Oliver Sherman Page #3

the baby has a fever and

we have to stay with her.

Can you find

our own way back?

I'm sure the bar can call

you a cab or something.

But we were supposed

to have a drink.

I know, I know,

I'm sorry.

But we can do it

tomorrow instead.

Sherman?

Yeah?

I'll leave the front door

unlocked for you okay.

Hey,

Canadian club,

make it a double.

Sir?

Sir?

Your cab's waiting

outside.

You don't have

no f***ing fever.

Sherman?

You promised me a drink,

Frank.

Sherman, it's like

two in the morning.

I sat there like an idiot;

an idiot with no friends

drinking by himself.

We'll go back

there tomorrow.

What's going on?

You promised,

Frank.

Sherman,

go to bed.

You promised me,

Frank.

I said go to bed Sherman!

baby cries

It's okay,

it's okay,

I'll get her.

Is that what you want

around your children?

Don't put me

in that position.

What position?

The one where your

family comes first?

That's not fair.

Why do you keep

sticking up for him?

Because I could

easily be where he is.

No, you have

done hard work;

he's just looking

for excuses not to.

You don't know

what it was like.

No,

I don't,

but you don't know what it

was like carrying your

two children and giving

birth to them, so...

Please,

for the love of...

No, I am stuck here doing

the servant jobs while-

while you're

out at the bar.

It's not like that.

I looked in his wallet.

Irene!

He listed our house as

his permanent address

on his library card.

What address is he

supposed to use?

He's a drifter; he just

wanted to read, that's all.

No, he's settling in when

he should be looking

for a way out.

Truth be told I'd be

happy if he was moving on,

I just feel sorry for him.

He's down on his

luck right now.

He's deeply unhappy

and he's looking for

someone to pin it on.

Two more.

Great,

okay.

Feel like some

steak tonight?

Sure.

Sherman,

there he is;

Raymond Saddler.

I've seen that guy

at the library.

I'm surprised

he can read.

TV show

Jacob laughing

TV show

Oh sh*t!

Twenty-five cents.

Yes,

it is.

What?

TV:

Well I'm not gonna

bring it to you.

How about this;

you can keep the coin

or I can show you

something even better?

TV:

TV:

I keep trying to

stick up for you

and you just leave me

twisting in the wind.

I told you, he asked

me to see it

so I showed it to him.

He's four years old.

My father taught me to

hunt when I was four.

Hell,

earlier.

Jacob's not like you and me.

What's so wrong

with you and me?

Nothing; he's just

different that's all.

You've forgotten

who you are,

that's what's wrong.

Tucked it away real nice.

But I'll tell you what;

that son of yours

he's no different either.

Men, women, children,

they're all violent.

That's so god damn extreme.

I saw the way you

smacked that kid.

I spanked him.

Yeah,

and killing in war

is different than

killing here, I know.

Okay,

but Sherman,

what I never

hear you talk about

is the other side,

the good.

Why do you always have to see

the worst from the outset?

I know,

you're better than me.

God damn it Sherman, that's

not what I'm talking about!

You're a really

lucky man, Frank.

I feel like I'm on the outside

of everything looking in -

at you,

your wife and

those kids.

Normal house with

normal things in it.

Maybe if I went out and got

all those things

maybe I'd see

things different -

how you see 'em.

I'm real happy for you though.

knocking

Sherman if you wanna

smoke do it outside.

He has no respect

for our home;

he has no respect

for anything.

Look I'm trying to

talk to him about it.

He just flashes those sad

eyes at you and you fold.

I said I'm trying.

Well you need

to try harder;

I want to know

when he's leaving.

I already have two

children to take care of!

door slams

Everything okay?

She wants to know where

you're going next from here;

what your long-term plans are.

Mm, well,

you know;

I'll try and think

of something today.

car starts

knock

Sherman,

you're back early.

I needed to

leave the library.

They're fumigating.

Oh,

come on in.

I'm just in

the kitchen.

All right if I sit?

Go ahead.

Where's the kids?

They're both napping.

I'm just getting lunch

ready for when they wake up.

Do you need anything?

No thank you,

ma'am.

Say, you ever

play poker?

Too busy.

We played a lot of

cards in the service,

mostly poker.

Poker at night,

drunk with the girls.

Did a lot of card

playing in whore houses.

Now that's something

you don't forget.

The smell of

that perfume,

long dark hair.

You think he's forgot?

I know I should feel

sorry for your troubles...

Oh you don't have

to feel sorry for me;

I'm doing okay.

You gotta pity a man who

isn't right in the head.

I guess I could get away

with a lot if I wanted

to make that excuse

like you do.

I'm a mother,

I've given birth;

I can say and do

whatever I please.

Oh you may be crazy but

you're not dumb are you?

I'll tell you something else;

Frank didn't come

for the cards.

He never could play a lick.

Games are for children;

Franklin is a grown man.

You know,

it's taken

years for him to

get over the war

but he did it

and he's fine now

and you could be too.

But trying to drag a cured man

down in your sickness

isn't gonna make you well.

Oh is that what I'm doing?

Oh you hate me don't you?

I don't hate you.

He's killed you know.

Hasn't changed him.

How do you know;

you didn't know him before?

He's a good man.

Yes he is, but he knows

how easy it would be

to do it again.

Before you do it you

think it's impossible.

You probably think

that don't you?

Think what?

You couldn't kill.

I couldn't.

Really? A baby by

the wrong man,

you wouldn't get rid of it?

What if one of those

kids was in danger?

Fine I'd kill

anybody for that.

Even your husband?

What?

If you had to

make a choice?

Why are you trying

to intimidate me?

We're talking.

Why don't you want

to talk about things?

This isn't talking,

this is a game of

chicken with a drunk.

I am not drunk,

ma'am.

Fumes from the

fumigation is all.

Speaking of which,

it's probably safe for me to

go back to the library now.

Hey.

I've been calling

you all afternoon.

I was at a

meeting offsite.

We have to talk.

Can I talk to you upstairs?

Sure.

I'll be right back.

Where are the kids?

- At my sisters.

Why?

He came back here

during lunch.

Sherman? I just picked

him up from the library.

Well I don't know,

you know,

I guess he went back

to put on a good

face for you.

What happened?

He came here and

he was saying things.

What things?

He was trying to

bully me and...

Tell me what he said?

He was talking about

prostitutes and killing.

He threatened me

with our children

not twenty feet away.

This is where it ends.

I don't want him in our house;

I don't want him in our town.

He leaves now or

I'm going to my sister's.

stomping down stairs

Outside.

Sit down.

What's wrong,

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