Jack the Bear Page #4

Thank you

for your kind attention.

Sieg heil.

Get ready

to send them out

He was really big up close.

I knew it was wrong, but I thought

of dragging him over to Festinger's lawn.

I figured I'd leave a trail...

or someone coming out

of their house to get their paper...

would look over and see me.

If I could do it all over again,

I would've rolled him there if I had to.

Absolutely.

Dad

Where was I?

Dad?

Martini, like Daddy

The vet said poison,

and we were the prime suspects.

No matter where Cheyenne was poisoned,

stumbling around, coughing his guts out...

it was our front yard

he finally crashed on.

- What the heck do you want me to do, Jackie?

- Tell him we didn't do it

- He doesn't think we did it

- Dad, after last night?

Uh, Norman, hi

Uh I came over here

to apologize to you

I did a very mean-spirited thing

on my show last night

I don't know if you saw it.

I was drunk

I know that's no excuse

I don't know

what you're talking about

I didn't kill your dog, Norman

I'm sorry that somebody did

I didn't poison your dog,

Norman

If you knew me better,

you'd know it's not my style

I'd have shot him

For those of you

whose brains aren't totally withered...

here's a startling demonstration.

My old friend

Psycho Ward Cleaver will do the honors

Take 'em away, Psycho

- Not enough blood

- That's plenty

Hey, I finally found The Beast

with a Million Eyes.

Ooh We'll put it on Friday night

with Mr. Sardonicus.

- Okay

- John

John?

- I think you need some time off

- What?

You need a break

Last night was too much, John

- Do I get to decide how long a break I need?

- No

So you're firing me? Is that

what you're saying? You're firing me?

- Don't press it, John

- Well, I wanna press it I think I should press it

I'll take a week off

What turned your motor on?

Look, Jack I think it would be best

if we began seeing other people

I mean, we can still be friends

I'm just too young to tie myself

to one guy, Jack

Where did you hear this?

On television?

It's just the way I feel

I didn't know why

Dad stopped going to work.

I asked him ifhe was looking for a newjob,

and he wouldn't even talk about it.

It wasn't like he had

changed in any way.

- I don't know. Maybe

we werejust growing apart.

- So what's the story?

- No story

Did you see any other fathers

acting like seals?

- Somebody had to do it

- Could you ever just stop for, like, one minute?

I need to know if you plan on

being Bozo the Clown your whole life

Listen to this Who's the father

and who's the son here?

I don't know

- Open the goddamn door, Dylan

- It's locked.

I know it's locked

You locked it Now unlock it

- I don't know how.

- Then turn off the goddamn water

- I don't know how.

- Turn those goddamn knobs

- I don't know how.

- Goddamn it!

Goddamn it!

- I said, come on!

- No!

No!

No, Jack No! No!

No, Jack! Please, no!

Now, you stay there!

Stay there!

Jack!

Thank you, Jack

I was beginning

to wonder if the awful reprisals...

we expected from Norman

weren't coming instead from ourselves...

from the darkest chambers,

as Dad said, of our hearts.

I'll pay you a nickel to watch my brother a while

Uh-huh

Jack the Bear had real long hair

Takes some steps

Ain't gettin' nowhereJack the Bear

Jack the Bear!

Yes! He is Jack...

Surprise! Happy birthday!

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hey, Jackie

What's the matter? Hmm?

- They all saw me singing

- So?

- Well, they're laughing about it

- Oh, no, they aren't

They're laughing because

they're at a party They're happy

- Jackie Bear

- Don't touch me

Get out of my room

Get out of my room now!

Get out!

- Where's Dylan?

- He's gone

Where?

- Where?

- There, in the street

My brother doesn't

go in the street

Look, man, my brother is my responsibility

Now, where the hell is he?

Does this mean

I don't get to keep the nickel?

You want to die?

Talk! Talk! Talk!

- Norman

- Norman what? Norman what?

- Come on! Tell me now!

- He took him in a car

Norman's car's

right there, idiot!

It doesn't even have a motor!

Hey!

- What car?

- Another car A white car

You're supposed

to be watching him!

He's your brother

Please get off of me

- I'll get off you if you swear that you won't run away

- I swear!

- I'll kill you if you run away!

- I swear

Hey!

Ow!

Where's my brother?

I need the police

It's an emergency

I need them to come

to my house right now

It was like a dream...

where your legs keep moving,

but you can't get anywhere.

I knew I should be finding him,

but I didn't know where...

or who to ask,

or what to do.

- What's the trouble, Jack?

- Norman kidnapped my brother

Dexter saw it,

but he wouldn't tell me what happened

What? Hey, Dexter!

Get over here!

Get over here

- Tell me, boy, or I'll whale you!

- Ow!

Hey, Mitchell,

what the hell are you doing?

- None of your business. Shut up!

- Don't tell me to shut up

I'll put your head through the window

of that ugly camper Don't tell me to shut up

- It's none of your business!

- Anything that happens on this block is my business!

- What're you hittin' the kid for?

- You got your nose in everybody's business.

- This is my family.

- What the hell's going on here?

- Leave the kid alone.

- My brother was kidnapped!

Are you the person who called?

- I was in the house, and he's supposed to be watching him

- Tell him what you saw!

- He was kidnapped by Norman Strick

- There's the father

White car.

Sir?

I'm sorry to have to tell you, but we believe

one of your sons has been kidnapped.

Norman Strick,

that son of a b*tch, took Dylan away in a car.

Dexter, tell him what Norman did.

I just need some information from you, sir.

We'll start the search...

Sir?

Look, who is this man

who took him away?

His name is Norman Strick

He lives right over there.

How are you doin', son?

It was getting to be his bedtime.

All I could think was that Norman was just

gonna pull up any second with Dylan...

just pull up outside

with an ice cream cone.

No!

Mr. Festinger

thought he'd died and gone to heaven.

He threatened me once

with a tree branch

The man belongs in an institution

I think he's a nazi

He was the real poisoner of Cheyenne.

Why didn't Norman steal Edward?

Ten seconds, John.

Nine, eight, seven, six...

five, four...

John, you're on.

Yesterday at 5:
00 pm

my son

was taken by this man

His name is Norman Strick.

He's in his late 20s

Walks with a cane

He was...

He took him

in a white car

My name is DetectiveJohn Marker

with the Oakland Police Department

We're asking your help

in locating this missing child

His name is Dylan Leary.

He's three and a half years old.

Dad?

We're at a crossroads

Can you feel it?

It's dark down there...

and there are things

nobody...

wants to meet in the dark

Whether we'll come out

on the other side

hating everything

and everybody...

I don't know

The same argument

over and over and over again!

- It's like a broken record!

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