Don't Come Knocking Page #5

F***.

MAN:

Here, boy. Come here.

Come on, boy.

He didn't jump, did he?

Huh? Uh...

No.

Good.

That's good.

He wouldn't talk

to you, I guess.

No.

No, huh?

Uh-uh.

He wouldn't talk to me either.

He's scared, I guess.

Why would he be

scared of you?

Just the idea that

we might be related.

He doesn't wanna

be related, I don't think.

Guess not.

Do you?

What?

Wanna be related?

I thought I did.

Why?

Why, suddenly, when you

haven't been for so long?

Just started thinking

maybe I missed everything,

you know?

Maybe I...

threw everything away.

Cut myself off.

Why'd you let so

much time go by?

I didn't know it

was passing.

You gonna leave now?

Leave town? I mean,

since it didn't work

out with Earl?

I got nowhere to go.

Maybe you should

just stay here.

What do you mean,

live here in Butte?

Yeah, why not?

It's not a bad little town.

Lots of history.

What am I gonna do here?

Make it your home.

You need a home,

don't you?

I'll be back in a while,

okay?

Where are you going?

Don't go away.

Wait a minute,

where are you going?

Jake?

Hey.

Hi, Jake.

Got something for you.

Here you are, Doreen.

Thank you.

Have a good one.

Hey.

MAN 1:

No, he didn't show up.

MAN 2:

Nope, not today.

[SIRENS WAILING

IN DISTANCE]

Hey, Joe.

Hey, Doreen.

Oh, I was just

looking for you.

Howard.

You look great.

Thanks.

Yellow.

I remember you in yellow.

Hmm.

You always

looked good in yellow.

I never wore yellow.

Must have been

someone else.

DOREEN:

What are you

doing up so early?

HOWARD:

Well, I never went to bed.

DOREEN:

Must have a lot

on your mind, huh?

HOWARD:

Yeah.

You look awful.

I suppose.

So how are you two

getting along

Who

Your son, Howard.

How are you getting

along with your son?

It's hopeless,

I think.

Oh. Well, you haven't given

it much of a shot, have you?

In a couple of days you just,

what, give up?

I haven't given up.

No?

No. I just realized--

What?

That it's you.

It's you I came up here for.

It's you I wanted to see.

What's so funny?

You're unbelievable, Howard.

What do you mean?

How many years has it been?

What's that got to do with it?

Everything.

It's got

everything to do with it.

When time goes by...

you know, people slip

away from each other

if they don't have contact.

Yeah, but, I mean, we could

maybe get back together again.

What,

are you out of your mind?

No.

I mean, there's no reason

we couldn't have some kind

of a, you know--

What?

A reconciliation or something.

Reconciliation?

Yeah.

Reconciliation?

Now we got lawyer talk.

No, I mean, you know--

You know, we should have

got married.

We should have.

Don't you think?

Married?

Yeah.

Married?

Yeah. Yeah,

I realize that now.

That was my big mistake.

We should have got married

and settled down right here.

I did settle down

right here, Howard.

Yeah, I know, but--

Oh, stop it!

Just stop it!

You're

an absolute idiot, Howard.

You come back here,

supposedly wanting...

to meet up

with your abandoned son.

I don't know why exactly.

Maybe guilt.

Was that it, huh?

To relieve yourself

of some kind of guilt?

I don't know,

I don't care.

But, you know,

it might have made...

some little difference...

in Earl's life.

And that would

have been great.

But now that probably

won't even happen

because you're

just too gutless

to see this thing through.

You're a coward, Howard.

That rhymes, doesn't it.

But you are,

you're a total coward.

And now--

Now you wanna hide

and run away again,

don't you?

You wanna hide

and disappear into my life.

You want me to give you cover,

don't you, Howard?

No.

Don't lie to me.

Lie to yourself.

You just keep

telling yourself...

that there's some

remote possibility that

some pathetic woman

somewhere on this planet...

is gonna take pity on you

and save you from the truth.

But it's not me!

I am not that woman,

and I never will be.

Oh! Oh!

AMBER:

What if he actually

was your father?

I mean,

what's so

outrageous about that?

He just came to see you,

like a friendly visit.

EARL:

I don't need a father.

It's too late for a father.

AMBER:

You don't know that.

It might be really

nice to have a father,

you don't know.

Nice?

Yeah, he could be

a really nice guy.

He's not a nice guy.

He's a f***ing jerk.

Hey, now, you just have

that in your head, Earlie.

Shut up, would you.

How do you know

what's in my head?

You know, you can't

just go around judging

people like that all the time.

Yes, I can.

No, you can't. You judge me

all the time and

I'm not so bad.

You're terrible.

You're like that stupid

cricket from Pinocchio.

What's Pinocchio?

Shut up.

You know, you really

made a mess here, Earl.

Yeah. He pissed me off.

You must have gone ballistic.

You threw all this

out that window?

What are you

looking for, anyway?

I found it.

How much power does that have?

Enough.

You know, you should

really see what he wants.

I mean, talk to him at least.

That can't hurt.

See if he wants to

give you, like, a jillion

dollars or something.

Ever thought about that?

Nope.

I have a question for you.

Yes.

How do you distinguish

between the hash browns,

the home fries...

and the red buds?

I'm not familiar with--

Oh, well...

there's three

kinds of potatoes

that you can

have with your eggs.

No, that's not my question.

What I'm trying to find out

is the difference

between the three.

Oh, sure. I'm-- I'm sorry,

You know, I was thinking

about something else.

The home fries...

well, they're pretty much

just your regular,

ordinary old home fries.

The hash browns,

those are shredded

and then fried in butter.

And, uh, the red buds,

we leave the skins on them.

You just serve them

with the skins left on,

is that right?

Yes, that's right.

I mean, they're boiled

and everything.

They're boiled?

Yes. And--

And then the, uh--

Then the skin kind of,

uh, peels off them.

It peels?

Well...

Um...

Blisters, kind of.

Can I have...

a glass of water, please?

And thank you

for your time.

Well, you're welcome.

Where's Howard?

Who?

Howard.

Just sitting here

on the sofa?

Howard.

You know who

I'm talking about.

Where's Howard?

Where's Howard?

Eh...

Earl?

Earlie!

There's somebody

here wants to know

where is Howard.

Who's Howard?

Where is Howard?

Who is Howard?

We wanna know

We wanna know

Where is Howard?

Who is Howard?

Where did he go?

Where did he go?

He's down in the ditches

He's down in the ground

Disappeared himself

He's nowhere to be found

Where is Howard?

Who is Howard?

He's long gone

He's long gone

Push it.

You need some help?

EARL:
No.

Yes, we do.

We do need help.

Why can't you admit

we need help?

You just stay over

there on that sofa.

You wait for whoever it is.

You know who it is.

Why do you keep pretending

you don't know who it is?

AMBER:

Who Who Wha

Howard? Is that the guy

that was following us,

the narc?

Yeah. He knows.

He knows it's his father.

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