Born Wild Page #6

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Need a hand?

Yeah. Let's go get it.

- Hey, Joey.

- Hey.

Just wanted to see how you were doin'.

Hadn't heard from you since the other day.

It's like 2:
00 in the mornin'.

- That looks sore.

- Yeah.

[ Clears Throat ] Well,

what are you doin' here?

You're a smart guy. You tell me.

[ Laughing ]

I'm sorry Ty was such a jerk the other day.

Can only take so much of him and Jake.

Yeah. That makes two of us.

[ Sighs ] So...

are you just gonna stand there,

or are you gonna invite me in?

Uh, I-I would love to...

No. Hey, no, it's not that.

I-It's... It's just

this is my mom's place.

You don't have to explain it to me.

I still live with my dad at the ranch.

Yeah, well, I, you know...

[ Laughs ]

You wanna go for a walk?

Or a drive.

All right.

- Lived in Banshee your whole life?

- No, no.

I've had more addresses

than a call girl has tricks.

Two years ago, I retired and...

moved back here.

So...

what made you start

writin' me those letters?

A lifetime of regret and your mom.

- Mom?

- Yeah.

After I got back here, I decided I

should get in touch with her and...

try to make up for all

the... pain I'd caused her.

Then... took me a long

time to work up the nerve.

Finally, I called her,

and, uh... [ Laughs ]

she couldn't have been nicer.

All that pain I'd caused her.

She... acted like she'd

found a long-lost friend.

All along I'd had a woman like that,

and I was too thick to know it.

Anyway, the next day,

I went, uh, by her house,

knocked on the door.

No answer.

Turned to leave.

One of her neighbors came out and said

she'd passed away the night before.

One minute she was there,

the next minute, gone.

[ Sighs ]

I spent all those years, and

I could have been making up...

for what I'd done to her.

You're old a lot longer

than you're young, C.J.

I wasted so much time.

I didn't want to have the

same regrets about you.

It's all right, Dad.

[ Engine Shuts Off ]

Well, this is it.

Whose place is this?

My dad's.

Wade lives here?

C.J.

Long story.

Uh, he's not home,

but, uh, he left the key.

Is he, um, cool?

I'm pretty sure of that.

This pipe is loose from the wall.

- Shouldn't be any give, should there?

- No.

No, there shouldn't be anything

on the other side of that wall...

but rock and dirt.

- What do you think?

- Hell if I know.

There's air comin' out of these holes.

Wait a minute.

Look, these holes have been

drilled from the inside.

- God.

- What?

There's light comin' back from there.

Son of a b*tch.

This ain't no water cavity.

Let's find out what this is.

- [ Blows Landing ]

- [ Grunting ]

[ Groaning, Panting ]

[ Groaning ]

Ray. Ray!

Ray.

You all right?

I can think of more fun

ways of bondin' with my son.

Where in the hell are we?

I got no idea.

Last thing I remember... [ Sighs ]

we were breakin' that

wall out in the basement.

Evenin', gents.

[ Grunting ]

Seems you boys picked the wrong time...

to go stickin' your noses

where they don't belong.

How long you known about the tunnel?

That's why you wanted to bail Ricki out.

We found it fixin' the plumbin' tonight.

[ Chuckles ] Is that a fact?

Son of a b*tch! Beat me if you want to!

Come on! He doesn't

know anything, all right?

Trouble just seems to follow

you everywhere, doesn't it, C.J.?

You have really stepped in

a big pile of sh*t this time.

How long you been runnin' drugs, Wade?

[ Laughing ] Drugs?

That's old news, friend.

Show you somethin'.

Weapons is where the real money's at.

We goin' straight into Mexico.

Go f*** yourself.

Listen.

I'm gonna ask real nicely...

one last time.

[ Door Opens ]

Who else knows about the tunnel?

We got the girl.

[ Gasping, Grunting ]

- Ricki.

- Bastard!

- Stay with them.

- How could you?

- [ Gasping ]

- Oh, yeah. You're a tough guy, huh?

You're a real tough guy.

Hey.

What the hell is goin' on?

Damage control. What the

f*** did it look like?

We never discussed this!

What do you think would have

happened when she got to the bar...

and found that little hole in the basement?

- What about Brody?

- He wasn't there.

You let me find him.

I'm already on it.

- Gilley!

- You work for me, you understand?

I call the shots!

And if I were you, I'd

think long and hard...

before I opened my mouth again.

[ Chuckles ]

You got work tomorrow?

- Only till closing.

- [ Chuckling ]

- I should get goin'.

- Okay.

Maybe I'll come by and see you.

I'd like that.

Maybe I'll even hang

out and help you close.

Well, I'd like that even more.

Mom.

[ Screaming ]

- Mom?

- [ Screaming Continues ]

- Brody!

- [ Shouts ]

[ Shouting ]

[ Gagging ]

One more move, and I'll

kill her. I swear to God.

Oh, Brody. Brody.

Joey, it's okay.

[ Gasping, Shouts ]

Oh!

Oh, Joey. Oh.

- [ Groans ]

- Are you all right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I know... him.

He worked for my dad.

Mom.

- Brody?

- Call the police.

Sh*t.

[ Phone Beeping ]

Hey! Hey, police!

What's wrong? What the hell

happened? What the... hell happened?

He... He was in my car.

A-And Brody... Brody came.

Okay. All right.

- Coffee?

- Thank you.

I'm gonna need you to go to

the station with Deputy Brooks.

It's just a formality

with this sort of thing.

- What about my mom?

- We got an APB out on her.

That's the best we can do right now.

Deputy Brooks also said that, uh,

you knew the man that was shot?

Yeah. He worked for my dad.

All righty then.

Well, we're gonna have to check into this.

In the meantime, I need to get

you back to the ranch and your dad.

- Does he even know you're here?

- No, sir.

Well, he's gonna be worried sick.

I wanna go with Brody.

No can do. Not unless you're family.

I'm sorry.

- I'll see you when I'm done.

- Promise?

Promise.

Come on. Right in here.

Okay. Thanks.

[ Man ] Sheriff.

You just hold it right there.

[ Engine Starts ]

Joey, don't.

- Joey!

- [ Gasps ]

Come on. Come on now. Let's get you home.

Come on. Come on, darling.

[ Radio Chatter ]

Hey. Station's back there.

We got called out.

Gonna take but a minute.

[ Radio Chatter, Distorted ]

[ Chuckles ]

It's Brooks. We're en route.

Come on out, Sleeping Beauty.

Get him up.

Come here, you son of a b*tch!

All right!

- So it's come down to this?

- Where's Mom?

She's safe... for now.

If you hurt her, I swear

to God, I'll kill you.

[ Laughing ]

I know you're upset, Brody.

This thing hasn't exactly turned

out how I thought it would either.

You gotta believe me though.

This thing is out of my

control. Now fall in line.

Or what?

Pretty soon, I'm not

gonna be able to help you,

even if I want to.

Oh! Goddamn it!

Sh*t!

Put him in with the others.

Hey, sweetheart.

What did you do?

He was your son.

What was that all about?

Ty's dead.

What do you wanna do?

[ Exhales ]

Drive.

- [ Ricki Gasps ] My God. Brody.

- [ C.J. ] Brody.

- [ Brooks Chuckling ]

- Sh*t.

[ C.J. ] You bastard.

- [ Brody ] You all right?

- I'm fine.

- You okay?

- I'll live.

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