Straw Dogs Page #2

MAN:
Bye.

You all right, Blackie?

MAN 2:
See you, Coach.

(SIGHS)

Almost got knifed.

Is that what you

meant by one of "the

problems of the world"?

It's Coach Heddon.

Not the prettiest picture.

You know, it's fine.

We'll just chalk it up

to one of Blackwater's

charming eccentricities.

What a way with words.

You should try

writing for a living.

Hey, hey! Guy!

What are you doing? Get...

Hold on, hold on, babe.

It's okay.

It's all right.

DAVID:
What is this?

Hello, Jeremy.

Hello, Amy.

How are you?

I'm driving.

I see that.

You're doing

a very good job.

Mind if I drive

for a while?

What do you say?

Jeremy, come on, buddy.

Let's go home.

To get lunch?

Yeah, yeah.

We're gonna go

get some lunch.

Sorry.

That's...

Welcome back, Amy.

Thank you.

You look terrific.

Thanks, Daniel.

And, we loved

your TV show.

Come on.

Thank you.

You know what?

I'm gonna drive.

# My love goes

a- tumbling down

# My love goes

a- tumbling down

# You leave me #

DAVID:
Hey, so that guy...

What guy?

You know,

the Amy Cakes guy.

Charlie, our new contractor.

I saw your picture with him.

Charlie.

You used to see him, right?

Right?

Couple of times.

Couple of times?

Mmm.

Just a couple of times?

(TIRES SCREECH)

Well...

(ENGINE STOPS)

They may have

been memorable.

(CHUCKLES) Okay.

Are you jealous?

Hey, who ended up

with the girl in the end?

That would be

you, Mr. Sumner.

What are you doing?

(LAUGHS) Okay.

Okay, wait.

Just get off me.

Why?

You're crazy.

You're nuts.

(SINGSONG)

That's what they say.

What do you think?

It's beautiful.

There's a lot of

history here.

(CHUCKLES)

That's putting it mildly.

Come on, catch up!

AMY:
It's worse

than I thought.

DAVID:
Don't worry about it.

We're gonna fix it up.

Fix it up, make it

better than it was before.

I hope so.

Is that your father's car?

Yeah.

How much are we

getting from FEMA,

like eight K?

8.2 K.

That's just a bit

more than Charlie bid.

Give him the balance.

(CHUCKLES) Why?

Why?

Help out your friends.

Baby, Charlie and

the boys don't need help,

they need work.

You can spend the rest

on your adoring wife.

I want to see

the rest of the house.

Show me. Come on.

You okay?

Yeah.

Flutie!

(KISSES)

(HEY GOOD LOOKIN'

PLAYING OVER STEREO)

# Hey, good lookin'

(SINGING ALONG)

What you got cookin'?

(TURNS UP VOLUME)

Found my parents'

zydeco collection.

Your parents were

some pretty cool cats.

Yeah.

(HUMMING ALONG)

All right.

(MUSIC STOPS)

Guess my classical music

will have to do when I work.

Hey, this room is amazing.

I can't wait to work in here.

Yeah.

This is so great.

You like it?

Yes, I love it.

It's amazing.

Hello.

I remember when

my daddy got that deer.

When he put up that trophy,

we had this huge party,

like he'd won

the Super Bowl or something.

Did he get him with that?

That would be some

kind of overkill.

Did your father

ever take you hunting?

(CHUCKLES)

Oh. Honey.

You know a lot about a lot,

you don't know sh*t

about Southern daddies

and their Southern daughters.

(HORN HONKING OUTSIDE)

I think the movers are here.

AMY:
I'm gonna get

down to the store

to get some groceries

before it closes, you know.

DAVID:
Yeah,

that's a good idea.

Just want to change first.

I'll take care of this.

Actually, I'm gonna take

my daddy's Olds, more room.

(FUR ELISE PLAYING)

(DOOR OPENS)

(GRUNTS)

(DAVID TYPING)

Hi.

I found a way

to get Khrushchev

in on the action.

I'm gonna make him

a friend of Yuri's.

Khrushchev was in Stalingrad?

He was a hero in Stalingrad.

I'll bet that was

your daddy's chair.

Every chair was

my daddy's chair.

I'm glad we came.

Just worried it'll

be too quiet for you.

Quiet's what I want.

I like quiet.

Too boring.

I like boring.

(CAT SCREECHES)

Jesus!

Flutie, Flutie, Flutie.

Hi, little boy.

Isn't he adorable?

Yeah.

A real sweetheart.

Yeah, tell that

to the mice.

(SAW BUZZING)

(MEN CHATTERING OUTSIDE)

(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING LOUDLY)

(MEN LAUGHING)

(WHIRRING)

(HAMMERING)

AMY:
It's too early.

That's ridiculous.

Put on some of

that Tupac.

You know

I love this song.

I am a sweet dancer, too.

Charlie!

Yeah?

Could you...

Hey, turn it down,

turn it down.

What's up, Mr. Sumner?

I'm gonna...

I'm coming up.

Take it easy.

I got it.

Morning, sir.

How are you?

Pretty good.

Well, let me

introduce you to the guys.

Got Bic over there.

Howdy.

Hello.

Chris over here.

Howdy there, Mr. Sumner.

Nice meeting you.

Right there's Norman.

How's it going?

Well, it's kind of

a b*tch up here.

Got to remove these purlins

and put in some new ones.

We'll break the back

of 20-penny nails.

Okay, well...

I don't know what

that means, but...

But I'll trust you with it.

Okay, so, everything okay?

Yeah, it's just...

It's a little early,

don't you think?

Yeah, sorry about that.

That's the way we do

things around here.

But you get used to it.

Okay.

Well, it's just

that you woke us up.

Like I said,

we're real sorry about that.

Okay, well,

maybe you can...

Can you come

a little later, like,

just an hour into the day

from now on?

Can that happen?

You're the boss, boss.

All right.

Thank you, guys.

All right.

I got you. I got you.

I'm gonna go work.

You good?

Yeah, I got it.

See you later, Mr. Sumner.

BIC:
Oh! Whoa.

You good?

DAVID:
Yeah.

Careful there, Mr. Sumner.

(HAMMERING)

(POWER TOOLS WHIRRING)

How you doing?

Uh, good.

Thanks.

Could be colder, huh?

I think there's

something wrong

with your fridge.

I guess there's

a whole bunch of kinks

we're going to

have to work out, huh?

You writing or something?

I heard that's what you do.

Movies, right?

That's right.

You ever do horror films?

Like that movie Saw?

No.

Or action films?

No, no, not...

Not really my specialty.

What you done

I would've seen?

Probably nothing.

Maybe a bit of Amy's TV show?

Did you catch that?

Yeah, that was real good.

Real good.

Thank you.

Not enough of Amy, though.

I was well reminded of that.

(CHUCKLES)

AMY:
Hey, Bic.

Hey.

How you doing?

Real good.

Real good, yeah.

Good.

Hey, your...

Your fridge ain't

cold enough, Ames.

Really?

It's probably old

condenser coils.

I can take a look at

it later, if you want.

Yeah, that'd be great.

Right? That'd be good.

Yeah.

Okay.

(CHUCKLES)

All right.

Cool.

It's real good

to have you back.

Thank you.

For a bit.

For a bit, anyway.

See you.

Bye.

Bye.

(CHUCKLING)

(SIGHS)

BIC:
Hey, guys! More beer!

(SIGHS)

(CHUCKLING)

Do your friends do

things like that a lot?

Do what a lot?

I mean, he just

walked in here uninvited,

grabbed a beer out of

the fridge, sat down.

"Hey, come on in."

What, is that normal?

Come on.

We all trust each other here.

We don't even lock our doors.

That's one thing I do miss.

If that's the way it is,

that's the way it is.

Well, it's your

house now, honey.

You know?

If you don't like it,

just say something.

Hey, Charlie.

Can I borrow you

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