Sunshine State Page #7

They're all right.

They're just guys.

We start clearing Monday.

Doesn't the teacher

make allowances for that?

Tell her I flunked it too.

No, don't tell her that.

Tell her I'll work with her on it

when I get home.

We go to Alabama after this,

then there's a break.

I miss you too.

Think about me, all right?

-It's yellow with a black tip.

-Skeeter Meter!

-Your T-shirt.

-Right. You remember them?

-I was them. Lead guitar and vocals.

-Right, you dressed in lizard skin.

Iguana.

Are you with them construction guys?

-We're clearing this site.

-Did you ever build a water slide?

What the hell.

Seafood's a good bet.

We guarantee

it's only been thawed out once.

-How'd you end up here?

-I skipped dinner with some buyers.

-I'm not much of a salesman.

-You move dirt around.

-There's some drainage issues too.

-Now I'm really impressed.

Somebody told me you're a big name

in land architecture.

I guess.

-Did you go to school for it?

-I went to business school. Came out...

...and I made a lot of money

buying and selling companies.

-It was nice while it lasted.

-You didn't like it?

My boss went to jail.

It was a musical-chairs kind of thing.

The music stopped,

he was in a compromising position....

So you went back to lawns?

There's this guy.

Frederick Law Olmsted.

The one who designed Central Park

in New York.

-Right.

-It was on Jeopardy.

"Famous parks and monuments."

Well, he's kind of the granddaddy

of what I do.

You take land that's wild and

inaccessible and you refine it.

You showcase the natural beauty,

you accentuate the topography...

...you create a space for everybody...

...rich, poor, in-between,

where they can come together.

So we're all invited

to Exley Plantation for a fish fry?

The populist part of it has fallen away.

But you know what I mean.

No, I do.

Do you remember on the golf course...?

Something about being out there

with some guy I hardly knew?

You get Sundays off?

-Are you sure you can pull this off?

-They'll listen to me.

The old college try isn't gonna do it

for us. We need results.

-I swing two more votes, it's done.

-It can't be too obvious.

It won't be. But you're on your own,

water management.

That's just technical stuff.

It's these anti-growth people.

Can't have too much noise

when the rezoning comes up.

-There will always be a few die-hards.

-I understand.

The usual format for this is to open an

account offshore. Does that work for you?

-It needs to be cash.

-Cash?

Hundred-dollar bills. New ones.

We have been a naughty boy,

haven't we?

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but the mess of grilling....

Desiree.

Amen.

A member of the community

has a word for us today.

It is my hope that you'll give your

heart and your mind to his thoughts.

Dr. Lloyd.

Thank you, Reverend Sutcliff.

Good morning.

The matter I came to discuss...

...is not exactly religious...

...but it is a matter of the spirit.

My name is Marly Temple.

I'm visiting Jack Meadows.

Is this where they put you up?

This is one of the few unsold units.

I'm trying to figure out why.

I haven't been in here since

your outfit took it over. It's pretty.

Thanks.

Before, unless you were

hunting armadillos....

-So you decide what trees live and die?

-That's part of it.

-That's kind of like being God.

-Do you remember the last hurricane?

-Elmo.

-That's God. I'm just a hired hand.

Last year, a majorette breathed so

much exhaust she nearly passed out.

So if you see the spacing

getting too cramped...

...get on down there

and direct traffic.

Honey, I'll be riding

with the Fire Department.

Can you drop the car off

at the high school...

...and get somebody to give you

a ride downtown? You're an angel.

Where is the driver

of the Tropical Paradise float?

We can't move anything.

Where is he?

They were bombing around town in a car

they'd borrowed without asking.

This officer went after them.

He was new on the force...

...otherwise he would have just

called my daddy.

-They were trying to get away?

-They hit the causeway doing 90.

Then they saw patrol cars

waiting down at the other end.

They did a 180 like

out of a Burt Reynolds movie.

-They flipped.

-Yeah.

The divers couldn't remember

which one was driving...

...because they were identical.

Dickie and Danny.

-Were they younger or older than you?

-Three years older.

They played sports,

honour roll, the whole deal.

Must have been tough

on your parents.

My daddy never expected much

of me, but the twins....

I'll bet they were laughing

till the minute they hit the water.

Excuse me.

-We saw your mermaid.

-This is it, isn't it?

-If you haven't buried the treasure--

-We could come back.

I wish you had gotten to know him.

He was strong.

He didn't talk about it much...

...but you could tell he'd been

through a lot of things.

And all these other people?

This goes back to when the island

was a cotton plantation.

They buried the slaves here

when they wore them out.

Leave off with that, Mama!

They don't belong in here.

It's bad enough we've got to pass

through all their security...

...to visit our dead.

And they gotta throw this trash

in here.

I don't think they mean to.

It's a resting place.

Not a playpen.

My daddy's people come out of the

turpentine camps and pulp mills.

Hired hands, mostly.

Couldn't read or write.

So having his own business....

Thing is, it's his dream, not mine.

-And it ain't my mother's.

-She doesn't work there?

She'll drive six blocks out of her way

so as not to have to look at it.

Her own daddy was a minister...

...so she feels like she was raised

for a higher calling.

Community theatre.

Last year, she starred in Mother Courage.

The year before that it was Electra.

People come to see what

the crazy lady is gonna do next.

-You wanted to be an actress?

-Hell, no. Oceanographer.

My friends called me

Jacqueline Cousteau.

-But you didn't...?

-Sh*t happens. A lot happened to me.

-You like what you do, don't you?

-The actual work. The politics....

-People fighting over land.

-I get there after the dust settles.

-And home is?

-Head office is in La Jolla.

-California?

-Yeah.

But I just go from job to job

these days.

No family?

An ex and two kids. They live

in Connecticut with their....

She's remarried.

This guy I know is going on that

PGA tour. Different town every week...

...maid makes your bed. Hang out

in the bar, check out the local talent.

Living the dream.

I saw a manatee in here once.

Big, naked-looking thing.

Like a fat lady in a bathhouse.

I felt guilty for watching.

They planned on building here.

One of those assisted-living deals.

-But the feds snapped it up first.

-That wasn't my company.

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