Certain Women Page #3

-What's to know?

- I just mean he trusts you.

[water gushing]

- Guthrie. Guthrie.

Guthrie.

Come say hi to Albert.

- No.

No way, dad.

Every time we come out here,

you guys swear

it won't take all weekend,

but it always..

- I don't know

why you indulge her.

- I was just talking to her.

I mean, we did tell her

that we weren't gonna

keep her out here all day.

- God, you really can't help it.

-What?

- Making me the bad guy.

Always.

-Whatever.

- I wonder how much more

there might be buried here.

-I don't know.

Let's let him know we're here.

[knocks on door]

- You ask.

- You'll help.

We should've brought him

something.

- Hello, Albert.

-Hey, Albert.

-Hi.

You're back in town?

- Yes.

- Come in.

- Thank you.

Nice and warm.

- Ha!

- Yeah.

Um..

Please.

- Thank you.

How are you?

-I, uh, I fell..

Last week.

Uh, I was on the phone.

Well, some people were here.

And I banged my head.

- Is there anything

that we can do to help?

Do you need anything?

-No, I don't need anything.

I cook up big soups.

So I've got stuff

in the freezer.

-You still play guitar?

- I can play. Are we supposed

to play somewhere?

- I don't, I don't think so.

But it would sure be fun

to hear you play.

-Well, yes.

I've got milk and everything.

When my friends came by,

they brought milk.

- The friends who were here

when you fell.

- I was on the phone

when I fell.

I was alone.

- Oh, I'm sorry,

I thought that..

That you said that you had

friends who were visiting.

-Some people were here.

I wasn't stuck on my back

like a turtle all night.

-Poor Albert.

- I can't find

the date the Catfish

are supposed to play.

Just ask in town.

- Albert, so we were wondering

about the sandstone

in the front yard,

and if you'd be willing

to sell it to us.

I mean, if you wanted

to get rid of it

we... we'd take it off

your hands.

- Have you talked

to Kyle Gazi lately?

Is he gonna help you

build your house?

-I think so.

Oh, he's gonna let him use

his backhoe anyway.

- Well, you should dig up a

garden when you got the backhoe.

- We're not really

planting a garden.

- Just, uh, desert plants.

We won't have to water too much.

- Russian olives, very nice.

They make good shade trees.

- It'll be tough to care

for a garden

since we can't really

move out here, full time.

At least not until our daughter

gets through high school.

-Kyle's a nice young man.

Plays a good banjo.

- His kids have been out

to play on our land.

- I guess I trust him alright.

Can't always see the numbers.

Well..

I guess I'll give you

that sandstone.

- We'd wanna pay you for it.

- It was the old school house,

you know.

From when the town was settled.

They cut it from the massive

sandstone around here.

They built that school house

before they built the church.

I always thought

the school house must have been

prettier than the church.

I never thought

it was a pretty church.

- We want native stone

to build with.

Railroad ties.

Uh, things that fit in.

We thought before we cut

new stone

we would look and see if we

could find some that was...

- My brother and I..

He's dead now.

When we bought

this property in '66

that stone, was there.

We built this house that year.

Had it built.

[sighs]

I still have things to finish.

I've got a back porch.

I'm 76. Probably

not gonna finish it.

[sighs]

Okay, yes, I'll give you

that sandstone.

- You don't have to sell it

if you don't want to.

It's just that, Gina wants this

new house to be authentic.

-When do you need it?

- Uh, well, as it happens,

Ryan's brother

has a flatbed truck that we

could use the week after next.

So we just have to hire

some helper, find some help.

-Okay.

Tentatively, you can have it.

I wanna think a little more.

-Uh, okay, well..

If you change your mind,

no problem.

- Okay.

- I'll get that door.

- Thank you.

We can call you

in a couple of days?

We'll leave you our numbers too.

Whatever is best for you.

-It's a lot of rock.

- Look. Quail.

- Oh, yeah.

- I hear them all the time.

And their call is,

is like, uh, here goes..

[whistles three-note call]

Sounds like..

"How are you? How are you?"

And then... then they answer,

that goes..

[whistles three-note call]

- "I'm just fine,

I'm just fine."

- It's not gonna be enough

for a whole house

but a wall maybe.

- We could plant some trees

where the rock pile is.

Ryan would help you.

Oh, honey, give him our cards,

so that he has our numbers.

-Well..

All of those numbers will work.

- Your wife works for you.

- Huh, that's funny.

No, she's the boss actually.

- You come back to our place

when the weather gets warmer.

And... and no more falling down.

-I don't plan to.

- And if you wanna sell,

think of a good price.

I don't know how much

rock costs.

[whistles three-note call]

[engine rewing]

- I'm starving.

- God, you really weren't

helping me at all.

- I was helping.

I was in there.

- What? By repeatedly

telling him

that he didn't

have to sell to us?

- I just wanted to give him

some wiggle room.

- That almost didn't feel

worth it.

I thought he knew

he wasn't gonna use it.

-You wanna give it back?

-No.

Someone else will just take it.

You sure he understood?

We just have to think

of something

really good to do with it

then it won't feel so sad

to take it.

[sportscaster on TV]

- You really can't play

a whole lot better

than move the mob into the

anticipation of the passers.

And look at that effort

by Paul Jones.

[knock on door]

[commentary continues]

[hay rustling]

[horse whinnies]

[microwave beeps]

- It's a mysterious realm,

full of danger

and full of promise.

A new frontier

just waiting to be explored.

[keys jingling]

[car door shuts]

[engine turns over]

[engine rewing]

[keys jingling]

- What..

- But it was cold..

- Hello.

[exhales]

Uh..

I've never done this before.

Um..

I don't quite know

where to start, uh..

Y'all wanna

introduce yourselves?

-We all know each other.

-Um..

Wanna tell me what you already

know about school of law?

- I don't think

we know anything.

- Okay.

Okay, well, I guess we'll just

start at the beginning.

"The idea that the state must

provide a free public education

"and that children can be

required to go to school

"goes back to 1642

"when first such laws

"were passed in Massachusetts.

"By 1918, all states

had passed such legislation.

"It's been said that students

do not leave their rights

"at the school house door.

"The United States

Supreme Court has ruled

"in a case

called Goss versus Lopez

"which was decided in 1975

"that a school district

cannot just expel a student

without following

some type of procedure."

That procedure is referred

to as "Due Process."

The same with a criminal

defendant being entitled

to due process

before being locked up

a student is entitled

to the same

before you can expel them.

- Can a student be expelled

and then not let back in?

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