Fierce People Page #5

A heart attack...

Looks like you've been

replaced, Bryce.

Good to have new blood in the race.

Gives the competition a chance.

It's okay, mom.

Steady!

Go!

High. Smile.

Very good!

Excuse me. Sorry.

Just one second, everyone.

- I have an announcement to make.

- This better be good, Bryce!

- Bryce for president!

- Tonight's your lucky night.

Thank you. To acknowledge the good

fortune we enjoy here in Vlyvalle...

next year, over on the south pasture...

we're gonna be opening

the Ogden C. Osborne Youth Center.

It's gonna be a year-round home...

- Did you know about this?

- No. Did you?

...for kids who don't have

the same opportunity.

Over my dead body.

Stop it!

What are you doing?

Stop!

Throughout history, rape has been

used as a weapon in tribal warfare.

An Ishkanani warrior believes

if he is humiliated...

his "nureshi" or animal spirit

will be so ashamed...

that it will literally claw itself

free from the warrior's soul.

Lambie!

It's time to get up!

Mr. Osborne called!

He wants to start early today!

Finn!

Hey, sleepy. What time did you

get in last night anyway?

Honey?

What is this?

What happened to you?

Somebody jumped me.

What?

- What does that mean? Who?

- I didn't see him.

What do you mean?

Somebody just hit you and ran away?

Yeah, sort of.

- Where did this happen, Finn?

- In the field, mom.

- In the field?

- I'm fine! Just let me sleep!

Okay.

Okay.

Gates, I did not bring my son here

to get beat up in a field!

I wanna know who did this!

I'm okay.

I want you to let me pamper you.

I brought you some ice for your eye.

Honey?

- What happened to you?

- Mom, just leave it alone.

Mom, please.

It's okay. Let me see.

It's okay. Let me see.

My God!

Baby!

Baby! Oh, my God!

Mom, please wait!

You can't...

- You can't tell anyone.

- Who did this to you?

I don't know! But you can't

tell anyone, mom. Swear.

He's fine.

He just needs some rest.

- You didn't sound like he was fine.

- I know. I overreacted.

Let me go up and talk to him.

Maybe I can jog his memory.

- He didn't see who did it.

- I want Dick to have a look at him.

- Stay where you are.

- In order to make an official report...

I don't need an official report.

If you need help with anything,

just gimme a call.

- I need some painkillers.

- I can only prescribe painkillers if...

Give her the goddamn pills.

Thank you. I'm sorry

if I worried anybody.

Liz, tell him not to worry.

We'll find out who did this.

Okay.

Find out what really happened.

I'm so sorry.

I thought we'd be safe here.

I just want everything to be okay.

I'm so sorry.

I made a list of all the people

who might have had reason to do this.

Once you've lost your nureshi,

there's only one way to get it back.

Find the guy who did it,

cut his heart out...

and show it to the village.

What are you doing?

Packing us. For New York.

- I shouldn't have brought you here.

- I'm staying.

- What?

- I'm staying.

Why?

So I can find out

who did this to me.

I thought you said

you didn't want anyone to know.

I don't.

Just can't leave here

until I get my nureshi to come back.

- Lambie...

- Don't call me Lambie anymore.

Stop.

Your girlfriend's here.

Don't call her that.

I swear to God, I could kill

Dwayne and those poachers.

Couldn't have been Dwayne.

He was busted...

dealing deer antlers to Fish and Game

agents an hour before he got jumped.

Grandpa had Gates

question McCallum.

You wearing my jacket, he didn't

exactly love my Youth Center idea.

- What've you two been up to?

- We had been planning a big party.

- What's the occasion?

- It's your birthday.

- Finn is not ready for a party.

- No! I want a party!

Let's have a party!

Let's invite the guy who beat me up!

He didn't just do this to you, Finn.

He did it to my family.

First my father gets shot,

now you get beaten up.

Maya will understand if you go back

to New York till we catch this guy.

I wanna be here when they get him.

- He could come after you again.

- Then I'll know who he is.

You're tougher than you look.

Come here.

This makes us more than friends.

Now don't tell anyone about this.

I missed you... so much.

Watch it. My ribs still hurt.

- Does it hurt to kiss me?

- No, of course not.

Then why don't you?

I don't know.

My mother might come in.

What is it with you?

You never wanna kiss me.

We're never alone.

Why did you tell

everybody at your party...

that my mother and your grandfather

were old, old friends?

- They are old friends.

- She's your grandfather's masseuse.

Why couldn't you

tell people the truth?

Are you embarrassed

that I'm not rich?

Is the fact that I am rich and

you're not gonna be a problem?

- 'Cause, Finn, if it is...

- What? You're gonna dump me?

You're gonna do that anyway!

It's a joke between us.

Sooner or later, you're gonna get bored

screwing the poor boy at the party.

Why do you hate me so much?

"Dear dad...

you know the thing the Ishkanani say

about showing a heart to the village?

Well, that's the part that's

gonna be a problem for me.

If everybody knows what happened,

for the rest of my life it'd be:

"You know Finn Earl...

the guy who got beat up

and dead-horsed by some guy?"

And no matter

how great things turned out...

even if I ended up marrying Maya and

I became a famous anthropologist...

people would always say: "No question,

after Finn got it in the ass...

he really got his sh*t together. "

Mr. Osborne thinks it's time

for you to get back to work.

I'll wait for you downstairs.

Have a look at that.

She's really got a lot of pubic hair.

That woman is my mother.

I'm serious.

That fella there...

he ran the telegraph company.

You know who took this Kodak moment?

No.

My father.

This? Blackmail.

Pure and simple.

My dad leveraged this guy

to get his telegraph company...

to get our little hardware store...

the contract to supply his company

with all the copper wire...

they were gonna string across

these great United States.

This dirty little picture...

brought us wealth, class...

and respectability.

Why are you showing me this?

Ex malo bonum.

Out of bad comes good.

That's what people like you and me

are put on this earth to prove.

What really happened to you?

What did my mom tell you?

She said you got beat up.

Said she didn't want

to say anything more.

Neither do I.

- What's wrong with you?

- F*** you!

F*** you, too.

I'm sorry, Jilly.

I didn't mean to...

What's wrong?

Dwayne knocked me up.

What are you gonna do?

Christ. I'm seventeen.

I can't even afford

to look after myself.

I know it's not much,

but will this help?

What's wrong?

I'm the one that's pregnant.

That guy that beat me up

didn't just...

Finn!

You are never...

Sh*t!

Finn!

Finn...

If a prospective bridegroom

exhibits cowardice in battle...

the maidens will undergo

a ritual bath in the Orinoco.

Cleansed by the river spirits,

a new marriage will be arranged...

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