Around the Bend Page #3

- Zach heard "sex fantasy."

Who are you thinking about, Grandpa?

Louise Pearce.

Buck-naked, in her mama's car.

Maybe Alice will play catch with me

naked sometime...

Okay. Just blow the ashes.

Henry wanted us to listen to it loud.

Only kidding.

Sh*t.

We'll come back in the morning.

- I'll wake Zach, we can open the bags now.

- We can't do that.

- Why not?

- Henry wants us to open the bags inside.

He said at a KFC stand,

not in a KFC stand.

- Literature calls them restaurants.

- Fine.

Right. And you don't eat at restaurants,

you eat in restaurants.

- You're kidding me, right?

- No, I'm not.

Okay, then how do you explain that?

Do the cars eat their chicken in,

or do they eat their chicken at?

I don't know. Either way,

they eat their chicken.

We cannot, because we don't

have any chicken.

And that's why we're not

opening the bag out here.

Excuse me.

Excuse me. Hey.

- We're closed.

- Yeah. Look, can I talk to you for a second?

- The registers are closed.

- We don't need the register.

Look, I'll give you 100 bucks

for three drumsticks.

I'm sorry.

- I say we make an exception.

- No.

- Look, we're just gonna skip one meal.

- No!

Why not?

The place doesn't open until 11.

We're here. Let's get it over with.

What is the big deal?

The big deal,

it's not what Henry wanted.

You don't wanna be here,

I'll take you back.

- I didn't say I didn't wanna be here.

- Then act like it.

You think you're the only one

whose life got interrupted by this.

I need this about as much

as I need a bullet in my head.

I don't know about you, but Henry never

asked me to do a thing...

...in his entire life, and he asked me

to do this, and I'm doing it!

Not your way or my way, but his way.

Are we gonna stop or are we

gonna sleep in the van?

I gotta pee.

But if you choose not to abide by

Henry's wishes as he wrote them...

...then the will names Turner

as the sole beneficiary.

- Of what?

- Henry's things.

The collection is worth about $ 220,000.

Hello? You there?

Who gets the things if we do this?

Zach. Henry knew you wouldn't do anything

to deprive Zach of his inheritance.

I don't think that he ever cared much

for you working in that bank.

It's about time.

You guys really love your chicken.

You have no idea, man.

Hey, has anybody seen my phone?

Damn it.

- Zach, you seen my phone?

- No.

- Goddamn it.

- You're kind of a tense person.

You get that from

your mother's people, I think.

Pull the van over.

Turner, pull the van over.

I don't know what etiquette book

you referenced before your homecoming...

...but I don't think they advise

insulting people you left behind.

When did I insult you?

- You called me tense.

- You called me thief.

- You were a thief!

- You were tense. You still are.

Okay. Fine. Maybe right now,

at this point, I am tense.

That does not make me a tense person.

Fair enough.

Fair enough.

I was also a musician.

- What?

- I wasn't just a thief.

In case you wanna update

your point of view.

Yeah. Okay. Let's update

my point of view.

Let's update yours too.

What, are you kidding me?

You show up here after, what,

850 years and think you get to decide...

...what we get to talk about.

F*** you, man. F*** you.

We're not just gonna talk about

the present.

So you can forget the part about

walking out on your family? I didn't forget.

This isn't the first thing

Henry's asked me to do.

He's asked me to do a million things

and I've been happy to do them.

So you don't have the market cornered

on helping Henry. There.

We updated?

Hey, Dad?

Why did Grandpa Turner have to sleep

someplace else last night?

Who's that?

That's me.

I think that's my mom.

What's on the back of it?

"My boy."

Did you go on digs with him?

I wanted him to leave it all in the ground.

The pottery, the bones.

It didn't belong up here.

But...

...my father loved...

...digging up old sh*t.

Oh, excuse me.

I'm looking for Henry Lair.

He's dead, so he can't come to the door.

Dead.

I'm sorry.

Actually, I'm looking for his son, Turner.

Why?

Have we tried the Extra Crispy?

Did we like it?

So how long will you be with us?

Just the night.

Stop.

Oh, that's my Grandpa Henry. He's dead.

I recently lost my...

Ruth. For God's sake, Ruth.

I should never have let her

keep the thing.

It's her brother. Every time

she looks at him, this happens.

His own children didn't want

the damn thing.

Why does she got to keep

the ashes? It's sick.

I didn't...

Are you...?

- You keeping yours?

- No.

Good for you. I mean, dead bodies

are not meant to be...

...inside of people's houses.

- It's sick.

- The keys, please.

- Oh, yes. Of course. Have a good night.

- Good night.

You know, I remember that.

What's Bullhead?

Kind of like this weird

shark-fish thing. Really ugly.

- On your way, huh?

- Yep.

Listen, I wonder if you could

do us a favor.

Could you take this?

- Take it for what?

- Well, for, you know, scattering with...

- What's it for?

- He's bringing the ashes.

Is it okay with your wife?

It was her idea. She, you know...

Ruth. Come here.

She just, you know,

couldn't ask you herself.

We'd really appreciate it.

Put him anywhere.

Just get them out of here.

- He wants us to take the ashes.

- For?

You have a spoon?

- A spoon?

- Maybe we should mix.

What?

Never mind.

We've been mixing the dog's in.

The ashes are probably all

mixed up together anyway.

- I don't know.

- It's not gonna matter. Okay.

- Take care.

- Bye.

- You can't find them?

- We have no reason to think...

...Turner's dangerous.

- He broke out of prison and he has my son.

He didn't break out. He walked out.

And I assure you we'll find them.

- Katrina, stop crying.

- Sorry.

Are you going somewhere?

Yeah, my work is done now.

I go home to rhus.

A woman who slept with a fugitive.

- You slept with Turner?

- Oh, dear.

Well, it's okay. Jason said

I'm allowed to have boyfriends.

He's... He's not a boyfriend.

He's Jason's father.

So? In Denmark, people's fathers

can be boyfriends too.

- Thanks.

- Where are we?

We're here, somewhere.

Yeah. Right there.

Zach, did Henry tell you

where we're going?

Going to Albuquerque?

Owen, your dog's out in the back again.

Goddamn it.

Silver! Get over here! Now!

Where's Zach?

- What?

- Where's Zach?

Stay in the f***ing truck!

Tell your kid to stay away

from my f***ing dog.

What? What are you looking at?

How much is he?

- What?

- Your dog.

F*** you. He ain't for sale.

I'd like to buy him anyway.

You ask me again, somebody else

is gonna end up with your Social Security.

Okay, Turner, let's just go.

- Go!

- You're stealing his dog?

I didn't steal it.

- What do you mean, you didn't steal it?

- Traded for it.

Traded for it with what?

Silver!

Silver!

Goddamn it!

Where were you? Before?

Lots of places.

Well, most recently.

Prison.

- What for?

- Nothing too bad. Didn't do it.

Ever went to prison?

No.

Where was the bus headed?

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