Pray for Rain Page #2

I'm only the sheriff

because he ran off...

And no one else wanted the job.

I might still race dirt bikes

with you.

How you doin'?

I had uh, no idea everything

was so bad.

Yeah, well, you've been gone

a long time, em.

Dispatch said you were looking

for me, what's in your craw?

Look, I know this might sound

crazy, but...

Do you think someone

could have killed my dad?

Could have? Sure. I mean,

I considered that.

But nothing pointed to anything

other than an accident.

Your mother said he was out

scouting a well.

Tractor must have stalled,

he slid under it to fix it...

It restarted and pinned

him down.

Yeah, but he never would have

taken a tractor down...

To Dylan's ditch.

Emma, his blood alcohol level

was through the roof.

I had to beg the coroner not

to include it on the report.

That's impossible. Dad never

drank.

Well, like I said, you've been

gone a long time.

Did he ever show you this?

I found it in his office.

I don't know, could you run

some DNA...

Or fingerprints on the envelope?

We can send it out.

It'll take a while.

Your dad, he rattled some cages,

but I don't th...

Whose?

Dispatcher

sheriff, we've got a code 63...

In progress at the Murphy farm.

All right, 10-4. I'm on my way.

I'm sorry, Emma, I gotta go.

I'm going with you.

Your dad butted heads

with some politicians...

And environmentalists,

but the only guy...

He had a long standing beef

with was Patrick waring.

That heated up again recently...

When waring started pressuring

other farmers to sell.

You can't drill into this

aquifer!

The land is sinking

a foot a year!

Yeah!

Time's up, okay! So get the hell

off my property!

This water that you want

to pump is 20,000 years old.

It's gonna take decades

to replace!

It's farmers like you

who are the problem.

You know what? Why don't you

replace that.

Come on!

Don't push me!

Don't push me!

Get off...

Hey! Hey! Cool it!

Come on!

You okay?

Yeah, thanks.

Break it up! Cool it! Cool it!

I said cool it! You...

Get off my property!

Enough! This is private

property.

You want to protest drilling?

Do it from across the road.

You trespass or vandalize

this property again...

And I will lock you up.

Great. Arrest me. It gives more

attention to our cause.

Oh yeah? You sure you all wanna

spend time in county...

With a bunch of pissed-off

farmers...

Who got there fighting

over water?

Babe.

All right, let's pack it up,

you guys!

We made our voices heard here

today! That's what matters.

Here-here.

This isn't over.

Let's go.

Back up.

You okay, sweetie?

Yeah, I'm okay.

All right, guys, let's get to

work. Thanks.

Excuse me, has this happened

before?

Oh, yeah, once or twice.

They're protestors, so they're

gonna protest.

I'm crash Murphy. We weren't

properly introduced.

Hi, I'm Emma. You're very young

to be doing this.

I studied agriculture at uc

Berkeley...

And then I invested in this

farm. Perfect timing, right?

Your dad, he talked about you

a lot. Sorry for your loss.

Thank you.

He said you were a reporter.

I guess you can call

what I do reporting.

Okay. Well, this is what you

should be reporting on.

What, the drought making people

crazy?

Well, the drought is horrible.

Never thought it'd last this

long...

But now it's only part

of the problem.

It's the damn pumps.

What pumps?

The pumps up at the delta.

There's plenty of water there.

It's just not coming here.

I thought you would have

known this.

Your father did everything

he could...

To get those pumps turned on.

He petitioned the governor,

he wrote editorials...

And spoke before California

water agencies.

He was making a lot of noise.

Do you think you could show me

these pumps?

Okay, so, this facility takes

water from the delta below...

Pumps it 200 feet uphill

into the aqueduct...

That runs into our valley.

So... why were the pumps turned

off?

You ever heard of the delta

smelt?

It's actually a little fish,

it's about yay big.

They live in the Sacramento-San

Joaquin river delta...

Which is where this water

is being diverted from.

Apparently, the smelt need fresh

water to survive...

So some environmentalists filed

a lawsuit on behalf of the fish.

So now we don't get a single

drop of any of this water.

All of this for a 3-inch fish?

The irony is, that since they

made their changes...

Fish haven't changed in

population... but we sure have.

All we're asking for is five

percent of this water.

Less than two minutes.

The female record is 77 seconds.

One time your father was in

and out of that shower...

In less than a minute and he

started out dirtier than most.

Sometimes he used to farm naked.

Yeah, I remember.

What are you doing?

Well, as soon as the insurance

money comes in, I'm selling...

I'm getting out of Bella Canejo.

Well, you're not wasting

any time, are you?

Yeah, well, I wasted enough.

Mom, can you stop jerking off

to real estate for a second?

I can multi-task.

What do you need?

I think dad was murdered.

By an evil tractor?

Apparently he had a lot

of enemies.

Yeah, present company included.

Mom, if he was so bad, why

didn't you just leave him?

And go where? We were stuck

in this shithole...

Circling around the drain

together.

Used up all our money to send

you to school.

We had a hell of a 15 years!

After you told your dad

that little lie.

I saw what I saw.

I want to go and live

by the ocean.

I want to drink homemade white

wine from a Mason jar.

I want to see the world that

you've seen. I want out.

Is that too much to ask

for after all this dirt?

No.

I know you have this idea

of your father...

But maybe that idea was

outdated.

Maybe the truth is that he just

got on that old tractor...

He just plumb forgot how to

drive it...

And he ended up in the ditch.

Sometimes, there is no mystery,

no story...

We just have to get

on with our lives.

I'm gonna hang around

for a while longer...

If that's okay with you?

Suit yourself. You've always

done what you wanted to do.

Be careful.

Look, I know you like to think

of yourself as the smartest...

Person in the room, but this

isn't New York...

And they work by different

rules here.

Goodnight.

Hi there.

Oh, hey.

Hi.

Thanks so much for

rescuing me the other day.

Oh, of course.

What can I help you with?

Um, is your boyfriend here?

Yeah, come on back.

Here, can you finish this real

quick? Thank you.

So, when are you due?

Two months.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Let me guess... natural

childbirth?

Definitely. Adam believes that's

what's best for the baby.

Is he speaking from personal

experience?

Excuse me, Adam...

Just a second. Yes?

You have a visitor.

Oh, g... uh, come in, please!

Come in, come in.

Hi, I'm Adam Campbell.

Hi. I'm...

Emma Gardner, yes, who donates

to Greenpeace...

The world wildlife fund,

and the Sierra club...

But for some reason, not us.

How do you know so much...

I looked you up on Facebook.

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