County Line Page #4

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to do prep each day.

You interested?

I-I don't think I can...

I pay $60 a day and all the

barbecue you can eat.

$60 a day?

Um-hmmm.

Well, uh...

yeah, okay.

Okay.

Finish up here.

Come in and see me

and I'll pay ya for the day.

Hey, you don't got to

pay him for today,

he's doing this for me.

We had a deal.

Well, that may be

but this is my building...

he is my employee...

I pay what's due.

Aw, you sad 'cause you

didn't get a job? Huh?

Hey!

Well Scooter,

I'm glad you were here.

At least you can tell me

what you saw.

He hit the wall

right over there,

and I was way up in

the press box back here.

Did you hear a gunshot?

Unfortunately, I did.

Man, I didn't know

it at the time.

I thought it was his car...

and it wasn't.

Where did those

york deputies figure

the gunshot came from?

Well, they didn't-

they didn't say.

Did they look?

Yeah.

Oh yeah, they looked.

They looked, uh, in the

press box and on top of it

and out in the parking lot and

of course in the bleachers...

but, supposedly, they didn't

find a thing.

Well, you think if it'd have

happened in the

bowl of the track,

you would have heard the gunshot

loud and clear.

You're right;

I would.

That's right, now that you speak

about it, because I mean

all the echoes-

and if it came from

the parking lot...

did you see a car up there?

No, no I didn't see a car.

The security cameras

didn't show anything.

Did those deputies

check the trees

around turn three?

You know, I didn't

see them up there.

You know, if it was me

this is the tree I would use.

Because you've got a good look

right down the back stretch.

Yeah.

That's a good spot.

Especially if somebody's

got good aim.

Hey, look Alden.

Look here.

Look at this.

Hey, don't put your grubby

paws on that thing.

I'm sorry, man.

Dang, Scooter.

That's a careless thing for

somebody to leave behind.

What's all that chicken

scratching there on that napkin?

I'm fixing to find out.

Well, hello Ben.

Take one.

Really?

Sure.

Whatever was your

mother's is yours now.

Dr. Peterson to the E.R.

Dr. Peterson to the E.R.

You remind me of your mother

with your hair like that.

Yeah.

She looks just like Lori,

but she acts like you.

Going off to war?

Yeah I am.

I think you should

reconsider that.

Your father needs you here.

You ever think about that?

All y'all always rushing

off into danger.

My husband included.

I'm gonna get dessert, yeah?

Here, take this.

Don't say it.

She knows you mean well,

but she don't have to

sit there and take it.

What's in the envelope?

Money.

Actually a lot of money.

I stole it.

So the guys who it belongs

to come looking for it.

I'm careful.

Well, that's what Clint

said before he would race.

Racing didn't get him hurt.

Well, I hated it.

It was being a cop

that got him shot.

I know that!

It's not that I married a cop;

It's that I married a

thrill-seeking

racicop.

Clint.

Well, I think you hating

it made him love it more.

Well, that don't make no sense.

Whatever.

Clint thought I never

came to the track.

But I was there.

Every single race.

Sitting in the parking lot.

Listening on the radio.

That makes no sense.

I just wanted to be

far enough away so that

I wouldn't see him get hurt,

but close enough

just in case he did,

that I could come

running to him.

I got to get back to Clint.

You will come upon

a large sum of money.

Huh, no kidding.

Come on.

Yeah, pigs I hear ya!

Sheesh!

Get home late one night and

the whole menagerie goes nuts.

After you, kid.

You still drink IBC?

Chinese always makes me thirsty.

Well...

you know, I think there

might be a couple of them

back there in the

back of the fridge.

Where is he?

Look behind you!

Watch out!

Alden all-in Rockwell.

Is that a pistol

you got in your lap

or have I seriously

misjudged you?

You and Clint are surely

cut from the same cloth.

Put it down.

That your money?

You really think I'd leave

an investment unwatched?

You know this guy?

Oh, me and Zack used

to wrestle in high school.

You can't call it rivalry

when you never won, Van Zant.

Come on.

The high point of every

week was listening to Clint

talk about chasing you guys

up and down york county.

Clint could never pin me.

Oh, that's true.

Mind if I have a word with you?

Alone.

Move.

Move!

Your daughter sure can fight.

Thank you.

Now...

what's the deal with

the two triangles?

Fangs.

What?

I think they're

supposed to be fangs.

Well, what's your money

got to do with these fangs?

So they'll leave me alone.

You're buying them off.

You're smarter than Clint.

Well, he got the looks,

I got the brains.

So they got something on you?

On everyone.

Blackmail.

You took my money before

it could be their money.

So if I keep that money,

then they're gonna spill

the beans on you?

So they say.

Well then if I fed it

to the pigs I'd consider

it money well spent.

That would be unfortunate

for everyone you love.

Well dang Zack,

with my wife gone,

and Clint in a coma,

my little girl shipping out,

I ain't got a heck

of a lot to lose.

Who are these people?

Don't know.

You don't know?

Only seen their lackeys.

Prattlers.

Who do you know favors the 270?

Go on up to roarin' branch.

Calvin Killby will find you.

Ah... Calvin Killby.

Clint got him years ago.

He's in for life.

I'm talking about junior.

He boasts a 270.

Dangerous fella.

He don't miss.

You think he shot Clint?

Criminals work on hunches.

You need facts.

Facts, I don't have.

Roarin' branch, check it out.

Tell you what,

you leave the money

I'll let you go.

Or else?

Or else I charge you with

assault with a deadly weapon,

destruction of property.

Heck I could shoot you where

you stand for trespassing.

Oh Zack...

do you remember frank the flea?

High school was a long time ago.

But you do remember how

rough he looked after

he made fun of my mama.

You just had several weapons

aimed right at my baby girl.

You realize what that

makes me want to do to you?

I apologize.

Save it.

Save it for her.

And when you tell her, mean it.

All right?

Nice seein' ya!

Man I've never seen grown

men apologize like that before.

Like their kindergarten teacher.

Well, sometimes a man

know when he's whipped.

He's seen his whole crime

empire kind of crumbling

down around his ears,

and he knows it.

And he knows I know it.

You need help with

all this, dad?

I appreciate the offer,

but I think you got enough

on your plate, darlin'.

What are you gonna do?

I am gonna eat the whale

the only way a fella can.

One bite at a time?

That's right.

You know, I'm proud

that you're my dad.

Well, I'm double proud

that you're my daughter.

Even though you got ears that

look like a taxi cab coming

down the street with his doors open.

I got a gun!

Ching-ching,

good work.

Roarin' branch?

You really going up

there all by yourself?

I reckon so, Scooter.

Clint always had backup.

Yeah well,

I always had Clint.

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