Horns Page #3

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You think you traded

me for the cherry bomb?

You think that's

how things work?

I left it there for you.

It wasn't an accident.

I wanted you to find

it and give it back to me.

I wanted you to

be the one who...

Who what?

What?

What?

Aw, f***!

What the hell is going on here?

Hey!

I was gonna operate, but

I sorta got distracted.

We asked you if we

could have sex instead

and you said it was okay.

How could I possibly

say it was okay?

I was under anesthesia.

You sort of nodded your head.

We thought it was okay.

Father Mould?

Get away from me.

Get away.

Please, leave me alone!

No, no, no, no. I'm not here to

hurt you. Please.

Tell me what I have

to do to stop this.

How do I make them go away?

You killed that

innocent girl Merrin.

There's nothing I can do.

No, I No, except

I didn't kill her!

Please, leave me alone!

I didn't kill her,

Father, and now people

are telling me all these

things I don't want to hear.

I mean, there must be

a prayer you can say.

I'll try anything.

You did this to yourself.

What?

You turned away from God.

You cast yourself

into the darkness.

But I didn't do anything wrong.

Every devil used to be an angel.

And now you've fallen

from grace forever.

When Satan was

banished from Heaven...

he was cursed to crawl

the earth like a snake.

There's no hope for you.

What? So that's it? There's

nothing you can do for me?

I've got a rope in

that shed over there.

I could take you out to that

tree where Merrin died and I...

I could string you up.

Unless you'd like to do the

decent thing and hang yourself.

What do you say?

Lee.

Hey.

Everyone in this town

is going f***ing crazy.

Yeah, the town's

always been crazy.

No, but I think it's because

of me and these goddamn horns.

Yeah.

Wait, what?

The horns.

These horns.

What are you talking about?

Wait, can't you see them?

Are you high right now?

You been hanging out with Terry?

So maybe...

maybe the horns just

don't work on good people.

Yeah, I think you've been

under an inhuman amount

of stress recently.

And maybe you're just starting

to go a little, you know-

A little, oh, cuckoo.

But if I am this crazy and

I can imagine all this...

then I could easily have got so

drunk that I blacked out that

night and killed Merrin and

just forgot all about it, right?

Mom?

Mom?

Well, I didn't know

you were coming.

I didn't know where

else to go, Mom.

Something really bad

is happening to me.

Oh, sweetheart.

Why couldn't you

go somewhere else?

What?

What do you mean?

I don't want to hear

about all your problems.

I don't want to know.

Mom.

Sometimes when you talk,

I just want to sing.

La, la, la, la, la, la!

What are you doing? Mom!

I wanna hold my breath

until you just go away!

Ar- Jesus Christ,

Mom, don't Don't!

Stop it!

I want to write you a letter,

a really nice letter...

about how much Dad

and I love you...

and how great it would be for

both of us if you would just go.

But where?

Where can I go?

I don't know. Didn't you always

want to go hiking in Alaska?

Didn't you want to go to

Vietnam to teach English?

Those were things

Merrin and I were

gonna do together.

You know that.

I don't care where you go. Just

as long as I don't have to see

you. Because every time I see

you, it just makes me so...

unhappy.

I just want to be happy

again, sweetheart.

No, I understand.

And I don't want you

to be my son anymore.

Oh.

Are you gonna go away?

Ig.

I thought I heard you come in.

Yeah, okay, let me walk

you through this, Dad.

This is the part where you

tell me something awful...

you've been keeping to yourself.

Just say it, we'll

get it out of the way.

I don't know why you

turned out like this.

With your brother, it's easier.

We could always

play music together.

But with you, I never

know what to say to you.

Well, that's not bad,

all things considered.

I think about Merrin.

What a beautiful girl she was.

I loved her.

You know, in a way.

I envied you.

I was never in

love with anyone

the way you two were in

love with each other.

You couldn't hear her

laugh without smiling.

It was like music.

And when I think about

what you did to her...

And you never thought maybe...

just maybe that I didn't do it?

Of course not.

You're trying to get

away with murder.

And the worst part is,

I'm helping you do it.

What? What do

you mean by that?

I went to college

with the guy that runs

the state forensics lab.

Dad, are you telling me

that you got your friend to

set that fire at the lab?

When the world comes for my

son with the knives out...

it's my job to stand in the way.

And if you went to jail...

Dad, the evidence you got

burned up could have saved me.

How could you do it?

She was one of the best

people I ever knew!

She was my favorite

thing about you.

Yeah, me, too.

So if you knew how

much I loved her

then how could you ever

believe I'd killed her?

Isn't that why you killed her?

Because you loved her so much...

and you lost her.

Way more people kill out

of love than out of hate.

What's going on, Ig?

You go home like I asked you to?

Yeah, I did that and it

was very enlightening. Did you

know that my dad got his friend

to start the fire in the lab?

Hypothetically,

if I did know,

I would legally be required

to tell the police.

But maybe, the fire was a

blessing in disguise.

How? How is it a f***ing

blessing? If the lab hadn't

burned down, that evidence

would have cleared me, Lee.

Okay, okay, I know. It's rough

for you staying at your house

right now. Why don't you just

take the keys to my place.

You can crash on the couch.

No, you know what? I'm fine.

I've actually got a lot to do.

I've gotta figure out

who really killed Merrin

and get him to confess.

How you

planning to do that?

Lately, I can be pretty

f***ing persuasive.

Hey, Ig, nice look for you.

Showing your true nature?

You know, I'd

appreciate it if you guys

would all just f*** off.

Come on,

Ig, admit you killed her.

It'd be such a

huge scoop for me.

Oh, good to know your

journalistic integrity is

f***ing unimpeachable.

Hey, you confess to me, I can

get out of stupid local news.

You know what, I got an idea.

How about you guys beat the

sh*t out of each other...

and the winner gets an

exclusive interview with me.

Thought I told

you I don't want you coming

around here no more, Ig.

Jesus Christ!

Al, you don't want to do that.

You'll get arrested.

I don't give a flying

f*** if I get arrested.

But why don't you

get me a whiskey?

You know you want the money.

What I really want...

is to burn this place down

and collect the insurance.

Well, can you not burn

down the bar right now?

I need your help with something.

If anyone knows anything

about who killed Merrin...

you're gonna have

to tell me now.

The only thing I ever

killed was a couple of dogs.

I run a dog fighting ring

out of a supply room back there.

Jesus, Al, I don't

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