Carolina Moon Page #6

Guess what?

You don't always get what you want.

Come on, pick up.

What's this?

Watch the gun.

This is Bee, as in Queen Bee.

We were gonna drop $300 on a set

of puppy bowls, weren't we, precious?

Cade, wherever your butt is, get it

down to Tory's store right this second.

You're not spending one second

alone or unguarded...

...until your father's behind bars.

Not one second.

Who's gonna guard you?

Talk, Bee.

Talk.

Isn't Mama's Bee just the smartest

puppy that ever lived?

Oh, isn't Mama just the bestest...

...most responsible dog owner,

ever, ever? Ever, ever?

She ran onto the road

right in front of me.

I tried to swerve, but she just...

Calm down. I know this dog.

It belongs to the girl in Tory's store.

Faith, I'm gonna need your help.

Gentlemen, you have to be patient.

Okay, girl, I'm gonna

lay you down on the table.

Good girl. Good girl.

Oh, good. No broken ribs.

Maybe a bruised kidney.

The leg's the worst of it.

Looks like a compound fracture.

Okay, Faith, I need you

to grab that towel...

...and press above

where she's bleeding.

Wade, are you gonna

operate right now?

We're gonna operate.

She's got internal bleeding.

When I need an instrument

I'll describe it...

...and you give it to me

handle first, okay?

- Wade, I can't.

- Faith.

Faith, I'm all alone here.

I need you, okay?

You can do it. I know you can.

- Okay.

- Okay?

Press right there.

Yeah, right there.

Good. Now, press it.

Now hand me the hemostat.

It's the one in the middle,

the curved pair of scissors.

All right. Thank you.

It's okay.

Here we go.

You okay?

No, I haven't seen her.

Actually, I need her to come in.

I left a couple messages.

I was about to stop by her house.

- Is Mongo okay?

- Yeah, she will be.

Sherry's probably looking for her

I'm gonna meet you over there.

Okay. Bye.

Oh, my God, Wade.

I had no idea what it was that you did.

I thought it was all about giving

out shots and cleaning up poop.

- You just saved a life.

- No, we saved a life.

You were awesome.

Would you just shut up

and be my hero for one minute?

And how steady his hands were.

And blood was gushing out

all over the place...

...and he never

so much as flinched.

He was just like George Clooney,

only sexier.

- The door's open. She must be home.

- Don't.

She's dead.

What?

Wait.

We tell the police that we saw the door

open and got a bad feeling, okay?

- Why?

- Just promise me.

Okay.

It's funny, knowing you as I do, I'd say

you poked your head in that door.

Curiosity, if nothing else.

Well, obviously, you don't know me

as well as you think.

So you got a hunch

there was a dead body there?

- Yeah.

- Well, I'm a big believer in hunches.

Since the day, 18 years ago,

when one of Tory's hunches...

...led us to where Hope Lavelle

lay dead.

That and those hunches you followed

in New York City a few years back.

I'm sorry, Tory,

I know you wanted it secret.

Didn't let on we knew.

But we need your help.

What happened in New York's

got nothing to do with this.

Three kids made it back home

because you had hunches.

And one didn't.

But three did. That was one

efficient killer we got working there.

There's nothing left behind.

No sign of what he used to tie her up.

Left no fingerprints,

no footprints in the road.

I'd like you to go in with us,

tell us what you see that we can't.

What makes you think

that I can help?

Somebody's been planning this.

They knew her dog,

they knew how to get into her house.

And I have been here the whole time

and what good did I do?

Hey.

His name was Jonah Mansfield.

I was so messed up over what was

going on with the guy I got it wrong.

I thought it was just one kidnapper.

He died when the police went in.

He was 7 years old.

And Sherry Bellows was fine

until she walked into my store.

Look, hey, you did not kill

Sherry Bellows.

You did not kill Jonah Mansfield

or Hope.

The end of the story's

always the same.

Someone's dead and I'm running.

Running where?

Raleigh for tonight.

Figure out how to close the store down

and take it from there.

Well, I'm going too. To the ends of the

earth if that's where you're headed.

So you can die trying to protect me?

I'm not gonna let that happen.

Tory.

I'm saying goodbye.

You have to let me go.

She's in the kitchen.

She's cooking dinner for her

and Mongo.

She turns the music on.

She likes to have noise around her

while she cooks.

There's somebody else here.

He's feeding Mongo.

Drugging her.

She turns. She's met him before.

She doesn't understand.

"Don't touch me," she says.

"I'll do anything if you don't hurt me."

She knows what he's going to do.

Please don't touch me.

He throws her. He throws her down

on the bed and punches her hard.

He ties her hands behind her back.

He takes a condom out. She wants

to be anywhere else but here.

She can hear the music

in the other room.

It hurts. It hurts.

He puts his hands around her neck

and she can't fight anymore.

Who is he?

He's disappointed.

He didn't want her.

He wants somebody else.

He drops it.

He did leave something behind.

He...

It's...

It's my father's hair.

Sherry met him

when he came into my store.

If this was your father,

this and Hope and the other...

...I can bring that to the FBI and they're

gonna go straight to your mother.

If I know Sari,

anybody with a badge...

...comes knocking on her door

she's gonna clam right up.

If her own people get there first,

you and Wade...

I tried and she's not gonna

talk to me. She hates me.

It's different. He's wanted for murder.

If she hides him, she's an accessory.

Tory Bodeen and another dead body,

what a surprise.

It was awful.

Give me a second to recover.

Then you were there with her?

What are you, best friends now?

Don't you get tired of carrying

this around every second of your life?

I mean, you named your daughters

Faith and Hope.

Don't you have any of either

of those things left?

I fought as hard as I could

for Jennifer and Jessica...

...but once your father

got an idea in his head...

Why don't you get out

of this creepy old house?

You have all the money in the world.

You could...

...buy a villa

in the south of France...

...and have a romance

with a dashing Gypsy.

So the answer to my problems

is I should run around...

...sleeping with everything

that moves, like you.

Well, it's a way of life.

It has its attractions.

Ma, have you left Piedmont County

since Hope died?

Oh, my God, you haven't.

Eighteen years.

Tory.

Hey. You can't go in there.

Get back here.

- Hey. You can't be in here.

- It's her mother.

- Get out. It's a crime scene.

- It's her mother.

Come on. Come on.

Steady. Now, you wanna get his head

right between those two notches.

Now, give her a nice steady squeeze.

Why do I feel more grief

for Sherry Bellows...

...who I knew a couple of weeks,

than I do for my mother?

Well, you used up your grieving

for Sari a long time ago.

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