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I wouldn't miss it for the world.

I don't care about kinks in my neck.

Your wife and baby are going

to need you at full strength.

- Thank for seeing her through this.

- To bed now.

March.

I won't take no for an answer.

Shut up, Mom.

Quit while you're ahead.

Good night.

Hi, Mommy.

Want to meet your little baby boy?

This is your mommy.

- How are you feeling?

- Okay.

- Where's Martha?

- I think she's asleep.

She said you really went through it.

- Thank God she was here.

- Yeah.

Honey, will you do me a favour?

- Ask her to make us some breakfast.

- You're hungry... that's good.

If you need anything,

I'll be downstairs.

There you are... Daddy.

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

- You've been outside.

- I was looking for something.

- You really ought to be in bed.

- I feel wonderful, Martha.

I slept so deeply. It's like

I was drugged or something.

- It's like 20 years passed.

- It has.

- We just forgot to tell you.

- Great.

- What's in the bag?

- This thing I found in the barn.

Those eggs smell good.

- What?

- What yourself. What's the mystery?

This is such a happy day. I don't

want to bring everybody down.

Come on, Baby, don't keep us all

in suspense. What's in the bag?

It's one of those things

that killed Jackson's daddy.

- I'd never seen one before.

- What are you talking about?

Jackson has a son of his own now.

He's got to let go

of all those old ghosts.

I had to find one of these things.

Now I'll bury it in the ground,

so it never harms this family again.

- I know that sounds hormonal...

- My father fell down the stairs.

It wasn't the fall that killed him.

Downstairs, your mama found

that he had fallen on this thing.

It was a freak accident.

It was even in the newspapers.

He fell on something

at the bottom of the stairs?

Helen's right, this is not the day

we should be talking about this.

Yeah, he fell. He fell on this.

There must be lots of these

laying round a place like this.

- What are you doing?

- Whatever do you mean?

That's how Jack died. He fell

with inconceivable precision.

This tool killed him as surely as if

it had been smashed into his body.

- You were working on that shed.

- How could you remember that?

You were only seven.

I remember particularly you

holding that when you hugged me.

When you dropped it, it made

this really loud clanging sound.

Why are you doing this?

Trying to tear my family apart.

- You lost your own parents...

- Mom, she wasn't...

She's not fooling anybody.

Do you know what she's implying?

If I did hold one of those things,

it wasn't the only one we had.

You remember that day.

You remember the fall.

That fall

could have killed anybody who...

Martha! No one's implying

that you killed Jack!

Lots of wives have affairs

and don't kill their husbands.

- My father was having the affair.

- No, he wasn't.

Robin Hayes was a wrangler that

Martha was having an affair with.

Alice told you that, did she?

That's just the kind of twisted lie

Alice would invent.

Now your wife's trying

to use it against me.

I just talked to Robin Hayes

half an hour ago.

- Would you like to speak to him?

- No!

Robin Hayes died last year of a

heart attack, one you didn't cause.

You just couldn't bear to let

a happy family be, could you?

We were so close

to being happy, Jackson.

Here's how close we were.

- She tried to kill me last night.

- That's a lie.

Your father was leaving.

That's why she killed him.

She made you think that you did it -

- so that she could bind you to her

for the rest of your life.

I want you to throw this lying b*tch

out of my house.

Yeah, there's already one of those.

- You'll never prove anything.

- She doesn't have to.

- Jackson, you can't...

- Shut up!

Everything about you is a lie.

This place and everything in it

will be sold.

You will never see me

or any member of my family again.

But I did it all for you.

You are not my mother.

You did this. You tricked him.

You got yourself pregnant.

I know what you're after.

You want my farm, my land, my boy!

You want to take everything I have.

Don't you see what she's doing?

She wants to be me.

So long, Martha.

Grandma.

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