Paris, Texas Page #4

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You will all be caught

with your diapers down!

That is a promise!

I make you this promise

on my mother's head!

For right here, today. Standing

on the very head of my mother,

which is now on God's green earth,

which everybody

who wasn't born in a f***ing sewer

ought to know and understand

to the very marrow of their bones!

They will invade you

in your beds,

they will snatch you from your hot tubs,

they will pluck you right out of

your fancy sports cars!

There is nowhere,

absolutely nowhere,

in this God forsaken valley.

I'm talking about from the range of my voice,

right here

clear out to the goddamn Mohjave Desert

and beyond that,

clear out past Barstows

and everywhere else in the

valley all the way to Arizona.

None of that area will be called the safety zone!

There will be no safety zone!

I can guarantee you

the safety zone

will be eliminated.

Eradicated.

You will all be extradited

to the land of no return!

It's a navigation to nowhere.

And if you think

that's going to be fun,

you've got another think coming.

I maybe a slime-bucket,

but believe me:

I know what the hell I am talking about.

I am not crazy.

And don't say

I didn't warn you!

I warned you! I warned all of you!

Thought you were afraid of heights?

No, I'm not afraid of heights,

I'm afraid of falling.

Oh yeah, well just don't look down.

Too bad, things don't look

the same on the ground.

What do you mean?

Well, things are clearer up here.

- Might clear things up.

- Yeah, I had a talk with Anne last night.

Yeah, she's pretty upset.

Yeah, I know.

I'm gonna leave.

- What?

- I'm leaving.

I didn't tell you this in

order to make you leave.

I am not trying to

get rid of you, Travis.

I know that.

What good is that gonna do?

It's not gonna solve anything.

I'm gonna find Jane.

How are you gonna do that?

It's been four years!

She's completely disappeared.

I tried to find her.

I've tried everything I couldn't find her.

well, I haven't tried it yet.

- I can find her.

- What makes you so sure?

I just know.

Can we go down now?

No.

Goddamn it!

You tell me what happened, Travis!

I'm sick of this f***ing mystery.

I've been treating you

like a spoiled kid

ever since I picked you up in the desert.

Now, you tell me what happened with you and Jane!

Sh*t!

I know it's none of my business.

Uh, I'm gonna need to take uh...

money, credit cards.

All right, sure, you can have them.

- You know you'll get it back.

- Oh, forget that, you can keep them.

I want to find her, Walt.

Hunter!

Is that your car?

Yep. Come on.

Radical!

This is not bad stuff.

Anne puts it in lunch everyday.

La vache qui rit. Sticky.

"La vache" what?

Rit rrr rit.

Rit rrr rit.

I like it.

- Dad?

- Yep.

Where did you go all that time?

Mexico.

How come?

I didn't know where else to go.

Where did Mom go?

I don't know.

But right now,

she's somewhere in Houston.

That's where the Space Center is.

Yeah.

That's what I want to talk to you about.

I gotta go away now.

Why?

'Cause I'm gonna find her.

What about me? You just found me!

Can I come with?

What about Walt and Anne?

We will never come back here?

Well, sure but...

I don't know when.

I want to come with.

I want to find her, too.

When do we go?

Right now.

Come on, let's go.

First, we gotta stop

to get some supplies for the trip.

OK.

We gotta buy jackets, T-shirts, toothbrushes

stuff like that, maybe even walkie-talkies.

- Talkies? What for?

- Just in case.

- Do you know what?

- What?

This whole galaxy,

the whole universe

used to be compressed

into a tiny spot this big.

- And, and you know what happened?

- what?

It went pfew and blew up.

all the spark, everything

went flying all over the place.

It formed the space.

It was just gas,

it was floating around.

the Earth was?

Yeah. The Earth was really gas.

And and the Sun formed

and it was so hot that

that the Earth just formed

into one hard big ball...

of ocean. Nothing but ocean.

So, there are sea animals.

And under the water,

volcano went pfew!

And the hot lava hit the water

and formed rock to make land.

You know how to make a collect call?

- You dial the operator, you tell him you...

- I know.

Good, and call Walt and Anne.

Why?

Because, so they don't worry about you,

so they know where you are.

What am I gonna say?

Just tell them the truth.

Tell them uh that you are with me

that we are going to Texas.

They're gonna flip out.

I know.

But you can handle it. OK?

Why can't you do it?

I can't do it.

Why?

Because... it has to be you.

Ah... Gee.

Why can't he do it?

- Hello.

- Hi, Dad.

Hunter, where are you?

You know what time it is?

I've been calling everywhere looking for you.

Travis got a truck.

Yeah, yeah, Hunter,

just listen to me now.

Tell... where are you exactly?

San Bernardino?

Hunter, what do you mean

you are in San Bernardino?

- Let me talk to him!

- Wait!

- How do you...

- Let me talk to him.

All right, all right.

Hunter, are you all right?

Yeah.

What are you doing?

Going to find Mom.

With Travis?

Why are you going?

Tell me where you are, Hunter,

just tell me where you are.

What's the name of it?

Oh, my God.

Hunter, you tell Travis

to turn around

and come back here right now.

Do you understand me?

Let me talk to him.

What should I do?

Just, hang up.

Bye, Mom. Got to go now.

Hunter? Hunter!

Did they flip out?

Yeah, she did.

You are not sorry you came, are you?

No.

Well, you can go back to them

anytime you want.

You just tell me, OK?

I don't want to go back.

I know.

But just in case you change your mind.

I am so used to calling her Mom.

Anne?

She sounded so sad.

I know.

What do you think Mom will look like now?

I don't know.

Do you remember her?

Not really.

Only from that little movie we saw.

You look happy then.

Yeah.

You keep that.

Night.

Night.

Dad, if a guy put a baby down,

traveled at the speed of light for an hour.

If he traveled at the speed of light,

he would... he would come back in an hour,

he would be an hour older.

But the little baby would be a very old man.

Oh yeah?

Well, how long will it take him

to get to Houston?

Uh... if if they were to travel...

I'd say about three seconds.

Over, I didn't get that last part.

It would take them three seconds

to get from California to Houston

on light speed.

- This is Houston?

- Yep.

How are we gonna find her

in a big city like this?

- I know where she'll be.

- Where?

A bank. She's gonna deposit some money

at a certain bank today.

This is a bank?

What kind of bank is this?

Looks like a drive-in.

I've never seen a bank like that.

Me neither.

There're so many cars,

we'll never find her.

Oh yeah, we will.

come on.

We will split up,

and then we cover more ground, OK?

Yeah, we could use the walkie-talkies.

Hey, now you're going!

- I will let you out there.

- OK.

Can you hear me, Dad? Over.

Loud and clear.

Good!

Hunter in position one,

over.

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