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Your balls are busted because you put

them in a vise and yanked the handle.

- The screw.

- What?

The jaws of a vise are moved

by a screw or a lever.

You don't call it a handle.

Thank you, Louise.

The point being, Mr. King...

...if you are feeling pressure on your

testicles, you have yourself to blame.

You're just gonna take the hit?

You're gonna let my boat

rot in the harbour?

You misrepresented the properties to us.

You tried to swindle us into keeping

your boat from being repossessed...

...by assigning the title to us.

You gals already said

you're not fishermen.

But there's no shortage of guys

who are willing to work for a piece.

A share.

What?

On a boat, you know, in nautical terms,

it's called working for a "share."

Thank you.

If we're gonna do this,

we have to get our terminology right.

You think you'll get anybody

in town to take my boat out...

...and fish on my license?

You're both f***ing crazy.

Better off without you

In my life

Is this your truck?

You working here?

I gotta load this wine off.

Gotta help tear things down after.

Could you give me a ride?

Yeah, I guess. After I...

- How far is it?

- Just into town.

Whenever you're ready.

I'm ready now.

- Aren't you the singer?

- Well, I was.

You're really good.

Thanks. I just broke up with a guy,

and he's here.

And if I'm gonna keep my sh*t

together, I need to go now.

I'll wait here.

Yeah, I'll just...

I meant what I said before.

You're really good, singing.

Thanks.

Especially since I've never

heard of you or anything.

Do you watch sports?

Yeah, basketball.

There must be players who are

really good that you've never heard of.

Nope.

No, if they're professionals and they're

really good, everybody's heard of them.

Well, singing is different.

It's a matter of taste...

...luck, whatever.

You okay?

Couldn't be better.

Your boyfriend was

the guy in the band, Randy...

Mason.

Well, I never heard of him either.

Good.

Take a left here.

When we came up to this country

15 years ago...

...Margie was 8 years old and convinced

we would all be eaten by grizzlies.

So far none of us has lost anything...

...but the occasional

backpack to the bears.

And this has been for us,

like for so many people before...

...a land of opportunity, a land...

There's just a couple more things.

I thought this was your house.

See if he can survive

without the f***ing microwave.

You taking his stuff?

My stuff. My daughter's stuff.

You sure?

Look around you. You see

everything that looks like sh*t?

That looks like somebody with no taste

and bad personal hygiene would have?

That's his stuff.

Would you grab the other end of that?

How long did you live here?

Three weeks.

I used to gig with him in Spokane.

He had this anorexic girl singer who'd

get too shaky to go on, so I'd fill in.

My booker talks me

into doing a year up here.

You know, "The money's real good."

I bump into Randy in Sitka,

and we hit it off.

So you move in.

No, I told him, " Keep your distance.

I got a kid. I'm older than you are.

I don't smoke as much dope as you do.

So don't think I'm moving in

or anything."

So how does your stuff

end up in his place?

Unforeseen circumstances.

You married?

Live with somebody?

Nope.

Sorry.

You work for those two?

Franny and Zooey?

Frankie and Lou? Yeah.

What'd you do before this?

Pulp mill, till it closed.

And before that?

This and that, like everybody.

Fisherman.

Yeah, I was.

Did you like it?

While it lasted.

You don't go out anymore?

Nope.

Why not?

Unforeseen circumstances.

I should get back.

Let's move it off the truck.

The guys inside will help me.

You're gonna stay here?

We were before.

This is my regular gig

for the next month or so.

Well, I'll come see you, then.

Sing.

Great.

My kid is gonna kill me.

It went fine.

The father was gonna

cater it on the ship...

...till the bride put her foot down.

You out of here?

Time off for good behaviour.

Saw all the groom's buddies

checking you out.

Right.

I'm serious.

Bunch of preppy thugs.

You're a hard woman to please.

Catch you tomorrow.

You need a ride?

You know what they wanna bring?

Frankie and Lou?

- What?

- Alpacas.

For sweaters?

For hiking trips.

They wanna take people out

for a week or so...

...and have the alpacas carry the gear.

They do it on the Amazon.

The Andes.

The Amazon's a jungle river.

It'd be too hot.

It's probably the mountain range,

the Andes.

Whatever.

They get them up here, no way

I'm cleaning their cages.

These are some strange people

we work with.

I don't know...

We got the lesbo trail guides,

the human pincushion in the kitchen.

Rusty.

He looks like he took a staple gun

to his eyebrows.

We got Eunice, the cashier:

26 years old and still

lives with her mother.

We got the handyman there,

killed two people.

He what?

Joe Gastineau? Mr. Dark and Moody.

He killed people?

Got them killed. Same thing.

Took them out on his boat,

and they both drowned.

How'd you like to carry

that around with you?

I'm sorry you got stuck at work.

I just had to get out of there.

I'm used to getting home on my own.

I just like to know where it is.

Half my clothes are missing.

Well, I grabbed everything I could see.

- I had a load in the dryer.

- We'll get it back.

I didn't wanna move over there

in the first place.

It was a dumb idea, and I'm sorry.

He wasn't that bad.

Compared to what?

- Compared to Lyle.

- He Whose Name...

...Must Not Be Spoken.

Now look, I made a mistake

with Randy, and I'm sorry.

I'll help you get your stuff.

You're the mistake.

Your ladies did a really nice job

with that reception.

I didn't eat, but it looked really good.

Is the boy that likes you the one with

the shrimp and the hair in his eyes?

I didn't say he likes me. I said

I thought he was good-looking.

And no, that's not him. That's Perry.

Perry wants to be a break dancer

when he grows up.

I thought that was over.

Disco hasn't made it up here yet.

Come on.

How could you think

I think Perry is cute?

You're a high school kid.

What do I know what you like?

Right.

You don't.

Are you mad at me about Randy?

Did you like him?

It's hard enough to keep

their names straight!

Don't be that way!

I feel like sh*t!

I could use a little support.

That's what therapy's for.

We're gonna have to rent the VCR again.

He's back.

There's nothing we can do about it.

He'll make a feud out

of this thing with his boat.

Our boat.

Doesn't he have a job?

If the temperature in the water

changes a couple of degrees...

...it becomes slightly

more or less acid.

Any little change, it can mean

the salmon won't return there.

And where do they go?

They probably just keep looking

along the coast until...

So the whole run disappears?

It's been known to happen.

Pretty hard-wired, fish.

Not many options.

People, though, got bigger brains.

They can guess at the future,

make decisions.

They just do a real lousy job of it.

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