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- Put the goddamn gun down, John.

Do it!

- Harley!

- Harley! Harley, calm down!

- Harley!

- Are you okay? Harley?

Break it up, guys.

Come on. Okay.

I left camp

for less than an hour.

When I get back, one of my deputies is being

hauled down the mountain in an ambulance.

The boys tell me that you gave him some

sort of an attack. It was like a seizure.

- Is that right?

- No.

Then what did happen?

Why won't you tell anyone?

I let him see.

I opened him up,

and I let him see.

He just couldn't see what

he was doing, so I helped him.

Sheriff-

You better start leveling with me.

Go ahead.

It's Maxine, Doug. She just called.

I'm on my way.

I gotta go.

I need you to think real hard

about telling me what happened.

Thanks, Jess.

Jeremy, please.

I want to go home.

Do you understand that?

I want to go home.

Look, whatever happened up there,

whatever you saw-

I saw that

I don't like what you do!

Any of you!

- Jeremy-

- No!

You pretend to be my friend,

the way you pretend everything!

A friend doesn't lock you up!

A friend doesn't take you

away from your home,

and say that it's for your own good!

How long do you really think

I'll let you keep me here?

She's all right.

I got nervous when I couldn't find you,

so I called the doc.

Harley just got admitted

over at County.

Give a call over there, will you,

Maxine? Find out how he's doing.

Listen, this is like

having your heart torn out every day.

Doug, there's no explanation why your

wife should still be alive right now.

Give me the short one,

will you, Doc?

She can't like seeing

this strain on you,

which may be why she's hanging on

through the worst pain of her life.

It's just gonna make it that much easier

if we get her back to County.

This is where

she wants to be, Duane.

She told me when she still could.

She keeps holding on.

I just don't know why.

And you won't.

Doug, she's past communicating.

You can't get inside of her head.

And if you could,

she'd probably tell you...

"Let me go."

Knock, knock.

Mind if I come in?

Hey, you-you

did something to me.

Um... you know,

I-I didn't figure it out...

until enough people looked at me like

I was crazy or told me to act my age,

but you, uh, uh, zapped me or l,

uh, zapped myself when I touched you.

But I've been- I-I've been running

around on this high like I was 18 again.

I've had more ideas

and more, more focus...

and... better sex

than I've had in ten years.

Do you believe me?

Well... why shouldn't you?

You know if what I say

is bullshit, don't you?

So you know when I say

I'm just here to talk...

that, uh, that I mean it.

Uh, say, did you-

Did you read any, uh, Einstein?

No? Oh, well-

Oh, I think you'd like him.

Um, he said he believed

in life after death.

Only because energy can

never cease to exist.

That it relays, it transforms,

but it doesn't stop ever.

Uh, and he said that if

we ever got to the point...

where we could use all our brain,

uh, that we'd be pure energy...

and that we wouldn't

even need bodies.

Now, um, wh-what would you

say to the possibility...

that because something

happened to you,

uh, something that never does

or isn't supposed to,

that you are, are closer

to that energy level...

than any one body has ever been?

I'd say, "So what?"

So what?

Jeremy, y-you know,

y-your life up 'til now has been...

that farmhouse and, uh,

and the 12 acres of earth.

You know, you've kind

of lived in books.

But I think you're starting

to find out now that the misery...

that you read about is real.

The tragedy is, is real

in all those stories, Jeremy.

Did you think that it wasn't?

I mean, my God, that deer hunt

- You think that's the dark side of man? Killing for pleasure?

I'm sorry. I'm really sorry,

but you haven't begun to see what we do.

We're- Jesus, we're stumbling around

in a very dark age...

basically just trying

not to kill each other.

So it hurts me when you say, "So what?"

because you are not

just different, Jeremy.

I think that you have

a mind that, uh,

that we won't evolve to for like, uh,

thousands of years.

You're maybe the man of the future

right here and now.

I don't know.

And I'm-I'm not here to hurt you.

Jeremy, I want

to be a-a-a friend.

I want to talk with you.

Well... I mean,

did you ever have a friend?

I don't need a friend.

Really?

Gee, I thought

you were a genius.

You know what I say is true.

Are you telling me you, like,

never shook anybody's hand before?

Ah, how do you do?

Hmm? Now we've been

properly introduced.

Want to see a trick?

Hmm.

Wow.

They were afraid

to touch me after a while.

My grandma and grandpa, they-

They got really scared.

What? To touch you?

Jeremy, that's not right.

No way.

That's not right.

Doug.

You've done a little

spring cleaning?

What the hell are you

doing here, Doug?

A couple of my deputies

told me that Harley Duncan...

got rid of every

goddamn gun in his house.

Said he dropped out of

the marksman tourney over in Butte too.

The one he wins every year.

I just ain't huntin'

no more, Doug.

Is that some kind of crime?

I just got lots

of other stuff to do.

You gonna stop

carrying one on the job?

If you can't pick it up and use it,

that's a liability.

I want you to level with me.

I already know you snuck off

hunting with the boys,

which is the last damn thing

you should have done.

Yeah, I know.

I know.

And I popped this pretty doe,

just up at Little Lake.

Let me tell you something, Doug. You ever tell

anybody I said this, I'm moving out of town.

That... kid?

He lays his hand on the deer

while it's still shakin'...

and then he touches me

at the same time.

Now, I can't figure out why...

'til my heart starts poundin'

and I'm shakin',

and I'm feelin' myself

hurt and scared shitless,

slippin' away in the goddamn dark.

That's the worst thing I ever felt.

It's like I could feel

that animal dyin'.

It's like I was

the goddamn thing.

- Aw, come on, Harley.

- Doug, I swear.

Now... I-

I just can't do it anymore.

I can't look at something down the

barrel of a gun without thinking about it.

I've tried it.

I'm telling you,

that thing ain't normal.

I'm telling you, he took whatever was

in that goddamn deer,

and he put it right into me.

I'm sorry, son.

Uh... Jessie said...

it may be okay

for you to come with me.

I don't know what it is you do.

I'm not even sure

I believe you can do it.

But if you can,

I need your help.

Doug Barnum, don't you do this.

- That boy should not be in this house!

- Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.

- Go to bed, Maxine.

- If you heard the stories I've heard,

- you wouldn't want him in this house!

- Go on, go on.

- Go back to bed.

- I'm telling you, that boy should not be here.

Go to bed, Maxine.

She knows you're here.

Talk to me, woman.

Tell me what

I can do for you, Emma.

She can't go,

not until she knows

you're gonna get through this.

She says the both of you.

You and Steven.

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