34,780 --> 00:24:40,652 GERMAN WOMAN: (OVER RADIO) Funf, vier, eins, eins. 295 00:24:40,687 --> 00:24:43,919 Sechs, eins, zehn. 296 00:24:46,286 --> 00:24:51,289 Zwei, eins, eins, eins. 297 00:24:55,493 --> 00:24:56,734 LAURA: You like stock car racing? 298 00:24:58,166 --> 00:24:59,495 Not particularly, no. 299 00:24:59,530 --> 00:25:00,639 LAURA: Same, same. 300 00:25:00,874 --> 00:25:03,873 My brother? He's hardcore. 301 00:25:05,569 --> 00:25:07,976 Ten years back, he had a job cutting tires 302 00:25:08,011 --> 00:25:09,813 for a race team outside Carson City. 303 00:25:09,848 --> 00:25:11,540 You know? They called him the Dirt Whisperer 304 00:25:11,575 --> 00:25:12,981 'cause, you know, he could just look at a track 305 00:25:13,016 --> 00:25:14,719 and know exactly how to set those tires up. 306 00:25:16,019 --> 00:25:17,183 Last race of the season, you know, 307 00:25:17,218 --> 00:25:18,657 championship points on the line, 308 00:25:19,259 --> 00:25:20,692 the track is just beyond muddy. 309 00:25:21,394 --> 00:25:23,057 Cars are sliding all over the place, 310 00:25:23,092 --> 00:25:24,421 and my brother calls his 311 00:25:25,090 --> 00:25:26,863 driver in to switch out the tires. 312 00:25:27,432 --> 00:25:32,099 And like a dozen laps later, the back tire blows. 313 00:25:32,701 --> 00:25:34,332 Driver loses control, that's it. 314 00:25:34,367 --> 00:25:37,071 Hits a car, that car hits another car. So on, so on. 315 00:25:37,106 --> 00:25:39,238 Next thing you know, four drivers, dead. 316 00:25:40,604 --> 00:25:42,010 So, you know, they do their investigation, 317 00:25:42,045 --> 00:25:44,342 and they find nothing wrong with that tire. 318 00:25:44,677 --> 00:25:45,783 It just blew. 319 00:25:48,722 --> 00:25:50,315 Sometimes that just happens in racing. 320 00:25:52,055 --> 00:25:54,550 What happened to your brother? LAURA: He quit racing. 321 00:25:55,352 --> 00:25:57,828 Spent a few years bouncing from rehab to rehab. 322 00:25:59,590 --> 00:26:00,996 Now, he's a night manager at Walmart. 323 00:26:02,769 --> 00:26:03,966 Which is a shame 'cause... 324 00:26:05,431 --> 00:26:06,562 he loved racing. 325 00:26:27,827 --> 00:26:28,892 (BOX CREAKS) 326 00:26:30,621 --> 00:26:31,664 (BOX THUDS) 327 00:26:40,906 --> 00:26:44,006 (TYPEWRITER CLICKS) 328 00:26:47,946 --> 00:26:49,011 (DRAWER CRANKING) 329 00:26:49,673 --> 00:26:56,579 (PLASTIC BAG RUSTLES) 330 00:27:08,527 --> 00:27:10,296 (TYPEWRITER CLICKS) (PAPER RUSTLES) 331 00:27:18,878 --> 00:27:22,880 (BELLS CHIMING) 332 00:27:23,707 --> 00:27:24,717 Who... 333 00:27:25,951 --> 00:27:27,951 am I? 334 00:27:28,954 --> 00:27:30,151 Who am I, really? 335 00:27:33,024 --> 00:27:35,123 (TYPEWRITER CLICKING) 336 00:27:35,458 --> 00:27:38,192 That's the question that every protagonist needs to answer 337 00:27:38,227 --> 00:27:42,625 by the end of their story. (TYPEWRITER CLICKS) 338 00:27:42,660 --> 00:27:44,330 If your hero hasn't reached 339 00:27:44,365 --> 00:27:47,839 some sort of cathartic realization about who they are 340 00:27:47,874 --> 00:27:50,072 or what they believe in by the last page... (TYPEWRITER CLICKING) 341 00:27:50,607 --> 00:27:52,877 ...then I'm sorry to inform you, ladies and gents, 342 00:27:53,212 --> 00:27:54,340 you have failed your reader. 343 00:28:02,548 --> 00:28:04,581 YOUNG MAN: What if I don't have anything to say? 344 00:28:06,222 --> 00:28:08,090 Then you're not digging deep enough. 345 00:28:13,031 --> 00:28:14,096 BRUCE: Dig deep. 346 00:28:15,759 --> 00:28:17,429 The road you construct 347 00:28:17,464 --> 00:28:19,398 for your characters to travel along, 348 00:28:20,033 --> 00:28:21,939 it shouldn't be paved, shouldn't be easy. 349 00:28:23,602 --> 00:28:25,206 Because finding out who you are 350 00:28:27,012 --> 00:28:28,077 never is. 351 00:28:30,246 --> 00:28:32,576 (TELEPHONE BEEPS) BRUCE: I'm of two minds 352 00:28:32,611 --> 00:28:34,050 when it comes to apologizing. 353 00:28:35,020 --> 00:28:36,118 On the one hand, 354 00:28:36,153 --> 00:28:37,922 life's best lived looking forward 355 00:28:37,957 --> 00:28:39,616 and not crying over spilled milk. 356 00:28:41,323 --> 00:28:44,126 And on the other hand, it does strengthen 357 00:28:44,161 --> 00:28:46,964 a certain kind of integrity to own up to one's mistakes. 358 00:28:47,967 --> 00:28:51,298 So, on that note, I'm sorry I told you I'd kill you. 359 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,531 Now, I know I didn't use those words exactly, 360 00:28:53,566 --> 00:28:55,302 but the insinuation was certainly there, so. 361 00:28:57,108 --> 00:28:58,206 That being said, 362 00:28:58,808 --> 00:29:01,781 I'd like to offer this gift in the spirit of contrition. 363 00:29:02,982 --> 00:29:04,641 It's a little blurb for your book. 364 00:29:05,644 --> 00:29:06,709 Quote. 365 00:29:07,244 --> 00:29:10,086 "William DuKent is a right royal pain in the ass. 366 00:29:11,683 --> 00:29:13,188 But he does have a lot of backbone, 367 00:29:14,324 --> 00:29:16,323 which is more than I can say for the rest of the world. 368 00:29:18,426 --> 00:29:19,458 Bruce Cogburn." 369 00:29:20,164 --> 00:29:21,262 End quote. 370 00:29:23,937 --> 00:29:25,167 And merry Christmas too if you... 371 00:29:25,769 --> 00:29:27,004 if you believe in that sort of thing. 372 00:29:29,437 --> 00:29:31,437 Listen, if you fancy a drive, 373 00:29:32,836 --> 00:29:35,804 there's a small café around here called the Casa Segura. 374 00:29:35,839 --> 00:29:37,113 It's just off the 62. 375 00:29:38,512 --> 00:29:40,281 If you happen to be there on Friday morning, 376 00:29:40,316 --> 00:29:42,118 say eleven o'clock, 377 00:29:42,687 --> 00:29:43,856 I might just be there too. 378 00:29:44,892 --> 00:29:45,957 Okay. 379 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,833 MALE: (RECORDING) To save this message, press one. 380 00:29:55,463 --> 00:29:56,627 (RECORDER BEEPS) 381 00:29:57,938 --> 00:29:59,267 MALE: (RECORDING) Message saved. 382 00:30:05,638 --> 00:30:08,540 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 383 00:30:14,878 --> 00:30:15,954 Refill? 384 00:30:16,550 --> 00:30:17,714 Yeah, thanks. 385 00:30:58,559 --> 00:31:00,933 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 386 00:31:05,269 --> 00:31:10,404 (CAR ENGINE REVS) 387 00:31:15,444 --> 00:31:18,016 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 388 00:31:40,205 --> 00:31:41,237 There you are. 389 00:31:42,372 --> 00:31:43,437 Sorry, I'm late. 390 00:31:52,613 --> 00:31:55,086 (TELEPHONE BEEPING) BRUCE: I won't lie to you. 391 00:31:55,121 --> 00:31:57,154 I had every intention of standing you up. 392 00:31:57,689 --> 00:31:59,684 And then, of course, the day rolls around and I thought, 393 00:32:00,219 --> 00:32:02,027 sod it, I may as well get this over and done with. 394 00:32:02,062 --> 00:32:03,259 So, you can imagine my surprise 395 00:32:03,294 --> 00:32:04,491 when you were the one who stood me up. 396 00:32:05,956 --> 00:32:07,956 I've not received any letters from you in this past week, 397 00:32:07,991 --> 00:32:09,628 so I'm glad my messages have got through. 398 00:32:11,401 --> 00:32:13,269 Time for you to start pestering another victim, eh? 399 00:32:13,838 --> 00:32:15,865 Oh, and you can keep the blurb for your book. 400 00:32:16,670 --> 00:32:17,702 You earned that. 401 00:32:21,213 --> 00:32:23,180 Well, I guess this is goodbye, Mr. DuKent. 402 00:32:25,316 --> 00:32:27,481 Goodbye. (CAR DOOR SHUTS) 403 00:32:45,028 --> 00:32:50,174 (CAR ENGINE REVS) 404 00:33:01,814 --> 00:33:03,385 (GRINDER WHIRRS) 405 00:33:04,553 --> 00:33:05,750 MAN: Like I was telling you, sir, 406 00:33:06,152 --> 00:33:07,851 we pick up and deliver same day. 407 00:33:08,653 --> 00:33:11,459 You need a package delivered to San Diego by day's end... 408 00:33:11,494 --> 00:33:13,527 MAN 2: Thank you, Corina. Well, we can do that. 409 00:33:13,795 --> 00:33:15,067 So, you do pickup then? 410 00:33:15,102 --> 00:33:16,959 It's more convenient for our customers that way. 411 00:33:16,994 --> 00:33:18,532 Because I need to know where this envelope 412 00:33:18,567 --> 00:33:19,599 has been picked up from. 413 00:33:20,034 --> 00:33:22,437 Well, you have used us before. How was the service? 414 00:33:22,472 --> 00:33:24,076 When you're done. Relentless. 415 00:33:24,111 --> 00:33:26,606 Yeah? Well, what's the return address? 416 00:33:26,641 --> 00:33:28,542 It's Aspen, Colorado. 417 00:33:28,844 --> 00:33:30,181 Aspen, Colorado? 418 00:33:30,216 --> 00:33:32,051 Well, we definitely don't go out that far. 419 00:33:33,252 --> 00:33:34,845 Well, it's obviously being picked up from somewhere. 420 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,748 Yeah, that's usually how it works, sir. 421 00:33:37,717 --> 00:33:39,619 There must be some address that you can give to me. 422 00:33:41,491 --> 00:33:42,886 With all due respect, sir, 423 00:33:43,555 --> 00:33:46,362 we are very protective of our clientele's privacy. 424 00:33:46,797 --> 00:33:48,925 Company policy. I'm sure you can understand. 425 00:33:49,763 --> 00:33:50,894 No way, dude. 426 00:33:53,239 --> 00:33:55,272 Correct, but don't forget about the invoice. 427 00:33:55,707 --> 00:33:57,032 Okay? Thank you. 428 00:33:58,640 --> 00:33:59,738 I understand. 429 00:34:02,248 --> 00:34:03,379 But I need that address. 430 00:34:05,779 --> 00:34:07,009 (SIGHS) 431 00:34:13,787 --> 00:34:16,392 (BEEPS) (BEEPS) 432 00:34:20,233 --> 00:34:22,101 (BEEPS) (BEEPS) 433 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:27,304 MAN 1: I'm not finding anything. 434 00:34:28,406 --> 00:34:30,439 No pickups, no deliveries, nothing. 435 00:34:30,474 --> 00:34:31,968 There must be some kind of mistake. 436 00:34:33,741 --> 00:34:34,905 MAN 1: Where did you get this from again? 437 00:34:35,641 --> 00:34:38,414 From your driver. I have 100 of these at my house. 438 00:34:39,648 --> 00:34:41,450 MAN 1: One of our drivers delivered this to you? 439 00:34:41,485 --> 00:34:43,485 Yes. He drives a red hatchback. 440 00:34:44,785 --> 00:34:46,015 Like I was telling you, sir, 441 00:34:47,821 --> 00:34:50,085 these are the only vehicles our drivers use. 442 00:34:57,765 --> 00:34:59,127 (SIREN BLARING) 443 00:34:59,162 --> 00:35:02,064 Whole time? Fucking asshole! Uninvited! 444 00:35:02,099 --> 00:35:03,769 (GRUNTS) Bloody car! 445 00:35:09,073 --> 00:35:12,613 (PANTS) 446 00:35:14,716 --> 00:35:15,979 Mr. Cogburn? 447 00:35:18,390 --> 00:35:19,455 Are you all right? 448 00:35:22,394 --> 00:35:23,954 And did you catch the plates at all? 449 00:35:24,726 --> 00:35:25,791 No. 450 00:35:26,794 --> 00:35:29,597 You know, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, they all look different. 451 00:35:29,632 --> 00:35:30,664 I didn't see them. 452 00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:34,965 And was he a big guy? Skinny? Short? Tall? I don't know. 453 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,308 Oh, come on. You gotta remember something. Well, I fucking don't, okay? 454 00:35:37,343 --> 00:35:38,837 I didn't get a good enough look at him, so... 455 00:35:40,643 --> 00:35:42,478 Okay, so I don't need this shit today. 456 00:35:42,513 --> 00:35:43,908 This is actually my day off. 457 00:35:43,943 --> 00:35:45,382 So why don't you just come by the station. 458 00:35:45,417 --> 00:35:47,186 I... I think he had long hair. Like... 459 00:35:47,888 --> 00:35:49,815 a sort of mousy color, I think. 460 00:35:50,217 --> 00:35:52,015 What about these letters? What do they say? 461 00:35:52,050 --> 00:35:53,654 BRUCE: Nothing. It's just a wannabe writer. 462 00:35:53,689 --> 00:35:57,119 Oh, okay. So, they're more fan mail-ish than death threats? 463 00:35:57,154 --> 00:35:58,791 He's bloody well been to my house. 464 00:35:59,193 --> 00:36:02,157 You know, how about the guy who read your book? 465 00:36:02,626 --> 00:36:04,335 The shooter from Knoxville. No, it's not him. 466 00:36:04,904 --> 00:36:06,194 LAURA: Are you sure about that? 467 00:36:06,229 --> 00:36:08,537 He's rotting away in... in a supermax prison 468 00:36:08,572 --> 00:36:10,704 somewhere in New Mexico for a long time, it's not him. 469 00:36:10,972 --> 00:36:12,508 GIRL: Can we go home now? LAURA: We can. 470 00:36:13,277 --> 00:36:15,874 I'm gonna stop by the station and run this Colorado address. 471 00:36:15,909 --> 00:36:17,678 I'm also going to go by some motor lodges 472 00:36:17,713 --> 00:36:20,384 and just see if anyone's checked in with a red hatchback. 473 00:36:20,815 --> 00:36:21,847 Okay. 474 00:36:22,416 --> 00:36:23,585 LAURA: Can I ask you a question? 475 00:36:24,489 --> 00:36:26,082 Is there anybody out there who might have 476 00:36:26,117 --> 00:36:27,490 a score to settle with you? 477 00:36:30,759 --> 00:36:34,024 No. Okay. All right. Okay, let's do it. 478 00:36:36,534 --> 00:36:38,193 You call me if anything changes. 479 00:36:39,130 --> 00:36:40,833 Take it easy, Mr. Cogburn. 480 00:36:42,903 --> 00:36:44,199 GIRL: Are we still getting ice cream? LAURA: No. 481 00:36:44,234 --> 00:36:46,575 We're going to get some fish, uncooked. 482 00:36:46,610 --> 00:36:47,807 Like, raw fish. 483 00:36:47,842 --> 00:36:49,710 GIRL: Ew. No. I want ice cream. 484 00:36:51,241 --> 00:36:55,419 (KEYBOARD CLICKING) 485 00:36:57,049 --> 00:36:58,114 (BRUCE SIGHING) 486 00:37:02,725 --> 00:37:06,529 (RADIO PLAYING) 487 00:37:12,130 --> 00:37:16,704 (KEYBOARD CLICKS) 488 00:37:22,140 --> 00:37:23,205 (MOUSE CLICKING) 489 00:37:23,874 --> 00:37:24,943 FEMALE REPORTER: (OVER COMPUTER) That's right, the fire marshal 490 00:37:25,278 --> 00:37:27,913 revealed there is evidence that someone intentionally set 491 00:37:27,948 --> 00:37:29,882 this suburban Aspen home on fire. 492 00:37:29,917 --> 00:37:32,885 Neighbors tell me the home has been abandoned for decades, 493 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,690 but the evil, as they call it, that once lived here 494 00:37:35,725 --> 00:37:37,054 at 53 Highland Avenue 495 00:37:37,089 --> 00:37:39,254 was once the center of a national tragedy. 496 00:37:40,730 --> 00:37:43,797 In June of 1981, 17-year-old Dwight Tufford 497 00:37:43,832 --> 00:37:44,831 left his Aspen home 498 00:37:45,133 --> 00:37:47,603 to drive 23 hours to Knoxville, Tennessee. 499 00:37:47,972 --> 00:37:50,166 Once there, he did the unthinkable, 500 00:37:50,201 --> 00:37:53,906 killing 13 people and injuring nearly two dozen more 501 00:37:53,941 --> 00:37:55,270 in just a matter of minutes. 502 00:37:55,805 --> 00:37:58,317 From the top of the tower in the middle of campus, 503 00:37:58,752 --> 00:38:00,649 Tufford took aim at the crowd below 504 00:38:00,684 --> 00:38:01,980 with a high-powered rifle. 505 00:38:02,582 --> 00:38:04,554 During the trial, Tufford told the judge 506 00:38:04,589 --> 00:38:06,457 he was innocent, and testified 507 00:38:06,492 --> 00:38:08,822 he was brainwashed into committing the killings 508 00:38:08,857 --> 00:38:11,055 after reading the controversial novel, 509 00:38:11,090 --> 00:38:12,287 The Infernal Mach-- (COMPUTER CLICKS) 510 00:38:17,899 --> 00:38:22,869 (CAR ENGINE REVS) 511 00:38:25,269 --> 00:38:26,345 (PAPER RUSTLES) 512 00:38:27,205 --> 00:38:29,678 (FLUID SLASHING) (CAN CLATTERING) 513 00:38:29,713 --> 00:38:31,713 (FIRE CRACKLES) 514 00:38:32,848 --> 00:38:36,146 (FIRE CRACKLES) 515 00:38:36,181 --> 00:38:37,246 (SIGHS) 516 00:38:41,857 --> 00:38:46,497 (FIRE CRACKLES) 517 00:38:54,804 --> 00:38:56,133 (CAR ENGINE REVVING) 518 00:38:57,070 --> 00:38:59,334 (CAR ENGINE REVVING) (CAR DOOR OPENING) 519 00:39:02,812 --> 00:39:03,844 (KEYS JINGLING) 520 00:39:10,413 --> 00:39:13,150 You're a fucking coward. You hear me? A fucking coward. 521 00:39:13,385 --> 00:39:14,855 I know what you look like, DuKent. 522 00:39:14,890 --> 00:39:16,593 And if I find you, I'm gonna fucking kill you. 523 00:39:16,861 --> 00:39:18,694 You understand? I'm gonna fucking kill you! 524 00:39:19,096 --> 00:39:22,159 (GRUNTS) (CLANGS) 525 00:39:22,865 --> 00:39:23,930 Fuck! 526 00:39:29,938 --> 00:39:31,069 (SIGHS) 527 00:39:39,717 --> 00:39:40,716 (SAUL BARKING) 528 00:39:42,181 --> 00:39:43,246 (SAUL BARKING) 529 00:40:04,643 --> 00:40:06,445 Hey. Saul? 530 00:40:51,085 --> 00:40:52,117 What the fuck? 531 00:40:53,086 --> 00:40:55,087 MALE: (RECORDING) You have one new message. 532 00:40:55,122 --> 00:40:56,660 (RECEIVER BEEPING) (METAL CLANGS) 533 00:40:59,522 --> 00:41:02,666 MALE: (RECORDING) To listen to your messages, press one. 534 00:41:03,328 --> 00:41:04,327 (RECEIVER BEEPING) 535 00:41:07,574 --> 00:41:08,705 BRUCE: (VOICEMAIL) You're a fucking coward. 536 00:41:09,174 --> 00:41:10,333 Hear me? A fucking coward. 537 00:41:10,635 --> 00:41:12,005 I know what you look like, DuKent. 538 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:13,776 And if I find you, I'm gonna fucking kill you. 539 00:41:14,011 --> 00:41:15,976 You understand? I'm gonna fucking kill you! 540 00:41:23,084 --> 00:41:25,689 MALE: (RECORDING) To save this message, press one. 541 00:41:43,808 --> 00:41:46,204 MALE: (RECORDING) To save this message, press one. 542 00:41:56,689 --> 00:41:59,019 MALE: (RECORDING) To save this message, press one. 543 00:42:11,429 --> 00:42:12,527 (BEEPS) 544 00:42:13,563 --> 00:42:14,837 Message saved. 545 00:42:26,884 --> 00:42:28,752 This is the model of the shooting. 546 00:42:29,612 --> 00:42:30,622 Knoxville. 547 00:42:30,890 --> 00:42:32,085 BRUCE: Yeah. 548 00:42:32,554 --> 00:42:33,889 That's it. So what will you do now? 549 00:42:35,092 --> 00:42:37,552 Well, nothing, really. I mean, technically, we're trespassing. 550 00:42:38,121 --> 00:42:40,962 Trespassing? Fuck off. LAURA: Relax, I'm on your side. 551 00:42:42,262 --> 00:42:43,459 What's on that tape? 552 00:42:45,496 --> 00:42:46,605 I don't know. 553 00:43:01,281 --> 00:43:04,282 (STATIC FREQUENCY ON TV) 554 00:43:04,584 --> 00:43:05,987 DETECTIVE 1: We've got a credit card receipt 555 00:43:06,255 --> 00:43:08,088 for a high-powered rifle with your name on it. 556 00:43:08,390 --> 00:43:10,321 Dozens of witnesses place you at the scene. 557 00:43:11,995 --> 00:43:13,093 DWIGHT: I didn't do it. 558 00:43:14,327 --> 00:43:16,261 DETECTIVE 2: Didn't do what, Mr. Tufford? 559 00:43:18,595 --> 00:43:20,133 DWIGHT: I didn't do those things. 560 00:43:21,268 --> 00:43:23,906 DETECTIVE 2: Dwight. Can I call you Dwight? 561 00:43:25,437 --> 00:43:27,602 Listen. We can't help you 562 00:43:28,104 --> 00:43:30,275 unless you help us, you understand? 563 00:43:31,850 --> 00:43:36,182 The rifle. The one that we found in your car, is that yours? 564 00:43:38,285 --> 00:43:39,284 DWIGHT: Yes. 565 00:43:40,153 --> 00:43:42,650 DETECTIVE 2: Did you go up into the bell tower 566 00:43:42,685 --> 00:43:43,728 with that rifle? 567 00:43:44,863 --> 00:43:45,862 DWIGHT: Yes. 568 00:43:46,631 --> 00:43:48,392 DETECTIVE 2: I know the next part isn't going to be easy, 569 00:43:48,427 --> 00:43:50,196 but I need to hear you say it, all right? 570 00:43:51,804 --> 00:43:54,497 DWIGHT: I... (BREATHING HEAVILY) 571 00:43:56,204 --> 00:43:58,776 I, uh... (BREATHES HEAVILY) 572 00:44:03,442 --> 00:44:04,881 I didn't have a choice. 573 00:44:07,545 --> 00:44:08,951 He had to be punished. 574 00:44:10,054 --> 00:44:11,382 DETECTIVE 2: Who had to be punished, Dwight? 575 00:44:12,957 --> 00:44:13,989 God. 576 00:44:15,487 --> 00:44:19,060 You see, we're just a row of dominos to Him. 577 00:44:20,296 --> 00:44:24,703 And once you and I tip over, we're no longer relevant. 578 00:44:25,172 --> 00:44:27,200 That's why he made us mortal, you know? 579 00:44:28,069 --> 00:44:30,874 So we can fade to dust. Disappear. 580 00:44:32,075 --> 00:44:34,042 But if we can find the dominos, 581 00:44:34,077 --> 00:44:35,945 the ones that haven't tipped over yet... 582 00:44:37,476 --> 00:44:39,542 well maybe there's a chance to stop this. 583 00:44:41,513 --> 00:44:42,578 DETECTIVE 2: Stop what? 584 00:44:43,350 --> 00:44:44,415 DWIGHT: His plan. 585 00:44:46,518 --> 00:44:48,023 I didn't kill anyone this morning. 586 00:44:49,653 --> 00:44:51,895 I just stole a few of God's dominos. 587 00:44:53,195 --> 00:44:54,524 And maybe, if I'm lucky, 588 00:44:55,226 --> 00:44:57,032 maybe they haven't tipped over just yet. 589 00:44:58,233 --> 00:44:59,496 DETECTIVE 1: You a religious man? 590 00:45:00,065 --> 00:45:02,697 A member of some sort of cult? No. 591 00:45:03,066 --> 00:45:04,204 DETECTIVE 1: Then where the hell did an idea 592 00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:05,271 like this come from? 593 00:45:06,604 --> 00:45:07,845 DWIGHT: The Infernal Machine. 594 00:45:08,771 --> 00:45:09,913 You should read it. 595 00:45:11,081 --> 00:45:12,377 You should all read it. 596 00:45:13,213 --> 00:45:15,512 Then you'll understand how insignificant 597 00:45:15,747 --> 00:45:16,854 we all are to Him. 598 00:45:22,290 --> 00:45:23,927 I'm not afraid of you anymore. 599 00:45:25,095 --> 00:45:26,127 You hear me? 600 00:45:30,232 --> 00:45:31,770 (CHAIR DRAGGING IN VIDEO) You hear me? 601 00:45:32,139 --> 00:45:34,333 You can't stop it now, you sick fuck! 602 00:45:34,368 --> 00:45:36,104 DETECTIVE 2: Sit down. I know my purpose! 603 00:45:36,439 --> 00:45:37,776 DETECTIVE 1: Get back in the chair. I know my purpose! 604 00:45:38,405 --> 00:45:40,306 I know my purpose! 605 00:45:41,375 --> 00:45:42,737 (SIGHS) I'm just going to have a smoke. 606 00:45:49,779 --> 00:45:50,921 (SIGHS) 607 00:46:29,390 --> 00:46:31,093 LAURA: You mind telling me what that book of yours 608 00:46:31,128 --> 00:46:32,127 is all about? 609 00:46:33,625 --> 00:46:35,427 Uh, it's about a priest who finds God. 610 00:46:37,233 --> 00:46:38,397 Metaphorically, or? 611 00:46:38,971 --> 00:46:41,466 No, no. Uh, actually. 612 00:46:42,799 --> 00:46:43,941 LAURA: What do they talk about? 613 00:46:45,340 --> 00:46:47,912 Um... the... the priest wants to know 614 00:46:47,947 --> 00:46:49,606 what his purpose is in life, so God... 615 00:46:51,115 --> 00:46:53,280 tells him, explains to him, that when he was 12, 616 00:46:53,315 --> 00:46:55,381 he... he got him to walk across the road to... 617 00:46:58,386 --> 00:46:59,385 slow down a car. 618 00:47:01,686 --> 00:47:02,993 LAURA: So, who was in the car? 619 00:47:05,162 --> 00:47:06,854 It's not... it's not relevant who was in the car. 620 00:47:06,889 --> 00:47:08,295 He just needed it to be slowed down. 621 00:47:11,135 --> 00:47:12,101 LAURA: That's it? 622 00:47:17,108 --> 00:47:18,910 Yeah. That's it. 623 00:47:24,214 --> 00:47:26,082 And then, in the end, the priest gets his revenge. 624 00:47:28,515 --> 00:47:29,745 What, on God? 625 00:47:32,552 --> 00:47:33,749 O... on everybody. 626 00:47:34,351 --> 00:47:36,026 (SHOE TAPPING THE GROUND) 627 00:47:36,061 --> 00:47:37,060 I'm going to go home. 628 00:47:37,495 --> 00:47:39,590 There's just this one thing I want you to see inside. 629 00:47:45,466 --> 00:47:47,136 BRUCE: (VOICEMAIL) Every time I make one of these calls, 630 00:47:47,171 --> 00:47:49,501 I have to travel 14 miles to the nearest phone booth. 631 00:47:49,536 --> 00:47:51,635 I don't need to listen to these. I know what I said. 632 00:47:51,670 --> 00:47:53,010 It's not yours you need to listen to. 633 00:47:54,739 --> 00:47:57,113 FEMALE: (RECORDING) This call will be recorded and monitored. 634 00:47:58,083 --> 00:47:59,709 You have a collect call from... 635 00:48:00,311 --> 00:48:01,986 DWIGHT: (OVER RECORDING) Dwight Tufford. 636 00:48:02,021 --> 00:48:03,317 FEMALE: (RECORDING) ..an inmate at 637 00:48:03,352 --> 00:48:05,352 the Federal Penitentiary of New Mexico. 638 00:48:05,921 --> 00:48:08,091 To accept this call, press one. 639 00:48:09,325 --> 00:48:10,753 (RECEIVER BEEPS) 640 00:48:11,188 --> 00:48:14,097 MALE: (RECORDING) Message saved. Next message. 641 00:48:14,499 --> 00:48:17,298 FEMALE: (RECORDING) This call will be recorded and monitored. 642 00:48:17,833 --> 00:48:20,433 You have a collect call from... BRUCE: Elijah? 643 00:48:21,766 --> 00:48:22,897 Are you here? 644 00:48:24,967 --> 00:48:26,043 You all right? 645 00:48:26,771 --> 00:48:32,016 (PHOENIX SCREAMING) (PANTS) 646 00:48:42,424 --> 00:48:44,787 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 647 00:48:45,289 --> 00:48:47,592 LAURA: (OVER PHONE) Officer Higgins. BRUCE: (OVER PHONE) It's Bruce. 648 00:48:47,994 --> 00:48:49,165 Uh... listen. 649 00:48:49,734 --> 00:48:51,530 You wouldn't know anyone over at the supermax 650 00:48:51,565 --> 00:48:53,103 in New Mexico, would you? 651 00:48:54,601 --> 00:48:57,107 LAURA: (OVER PHONE) I know a few guards there. Why? 652 00:48:57,709 --> 00:48:59,637 BRUCE: (OVER PHONE) I think I might need a favor. 653 00:48:59,672 --> 00:49:02,343 (BELL BUZZING) (METAL CLANGS) 654 00:49:04,347 --> 00:49:06,215 (CHAIN CLANKING) 655 00:49:14,258 --> 00:49:15,290 (BELL BUZZING) 656 00:49:31,308 --> 00:49:32,670 MALE OPERATOR: (OVER INTERCOM) You've got ten minutes. 657 00:49:48,325 --> 00:49:49,423 I don't smoke. 658 00:49:55,563 --> 00:49:56,595 Do I know you? 659 00:49:57,532 --> 00:49:58,564 BRUCE: No. 660 00:50:00,799 --> 00:50:02,370 You don't look like a "Smith." 661 00:50:04,209 --> 00:50:05,802 I would have gone with an O'Hara 662 00:50:05,837 --> 00:50:07,672 or a Campbell, personally, but 663 00:50:08,411 --> 00:50:09,872 hey, it's a free country, right? 664 00:50:12,415 --> 00:50:13,513 You a writer? 665 00:50:14,582 --> 00:50:17,319 Why do you ask that? Folks coming here are either 666 00:50:17,721 --> 00:50:20,058 A, writers, or B, shrinks. 667 00:50:21,622 --> 00:50:22,720 I'm neither. 668 00:50:24,691 --> 00:50:25,756 Good. 669 00:50:26,425 --> 00:50:27,857 Then we're off to a great start. 670 00:50:28,526 --> 00:50:31,168 So just who the fuck are you then? 671 00:50:33,865 --> 00:50:34,996 Nobody important. 672 00:50:38,672 --> 00:50:40,078 I... I'm just here to talk. 673 00:50:41,741 --> 00:50:42,740 Okay. 674 00:50:45,712 --> 00:50:46,942 About William DuKent. 675 00:50:50,618 --> 00:50:52,189 You a cop? No. 676 00:50:53,225 --> 00:50:55,082 Hey, fellas? You know the rules. 677 00:50:55,117 --> 00:50:57,689 My lawyer has gotta be present if this guy is a cop. 678 00:50:57,724 --> 00:50:58,756 I'm not a cop. 679 00:51:00,298 --> 00:51:04,399 But I know that you've spoken with DuKent recently. 680 00:51:06,403 --> 00:51:07,996 You're not very good at poker, are you? 681 00:51:09,208 --> 00:51:11,142 That question, right out the gate. 682 00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:13,936 Way too specific. 683 00:51:14,741 --> 00:51:16,444 There's no gray area to work with. 684 00:51:16,946 --> 00:51:19,414 Now, if you had replaced the word "spoken" 685 00:51:19,449 --> 00:51:20,712 with "communicated,"... 686 00:51:22,045 --> 00:51:24,617 then I wouldn't have known what you know, you know? 687 00:51:25,884 --> 00:51:27,785 But you said "spoken," 688 00:51:27,820 --> 00:51:29,325 which tells me that... 689 00:51:30,427 --> 00:51:33,131 you don't know shit. 690 00:51:34,596 --> 00:51:37,630 Words, if you don't know how to play them, 691 00:51:38,798 --> 00:51:40,270 they'll sure as hell play you. 692 00:51:41,669 --> 00:51:43,405 So, what do you want with William DuKent? 693 00:51:44,738 --> 00:51:47,772 I'll answer that after you tell me what he wanted from you. 694 00:51:48,441 --> 00:51:50,577 My opinion. Your opinion about what? 695 00:51:51,778 --> 00:51:55,186 A book. The Infernal Machine. You ever read it? 696 00:51:55,988 --> 00:51:59,916 No. Good. Don't. That book will fuck you up. 697 00:52:01,689 --> 00:52:04,228 The right combination of words will make a man do... 698 00:52:06,430 --> 00:52:07,561 just about anything. 699 00:52:09,664 --> 00:52:10,828 MALE OPERATOR: (OVER INTERCOM) Five minutes. 700 00:52:13,096 --> 00:52:14,799 You ever heard of number stations before? 701 00:52:17,672 --> 00:52:19,639 During the Cold War, there was these 702 00:52:20,008 --> 00:52:21,806 short-wave radio broadcasts 703 00:52:21,841 --> 00:52:24,875 that sent out these cryptic messages across the airwaves. 704 00:52:25,812 --> 00:52:27,108 Usually, a woman's voice 705 00:52:27,143 --> 00:52:29,044 spouting out numbers and shit in German. 706 00:52:30,883 --> 00:52:32,520 And to the general public, it sounded like 707 00:52:32,555 --> 00:52:34,654 a bunch of nonsense, when in actual fact, 708 00:52:34,689 --> 00:52:37,019 it was a complex cipher. 709 00:52:37,554 --> 00:52:40,990 The beauty of this was, instead of marking X on a window 710 00:52:41,025 --> 00:52:43,729 or hiding microfilm in a hollow tooth, 711 00:52:44,098 --> 00:52:46,193 these sons of bitches had the audacity 712 00:52:46,228 --> 00:52:48,371 to send their top-secret transmission 713 00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:52,309 right out into the open for the whole world to hear. 714 00:52:52,544 --> 00:52:54,542 What, are you saying there's a hidden message in that book? 715 00:52:54,977 --> 00:52:56,005 DWIGHT: Something like that. 716 00:52:58,581 --> 00:53:01,219 And what is it? Well, you didn't read it, now did you? 717 00:53:01,721 --> 00:53:03,287 So it would be like trying to describe 718 00:53:03,322 --> 00:53:05,146 the color turquoise to a blind man. 719 00:53:05,918 --> 00:53:07,082 So, I'm a blind man now? 720 00:53:07,854 --> 00:53:08,886 You all are. 721 00:53:10,923 --> 00:53:12,593 That's funny. I thought we were all dominos. 722 00:53:16,335 --> 00:53:17,928 I'm done talking here. Hold on. 723 00:53:18,430 --> 00:53:21,701 It's so easy to sit on that side of the world 724 00:53:21,736 --> 00:53:23,197 and judge me, isn't it? 725 00:53:23,232 --> 00:53:24,836 Why did DuKent want your opinion? 726 00:53:24,871 --> 00:53:25,870 Ask him yourself. 727 00:53:27,071 --> 00:53:28,070 Guard. 728 00:53:28,439 --> 00:53:29,907 Please, just tell me now. (BELL BUZZING) 729 00:53:30,877 --> 00:53:32,239 He wanted to know if I saw 730 00:53:32,274 --> 00:53:33,878 the same things in the book as he did. 731 00:53:35,079 --> 00:53:37,684 But in the end, he turned out to be 732 00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:39,620 just a fucking liar, like everyone else. 733 00:53:39,655 --> 00:53:41,116 Why? What did he lie about? 734 00:53:42,152 --> 00:53:45,362 He told me that if I was honest with him, 735 00:53:46,728 --> 00:53:49,267 then he'd show up. That he would? DuKent? 736 00:53:49,602 --> 00:53:51,896 No. The motherfucker that put me in here. 737 00:53:53,064 --> 00:53:54,096 Bruce Cogburn. 738 00:53:58,102 --> 00:54:00,740 GERMAN WOMAN: (OVER RADIO) Sechs, zwei, neun. 739 00:54:06,814 --> 00:54:09,144 (DWIGHT BREATHES DEEPLY) (GRUNTS) 740 00:55:42,547 --> 00:55:44,646 (COINS JINGLING) (TELEPHONE CLANKS) 741 00:55:44,681 --> 00:55:49,816 (COIN CLANKING) (TELEPHONE BUTTONS CLICKING) 742 00:55:50,753 --> 00:55:52,621 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 743 00:55:58,464 --> 00:56:00,387 (TELEPHONE BEEPING) FEMALE: (OVER RECORDING) We're sorry. 744 00:56:00,422 --> 00:56:02,224 Your call cannot be completed and dialed. 745 00:56:02,492 --> 00:56:04,226 Please, check the number and dial again. 746 00:56:04,595 --> 00:56:06,327 (TELEPHONE BEEPING) FEMALE: (OVER RECORDING) We're sorry. 747 00:56:06,562 --> 00:56:08,230 Your call cannot be completed and dialed. 748 00:56:08,632 --> 00:56:10,441 Please, check the number and dial again. 749 00:56:10,709 --> 00:56:12,542 (TELEPHONE BEEPING) FEMALE: (OVER RECORDING) We're sorry. 750 00:56:12,577 --> 00:56:14,577 Your call cannot be completed and dialed. 751 00:56:14,612 --> 00:56:16,678 Please, check the number and dial again. 752 00:56:16,713 --> 00:56:18,449 (TELEPHONE BEEPING) FEMALE: (OVER RECORDING) We're sorry. 753 00:56:18,484 --> 00:56:20,275 Your call cannot be completed and dialed... 754 00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:26,754 (CAR ENGINE REVVING) 755 00:56:33,598 --> 00:56:35,763 (CAR DOOR OPENS, SHUTS) 756 00:56:49,581 --> 00:56:52,483 (BOX RUSTLING) 757 00:56:58,623 --> 00:57:00,722 (CELLPHONE RINGING) 758 00:57:02,253 --> 00:57:04,385 (PANTS) 759 00:57:04,620 --> 00:57:05,661 JERRY: Bruce. Jerry. 760 00:57:06,030 --> 00:57:07,355 I'm not sure what you've been told, 761 00:57:07,657 --> 00:57:08,928 or who you've been talking to... 762 00:57:08,963 --> 00:57:11,601 JERRY: We got the manuscript. It's brilliant. 763 00:57:11,936 --> 00:57:14,571 What? JERRY: Anonymous? Oh, come on. 764 00:57:14,606 --> 00:57:16,364 There's nobody that writes like you. 765 00:57:17,133 --> 00:57:18,333 I'm not sure how we're going to spin 766 00:57:18,368 --> 00:57:20,511 this whole subject matter and all. 767 00:57:20,813 --> 00:57:22,139 Makes perfect sense why you're going 768 00:57:22,174 --> 00:57:23,646 with the whole "anonymous" angle. 769 00:57:23,681 --> 00:57:24,779 What are you talking about? 770 00:57:25,181 --> 00:57:26,473 JERRY: It's just, your protagonist 771 00:57:26,508 --> 00:57:27,551 sounds a lot like you. 772 00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:30,246 But I gotta tell ya, this William DuKent, 773 00:57:30,281 --> 00:57:31,588 he is something else. 774 00:57:32,151 --> 00:57:33,282 What did you say? 775 00:57:33,317 --> 00:57:35,317 William DuKent. Am I saying it right? 776 00:57:36,386 --> 00:57:37,561 When can we get the rest of the manuscript? 777 00:57:37,596 --> 00:57:39,387 Send it! Send it to me! JERRY: What? 778 00:57:39,422 --> 00:57:40,564 Bruce, what the hell are you talking about? 779 00:57:40,599 --> 00:57:42,093 Send me the fucking manuscript, Jerry! 780 00:57:43,426 --> 00:57:45,668 (KEYS JINGLING) (CAR ENGINE REVVING) 781 00:57:46,462 --> 00:57:47,769 (FAX MACHINE BEEPING) 782 00:57:48,706 --> 00:57:50,134 (FAX MACHINE WHIRRS) 783 00:57:54,877 --> 00:57:56,107 (CAR HORN BLARING) 784 00:58:13,093 --> 00:58:14,290 (COIN CLANKING) 785 00:58:17,669 --> 00:58:19,900 (TELEPHONE DIAL TONE) 786 00:58:21,838 --> 00:58:23,035 (TELEPHONE BEEPING) 787 00:58:24,335 --> 00:58:25,840 BRUCE: I'm calling in response to the letters 788 00:58:25,875 --> 00:58:26,874 I've received from you. 789 00:58:27,276 --> 00:58:29,239 I'm not sure how you found me. 790 00:58:29,541 --> 00:58:32,550 Maybe you got my PO box from an old agent or summit. 791 00:58:33,883 --> 00:58:36,510 Saul. According to the Hebrew Bible, 792 00:58:36,545 --> 00:58:38,248 Saul was the first king of Israel. 793 00:58:39,581 --> 00:58:40,756 I bet you didn't know that. 794 00:58:41,990 --> 00:58:43,550 (TELEPHONE BEEPING) (PAPER RUSTLING) 795 00:58:43,585 --> 00:58:45,156 BRUCE: Your letters are unsolicited 796 00:58:45,191 --> 00:58:46,454 and constitute harassment, 797 00:58:46,489 --> 00:58:48,962 so please, stop sending them. You hear me? 798 00:58:48,997 --> 00:58:51,833 'Cause I'm not here to be someone's fucking inspiration. 799 00:58:51,868 --> 00:58:53,098 Someone's fucking muse. 800 00:58:53,366 --> 00:58:55,496 LAURA: I 've heard your name somewhere. Are you famous? 801 00:58:55,531 --> 00:58:57,036 DWIGHT: Who the fuck are you? BRUCE: Nobody important. 802 00:58:57,071 --> 00:58:59,742 LAURA: You're that writer. BRUCE: 21st June. 1981. 803 00:58:59,777 --> 00:59:01,502 Knoxville. That book will fuck you up. 804 00:59:01,537 --> 00:59:03,339 JERRY: Crazy's always looking for an excuse to be crazy, 805 00:59:03,374 --> 00:59:05,044 I guess, you know? DWIGHT: He had to be punished. 806 00:59:05,079 --> 00:59:06,782 DETECTIVE 2: Who had to be punished? DWIGHT: God. 807 00:59:06,817 --> 00:59:08,212 BRUCE: It's about a priest who finds God. 808 00:59:08,247 --> 00:59:10,214 LAURA: Metaphorically? BRUCE: No, actually. 809 00:59:10,249 --> 00:59:12,381 The right combination of words will make a man do... 810 00:59:12,416 --> 00:59:14,988 DWIGHT: We're just a row of dominoes to him. BRUCE: ...just about anything. 811 00:59:15,023 --> 00:59:17,551 BRUCE: You saying there's a hidden message in that book? 812 00:59:18,053 --> 00:59:19,861 LAURA: Fucking nutjob. That guy's a fucking... 813 00:59:19,896 --> 00:59:21,588 BRUCE: I don't need to listen to these. I know what I said. 814 00:59:21,623 --> 00:59:22,963 DWIGHT: Fade to dust. Disappear. 815 00:59:22,998 --> 00:59:24,360 LAURA: You gotta remember... 816 00:59:24,395 --> 00:59:25,933 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) DWIGHT: You don't know shit. 817 00:59:25,968 --> 00:59:27,363 BRUCE: Stop writing to me, okay? 818 00:59:27,398 --> 00:59:28,738 LAURA: What do they say? BRUCE: Nothing. 819 00:59:29,334 --> 00:59:30,740 DWIGHT: Words... 820 00:59:30,975 --> 00:59:32,104 if you don't know how to play them... 821 00:59:33,470 --> 00:59:35,371 BRUCE: If I find you... DWIGHT: ...they'll sure as hell 822 00:59:35,406 --> 00:59:37,538 play you. BRUCE: You understand? 823 00:59:37,573 --> 00:59:39,078 I'm gonna fucking kill you! WOMAN: Mr. Cogburn? 824 00:59:39,916 --> 00:59:41,113 (PANTS) 825 00:59:43,018 --> 00:59:44,116 These just came in for you. 826 00:59:46,252 --> 00:59:47,889 (PANTS) 827 00:59:54,766 --> 00:59:55,963 (PAPER RUSTLES) 828 01:00:07,339 --> 01:00:08,910 JERRY: We got the manuscript. 829 01:00:08,945 --> 01:00:10,439 MALE VOICE: It's brilliant. 830 01:00:11,277 --> 01:00:12,848 JERRY: Anonymous? Oh, come on. 831 01:00:13,584 --> 01:00:15,312 There's nobody that writes like you. 832 01:00:17,855 --> 01:00:20,482 (THINGS CLATTERING) 833 01:00:31,902 --> 01:00:33,363 (WHINES) 834 01:01:40,762 --> 01:01:42,399 (CELLPHONE DIALING) 835 01:01:45,371 --> 01:01:47,206 (CELLPHONE RINGING) 836 01:01:50,409 --> 01:01:52,607 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 837 01:01:56,019 --> 01:01:57,513 (CELLPHONE RINGING) 838 01:02:00,991 --> 01:02:02,551 (PHONE CLICKS) 839 01:02:06,788 --> 01:02:08,623 (HEAVY BREATHING OVER PHONE) 840 01:02:12,937 --> 01:02:16,598 I know where we are, Mr. DuKent. I know exactly where we are. 841 01:02:16,633 --> 01:02:18,270 We're at the end of act two, aren't we? 842 01:02:19,570 --> 01:02:21,779 That's where the protagonist reaches their limits. 843 01:02:22,804 --> 01:02:23,979 Questions their worth. 844 01:02:24,448 --> 01:02:25,981 Their sanity. Everything. 845 01:02:26,683 --> 01:02:29,017 Because they know the path traveled 846 01:02:29,052 --> 01:02:30,920 pales in comparison to what lies ahead. 847 01:02:31,656 --> 01:02:33,791 And it's in this moment, Mr. DuKent, 848 01:02:34,750 --> 01:02:36,255 that a decision must be made. 849 01:02:37,654 --> 01:02:38,796 Do they carry on, 850 01:02:39,623 --> 01:02:41,689 or do they stop and go back? 851 01:02:42,967 --> 01:02:45,396 But only they can make that choice. 852 01:02:45,431 --> 01:02:48,432 And that, Mr. DuKent, is where you fucked up. 853 01:02:49,468 --> 01:02:51,237 Because your protagonist 854 01:02:51,272 --> 01:02:53,503 is too aware of your narrative now, 855 01:02:53,872 --> 01:02:56,473 and to make matters worse, he's also a writer. 856 01:02:56,508 --> 01:02:58,640 So he knows exactly what a good story needs, 857 01:02:58,675 --> 01:03:00,378 and also how to sabotage one. 858 01:03:02,316 --> 01:03:05,449 What's the greatest sin a writer can commit? 859 01:03:10,027 --> 01:03:11,191 Do you know? 860 01:03:12,821 --> 01:03:13,963 Being dull. 861 01:03:15,296 --> 01:03:16,790 And that's exactly what I'm going to give you, 862 01:03:16,825 --> 01:03:18,198 you stupid fucking cunt. 863 01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:22,466 A long, drawn-out, uneventful, boring ending. 864 01:03:23,942 --> 01:03:27,108 Because nobody gives a damn about an inspired second act 865 01:03:27,143 --> 01:03:29,143 if your finale is a big pile of shit. 866 01:03:32,478 --> 01:03:33,642 Wouldn't you agree? 867 01:03:33,677 --> 01:03:34,984 (CELLPHONE LINE CLICKS) 868 01:03:35,853 --> 01:03:40,517 GERMAN WOMAN: (OVER RADIO) Zwei, sechs, sechs, zwei. 869 01:03:41,718 --> 01:03:46,721 (BELLS CHIMING) 870 01:03:49,627 --> 01:03:51,330 MAN: Without a doubt. 871 01:03:55,699 --> 01:03:57,006 (SIGHS) 872 01:04:06,875 --> 01:04:09,920 (BIRDS CHIRPING) (CAR ENGINE REVVING) 873 01:04:13,882 --> 01:04:15,123 (CAR DOOR OPENING, CLOSING) 874 01:04:17,721 --> 01:04:19,028 (GUN CLICKS) 875 01:04:25,894 --> 01:04:27,399 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 876 01:04:29,975 --> 01:04:31,007 Who is it? 877 01:04:31,409 --> 01:04:33,306 WOMAN: United States federal marshals, Mr. Cogburn. 878 01:04:34,210 --> 01:04:35,803 Ah, we've gone federal now, have we? 879 01:04:36,872 --> 01:04:37,915 WOMAN: Can you step outside, please? 880 01:04:40,084 --> 01:04:42,810 I suppose you've got some convincing ID printed up? 881 01:04:50,853 --> 01:04:52,424 Everything all right there, Mr. Cogburn? 882 01:04:53,130 --> 01:04:54,228 Everything all right with you? 883 01:04:55,561 --> 01:04:57,099 Were you in New Mexico a few days back? 884 01:04:57,794 --> 01:04:58,936 I don't know, you tell me. 885 01:05:00,137 --> 01:05:01,664 Mind telling us the reason for the trip? 886 01:05:02,033 --> 01:05:03,270 BRUCE: I was visiting someone. 887 01:05:03,939 --> 01:05:05,272 WOMAN: Was that someone Dwight Tufford? 888 01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:07,571 Well, that's not a crime, is it? 889 01:05:08,173 --> 01:05:11,047 That's not a crime, sir, but signing in as Richard Smith 890 01:05:11,082 --> 01:05:12,279 at the front desk, that's a crime. 891 01:05:12,314 --> 01:05:13,445 Where'd you get this from? 892 01:05:16,648 --> 01:05:18,483 We're aware of the history between you two, all right? 893 01:05:18,751 --> 01:05:19,847 We're just trying to figure out 894 01:05:19,882 --> 01:05:20,991 why you would want to go and see him now. 895 01:05:21,950 --> 01:05:22,993 Closure, I guess. 896 01:05:24,425 --> 01:05:26,997 Has Dwight Tufford contacted you in the last 24 hours? 897 01:05:27,499 --> 01:05:28,889 No. Why would he do that? 898 01:05:29,758 --> 01:05:31,199 WOMAN: You been watching TV this morning? 899 01:05:31,634 --> 01:05:33,828 I don't have a television. I'm not that kind of person. 900 01:05:36,074 --> 01:05:37,106 Why? 901 01:05:38,309 --> 01:05:39,735 MALE NEWS ANCHOR: (OVER TV) The FBI's manhunt is focusing 902 01:05:39,770 --> 01:05:42,342 its search on Dwight Tufford in the Los Alamos area 903 01:05:42,377 --> 01:05:43,607 of New Mexico. 904 01:05:44,109 --> 01:05:46,676 Despite being held in a maximum-security prison, 905 01:05:46,711 --> 01:05:48,909 Tufford somehow slipped past the guards last night, 906 01:05:49,278 --> 01:05:50,779 sparking a nationwide panic. 907 01:05:58,624 --> 01:06:00,195 In 1981, Tufford arrived 908 01:06:00,230 --> 01:06:03,033 at the Knoxville Baptist University campus with a rifle. 909 01:06:03,668 --> 01:06:05,794 Taking aim, he pointed his gun at the crowd below 910 01:06:05,829 --> 01:06:06,927 and he shot dozens. 911 01:06:08,337 --> 01:06:10,304 Thirteen students and faculty members died. 912 01:06:11,373 --> 01:06:13,472 He is responsible for the deadliest shooting 913 01:06:13,507 --> 01:06:14,539 in Tennessee history. 914 01:06:15,707 --> 01:06:18,312 One witness described it as mass chaos. 915 01:06:19,281 --> 01:06:21,051 No one knew where the bullets were coming from, 916 01:06:21,420 --> 01:06:22,481 or where to run. 917 01:07:10,091 --> 01:07:11,563 (BREATHES HEAVILY) 918 01:07:12,465 --> 01:07:15,105 FEMALE: (OVER TV) But so was Orwell's 1984 919 01:07:15,140 --> 01:07:17,866 or Joyce's Ulysses when first published. 920 01:07:18,802 --> 01:07:21,441 The only crime Mr. Cogburn ever committed 921 01:07:21,743 --> 01:07:23,476 was writing one book. 922 01:07:23,945 --> 01:07:25,676 MALE INTERVIEWER: So it begins with the author's intent? 923 01:07:26,045 --> 01:07:28,415 FEMALE: That's fair to say. MALE INTERVIEWER: So, what is the intent 924 01:07:28,450 --> 01:07:29,515 of The Infernal machine? 925 01:07:29,917 --> 01:07:31,484 FEMALE: I believe only Mr. Cogburn 926 01:07:31,519 --> 01:07:32,551 can answer that question. 927 01:07:34,324 --> 01:07:36,555 (SCHOOL BEL RINGING) 928 01:07:39,395 --> 01:07:42,396 INDISTINCT CHATTER) 929 01:07:55,609 --> 01:07:56,971 LAURA: Take it easy, Mr. Cogburn. 930 01:07:57,840 --> 01:07:58,841 GIRL: Are we still getting ice cream? 931 01:07:59,276 --> 01:08:01,382 LAURA: No. We're going to get some fish, uncooked. 932 01:08:01,684 --> 01:08:02,878 Like, raw fish. 933 01:08:02,913 --> 01:08:04,913 GIRL: Ew. No. I want ice cream. 934 01:08:04,948 --> 01:08:07,256 (SINGING "MISERERE MEI, DUES" IN LATIN) 935 01:08:07,291 --> 01:08:09,555 ♪ Miserere Mei ♪ 936 01:08:10,228 --> 01:08:14,824 ♪ Deus ♪ 937 01:08:17,125 --> 01:08:20,929 ♪ Secundum magnam ♪ 938 01:08:21,833 --> 01:08:28,706 ♪ Misericordiam ♪ 939 01:08:29,346 --> 01:08:31,346 ♪ Tuam ♪ 940 01:08:32,514 --> 01:08:37,011 ♪ Miserere mei ♪ 941 01:08:38,146 --> 01:08:43,017 ♪ Deus ♪ 942 01:08:44,153 --> 01:08:46,119 Just give her five minutes, then the stage is yours. 943 01:08:47,793 --> 01:08:49,364 Show's not till 7 tomorrow, 944 01:08:49,399 --> 01:08:50,860 so I assume you should have plenty of time to set up? 945 01:08:52,028 --> 01:08:53,060 Okay, sure. 946 01:08:53,667 --> 01:08:56,030 ♪ Misericordiam... ♪ 947 01:08:56,065 --> 01:08:58,736 A year ago, I couldn't even get her to sing in the car. 948 01:09:02,412 --> 01:09:03,477 She's your daughter? 949 01:09:04,348 --> 01:09:05,380 Yeah. 950 01:09:06,647 --> 01:09:08,713 She booked her first TV job last week. 951 01:09:09,048 --> 01:09:10,187 I mean, nothing much. 952 01:09:11,190 --> 01:09:13,850 A walk-on on one of those hidden camera shows? But she loved it. 953 01:09:13,885 --> 01:09:14,917 What was the show? 954 01:09:15,286 --> 01:09:16,424 They never tell you that. 955 01:09:17,360 --> 01:09:19,196 They had her playing in the park or something? 956 01:09:19,598 --> 01:09:21,231 The casting director, she was lovely. 957 01:09:22,058 --> 01:09:24,058 She was great, great with kids. 958 01:09:24,860 --> 01:09:26,236 Do you have kids? Should take them there. 959 01:09:27,899 --> 01:09:30,064 Bishop and Rook. I mean, amazing. 960 01:09:30,366 --> 01:09:31,835 It's so good. Bishop and Rook? 961 01:09:31,870 --> 01:09:34,167 WOMAN: Yeah, she's great with kids, yeah. 962 01:09:35,236 --> 01:09:37,005 Can't wait for her to book another job. 963 01:09:38,349 --> 01:09:40,976 ("MISERERE MEI DEUS" BY THE NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE CHOIR) 964 01:09:41,011 --> 01:09:47,356 ♪ Miserere mei... ♪ 965 01:09:47,391 --> 01:09:48,522 (GLASS SHATTERING) 966 01:09:56,895 --> 01:10:00,193 ♪ Deus ♪ 967 01:10:00,932 --> 01:10:07,101 ♪ Secundum magnam ♪ 968 01:10:07,136 --> 01:10:13,580 ♪ Misericordiam... ♪ 969 01:10:27,464 --> 01:10:33,094 ♪ Tuam ♪ 970 01:11:04,930 --> 01:11:06,259 (LOCK CLICKS) 971 01:11:06,294 --> 01:11:09,834 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 972 01:11:20,484 --> 01:11:21,516 Reservation? 973 01:11:44,134 --> 01:11:45,507 (PLATED CLATTERING) 974 01:12:20,170 --> 01:12:26,878 (CROWD APPLAUD) 975 01:12:32,919 --> 01:12:35,282 WAITRESS: Mister? You forgot something. 976 01:12:44,766 --> 01:12:45,765 (FIRE CRACKLES) Oh! 977 01:12:46,100 --> 01:12:48,867 Oh! (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 978 01:12:57,581 --> 01:12:58,745 Don't fucking move. 979 01:13:00,276 --> 01:13:02,408 Umm... I'll have another vodka tonic, actually. 980 01:13:02,443 --> 01:13:05,620 And my associate here, a whiskey, I believe? 981 01:13:09,417 --> 01:13:11,087 Stand up. We're not doing this here. 982 01:13:11,122 --> 01:13:12,726 Well, I believe we are. What, you think 983 01:13:12,761 --> 01:13:14,530 that revolver is going to convince me otherwise? 984 01:13:15,258 --> 01:13:16,257 Why don't you give it a go? 985 01:13:16,959 --> 01:13:18,831 I'm not sure you'll have much luck, though, 986 01:13:18,866 --> 01:13:20,569 considering we took all the bullets out of the gun. 987 01:13:24,575 --> 01:13:25,706 Bullshit. 988 01:13:25,741 --> 01:13:27,301 Well, there's only one way to find out. 989 01:13:30,911 --> 01:13:33,978 Right. So, I think we are going to do this, 990 01:13:34,280 --> 01:13:35,309 so why don't you take a seat? 991 01:13:45,024 --> 01:13:47,992 What do you want? From you? Nothing. 992 01:13:48,797 --> 01:13:49,895 Then who are you? 993 01:13:50,330 --> 01:13:51,897 Say a young couple wants to get married. 994 01:13:51,932 --> 01:13:53,327 They find themselves a wedding planner. 995 01:13:53,629 --> 01:13:55,505 Or if you want to host a fancy dinner party, 996 01:13:55,874 --> 01:13:57,298 you hire a chef. 997 01:13:57,566 --> 01:13:59,806 But if you need to turn someone's world upside down, 998 01:14:00,275 --> 01:14:01,335 then you hire me. 999 01:14:02,171 --> 01:14:03,436 And that's what you think you're doing? 1000 01:14:03,471 --> 01:14:05,944 No, it's what I've done. The proof of that is you 1001 01:14:06,646 --> 01:14:08,078 sitting right opposite me. Thank you. 1002 01:14:09,345 --> 01:14:10,751 The reason I'm sitting opposite you is 1003 01:14:10,786 --> 01:14:12,181 because I found your fake daughter. 1004 01:14:13,349 --> 01:14:15,316 You're a sicko, endangering a kid like that. 1005 01:14:15,351 --> 01:14:17,956 Endangered? (CHUCKLES) That's a bit dramatic, isn't it? 1006 01:14:18,525 --> 01:14:20,761 That little angel went home with 300 dollars in her pocket. 1007 01:14:21,029 --> 01:14:22,125 All she had to do was pretend to be 1008 01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:23,324 someone else for a few hours. 1009 01:14:24,293 --> 01:14:27,097 Isn't that what you've been doing the last 25 years? 1010 01:14:28,804 --> 01:14:31,464 Do you know, the difference between you and I 1011 01:14:32,368 --> 01:14:33,543 is that I know what I am. 1012 01:14:34,777 --> 01:14:37,371 I'm a liar. And I'm fucking good at it. 1013 01:14:38,473 --> 01:14:39,780 I can be anything you want me to be. 1014 01:14:39,815 --> 01:14:41,980 Could be a person, a company, a scenario. 1015 01:14:42,215 --> 01:14:44,510 Usually, the marks are sort of politicians and CEOs. 1016 01:14:44,545 --> 01:14:46,655 They're always boring. They're always forgettable. 1017 01:14:46,957 --> 01:14:48,382 And that's what separates you from them. 1018 01:14:48,417 --> 01:14:50,890 What, because I'm not boring? Oh no, you're very boring. 1019 01:14:51,292 --> 01:14:52,452 But you're not forgettable. 1020 01:14:52,854 --> 01:14:54,322 And that's why I took this assignment. 1021 01:14:54,724 --> 01:14:57,930 Because history is going to remember you, Bruce. 1022 01:14:58,669 --> 01:15:00,031 And that really bothers me. 1023 01:15:01,672 --> 01:15:04,673 Because you dress in your sort of Sam Shepard clothes, 1024 01:15:04,908 --> 01:15:07,005 and you drink like Capote and live like Thompson, 1025 01:15:07,474 --> 01:15:09,810 all so the world will know there's artistic genius, 1026 01:15:09,845 --> 01:15:11,647 but you and I know there's no artistic genius. 1027 01:15:11,682 --> 01:15:12,846 There's no mystique. Shut it. 1028 01:15:12,881 --> 01:15:13,880 You got lucky. 1029 01:15:14,215 --> 01:15:16,212 You built your ivory tower brick by brick with lies. 1030 01:15:16,247 --> 01:15:17,719 Shut your fucking mouth. And I'm here 1031 01:15:18,121 --> 01:15:19,721 to make sure you burn in it. 1032 01:15:21,692 --> 01:15:24,055 'Cause you see, it's pride that's the Achilles' heel 1033 01:15:24,323 --> 01:15:25,694 of mediocre men. 1034 01:15:25,729 --> 01:15:27,058 Shut it with your fucking pride talk. 1035 01:15:27,093 --> 01:15:28,323 That's not the reason why I'm here. 1036 01:15:28,358 --> 01:15:30,490 Right. Sorry. Yes, of course. My bad. So... 1037 01:15:31,933 --> 01:15:34,032 that little girl, I so carelessly endangered. 1038 01:15:34,901 --> 01:15:37,233 Okay, total hypothetical here, what if, just what if, 1039 01:15:37,268 --> 01:15:40,203 I wanted you to find the girl, her mother, my office, 1040 01:15:40,438 --> 01:15:41,611 the stack of receipts, all of it? Right. 1041 01:15:41,879 --> 01:15:43,877 Right, well, that would make you a fucking genius, 1042 01:15:43,912 --> 01:15:45,945 and I don't think you are. No. 1043 01:15:48,444 --> 01:15:49,509 Probably not. 1044 01:15:50,578 --> 01:15:52,545 (GLASS CLINKS) 1045 01:15:54,791 --> 01:15:58,056 (CROWD APPLAUD) 1046 01:16:07,672 --> 01:16:09,298 WAITRESS: Mister? Mister? 1047 01:16:10,466 --> 01:16:11,465 You forgot something. 1048 01:16:12,633 --> 01:16:16,140 WAITRESS: Mister? Mister? You forgot something. 1049 01:16:16,978 --> 01:16:18,208 Wait... 1050 01:16:18,243 --> 01:16:19,539 (FIRE CRACKLES) Oh! 1051 01:16:20,377 --> 01:16:21,409 Wait. 1052 01:16:22,078 --> 01:16:23,917 LAURA: I'm not sure you'll have much luck, though, 1053 01:16:23,952 --> 01:16:25,622 considering we took all the bullets out of the gun. 1054 01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:29,186 BRUCE: Bullshit. LAURA: There's only one way to find out. 1055 01:16:29,221 --> 01:16:30,319 There's only one way to find out. 1056 01:16:30,827 --> 01:16:31,892 (GUN CROCS) 1057 01:16:33,588 --> 01:16:36,094 Wait. Hold on. 1058 01:16:37,295 --> 01:16:38,558 Listen, I don't know... 1059 01:16:39,770 --> 01:16:42,496 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1060 01:16:50,143 --> 01:16:52,143 Who are you? Oh, nobody important. 1061 01:16:52,915 --> 01:16:54,046 I'm just the messenger. 1062 01:16:56,413 --> 01:16:58,347 Then who's sending the fucking messages? 1063 01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:02,285 Don't worry, Bruce. You'll see him soon enough. 1064 01:17:21,911 --> 01:17:22,976 You all right? 1065 01:17:24,705 --> 01:17:26,144 I've got a steak in the fridge if you like. 1066 01:17:27,213 --> 01:17:28,212 Come on. 1067 01:17:36,156 --> 01:17:38,519 (SAUL BARKS, GROWLS) BRUCE: Saul? 1068 01:17:38,988 --> 01:17:40,290 Saul? (SAUL BARKING) 1069 01:17:40,725 --> 01:17:42,655 Saul! Hey! Hey! (SAUL HOWLING) 1070 01:17:43,097 --> 01:17:44,162 Saul! 1071 01:17:44,868 --> 01:17:47,330 (SAUL GROWLING) 1072 01:17:47,365 --> 01:17:48,628 Saul! 1073 01:17:48,663 --> 01:17:52,566 (SAUL BARKING, WHINING) 1074 01:18:00,818 --> 01:18:02,510 (SAUL WHINING) 1075 01:18:03,854 --> 01:18:04,853 Fuck. 1076 01:18:07,891 --> 01:18:08,923 Saul! 1077 01:18:13,897 --> 01:18:15,655 (GUNSHOT) 1078 01:18:16,361 --> 01:18:19,659 (GUNSHOTS) 1079 01:18:22,268 --> 01:18:23,333 (GRUNTS) 1080 01:18:26,503 --> 01:18:28,778 (PANTS) 1081 01:18:31,508 --> 01:18:33,343 (BULLETS CLINKING) 1082 01:18:33,611 --> 01:18:34,883 (GUNSHOT) 1083 01:18:36,612 --> 01:18:39,118 (PANTS) 1084 01:18:40,055 --> 01:18:42,121 (GUNSHOT) 1085 01:18:44,422 --> 01:18:49,766 (DOOR CREAKS, SLAMS) 1086 01:18:54,564 --> 01:18:55,761 Hello? 1087 01:18:55,796 --> 01:18:57,367 (PANTS) 1088 01:18:57,402 --> 01:18:58,434 DWIGHT: Bruce? 1089 01:18:59,140 --> 01:19:00,733 (GUN CROCS) 1090 01:19:05,410 --> 01:19:08,708 That dog of yours has got a lot of spirit. 1091 01:19:11,955 --> 01:19:13,482 Do you want to come out and talk about it? 1092 01:19:16,322 --> 01:19:17,453 No? 1093 01:19:21,591 --> 01:19:22,623 Okay. 1094 01:19:25,496 --> 01:19:27,628 Hell of a gun you got yourself here, Bruce. 1095 01:19:29,170 --> 01:19:31,170 If I would have had one of these on the day, 1096 01:19:33,273 --> 01:19:35,735 I would have gotten a lot more than 13, I'll tell you that. 1097 01:19:37,343 --> 01:19:38,947 Like shooting fish in a barrel. 1098 01:19:41,248 --> 01:19:42,610 The first eight I killed, 1099 01:19:43,349 --> 01:19:44,447 they were easy. 1100 01:19:44,982 --> 01:19:46,086 They just stood there. 1101 01:19:47,023 --> 01:19:48,022 Emotionless. 1102 01:19:49,025 --> 01:19:50,123 Confused. 1103 01:19:51,390 --> 01:19:53,093 Like they couldn't make sense of any of it. 1104 01:19:56,967 --> 01:19:58,065 (DOOR CREAKS) 1105 01:20:01,796 --> 01:20:03,796 'Cause you can't make sense out of madness now... 1106 01:20:05,701 --> 01:20:06,700 can you, Bruce? 1107 01:20:09,111 --> 01:20:10,473 No. You can't. 1108 01:20:11,806 --> 01:20:13,377 But you killed 13, not eight. 1109 01:20:14,809 --> 01:20:16,182 What were the other five guilty of? 1110 01:20:21,288 --> 01:20:22,683 Running in straight lines, I guess. 1111 01:20:25,160 --> 01:20:26,159 Ah. 1112 01:20:26,427 --> 01:20:28,128 I really wish that you and I had met 1113 01:20:28,163 --> 01:20:29,690 under different circumstances. 1114 01:20:30,693 --> 01:20:31,857 Because I've got a lot of questions 1115 01:20:31,892 --> 01:20:33,100 about that book of yours. 1116 01:20:33,135 --> 01:20:34,101 (BANGS) 1117 01:20:36,699 --> 01:20:38,402 (GRUNTS) (GRUNTS) 1118 01:20:42,672 --> 01:20:44,837 (CHOKES, WHEEZES) 1119 01:20:45,172 --> 01:20:47,840 Shh! Shh! 1120 01:20:49,415 --> 01:20:50,579 Don't worry, Bruce. 1121 01:20:52,418 --> 01:20:55,287 I ain't letting you die, I'll make sure of that. 1122 01:20:56,125 --> 01:20:57,223 You see, 1123 01:20:57,925 --> 01:21:02,426 I gave 20 years of my fucking life for that book of yours. 1124 01:21:04,265 --> 01:21:06,100 And now I'm going to need some answers. 1125 01:21:07,730 --> 01:21:09,268 Eight hundred pages' worth. 1126 01:21:09,570 --> 01:21:13,008 And there is nothing, and I mean nothing, 1127 01:21:13,043 --> 01:21:15,010 that I'm not willing to do. 1128 01:21:16,112 --> 01:21:18,112 (GRUNTS) "There they go. 1129 01:21:18,614 --> 01:21:20,917 One by one, two by two, 1130 01:21:22,316 --> 01:21:23,381 that long line 1131 01:21:23,783 --> 01:21:25,779 crawling its way up the sidewalk. 1132 01:21:26,551 --> 01:21:27,583 Builders. 1133 01:21:28,388 --> 01:21:29,453 Doctors. 1134 01:21:29,988 --> 01:21:32,027 Farmers. Plumbers. Thieves. 1135 01:21:32,462 --> 01:21:35,063 All entering God's house like ants 1136 01:21:35,432 --> 01:21:37,725 walking across a picnic blanket." 1137 01:21:40,796 --> 01:21:42,697 God, you've got a way with words, Bruce. 1138 01:21:43,832 --> 01:21:45,139 "Then the priest thought..." 1139 01:21:45,900 --> 01:21:47,108 (GRUNTS) 1140 01:21:47,577 --> 01:21:49,946 "...why don't they join me out here on the grass? 1141 01:21:50,648 --> 01:21:53,477 That way, the ones who want sun, get it, 1142 01:21:53,745 --> 01:21:56,150 and the ones that don't, don't. (GRUNTS) 1143 01:21:56,652 --> 01:21:58,988 This way, I can tell them the truth. 1144 01:21:59,584 --> 01:22:01,419 That it's 95 degrees. 1145 01:22:02,422 --> 01:22:03,784 That's all I know for certain. 1146 01:22:07,460 --> 01:22:10,362 The rest is up for interpretation." 1147 01:22:12,102 --> 01:22:13,761 (GRUNTS) 1148 01:22:18,768 --> 01:22:20,603 (PANTS) 1149 01:22:30,153 --> 01:22:31,185 The book... 1150 01:22:33,288 --> 01:22:34,419 What does it all mean? 1151 01:22:34,454 --> 01:22:36,850 (CHOKING, SOBBING) 1152 01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:40,293 Pl... Please... 1153 01:22:44,926 --> 01:22:46,035 Well, I would like to tell you... 1154 01:22:50,173 --> 01:22:51,370 but the truth is... 1155 01:22:55,035 --> 01:22:56,144 I didn't write it. 1156 01:22:57,378 --> 01:22:58,509 (GUNSHOT) 1157 01:23:00,381 --> 01:23:04,581 (DWIGHT THUDDING TO GROUND) (PANTS) 1158 01:23:04,616 --> 01:23:05,747 (CAR ENGINE REVVING) 1159 01:23:08,290 --> 01:23:09,619 (CAR ENGINE REVVING) (DOOR CREAKING) 1160 01:23:23,371 --> 01:23:24,502 (SAUL WHINING) 1161 01:24:14,158 --> 01:24:15,289 MAN: (OVER PHONE) Professor. 1162 01:24:16,292 --> 01:24:20,921 Elijah's been on life support for the past two weeks. 1163 01:24:23,024 --> 01:24:26,135 Even if he woke up, he'd never be the same. 1164 01:24:27,369 --> 01:24:29,600 My wife and I agree that... 1165 01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:33,868 we need to end his suffering. 1166 01:24:34,103 --> 01:24:35,606 (PHOENIX SCREAMING) 1167 01:24:37,544 --> 01:24:38,510 (SIGHS) 1168 01:25:23,623 --> 01:25:24,820 ELIJAH: What would I write about? 1169 01:25:26,659 --> 01:25:29,198 BRUCE: Anything. Anything you want. 1170 01:25:29,794 --> 01:25:30,991 It's about a priest. 1171 01:25:32,830 --> 01:25:33,961 BRUCE: Does it have a title? 1172 01:25:34,496 --> 01:25:36,029 ELIJAH: No, not yet. 1173 01:25:48,351 --> 01:25:50,450 (PEN LID CLICKING) (PAPER RUSTLING) 1174 01:26:17,072 --> 01:26:19,875 (PAPER RUSTLING) 1175 01:26:29,590 --> 01:26:30,721 (SIGHS) 1176 01:26:39,897 --> 01:26:42,700 (MACHINE WHIRRING) 1177 01:27:08,827 --> 01:27:09,892 (EXHALES) 1178 01:27:15,064 --> 01:27:18,670 (RADIO BUTTON CLICKING) (RADIO FREQUENCY STATIC) 1179 01:27:27,384 --> 01:27:32,387 GERMAN WOMAN: (OVER RADIO) Zwei, sechs, sechs, zwei. 1180 01:27:32,889 --> 01:27:36,050 (RADIO FREQUENCY STATIC) 1181 01:27:36,285 --> 01:27:38,822 GERMAN WOMAN: (OVER RADIO) Zwei, zwei, sechs, 1182 01:27:39,224 --> 01:27:41,627 sechs, zwei, neun. 1183 01:27:42,795 --> 01:27:47,996 Eins, eins, funf, eins, vier, neun. 1184 01:27:49,098 --> 01:27:54,409 Zwei, zwei, sechs, sechs, zwei, neun. 1185 01:27:58,338 --> 01:28:04,177 (JEEP ENGINE REVS) 1186 01:28:42,052 --> 01:28:44,690 GERMAN WOMAN: (OVER RADIO) Zwei, zwei, sechs, 1187 01:28:45,159 --> 01:28:47,627 sechs, zwei, neun. 1188 01:28:52,227 --> 01:28:56,636 Eins, eins, funf, eins, zehn. 1189 01:29:13,314 --> 01:29:15,523 GERMAN WOMAN: (OVER RADIO) Zwei, zwei, 1190 01:29:16,058 --> 01:29:21,023 sechs, sechs, zwei, neun. 1191 01:29:41,584 --> 01:29:42,748 GERMAN WOMAN: (OVER RADIO) Eins. 1192 01:29:44,279 --> 01:29:45,454 Eins. 1193 01:29:47,524 --> 01:29:48,721 Sechs. 1194 01:29:50,219 --> 01:29:51,251 Eins. 1195 01:29:53,024 --> 01:29:53,990 Sieben. 1196 01:29:55,763 --> 01:29:56,795 Zwei. 1197 01:29:58,634 --> 01:29:59,732 Neun. 1198 01:29:59,967 --> 01:30:06,607 (BELLS CHIMING IN RADIO) 1199 01:30:16,982 --> 01:30:21,380 BRUCE: "There they go. One by one, two by two, 1200 01:30:21,415 --> 01:30:23,954 that long line crawling its way up the sidewalk. 1201 01:30:24,957 --> 01:30:29,322 Builders, doctors, teachers, farmers, plumbers, thieves. 1202 01:30:30,127 --> 01:30:32,600 All entering God's house like ants 1203 01:30:33,603 --> 01:30:35,471 marching across a picnic blanket. 1204 01:30:36,463 --> 01:30:37,572 (PAPER RUSTLES) 1205 01:30:39,972 --> 01:30:42,808 (PANTS) 1206 01:30:46,209 --> 01:30:47,274 Elijah? 1207 01:30:57,022 --> 01:30:58,120 How did you find me? 1208 01:31:02,390 --> 01:31:07,195 W... with lots and lots... 1209 01:31:08,803 --> 01:31:12,035 of patience. 1210 01:31:18,978 --> 01:31:20,175 (EXHALES) 1211 01:31:28,284 --> 01:31:29,415 How long have you been here? 1212 01:31:30,484 --> 01:31:33,892 Almost five years, Professor. 1213 01:31:35,225 --> 01:31:36,389 Oh, God. 1214 01:31:43,068 --> 01:31:46,938 (MACHINE BEEPING) (METAL CLANGING) 1215 01:31:52,275 --> 01:31:54,583 Cause and effect. 1216 01:31:55,685 --> 01:31:57,751 Action and reaction. 1217 01:31:58,019 --> 01:32:01,590 If you know the physical properties of something, 1218 01:32:02,359 --> 01:32:05,726 you can make it do almost anything you... 1219 01:32:06,861 --> 01:32:07,893 want. 1220 01:32:09,358 --> 01:32:11,732 Human beings are no different. 1221 01:32:14,902 --> 01:32:16,033 (SIGHS) 1222 01:32:20,006 --> 01:32:21,137 So, you knew I was coming? 1223 01:32:21,439 --> 01:32:23,612 I was hoping for that 1224 01:32:24,505 --> 01:32:25,944 conclusion, yes. 1225 01:32:27,376 --> 01:32:29,915 I'm not a fortune teller, I'm just a... 1226 01:32:31,347 --> 01:32:32,687 just a writer. 1227 01:32:34,581 --> 01:32:37,219 You see, all I did was 1228 01:32:37,254 --> 01:32:42,059 place a few obstacles in your path, and then I... 1229 01:32:43,425 --> 01:32:46,261 waited to see what you would do. 1230 01:32:47,737 --> 01:32:51,530 And I must confess that the dog... 1231 01:32:55,943 --> 01:32:57,536 was a nice touch. 1232 01:32:59,408 --> 01:33:04,543 How is Saul doing by the way, hm? 1233 01:33:05,953 --> 01:33:07,150 He'll live. 1234 01:33:09,088 --> 01:33:11,759 Will Mr. Tufford be joining us today? 1235 01:33:14,489 --> 01:33:16,764 (SIGHS) ELIJAH: I see. 1236 01:33:17,333 --> 01:33:20,526 That's good. I never was very... 1237 01:33:20,928 --> 01:33:23,639 very fond of that ending anyway. 1238 01:33:24,108 --> 01:33:25,168 What ending is that? 1239 01:33:27,337 --> 01:33:29,139 ELIJAH: Every story 1240 01:33:29,608 --> 01:33:32,175 ends in one of two ways. 1241 01:33:33,409 --> 01:33:37,686 Either the hero faces his fears and is reborn, 1242 01:33:39,151 --> 01:33:40,854 or he is punished 1243 01:33:41,857 --> 01:33:44,154 for failing to change. 1244 01:33:44,789 --> 01:33:48,895 And I'm really curious, Professor. 1245 01:33:50,866 --> 01:33:52,327 Which one are you? 1246 01:33:54,936 --> 01:33:56,034 Don't you lecture me. 1247 01:33:57,807 --> 01:33:58,872 What was I supposed to do? 1248 01:34:00,172 --> 01:34:02,337 Your father told me, he was gonna 1249 01:34:02,372 --> 01:34:03,844 turn your fucking machine off. 1250 01:34:04,546 --> 01:34:07,144 And that book was too important 1251 01:34:07,179 --> 01:34:08,816 to just sit on the fucking shelf! 1252 01:34:09,351 --> 01:34:10,444 What do you want from me? 1253 01:34:10,679 --> 01:34:11,984 What do you want from me? 1254 01:34:12,019 --> 01:34:15,218 I only wish to take 1255 01:34:16,023 --> 01:34:17,726 what you're willing to give me. 1256 01:34:20,654 --> 01:34:22,225 (GAS HISSES) 1257 01:34:25,560 --> 01:34:26,834 (FIRE CRACKLES) 1258 01:34:29,168 --> 01:34:30,266 All right. 1259 01:34:31,368 --> 01:34:34,039 (SIGHS) (FIRE CRACKLES) 1260 01:34:34,074 --> 01:34:37,746 (HISSES) (SIGHS) Right. 1261 01:34:38,515 --> 01:34:40,012 And the point to all of this is... 1262 01:34:40,509 --> 01:34:41,574 (EXHALES) 1263 01:34:42,313 --> 01:34:43,411 ...is punishment? 1264 01:34:44,645 --> 01:34:47,250 Justice? Retribution? Atonement? 1265 01:34:47,923 --> 01:34:50,220 That's the point, is it? 1266 01:34:50,255 --> 01:34:52,354 Writer's block. 1267 01:34:55,656 --> 01:34:57,799 (FIRE CRACKLES) (ELIJAH SIGHING) 1268 01:34:58,395 --> 01:35:00,461 Since you stole... 1269 01:35:02,168 --> 01:35:04,267 my first book, Bruce, I... 1270 01:35:05,171 --> 01:35:06,170 I thought you... 1271 01:35:06,605 --> 01:35:10,878 you wouldn't mind helping me... 1272 01:35:12,948 --> 01:35:14,882 write my second book. 1273 01:35:19,515 --> 01:35:20,580 But then... 1274 01:35:21,649 --> 01:35:23,187 the more I wrote, 1275 01:35:24,828 --> 01:35:26,894 the more I realized, 1276 01:35:28,227 --> 01:35:30,425 "This is not my story." 1277 01:35:32,297 --> 01:35:34,066 (FIRE CRACKLES) 1278 01:35:34,101 --> 01:35:37,971 I know you... you didn't write it. 1279 01:35:39,535 --> 01:35:43,669 (SIGHS) But you lived it. 1280 01:35:44,980 --> 01:35:48,949 Every page, every line, every word. 1281 01:35:55,221 --> 01:35:57,188 Don't worry, Professor. 1282 01:35:58,620 --> 01:35:59,927 This is a... 1283 01:36:00,622 --> 01:36:01,896 a happy ending. 1284 01:36:14,339 --> 01:36:16,504 For 25 years, 1285 01:36:16,539 --> 01:36:20,475 the world has waited for 1286 01:36:21,010 --> 01:36:25,821 Bruce Cogburn's next masterpiece. 1287 01:36:26,747 --> 01:36:27,955 And today, 1288 01:36:29,189 --> 01:36:31,288 today is the day 1289 01:36:31,657 --> 01:36:33,686 that we give it to them. 1290 01:36:33,988 --> 01:36:35,391 (FIRE CRACKLES) 1291 01:36:39,463 --> 01:36:40,495 Why are you doing this? 1292 01:36:41,828 --> 01:36:47,139 I need to know that I am more than a book... 1293 01:36:50,045 --> 01:36:51,572 full of rage. 1294 01:36:53,840 --> 01:36:55,048 (BREATHES DEEPLY) 1295 01:36:57,712 --> 01:36:59,712 I truly believed that you had died. 1296 01:37:03,025 --> 01:37:04,189 I was dead. 1297 01:37:06,886 --> 01:37:09,359 For 19 minutes. 1298 01:37:12,133 --> 01:37:15,937 Would you like to know what I found on the other side? 1299 01:37:16,239 --> 01:37:18,467 (FIRE CRACKLES) 1300 01:37:18,502 --> 01:37:24,176 (CHUCKLES WEAKLY) I... I found... 1301 01:37:26,411 --> 01:37:27,542 nothing. 1302 01:37:29,348 --> 01:37:31,711 My whole life, I... 1303 01:37:31,979 --> 01:37:36,386 I blamed God for everything that was 1304 01:37:37,620 --> 01:37:39,290 wrong with me, and I... 1305 01:37:40,359 --> 01:37:43,063 wanted so much for the world to... 1306 01:37:43,098 --> 01:37:46,759 to know Him the way that I knew Him as a... 1307 01:37:49,632 --> 01:37:51,467 a child, 1308 01:37:53,207 --> 01:37:55,570 a cruel child with a... 1309 01:37:56,672 --> 01:37:58,837 with a magnifying glass. 1310 01:37:58,872 --> 01:38:02,379 And we are just the ants that He plays with. 1311 01:38:05,780 --> 01:38:06,779 But then... 1312 01:38:08,519 --> 01:38:09,683 I died. 1313 01:38:12,094 --> 01:38:14,556 And I realized... 1314 01:38:18,232 --> 01:38:20,562 there is no child. 1315 01:38:22,302 --> 01:38:25,864 There is no magnifying glass. 1316 01:38:28,572 --> 01:38:30,902 There is only us ants. 1317 01:38:33,577 --> 01:38:36,380 And we are the ones who 1318 01:38:37,779 --> 01:38:39,119 started the fire. 1319 01:38:41,156 --> 01:38:44,256 All those misguided gods, 1320 01:38:44,291 --> 01:38:46,390 all those beliefs... 1321 01:38:46,425 --> 01:38:50,966 (FIRE CRACKLES) ...all bullshit. 1322 01:38:51,496 --> 01:38:52,759 (FIRE CRACKLES) 1323 01:39:04,608 --> 01:39:05,805 (SIGHS) 1324 01:39:09,481 --> 01:39:10,810 (INHALES DEEPLY) 1325 01:39:30,436 --> 01:39:31,765 Oh, what is that? 1326 01:39:34,869 --> 01:39:39,872 It's a letter. Who is that 1327 01:39:43,647 --> 01:39:44,712 To my agent. 1328 01:39:47,255 --> 01:39:49,288 (FIRE CRACKLES) 1329 01:39:56,528 --> 01:39:58,495 I'm done playing this part. 1330 01:40:00,862 --> 01:40:04,171 What did you put in that letter, Bruce? 1331 01:40:09,673 --> 01:40:10,738 Bruce? 1332 01:40:12,247 --> 01:40:13,246 Professor? 1333 01:40:14,480 --> 01:40:17,349 (SCREAMS) Professor! 1334 01:40:17,384 --> 01:40:19,318 (ALIJAH SOBBING) 1335 01:40:20,453 --> 01:40:22,288 What's in that letter? 1336 01:40:24,919 --> 01:40:26,985 The truth, Elijah. 1337 01:40:28,230 --> 01:40:29,262 It's the truth. 1338 01:40:30,859 --> 01:40:31,891 (TELEPHONE BEEPING) 1339 01:40:33,202 --> 01:40:35,202 (TELEPHONE DIALING) 1340 01:40:38,933 --> 01:40:43,540 (SOBS) (MODEM BEEPS) 1341 01:40:56,588 --> 01:40:59,094 (HISSES) 1342 01:41:01,296 --> 01:41:02,922 (FIRE CRACKLES) 1343 01:41:07,060 --> 01:41:08,829 (SCREAMS) 1344 01:41:08,864 --> 01:41:11,931 (EXPLOSION) 1345 01:41:31,293 --> 01:41:35,922 (PAPER RUSTLING) 1346 01:42:04,293 --> 01:42:05,853 (CLANGS) 1347 01:42:10,695 --> 01:42:11,793 (SIGHS) 1348 01:42:17,966 --> 01:42:22,177 (WATER SPLASHES) (GROANS) 1349 01:42:24,676 --> 01:42:25,675 Elijah? 1350 01:42:27,646 --> 01:42:30,515 (COUGHS) This is incredible writing. 1351 01:42:31,518 --> 01:42:32,649 ELIJAH: Thank you, Professor. 1352 01:42:33,218 --> 01:42:34,618 BRUCE: It's exquisite. 1353 01:42:34,653 --> 01:42:37,192 Now, bugger off. Yes. Thank you. 1354 01:42:40,560 --> 01:42:44,859 BRUCE: I'm serious, Elijah. Everything I read of yours, 1355 01:42:45,161 --> 01:42:47,895 it's so surprising to me. It's unpredictable. 1356 01:42:48,799 --> 01:42:51,338 You need to be a professional writer. 1357 01:42:51,773 --> 01:42:54,770 What if I don't have anything to say? 1358 01:42:56,807 --> 01:42:58,345 BRUCE: Then you're not digging deep enough. 1359 01:43:00,041 --> 01:43:01,073 Dig deep. 1360 01:43:02,516 --> 01:43:03,515 Elijah? 1361 01:43:06,388 --> 01:43:08,179 What do you think, Professor? 1362 01:43:09,017 --> 01:43:10,225 I can't wait to read it. 1363 01:43:11,558 --> 01:43:14,526 ELIJAH: Dig deep. Dig deep. 1364 01:43:14,561 --> 01:43:17,562 BRUCE: What's that? Dig deep. 1365 01:43:19,500 --> 01:43:23,095 I don't think I could have dug any deeper than this, Professor. 1366 01:43:26,265 --> 01:43:28,133 He's gonna be so mad at me. 1367 01:43:28,401 --> 01:43:31,411 I'm... I'm supposed to wait. 1368 01:43:32,113 --> 01:43:34,744 I don't know if I can wait. Wait for what? 1369 01:43:37,386 --> 01:43:38,418 Wait for what, Elijah? 1370 01:43:44,118 --> 01:43:46,294 To see the look on God's face. 1371 01:43:50,927 --> 01:43:52,223 No! 1372 01:43:52,258 --> 01:43:53,796 (MUFFLED SCREAM ECHOING) 1373 01:43:54,865 --> 01:43:56,997 ELIJAH'S DAD: (OVER PHONE) My wife and I agree that 1374 01:43:57,265 --> 01:43:59,736 we need to end his suffering. 1375 01:44:00,438 --> 01:44:03,641 Thank you for everything you've done for our boy. 1376 01:44:04,479 --> 01:44:06,479 I have to go. I'm so sorry. 1377 01:44:07,581 --> 01:44:09,174 I appreciate you telling me. 1378 01:44:46,488 --> 01:44:47,487 BRUCE: Who... 1379 01:44:48,523 --> 01:44:50,622 am I? 1380 01:44:54,496 --> 01:44:55,660 Who am I, really? 1381 01:45:00,700 --> 01:45:02,700 That's the question that every protagonist 1382 01:45:02,735 --> 01:45:05,835 needs to answer by the end of their story. 1383 01:45:07,641 --> 01:45:09,806 If your hero hasn't reached 1384 01:45:10,175 --> 01:45:13,304 some sort of cathartic realization about who they are 1385 01:45:13,339 --> 01:45:16,681 or what they believe in by the last page, 1386 01:45:17,183 --> 01:45:19,618 then I'm sorry to inform you, ladies and gents, 1387 01:45:19,886 --> 01:45:21,081 you have failed your reader. 1388 01:45:23,822 --> 01:45:26,856 ELIJAH: Professor. Thank you for everything. 1389 01:45:28,893 --> 01:45:32,026 You are a really good teacher. 1390 01:45:33,128 --> 01:45:34,160 Did you know that? 1391 01:45:37,473 --> 01:45:39,231 You're the only person that gets me. 1392 01:45:42,071 --> 01:45:43,202 You made me a... 1393 01:45:45,074 --> 01:45:49,175 a better writer. You made me... you made me better. 1394 01:45:52,213 --> 01:45:54,180 I couldn't have done this without you. 1395 01:45:55,150 --> 01:45:57,348 BRUCE: The road you construct 1396 01:45:57,383 --> 01:45:59,526 for your characters to travel along, 1397 01:46:00,295 --> 01:46:02,397 it shouldn't be paved, shouldn't be easy. 1398 01:46:04,599 --> 01:46:06,126 Because finding out who you are 1399 01:46:09,032 --> 01:46:10,097 never is. 1400 01:46:17,205 --> 01:46:19,205 ("SUN DON'T SHINE" BY HALEY MCCALLUM PLAYING) 1401 01:46:19,240 --> 01:46:23,616 ♪ Before I lay my head to rest ♪ 1402 01:46:25,488 --> 01:46:31,723 ♪ Gonna get on a train And head out west ♪ 1403 01:46:34,563 --> 01:46:40,699 ♪ Lose myself in the sand And the wine ♪ 1404 01:46:43,000 --> 01:46:49,103 ♪ 'Cause God don't go Where the sun don't shine ♪ 1405 01:46:50,678 --> 01:46:54,548 ♪ The sun don't shine ♪ 1406 01:47:08,795 --> 01:47:14,931 ♪ Lose myself on The side of the road ♪ 1407 01:47:17,265 --> 01:47:23,643 ♪ Where the buzzards bleed And the rain don't go ♪ 1408 01:47:25,713 --> 01:47:32,146 ♪ 'Cause the world is made Of many things ♪ 1409 01:47:34,623 --> 01:47:41,661 ♪ God don't slow On the angel wings ♪ 1410 01:47:41,696 --> 01:47:46,259 ♪ The angel wings ♪ 1411 01:47:59,912 --> 01:48:05,377 ♪ There's always someone Waitin' at the gates ♪ 1412 01:48:08,052 --> 01:48:13,660 ♪ Gonna roll away to heaven On a pair of roller skates ♪ 1413 01:48:16,896 --> 01:48:22,900 ♪ No more waitin' for My time to pass ♪ 1414 01:48:25,234 --> 01:48:31,711 ♪ Life's too short To make things last ♪ 1415 01:48:32,313 --> 01:48:37,717 ♪ To make things last ♪ 1416 01:49:00,808 --> 01:49:07,747 ♪ Says, "Ain't you tired Of bein' so sad? ♪ 1417 01:49:10,609 --> 01:49:16,547 ♪ The bottle in your veins Won't hurt so bad ♪ 1418 01:49:19,288 --> 01:49:25,292 ♪ You can run away with me To a sunny sky ♪ 1419 01:49:29,001 --> 01:49:35,203 ♪ We'll both be older When we die ♪ 1420 01:49:36,404 --> 01:49:41,308 ♪ When we die ♪ 1421 01:50:20,822 --> 01:50:26,023 ♪ Lose myself in the sand And the wine ♪ 1422 01:50:29,490 --> 01:50:35,593 ♪ 'Cause God don't go Where the sun don't shine ♪ 1423 01:50:36,838 --> 01:50:40,037 ♪ Sun don't ♪ 1424 01:50:42,910 --> 01:50:46,406 ♪ Shine ♪