Lamb Page #3

Just that everything's

okay, that... I'm okay.

Not to worry.

Do you think she'll

worry more if we call her?

I don't know.

Maybe we should think about that.

[instrumental music playing]

[woman] Are you okay, sweetheart?

[sobbing]

Can I help you?

What's your name, honey?

Emily.

Emily, my name is Melissa.

Can I help you with something?

- Your mom or daddy here?

- Morning. Hey.

- Is she okay?

- Yeah, yeah, just a little carsick.

[blowing nose]

That's the most extraordinary

sound I've ever heard.

Blow again.

[blows]

What are the facts here? Do you remember?

I'm running away from home.

Is that what you think?

We spend a week and then you take me back.

Close.

We spend a few days and

then you take me back.

And we agreed to this deal, right?

Yes.

So, there's no running away.

You're just like a teenager.

You're going on vacation, right?

Look...

I know your mom's worried, but how

about we send her a postcard, okay?

It'll be such a relief to her to know

that you're out here in the world,

having so much fun.

And she'll love you more than ever and

you'll love her more than ever. Right?

Hey.

There's room in your

heart for more love, okay?

Okay.

[instrumental music playing]

Okay.

- You blow your nose like a honking loon.

- [Tommie chuckles]

Come on.

Twenty five,

twenty four,

twenty three...

All right.

One good gulp will refuel you.

That way I won't get

lonely until I get tired.

No, I don't want one...

- Ah! Ow! It's hot!

- Tommie, you've got it all over you.

- Ow! It's hot!

- We have to get you to the bath, cool you down.

- I don't want it to burn.

- No!

- It's okay.

- I don't want a bath!

I'm just gonna put you in the bath...

Aah! Goddamn it! My eye. That hurt, Tommie.

- Don't want a bath!

- We have to rinse it off. Come on.

- No...

- Look...

- Just go outside! Count to 60! Go away!

- Okay, that's what I'll do.

[Tommie] Ow! Ow! My lip! My lip!

- [crying loudly]

- Okay, okay, okay.

- [crying]

- [shushing]

Okay, look. Just gonna rinse you off

so we can get you cleaned up

so you can sleep better, okay?

[continues crying]

- Tommie, we have to...

- Go away!

- You have to get out of your clothes so we can rinse you off!

- Go away!

- Can you give me your shirt so we can...

- Go away!

[continues crying]

Give me your shirt so we

can rinse you off, Tommie.

Okay?

Just give me your shirt,

so we can rinse you off.

- Okay. Okay.

- Go away.

Go away!

[screaming] Go away! Go away!

- Okay.

- [faucet creaks]

[screaming and crying] Go away! Go away!

Go away!

[water sloshing]

Go away!

I wanna go home!

[shushing]

You hungry?

You must be.

You slept for two days.

I wanna go home.

All right.

We'll find a place to pull

over and we'll take you home.

- I'm gonna be in so much trouble.

- No, you're not.

They're gonna be so happy to see you.

And then I'll leave town and

then you can get over this.

Never to see me again.

I'm not a little kid.

I didn't sleep for two days.

You treat me like I'm five. I

don't need any f***ing baths!

All right.

[car indicator clicking]

You're right.

We have to be honest with one another.

We have to tell each other everything.

Look, I wanna know when you're

sick or when you're homesick

or when you're cold. We have

to tell each other everything.

We'll turn around and take you home.

Just like we said we would.

[sighs]

My God. Is this the most

beautiful place you've ever seen?

Did I bruise your eye?

Wanna hit me again so you even them out?

Can you find it in your

heart to forgive me?

[piano music playing]

[birds chirping]

There's something up there for you.

- What is it?

- I don't know. Open it.

Isn't it pretty?

[door opens]

[birds chirping]

[crickets chirping]

[Tommie] I've never seen so many.

- Can you take your shoes off?

- Yeah.

Good.

[shivering] Oh.

- Cold?

- Yeah.

Ew.

[man] This here is private property.

Mr. Foster.

Who's that?

Walter Lamb's son. This is my niece, Emily.

You be here for a while?

Just about a week.

Ain't much of a place for a girl.

- I like it.

- Yeah, well.

Girl doesn't get to choose

where she lands, does she?

Hey, Em, give us a minute.

[David] She just lost her mother.

Sister? Yours?

Sister-in-law.

Oh, okay.

You got gutters comin' down in back

and you also got a broken window.

[crickets chirping]

Listen, Tommie.

I feel a little funny about that

old man peeping in the windows and...

getting any ideas.

- Like he'll know you're not my uncle?

- Exactly.

Well, you act like an uncle.

Even like a dad.

Well, my dear, that's a very

nice thing for you to say.

But neither one of us really knows

what a father should act like, right?

- Oh, yeah.

- So...

we'll keep the lights out,

and we use an old-fashioned

lantern and a candle.

Okay?

[music playing on radio]

[rock music playing]

[romantic music playing]

[David] Nice.

[Tommie] How do you know

how to do all this stuff?

[David] Well...

I've been waiting 40 years

for a moment like this.

I figured in all that time, I'd have

probably figured out how it'd go.

But you didn't know

about me that entire time.

No.

You are a complete and total surprise.

Good surprise?

Good surprise.

[birds chirping]

[sighs]

Will you miss me when you take me back?

No hard questions. Let's

just enjoy the morning.

- Gary?

- Yeah.

You think my mom called the police by now?

- Honestly?

- Yeah.

Yeah, I do.

Are you gonna get in trouble?

No.

How do you know?

You don't have to worry.

This is gonna be good for everybody.

There'll be a new light about you.

And you'll know about this

country's secret heart.

And you'll be drenched in it.

It's gonna get all over everybody.

Okay.

You really are beautiful, you know that?

[whistles]

You are whole.

I am?

Can I get a root beer?

Sure. Grab me a beer while you're at it.

- Can I have a sip?

- One sip.

Off the top, and then bring me the rest.

[birds chirping]

[suspenseful music playing]

Hello, there.

- What you got there?

- [David] Em?

- Hey.

- [glass shatters]

Go inside. Now.

Get inside! Go!

Sorry you had to witness that. She's

never done anything like that before.

Well, guess a little sip of

beer never hurt anybody, did it?

I saw you walking north, by the

river. You don't wanna do that.

We got some unfriendly

landowners up that way.

We got this old guy, Ed Granger,

had a metal plate put in his head in '91.

Hasn't been right since.

And he don't like kids.

See, he was up when my

brother-in-law put this place up

when his kid almost lost her arm

on a square of sheet metal.

[blows air]

Not the kind of picture you forget.

I guess not.

There's a hospital 70 miles away.

Should've taken that into consideration.

[sobbing]

You take a deep breath.

You promised there were horses!

Hey.

Can you calm down and listen to me?

[sighs]

What would've happened if I

didn't react like an angry uncle?

What do you think he would've thought of a

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