Deadly Sanctuary Page #2

the dead girls' files

at the sheriff's office

and he found that.

Something weird.

I would like to follow up on this.

Okay, but I have a full list

of assignments for you already.

If you want to investigate this

in your spare time, that's cool,

but let's just keep it

between ourselves, okay?

- Okay.

- Got it?

Got it.

And be careful.

Ginger!

Welcome aboard, Kendall.

What? I was just walking by

and I heard ya.

Show Miss O'Dell where her desk is,

and make sure

she has everything she needs.

Sugar, you have a place to stay yet?

No, actually,

I'm still staying at the...

I have the perfect place for you.

[chuckling]

Tess Delgado, she's in Phoenix

recovering from back surgery.

She needs someone to stay

at her place till she gets home.

And the best part,

the first six weeks are free.

Oh, hey!

Sounds too good to be true.

Tess had a couple there

who left in a hurry,

and they didn't take their deposit.

It's ten miles out in the desert,

and Ginger can show it to you

if you're interested.

Yeah. It has to be better

than the tiny apartment I had in Philly.

Let's go right now, honey.

It's my lunch hour. Come on.

Thank you.

You hungry, sugar?

- Yes.

- Okay.

Well, well, well.

If it isn't the very important

new manager.

Y'all know each other?

[sighs]

Not yet, no.

Bradley Talverson,

at your service, again.

Kendall O'Dell.

[chuckles]

I work here too.

My friends call me Tally.

Tally here

is our part-time sportswriter.

Huh. Well.

How about that?

Are you ready, Ginger?

- Uh...

- Y'all enjoy your lunch.

Tally.

I'm showing Kendall here, uh,

Tess Delgado's place,

for your information.

That's kinda far out, isn't it?

It's free.

[chuckles]

Well, everything has a price, darling.

Keep an eye out for snakes, hmm?

Come on, sugar.

I bet Tally about crapped his pants

when he first laid eyes on you.

You're a dead ringer for that Stephanie.

- Who?

- His wife.

Well, former wife.

She's dead.

Oh, that's so sad.

Whatever.

Sugar, you're gonna follow me.

KENDALL:
It's this hot

and it's only April?

GINGER:
Oh, flapdoodle.

This ain't nothin'.

But I'll turn the A/C on

for you, princess.

Does it ever rain here, Ginger?

Complete gully washin' frog stranglers.

[gasps, shouts]

Girl, you make a woman

pee her pants acting like that.

There's a humongous spider

in that drawer.

Let me see what you got going.

- Seriously, Kendall?

- [whimpers]

Get your panties in a wad

over a baby wolf spider?

It ain't gonna hurt ya.

We don't wanna kill it,

'cause it eats things

we really don't like.

Ginger, I'm really not a

big bug fan, especially spiders.

You sayin' you got the rackaphobia?

Something like that.

My brother put a spider

down my back when I was six,

and I definitely never got over it.

- [phone chimes]

- Hold on.

- Can you get the spider first?

- It's my sister, Bonnie.

Hey, Bon-Bon. What?

Can you take the spider outside

really quick?

Really?

I'm so happy for ya.

I'll be there in two shakes

of a dog's tail. Bye.

Will you just take

the spider out really quick?

- I'm gonna be an aunt.

- There's a spider.

I'm finally gonna be an aunt.

And it's all because of me.

I hooked them up with Eric Heisler.

Big-time attorney in Phoenix.

Does tons of adoptions.

- Here.

- Call your cell from my phone,

so we have each other's numbers.

Come on, girl.

- Okay.

- Good. I gotta go.

Keys are in the front door.

You call me if you need something.

Can you please take care

of the spider really quick?

Oh, city girl.

I tell ya.

[Kendall groans]

Why did the people

who lived here move so abruptly?

Was it the spiders?

No, don't worry, honey.

I got a bug guy.

Okay, but why did they leave?

They said the place is haunted.

[vehicle approaching]

Hey!

Freakin' moron!

[barking]

It's time we initiate our new reporter,

who's come to us all the way

from the City of Brotherly Love,

Miss Kendall O'Dell.

Darling, this is for you.

Uh-oh, what is this?

That is the snowbird file.

It's our winter resident subscribers.

You just call them up

and ask what they've been up to.

They get a kick out of seeing

their name in the paper,

and they send all the clippings

back home.

And here's background

for the livestock show,

the city council meeting

and the sheriff's log.

You're the newbie.

Hey, Tugg, can we give her

the 4H Club meetings too?

- Ha ha ha ha ha.

- Oh, come on, Kendall.

We've all manned the rookie desk.

Okay, gang.

Let's get to work.

Hey, what do you know

about Serenity House, Tugg?

Oh, your neighbor down the road?

It's a private psychiatric hospital.

Who's in there, Hannibal Lecter?

There's like this huge 12-foot

fence and these guard dogs.

Like, it's crazy.

Yeah, they had a problem

about three years back

when a very violent patient escaped.

The whole region was panic-stricken

until he was recaptured

a few days later.

The city council

demanded a fence be put up,

but the hospital board,

for some reason, they refused,

and then they shocked everybody

by closing the place down.

It sat vacant for about a year,

and then this cat named Price,

he's a psychiatrist, he bought it.

And he's the one who put the fence up.

Great.

Some neighborhood I live in.

- Hey, Ginger.

- Hey, Lucy.

Y'all ready to order?

Kendall, this here's Lucinda.

Lucy, meet Kendall O'Dell.

Nice to meet you.

Kendall's our, uh, our new reporter.

[sighing]

Well.

Congratulations.

Sugar,

we'll just...

We'll take the daily special.

- Fine.

- [Ginger snorts]

What the hell was that all about?

I knew she'd be jealous.

- Of me?

- Of course.

She has the hots for Tally.

[laughing]

She even boards her horse at his ranch

just so she can be around him.

Well, you can tell her not to worry.

Being recently dumped

has made me sort of down on men.

Aw, sugar, I'm sorry to hear that,

but the truth is, Tally's a good catch.

- I can tell he likes you.

- Well, thanks, but no thanks.

Running off with a ranch hand

doesn't exactly appeal to me right now.

Sweetie pie, Tally ain't no ranch hand.

He owns the Starfire.

Probably the biggest dang

cattle ranch in all of Arizona.

What?

Then why does he have

a part-time job at the paper?

Mm. Escape from the ranch, I suppose.

If he hates it so much, then why

doesn't he just sell it?

It's just a little more

complicated than that.

Here you go.

Now, Ginger, do you need anything else?

No, honey. We're... We're good.

And she is just the sweetest thing.

[chuckling]

Don't pay her no mind.

Go ahead, honey.

Try your sandwich.

Okay. Why don't you

"uncomplicate" Tally for me.

I would love to.

He don't want to be no rancher.

He wanted to be a journalist.

So, when he up and went

to New York to go to school,

well, that didn't make his folks

very happy.

And that's when he met that Stephanie.

Bringing that firecracker

Stephanie back here

did not help none.

Ooh-whee!

Hate at first sight.

And I mean everybody.

How come?

She was a spoiled little brat.

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