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everything but the kitchen sink.

Oh, uh, yes, my wife put together

a box of groceries for you.

Thank you. I saw that. I guess you're gonna have

everything you're gonna need.

- You follow me in there, Kelso.

- Right, sir.

You see, the idea of this legend is

to frighten the lumberjacks out.

They're almost as superstitious

as the opies.

- Opies?

- O.P. O.P.'S. Original people.

Yeah, that's what

they call themselves now.

The Ashinabegs,

Passamaquoddy,

Wampanoags

and the Yuroks,

They all joined together,

called themselves the opies.

Mr. Vern. What about those people,

the ones who disappeared?

Well, I'll tell ya

something.

If you'd asked me, Iwouldn't have sent

a search team in there.

- I'd have sent a posse.

- Why is that? You think the indians did it?

No doubt in my mind.

There's a general store

and post office...

And laundromat,

Mrs. Vern.

Keep your money

in that bank there, if you wanna.

You know, all that stuff

about the paper companies ruining the forests,

That's pure myth.

We've been running a pulp operation on the upper espee

here for 20 years now.

We plant seedlings

every time we harvest.

That land is more stable today

than it was when God himself made it.

Well, to give him his due,

he didn't have modern science to help him.

He didn't have hydroponics

and silviculture techniques.

I'd say he did pretty well

under the circumstances.

What with

his limited education.

Yeah.

What's this?

Mr. Hawks.

These people are from

the environmental

protection agency.

I'd appreciate

bein' let through.

No car from the lumber company

gets through here.

This is against

the law, John.

The law has not

brought justice.

The Supreme Court has issued

a restraining order against this blockade.

And which Supreme Court

is that, Mr. Isely?

The Supreme Court

of the United States.

Yes, we've tried

that Supreme Court.

Now we're going

to one that's higher.

You a part of this,

Ramona?

By birth, Mr. Isely.

Can we walk in?

It's ten miles.

Is there another road?

No, Mrs. Vern,

there isn't.

John, tell your people

get out of the way.

Kelso!

Cut down those

two trees, please.

Mr. Isely--

I don't get the point.

Nobody's going

to get hurt.

The point is

not to be intimidated.

Cut 'em down.

- Don't let this happen!

- Are you gonna stand aside, Hawks ?

I'm gonna tell you

right now!

You cut my head off

before you cut these trees!

Oh, come on!

Take 'em down!

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute!

Stop it!

Stop it, please!

Make him

stop it!

- Open the chain, John.

- I won't open it!

Open it, goddamn it! What does this prove,

anyway? That they're murderers.

It doesn't prove a damn thing!

Now open it!

No!

Open it!

Don't!

These are violent people, Mr. Vern.

They get drunk and they get violent.

You gotta show 'em

when you mean business.

Ii swear, Maggie, that must

have been a world's record.

I've never heard

of such a big salmon.

Well, this is the land

of Paul Bunyan and his giant ox, babe.

- Was that Maine?

- Sure was.

Well, there might be something to it.

That fish was a giant.

Maybe you'll go home

with a trophy.

I can't get over it.

God knows what would happen

if I hooked into it.

Hmm. Taste this.

Aphrodisia.

You think you could catch any more?

Are you kidding ?

I'm one of the world's great fishermen.

Well, you fish,

and I'll eat.

Now that's

a relationship.

Do you wanna know

something?

I was so proud

of you today.

That made the ghetto seem suddenly

very peaceful to me.

You know something else?

I was jealous of that Indian woman.

She had so much courage-- To be so strong

when she was frightened--

To demand her own way.

It's a kind of courage

I don't have much of.

I don't know about that.

I think it takes a lot of courage to put up with me.

I love you.

I love you so much, I wish there were

more of you.

Well, I could easily

put on 20 pounds.

I mean, I wish

there were more of us.

I'm sorry.

It's something

I want to discuss.

- Now?

- Why not now? Everything's so perfect.

You know how I feel.

When I was a child, my mother told me I had to

eat everything on my plate...

Because there were

starving children in the world.

It didn't make any sense to me.

Now you tell me

I mustn't get pregnant...

Because there are starving children in the world,

and that doesn't make sense to me either.

It does to me.

You're afraid, aren't you?

I don't know.

I don't know about

a lot of things anymore.

I feel like...

I've been going around and around a racetrack

at a hundred miles an hour.

And I wound up

where I started.

No one else was in the race.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

What's wrong, dad?

- Turn that thing off. - But you said

I could play it for another ten minutes.

Just turn it off.

What is it?

- Nothing.

- Can I turn it on again?

Yeah.

The soil's a clay base.

I'm sending samples on tomorrow.

Yeah. Oh, listen, Vic.

I'm including a couple of

tissue samples from the raccoon.

Check 'em out for me, will you?

No, I examined 'em, but--

No, it wasn't rabies.

I don't know what it is,

but there's definitely something wrong.

Yeah. Okay.

Yeah, you should be.

Oh, she's fine.

Talk to you tuesday.

Mr. Vern.

- My name is John Hawks.

- I remember.

I'd like you to come with us,

if you would.

- What for?

- I want to speak with you.

Right here will be fine.

Are you afraid of us?

Somewhat.

- Because of what you've heard? - No, it's not

what I've heard, but what I've seen.

You've heard we're drunks,

we're violent,

And that we're murderers.

That's what they're saying

about us in Washington,

Because they're discounting

our rights with these lies.

I can understand

how you must feel,

- But my work here has nothing to do--

- Are you deaf?

Like the rest?

I'm a fairly well-educated

person, Mr. Vern.

I was educated

at your schools.

I studied your laws,

I perfected your language.

Of course, your laws have

never really applied to us, but, um,

Your language, it seems to have been wasted

in the Indian's mouth,

Because, uh,

well, you refuse to hear.

- Why is it you refuse to hear?

- Oh, I can hear.

But I can also see. You seem surprised

that people think you're violent.

- The violence is always provoked.

- By whom?

- It was necessary.

- It was suicidal.

Tell me, uh,

for what you believe in,

You willing to die?

Look. I'm here to study

the environment.

What's your concept of the environment?

Is it rocks?

- Oh, come on!

- The environment is us.

And it's being mangled.

I'm gonna make something

clear to you.

My people

are violently ill.

They're beginning

to lose their faculties.

They stagger

and they fall,

And this has nothing to do with alcohol,

as these villagers claim.

My people are fishermen.

Their lives are clean.

I'm a midwife, and I've seen

children born dead, born deformed.

So badly, some have

had to be put to death.

Three times we have been

to the government,

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