The Car Page #2

Vinyl top? Landau top?

A guy was getting ground to hamburger,

I wasn't taking notes.

- Are you sure you're all right?

- What's it to you? She's great.

What about the plate?

- I don't know.

- Did it have a plate?

- I don't know.

- Colour of the plate.

- I don't know.

- You saw it.

- I didn't seen nothing.

- Bullshit. You saw two doors.

What with all that dust in the air,

how could I tell anything for sure?

I don't know. Damn it, I don't know.

What do you mean, for sure?

Well...

maybe the top...

was squeezed down low.

There was no plate.

Wade, Luke.

Wade, you'd better get on the

phone and call the Daigler County Seat...

in case he crossed the line.

Sling the net.

We've got a crazy on our hands.

I'll crank it up.

Chas, quit playing sheriff

and go back to what you people do best?

If I do, white eyes, you're gonna

be in heap big trouble...

'cause I'm gonna track you down

and shoot an arrow straight up your ass.

We got an APB out on it.

Yeah? Okay, thanks.

John Morris. A veteran.

Twenty-four, UCLA.

Residence, Snedens Landing,

the Palisades, New York.

He was hitching home. Nice family.

His father's in...

international reinsurance,

whatever the hell that is.

That's his phone number down,

the business phone.

Should I talk to him...

- or to the mother?

- I can do it.

Thanks, Wade.

Chas, got anything from Daigler County?

Yeah, Sheriff Papez would appreciate

a little more information...

as to what in the hell

they're supposed to be looking for.

- That's a quote.

- Well, he's got what I got.

Now, look.

I want everybody out on the street.

I want you to remember,

a young man was killed today...

passing through our town,

and I don't like it.

I don't like it at all.

Goodbye.

Enough.

All right, that was delicious.

Miss Humphries, I'd like to speak

to you for a moment.

- Sure.

- In private.

Okay, take a break.

And we will rehearse this march for real.

All right. Okay girls, up.

Come on, over here. Right here.

I would like to know what this is.

This is sweet.

Look, Miss McDonald, he's made me a 36-D.

- You know who did it?

- Sure. This is Tommy Ness again.

His proportion's always off.

- Are you saying that's a picture of you?

- Yes.

- Well, I must say, I'm surprised.

- Why?

Lauren, do you think it's healthy

for a 13-year-old boy...

to imagine his teacher naked?

- Absolutely.

- Well, not in this school, it isn't.

- Do you think she's ever been...

- No.

There's my baby. Don't forget

to wish him a happy anniversary.

A what?

It's two years today he's been off the booze.

- Hi.

- Hi, what're you doing here?

- Hi, Wade.

- Time to change drivers.

- Hello, Captain.

- Crooks beware.

Well, how about a hug, you hunk?

- Honey, here?

- Isn't that darling? He's so shy.

Daddy!

- Hi, guys.

- Hi, turkeys.

- Hi, Margie.

- Hi.

We're gonna get to be cowgirls

in the parade.

- You're never no such thing.

- 'Cause we know how to ride.

Who knew first?

- I did.

- I did.

The bell, girls. Don't you have a gym class?

- Bye, Daddy.

- Bye.

Yeah, this is Wade. Come on.

It's me, Fats.

We're at the north side of the High Road.

We got some bad news here.

Everett just arrived,

and he wants you pronto.

- Okay.

- Bye-bye.

Come on.

Tell me it was an accident.

- No way, Everett.

- Has she got a locket? Heart shaped?

Yeah, she does.

God damn. Damn it.

What in the hell is going on?

Wade, you know

Dr. Pullbrook's daughter, Suzie?

- You ever seen her?

- Yeah. Why?

You think you'd know her

if you saw her again?

What do you mean, Ev?

Well, she took off last Thursday

with a guy by the name of Pete Keil.

Bicycling, you know, camping.

Pete Keil? Lmpossible.

Well, how do you know?

Well, the kis a neighbour of mine. He told

me he was going to Ogden on Thursday.

- He told you?

- Yeah.

Well, how come?

A few years back the kid was

in my Bible class, you know...

and then his dad died,

and Pete kind of took a shine to me.

It couldn't be him.

He had a job interview in Ogden

on Thursday. I gave him a letter.

- Has he got a mother?

- Yeah. Alice.

Alice? Well, maybe he lied to Alice...

because he didn't want her to know what

he had on his mind about Suzie. Anyway...

Ev, the kid has never lied to me.

Well, let's hope so, Luke.

And let's hope he got nothing

to do with this.

You're sure it's his daughter?

A bicycle, camping gear,

a heart-shaped locket.

Everything checks.

Now, Ev, you don't think

the same car did it?

Well, I'd say that was

a damn good guess, Wade.

You got a time of death?

Chas says it was some time this morning.

About five or six hours ago.

But what beats the hell out of me

is where's this boy?

Ev, I told you he's in Ogden.

Ev, you looked

over the whole area, didn't you?

Well, yeah, thoroughly.

Wade, I want roadblocks...

on Interstate, Casper, Webster,

and Delaware...

and on the desert side.

No cars, black, grey, blue, get in or out.

I want this entire area sealed off.

Yeah.

Yeah, 10 years of giving out traffic tickets,

and all this in one day.

Yeah.

And in addition to the road blocks,

now I want the street patrols going all night.

Some of you have drawn long hours,

and I'm sorry about that.

We'll split the shifts as best we can.

These are your assignments.

Did you check on the kid?

He never showed up in Ogden.

We'd better see what we got

in the armaments locker.

If you don't press charges, Bertha,

there's nothing I can do.

That bastard can get up

and walk out of here.

And when he finally decides

to roll back home...

bombed out of his empty, dead head...

and drop kicks your face

over the county line again, don't call me.

Now, if you'll just sign this here now,

get it over with...

Here, sign it.

Out. Now.

You don't have to go home, Bertha.

We can put you and the kid up

in a motel tonight.

Tomorrow, you and I...

can talk things out.

Bertha.

Bertha...

there's nothing to go home to.

I went to high school with her.

She was the first.

That's it. Bertha, get in that truck,

now. I'm gonna have a drink with the boys.

- Whiskey! Let's go to the club.

- All right, I'm buying.

You said a good thing there.

Or was that me?

You know what your father once said to me?

I was gonna make it up anyhow.

How you doing?

You know, this morning all I had to do...

was to figure out some way

to get the girls to accept Lauren.

Yeah.

Are you gonna stand there philosophising,

or are you gonna buy me a drink?

You're not smart enough to do both.

Now, come on. Come on, boy.

Whatever happened to last Thursday?

I had it made last Thursday.

Ev, what the hell's going on around here?

Wade. Come here.

Get in the truck! Just like I told you...

and sit down under that steering wheel.

Now look at that.

Doesn't that turn your stomach?

For Gos sake!

Be a liar, be a cheat...

be antisocial, all of which he is.

But don't be a bully. I hate bullies.

Now, come on, let's have a drink.

Order me a gin and tonic. I'll wait for Luke.

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