Into The Wild Page #3

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I just wanna see

everybody going for broke.

- You want to play?

- No.

- Kevin, what have you got for the week?

- I got 260.

We're at 260.

We're gonna stay right at 260,

that's our number.

We've got 20,000 pounds.

We've got 20,000 pounds

we need to get rid of.

Maybe just do all that after lunch

before we get back into everything else.

Can we do the $500 reserves...

What do you think about all this?

I like all this.

I don't think he can do it.

Is there a library

or bookstore around here

where I can get books

on hunting and preserving?

Anything at all to do with hunting

or preserving the meat,

smoking it, whatever the hell it is,

talk to Kevin over there.

That's your man.

Outdoorsman. What's your fascination

with all that stuff?

I'm going to Alaska.

Alaska, Alaska? Or city Alaska?

Because they do have markets

in Alaska.

The city of Alaska. Not in Alaska.

In the city of Alaska, they have markets.

No, man. Alaska, Alaska.

I'm gonna be all the way out there,

all the way f***ing out there.

Just on my own.

You know, no f***ing watch,

no map, no ax, no nothing. No nothing.

Just be out there. Just be out there in it.

You know, big mountains, rivers,

sky, game.

Just be out there in it, you know?

In the wild.

- In the wild.

- Just wild.

- Yeah.

- Just...

What are you doing when we're there?

Now you're in the wild,

what are we doing?

You're just living, man.

You're just there, in that moment,

in that special place and time.

Yeah.

Maybe when I get back,

I can write a book about my travels.

Why not?

You know,

about getting out of this sick society.

- Society!

- Society!

- Society, man!

- Society!

- Society! Society!

- Society!

Society, you know! Society!

'Cause you know

what I don't understand?

I don't understand why people,

why every f***ing person

is so bad to each other so f***ing often.

It doesn't make sense to me. Judgment.

Control. All that, the whole spectrum.

- Well, it just...

- What "people" we talking about?

You know, parents, hypocrites,

politicians, pricks.

This is a mistake.

It's a mistake to get too deep

into all that kind of stuff.

Alex, you're a hell of a young guy,

a hell of a young guy.

But I promise you this.

You're a young guy! Can't be juggling

blood and fire all the time!

- You've got to just kind of...

- Wayne, what are you talking about?

- What?

- I mean...

I'm talking about blood and fire.

We're talking about

trying to juggle blood and fire.

Who are you to be giving advice

to anybody anyway?

Who am I to be giving advice

to anybody?

- Yes.

- Well, it's nice to meet you.

- My name is Mr. Happy.

- Mr. Happy.

And Mr. Happy sometimes gives advice.

- Alex, please.

- I'm sorry.

Sometimes Mr. Happy...

Well, Mr. Happy is always happy.

But you know when he's happiest?

- He's not always happy.

- When is he happy?

Are you really gonna say that to me?

Come on, tell me about it.

I am going to say that to you.

- Now...

- Sit down before you hurt yourself.

One thing that you should try

to keep your eye on

is what happened

in the late 1940s in Roswell.

When a search of tax records

revealed that

Chris had given

his life savings to charity,

Mom and Dad became

what Dad called "mobilized."

They hired a private investigator and

notified law enforcement nationwide,

determined to track him down.

I just figured he'd be with gypsies,

far from the eyes of the law.

These are those free satellite TV deals.

You're the one who said it, Alex, not me.

You're gonna need something.

What kind of gun you got?

I'm probably gonna get like a.22,

I think. A.22 caliber rifle.

All right, then.

When you get your kill,

time is of the essence.

Now, the first thing you wanna do

is make sure

that you got that meat

nice and shaved up.

And you don't have a lot of time to do

this. This is about an hour or two.

Depending on the weather. Especially if

it's hot, you've got less time to do it.

What you do is you want to make sure

that them flies don't land on your meat.

Because once them flies start

shitting out larvae and them maggots,

you know, those creepy crawlies,

it's too late. It's too late.

You got me. You got me.

I warned Wayne

about them little black boxes.

Mr. Westerberg, Scott Baker, FBI.

I think you know why we're here.

- Impressive turn-out.

- Yeah.

You mind grabbing that zipper

for me there? Thank you.

- Let's go.

- Sorry, boys.

We're gonna have to shut down

for a little while.

Alex, you come back

and work for me any time you want.

Gil's got your checks, guys.

I shouldn't be away too long.

Remember Alex, no Alaska till spring.

South, kid. You wanna head south.

The year Chris graduated high school,

he bought the Datsun used

and drove it cross-country.

He stayed away most of the summer.

Come on. The neighbors

are gonna be watching, honey.

Can you spray it?

As soon as I heard he was home,

I ran into his room to talk to him.

In California,

he'd looked up some old family friends.

He discovered that our parents' stories

of how they fell in love and got married

were calculated lies

masking an ugly truth.

When they met,

Dad was already married.

And even after Chris was born,

Dad had had another son

with his first wife, Marcia,

to whom he was still legally married.

This fact suddenly re-defined

Chris and me as bastard children.

Dad's arrogance made him conveniently

oblivious to the pain he caused.

And Mom, in the shame and

embarrassment of a young mistress,

became his accomplice in deceit.

The fragility of crystal is not

a weakness but a fineness.

My parents understood that

a fine crystal glass had to be cared for

or it may be shattered.

But when it came to my brother,

they did not seem to know or care

that their course of secret action

brought the kind of devastation

that could cut them.

Their fraudulent marriage

and our father's denial of this other son

was, for Chris,

a murder of every day's truth.

He felt his whole life turn,

like a river suddenly reversing

the direction of its flow,

suddenly running uphill.

These revelations struck at the core

of Chris' sense of identity.

They made his entire childhood

seem like fiction.

Chris never told them he knew

and made me promise silence, as well.

I can't afford four.

Who's gonna pay for the fourth one?

Bryan can't afford four. Does it matter?

Can I help you?

Yeah. If I wanted

to paddle down the river,

where's the best place to launch out of?

Hang on a second.

"To launch out of?"

What's your experience level?

- Not much.

- Any? Do you have a permit?

A permit? Permit for what?

You can't paddle down the river

without a permit.

If you want, you can apply for one here,

get some experience,

and I'll put you on the wait-list.

No, I got this guy in here.

We'll figure it out.

There's a wait-list

to paddle down a river?

That's right.

- Yeah, it's gonna be...

- Well, how long do I have to wait?

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